Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Roofer hitched his safety rope to a truck by Paula Martin Boissevain Farmer Elmer Mccallum Doest mind flying says next time hell do it in an Mccallum made an unscheduled trip to the ground from the rooftop of a House he was singling he had anchored his safety rope to a pals truck his Friend drove Mccallum plunged nine metres and landed on his but walked away reasonably he said his doctor told him during a checkup yesterday that it will be a while before his bruised ribs and an infected Cut the 30yearold sometimes was helping Friend Gordon Turner when the forced Landing took place in Mccallum said he decided it would be in the Best interest of his own safety if he secured himself with a rope and the Only thing Handy was the moments before being plucked from the Peak of the Turner shouted up that he was leaving and asked him if he needed anything picked Mccallum i never even thought of taking the rope off it was hanging Between Mccallum i just turned away from him after he asked if he needed he started the truck and bang that was i started coming Down the roof and i got tangled in the to Antenna wires i got tied up in them pretty and the Antenna let Mccallum added that he and a Are still i just had a Beer with he Turner said he was oblivious to the fact he was about to make his Friend there was no tug at All or i would have obviously the owner of the House started yell ing that How i knew he was tied Turner the incident has made Mccallum and the butt of Many jokes in the Turner he added that Mccallum will be working for him again in the shearing gets life sentence for Slaughter sunny today 18 Clear tonight 3 april 1984 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Iames free press British police continue siege at embassy beating the bugs a helicopter sprays larvicide Over an area in Southwest canker Worms and mosquitoes got off the ground Winnipeg As the cites program to combat an outbreak of record numbers of canker Worms Are expected this unveiled Deal with Minnesota Utility could accelerate work on Limestone station by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Manitoba government has signed a memorandum of understand ing to sell Worth of Hydro electric Power to Northern states Power in the Sale could trigger construction of the Limestone generating station As Early As next in a Surprise Energy minister Wilson Parasiuk told the legislature yesterday Manitoba and Asp have signed the memorandum for the 12year Power Sale running from 1993 to he said he expects the final contract to be signed Early in Manitoba will apply then to the National Energy Board for a permit to Export the at which time details of the Deal will be Parasiuk he told reporters the Price paid by Asp will be a percentage of the Cost of running Fossil fuel generating stations or nuclear stations and will escalate As the Price of those fuels that breakthrough arrangement of tying the Price to Fossil fuel prices will generate a significant profit for he revenues Are estimated to amount to about million a enormous Benefit the Sale is the first major Lon term firm Power Sale in Manitoba history and one that will bring enormous Benefit to he told the legis he said Manitoba Hydro has been asked to hurry up its studies to deter mine the Best Date for resuming construction of the massive Limestone generating station on the Nelson those studies should be completed this summer and a decision on the Startup Date will be made by he we could make a decision to build Limestone this he told reporters at a later press Manitoba will not need Power from Limestone until but the province would require Only 275 of the megawatts the Power station would the 500megawatt Sale to Asp could Speed up construction by two he in the Parasiuk said the government will begin talks with the construction suppliers and Northern communities to ensure the maximum benefits from the construction will be retained in the prov Ince and to ensure orderly construct he said Limestone construction directly and indirectly would create an estimated Man years of adequate transmission lines already Are in place because Manitoba and Asp have been trading Power for 20 an existing under see Sale Page 4 London up hundreds of police sharpshooters continued their siege of the libyan embassy today after a gunman in an embassy window raked a protest rally with fire killing a police officer and wounding 11 of the the libyan embassy expressed re Gret today at the killing of the police at the same Libya retaliation with a siege at the British embassy in the libyan also Contin ambassador Oliver Miles and other officials were not allowed to leave the the foreign office in London foreign office undersecretary Richard Luce said he Doest think the British embassy staff and other britons in Libya Are in any danger at the present there Are an estimated britons in Luce said the libyan expressed to through our regret at the fact that a British policewoman was immunity becomes eleven libyans demonstrating out Side the libyan embassy were injured during the shooting the demonstrators were protesting against lib Yan Leader Moa mar of the shootings in Home Secretary Leon Brittan said yesterday there was no possible provocation and no possible pretext for this Mur Derous he said Britain has protested to the libyan government Over the most disgraceful and Barbaric outrage that London has seen for a very Long prime minister Margaret who was visiting said she was gravely concerned and some maps urged that the libyan embassy be Brittan told reporters that Contact has been made with senior in the libyan and they Are prepared to but