Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I youth seeks damages in Eaton s incident by Pamela Faverman outlining the Case to the six Man i he store claims it merely acted on employer and in using the Handcuffs. Life with doomsday trigger at by Pamela Fayerman t. Eaton co. Security officials made a Public spectacle of a Winnipeg youth they apprehended and handcuffed by mistake a jury in a civil Case was told yesterday. In the first jury trial for a civil matter in five years Eaton s has been accused of falsely imprisoning Edward Marks in 1977 when the plaintiff ii Rietl to Cash a payroll Cheque from his employer the Keg n Cleaver. An Eaton s Security official testified handcuffing suspects is a routine procedure and most suspects arrested by store officials Are handcuffed. Outlining jury in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench or. Justice j. E. Wilson said Marks feels entitled to compensation in an unspecified amount because he was allegedly embarrassed and deprived of his Liberty. He told the jury Eaton s feels it had reasonable and probable grounds for detaining the Man because the store had been informed by police Days be fore the incident that a Large number of cheques had been stolen from the restaurant and Eaton s believed the youth s could be one of them. Named As a third party in the action is the City of Winnipeg. Merely acted i information provided by police. The City denies any responsibility in the matter. Marks who was then 16, said he went to the Cheque cashing wicket on the eighth floor of the downtown store on aug. 25, 1977. Minutes later he was apprehended by store detectives who handcuffed and questioned him and then took him to a Security office despite his claims of innocence. Marks said the Handcuffs were re moved once police arrived. His innocence was verified within 30 minutes but Marks said the store erred in not telephoning his Mother or employer and in using the Handcuffs under Cross examination Marks said no Eaton s employee actually accused him of anything and no Force was used to detain him. When the incident ended police apologized to him on behalf of the store and he was allowed to Cash his s175 Che que. Albert rid Eloch an Eaton s Security officer for the last k years testified he handcuffed Marks As he hand cuffs most suspects because he did not think he could hold him. He said he uses his own discretion with Handcuffs in cause the store has no specific policy on their use. The trial continues. Clear tonight -1 0 sunny tomorrow 8 tuesday april 14, 1981 free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets final 200 for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 956-2330 Columbia Spac Ecra Homes Corinne Levesque raises the hand of her husband Rene in Victory after parti quebecois wins yesterday s provincial election. Scores solid vict Levesque sweeps 80 of 122 Assembly seats Union National wiped out Montreal up the parti quebecois floored a year ago by the voters convincing rejection of sovereignty association got Back up with a vengeance yesterday sweeping 30 of the 122 seats in the Quebec National Assembly. Loss Clouds Ryan s Liberal Leader Claude Ryan whose Victory seemed certain Only a few months ago after winning 11 straight by elections and the referendum was left with Little More than the Consola Tion that he had at least improved the party s share of the popular vote and added a few seats. The liberals 42 seats were limited mainly to the Eastern townships the Ottawa Valley and the traditionally Liberal Western half of Montreal is land where anglophone votes Are concentrated. The rest went to the pm. The Union National already Deci mated by defections and resignations was wiped out. The vote suspended at least temporarily the polarization Over sovereignty association that reached its Peak in the 60 per cent to 40 per. Cent federalist Victory in the referendum last May. The turnaround was immediately hailed by some pm spokesmen As an other step towards the creation of their Long held dream of a new coun try. But Premier Rene Levesque pointedly made no reference to that in his Short speech to deliriously Happy Flag waving supporters crammed into a Montreal hockey Arena. Instead he pledged the government would keep each and every one of its promises one of which was not to hold another referendum in its second term. See pm Page 4 with 12 seats added under redistribution party standings in the Quebec Assembly compared with dissolution March 12 and the 1976 election Are parti Union from the news services Edwards air Force base United states astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen landed the space shuttle Columbia safely today ending Man s first space flight in a reusable vehicle. Touchdown came right on the Money on schedule at . Cost on a Rock hard Sand runway at Rogers dry Lake at Edwards air Force base. The astronauts began their Landing by firing slowdown rockets to Start the . Rocket ship Columbia on its blazing dive Back through the Earth s Atmo sphere toward an Airliner like Landing on California s Mojave desert. The two rockets ignited with a thump at . Cost 172 nautical Miles above the Indian Ocean slowing co Lumbia s Orbital Speed by More than 480 Kilometres an hour and starting the Craft on an hour Long descent towards Man s first wheels Down approach