Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, January 10, 1979

Issue date: Wednesday, January 10, 1979
Pages available: 111
Previous edition: Tuesday, January 9, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba January briefly rebels capture afghan base Pakistan tribesmen waging a bitter guerrilla Campaign against Afghanistan soviet backed government captured an army base and two tanks in the Eastern province of an afghan exile organization claimed no Frozen Cheeks in Australia Australia at least 20 persons were taken to hospitals after collapsing As temperatures Here soared to 44 degrees celsius 111 Sweden bans warlike toys Stockholm swedish children will no longer be Able to buy toy soldiers or toy pistols after this such toys Are the swedish Parlia ment and swedish toy manufacturers jointly decide Levesque encourages cajuns Breaux Quebec Premier Rene Levesque toured tuesday and encouraged the French speaking residents of the Bayou country to hold on to their today people can develop a society that is unique and can decide their own he said in a speech in Levesques speech in the Little town of Breaux Bridge was the first on a fou Day trip through israels naval head fired Tel Aviv israels chief of staff fired the Navy commander from the armed forces tuesday after he was acquitted by a military court of an attempted rape on a military court found Michael innocent of a charge of attempting to rape a woman but the judges issued a statement saying they believed he was they said insufficient evidence had been produced for a Desai suffers losses at polls new Delhi Indira Gandhi opposition forces jolted prime minister Morarji Deshais governing party tuesday night with decisive victories in two parliamentary by elections in Southern the margins of Victory were much larger than Gandhi Congress party had rolled up in capturing the same two seats during its 1977 National election defeat by Deshais janata worker survives impalement los Angeles a 42yearold worker who was impaled by a 2y2metrelong Plank in a Freak Industrial Accident was reported to be doing just great Jose Olmos of suburban Paramount was injured monday while working in the Mill area of Silver Crest a Mobile Home manufacturer in nearby authorities said Olmos was feeding a piece of lumber into a mechanized saw when the machine shot the Plank driving it through the left Side of his Chest and out his right rear sex change poses problem Washington a Man who worked for More than seven years As a District of Columbia police Man began taking a series of fitness Ordety examinations tuesday in an Effort to gain reinstate ment to Active duty As a sources in the department said the officer had completed hormone treatments and a Exchange operation and showed up tuesday for the medical exams dressed As a top officials of the District of Columbia police department refused tuesday to say How they would handle the Maggie has tonsils put Ottawa Margaret estranged wife of the prime was reported in Good Condi Tion in Ottawa general Hospital tuesday after a ton the 30yearold Trudeau was admitted monday in preparation for the frenchwoman has quilts France a 20yearold woman gave birth to quintuplets in Hospital Here tuesday after having been treated with Hospital sources the Marie Helene entered Hospi Tal several weeks ago in anticipation of a multiple the condition of the born three months was not immediately Tanker Barge trapped in ice a coast guard Cutter was steaming tuesday night to the Aid of a Tanker trapped in ice on Saginaw the 140metre Tanker gemini got trapped monday in route to ppm chemical dec pcs in Bay the Tanker loaded with ene and other organic was stuck about 32 Wio metres from the Entrance to the Channel into the Saginaw the coast guard said compiled from dispatches Lanctot has Job waiting for him Montreal up cd fief Fly member ties who be turfed to Canada last week to face charges in the James Cross has a Job wait ing with a Quebec publisher if he is released from police Quebec author and editor Victor Levy Beaulieu made the offer on tuesday to hire Lanctot As an editorial Secretary during a 90mi Nute hearing in sessions court to decide whether Lanctot should be released on Beaulieu told the court that he did not know Lanc Tot personally although he knew of him through he said the qualifications for the editorial Secretary Job were his Thor Ough knowledge of typewriting ability and Good general the wiry 33yearold testifying in his bail said that if released his intention is to find a which already seems to be in the and to participate in the Normal life of charged with kidnapping British Diplo mat Cross in was re turned to police cells after judge Maurice Roosseau reserved judgment until thursday on the bail apply also pending is a decision whether Lanctot will be charged with conspiring along with former Fly member Pierre Marcil to Kidnap former israeli Trade commissioner Moshe Golem in and with Possession of a concealed a sawed off Marlin who was not pres ent in court was scheduled to be arraigned on those charges defence lawyer Robert Lemieux said outside the court tuesday that he would present a motion to quash the charges against Lemieux started tues Days hearing for Lanctot with the same arguing that the proceed Ings Are nonexistent since the Crown was trying to reopen charges which it dropped in Crown prosecutor Jean Pierre Benin countered that a decision made three years ago by former que Bec Justice minister Jerome Choquette to sus Pend prosecution in the affair does not Rule out the crowns right to press new a Montreal police Emile testified that Marcil and Lanctot were arrested in during a routine Check which turned up the hidden under the seat of their rented police also found a note with a mention