Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba H s Winnipeg free july 1981 Ransom slams grits talking through Media leaning Tower of strength leons Backhoe and towing service ran into some problems in trying to demolish the old Mccurdy Cement Hopper on Sargeant Avenue at Erin Street they Cut three beams in Hopes that the Tower would simply fall it then Tiey tied a Cable Over the top and tried to pull it that was Only partially there going to try to finish the the lined with weighs an estimated 20 cheers at orphan reunion by Deborah read there were lots of lots of laughter in the Blue room of the charter House hotel last each time a new person walked into the the already deafening commotion climbed a few decibels with shrieks of hugs and kisses and nonstop i think its confided one of the hotel reception a whole Bunch of them were standing in the lobby Here last we were getting tears in our eyes watching its really yesterday was the first Day of a three Day reunion for 180 alumni of the Winnipeg jewish i saw people i grew up with and haunt seen for 55 said Maurice of who entered the orphan age at the age of seven in 1918 with his two Brothers and two sometimes we were busting out in he especially when i heard the music teacher singing on tape i just went to flu epidemic the on Matheson was started in 1918 during the flu when the jewish Community of Winnipeg found itself overnight with Over 60 jewish boys and girls who were absolutely homeless and Parent said George Acker an alumnus from fort South it was called the jew ish orphanage and childrens Aid of Western and about Chil Dren had occupied the dormitory Beds by the time it closed in the Many of the children didst appreciate the strict discipline with which they were said Meyer of who came to the orphanage with his brother and sister in some left with hatred for the and didst want to know any thing More about it but gradually we overcame that he Freda from North entered the orphanage with six of her Brothers and Sisters in we thought we had entered head she we came from a broken Home and things were Tough with seven at the Home we were each Given a bed of our and we had three Square meals a and went to Public underweight table some had More to eat than Shieff was one of the children As signed to the underweight table at As Well As extra fruit and they had to take cod liver you went to school burping All said Shieff the reunion for Shieff was also a Chance to visit with five members of her family who made the trip to including her Sheila from los and a from its the most emotional thing Ive Ever said each time a new person comes in we just go in the hospitality Black and White snapshots cover two tables and several Wall boards fad ing snapshots of kids at summer kids mugging for the camera and hugging each the senior school band Pride and says the later pictures show Young men in military and pictures of grown parents with Chil Dren of their Welcome Welcome says an overhead i always Felt the Home was the greatest years of our said Ive never regretted a minute i spent explosion called tragic accident9 what started out As an innocent Experiment with a homemade grenade ended with a Young Man losing part of his a provincial court judge was told judge Sam Mauk was told the Inci Dent occurred june 3 while Robert Daniel and a Doug Las were testing a Home made grenade which Sligar had fashioned out of a gun and an assortment of other Sligar had twice tossed the grenade into an open Field and it failed to Holowasko then picked it up and it blowing away part of his hand and causing severe Burns to his neck and yesterday of Prevetti pleaded guilty to a charge ii possessing an explosive in connection with the incident and was granted a two year conditional in speaking to sentence both Crown attorney Greg Lawlor and defence counsel Ron Allan described the Inci labor Board reserves decision the Manitoba labor Board has re served decision on whether a waitress was illegally dismissed from her Job at the International inn for Union organizing the Board will make its decision in due chairman obie Baizley said after the Daylong Linda Lloyd filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the claiming she was dismissed on Uay 13 after working in the hotels Coffee shop for four months Haramic manage ment had Learned she had had discus Sions with other employees about Start ing a operations managers Roy Warman and Patricia Kolomic told the Hoard tribunal that their observations of Lloyds working performance Over several weeks made them decide she was unsuitable for the Kolomic said Lloyd was not Persona ble and did not smile she san customers had about although she could not provide specifics or say whether the were justified former hotel employees described now a factory As an adequate Kolomic and Warman disputed Lloyds Contention that she was fired because she was attempting to organize a saying they were unaware of her Union or political who has run for political office under the is president of the Only local of the fledgling technical Art Allied workers Dent As a tragic Allard said who is a lock describes himself As a tin one who fools around with differ ent when he fashioned his grenade he certainly had no intention of hurting Allard to say that Bob Sligar feels badly about what happened to his Friend would be a Gross the defence attorney in urging the court to consider imposing a Allard noted that his client has already suffered consid and nothing that happens Here will teach him a lesson he Hast Al ready after hearing the judge filinuk agreed it was a Case of an Experiment that unfortunately Back i assume youre not going to do anything As stupid As this judge Minuk told Sligar prior to or Dering that he not possess explosives of any son during the next two by Mary Ann flt Ferald Manitoba finance minister Brian Ransom said yesterday he considers it incredible that he has Only received Media reports that the Federal govern ment is proposing a oneyear to the 1978 North lands development agreement instead of signing a new its an incredible Way