Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg free press Beaver Canada Usa local of users moving ree Friday March 10, 1972 Lor free Tifin or brochure jury finds policeman s killer to be insane not guilty of murder sent to Hospital flooding of Lake Jack Shapira of Winnipeg managing director and producer for Rainbow stage displays Broadway cast albums for the two shows Rainbow will present this summer. Opening the season in july will be the family show Cinderella. It will be followed in August by Maine. Selecting casts for the two shows is still in the preliminary stages. Emir Diment display i to run next week ego Man an environment show coordinated by the Junior league of Winnipeg will be presented March 16, 17 and ,18 on the mall of Polo Park shop Ping Centre. A statement from the league says the of the Dis play is to give Winni Eggers an idea of aspects of Environ mental concern. Participating with exhibits will be municipal provincial and Federal governments Manitoba industries in the scrap Salvage and waste recycling Fields food science department at the University of Manitoba Manitoba Hydro greater Winnipeg Gas company and pollution consumer and family plan Ning associations. The Media services of the University of Winnipeg will mount and operate a continuous showing of environmental con Cern films. Art and design pieces utilizing waste material made by Fine Art and Interior to of Manitoba will be for Sale. have scheduled showings of the Junior league puppet show How the waste was won. Winning entries in a prevent pollution contest also sponsored by the league will be displayed. Volunteers Are to guide children Ages five to 12 in creating useful items from waste in a children s activity area called kids Corner. Fox charge Laid William Vernon Blackwell 48, of Oak Lake Man., has been charged with chasing and har Assing wildlife following an Inci Dent March 4 when a Man was observed on a snowmobile Chas ing a Fox. Or. Blackwell was to appear n Brandon magistrate s court this week. Oak Lake is 35 Miles confirmed the Manitoba government committed to flooding Southern Indian Lake and diverting Thi Churchill River into the. Nelson River system As part of the Hydro electric Power development scheme on. The lower Nelson premiered Schreyer revealed thursday. The Premier a press conference that the diversion of the Churchill River is inevitable but thai the flood level of Southern Indi an Lake will hot be More than to feet Babp be Natal conditions. A. We will later this year whether we can have it significantly below diversion of the Waters of the Churchill River is is re he said. Simply c an no t be other j the Premier s statement is the strongest indication yet that the government intends to allow m proceed with the flooding of Southern Indian Lake. The Issue was bit Terly fought during the 1969 election Campaign when the previous progressive conserva Tive government proposed to raise the level of the Lake by 29 feet. The Premier said that Al though he did not oppose the original decision to develop the Hydro electric potential of the Nelson decision on whether to divert the Churchill River really was made Long ago. Having taken that decision and having committee in excess of million to the building of a do transmission line haying committed All of the Money to the building of Kettle rapids it is economic madness not to proceed now with the full development of the Nelson. That was the right decision right from Square one. That re quires ample diversion of water and the speech from the throne read at the opening of the legis 1 a t ure thursday afternoon mentioned that a decision would have to be made this year on the diversion and on the construction of the next million kilowatt generating station at by Esther Tennenhouse free press staff writer Jean Charles d Auteuil 21, accused of the fatal shooting of an ramp Constable in he Des Chenes Man., has been found not guilty of capital murder by reason of insanity. An Assize court jury Deli berated for almost two hours thursday before bringing in its verdict. Or. Justice j. R. Solomon of Manitoba court of Queen s Bench ordered that or. D Auteuil be committed to the hos Pital for mental diseases Sel Kirk. Man., and be held there in strict custody until he is judged fit to return to the Community. His release would require authorization by order in Council on the advice of a medical re View Board through the lieu tenant governor in Council that is the provincial Cabinet. The judge said insanity is a defence in the eyes of the Law because an insane per son is considered incapable of forming an intent. Constable Harold Stanley Sei gel of the ramp had been shot . 