Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 9, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba G stink raised Over drowning of skunks by Brian Cole two Trecia provincial Pafk employees have been reprimanded for killing four skunks by leaving them to drawn in Hami led barrels of the Ranger in charge of the Park said yester Dennis to tidy confirmed that two Park workers trapped and drowned the skunks because they were in a hurry and didst have time to Gas the usual method of eliminating the Ani the Guys just got carried Hlady a Man who knew of the incident called the free to com Plain that the Park rangers had just left the animals to swim around until they Hlady admitted the workers both seasonal employees used bad judg ment in drowning the but stressed it has never happened be fore and wont happen me said other workers and rangers know that drowning skunks is not Park me said the Fiad the Job of trapping problem but were Busy and decided to save time by drowning the skunks rather than taking them Back to the compound where they could be at least one person noticed the workers were skunks and asked what would happen to Hlady one of the a summer Stu replied we drown i guess that got the person a Little Hlady Sady skunks Are trapped in wooden boxes and taken Back to the a vehicle Haust pipe is then connected to the Box and the animals Are the Skunk problem has been bad this year with As Many As seven or eight skunks a night crowding vacationers on the islands Hlady he said the problem began when the government built a causeway to the Island in ism before there were no skunks on the showers today 20 Cloudy tonight 10 Winnipeg september 1983 in no 23 25p Home delivery classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Dave free press steins aweigh mayor Bill Norrie and Sonja this years miss convention Centre last billed As Canadas largest open the annual German ethnic festival at the indoor Beer the Celebration runs until 1 Navy wipes out druse Battery lebanese Christian militia accused of massacre at shrine Beirut a the Navy unleashed its firepower in Lebanon for the first time destroying a druse militia Battery that shelled Beirut Airport while two Marine Gener als were inspecting Marine no casualties were reported at the where four marines have been killed and 28 wounded since late last but police said 52 lebanese were killed and 114 wounded in fierce Christ Andruse fighting in the mountains overlooking the the in a statement issued by their progressive socialist claimed lebanese troops and Christian phalanges militiamen burned Down a druse religious shrine in 12 Kilometres Southeast of Beirut and massacred 40 women and Chil Dren who had taken Refuge there was no Independent Confirma Tion of the the latest in a series of reports of massacres by both christians and the Syria backed druse since israeli troops pulled out of the mountains Israel redeployed its troops to safer positions in Southern lebanese state radio said shells from the drus Christian fighting in areas to the South and East of the capital fell Early today on both sides of the so called Green line dividing Christian East Beirut and mostly moslem West the which reported no said the lebanese army Bat teries responded and silenced gun ners in the aut Opac accused of using old injuries to save Money by Mike Ward aut Opac finally admitted Tom Coo per was disabled in a 1979 car Acci but Only to avoid paying him full compensation for another mishap in the injured Man the government insurance which refused to pay Cooper anything after he was hit by a drunk Driver four years now says it will give him Only partial disability because of the earlier its really got my Dander Coo per said aut Opac ref uses to pay me any disability at All on the earlier Accident and then uses this As excuse to Cut my payments Down on an Accident four years they Are denying i was disabled on one hand and then claiming i was on the As cooped said when he challenged Auto acs decision to pay him Only partial disability of about the corporation then look the position it owed him investigating1 i Haven received a Penny from not even partial disability pay ments they had agreed to he they say there still investigating my Cooper said he wore a Back Brace for three months after he Wys injured when a car went through a plat Glass window at the Ford company of Canada offices on Ellice i was in the lobby Reading a Bro Chure when the car came pulverizing two sets of doors and throwing me up against a he the car hit a if it then a whole Bunch of other people would have been aut Opac now say 1 might not have been hit by the but maybe by a piece of flying i got hit by the that for debris Doest hit you in the legs and throw you up against a but whats the car or see Accident Page 4 a spokesman for Babir a major Hospital in West said four shells landed near the facility and patients were evacuated from upper no one was he in the israeli foreign ministry issued a statement saying it warned warring factions in the Chou mountains not to harm civilians and had launched diplomatic efforts to avoid it said Israel had appealed to the International red Cross to take urgent action to prevent the killing of civilians in the Mountain town of Deir Al in the Northern port City of a car bomb exploded in front of the office of the sunni moslem fundamentalist group islamic Hospital officials said seven were killed and 20 were wounded in the two Abc television Crew members David a Cam and Akram Abi