Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press tuesday May 5, 1981 Mega head by John Sullivan recommendations from the prov Ince s liquor review committee were generally Well received yesterday. Gary doer president of the Manitoba government employees association said he was relieved the report rejected private Beer and wine sales which the Mega vehemently opposed saying scores of its members could be put out of work. We re pleased the Michener com Mittee recognized the advantages of the Manitoba system and has not promoted the Quebec system of wine and Beer sales in grocery doer said. Doer said the review committee chaired by Winnipeg architect Mel Michener has t changed the Basic sys tem and had made some improvements in but he said the Mega still has some peripheral concern with the committee s support for a few privately run specially wine stores and the phasing out of one Man liquor stores in 12 Rural centres. Doer said the committee s 200-Page report does not say How the wine stores should be operated or How the owners should be chosen. The report is also fuzzy on Why they should be private rather than government run. If there Are going to be a limited number of specially wine stores the profits should be retained by the prov he said. We Don t understand the logic of making them private sex Ami cent As a sop to the private doer also noted a special wine store operated by Macc in West Winnipeg failed in 1974 and was closed. Although the report recommended an end to the one Man stores because of Cost. Doer said the committee jailed to compare the expense of commissions which will have to be paid to the private vendors who would replace them. He said the Macc stores offer a much greater variety of products than vendors adding the 12 affected communities should have input into any decision on the Mega president also opposed a Complete Transfer of health fire and building code enforcement in licensed premises from the liquor commission to provincial and municipal agencies. Certainly the Macc s primary role should be control of liquor sales but i think they should retain some say on physical he said. David Cruikshank executive director of the alcoholism foundation of Mani Toba was relieved but not Overly sur prised the report did not recommend any great liberalization of the pro Vince s liquor Laws. We knew the committee was not out to prove anything and was researching it very carefully. Because they were coming to the foundation for sources of he said. I m not really surprised that it has produced a moderate set of recommend Cruikshank welcomed the commit tee s support for a greatly expanded Effort to educate the Public on alcohol abuse and said the proposal for an annual Index of the Cost of alcohol abuse to the province is very import the foundation designs school curriculum packages on alcohol abuse trains teachers and provides information to school divisions at their request Cruikshank said but the problem is we need More while the foundation supports raising the drinking age to 19, its Brief to the review committee last year warned that this is not a Panacea for the problem of Young drinkers. We have to develop very specific programs in the school to encourage the kids to make their own decisions on the responsible use of he said. John Cochrane president of the broadcasters association of Canada welcomed the recommendation to allow Beer and wine advertising but said he was puzzled at the proposed limit of two 30-second commercials each hour. It s certainly an improvement Over what we have now where we re discriminated against in relation to the other he said. I Don t know Why they d want to limit it but if we re allowed two per hour we d be very victim giggled at aunt Cookshire que. Up a four year old boy one of four children who died in a fire yesterday peeked from under his bed covers and giggled at his aunt As she frantically tried to save him from flames spreading through their Mobile Home. Lucienne Beaudoin 26, bandages covering Burns to her shoulders and left hand said her Nephew Alain Roy must have have thought i was play ing ill never forget that she said. Only his head was visible from under the covers and he was laugh i called to him to come to me to give me his hand Buttie just kept on laughing. The smoke was choking me and i was burning up from the she said. After they were forced from the House by the heat Beaudoin and her sister Colette Roy were unable to reach the children s window because it was too High. The Mobile Home was located on a dirt Road Between the Eastern town ships communities of Eaton and Cookshire. The latter is about 140 Kilometres East of Montreal. The three other victims were identified As Beaudoin s youngest child Yves 3, Isabelle Breton 20 months and Melanie Breton 12 months the children of a Friend. Beaudoin s two other children Annie 7, and Anthony 5, had left for school an hour before the fire began. Roy moved into the Beaudoin Home when her husband Clermont a Lum Serjack left to work in the Woods near Sudbury ont. Beaudoin s husband died three years ago in a logging Accident. Describes fire at her Home liquor report urges raising drinking age Lucienne Beaudoin millions of dollars await owners thousands of canadians leave Money in Long forgotten Bank accounts Ott au7 a to Lei an Rolt to rent a _ r r Ottawa up Juri Anvelt where Are you do you realize there is More than sitting in your name in a Mon Treal Branch of Bank of Nova Scotia Don t you want it you be done nothing with that account since 1969. Your last known address was in