Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba W1nnmeq of feet pc Muary 5 briefly Ford seeks new mishap trial Santa the Ford motor requested Friday a new trial in an Accident Case in which a victim was awarded million in the award by a jury Here was the largest Ever in a an automobile negligence it involved a reared collision in which a Ford struck from burst into the jury found Ford guilty of negligence in designing in Legal briefs filed in Superior court also asked that the million punitive award to one of the victims be set Ford said the plaintiffs had not justified the award of such damages by proving corporate Tass slates Cossitt allegation Moscow the soviet Union has poured scorn on a Canadian maps allegation that soviet agents tried to recruit two assistants of a Canadian Cabinet minis the official news Agency Tass said Friday that progressive conservative my Tom who made the allegation in the House of is notorious for his demagogic statements and now has come out with a new Cossitt close links with the local special ser vices and the Cia arc no secret in Tass Cossitt told the commons on thursday that soviet led by a russian reporter in the parliamentary press tried to recruit the two special Assis Tants in in an attempt to obtain sensitive government jury chosen for fraud trial Toronto selection of a jury has been completed for the trial of 11 Canadian businessmen and eight companies charged with conspiracy to defraud Public agencies of More than the charges allege conspiracy to defraud the Feder Al and Ontario governments and the Toronto and Hamilton Harbor commissions of on dredging atom satellites fact of life9 United nations the chairman of the United nations committee on outer space said Friday he would not favor a total ban on nuclear powered satellites such As the soviet Craft which disintegrated Over Canada last ambassador Peter Jankowitsch of Austria said satellites of the soviet which has been reported As being used to observe naval Are an accepted fact of nude Man Springs robbery Anchorage a nude Man armed with Only a who came in from the cold to Rob a gasoline station Early Friday had a decided police the attendant was a when he walked into the the startled Atten Dant ran out into the the Man then took an undetermined amount of Money from the Cash drawer and strolled theft every nine minutes Montreal police report there was an average of one theft every nine minutes in the Montreal Urban Community in but the total number dropped five per cent compared with during 1977 there were traffic vehicle collisions resulted in 148 while 92 persons died after being struck by a new Canadian not overjoyed Medicine at least one of the 65 persons who became Canadian at a citizenship court Here was not elated about the when asked if he really wanted to become a Canad the new citizen said if i was an i would have to take the fifth amendment against Selfin israeli oranges Given Okay Washington food inspectors gave a clean Bill of health Friday to a shipment of More than seven million israeli Jaffa oranges after spot inspections turned up no evidence of Mercury the inspection of the oranges from a ship docked in Gloucester were carried out As a precaution after some israeli oranges containing Mercury were found in Western Europe several weeks 24 Hurt in train derailment Twenty cars of a train carrying 503 passengers and their automobiles to Virginia from Florida was derailed authorities said 24 per sons suffered minor none of the derailed cars was the cause of the Accident was not immediately known although a police spokesman said an Axle broke on an tourists killers to hang Jamaica an american Man and a jamaican have been sentenced to be hanged for the 10 murder of an american woman a Hanover circuit court jury returned a guilty ver dict against Gregory of Penns and jamaican Ani they were convicted in connection with the slaying of Cherry of who was stabbed to death in Eastern Jamaica while on compiled from dispatches air strokes City before Snow pelts Down by Judson mild air flowed Over Winnipeg this and raised the temperature to near that magic thawing Mark of it was the Mildest weather since 18 when the temperature Rose to above Freez ing at degrees february temperatures have been averaging two de Grees colder than afternoon highs have been run Ning near minus com pared to Normal february highs of minus overnight lows have averaged minus com pared to Normal lows of minus the col dest Day was 5 with a minimum Reading