Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg of try september 1980 3 crusader Rabbit May work magic dont mourn the death of the Winni Peg crusader Rabbit is going to pull a new newspaper out of his who is this crusader any Way Down the Hole we go for one he has a pretty cushy its on the sixth floor of the Man life building on Corner tinted Wal Towall Broad coordinated crusader Rabbit himself is dressed in a three piece business suit and his socks Pardon the he just trying to ease out of some of the pressures of the Day he leads me through the nerve Centre of the Junior rabbits work their Way through big piles of orders telephones ring a very prosperous As you can he were going through some thing of an expansion crusader Brock is the principal owner and president of Reliance press which publishes the the sub the metro the Herald and Winnipeg free distribution he also has the biggest piece of Webb graphics West owns 12 country Kitchen restaurants in Manitoba and Sakatch has six More under and is about to build 50 More in Ottar this is no common Garden variety now that the Winnipeg Tribune is Cordes and his Little publishing Empire stand to gain some of the newly homeless readers and advertising Dol which is Why it Doest make any sense for Cordes to Don a crusader Rabbit suit and go around looking for Money to Start a new daily paper based on the idea of the using trib but Cordes is doing just on he and his publisher Sidney held a meeting that attracted about 300 former trib their Mission wis to drum up some enthusiasm for the idea of another Winnipeg but they managed to generate More suspicion than anything the audience wanted to know just what was in it for crusader Rabbit and his Cordes says Bursten is just a newspaper Sidney came to me and i set up this meeting for i dont know Why i did it maybe in but we have to get something people kept asking him what was in it for and he didst really have a Good maybe he should have said to the people sitting in the chairs youre the Guys who should be up not its your paper were trying to save Brock wants us to believe he and Bursten Are just the animate Urs in the As a Public service convince the new owners to come in and spend million on set Ting the new paper just Why it will Cost million is after the Montreal Star died last a senior management team told potential crusader Rabbit and big Guy industrialist Conrad Black that a similar idea would Cost million to Start either Cordes is building himself one Sweet Cadillac of a new spa or the stars financial people sharpened their pencils but seven million Bucks is a big Cordes maintains Hes looking Lor a Small piece of the action and a contract to print the paper until new presses can be bought that will churn out More pages at a faster Paul Sullivan rate than his Webb graphics the new if it will have to Start off As an 80page tops tabloid morning at copies an hour top the presses will have to run All to make the new paper will have to be a smaller production than the free what were Selling when we go to potential investors is the he the trib format on a tabloid size like the news of the world or the Toronto its going to have to contain All the bad As Well As we dont want to be another free we want to be Community we dont want to compete with the free says Well cover the stuff that happened last night you cover the stuff that happens during the there will be a definite comple the Ideal situation is to have two healthy dailies not competing with each each making a healthy so the owners wont be inclined to close them i think everybody wants Cordes said wednesday theres a 90 percent Chance Winnipeg will have another daily by the Middle of next but he admits there is no Money and As the Days go by trib people Are getting snapped up by other newspapers across the Douglas Creighton of the and Calgary Sun and Martin Goodman of the the to Ronto Star have both said they Arent involved in Cordes but Cordes int counting anyone out until All the chips Are Hes talking Only to people who have plenty of experience publishing daily although it May be a Public service project for him and Hes going to have to convince hardheaded business Guys to invest in people ask me when was the last year Winnipeg had a Boom year i have to answer but Hes convinced things Are going to get crusader Rabbit is bullish on were really on the Edge of a rebirth in the stable upward growth of the Economy in this says in several years youre going to see a dramatic increase in manufacturing in simply because things Are getting so expensive in Good Industrial land is going for half a million in compared to 000 to everything is less expensive in were in a Good position Here to service the expansion of the Cordes admits he May sound a Little too but that his his Community newspapers Are Good grated newspapers the Arti cles Are promotion ally i realize there Are with the province and the but you have to be realistic when you assess your business but Cordes has More than just a Good line going for since he left the Commerce faculty of the University of Manitoba in everything Hes touched has turned to this he May be going for the grapes at the top of the there Are of us who Hope Hes got the James free press Pic to Rule monday on benefits for trib staff ulna Tribune employees thrown oui of work 27 will Likely know by monday whether they Are eligible for immediate unemployment insurance unemployment insurance spokes Man Arnold Ottenbreit said yesterday the department originally ruled the newspaper employees had to wait until the end of the year before becoming eligible for but officials in Ottawa Are expected to decide monday if thai decision should be the 369 full time employees were Given 18 weeks payment m lieu of notice As Well As two weeks wages for every year of service when the newspaper folded unemployment regulations normally prevent employees from drawing benefits while they Are receiving payment in lieu of the Tribune was required by Provin Cial labor Law to give employees at least 16 weeks notice of the Layoff or the equivalent in but Ottenbreit said the matter is being reconsidered because unemployment insurance officials in Ottawa have granted immediate eligibility to employees of the Ottawa who were thrown out of work the same the journal employees originally were ruled ineligible for