Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 3 communists present petition for party status by Ingeborg Boyens the Manitoba communist party yesterday presented the governments elections office with a petition to support its claim to party but party Leader Paula Fletcher made it Clear the names were collected under party workers were forced to drum up supporters because the new elections finances act states a party must have signed supporters or four sitting members in the legislature to be registered in an Howe neither the Liberal party nor the James free press new progressive party have been required to do the same sort of Canvas the working people of Manitoba have made it Clear to those who passed this Law and those who tacitly supported it that they believe the communist party has every right to be registered and appear on the ballot As it has for she the elections office will be review ing the authenticity of the communist petition during the next two weeks before it confers party Fletcher said it took party workers almost three months to collect the signatures since Only those people eligible to vote during the 197 election could party workers had to eliminate All prospective candidates who were younger than 22 years of new citizens and new about residents in West and Central Winnipeg were approached before the necessary list was drawn she its not an easy thing to she yet the communist party Felt compelled to go through with the exercise to prove to the Manitoba government that it had the backing of the said the party Leader said the elections finances approved last was clearly discriminatory to Minori tyo Pinion parties like the comm this act says certain political parties no longer have a right to she the act ignores the 60year history of the communist party and its past Suc Cess in electing members to the Mani Toba she Fletcher said it was wrong that the progressive which has no his could avoid the exercise just because three of its members were former nip after initially being refused Regis three vehicle pileup a Man uses his weight to help free his truck As a Tow truck starts removing a damaged car after a three vehicle pileup at William Avenue and Arlington Street yesterday at least one person was taken to Hospital after the priest convicted on fraud counts Deacon lost Given for business investments and in Aid of lepers a roman Catholic priest was convicted in provincial judges court yesterday on two charges of fraud involving about he received from a Church Deacon in 1973 for business investments and Aid to african Pius Emanuel was convicted after a trial before judge Ian he was remanded one week for court was told the accused was a priest in and has been on a leave of absence since judge Ubienski acquitted Finnin on a unrelated fraud charge in which the complainant testified he gave a Man a investment in what he took to be a mining and was never the Donald Graham Smith of said he believed the Man was but did not meet him facet face during the he said they dealt Over the Telephone and by judge Ubienski said he must be satisfied of the accused identity beyond any reasonable he said that although his suspicions Are great and it probably was the accused who was involved in this suspicions alone Are not sufficient grounds for the Church Wilfred Joseph testified he met Finnin in and was told the accused had investments that would earn great the idea was that the profits would be so great that he could repay the Money to us plus and still there would be enough left Over to help charities involved with african Barre said he gave Finnin in and another the following none of the Money was Ever letter was sent Finnin sent him a letter exhorting Barre to withdraw Money from his Bank account and to sell his the Dye is to take a plunge to specifically insure the grand Chris Tian design we have for the the letter i have taken the decision to take Hydro Export pro fits drying up the Summers warm weather has been drying up Manitoba Hydro Export with August sales Down million from last although summer rainfall was relatively Normal following the Spring warm temperatures resulted in High evaporation and poor Runoff in the resort areas of Lake of the Lake Winnipeg and the Winnipeg a Hydro statement the conditions have had no effect on Hydro Manitoba Don spokesman for the said but they have reduced the amount of surplus electricity Avail Able for in Hydro Export reve Nues totalled Comstock but last the Utility sold Only million Worth of electricity to out of province the downturn in sales have Contri buted to Hydro already poor 19811982 financial the Utility lost million during its first Quarter which ended june com pared with for the same period in much of the loss was caused by a drop in extra provincial said Bob Hydro head of corporate accounting and financial the Utility earned million from such sales during the first Quarter of its current fiscal a drop of million from the same period in 1980 he total Revenue of million for the first Quarter was Down the worst is Brennan As we get into the heating revenues go he control of a Multi Complex in the mining Field coupled with the strength of very powerful people in new York and to we shall make history for the Good of gods wanting it Contin adding that lepers Are our beat for the love of god and the great Comfort of those Barre said that soon he and his wife lost Contact with after several years of they began making inquiries and tracked him Down to a Toronto Motel Barre said they asked for their Money but Finnin gave them the same that it was not the right time to take monies he said they became suspicious and called judge Ubienski noted that during their the priests actions were clouded by he said there was no doubt in his mind that he developed a fraudulent he said he was satisfied the accused was acting deceitfully and deprived the complainant of his traction by the government election the progressives won a court decision in june granting them party like the Liberal they were registered under a special clause in the act that states All parties which held at least one seat in the legislature at the time of proclamation would be Fletcher said the party didst go through with the work of collecting the names just so its name would be mentioned on the ballots and so it could Issue tax she there was a psychological and moral reason As we cant be thrown Fletcher presents petition Escaper says he was beaten during arrest by Murray Mcneill Stony Mountain Penitentiary Escaper Lloyd James Appleyard claims