Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july big increase in Price of houses seen Winnipeg shortage of houses has become More acute the past three months aft buyers could face major Price increases in the next few a housing and Urban development association of Manitoba spokesman also president of Ken Sington Homes said buyers Are finding it More and More difficult to find the Type of new House they want in swing record Cloudy with Folk guitarists serenading him and his Mother cheering him 16 year old Warren Kowalson swung his Way into what he Hopes May be a new world Kowalson said he spent 192 hours on the swing at port Rouge break ing the existing record by six but he will have to wait for the Guin Ness Book of world records Organiza Tion to decide whether his which ended at noon will be Amanda Clark of the guinness organization said in an interview from Lon England this morning that they knew nothing about Kowalson at to Grant a guinness must receive three types of evidence a Logbook signed Fey witnesses and accounting for every minute that Kowal son was swinging newspaper clippings to prove that the attempt was made and a statement from a Justice of the policeman or magistrate who has dropped in Clark thousands of people inquire about world records every year but not that Many find out All of the Clark unless the contestant submits the three sources of the rec Ord will not change or be to ensure that no cheating takes guinness will independently ver Ify the evidence and get in touch with witnesses and Media he said he wrote to guinness about a month informing them about his but he Hast heard from them Kowalson had to endure occasional rain Media spies and the rubble regulars who frequent the Park at there was a Guy up in a tree watching me saturday another Guy asked me if 1 had any Kowalson attempt to set a swinging record has been the subject of Contro but he vehemently denied reacting to a news Story earlier which stated that observers had noted that he took 15mlnute Breaks instead of the five minute Breaks allowed every hour and that sometimes remained empty for Long periods of he referred to a free Prest reporter and a Csc reporter who had been keeping tabs on his Progress As other observers said they saw no motion in the swing for Short periods saturday a free press employee who lives near the said he timed Kowalson taking an eight i Nute while he said earlier that he was raising Money for muscular he doubted he will collect any of the pledges his pledges come to about House adjourns the the the spectators and the press were All but the Manitoba legislature quit work on saturday morning within minutes of the starting Only the opening prayer made it on saturdays work acting government House Leader Warner Jorgenson adjourned the ses Sion until today without government Las said they haunt intended to sit an inadvertent announcement in the House Friday by finance minister Don the senior minister present at the committed the legislature to convening during the a spokesman for cracks office said this morning that the decision to take the Day was made saturday morning with the agreement of All legislative clerk Jack Reeves Sud today the abortive sitting will not Cost the taxpayers any More because Las Are paid a fixed session Al indemnity whether tie session lasts for two months or two during the legislature May Call sessions of the House noon and six Days a in an attempt to Complete its this now in its 104th is already one of the longest on the area they want Detese Tew Are being he said flew housing if tits wife built in Winnipeg in Abo Ift were sold in the average lumber sold Here in a but by the Supply had draped to about Spano he told a news conference at the time that people delaying purchases of new of theses Teetse of High interest rates May face a shortage Wien there ready to because few builders will erect houses with but being fairly certain of Selling them Toen people Stop baying other people Stop building he Bab president of the Winni Peg real estate said recently real estate agents did Well Fol May and june As mortgage interest rates Spano said fewer than 400 of the 7w muts available in april Are still Tox about 400 construction permits Haws been taken out since including 109 in Bat statistics Are not Avail Able on Bow maty houses have been built or will be in the near pm mrss four medals David associate artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet holds up four fingers to signify the combined number of medals three one Bronze he and Rob dancers Evelyn Hart left and David Peregrine and principal pianist Earl Stafford left rear captured at the 10th International dance competitions in july the group returned Home saturday with the first Gold medals won by Piercy predicts transit study Okay construction of Portage Avenue subway from main to Polo Park favored the provincial and Federal govern ments will Likely consent within about six weeks to help finance a study on an electric powered rapid transit system for Harold Piercy Piercy proposed in april that a study look into building a Light rail transit system similar to Itiat operating in Edmonton and under construction in he said he favors use of existing railway tracks and construction of a subway under Portage Avenue from main Street to Polo Park shopping Piercy also said he opposes installing electric trolley buses or streetcars be cause he believes the overhead wires would look City Council voted last week to spend on the study if the senior governments go Piercy said that Iuler the Manitoba Canada agree negotiated earlier this the City could ask the other governments to each pay he said he is confident both senior governments will give their consent by City Council also stipulated it wants the study finished within six it Means it should be finished by the study group will look into the viability and adaptability of Vari Ous forms of electrified Piercy rape suspects trial expected soon two Winnipeg men who unsuccessfully attempted to evade rape charges by fleeing to Israel almost three years ago Are expected to be returned