Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, September 01, 1983

Issue date: Thursday, September 1, 1983
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Previous edition: Wednesday, August 31, 1983

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pigs hamming it up As video Star boars by Doug Speiss the Manitoba Swine breeders association is delighted with its new video tape sales technique which will allow some of the biggest boars in the prov Ince to make absolute hams of them the association is producing tapes of its Star porkers at the Federal boar test station in Brandon and Distri buting copies to nine locations through out the province for viewing by pork producers seeking new t want to say there will be too Many laughs but for a hog producer it will be pretty entertaining because be seeing things they Are interested said agriculture department spokesman Resby weve got some goo looking boars on the but i doubt they will entered in any of the major film Coutts adding it is unlikely the porcine Pilot project will produce a new miss Piggy or a pig Marguerite a spokesman for the Swine breeders said the group decided to enter the video Industry to expand its Market and save producers the inconvenience of a lengthy Harvest season trek to Brandon to peruse the pigs on when they get them All on tape they Are going to have a viewing on 6 and Hedley these will be shown on a television screen and the boars will be open for Telephone buying during the afternoon of you make your phone Call and i want hog number so and first fellow that phones gets the Chris a part time cameraman with Brandon said Fie was tired yesterday after spending about three hours film ing 21 Cranky but the experience was a memorable its not if youll Pardon the its actually More fun than shoot ing Newton in it got kind of demanding after a while because the pigs kept wanting to Chew the cords on the famine again stalks Northern showers tonight 19 sunny tomorrow 30 september vol m no 231 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second Clam mail Negi station number 0286 accuses soviets of Downing jumbo Jet James free press traffic and sky signs compete on Post while Deli sign stands ready for people to trip double Standard charged Man claims police discriminate against garage sales by Patrick Mckinley City police Are turning a Blind Eye to signs illegally placed on sidewalks by restaurants and other an irate Winnipeg Ger Fred upset about the re cent crackdown on signs advertising garage is crying foul Over what he describes As discrimination in the Way the City bylaws ban Ning signs on sidewalks and the double Standard on advertising signs is an example of How City Hall caters to charged Debre an antique collector who con fessed he likes holding the Odd garage Sale Debrecen said he has compiled a Long list of illegal signs set up on sidewalks in front of restaurants and other but he said he has tried to get the City to enforce the sign bylaw without a City permit clerk confirmed restaurants and other businesses Are not getting City permits required to make their sidewalk signs we dont Issue permits for people to put advertising signs on the sidewalk in front of their the Matt said that if the City started allowing such it might find that almost every store in the City would like to have a sign on the sidewalk for people to trip Dave a supervisor in the cites streets and traffic said it is up to the police to enforce the Token enforcement but he added that with Many Seri Ous police matters to attend i would that responding to a complaint about an illegal sign that is not is not that High on the if that amounts to Only Token enforcement perhaps that is the 1 dont he Debrecen said he does not object to the but rather to the discrimination they Debrecen said in the recent crack Down on homeowners who put up signs for garage the City came Down like the is squad on private citizens who have no weapons with which to fight because they Are not at the same the business which is being allowed to get away with illegal has organization he the police crackdown on garage Sale signs took place Early this sum Mer and resulted in five people being charged for putting up signs on parked cars and three others being charged for putting signs in such places As lamp posts and after the City councils works and operations committee decided the City should be easier on those who hold Bona fide garage and should Grant them permits to put up the committee asked City officials to prepare a report recommending How such a policy could be simple Gerus said the report is in the final stages of he added there is often a Fine line Between legitimate garage sales and sales of used goods by people who see it As a business court sentence enrages family by Pamela Fayerman a Motorist who killed a 21yearold woman crossing Henderson Highway in a pedestrian corridor faced a bar rage of insults from the deceased family after his court hearing yester the family was distraught Over the Fine and three month driving sus pension which provincial court judge Sidney Cohan handed although the Man was initially charged with causing death by criminal that charge was stayed and he pleaded guilty to the Les serious charge of careless the maximum penalty for careless driving is a Fine and a oneyear driving despite his efforts to elude the parents and husband of the Accident Vic Craig Gerald Wilson was called a murderer and told to watch out when the court proceeding said his Hersh before Wolch told the court the death of Cassandra Ruth should not be a Factor in the punishment of no penalty will atone for the loss of not impaired he said there were Many far worse examples of careless driving and emphasized the fact Wilson was not impaired and was not speeding when he hit lord As she was running through the icy corridor last it is pointless now to apportion blame Between the deceased and the the Accident could happen to in fact just before my clients car struck a truck barely missed Wolch said that while his clients