Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd Winnipeg free september 3 obey runs big game by Gregg shh Day John professional Gam Bler and inveterate Fig ures he has the answer to Canadas economic woes take the Bank of Canada to in response to his latest gambling the interim Leader of the Ontario social credit party has filed an Appeal in the Federal court of Canada charging Gerald governor of the with operating a gaming in trying to get him charged with the same thing that they charged me Turmel said yesterday outside the Portage and main Branch of the Bank of Bouey lot bigger gaming House than i Ever did and Hes doing it with our lonely War along with his brother and was picketing the Bank yesterday afternoon As part of his lonely economic guerrilla War against the banking judging by the number of motorists honking in response to his placard honk if interest rate is Winni Eggers Are ready to listen to any kind of solution to High interest Turmel has run in 10 Ontario elections in the last two years provincial and he has lost them but he says Hes not Dis As a he figures the Odds will come around eventual i took a gambling course when i was in engineering at Carlton University in i know All about people Are beginning to who has already served a Short jail sentence for said he finances his political career through he wont say How much he earns each but he does allow that he Doest have to work biggest win i do remember taking off this millionaire i guess that was my biggest Turmel said he was taking his Mes Sage across Western Canada in an attempt to gain the nomination As Leader of the Federal social credit he said especially in has been very encourage the people of Canada Are tired of being they want economic policy that makes wet Hess John tunnels brother Raymond gets supportive honk from passing truck in lonely tunnels sensible policy essentially is this replace the chartered banking system with a barter system where interest rates Are utilizing computer tur Mel says electronic exchanges will make paper Exchange and the resulting interest rates Unne Ces my social credit computer pro Vides the very Best kind of labor Exchange through a work based bar ter it provides interest free liquidity for services and real estate offered for Trade through elec tronic and paper mediums of Exchange where one credit is Worth one when we do our banking right in the stores at their Point of Sale Termi the chartered with Only terminals and no will be made Turmel said As a first step to undermining the Banks strangle hold on the he was encouraging canadians to stiff their Banks or refuse to pay Bank my brother stiffed his Bank on a sure a contract was but if something is physically like paying 20percent interest then a contract cant be infant terrible of our cur rent economic grinned Wick edly As another passing Motorist leaned Long and hard on his As were All beginning to find out in this you just cant pay something that int Deputy chief bemoans Justice system violent crimes increasing sharply in criminology society told by Kevin Prokosh Winnipeg free press Clear Lake the Justice system is failing to protect the Public from the violent crime wave sweeping Canadian de Deputy chief of the Winnipeg police said last if we agree that the prime objective and function of the police is the preservation of life and the Protection of the then we Are Igelski told the annual meeting of the Manitoba society of criminology being held cause for concern he said there is definitely cause for concern in the face of disturbing increases in crimes of violence in Winnipeg this he pointed out that there have been 17 murders in the City this five More than in All of attempted rapes and robberies Are also on the muggings have jumped from 138 during the first eight months of last year to 219 during the same period in the number of purse snatching has almost doubled to 138 this it becomes More and More Clear that the system has broken Down and is either unable or unwilling to protect the said who has spent 28 years in the he told the 100 people attending the weekend conference that police Are being hampered by judges who hand out inadequate defence Law yers armed with delay and a Justice system which ties up police in i do not feel that the courts Are sufficiently harsh in the treatment of persons convicted of violent he Igelski predicted stiffer sentences for people convicted of attempted Mur attempted robbery or firearm offences would result in fewer the use of temporary absences and Day parole has made the length of sentences almost meaning he certainly our institutions Are Over but i do not feel that As a Means of controlling this we should release potentially or patently danger Ous individuals Back on to our streets through temporary absence programs or he Little deterrence jail offers Little deterrence to Crimi nals and is viewed As a temporary inconvenience soon overcome through Day temporary absences or full if our jails Are that we should build More for would much rather see my tax dollars go towards keeping a violent individual in an institution than paying for the Cost associated with administer ing a temporary absence and or Wel fare police officers Are being forced to spend More and More time locating serving writing reports and waiting to testify in he there Are fewer patrol hours available for uniform offi cers and considerably less investigative time available for plainclothes he airline project big lift for City by John Mcmanus construction of a maintenance Hanger at the Airport is to Start almost immediately As part of a million expansion of air Canadas maintenance and computer facilities in the tenders for steel for the hangar were called yesterday and construction will Start this fall for occupancy in november or air can Ada president Claude Taylor said yesterday in announcing the Taylor said a computer and systems service Centre is part of the planned the Centre will House a further million in computer the computer Centre will Lead to about 100 jobs initially and is to be built in a yet unselected site in the Core the Centre will be open in late the maintenance and stores hangar will be built beside a hangar air Canada completed Here in almost doubling the available Hanger the new computer facilities will an Chor the airlines reserved 111 Reserva Tion along with two other major