26. He had been one of 40 policemen who sur rounded the d Auteuil Bungalow in lie Des Chenes in an attempt to rout out or. D Auteuil who had barricaded himself inside with a Rifle. Witnesses said later that for weeks before he Huu had a growing conviction an attack on the world by enemy aliens was imminent. I both defence and prosecution witnesses had asked that the accused be found not guilty by reason of insanity. The Only witnesses for the de Fence had been two Psychia t r i s t a who testified they thought the accused suffered from paranoid schizophrenia the fact that or. D Auteuil shot the Constable was t disputed defence counsel Ken Fil Kow told the 12-member jury in his concluding remarks thurs Day., Crown counsel Hymie. Wein Stein described the incident As a tragedy. Although the court had been aware that the accused possibly was insane at the time of the killing he had been considered fit to plead and stand trial. Or. Weinstein told the jury thurs Day that the decision to find the accused insane and to give a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity could be made Only by a jury because the charge was capital murder. Or. Filkow told the jury or. D Auteuil s parents did t re Alize they were living with a sick boy until this incident of premiered Schreyer of Manitoba and . W. John Mckeag followed by his Honor s aides make their Way to the chamber for the opening of the Manitoba legislature thursday afternoon. Employees May join Manitoba phone Union West of Brandon on the trans design students at the universe Canada Highway. Weather report morning bulletin for the provinces except for my Southern Fritts the or Kiriti Wen Cloudy night. Snow fed in Central Jim of All three provinces a weak disturbance in Central Saskatchewan is to move across Manitoba overnight. South of this system variable amounts of cleua1 arc expected along with Miu Pacific . To the North occasional Snow with a risk of freezing rain and Veasena temperatures Are forecast today. It genes in the map Hith temperatures today Long Spruce. Flooding Southern inc Lar Lake by Only 10 feet would involve the relocation of Only four or five houses and would mean flooding Only to acres instead of the acres that would be inundated by a High level diversion he said. Phone listing deadline is april 1 april 1 be the deadline for new number h the next Winnipeg Telephone direct View would Only officially con by Dudley Magnus free press labor reporter a scrap Between three Large unions to get certain Manitoba Telephone workers into their respective folds has ended with the Canadian labor Congress taking the employees involved under its protective Wing As members of a specially formed Csc chartered Union. Until now the private Strug Gle for Union representation and the wooing of members by each Union has been kept under cover. Formerly known As the Mani Toba Telephone association the membership s new name will be the Manitoba Telephone Union and its affiliation As a chartered Union of Csc will be come effective april 1, an in formed source said. Frank Wau Csc representative in Manitoba in an inter employees. The former two Are affiliates of the Al Cio and the Csc. Cupe is an All Canadian Union Only. The informed source however said the group would Defini Tely be in the Csc starting april 1, and it was expected then the scrap for jurisdiction would go to the Congress As it is Congress policy to have All unions if possible in a Congress affiliated Union of the appropriate jurisdiction. The Manitoba Telephone sys tem employees involved Are. A mixed bag of clerical building maintenance and. Garage workers including Mechanic and machine shop employees there Are in the group 60 at Brandon two at the Pas six at Dauphin and eight at Thomp son. The rest Are in Winnipeg. Gets 10 years for robbing store Gimli boat builder hits Ottawa plans tory the Manitoba Telephone firm there had been an Applina system has announced. Anyone wishing to make changes in their listing should Contact the system s business office before that Date. Urban group to meet the Manitoba association of Urban municipalities will hold its mid season conference april 21 in the legion Haq in Portage la Prairie Han Brian Sawicki 32, of no fixed address was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for his part in a armed robbery of a North Kildonan grocery store oct. 22. Or. Justice James e. Wilson handed Down the sentence in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. Last week Frank Lexier 52 had bees sentenced to 15 years for his part in the robbery. Friday Crown counsel Stan Ley Nozick said Sawicki had been involved with police since he was about 19 years old. He d been convicted of 58 breaking entering and theft offences fou theft charges and three charges of Possession of firearms. He d been out of prison for Only seven weeks when Wiebe s a Mart 300 Edison Avenue Morth Kildonan now part of 2ast Kildonan was robbed. One of two men wearing Nylon stockings Over their faces had carried a sawed off Shotgun and the other a knife. About a week after the Rob Bery police had gone to an apartment Block across from the grocery store concerning an assault complaint Sawicki was found in the suite in pos session of a sawed off Shotgun which later was linked to the robbery. The has t been Reco Vered. A probation officer s report read to the court Friday de scribed Sawiski As having a callous attitude and being with out remorse. It said his chances of rehabilitation were slight. Lion and referred the subject to Tom Bleasdale business agent of the association. Or. Bleasdale however when telephoned said there has been no official confirmation that the application had been accepted by Csc but named the three unions that had wanted the Tele phone employees to join. The International brotherhood o f electrical workers the Canada communications workers and Evans the Canadian Union of Public i has a a Gimli Man. Boat manufacturer says his company May be forced to move to the United states because of unfair advantages the Federal government is planning to give . Boat builders. Michael Evans general Man Ager of a West Marine said the Federal government is now concluding negotiations which would allow .