Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 8, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lower rates boost House sales lower mortgage fates have spotted a me ease in sales i wet Frt fleas hot Sifft Uffia Recei Ovet the past two the test Detert of the with Peg real estate Board said Bob Raynack said june multiple list ing sales by the boards 250 member firms were up from million in me added that sales hit million in april and million in the current Supply of new housing in the City is being depleted because there has been no major rest dental construction this Rayback said junes figures Are close to those of the same month last but a slots w Iff Divido Al sales to up Stoot the Fife per the average Sale ptts is there is a Market re wet taking fee we Are now seeing things happening in the Market place that Are very of we have a lot of catching up to do in Winnipeg n terms of House prices and sales volume compared to Many other places in Fie said that earlier this year most of the sold and bought in Winnipeg were More expensive Homes where people buying had sufficient Cash or High enough incomes that the mortgage interest rates then Dindl put them of making a everything flow is interest rates Are now hovering around 12 per cent to 13 per cent depending on where Yon borrow and the Type of mortgage Yon sip he noted the mortgage Market in the past year has introduced a number of new orians offering a variety of options for the Home both Rayback and Don executive Vic president of the housing and Urban development association of warned that the current sup ply of new Homes is being Ayre said there has been no major residential const faction in Winnipeg this year and exiting inventories Are being Are Fng to Snow shortages in certain Price categories and in certain areas of he said that with the depletion of existing bargains Are becoming fewer fld further Between although there Are still some very Good buys As the existing Model Homes Are being sold off to be replaced by newer there is very Little speculative residential construction going he although builders Are still finding customers for resold Clear tonight 14 sunny tomorrow 30 Winnipeg free press 10fta ios no 135 5q it q Moon rises sets july 108 n0185 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Dave tree press final 200 for Home Call by Kevin Prokosh an 18yearold Man jumped to his death an hour after being refused admittance for psychiatric help at the health sciences an inquest was told twice Winnipeg police officers brought Michael James Angelakis of to the Hospital twice he was turned away and told to come Back in the after failing a second tune to gain admittance he committed suicide March 22 by leaping from the fourth Storey fire escape of the salvation army Hostel on Colony Angelakis fractured his Skull in the fall and was pronounced dead on arrival at the health sciences provincial court judge Ted Lister heard on the Day Befort his death Angela Kis showed up distraught at the Public safety telling police he needed psychiatric Aid and asking to be taken to court was he identified himself As Julius cae said Constable Ken and stated to me that if he seemed to be quite rational it was Alutin act and that he was mentally acted a Little wild Angelakis was taken to the health sciences Centre where he acted a Little nurse Leona and at times Angelakis was referred by a physician to Leon a after an hour Long mow Chen told Barrett that Angelakis was acting crazy because he wanted a place to and no matter How Peculiar the victim acted he was not to be admitted to the Barrett wrote a note stating if Michael Angelakis shows up requesting psych no matter How crazy he acts Tell him to return in the per the nurse told the court the note was to be destroyed at the next but it was never the next Day Angelakis called police and reported his suitcase he arrived at the Public safety build ing flushed and Lugg wheres Matilda i know you have Angelakis asked the police offi who told Angelakis they knew no one by that when he began screaming for her and throwing papers and books off the front desk he was handcuffed and taken to an interview Lugg Angelakis started butting his head against the Wall and had to be Lugg Angelakis was interviewed by con stable James who told the court Angelakis Laid on the floor and talked about fish on the Wall and about the football game that was being played so directors resign the Winnipeg symphony orchestras 51member Board of directors has re signed and asked the provincial govern ment to take control of the financially troubled organization Board president Roger Mcfallon said the directors took the decision at a meeting yesterday after giving due consideration to the financial position of the orchestra at this cultural affairs minister Norma Price announced today she has appointed a six member interim Board of trustees to manage the the mandate of the trustees will be to examine management practices of the to restructure a new Board of directors and to eliminate the organizations accumulated she staffing and personnel will also be reviewed by the new trustee the orchestra has an accumulated deficit of and is expecting a further operating deficit of this in a statement released this said it is expected the announcement will not affect the orchestras plans for the coming he said the guest conductors and artists scheduled to appear in the coming year Are expected to be unaffected by the management the interim Board of trustees will consist of Claire chairman of the provincial cultural policy review committee Olga Tom Jack James and City of Winnipeg representative Andy Duncan of the budget Manitoba arts Council chairman Jules Benson will assist the trustees in their we Are fortunate indeed to have secured the voluntary services of this first rate group of Price Mcfallon said the Board Felt its Deci Sion was proper and appropriate to secure the integrity of the orchestra in the face of continuing Adverse experience which has seriously hampered efforts to obtain necessary financial support from the general the symphony has been beset by financial difficulties for Many see so Page 4 Hanson