Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 13, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Irish fugitive deported 9 What are they wearing in Bannatyne leads amateur qualifiers 21 10229 9 42171 11 16632 11 49404 seriat 7 72017 series 19 s witnesses take to city streets 57 Bar Chamber rap family law plans 12 Winnipeg Free Press Sets p.m Rises p.m Sets VOL THURSDAY JULY IS CENTS WITH COLORED COMICS For FINAL EDITION Englishman snookered in bedroom billiards LONDON AP The grunting noise coming from he bedroom was an expression of surprise after ing a difficult shot of snooker a man being sued for divorce told a London court Wednesday But countered the judge wouldn't it have been cult to play a skilled game like snooker in a darkened bedroom at With that Judge Aubrey Myerson granted the di- vorce petition of Mrs Iris Charlton 53 on the grounds of her husband Arthur's adultery Charlton said when his wife left him he moved his snooker table into the bedroom and occasionally he and a woman friend went upstairs for a game Paratroop leader ousted for slamming COL ousted OTTAWA CP Col Jacques commander of the crack Canadian Airborne Regiment was removed from his post Wednesday for publicly criticizing Defence ister Barney Danson The the year-old was announced by Admiral Robert Falls chief of defence staff following a two-hour meeting with the commander at de- fence headquarters A replacement is to be named shortly The disciplinary move follows a series of published reports during the last seven days concerning ble disbandment of the elite para- troop regiment which drew com- ments of stupid from the ken commander who also suggested Danson should resign if the reports were true who has led the member regiment based at tawawa Ont for a year was called on the carpet to explain his rer marks Admiral Falls then issued this brief statement late I have discussed with Col chaud today the public statements attributed to him and I have re- viewed the events of the past few days As a result I have decided to relieve Col of his pointment as commander of the borne regiment and to assign him to other duties Some of the statements ed to Col have been a reconstruction of his remarks Nevertheless no cer in the armed forces regardless of circumstances can place himself in a position where his public ments could be interpreted as cism of civilian authorities a career soldier who was extremely popular with his ment returned to the base and called his officers together to tell them the news of his dismissal The base was sealed off to ers for 24 hours on the orders of deputy commander Col M P See PARATROOP page i City found ne in drowning death of boy By BRIAN COLE The City of Winnipeg was negligent in the death of a boy who drowned in Boniface swimming pool Provincial Judge William Marantz ruled Wednesday In delivering his report after presiding over an in- quest into the death of Kevin Proulx Judge Marantz called the Provencher Park pool a trap designed to at- tract children The boy formerly of 501 Body in trunk three charged A routine highway spot check by Ontario Provincial Police in Kenora has led to murder charges against three people one of them a juvenile after the body of a man was found in a trunk in the attic of his Winnipeg home Tuesday Police said they found the body of Joseph George mond in his at Nassau Street at about ti Tuesday following a tip from the OPP Charged with murder are Frederick seph Bleich 22 of no fixed address and Betty-Ann Marie Wynne M of Cambridge Ont They were remanded in when they appeared in provincial Tuesday A has been turned over to juvenile authorities A Winnipeg police spokesman said Bleich escaped from jail on May 29 He had been serving a one-year term for break enter and theft The OPP stopped a rented vehicle with Manitoba cence plates July II after spotting a faulty tail light A Winnipeg police spokesman said the Ontario police became after they found a large quantify of silverware in the vehicle and a subsequent investigation led Winnipeg police to the Nassau Street home Winnipeg police travelled to Kenora where three were taken into custody In interviews today Redmond's neighbors described him a quiet man who kept lo himself since his wife died about 10 or 12 years ago One neighbor said she rarely spoke in Redmond and laM him late last week The neighbors said Redmond was often seen walking his small black dog They said they wondered whai has happened to the dog since Redmond's death term 8 years MOSCOW Renter A Soviet court today sentenced dissident Alexander burg to eight years in a labor camp after finding him guilty of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda his defence lawyer said Speaking very quietly and slowly for an hour and 40 minutes and looking ill Ginzburg admitted he had written documents about abases of human rights in the Soviet Union his year-old mother Lndmila said outside the courtroom in Kaluga M kilometres south Langovin Street St face was found dead at the bottom of the pool about p.m May 21 Pearl McGonigal man of the civic parks and recreation committee said today the mailer would be referred to the city's legal department fora full report Earlier on May 27 Kevin and his cousin Chris Proulx li climbed what termed an foot wire mesh fence rounding the pool The pool has a shallow end of three feel thai slopes al a angle lo about 10 feel Water is kept in the pool u year to prevent its walls from heaving The old city of St Boniface decided in to buy the a conventional pool I'ron which water is drained ing the months it isn't used because il was a better age economically al the lime Douglas Beaulieu parks and recreation er for St Vital testified Wednesday On the day of the incident the shallow end was dry while the deep end of the sloping pool contained about seven feet of water Chris earlier testified that he and his cousin scaled the fence and walked into the shallow end of the pool be- fore heading toward the deep by Cairns Budding artist Hilary Ayliffe Winnipeg Art Gallery s program a challenge as she labors over a painting Hilary is in a class for children five to 11 years old and is one of 127 students including 11 elderly citizens taking the course The program began last week and runs through July 27 Freeze ignored by Hydro Toronto 34 Hamilton 22 ill side where they attempted to catch minnows Suddenly Kevin slipped into the water He struggled and Chris attempted to pull him out with a stick but slopped when he himself most fell in the inquest was