computer centres at Montreal and Lloyd Federal employment said in an interview after the announcement that the expansion will go a Long Way toward replacing the air Canada overhaul base moved to Montreal in the along with hundreds of wont add Many jobs the new hangar on the West Side of the Airport will not significantly in crease employment beyond the current 310 workers because the existing Hanger has an overflow of work which will be moved into the new Taylor this program is not intended to be should it be viewed As move toward relocation or dilution of work or jobs from air Cana Das major maintenance and computer installations in Montreal and Taylor almost doubling the hangar space at Winnipeg supplements a expansion currently under Way at the airlines largest and principle maintenance facility at he Taylor said the Winnipeg expansion is an example of the airlines growth in computer the Dorval facilities must be among other because of increased servicing contracts for other insisted on giving the expansion greater significance and political this is partly a move to bring air Canada to Correct the political errors of the its just the begin he Axworthy said the new airline com Puter Centre Falls in with Federal plans to Delope a Pool of researchers and specialists workers through the Micro electronics processing Centre at the University of the Centre was Given a Grant three months in addition to the major expansion Taylor said construction should Start at the end of the month on a new a million combined services building for the air Canada commissary depart ment and for ramp equipment Stor it will be located South of the Pas Senger terminal at Winnipeg International Taylor said air Canadas overhaul capability Here will be expanded with the new overhaul and maintenance would still be confined to the narrow bodied jets with work on the Large jets b 747s and a dolls still being done in Eastern souvenirs Cost City rights listed in common Law relationships the City spent on Vinyl ballpoint certificates and medals in the first eight months of according to a recent civic accounting department about 40 local and National associations and sporting groups the eighth North american Rhizobium con Ference to the Winnipeg Crocus Festi Val had received civic souvenirs As of finance committee clerk Ted Pomes said the amount spent on souvenirs is not excessive considering the num Ber of conventions held in the he expects the City will make a Large souvenir Purchase before the end of the year to boost its the City also spent in receptions and entertainment Grants for about 25 As of another in recreation and entertainment Grants had been committed for 18 other Organiza under budget the City has yet to spend about of the allotted for such As the City has earmarked about million for social development and promotion Grants for As of had yet to be the credit in the culture and health budget cancels the which has been overspent for museums and Art about had been allocated for the in addition to Grants for the Manitoba theatre Winnipeg symphony Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Rainbow the City gave to the Winnipeg Art Gal to the main Street project and to Osborne the City has also allotted to promote the Winnipeg convention and visitors individual Community committees have already disbursed of the allotted Dave free press by Sheila bean Winnipeg working women brought their questions about Legal rights in marriages and common Law relation ships to a panel discussion on the subject lawyers Shawn Greenberg and Vivian Hilder explained the Legal pros and cons of marriage and common Law to More than 100 women at the Westin Greenberg said basically there is no Legal difference Between the two while the couple is the differences Between obligations and rights come at the time when the marriage Breaks Down or when one of the parties she Greenberg for that when a married couple separates the wife is entitled to support from her division of property when a common Law relationship the woman is not entitled to support unless they have Chil Greenberg said another problem is the division of property after separa under the marital property fam ily assets Are to be shared equally Between unless they have made other provisions in a prenuptial Greenberg advised anyone entering a marriage with a substantial amount of property to declare ownership of it in such a which would protect him or her from haying to share it in the event of she said the act has no jurisdiction in a common Law a common Law wife has no right to property in her husbands name unless she can prove her contribution to its said she strongly suggested a couple define ownership of possessions on paper before they move in Ogeth in a Money is divided As an even if the spouses have separate Bank but in a common Law arrangement the Money is Only shared if a joint account is if a separation is imminent one partner could Drain the account and put it in a separate account in his own name before the other part Ner could get custody of children is also different in a common Law when a marriage Breaks Greenberg both parents have the right to ask for custody in a common Law relationship the natural Mother has a presumptive right Over the unless she has neglected or abused Greenberg said the rights of a widow to her husbands estate Are Only present if they Are legally Dower rights automatically give half of the estate to the Legal even if the husband Doest mention her in the a common Law wife has no rights if she is not mentioned in the need not pay debts about the Only Legal similarity Greenberg outlined Between married and common Law relationships is the obligation to pay the deceased Hus bands the wife need not pay the debt in either situation unless she co signed the loan or other the discussion was the first in a series of four noon hour sessions to be held at the Westin hotel this other topics will be parents Legal rights and responsibilities to their child custody and employees the series was organized by the Manitoba association of women and the which has about 50 Mem the Secretary of state granted the association for the including a series to be held in Rural Winnipeg women took to the streets in Masse last night As part of a Cross country protest against violence against the March was sponsored by an association o sexual assault ;