Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1981 3 Nomes advisory body on race relations meets in anniversary marked Marceau George Loretta Mcnab Centre and Marlene Bruce listen with other school children and Winnipeg mayor Bill Nome upper left As preamble to the United nations charter yesterday during a saturday of the founding of the in and observing of world disarmament City bylaw Dis Golden Law met by Kevin Prokosh City officials Are discriminating against Al Golden by prosecuting him for holding routine social events held by Many Community centres Pri vate his lawyer told bylaw court Charles Chappell said three zoning violation charges against both Golden and the Transcona recreation Centre limited should be the for Mer mayoralty who owns the recreation is charged with violating a zoning bylaw by permitting the premises to be used for a a Public dance and a commercial Swap Market earlier this the land is zoned Only for Park and recreation judge Jane Maurer reserved Deci Sion on the Case Chappell told the court the Crown alleges the Transcona zoning bylaw permits social activities for publicly owned Community clubs or privately owned clubs and where any profits Are returned to the Community but identical events Are not allowed for profit motivated private this interpretation of the bylaw would mean that the bylaw was intended to zone by reference to the user rather than to the stated Chao r the nature of that ownership is irrelevant to the use of the what is sauce for the Goose is sauce for the the charges should be thrown out because to find otherwise would be to discriminate in such a manner that the zoning bylaw itself would be subject to said the defence Golden purchased the former Transcona country club on Dugald Road in and informed officials at the zoning administration office he intended to stage Public functions in order to generate he was told twice those functions could not be but later in formed City officials he did not agree with the zoning Golden used the land in june and zoned Only for Park and recreation for commercial Crown attorney Corrine Deegan told the court both Golden and his company clearly breached the zoning bylaw be cause the three social events held by Golden Are not a conviction breaching the bylaw carries with it a maximum Fine of per charge for an individual and for each charge against a Cor by Ron Campbell seven months after it was an mayor Bill Norries advisory committee on race relations came into being the mayor introduced the 17 Mem Bers of his advisory committee at City Hall and then they held their first the with Bruce Miles of first presbyterian Church As includes representatives of various ethnic groups As Well As civic the members met just Long enough yesterday to decide will meet again next thursday at City Hall to get their work the approved by both civic executive policy committee and the Winnipeg police has no budget and examine issues its purpose is to examine racial issues As they to advise the mayor and through City on policies and programs to reduce racial tension and to recommend ways and Means to develop and encourage educational programs aimed at reducing race discrimination in Norrie said he and the committee Hope to be Able to Deal with racial Inci dents before they become major prob Miles said although the Volunteer group has no Money i think we Are going to do an important piece of he said in an interview the mayor told him there could be a Grant from the Federal Secretary of state depart ment for the but right now it Doest need i dont know what we would spend it on at this but committee member Krishna president of the India association of said Inan interview he was concerned about the weight the committees recommendations will about How it will meet its costs and what its life expectancy waited months i personally Hope that this commit tee will get going As Early As because we have already waited sever Al months after some Nasty incidents took which were shelved and cooled Sahay said the committee should examine such incidents with a View to preventing similar committees exist in Vancouver and the idea for a Winnipeg race relations committee arose after racist obscenities were Spray painted on a sikh family Home in East Kildonan in there had been several similar incidents at the Norrie said it has taken this length of time to organize the advisory commit tee because he had been preoccupied with the Core area initiative program during the because of Norrie said he had not been Able to make the personal Contact with those persons he wanted As committee Miles also took part of the blame for the saying he took a couple of weeks making up his mind to accept the the committee May add More Mem Bers As but it should not become top it should be a working Norrie Winnipeg essentially has Good race relations Between its various ethnic the mayor adding he hoped the committee would be Able to enhance the biggest race problem in Winni Peg is a fear people have of people who Are Norrie said the general population needs to be exposed to the religions and languages of the cites various ethnic it really is those differences that in my opinion Are the strength of Winni he i think the greatest problem we have to overcome is a fear of the the visible minorities Are perhaps the most misunderstood by the nursing Homes being upgraded for fire safety Mother jailed for beating baby by Joe Rubin the provinces personal care Homes Are quietly being upgraded to conform to a set of fire standards developed in the Wake of last years Mississauga nursing Home fire which killed 25 assistant fire commissioner Alex Campbell said the upgrading instituted by his office and the Manitoba health services commission follow ing a Survey of Manitoba 100 personal care Homes in has been in effect for about a he said a priority list has been prepared based on need and estimated most facilities will be upgraded in three to five the assistant fire commissioner could not say How Many nursing Homes Are being upgraded this who is based in briefly described the program yester Day to a group of Hospital engineers and maintenance personnel attending the Manitoba health organizations annual meeting in an interview after the Campbell said personal care Homes in Brandon and Portage la Prairie were examined by their respective fire departments while three inspectors from the fire commission ers office remaining Homes in Rural seven areas