Sweden but the Bank has t heard from you for a Long time. And m. Niken address unknown do you know you have in a Bank of Nova Scotia in Cote St Luc que.? the account has t been touched since 1971. And Maria and or Diana Del Bosco whose last address was Edson alta., Are you aware you have in a Bank of Montreal account in Toronto. Nothing has been done about that since 1971 either. These Are but three of thousands of people who have put Money in a Bank Over the years and forgotten about it or died or suffered some twist of Fortune that made it impossible to claim it. A special edition of the Canada Gazette published last week listed 321 pages of accounts listed As unclaimed As of last dec. 31. They added up to million held in nine Banks. That is Only a portion of the unclaimed Bank accounts in the country. The Bank of Canada said monday it is holding in Trust about s2s.1 million for canadians it does not even know Are alive. A. Spokesman said the Money is in individual accounts ranging in size from five cents to several thousands of dollars that have been unclaimed since As far As 1944. The accounts get to the Bank of Canada this Way charter Banks make periodic at tempts to let clients they have not heard from know that they still have an account. Accounts not claimed for nine years Are reported to the Federal finance minister which lists All accounts Over in a special edition of the Canada Gazette. If the accounts Are not claimed by the end of the 10th year they Are turned Over to the Bank of Canada which keeps them in Trust for at least 30 years. Any account under will be taken Over by the government after that. Accounts will be held forever. The Bank of Canada pays 1.5 per cent a year interest for the first 20 years Only. After that no interest. Savings accounts in chartered Banks today pay up to 14 per cent annual interest. The Canada Gazette lists these totals of accounts held in various Bank branches across the country Bank of Montreal Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce million Royal Bank of Canada Bank of Nova Scotia Toronto do minion Bank Bank nation ale do Canada Montreal City and District savings Bank Bank of British Columbia Mer Chantile Bank of Canada a spokesman for the Royal Bank gave two common reasons for unclaimed accounts a person Dies and the next of Kin do not know of an account people forget accounts when they move away from a District. Most of the unclaimed accounts amount to Only a few Hundred dollars. But there Are exceptions. The Gazette lists several in the thousands. For instance one Man has in an Ottawa Branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia a Powell River b.c., Man has an in a Bank of Montreal Branch a Tisdale sask., Man has in a Bank of Nova Scotia Branch a Toronto Man has in a Canadian Imperial Branch. Continued from Page 1 he also said he will ask the health and education departments to examine a proposal for wide ranging alcohol education programs in High schools. The Michener committee urged the health ministry design the programs and school divisions receive special funding to implement them. As Well it reaffirmed a 1955 Call by its predecessor the Bracken commis Sion on liquor Law for alcohol education programs for the general Public. The Michener committee was appointed in february 1980, to examine the Sale and distribution of liquor licensing Appeal proce dures advertising pricing and Regula Tion of the Industry. The committee received More than 90 submissions and held hearings last May. The committee noting Manitoba lowered the drinking age to 18 in 1970 and allowed some liquor advertising in 1967, said the Public is More accept ing of alcohol consumption now than when the Bracken report established the basis of current liquor Laws. But the report said Manitoban have been Well served by the Macc and have voiced majority support for a continuation of most aspects of the Basic system As it now the committee rejected pleas for private Beer sales by supermarkets convenience stores and Independent groceries saying there was no convincing need. Private Sale opposed although proponents argued convenience would be enhanced by Pri vate sales the report says Manitoba s 360 existing Beer outlets Are adequate. The committee conceded that wine unlike Beer is Only available at Macc stores and Rural outlets but argued private Sale could boost total Alco hol consumption in the province. It said several opinion polls have shown a majority of Manitoban Are Well satisfied with the current system of distribution for wine. However the committee agreed the the liquor commission cannot satisfy a limited specialized demand for a wide variety of wines by connoisseurs because of its bulk purchases. It favored one or two specially wine stores in Winnipeg and one in Brandon with the possibility of two More in the future after a government study of their economic viability. The commissioners said the stores should be privately run because of the specialized nature of the store and the kind of management the committee s major recommendation on the liquor commission itself would strip the Macc of its Power to regulate licensed premises on decor seating space requirements health standards and fire provisions. It said enforcement of fire health and building codes should be handled by provincial and municipal Agen cies leaving the Macc to control Only the Sale and consumption of liquor. The change would allow licensees to design establishments according to existing codes the report said adding that Competition would ensure High standards. On the