Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba D Winnipeg free december 1979 3 pensioners seek rent Aid applications by Noelle Boughton More than of Manitoba old age pensioners have asked for applications to the governments subsidy program for Low and Middle income elderly renters which was announced in late j1m manager of the safer shelter allowance for elderly renters said in an interview yesterday that his office sent program notices to Manitoba old age Jim free press pensioners in shortly after these were letters requesting application began arriving hundreds by the if it Hast reached its Peak he the program was set up to help Manitoba renters 65 and older who have to spend 30 per cent or More of their income on it is also to Aid those with a monthly income of less than a year who spend Mote than per cent of their income on Zamprelli said his office had originally predicted that of Manitoba old age pensioners would be in on the program which begins offering monthly payments in he noted it was quite possible that people would apply for the but he said it was too Early to Tell How Many would actually receive the pensioners Are eligible to receive up to a month depending on their income in order to receive old age pensioners must meet certain eligibility requirements besides those Al ready these include d reception of Canadian old age pen d residence in Manitoba two years immediately before applying for safer or residence in Manitoba for Weathers great wish you were Here theres nothing quite like a Quick Winter trudge Down Portage vapor steam escape from manholes at Portage and Garry Avenue to get to that warm store or Clouds of Street yesterday with temperatures reaching a High of police officer charged with fraud a Winnipeg police Constable has been charged with fraudulently setting fire to personal property and attempted fraud after he tried to collect insurance from aut Opac on his fire damaged Constable Albert of Palms who was suspended from the Force without was remanded to 18 in provincial court prior to an aut Opac was prepared to write off his car and Settle the claim for police said shortly after Midnight police patrolling in a Cruiser noticed a fire in a vehicle on Brookside Boulevard be tween Logan Avenue and Selkirk ave the owner claimed his car Back fired and his engine caught on further investigation revealed too much damage to the Interior of the car to be consistent with an engine Huisman has been with the Force for four Petty crimes increase How can police Tell Christmas is coming by the rash of Petty such As three of them were reported Mon two described As being 13 and grabbed a purse from an 81 year old woman on Wolever it contained a Small amount of Cash and credit a 47yearold woman was walking across Polo Park parking lot at when a car drove past her and the passenger reached out and snatched her an hour a 51yearold woman was approached at Andrews Street and Magnus two males ran off with her ambulance theft alleged a 21yearold City Man has been charged with theft after a ambulance disappeared from outside the Cambridge hotel on Pembina Highway Early yesterday the Winnipeg ambulance service vehicle was left running while two attendants were inside the hotel treating a Man who didst want their hardly an inconspicuous the wayward multicoloured ambulance was spotted minutes later on Taylor Avenue with its red lights flashing and its sirens police gave Chase and the ambulance veered out of control and bogged Down in a snowy Field near Taylor Avenue and Ash the radio had been ripped out and the ambulance had sustained some body damage from apparently having struck a vehicle at Beaverbrook Street and Lanark ave inferiority Complex cited in attacks a massive inferiority Complex was to blame for a Young mans assaults on seven provincial court was told judge Graeme Carson put the 19 year old Man on two years Carson said the mans one month in jail awaiting bail and eight months of Contact with psychiatrists and probation officials has jolted the Man into move mature the a pleaded guilty to one indecent assault and four com Mon assaults late last year and Early this he also pleaded guilty to the Young Man was quoted As say ing it is hard to find they All hang around with the wrong Bunch and take Ive been dropped a lot of times and i feel i know it is the first time i did it made me its very court was told the Man jumped women who were usually in their teens and tried to put his hand up their All i want is your he told a the Man told authorities he had not had sexual relations with a girl for 18 months and Felt he was being rejected because he had not gone beyond Grade seven in he failed then found full time work As a his difficulties in school gave him a massive inferiority his Law yer he could not the lawyer women emotions Are commonly he but problems of men and their emotions Are not dealt with in the Way they should the Young Man had not been in trouble court was he comes from a stable Home and will continue to live with his Brothers and tools found when police arrested him they found Worth of tools in his car and a continuous five year period at any d a monthly income from All sources which is less than a year for a single person or less than a year for a d no residence at elderly persons Public rent supplement hous or personal care although the safer office at 238 Portage Avenue has Only been open for a Zamprelli said the first subsidy cheques Are to be forwarded to eligible renters in january As for the first few months in he elderly renters who apply after 1 will also be Given the Benefit of the they will be eligible to receive benefits retroactive to Jan local new liquor Board tests legality of wine club he told them he had taken the tools from i didst think it was All that its not like going into a store and stealing he told the judge said court was caught in a classic conflict Between the rights of the individual and the attempt to mollify the feelings of the females and make sure the court recognizes their fright and their in granting judge Carson recognized the change in the Man since he was caught and held in jail for a Short the prognosis for the future is he conclude by John Sullivan Manitoba largest wine club has been called on the carpet by the provincial liquor commission and must prove its operation is club officials the Macc began questioning the Ozimian society pricing system and Overall operation after a free press Story reported that wines imported by the club were cheaper and better than some commission local Secre tary Don Neville said Neville stressed that the inquiry by Macc distribution manager Greg Gauthier last week is not a panic situation and the society is not being but he said National Ozimian general manager John Sambrook will be in Winnipeg tomorrow to meet with Gauthier and acting Macc chairman Alex Tevendale to defend the clubs a meeting of society Mem Bers has been called for the same no profits made Neville said a