testified that sometimes the victim seemed to comprehend what was being said but at other times appeared to have no idea what i was talking on probation police then received a message from the Canadian police information Centre that Angelakis had previously attempted suicide and was an outpatient at a psychiatric institution in he was also on three years probation for being convicted of enter and theft earlier this he had breached his probation by being in court was but since police we rent asked to detain him they had to release the police took Angelakis to the health science Centre where a nurse showed the victim the note and told him to come Back the next Hanson told the i Felt there was something wrong with that he was seeking help but not getting Hanson Leslie the nurse on told the court she asked the victim to come Back the next morning and he replied calmly that he Angelakis appeared rational and Lucid and didst appear violent or like he was going to do anything Zacharkow the nurse said she didst notice the note was dated the previous when the police were unable to have him admitted they took the Man to the salvation less than an hour later he committed when the police returned to the Hospi Tal to get the doctors note it was the court was it was later found by a nurse bloodied and crumpled up in a garbage can in the emergency Nancy Hutton said she had placed the note on the Stretcher with the she said someone probably not knowing its significance could have thrown it the inquest will continue july elections Bill called threat to Freedom festival with scottish flair performers dance to music by massed pipes and the event was part of a series of summer concerts of Drums yesterday evening on grounds of the legislative build festival presented by the provincial suicide victim denied help by Mary Ann Fitzgerald a provision in Manitoba proposed elections which could Send to jail anyone publishing false statements in tended to influence an has been branded totalitarian and a threat to the democratic by lawyers and opposition Dale a constitutional Law pro Fessor at the University of labelled the proposal a new and dangerous which could be an encroachment on civil what is false and what is True in political matters often is a matter of Gibson said in an the professor said he also sees in the proposal a threat to the nonpolitical integrity of the financing rules May ministry of truth is the clause is included in two pieces of legislation introduced in the Manitoba legislature yesterday by attorney general Gerry the other the elections finances would regulate election spending and create a maximum tax credit for donations to provincial political parties or opposition Leader Howard Pawley called the controversial provision a ludicrous attempt at policing and censorship of the dissemination of in diluting our democratic pro As Pawley said it would put the courts in a very awkward Situa Independent Inkster la Sidney Green described the clause yesterday As the kind of Law used in totalitarian states to protect the he said he saw in it the seeds of destroying the democratic system As we know this provision has no place in an act setting out How elections shall be con ducted in a democratic it is a Noble but naive in the sex said a Green and Pawley also said the pro posed Bill could muzzle free expression of political opinion by the All agreed the electorate and not the judiciary should pass the ultimate who outlined to the Legisla Ture major changes in the revised legis lation governing Manitoba didst mention the the clause would make it illegal to make false statements intended to in fluence an election about any Candi political parties endorsing a candidate or any measure proposed or supported by a candidate or a Politi Cal penalties for convictions of election offences would be a Fine of up to or up to one year in jail or a court finding that an election offence had been with or without the knowledge and consent of a could declare the election in that constituency the new legislation would shift the responsibility for enforcement of the elections act from the attorney Gener als department to a newly formed elections the commis made up of the chief electoral officer of the a chairman appointed by the Cabinet and representatives from each recognized political would have the Power to initiate prosecutions before the see elections Page 4 interest conflict penalties May go by Bob Armstrong Urban affairs minister Gerry Mer Cier yesterday introduced amendments to the City of Winnipeg act that would remove penalties for City councillors who Are in a conflict of at the same Mercier introduced in the legislature another amendment that would prohibit councillors from voting in committees on matters in which they have a financial one of the proposed changes would remove the Section of the act requiring a councillor found guilty of conflict of interest to be disqualified from voting or holding municipal office for three it would also prohibit people from seeking and holding the offices of both mayor and Mercier refused to elaborate to re porters on these and other amendments except to say he would answer questions when each clause is Given second and third earlier this Ernst Mill was not prosecuted on conflict of interest charges because the City of Winnipeg act Only bars councillors from voting at coun cil level on matters in which they had a financial Ernst voted twice at the environment committee level in favor of applications by an Advertis ing company in which he had a Finan Cial see end Page 4 neglect blamed an air controller s negligence caused a near miss Between an air Canada dc8 and a Small aircraft last an inquiry naive the prey coyotes smugglers of human beings prey on naive aliens like the 13 salvadorans who died in an Arizona desert during the weekend744 nothing works Flora angered despite All the claims of Miracle theres still nothing that will put hair Back on the Scalp of a balding i an angry Flora Macdonald fired prime minister Trudeau s words Back at him to condemn Federal inaction on native women latime Oder Edge justness Unsino ossified mics Ossward paths Iverta Ismeni ;