driving record want almost no ones the record consisted of one impaired driving charge in failing to obey a traffic Light in and a turn infraction in Wolch called pedestrian corridors a Hazard which should never be used on but in a later Winni Peg police Mcdougall Allen said there is no other Way of getting pedestrians across the he rejected suggestions that traffic lights would be a safer substitute for you cant have signal lights he also pointed out that the Cross walk in question was Well lit and while there is an obligation on pedestrians to watch out for traffic before entering the the greater onus is on the Shultz says russian fighters attacked korean plane carrying 269 passenger Washington a state Secretary George Shultz accused the soviet Union today of shooting Down an unarmed South korean civilian jetliner yesterday with a he said the United states reacts with revulsion and has demanded an Shultz said the aircraft strayed into soviet airspace and was tracked by he soviets for More than he said that As Many As eight soviet fighter planes were involved in the at 1826 the soviet Pilot of one plane reported that he fired a missile and the target was Des Shultz said a soviet Pilot had reported seeing kerosene near the surface where the plane went Down about an hour he said there was no excuse whatsoever for this appalling Reagan informed Shultz told reporters at the state department that president Reagan had been tha passengers aboard the korean airlines Boeing 747 jumbo which carried 269 included at least one Marie Jane of Sault and a representative Lawrence a Georgia demo crat who headed the John Birch so in external affairs said a second Canadian also May have been a second Canadian May have been see jetliner Page 4 map shows route of missing South korean jumbo Jet Solidarity supporters Battle polish police Warsaw a thousands of Soli Darity supporters clashed with police in three polish Cafies on the third anniversary of the outlawed labor the protests were the most wide spread in Poland since martial Law was lifted in although the government news Agency today claimed they were a several people were reported injured in the Street Battles yesterday in Nowa Huta and but there were no firm less violent demonstrations were reported in War Legnica and Solidarity chief Lech Walesa placed a red and White bouquet at a workers Monument outside the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk where Solidarity was founded martial Law authorities outlawed the Union a police cordon stopped about supporters from escorting Walesa to the the state run Pap news Agency today called the demonstrations a fail ure and denounced president Reagan for supporting the labor Pap said that against the Back ground of dispatches on the quiet and honest work coming from All Over Poland indignation was aroused by attempts to incite unrest and tension and disturb Public in Reagan yesterday urged the polish government to rec see crowds Page 4 Israel party picking new pm Tel Aviv a Deputy prime minister David Levy and foreign min ister Yitzhak Shamir each claimed to be assured of Victory today in balloting to succeed Menachem begin As Herat party the Herat Central num Bering Between 930 and 940 was to assemble at a Tel Aviv theatre Hall later today to elect begins Succes Sor following the prime ministers decision to the new party Leader would then be in position to succeed begin As prime minister if Herat can maintain its majority coalition in Par in said claim ing he found massive support in the Shamir in feeling very but he noted that the balloting would be and he was not sure that everyone who had promised to support him was telling the close contest one Omen of a close contest was a poll by israeli army radio of hearts 22 parliament it said that of those willing to disclose their nine backed Shamir and eight backed levys chances appeared to have been boosted by the decision yesterday to have the Central committee make the rather than he ruts Cabinet levys support is stronger in the committee than among the party leaders who Back defence minister Moshe Arens said no matter who won the we will continue the policies that have been followed under a key to the outcome was whether would endorse either Candi in the he has preferred who was his Comrade in the underground fight for a jewish see israelis Page 4 Shamir were they truthful Levy optimistic its operator gets 26 terminals shut Down by Brian Cole the province has shut Down 26 direct Ory assistance computer terminals at the Manitoba Telephone systems Corydon Avenue office after an opera Tor received a Shock from the equip and her colleagues walked off the workplace safety and health Branch officials found modification prob lems with 26 of the 36 units in the directory assistance Pam a Union spokesman for the opera said last the workplace officials ordered the 26 terminals turned but said tests on the other 10 proved the tests were conducted after about 20 operators walked off the Job when a colleague became the third operator in three months to receive a Shock from the Cole said the directory assistance department was expected to operate today temporarily at least with the 10 remaining while operators normally working the other units would be Given other Charlene Szunyog was using the Ter described As an electronic switchboard with a computerized video display when the incident occurred about i just Felt this tingling in my see operator Page 4 lots of muscle challenger astronaut Dale Gardner flexed the shuttles Canadia made robot Arm today and reported that it works like a Street clashes filipino youths riot police yesterday just hours after the burial of slain opposition Leader Benigno bylaw bounces mayor Bill Norrie used his tie breaking second vote yesterday to Send a proposed antismoking bylaw Back to paper caper Ottawa latest bid to halt illegal immigration starts Western winners 2844657 3183394 2892982 112933x 2255232 Index Ann 31 24 38 classified 42 57 42 6 26 7 22 Jumble 46 28 31 31 sports 56 39 21 in 31 ;