Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 18, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pryl photo by Dave Johnson Mickey mouse arrives in Winnipeg to Lead the Santa Claus celebrates 50th birthday Mickey mouse leads Santa Claus Parade Mickey mouse certainly gets the worlds most famous mouse was in Washington Friday Cele Brating his 50th birthday at the White House and then flew to Winnipeg to act As grand marshal of the Santa Claus Parade the eve Young rodent will Lead the Parade from the Polo Park shopping Centre at the mouse and the Parade will travel East on Portage Avenue to memorial Boulevard where it will turn ending at the provincial leg in Mickey shattered the formality of the East room of the White House Friday As scores of youngsters including president Carters daughter Amy shouted m approaching the end of a Cross country railway trip to commemorate his 50th Mickey mouse was Given a party by the presidential who also invited about 100 handicapped it was the fourth visit by Mickey to the White House but the first time the Walt Disney creation came As the guest of president completing his weekly interview with out town newspaper and broadcast made a Surprise join ing their 11yearold and the invited children in the on half Century on another Cross country train the late Walt Disney thought up the idea of a mouse character and originally considered calling him font Grotius try Iii car Deer outnumbered five Toone in drive continued with equipment and trucks from the Field maintenance the Deer were out matted about rally had the drovers split into four each with radio communication with Airport in a manoeuvre designed to catch the Deer in a pincer movement and drive them through the gaps in the there was limited Success within the first half hour As the Deer arriving at the Fence seem to locate the gaps and at least two were seen to hurl themselves at the Fence and fall to the ground in vain efforts to from the the drive or could see the animals doubling Back into the Bush and a least two continued across the As Reilly called off the drive a Large Buck with a sizeable rack of Antlers could be seen standing by a tree calmly assessing the Situa in an interview after the Reilly was asked Why the Deer were to be removed after living in the Timber stand for at least 10 Reilly said there had been attempts in the summer to drive the Deer to a location off the while 4he animals were considered a potential no concentrated Effort was made to move them until the Snow he Reilly said the herds sources of water had apparently become just before the Snow the Deer had started being Active near the paved areas of the Airport where they were finding some moisture and open areas of grass kept cleared near the herds activity has become a cause for he new construction is being directed photo by Glowacky men who took part in the unsuccessful attempt Friday to drive Deer away from a Bush area at Winnipeg International Airport leave the Deer have inhabited the Bush area near the Airport for about 10 toward the treed area and eventually the Deer will have to said it is just a matter of How we can move them without harming he Reilly conceded that a Fence around the area would solve the problem temporarily but the Fence in itself could be a Reilly said when Chain link Ofa Type that would be needed to confine the was first installed at the Airport under the Security it drove air traffic trollers operating radar screens most the Fence at one location was creating false images on radar and there were incidents when one Craft appeared to be two because of ghosting on the radar the Deer were obviously in a frenzy Friday and Reilly said he plans to let them Settle Down be fore any new move is it May be possible to develop a feeding pattern to lure them West of the Reilly there was no mention of shooting the although this possibility has not been excluded by some Airport the Deer Are in prime Airport manager George who watched the drive attempt from a position near the Deer habitat said they Are probably in better condition and have better feed than any Deer running there is great sympathy for the Small Deer Herd among the Airport staff and ramp who patrol the air ports Jim the Veteran Field maintenance said you have to feel sorry for this has been a some of them were born Canada to help resettle refugees Geneva a France and the United states will help reset the vietnamese refugees stranded on a freighter off the malaysian a spokesman for the United nations High commissioner for Refu gees said Philippe Labre Velex said ambassadors of the three countries met Friday with malaysian officials in Kuala the malaysian Capi to communicate their decision to accept the refugees and Start Canada has said it May accept some of the especially those who have relatives in As the Quebec legislature said it would take in 200 if the Federal government Chretien denies firm favored in budget deliberate or devious plan favouring the minister said he Learned de tails of Petro Canadas plans to buy Pacific Petroleum from its owner Phillips Petroleum at a Cabinet meeting last week while he still was deciding what would go into his one of the key participants in writ ing the budget was Chretien Thomas Shoyama is a member of Petro Canadas Board of directors and knew that budget Mea sures under discussion could have an important effect on Petro Canadas ability to raise the Money it needed to Purchase he said Chretien pet Ocanada announced its billion decision to buy Pacific one Day before Chretien made his final decision about what should be included in his continued one of the measures in that budget was a provision to close a tax Loop Hole which was costing the Federal government million a year in lost income tax the budget made it As of for Banks to buy preferred term shares or income debentures in Large corporations As a Way of bypassing nor Mal lending this is an arrangement which benefits both the Banks and the corporations because there is no tax on the interest pay it was the device pet Ocanada used in its Purchase of the budget measure is not a finance department official has said the tax loophole was so obvious that students in the country Legal schools gasp when they see he said the minister has been under pressure from both provincial officials and Legal advisers for years to close several Days before the budget was there was a published re port that Chretien would close the tax Chretien says he mentioned his decision to no one and declared absolute Faith his officials had been equally on budget pet Ocanada had safely concluded its financing a Chretien said hundreds of other corporations Are in exactly the same position As he said it would have been morally and legally wrong to put into effect a tax change designed to regulate decisions that had already been he said Petro Canadas timing had been for both opposition parties have promised further questions on the mat Telephone system asks for right to raise rates continued the utilities Board has scheduled hearings into the application for 1113 at the ramada the Tele phone system wants an interim