Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bandit snips off 77 Kilometres of wire by Maureen Murray the mounties Are searching for a Bandit who Cut Down Al Kilometres of Copper wife froth abandoned Tele graph the which weighs wore than kilograms and is Worth about Likely was removed Over a Long period of a Morris ramp spokesman said last it was probably a Case of so i Leone working on it bit by bit on he he would have to be Superman to have completed the Job in just a few the snipped wife was taken from poles along the Canadian National railways line Between Carman and just outside the Southwest Corner of fief Wilkes Avenue at the perimeter ramp said car police alerted them about the incident on april 28 after railway employees spotted bits of Copper wire dangling from Tel graph poles along the car police later reported the ban Dit had struck Telegraph poles be tween Sanford and Sperling along Highway damage was estimated at but ramp said subsequent investigations show the damage to be More ramp said the culprits work went unnoticed because the Tele graph lines have not been in use for some the spokesman speculated the thief could get a Good Price from a scrap Metal dealer because Copper Sells for about a were not talking about he this was pure much better than the stuff youd find on poles now in Brian spokes Man for a nip said he thinks the thief will have a difficult time unloading the Copper if someone came to you with All that Copper you Start to wonder Sandman polishes off Golden Clear tonight 8 sunny tomorrow 25 Winnipeg free press maw in Tiu of n May vol is no ibb real 25c Home delivery 9s70550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number oj86 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Ken free press daycare checks proposed by Fred Youngs the Manitoba government wants to give its officials Power to enter daycare centres where they suspect children Are in Community services minister Muriel Smith said proposed Amend ments to the Community child Day care standards act would give officials the right to enter and investigate conditions in such Smith said if they Are refused they could apply for a court order allowing daycare director Drew Perry said the Power to enter premises also would extend to buildings believed to House daycare opera Perry said lawyers have told the department the proposed Amend ments do not contravene the charter of rights and As Bill introduced in the legislature would allow the provincial director of Day care to seek an injunction to Stop the opera Tion of a Centre in extreme Situa Smith said the effect of the Bill is to give the director and his staff the ability to intervene quickly in situations in which children in any of the provinces 700 daycare centres Are believed to be in some of the amendments Are pretty she but i think they must be taken to Stop Chil Dren from being the minister said the proposal to expand Powers for Perry and his 30 staff members was sparked by the controversy last year surrounding a Charleswood daycare Smith said the problems encountered with the Early childhood Edu cation Centre showed the act govern ing daycare operations needed we experienced a situation last year that proved to be extremely frustrating for in that we were not Able to respond As we would have she where were strengthening the we lacked the Power to move the Bias in the Amend ments is towards Protection of Chil Joe lends a helping and to Marvin smoker yesterday during an among the proposed changes is Indian powwow to celebrate the official opening of the Malawi i Chi Itata Centre see daycare Page 4 inc a child and family support Agency opened in the judges comment enrages women rape called less serious if relationship involved helping hand Toronto up a remark by an Ontario supreme court judge that it is less serious for a woman to be raped by someone with whom she has had a sexual relationship than by a stranger has incurred the Wrath of women in said Sam head of the Ontario advisory Council on women we need to do some gender teaching to those supreme court you think youre making Progress by getting the courts to declare women equal and then this kind of thing Justice James Southey said wednesday that sexual assault is less serious if the victim has been involved with her attacker because a previous sexual relationship must reduce the Gravity of the the fact the victim and her at Lacker had a continuing sexual relationship made the sexual aspect of the assault less serious than it would otherwise have he judge Southey refused to with draw the remarks if there Are people in the world who think they Are entitled to their he it is not that the person is known to the its that the person is having ongoing sexual Intercourse with Kathleen chairman of the Justice committee for the National action committee on the status of said the judges remarks show that the Law has changed but the judiciary has As Long As they continue to Han dle it As if the victim asked for women Are going to find it difficult to report she judge Southey made the controversial comments As he sentenced Samuel to two years less a Day in reformatory and Jerry to three years in Peni a married father of three from was convicted of sex Ual assault causing bodily harm to a