Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Saf december 1978 police chief recommends Mcarthur continued towing cars and Light trucks at the current plus a storage the other firms All wanted to charge illegal parkers plus Stor the new maximum allowed under the 1979 contract specific he Stewart makes no comment on the proposed fee bids for stowaways involving City councils ban on vehicle entry will Force towers to use dollies on and the new contract allows the successful contractor to charge a higher fee of for this three firms under bid Mcarthur on this Al Hiway and als towing All said they would charge motorists Only for the extra while Mcarthur and Camino enter Prises stuck with the As Stewart makes no men Tion of a second lower charge quoted by als unlike the other als said it would charge Ronly instead of for vehicles Are retrieved by owners be fore they Are towed in recommending Stewart also said the firm has 49 Tow trucks and 56 employees at its disposal and arrives promptly to remove ticketed the contract also said the City would give preference to compan ies with compounds in various areas of the City and Mcarthur meets this the chief unlike the other bid the firm has three compounds by which Are All fairly centrally to he although one of the three a Mcarthur Higgins Avenue com needs More gravel and levelling and another lot at 176 Suth Harland Avenue is not zoned for Stewart said the other lots two More at Higgins and one at Otter and Seel Are paved and the police chief dismissed the spate of Public complaints against some of Mcarthur say ing most of these were in regard to towing from private property and not police in Stewart United Mcarthur nearest com has Only 22 34 employees and one the company said it could acquire six to 12 More trucks and another five compounds if which holds the aut Opac towing has recorded an average Accident response time of 20 according to a police this is too slow for the rus hour he despite stewarts recommend spokesmen for both United and als towing said they would protest the United owner Garry Leach said the police chiefs Choice was a poor one in Light of the problems with Mcarthur in the past and predicted that Public complaints would continue if finance commit tee gives its Leach also said the lower Dolly fees quoted by his company and two others Are More important than Mcarthur under bidding of the Basic fee because with the prohibition on this will come into play most Alan Knapp of als called stewarts recommendation Amaz ing and Mcarthur has done a terrible or Job in the last he Knapp also claimed his company was the lowest bidder because of the smaller fees its quoted for Dolly removal and incomplete the second he was designed to soften the Pill for awarded in c contract continued tract was As in the the Tow owner said his own com pants three year bid was than that quoted by but he claimed the Agency for some reason changed its mind after the bids were in and opted for a single year they told me that it just want worthwhile for them to change Over to another company to save on the oneyear he they said the difference want great Maliken charged that the aut Opac Board switched to a Shorter con because there was no Way they could go to the provincial Cabinet and recommend United for a three year Deal at More than we had the towing operator also claimed aut Opac had tailored the con tract to match United operation and facilities even though a lot of their equipment is totally useless to the Agency Maliken said his own company now has 21 trucks than United offered to double the size of its Fleet to service the As the Agency is protected by a perform Bond which the successful s bidder had to he the Only solution i can see is for government to get rid of Dut the Board of directors and Maliken if that Doest i wont even bother tendering on the con next Stewart said a recent study by his departments research and unit showed United took an average 20 minutes to respond Accident Calls under the aut Opac r Alan owner of als Tow ing service the third Friday backed up Salikes saying they were absolutely i cant fight City so to speak but i had a lot of questions about the contract that i could never get Knapp Knapp said Auto acs decision warrants a Damn thorough investigation and questioned United ability to Post the performance aut Opac administrator Laufer said the agreement with United had been working out very Well and that no police complaints about service were received until Laufer said the Agency and police Are now trying to sort out the recent complaint to determine whether its serious or just an isolated United towing owner Garry Leach Only that the the con tract award was made at the discretion of the aut Opac Board of he said Maliken should go the Board if he has any com Leach also denied that Salikes bid on the three year contract option was lower than his own tender of he said Salikes official bid was for More asked about this discrepancy in a later Maliken confirmed these were the base tenders but said there was an escalator clause in United offer based on an inflationary scale called the Gross National expenditure Maliken