Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 20, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Thought police were robbers., Man acquitted Al a 64-year-old Man who drove Iso Nable and probable grounds so Miles an hour on Logan to believe an offence under the Avenue last. May because he Manitoba liquor act had of said lie feared policemen ing him were would be robbers at or. Kissick s trial Jan. Winnipeg free press go the rail Way i la 11ii thursday february 20, 1975 2nd class mail registration number 0286 was acquitted wednesday on a charge of dangerous driving. 2 2. Police detectives testified thut they had received int or judge i. V. Ubienski evening of May ing his decision in that an offence under judges court in the Public the liquor act was about to City tones Down Impact review request by Ron Campbell free press Urban reporter a recommendation from Winnipeg s civic executive policy committee to scrap the in safely building also found the occur they said they saw or i Viron mental Impact review Section of the City of Winnipeg plainclothes policemen w h o chased John Kissick of Dufferin Avenue in an in tin marked car did t have Council Agenda unfinished Winnipeg City Council did t finish its business before approach a red Light on in Avenue and Afler put out his lights thai or. Ca i Kissick drove toward them. They said they turned i hair act Drew environmentalists out in Force to City Council s meet ing wednesday night. On a motion from councillor drove by them alter which j they immediately chased him. When or. Kissick slopped for a Stop sign on Logan ave nue they got to within hailing distance and yelled Al or. Kis sick to Stop court was Lold. The detectives testified they pursued him farther and Hal Al one Point or. Kissick was driving Al so . Or. Kis sick finally slopped near Logan . Adjournment hour wednesday night and will i Whon he saw h Inar cd policy be Back to finish thursday. Sideways and or. Kissick j Calan Chuff Independent 1 citizens election committee lord environment committee chairman and a member of executive policy committee the recommendation was withdrawn. Council passed instead a to j m e n t made the Rusu Luliona a c environmental review j position to repeal of Section us lion which Calls on the prov because it just j Section the act were All provides a convenient a i the crisis is in the Board Lillic. Chairman Ament against those who us commissioners flip flopping j of Winnipeg pollution probe inc and the City to review implications of environmental Impact reviews with a View to Cuse the City of trying to wetland reversing lie suggested thai Iii cd i win 111 Ich Inifi in Tii Liiri i i i i i _ i Vurin establishing in the future More adequate legislative framework for the Protection of environmental reviews i coun. A Okcu said and in policy of Public works projects. In parly constituency Tion. Without environmental i m p a c t studies councillors Don t have enough information on c o u n Joe Zuken labor of the Section. _. Of a proposed dependent citizens election she said. She said the i committee Lor trying to get and j committee and the civic re smodies should be of the Urban election Commilles lord he accused councillors who dropping of repeal Recom-1 chastised the City a once held office in the former mentation from policy com Mil Tec did t Stop 12 Environ mentally concerned citizens from opposing the original proposal however. Coun. Morris Kaufman in fort Rouge claimed the Talanchuk Amend Board of commissioners for last fall proposing guidelines for environmental Impact re views and then in the Resolution wednesday night saying that it is practically impossible for the City to operate metro municipalities of using this Issue to sabotage the act attempting to take on the prov Ince in a Battle they lost when the act passed the legislature in 1971. The under the City of Winnipeg geared delegations who before Council in a done in a form coalition came out i project s conceptual stage thus favor of environmental Impact avoiding undue delay. Reviews in last fall s civic dec Tiou Campaign it would be a fraud on the Public for 1cec or. David punter vice chairman of the Manitoba in dominated Council to Vole for repeal now. Lie offered his organization s help in attempting to improve Section j53. Ruth Pear representing of j the fort Garry new Democrat its Council did t even gel half Way through its 84-Page Agenda. Progress was delayed by four lengthy debates covering Home Rule fiscal Arranger nos with the Manitoba government the future of environmental Impact studies and the pro posed redevelopment of the Ca Nadian National railways downtown properly As Well As several Public delegations. The City s procedure bylaw states that Council must adjourn at . And recon Vene at . The next Day if its business in t finished. However Council frequently sits past by simply suspending the Rule Wilh a two thirds majority vote. But at when councillor june Westbury Independent car court was told. The car was searched but Noj liquor was found. Or. Kissick testified Hal he did t run any red lights lie also said he had been robbed shortly before and prior to Ihal had once been robbed and shot. Judge Ubienski found Hal or. Kissick s fear of robbery based on the previous offences and the fact thai the police Man s car was unmarked created an honest and reason Able belief he was about