Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday december 27, 1975 11 a i Sli Are Ift enter the 604-foot freighter George a sos believed hoax Carl took the wrong Way to Toronto Christmas night running aground about four Miles from the Entrance to the Harbor. Authorities were at a loss to explain How the ship carry ing soya Beans from Cleveland on its last run of the season could have missed its target by so much. A spokesman for the owner Scott mis ener steamship lines of St. Catharines did not say Why the freighter whose Bow draws 23 feet of water grounded in 11 feet. Three Small tug boats tried unsuccessfully to remove it from the shallows Friday. After the first attempt scuba divers had to enter the freezing water to Clear a Tow line tangled in the propeller. The company spokesman said a larger tug would be called in from Kingston. There was no apparent damage and no one was injured the ship s Captain identified Only As m. 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Up a to lit policemen were joined by political Lead in contrast to the funeral Here a Small group of friends and relatives attended Funer ers and hundreds of citizens Al services at Trump ., for in a overflow crowd which Keith Mcc Allura a 23-year gathered Friday at the old Dartmouth taxi Driver nearby port Zaffis United or Mccallum who lived in Church to tribute to Cpl. The Truro area before moving Eric Spicer the Dartmouth to Dartmouth earner this year was shot to death about Spicers body to the front of Stewart told the mourners the Church. It was placed in that society now is charged front of the pulpit with his service hat resting on it policeman who was gunned Down along with another Man earlier this week. Cpl. Spicer s widow and members of his family along with representatives of the p r o v i n c e led by Premier Gerald Regan took up the 400 seat main floor of the White wooden Structure. Mayor Eileen Stubbs of Dartmouth dressed in Blue cloak and Gold Chain of office and mayor Edmund Morris of Halifax headed civic delegations. Most of the mourners seated in the body of the Church were policemen from departments across the country. Among those attending were representatives of police forces in Winnipeg Toronto Saint John and Moncton n. B Halifax Dartmouth and members of the ramp. About 400 members of the Public sat in a Church auditorium where the service was carried Over loudspeakers. Meanwhile about 100 members of the Canadian forces a delegation of Penitentiary guards lands and forests officers and ramp lined the Road fronting the Church for about 100 Yards. Hundreds of citizens stood outside with them in the blow ing Snow listening to the ser vice Over loudspeakers. 150 feet away from the spot where Cpl. Spicer s body was found. About an hour before the service began police pall bearers carried the Flag draped coffin containing Cpl. Or. Jeffro Bursey a Stu Dent minister who conducted the service said in his Brief Eulogy that the violence which took. Cpl. Spicer s life As the very contravention of the message of peace and love this time of the year or. Bursey who was assisted by Rev. Sandy Mac lean and Rev. Bruce with accepting the police Man s death and to continue the struggle to make life i in the midst of it All Man must grasp god s peace though it defies All under or. Bursey described Cpl. Spicer As a gentleman bus band father officer and Friend who tiled to set an example of responsibility in the love and concern for the Community and is family. Description of second Man wanted h in double killing supplied to Ponce income tax course correspondence you can earn extra income learn How to prepare the new tax forms and become an income tax consultant. For full Del tils. Coff jct Canadian school of tax accounting 750 Eglinton Avenue a Toronto. Ontario m4p1e6 Dartmouth . Up we believe that he lives m City police confirmed Fri this province and we know Day that they have a witness he s been seen around Here who has supplied them with a for some he said. It detailed description of a second Man sought in connection with a double slaying Here late monday. Earlier police revealed that Allan Craig 22, an Teasdale ., construction worker has been charged with murder punish Able by death in connection with the slayings. Macdonald was Picl ced up by police tuesday for questioning in the death of Cpl. Eric Spicer 30, who was shot in a City parking lot at about Midnight monday. Keith Mccallum a 23-year old taxi Driver was found 150 feet away. He died of head wounds shortly after being taken to Hospital. What we have now is a composite drawing made from evidence supplied by a person who talked with a so cond police chief Roger Smith said in an inter View. Although no warrant has been issued for the arrest of the second Man chief Smith said it is essential that police locate him. Ligation began. It later went Labora sex tory in Ottawa for lamination. Bothers us that for the time Cpl. Spicer an eight year we can t identify police Veteran wide on what police describe As a being we can he said the Man s description was supplied by a witness who talked to him on the night that Cpl. Spicer and or. Mccallum were shot in a Motel parking lot. Police say the Man they Are looking for is about 30 years old has Blond curly hair which covers his ears and a round face. He was last seen wearing plaid Slacks and a beige sweater with a Large stain on the front. While the search for these cond Man is under Way Mac Donald is being held at the Halifax county correctional Institute awaiting an appear Ance in magistrates court monday. Still unavailable Are a pathologist s report and the re sults of ballistics tests done by the ramp crime Labora tory at Sackville n. B. Cpl Spicer s service revolver was taken to Sackville by an armed forces helicopter immediately after the invest routine surveillance detail. Chief Smith acknowledged Friday that sentiment often runs High when a. Police officer is killed but he praised the self Coli tool exhibited by his men. Our men took an extremely professional approach to this investigation and there was absolutely no emotion shown by any of very proud of them for he said. Trenton ont. Up the . Coast guard has officially called off a search for a vessel believed adrift on Lake Erie calling the incident a hoax a Canadian forces spokesman said Fri Day. Capt. Tom Patterson of the Rescue co ordination Centre Here said a coast guard radio triangulation f i x