Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday february briefly Pope plans visit to Spain Vatican City Pope John Paul will travel to in october on what is believed to the first papal visit to that traditionally roman Catholic country Well informed Church sources say. The Pope will attend a Marian Congress in the Northern City of Zaragoza Between oct. 3 and 12. The International Congress will study the life of Mary Mother of Jesus Christ. . Paper threatens to close London the evening news Britain s largest evening newspaper with a daily circulation of said sunday that it will cease operation unless unions agree to a 25-per-cent reduction in staff. Management said the newspaper s losses will reach million next year and called for the elimination of 580 jobs including 39 editorial positions. People s action party wins Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew s people s action party has made its expected clean sweep in elections and retained its absolute hold on All 69 seats in the Singapore parliament. The Pap under Lee has governed Singapore in the 20 years since Independence from Britain. Catholic progressives win Puebla Mexico roman Catholic Bishops from throughout latin America have approved a declaration strongly denouncing economic exploitation and violation of human rights. The decision sunday was a Clear Victory for progressives who Are battling Over human rights with military governments in Many parts of latin America. Conservative Bishops had argued against an Active political role the Church. Bennett remains in Hospital Kelowna . W. A. C. Bennett 78, whose social credit party governed . For 20 years under his leadership was resting comfortably in Hospital sunday after being admitted Friday. Mystery disease kills 2 More Naples two babies died sunday of the so called mystery disease that has claimed the lives of at least 63 youngsters Here since it was first detected a year ago. Medical and health specialists from the North America and Europe Are scheduled to arrive today to assist italian physicians trying to identify the illness which newspapers Call the obscure floods kill brazilians Brasilia flooding in Central and Eastern Brazil caused torrential rain Over the past month has killed people and left homeless according to unofficial figures quoted newspapers Here. More than Square kilo metres of land is said to under water in he worst affected states. In one state alone nearly 200 towns and villages were flooded. Pro genocide teacher fired Arnsberg West Germany a West German woman teacher was fired after her students said she praised the nazi extermination of the jews a local government Leader said saturday. The teacher who was giving practical lessons in ironing made the comments in Impromptu discus Sions about the . Television series holocaust screened in West Germany last month. House fire kill 5 persons Chicago a fire possibly caused a faulty stove swept through a South Side Home Early sunday killing four Sisters and a Cousin As they slept police said. A sixth child was missing. A 17-year-old brother and two other Sisters escaped injury jumping from a second floor window. Stars attend Ford wedding Palm Springs Calif. Frank Sinatra and actress Eva Gabor were among the 350 guests invited to witness the wedding of Susan Ford 21-year-old daughter of former president Gerald Ford to secret service agent Charles Vance 35, saturday. New theory on Early Man challenged Boston apri Chard Leakey one of the world s leading anthropologists says he has unearthed new fossils which Challenge the claim two americans that they have identified a new species of Early Man. In his first appearance on a . Speaking tour the son of anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey outlined his reasons for doubting whether the Crea Tures which have been dubbed afar ape were in fact ancestors of humans. Anthropologists Don to Hanson and Tim White said when they named the new species last month that the classification was Likely to controversial. The afar creature lived on the african Savannah about 3.5 million years ago. It walked upright with a human like body but had an ape s face and brain. Johanson and White Lieve the afar creature or Australopithecus a Rensis was common ancestor to three separate species of an Early manlike creature. Two of these became extinct for unknown reasons while the third evolved into Mankind they said. Leakey maintains that All three species were present 3.5 million years ago two of them belonging to the Genus Australopithecus and the third to the Genus Homo which includes humans. He said their common ances Tor will found in the four million to six million year Range but that that Era of time is still practically de Young Man sought in robbery of store police Are seeking a Man believed to 18 or 19 years old in connection with a convenience store robbery saturday. A Winnipeg police department spokesman said the Man entered the Pic a pop Ltd. Store at 949 Hen Derson Highway East Kil Donan about . Carrying what appeared to a knife. He ordered the Lone 17-year-old girl