Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 4, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba City gymnasts to face the clerk found guilty on obscenity count by Pamela Fayerman describing a slogan on a record company promotional shirts and badges As a judge yesterday convicted a record store clerk on a charge of Glenn David who worked for records on where the t shirts were 6n was Given a oneyear conditional discharge by provincial court judge John i but before passing the judge mused about the deterioration of Portage Avenue and wondered aloud if obscenity contributed to the of the Slot a the judge cited As areas of adding is it just general newspaper talk based on rumours Jeff the lawyer representing told judge Enns that his Cli ent could not be held responsible for Urban blight or the apparent increase in he Barr didst Hope that people would be driven to lust or perversion when they saw the Gindin at Issue in the Case was a slogan on the issued by stiff rec which said if it aint stiff it aint Worth a the last word was a four letter expletive for sexual inter the criminal code defines obscene matter As material a dominant characteristic of which is the undue exploitation of sex was convicted of Selling or exposing to Public View do scene Enns accepted the arguments of Crown counsel Bob Gasman that unlike pornographic which must be sought the shirts were Dis played in the store window on a Busy the pedestrian passing by casually is confronted before he has a Chance to choose whether or not to look at judge Enns Gindin argued that the shirt May be tasteless to some but want he said the double Lentendre in the slogan was meant to refer to sex in a Jovial showers tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 5 november 1981 free press final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Constitution solution May be near by Michael Doyle Winnipeg press Ottawa a proposal by Ontario Premier William Davis calling for a major Trade off Between prime min ister Trudeau and the eight dissenting premiers was being touted last night As a possible solution to the yearlong Constitution the talks resumed this playing the role of mediator at a constitutional conference Davis suggested talks focus on the premiers objections to a charter of Koteles to repay by Kevin Prokosh Julius former chairman of the Folk arts was ordered yesterday to pay Back in Council funds the bulk of which he had paid himself to cover losses incurred be cause of his inability to devote time to his Law one when he has control of the pay himself and keep it secret when claim indemnification for which he entitled in the first stated Justice Louis Denise of the court of Queens Bench in a written one cannot say after working As a Volunteer i have lost income Over the years working for now pay Koteles was the defendant in a civil suit launched by seven former directors of the now known As the Community Folk arts Council of Winnipeg the plaintiffs claimed Koteles was liable for All the funds he received As its trustee which they allege were either improperly spent or remain unaccounted the Case heard last month in court of Queens Bench centers around of Fol Lorama funds Koteles placed into his Law firms Trust account during the summer of the Money was put there to ensure creditors would be his Trust fund Ledger revealed Koteles transferred of that Money into his Law firms general account see court Page 4 rights and Trudeau concern Over an amending the Davis suggestion would involve acceptance by Trudeau of the Amend ing formula favored by the eight dissenting in the eight would accept a slightly modified ver Sion of the charter of rights Trudeau wants entrenched in the Trudeau Hopes some of the eight premiers will fall off the Branch today and accept something close to the Davis a highly placed Federal official said last night following an emergency Cabinet meeting of More than two in a reversal of their earlier hard line the eight dissident pre Miers yesterday proposed a Skele ton charter of but Trudeau rejected he said he will accept Only a full charter of but he indicated he May give ground on a constitutional amending formula which As recently As monday he criticized As a recipe for separatism by opting out formula the formula favored by the eight dissident provinces is called either the Accord formula or the Vancouver amending formula and it would allow the provinces to opt out of Constitution Al change affecting their there is an offer for a Trade off Trudeau said after talks with Davis and three of the dissident go for the Accord they would go for the i certainly be prepared to go for an Accord formula if theres not the whole tense talks if we can get a charter maybe theres something to the Vancouver the key to a tense and chaotic series of negotiations yesterday was Davis who took the proposal for a Mother Hoo style charter to Trudeau from the eight dissident premiers without expressing his a senior Quebec official favouring the premiers proposal described it As a a neuter charter and a senior Mani Toba official said it contained a clause which would allow the provinces to opt into the charter of rights at their will rather than being forced to opt out of what May become politically popular after the premiers made their proposal through the prime minis Ter and the Ontario Premier were joined by Albertas Peter see Davis Page 4 communist Leader steals limelight while Premier Sterling Lyon was in Ottawa for Constitution his party was under fire for taking undue credit for Industrial communist party Leader Paula Fletcher earned the greatest applause last night during a Manitoba action committee on the status of women forum while Ken Macmaster and Sidney Green earned the pc candidate Harold Piercy didst fare Well with High school students when he had to cancel