Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 26, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Females shut out of City fire department by Maureen Murray women have been dousing fires in Rural municipalities for several but Winnipeg 105yearold fire department has yet to accept a female fire chiefs and female firefighters in the provinces Volunteer Crews say the City is behind the Sharron Winnipeg equal employment opportunities said women have not cracked the cites Al male bastion because applicants have lacked the necessary upper body she All that could change within the next 18 Goulds office and the fire depart in conjunction with Winnipeg Core area Are developing a pre recruitment training program aimed at female she said the program will concen trate on developing the upper body strength of female recruits and hopefully will help women crack the cites male Gould said the 31 women who applied to join the department this year were unsuccessful at the Job related fitness the test involves lifting a 27kilo Gram ladder off a fire carry ing a 72kilogram Dummy and con trolling a fire Hose that is under weve found that the women who apply have lacked the upper body strength we Haven had anyone pass the Gould female applicants have done Well on the departments Gener Al fitness test which includes run Chi ups and test ing grip she Gould said to account for physio logical the department uses slightly different criteria to judge the optimum level of fitness for men and women based on the Canada fitness for she men Are required to run Kilometres in under 12 minutes and women in less than the standards for the Job related physical test Are uni she see Rural Page 4 tabloids thrive on Juicy gossip sunny today 3 Clear tonight 9 december 1966 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Pope delivers Christmas message from Balcony of Peters Basilica in Vatican worlds people urged to embrace Las message of peace who have worked for Grotto in the Church of nativity the associated press religious and government leaders called on the world to take to heart the Christmas message of brotherly love while hundreds of millions of christians celebrated the birth of Jesus with feasting and in his Christmas Day Pope John Paul ii denounced riches spent on weapons and thanked those who have worked for men and women of the Christ asks us to love one said the roman Catholic speaking from a Balcony overlooking Peters Square in Vatican in Bethlehem in the israeli Ccu pied West Bank of the Jordan hundreds of worshippers lit candles yesterday and kissed the floor of a Zellers opts to Stop using English signs Montreal up the Zellers department store Chain has promised to remove All English signs from its Montre Alarea outlets Fol lowing the firebombing of a suburban Zellers said it will remove the signs temporarily to assure the safety of its employees and custom ers and to contribute to a healthier social climate in a group described As the z cell of the front de liberation do que Bec the same name that was used by the Small group of terrorists who backed Quebec Independence in the 1960s and Early 1970s issued a note taking responsibility for the Montreal police spokes Man William Bumbray said he doubted the Fly was police said the firebombing occurred about 2 Christmas eve when two Molotov cocktails were thrown through the stores but Only one no one was Bumbray said the which was mostly contained by the stores sprinkler caused about shortly after the French language radio station Cikac received the a two Page manuscript in which the z cell also said it backed the faqs Omega which claimed responsibility tues Day for minor vandalism at a North end Auto parts the store recently changed from Bilin see bomb Page 4 Grotto in the Church of built on the site where tradition says Jesus was outside the israeli sol Diers patrolled Manger the atmosphere was subdued in contrast to the loud festivities on Christmas when choirs from around the world Sang israeli officials said about pilgrims and tourists visited Bethle hem this about the same As last year when a 20percent drop in tourism was in the predominantly roman Catholic rebels took advantage of a ceasefire in their nearly 18year insurgency to come Down from the Hills and spend the Holiday with loved Nobel peace prize Winner Mother Teresa celebrated the Holiday in the attending Midnight mass in Dagupan where she plans to set up a Home for poles watched John a native say Midnight broadcast from the Vatican on state television for the first in the archbishop of Robert said that Goodwill during the Holiday sea son is a godsend sign of the possibility of peace on the spiritual Leader of the Church of England and Leader of the worlds 70 million anglicans said the Story of Christ retold each Christmas stirs to see soviets Page 4 heavy casualties hinted in soviet mine explosion Chicago Tribune Moscow an unknown number of people died when leaking methane Gas touched off an explosion at a Coal mine in Southern the official Tass news Agency reported in a four paragraph statement is sued by senior communist party and government Tass said the Accident occurred wednesday at the mine near the main Coal product ing Region of the soviet Tass gave no fatality but used language that hinted at heavy casualties and serious destruction at the the communist party Central the Council of ministers and the presidium of the supreme or sent deep condolences to the families and rela Tives of the dead miners and to the engineers and technicians of the Tass the Agency said representatives see mine Page 4 62 killed after plane crashes in Hijack bid Gorbachev new openness grenade explodes in cockpit Riyadh a an iraqi Jet crashed in the saudi arabian desert and burst into flames yesterday after a grenade exploded in the cockpit