Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Klan figure stays in jail bail but no one willing to Post it police reporter the alleged ringleader of the local Kun flux klan was still languishing in jail yesterday because no one would come Forward to Post a surety on his Bill Marcus who was arrested wednes Day As part of a citywide crackdown on the klan and charged with advocating genocide was still calling the remand Centre Home yesterday even though he has been granted bail twice in the last two Harcus second bail application was approved yesterday after City police charged him under the Telephone act with using a Telephone line to promote police said the charge relates to the so called Kkt which was shut Down thursday As part of the Marcus was also granted bail on thursday after he was initially charged with Advocat ing but a court spokesman said he has been unable to find anyone to come for Ward and guarantee to pay court if he skips out and misses next court which was scheduled yesterday for police fear Marcus May skip out if Hes re which prompted the Crown to request the hefty surety As Well As an order that he surrender his passport before Hes released on Marcus has also been ordered to report weekly to a bail supervision officer if Hes re a second Man arrested in wednesdays theron also had his Case remanded to 9 Skryba has also been charged with advocating genocide in connection with state ments he and Marcus allegedly made during local klan meetings which were infiltrated by undercover Conrad Gislason who spearheaded the 13month investigation that led to the arrest of Marcus and yesterday that one More arrest in the Case is imminent while several others have been put on hold pending a consultation with the you believe How much work there is to be done in an investigation like Gislason predicting it will take an other two months to make All the necessary arrests and Complete All the charges he expects to result from the departments under cover investigation of local klan Gislason said the Telephone charge Laid against Marcus was drawn up quickly in or Der to give the Manitoba Telephone system the Power to shut Down the Kkt which had been the subject of much Contro Versy and a recent complaint to the Canadian human rights that was done basically to allow its to disconnect the he adding More charges against Marcus Are still wednesdays dramatic which capped a Mammoth and unprecedented local police have drawn Praise from groups across the in a statement issued by the Toronto office of the Canadian jewish Congress Joseph Wilder praised City police and the Justice department for proceeding with the advocating genocide charge against Marcus and he said its the first time the lit to known charge has Ever been Laid in Cana the Kkt is a stain on our said a Winnipeg lawyer and chairman of the Csc National Community relations com the dogged determination of the Winnipeg police in investigating their activities and making these arrests should serve As example for other Law enforcement agencies in the statement sex brutal choking net eight years Law court reporter a Winnipeg Man was sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison for almost choking a woman to death before sexually assaulting your life is Gong to take a significant by going to a jus Tice Sydney Schwartz of court of Queens Bench said in sentencing 30yearold Sheldon quasi to eight years for aggravated sexual assault and a concurrent three years on a charge of anal he said that the details of the choking Are among the most brutal he has come across during his years on the while noting evidence quasi was drunk during the the fact his victim was also drunk was an aggravating As she was defenceless against his Puring a today trial last the 33 year old woman who cant be identified admitted she cant remember some details of the but did remember quasi choking her with a Cord and having Ana Intercourse with her against her Schwartz rejected quests testimony deny ing that he had choked the woman or sexually striking a Deal Marc free press striking Cynd workers took time out to help stranded Motorist Shaun communications Are Motorist Ken Karan lost control of his Ken Karan yesterday at about noon before they headed downtown for a vehicle and wound up in a Snowbank at the Junction of marys Road visit to the Richardson where the offices of can West global and Annes Road while turning onto St Annes Road elderly Man found Frozen to death after going for drive a 84yearold Steinbach Man out for an afternoon drive was found dead this week after his car got stuck in ramp say Gottlieb Freund made an at tempt to walk toward Steinbach after he was unable to dig his 1986 Plymouth Cavalier out of a it was completely there was nothing to indicate said ramp Andre police believe he died of hypothermia in theism Freund left his House for a drive at about 3 at about 11 that a passerby found his Frozen body about three Kilometres from the Freund was wearing a hat and but Only a Light jacket and no the retired Farmers body was found about 17 Kilometres from Rick a University of Manitoba zoology says everyone should carry along a bag of extra clothes when they travel on Manitoba roads in the most people when there travelling in Manitoba dress in their suits and who runs an outdoor survival said stranded Drivers re main in their once the Gas runs the steel in a car sucks body heat away from Riewe if there Doest appear to be a farmhouse