Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Hard times blamed r Rise in holdups by Murray Mcneill 0 the number of Bank and credit Union holdups in Winnipeg Rose by 70 per cent in the first 10 months of this and police Are laying part of the blame on Tough economic Winnipeg crime staff Des Depourcq said that in the 10 months from 1 to 31 this 41 financial institutions were held up compared with 24 robbed to the end of october last at the same the number of Gas station and convenience store robberies has also Depourcq last year there were 161 robberies in the 10 while this year the number has risen to 207 an increase of per and if the past few Days Are any the trend is Likely to continue to years there were four holdups in the City last and four during the week the targets included four convenience two Gas bars and two the staff inspector said although there May be a number of factors behind the increase in he attributes part of the problem to the bad economic conditions canadians Are i think part of it has to be the economic conditions in the Depourcq things Are pretty tight and unemployment is pretty i think in a lot of cases you get people who Are pressured into doing things they normally Manitoba tories Call for legislature to meet right away by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Defeated Premier Sterling Lyon and his conservative caucus called on pre Mier elect Howard Pawley yesterday to hold a legislative session immediately after his government takes office monday to Start implementing his election were willing and All were waiting for is the Lyon said after a 3y2hour session with retire Defeated and new members of his we held a session in five weeks after we formed the govern Lyon Dan an aide to said yesterday the nip Leader will discuss the possibility of a session this when he meets his caucus sunday and again monday after he and his Cabinet Are sworn in to shortly after the Dps 3423 election Pawley seemed to be backing away from a december planned among other things to approve Relief from High mortgage tory priorities he said the session May not be necessary because interest rates were falling and because of the possibility of using the authority of the provincial services act to implement plans without legislative earlier Pawley said he doubted priorities set out by the conservative government in this years spending plans will be it is most unlikely As we have already approved the estimates in the House and it is very late in the fiscal i see no changes in Priori ties for the remaining three or four months of this fiscal he Pawley said his government Likely wont put a freeze on civil service hiring As the Lyon government did when it took office in but there might be a delay in hiring in some areas such As the work place health and safety division which were the subject of nip election caucus members refused to say if Lyon had indicated his leadership while the session undoubtedly was a postmortem on the 17 intersection guardians risk injury student crossing guards at Ness ave nue and heritage Boulevard have been spat sworn and had Beer bottles thrown at them when they Stop Ness traffic for crossing works and operations committee was told committee voted to install a traffic Light at the intersection and ask City Council for a appropriation for the even though the intersection Falls far below criteria for area resident Skatfeld told the committee about 40 elementary school children a Day Cross Ness to get to heritage 47 heritage Boule about a dozen parents from the District and heritage school Vic Princi pal Wenda engbrecht were in the committee room yesterday to Back her request for a traffic there is now a crosswalk at the but parents have told their children not to Point and Cross in the usual because there is no Assurance traffic will she engbrecht said an office building at one Corner of the intersection makes it impossible for crossing guards to see oncoming Ness traffic without stepping out into the traffic few members were willing to say anything about if conclusions had been reached before they adjourned to have dinner Harry speaker in the last told reporters he thought the conservatives were out Manou we should have worked harder than we they the nip had a better and Mega seeks responsible new contract the of the Manitoba government employees association said yesterday he expects a round of fish bowl negotiations with the new nip government when talks on a new civil service contract begin Early next we will have nothing to hide when these negotiations said Gary we expect to submit a draft contract proposal with All the details to the the Middle of january about six weeks before the current Deal runs when we we will also make the details known to the As far As were our contract propos als will be so responsible and defend Able that we object to having the press invited to sit in on the negotiations if they run into a dead doer made the comment after about 180 association officials met on the weekend to determine the unions wage and Benefit the unions existing two year con tract expires March it gave Mani Tobas civil servants an increase of 21 per cent in pay and direct Mone tary fringe the Union has but of them work in Crown Corpora hospitals and agencies not directly under provincial government James free press such As robbing a he while its just a some of the robbery cases that have come before the courts in recent weeks would seem to support Depourcq on for a 21year old Niverville Man with no previous criminal involvement was sentenced to two years less a Day for robbing a Winnipeg grocery store last the reason he gave police for the robbery was that hed been Laid off his find and the Bank was after him for overdue pay longer hours so i figured id get some Quick Cash by robbing a the Man Depourcq said another reason for the Rise in robberies is that More stores and Gas stations Are staying open longer Depourcq also said that while the number of robberies has police Haven solved a greater percentage of last year police solved 16 of the 24 Bank credit Union holdups to while in the same 10month period this year they solved 28 of they solved 59 of the 161 Gas station and convenience store but have so far solved Only 52 of this years in the robberies last night hold up men struck four times in As Many and two of the robberies involved clerks being at a Man wearing a Balaclava and armed with a Small entered the Dawson Road car 390 Dawson and confronted the 17yearold male hit on head the was forced arid struck on the head with a the robber stole a Small amount of Money and fled on the youth was treated in Hospi Tal and at a Man armed with a Hunting knife entered the macs milk 628 Annes Road and robbed the female he received a Small amount of Money and fled on at a with a