Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sweeps dress entertainment Dick Clark a sports when the cheers Leisure dreams Over the Rainbow sinners saints out to help kids by Maria Bohuslawsky the saints and sinners baseball teams will Settle a grudge next sunday but it will be a grudge match with a difference. The teams will participate in a base Ball game pitting ramp officers from the Stonewall detachment against in mates of the Rockwood institution a farm Annex at Stony Mountain Penitentiary. But there s no league championship at stake. Instead the teams will be raising Money for the Sunshine fund so children can go to Camp. The proceeds from the july 5 game set for 7 . At Charlie Krupp memorial stadium on Mcphillops Street will help the fund to reach its goal of sending at least 200 children to Camp this summer. So far 92 children have been placed sunny today 28 Cloudy tonight 15 saturday june ivol109n0176 free pres Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets in Camps and the number grows weekly. Two Winters ago the saints creamed the sinners in a hockey game at the Winnipeg Arena and preparations for the Day of reckoning Are fierce. Ronald Todd of Rockwood said their team has been practising extra hard four hours daily and has some pretty fair pitchers. Sven Kjear a Rockwood guard admitted the ramp has a Good team. They re going to get a Bunch of healthy Young Guys from recruit school see Anonymous Page 4 final 200 with supplements Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 second class Mil registration number 0286 burned by fire insurer by Gregg Shilliday Fred Armstrong was understand ably depressed when his restaurant burned dec. 13. He had poured his life s savings into the cake and Steak eatery that bore his name at 2523 Portage ave nue and standing that fateful night in the bumped qut Shell of his restau rant he could t see How things could get any worse. Then he found out his insurance company had gone broke. Seven months later Armstrong says he s been reduced to cleaning out his children s Bank accounts and doing Odd jobs to pay his Bills. Can t borrow from my friends anymore., i m completely broke. And 1 guess you could say i m pretty god Damn Armstrong will Likely be paid at least part of his policy but he says he s waited so Long he s beginning to wonder if hell Ever get any Money. Pressure applied my Bank has been pretty Good but some of my creditors have been put Ting on a Little pressure. I Don t blame them but they should be after the government not Armstrong said he Felt the Federal government should have stepped in to cover insurance claims after the company closed. He said if the govern ment can help big businesses in Finan Cial trouble Why not Little Guys like his insurance policy bought through Aronovitch and Leipsic was held by Strathcona general insurance of Toronto. The Federal superintendent of insurance office took Over the company in March when it deter mined the firm was no longer in a position to pay claims. Larry Savage of the superintendent s office in Ottawa said in an interview yesterday that he hoped a partial Cheque could be sent to Strong soon. He acknowledged that Many delays have set Back the payout blamed it on the amount of work involved in taking Over a company. Our office was appointed rehab i Livator March 17. Since then we be had to hire an agent set up a consortium of businesses to Settle the out standing claims and generally get everything in order. That All takes Wayne free press Fred Armstrong plans to put his foot Down on delays in processing his fire insurance claim. Savage explained that a group of insurance companies and brokers took Over Strathcona s liabilities because of concern about the entire Industry s reputation. He said outstanding claims stood at million in March of which Only million has been paid in the Federal superintendent s office out to Date. More than claims Are until he gets a Cheque being processed. My House is for Sale. Creditors meanwhile Armstrong says Are banging on Rny door. I m going to up. After seven months of promises let them know i m tired of being he s decided to Fly to Ottawa and wait screwed soviets rattle sabres in Poland Warsaw pact members believed urging crackdown on Solidarity Union Warsaw a soviet and polish troops were i manoeuvres in Southern Poland yesterday As Czechoslovakia Hungary arid Bulgaria sent messages to Poland s communist leadership believed urging a crackdown on the inde pendent Union Solidarity. The official polish news Agency Pap reported that the joint manoeuvres under Way in the Silesia military District had been scheduled Long ago and were poles fleeing to in London senior nato authorities said they saw no indication a soviet led military intervention was planned. But observers indicated they were Likely being used to exert pressure on the polish communist party to halt the country s 10-month-old wave of Liberal reforms. Extended manoeuvres in Poland Czechoslovakia and East Germany by 18 Warsaw pact divisions concluded april 7 after three weeks of War games which raised alarm in Western capitals Over possible soviet led military intervention. Despite reduced concern this time nato military leaders said the Spring manoeuvres had activated a sophisticated communications network linking the red army general staff with Mil itary Headquarters in East Germany Poland and Czechoslovakia. They said that had enhanced the capability of the Warsaw pact forces to intervene at Short notice. Although the polish news Agency said the latest exercises were Long scheduled the announcement s timing coincided with word that messages were sent to the polish communist Leader ship from the leaders of Czechoslovakia Hungary and Bulgaria. Official sources said they had not seen the text of the latest messages. But they speculated they echoed the Kremlin line Laid Down in a letter sent to the polish communist party Central committee before it held a hastily called session june 10. Soviet warning the soviet warning from the soviet party Central committee urged firm action against counter revolutionary and anti socialist elements and lev Elled direct criticism at polish party Leader Stanislaw Kania. Kania accused of failing to contain the Reform movement survived an attempt