Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january 1980 3 festival deficit wont halt big plans by Bob Armstrong despite a the 1980 festival do Voyageur will go on As planned with Only one of last years attractions the great rendezvous show the 1980 festival do voyager has an operating budget of about com pared to last years festival director Gerald Turenne said yester poor attendance last year caused the festival to lose Money on the great rendezvous show at the Winnipeg convention due largely to the cold last years attendance was Down to about from the previous years total of been drastically reduced this year said festival presi Dent Gerald to help Cut the Franco Manitoban cultural Centre is taking Over the program of visiting saving organizers students visit the school visits involve nearly 000 students from As far away As Turenne private sponsorship for the 1980 festival is double that for last with in Pantel despite the reduction of he said there will be More Musi and shows than last this year there will be More visits to schools and trading posts than last he the number of trading posts Festi Val gathering places with danc and food increased from four to in addition to trading festival activities include a daily Casino at the convention dog sled Snow shoe races and ice this years official Voyageur is Aurele owner of a Boniface insurance Desaulniers has been involved with the Festi Val for 11 years As director and donor Gerry Folk press Aurele official Voyageur the 1980 festival do strikes a regal school votes to by Laurie Streich Winnipeg school after lengthy approved a 1980 budget of million last night increasing the Spe Cial tax Levy by per an additional was voted into the budget by increasing staff in Spe Cial programs and by deciding not to consolidate schools in the preliminary budget estimates had made provision for a saving of in 1980 through consolidation of schools and superintendent Harold Pollock had previously indicated 15 schools would be objection to the provision was raised by three trustees last week and the item was i1 dont see How we can put Consoli Dation into the budget when we dont know if Well be Able to do that by Board chairman Mira spi Vak the revised budget estimates represent a increase Over an original estimate of million in creased from million by a million deficit from last the budget must be submitted to the Public schools finance Board by 31 when it will be approved and re turned to the Boardl for submission to the City in March pooled with budgets from the nine other metro Winnipeg divisions and a Mil rate increase Cal the increase does not take into account the greater Winnipeg tax calculated by the increases were attributed to cd retaining an additional 12 teaching positions to have been eliminated Ham operator help police catch suspects through school raising the Pupil teacher ratio by one and cuts in special programs from 122 to d the addition of seven French immersion left out in the first draft d increase in the elementary music program to from d the addition of about in custodial and engineers heat ing and utilities and cleaning and Wash room supplies by the boards decision not to consolidate the budget still does not include a provision for instructional salary in which could Cost the division an additional million if a nine percent increase is in pleased with the budget and the stage were Spivak said in an i feel theres been a serious Jim free press local be Appeal court denies plea for new trial in 1959 Killin attempt to Deal with present problems of while still maintaining As much As we the Board met in secret for about an hour on the second of two special Allday meetings to Deal with the Bud a meeting last thursday failed to provide extensive debate last night which continued until Early this had trustee Luba calling this years budget debate Sloppy and recommended resignation of the entire we had All that time before Christ Mas to Deal with the she said when a motion was made to sit past 11 we went Over everything in detail time and i think we should All by Steve Pona the Manitoba court of Appeal yesterday turned Down a request for a new trial for convicted murderess Katie who is serving a life sentence for the murder of her first husband in in a majority the Appeal court rejected All five grounds of the Appeal As Well As her application to introduce fresh evidence at a new three of the five judges voted to con firm her 1978 conviction on the first de Gree murder justices Osullivan and Charles Huband with judge Huband saying he Wouldhave ordered a new trial on the basis of a possible miscarriage of defence counsel Hersh Wolf said he has been instructed to Appeal the decision to the supreme court of of was convicted by an Assize court jury on Justice Hamilton of Manitoba court of Queens Bench sentenced her to life without parole eligibility for at least 25 the body of her former John Bruce was found out Side the couples Parkhill Street Home on the