LOOKING FOR A TRAVEL This want ad Campers awl W ft I condition sleeps 4 Ph is among the hundreds of I bargains in today's sifted section See page 4 By MIKE WARD A letter obtained by the Winnipeg Free Press reveals that Manitoba Hydro was prepared to ignore a cial government freeze on development and pay farmers more than three times Ihc value of their land Had the offer four months ago been accepted it would have cost he public utility extra to acquire right-of-way property for its high-powered transmission line to neapolis Hydro agreed to pay an acre for farmland but if property owners re- told He then went back lo formal written approval Kevin's home where he told ing lot development from his mother Judge Marantz said the city was negligent in leaving seven feet of water in the pool year-round without quate safety provisions He said the water in the pool was deceptively shallow and the pool's design made it easy to slip into the deep end The judge recommended that pools be enclosed by an fence covered with a smooth unbroken opaque material to prevent children from climbing it In addition Judge Marantz said warning signs should be posted in area of public their local council the public utility would pay an acre The offer involving about 20 field landowners holding a total of 800 acres needed by Hydro was later confirmed in writing by the public ly's property manager J A Partaker The cost lo Hydro would have jumped from to The cost of good farmland in ba according to the Winnipeg Real Estate Board is between and and acre Much of the Hydro farmland needed in Springfield is recognized as poor farmland Hydro expects lo pay landowners a total of million to obtain right of way for the line The price works to about an acre almost twice the market value for good farmland Reeve John Nicol of he Rural of Springfield described the Hydro offer as irresponsible and said the municipal council wanted mi part of it I don't believe Hydro played fair with us or them landowners because if they didn't know they should See EARLY page I jobless figure predicted By VICTOR MACKIE Staff OTTAWA A grim warning that un- employment in Canada will continue to rise throughout the remainder of 1978 and into 1979 was sounded Thursday by the Conference Board in Canada in its latest quarterly report The board said it expects ment will reach an average of 9.1 per cent in that period or well over lion persons in Canada out of work Unemployment according to federal government statistics and ing the past three months has been at the high of 8.6 per cent or close to a million jobless Over-all economic activity as measured by real gross national product is forecast in the latest report as increasing by 4.1 per cent in 1979 This represents an improvement over the growth achieved in 1977 But it will still leave the economy operating well below its potential and because of this un- employment will rise It will also Jead to increases in food and energy prices said the board The effects of the depreciation of the Canadian dollar will prevent consumer prices from moderating until 1979 The board forecast the cost of living in Canada will increase by per cent this year and per cent in 1979 Dr Lawrence Murphy dent and chief economist of the board The performance of the omy in the first quarter of this year revealed a number of problem areas which will continue to inhibit the pace of recovery throughout 1978 and 1979 City flood action sought By STEVE PONA About 50 residents of northwest Winnipeg turned out at a public meeting of civic works and operations committee Wednesday to de- mand city council take im- mediate action to relieve basement flooding in their area They told of being flooded four five or more times in the last three years losing carpets appliances and clothing some with sewage water six feel and rising 24 hours after a heavy rainfall William Wittenberg of I Lansdowne Avenue who estimated his losses since at suggested the city install sewer back-up devices and in every basement and at its own expense They're saying Ml you don't want the water install these things Why should we be penalized because an error was made somewhere and development was lowed to precede proper vicing he asked Certainly if these things an- happening two or three times a year certainly thing has to be done It's not our problem Our concern is what the city will do for us to stop basement flooding Our worry is to spend money on something which we never figured on Works and operations de- personnel replied hey arc studying proposals to beef up the capacity of the Jefferson district storm sewer Ihc largest in the city and may decide by Sept 1 to include Ihc Sisler portion of it in remedial work slated for next year If not they said the district would have to wait until its million share of the million six year storm sewer program proved by council last mer conies up for tion in 1982 Even if work was to begin immediately no relief could be provided in 1978 and only a little by 1979 they pointed out The onus would still be on homeowners to protect themselves since the would only be able to protection for a storm of one in five year intensity Accident victim receives record settlement of matter Provincial government believe a settlement hi a rural auto accident case is the m ba for a personal injury claim in favor of Gordon Wayne Cardinal was entered late last week m Manitoba Bench after Mr Justice Israel approved f among for Cardinal now and living at 21 Clayton Drive Swite 222 St Vital was severely hi a Feb 2 1975 auto accident winch also kitted two girts and seriously injured two other men The accident left Cardinal then 36 brain-damaged to the extent he largely to a hats memory accident occurred about fc 31 p.m Feb 2 1975 at the of Provincial Road and a municipal rive mifes west of McCreary Man Cardinal was a van east m XI when a car the Aw hands of the public trustee for Manitoba A statement of claim the public trustee riled Cardinal's named Best and ing and Heating Brandon Ltd of which Beit la director as WC KM negligent several MM a affidavit claimed a total of in general and special damages The Manitoba insurance corporation to Cardinal the balance of personal remaining the claims others in the accident were had had to pay the s were into further came from the de- fendants personally Manitoba health services com mission waived its entire claim with respect expenses Cardinal receive the the remaining 786.35 going to the tor legal 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