Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Witttiip0t per november buyers of electric cars get bargain five electric can once valued at each were sold by the Manitoba government for an average Price of the four successful bidders in the nationally advertised Sale included a Gimli construction a re tired electrical and two mechanics seven electric cars were purchased by the former nip provincial govern ment in 1976 As part of an Energy conservation the Renault proved to be nearly useless in Manitoba Winter climate and have been gathering dust in a provincial George Snell of who bought two cars for said friends of his in Calgary plan to rehabilitate the problems understood we understand the problems they were having Snell Snell name his he said the renovation was Only for l there is nothing serious about its Only a he Snell said his two friends have al ready converted one vehicle to electric David a retired electrical said he wanted the car be cause of his longstanding interest in ant pollution Silverberg said he thought he would have to invest another for new batteries and work on the cars charging he said he probably be driving the vehicle in Daniel Sigmundson of Gimli said he hoped to use the car in the summer to save on escalating fuel Doest have expertise As a heavy construction Sigmundson said he Doest have the expertise to renovate the vehicles engine or charging i know it is no Good at All in the said who drives a diesel fuelled Sigmundson said he paid for the electric car sight its Worth he even if it Doest run in the after its Only a two year old Bill Zablosky of purchased the fifth a total of 21 bids were received during the Public tender Sale which closed the two other electric vehicles were donated to the University of Manitoba for the annual Christmas Appeal of the childrens Hospital of Winnipeg research in Young artist earns Honor Megan will gain a distinction this Christmas Many artists can t her work will find its Way into thousands of City Megan was a patient in the children s Hospital last february when a drawing she had made attracted her drawing of a nativity scene will appear on envelopes used in the childrens Hospital Christmas fund Tut Tomb buries Man in debt Mummy curse turns sideshow into disaster by Bob Cheshire All those stories about Mummy curses involving King tuts Tomb May make a believer of Amateur Winni Peg Egypt Logist Bart after thousands Are drawn to the Toronto King Tut exhibition in the Art gallery of Bournes recreation of tutankhamen Tomb just next door has been virtually its a financial the 37 year old Canadian armed forces air command Captain said from Toronto instead of making Money on his half of the Bourne instead finds himself in they talk about the Tut Bourne if there is it Hast hit until the whole thing was completely things went perfectly until we opened the if there is a maybe they Are sitting up there somewhere laughing at me because they really sucked me curses Bourne can find More earthly reasons for the failure of his meticulously prepared exhibit to draw Tut curiosity the lockup of tuts three room although next door to the exhibit is located Down a meandering mall which makes it difficult for the Public to but More said was the failure of a promised Advertis ing and promotional Campaign to mate rebuilt Tomb in partnership with Village by the a Toronto apartment and re Tail Complex near the Art Bourne has put together a life size recreation of tutankhamen Tomb 20minute walk through the burial Treasury and antechamber Complete with audiovisual presenta Bourne said it is informative and factual but few appear at persons have taken in his exhibition since it opened with forces in Egypt Bourne became interested in the project about three years ago when he volunteered for a six month stint with the Canadian peacekeeping forces in he saw the and visited the Cairo museum but want Overly he then read a Book by Howard the archaeologist who disco amount of registration scheme has officials at loss aut Opac officials say it would take Days to figure out How much Revenue the corporation has lost because of the governments Lightyear scheme to Cash in on lower Rural Premium the hundreds of government vehicles registered in Brandon contrary to provincial Law would All have to be Rea messed for engine size and other factors and the Winnipeg Premium rate they an aide to government services min ister Harry Enns said the total loss could be prepared but it would require several people locked in a room full time for a week or More to do aut Opac wont even give us an Esti mate on he All aut Opac can say is that it would be More than the the govern ment paid to insure its vehicles last last a free press investigation uncovered massive government vehicle registrations in qualifying then for Auto acs lower territory 2 Premium the practice skirts two provincial statutes which say a vehicles Home base or primary address must be used on All the government had vehicles registered outside the City in 1977 but Only of them were actually based in Rural according to figures made Public by in 943 government cars and trucks were based in Winnipeg at that time but Only 200 of them were registered to the provincial garage Manitoba Telephone system has also taken advantage of the out town poli registering More than half its 900 vehicles in Thompson or the a 1971 Deal Between the govern ment and aut Opac quietly allowed this it said provincial vehicles used More than 50 per cent of the time in Rural areas could be registered regardless of where they were the 1971 agreement clearly admits the purpose of allowing out town registrations was to Cash in on lower insurance rates in Rural it said that since place of residence or address As shown on the vehicle licence is the determining