to be robbed and that on this basis there was no intent on or. Sick s part to commit the of Fence of dangerous driving which requires proof of Crimi Nal intent. In regard to the action of the detectives j u d g e Ubienski found they did t have reason citizens election committee _ Uible and probable cause to be fort Rouge made a motion to i Liec a liquor offence was suspend the Rule it failed to about to occur net the required majority and i because of this judge do the meeting was automatically adjourned. Major item to be discussed thursday night is ratification of the new working agreement with the Winnipeg police association which proposes a 17.5 per cent pay increase for the City s policemen. Bienski said the circumstances did t justify such a dangerous procedure As the Chase they undertook. He also said Hie seriousness of the suspected offence should be taken into account before police embark on a High Speed i Chase. Transmissions set vice adjust meals Over Fabok Portage 786-2437 930 Nairn 667-1595 1311 Mcphillips 586-8049 460 Pembina 453-4124 weather morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces skies arc sunny or the Eastern Prairies but Alberta is being affected by a Pacific disturbance which i s spreading Cloud and some Light Snow. This Cloud area will Cross Saskatchewan today and reach Western Manitoba Early to Morrow. Sunny skies will return to Alberta Kal Chewan tomorrow but another disturbance will bring Clouds to Western re Gions late in the Day. It will continue to be mild across the Prairies. After noon readings today and Friday will generally be in the 30s with a few in the ids expected in Alberta. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today less seen for by Mary Ann Fitzgerald 1 education minister Ben 1 ree press legislative reporter 1 Uschak has promised a Manitoba Las May have amendments to the Public lighter work Load during act dealing with or 1975 session of the concerns such As trans opening March Grants arbitration some government and definitions if a have indicated that revised act in t average of More than pieces of legislation will be some other annually in recent years this year. Be Cut by As much As half liberals will be without the coming Leader in the House. The whether the reduction in party Leader Izzy isolation will shorten the is stepping Down from the usual four or party Leader Friday and months remains to be resign his seat in the legis much depends on the nature feb. 28, when the worse the legislation and the Liberal association meets members of the nominate a candidate for and opposition decide to constituency. Debating All party legislature rules there have been few has also agreed to tons so far of changes in working hours Las. As an Experiment one of the most year. Pieces is Likely to be the Normal 10 . Adjourn Bill needed to apply two e n t will be waived so of the provincial Gas tax to can debate As Long topic premiums. The they want nightly on Mon natives have indicated tuesdays and thursdays will fight this Bill to the the government Termi mines minister Sidney debate. On wednesdays will reintroduce his Mineral fridays adjournment will sources taxation Bill to be at . Drawn by the government h e committee has also ing the last session for to remove the 90-hour on debate of government labor minister . Estimates. Paid Ley is expected to bring third change will Cut the a number of amendments question period to 40 min the labor relations act As previously there was no result of submissions he limit and question Quested from business have extended to an Union or longer. Hospital study by Manfred Jager flier this week free press medical agree with Standard Gui Herman Crewson used by the health director of Manitoba in determining top dry animations inc has salaries. And armed that his group boards feel they arc with the Manitoba health the ability to decide they will pay their top vices commission is no a study to determine he said. Y Levels for the province s Hospital administrators. The study is being under Tat n despite the fact that the o m m i s s i o n has allocated funds for s.9 per cent salary increases to employees in the of seven administrative Posi ions. The Money is to be dist rib Ted As the respective Hospital cards Sec fit. Last year a Aries for Hospital Nistra ors ranged from about o a spokesman for Manitoba health organizations said ear suspects charged four people were remanded i custody wednesday after temperatures following arc High pm per lures recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for the 24 hour period which ended Al 6 . Today Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon Thompson the Pas Winnipeg Thunder Bay Kenora Max. .13 .13 31 .31 27 33 32 33 23 Toronto Montreal 31 Halifax 3j Chicago 32 Miami 61 los a Pelcs 65 Minneapolis 25 new York j9 j9 Phoenix 6-i Honolulu s3 Athens 52 Rome Job Paris. J3 London j6 Berlin 37 Amsterdam Al Brussels j3 Madrid 61 Moscow u Stockholm 3.1 Hong Kong 70 Singapore 86 min. 3i 23 16 12 7 0 9 9 b 13 26 ?5 26 32 22 73 46 6 34 36 39 67 39 j5 30 36 39 to 27 .17 57 pc. .12 forecast i1 n r Winnipeg. Bisect a. Inter Lake and cd River re g i o is sunny today South find Al .15 in 20 Fri Rilent Cloudy c r i o d s tonight. Mostly sunny Friday West wind Al a i . Low Loni Ghl. Near 10 High Friday 30 to the study now to be under taken will include a National Survey