by party hardliners to topple him. Last weekend the official spokesman for the soviet Central committee said in Moscow the time had Corne for Deci Sive action to pull Poland out of a catastrophic Western analysts said the statements by Leonid Zamyatin could be interpreted to mean the soviets were considering Mili tary intervention before the polish communist party Congress convenes july 14. The 140-member polish party s Cen trial committee is to Convene next week after the grassroots selection of Dele Gates to the july party Congress is completed an official source said. Meanwhile the polish Media reported that a leading hardliner launched a fresh attack on liberalization and the breakdown of discipline in the polish communist party. The attack was made by politburo member Tadeusz Grabski who led the abortive attempt to topple Kania. Grabski echoed soviet bloc warnings that the polish party could break up saying party discipline had gone wild in electoral conferences in the cities of Lublin who clawed and Torun and that in the City of Piotrow attempts were made to dilute the party s marxist ideology with Christian democracy. Mail talks break off strike Likely by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Canadian Union of postal workers yesterday walked out of contract negotiations with the Feder Al government increasing the Chance of a National mail strike after Midnight monday. Cup president Jean Claude Parrot said yesterday in an interview it is up to Treasury Board president Don John Ston to Telephone him if he wants talks to resume during the weekend. Johnston said yesterday he Hopes the cup walkout is temporary but he dodged the question of whether he is prepared to make the Call. Parrot said he left the talks after hours yesterday because the govern ment refused to Deal with a variety of recommendations proposed by conciliator Pierre Jasmin. They re acting like there has been no conciliation at Parrot said. They be taken the same position As they had last january. We re saying that it s Only a few hours before monday night and it s time to get Parrot said. Well be ready to talk with them until monday night but there s no use unless they re willing to move on some Johnston said his men never got a Chance to put proposals on the table dealing with the key Issue of maternity leave before Parrot walked out. Conciliator Jasmin has recommended 17 weeks of paid maternity leave and the Union has demanded 20 weeks. See maternity Page 4 Manitoba to Stop jailing offenders unable to pay Fine by Gregg Shilliday the so called debtors prison Era in Manitoba will end next year when the attorney general s department establishes a program in which offenders can work off fines by doing Community service. Assistant Deputy attorney general Gil Goodman said yesterday a new administrator of court services has been hired to dismantle the system of jailing offenders who cannot afford to pay a Fine. Goodman said it is pointless from both a sociological and economic View to jail people who cannot afford to pay fines for minor convictions. We want to keep people out of jail. Rehabilitation does t appear to work and it costs a lot of Money to incarcerate people. There has to be a better Goodman said similar programs in Alberta and Saskatchewan Are being studied to steal their Good ideas and ignore their he said the government was particularly concerned about not upsetting the labor Force. We have to be sure that we select Community service programs that Are useful but that won t be easily filled by people looking for he said the attorney general s department had considered Fine option programs in the past but had not really resurrected the concept until a year ago. He said he hoped to have a first stage in operation by the beginning of 1982. Department of Community services and corrections statistics show persons were jailed for non payment of fines Between october and december 1980. Of those 50.4 per cent were natives. The aggregate number of Days in jail was at roughly a Day in prisoner costs the province spent about during three months to jail persons who could t or would t pay minor fines. Corrections statistician or. Alan Hel Lyer said he Felt the Community service concept for payment of fines was very sensible. The Way it is now we d be farther ahead if we gave them All a couple of Hundred Bucks and sent them Home. It s just not economically feasible to continue like taxi fares go up 16% on aug. 4 Winnipeg taxi users will pay More for an average five mile trip in the City beginning aug. 4 As a result of a 16 per cent fare increase granted by the provincial taxicab Board. The Cost of a five mile trip with a five minute metered waiting time will Rise to from the current Board Secretary r. E. Leech said yesterday. Kenneth Chadwell vice president of the greater Winnipeg taxicab owners association said it is a far cry from what we were Well have to go Back again fairly Chadwell said taxi owners were granted their last fare increase in March 1980, when fares were raised 25 per cent. Under the terms of the aug. 4 in crease taxi users will pay for the first tenth of a mile or fraction of that distance plus 10 cents thereafter for each tenth of a mile plus 10 cents for each 30 seconds of waiting time. Under the present formula Passen Gers pay for the first one eighth of a mile plus 10 cents for each additional eighth of a mile and 10 cents for each 30 seconds of metered waiting time. Oil Deal eyed the Canada development corp. Is the key in a Complex three country Deal which could result in Canadian ownership of important Petroleum and Mineral card cancelled Assiniboia Downs owner Michael Gobuty said last night he respected the decision of jockeys at the track who voted not to ride because of unsafe track Garrison move a North Dakota Union May take the initiative to bring the state and Manitoba governments closer together on the Garrison water diversion More crazies a reporter takes a look at the growing trend to More Spectator and athlete violence in professional Index answers. 73 business.66 careers. 53 classified.42 editorials. 6 entertainment.29 homefinder.81 Jumble puzzle.46 Jumble entry.27 legals.40 letters.7 movies.34 Russell. 7 21 sports record.26 stocks.68 sullivan.73 to listings.73 Werier. 6 ;