drinking age the report said there is serious concern among Many sectors of the Public that it should be raised. Briefs from school officials had urged an increase to ease the problem of drinking students. The committee urged elimination of the ban on Beer and wine advertising because Manitoban Are already exposed to it on . Cable television channels and in National magazines. Current provincial Law simply discriminates against local broadcasters and publications it said. Report reprinted Pawley continued from Page 1 Don t think i ordered them to do the in the legislature Friday Craik said he saw the tribute in an Early draft of the but the report Pawley showed to reporters yesterday was a finished copy identical in virtually every respect w the report ultimately tabled. Pawley said Craik misled the House Friday when he said he saw the tribute in an Early draft and not the finished version. It clearly would not have suited Craik s purposes to have a tribute published in Bateman s Honor when he had just fired him Pawley said. The tribute detailed Bateman s work his tory during his 36-year career with Winnipeg Hydro and Manitoba Hydro. Pawley also said he was concerned about misrepresentations made by Hydro president Laurie Blachford in replying to a written question from Jim Walding vital regarding the annual reports. In an april 15 letter Blachford wrote that copies of the 1979 annual re port had been produced at a Cost of this compared to copies of the 1980 report costing circulation workers seeking Union status about 125 circulation department employees at the Winnipeg free press have applied for Union status. Stan Carman vice president of the Winnipeg Mailer s Union local 38, said the workers have applied to the Mani Toba labor Board for certification. The Mailer s Union is affiliated with the International typographical Union. Carman said the circulation depart ment employees Are scared for their jobs following the change in owner ship of the free to Thomson newspapers. Violence erupts after Sands Dies Patrick rally to and Margaret Hughes sit with an Ira member during a support hunger strikers including their son Francis. Continued from Page 1 Heads of rioters in Londonderry. Fire men fought a fire in a West Belfast police station set off by youths hurling gasoline bottle bombs. A Bank and a drug store were burned out in other areas of West Belfast and police Dis Persed a gang of 70 youths who set fire to a portable Cabin on the site of the american owned Delorean Auto Plant. British troops said they came under fire from Divis Flats a fortress like Multi Storey apartment development and Ira stronghold with barricaded entrances. Numerous vehicles were seized and converted to Street barricades. From behind them youths hurled fire bombs stones and bottles of acid at Security patrols. Cheering six year Olds watched. Police reported six arrests and one injury a youth shot in the leg by police using plastic bullets. Sands death was announced by the government s Northern Ireland office in a Brief statement saying he took his own life by refusing food and medical intervention for 66 he had been in a coma for two Days and his weight had fallen to less than 80 pounds from 155 pounds. His Mother Rosaleen and sister Marcella Kelly left the Maze in tears accompanied by two priests 53 minutes after he died. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher who had declared her government would not Grant political Sta Tus to convicted criminals now or at had no immediate comment on his death. Britain s minister for Northern ire land Humphrey Atkins said in a state ment that he regretted what he called the needless and pointless death. He expressed the profound Hope and prayer that the people of Northern Ireland will recognize the futility of violence and turn their faces away from the prime minister of the Irish re Public Charles Haughey also issued a statement appealing to All sections of the Irish people to remain Calm. He said he deeply regretted a Solu Tion could not have been found through a More flexible approach to the administration of the comment from Sands Brothers in arms came in statements from sinn fein the Legal political front for the Ira guerrillas. It accused Atkins and Haughey of being deceitful and hypo critical and said the world has witnessed at first hand the violence of the Mother of parliaments England on the peaceful protest of a Young imprisoned it called for a disciplined response from the angry and frustrated nation Alist prison sources said Sands body probably would be moved to his family s Home later today. He asked for the Ira to give him a full military funeral with burial in Belfast s Milltown Ceme Tery beside the Graves of Ira provos killed in action in Northern Ireland. Sands joined the provos at 18 but spent most of the next nine years of his life behind bars. He was jailed a few months after he enlisted and sentenced to five years for armed robbery attempted holdups and Possession of arms. Released in april 1975, he was arrested again nine months later after the bombing of a West Belfast warehouse and a shootout with police. In 1977, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for Possession of arms and it was while serving that sentence that he began his hunger strike March 1. As Media coverage of his fast mushroomed the Ira embarrassed the government by engineering his election april 9 to a vacant seat in the British parliament for a Catholic District of Northern Ireland. When he died the once obscure Pris Oner was the most famous member of the Ira ;