letter from Gauthier last week requested Assurance that the club was not making a profit on the wine it imports for its an illegal practice under the liquor control they reacted a Little bit to the newspaper articles and now they want to know if were Selling at a Neville he Gauthier wanted to make sure were conforming with the Gauthier said yesterday the Macc is not objecting to anything about the club and does not regard it As a sell but he said the commission has re Quested clarification on a few mat ters involving the society operation and had received an answer from Sam Gauthier refused to say if the reply satisfied the Macc and would not re veal the commissions precise con Sambrook said he wrote Gauthier last week denying the club was a Selling he described the society As a cooperative purchasing group which places special orders for wine through provincial liquor com missions for its costs added to Price Sambrook said an English wine consultant locates Good foreign wine bar gains for the which then adds the Cost of provincial liquor commission markups and process he said he calculates the worst possible Price per Case based on pessimistic estimates of these members Send in their orders and pay Sambrook the Money goes into a wine fund and the orders Are placed with the various liquor theres some Money left Over to pay for processing and our consultants Sambrook if theres anything left after its rebated to the the Ozimian manager said members have received rebates on the clubs last two Neville said the clubs problem has never been the commission but most of simians feel the commission is doing a half decent he higher Quality the newspaper study found that eight red Bordeaux wines imported by the of simians in the last year were both cheaper and of higher Quality than some of the 32 Bordeaux carried by the As the study found that the Price of Many imported wines stocked by the Macc bears no relationship to their More than half of the 32 Bor Deaux were overpriced in relation to others on the Macc list of similar or higher Arena work expected to be done Friday details of the two major Steps in the safety remodelling of the new Winnipeg Arena balconies were on the desks of City engineers last Winnipeg enterprises chairman Michael Dennehy said the operator of Winni Peg Arena and plans to have the estimated strengthening work completed Friday for Dennehy adding that it now is running a bit ahead of enterprises wants the work done in time to be Able to fill the balconies for saturday nights sellout game Between Winnipeg jets and Mon Treal approval anticipated Dennehy said once the work is done and the seals of the engineers Are on the the corporation then expects to be allowed to fill the balconies with this decision rests with the cites superintendent of building inspections Fred who has said he had not seen the Complete remodelling data before work was Dennehy said Nicholson May not have seen the but his depart mental engineers while not venturing to guess whether Nicholson is Likely to give occupancy approval to the finished Dennehy said it conforms to All regulations and is meant to satisfy safety had enterprises not done the work it could not have been done until the end of Dennehy the balconies seat a total of but have been approved for Only since following safety u of m professor warns of jail disturbances by Manfred Jager a University of Manitoba criminologist has warned jail disturbances across Canada will continue to increase unless Law makers devise a grievance procedure capable of dealing with the types of legitimate complaints now complaints Over relatively minor things such As increased Access to showers or the prison canteen not a bid to break out of prison have Lead to most of the serious disturbances including hostage takings in recent Stephen Buckey if one thing is established in the Field of it is that treating jailed offenders As vicious animals without any human consideration is not the Way to go keep the lid a professor of said he is surprised the fallacy of the modern Canadian approach to punishment has not yet sunk unless it and he predicts a massive increase in All types of jail disturbances including hostage takings for the next few he said there were six hostage takings and other collective disturbances in four each in 1971 and six in 1973 and none in the number then jumped to 10 in 1975 and to 28 in there seems to be a gradual but steady increase and that the prob 1 found that the prison authorities viewed the whole thing As a Lack of saying if there was tighter stronger surveillance and these disturbances might not have inmates were seen As antisocial human beings who were unpredictable and dangerous in other words a very different human being than we have walking around in our the inmates gave a totally different Brickey they in we Are left with no other they Felt they were being deprived of things they deserved As a matter of natural human they did not see themselves As animals and Felt the prison authorities Brickey found that Many of the collective disturbances were not organized in an attempt to gain prisoners usually had a Wellde fined list of and Many of the demands were what you and i might Well consider reasonable dealing with visiting privileges and other logistics prisoners rights movements or other social action can be thwarted by the authorities which merely have to declare any such Bud Ding movement As contrary to Security what remains is confrontation by physical Force the Only thing prison authorities cannot Brush aside but must reckon according to sure there Are grievance proce both inside the prison or to the correctional investigator on the out but once he has made his investigation and filed his it is up to the prison authorities to act or not act on the investigator has no Power to enforce what he what it Means is that All legitimate avenues of protest Are in my opinion it is this situation which leads directly to collective disturbances including hostage so prison authorities have been reluctant to Grant demands or even go along with better grievance proce yet grievance procedures alone would inevitably Lead to a drastic de crease in the number of disturbances by simply giving the inmates a tool which would be More effective in bringing change than disturbances have turned out to what Brickey envisages is a three stage grievance involving firstly a grievance committee made up of prisoners and correctional the committee would hear grievances from individual decide a remedy and refer it to the person with the authority to remedy that particular acting on grievances might Cost Sev eral Hundred thousand dollars per the sociologist the Cost of collective just in terms of extra policing and administrative to say nothing of property can probably be shown to be much higher than what a Given grievance would Brickey said suggestions such As his have been in the sociology literature from time to time but have yet to be picked up by the t ;