at minus 36 february so far has been drier and sunnier than Sunshine up to 22 to talled 143 hours and usual Sunshine for All of february is normally 139 february precipitation is usually lighter than in any other but this february has been drier than the water equivalent of snowfall from 1 up to noon 21 amounted to but Normal february precipitation is this week began with temperatures averaging near monday was the col dest Day with a Low of minus 23 afternoon highs on monday and tuesday Rose to minus and the wind shifted into a southerly direction to bring in Milder air and Cloudy tempera Tures Early wednesday failed to Cool below minus 11 and gradually Rose during the Day to within one degree of on thursday the maximum again read minus 1 degree celsius and Snow began to fall during the eve Snow fell on Winnipeg Dur ing the night from a Low pressure system that was March Range to temperature comparisons for March compiled by the Winnipeg weather office in celsius degrees d a t year normals since 1872 year 4 1884 7 1891 15 16 17 18 1929 1938 1910 1885 1875 1883 1887 21 22 23 24 25 1878 1910 1945 1945 1888 1974 1974 1923 1904 of a 27 28 29 30 1938 1918 1967 1887 1969 1882 1923 1300 Portage 7866541 309 Portage 9435531 make things happen t Low fro cold front worm fro forecast for Interlake and red River re Gions Cloudy with a few Snow flurries ending by noon High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba sunny sunday and Cloudy temperatures near Normal warming to above Normal Northern Manitoba sunny Cloudy monday and temperatures above Normal Northwest Ontario sunny sunday and Cloudy temperatures near or a Little above temperatures following Are the minimum temperatures for the 12hour period that ended at 7 Friday and the maximum temperatures for the 12hour period that ended at 7 fat Lllan Victoria Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Thompson Kenora Brandon Dauphin Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami Minneapolis new York los Angeles Boston Amsterdam Athens Berlin Helsinki Max 8 i 0 2 i i 2 20 i 2 16 3 12 17 10 4 2 2 8 6 12 17 8 6 7 11 4 u 6 10 2 Honolulu Lisbon London Madrid Moscow Paris Rome Stockholm Tel Aviv 27 16 15 14 12 16 19 3 17 18 12 10 10 10 6 10 Winnipeg temperature comparisons mean 24 last year Normal 83 highest on record in 1976 lowest on record in 1950 precipitation i to 24 63 7 Millimetres Normal 89 8 Millimetres moving out of Saskatchewan and across the snowfall amounted to 5 pm and wind speeds increased to More then 40 pm per the blowing Snow reduced visibility to less than one Kilometre at but the storm was not expected to Outlook for the weekend indicates that a High pressure area will move out of the North to bring Clear and colder temperatures Are expected to average a few degrees below Normal during the normally in the last week of temperatures average from overnight lows of minus 20 to afternoon highs of minus 7 coldest weather was Black in 1879 when the minimum touched minus 42 but in 1938 the maximum was a milk thawing 8 cattle Industry to get by Jack Francis the Federal government will pump about million into the depressed beef cattle Industry in the form of cow Cal stabilization program payments to producers on 1977 this works out at per eligible cow in each eligible Manitoba producers will get half of that amount from the Federal subsidy pro Gram and half from the provincial stabilization pro each producer can Regis Ter up to 100 cows and get paid for 95 per cent of the first five cows dont regardless of Herd a Federal agriculture department spokesman told the free Manitoba stabilization cheques will sent out now that the Federal pay ment is the Federal cheques Are expected to be sent within the next the Federal formula is based on the 1977 support Price for calves at a a calf crop of 85 per cent is also assumed and 15 per cent of that crop is allowed for replacement the stabilization payments were lower than had been forecaster due to strengthen ing beef cattle markets be ginning last notice wednesdays and should have contained the line see tomorrows paper for full our apologies for any inconvenience which our customers May have both Stolfs 7835522 deaths Edgar of 255 Young husband of Evelyn Robert of husband of Leona Chris of 530 Tilehurst suite formerly of 67 Garfield or formerly of 854 Banning widow of Paul of Ralph of 985 Lorette husband of Ruth Gammel Alexander of 519 Anthony ave Julia of 1578 Roy widow 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