Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pigs hamming it up As video Star boars by Doug Speirs the Manitoba Swine a feeders association is squealing with Delight Over its new videotape sales technique which will allow some of the biggest boars in the province to make absolute hams of 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 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 1 doubt they will be entered in any of the major film Coutts adding 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 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 v 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 want hog number so and first fellow that phones gets the Chris a part time cameraman with Brandon said he 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 to got kind of demanding after a while because the pigs kept wanting to Chew the cords on the famine again stalks Northern sunny today 33 showers tonight 19 september vol in no23 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 250 Home delivery 957c550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number oj86 bloody reprisal alleged Beirut a the rightist on trolled voice of Lebanon radio said today that leftist druse militiamen butchered 40 Christian villagers in retaliation for a lebanese army sweep of moslem shiite and druse militia strongholds in West the allegation came As the lebanese army mopped up scattered pockets of militia resistance in West Beirut after the which the government viewed As a crucial test of its Gross intervention the voice of operated by the Christian phalanges said the horrible massacre took place in the Village of in the syrian con trolled upper men mountains 30 kilo metres East of the broadcast said the druse Mili Tiamen stormed the Homes of the Vil Lages few remaining christians and butchered about 40 elderly persons and children with including the towns Gergis it said Only one resident in the sporadic Rifle shots echoed in the streets As the trained army troops flushed out a few remaining rebellious militiamen from hideouts in residential the City was generally quiet a Day after troops with tank and artillery support moved through druse and shiite strongholds in House House residents were outdoors after a 24 hour taking Stock of the destruction caused by four Days of fight ing and heavy bombardment that left at least 94 including two marines five French see West Page 4 police hit Solidarity protests Warsaw a thousands of Soli Darity supporters clashed with police in three polish cities on the third anniversary of the outlawed labor it was the first widespread protest since martial Law was lifted in several people were reported injured in 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 work ers Monument outside the Lenin ship Yard in Gdansk where Solidarity was founded martial Law authorities outlawed the Union a police cordon stopped about supporters from escorting Walesa to the riot police charged about Soli Darity supporters marching through the Baltic port after mass at the Church of beating some of them and firing tear a number of marchers were arrested and and several people were a police official the most intense violence erupted in the Southern Industrial City of Nowa where riot police blocked a March by about steel workers by firing tear Gas and spraying them with see Solidarity Page 4 James free press traffic and sky signs compete on Post while Deli sign stands ready for people to trip double Standard for signs angers garage Sale Holder 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 enforces 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 but he added that with Many serious police matters to attend i would imagine 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 i 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 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 270 aboard missing jumbo Jet Korea fears third country attack Seoul a information minis Ter Lee Minhie said today it is almost certain that a South korean Commer Cial jetliner carrying about 270 including at least one Canadian and a had been attacked and downed by a third in the South korean governments first official announcement on the Fate of the Lee said efforts to confirm the attack were but if proved a it would constitute a grave violation of International Law and an i humanitarian in his Brief did not mention the third country by but korean airlines earlier had said the a Boeing had landed on the Island of Sakhalin off the soviet unions Eastern soviet officials denied the airline report and said the whereabouts of the plane was in congressman aboard earlier the korean airlines jumbo remained a mystery As soviet officials denied the airlines report that it had landed on the soviet at Kal announced the Boe Ingen route from new York to had landed safely on a 832kilometrelong Island immediately North of Japan off the Eastern soviet the announcement was made Over a Public address system at souls inter National Airport to a group of anxious family members and friends awaiting word on the they were told they could return to their Homes after Leav ing information where they could be a few hours a Japa Nese foreign ministry official said the soviet foreign in answer to a query from japans embassy in to denied that the korean jetliner had landed in the soviet it was stated that an official govern ment announcement on the planes Fate would be made in Seoul at 3 local but almost an hour later the Only word was that the announcement had been among the passengers was Mary Jane of Sault said by her to been route to Tokyo to begin her first she is a research economist with the new Yor based Carr miss Hendrie graduated last year from the University of there was no word on How Many other canadians were aboard the also aboard the jetliner was representative Lawrence a Democrat from Georgia who is also chairman of the John Birch so his staff said he was going to South Korea to attend a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Korea defence the Landing report was called a cock and Bull Story by an aide to the aide characterized re ports in Washington on the planes Fate As see Blip Page 4 penalty enrages its terminal shocks operator 26 directory assistance terminals shut Down As operators walk out 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 she said in an interview from her Home i dont know How it and it just seemed to keep i pulled my Headset but it was still pinned to i stood up and stepped finally i ripped the Headset Cord out and jumped Back about 30 feet nine metres and Shook for she adding the incident was Over she said she was in a state of Shock As its officials questioned her on what had happened and then called an ambulance to take her to where she was checked and she was then interviewed by its safety officials and Given the Day Szunyog said she haunt thought about the computers posing a safety problem until while she says she is More concerned about them she said she know whether she would use them until she went to work this i dont feel too badly in apprehensive about but i dont know How apprehensive ill i might have to let somebody else plug in the Headset and take a few Calls but a spokesman for the communications workers of said other workers Are upset by the Inci there Are three pregnant women working what happens if one of them gets a its spokesman Glenn Schneider said the Crown corporation knows three operators have received shocks while working on the equipment since but a series of its tests failed to determine the about 32 operators on each of three shifts handle All directory assistance see terminal Page 4 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 penalty wont atone 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 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 lots of muscle challenger astronaut Dale Gardner flexed the shuttles Canadia made robot Arm today and reported that it works like a champ734 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 2844657 3183394 2892982 1129336 2255232 Index Ann 24 38 42 57 42 26 7 22 Jumble 46 31 51 sports 56 39 21 to 31 ;