in crease of 65 per cent of its proposed hike before the Complete raise takes effect next in its application to the the Utility says it understands the review policeman fined for having gun Kowsky said Mctaggart was convicted of impaired driving earlier this Wilson wished Mctaggart Luck in his continued association with Alco Holics but the fact re Mains that that particular morning you endangered the lives of people in this City i think the jury had no alternative but to find you Moshkowsky said the maximum penalty for the charge Mctaggart was convicted of was increased in january to 10 from five the fact someone want hit in the shoot ing was More the result of Good continued Fortune than of he defence counsel Lawrence Green Berg said the fact Mctaggart is a policeman imposes a heavier duty on him than on the Normal and that he has to pay a greater penalty than May be appropriate for the Greenberg said that Given Mctagu Garts background the incident was extraordinary and not Likely to be Justice must be seen to be done As Well As being but a person should Only suffer necessary and appropriate he Justice could both be done and appear to be done if Mctaggart want Greenberg he said Mctaggart stands in Seri Ous if not absolute jeopardy of losing All the credits he achieved during his 19 years of police he also said he Mctaggart has been unemployed since he was suspended with out pay by the department in process for the proposal will necessarily require some which makes it important to get the interim rate increase to minimize losses in this fiscal Telephone system chairman and general manager Gordon Holland said the increases Are essential to prevent a deterioration in the sys tems financial a major reason for the proposed boost is the dramatic increase in the Cost of servicing foreign debt issues because of the drop in the value of the Canadian inter est payments have risen from million in 1975 to an estimated million by next he if the new rates Are the Telephone system forecasts revenues for its next fiscal year will be in creased by million to the rate increase would prevent a net loss of about million in this fiscal the company even if the increases Are Telephone system spokesmen claim the rates generally will be the lowest in disturbance charges Lead to jail terms after approximately 15 hours of provincial court judge Graeme Garson Friday sentenced four of five persons charged with causing a disturbance at a Public meeting to jail the Crown said the five caused a disturbance at a Chin Canada Friendship association meeting on 4 at the Centennial planetarium sentenced to three months in jail for causing a disturbance were Manuel of 216 cock Burn suite 1 Glen Michal of 530 Hartford Avenue Robert of 1155 Grant suite 1003 and Donna of 216 cock bum suite dul was also sentenced to one month consecutive on a charge of assaulting a police a Brian of 123 Sutherland was convicted and remanded for 30 Days for a psychiatric he is charged with causing a disturbance and assaulting a police offi a sixth John who was acquitted 31 due to insufficient the conviction was handed Down after defence agent Kenneth Kal Kurnyk said in his submission the charges arose from political Perse cution against the communist party of Canada marxist Lenin of which some of the accused Are he also said testimony of Crown witnesses should be Given no weight because of in handing Down the judge Garson said i have a fairly Good grasp of what went on i dont have the least Shadow of doubt that the accused persons quite deliberately planned and car ried out certain acts in order to break up the anyone involved in politics knows the Way to disrupt a meeting is to walk cause a disturbance and have people planted in the Kal Kurnyk said his clients will evidence presented during three Days of trial indicated four persons entered the meeting carrying place and went to the front of the room where one began Reading a prepared statement denouncing the meetings guest speaker James former United Church dul and Gowenlock were Mem Bers of the meetings audience and were arrested in a hallway outside the Gitterman and Michalchuk were identified As being members of the group which entered the meeting after Endi Cotts speech and walked to the Motel resident nearly ran into gun battle9 court told both Smith and along with Corporal Russell testified earlier in the trial they became involved in a gun Battle about 1 with a Man in room 20 alter investigating a report of a stolen thursday june who with her husband Bill Bohonis owned the Motel at the time of the testified Archer checked into room 20 11 signing the Register As she said Archer paid for the room with a credit card belonging to Maurice on Tom who checked into the Motel about the same time As testified he nearly ran into toe Middle of the gun Battle after thinking someone was breaking into the Back of his rented Schmidt testified he was awakened about 1 by loud i was concerned so i turned the lights on and looked out the i noticed there were police cruisers out Side near the i shut the door and put some clothes on and went out to investigate what was going As i was walking out i Beard More i thought they were coming from the As Schmidt turned the Corner around the Van he heard a voice Roar this is a get the hell out of continued Schmidt then ran Back into the room where he and business associate Dave who was also stay ing in the took turns peeking out the window to see what was happening Schmidt testified that the next thing he saw was someone attempt ing to get into a Cruiser and driving during Cross defense counsel Hersh no is acting on behalf of Herbert continued his questioning concerning the Lack of identification Given by the four police officers the morning they knocked on room Schmidt joined the Parade of wit Nesses who testified they didst hear any knocking or statement of identification such As this is the Hornseth testified he called out this is the ramp after knocking on the door three times while Onofrey stood behind him with his gun drawn Welch also continued his question ing of witnesses on whether they could identify the ramp by looking at their Schmidt joined other witnesses in testifying that he could Tell the ramp offi cers by looking at their Wolch did manage to Point out schmidts use of words Dur ing testimony Friday differed from his earlier statement Given during a preliminary hearing last Friday Schmidt testified that As he was watching a person get into a Cruiser car he heard a voice cry out they got they shot at the preliminary hear ing his statement was Ive been they got the Point in trying to is that you cant give us the exact int that right Schmidt other conflicts in testimony revolved around How Long the gun Battle witnesses have testified it lasted Between five minutes and an fridays testimony ended phase two of the trial during which 22 of 62 witnesses have been called phase one ended last week when the longest jury selection in memory was completed after picking the 12person testimony is expected to continue before Justice John of Manitoba court of Queens at 10 monday in the Brandon court ;