of concern were identified and some based on defects seen in the Mississauga nursing they included alarm emergency location of no ambulatory patients and emergency because upgrading existing build Ings especially older ones to cur rent fire code specifications would be almost upgrading guide lines were Campbell under the new facilities require two stage fire alarms a pre alarm and a evacuation Palarni which sounds from one to five minutes after the existing buildings must have smoke detectors in every room and As Well As in air and elevator he noted some smoke detectors installed by the Manitoba housing and renewal in its senior citizens Homes Are located near the Kitchen the Best he is to put them in the hallway leading to the Campbell said doors must not open against the traffic flow and must also have self closing devices and Posi Tive latches because pressure from a fire could Force them these devices were not present in the missis Sauga nursing the assistant fire commissioner said he Hopes the upgrading Survey will be performed on a continuing he it takes a disaster to change the James free press a who beat her Young daughter with an axe has been sentenced to a year in jail for what a provincial judge described As a prime example of child calling the july 3 incident a most reprehensible Brandon provincial judge Allan James rejected a Crown recommendation for a Shorter jail sentencing took place Mon Marina Ducharme of the Lizard Point a Mother of pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily she is expecting another child in s court was told Ducharme and her common Law husband had been drink ing for about 10 hours when they got into an she beat her daughter with an axe Han dle after her husband fled into the Bush to avoid her the who suffered internal spent a Brief time in Crown counsel Lawrence Mcinnes who had asked for a Sixto nine month jail said in an inter View that Ducharme had changed her lifestyle considerably since last sum he said both the woman and her common Law husband have received treatment for alcoholism and have stopped the prosecutor said All of do Charmes children have been in the care of the childrens Aid society since the july he said the society is preparing to return the children to her common Law new element in spy world t agents uncover secrets with historian says by by Manfred Jager machines Are rapidly replacing humans in the world of International espionage and intelligence gatherers Are More concerned with ecological developments than political says a British historian now living in David an expert on British cooperation with the Resis Tance movements on the european continent during the second world said in some ways technology already has taken Over from human beings in the intelligence you want to know where the Short Ages of minerals where the crop failures have How much the potential opponent has in terms of resources and what policy decisions Hes Likely to be faced Stafford said in an interview satellites Are becoming More and More technology is getting better and better at enabling us to interpret from space whats going on on the it follows that More secret agents than Ever before will gather their in formation sitting in front of computer terminals and movie screens than in dimwit cafes in a foreign associate professor of his tory at the University of Victoria cur rental spending a research year at the University of Western Ontario in is in Winnipeg until tomorrow for a series of talks and seminars at the University of asked whether intelligence gather ing has become easier with technological particularly in Electron and whether intelligence gathering plays a greater role politics than Flat classroom distractions viewed harmful to students vision til n it distractions and inappropriate not just poor can give students Eye a United states optometrist said Walter in Winnipeg for a lecture to the Manitoba optometric said in an interview classroom distractions divert students attention making it harder to this increased tension makes read ing producing tension and Eye he students May use carrels to reduce distractions but this can cause them to become he of also said a student working in a room with Good Light May tilt his head to read because the desk is should be at a 20degree Angle for Reading and ideally should have an adjuster so it can be flattened for other he but most schools dont have such desks because Flat ones Are he Kaplan said inadequate lighting can also be a problem and wholesale con version to the Best modern devices could Cost a but he suggests schools invest in such extras As vision strips to divert Light May Shine into students eyes Down to the floor and Bounce it up to the providing an extra Light source in the he also said venetian blinds could be Kaplan warned that using More sunlight to reduce the Cost of lighting could cause Eye problems for students forced to adjust to less Kaplan said teachers should watch for such students symptoms As turning their Heads to the sides or frowning and other defence mechanisms in response to Eye prob Ever Stafford replied based on the experiences of the British in the second world i would doubt that the work of secret services today can be terribly effective in influencing political As the Means of information gathering have become More so have the people who Are supposed to be i think the resistance to manipulation among the people has grown at the same rate As the Advance of the technological Means of Intelli gence one lesson still applicable from what was Learned during secret operations conducted during the second world War is that if secret operations involving agents Are to be they have to be closely coordinated with other kinds of such As modern Day electronic surveillance and satellite Complex As it May technology will never be Able to take Over All intelligence gathering he Britain successful efforts to crack the system on which Germany Enigma coding machine was based is the Best Case in Stafford you still need agents who go in there and obtain the material they must know exactly what Docu ments to what living conditions Are like and a whole lot of things like which you can Only find out through the work of people engaged in Lon term secret operations right at the season to be Jolly workmen took advantage of mild weather yesterday to put up Christmas Trees around Eaton downtown store in one of the first indications of the Holiday ;