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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Steve Carlton strikes out number sets record for Good Samaritan took it on the nose a woman who was being beaten by her common Law husband repaid a woman who tried to help her by breaking her nose and beating her into unconsciousness a Winnipeg judge was told yesterday. Provincial court judge Charles Rubin was told Rosemarie Jeanette Clarke 23, of Elizabeth Road and her common Law husband were drinking in a West end hotel on March 26 and began arguing. During the argument Clarke slapped her common Law husband and he dragged her outside to the hotel Park ing lot and began hitting her in the Ace Crown counsel Bruce Miller said. A Young couple walking through the lot saw the Man beating Clarke and tried to pull him off court was told. At that Point Clarke jumped up grabbed the woman threw her against a Fence and began beating her. In a statement to police the Young Mother said she thought the couple was trying to beat up her common Law husband so she grabbed the smallest one and threw her against the Fence. "1 lost Complete control and just kept beating her. Then when i seen the blood and that 1 really Hurt her and she was t getting up she stopped Clarke told arresting officers. Yesterday she pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily harm and was placed on supervised Proba Tion for one year. Court was told the would be Samari Tan suffered a broken nose and numer Ous bruises to her body while her husband suffered Black eyes and bruises from his scuffle with Clarke s common Law husband. In passing sentence judge Rubin told Clarke who has since left her common Law husband and is living on welfare that it was unfortunate some one acting in a Good Samaritan Way attempts to Rescue you from being beaten up by your common Law Hus band and is not Only thrashed but damaged by your he noted however that Clarke had never been in trouble before and he accepted her lawyer s submission and that of the Crown that the offence was an isolated incident and out of Char Acter. Clarke s lawyer Martin Tadman also noted the woman has already paid a penalty for her actions because the children s Aid society took her son 5, away from her after she was charged. Tadman said the woman has since applied to get the boy Back and a family court hearing is set for june. Cloudy tonight 0 Cloudy tomorrow 15 Winnipeg free press thursday april 30, vol Iob no Sun rises . Sets Moon rises am Ortr 4-Nfi n m final for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 court told it s last Hope for provinces Kef a Tret Presb by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the supreme court of Canada is the last Hope of remedy for the eight provinces opposing prime minister Trudeau s constitutional plan and it should not throw out the constitutional question on the grounds it is a purely political Issue Manitoba warned the court yesterday. Hearings before the nine justices on the Fate of the new Constitution picked up momentum yesterday As provinces used the painstaking technical argue criticism of Ottawa defended by Cecil Rosner Winnipeg free press Thompson Canada s four West Ern premiers said yesterday they Are up with constantly being accused of Federal arguing they have an obligation to criticize Ottawa when Ever the occasion warrants. The premiers who wrapped up their annual two Day meeting Here yester Day spent most of their time denouncing the Federal government at every Opportunity. In addition to battering Ottawa on its constitutional Energy and Transfer payment proposals they blamed Canada s economic problems largely on the absence of adequate consistent and regionally sensitive Federal eco nomic policies and we Don t meet annually just to kick around the Federal government and try to make them look British co Lumbia Premier Bill Bennett said. But i Don t think you can expect us to meet see Good Page 4 ments made by Manitoba in tuesday s first round to bolster their own arguments. Manitoba counsel Douglas Schmeiser told the justices that their court has final authority on constitutional mat ters in a Federal state like Canada because its duty is to be the arbiter when the two Levels of government come into conflict. Chief Justice Bora Laskin told Schmeiser it is self evident that it was up to the court to decide and Schmeiser expanded upon his train of thought. Only remedy if the court decides this is a political matter not a judicial matter then the rights of the provinces Are being violated because this is their Only he warned the chief Justice. He also urged the court not to Deal alone with the technical Legal questions but to look at the substance of the proposal Point made later with More intensity by Quebec counsel Colin Irving. Irving also picked up on Manitoba s Contention that Canada is comple Tely Sovereign. He argued that the degree of Independence of both Britain and Canada Means Canada cannot Force Britain s hand when it comes to final passage. If Canada is a Sovereign state so is the United kingdom and i Don t think they can be compelled to he said. The provinces putting emphasis on Canada s sovereignty because it weakens the Case for British action on the Constitution without proper Ca Nadian consent. They contend uni lateral Federal action is not proper Canadian consent. The proposal to bring Home the 1867 1 British North America act will go to the . For final passage if it clears the supreme court and final votes in the commons and the Senate. Tru Deau has said it is Britain s duty to hold its nose and pass whatever Canada sends Over. See supreme Page 4 Market Board blamed for higher food prices Toronto up canadians pay an extra 13 cents for a dozen eggs nine cents More for a Pound of broiler Chicken and about 15 cents More for a litre of milk because marketing boards Are limiting production and keeping prices up to increase Farmers incomes say two men who prepared reports for the economic Council of Canada. Although milk marketing boards across the country Benefit producers handsomely milk product Consumers As Well As taxpayers Are seriously harmed by the various Supply manage ment or. Richard Bari chello of the University of British co Lumbia said yesterday. The Canadian Dairy