Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Amended land plan gets nod an amended Community develop ment plan for the Rural municipality of West St. Paul has been endorsed by civic executive policy committee Fol lowing a Public meeting last night. The plan formulating proposals for development and land use in the municipality now will go to City Council for consideration said committee chair Man Jim Ernst. If approved by Council the plan will be forwarded to Urban affairs minis Ter Gerry Mercier who has the Power to approve it Amend it or refer it to the municipal planning Board he said. If the minister approves the plan it returns to Council for final approval. Committee endorsed the plan which included specific amendments presented by the municipality and Ernst. The plan was initiated five years ago following a development Boom in the municipality. Rising Gas prices have Cut development pressure. The City is responsible for All land use planning in West St. Paul and other municipalities adjacent to the City. Following Public presentations Ernst moved that land owned by the Sisters of the order of St. Benedict remain agricultural land the objectives of the arc master development plan for Parks along the Banks of the red River be upheld and private Access be discouraged on to main highways in the municipality. Manitoba naturalist society spokes men and others urged that develop ment in the municipality not be allowed to interfere with the arc plan or Public Access to the Riverbank. Wiretap safeguard proposed by Brian Cole new Democrat Saul Cherniack has called on the provincial government to ensure police do not overstep the Law when using wiretaps in criminal investigations. Cherniack St. Johns said someone in the attorney general s department should review All wiretaps following investigations to ensure police have not exceeded their Powers. The suggestion follows a decision by provincial judge Ian Ubienski to reject certain wiretap evidence because it had been obtained in such a manner As to bring the administration of jus Tice into the ruling came during the trial of James Wilson who was charged with nine betting related offences. The at Torney general s department is review ing the Case in which the charges were dismissed for Lack of evidence. Lawyer overheard during the trial it was revealed some wiretaps included conversations be tween Wilson and lawyer Rocky pol lock which raised the question of Cli ent solicitor confidentiality. Cherniack noted a summary of the conversations were made and passed on. Although the taped conversations some of which go Back to 1978, we Eliot introduced As evidence Cherniack emphasized it was wrong for the police to tape solicitor client Calls under any circumstances. During debate of the attorney Gener Al department s estimates Cherniack said he would like to ensure that there was t an infringement of Touchy Issue attorney general Gerry Mercier agreed the Issue of wiretap legislation was Touchy but noted some procedures have been developed since 1978 to ensure police do not overstep the Law. Brian Corrin questioned the policy of allowing police to tap dozens of telephones while investigating individuals. He cited the tapping of a Public Telephone at by s Steak loft during the investigation of former la Bob Wil son. Corrin said patrons who used the Telephone were improperly tapped. Is it necessary to cast that sort of dragnet to catch a suspected Crimi he asked. My me press Winnipeg free press Friday May 1. 1981 3 Michael Giffin health sciences Centre planning director displays Model with new buildings. Move of patients scheduled to prepare for construction the health sciences Centre i. Begin relocating some patients and services this Spring to prepare for construction of two new buildings. Construction of both buildings scheduled to begin in september is expected to Cost about million. The construction is part of the first phase in the redevelopment project of the health Complex which began in 1979 and is slated to be completed in the late 1980s. Plans for the relocation of services and facilities were announced to Hospi Tal staff by Hsc president Peter ser hone at a briefing yesterday. About 22 patients from the children s orthopaedic Ward will be absorbed into anti semitism s threat puts society in danger jewish activist warns by Manfred Jager As Long As anti semitism threatens North America s jewish Community society has to realize other minority groups and ultimately democracy Are threatened a jewish activist warned yesterday. Or. Alex Grobman director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holo Caust studies said anti semitism has been at a constant and disturbing level for a number of years and must be kept in the Public Eye to prevent it from growing. Grobman is in Winnipeg As part of holocaust awareness week which commemorates the 6 million jews murdered by the nazis during the second world War. The week observed worldwide runs until wednesday. Throughout recent history Grob Man said jews have been a Bell wether. What happened to them often happened to other minority groups later and can again if we re not very he said told a news conference the los Angeles based Wiesenthal Centre expends most of its efforts in education and political action to bring the the attention of the world information about the As for the efforts of Simon Wiesenthal who has worked since the end of the second world War to bring nazis to Justice Grobman said one of the most notorious or. Josef men Gele who conducted medical experiments on concentration Camp in mates is still being tracked. We still Hope Mengele will eventually be brought to trial but at the same time there is a major International Effort to free Raoul Wallen Berg. The work goes in both direct saved thousands Wallenberg a member of a swed ish industrialist family operated