Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Diff cd Winnipeg free press monday april 20, 1981 3 by Kevin Prokosh Craig Brown has Learned the hard Way the Chilly difference in weather conditions Between Winnipeg and Northern Manitoba. Brown 23. A Legal investigator from Winnipeg and Pilot Robert Lubinski of Thompson were rescued Friday after icy weather thursday forced them to make an emergency Landing 80 kilo metres West of their destination of Shamattawa. The men were spotted near their plane 28 hours later by military personnel in a Hercules search and Rescue aircraft. Brown left Winnipeg s Balmy weather thursday wearing a Light windbreaker and Tennis shoes. Little did he know that he would be spending the night in a plywood Shack in a Remote Bush area where temperatures would plummet to it was the first time Brown had been to Northern Manitoba and the first time he had travelled in a Small air plane like the single engine four seater Cessna 172 he chartered to deliver Legal papers to Elsie Miles. Miles was the focal Point of a Contro Versy recently when beads were sewn to sutures she received following an operation at St. Boniface Hospital. I Don t Ever want to be in that situation said Brown who has been married less than two months. I guess i be Learned to expect the worst with anything to do with Northern Man lady Luck did not entirely desert Brown because he was stranded with someone who was Well prepared for Winter survival. If you have to be stuck he s the Guy to be stuck said Brown of Lubinski. You have to give him credit he took charge and took care of his Between City and North passenger even on the i was prepared to stay for 10 Days but there was no doubt in my mind we would be Lubinski said. In fact the Pilot promised his Passen Ger before they were rescued Friday we d be watching Mork and Mindy with the navigational equipment on his plane Frozen Lubinski 25, spotted a trapper s Shack near Bigstone River shortly after noon thursday. He brought the aircraft to a Safe Landing in three feet of Snow without damage to the plane. After stamping an sos sign in the Snow and hiking for seven hours the two men resigned themselves to a night in the wilds. They spent a miserable night rolled up in sleeping bags in a Structure with four plywood Walls making sure their fire in an Oil drum did not die out. Neither Man was Able to get any sleep in the cold. In the morning they began to Demol ish their shelter in the Hope of building skis that could be strapped to the wheels of the plane enabling it to take off. But with Only rope and plywood the alteration did t work. While on their Way to investigate another Cabin they had spotted on the other Side of the River they heard a Rescue plane and fired flares to attract it. Soon they were safely on their Way to Thompson. A few hours later they were Back in Winnipeg. Lubinski said he May return to the Shack which sheltered the two from the howling winds. I Don t know whose it is but we made quite a he said. We demolished a table for dry firewood and used the plywood Walls for the Ina press officers blame new police chief for Low morale by Ron Campbell two disgruntled senior inspectors in the Winnipeg police department say chief Ken Johnston s new regime is undermining departmental morale. It is with regret i must say since chief Kenneth Johnston was appointed to that position things Are going from bad to Insp. A a. Hicks writes in an april 3 letter to coun. Jim Moore chairman of commis Sion. Later he writes As i explained in a report to chief Johnston of March 31, 1981, i have never heard so Many complaints and Low morale from our members since he took office. One has to wonder complaints Hicks and Insp. Harry Marlow wrote to Moore complaining about a March 30 internal reorganization that involved two inspectors in each District station being replaced by a staff inspector and 10 inspectors them selves assigned duties at the Public safety building. Marlow in his March 27 letter complained it is treatment such As this that is undermining the morale of the police copies of the letters also were sent to the other four commission members councillors Alf Skowron and Guy Savoie and citizen members Eldon Ross and Vern Simonsen. Johnston who became chief last no vember dismisses the allegation that the reorganization is undermining morale. He adds some people Are always resistant to i be made these changes because i feel i have More Over All supervision phone Booth explosion investigated the Winnipeg police department s bomb squad is investigating the destruction of a Telephone Booth in the St. James area Early saturday. Gary Rozenko 19, of River Oaks drive said he was on his Way Home alone from a drive in movie when he stopped for a red Light at Portage Avenue and Sharp Boulevard about . Saturday. Suddenly the Telephone Booth on the Northeast Corner about four metres away exploded and split in half like a Rozenko said. He said he had his window up and was t injured. The explosion chipped the paint on the car but Rozenko did t know what the financial damage was. A police spokesman said the blast blew the Glass As far As 22 metres. The Telephone Booth was Worth about the spokesman said. So far there have been no