of Hospital administrators salaries the spokesman said. The study in t expected to be Complete until Well into Spring. Us results will be used in Hospital negotiations with he health commission regard no 1975 budgets. While the commission sent n i t i a 1 budget proposals to Manitoba hospitals earlier this month the hospitals have the right to Appeal to commission staff or the health commissioners themselves to get a Jitter allocation. Traditionally almost All provincial hospitals use the Appeal process. In determining what salary an administrator will gel the commission generally approves the minimum level in a Given Range As the lop allowable said the asocial cd spokesman cog arrested tuesday in por i for example if the Range Ilac la Prairie in connection is from to the with a shooting incident near commission takes s30.000 As i the vibrations discotheque 22 the maximum it will the official said. Daniel Joseph however Hospital boards .06 to to .05 .03 i Albert Street. The y Are Brouillard 23, Serge want to use the lop of the i 22, and Francois Fournier 20, j Range As Lac maximum and j All of no fixed address who will be. Free to pay the salary were charged with attempted they feel an employee do murder Possession of weapons i serves. To the Public pc Cej the health commission has i and Wilh earlier robberies of a approved 12-pcr-Cenl raises number of stores. I Patli Ann Galbraith 1378 Wardlaw Avenue was learning up to s1g.ooo a year charged with Possession of a j weapon and n connection Wilh a previous r9bbery incident. Supt. Les lies head of Winnipeg police crime division said an argument had taken place inside the discotheque at about . Tuesday be tween the Doorman and three a pot of Crocus blooms held by University of Manitoba student Dominique Vanschijndel provide a foretaste of Spring in the Assiniboine Park conservatory. Spring like weather and sunny skies were expected to continue in most Manitoba regions today with tempera Tures reaching the Snow melting 30s. The weekend Outlook called for continuing above average temperatures and increasing Cloud with a possibility of rain saturday. I Viron Mcneal Council who said an environmental Impact re View can be a preventive re Medy against environmental calamities that can occur through sheer the review can be done for Aboul one per cent of the project s Cost though that was a tentative estimate. Or. Punier said. If in House experts Aren t available to the City for the re View consultants can be hired. Brent Moore representing himself who said that Environ mental Impact reviews have proven beneficial save Money and improve the Quality of life. Donald Epstein of the University of Winnipeg s Institute of Urban studies who said that Section u53 is admired in civic circles around the country and can be one of the m Ore effective enforceable and powerful citizens rights provisions in All Canada. Tom Shay representing the River Osborne association of residents who said his group favored All significant developments whether Public or private coining under environmental Impact review. Such reviews make for sound Ducci Sions save Money show alter natives and modifications and allow citizen participation in planning. Remember councillors you Are the solution to Allan Donlon chairman o the Midland Community com Mittee resident advisory group who suggested that the Provin Cial and Federal governments might share the costs of environmental Impact studies. Or. P. W. Aitchison of the coalition on sensible transport he said that environmental Impact re views arc especially important in Winnipeg because of the Al most total Lack o any other proper planning processes and planning Onno Kremers vice chair Man of the Prairie Environ mental defence league who said that instead of scrapping Section 653, the City should Issue a Green paper on environmental Impact reviews and invite Public participation in formulating an environmental Impact review process. Bernard Brown of the c o m m u n i t y planning association of Canada Manitoba who said Environ mental Impact studies provided an Opportunity for citizen Par photo by Dave Johnson tic ipalion brought out ii forma jury to decide Man s fitness to stand trial by Barry Mullin free press staff writer a 12-Man jury is expected to decide thursday if Gcorge Joseph Peloquin is mentally fillo stand trial in connection Wilh. C p the death of a prison instructor i the jut was dismissed or. Green Iio died in Crown counsel if. C. Coller Nipes s health sciences Centre Man who is being assisted by about two hours Afler he was Robert Pollack made no of allegedly struck on the head j Section to or. Margolis s to Wilh an Iron Carpel or s lion for a file ass hearing. Al Stony Mountain Liary. Or. Justice j. R. Solomon of Manitoba court of Queen s Bench granted a defence pc Niten wednesday morning while or. J Justice Solomon and both the Crown counsel and defence i counsel Deall Wilh related the jury so far has heard 0111" Crown witnesses. Tic Crown plans to Call 30 lion needed in making Deci Sions on project proposals and could employ environmental Impact information from other cities. Or. Barrio Webster a chemist Logist and pesticide scientist said that environmental studies done at the first stages of a project Are the least costly and most effective As opposed to studies done after the project is started. All ecological processes and