Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Crime does for tax Man Ritchie Gage Revenue Canada has derived about million from the multimillion Dollar illegal narcotics Trade in Winnipeg during the past two a senior tax official said special tax investigator Bob Ferguson of Revenue Canadas Winnipeg office said in an interview that most of the Money came from jeopardy assess of assets that come to Light during criminal when a trafficker is Ferguson its almost automatic that his assets and income tax Are nine times out of 10 the return will show no then we set to if there is a House and other assets then we put liens on the narcotics business is the most lucrative criminal activity in Winni he and the traffickers must pay Selling drugs such As marijuana and he can bring a wellor Gani Zed dealer around a not All criminals Are shy about re porting Ferguson one drug dealer filed his Gross income As from other he after operating expenses such As Tel Ephone and using part of his House for an office trafficker claimed tax Able income of an ramp spokesman said that police arrests Are Only skimming the sur face of those in the we cant get and by the time1 we hear of a big he has been in it for five or ten strict confidentiality is the tax departments but through a four year old agreement with the the tax Branch trades information when there is a Dollar to be had from Crimi Nal Ferguson said the taxation Branch keeps tabs on the court system and audits known Ferguson said there Are about 100 bookies in Winnipeg but Only half of them enjoy Large they simply claim their incomes under other sources and we dont really care we just want the he said that an average person Doest need to worry about tax on race track but a race track Gam Bler betting a race had better file a proper tax prenuptial acts family Laws by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Breezy an in creasing number of married couples Are signing prenuptial contracts to escape the grasp of Manitoba marriage according to a family court Jim Stoffman said 10 to 15 couples a year request the contracts As com pared to about three couples a year before the revamped family Laws took effect in who took part in a panel discussion at the Manitoba bar association convention said the con usually signed before mar designed to indicate what the obligations of the two people will be upon marriage the agreement allows couples to opt out of Manitoba family Laws which basically dictate that assets should be split equally upon separa Tion or see couples Page 4 Clear tonight sunny tomorrow Low 10 High 27 Winnipeg free press june 1979 be no 217 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final is 5c with coloured comics Paul free press alarm cuts off son die in fire a his wife and their son died Early this morning when fire engulfed their Boniface dead Are Michel his wife and their son who were trapped inside their three Storey Frame House at 563 Pinquet two other occupants of the House Mark and 57yearold Jean Louis a Boarder escaped without smoke detectors would most certainly have Given the occupants a warning far sooner than what they assistant Deputy chief Mcgavock said in an interview Mcgavock said he is assuming an inhouse fire alarm system was Trig gered by heat from the he said a Glass panel broke which sounded the but the alarm ring too Long because the place was involved heavily in fire and the wiring would Burn the Blaze caused about dam age to the main floor of the Albert who lives across the Street from the said he first noticed the fire at about my bedroom window was wide open and i heard a child screaming and smelled the Asselin when i got out i saw an old Man with pants and a shirt and the screaming two Way radio the Blaze was reported a few minutes later by de a Boniface streets department employee who was on his Way to Check on a Street sweeper working on i was in my truck waiting for the train which crosses Pinquet to pass and i smelled he when the train finally 1 pulled Over by an old Man standing on the Street and asked him where the smoke was coming he my its on so i got on the two Way radio and called it both Smith and John a next door tried to get into the House but smoke and flames fed by a brisk wind drove them i got As far As the front door and that was it i see Cwik there were flames shooting out the front and the and the sides were just Walls of the alarm was called in at and the first fire truck arrived at the from station number nine at 864 Marion about a mile from tie firefighters from four an Aerial ladder and two Rescue trucks had the fire was under control at about working by Light supplied by a Porta ble firefighters searched for and retrieved three wrapping them in Green plastic the woman was found just inside the window of the front room the Man was just behind a firefighter although there Are some Homes on Pinquet the House gutted by the fire is across from City Yards in a primarily Industrial Mcgavock said 1 expect there would be fire alarm boxes near the alarm boxes in downtown Winnipeg and Boniface were recently disconnected and replaced by a free phone in alarm system using Telephone the living dining room and the bedroom where the victims