he was dating at the a Man with a criminal record for acts of was convicted of sexual the judge found that Walkies punched the woman in the face and forced her to perform Oral sex after an Al night drinking session on 24 last also present in her then threatened to kill her and raped prosecutor Barry Hill had argued that under new Canadian Hus bands can be convicted of sexually assaulting their if a lady Ion gender says that regardless of any previous sexual activity Between Hill told the Wilson refuses to Rule out cuts in Pic benefits Ottawa up finance minis Ter Michael Wilson has dismissed As Liberal scare tactics suggestions his budget next week will tamper with the universality of social but Wilson refused in the com Mons yesterday to Rule out changes to the unemployment insurance sys tem to exclude benefits for Fisher men and pregnant or sick Liberal my Dave who raised the told Wilson that removing those benefits from the unemployment insurance system would be deviating away from the prime ministers commitment that Universal social programs Are a sacred Wilson responded there has been full consultation by my col league Flora the min ister of employment and Immega and by on a wide Range of areas surrounding the topics that he has i can assure him that we have a great Deal of sensitivity towards the the women who would be affected by any the Honor Able member should wait until next thursday Wilson said earlier this year the government was considering strip Ping what Are considered social benefits from the unemployment pro Gram to reduce the programs financial Burden on Small he promised any changes would be preceded by extensive benefits for maternity sick leave and unemployed fishermen would not be eliminated but would be financed in a different he Wilson suggested yesterday Ding Wall was trying to scare canadians by renewing the debate on Universal social the finance minister found himself in hot water last december when he said such programs could no longer be afforded for Middle and upper in come the implication that these pro Grams would be Cut caused a furore in the House and was immediately denied by prime minister Mulron in the december Wilson used the expression the politics of fear to describe Liberal tactics during the election Campaign last he made the Point again yesterday in responding to Ding Walls the honorable member is trying to use and ill use this expression Ive applied it to other Mem Bers of his party politics of Wilson former Deputy finance minister Simon Reisman told report ers that while unemployment is a the unemployment insurance system is too generous and has made unemployment he also suggested that if More people would get off their asses and work running at per could be see budget Page 4 lawyers rally Bill disputed by Paul Moloney Winnipeg lawyer Remi Smith charged la society Franco Manito Baine for attending a probe Lingual ism rally in september a court heard former society president Leo Robert said the Only service provided by Smith was to assist with crowd he said at the time a society Board included the charge As part of a Bill for Legal he was walking around in a shirt and carrying a two Way Robert i dont think he was there As a he added that Joseph a University of Ottawa constitutional Law professor hired by the had attended the rally to act As the society Legal the calculated at the rate of an hour for 12 formed part of a Bill submit Ted by Smiths Law Guay Smith and Robert said requests were made for a breakdown of the but details were not provided until five Days after Guay Smith filed a court petition to have the society declared bankrupt Over its refusal to i thought the Bill was extremely he i thought a lot of things were charged for that Possi Bly should not have been charged he said the for the period from May to appeared out of line because the society was not actively fighting the language rights Battle during four months of that the Bill excluded october because Smith was paid a special fee of that month to assist in Gath see firm Page 4 missing woman body discovered in City Pond by Bob Cox an elderly missing from seven Oaks general Hospital since last apparently wandered into an unfenced storm water retention Pond and police police divers searching the Pond Northwest of the Hospital discovered the body of Mary yester Day roman Gierek adding foul play is not suspect Ellison of Cathedral Avenue was in Hospital under wait ing to be transferred to a personal care when she wandered away during visiting hours last thursday Gierek said police decided to search the about one Kilometre away from the Hospital near Templeton Avenue and Mcphillips after an extensive search of the area failed to turn up clues to her Sandy director of the cites waste and disposal said later the retention Pond is one of about 40 through out the see safety Page 4 i few months Canadas reply to the United states Star wars research invitation is Likely to take another three or four angry Tan Jay plans to move head office from Winnipeg rankle Industry minister Eugene Challenge canadians must accept the challenges posed by the information expert hillbilly hillbilly chinese drummer remains Novelty after 20 a mar 0861949 Ann 17 23 36 22 36 6 29 7 Jumble 40 our 17 sports 25 to 17 ;