Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bailiff seizes car woman paid for in Cash a 75yeafold Winnipeg woman had her Caf Aenied by a Bailiff even though she had paid for it in Cash seven months Dave the woman said yesterday the Bailiff was sent by management of Southwood Chev Olds who claim ownership of the but he said he bought the car with his mothers savings from Vintage Auto sales on Marion which apparently was leasing it from Michie paid for the 1980 and now has Little Hope of Ever getting her Money she Hast stopped crying for two Days since the Damn i cafe by the time this litigation is Over my Mother Wilt be Michie is apparently one of several people slated to have their ears repossessed by the Vintage Auto sales is now it operated from the same address As Tifft Economy a National firm with head offices in Paul general Man Ager of says it is Normal practice to lease cars to rental com lease periods Range from 3 to 18 the lease was All paid up but expired on these 12 we did tit audit and found 12 ears were said Helen spokesman for Eft Economy said today the company is investigating hew Many ears have been repossessed and whether there has been a breakdown in communications or some other prob Dreger said Vintage is not connected with her but Michie says those who sold him the car from Vin Tage Are connected with Dreger said the ears her company normally leases have an option to so it would not be unusual if some of them were eventually she said it is ton Early to Tell whether people who have had their ears repossessed will be Able to recover them or get some form of Bompensa a Winnipeg police department spokesman said the matter is under Eton May also have sold As Many As 76 ears across Canada which were being teased from Holiday Holiday president Sherrold Haddad refused to discuss the saying its a business transaction it is a confidential its nobody Clear tonight 14 sunny tomorrow 27 August 109 no 225 t n free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 delivery 9570880 Clampf Pmj 9562330 cot id class mail of fiction number 0288 Dave free press Ian Henderson is unsure of what to do with insulation in his Home and study that condemns fear of urea formaldehyde wafts through houses by Ingeborg Boyens Ian Henderson gave up smoking this thinking an end to the Blue Haze would Clear his wife inflamed with cigarettes Laid he suspects the foam insulation in his Riverview Home is a More Likely source of Alicia the hendersons Are among some Manitoba families who insulated their Homes with urea eight months after the Feder Al government pulled the product off the they remain unsure of its effects on their health and the value of their across the panicked Home owners have ripped out Interior Walls at a Cost of up to to rid their Homes of the neither Ottawa nor the provincial which provide Money to Energy conscious have offered compensation to people coping with the aftereffects of trouble with foam parti i got a Cheque from the government thank you for con serving then you find out its taxable and then this happens and they say its not their Hen Derson Many insulation like custom insulating systems which did the Hen Derson have disappeared from the leaving homeowners no Means to get about Winnipeg Homes have been insulated with the Aid of Home insulation program More than of officials were done with the some Manitoba homeowners also took advantage of the Manitoba Home insulation loan Offu vials think about to of these Homes were insulated with urea form complaints to Date about vapor Only reflect the tip of the iceberg of formaldehyde said Doug hacking of the Manitoba housing and renewal hacking said a handful of Home owners in Manitoba have torn out Walls and removed the he said none wanted to be identified be cause of fears that they might never be Able to resell their see urea Page 4 ramp report urges sweeping changes Ottawa up police in Canada would no longer be Able to cheat and steal their Way into convicting suspects if recommendations in the Mcdonald report on the ramp Are implemented by in a report made Public Justice David Mcdonald recommends that judges be empowered to throw out evidence that is illegally obtained by he also proposes that police entrapment luring a per son into committing a then arresting him be grounds for throw ing out a these Are Radical proposals Long fought off by ramp and police in general As technicalities that would allow criminals to go judge Mcdonald says the result is that mounties at least have become convinced that because judges dont criticize tin ethical or illegal Means of gaining through unauthorized wiretaps or searches without judicial for they Are Condon ing such he refers to a number of court Deci Sions that senior mounties referred to As support for their position that what they were doing was report details on Page 8 d creation of a Security service divorced from the ramp with strict controls on its d changing Federal and provincial Laws to allow physical surveillance of individuals by members of the d controlling undercover operations with strict guidelines forbidding such things As illegal acts and outline acceptable forms of d allowing controlled surreptitious entry of premises As Well As mail opening to obtain information about espionage or foreign interference or political violence d allowing release of government information on individuals to Security forces under certain d instituting