Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba In cd h h h t i of a Kyj i Santo Claus Parade delayed for to a in i f Winnipeg free november 1981 3 Santa May have to return to the North pole to warm up following win Nipges Santa Claus Parade this this years Parade will be held on instead of the tradition Al first or second sunday in said Bruce one of several Winnipeg Jaycees responsible for organizing the annual he said the decision to push the Parade into december was made to accommodate Csc television Broad cast wanting television coverage Desper the service club decided to agree to the networks request despite having initial he we Are gambling on the weather we were a Little worried about it at Tenn free press Mazur said Csc producers con Vinced the service club they could not guarantee the Mobile sports which handles All outdoor would be free in november because of the possibility of the Winnipeg Blue bombers being involved in the Cal playoffs and because of other local sports we feel its television coverage the kids outside of Winni Peg in Northwestern Rural Saskatchewan and even parts of the states can enjoy the Parade if its said we have had mixed reaction to the 6 some people Are worried it will be too cold for the kids to be Mazur organizers have become less worried about the possibility of cold he noted that two years ago the in Early november was cancelled due to a heavy he said it was eventually held in better weather and healthy crowds along its 7 i would have to say that 85 to 95 per cent of the comments weve received on the new Date have been he said Many Large National corporations who will enter floats i the Grey cup Parade and other Claus parades stand a better Chance of get Ting their floats in the Winnipeg Parade with its december he said people also have complimented the saying the later even if it brings Snow and cold will make the Parade More of a Christmas Mazur said organizers this year were hoping to put More color and sound into the he said negotiations Are under Way to have up to five singing groups take part in the Parade in Hopes of encouraging the crowd to sign he also said this year Ollie the safety owl would be the parades grand Mas this years Parade will also in clude a nativity there Are about 25 entries in the he said he expects Between 50 and 60 entries for the last 52 entries took Mazur independents strike Deal with ice firefighter hoses smouldering debris yesterday at Dufferin Avenue warehouse reduced to rubble by fire arson probed in warehouse fire owner says equipment moved from where it was parked for weekend by Greg Bannister the cause of sunday evenings spectacular Dufferin Avenue warehouse Blaze May have been according to a fire Leo Odette of the provincial fire commissioners office said yesterday someone May have entered the build moved motorized equipment around and purposefully set the Odette made his comment yester Day after touring the smouldering re Mains of the 862 Dufferin Avenue rented by Gateway pack ers a paper recycling a police spokesman said yesterday three juveniles have been arrested in connection with the fire and a fourth is transit officials recheck Security after bus stolen by Murray Mcneill City transit officials Are looking into ways of tightening Security at the three transit garages after a 15yearold boy t walked undetected into the Osborne Street garage sunday and drove off with a we Are reviewing our procedures to see if we need to make transit director Rick Borland said in an interview its not the sort of thing we like to see happen very often and it certainly concerns Borland he said the boy apparently walked into the transit garage at 421 Osborne Street about 2 being a there was Only a Small staff on duty and no one noticed the the boy climbed aboard a 30foot started it and drove out the Borland in the he collided with two other parked buses in the knocking off some mirrors and causing minor no one was spotted by Driver As the boy was driving the bus on to Osborne another bus Driver spotted him and notified work ers at the by that the boy was already on his Way Down Osborne so workers called the police and radioed other bus Drivers and traffic supervisors to be on the Lookout for the stolen Borland the boy apparently headed for Down town and along the Way had minor collisions with two parked a transit supervisor finally caught up with the bus near the Corner of Portage Avenue and main Street and another supervisor who was stationed near the Corner ran out and signalled the boy to Borland said the boy voluntarily stopped and let the supervisor the supervisor then held him until police the boy was taken into charged with theft and later released to appear in juvenile court at a later Borland admitted Security can be a problem at the transit particularly during he said because buses Are always entering and leaving the the doors Are left during the week there is a fairly Large staff on so its unlikely someone could walk in and not be transit officials first began looking at