Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday april Tucson remains on guard Tucson Ariz. Authorities remained on the Alert monday in connection with an extortionist s de Mand for to keep him from contaminating the City s water Supply with typhoid bacteria. No such contamination has been reported and no Contact with the extortionist has been made since Friday when he led officers on a dash from Telephone Booth to Telephone Booth without showing up for the Ransom payment. Bangladesh Cyclone kills 7 Dacca seven persons were killed and Many injured monday when a Cyclone battered Central North Ern Bangladesh reports received Here say. The reports say the Cyclone which had a Speed of about 160 Kilometres an hour ripped Vil Lages in the myme Singh District causing heavy losses of crops and houses. Gypsies threaten roadblocks London gypsies saying they Are treated As second class citizens Are threatening to Block roads into London if prime minister James Callaghan docs not respond satisfactorily to their protests. They have also threatened to blockade the docks at the Southeastern port of Dover. At the heart of the gypsies grievances is a regulation compelling each family to choose one Wagon site to Register at which prevents them from moving around. Soviets let american leave Moscow an 89-year-old Pennsylvania Man who was refused permission to leave the soviet Union after visiting his Birthplace eight months ago has been issued with an exit visa the . Embassy said Mon Day. An embassy official said Charles Puka of acc Sporl pa., had been sent to Moscow from the ukrainian Village he had been visiting and is expected to Fly Back to the United Stales shortly. Puka was unable to leave the soviet Union after russian authorities claimed he was a soviet citizen who did not have the right to leave. Body of girl found in Lake Columbus a. The body of a seven year old girl whose hands had been bound was found floating in a Lake a few blocks from her Home Early monday three Days after she was reported missing authorities said. Authorities said the cause of death of the girl Dawn Worth was not immediately known. Inmates Cut selves to protest Tel Aviv seventy jewish prisoners of a Tel Aviv jail slashed themselves with makeshift knives monday to protest the government s refusal to Grant them an amnesty next month prison sources said. Six of the prisoners at Shasta jail suffered deep cuts and were taken to a Hospital. A plan for an amnesty marking Israel s 30 anniversary was dropped after penal authorities reported that a majority of prisoners released under a similar am Nesty five years ago had committed new offences and been sent Back within about a year of their release. Fashions stolen offer made new York a Ransom offer on behalf of London dress designers David Sassoon and Gina Fratini failed monday to secure of Worth of their stolen originals. The originals were stolen saturday after they had been delivered to the new York Hilton hotel in Readi Ness for an All British fashion show monday. Man sentenced after threats Rochester . A Man accused of threatening to kill president Carter has been sentenced to five years of weekly psychiatric appointments. Hugh Nevins 38, of Tonawanda ., was also Given a suspended one year prison term monday by . District court judge Harold Burke. Nevins was alleged to have been overheard in a tavern saying he would kill Carter or have him killed if lie did not change the Way he was running the country. Originally charged with threatening the president Nevins pleaded guilty feb. 10 to a reduced charge of interfering with secret service agents. News agencies heated Issue Stockholm delegates to a conference on world news How disagreed sharply monday on How International news agencies were covering the third world and How their reporting might be improved. The four Day conference opened Here with news executives and government officials from .13 countries expressing views to a in kiember commission of the United nations educational scientific and cultural organization skylab comes Back to life Houston Tex. Skylab the 85-ton space station abandoned four years ago came Back to life monday. The spacecraft began charging four of its solar powered batteries in response to a command from flight controllers at the Johnson space Centre. Flight controllers Are trying to slow skylab s fall from orbit. Batteries have to be charged before flight controllers can command gyroscopes to change sky lab s direction. Compiled from dispatches Selkirk memo blames fund cutbacks Hospital cafeteria to close on weekends Selkirk Hospital has announced it will close its cafeteria on Satur Days and sundays beginning May 6 due to extreme budgetary Cut backs just announced by the government of in a memorandum to staff a copy of which Howard Pawley passed to health minister l. R. Bud Sherman in the legislature monday the hos Pital administrator apologized for the and warned staff they would have to provide their own nourishment after May 6. Pawley asked the minister if he could confirm whether budgetary cutbacks have made hospitals throughout the province discontinue saturday and sunday service pertaining to cafeteria service to their no i can t confirm Sher Man replied angrily. I suppose it s in the same Cate gory As that two meal a Day ques Tion for which the department and the government and the province have no later Sherman told reporters news of the 70-bed Hospital s cafe Teria closing weekends concerned him but he said Selkirk Hospital neither asked for help nor informed him it could t live within the 2.9 per cent spending increase the