arrests and few leads in who is responsible for the explosion police said last night. Where i did t have it John Ston said last night. The new system provides for an inspector to be in charge of the communications system 24 hours a Day and another inspector to patrol City streets around the clock. I was t satisfied with the efficiency before and this the reorganization is my answer to Johnston said. Supt. Paul Johnson president of the 40-member Winnipeg police senior officers association denounced the let ters to Moore. I personally disagree intensely with sort of grinding your own Little axe with your local Johnson said. I Don t think it s befitting an if an officer has a grievance he should put it in writing to the association which will take up the matter Johnson said. He said Hicks is not a member of the association which includes inspectors staff inspectors and superintendents Marlow is a member. Johnson said he knew of no disciplinary action that would be taken by the association but a member of an organization is not entitled to negotiate a separate agreement for this is exactly what i see our one member Marlow under the reorganization a staff in Spector will be on duty at each District station from 8 . To 4 ., Hicks writes where formerly an inspector was on duty during the 4 To Midnight shift As Well. The new setup leaves each division without senior supervision during the critical period of 4 To 12 Hicks writes. Deliberate move it seems to be a deliberate move on chief Johnston s part to antagonize three senior inspectors into retiring Early from the Hicks a 32-year Veteran of the department did not name the three inspectors to whom he was referring. Marlow a 34-year Veteran of the Force wrote of his disappointment at not being promoted to staff inspector in District 3, where he has been an in Spector for the past five years. There were two promotions to staff inspector about the time of the Reorg at age 57, it appears obvious to me that now the department has used the Best years of my life it does not feel that i am worthy of promotion and has transferred me into another division with .10 other officers some of which i believe Are considered like me Over the Hill i have surmised that if my work is made frustrating enough i will re Johnston labelled the charge non Moore said the shakeup is some thing Ken Johnston has advocated Over a period of he said the commission should take no action but it should hear any complaint the senior officers association May want to make As a group. Jennifer Friesen and Carmel the cat go for a spin on Jennifer s bicycle. The siamese cat meows presumably with pleasure the cat s meow during their jaunts around Jennifer s Mcnaughton Avenue neighbourhood. Both Jennifer and her pet Are 10 years old. The English ukrainian bilingual pro Gram is meeting greater Success than first anticipated says Myron Spolsky update executive director of Manitoba parents for ukrainian education inc. Program a Success the program is currently taught in the Agassiz Dauphin ochre River East seven Oaks Transcona Spring Field and Winnipeg school divisions. Now in its second year it has 270 children enrolled in 14 classes from kindergarten to Grade 2. The Oakburn Rossburn and inter Lake divisions have expressed starting the program. Within three years we re going to have close to 500 students in Spolsky said. He Hopes to see the pro Gram introduced into Grade 3 next year. Spolsky said there has been some and verse reaction to the program. However studies in Alberta where similar immersion programs began in 1972, show that students perform at an above average level. The English ukrainian program was first introduced into Manitoba in sep tember 1979, following an amendment to the Manitoba Public schools act to permit the use of languages other than English or French for instruction. The Manitoba parents for ukrainian education inc. Promotes the Immer Sion course provincially. It co ordinates the program with All Levels of govern Ross gives up the Helm communist Leader recalls Long years of Uphill Trussle his political views have out him in Ftp 75 a weekly follow up to the news bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free press. Ment and represents Parent commit tees which exist for each school with the program. Financial report ordered the Manitoba court of Appeal has ordered a Post sentence report into the financial position of former Massage parlor owner Ken Kerr. Kerr is appealing fines totalling 000 for keeping common Bawdy houses. However he has dropped an Appeal of his four convictions. Also known As Richard James Thiessen he was convicted in april 1980, after a lengthy trial. Lawyer Randy Minuk said his client 31, never made Money on the operation of the Massage Parlours and does not have the resources to pay the Fine thought to be one of the largest imposed on a non corporate accused in Manitoba. Kerr s Appeal is set to continue on May 21. He is free on bail on a charge of keeping a common Bawdy House at 322 Kennedy Street Between sept. 1 and oct. 1, 1980. A trial will be held in his political views have put him in jail forced him to go underground and made his whole life an Uphill struggle. But yesterday after announcing his