of golems kidnapping on one Side and a list of radio stations and newspapers on the the pair were questioned and released before arrest warrants were Marcil was later picked up but Lanctot evaded arrest from March until when Cross was Bisaillon when Bisaillon said the Only police evidence was the defence Lemieux argued this of paper was no evidence the alleged plot Ever went beyond the stage of conversation or that Golem was Ever blast kills 5 workers up an explosion at a Union Carbide magnesium Plant Here tuesday killed five employees and seriously injured a the dead Are employees who had been running the Metal processing Plant since a strike was launched by United of amerini about months lice said so Reid clearance n6 no payments till april recipe Lollion h High pressure l Tow pressure cold front worm front voice fire alarms proposed the civic Board of commissioners is recommending the City replace its existing fire alarm and Polich Box system with a Fiore widely spaced voice communication system using Manitoba Fei Ephone system to be sent to civic the recommendation is based on a task Force study completed last fall and advice that removal of the Call boxes affect fire insurance rates in in event of a by Manitoba Telephone system the civic administration has been told by the Utility that supervisory staff would maintain essential services to fire and hospitals except for Public Coin telephones which Arent Given priority during work should civic employees the report states its Crews would not be in a position to repair Cit owned a cations although civic supervisory staff would attempt to do f6recast for Interlake and red River regions mostly sunny today and clouding Over in the afternoon Low near c High extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba Cloudy Friday and saturday and not so sunny and colder Northern Manitoba flurries Likely Friday and Satur mainly sunny continuing cold throughout Northwestern Ontario sunny Cloudy Satur Day and not so cold temperatures following Are the minimum temperatures for the 12hour period that ended at 6 wednesday and the maximum temperatures for tuesday Saaw Victoria 3 Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Thompson Kenora Brandon Dauphin Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami Minneapolis new York Phoenix 3 71 10 14 22 25 22 23 20 9 19 11 3 12 0 0 19 27 35 33 35 32 28 14 17 15 7 19 11 24 5 Moscow Paris Rome Stockholm Tel Aviv 0 3 11 0 15 0 9 5 Winnipeg temperature comparisons mean 9 last year Normal highest on record in 1958 lowest on record 1886 precipitation total Tor i to 10 Centi metres Normal Angela of of husband of Maria Benteen of lie Des Harold Alex of husband of Dorothy Lawrence of son of and Paul of tre husband of Stella Kathleen of Edward of 541 Manitoba Lawrence of Leaf rap husband of Helen of River Hus band of Gladys Laval of 1050 Mcgregor suite husband of Ste Phanie Douglas an of husband of Sherril Noth of 260 Neil East Kil deaths husband of Ida Alice of Mead Wood formerly of 95 fre Derick widow of Frederick of 760 mul vey Hannah of 381 Moor Gate widow of Sydney Ryland of 326 Matheson fort widow of Max of husband of Jane Lyle of Hus band of Alice Stephen Richard of White for Merly of Vimy husband of Jean Janet la of Tuxedo of 672 Alfred widow of Thomas of Tuxedo formerly of 1499 Bannatyne for further please see classified death a rowers say what you sympathy Flowers and Call your Ltd your Eitra touch floruls1 now 2 locations jims meat Market 544 Rosedale phone 4532300 treated at Hospital following robbery in Lane a 61yearold Man was robbed at tuesday in a Lane North of por Tage Avenue Between Donald and har grave a police spokesman police said the whose name has not been was accosted by four males Between the Ages of 18 and 20 who struck and then fled with a Small amount of the victim was taken to Hospital and later Cash lottery priz coming soon Winnipeg hebrew schools lottery Jav f t Allan Blye Myron Cohen Julie Budd accompanied by the Ron Paley big band 4 cars 2 Cash prizes of 2 Cash prizes of 3 Cash prizes of 40 Cash prizes of plus a Cash prize of will be drawn monthly for months commencing feb 1 winners automatically reentered for future Only 1400 tickets being sold each ticket allows 2 people to attend you dont have to be present to Date january 1979 place Centennial concert Hall time phone or 2846062 or 4898346 Cash Lotter prizes North 0 Jubilee Jim Sun Tomboy meats 1333 Portage at valour 7727935 City wide Oil Var with minimum Grade a steer beef Canada a1a2 steer beef weight loss in boning and trimming will increase the Price per Pound beef Hinds Bita Cut a wrapped 150 i Canadian fresh pork loins 5140 14 w Cut Only Burns Salami Maple Leaf corned beef Schneider minced Ham i 10 bulk ground beef prime rib roast 11 90 rib pork chops 1 i fresh pork spare ribs i Rump or 9 hip roast Ken parts sirloin tip roast Bone removed Backbone on fresh pork butt roast pork steaks 129 i 119 Blade roast Boneless Cross rib roast 1 1 sliced Siam Bacon la Schenider 6 cooked meats Tbone steaks sirloin steaks minute steaks mild or Mozzarella cheese i cigarettes no limits Cut we Reserve the right to limit quantities prices in effect till 14 White Cross 394 Portage expires 17th limited quantities Timex watches 3o Oil of olay 200ml dental floss Johnton 4 Johnson so Rowntree misshapen chocolates a Carametti family vitamins Promani hand lotion Soo my Calcium a Coati or Gluc Onate 10 0r 1poa 1u99 vaseline Petroleum Jelly White Cross my vaseline intensive care lotion White Cross garlic Oil Caps 109i numb own mks 30 White Cross multiple vitamins White Cross ginsen0 Caps White Cross multiple vitamins with Iron Duncan mines mow Nii mix 75 my White Cross multiple vitamins with 190ml six meal plan fourteen meal plan ;