Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Had by Winnipeg Poff Agic la Prairie it was Little Mote than a week until Helen mcleans 3isl wedding anniversary when she was brutally slain last sat urday at a local her said yesterday the who had lived Here about three would have celebrated 31 years of marriage on May she was quiet very said she was Friendly with she hated its ironic that she died by violence when she hated it she had no it is something we just cant the woman body was found by a Friend at last saturday at the Mayfair where she and her husband had served As Aretak Erma nagers for about a who was last seen alive at 6 saturday when she checked a guest into the died of multiple Stab wounds to the an autopsy Rcpt still have no suspects in the which has shocked this Community of Mclean said he and his two and Are mystified by the we just cant figure it out at he they ramp cant be Refl to find a it seems theres no motive to who last saw his wife alive at said he suspects she May have been the victim of a random just someone walking in off the there Are a lot of crazy Man says ramp staff Jack Barrie said yesterday police have been unable to find a motive of the slaying and no weapon Haft by Cal Fearrien said fro Money was taken from the motels Cash Register and Mclean was not sexually As anyone witnessing anything unusual near the Motel Between 6 and 9 saturday is asked to Contact the we simply dont baffle weve got very Little to work see Hotfil Page 4 Clear tonight 5 sunny tomorrow 17 winninpp1 Tipp it Sqq w w registration number 0286 May vol Naco 152 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets flames and billowing smoke Rise from West Philadelphia neighbourhood after police bombed Home of police bomb destroys 60 houses search on in Philadelphia for armed members of Radical group Philadelphia a police searched today for armed members of the Radical group move who fled a siege that climaxed when a police helicopter bombed their head Quad setting a fire that destroyed up to 60 houses and left the neighbor Hood like a War we still have police in the area looking for said police Thomas Mccormick of the move members who eluded More than 150 officers who Laid siege to the groups Row House we have the area surrounded and Are watching for the violent confrontation with members of the backs nature group came after police tried to evict move members from their which was equipped with a steel plated rooftop Bunker Complete with residents had complained of As robberies and a stench at the police had obtained warrants for four move members charging them with criminal Possession of disorderly conduct and said police Al police surrounded the move House sunday and evacuated about 200 Homes in the yesterday the group refused to demanding instead that nine Mem Bers imprisoned for a 1978 shootout that left a police officer dead be released from the Row House remained under siege with periodic exchanges of gunfire until when a state police helicopter dropped a bomb on the rooftop minutes a plume of smoke began rising from the soon flames were raging across the top of the police commissioner Gregore Sambor said he authorized the drop Ping of the firefighters did not immediately try to put out the fire but waited for the flames to destroy the when they tried to move they were driven Back by gunfire from four move members in an mayor Wilson Goode said at a news what we have out there is he said last he said one of the a was the others May have been hiding see police Page 4 a photo unidentified people on roof of move Row House next to fortified Bunker angry parents quit meeting on French language classes by Paula Martin Winnipeg free press Pierr Jolys the red River school Board cooled the French language instruction Contro Versy last night by turning it Over to a committee for study and a report that not due until next the decision came after 37 accusations of a stacked meeting and a walkout by a group of angry mainly who want More English instruction for their about 200 people turned out to discuss that groups demand for a 5050 French English ratio of instruction at the elementary and Junior High rather than the French instruction now last about 85 people from the predominantly French speaking town appeared before a committee to say they were sick of having French rammed Down their 35 of 37 speakers last night said they were satisfied with the pharmacist Rene who spoke in support of the current pro said in an interview the parents group is that what makes them act is there scared their children wont have he there Mulaire added the school Board should try to Mcconv Iodate them Grade 12 student Lynn who is in a predominantly English said she wished she had received More French my Sisters Are in it and i see they Are really doing she their English is Carriere i think its i dont understand Why people from a French Community could not want the French parents spokesman Marie Hebert was involved in a shouting match with the Board last night when she turned to address the audience rather than Board Hebert said her groups proposal would give students a better Chance in the working in not an ant French person and never have she said outside the meeting