Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free january 1985 police officers attend ramp funeral killers burial lonely affair for Hal dozen slave up with hundreds of fellow police officers looking on and the plaintive strains of the last Post sounding through the cold Allen Giesbrecht was buried yesterday with the full honors of the the mountie was shot to death in sunday As he and three other officers investigated a complaint about a Tom the Man who killed then took his own was also buried in 260 Kilometres Southeast of slave about police officers attended Giesbrecht the rites of the roman Catholic Church were conducted in the echoing confines of the main gymnasium of the High school in this town on the shores of lesser slave about 250 kilo metres North of it is the Home town of Giesbrecht while about 800 mourners crowded into the hundreds of others packed a adjacent gym and spilled into the the ceremonial Scarlet tunics of the ramp stood out brightly from the Navy Blue of other police depart ments and the Green of prison the mourners came from across the country for the funeral of the first police officer killed this year in there were about ramp and detachments from City police in Toron Windsor and Thunder there were members of the Ontario and Quebec provincial forces and a Dele gation of prison David ramp assistant commissioner for said in a Eulogy that police Are aware of the dangers they face and should be better prepared for injury and but i believe that putting it too up photo widow Susanne Giesbrecht Centre weeps after slain husbands hat and Flag from coffin were Given to her nation he All of us play the Odds and we never really think it will happen to but then tragedy and we find ourselves questioning the whole scheme of Whyte offered condolences to Giesbrecht wife and two Small sons on behalf of the ramp and All the police and Law enforcement agencies represented at the none of us will Hurt As much As als wife and their but sometimes it helps to know that others Are sharing that and that we also As Giesbrecht was buried with ceremony and tradition before a crowd of Only a handful gathered in Vegreville to Grieve for his Zaies and his Jean grills of attended a Brief ceremony in a funeral Home and then drove with three or four friends to a lonely in slave Alberta solicitor general Ian Reid was among the mourners who came by car and chartered buses and planes for the ramp the Small Community Airstrip was jammed with including a big Boeing six members of Giesbrecht family flew in from his Home his Allan and Lucy his brother Jerry and sister Linda live in onlookers shivered in c temperatures As the coffin was taken to a grave at the slave Lake cemetery on a Snow covered Hill Over looking the Community of there were tears and drawn faces among the chilled pallbearers who stood by the comforted by her Moth a brother and a sat with her head bowed and eyes closed through most of the graveside ser but wept openly when her Hus bands Broad rimmed ceremonial hat and the Canadian which had rested on the were presented to she was escorted away from the grave As the ramp bugler began to an 11year Veteran of the was the first mountie to die on duty in Alberta since his death followed a rash of police slayings in Canada in 1984 during which nine officers were obscenity decision applauded Edmonton up an Alberta judges decision that sexually explicit Home video cassettes in which women Are degraded or dehumanized Are obscene is says a spokesman for an Edmonton based anti pornography Justice Mel in a ruling handed Down in court of Queens Bench in Calgary wednes said the contemporary Canad an Community will not tolerate material that portrays women As sexual playthings or is sexually explicit with he fined Fred owner of your Choice on two counts of Possession of obscene material for the purpose of Dis Tribu it appears judges Are becoming More aware of the ramifications of pornography and Are listening in groups that have focused on aware Ness and said Valerie Parr of positive action against por an Edmonton based lobby Amanda be office Man Ager for the Alberta status of women action said she Hopes the Case will set a precedent and other judges will follow the same Kathleen a lawyer and chairman of the Calgary coalition against said the Deci Sion is original in stating that sex Ual explicitness without violence with dehumanization and degradation can be Mahoney said she is pleased judge Shannon decided obscenity Laws do not violate the charter of Wagner said he now will offer customers soft right from the outset weve looked for guide lines and now we have he Alan general counsel for the Canadian civil liberties Assoc said he is disturbed by the the danger is whatever criteria you choose can be applied against material other than what you Are seeking to there Are works of classical poetry and greek mythology with women As victims of sexually violent Federal inmates refused raise to cover costs Ottawa up Federal prisoners wont get pay raises they sought to help cover increased costs of canteen items such As the correctional service of Canada has wages for those going to school or performing cleaning and Kitchen work in prisons will continue at 1981 Levels of to a says Larry acting director of the services inmate resource management Divi Elman said the pay plan already is considered generous by world Federal prisoners in the United for Are paid an average of 20 cents to 76 cents an hour for Industrial jobs and 11 cents to 38 cents an hour for nonindustrial Elman on an hourly Canadian prisoners would earn Between 52 cents and 98 he Elman said prisoners pay is supposed to be equivalent to what a minimum wage earner in the Community would have As disposable he says the Federal minimum wage Hast increased since the prison pay plan was revised in the correctional service provides prisoners with the Basic requirements of furnishings and medical but prisoners pay for personal entertainment items such As television radios and tape As Well As soap and prisoners cannot receive Money from outside to pay for entertainment although they Are Al Lowed to Purchase stereos with outside funds when they enter an the total value of goods in a prisoners cell cannot exceed inmates also Are required to put 25 per cent of their earnings into a savings account so have funds when there Graham research director for the John Howard society of said prisoners spend about 80 per cent of their Money on Cigar police Union gives 72hour strike notice port up police in this Vancouver suburb served 72hour strike notice yesterday morning in what the Union says is a dispute Over working the Union has asked mediator Fred Geddes to Book out a strike would not be Legal until after the mediation report is received by the labor the representing 21 police wants to work 12hour with four Days on and four Days police Board negotiator Kenneth keeping said yesterday evening that this demand had been granted during negotiations earlier in the keeping said the Only remaining Issue was the unions insistence that members have 30 Days notice of any shift management wants the right to change an officers shift on 24 hours notice in the event of an the police services Union contended it was impossible to serve the town adequately under the current shift in place since late of 10hour shifts with four Days on and three Canadian computer Era macintosh 128k 5 Only starter system 10 Only Apple ii c 1467 Apple ii e professional system extended starter system 10 Only 1997 1699 Many Many More in store specials Sperry Model 20 s 256k Zenith 150 pc 10 m hard disk color Monitor three software 4650 Canadian computer Era 444 Mary located right downtown in ice behind the Bay Parade phone 9431868 hours daily 96 saturday 104 Isa older care providers and health professionals medication information line for the elderly 2613111 pharmacist available 1 to 5 monday to Friday for private 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