Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Felt Long underwear foil knife Man a Zowi judge remanded a Matt few pets signee Day Ufier hearing How he walked into a a i Waist length Jaekel and Long Roger Houston strange garb caught the Eye of Pochee officers shortly after 4 yesterday when he entered a 7eieven food store on Eiliene the court was told the Man apr of cached the 20yearold male moved around the counter and said give me a pack of cigarettes and ill give you shewing a partially Ewe Maleti Butcher Kwafe up his rite of flyers went info the store and discovered Houston had armed up one sleeve was a Butcher knife with High Neh Blade and up the other was a Butcher knife with a l5eetitimetre cinch provincial court judge Tan i questioned the accused about his by Larre outfit after he pleaded guilty to carrying a dangerous bizarre dont knew about replied lets just say laughed the the judge then wanted to know Why he half the knives up his sleeve on his Early morning Ive always got knives up Here and Down thetey1 he pointing to his upper arms and his behaviour was bizarre and defies rational said Crown counsel Wayne summing up the police Are looking for another individual who stole another mans punts shortly before 2 a sleeping Man was awakened by an intruder wearing a White mask who had leaped through the open window of his landside Street the surprised 4kyearold Man was momentarily blinded by the flashlight carried by the who he believes also had a while the thief warned his victim to lie he grabbed the mans trousers and jumped Back out the he pants contained no Clear tonight 14 sunny tomorrow 29 in Fla f Wijt Jujj Geml w is in Chi Hihi i August vol in no226 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets delivery 9562330 second class mail number 0266 3 guards walk out at jail by Dave Roberts three guards at heading Ley correctional Institute walked off the Job wednesday after claiming prisoners using slingshots hit a fellow guard in the head with a Sharp piece of the guard was struck on the Side of the head by a five centimetre two Inch sharpened Metal Rod fired from a Slingshot during the evening the guard was Cut slightly but did not require a source the walkout left Only six corrections officers to manage the prison population of about one guard received suspensions the three Morley cached Les Horton and Ray received indefinite suspensions with pay for their a spokesman for the Manitoba government employees association according to a source at the the three guards were working a Midnight to 8 shift and refused to enter a restricted area Between dormitories after determining it was they were aware that a fellow guard had been hit with a Metal projectile while touring the same part of the jail he the Metal piece is believed to have been fashioned from a guards threatened they were afraid of getting too said a guard who asked not to be the inmate population have been getting too close to the guards threatening them ver Bally and but the administration is letting the inmates get away with mean the officers Are morale among officers is at Rock Bot the Mega spokesman said the guard was hit from a distance of about nine metres 30 adding it bounced off the Wall and hit him on the Side of the they the three guards exercised their rights pursuant to the health and safety provisions of the collective agreement and notified their supervisor of the they the suggested a couple of ideas to the like shaking the area he the supervisor just told them to go Back to they refused and were sent workplace health and safety officers have started an investigation into working conditions at the said safety officer Ivan Mackasey leaves courthouse with wife Margaret yesterday after being cleared of Mackasey credits Irish Luck Liber lamp cleared of influence peddling charges Montreal up in what he called a stroke of Irish Luck on his 62nd Veteran Liberal my Bryce Mackasey was cleared yester Day of three charges of influence Ped sessions judge Benjamin Schecter dismissed one charge of corruption under a criminal code Section dealing with bribery of Public officials and two charges of defrauding the Federal government through the Sale of his it is said the the that a person should be put on trial on the basis of such Flimsy Evi Schecter said no evidence presented during a three week preliminary hear ing in june suggested that the my had done anything in persuading then Supply and services minister Jeanjacques Blais to visit Les Ateliers Duvinage Hall a Montreal machine tooling firm of which Mackasey was a there was no evidence that the company had done any Busi Ness with the he and Schecter described a loan that the Crown alleged Mackasey had received in return for lobbying As a paper transaction Given the Blessing of a Bank in which no Money actually changed i have looked in vain for any Trace of influence the judge any overt act by Mackasey involved conduct that was not Only Legal and but Schecter made known his decision to dismiss the charges about 45 Mill see Mackasey Page 4 Rural Manitoba ramp detachment sniffs out pot by Andy Blicq it might seem a Little unusual that the ramp includes Weed control As part of its responsibilities in one Southern Manitoba but the District has a rather exotic the Weed that con Cerns police is last mounties burned about 590 kilograms pounds of the found growing wild in the and in conjunction with the local Weed control authority Are involved in 3 Little known five year spraying program to eradicate the pot an ramp spokesman for the Weed control program requested that his identity and the name of the Munici Pality be kept police worry that should the location be made pub Clouds of pot smokers would descend on the marijuana was