under swedish diplomatic immunity in Hungary near the end of the second world War and saved thou Sands of jews from death Camps by issuing them swedish passports and temporary citizenship. Wallenberg disappeared in the so Viet Union in the Spring of 1945 and top Kremlin officials have said that he died. However there have been reports from soviet emigrants that Wallenberg has been seen alive As recently As the late 1970s. Other areas of children s Hospital Dur ing june and the children s emergency department Entrance will be moved to William Avenue during the summer. Hsc planning director Michael Giffin said relocation of some facilities and Access to buildings May cause some problems especially the relocation of the children s emergency Entrance which he called the key and Campaign he said Hsc plans an extensive advertising Campaign to notify the Public of the changes. Well get out to All the ambulance companies fire departments and police and All the patients we know he said. Well do everything we can to see that the routes Are Well Giffin said construction also will be streamlined to prevent excessive noise in certain areas especially during morning operating hours. New entrances for the cancer foun Dation and rehabilitation and respiratory outpatients departments also will be established during construction. Giffin said this stage of redevelop ment is about a year ahead of what had been anticipated last year. He said plans were behind sched ule last year but favourable conditions since then have put redevelopment work Back on track. We re working much harder and working longer he said. Some classrooms the not for admission Ward and the child life area also will be closed in order to demolish the West Wing of children s Hospital. Demolition of the Wing and two annexes of the general Centre Are Nec Essary to make Way for two new buildings. A five Storey building at Sherbrook Street and William ave nue will become the main Wing of children s Hospital. A six Storey building at Bannatyne Street and Olivia Avenue will House the new front Entrance the laboratories and other facilities. It will also connect the cancer foundation and the children a general and rehabilitation and hospitals. 19 radiologists quit medicare prices up 50% Nineteen of Manitoba s 40 radiologists have opted out of medicare effective today. The move by 19 radiologists at two clinics radiology consultants of Winnipeg and Manitoba a Ray clinic will mean Price increases of 40 to 50 per cent for their patients. Three months ago the clinics announced they would opt out of medicare today if the province did not increase technical fees substantially. A third clinic Garfield Kaprosy and associates also announced it would withdraw from medicare but has since decided to remain in the plan. Or. Gwillym Evans of Manitoba a Ray clinic said withdrawal was the Only course we could take we have no losing Money we be been losing Money very steadily in our offices Over the last year or More and it just could t go on. We did t particularly want to close Evans said a routine Chest a Ray for which the current approved fee is will now Cost about the patient will be required to pay the clinic and recover the approved portion of the Cost from medicare. Both clinics will accept Cash cheques and credit cards. The radiologists have repeatedly asked the provincial government for special consideration in raising the fee schedule citing the spiralling costs of a Ray film overhead and salaries. Evans said Manitoba a Ray s four offices alone lost last year and the offered by the Manitoba health services commission to Shore up Supply costs for All radiologists is totally the Money earmarked for 1981-82, has not been distributed because the Manitoba medical association is negotiating with the Misc for a raise in scheduled fees for All doctors including special compensation for increased costs faced by radiologists. Contract talks were reopened this Spring under a special clause which allows for renegotiation if the Manitoba Cost of living rises by More than 10 per cent this year. But Evans and other radiologists Are not confident the new fees will adequately increase the technical Section of a Ray fees. The technical fees about one third of the total cover the taking of a rays and Supply costs but not the medical interpretation of the films. How much More the government will pay we Don t said Evans. I Don t think they will be anywhere near 40 per Beer and skits link endorsed Johnston suspends 2 officers Winnipeg police chief Ken Johnston yesterday suspended without pay two police constables and two other employees of the department for separate offences. Johnston said a Constable 24, has been suspended and charged with pos session of marijuana and Possession of a stolen police radio Battery valued at a Telephone operator 23, also has been charged with Possession of marijuana. A computer operator 22, has been charged with criminal breach of Trust for allegedly releasing information re Garding stolen property to an unauthorized person. Johnston said Constable Kenneth Yuel has been suspended and charged with three breaches of police depart ment regulations which Are not Crimi Nal code offences. Yuel is charged with working for an employer other than the City neglect of duty and removal of documents from police premises. All four will be suspended until the Winnipeg police commission reviews their cases at its next meeting May 13, Johnston said. The three suspended employees who face criminal charges have not appeared in court yet he said. After a heated hour Long discussion last night the Winnipeg press club Defeated a motion to disassociate itself from the controversial male Only Beer and skits show by a 28-20 vote. The special meeting requested in a petition signed by 30 members attracted about 50 of the club s 300 members most of them