Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Prenuptial acts beat family Laws by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Breezy 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 Are 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 j a Ushii 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 ments taxing of assets that come to Light during criminal when a trafficker is Ferguson its almost automatic that his assets and income tax Are nine timeout 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 Ferguson said he bases his estimate on assets seized during police reports and general information on criminal All criminals Are shy about re porting their Ferguson one known drug dealer had filed his Gross income As from other he after operating expenses such As Telephone and using part of his House for an office the trafficker claimed a taxable in come of an ramp spokesman said that police arrests Are Only skimming the sur face of those in the we cant get and by the time we hear of a big he has been in it for five or ten theres no doubt its a multimillion we need Laws to improve investigation 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 see bookies Page 4 sunny today Clear tonight High 25 Low 10 june Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final with coloured comics food prices Rise Ottawa up food prices Rose during May at an annual rate of per government figures released today the previous month the rate was per during the month of May the Cost of living went up by a full one per statistics Canada attributed most of the increase to higher charges for alcohol and a moderation in food Price increases led to a slowing in the 12month rate of increase in the Cost of living last month to per this compared with a 12month inflation rate in april of per although the annual inflation rate for May the second highest for the food prices went up by Only per the smallest monthly increase since the consumer Price the governments most common yardstick for measuring Rose last month to from its april level of the which measures the Price of a so called Basket of goods and services designed to reflect the spending Pat terns of an average was arbitrarily set at 100 in pcs find finances a worry Meach up minister Clark and Treasury Board president Sinclair Stevens expressed concern about the state of government finances yesterday after a Cabinet we were a Little bit said mentioning a briefing received earlier this week on the financial Situa Tion left by the former Liberal govern Crosbie sounds he cast doubt on whether the pack age of tax and economic Breaks he promised during the election Campaign would be in his first he was commenting after 26 of the 30 Cabinet members met in a govern men owned mansion to discuss admin Stative and housekeeping details away from interruptions in 30 kilo metres to the Clark said an Arab suggestion that external affairs minister Flora Mac Donald make a fac finding tour of the Middle East is Worth bodies of the three fire wrapped in plastic lie in the foreground while firefighter trains waterhole on the Boniface fire kills son by Joe Rubin a his wife and their five year old son died Early this morning in a fire which extensively damaged their Boniface Michel his wife and their son died As a result of the fire which caused about damage to the main floor of the three Storey Frame House at 563 Pinquet a fire department spokesman two other occupants of the House Mark and 57yearold Jean Louis a Boarder escaped without 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 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 i see Cwik there were flames shooting out the West coast port strike ends in pact Vancouver up longshore men at seven West coast ports were to return to work today after agreeing to accept the latest offer by the British Columbia maritime employers Asso the longshoremen voted 54 per cent in favor of the three year ending an 11day strike that has halted vital shipments of Potash and lumber through major British Columbia the latest reached with the assistance of Federal mediator Bill Calls for renegotiation of wages and other issues if inflation exceeds 20 per cent in the first two years of the which is retroactive to last the longshoremen walked off the Job june 4 at new Prince Chemainus and port front and the and the sides were just Walls of four an Aerial ladder and two Rescue trucks were soon on the scene at about the fire was under 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 during the a red Volkswagen carrying two people was stopped by police in front of the the car had no licence plates and the Driver was prohibited from moving guest Home patients Given wrong drugs 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 wrong wrong patient 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 City hospitals refer 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 sent to live in squalor part 3 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 Ive seen people have the kind of complications that caused them to be admitted to Hospital because either they haunt been Given medication or were Given the wrong when youre talking about a Situa Tion in which people get medications mailed to an the Medica Tion is Given to them by people not who have no knowledge of pharmacology or psycho pharmacy there not going to pick up Side it is not unusual for a Home operator to phone about a patient and say in having a problem with this person and the response is give him another give him two More give him three More she two patients withdrawn Eugene former alternate care coordinator for mental health ser said patients were withdrawn from two Homes last partly be cause of medication now working in British co some of our clients need medication three times a Day or what Ever and the operator involved got All the pills mixed see old 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 Start tonight at the Colony More of whats happening in our 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 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 cat Calls for the ring Winnipeg fans do not embrace Canadas heavyweight boxing Champion Trevor Berbick with much in who lost a split decision to Milwaukee Leroy mighty Moses was the recipient of cat the most popular fight of the drawing a standing was the eight round blood Bath which saw Winnipeg Middle weight 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 necessity of choosing a French speaking City councillor to represent the Index scores 23 29 30 14 18 30 23 6 7 24 Jumble 7 to 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 ;