Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Kinds key to christinas spirit Fly Ron Campbell Kaye Watson will have to make two Christmas shopping trips this year for her she thought once was enough tues Day night when she went to Polo Park and bought Worth of one of them for her daughters after hours of gift buying she de posited two shopping bags of presents and her sweater in locker number 123 in the customer service area on the malls East Side and left for about 45 sunny today 5 Cloudy tonight 12 minutes for More but when Watson returned to the she said it was open and there was a key in i was just her locker was opened with a key to locker number six and Only her sweater was left Watson first told the malls customer service officer about the theft and a Security guard was she said the guard told her that before anything could be the thief would have to return the stolen when Watson arrived at her Sher Burn Street Home and told the her 20yearold and a Friend went to Polo Park to take a they didst find a were not responsible sign in the but did find a very Small sign claiming limited Lia Watson said she called the mall Man Ager she called the loss a minor amount of she said she Hopes her Story will make others cautious about using mall mall manager Don Knight said if the locker had been broken there be nothing the company could do because articles Are left at the owners but in this when a key from another locker was apparently there May be some limited Knight he said the locker keys have been so often its possible the same Cut was used on two Knight said All the locks were being checked yesterday and Watson should have an answer Mubarak new style of leadership welcomed in december 1981 free pres i second class mail Sun rises sets Moon rises sets n registration number Ozan final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Jim talc press motorists stopped in spot checks Are required to submit to breath a Reading of blood alcohol could bring a breath test season its that time of year again when Winnipeg police literally take your breath yesterday police began their seasonal Alert program for breath Sample requests on Sherbrook the annual crackdown runs to Jan 11 50 school vacancies predicted by Glen Mackenzie a Winnipeg school division study says schools in River Heights and fort Rouge will become More than 50per cent vacant by the 39page study says enrolment at 23 schools in the two areas will drop to in four or 47 per cent of the schools this years enrolment at the located in an area bounded by Edge land the Assiniboine and red Jubilee Parker Waverley Street and Wilkes was Dave executive assistant to the division said yesterday the study projections do not in clude several alternative programs which Are listed in the actual enrol ment but he said he does not doubt enrol ment will be less than 50 per cent of capacity by Downie said there is definitely an argument for closing schools which Are grossly under utilized because the schools always can be reopened when enrolment it also can be argued that schools should remain open As Community centres and cohesiveness and close association with playmates is much better achieved in Small he the report said the advantages of smaller schools with 200 to 400 Stu dents include increased student participation in extracurricular better student morale and student achievement Levels As High As in Large but it said larger schools with More than 600 students offer greater curriculum in creased student services such As guid Ance better physical facilities and lower administrative Small schools also pose such prob lems As decreased Opportunity for alternative fewer extracurricular opportunities due to a smaller reduced higher per Pupil costs and difficulties in Pur chasing Large pieces of it the report stopped Short of designating any school for closing or making any other specific see school Page 4 Constitution Back in court from the news services the Quebec government asked the provinces court of Appeal today to declare that Quebec has the right to veto the constitutional pact signed by the Federal government and the nine other the Challenge to the constitutional agreement takes the form of an Appeal against the 28 supreme court of Canada ruling which found Ottawa had the Legal right to proceed with its constitutional Patria Tion in London the Queen gave an unofficial Blessing to Canadas proposed new Constitution during a 40minute meeting at Buck Ingham Palace with Justice minister Jean she asked about the constitutional Resolution and expressed pleasure that we had found grounds for agreement in Chretien told reporters at Canada the minister made a Point of saying that French was the language of communication during most of his audience with the Chretien appeared pleased with his talks and allowed himself the Opportunity to Bend slightly the rules of Chretien and the Queen discussed the opposition of Quebec and some native groups to the constitutional which still must be passed by West Minster before it can be proclaimed in the minister told the Monarch que Bec agreed to four fifths of the package and that Only three areas of Contention prevented the province from joining the other nine provinces in endorsing the Handiwork of More than a year of intense political Queen pleased the Queen was quite pleased at being told Quebec was not opposed to All measures in the Chretien native groups Are continuing a Strong lobby in London against the constitutional the Indian association of Alberta lost a bid in the High Queens Bench yesterday to begin a Challenge of the similar attempts Are being launched by Saskatchewan and British Columbia native shortly after arriving yesterday from Chretien visited Francis government Leader in the com to discuss the timing of the constitutions journey through West Pym repeated assurances made last week by prime minister