men. The show which has been affiliated with the club since 1934, bars women from attending or participating in its planning. About 20 per cent of the club s members Are female. Former Tribune business editor Harry Mardon said Beer and skits has had just a tacit endorsement up to this Point from the club and the affiliation is nothing in the Way of a putdown of women. Winnipeg Sun reporter Susan hoes Chen said the comments reflect the attitudes of those who Are looking at the past instead of the she said the Beer and skits controversy has Given the club a National image that is very club president Roger Newman initiated the petition for the special meet ing although he lacked the support of his executive which voted earlier this year to support Beer and skits. Reporter barred earlier club members voted to bar free press reporter Greg Bannister from the meeting because he was not a member. He had been assigned to cover it. Bannister offered to Purchase a membership but was told it was not possible. He was then asked to leave. A motion to allow Bannister to re main was Defeated 29-15. Newman said the controversy Over the show has been raging for 10 years and i think we should vote on Beer and skits chairman Don Corn Stock said this year s show has already been planned and has been endorsed by the club s executive. He said the Beer and skits committee already has notified the club it plans to sever its ties with it after the show to prevent further embarrassment to the club. Beer and skits is a separate he said. But Newman use our Anthem they use our he said. I would hate to see this press club be the last place in Canada to recognize the Equality of men and two years ago ads in the Beer and skits program Drew widespread criticism from the Manitoba action com Mittee on the status of women and others who labelled it As sexist. Four advertisers Eaton a the Bay and great West life and the Manitoba teachers association apologized publicly for their support of the program. A proposal to phase out the positions of 17 Community Cashiers by attrition or Transfer saving the City about 000, is All but shelved. With most Community committees opposing the phase out civic executive policy committee yesterday referred the matter to the Board of commission ers for their consideration with the recommendation the Cashiers be retained. Civic finance committee feb. 10 re commended the phase out of the Cashiers who Issue various City licences bus passes and tickets and handle tax and water Bill payments in the six Community committee areas. On feb. 26, policy committee referred the proposal to the Community committees for consideration. Five opposed the phase out and East Kildonan Transcona Community urges Community Cashiers be City Hall notebook committee requested More time to sub Mit its comments. Information policy urged the first meeting of executive policy committee s and hoc committee on a Cess to information yesterday asked the civic administration to suggest a policy similar to Calgary s. The move was suggested by chief commissioner Nick Diakiw who said the Board of commissioners could pre pare a policy probably less restrictive than Calgary has. The Calgary Access to information policy has Broad categories of exclusions such As information obtained in Confidence implied or correspondence Between individuals and the City of Calgary and information which is to be submitted to Council prior to its submission to coun mayor Bill Norrie said he did t want a policy As open As that in North Dakota where the governor could not even have a private luncheon meeting without the Public having right of a Cess. Committee chairman coun. Pearl Mcgonigal said the City audit Bureau the Law department and data process ing department give out no information while information is available on request from departments of finance land surveys and purchasing. Assault report sought the mugging of a teacher in a Park ing lot next to the Manitoba theatre Centre sparked executive policy com Mittee yesterday to ask for a police report on How Many assaults have occurred in the City in the past year and where. Coun. Harold Macdonald said people Don t get assaulted Only in the Down town area and cited an instance in which a person was beaten at the doorway of a very exclusive Tennis club in a very protected the Case of Miriam Maltz an English teacher at Garden City collegiate was brought to the committee s Atten Dion by Rosaline Krahn chairperson of the St. Boniface St. Vital resident advisory group. Two youths hit her on the Back of the head tripped her kicked her and took her purse with More than she has been a nervous wreck be cause of this. She won t go into the garage by said Krahn adding that other women she knows have also been frightened by the attack. Committee also moved to refer the Case to the police commission and police chief Ken Johnston. No privileges sought City Council s compassion in leaving the Handi transit fare for the disabled at 60 cents rather than raising it to is not necessarily appreciated by the Manitoba league for the physically handicapped. In a letter to Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal made Public yesterday at executive policy committee two Mph officials said in future Council should consider the basis upon which such decisions Are made and the repercussions which May the letter said that while there is nothing wrong in being charitable its perspective must be handicapped people will contribute their share to society without special privileges or concessions based on the attitude of poor crippled the letter said. The letter was signed by Leonard Schmidt Mph chairman and Rose Gulak co chairman of the Mph s transportation committee. Policy committee referred the letter to works and operations committee whose chairman John Angus recommended the waiver to Council March 25 ;