commission sets the Price of Industrial milk and the Federal government wrings its hands of any responsibility in the matter. They have a virtual Blank prices of manufactured milk products in Canada Are roughly double the world Market prices Barichello said. As a result milk producers make a total of million a year. The loss sustained by Consumers is an annual Transfer away from Consumers of million. Even the taxpayer loss administrative Cost of running the show is a Formi Dable million a the study on eggs and chickens by Vancouver consultant or. Peter Arcus found that the egg marketing program costs Consumers annually which works out to about a person or 13 cents a dozen eggs. Regulation of Canada s broiler Chick in Industry costs about million a year Arcus said. This amount is obtained through higher prices to con Sumers who pay an average estimated nine cents a or about a person annually. Arcus said marketing boards Benefit Only existing producers because future producers must buy a production quota to get into the business. No vacancy this gaping Hole is just one of the features of a Bannatyne welfare Mother and her son had just moved into their suite in Avenue building visited yesterday by City health inspectors. A the building when they were told to vacate pregnancy baby Bonus urged task Force Leader says Cheque would encourage Early medical attention by Maureen Brosnahan women should be eligible for Feder Al baby Bonus cheques As soon As a doctor verifies pregnancy says a re port by the Community task Force on maternal and child health. In a Resolution stemming from a task Force study the group said pregnant women in Manitoba should collect the a month per child Federal allow Ance once they consult a physician and agree to follow directions for proper prenatal care. Norma Buchan executive director of the provincially funded task Force said it would be easy to implement the proposal across Canada. The mechanism is in place with the family allowance she said this women to seek Early medical attention and would help lower infant morbidity and mortality rates by making people aware of the value of Early prenatal care. In 1979 the perinatal mortality rate in Manitoba was 14.3-per-thousand live births Down from 15.7 and 18.9 in 1978 and 1977 respectively according to statistics from the Manitoba College of physicians and surgeons. Statistics for 1980 were not available. Studies also show that for every recorded perinatal death two infants survive but Are handicapped. If implemented the move could be ammunition for right to like groups who maintain the fetus in the womb is a person , president of the Manitoba league for life said the move would support the principle of the rights of the fetus. But she said it May not be enough to encourage pregnant women to seek Early medical care. "1 Don t think it s the she said. I find it difficult to believe that women Are not going to prenatal classes for financial a spokesman for planned Parent Hood said they had not seen the propos Al and refused to comment. The proposal arose out of a discussion paper prepared by a task Force com Mittee chaired by Winnipeg lawyer april Kalz. She said the incentive would educate expectant mothers and would make the Public More aware of the value of Early prenatal care. The task Force study said the propos Al would Cost the Federal government Between million and million a year. But Katz said this is a relatively Little compared to the billions of dollars spent on maintaining children with Dis abilities caused because mothers did not have proper prenatal care. She said most women would collect benefits for Only six months before giving birth. They would be at least three months pregnant by the time they saw a physician and then applied for the allowance she said. The task Force will present its Resolution at the Canadian Public health association annual meeting in Saska Toon in june she said. A copy of the Resolution has also been sent to Manitoba health minister l. R. Bud Sherman. Bridge alleged danger to ships Vancouver up two japanese Coal ships anchored in Vancouver har Bor were the Centre of controversy yesterday Over allegations an unnecessary risk was taken in moving them under the Lions Gate Bridge tuesday. One of them the ton Japan Mimosa is one of the biggest ships Ever to go under the Bridge. The other is the Japan popu Lar. The ships due to Load Coal at Roberts Bank South of Here were in the Harbor to fill up on Canadian fuel before the Price goes up Friday. Imperial Oil spokesman Bob Mclean said the Price is going up a barrel because of a Federal Export surcharge. He calculated the saving to a ship the size of the Japan Mimosa would be Vancouver harbormaster Captain Henry Vondette denied there was any unusual risk. There s always an element of some thing going wrong but if i thought there was any risk they would t be he added. Part of the facility of any port is to provide Bunker where we can. If there is a Job to be done we do it. You have to face up to the realities of pilots concerned but . Pilots said they Are concerned. We can t say it s dangerous but there Are risks involved in moving a ship of that size through the first Narrows especially when we Don t feel that there is a said capt. Victor Fry operations superintendent for the Pacific Pilotage authority. Fry said he wrote to the harbormaster tuesday asking him to Convene a meeting with the Oil companies and the shipping Industry to seek an alternative arrangement. There has to be a better he said. As far As we Are concerned the risk is unacceptable when a ship of that size is Only going to the Japan Mimosa is 300 metres Long. Empty she draws 16.45 metres of water. The High water depth under the Lions Gate Bridge ranges Between 16.52 metres and 19.5 metres depending on the tide. Jack Cottingham head of vessel traffic management said he is opposed to big ships entering the Harbor to Bun Ker. The Ideal situation would be to have an Oil pipeline running out to Roberts Bank so the ships can Bunker while they Are alongside but that would take a bit of Transfer hit two prisoners from heading Ley jail say they Are being unjustly punished for their role in a prisoners grievance cultural envoy s. There Are. 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