Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Swift Canadian meat workers reopen talks adventures on the cheap 31 25 celtic musical mixture pays off i 26 s garment Industry Hurt by negative views 34 changes to school act pass second Reading 6 anytime.7 Bio Dex horoscope.29 bridge.28 comics.10 crossword.29 deaths.5, 38 finance.34-37 for people.25-31 jumble.40 movies.31 television.30 weather.5 weather report from sunny High 25, Low 10 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 85 no. 244 tuesday july 18, 1978 15 cents with coloured comics storm hits Maples Homes by Philip Rodgers the storm that hit South Eastern Manitoba monday afternoon appeared to Centre on Winnipeg where it closed a revival meeting and made at least one family Home less. The storm with Tornado Force winds also caused extensive damage to the Oasis resort North of Winnipeg off Highway 59, up turning Trai lers two of which were hit by falling Trees. From reports after the storm no one was injured and damage was scattered with Trees and Hydro lines Down and some minor flooding. According to a witness lightning struck a revival meeting tent on Mcphillips Street near Garden City shopping Centre bringing the 1.650-seat tent Down. A spokesman for the Cru Sade said later the meeting would be held in the Marl Borough hotel. In Winnipeg at the height of the storm about . What appeared to be a Tornado struck a House in the Maples ripping the roof off. An adjacent House was also damaged to a lesser extent but other houses on the Street and adjoining streets were untouched. De Meyers was in the kit Chen of his single Storey lome at 34 Majorca place when the storm hit. I heard see storm Page 4 photo by wave Glowacki a Bolt of lightning visited this revival meeting site. Court stops expropriation by Cecil Rosier conservative member of parliament Gordon Ritchie and two other Dauphin area residents have won a Legal Battle to save their land from what a judge termed an arbitrary and unfair attempt at expropriation by Manitoba s former new democratic party government. Or. Justice James Wilson of court of Queen s Bench set aside a government order expropriating 640 acres of farm land on the ochre River belonging to Norman Thompson Roland Thomp son and Ritchie. The land was ordered expropriated two years ago As part of a project to construct a million dam on the Vermillion River to Supply Dauphin with water. Judge Wilson said the decision to take the land by order in Council was arbitrary in that the land was t strictly necessary for the dam project. The judge said that unclear definitions in the provincial land acquisition act gave then Public works minister Russell Doern or any other minister a Case for arguing that he could take land when and where he this situation the judge said might be viewed As tantamount to the re introduction of feudalism softened Only by the requirement to pay for what is if the legislature had intended to give the minister such wide Powers it would have said so in Crystal Clear language he said. See unfair Page 4 know scores baseball american league Oakland 5 Toronto 3 Tenas 2 Baltimore 0 Kansas City 9 new York Milwaukee 6 Chicago 1 Boston 3 Minnesota 2 Detroit 4 California 3 Cleveland 5 Seattle 2 National Learnt Cincinnati 8 Montreal 6 los anoles 5 Chicano 1 Pittsburgh 8 san Diego 7 Houston 2 Philadelphia san Francisco St. Louis 7 Atlanta 3-4 new York 0-7 details in sports pases 57 62 looking for motorcycle a want and under m motorcycles 735 i 7 750 Honda completely Custo mixed. S2joo or Best Otter. Pm. F 582-5232. Is among the hundreds of in today s Clas sissified Section pages 2 38-53, matter what 3 need shop save with free press want ads. A 19-year-old Riverton Man was sentenced to six months in jail monday on charges stemming from a Chase in which ramp fired 17 shots at a car driven by the Man. Provincial judge Robert Trudel sentenced Colin Erickson to five months in jail for criminal negligence and one month for Refus ing to take a breath analysis test after the Chase last dec. 11 and for driving with out a licence. He will be under two years probation after serving his sentence. The sentence sparked an emotional out burst by the Young Man s father who stood up slammed his fists on chairs and stormed out of the courtroom. Hutte rites win pension refunds Ottawa Manitoba Hwte rites have won the right to refunds plus interest for Canada pension plan contributions made under protest before 1972. The Hutte rites. Who argued their Community lifestyle could provide More than adequately for their elderly will receive a total of As a refund plus interest on cup payments made before 1972. Manitoba hut terries campaigning for years on religious grounds first managed to convince the government to change the Law so they could be exempt from cup. Defence lawyer Sheldon Pinx said a notice of Appeal was filed monday afternoon and a bail hearing is expected to be held within a few Days. He refused to comment on the outcome of the trial. Last month ramp officers Wyman Sang Ster 22, and William Anderson 26, testified at the trial they fired 17 shots at the car while knowing the Driver and a 17-year-old Passen Ger lived in the Riverton area. During the trial Pinx said the officers had Over reacted by firing at the car. But Trudel said in handing Down his sen tence that Erickson had attempted to hit the officers and said the officers did nothing wrong when they fired at the car. The incident began Between and . In Riverton and continued on a Frozen River before ending 50 minutes later when the car went out of control and hit a ditch. The shooting started after Erickson took the car off the Road and on to the icelandic River. At this Point the officers separated and began searching along the River for the car. During the search Anderson spotted a car operated by Jack Furgala 21. Of River ton. Anderson testified he was attempting to search this vehicle when another car came towards him. He said the car fish filed forc ing him to jump to avoid being hit. Anderson said he fired three shots at the car As it drove away hitting a rear tire and fender. 