Factor for Auto acs three territorial areas of it has been agreed with the mp1c that the government should maintain addresses for licence and insurance purposes outside of Winni Manitoba Hydro spokesman Earl Mills said his though Well aware of the Money saving Doest follow it its unfair and Mills said Hydro licensed vehicles Are registered where they Are based and not according to where they Are we have quite a bit of equipment that based in Winnipeg but spends a Good part of its life working in Northern or Rural he but if there based there registered this is quite logical for an Organiza Tion working we also think it be fair for a person who lives in Winnipeg to Register his vehicle Vered tutankhamen and was but he found it difficult to visualize the he started to write a Book but then dropped it to Start a waxworks Dis originally he intended to set up a permanent exhibit South of but when the Toronto Tut exhibition came he thought it would be a tie in for his after spending nine months writing lining up artists and preparing he trucked what he had assembled to Toronto from he opened three Days after the Art gallery of Ontario started its exhibition and things have not gone Well Bourne mortgaged his Winnipeg House to help pay for the borrowed Money from the As Well As from his and invested about in audiovisual equip it Means everything its my whole life i know what that Means it Means every he Bourne has started promoting the exhibit this week stories on the exhibit will be appearing in the Toronto he said the Lack of the projects Success upsets him for two reasons he would like to make at least enough Money to pay off his debts and he feels the Public is missing out on a great Opportunity to see something Worth i can see people walk by and like there thinking youre not going to suck me he that because theres so Many Tut but this one is not a crap worked 5m hours he said he invested 500 hours of painstaking working on a life size re production of tuts Gold then on Day for fun asked an Art dealer what it would be he told me its that stupid coffin is the first thing Ive Ever Bourne the exhibit will continue operating until the end of even though the Tut exhibition itself will leave to Ronto at the end of Bourne himself however will return to Winnipeg in about 10 i have to Start flying news users ruining essay Nei by Michele Lyons and Ron Campbell two amusement arcades on Hender son Highway and their patrons have come under fire from neighbouring Resi dents and Gayle chairman of the Board walk mall told the East Kildonan Transcona Community com Mittee yesterday that the undesired Able Type attracted to Park place 1414 presents Many problems for nearby shop and several Martin Avenue residents complained that patrons of the Kaptain kid Arcade at 311 Henderson Highway Are also a since that Arcade was opened about a year danger Ous vandalism and House breaking have plagued the said Jack of Martin Norman a former City councillor and owner of both ques tinned whether the criticism was but told the committee if the business int wanted in the its not going to he said the Kaptain kid will be closed in late december or Early Jan and the one in the mall by next june or Harold Piercy son called for extra policing of the shopping mall until arrangements with leaseholder could be made to close the District 4 police superintendent Ludwik Domaratzky said yesterday that he see any need for More patrols in the he said the division Hast been get Ting reports of incidents in the area of the and recall any arrests made in the Aho that police or vice squad officers have been called to the mall in the last month to investigate numerous including a murder gang drug and objects thrown at House Tye called the Kaptain kid the Poison of the and said problems will continue until it is Fern Tyes sister who also lives on said she cant sit in the living room at night without some throwing objects at the and that Beer bottles often litter the drive Way and three weeks the House was burglarized and anything Saleable was including a elec tric clock and about every other House on this Street has been broken the Kaptain kid is behind the test Man gets 15month jail term for sex offences with boys Bruce Robert Edward of Ebby Street was sentenced to a total 15 months in jail yesterday when he appeared in provincial court on six charges of committing sex acts with boys aged 13 to Montgomery was sentenced by judge Arnold he pleaded guilty 12 to four counts of buggery and two of Gross he has been convicted of four similar offences since judge Conner called Montgomery record substantial and said the accused did not deserve the courts the charges against Montgomery cited acts of buggery and fellatio be tween and he was one of 15 men charged with sex offences following a lengthy police Montgomery was introduced to a number of the juveniles by another Man charged in the the judge the acts took place in Mont Gomegys Home and judge Conner said the juveniles involved with Montgomery were con firmed homosexuals who were Streetwise and mature beyond their years they Are minors Only in the Legal sense of the the judge said there is a Strong feeling in our society that Chil Dren should be guarded from exploitation and corruption for they May be too immature to foresee the consequences of their Montgomery should have known his actions were illegal and should not have encouraged the both the accused and other potential offend ers must be deterred from this Type of Gerry free press Nomes Young visitors mayor Bill Norrie and a group of Young friends from Victoria Albert school walk hand in hand up the Steps of City Hall the children visited the mayors office As part of International year of the child they arrived in a specially painted and received crests and ;