to Manitoba soon to stand Saul Edward and David Benjamin were taken into custody by israeli police recently after losing an extradition Battle with the provincial attorney generals de Bill Manitoba Deputy director of criminal said recently that he want sure when the pair would arrive in the it had better be who faces two counts of Nape and one of indecent and Fried who is charged with one count update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free each of rape and Gross fled to Israel after failing to appear in Manitoba court of Queens Bench in both men Are charged with assault ing a 21yearold woman in a Northend Winnipeg Back Lane Engel is also wanted for two other incidents later that the provincial attorney generals department has been trying to have the two returned since the incident of Board report in two weeks a Federal conciliation Board is expected to report within about two weeks in an attempt to resolve a con tract dispute Between clerical workers and the Federal Treasury Ernie a Public service Alli Ance of Canada representative for said the workers will be in a Legal strike position if they reject the three member boards contract propos but they would have to take a strike vote after the conciliation report he the clerical workers have been with out a contract since last the Treasury Board proposed pay in creases of five per cent a year for two Sac proposed 11 per cent and nine per cent plus a Justement Lawson about clerical including those who help distribute unemployment insurance and family allowance Are forbidden by Law from going on he there Are about Sac workers in about 400 held an informational picket last month at the reception held to Mark the official open ing of the Winnipeg taxation Centre in workers also held a Public Demon stration at the Winnipeg convention Centre during the Federal Liberal party Lawson said a membership rally has tentatively been planned for totalitarian1 Law still used by police nearly a year after a provincial court judge labelled it a totalitarian Manitoba police officers Are still detaining people under the intoxicated persons detention the legislation allows police to arrest and detain for 24 hours anyone drunk in a Public during a trial in Dauphin last a provincial court judge William Marantz called the Law a form of detention permissible in the soviet but not judge Marantz made the comments while dismissing a charge of resisting arrest Laid against Richard Lavallee of Lavallee was arrested under the act by two ramp in his judge Marantz said the act is beyond provincial Powers of the attorney generals department referred the legislation to the court of Appeal in March to determine whether the act is a decision is still police say they use the act to protect people too drunk to care for them about people were detained under the act in Many of them were arrested during the Winter and were taken in so they suffer frostbite or die of a police spokesman were not using it for were using it to protect he Eric the Legal Aid lawyer who defended said he agreed with the judges decision because being drunk int illegal and you cant put people in jail on the presumption there doing something still in business although mortgage interest rates have been dropping the homeowners against rising which organized in response to rising rates earlier this is still in Busi were still but were taking a summer Sharon a spokesman for the group Magner said the group still feels it can represent homeowners As a lobby group and is in the process of reorganizing to better Deal with potential although mortgage rates have dropped recently to about 13 per cent from a High of about 16 per Magner says her group is still planning to lobby for lower some people in our group feel comfortable with 13 per but others still feel that too she said adding she would like to see them drop to about 10 per in the she said some members have been working with apartment tenants in the Battle against the governments proposed legislation to decontrol we decided to Combine forces be cause we both feel Strong on this she Home assault unit ruled out the sheer volume of Domestic As saults on women prevents City police from establishing a special unit to Deal with the says a Winnipeg police we get a dozen or More of those Calls a said division 11 we Haven got the manpower to set up a special unit which would be answering three or four Calls at a local police have special teams to Deal with child abuse and Judy chairman of the battered women said the Winnipeg police should have specially trained constables available to handle i Domestic disputes because there have been complaints that regular officers have shown insensitivity when responding to such there is often a reluctance on the part of police to get involved in domes tic she adding that there is very definitely a problem of apathy on the pan of regular consta Booden would not comment on an Dachs he said most Calls police respond to Are what so often happens is that they resolve their differences a half hour after the police arrive and no charges Are the trouble is that we Are called again the next time the old Man goes out on a drinking but for them to expect us to babysit is the problem of Domestic assaults on women by their husbands or liven companions has received much Atten Tion of late because the phenomenon has been found to be More widespread than previously a report by the Federal advisory Council on the status of women this year estimated that about one in 10 women in Canada is assaulted by their spouse each in Winnipeg last More than 250 women sought temporary Refuge at the Oshonie House shelter for battered police have a program where officers Are available to Osborne House for sharing information and handling com police sergeants of three Core area divisions drop into the shelter on a regular we have an excellent relationship with the said the Osborne House coordinator she explained that the average con stable May want to stay out of Domestic disputes because statistically it is in these situations where most deaths and injuries to Pouce officers ;