Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday december 1, 1978 Ira bombs blast 10 towns Belfast at least 16 car and incendiary bombs blasted 10 towns in British ruled North Ern Ireland on thursday night injuring two children and a policeman. Police had expected a bombing wave by the provisional Wing of the Irish Republican army Ira As four men and a woman had been intercepted at the Border with Ireland while carrying equip ment for making bombs earlier this week. Huge car bombs caused widespread damage in Stewartstown and Armagh where two children aged 12 and 15 received slight injuries. Worst hit was Lurgan where there were five explosions. Arson ruled hotel fire cause Rochester . Arson has been ruled the cause of a fire at a suburban Holiday inn that claimed 10 lives seven of them from the metropolitan Toronto area did million damage police said thursday. Town of Greece police chief Gerald Phelan announced the ruling at a news conference but re fused to say what led investigators to Rule out other causes. Clothing workers reject offer Montreal workers in the men s apparel Industry in Quebec and Ontario rejected employer contract offers thursday and will decide next week whether to strike a spokesman for the amalgamated clothing and textile workers said. About 65 per cent of workers who cast ballots decided to reject management s offer of an eight per cent wage increase in each of the next two years. Contracts in the Industry expired at Midnight thurs Day night. Bulgarian training for space Prague a bulgarian will be the next astronaut to take part in a flight with a soviet col league in the soviet Union s space program. Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubanov who took part in a 1975 link up Between the soviet soyuz 19 and an american Apollo Craft said one of two bulgarians now in training in the soviet Union will be selected for the next flight. Woman won t be persecuted Stockholm a 23-year-old rape victim who stabbed her assailant to death will not be prosecuted in a Case which May set a Legal precedent for Sweden. To Persson 48, state prosecutor in Uppsala North of Stockholm where the stabbing occurred in october said his action was justified be cause the woman was in a state of numb Shock at the time. Welfare Sicin Dler sentenced Compton Calif. A 33-year-old Mother of four children was found guilty thursday of collecting in what the prosecutor described As the biggest welfare fraud in . History. Barbara Williams who drove to the court from her Home in a Silver Grey Cadillac will be sentenced dec. 28 and might go to prison for up to eight years. She was found guilty of 10 counts of welfare fraud and 13 counts of perjury but Superior court judge Kenneth Gale dismissed one of the perjury counts because it had been mis numbered. Soviet budget approved Moscow the supreme soviet the soviet Union s parliament on thursday unanimously approved the soviet state budget of Savoj billion for 1979, the official news Agency Tass reported. The budget presented wednesday to the supreme soviet by finance minister Vasily Garbuzov included a reported billion allotment for defence spending. . Experts estimate actual soviet de Fence expenditures at More than billion. Soviets release pot smuggler London briton Michael Wilson arrived Home thursday after spending years in a soviet labor Camp for smuggling marijuana. Wilson 26, was arrested in april 1976 at Moscow s Sheremetyev Airport. He was sentenced to five years in a labor Camp. The sentence was reduced to three years on Appeal. Four other britons arrested on similar charges in 1976, Are still serving labor Camp terms in the soviet Union. Transport crash kills 3 Cottageville . A . Air Force transport plane crashed and burst into flames thursday killing at least three of its six Crew Mem Bers. The air Force said a search was under Way for the other Crew members in a wooded isolated area around the crash site. The four engine her Cules was on a training flight from Pope air Force base n.c., to Charleston air Force base . Sex nursing Home head fined Thunder Bay a former administrator of a Kenora ont., nursing Home who pleaded guilty to 53 fraud related charges was fined s2.5s3 a Mistric court thursday. Jean Lemay 58, was also ordered to perform 200 hours of Community service work for defrauding residents their relatives and beneficiaries and owners of the nursing Home. Compiled from dispatches sister Bertels warns audience panic mongers Rule food system by Jack Francis what this country needs is a hardier Breed of instead of Banning artificial sweeteners when a Canadian rat died of an overdose of saccharin scientists should have bred a Laboratory animal that could stand up to the Rigours of modern life sister Thomas More Bertels noted wis Consin speaker on social systems said thursday. Hers was a Tongue in Cheek com ment with a dead serious message panic mongers in the food system Are making a major Impact on the lives of Consumers and banners be cause not All components of the system have equal Power. Decisions Are being made for the Many uninvolved by the few who Are committed and dedicated How Ever misguided sister Bertels told a major horticultural Industry Gath ering in Winnipeg. Anyone who eats is involved in agriculture just As anyone who produces agricultural commodities is involved in the food system. But the lives of both Consumers and Farmers Are often seriously affected by policy decisions that they have had no part in formulating she said. If a rat can t handle whipping Cream get rid of the rat not the whipping she was also critical of cancer scares involving meat consumption noting that Stigor citizens Homes were full of Long lived peo ple who thrived on beef and sister Bertels called on producers to make a dedicated Effort to develop an effective Power base to be come an equal Force with other components in the food system to assure practical effects. Forecast for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and red River regions mainly Clear and cold today. Continuing Clear but not As cold saturday. High today near c. Tonight s expected Low near c. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mostly sunny through monday. Temperatures below Normal saturday. Not quite so cold sunday and monday with temperatures near Normal. Northern Manitoba Cloudy with Snow flurries Satur Day and sunday. Mostly sunny monday. Northwestern Ontario below Normal temperatures saturday with temperatures rising to slightly above Normal by monday. Temperatures following Are the minimum temperatures for the 12-hour period that ended at 7 . Thursday and the maximum temperatures for the 12-hour period that ended at 7 . Bonnallo Edwin r. 97, of 384 Albany Street St. James Assini Boia. Borkowski Henry 81, of 821 Dufferin Avenue husband of Marya Bor Kowski. Brown Allan e., 48, Hus band of Betty Brown. Foley William Douglas 73, of Beacon Hill Lodge. Hanna Lloyd John 48, of 766 Muriel Street St. James Assiniboia. Hanson Esther Naemi 90, of Portland Oregon formerly of 155 Morier Avenue widow of Bror Hanson. Hutchinson George w., 82, of Portland Oregon formerly of Winnipeg. James Donald Charles 47, of 137 Broad Bay North Kildonan husband of Ruby James. Martyniuk katrina 74, of Selkirk Man., formerly of Stuart born Man. Mignacca Emile 81, of Lomita calf., formerly of Winnipeg husband of Nancy Mignacca. Piasecki Viola 42, daughter of Paul and Annie Braun Piasecki. Ower of Jane Small Wood. Verschoore Julie 40, Schreiber David of 419 of 1925 Alexander ave Machray Avenue. Nue. Smallwood Edward for further information 93, of 1100 Henderson please see classified death Highway suite 607, wid notices Victoria Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Repina Winnipeg Thompson Kenora Brandon Dau Cilin t Hunder Bav Toronto Ottawa Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami Minneapolis new York Phoenix 7 Winnipeg temperature comparisons min. Mean nov. 30 -20.6 -29-d -25.0 last year 1.5 -9.0 -3.6 Normal -6.7 .16.1 -11.7 highest on record 9.4 in 1968 lowest on record -36.1 in 1876 precipitation total Lor nov. 1 to nov. 30 Milli metres Normal 25.7 Millimetres. Lalonde to speak at u of Federal Justice minister Marc Lalonde is one of a number of speakers who will attend this year s exposure week at the University of Winnipeg. The theme for the five Day festival Jan. 22 26, will be Quebec the people and their aspirations. 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