Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnick Ftfe a toss wont say july 2. 1975 15 former commissioners deny dredging Kickback intention by John wa1d Hamilton up the Crown completed its Case in the Hsi Nilton Harbor dredging trial monday seven weeks and proceedings. Among the last witnesses called by Crown prosecutor Clay Powell were former har the any two top to j. P. Or. Rind Itu such Phon contained a he said. No such event Ever Tor for the department of. A took tonal Revenue testified that he other testimony monday a letter tucked in a came from Harry Atkins a diary during a search of fish admitted to International Marine. He helped Elliott launder or. Rindress earlier Iden Money through a Bank account titled the envelope As one he in fort Lauderdale. Fla. Sent to Elliott containing the or. Atkins latest evidence draft of a fake inv Oice. Elliott dealt with a Florida lawyer. Aler inter men both denied Lum to Teu a concocted Story to of the kick investigators from the . In backs alleged to eternal Revenue service have been Given to their or. Atkins had handled a former colleague. Kenneth Al Bank account in the name of the envy Liott. I International Marine identified Elliott and local earlier testimony As a Reginald Fisher Are charged Lious company set up by Elliott with 10 counts of conspiracy to hide kickbacks from j p. He in cited fraud and uttering forged Docu Porter co. Ltd. Of Montreal. Dal and Bank a counts i ments in connection with Al or. Atkins described How he 0 air hit key and or. Lanza legend Shady deals on cheques totalling nothing to link them projects in More than in the a to payoffs or kickbacks. I count in the Spring and Early unsaid a similar search of j summer of 1972. He said he the accounts of former Ontario former dredging company withdrew sums of Cash solicitor general George Kerr ecu Tive told the court earlier giving the Money to Al also turned up nothing to link Elliott Liott. Him to any wrongdoing. J when began to the Crown called 42 wit i payoff which Elliott told him look into the transactions. Or. Nesses during its presentation i avas to be divided among the Atkins said he became the trial continues. Three commissioners. Or. Hickey and or. Lanza he said he did not want it to both denied receiving any Ben i look As though he kept the fits from their position As Cash. Commissioners. J the witness said Elliott pro the three men were appoint j video him with a Florida cd in 1964. Elliott resigned yer. Richard Alferi. Early in 1973. And the other or. Atkins said Elliott told two retired from the commis him the lawyer had been paid Sion in december. 1973. 1 to destroy Bank records or. Hickey said he had no dealing with International Marine. The witness also said or. Al and construction the Harbor in 1970-72. Horace Joe Rindress he gave a Kickback to on a dredging project a knowledge of any kickbacks paid on dredging or construe Tion projects saying that if he had known he would have notified the authorities. He said he and or. Lanza went to Federal solicitor general Warren Allmand in 1973 to urge that he Speed up in ramp investigation into allegations about the commis Sion. Or. Hickey said of Elliott or. Elliott was Irre Spon Sibley he exaggerated he was oni e time s rude but not i never thought he was dishonest but i did not think qualified to act As a Hap or t Lanza testified he Hickey objected to appointment from Boston s Fione a claim Feri showed him a newspaper clipping dealing with the murder of a Man named Sonny Henderson. Or. Atlkins said the lawyer suggested he Tell the tax investigators he had Given the Money to the dead Man. The problem was to get the Money from International Marine out of my hands or. Atkins said. He said he told the lawyer n by Paul Whitelaw free press staff correspondent Washington the american Telephone and Telegraph company has decided to go ahead with the printing of some 130 million directories with a cover claiming the phone was invented in Boston in 187g. The . Company has re i i b 11 i v Imp v he wanted no part of the Story Ted t by the Cana. 4viot to that j _ and that he maintained that stance during a later meeting Between or. Alferi Elliott and Dian embassy Here that the commemorative cover be changed to take account of Ca commission w i la investigators. I a Narla s plaice Roll Ienn the witness said Elliott then Canada s claims. Bell is on and Al the beginning. Elliott was the municipal representative on the three Man the other two. Appointed by the Federal Cabinet. Earlier testimony from or. Rindress and tape recordings of conversations Between or. Rindress and Elliott former Harbor comm Bjone or insisting that several Hundred thousand Dol Lars was divided with or. Hic key and or. Lanza. At one Point or. Rindress testified Elliott told him that the other two commissioners had each taken 45 per cent of in Buffalo . Or. Atkins said at that Point Elliott offered to take the full responsibility. The Svi Ness said he threat ened to Tell the whole Story to Graham Bell invented the phone in Brantford. Ont., two years earlier. It s really quite said a t and t vice president j v Ryan in dismissing told him for gods Sake Don t do that they la find me up Here in a ditch with a Hole in my the witness said he and Elliott eventually swore out of Florida alleging that All the Money from the International Marine gone Back to or. The j. P. Porter firm. Or. Atkins and Elliott eventually paid or. Alferi a total of the Money. The Crown asked the record As Cei Ved of