evening of june approached ramp an inquest later ascribed his an overdose of but 18 years she approached Winnipeg ramp and accused her Sec Ond Sandy of Smoth ering Down with a Pillow and dropping his body from their second floor bed room following her discus Sions with Harper was charged with the murder of her Hus Sandy Harper has not been she contended Down committed Sui cide or was sleepwalking when he she said she awoke at 1 to find him she discovered his body out Side their Home a few minutes in pointing a Finger at Sandy Justice Hall said the woman implicated from her contradictory accounts of the judge Hall said it seems Clear that Sandy Harper smothered Down with a Pillow while he was asleep in the body was dragged to a window and pushed out of it to the ground the accused helped in that pro after Sandy Harper left the she pretended to find her husbands body on the ground below the win the judge judge Hall said her statements Are contradictory and reveal a consider Able capacity to he said they Are Only evidence of her role in the death of her first husband and added his comments were not intended to implicate any other per in the accused told police Sandy Harper arrived at her House at about and demanded sex but she demurred because her husband was asleep Sandy said he would fix she Contin sleeping pills he proceeded upstairs to the bed room and smothered John Down with a she said that she saw what took Sandy then came downstairs and As much As raped during a polygraph which was cited during her eight Day she admitted slipping three sleep ing pills into her husbands Coffee that her lawyer argued the Evi Dence was improperly but the Appeal court judge Hall said the accused might Well have been convicted of first degree murder without that admission but that admission made it a virtual she and Sandy Harper planned and carried out her husbands she had sought to introduce evidence designed to show the sodium was foul tasting and a person with a Normal sense of taste and smell could not have been drugged in that but judge Hall said the new evidence would not and should not alter the conviction what she did was planned and linked to the other evidence in the Case it Stamps her conduct with the character of first degree he in a judge Huband said i think it would be unsafe to allow the conviction of first degree murder to stand without affording the accused and her witnesses the Opportunity to testify in this important crucial Point the judge said evidence As to whether the drug was administered to John Down with his knowledge and or whether it was done Surrey is crucial in determine whether the accused is guilty of first or second degree if Down had asked for the drug in order to get a Good nights then his drugged condition would not be part of a planned and premeditated his susceptibility to attack would not have been under those it is entirely possible that a jury might convict for second degree rather than first degree judge Huband by Andy Blicq it was not the kind of thing Jim Houston had expected to see when he stopped at the Sargent Avenue Safeway store to buy some Green peppers on monday i was holding the plastic bag and she Houston Girlfriend was tossing in the Green peppers at about 9 they noticed two men in the Cashiers one of them pointing a Rifle at a female a 31yearold ambulance i said he gripped his girlfriends Arm and left the store through a nearby r they slipped into their car parked 1 near the door and a licenced Amateur Ham radio was connected with the police operator and told them a robbery was going r in the he said he saw the men leaving the store and when the r headlights of a nearby car lit he gave Houston said he forwarded the make and licence number of the vehicle to the he followed the vehicle Down Eluce Avenue until it disappeared Down a Side he he said he hailed a passing Black and White police car and gave them the same information he had Given the police he then took his Girlfriend Home and told her to write everything Down while its fresh on your Houston and his Girlfriend went to the police and gave state in the police had found a vehicle up on a Snow Bank near Portage Avenue and apprehended one other police were combing the area behind a service station at Portage Avenue and Simcoe Street for Money and the fire department was called and ladders were used by police to get on the roof of the building to continue the an 18yearold service station Atten Dent said he saw a Ball like mud lying on the wished for wind then i walked closer and saw it was he said police were collecting Money which was All Over the Road near the i was hoping there would be lots of he a 27yearold Man was to appear in court yesterday in connection with the a arrested at list night was to appear in court yup the Driver of this car want injured after the vehicle went out Brook Avenue and main Street at about 6 of control and flipped Over As it rounded a Corner at Strad said the incident is still under ;