Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 3 t t to Winnipeg free is u of asked to justify Cost of improving Home Nihil Tifin Marks rur Ranf Horne at 17 Vino t by Gregg Shilliday some students acid faculty at the University of Manitoba Are upset Over an estimated expansion to the Home of University president Arnold administration officials yesterday refused to give details of the renovations or their exact but the editor of the faculty associations newsletter said an unjustifiable sum of about has been spent Over the last 10 years to renovate the present House and a previous University Home in River the houses in question Are Nai Marks current Home at 37 Kings drive and a former now owned by former Liberal Cabinet minister Otto at 12 newsletter editor and architecture professor Jonas Lehrman said yester Day the association is concerned about a misplacement of priorities when it comes to funding allocations by the this appears to be the latest in a Long line of expenditures that Are not he i guess what were saying is they the University should be More careful in their Lehrman said he was disturbed by rent Rollback May Force closing of Brandon suites by Maureen Brosnahan a five lock apartment Complex in Brandon housing 181 tenants of them elderly May be closed if a provincial rent Rollback order is simple its manager said Norman Mennie said the owner of Richmond Oaks Monte Natheson of is seeking Legal advice on a rent arbitration Board ruling which reduced a 37percent rent hike to five per cent just four Days before the 17 provincial the which saw rent in creases of a month Cut to or was announced by conservative Leader Sterling Lyon at a rally in Brandon three Days before the elec Man shuts door on armed Trio 1 a North Kildonan Man received a Shock yesterday when he answered a iat night ring at his Back door and was confronted by three one armed with a police said the three men rang the Doorbell of the Uxbridge Road Home at about waking the when the owner opened the door he was confronted by the the one with the gun ordered him not to but police said the Man ignored the order and slammed the door shut be fore the men could the three then abandoned their plans and ran a police spokesman said the three men did not say what they but investigators Are assuming they in tended to Rob the the Man was unable to give a description of the and police have no suspects in the the rent increases would have taken effect in asked what would happen to ten ants in the 10yearold Complex if it is Mennie said i dont it will be Gary Manitoba director of said the decision cant be directly but he added owners can take Legal action to ques Tion the boards jurisdiction or its method of handling the any decision handed Down by an arbitration Board is binding and not subject to Appeal in any Julius he said if Natheson does Challenge the boards proceedings in there is a possibility the mat Ter could go before another arbitration Mennie said the hefty rent hike be came necessary after a 13percent mortgage on the about per was renewed in Mennie said the new oneyear Mort Gage was negotiated with Canada per manent mortgage at per residents see Pawley he cant Mennie said of Hes losing a last month during the election Cam a group of elderly residents from the Complex met with nip Leader Howard Pawley to protest the rent Pawley promised to reintroduce rent controls which would Aid tenants but allow respite for owners faced with High mortgage interest Mennie charged that Lyons pre election Rollback was politically Moti he said the arbitration hearing was held on a monday night and the decision was announced Day before a conservative rally in the we would like to know if the new government will do he How can they expect an owner to operate an apartment suite with a a month loss Mennie said the Complex was operating at a slight loss before september and has lost since stick up tale a accused tells court by Steve Pona a Man on trial for the armed robbery of a Portage Avenue Bank last summer confirmed yesterday that he had boasted about committing the but Michael testifying in his own told a Manitoba court of Queens Bench jury that this was a lie which he said to impress a said he met the woman in a hotel beverage room on the night of the and boasted that he held up Banks for a he said it As a joke at but stuck to the Story because he was trying to impress Reynolds said he told the woman that he and a Friend had robbed a Bank earlier that and that he drove the getaway he said he also told her he was a Marine sergeant in Viet Nam and a former police both he told the Fourman jury he did not Rob the Bank and had made a mistake by running off at the Mouth about things i didst want or anything Reynolds is charged in the june 15 armed robbery of the Bank of Nova Scotia at 485 Portage court was told a Lone gunman entered the Bank at and made off with about in on Brenda Andre testified the accused told her he robs Banks for a and she saw him carrying a wad of about in his she also