the phone in the de vice was actually built in bos ton and the first conversation place the Job in March 1876." Ter viewed at York of fice said a no reason Why it should Filer the cover which commemorates both the Bicentennial of the american revolution and 100th birthday of the telephoned the several other witnesses were cover was produced by a t or. Lanza if he had any idea Why Elliott would make such a statement. I have not i can t fathom 1 can t understand or. Lanza replied. Or Lanza admitted that his relationship with Elliott was poor at times but said he did not think there was great animosity on the commission. He denied a suggestion made earlier that he met Elliott in a car in 1972 to collect a share of the Kickback Money. That is absolutely called monday. An ramp sergeant testified that while in Switzerland in 1973 on an unrelated investigation he searched business registers in Zurich without finding any mention of International Marine. The company allegedly was based in Zurich. Sgt. George Wool said he searched in vain for any men Tion of such a company in Busi Ness and Commerce registers and in the City Telephone directory. Donald Banks an i Vestiga and t and made available to local phone companies through out the United states. The cover depicts various american figures ranging from Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain an astronaut and Alex i Ander Graham Ibell speak ing on the phone. The inside Back cover drawings and another Kohoutek on the Way identifies these various by Warren e. Leary Cambridge mass. A astronomers say people awaiting the return Hal Ley s Comet in 1986 should t expect a celestial extravaganza. It might be another Ohnutek. Two Comet experts say the interplay of several factors probably will Dull the greatly anticipated return of the world s most popular Comet last seen in 1910. This could mean Halley will be no More spectacular than last year s disappointing Comet Kohoutek. The latest Orbital calculations indicate Halley s Comet will pass almost three times farther away rpm the Earth than on its previous visit the astronomers say. To complicate things even further the Comet s greatest brightness and longest Tail will occur below the plane of the Equator making seeing it from the Northern Hemi sphere More difficult and less exciting they say. We merely remark that if you were disappointed by Comet Kohoutek in Early 1974, Don t have High Hopes for a Fine display of Comet the astronomers write in the june Issue of sky and Telescope the astronomy journal. Or. Brian g. Of t h c Harvard smithsonian Centre for astrophysics Here and or. Robert g. Roosen of the joint Observatory for cometary research in Mexico say another reason the Long awaited event might be diminished is increased Light pollution. The authors cited a univer sity of California study thai showed total outdoor Illume 10 times nation increase from 1960 to 1970. If that growth rate holds until 1986, some cities by then will be bathed in permanent the astronomers said with Only the brightest stars and planets visible near City Roosen said in an interview that Many people who saw Halley s Comet in 1910 were disappointed saying it was t As spectacular As advanced publicity built it up to be. The reason we did the article is that people Are Al ready calling observatories to get information on Halley s Roosen said. Once we found out it probably won t be much greater than Kohoutek. We decided to write the piece. One purpose of the article is to caution people that they should t spend the next 10 years wailing for a magnificent celestial sight Roosen said. While astronomers will have a Field Day with Hallcy s o in e t. Particularly where Best visible in the Southern hemisphere the general pub lie might have to wait for an other visit for a Good View. I the Comet returns every 76.1 years. However Roosen did hold out some Hope for Comet watchers. It is almost certain that there will be a far More spec Lacuer Comet than either Kohoutek or Halley Between now and he said. It has t been discovered yet. But just following the Odds Means there is a Good Halley s Comet is named for Edmund Halley. A British astronomer who charted the Comet in the 17th Century models they using. Bell is identified As a teacher of the deaf scientist inventor humanitarian embassy Here became an noyed because the notation also states that Bell changed the Way the world communicated with his invention of the Telephone in Boston on March 10, 1876." Keith de Bellefeuille Percy a first Secretary at the up Bassy wrote a t and t la list month pointing out that Bell said on a number of occasions that he invented the phone while visiting his father in Brantford. The embassy backs units Case with a document in Bell s own hand writing. Or. Ryan said in an inter View that the dispute with can Ada is one of if you went to Canada with your wife this summer and a child was born nine months later in the United states 1 would you say the birth took place in Canada or the asked the a. T and t executive rhetorically. J Tjie phone was built and used successfully for the first time in the United states. Even if the idea developed in i the Canadian embassy be-1 came aware of the con j Trover Sial cover when new Tele j phone directories were j distributed i n Washington j last month. 2 governments to share Cost of flow Survey Canada and Manitoba have signed a shared Cost agree j ment to Monitor Stream flows i and water Levels. 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