Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, April 05, 1983

Issue date: Tuesday, April 5, 1983
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 5, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Hollywood glorious Gloria Swanson dead Dauphin enumerators tally cats by Cecil Rosner if Dauphin residents find some of their pet cats and dogs on the voting Rolls this they will have Only their town councillors to Council decided last week it would be a Good idea to take a Survey of All the pets in town during the Normal enumeration for this Falls civic some residents Are concerned that a slip of an enumerators pen could Sud Denly enfranchise a four legged Resi but councillors say there is Noth ing to worry theres not much of a Chance some thing like that would said Dave f have heard about horses being on the payroll in Otta Snitka said the town Council wants to get an accurate idea of How Many cats and dogs there Are in town so it can control them there has been an increase in the incidence of rabies lately and an inventory of pets would help officials Deal with the he Alex dauphins Secretary said the 100 or so dog licences issued by the town each year do come close to reflecting the actual pet every time the town picks up a stray it becomes difficult to determine who the owner he one of the reasons for compiling the and cat inventory is to provide for greater licence fee while another is to ensure the town dog Catcher is doing his Dmitruk but the pet census will not go ahead unless the idea is cleared by the towns who is studying the people Are so excited nowadays about their freedoms and everything i dont even know if we can ask the question Snitka the lawyer is expected to report Back with his recommendations in the next few Days and Dmitruk said coun cil will probably Deal with the matter again next Clear tonight 6 sunny tomorrow 5 april 1983 vol 111 no Ioe Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Iise lockup splits family by Christie Mclaren an 83yearold Winnipeg Man is living comfortably on his own More Han year after struggling to be released from the psychiatric Ward of seven Oaks general Steve Spisich is bitter about his six week experience As a compulsory psychiatric it Cost him in lawyers fees and in fees to the Public which controlled his finances during his he maintains there was never any thing wrong with his mind and his son and daughter wanted to put him in Hospital so they could take charge of his which he values at More than Spisich maintains his father is senile and needed Hospi Tal care because his behaviour was erratic and whatever the Spisich Case illustrates How someone can retaken from their Home and confined against their will in a psychiatric in an interview at his Boniface Spisich produced a pile of documents related to his confinement and in a heavy yugoslav accent told his Side of the it was hard to distinguish Between his sobs Ami his guffaws As he talked sadly about his children and then gleefully about hiding pills under his Tongue at the he recalled the Day police came to his Spisich said he locked the door and hid in the when the police Carne they had a judges signed by his son John and daughter to take him to a Hospi Tal to be examined by a Psychia 1 liked i loved i trusted he said of his Chil shaking his head impatiently see Man Page 4 my he Hihi second class mail 01 in r i req station number 0286 rises sets Moon rises sets astronauts in control Ken free press Steve says he locked door and hid in bathroom when police came with thai artillery blasts Vietnam army Bangkok reports invaders digging into positions just inside Border Bangkok a Thailand claimed today vietnamese troops were dig Ging into positions inside its Borders and followed up air strikes against the area with a barrage of artillery the supreme military command said vietnamese forces were holding territory just inside Thailand near the Border town of phenom pan and the settlement of phenom Chat that straddles the Border with in the first use of Airpower during the six Day vietnamese thai air Force Jet planes yesterday struck the about 40 Kilometres North of thai lands key Border town of Aranya artillery was ordered today to Zero in on vietnamese a military spokesman reports from the Field said Vietnam Ese Cross order artillery fire frequently has been intense in recent with the thais sometimes re turning the military spokesman said five thai soldiers have been killed and 16 wounded during the while the bodies of six vietnamese soldiers have been recovered Over the last six vietnamese ammunition and Beer drinkers face Price increase by David Obrien Manitoba Beer drinkers will pay about 35 cents More for a 12pack May 1 if a proposed six percent in crease in Beer prices is but for the first time in the pro Vinces some brands will be cheaper than others and at least one will go Down in under the proposed Price most six packs will Cost up from and 12packs up from but Molson products will be five cents cheaper than their compete said Molson sales manager Rick As the Price of carvings Tri Light Beer will drop by for a said general manager Al adding that the brewery decided to lower the Cost of the Low alcohol Beer for the summer to consumer Skaggs said Molson is offering its products cheaper As a competitive move on our we want to see if till make a difference in our Lavatts general manager Verne Penner said he Doest believe Mol sons cheaper product will affect the i dont think five cents is going to make any he said variations in retail prices also dont mean the province is in for a Bee Price Al finance director for the Manitoba liquor control said it is the first time prices will vary for Beer sold by the three in the the Industry agreed on a single this year Molson came in with a Price lower than the so we decided to allow the last three Price increases resulted from boosts in various Federal and provincial they the liquor commission will ask the Public utilities braid on monday to approve the Ahoff said 