testified Reynolds showed her a Pellet the accused said the gun belonged to another he said he showed Andre the gun to try to Back up his Reynolds said he visited the Man in his hotel room on the morning of june then went downtown by he said he saw him again in a beverage room at about 3 and the Man told him he had heard on the radio that there had been a Bank Reynolds said he was broke and the Man provided him with paying for most of his he needed a Friend and i needed someone with he Reynolds said that on the night of the the Man went to his Refrigeri pulled out a Roll of and gave it to Reynolds said he took it like a shot and didst ask any questions about where it came the before Justice John is expected to go to the jury the Overall Lack of discretion that resulted in so much Money being spent on renovations in the last decade when the University accumulated deficit has risen to More than he said he prove that 000 had actually been spent on the presidential but insisted that his sources were close to the situation and know what there talking the King Sway House was sold to former transport minister Otto Lang in j979 for after the president at that Ralph moved to the smaller Kings drive about Square feet of space have now been added to the originally an three bedroom two bedrooms have been added As Well As an Extension to the living in addition to Interior an out door conference area and circular driveway were professors from the faculties of a Interior design and land scape architecture directed the expansion according to faculty even More Money was spent renovating the nine bedroom mansion on Kings they said Many of the renovations were necessary because the University was having so much difficulty Selling the University Vic president Don Wells rejected the newsletters allegations As the Fig ure is totally he their figures Are Way you have to remember that it is the faculty association that is saying these this is like a Union management the Kings drive House is relatively modest As such places you have to remember that the president uses the facility for entertaining and business As Well As for living there really int a facility for this sort of thing on the University of Manitoba student Union president Tim Rigby said Hes also upset about the at a time when the entire University is these expenditures do appear to be Rigby the question is where should we be putting our priorities Rigby said he was even More Dis Turbed by the administrations refusal to release the actual costs of renova Wayne free press a Gath ering of champions Twentyfive of the cites top snooker players All of them top finishers in a series of Community tournaments for senior citizens got together for a shootout by the time the smoke cleared at Las vegas amusement Centre on Vaughan John Carignan and Bertha Pasieka had emerged As Winnipeg top guns in the mens and ladies displaying concentration in its various forms Are from top Art 80 Hugh 76 Joe 81 and Mary lawyer critical of police search procedure by Greg Bannister vice squad officers who raided a Mcgregor Street Home 1 looking for weapons forced their Way into the building without a search warrant on the basis of an Anonymous a City lawyer said Heather whose Chrys alleges he was dragged from his bed and kicked in the ribs by said she will meet next week with the Winnipeg police internal investigations who wrote police chief Ken Johnston asking for an investigation of the said police have already confirmed no warrant was obtained to enter the duplex at 83 Mcgregor where resides with Clara her she said she is not satisfied with the departments explanation for the they said they got a 911 emergency phone Call from an unknown source about a person with a gun in the House who was going to kill they responded to the that How and Why they got there without a search Leonoff who alleged earlier that she was slapped in the face by an officer and threatened with a has now decided not to Lay a formal com Herbert said two plainclothes offi cers visited her and took a statement from her about the she also said the officers told her she could be charged with Public mischief if her complaint was found to be they almost threatened her Bert said i told them i didst do 1 said i would sign it the statement if they would leave me Ive got too Many other things to worry staff George Assis Tant to chief denied his investigators pressured or threatened Herbert said she does not intend to pursue the matter Leonoff said yesterday she wants More information from the police on the sure it May be reasonable for them to enter a Home without a War rant if they feel someones life is in but it is not reasonable to kick a sleeping she Chippeway alleged last month that six uniformed officers kicked Down the rear door of his duplex about on a sunday night with guns he said he was sleeping in a room off the Kitchen at the rear of the House when he was awakened by a police officer who pointed a Shotgun in his Chippeway also alleged he was dragged from his bed and ;