perished were most heavily the cause of the Blaze is under food prices up 2 s o Fol 39 o r m Penl care m r x Reading alcohol c 13 r n items 0 u to Ottawa up food prices Rose during May at an annual rate of per government figures released today the May rate of increase was More than three percentage Points lower than the per cent annual increase recorded in but during the month of May the total Cost of living inflation rate went up by a full one per statistics Canada attributed most of the increase to higher charges for alcohol and but the moderation in food Price in creases led to a slowing in the 12month inflation rate to per Down from1 per cent in in prices were up at per cent with air local transit charges and gasoline prices contributing although the National annual inflation rate for May was the second High est for the food prices went up by Only per the smallest monthly increase since the Federal Agency said the rate of increase was kept Down by lower prices for fresh beef and see food Page 4 patients Given wrong drugs bodies of the three fire wrapped in plastic lie in the foreground while firefighter trains waterhole on the by Steve Pona copyright Winnipeg free 1979 medication is Given to the wrong psychiatric patients in some Winni Peg guest Homes and boarding houses for the aged and mentally a former Home finder for the mental health care Home program said the problem is often the result of inexperience or carelessness on the part of untrained Home Susan now a social worker with the psychiatric department of the health sciences said up to six psychiatric patients a Day get the wrong drugs in residences to which hospitals refer sent to live in squalor part 3 sometimes medications Are Given at the right sometimes at the right sometimes at the wrong time to the wrong she White was interviewed during a three week examination by the free press of guest Homes and boarding houses in her concerns Are shared by other the former Home finder said guest Home operators Are not required to study the use of medications or to have medical even though some of them dispense various drugs to As Many As 30 patients a while Home operators Are shown How to organize and store the extent of supervision is not As much As it should she Ben director of social ser vices at Selkirk mental said while Home sponsors have careful instructions to keep medications problems Are White said a plan to teach Home operators to recognize toxicity and other drug problems was developed five years but was never implemented for Lack of drugs used by mental patients Are potent and some could be she a drug such As Lithium which is used by about 20 per cent of guest Home mental is usually Given in Large she if you make a mistake with Lithium Carbonate and give that to someone who never been exposed to it you could have a very serious read 1 never saw anybody have the kind of complications that would cause see patients Page 4 inside today rematch Stallone Rocky ii virtually nothing escapes the sequel now the italian meets Apollo Creed in a betcha cant guess who wins this time it starts tonight at the Colony More of whats happening in our town 717 looking northward Northern Manitoba business and Industry appears to be edging ahead after weathering a Tough economic the North is rebounding from a storm blown up by a sluggish and often fickle world metals Market a storm intensified by the letdown following completion of several major Hydro Power construction projects and the accompanying hold placed by the restraint minded provincial government on Startup of new broken Cloud is the main feature of the areas immediate economic even though prospectors say Northern Manitoba mining Outlook is the brightest in 20 the great Liberal Hope the big attraction in newfoundlands provincial election is Don has the hero returned to save his or at the very least to save the Liberal party until Jamieson became Leader the party was headed the Way of newfoundlands extinct both us just As in the liberals have gone the Way of the urgent task at hand president Carter said yesterday All people have an urgent task in his Summit meeting with soviet president Leonid Brezhnev and in the strategic arms limitations treaty to be signed catcalls for the ring Winnipeg fans do not embrace Canadas heavyweight boxing Champion Trevor Berbick with much in who fought to a draw with Milwaukee Leroy mighty Moses was the recipient of the most popular fight of the drawing a standing was the eight round blood Bath which saw Winnipeg middleweight Wayne Caplette score a unanimous decision Over Brown of varied platforms an even dozen men Are asking for your vote wednesday so one can become the next mayor of the 12 candidates have varied at an Al candidates meeting last some hopefuls in the june 20 tache Ward by election tried to downplay the Nec Essky of choosing a French speaking City councillor to represent the Index scores 23 23 29 31 30 18 31 22 6 7 24 Jumble 35 7 to 29 baseball american league California 10 Toronto 2 Cleveland 2 Oakland 1 Seattle 3 Detroit 2 Minnesota 4 new York 2 Milwaukee 6 Texas 2 National league Montreal 4 Atlanta 3 san Diego 2 Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 8 san Francisco 6 ;