relationships connected to the project should be considered he said. F. Lloyd Linton executive director of the social plan Ning Council of Winnipeg who said Section g53 s function As a disclosure Law was an important aspect of account ability Between Council and citizens. It is also important to citizen participation in City planning one of the Aims of the City of Winnipeg act he said. Fitness car i Margolis made his Mo-1 j lion Al the afternoon session and the jury was called Back Sel motion for ing. David Margolis who is presenting asked court and inform cd of Lac court to Grant a file ass hearing Ujj for his client after Peloquin re decision. Or. Justice Solomon also re-1 deported trinidadian permitted to return a Young trinidadian. Do porn had risen shortly after court the jury and gave Ihm j cd in december for ind Var re Sumcad wednesday and from permission to return to their Telly violating Canadian non the prisoner s Box declared families for the duration of Lac resident working regulations himself not fit to stand trial. Inc 12 Hall a can returned to Winnipeg wednes or. Margolis made his to Al a downtown hot Lulay night. Or. Llo Sein who was named fresh in King worried he missed. At Pinawa Colic last year in t Aboul Lac classes "1 did t do any this year for non unionized hos 38, of i p j t a 1 administration staffers Tion wednesday afternoon. Peloquin asked or. Justice Solomon in the presence of the murder trial. J since they were chosen Shah Llo Sein. Had been in j studying while 1 was away but Day to act As jurors at on i ing with a married brother in Assize court jury to declare j or. Justice Solomon exp Pinawa. Man., where he was him unfit to stand trial. J planned to jury members thai attending school. I d like to have a Mcclara a Uii lil 1972 jurors Silling on Cap Tion thai i m not fit to stand Jita murder trials were so ques Peloquin Lold the court. 11 e r c cd however with the a student visa. Passed All my exams before i the employees concerned Are report cd unhappy Wilh this in crease. The spokesman for Eccl j m of Fil stand j rewriting of the Federal Law he ally organizations said Lac accused said and making capital murder r now 1 j 1 _ 1 _ 1_ 1 _ i___1__if. 1 12-per-cent raise must be considered As temporary however until the outcome of collect l i v e bargaining with such Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Feb. 18 32 3 last year 21 a Normal to -10 highest on record a in i930 lowest on record -j5 in 1966 precipitation total Lor nov. 1 1o feb. 3.10 Normal 3.40 Milc a. Man who then left. Supt. Groups As registered nurses is i said the Doorman went outside j known. And saw the three men and Ai observers nol connected with girl in a car. A shot was fired i the Hospital association or the j governor Ding that he wanted the lieu Tena it governor to m m i i him. People judged mentally j murder punishable by the judge presiding Over the Case was Given the discretion of sequestering the jury or Al unfit to stand trial can he held lowing them to return Home i in a mental institution at the i after each Day s hearing discretion of the lieutenant-1 i want to give you 111 he was deported dec. K for left. I May be about three weeks behind but 1 should catch up 1 he said. He expects to return to classes Friday or monday at the latest and wants to com plete Grade 10 this year. Or. Hosein sought a work permit in july but was Lold he would need a letter from his employer before it would be granted. He took the House so that he spent the Christmas painting Job and received the failing to have a work permit for a summer Job doing some painting. Because of a misunderstanding he neglected to apply for an employment visa before Starling his Job. The Federal government paid his s300 fare Back to Trinidad at him. 7 i As the people drove supt. Lies said More i were fired one of them i 19, parts of Canada. Snipe season and the Early part of letter but wailed until the end you the of i this year with his four Brothers of the summer before taking it Importunity logo Home to your and two is slurs there. To the Winnipeg immigration or. Justice Solomon Abrill Hoo Wicks he to at Lac Lime of his Devorla j reasons was jus be Canada he said in an in j lion he said he did t know he Ter View about in i d n i g h i j was breaking Lac Law through i Lac delay. Al the time of his until Afler car i hearing he was supported with 258 Stu lawyer he was ill. Commission feel the salary Peloquin. Study May at least partially i former Vancouver newspaper said adding that one of return Shols due to a feb. S column in he r c p o r t e r is charged with reasons was the trial was in in m i strik f r c e press new Leisure j murder punishable by death in coming a protracted affair. Ing a 21-year-old Man in the which dealt with Hospital adj connection Wilh the july 22 during the first two Days of1 wednesday right ear the Man was treat a Niinisto actors pay particularly cd Cash of Stanley Green a car the trial Iacre were three and i stayed eel in the health sciences Winnipeg and suggested it pc nary instructor at the pc i i Journo cols Gran cd because i Nival Ihnn look Lac first. Fli he a petition signed by can i re and released Early j May be out of line Wilh other j Len Liary 14 Miles North of win Peloquin complained to his Back. I enjoyed the Holiday it dents of the Pinawa was quite he said. Who wanted him to stay ;