when about 60 members of her group walked before they she accused the Board of stacking the meeting with members of la society f ran Comani Toba Jne and supporters of its pro Grams to give a false impression that More people were in favor of retaining the program As Board chairman Gilbert Rioux said the charge was see parents Page 4 dry reserves struck chaos feared by Murray Mcneill a Manitoba court of Queens Bench judge has ruled dry Indian reserves Are unconstitutional is not illegal to have liquor on unless it is successfully the decision is binding on All Marmito a in a three Page written decision released Justice Armand Dureault upheld a provincial judges ruling last september that of the Indian act Vio lates the Equality Section of the Canadian Bill of Federal Crown attorney Peter Kremer said yesterday that Al though provincial court judge Sid Cohan decision was not judge Dureault ruling is now binding on All provincial judges courts in the this in effect makes it no longer an Kremer added the Federal depart ment of Justice has the option of seeking to have judge Dureault decision overturned by the Manitoba court of he said Given the fact it involves a politically sensitive he will ask Justice officials in Ottawa to decide whether an Appeal should be the department has 30 Days to file an Kremer said although the depart ment May continue to charge per sons who Are caught with alcohol on dry the charges will not be proceeded with if the Case is not if an Appeal is they will be held in abeyance until the Appeal court the Indian which makes it illegal to be intoxicated or to possess liquor on a contains a Section which allows each Reserve to pass a bylaw allowing liquor in their a Manitoba native Leader warned yesterday chaos could theres going to be driving Acci and fights and knifing and because this will be some thing new and go All chief Joe Guy Wood theres going to be chaos in these Wood is chief of the Theresa Point which is and chairman of the Manitoba Kewa Zinowi Okima kanak which rep resents 25 Northern he said most of the provinces 60 reserves Are dry and the band councils want it to stay that he said when one Reserve decided about 15 years ago to allow lots of deaths Wood said he resents judges Tell ing reserves they can no longer ban weve seen How much harm liquor has i dont think its any of their business to come and Tell us what we should do or should not i think its very irresponsible for see Equality Page 4 derailing equipment ruled out by David Roberts the Canadian transport commis Sion has ruled up rail does not have to install derailing equipment or put dangerous tank cars in a special holding area at its downtown Winni Peg rail site of a spectacular explosion 30 months six railway travel uncontrolled at 55 crashed into a Chain of empty pro pane tank cars and triggered an a several minor injuries and evacuation of a Bingo Hall in december human error was the cause of the an inquiry panel from the railway transport committee of the transport commission after 12 Days of Public hearings and More than pages of Evi the rail committee panel concluded there was a serious Lack of supervision and management at the Yard and improvements in train ing and supervision of workers were both necessary and up in a written response to the said the incident was the result of negligent and irrational acts by one employee who wrongly started the locomotives in motion and then abandoned the train once it was leaving it to crash into the Tanker one up rail Hostler Paul was fired by the company and several others were disciplined after the Bembenek has since been rehired by up rail but not As a said John spokesman for the brotherhood of locomotive in after the the panel or dered up rail to establish a new worker safety it also ordered the Railroad to show Why it equip the Yard with derailing equip see holding Page 4 nip registers dramatic upset Victory in Yukon Whitehorse up the new democratic party snatched a dra Matic upset Victory yesterday in the Yukon election but the territory new Leader was left with a tenuous minority government that he admits will have to proceed with the led by Tony a 39ryearold former script made some strategic moves in capturing key Rural and downtown Whitehorse Ridings to bust the baffled progressive conservatives in a race that could genuinely be labelled a the whose Leader Willard Phelps had called the elec Tion just three weeks after winning the party took 47 per cent of the popular vote to 42 per cent for the but the new democrats won eight of the 16 i dings to the tories the surprising liberals hold the balance of Power after winning two seats had been shutout in 1982 and became the first Liberal party West of Ontario to get their Leader elected to a provincial or territorial the National nip presi see nip Page 4 closing time the Toronto Dominion Bank Branch at Portage Avenue and Kennedy Street readies for closing june papal tour Pope John Paul ii got a mixed Welcome during his tour of the Netherlands extra innings a single gives Houston astros a 3rg win Over Montreal useful Liberal and nip representatives in Ontario describe a meeting As Ann Bridge 59 44 53 44 40 7 Jumble 48 41 21 sports record 65 60 35 to 21 ;