Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I High flying poodle collared Barking in floor of Jet unleashes search for Pooch find somebody in Winnipeg prettier Vancouver up passengers aboard air Canada flight 149 from Toronto did t see an Aerial dogfight but did hear muffled Barking As they cruised the stratosphere above Manitoba. By Alberta flight personnel had begun a systematic search of the Boe ing perhaps some passenger had smuggled a Pooch aboard the non Stop ride to Vancou ver. It was the darn est air Canada spokesman Henry Thow said yesterday. While on a taxi in Toronto a flight attendant heard a dog Barking but just assumed it was in the but during the search later an Atten Dant spotted a canine nose poking through the Louvres of a ventilation duct at floor level in the passenger area. The first officer removed the vent cover and took out a poodle a Grey said Thow. The medium sized dog appearing somewhat thin eagerly consumed a Steak brought from the Galley and washed it Down with a Large drink of water. Thow said it s anyone s guess As to How the animal turned up in the Venti lation system. What we do know is that the dog was booked on a flight from Paris to Toron he said. The owner an m. Hansen of Markham ont., has been notified of the dog s the spokesman said chief stewardess Mary Cliff took the animal Home yesterday after the flight s . Arrival and that it will be taken to a veterinarian today for a checkup before being returned to Ontario. Cloudy tonight 15 sunny tomorrow 29 monday june 29, 1981 1 free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets final 200 Home delivery 957-0550 clan fled 956-2330 is. Second class mail i x registration number 0286 alternate services ready for mail halt the Canadian Union of postal work ers rejected a second offer from the Federal government to go Back to the bargaining table late yesterday Mak ing a National postal strike Likely at Midnight tonight. Cup president Jean Claude Parrot said yesterday that neither weekend offer was serious and unless the government is willing to talk today on measures in a conciliation report then a strike is inevitable. We have received two invitations from the employer to go Back to the bargaining Parrot said in an interview. But we said we would not go Back unless they were serious and their offers were strictly a Public relations the slight prospects for settlement set in motion preparations for alternative services. Spokesmen for the major local department stores said today they Are making arrangements with local courier services to ensure that Bills will reach credit card holders with As Little delay As possible. Verne Reynolds credit consumer affairs manager for the t. Eaton company was reached in Toronto. Arthur Wilkinson 86, was among last evacuated from building. 75 apartment residents escape two alarm fire by Andy Blicq a two alarm fire in an six Storey downtown apartment building last night sent scores of residents scurrying to the Street clutching shoes and clothes. No one was reported to have suffered serious injury in the fire which broke out at . In the ceiling area of the fifth floor of the Devon court apartments 376 Broadway. A few firefighters suffered minor smoke inhalation cuts and bums but none required Hospital treatment. Cause of the fire which sent Clouds of smoke billowing Over the downtown and Drew a crowd of about 100, is still under investigation. Residents said the evacuation caused no panic with Many adding the alarm in the 70-year-old building rang so frequently in the past they were sur prised to find it was not a false alarm again last night. The fire was contained to the fifth see 75 apartment Page 4 we re putting the finishing Tou Ches on a computer program that will enable us to sort Bills for our customers in the 12 largest cities throughout Canada including Winni Peg of Reynolds said. It will involve a Little More time in preparation for delivery but we Hope to have the Bills out As usual even if Mere is a postal Reynolds said Eaton s is making arrangements with major chartered Banks to enable customers to pay their Bills in the Banks branches if see postal Page 4 chinese appoint new Boss peking a communist party chairman Hua Guofeng chosen Suc Cessor of Mao tse Tung has resigned and the party s Central committee has elected he Yanbang to replace him the official Xinhua news Agency reported today. Hua was elected a vice chairman along with Premier Zhao Ziyang the news Agency said. It reported the Cen trial committee accepted Hua s Resig nation on a unanimous vote. Deng Xiaoping the party vice chair Man who is considered China s top Leader was elected chairman of the party s key military commission Xin Hua said. Hua and Zhao join four other vice chairmen Deng be Jianying i Xian Ian and Chen Yun in making up the party s elite standing committee of the policy setting politburo. He 67, an ally of Deng had been the party s general Secretary but Western diplomatic sources have said he ran the Day to Day affairs of the party since last november. Hua closely associated with now discredited leftist policies of Mao had been seen at Public party functions Only a few times since then and is reported to have undergone ideological rehabilitation at the party school Here. Rings Down curtain on Era the Central committee decision rang Down the curtain on the Era of Mao who died in 1976 but