Lögberg-Heimskringla - 20.07.1984, Page 1

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Löqberq
Heimskringla
LÖGBERG Stofnað 14. janúar 1888
HEIMSKRINGLA Stofnað 9. september 1886
98. ÁRGANGLJR WINNIPEG, FÖSTUDAGUR 20. JÚLÍ 1984 NÚMER 27
Gudmundsson refused to be brought to heel:
Dog-loving minister ready for prison
Iceland's judiciary perhaps bit off
more than it could chew when it
sentenced Finance Minister Albert
Gudmundsson for keeping his
13-year-old mongrel, Lucy,'in con-
travention of the Reykjavík city
bylaw which has been leading dog
owners a dog's life in recent years.
Lucy was sent scampering into the
headlines earlier this year — along
with her diehard master — when
charges were filed against Gudmund-
sson, who threatened to emigrate
rather than be separated from his
canine companion. Gudmundsson
has doggedly refused to pay a $230
fine dished out to him by the court
last month, and, moreover, turned
down a proposed settlement allowing
the matter to rest if he paid up, since
the magistrate could not promise that
he would not be charged by someone
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
endurkjörin forseti
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir var endurkjörin mótstöðulaust sem forseti
íslands. Vigdís var sem kunnugt er fyrst kjörin árið 1980 í afar spenn-
andi kosningum og verður þetta því annað kjörtímabil hennar.
Óhætt er að fullyrða að Vigdís er einn af okkar allra glæsilegasti forseti
og hvar sem hún hefur komið innanlands sem utan hefur glæsileiki
hennar og framkoma öll verið þjóðinni til mikils sóma.
else and the whole dog-fight started
over again. As the minister put it: "If
I had paid the fine I wanted a
guarantee that I would have made
my peace with God and men over
this matter."
Apparently the only option left for
the public prosecutor is to pack
Iceland’s finance minister off to
prison for a week. Stoically resigned
to this fate, Gudmundsson is looking
on the bright side, pointing out in
press interviews that it would come
as a welcome rest from the cares of
office. One newspaper even quoted
him as insisting that Lucy be allow-
ed to join him for walks in the
spacious grounds of Ryekjavík's "dog
owners' pound," although whether
this idea will be greeted more
favourably than his owning the dog
in the first place is naturally open to
doubt.
With any luck, however, Iceland's
minister of finance will not have to
go off to gaol. This month, Reyk-
javík's council is expected to approve
measures under which owners can
apply for exemption from the bylaw
— in effect a way of permitting dogs
to be kept without formally lifting the
ban.
Lucy is therefore undoubtedly
keeping her paws crossed that her
unrepentant master will be saved
from "the nick" in the nick of time.
Pearl Palmason to perform at íslendingadagurinn
Pearl Palmason, violinist, will perform at the Icelandic Festival of
Manitoba. She was born in Winnipeg, October 2, 1915, daughter of
Sveinn Palmason and his wife Groá Sveinsdóttir Palmason, both from
Iceland.