deter mined that the distress Sig nals supposedly from a Cabin Cruiser in Canadian Waters off Point Pelee in the Western end of the Lake actually originated from a Point near Zanesville Ohio about a Hundred Miles Inland. The coastguard has evaluated it As a capt. Patterson said. The search has been called he said Zanesville Law officers were investigating the matter. The distress signals began late thursday afternoon. A 25-foot Cabin Cruiser with .10 persons aboard was alleged to be taking on water. Coast guard helicopters and a Cut Ter were dispatched in High winds and blowing Snow to search for the Craft. They found nothing Al 3 bodies recovered from boat new Orleans la. A the bodies of three men were recovered from the Gulf of Mexico Friday not far from where their ship the 85 foot Botruc-9, is believed to have sunk Christmas Day. A search continued for a fourth Crew member. The . Coast guard began its search thursday evening after the boat was re ported overdue. It had at tempted to resupply a mov Able Gulf Oil co. Rig about 50 Miles Southeast of grand Isle thursday but the Crew found seas too rough and attempted to return to Shore. Storm warnings blanketed the Gulf Christmas Day with minds up to 40 knots whipping Waves 12 feet High. The warn Ings were taken Down about noon Friday As seas calmed. An airline Pilot reported hearing a single tone Broad cast from an emergency Loca Tion transmitter about an hour after Sunset thursday and the coast guard said the tone might have been sent from either the boat or a life raft. An aluminium Skiff belong ing to the boat was found Drifting about 35 Mirliss South of grand Isle Friday after noon and the three bodies were found in the water near the Skiff said a spokesman. An Oil Slick was sighted about 15 Miles South of grand Isle and the spokesman said Gulf Oil divers will dive there soon to try and locate the boat. Another boat also owned by Cheramie Brothers of Golden Meadow owners of the with no casualties thursday. Sex Chrysler chief Ron Todgham Dies Windsor ont. Up he attended the University Ron w. Todgham 65, former of Michigan but worked sum president of Chrysler Canada mers at Chrysler Canada Ltd., died Friday in Hospital in London ont., As a result o f complications following heart surgery last month. Funeral directors 387 Broadway Telephone 942-7566 Canadian owned and operated Over so years of casing Courtesy parking lot on Edmonton South of Broadway the housing problem does it matter to you to your neighbourhood Consumers Are invited to join representing Tedia politicians administrators bunders Man Urban shelter conference fr1mt, a Matt a i 5 w by Flat of and w weft to Crawner if prow of View please concoct Jack Semmi. The con Heiming s not Houdini but water escape close i i by James outman new York Reuter i hardly took a breath for two minutes and 37 seconds Fri Day night. Here s Why magician Doug Henning s feet Are locked in stocks his hands cuffed. He is lowered head first into a 200-gallon water tank trying to become the first person since the Legen Dary Harry Houdini to per form the chinese water Tor Ture escape. Opaque Silver shroud Falls Over the tank As Henning begins his Effort to Climax to a live Abc magic show on television across the United states. Writing about his plans for the trick Kenning had said last sunday i am aware of the fact that each time i per form the feat i am taking a Chance Frith my Gene Kelly master of ceremonies counts off the seconds. Hen Knitig had written in the new York times several times daring rehearsals i have been Troat the to get out before i coaids no longer How my breath arid have had to use the Scoba tank and month race pfc ced at the Bottom of the there was ?5o g apparatus is the Friday a sgt. Says be can hear sos Fri of safes Sig Ater Sefc Sixl bet is w Sion audience to imagine themselves in Henning s Posi Tion. Could they do it tie asks. Houdini escaped in two minutes. Henning s time to beat his record is running out. A clock is ticking away the seconds on the screen. Henning has not Bea ten Houdini s record. He can hold his breath for Only two and a half minutes Kelly tells the audience. Henning had written that Houdei never published the secret of the feat and i do not want to reveal How i Learned it except to say it was entrusted to me by somebody. Recently i was Able to obtain Houdini s private scrap books which had been in the Possession of his wife s Niece. I had already been working Oti the escape but photos in the scrapbooks helped me fill in some Missi Jug Only five seconds to go before Henning s breath runs ont. Where is he any one watching the show is holding his own breath. Henning is supposed to run ont of breath two seconds ago. A figure in a Pur ple Robe Ems from behind a certain carrying an axe. He will smash the Dass tank to save herring s me the of Scaer raises acis Ron w. Todgham or. Todgham retired at the end of september after 19 years As head of Chrysler Canada Here. He entered Hospital in Lon Don oct. 31 after developing Chest pains on his return from Calgary where he had addressed the annual meeting of the federation of Automo bile dealers associations of Canada. Reports following his sur Gery Early in november were that he was progressing satisfactorily. A native of Toronto he moved Here with his family in 1915. Often serving As chauffeur for John d. Mansfield the com Pany s first president in can and a after graduating from University with a degree in Busi n e s s administration. Or. Todgham became a full time employee of Chrysler Canada. He resigned from Chrysler in 1938 to become a car dealer in Chatham ont he sold that Dealership in 1953, and moved to Pittsburgh pa., to become general Man Ager of an automobile Agency there. He returned to Chrysler Canada in 1955, joining the company s executive staff. A year later he was appointed first Canadian to hold that Post with Chrysler Canada. During his 19-year tenure the company made a profit each year from a Low of after taxes in 1959 to a High of million in 1972. He was chairman of the Board of Union Gas a director of Polisar corp., and Crown Trust and past president of the Ontario motor league. He is survived by his wife Alice two sons a brother sister and four grandchildren. A funeral service wih be held Here monday. cuts Speed limit la up provincial Secretary Ben Neu Campbell announced Fri Day night that Prince Edward has lowered axe. Stood is y the Tara is s on roast ;