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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press Friday May 1. 1981 Mercier warns of charges by Greg Bannister attorney general Gerry Mercier said last night he would Lay charges against liberation books of Spence Street if police show him evidence the store is Selling roil 3 of the Joy of Gay sex. The Book the Centre of Contro. Versy last summer was voluntarily pulled from the shelves of a number of Book stores after a committee of Crown attorneys investigated a complaint and warned retailers they would be prosecuted if they continued to sell it. In the legislature last night Brian Corrin said he had talked with the operators of liberation books who told him they were Selling the Book and that they want to Force a court Case on the Issue. Corrin said the Book has been sold at liberation books for several months and is in demand. He said the owners Are openly defying the warning be cause they do not feel the Book is obscene. He also said the owners told him they have More copies on order scheduled to arrive in Winnipeg in two weeks. Would defend store these people want to have the mat ter decided by a Corrin said. Progressive party chairman Sidney Green also entered the discussion say ing he had been called by representatives of the Book store to see if he would take part in a demonstration in favor of Selling the Book. Green Inkster said he told the representatives he would not demonstrate but he would defend the store for free if ii was Ever charged for Selling the Blok he told the legislature Laws which attempt to define obscenity Are doomed to he said the Only form of censorship which should been forced is personal censorship. If you Don t like the Book Don t buy Mercier said police investigated re ports of the Book being sold again in the City but were unable to turn up any evidence. He said he would inform City police of Corrin s allegations and await a report from the department. Dave winning free press Deposit Slot taxed this taxpayer was one of Many who beat yesterday s deadline for filing income tax returns by bringing them to the Revenue Canada building on York Avenue. Police were called in the evening to guard returns which overflowed the Deposit Slot. Garson Vogel Dies in Rome at 62 Garson Vogel the Winnipeg native who became executive director of the in world food program in october 1977, died in a Rome Hospital last night. Vogel was 62 and had been ill for some time said a Wop spokesman. When he was appointed to the top International food Post Vogel said it would Likely be the last major Job of my the dedicated humanist had sold his House in Winnipeg but kept a cottage at West Hawk Lake to which he planned to retire after 1982, the scheduled end of his assignment in Rome. Vogel was born and educated in Winnipeg where he was graduated in arts and Law just As the second world War started. After five years in the army he began his 30-year career in the grains Industry. Vogel s life alternated Between government service and private business. The father of four children started with Soo line Mills a Small Grain company in the City before heading for Ottawa where he became chief of the Grain division with . Howe for seven years. Vogel next accepted an offer from Bunge corp., the big . Grain company to head its Canadian operations an eight year assignment that ended when Mitchell Sharp who was then minister responsible for the wheat Board persuaded him to join the Board in 1964 As a commissioner. Vogel said he found his Job with the world food program which distributed food in poor countries both satisfy ing and frustrating. He said he had travelled less when he ran a billion wheat business out of Winnipeg. As executive director he was responsible for the Fate of 700 million under nourished people in More than 100 countries through hundreds of food for development projects. Wit the National Trust won t free Law lain 1979 Kronos by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba Hydro s Board will not free lawyer Steward Martin from his Law yer client confidentiality to answer questions about his 1979 proposal that the Tritschler inquiry be challenged in the courts Board chairman Kris Krist Janson said yesterday. I think fully satisfactory explanations have been Given. I Don t see the need for further Pursuit of Krist Janson said in an interview. In the legislature yesterday Deputy Premier Don Craik refused to order the Board to release Martin from confidentiality to answer questions about his proposed court Challenge on the grounds the inquiry was overstepping its terms of reference. Their decision what arrangements Manitoba Hydro makes with its solicitors Are going to be their Craik repeatedly told nip Leader Howard Pawley who led opposition demands for More information. Martin could not be reached for com ment yesterday. On three previous occasions the conservative government has used its legislature majority to Block Calls for a legislative inquiry into the matter. A letter to Kristjanson from Martin s Law firm Aikins Macaulay and Thor Valdson dated april 21, confirms mar tin recommended in 1979 that the Tritschler commission be challenged in the courts. Craik has been accused by the opposition of misleading Las concerning his role in rejection of the proposed court Challenge. Earlier this month former Board member Dennis Scott said Craik had threatened to fire Board members if they challenged the Tritschler inquiry in court. Kristjanson said the letter from the Law firm and a letter from or. L. M. Wedepohl Hydro chairman in 1979, seem to adequately Deal with the matters raised. The Board thinks no further action is in a letter to the editor of the fret press Wedepohl said he had advised Craik of the general nature of Martin s grievances and of his intention to recommend the Board reject the pro your own individual self service mini warehousing for company and family possessions your own fire resistant private unit 24-hour Security patrolled Access 8 . 8 . 7 Days per week Choice of 6 sizes from 4 x 12 to 12 x24 pm. 837-6480 sate personal storage at reasonable rates time storage 351 Sau Seaux Crescent St. James Assiniboia Park postal. The Board subsequently approved weep oops recommendation the former Board chairman wrote. Pawley and Saul Cherniack maintained the letter from Aikins Macaulay and Thorvaldson left questions posed by Kristjanson in a letter unanswered including whether Martin had held discussions with Hydro s Board in 1979. Response sought they called on Craik to seek a response so members will have com plete and full Craik said he would give the Legisla Ture information if and when Manitoba Hydro passes it on to i have said consistently that Deal Ings Between Manitoba Hydro and their solicitors Are just that they have not had instruction from myself in the selection of solicitors i m not engaged in the process of advising them what they should and should not do. 1 presume since they asked for the information they want to pursue Cherniack Johns said it was a dereliction of duty for Hydro not to get the answers they sought from Martin s firm or from Martin. The Board should also release Martin from confidentiality he said. Circulation for your convenience the circulation department is open from . To . Monday to saturday. Well deliver to your door. For Home delivery Call 957-0550 or 942-2161 Winnipeg free press were part of you. 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