he was beaten by Winnipeg police officers who arrested him Early thursday at a Winnipeg the beating allegation was made yesterday when Appleyard serving a 13year prison term for manslaughter made his first court appear Ance since his face bruised Hes suffered a Appleyard Richard told provincial court judge Sam Appleyard face was bruised and and when he walked into the courtroom a Young woman in the audience burst out Wolson told judge Minuk that a who was handcuffed for yesterdays court has already told him he wants to Lodge a formal police brutality complaint with the Winnipeg police Wolson said he was raising the allegation in court because it was the first Opportunity Appleyard has had since his arrest to make his allegation at the request of the a was then remanded in custody without plea to next Wolson said in an interview later that a decision on whether to Lodge a formal complaint with police chief Ken John Ston probably wont be made until after he receives particulars from the Crown As to the police version of what happened when Appleyard was Johnston said in a interview yester Day he want aware of Appleyard he added that if a formal complaint is an internal police investigation will be charged with assault Appleyard appeared in court yester Day charged with three counts of assaulting a police one of possess ing a dangerous one of and one of resisting the charges Stem from incidents that occurred while police were attempting to arrest a suspect Early thursday at an Eaton Street Winnipeg police crime Herb Stephen said yesterday that when offi cers arrived at the House at about 3 a Man climbed onto the roof and jumped to the roof of the House next he then Tore apart a television Antenna mounted on the second Library resignation prompts committee meeting by Joe Rubin John the cites chief Library will leave his Post at the end of the the second senior librarian to resign in the last said yesterday he decided to retire he would not comment on his reasons for i dont intend to go into details at this particular said who was appointed chief librarian in assistant City librarian Roy Bonin left his Job 28 for a position with the University of the recreation and social services committee is expected to meet with the Winnipeg Library Board next week to discuss areas of discontent which May have prompted the recent Resigna the Library Board acts As a Liaison Between the Community committees and the recreation Board chairman Magnus Elia son said the recreation which is responsible for the Library is sometimes a bit removed from what amalgamation cited i imagine there Are Guys there on the committee who dont know what the issues Are and who wonder Why libraries ask for various As an and hoc committee com posed of councillors Jim Evelyn Reese and Harvey Smith has been struck to review the Library Moore said the amalgamation of the Library system was bound to leave some people the councillor said he Doest think theres enough dialogue Between the Board and the a solution might be to have a com Mittee member on the Library said adding that its been difficult to get people to sit on the Reese warned that the resignations should not be she people leave simply because they can get better wages librarians Are losing when they work for the she the City has already advertised nationally for boning replacement and will do the same for Moore the competitions Are also open to local he the new fathers of award winning cartoon Roschkow new cartoonist Victor Winner of the 1980 National newspaper award for joins the free press monday As editorial was born in Kiev in the Ukraine and moved to Canada with his family after the second world he grew up in and in 1972 joined the Windsor Star As editorial Page in he became a political cartoonist and Illustrator at the Toronto Rosc Kovs cartoons will appear on the free press editorial Page from monday to Phil who has returned to Toronto to study illustration and work As a freelance will resume his gallery feature on the saturday editorial Page later this and armed himself with a piece of Stephen when the Man refused to come Down from the a fire department pumper was called in to Spray water on the roof in an attempt to Force him the superintendent when that the officers climbed up to get a struggle ensued and the suspect was eventually subdued and taken into in addition to the charges he is facing in connection with the incident on Eaton Appleyard is also expected to be charged by the ramp with one count of escaping lawful custody As a result of his escape from the Stony Mountain and one count of abduction As a result of an incident that occurred the same Day of his several hours after Appleyard walked away from a paint Crew work ing outside the prison Walls on a Man armed with a knife abducted a who was Riding his motorcycle in a Field near the intersection of highways 9 and the Man forced the boy to drive him into and had him drop him off near Kingsbury Avenue in the cites North the boy was not injured in the ramp said they expect Appleyard to appear in provincial judges court in Stonewall on 21 to face the escape and abduction woman accused in death a Winnipeg woman has been charged with manslaughter following the death of her aged in Hospital Thelma Yvonne of Bur rows was arrested and charged she appeared in provincial judges court yesterday and was remanded into custody without plea to the charge was Laid after her Moth Emily of Alexander ave died from a blood infection that developed after she was admitted to Hospital with several broken ribs Winnipeg police crime Herb Stephen said yesterday the victim suffered the broken ribs after she was kicked in the the assault is alleged to have occurred during an argument in the victims Home on Stephen said police didst learn of the assault or the woman death until he said he didst know Why they we rent told but added these things i he said an investigation was launched immediately after news of Hotomanie five charged after raid Winnipeg vice officers have charged five persons with drug offences follow ing a raid thursday on a Portage Avenue vice Clark Peckover said yesterday those charged include two juvenile aged 16 and and two aged 18 and and a they face charges ranging from simple Possession to trafficking in Peckover said the five were among a total of 11 persons arrested thursday afternoon when vice detectives raided the a and w 367 Portage ave the other six who were arrested were later released without being the amount of drugs seized in the arrests ranged from six to 30 he ;