whose influence lingered with party conservatives. The replacement of Hua at the party Helm had Long been expected by West Ern observers Here and amounts to a Seal of approval by the party leaders on the modernization and economic and political alignment with the West instituted under Deng s leadership. Although a committed marxist the new chairman of the chinese communist party is at the same time contemptuous of political theory for its own Sake and always prepared to Challenge Dogma. Like most of China s leadership he Yanbang 67, was purged during the cultural revolution launched in 1965, being forced to live in a cowshed. He returned to Power after the fall of the Radical leadership known As the gang of four which followed Mao tse Tung s death in 1976.8 his appointment today to succeed Hua Guofeng As party chairman was widely expected. Terry Fox s hop skip gait was a Symbol of Hope and courage. Cancer s desperation beaten in Brave Battle new Westminster . Up Terry Fox conquered the hopelessness of cancer even though he succumbed to the killer disease. Even though he died he beat cancer society spokesman Blair Mack determined Enzie said yesterday after announcing the heroic runner would be buried at private services thursday afternoon. He beat cancer by his determination by the Way he fought it. I think they other cancer patients got a lot of Hope from him. They knew that he fought Fox died peacefully at . Cd one month before his 23rd birth Day and one year to the Day after he ran into Ontario on his Marathon of Hope. At his bedside were his parents sister two Brothers one with his fian Cee his grandmother and a minister. He died surrounded by love the love of his family All of whom were see cancer s Page 4 iranian crowds protest blast Tehran Reuter thousands of demonstrators marched into Central Tehran today to protest a massive bomb explosion which wiled scores of iranian political leaders including Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti regarded As the second most powerful Man in the country. The official pars news Agency said at least 64 people died last night when the powerful bomb ripped through the Headquarters of the dominant islamic Republican party where Beheshti the party s founder and general Secretary was delivering a speech to More than 90 leading politicians. State radio said four Cabinet Mem Bers six Deputy ministers and at least 20 parliamentary deputies were among those who died in the blast or when they were crushed under tons of masonry and rubble. Among those who escaped the blast were prime minister Mohammed Ali Rajai and majlis parliament speaker Hashemi a Sfanjani. Both Rajai and a Sfanjani were reported Safe. Khomeini not at meeting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the country s 81-year-old revolutionary Leader was not at the meeting. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion. Thousands of pro clergy demonstrators marched into the heart of the City today to protest the bomb attack carrying portraits of Beheshti and chant ing Khomeini we Are awaiting your revolutionary guards Many in Plain clothes waved their rifles and machine guns from cars speeding Between the various demonstrations to try to maintain order. No violence was re ported. Pars said the bomb was in a garbage can close to the platform where Beheshti was speaking. The blast was so great that the roof caved in and the explosion was heard up to five kilo metres away residents of the area said. Planted behind Wall but chief government spokesman Behzad Nabavi said the explosion was caused by a very Large bomb planted behind the Wall of the Irp Headquarters auditorium in a neighbouring school. Nabavi surprised reporters by appearing for his weekly news conference today smiling and looking Calm. Previ Ous re Orts had suggested that he had been seen in the building when the. Explosion occurred. Nabavi said he was invited to yester Day s meeting called to discuss Iran s rising inflation rate but did not attend because he had other business. Asked if the government intended to declare a state of emergency he said there was no need. But prime minister Rajai declared a two Day National Holiday and a week of Public mourning. The joint staff of the armed forces in a statement broadcast by state radio said it would not close for one moment and would spend its time on the front lines to pursue Iran s 10-month War with Iraq. The message was seen As a sign of armed forces support for Rajai s government. Old issues when leaders of the world s industrialized democracies meet at Montebello que. In three weeks they la find some familiar issues on the draw the line the soviet Union is sending foreign minister Andrei Gromyko to Poland presumably to Tell the communist party where to draw the line at the party turning Point Jerry Pate s two stroke Victory yesterday in the professional golfers association tournament May serve As a major career turning Point for making up India and China have agreed to mend strained relations and negotiate an end to their decades old Border super Index Ann Landers. 22 answers. 35 Bridge. 22 business.63 classified.40 Cleverley. 7 comics.52 crossword. 23 deaths.2, 40 editorials letters.6 entertainment.29 horoscope.27 Jumble puzzle.44 klady.29 Millroy on to. 31 movies.31 people.35 relax.35 sports. 55 sports record.62 stocks.64 tempo.21 to listings.35 Yellen. 35 ;