nearby or the weather is a stranded person should try to build a Snow a Hubcap or even mitts can be used to dig the a shelter can be built by piling wait ing for it to and then hollowing it free press breaking out a firefighter hurls flaming wreckage out second Storey window of 970 Sherbrook Street Block yesterday Saskatchewan sued for dam project damage by Terry Weber legislature reporter two Manitoba Indian bands Are taking the Saskatchewan government to court to extract millions in compensation for damage wrought by a 50yearold dam its devastated our Hunting and chief Pascall big Hetty of the Pukatawagan Indian band said if we dont say our livelihood going to continually go if we dont say nobody is going to speak for along with chief Alfred big Hetty of the Barren lands Indian announced the suit against Saskatchewan Power at a press conference charging the Crown corporation is breaking the Law by interfering with the flow of the Churchill River and using Reindeer Lake As a storage Reser voir without a provincial no specific Dollar figure was the Case stems from the construction of the White Sands dam and the Island Falls Power facility both in Saskatchewan in 1927 by the Hudson Bay mining and smelting at that the company completed the project under a permit granted by the Mani Toba that permit was eventually expropriated by Saskatchewan Power in the Early Pascall big Hetty when the permit expired shortly he Saskatchewan refused to renew lawyer Arne representing the two under the Manitoba Power act and the Manitoba water rights the two Power stations Are now illegally interfering with the flow of water in he added further argument May be launched in the court to be heard under the Indian act because failed to get approval under that legislation before flooding band lands at the outset of the the project has alternately caused flood ing and dropping water Levels in Northern affecting roughly acres of Crown land and 700 acres of native grocer store owners charged with Selling pornographic videos the owners of two Winnipeg grocery stores Are facing obscenity charges after police raided two stores thursday evening and seized pornographic police spokesman Eric Turner said the first raid occurred about at Nana 1579 notre where police seized seven videotapes they suspect violate the obscenity provisions of the criminal Turner said vice officers staged the raid after an undercover officer went to the store earlier in the Day and purchased a Turner said the 30yearold owner of the store will appear in court 22 charged with unlawfully Selling obscene Turner said the second raid occurred about 10 at the Lincoln grocery 141 Fife where 34 videotapes were Turner said police staged that raid after an undercover officer went to the store thurs Day afternoon and rented two Turner said the 35yearold owner of the store will appear in court 22 charged with unlawfully Selling obscene shot by police Brandon a 22yearold Man was shot by police yesterday when he charged at an officer with a police the whose name was not was taken to Hospital where he was in critical but stable police said the shooting occurred just after 4 in the cites West end after officers responded to a 911 Call about a at the they found the Man armed with a they tried to talk the Man into giving up the knife but he charged at an officer who then shot a police spokesman matriarch instilled values in sons Bakalyan Vittali free press correspondent Sigrun Mother and Central influence behind four of Winnipeg most promo Sigrun Stefanson she was found unconscious on thursday morning shortly after suffering a massive and never regained she died at Grace general Hospital later that were so to lose chief provincial court judge Konsten her third said she instilled in us the values that have been important to us All our Sigrun instilled the importance of hard work and social responsibility into All of her children through the example of her added Industry Trade and tourism minister Eric the minister said that although his also was a Federal member of Parlia ment from 1958 to it was his Mother who most strongly influenced his Choice for a political Stefan sons father died in pack then maps we rent Given free air so my father was away a great and my Mother was solely responsible for the four of us Back in he said but she still had time for numerous Community she was president of the Gimli and was Active in both the Good neighbors club and the order of the Eastern it was her Community activity that led to my political the Young second superintendent of the Jame Assiniboia school said his Mother was politically she was very he and she used to love to sit and watch ques Tion she was very supportive of my father in his political Dennis also remembered How creative and talented his Mother she played the Organ and the and my House is filled with ceramics that she no matter How Busy and Active her life Sig runs family always came oldest son chairman of Manitoba Telephone recalls an incident when he broke his hip and landed in a Winnipeg Hospital for six she found her Way into Winnipeg four or five times a i knew this was a tremendous Burden for her because the other Chil Dren were All at he i was 15 years and i really needed her Sig runs sons ail said that even though their father was the famous their mothers Strong character and values left the profound Impact on their the funeral service is being held at Gimli lutheran Church on monday at 2 ;