Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Post August trustee pay be aired by Glen Mackenzie will get a Chance to Tell City school trustee How they feel about the 93 per cent pay raises they Are seeking at a meeting Winnipeg school Board chairman Mira Spivak said last night a motion to approve the which would be implemented Over the next three May be passed at that Spivak was commenting on the Opportunity for taxpayers to express their views after trustee Mary Kardash complained at a Board meeting last night that Public delegations Haven been Given the Opportunity to speak about the proposed pay at last nights trustees voted unanimously against giving themselves a 93percent pay voting instead for an average increase of 31 per cent for each of the next three trustees voted last month to approve a report by Winnipeg lawyer Ard Martin recommending a pay raise to 93percent More than the current honorarium of they voted 80 yesterday trustee Brian Dixon was absent to rescind that increase which would have included in pay retroactive from they voted 53 to raise the average trustees salary to a this is 31percent More than the current rate and is in addition to 10 percent increases trustees voted them selves in january and again in Spivak salary will Rise to up about per and Vic chairman Inez Stevenson rises to up about per if the trustees vote themselves the same percentage pay increases in 1982 and they will have raised the average trustees salary by 93 per the chairman will have increased by 55 per cent and the vice chairman by 79 per cent the percentage increases recommended by three opposed trustee Elizabeth Willcock stressed in an interview the increases will give the average trustee Only per cent More Money in 1981 than if the bylaw was not Spivak will get percent More Money and Stevenson trustees Mary Andy Robertson and Isobel Sudol voted against yesterdays Spivak said yesterday Shes maintained the 93percent increase was but she also said she Doest believe is excessive for a Winnipeg debate on the question yesterday produced the most heated exchanges Between trustees in trustee Margaret Trott charged Kardash opposed the increases be cause she belongs to the labor election Labelling it an Arm of the communist party of Kardash said while she is a communist and the lec includes several com the lec is not an Arm of the communist Robertson charged that pay increase proposals have always been initiated by such groups As the civic election a predecessor of the inde pendent citizens election trustees Willcock and Luba Fedorkiw have been endorsed by the ice at election scandalous raise Kardash called the proposed pay raise but Fedorkiw suggested it is scandalous that trustees who voted against it also say they will accept the in a related education minister Keith Cosens has endorsed the process which led to the proposed 93 percent pay in an 14 letter to Winnipeg resident Hallson of whellams Cosens said the Manitoba Public schools act gives trustees the right to set their own salaries and those of teachers and other in this it seems reasonable that a school Board turn to outside consultants to provide directly to the Board an impartial appraisal of some specialized aspect of the work of the school he Fri ii press Wes Pastuszenko of Adolphe surveys remains of some Corn in family vegetable Field of wheat wiped out in minutes by Hail storm by Gregg Shilliday Winnipeg free press Adolphe Irene Pastuszenko has been a Farmers wife for 25 years and has Learned to accept the vagaries of but As she stood in the smashed remains of 16 hectares 40 acres of wheat the Best shed Ever seen in that particular the Long time Adolphe resident help but wonder Why her family farm had to be the target of mondays vicious Hail it never hails in i was talking to some of the old timers last night and they said we had always managed to miss i guess we made up for it monday with the precision of a mondays storm sliced through the Pastuszenko wheat levelling it like a but unlike a the storm left the wheat smashed and Pastuszenko said her Hus has decided to plow the broken Grain under and try again next its a no doubt about we were looking to get at least 50 bushels an acre this people All around Here would Stop by and ask us if we thought wed get but a half hour storm comes along and its All Pastuszenko said her husband had crop but crop insurance never completely covers crop our flax want damaged too so we should get through year All stripped of leaves and with More than a Trace of Gallows Pastuszenko waved towards a line of naked poplars near her stripped of their they stood White and skeletal against the midday incongruous patches of snowline Hail Lay in clumps around the base of the it looks Doest it All those Bare but maybe we had too much Shade around the House any the storm also destroyed their Gar Den and left tiny dents All Over the siding of their House and their Pastuszenko said when she and her husband saw the size of the Hail they were surprised there want even More they were the size of they were coming Down so hard we All went into the basement until it was several Farmers near the Pastuszenko farm were also hard As Well As a few area Market but most serious damage seemed to be limited to a strip just South of the the nearby Glen Lea research Sta operated by the University of Manitoba agricultural was also recovering yesterday from the researcher Donna Jewell said the stations oat crop was completely Des along with a Large portion of the Sunflower she said 43 Milieu metres of plus the fell on the farm during a Hal Miour it came As quite a Shock to weve never seen anything like that admits towing report errors by Joe Rubin police chief Ken Johnston yesterday admitted that police used incorrect information in compiling a report which recommended the cites towing contract be awarded to Hiway and metro in a letter to civic finance com which endorsed Hiway tender july Johnston said he has substantiated allegations made by two rival towing the companies Auto Rescue Tow ing and 55757 Manitoba for Merly United towing services said Hiway storage lot was not Square metres As stated in the police report and the area was neither fenced nor police rechecked the lot at 67 Archi Bald Avenue and found it to be Square metres very much smaller in size than had originally been report Johnston said a two metre Chain link Fence is being but no lights have been installed Council vote tonight despite the discrepancies Between the original police report and the actual Johnston still recommended awarding the towing contract to i City Council is expected to vote on the matter finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky said police will not accept Hiway contract unless the