from outer space. The bum was on time and radioed Crippen. Young and Crippen were flying Back wards in position for the rockets in the spacecraft s Tail to Brake their Speed. Four minutes later they turned co Lumbia nose Forward and began to feel the buildup of Gravity pressure on the vehicle. After 54 hours the astronauts were leaving the weightless world in which they and their ship had performed almost flawlessly on the Maiden flight of the world s first re flyable space ship shuttle control told the astronauts that four Jet Chase planes Hud taken off from Edwards air Force base to provide an escort for final approach. Tell pm Well see them in about 45 Miyoung responded. Columbia diving closer to Earth her Speed declining and heat building up passed North of Australia and headed out Over the Pacific. As Columbia sped High Over the Pacific Young told shuttle control through the tracking station at Guam we re moving right along everything looks the capsule communicator Joe Allen replied it looks Good going Over the Hill. Nice and easy does it John we re All Riding with at ., Northwest of Hawaii at an Altitude of about 50 nautical mines the heat became fierce. The ship was out of radio Range for a 21-minute period 10 minutes of it a blackout created by ionized gases generated by intense re entry heat. It was Nail biting time in shuttle control at the Johnson space Centre in Houston. Would a winged vehicle come through this period of extreme stress would the tiles hold out the heat there was nothing but Confidence. Nasa officials conceded the re entry and Landing was a delicate and untested manoeuvre. Until today All manned space Craft . And russian had flown a ballistic path from space to Earth free falling Blunt end first to within hopefully a mile of their intended land ing Sites. Often they missed by much More. No one had Ever flown a winged vehicle into space and guided it through the Metal melting heat of re entry at speeds up to everything had to work right for the astronauts. In Landing Columbia survived temperatures that reached As High As degrees celcius on the leading edges of its stubby wings. Its extraordinarily sophisticated guidance and navigation system guided it to a pin Point Landing along an hour Long 20. 430-Kilometre Glide path. Most Nasa officials regarded the shuttle s first Landing As a bigger risk than its launch. The potential for problems increased with the loss of or damage during launch to More than a dozen of the heat resistant tiles on the two engine pods at the upper rear of Colum Bia. Price agreement is closer by Michael Doyle Alberta and Ottawa for the first time yesterday gave Strong signs of being on the Road to a breakthrough in the protracted and bitter Federal provincial Energy dispute. Ottawa to Appeal Gas Federal Energy minister Marc la Londe and his Alberta counterpart Merv Leitch emerged from a Day of talks in Winnipeg their first meeting in six months to pronounce them selves pleased with the results. They both Waid precisely the same thing they achieved some Progress and they will meet again toward the end of May. See Oil Page 4 3 firms offer to buy forestry Complex Marc Lalonde and Merv Leitch shake hands at Winnipeg meeting yesterday. By Mary Ann Fitzgerald three companies have been negotiating with the Manitoba government for the partial or outright Purchase of the Manitoba forestry resources Complex at the Pas the free i Ress has Learned. The three companies Are Noranda mines ltd., Macmillan Bloedel ltd., and Recap enterprises. However lawyers representing Alex Ander Kasser have warned thai any company buying the debt Ridden forestry resources Complex could find itself ensnared in further court action in the continuing Saga of the Churchill Forest industries affair. It would be a risk to whoever might he willing to Purchase it not to know where we Laurence Slous a lawyer for Kasser warned in a Tele phone interview from Montclair . Last year an austrian court of a peal quashed an indictment against Kasser on seven year old charges Aris ing from an alleged Multi million cell fraud. Last june a s9 million Settle ment of civil claims against Kasser and 22 other people and companies associated with the Complex was reached. Under the civil settlement Assum ing it is binding we have no claims on that Slous said. Bui if there were litigation concerning the breach of the civil settlement i would not want to predict the the lawyer said. Winnipeg lawyer Paul Walsh who also acts for Kasser. Said legally i Here Are possible avenues of recourse that Haven t been resorted to As yet and any prospective purchaser would have to Lake hat into neither lawyer would elaborate on possible Legal courses of action. Officials of Noranda in Toronto and Macmillan Bloedel in Vancouver have see three Page 4 hard Luck earn Canada had no problems in world hockey championship action esterday except for Guy Afleur who was attend after 41 seconds in the Asper offered to buy free press Izzy Asper offered to buy the Winnipeg free press but declined Media magnate Kenneth Thomson s counter offer to sell the Ottawa journal. Thomson told the Kent commission yesterday he had no Choice but to close the journal after eight organizations rejected the Chance to buy 19 cram time for Many students exam time is Nightmare time and time and time and time Index i ;