7 leaders for growth specific economic plans agreed at Bonn Summit the provincial government had argued that its decision to expropriate was by Way of exercise of Ministeri Al discretion and therefore beyond the reach of the court. Judge Wilson ruled however that the Power to expropriate is not absolute and must Only be exercised fairly and on the basis of factual information. Jack de Zeeuw director of the land acquisition Branch of the Public works department said in an interview Mon Day the dam was a joint Federal Provin Cial project which threatened to flood part of the federally owned Riding Mountain National Park. In Bompensa Chase yields jail term Bonn up leaders of the seven major Industrial countries agreed monday on specific measures to combat inflation unemployment and lagging economic growth. Prime minister Trudeau of Canada said they would mean a healthier world econ omy which would translate into stronger growth and Cre ate More jobs for canadians. Because Trade has a Large part in our Prosperity and because we Are so interdependent there can be no doubt it will be of Benefit to he told a press con Ference shortly after the two Day Summit meeting. The final communique is sued by the leaders of Canada the United states West Germany Japan Britain France and Italy committed each country to action president Jimmy car Ter said the United states will reduce its big Trade Defi Cit the source of inflation and instability of the . Dollar by reducing Oil imports 2.5 million barrels a Day by 1985. The Domestic Oil Price would Rise to world Levels by 19ko to encourage conservation. Prime minister Takeo Fukuda said Japan will Cut its Trade surplus of More than billion by importing More foreign products uranium aircraft and Oil and by temporarily holding exports at 1977 Levels. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said he will propose measures to stimulate con Sumer demand and growth in West German production. The other countries Ada Britain France and Italy made a commitment to stronger Domestic growth while ensuring inflation does not get out of control. The communique said can Ada reaffirmed its intention within the limits permitted by the need to contain and reduce inflation to achieve a growth rate of five per this has Long been the stated government target but is far above the 2.8 per cent annual growth rate shown in the first Quarter this year. Asked if he plans specific budgetary measures to at Tain the growth target. Tru Deau indicated he has none. But he said he expects the growth rate to increase in the last part of the year partly because of a stronger International Economy. The communique contained the most detailed set of commitments to emerge from an economic Summit the fourth since 1975 and the third to which Canada has been invited. The leaders said it reflects recognition that High sounding promises Are useless without agree ment for specific actions. Trudeau said each Leader see world Page 4 a of Koto prime minister Trudeau gestures to photographers at a Summit meeting in Bonn. Rude gesture or a jest Trudeau creates stir Bonn up prime minister Trudeau of Canada set tongues wagging monday when he jokingly made what appeared to be a rude gesture to reporters at a formal picture Tak ing session at the Bonn Summit meeting. Trudeau and leaders from West Germany Japan the United states. France. Italy and Britain had gathered on the porch of the official residence of West German presi Dent Walter Scheel before lunch and photog Raphers were there to record the event. Photographers had been joking with the leaders asking them to stand in various positions for the pictures. After about 10 minutes As the leaders turned to leave the photographers called out to them urging them to remain. At this Point Trudeau placed his left hand on the inside of his right Elbow and raised his forearm. His left hand was open. A Roar of laughter from 200 reporters greeted his gesture. A . Reporter interpreted Trudeau s gesture As giving us the Bird while a Canadian reporter said he thought it meant something stronger. It was intended As a flippant funny a spokesman for the prime minister later said later. We would be very unhappy if anyone took it As an last year at another Summit meeting in London. Trudeau was caught on film doing a Pirouette behind the Queen s Back. And at a Commonwealth meeting in London shortly after be became prime minister Loreais ago he Slid Down a Bannister. Mounties wanted drastic action Sec Chase Page 4 Ottawa up a Small group of mounties who formed the anti terrorist squad in Montreal in the 1970s wanted to take More drastic action against members of the front de liberation do Quebec the former squad Leader told a Royal commission into ramp wrongdoing monday. If they had had carte Blanche. God knows what would have chief supt. Donald Cobb told the com Mission headed by or. Justice David c. Mcdonald. Cobb identified former staff sergeant Donald Mccleary As one of the mount ies who favored such proposals Asar ranging to put terrorists into incriminating the ramp officer said he was glad Only two questionable incidents arose while he was head of the squad set up after terrorist activity in the Early 1970s in Montreal. Their Job was to head off any further terrorist outbreaks. Asked by Mcdonald to identify the two questionable incidents. Cobb said they were the burning of a barn at Ste. Anne de la Rochelle in May. 1972. And the theft of dynamite around the same time. He said he had not been informed of the two incidents and added that when an ramp investigation brought them to his attention i was sick at heart profoundly As head of the squad and the Field commander who made most of the decisions Cobb said he accepted moral responsibility for the two acts. But he said he could t explain Why his men had committed these acts. The men themselves would have to say Why. Cobb explained that bureaucratic delays in getting permission for Field operations had been getting very sen see ramp Page 4 ;