Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free november 8 u of m asked to justify Cost of improving Home by Gregg Shilliday some students and 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 on 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 King Sway 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 Nursery shares Hospital Ward with pot Experiment by Joe Rubin pot and potties have coexisted peacefully for nearly a month on an unused Ward at the health sciences while most of the fourth floor Gener Al Centre Ward is occupied by babies and one room is devoted to an Experiment investigating the use of marijuana to relieve nausea in cancer chemotherapy Day Nursery director Norma Mccormick said the room is usually used once a with the smell of marijuana especially evident at the end of the Day when parents pick up their Between four and five Oclock it starts wafting she noting that the rooms door is sometimes left Man shuts door on armed Trio a North Kildonan Man received a Shock yesterday when he answered a lat 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 both Mccormick and study coordinator Martin Levitt said the odor is not hazardous to the the smell of the smoke May carry but the fact that it is used so infrequently should not pose any said there Are no biological or medical effects on the Mccormick said two parents have raised some prompting the Hospital to look for another Loca Tion for the but whose own child attends the said any problem posed by the experiments location is not im0trying to treat this As no More different than the smell of cooking cabbage if you dont like the she parents have not detected any differences in their she and the general reaction has been an occasional apart from the Mccormick there is no indication that the study is going compares effects frequency of room use depends on when said be adding its usually occupied once or As Many As two times a he said the which was under Way when the Day Nursery children arrived will last Between six months and a year and will involve about 40 patients undergoing the study compares the effect of smoking marijuana with taking the the drugs Active ingredient in Pill the experiments purpose is to determine whether the alone or another Mari Juana ingredient relieves chem Othera a induced products used Are kept under lock and and Are not stored in the Ward the Day Nursery program has occupied the general Centre Ward since 2 after rented facilities at Mont Calm school were found to be structurally the Ward is an interim location to be used for six to eight Mccormick said she is currently hot on the Trail of three or four 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 1979 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 he 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 pbe88 a gathering 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 amuse ment Centre on Vaughan John Carignan and Bertha Pasieka had emerged As Winnipeg top guns in mens and ladies displaying concentration in its various forms Are from top Art Pel 80 Hugh 76 Joe Lari 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 Bert said i told them i didst do i 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 fro 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 a sleeping she said 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 ;