introduced into the area in the said the spokes when it was grown As a com Mercial crop used to make Homegrown today it crops up in ditches and behind this is How we often find new said the people Tell the ramp has the location of the plants pinpointed on a map of the the spraying pro Gram starts Early in the but due to administrative problems last spraying and a Large crop of plants a lot of the plants Las year were Well Over six feet metres in said the Weed control Crews removed the marijuana after ramp got per Mission from the Federal health and welfare burned it at the municipal garbage the which is in its fourth Cost legs than last the expense is shouldered by the Federal it seems Likely that the program will continue for several More the spraying program this year has been highly successful with virtually no growth of the illicit Plant and no new plots marijuana ramp target 57store City shoe retailer goes bankrupt future of Sterling workers in doubt by Cecil Rosner a Winnipeg based shoe retailing Chain with 57 stores across Western Canada has gone leaving More than million in unpaid Sterling shoe stores applied for a voluntary assignment into bankruptcy placing the future of its 230 employees across the West in the which was the largest Independent shoe retailer in the has eight stores in Winnipeg and one each in Brandon and Portage la Prai about 65 of the 230 employees work in company had to Deal with its severe financial and it was decided the bankruptcy process was the Best said trustee Ian Vic president of Clarkson stores staying open Strang said in an interview from Edmonton that Clarkson is holding discussions with several interested parties to see if some of the stores can be until the discussions Are com All stores will remain open and the employees will continue but some stores clearly Are just not some stores obviously will have to he the 28yearold retailer also uses the Trade names Walkaway and most of its business is in women and the majority of stores Are located in shopping bankruptcy documents filed in Winnipeg show the company owes the Royal Bank More than owes million it owes about million to a Long list of unsecured including a Bill to Brown shoe to juvenile shoe and to the company assets Are estimated at including about Mil lion in but that Falls consider ably Short of the million in Strang said the status of wages and benefits owed to employees has not yet been documents show the company owes its employees about in wages and vacation but they Are classified As unsecured Credi tors and will have to wait until about million is paid to the Banks and other secured the employees Are now considered to be working for Clarkson and will continue to get paid until the trustee decides the future of the Strang the company underwent a major expansion in after president lome Mitchell and other investors bought out Chai founder Irving Cal in that year it opened a Square metre warehouse and office at 1741 Welling ton where shoes were brought in bulk and sorted for each store in the drug probe requested by Patrick Mckinley the president of a major parents group has called on school divisions to allow research on drug use and other social problems to be con ducted among Sonja president of the Home and school Parent teacher federation of was commenting on a statement wednesday by Winni Peg psychologist Gordon Barnes that researchers Are finding it hard to get permission to gather the data in incidents Barnes refused to name a suburban High school where he found 46 per cent of students were problem saying he feared the school division might refuse future research requests if the schools name were he said he originally wanted to do his drinking study at Gordon Bell High school in the inner but a Winnipeg school division superintendent vetoed it at the last in interviews a number of school trustees and administrators admitted that most researchers requests to study drinking and other social problems Are being rejected partly be cause school officials fear negative publicity about the but while school officials cited fears of upsetting parents As one reason for refusing to allow such Ander see research Page 4 commission probing Aquino slaying meets Manila renter the special judicial commission set up to Gate the murder of former Philippines opposition Leader Benigno Aquino met for the first time today As students pressed ahead with plans for protests against sundays commission chairman chief Justice Enrique Fernando told Reuters news Agency that one of the five designated former chief Justice Roberto had so far failed to Indi Cate whether he would be prepared to participate in the inquiry announced by president Ferdinand Marcos on Fernando said who is in his 70s and is widely regarded As the most distinguished and Independent minded of the proposed was not present at today closed session be cause of concern for his we have not heard from Fernando adding that Concepcion was examined by a cardiologist last he said Concepcion had previously undergone heart and a hip operation in students called for a peace March and prayer rally in Manila today to commemorate the shooting of despite Philippines military plans to Deal with radicals who might try to take advantage of the Marcos has said the commission see commission Page 4 Golden Grain this years Prairie Grain crop is developing into a truly Golden trivia Canoe crazy Verlen Kruger never paddled a Canoe until he was past 40 and now has taken to the sport with a Egypt envoy career Diplomat John of Winnipeg has been appointed Canadian ambassador to rivals to Taik salvadoran government officials Are to meet with rebel Winner 642731 Index Ann 15 42 21 26 21 17 7 16 Jumble 28 18 our 14 37 sports record 40 45 13 to 25 i ;