in a Telephone interview with the Libya foreign All Abdel Salam said from Tripoli we will never allow anyone to go inside our under International the embassy is libyan territory and can Only be entered by British police near the embassy detained a Man today wearing an Arab headdress after a search discovered he was carrying a police said they had arrested seven people for including six at Heathrow Airport outside London and see suspects Page 4 judge rules act violates charter by Murray Mcneill the attorney generals department will review the liquor control act to determine what changes will have to be made to it following a provincial court judges ruling yesterday that several sections of the act violate the Canadian charter of Well certainly have to take a look at the judgment and the provisions of the liquor act and see what Steps have to be Deputy attorney general Gordon Pilkey said in an later inter provincial court judge Charles new Combe ruled that the Section of the liquor act which gives police and liquor inspectors unlimited Powers of search violates Section 8 of the charter of which Guaran tees everyone the right to be secure from unreasonable search and Sei the ruling was made at the conclusion of a trial into liquor act charges against the los bravos motorcycle club and four members of the clubs executive Allain August Raymond Charles Donald Robert Brown and Rudolph Frank Ger the ruling reiterated preliminary findings judge Newcombe reached in after hearing evidence and Legal arguments in the he re see 4 Parasiuk 12year Deal Cia cited in attacks on nicaraguan ports Art gallery warns of summer closing by Bob Cox without More Money from City coun the Winnipeg Art gallery May have to close during the summer months As a cos cutting gallery presi Dent Don Vernon said Vernon said closing the gallery annually in july and August is one option facing the gallery Board of governors when it meets next week to discuss ways of balancing the 198485 the Board has said they Are deter mined they Are not going to run a Defi he noting other options in clude cutting programs and laying off he said closing in the summer would inconvenience but not those people who pay the Bills Winnipeg residents and gallery the gallery has asked the City to increase its Grant by this year and by each year until 1987 to return City funding to the same level As in Vernon said the funding increases would allow the gallery to get out of the Woods he said the cites portion of gallery funding has fallen steadily from per cent of its budget in 197576 to a projected per cent of the million 198384 we dont feel we have been fairly treated Over the Vernon City funding has decreased dramatically Over the last nine this years City Grant is the same As in the last two finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky said in View of the cites current restraint the gallery request was not very seventy five thousand dollars for four years is a substantial Vernon said the City didst support the gallery adequately even when the City want financially the City is in financial but they sure we rent in the seventies when they were Nickelas diming As he said the City didst give the gallery any Money during its deficit reduction campaigns which raised More than million Between 1976 and Don Gerrie pointed out the City gives the gallery a break on property a Benefit valued at More than last but Vernon said the gallery was getting relatively the same break in 1975 so the decrease in funding is still the in the Federal government provided per cent of the Art Gal Leys the provincial govern ment provided per the City gave per cent and the rest was self generated or raised in the private Washington a the Cia directed attacks against Nicaragua seaports three months before mining that country and one Sabo Tage raid touched off a major Oil fire at the key port of intelligence sources the who spoke on condition they not be said that like the the 10 attack on Corinto involved Cia hired latin mercenaries who reached the port by speedboat while american Cia agents directed the operation from a ship one source described the Corinto raid As totally a Cia operation and said the attack not the mining marked the first time the spy Agency entered directly into the War against the leftist nicaraguan another source said the Corinto raid was one in a series of Cia directed seaport attacks dating Back to an As Sault on Oil storage and pipeline facilities at puerto Sandino both Corinto and puerto Sandino Are in Nicaragua Pacific Adolfo head of the Cia backed nicaraguan democratic said yesterday nicaraguan rebels from his group carried out those but he added he did not know the degree of Cia involvement or whether saboteurs from other latin american countries took Nicaragua claims members of the Senate Intelli gence who complained last week that they were not adequately in formed about the also appeared not to have known about the Cias role in the Corinto said sources close to the one source said the Cia provided no information on the Corinto attack last see paramilitary Page 4 want say six Manitoban want to make sure Manitoba English Only statutes Are properly defended before the supreme foreign flavor costly save Marc Lalonde has brushed off concerns about the nationality of the Bank of Montreal executives and impending absorption of a Selkirk Steeles Young goalie Dean Shaw lost three fingers helping his team to a 62 win Over the Weyburn red wings last bitter Pill the new Canada health which became Law is a bitter Pill for three provinces to Index 1 Ann 2 39 Ujj 44 i 48 so 62 i 48 j 6 41 7 23 39 Jumble 64 7 21 57 sports 61 45 37 to listings 21 6 ;