-owned Branch plants to obtain customs duty and sales tax rebates on boats imported from their Parent companies. This gives the . Subsidiary Plant in Canada a tra in e n d o or. Said. The subsidiary second advantage be cause the . Forgives Federal tax on . Boats exported to since Only . Boat builders will be Able to Benefit from the new Canadian regulation he wondered Why they were Able to negotiate such an attractive Deal. This is a mortal threat to our own company and to any other which builds boats in said or. Evans. If the Canadian Tariff regu lations is continued the Only alternative we can see is to move the Gimli Plant to the United states so that we can take advantage of the Canadian ruling As Well As new . Tax incan Aid for native pupils sought boxing inquiry april 6 a judicial inquiry into circumstances surrounding the feb. 21 death of Toronto Boxer Stewart Gray will begin april 6, in the Centennial concert Hall. Judge Benjamin Hewak of Winnipeg county court was appointed by the Manitoba government As a one Man investigating commission. Or. Gray died after a bout with Winnipeg Boxer Al Sparks. Another Boxer on the same card Jim Christopher of de troit said that after his life was threatened he purposely lost his fight with Canadian heavyweight Champion George Cuvalo. Rapeseed conversion the rapeseed association of Canada is urging producers to convert to Low Rucic acid rape seed As a precaution against re ports that High Rucic acid con ent in the oilseed May be harmful to health. The association said thurs Day that the Federal depart ments of agriculture and Trade and Commerce have been asked to assist in the transition to the Low Rucic acid seed this year. The government May be asked to pay a subsidy to producers this year to cover the difference in Oil production from the Low Rucic acid seed. Rapeseed contains about 40 per cent Oil by weight in the regular rapeseed 25 to 50 per cent of the Oil May be Rucic acid or fatty acid. However in the new seed the Rucic acid Content drops to about 1.5 to 3.5 per cent of the Oil Content. The new seed also produces slightly less Oil. A spokesman for the association said this was the first year in which there was sufficient Low Rucic acid seed available to sow All the rapeseed acreage. Forecast str in Mitef. Trust to he River Sway set Lent wind at is to 25 Immes turn 30 mar a jewry tem Ghr Loir Ftp Csc 30 35. To Hing a fac few Hon Uttmi for per Fer few Edmonton or Sloan the Pas the Crapson my. My. In. 1.c2 Bra Susete Max. Mill in 50 34 a program to help Metis and Indian children win be tried by the Winnipeg school Board this year if its estimates Are passed by the City of Winnipeg Council trustee Margaret Trott asked the Board at a special meeting thursday night to increase its expenditures by this worm be enough to hire six people of native ancestry who could act As a Type of teacher aide for the Metis and Indian children. It was passed unanimously. Trustee Trott said that after consultations with the school administrators she thought six people would be enough for an experimental program. The people would be split of evenly Between elementary and secondary schools she said. They would work with the Chil Dren in the schools and also visit them in their Homes. Doing things. The people j hired by the Board having j overcome these transition Dif faculties themselves would be Able to understand and to help i the children make the most of i festival trustee Trott said Many of Itlie children had come to the i City from Rural areas and were i unaccustomed to the City s Way trustee sees govt support the Manitoba department of the Board asked the proven Eda cation will gnat most of the i rial government s Public support the Winnipeg school Board asked for trustee Les a figsby do Niraan of the web Ripe school Board Ana fenced ties Ruday by fit tras fee ses Sty she Spe Cial Board Weet pkg that the special tax Levy was. 45 to 5 nok there ate is Laft Tatt lax schools finance Board for approval of estimate of and it received approval for Ornder the provincial grafts program. The Board ca3ed the special knee song a discuss its budget Bat Only the first part was Cov ered. The sex fetus of special Levy is be ares espied to the i the Board passed the estimated expenditures without Many c h g e s. Trustee Margaret Trott succeeded in adding about to hire six people of native Atic Estry to work with Metis and Laniau school Chil Dren. Trustee Michael Sarafer was abbe to subtract about by Archery Fidd hockey and re away the school she said. She said that the White per son could have the Best of intentions but still be Misander i stood by the children and their i parents the teacher aides i i might be Able to Bridge this Gap. The funds for the programs would last until december Bat r i it would be a significant ex-1 pediment which could be reported to the Carmen Moir of thought the plan a Good Ore. He said the percent age of Indian Aix Metis Chil Dren was greater the e3c7r.cs tary schools thas in the or schools. Teas Casse Etc Secca Dary feed a larger or. Scr Grrce the saturday March 11 . Class pianoforte men s Mosic Coo office Reading accompaniment advanced . 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