a lebanese sound Man missing since last weekend in Lebanon Central mountains returned safely to Beirut after spending two nights in a Cave to escape heavy Shell but there was no word on ctr correspondent Clark a native of Saint who was with them and was reported injured by artillery shrapnel monday Todd was last known to be Binder treatment by a local nurse in the Chou Mountain Village of far 18 Kilometres Southeast of the Navy frigate Bowen fired four rounds from its five Inch guns As see Navy Page 4 Shiltz links rights Battle to korean Jet Madrid state Secretary George Shultz told a 35country Confer ence today the shooting Down of a South korean Airliner by soviet Mili tary aircraft was shocking to the conscience of Mankind and fit into a pattern of soviet human rights Viola the plane attack was in Defiance of commitments made by Moscow in the Helsinki Shultz told the Madrid conference on european Security and a followup to the conference held in in soviet foreign minister Andrei Gro Myko skipped Shults he flew to Paris today for a 24hour working including meetings with French foreign minister Claude Chesson and president Francois Mit the United states and most nato allies have agreed in principle to put a temporary ban on air travel to and from the soviet Union to pro test Moscow shooting Down of the South senior officials the travel to last two was proposed at a meeting last night of Shultz and other nato foreign in the soviet news Agency Tass reported that in his meeting with Shultz Gromyko accused the United states of sending the South korean jumbo Jet into soviet airspace in a Gross provocation that the for eign minister described As a criminal Tass said Shultz reiterated the false versions of the incident with the plane that Are spread in the United a soviet Jet fighter blasted the korean air lines Boeing 747 out of the air with heal seeking missile 1 in soviet air space near the Island of North of All 269 peo including 10 aboard Are presumed the proposed travel ban could Hurt Moscow by reducing foreign currency brought in by but for Many of the nato it makes formal a decision by their airline pilots Asso which have announced a 50 Day Boycott of flights to of the if nato Only France and Greece have not agreed to the air travel which was proposed by West a state department official said the ban is expected to begin the official said the decision could be made final at a meeting see muscovites Page 4 Ottawa demands damages Ottawa up on a night when Canada was praised for generating an International response to this outrage Over the Downing by soviet fighters of an unarmed passenger Ottawa announced it will demand compensation for 10 Canadian i think Canada has set an which i Hope other nations will Emu because the Issue is certainly not Between any one country and the soviet Union but Between the soviet Union and the International re marked Zbigniew former National Security he spoke after external affairs min ister Allan Maceachen told the inter National Institute for strategic studies that the events of the last week can Only be seen As a vivid reminder of the difference Between soviet and Western in is a fresh reaffirmation of the overwhelming priority he soviet Union attaches to ils military Security and its marked insensitivity to the legitimate concerns of other Maceachen said in a strongly worded address that stressed the need for increased military spending by Canad an and other Western allies in the North Atlantic treaty nato nations have in the face of the soviet unions increasingly powerful armed that we must strengthen our own defence Ca Maceachen told attentive members of the think see minister Page 4 Axworthy cracks Down on free air travel passes Ottawa up transport minis Ter Lloyd Axworthy made his depart ment relinquish its six free air passes yesterday and made it Clear he also wants the Canadian transport commission to give up its Axworthy did not Issue a direct but he asked commission acting president John Gray to review the Federal transport Agency policy of accepting free passes from the airlines it it is my View that All free air passes to commissioners and employees of the Etc should be a worthy spokesman Evan Browne said yesterday the commission would meet on the matter Al its earliest Cove but he gave no indication when that would Federal officials have been using free air travel passes since but the Issue resurfaced lately and raised questions about whether acceptance of them is a possible conflict of the commission awards air routes and approves ticket Axworthy department is responsible for air safety and controls fees at the commission has staunchly de fended use of the saying most trips on hem Are for but the 12 commissioners can use them at will for vacations and Are allowed once a year to bring a travelling As the 130 officials in the com missions air transport committee can apply once a year to airlines for a Ravel Axworthy said in his prepared state ment thai even if commission officials were not prejudiced by using the see Etc Page 4 pressure on mayor Norrie says mounting pressure May Force a referendum on French seeks millions French architect Roger Tail Libert is asking million in extra fees for the 1976 olympic games in interest wanes at one of the most critical Points in the history of the Winnipeg Blue the cites football fans Are showing How Little they syringes used several Manitoba hospitals say they will continue to use 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