Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Convict asks court by Steve Pona a Man serving a oneyear jail sen tence turned the tables on Manitoba court of Appeal asking that instead of reducing his the court Label him a dangerous offender and lock him up William Kenyon convicted on two charges of false apparently caught several judges and most other people in court by he told them Hes eligible for parole in but Doest want to what is the Point of me having to sleep in the Cole i am better off in had originally Filic an a peal of his contending it was but yesterday asked the court to declare him a dangerous of fender and Send him to jail indefinitely there is nothing for me out he the judges dismissed Coles with Justice Gordon Hall saying they saw no Merit in the the criminal code states that an accused must be shown to constitute a threat to the physical or mental Well being of others before he can be declared a dangerous Crown counsel Bill Morton had filed papers opposing Coles conviction a peal and said in an interview he came to court prepared to argue against a reduction of Coles Morton said Coles about face caught him off court was told the accused is an american citizen facing has a lengthy record for false pretences and has served time in jail for repeated convictions of illegally wearing Mili tary Federal Crown counsel Bruce Mac Farlane said Cole has been ordered deported from Canada at least 10 times since the Early but keeps return Macfarlane said the accused is considered a prohibited alien and upon his release from will be escorted to the Border and ejected from the Morton said Coles criminal record is in no Way warrants his being declared a dangerous in a letter tendered in Howe Cole said he has a paranoid Type schizophrenic personality and argued society must be protected from a potentially dangerous person As my from my past which Speaks for i have shown time and time again my seemingly callous disregard for Law in Cole added he is potentially extremely dangerous in if the need should i could resort to murder to obtain my selfish v o Lun Teers Cloudy today 8 Clear tonight 1 i y 1 vol 109no sets Moon rises sets final 250 Home delivery 957o55o classified 9562330 second class registration number 0266 Jim free press Marcel his family and two plod toward Lorette with the covered Wagon they Hope to take across Winter reining in Wagon trek West by Greg Bannister Marcel Robert is crossing Canada in a horse drawn covered Wagon just to prove it can be but on a wet Day like yester As Robert and four other que Beers drove their Wagon Lorette toward you had to wonder if his curiosity haunt led him a television started his Cross country trek May 17 from la a Village of about about 30 Kilometres out Side with him on the trip Are his wife their son Fabien and two Gaetan Venne and Daniel pulling the Wagon Are two huge belgian horses named Pat and the group left la Plaine hoping to Cross Canada before but found it impossible at a Pace of 27 to 36 Kilometres a there now plan Ning to head South to the United states in search of warmer weath they plan to hit new then with the arrival of better weather next they plan to push northward into Alberta and Back across Canada to la the round trip will run Between and Kilometres and take Between 15 and 17 months to com according to we just want to prove it can be said Robert As he sat at the Kitchen table of Dolores Lebrun of who provided food and Shel Ter to the three Young men in the Robert and his wife spent tuesday night at the nearby Home of Julie Lachance waiting for a break in yesterdays miserable its like a dream i have had for years he a problem facing the group immediately is the necessity of getting blood tests for the horses before see covered Page 4 Western Power Grid still Down the line tentative deadline for negotiations Between Prairie provinces passes by Ingeborg Boyens yesterday came and went without mention of the agreement on a Western Power Grid promised months ago by provincial 30 had been tentatively set As a deadline for negotiations Between the three Prairie provinces on a proposed transmission provincial officials had similarly scheduled an end to the same talks exactly one year and in Deputy Premier Don Craik said the Deal on this one of his three highly touted Meg projects was Only weeks its not a Craik said yester 1 never said 30 was an absolute its really not that far spokesmen for Saskatchewan and Al Berta said they had never expected to resolve the matter so dates kind of come and said John Mcclement of the Saskatchewan Power while he commit Mcclement said the talks should con clude in the immediate Constable hatched shooting yarn to gain wife police say an East Paul police officer fabricated a giant yarn being shot in the head by a gunman be cause he wanted his wife sym the chief of the municipal police Force said Constable Gordon re signed tuesday after his Story about being gunned Down fell apart during a polygraph test administered by said chief John Webster was discovered 24 about in a gravel pit near the red River flood Way North of Birds Hill on the East Side of High Way Ireland said Webster told ramp investigators he tumbled to the Bot Tom of the pit after being wounded in the head by a he admitted fabricating the whole incident he told me he did it for Domestic said ire websters head was originally believed to have been grazed by a but his injuries were caused by the Tumble Down the Ireland said he want sure if websters fall was deliberate or Webster also had claimed he went to the scene after receiving a Call about a Man with a but this was also a said Ireland said Webster fired a shot from his service presumably to create the illusion he had returned a report on the incident has been sent to the attorney generals de the incident was investigated by ramp because it occurred outside the municipal police forces bound married with one had been with the Force for about a setting the Price for Power has Evi Dently been