company provides the proper Fence and he said he intends to discuss with police a policy to Check out future tenders before they Are the chief said the police officers who originally inspected the site did not submit any information As to its the traffic division inspector interpreted the size of the property from a diagram which had been submitted in the and As a when he submitted his it contained inaccurate information on the size of the Johnston said Hiway has assured him that another Section of property has been leased on water although the lot will hold another 100 cars and is enclosed by a Chain link there Are no lights or office building on the property at this he the police chief said 55757 Manitoba would not be a suitable towing company for the City because its lot about Square metres is smaller than the combined area of Hiway two although Auto Rescue towing has Good storage Johnston said one of the company compounds re quires some lighting Don Gerrie said he was concerned that a portion of Hiway Stor age lot had a no Asphalt after a he pools of water in the gravel May make it difficult for ladies who might not have their rubbers Gerry Ducharme pointed out that United towing the cites current contract Holder which was placed into did not have an Asphalt covered under the terms of the tender Hiway will charge a vehicle for towing trucks and smaller single Axle vehicles without the use of it will charge for vehicles if dollies Are Auto Rescue towing and 55757 Mani Toba said they would charge and respectively for towing without dollies and and respectively if dollies were required Hiway also has committed itself to driving motorists to their towed away cars if no bus service is available and the request is made at a reasonable the company also has promised there will be no charge to motorists who arrive in time to catch Tow trucks hooking up their cars if dollies have not been placed under the aut Opac to Amend regulation by Pamela Fayerman the insurance corporation plans to Amend its preferred rate making it tougher on Drivers with preferred coverage to get away with taking their cars to the action follows a ruling by the Manitoba court of Appeal in which Justice Gordon Hall said if it is the intention of aut Opac to exclude coverage for frequent or regu Lar use of the insured vehicle to and from the words in the regulations should suitably reflect that under the preferred which carries the lowest possible an insured vehicle cannot be primarily driven to or from the regulations further stipulate that the vehicle insured under the preferred rate cannot primarily be used in any Busi Ness or or be driven by an unmarried person under age the use of the adverb primarily is not an Apt expression of this intention and the regulation should be Amend judge Hall aut Opac general manager Dutton was not available for comment Auto acs Gener Al Legal Shanti said an appropriate word will be found to replace the word ruling upheld Kapoor could not say when the change would be but said it can be achieved through an order noun a relatively simple criticism of the wording in aut Opac regulations came in an Appeal court decision that upheld a ruling earlier this year that aut Opac must pay the repair Bill of a Winnipeg Man who was refused coverage because a topic claimed he had been driving his car to work with a preferred thereby breaching the terms of his the Sam died in before his Case was judge Hall said frequent use May not be the same As primary use and in Fleisher Case aut Opac failed to prove that the primary use of the insured vehicle was for the purpose of driving to and from it May be that the driving to and from work represented Only 20 per cent of the cars mileage and that driving for pleasure or other social purposes represented 80 per cent of the cars the judge Fleisher station Wagon was damaged in by an employee who had been asked to drive it to a Gas politicians dont expect High Marks on moral report cards Lauchlan doubts his batting average would be 50 with fundamentalists by Maryann Fitio Erald some Manitoba politicians say they May not fare top Well on a moral report which the provincial Branch of Renaissance a fundamentalist is proposing for candidates in the next provincial i doubt if my batting average would be More than 50 per speculated Liberal Leader boy Tsueh a United i Jont the talc they Wotty Back new democratic shy caucus chairman Jim they agree with my Nojami ended progressive party Leader Sidney four Cabinet ministers said they didst know Tow they would rate on such a report card based on a Ransom Suttek to moral issues politicians of the other the tories said they would have to make their decision on whether to respond to the Survey by Renaissance International on the basis of the questions i would be prepared to answer any questions at a town Hall but i would hesitate to answer them on a score said health minister Bud if they want Black and White answers on very compelling moral and social it would be unfair to demand Renaissance a hard line conservative interest group com posed a Janjy of has pro posed a plan similar to that of the Mora majority in the United to assess candidates moral standards on the basis of questionnaires re Terry a consultant to said candidates would score highly if they oppose favor capital punishment and support More Public funding for private Renaissance would also endorse candidates opposed to legalized education in the to for women Gay Renaissance said its Manitoba Jeanv pain will be part of a National Effort to bring evangelical Christian values to Bear on electoral finance minister irian Ransom said if they Deal strictly with moral issues they Are entitled to quiz but i get More concerned if the Church begins to take stands on things that Are purely secular there is a danger to churches if they become simply another pressure group on the basis of news re suggested the questions were a Strong nig of moral and no moral it is almost presumptuous or some one w set himself up As a if it fran Jay acknowledged it was a political pressure i would Nave no Liberal admitting he had some anxieties about such a he said he would probably warn Liberal candidates to be sure in answering any Aires that they Are not forced into a position that does not reflect their Qreen noted the necessity of Promise within political parties in a democratic Walding suggested single interest groups could be dangerous to the democratic they want Only one thing and dont judge the rest of the party government services minister Warner Jorgenson and Community services minister George Minaker said their Job is to represent their constituents and to Tell them where they my responsibility int to re put to the people who elect Jorgenson 1 ;