of conducting exchanges Between if i could find out what it Means and How much Money Ottawa plans to i would know How to respond the min ister said in an he said he had failed yesterday to reach regional economic expansion minister Pierre de Bane by Telephone and still has received no response to his june 25 telex concerning a new oneyear pact which has been essentially negotiated at the officials questioned in the commons earlier this week by Manitoba tory Jake de Bane said the Federal government has refused to sign a new North lands development agreement with the prov he Ottawa will extend for one year the 1976 agreement which expired March allowing study for the kind of mechanism that should be used to continue development of the Ransom said if the Extension Means a continuation of Federal funding at the us million to 118million level last year and includes the same Type of pro we can live with that for a in that that int what Treyve got in Extension or contraction very definitely the Federal govern ment intends to deliver More programs directly and not funnel them through the they want to deliver and they want credit i fear the Exten Sion int an but a drastic Ransom other provinces Are experiencing the same thing and most have come to the conclusion that the time is to be used for the Federal government to plan How to Deal More directly with peo ple and local they Are trying to bypass the provinces one Way or who budgeted this Spring for a i omillion Northern economic development said of the Ottawa would pay about under the old the Federal share had been million in 198041 and in the programs under the proposed new pact would include million in funding for the native University pro Gram conducted by Brandon universe Community Park de forestry forestry Access wild fur Northern employment programs and Money to help develop new Northern the Manitoba minister said he has been sending Tel exes since March 4 and at that time offered to go to Ottawa to work out a couple of matters to be settled at the ministerial de Bane responded that it was unclear As to just How this would further the current Progress in Nego the Federal minister said the agreements generally have served Well but some elements Are less than satisfactory to the Federal Ransom said he didst specify the unsatisfactory overpass decision reserved a Manitoba court of Queens Bench judge has reserved decision on a motion to quash a City Council Resolution to scrap the Sherbrook Mcgregor arguing in support of the motion before judge James lawyer Grant Webster said there is ample evidence the City has advocated construction of an Grant referred to the greater Winni Peg development plan which allows for an overpass in the Sherbrooke care Gor and said Council acted beyond its jurisdiction 4 when it passed a Resolution rejecting the City lawyer Marvin Sam pair said the greater Winnipeg development plan is not a specific Docu but suggests projects which Council May update or in the Case of the Council decided to scrap the 123million project in favor of upgrading six transportation corridors crossing up rails main filed after deadline according to the City of Winnipeg an individual contesting a Reso Lution or bylaw has three months to apply to have it Samphire noting the pro overpass motion was filed after the cited a Saskatchewan court decision which allowed such an Appeal after Grant is acting on behalf of Winnipeg businessman Al Christie who Heads a group of overpass two weeks Christie filed an injunction which prevented Council from consider ing whether to allow a Federal order permitting construction of the overpass to be the Canadian transport commission order was obtained by the City with a View to constructing the the civic executive policy committee re commended the order be but Council could not vote on the matter because of Chris ties court Quick Okay sought on Airport plans by John Mcmanu transport Canadas regional manager of airports and properties is seeking Quick approval to make Public a Mas Ter Airport plan that has been in the making since the master the major achieve ment of the Winnipeg area airports systems regarded As the Blue print for Canadian Airport is at the printers and should be in Ottawa by the end of july for review and Lynn Bishop said in an interview the master plan is seen As critical to the future of Winnipeg International Airport terminal dwarfed the Airport passenger terminal was built to meet the needs of a first generation of jetliners that carried 50 to itt passengers with loading Bridges too Low to accommodate the five Storey wide buried generation of Pasqui Flor jets introduced in the late the terminal size has been dwarfed not Only by aircraft but by com unit sized passenger loads up to with As Many As three giant jetliners passengers at one time at Winnipeg it was ironic that the study findings and recommendations were never implemented at but have been used to improve and expand airports in Sas Katona and the study that produced the master plan started with a budget of about and evolved into a open ended inti Afif of All air and ground problems in a 85 Kilometre arc of Southern Manitoba entered on before the study team was disbanded and absorbed in the regional office of it had its major recommendation accepted by the Liberal Cabinet three years no Money was allocated to meet the estimated f200 million costs of expanding the passenger and construction of a new control Tower and improving heading Ley inmates elude police search following escape police were continuing their search last night for two heading Ley mail in mates who escaped wednesday by scaling a Fence with a homemade a Winnipeg police spokesman said the two Victor Daniel and Christopher James were discovered missing from an exer Cise Yard in the minimum Security jail shortly after 5 Harris is described As about five feet six inches in about 140 with Brown hair and eyes and a Ruddy Ledwich is five feet seven inches in about 145 with Brown hair and Hazel coloured both men were wearing Blue shirts and Blue pants at the time of their i ;