review of controls of ramp investigative work by Federal and provincial ministers d asking Law Reform commission if criminal code should be amended to allow peace officers to make surreptitious d outlawing evidence that would tend to bring the administration of Justice into the focus of the reports 285 recommendations is on National the key that a new civilian Agency be created to replace the ramp Security was quickly adopted by solicitor general Robert re leasing the report yester announced that Justice depart ment official Fred has been appointed to create and run the new the report also strongly condemns see report Page 4 Gas rate increase okayed the typical greater Winnipeg Gas consumer will pay an extra a month until the end of the year under a rate increase approved yesterday by the Public utilities the together with two others earlier this Means Home owners will be paying Between 11 and 12 per cent More for natural Gas than they were at the Start of William counsel for the utilities said the Gas company was awarded the rate increase to offset the costs of last Winters prolonged labor higher labor costs and increased property the increase May be Cut Back by a further Board order in january and will Likely average about a month for most Consumers during the next Gardner said the Board was aware of the negative effects of this years three rate increases on but he said greater Winnipeg Gas could not have survived without additional reve federally imposed excise taxes have pushed Gas prices up 60 cents per million cubic feet this a cent increase was approved in june to cover the Purchase costs of Petrosina Canada and another five percent boost was authorized on july 1 under the National Energy the last application for a direct rate increase was made and granted in the Board regretful hat it cannot curtail or diminish increases in the Cost of Gas the order As much As the Board May wish to effect such it has no jurisdiction to do the Board at least ensures that utilities under its jurisdiction Are not permitted to make profits directly from the Gas they said few other industries Are As comple Tely regulated in every aspect of their said the Gardner said Gas company workers should not be blamed for increased costs to costs resulting from major labor disputes and can fall heavily on everyone workers and their families of on the affected said the the Board lawyer said homeowners should remember they received Ade quate service for their Money Dur ing the labor the 79day strike Cost greater Winni Peg Gas or 10 per cent of increased overtime paid to supervisory staff who stayed on the Job amounted to More than the Security Bill was an additional the company saved million in salaries it would normally have paid to the 15percent wage increase and improved benefits that the dispute will Cost the company an other the firm is also expecting increased property tax costs in 1981 of the company told the Board it needed million More in revenues this year than it did in squabble Over costs stalls Mercury probe by Ritchie Gage squabbling among four Federal government departments is delaying a proposed study on the source of Mercury pollution affecting some Northern Manitoba the Snag is a failure by the depart ments to reach agreement on their respective shares of the an Drew director general of the Western and Northern Section of environment Canada in said no one is resting on their Macpherson the project is under Active but no department wants to pay for a project not specifically in its tests by the Federal department of health and welfare completed last year showed Levels of Mercury in the blood of some indians and Metis in South Indian Lake and other communities exceeded health Mercury Levels in fish in the Waters affected by Manitoba Hydro diversion of Churchill River water into the Nel son River system have increased since according to Federal fisheries the Federal government has been monitoring the Rivers and lakes in the Southern Indian Lake in Partick since the Lake is a major com Mercial fishing a study to detect the source of the Mercury is one of several proposed by the Manitoba government under the Canada water which Calls for Federal provincial Cost George Manitoba Assis Tant Deputy environment said he was aware that the Federal depart ments of Indian health and welfare and fisheries and oceans were having difficulty deciding i think theres a cer Tain amount of embarrassment at the he the Man in charge of much of the assessment of the Manitoba Hydro diversion and its environmental Impact on the Churchill and Nelson Rivers is Robert a project Leader with the fisheries and oceans depart were in a state of ignorance about Mercury and were almost broke on the project were he holy capacitor in the raiders of the lost the Ark of the covenant contains incredible in real some people believe the precise design of the Ark made it a kind of electrical artists1 lament printmakers Ted Howorth and Chris finn have joined forces to Deal with the tangled web of funding Art exhibitions in their own artistic dread ahead economic indicators warn of Tough times ahead and experts say canadians take the dollars recent gains As a sign of better economic food prices Cut Canada Safeway and Dominion stores Are reducing prices on some perishables in what seems to be an attempt to prepare for a scheduled strike this Index Ann 29 39 25 63 23 51 6 Jumble Millroy on 35 7 57 sports to ;