said this clause would have boosted United bid to at least or million Over the three up editorial director up Edwin Ted Bolwell has been named editorial director of up publications George up president said has Canadian experience As a staff member of the Globe mail and As managing editor of the in the United he was a editor for time Magazine and most recently was editor of new York up publications owns nine newspapers in Canada with a total daily circulation of More than one Bol Wells Job will be to advise and assist up publishers in the develop ment and maintenance of editorial the up newspapers Are Montreal Ottawa the Globe and Winnipeg free Calgary Lethbridge Van Couver Victoria times and Vic Toria our newspapers will continue to have their own distinctive established by their respective pub Lishers and Currie each state has right of Choice Ceausescu t the los Angeles times Romania presi Dent Nicolae Ceausescu Friday reasserted Romanias right to Independence in yet another attack on his soviet led Warsaw pact this time in the major address before cheering government the 60yearold Maverick communist Leader broke no new ground in his despite assurances that he would disclose More the a Tignall televised address marked the 60th anniversary of the unification of the romanian Ceausescu reiterated his opposition to proposals at the recent Warsaw pact Summit meeting in Moscow to boost military spending for the blocs armed and he again rejected a soviet proposal for Centra presumably under soviet control the command Structure of the pacts armed which unlike the North Atlantic treaty remain under individual National the significance of the 3v6hour speech was the setting and the Man Ner of its Ceausescu that he has no intention of easing up on his we Klong Campaign to dramatize publicly Roma Nias differences with the other six members of the since returning from Ceausescu has held a series of Small scale meetings with various National groups to explain his stand at the today but Friday was the first time he aired those differences in a highly Public and formal thee according to observers was to institutionalize Romanias opposition to any attempt at domination by the soviet Union or other Warsaw pact egyptian pm discuss deadlock resumption of talks urged from Are utter Washington up the United states and Egypt on Friday called for a Quick resumption of Middle East negotiations to fulfil the Camp Summit meetings Promise of peace in the troubled but after president Carter met for about three hours with egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil there is no immediate word whether a basis for completing the pact has been state Secretary Cyrus Vance told reporters Carter had expressed the Strong View to Khalil that further Essen Vance said Egypt con Khalil carried a letter from egyptian president Anwar responding to Compromise proposals for resolving a nagging dispute Over the palestinians that has caused the once promising negotiations to turn a who asked that he not be said Egypt accepts the concept of setting the end of 1979 As a target Date for moving toward palestinian autonomy on the Israel occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza but the egyptians Are understood to be holding to a demand that there be additional links in the peace treaty with Israel to the palestinian autonomy Israel has rejected any specific insisting that the Issue of palestinian autonomy be dealt with in separate negotiations after the treaty with Egypt is wrapped the israeli Cabinet also has rejected the idea of a target Date but said it is willing to have the commitment to negotiations Over the palestinians reaffirmed in the preamble to the treaty with Khalil said another Sadat Mes sent to israeli prime minister Menachem carries very constructive ideas and is opening the Way for resumption of Neotia he did not give details of the Al the sem official egyptian newspaper said the message Khalil carried to Carter included these elements the importance of linking the treaty to constitutional Steps Neces sary for a palestinian the palestinian problem must be recognized As the Core of the Middle East there must be Goodwill for implementing the Sinai and Palestin Ian accords worked out at Camp Summit by spat and in Tel the stat controlled Israel radio said begin had told an unidentified political delegation that Israel is prepared to resume the deadlocked talks in he said that when peace talks Are resumed they would last for several begin also was reported As saying that he was drafting a reply to a personal message from Sadat Deli Vered thursday by Carters emis senator Robert egyptian news Media said earlier Sadat message to begin Laid Down the essential basis on which the peace talks might be food up in year Aib Ottawa up higher lettuce and imported fruit prices pushed ant inflation boards food Price Index up by seven tenths of a per cent in the four weeks ending the Federal Agency said the brought the Rise in food prices Over the last As measured by the boards to per latest statistics Canada figures showed that food prices Rose by per cent in up per cent from a year 1 the ant inflation