on duty to give him Money from the Cash Register received a Small amount and fled the spokesman said. The Man was described As five feet seven inches tall and about 140 pounds. Void of fossils. The argument is More than a dispute Over the naming of some Fossil Bones. Leakey s theory would mean the line that became human has been evolving separately from the Man like creatures for at least one million years longer than Johanson and White believe. If so it May help explain Why one species of upright creature became Intelli gent and flourished. He refused to describe the findings in detail Pend ing a scientific report in the British journal nature within the next two months. But he said the new Fos Sils show that one of the now extinct Man like Crea Large Jawed creature named Australopithecus robust us existed Long before 2.5 million years ago. The debate Over the afar s Validity results from an explosion of fossils in the last 10 years from the Eastern african rift Val Jey first explored Louis and Mary Leakey. Johanson and White based their new species on fossils found in Ethiopia Johanson curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Muselin of Natu ral history and in Tanza Nia Mary Leakey. White of Berkeley Calif., is physical anthropologist for Mary Leakey and has worked with Richard Leakey. Reaction to separatism hit Toronto David Lewis former Federal Leader of the new democratic party said saturday the attitude of some canadians that the Quebec separatist movement is not serious is macabre and danger Ous. It s True we had lots of trouble Between the English speaking and the French speaking in this Lewis said during a panel discussion at a meeting of the Ontario Branch of the Canadian bar association. But we have never before had a government in Quebec dedicated to splitting the province off from from dispatches ice hot line Portage ave. Pm. 786-6541 . Stereo i i in shop in Home service forecast for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and red River regions mainly Cloudy with occasional Light Snow this morning. Cloudy tonight and tuesday. Snow and blowing Snow wind increasing to Southeast at 35 to 45 tuesday afternoon. High today near Clow tonight c to c. High tuesday c to c. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly Cloudy and turning colder wednesday. Sunny and cold thursday. Increasing cloudiness not so cold Friday. Northern Manitoba sunny and cold throughout the period. Victoria. Vancouver Thompson Brandon. Dauphin Thunder adv Toronto. Ottawa. Mont red i Halifax Chicago. Minneapolis new York. Boston Amsterdam Athens. Berlin Helsinki Lisbon. London. Madrid Moscow. Paris. Rome. Stockholm Tel Aviv resort spots los Angeles too lid pc fld Ckuj Rev. Phoenix Clear. Honolulu partly Clouds. Csc. Bermuda Clouds Nassau Clear Kingston Clouds Barbados portly Clouds Howduna. Clouds. Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. My. Mean Feto 25.3 -17 7 -21.5 Lam Cdr -11.5 -23.5 -17.5 23.8 -17.2 highest on record 3 v m 1931 lowest on record Al 1 in Max. My. Mean i try 11 28.4 194 i St year. -13.5 -23 b -18.7 normal.-12 2 -22.8 -17.8 highest on record m 1934 lowest on record 41 i in 1899 Tot door nov. 1 to feb. 12 76.5 Centi metres Normal 81 6 centimetres. Deaths Benson Henderka 94, of 2395 Ness Avenue St. Widow of John Edwin Benson. Boychuk John 45, of 609 Mcleod Avenue East Kildonan husband of Elizabeth Boychuk. Brereton Joan 53, of 785 Sheppard Street wife of Harold Brereton. Campbell Eric Gra Ham 85, formerly of 215 Brock Street widower of Alison Mary Campbell. Carter Arthur Ray mond 52, of 461 Leighton Avenue East Kildonan husband of Margaret Elizabeth Carter. Cine Mars Jan wife of John Cine Mars. Dailey Charles 83, for Merly of 2900 Pembina Highway fort Garry husband of Louise Dai Ley. Faroe Frank 82. Of Delta . Gulickson Doris 61, of 285 St. Anne s Road suite 24, St. Vital. Glimn Mabel Isabel 70, of tache nursing , widow of Robert Gunn. Hryniuk Michael 72, of Winnipeg Beach Man. Hyde Clarence Victor 79, of Tyndall Man., Hus band of Ina Hyde. Jones Jane Wallace 70, of Transcona. Kennedy Alice 72, of Winnipeg formerly of St. Claude Man. Kosmick Margaret 69, of 518 Rosseau Avenue East Transcona wife of Dave Kosmick. Mendham Cora b., 88, of new Hampshire formerly of St. Boia widow of Charles Mendham. Nagle Norman Russell 91, of 309 Sherbrook Street suite 32, widower of Etta pee Nayale. Sheldrake Stanley husband of Georgina Sheldrake. Skardal Christian a., 79, of Baldur Man. Sobkowicz Stanley 60, of 310 Machray Avenue husband of Evon sob Kowicz. Solnick. Anthony of 754 Selkirk Avenue. Thorsteinson Jose Phine 64, of 594 Agnes Street suite 10, wife of Orn Thorsteinson. Yamada Keizo 89, of lot 160, St. Anne s Road St. Vital widower of Shigeno Watanabe. For further information please see classified death notices i Kom medallion milk co. Ltd. The skim partly skim milk powder with the fresh milk taste Cost per litre skim milk powder Cash cwt partly skim milk powder casl1 carry for free Sample phone 233-7220 43 Speers re. Mpg. Man. 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