retirement after 33 years As Leader of Manitoba s communist party William Ross 69, found reason for satisfaction other parties have adopted some of his party s Princi Ples and membership among Young people is increasing. In fact he stood Down at the party s annual convention yesterday to allow Young 29 Paula Fletcher a former garment factory organizer to take Over the party s Manitoba Standard. She ran unsuccessfully for school trustee in last fall s civic elections. She was the unanimous Choice of the 75 persons attending the two Day convention at the Point Douglas labor Temple. Ross had few regrets in his 52 years As a communist party member. If i had to live it Over again i he told the delegates. Five month term that included a five month jail stint in 1934 when he was arrested for unlawful Assembly during a flin flon miners strike. From 1936 to 1940 he served As Winnipeg school trustee but then slipped out of the limelight for two years when the communist party was banned during the second world War. He re emerged to be thrown briefly into a Toronto jail until authorities decided he could serve in the army. Four years after the War he be came Manitoba Leader of the party which then was called the labor progressive party. He Points proudly to the fact that his party was first to condemn . Capital domination of Canada encourage a made in Canada Constitution and recognize equal French English status. His chief disappointment that the Prospect of nuclear War hangs precariously close. That is also a grim thought raised by his successor whose first move will be to gather the necessary signatures to ensure the party is legitimized for the next provincial election. August he also faces one count of careless use of a firearm. Plant May open soon Mohawk Oil co. Ltd. Of Calgary is expected to open its gasohol Plant in Minnedosa this summer according to Lawrence Haberman a Manitoba Energy department spokesman. The Energy saving fuel mixture has been used on a Small scale for Many years. Gasohol is 10 per cent alcohol and 90 per cent gasoline. The Manitoba government is provid ing a tax incentive to allow Mohawk to Market it in Manitoba. Haberman said the provincial government is also conducting a two year Experiment to test gasohol. Church items stolen ramp in St. Pierre Jolys Are still investigating the theft two weeks ago of furnishings formerly housed in the local roman Catholic Church. An ramp spokesman said the items were stolen from a storage shed on the farm of August Joubert about three Kilometres Northwest of the town on april 5. They had formerly been in the Church demolished in january after a Long controversy. The spokesman said stolen items included 14 stations of the Cross paint furniture wooden chandeliers Light fixtures dishes Worth about and a Bronze Cross used for procession als. Police believe the theft May have been committed by people anxious to see that the furnishings weren t Des troyed As the Church had been. Bed Oaks intensify search the bed Oaks of Elphinstone have intensified their search for their brother Anthony missing for almost five months. Nick Zediak said he his brother Tom and about eight other people Are still searching the area for Anthony 49, who disappeared nov. 23, 1980. Anthony s truck was found about one Kilometre South of his Home which is about 11 Kilometres North of Elphin Stone. Nick said he and Tom Are searching about 20 hours a week. They had been searching on sundays with snowmobiles during the Winter. He said he used an air plane piloted by a Friend for the first time last week hoping to spot Anthony before the leaves come out on the Trees and make it More difficult. Nick said he also plans to use his boat to Start searching lakes in the area As soon As Spring melts the ice. The three Brothers All single had lived together All their lives on the farm near Elphinstone which is about 180 Kilometres Northwest of Brandon. Greyhound workers gear up for walkout Ross ending about greyhound bus lines workers from Vancouver to Toronto Are set to strike tomorrow at mid night. Frank Smorong chairman of the Winnipeg Branch of Calgary based local 1374, amalgamated transit Union said saturday Drivers would Complete their routes to major cities with railway stations so passengers can Complete their trips by train. He said the Union s Winnipeg unit represents about 150 Drivers ticket clerks office staff and mechanics. Workers Are paid an average of More than a year and have voted to reject a company proposed 31.1-per-cent pay increase Over three years Smorong said. He said the key Issue is Mana gement s desire to remove the Cost of living clause from the contract. A Union spokesman in Calgary said Friday that if no settlement is reached workers will walk off the Job halting passenger and freight operations. A strike would have its major Impact on smaller Remote communities with out rail or airline links which rely heavily on greyhound for express freight and passenger service. Drivers of buses on Long haul trips will leave the vehicles at major inter mediate Points the Union spokesman said. A Grey Goose bus lines Ltd. Dis Patcher said Federal regulations pro Hibit the firm from trying to cover routes normally covered by greyhound buses ;