out of an Al party forum because of other 315 election four of the eight dissenting premiers discuss their positions of the Constitution proposals at breakfast this space shuttle Fli crabbed computer fails to respond in time to orders May try again on Friday Cape a launch of the space shuttle co Lumbia was scrubbed today after a computer failed to respond in time to a change in the countdown the countdown clock stopped just 31 second before another launch attempt will not come until at the but the weather Outlook for then is not astronauts Joe Engle and Richard truly were strapped in their cockpit ready to when the clock stopped at it was Cost there was an Effort to Resche Dule the launch for but at it was dropped because of a fuel pressure we Are going to scrub the launch for said launch control spokesman Hugh a minimum of a 48hour turnaround will be necessary for an other launch excitement grew filled with nearly two Mil lion litres of volatile had entered her terminal countdown flawlessly As excitement mounted Here for the ships re turn trip to Harris said the problem appeared to be in the computer program soft but later specialists Felt that a message to lower the acceptable pressure threshold in two fuel tanks got to the computer too while efforts were made to Correct this a lubricating device in the auxiliary units a Las minute problem also halted the first attempt to launch Columbia on her Maiden Mission last april 10 the problem then was with communications Between it was fixed quickly and the ship was launched two Days space officials had decided to defy ominous Clou cover to make the launch and it was Only slightly behind schedule when the computer trouble seemingly from no shortly before the planned astronaut John who commanded columbian Maiden flight in flew in a Jet plane Over the area to search for potentially turbulent his advice was crucial and he said conditions were adequate for Young concentrated on the metre Landing strip not far from the pad where Columbia would make an emergency touchdown if trouble Deve loped and it could not reach after the weather determination was trouble began on the launch pad interrupting a textbook there were Low pressure readings on the main oxygen fuel tank and on three tanks that provide oxygen for the Power producing fuel those problems were All quickly re solved and the countdown clock headed for this time it never got columbian Mission Calls for the ship to orbit at 252 Kilometres above returning after five Days to the Rogers dry Lake in californian Mojave Des the shuttle will test a Canadian developed robot Engle and truly had checked Colum Bias communications system and were waiting to Fly when the morning sky they were up at for their Long awaited first flights in they ate a traditional launch Day breakfast of Steak and took a medical exam and donned Gold coloured Nasa pressure then they walked from their Crew smiling and waving to the applause of Nasa and Rode in a Van to the waiting on arrival at the launch they Shook hands with some of the and after a final Check of their entered the officials of the National aeronautics and space administration assessed the see columbian Page 4 Man quits compensation Board claiming by Andy Blicq a Man who publicly criticized the workers compensation Board last Fri Day was hired by the Board three Days but Robert Berard of Adolphe says his conscience wont let him keep the which he did not apply Berard sent a letter of resignation to the Board yesterday and he claims the Job As a rehabilitation officer was a the former truck Driver also said he was not qualified for the i have no training Berard said it is his understanding a minimum of Grade 12 is required for employment with the and he has a Grade 10 a free press Story Friday carried beards criticism of the Way he was treated after he applied for compensation from the they put me right Down to the was a buy off physically and he said at the Day the Story was Berard received a Telephone Call from a Board employee asking that he come to the Board on monday morning he Wen there and by was working As a rehabilitation sleepless night Berard said he returned to the Board offices yesterday after a sleepless night and told an official he could not keep the my conscience started eating me he beards hiring had nothing to do with his statements which appeared in the free Ralph the boards executive said yester it was discussed before his state ment in the in a registered letter to dated Berard said at first he was overjoyed and overwhelmed with the financial rewards and fringe Bene fits of the on reflecting the same How i realized that i do not have the background or education requirements to fulfil this very important to have the lives of injured workers placed in your hands is a tremendous responsibility and i feel this Job should be filled by a fully qualified he said in the after compensation Board employee Ken Carrol made Public allegations recently about the internal Workings of the the Board requested a com missioner be appointed by the Provin Cial Cabinet to inquire into the fairness of its claims and rehabilitation procedures and Boyes said that if an inquiry is it can examine beards appointment As Berard needed Job placement and providing him with a Job with the Board was Boyes about face Sweden has broken an impasse by reversing its stand on where questioning of the Captain of a captured soviet submarine should take two voices Mitchells two voices Are there in his latest How i spent my summer one the other Bright lights the Winnipeg labelled the lesser lights by a managed to outshine Colorado Rockies last night save bundles some companies Are saving bundles at taxpayer expense by mailing goods by parcel Post rather than paying freight Index Ann 27 37 28 62 24 46 8 26 Jumble 7 37 55 sports 19 to 6 ;