Margaret Thatcher that the measures would Likely be Given first Reading before Christ second and third House of lords approval and Royal assent would wait until after the the constitutional package was Fer ried across the Atlantic tuesday night in a Canadian armed forces Jet by Esmond Secretary to Edward the Jet departed from Ottawa Only a few hours after the Senate passed the Chretien had appeared particularly delighted with what he described As the Queens excellent her French is quite i dont know if she can stand my the minister joked in his heavily accented but she always feels it is a Good occasion to practise her French its the spirit of Christmas the note accompanying the Cheque was Brief and to the Point list us As then there Are the residents of Boulton Bay seniors who raised and issued a Challenge to All other seniors residences to match their these stories Are Only two of Many behind a soaring Christmas opposition to budget gains Force Ottawa up business lobbies moved in Force yesterday to warn of dire economic consequences unless the Federal budget gets a major and opposition maps vowed to spend the next two weeks pressing the government for Relief from High interest soaring unemployment and Mas Sive manufacturing and Auto Industry progressive conservative and new Democrat weary of the constitutional wrangling and Energy de Bate that dominated the commons for almost 14 plan to make the Economy the number one priority until the Christmas scheduled to begin severe decline Early in the 23 business groups announced they have United to oppose the while two More stepped in separately later to escalate the Battle against the governments fiscal strategy both prime minister Trudeau and finance minister Allan especially tried play Down the new but speaking to a Liber Al fundraising dinner in stressed he is ready to hear a Good Case from business on some sections of the budget and was looking Forward to a meeting today with the Canadian federation of Independent business part of the 23member coalition and one of his strongest room for discussion in there is room for discussion on certain aspects of his decision to reduce tax deductions for interest investors pay on Loans to finance new investments a move business says will discourage invest ment and drive up he urged business to keep it in on the basis of the latest available three quarters of those who deduct interest costs would not have increases in taxable in come and less than one per cent of the total would have additional taxable income of More than he also reminded business that he has lowered most marginal tax rates the rate applied to every additional Dollar above a certain level of income a move which helps mainly High in come also repeated was his View that much of the budget controversy is based on misunderstanding or wild but the businessmen would have none of they called the budget devastating and among the worst in see opposition Page 4 lebanese hijackers surrender route rap giving Victory salutes and shouting death to libyan Leader Moa mar the three hijackers of a libyan Airliner surrendered in Beirut Early today after a Odyssey across the Eastern med terran the three shiite moslem who seized the Boeing 727 Over Italy monday in route from Zurich to Tripo surrendered to syrian peacekeeping troops and lebanese Security dressed in jeans and chanting Allah Akbar god is the three Young hijackers were hustled away into a car by syrian and lebanese soldiers while the 36 passengers remained on the Pilot insisted on leaving Beirut immediately and the plane flew on to the syrian at the end of a 60hour Hijack that had taken it to Beirut and syrian officials and libyan Ambas Sador Abdelsalam Ben Khayyam were at Damascus Airport to receive the tired but smiling the gunmen hijacked the libyan Boeing to publicize the Case of a Leba Nese islamic Leader who they say Dis appeared while on a visit to Libya in they believe Imam Moussa spiritual Leader of the lebanese see hijackers Page 4 parliamentary snarl trips up pipeline Bill from the news services Washington the Alaska Natu ral Gas pipeline Long touted As an Industrial and Energy Bonanza for took one step Forward in the Congress yesterday Only to be immediately driven Back one step to face a crucial test that it had already passed once overriding the opposition of consumer the House yesterday approved 233177 a measure that would allow the natural Gas Industry to charge its customers for the costs of building a pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48 because of a complicated parliamentary snarl that dragged into the night the House must debate and vote again on the probably opponents said they would try again to defeat the measure despite the 56vote margin in its the trouble arose because the House and Senate passed separate versions of the same the House approved a measure yesterday bearing a House while the Senate previously had passed a Bill bearing a Senate due to objections by opponents of the the House was unable to put its Bill under the Senate number or title and Send it on to the White House for president reagans the House rules committee decided the chamber should this Tine on the Senate the measure would waive existing Federal regulations to permit Gas users to be charged for pipeline construction As each segment is see pipeline Page 4 complaints ninety complaints against doctors were heard by the Manitoba College of physicians and surgeons last Sakharov Fate Uncertain the Fate of Andrei Sakharov and his wife remains Uncertain even though the Kremlin says the couple have ended their hunger provocateurs in Marc Lalonde asked the ramp to spy on Quebec As if it were a foreign Western below Border an alleged five member libyan hit team aiming to assassinate senior White House officials has been reported to be in Index Ann 24 39 7 22 50 25 52 6 8 Jumble 32 39 sports to ;