48 per cent of the Cost of Beer goes to the liquor 16 per cent to the vendors and the remain Der to the Gas masks also have been us Thailand sent a note to in Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar yesterday protesting what it claimed were vietnamese intrusions into its territory and inhumane genocidal crimes against cambodian vietnamese forces launched their most intense drive to Date thursday in a fou year War against anti Hanoi cambodian guerrilla groups on the Western Edge of in a series of Swift Hanoi backed by artillery and knocked out the communist Khmer Rouge stronghold of phenom Chat As Well As several Khmer Rouge con trolled then they overran the Headquarters of guerrillas Loyal to Prince Norodom Leader of a three party resistance coalition that includes factions Loyal to the Khmer Rouge and to son a non comm nist insurgent the in recognizes he coalition As the Legal representative of the cambo Dian More than cambodian Refu gees have fled the fighting and been Given temporary Asylum in total casualties Are still unknown since most of the fighting has taken place inside Cape a the worlds largest and most expensive communications satellite tumbled out of control in space today after release from the shuttle Chal but Nasa reported hours later that it had regained command of the we have gained control of the tors Nasa spokesman Jim Kukowski we have initiated deployment activity and we Are Able to confirm it has separated from its rocket but even with control it was unclear whether Nasa could manoeuvre the satellite to its planned stationary orbit some Kilometres above the distorted orbit trackers estimated the satellite was in a distorted orbit ranging from about to Kilometres and it could not be fully effective on that there is indication some control has been said space Agency spokesman Steve the tors appears to be stable and we Are told the solar panels Are being moments earlier there had appeared Little Hope of salvaging the tracking and data relay which is crucial to the future schedule of american space shuttle the satellite had been launched smoothly from challengers cargo Bay late last on the first Day of the Maiden Mission of the newest fired engine the problem had Arisen about 5 Cost today after a rocket engine fired to try to arrest the satellite in a station Ary Earth orbit some Kilometres commander Paul Weitz and his three challenger Crew members were in a sleep period when the trouble deploying the satellite was the major goal of their helping establish the shuttle Fleet As a dependable Carrier of scientific and com Mercial Bill Rice of Boeing the major contractor for the rocket said during the crisis that radio communications with the satellite were lost except for bits and pieces of he said the rocket package that was to control the satellite and place it into the High orbit lost Battery Power within two hours the firing that was sup posed to stabilize experts rushed to their computers to try to figure a Way to command control jets on the tors in an Effort to slow the tumbling they apparently the Craft is the first of three tors satellites Nasa is building to serve As Mission control centres in the each is designed to serve As a space switchboard Between Earth and As Many As 26 including the planned shuttle Fleet of four space see astronauts Page 4 million feared lost in robbery London a six gunmen who quietly looted the vaults of a London Security firm Are on the run today with the proceeds of a heist that May out rank the 1963 great train robbery As Britain biggest Cash no one was Hurt in the eight hour staged by the Shotgun carry ing robbers to coincide with the easter monday Bank they got a hell of a said a Scotland Yard detective after investigating the ransacked vaults of Security express it was a Mountain of one of the firms employees said the loss might be More than Mil million Britain largest recorded Cash theft to Date was so called great train robbery in which then Worth about was Security express transports Large quantities of Cash Between branches of major Large stores and commercial Scotland Yard said six men scaled a rear Wall at Security express head quarters in the financial near the Liverpool Street railway station at about 7 and captured a they held the guard prisoner until noon when seven other staff Mem Bers were seized one by and bound and the Rob Bers threatened the staff with shotguns and forced them to hand Over the keys to the Money former Carberry resident found slain in Bahamas by Larry Hill the death of a former Carberry found stabbed on a deserted Lane about Kilometres from a major bahamian resort has left her relatives stunned and searching for a motive for her the body of the Jean Mac was found by a passerby on March the Day she was to Fly to Miami for the funeral of a its a horror Dawson to a brother inlaw of the dead said in a Telephone interview yesterday from nobody had Ever believed that something like this would he adding he had no idea about a possible motive for the Macdonald Roberts moved to Nas Sau from Carberry in 1958 to work As a she married a prominent bahamian Man two years later and had lived Here since with her three her husband died last her Murdo Macdonall of said yesterday his sister left Manitoba for the warmer Winter Cli mate because she had polio when she was a girl and Lake the Winters in relatives contacted police and identified the victim after a Nassau news paper reported an unidentified see woman Page 4 about face Cincinnati worst of the West in knocked off the divisions Best yesterday in the National leagues 1983 clean fight Joe Clark returned last night to the scene of his defeat As pc pledging to fight a Campaign within the the serious flight of the White Pelican used to be a common sight near Manitoba larger not any victims wait As tonnes of Relief supplies pile thousands of colombian earthquake victims Are still without Medicine or Index Ann 16 23 7 16 26 45 12 18 45 6 20 7 Jumble 25 21 21 23 23 53 sports 55 27 15 to 23 t ;