knife entered the macs milk store at 2367 Ness and robbed the female clerk of a Small amount of police believe the two incidents involving macs milk stores Are relat at a male employee at the Shell food store at 903 Hender son Highway was confronted by a Rob Ber armed with a the Man demanded Money and when the employee refused he was struck in the employee retaliated and hit the would be robber with a the thief fled on foot the clerk did not require medical fire aftermath a Winnipeg firefighter shovels debris from a window in the Gordon Down owner motor hotel on Kennedy Street where a fire last night sent a Man to Hospital suffering smoke smoking i bed caused the fire officials Winnipeg free november 1981 3 Glenn flee press towing company still lacks the tools by Brian Cole Vern Nanosky signed a million aut Opac towing contract but he still Doest have the equipment to do the work aut Opac spokesman Laufer said yesterday that owner of 55757 Manitoba signed the con tract last week and must have the specified equipment by 1 or he will lose a the company must also maintain a performance Bond for the duration of the two year Nanosky won the contract earlier this month by bidding about lower than his nearest aut Opac officials said earlier that Nanosky could lose his tender bid if he failed to acquire the Neces sary equipment by commitment but Laufer said yesterday that a topic was Only interested in getting firm commitment from Nanosky by by getting the signature on the contract we got that commit he Laufer said an audit would be done in mid december to ensure the firm had the necessary including 21 Tow trucks and a compound within the perimeter Laufer noted that it was not unusual for a firm to be Short of equipment prior to the Start of the particularly during times of High inter est Drew criticism the awarding of the contract to Nan Osky Drew heavy fire from some City towing operators because of his Lack of equipment and his close association with City police officer Gary former owner of United Rescue ser vices which had operated United Tow the company was acquired by his Maureen but was dissolved and placed in receivership earlier this aut Opac and the Winnipeg police department have investigated the mat Ter and say they Are Are convinced there is no business relationship be tween Nanosky and United towing still oper ates an answering service which also takes Calls for an employee at United yesterday refused to say who owned the Nanosky was not available for com residents irked by cites failure polish canadians in Manitoba sending More supplies to Warsaw a 10ton shipment of food and Christ Mas parcels from Manitoba polish Canadian Community is to leave Winnipeg International Airport for Warsaw it is the fourth Relief shipment to Poland sent from Manitoba since Donald chairman of the Relief fund for said the december shipment will be the largest by and Malinowski Esti mated its Worth at approximately As shipping will Cost about he he said previous shipments of food and medical supplies on 13 and 20 totalled about seven tons and Cost about including ship Ping donations to the pre Christmas ship ment should be in the hands of the Relief fund by 30 at the said Rector of the polish National Catholic Church in it was his Church which organized the Relief fund in August and is the largest single contributor to the ship he drop off Point for Relief parcels will be Zagreb meat Market at 1795 main most of the shipment will consist of parcels sent to relatives and friends in where a meat and clothing shortage is severe and Many stores Are empty and Malinowski some of the will be for general distribution to the needy in that distribution in Poland is headed by Bishop Taddeus of the pol ish Catholic Church in the Relief cargo arrives at Warsaw Airport via Amsterdam and is Distri buted from a Church some is sent to recipients but most Contact the Church there to pick up the Malinowski Malinowski has been appointed Manitoba chairman of the Inte Parlia Centary polish emergency commit tee to help with the crisis situation in at least 54 residents of Cathedral and Bannerman avenues Between Mcken Zie and Parr streets Are mad at the cites garbage pickup Crews in their a delegation of residents yesterday took their complaints to civic works and operations which shunted it to works commissioner Bill Maria of 625 presented a 54name petition from Resi dents of the neighbourhood expressing dissatisfaction with the she said about three weeks people in the area began having prob lems getting garbage picked they Are just driving through and it just int getting picked Hart Mann Leonard of 633 said he summoned a City pickup truck to his House recently when his garbage was skipped and was told he have put his garbage bags in he said the Crews want it in tied plastic bags along the Side of the rear Lane within five feet of the lot but members of the delegation said dogs will tear the plastic bags Union to seek probe into firings workers who have been dismissed by Boeing hold meeting to discuss course of the Union representing Winnipeg workers with Boeing of Canada wants the incoming nip government to investigate the firms dismissal of 99 striking Hemi International representative of the United Auto said the Union would ask the minister of labor to appoint an investigator to look into the were going to go into some of the cases in which people were Dis missed to get some More detail and build a Case to take before the labor Mitic we want to be As Well prepared As we possibly can by the time we approach the if this is necessary and we decide to go that beings two Winnipeg plants were reported Back in full opera Tion after workers decided thursday to end their monthlong speaking minutes before a closed meeting yesterday with most of the dismissed said he consulted labor lawyer Mel Myers Over the weekend about the no definite course of action was Mitic said after the Law officials were told last week the firings had nothing to do with Union activity of those affected and were decided on the basis of work performance and Mitic said those dismissed included a number of workers who had been Active in the some of them having joined the Boeing work Force More than five years were going to use every Legal Channel to get these people reinstated in their Mitic a total of 450 Boeing employees went on strike 19 to Back demands for a first the Union was certified As bargaining agent in Boe Ings two Winnipeg plants last an end to the strike came last week following the Dps election Victory and anticipated labor legislation that would impose first contracts where negotiations some of those who lost their jobs last week claimed they had not been Active Union one woman said she had opposed the Union during the organizing drive which led to Cert and voted against ;