Board said in a statement that Turkey prices Rose in the four month period by per leading to a two percent increase in Overall poultry turkeys now Cost per cent More than a year the Board said the higher prices were partly the result of increased demand arising from substitution by Consumers of Turkey for beef and partly due to lower supplies arising from import restrictions and Supply management Turkey stocks at 1 were at the lowest level for the month for More than a most of the increases in Turkey prices had occurred at the processor and distributor the Board beef which had been a major Factor in higher food prices earlier this have remained relatively stable Over the last four the Board but beef was percent higher in Price than a year lettuce prices jumped by 14 per cent during the four week period and potatoes Rose by per cent to More than offset declines in prices of other the Board said lettuce prices Are Likely to be changeable Over the win Ter when Consumers Are dependent upon foreign higher Orange and banana prices gave Rise to a increase in fresh fruit prices during the four offsetting lower Apple Raisin prices jumped by per cent above october the fresh fruit Index was per cent higher than a year police and firefighters View the shattered remains of a Street in after a huge Ira car bomb exploded thursday night Ira plans to bomb Mainland stores Belfast Reuter the outlawed Irish Republican army Ira is planning to attack stores on the British Mainland with bombs in the Busy pre Christmas Ira sources this would be an Extension of the economic War being waged against British Rule in Northern Ireland by the provisional Wing of the the sources in the first two weeks of what the Ira Calls its Winter offensive in Northern bombs have Des troyed 300 stores in 15 a source with the provisional Wing said Friday our economic War is costing millions of which will hit the British government where it hurts in the a key Factor would be the iras anxiety to prove that it is still a Force to be reckoned despite the big drop in violence in Northern ire land in the last two a British general election is expected in the Spring and the Ira might be anxious to ensure that their fight for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland is an in a statement issued in the provisional Wing insisted we Are committed and geared to a Lon term Between thursday night and Early Ira members had set off 19 explosives in 11 towns and villages in Northern Ireland in what was interpreted As a stepped up Campaign against foreign investment in the four persons were slightly injured by the police Albertas demands on refugees rejected Ottawa up immigration minister Bud Cullen has a stiff a worded Telegram to Refus ing to meet conditions the province has set in Exchange for accepting 50 of the Hai Hong vietnamese refugees coming to in an Exchange of telegrams re leased Cullen says he is sur prised and disappointed at Alber tas position in a situation that warrants compassionate while your offer to accept Refu gees is most i would have hoped that in these cases Alberta would have been prepared to offer More Concrete assistance rather than in effect offering less assistance than the Normal Cullen in a Telegram to Alberta manpower minister Bert Hohol said the province would take 50 refugees if the Federal government will guarantee payment of their health English language school occupational adjustment training and ont Ejob training for up to three Cullen said the demands go beyond the Federal governments usual contribution toward immigrant Settle ment and we see no need to create special conditions in this Case for other provinces have made unconditional Cullen said As in routine immigrant the Federal government would assume responsibility for health costs prior to medical clearance of the and in cases where Normal landed Immi Grant status cannot be granted for health Ottawa would continue providing but in Ordinary cases where medi Cal clearance and landed immigrant status is health care is a provincial he said language and Job training costs Are shared by the two Levels of varying for different per sons in different i am not prepared to extend guarantees for the three period specs Cullen he told reporters that if Alberta does not remove the Condi the Hai Hong refugees would have to be told they would not be Welcome in the Western archers wounded wife offered to help All three of the hostages have Testi fied Archer told them he was sorry that an officer had died and a female officer had been injured in the under Cross examination by Jay who is defending a Coulter also testified Friday that Archer said she had been married to Archer twice in continued Ontario and once in under redirect examination Crown counsel Lawrence Macinnes asked if Coulter had any further information on archers marital Sta but before Coulter could Prober quickly stood up and objected to Justice John of Manitoba court of Queens that Macinnes line of questioning was improper because it should have been raised earlier under direct examination by the the objection was the trial before Justice Hunt continues at 10 monday in the Brandon court ;