the stumbling Block in negotiations for several under the proposed Manitoba would Supply megawatts of Hydro electric Power to Alberta and 500 megawatts of Power to Saskatchewan for 35 line May Cost billion it has to be determined How much the other provinces would contribute to Manitoba costs of building the billion Limestone generating station on the Nelson consultants have said the transmission line could Cost billion to with each province paying for its own Craik said the delay in Resolution of the agreement could be explained by his own attempts to ensure that Mani Toba is adequately compensated for construction and future operating id be a very poor negotiator if i didst get the Best Price Alberta utilities minister Larry Sha Ben agreed it is difficult to predict what would be an equitable sharing of costs 35 years from Shaben said All three provinces still agree such a Grid would be beneficial to Western see negotiators Page 4 nip moves to Force pm into meeting by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the new democratic party has withdrawn its support from prime minister Trudeau Constitution Al plan in a bid to Force the Federal government to meet with the prov Manitoba say the decision to withdraw support pending a conference of first ministers now puts the Federal nip squarely in line with provincial Howard Pawley and should help him if Premier Sterling Lyon Calls an nip Leader de Broadbent broke the news yesterday after a prolonged meeting with his caucus and he made it Clear that he wants not Only a Federal provincial but bargaining in Good Faith at the before he will decide where to place his the document stating the new nip position was drawn up by both sides in the internal party dispute Over the Constitution and therefore represents a new party officials Ryan backs pm Lyon foiling maps warn the document was written by a select steering new democrats including both Broadbent and Yorkton Melville my lome Leader of a dissident Saskatchewan faction which opposed Broadbent original decision to Back Trudeau Patriot in new Democrat sources were takings big political said Churchill my Rod Mani Toba nip Federal pressure liberals the intent is to put extreme pressure on the Federal liberals and the premiers to act honorable and reasonably in a first ministers Confer ence demanded by the nip As the new Price of their Murphy in Australia where Trudeau is at tending a Commonwealth leaders con Ference an aide said the prime minister will continue to press a Yead with his constitutional proposals in spite of Broadbent the aide said Trudeau was not surprised by the Broadbent since weve known for some time that Broadbent has been under pressure within his the prime minister does not want to respond to the position while the government is waiting to hear what the proposals of the provinces will we intend to continue to press ahead unless at some Point the Provin Cial offer us real and meaningful proposals to cause us to consider reopening it the official said Trudeau is closely watching a current National tour by see nip Page 4 still higher food prices predicted Toronto up there is no Relief in sight for Consumers faced with food prices and double digit says the Vic president the retail food Council of Timothy Carter said yesterday that the Council expects food prices to Between 14 and 16 per cent next year and double digit inflation will for the next four or five Carter blames High interest rates and increased fuel prices that will result from the recently signed ing agreement Between the Federal and Alberta governments for the dismal these predictions Arent hard Fig but we Are confident that there is no Relief in Carter said increased fuel prices included in the Energy agreement will push up the Cost of food by at least per cent in 1982 and As much As two percent in he said food prices in general have risen Between 13 and 15 per cent in the last due mainly to increases of As much As 20 per cent in poultry and pork a trend Wilt Carter predicted meat prices will Rise next year because who Are not receiving satisfactory returns for beef and will Cut he said the one Ray of Light in the food picture for next year is the bumper Grain crop around the which should keep Price increases for Cereal including animal from rising ombudsman report spurs jail assault investigation the provincial ombudsman has found evidence to support a heading Ley jail prisoners claim that he was assaulted by guards during a scuffle in the institutions cafeteria assistant ombudsman Reg Webb said yesterday the findings have prompted City police to investigate the corrections commissioner Hans Schneider said the incident occurred when remand prisoners and guards clashed in the jails cafeteria during a demonstration by regular prisoners in the exercise Schneider said the remand inmates at the time were aware of the protest in the exercise Yard and decided to participate in some High Jinx by throw ing food on the the assault is alleged to have occurred after the prisoners refused to clean up the the complaint was one of several received after the exercise Yard Demon stration which apparently was staged to protest alleged beatings and harass ment by guards called to break up a group of prisoners engaged in horse play the previous ombudsman and corrections depart ment investigations into the 3 incident cleared the guards of charges that they beat or harassed eight inmates have been charged with prison break in connection with the exercise Yard my in Washington sources say president Reagan decided to scatter 100 my missiles possibly among shelters and build the b1 bad move the soviet Media launched a vicious attack on challenger Victor Korchnoy on the eve of the world chess defends policy off to Japan Index external affairs minister Mark Macguigan answered critics of Canadian government Western wheelchair marathoner John an exceptional Young Man who hails from the has been 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