benefits for 12 weeks while they were receiving wages in lieu of the mandatory but a spokesman for the unemployment insurance office said yesterday officials ruled on thursday that wages in lieu of nonce is a form of Severance Shields against the showers Light rain showers found at least three Winni Eggers prepared approximately Millilitres of rain fell but skies yesterday As they made their Way along Portage were expected to Clear today with Only a Trace of rentals mans clout criticized tenants consider conciliation attempt on rent increase waste of time9 tenants at a vital apartment building have found theres not much the rentals Man can do to Stop whopping rent a member of an informal tenants group opposing increases at Southgate 50 Alpine said a conciliation attempt wednesday by rental Sman Joseph Locke was a waste of time in stopping rent increases of about 21 per cent slated for the objector did not want to be fearing reprisal from the land the building is owned by South Gate management holdings we got the feeling at the meeting that the rentals Man want represent ing the tenants at he he the rentals Man is powerless since rent controls were re Winnipeg face press moved by the provinces progressive conservative government during the last session of the the meeting was a waste of because the rentals Man could have phoned the owners and the owners could have told him they we rent going to Budge and we have had to go to a it was particularly bothersome to he because he got a ticket for being seven minutes overdue on the parking i Felt like sending it to the he he said there Are Many senior Citi Zens in the 185suite Block and that the some widows in their 80s have to face a increase and they cant afford he said rent on his two bedroom suite will Rise to from at a conciliation hearing a management lawyer told rentals Man Locke that increases were necessary because inflation has pushed up and the rents should be Simi Lar to those in similar the management lawyer cited rents in blocks As far away As Grant the objector but ignored two com parable blocks in which rent will Rise a month this parking to Rise the monthly parking in those blocks is just compared to the up from the current the Southgate Plaza landlord will be charging after the objector the 25 objecting tenants thought the rents should Rise 10 to 12 per rather than the amounts management was Locke advised the tenants that if they wanted to take the rent increases to they would have to gather comparable rental information to set before the because the apartment management would Supply just Basic among the rent control removing amendments to the landlord and ten ant act approved this year is a provi Sion for arbitration of rent but Only if both parties if the landlord does not agree to he must pay ten ants moving expenses in an amount up to one months in going to phone them and Tell them id like to go to the arbitration the objector but i dont expect anything will come of the objector said he Appeal to consumer affairs minister Warner Wilsons trial set for monday the trial of conservative la Bob Wilson on three drug related conspiracy charges is scheduled to get under Way before a 12person jury on marking the beginning of the septem Ber the 45yearold la for Wolseley is one of 16 people who will be arraigned before a judge in Manitoba court of Queens no fewer than two trials a week will be held in three courtrooms for at least the next Wilson is charged with one count of conspiracy to import marijuana and two counts of conspiracy to traffic in the Federal prosecution is expected to last at least also on Saul Edward and David Benjamin will stand trial on charges of rape dating Back to Troy Joseph David Leonard and Robert Gor Don Are charged with rape and forcible seizure in an incident in Winnipeg last they will go to trial on on Tan Ngoc will go to trial on a charge of second degree murder in the death in Winnipeg last 15 of Mai William Roy and George Clement Are charged with second degree murder in the death of an 82yearold Man last their trial begins on Allan Lee will go to trial on a charge of criminal negligence causing death while on Ross Alfred Bonnyman will go before a jury on charges of conspiracy to import and traffic in a also on Edwin Dennis will stand trial on a first degree murder charge in the death of 21yearold Catherine the accused also faces charges of Bug and three of indecent Koteles trial 14 on Julius Michael former Fol Lorama will go to trial on a charge of stealing More than from the Manitoba Folk arts Council Between july and april Janet Marguerite will go before a jury on a second degree murder charge in the death of 46yearold Donald a Frey Hill in his Hargrave Street her trial begins on Lionel will go to trial on the same Day on a first degree murder charge in the death of 52yearold Virgil Clifton new sixteen witnesses Are expected to take the society still reaping benefits of Fox run rigs on Parade competitors in the National truck Hoade gave up their places behind the wheel yesterday for a Parade of big rigs to Mark the they were Back at the wheel today As the Competition opened at in the parking Lut of the Winnipeg organizers were hoping to Crown a Champion by late after e the Manitoba division of the Canad an cancer society says it expects to raise almost twice As much from the interrupted Marathon of Hope than it May have collected had Terry Fox completed his run across who lost his right leg to cancer three years started his run in Newfoundland last respiratory problems later identified As secondary lung cancer forced Fox to give up his project at Thunder Bay on labor Day after completing Murray executive director of the Manitoba division of the cancer said in an interview yesterday his Agency started planning for the Fox run through Manitoba Early in May and was ready to follow him through the province when word came that the project had been last the Day after labor the donations really started pour ing Bater As of yesterday thursday we had the we thought we might get in the Bater now says estimates Are or total donations directly from the Fox Effort to approach probably late this month or Early in the society has recruited additional volunteers from among senior students of Balmoral Hall school for girls and Academy to handle the whole thing Bater said ;