during a Hijack the saudi defence ministry said 62 peo ple were saudi Arabia said the iraqi air ways flight from Baghdad to crashed during an emergency Landing at a Small Domestic Airstrip 100 Kilometres South of the saudi jordanian Border and 400 Kilometres Southwest of Baghdad in Northern saudi the saudi defence ministry said there were 107 people on Board the Boeing 737 91 15 Crew members and a Security saudi Arabia said there were 44 Jordan said in a statement there were 30 an unidentified iraqi official in Baghdad was quoted by the Bahrain based Gulf news Agency As saying that one of the two hijackers was killed by a Security officer and the other died in the former jordanian Interior minis Ter Suleiman who was a passenger in the firs class Section of the said the two hijackers detonated at least two hand Gre Nades As they tried to take Over the it All happened like lightning about an hour after we took off from Aarau told reporters when he arrived Back in Amman 10 hours after the the Captain had just announced that wed entered saudi airspace when one passenger from the econ omy class jumped up with a hand grenade and ran towards the cock Aarau three Security men jumped up and tried to Stop him and wrestled to the but he slipped out of their grasp and crawled into the the Gulf news Agency quoted the official As saying the hijackers were two agents of the iranian in iraqi ambassador Mohammed Sadiq Elaschat also accused Iran of being behind the discs calling it a crime of the iranian Iran and Iraq have been at War for More than six a doctor in Arar told Abc news he treated survivors for Burns and bul let wounds they apparently suffered in the fight Between the hijackers and Security israeli television said a previously unknown group calling itself revolutionary action claimed responsibility for blowing up an iraqi an Anonymous Telephone caller to television and radio stations in Beirut said the group would not harm iraqi interests if Baghdad re leased in 72 hours three Arab prison the television report Aarau said the Hijacker did not identify himself or say Why he was trying to Hijack the the door of the cockpit was slammed Aarau then there was loud noises and screaming from the cockpit and behind in the Economy a few moments there was an explosion inside the then right after that there was another explosion in the Economy see aircraft Page 4 a graphic saudi Arabia Charity awarded main share of estate by Julia Necheff the Winnipeg foundation has emerged the main beneficiary after a Battle Over the estate of a Charleswood woman who died Al most two years a court of Queens Bench judge has decided a 1983 will by Leslie Nora naming her two nieces As her single largest heirs of 000 is not in his written jus Tice Ken Hanssen upheld the Validity of an earlier will in in which Hall named the Winnipeg Charity the recipient of the dispute pitted the foundation and others named in the 1982 will the dead woman cousins and her financial advisor against her Hus bands each Side accused the other of unduly influencing the elderly woman for her the Ontario Frances Chalmers and the estate of Carol still inherit a legacy of according to the 1982 will validated by the Mclaughlin was killed in a car Accident in Ontario last Hanssen said although it was not necessary for him to Rule on in he didst find enough Evi Dence that either Side unduly influenced the judge accepted arguments by lawyer Al Macinnes acting for the beneficiaries and executors of the 1982 will that Hall didst know of and approve the contents in the later Chalmers helped prepare the last will naming her and her sister As the chief the Niece testified in a fou Day trial earlier this month that she was acting out the elderly woman last the judge questioned motivations and Credi although Hall had cataracts in both eyes and extremely poor the judge noted no one read the will aloud or explained its contents to he said he want satisfied the elderly woman read the will or signed it knowing what it Chalmers Albert eyolf had argued it was inconsistent for Hall to name the foundation a beneficiary in when the woman see Niece Page 4 cheer Board Effort rated successful despite deficit have a Good Christmas thanks to a massive Community so did More than 000 Winni Eggers who might not otherwise have known the Bounty of the the considerable task of sup plying every needy family with a Christmas hamper and every child with at least one toy was a great Success in says the spirit of executive director of the Christ Mas cheer Byrdye Beck the operation was tremendous this the deliveries went off like that the Good the other Side of the Coin is that Beckel faces a deficit of be tween and the shortfall results from a drop of in donations to the cheer Board a situation Beckel blames in part on its change of location a year people simply find i she the boards offices and warehouse Are now at 1375 Mcphillips Avenue in the Northgate shopping in fewer people bought the White Chari to bears this resulting in a shortfall of another whether the total deficit will be higher depends on several including the total funds collected at a number of outlets like the free press sports departments spirit of were counting on people to continue to help out until we have enough to pay our Beckel Treyve always come through in the tenants tenants have been found and should be moving in soon to Winnipeg technology Back again an overjoyed Reggie Jackson returns to the Oakland As for what probably will be the last season of his Black Dies a South african Black detained since july without charge Dies in Hospital after being taken there from lottery Western express 1357098 lotto West winning numbers 39 Bonus number 45 lotto winning numbers 41 Bonus number 48 Index Ann 21 50 60 49 60 6 35 7 Jumble 64 43 our 21 21 sports 59 51 to 21 ;