ways to improve Security several months ago when another bus was stolen from the in that a Man fell asleep on a bus late at the Driver did not notice him and parked the bus in the the Man woke up Early the next morning before the Day shift a started the bus and drove Borland said one Way to tighten Security would be to build a Fence around the garage and outside com Pound but with three garages in the City that could prove he he also noted a Fence would be useless unless there were Security guards posted at the Gates on a 24hour basis to keep an Eye on people coming and he added any such Large expenditures would also have to be approved by City transit officials Are continuing to look at other less costly ways of tightening Borland he refused to discuss what other changes have or May be saying it would Only tip off intruders on what to watch he said of the three buses damaged in sundays two were Back on the Road Only the stolen bus had to be kept in the garage for he said no Dollar estimate on the damage to the buses was and police did not have an estimate of the damages to the two parked being no further details were Gateway owner Sheldon also on the scene said a propane powered forklift truck had been moved to the front of the warehouse from its Normal storage area at the Blank said it had been parked in its usual spot when the building was closed for the weekend and he could not explain Why it was out of he said his company was scheduled to vacate the warehouse this week and move to a new it May be weeks end before an estimate of damage can be said he said estimating the damage is difficult because of the size of the fire and the equipment at its the Blaze Drew 70 fire fighters and More than 20 firefighting Odette said the owned by Dufferin Industrial was not he said the buildings owned by were partially in Blank said numerous pieces of including several flatbed were warehouse such As Fork lift trucks and paper compressing machinery also were Blank also said it was too Early to estimate the sundays fire was not the first time misfortune has hit Gateway the company operations were disrupted twice in 1980 by fire and once in in a two alarm fire at the company storage Yard at 150 Suther land Avenue caused about the fire was apparently set by in a relatively minor fire broke out in piles of waste paper of a part of gateways Suther land Avenue property being rented by another in firefighters battled a fire at a 225 Isabel Street building occupied by the building was heavily by Ron Campbell the nine member caucus of Independent councillors at City Hall will not nominate candidates for Deputy mayor or chairman of executive policy com Mittee this the caucus has agreed to the Deal with the 11member Independent Citi Zens election committee caucus in return for approval of Phil Rizzuto Independent As chairman of recreation and social services commit tee and the appointment of independents to the prestigious Winnipeg police Winnipeg enterprises Board and possibly the Winnipeg convention Centre Deal made Public the Deal was made Public yesterday by Independent caucus chairman Don whether it will hold will be seen at tomorrows Council when the annual Board and com Mission changes Are voted one thing for Mitchelson the support for Jim Ernst As both Deputy mayor and executive policy committee chairman is not unanimous among the both the independents and new democratic party councillors say Ernst is on the ice slate for the two ice caucus chairman Larry Fleisher would neither confirm nor deny the except to say that and councillors John Angus and Bill Neville had been candidates for the combined the which decided on its slate was unanimous that one person should be both Deputy mayor and policy committee for reasons of Economy and to keep at tuned to the cites the seven new democratic party councillors Are to meet tonight to de cide on a slate of candidates for the civic boards and com nip caucus whip Alf Skowron said if the nip councillors support people on the Independent it will Only happen by Skowron and caucus chairman Magnus Eliason expressed regret yesterday that the nip and the independents were not Able to make a Deal this they blamed pressure from actor Ney general Gerry Environ ment minister Gary Filmon progressive conservative provincial president Harold Mitchelson denied any pressure from Mercier or but did not deny Skowrons assertion that at pierces nomination As the tory candidate in River East Piercy told Mitchel son he had to bring in the vote for Jim both Eliason and Skowron said if it was not for the provincial election the Deal could have been they said yesterday the tory pres ence within the Independent caucus was Felt during negotiations Between the two sides at City Hall negotiations ended with the nip insisting on Alan Wade As finance committee chairman and Skowron As chairman of environment the independents would accept but not Skowron said he Felt it was an excuse for breaking off yet it was the independents who had approached the nip