government allowed for 1978-79. If the Hospital staff was having problems working within this Bud get he suggested they could have informed him and he would have arranged to have someone from the department or the Manitoba health services commission help them solve the problem. Most hospitals and nursing Homes Are responding creatively and innovative by to the govern ment s policies he said but some have simply said we can t meet it because they Are resentful of the threat to their administrative ability and to their he suggested some hospitals simply decide to Cut a service advise the opposition party and the Media and Hope the resulting pressure will be enough to Force the government to relent. Pui outs could turn Churchill into ghost town by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa a fear that Churchill is on its Way to becoming a ghost town was voiced Here monday by Cecil Smith pc 1 the Canadian broadcasting corporation is closing Down its facilities and moving its 12 people out of Churchill. 2 re search Council arc is shifting 18 of its 22 families now housed at Churchill South to Gimli in Manitoba. 3 National de Fence department has 35 families located in Churchill. They Are due for a move soon according information Given Smith. He said if 35 other families Are moved in to replace them Churchill will not suffer a loss by that move but if they Are re placed by 35 single men it will mean much to the store keepers of the area. The arc operates its space research program out of Churchill. The balloon launching will be transferred South to Gimli. The rocket launching will be carried on at Churchill but the technicians needed for the launch ing will be transferred to Gimli and sent North to Churchill for the rocket launching. Smith said that the huge recreation Complex built As a joint Federal provincial project at Churchill Cost a total of million. It costs Fagan to face charges today Harold Marvin Fagan ., 31, of 157 Horton Avenue East Transcona was to appear in provincial judge s court today charged with the unlawful confinement of two boys in his Home sunday. Fagan was arrested about . Sunday after police rushed the House where an 11-year-old boy was held hostage for about nine hours. A seven year old boy was re leased about an hour after the incident began. A police spokesman said no weapon was involved. The 11-year-old boy received minor facial cuts during the Rescue operation when he was hit by a door or some flying Glass. The town of Churchill Mil lion a year to operate the Complex. He said it is a huge com plex including an indoor swimming Pool indoor curl ing rink indoor skating rink and a theatre Complete with Palm Trees. A High school is part of the Complex. It is costing Chur chill to operate the High school portion and there arc just 100 students Accord ing to Smith. He has been informed that in the next school year he enrolment is expected to dwindle to around 55 students. The lax Load is mounting steadily As the Federal government moves its agencies out of the town. If the taxes go higher More families will be moving out Smith warned. Public works minister Judd Buchan said the arc has said it has decided it can discharge its responsibilities at the rocket Range at Chur chill by moving its personnel to Gimli. Smith said two years ago the Federal and provincial governments spent Mil lion rebuilding the town of Churchill. The population is now Down to the town can no longer support the Multi million Dollar Complex. Adelman Sarah 7ii, for Merly of Thunder Bay out., wife of Harry. Beatty William Elwood of 571 Wardlaw Avenue. Cali ii mile 85, of Pandora Avenue e., Transcona husband of Mary Calich. Dempsey Alice 75, of Comox b. C., formerly of Winnipeg wife of Melville Dempsey. Denholm Adam. 72. Of i Greendell Avenue St. Vital husband of Dorothy Denholm. Gobin Alcide 62, of Good fare Alia. Gordon Max of 210 Smithfield Avenue West Kildonan husband of Hull Gordon. Greene William of 1112 Oak Enwald Avenue fort Garry husband of Mary Ellen Greene. Haarsma Daniel .10, of 72 Lake Ridge Road St. Lames Assiniboia Hus band of Pierrette Haars in a. Haycock Elsie Kathleen 81, of West Park Manor wife of Roy Haycock. I Oake William Earlc of Princess Elizabeth Hospi Tal husband of Lisa Hoare. Holm Palmi of Gimli Man., infant son of mind Audrey Holm. Lampel Carl 100, of Bolh Airia Mcnno Nitu personal care Home formerly of Homer Man. Lestrat Violet Emily 5fi, of Eriksdale Man., wife of Mathurin Lestil Morrison Mabel 08, of 101 St. Anne s Road St. Vital widow of Alexander Morrison. Piniak Pauline 75, of 353 Riverton Avenue East Kil. Donan widow of Nick pin Iak. Reimer Katharina 78, of Steinbach Man., wife of Jacob h. W. Re incr. Skinner Christine 88, of 772 Fleet Avenue. Todd Alexander j., 73, for Merly of 120 Lipton Street. Trottier Helen 70, of 261 Goulet Street suite 232, St. Boniface widow of Jules Trottier. Trudel Elsie 63, of Dau Phin Man., wife of Jerry to tidal. Whyte Bessie m., 80, of Kamloops b. C., wife of George Whyle. Zelmer Olga 73, of 07 Richfield Road suite 8, St. Vital widow of Albert Zelmer. For further information please Sec classified death notices correction Debbie Lynn Kutasiewicz 16, died thursday when the car in which she was a Senger rolled into a ditch off Highway 59, near Gull Lake Man. It was incorrectly reported in monday s free press that miss Kulasiewicz was the Driver. Somite cof what you want with a lot less of what you tray not want. 2-Wfw the Wantage advantage. Now in your length. Warning health and welfare Canada advises that danger to health increases with amount inhaling. 11 . Tar 0.8 . Nicotine ;