Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press Friday december 1, 1978 Lougheed promises never to use airline again by the Canadian press Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said thursday he never tried to hide the fact that he accepted free air line tickets for personal vacations but promised never to do it again. He told a press Confer ence in Calgary his Home town that when he accepted the free rides from up air and air Canada he did not know he was the Only Premier who did. Lougheed said he had been led to believe by a former executive assistant that both airlines had a National policy to provide such trips to the premiers and their families once a year. I thought it was a National policy and that it was available to All the pre Miers of Canada and i was operating on that presume Lougheed said. Now that he knows bet manuals Remington electrics rent to own plan 00 s9koo manuals electrics office equipment co. Ltd. 639 Portage it Sherbrook 786-6611 Ter i be no intention whatsoever of using these passes in the Lougheed said he accepted six flights since becom ing Premier in 1971, four from up air and two from air Canada. The air Canada flights were to Barba Dos while three up air flights were to Hawaii including one Lougheed took with his wife nov. 3-15. The fourth up air flight was to los Angeles. The Premier emphasized that he never tried to cover up his accepting the tick ets. I never have been hid ing it. Nobody Ever asked me. When i was asked on monday i told the reporter what was fully Lougheed first publicly admitted accepting the tickets monday in Ottawa where he was attending the first ministers conference on the Economy. Harold Millican Lough eed s former executive assistant and now adminis Trator of the Northern pipeline Agency said he had been led to believe by airline officials that the tickets were being made available to All premiers. Up air officials were not Lougheed thought other premiers did it too available for comment. Intention to reimburse air at his press conference Lougheed said he has no Canada or up air for the flights he took. Referring to comments by Federal taxation officials that they were investigating the situation Lougheed said he had been informed that the tickets were not taxable items. But Lougheed said if he was wrong he would pay the tax. While Lougheed still maintained there was Noth ing wrong with his accept ing the tickets said there was no conflict of interest As both airlines Are federally regulated a Survey by the Canadian press showed that eight of the nine other provinces enforce formal or informal rules against acceptance of no comment was Avail Able from the office of new Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield As of thurs Day night. We Don t accept any said a spokes Man in the office of pre Mier Bennett Campec ii of Prince Edward Island. Similar answers were Given by the governments of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. In Quebec the governing parti quebecois has guide lines among the toughest in Canada. No minister National Assembly member or members of a minister s staff exercising political functions May accept gifts of a value greater than Ontario Premier William Davis has established guidelines instructing Cabi net members not to accept anything other than Token gifts. When Davis mixes personal and official Busi Ness he pays a portion of the flight Cost. Manitoba Premier Ster Ling Lyon has never accepted free airline trips nor has he been offered any a spokesman said. An aide to Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney said the Premier does not accept free rides although there is no written policy. Premier Bill Bennett of British Columbia has de Creed that no one in his office shall accept free air line trips. Stores open . Bradford 20" color mandarin 9 la. Box and Load Reg. 6.99 25 lights per string. 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Blais said a group of officials will report next Spring on these recommendations but he does t see How they can be implemented. We have a Basic philosophical he told Mark Macguigan chair Man of the commons Justice committee and the Man who produced the unanimous All party Reform report. Blais had Given the Justice committee a Progress report on implementation of the 65 proposed reforms saying that 22 have been fully implemented 10 Are about to be and the six Central proposals Are still before a committee of officials. Macguigan replied that the report is disappointing although some Progress has been made. Our patience is wearing a bit he told Blais. Other maps applauded and liberals Claude Andre la Chance Montreal Lafontaine Rosemont and Art Lee Vancouver East and conservative Erik Nielsen All subcommittee members later echoed Macguigan s sentiments. Nielsen said the heart and Core of the report divorce of the prison system from the civil service has been overlooked. Meanwhile other proposals have Only been nipped at. Blais attributed a reduction in prison violence to a no deals policy on hostage takings. Macguigan said the system really has t adopted a no deals policy of the Type recommended by the subcommittee. And Nielsen added that violence May have subsided simply because prisoners hoped the reforms would be implemented. Prisoner frustrations might be expressed violently if Reform was not forthcoming. Even the recommendations that had supposedly been implemented weren t always working the maps said. A proposal that women be hired As prison guards had been adopted. But Only six women had been hired and they were working at a regional prison psychiatric Centre recently opened in Saskatoon. Yeomans re plied that the prison system As a result of budget Cut in t hiring anyone now but when it does women guards will be hired. Nielsen said the system had reversed the intent of a recommendation that All prison staff have responsibility for both Security and programs. The maps wanted guards to become More conscious of pro Grams. Instead the system was emphasizing Security to programs staff. Bruce Halliday a physician who toured prisons with the subcommittee was Happy to see the system finally has imposed controls on tranquillisers and other drugs Given prisoners. When the maps toured in 1977, they found prisons in which Many inmates seemed to be doped. However they were unable to get an account of drug prescriptions because the system did t keep records. Ways to pay by Alan Kent since prisons Are already Over crowded in t there much to be said for handing out other forms of punishment for Law Breakers and other offenders Here is How some offenders paid without going to prison shoplifters when four boys in the United slates were found guilty of shoplifting in 1962, the judge sentenced them to serve a 30-Day sentence wearing girls dresses. Drinking in i93s in Woburn mass., the mayor ordered a differ ent kind of punishment for women who became intoxicated. He said this Tiger Cage has been borrowed from a zoo in the District. At nights it will be lighted up and driven through the City s chief streets so that All can see the bad people. No Drunken men or women will be permitted in prison. All will go into the yes women who seemingly were the main offenders were locked in an illuminated Tiger Cage which was then drawn through the streets for onlookers to see to mock and to Hiss at then there were the three teen agers found guilty of under age drinking at Whiting ind. Two policemen and a Bailiff carried out the first part of the City judge s sen tence 15 whacks for each boy. Later they had close crop haircuts. Then they had to spend each Satur Day until further notice cleaning up the Beach where they had been caught drinking Beer and Apricot Brandy. Illegal strikers How sen sible too was the penalty handed Down by a labor court in Oslo in 1960. Eighty nine dockers had re fused to finish the loading of two ships on overtime according to con tract. The owners sustained a loss of about so the court ordered the dockers to pay compensation each for 53 dockers each for the other 36 dockers plus Legal costs amounting to total compensation therefore was about 480. Unruly schoolboys in Marietta ga., a principal compelled unruly schoolboys to carry a doll in class As a punishment a dressed Blue eyed doll. The head master said he found it More effective than spanking. In 1938, 33-year-old Loren Owen of new York came Home one night in a bad temper. He called his wife rude names knocked her Down and smashed his children s toys. His wife had him arrested. In court judge o Dwyer said after hearing about his chronic ill temper and failure to support his Home when you leave this court keep going until you put Miles Between yourself and your so off went Loren Owen on his Long hike. At 200-mile intervals he had to Send the judge a postcard to prove he was still on the move. Vandalism when two boys were found guilty of vandalism at Lima. . In a Justice of the peace made them spend a whole Day sitting on straight Back chairs 50 feet apart in a cemetery Star ing at tombstones. They weren t allowed to speak and their pocket Money was Cut off for a month. Their crime uprooting Tomb stones. Thoughtlessness in 193s, at Celle near Berlin country peo ple thoughtlessly took a Short Cut to Market by driving their carts across a Rye Field. In of they destroyed pan of the crop. Punish ment ordered by the had ;