councillors about a he they wanted to break up ice Power on to split the Deputy mayor and policy committee chairman jobs and to Stop Ernst from being elected to they offered councillors Don Gerrie for Deputy Evelyne Reese for policy committee chairman and Rizzu to for recreation and social services committee plus candidates for membership on standing commit boards and from the Bill Chornopyski was nominated As Deputy Wade for policy committee chairman and Skowron for environment committee the nip refused Gerrie and the independents refused both for political the inde Pendents refused Wade As the object had been to fill the five standing committee chairman ships and Deputy mayor Post with two two Dps and two but the independents were offering the nip much less than Eliason the possibility of that Deal Mitchelson for the independents and Fleisher for the ice made their own arrangement last at least that How Fleisher sees we have reached he said recreation budget Cut of eight per cent rejected Al an eight percent reduction which civic recreation and social services committee had contemplated making in the cites 1982 Parks and recreation budget proved too much the committee voted against the but reserved decision on a 10per cent Cut in Parks and recreation administrative staff pending an administration report on the subject in Jan Parks and recreation general manager Swail told the committee his superiors had directed him to bring in a increase to this years departmental an eight percent Cut would have reduced that figure to million for 1982 according to a report pre pared by the Parks and recreation would have severely Cut personnel and it would have meant laying off 135 temporary and 31 permanent closing the Sherbrook Pool and three outdoor elimination of Boulevard mowing and several other the report there would be increased vandalism in the cites an outcry from the reduced aesthetics and fewer recreational and Leisure opportunities for the the report the reductions were very severe and in some cases unwarranted and the Deport Strong objections to the proposed Sherbrook Pool closing a savings of came from Brian nip candidate in Ellice constituency in the 17 provincial and Myrna nip candidate in Wol Seley As Well As from Douglas president of the West end Community Centre and speaking on behalf of the chairman of the City Centre fort Rouge Community com Phillips and Corrin presented a 000name petition from Cor Earea Resi dents protesting the proposed closing of the recreation and social services com Mittee last 16 had requested the administration present it with a list of service and personnel cuts involved in an eight percent reduction of the 1981 number two Man to share Gravy by Pamela Fayerman Winnipeg millionaire Gerald Hechter has been ordered to pay his former number two Man for break ing a verbal compensation William who suffered years of Low wages As manager of Hechter radio Oil said he was happier than a pig in mud with yesterdays Manitoba court of Appeal Zinman worked for Hechter until the businessman sold radio Oil in 1978 to husky Oil for for 10 to 15 he was manager of a business which had sales of More than yet he was paid Only a judge Joseph who Deli Vered the said Hechter induced the plaintiff to continue on working at substandard rates on the Promise that he would be looked after when the business was in an interview yesterday from his Roslyn Road Penthouse Hechter said he could not comment on the ruling because he had not conferred with his lawyer or seen Hechter had argued that if there was a verbal agreement to pay Zinman an additional sum As Well As the it be legally the court of a peal disagreed and judge Osullivan wrote Promise to pay if a person works under a void or unenforceable contract and if his ser vices Are accepted by his the employer cannot avoid the obligation to pay a reasonable enumeration for services once it is established that the Promise to pay the additional amount was an integral term of the contract of the plaintiff has proved his Case the judge the Appeal court ruling Only slightly alters a award made in May by judge Scott Wright of Manitoba court of Queens who now works for Carters auction said that whatever Way the court calculated his he is Happy because i put my life into that business for 35 Zinman said he has no plans to quit nor does he know How he will spend the my Only concern is my sick wife who is in the Hospital right not Zinman Zinman began in 1943 As a Salesman for radio in he became Field supervisor and in sales by the time the company was sold in 1978 he was general manager of sales and vinmans John said that in the Zinman repeatedly threatened to leave the but stayed Only because Hechter kept assuring him he would share in the Gravy when the company was in Zinman said he approached Hechter regarding the promises but he knew he was whistling if i have any advice for others in a similar its look for a pension from your employer or Money for Tough because these Are Tough Zinman Zinman promised his share ;