Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba So t h v q by a v rt1 v 0 acquitted by Kevin Prokosh a county court judge yesterday acquitted two men of Fobbing a Jaffier Bank of Mote than last year because of a Lack of following it we Klong Thal during which 22 of Wii witnesses judge George Lockwood ruled in favor of defence motions of to evidence in the Case against Raymond Jules Lepeire and Raymond Raoul the pair had been jointly charged with use of a firearm in the commission of an disguise with intent and theft Over both had pleaded not Hie charges stemmed from a Bank robbery at the Cottier of Westwood drive and Pottage Avenue july two men armed with handguns entered the Bank wearing masks and ordered Bank employees to hand Over the when the robbers ran out of the they found the keys to their getaway car missing from the court was told a bystander had watched two men slip into the Bank and then informed a bartender of what he had the bartender then stole the keys to the thieves getaway moments later the robbers jumped into their car and just As fast jumped out again when they realized someone had pinched the court was a passerby observed the two men As they fled on not far from the children found the entire bag of later the masks were also Reco about 12 minutes later and a mile away from the scene of the a police officer stopped Leperre who was running and sweating the accused said he was out five Days later Lect was he maintained he was in the United states at the time of the judge Lockwood noted the shaky identification evidence provided by the Crown witnesses and called it manifestly he said one witness identify Leperre at the Public safety building a few hours after the at the preliminary hearing into the Case another witness identified the wrong person As the robber she saw running from the the judge explained that it physically impossible for Leperre to have gotten from the Bank to where he was apprehended while on foot in Only 12 As he the accused was not dressed like the suspects described by hair found in the two masks was also of no use to the said judge there were hairs which could link the two accused to the experts but there also were hairs in the masks which could not have come from the two defend Dies after car Accident a Winnipeg woman died in the health sciences Centre five Days after a car she was driving came into collision with a truck at the inter Section of Wall Street and Matthews police said Debra of 546 Victor had been in critical condition since the 20 police firefighters Battle Blaze Joseph Paul below was alerted by his Wayne free press Alert dog credited with saving seven in tenement Blaze by David Obrien four people Are alive thanks to an Alert dog who woke his owner when fire struck a six suite tenement dwelling Early yesterday a Twoy Earold female a stunk of smoke and but that didst Stop owner Joseph Paul from cooing Over her the rest of the Shes a Paul said yester Day in an interview at the Home of a where Maxie licked up the More than usual attention that came her said he lost everything but his television and Maxie in the Blaze at 87 Maryland a fire department spokesman said damage was estimated at to the three Storey Home and its who is said he was helping a Friend deliver news papers when he and Maxie returned to his second floor suite around i was asleep on the she started pawing at me and wining All of a then she hit me with her Paw and boy did i Ever feel i whats a matter Maxie leave me was still kind of sleepy but i could smell this Paul said he got up and opened his the smoke was so thick and Black i see across the Black smoke was pouring out of an adjacent apartment and Paul said he kicked Down its the air went in and the fire just went it the fire was up to the the occupant had left before the fire started and Paul said he went to the next apartment and kicked Down the startling a Young couple asleep at the he then went to the third floor apartment and alerted a sleeping Paul said he went Back to get his clothes and but was Only Able to get the to before he started choking on the he also lost his personal papers and a Small amount of police suspect faulty electrical wiring is to blame for the free Fronef Tibet 1982 handicapped stuck in the House task Force told cerebral palsy victims must be for welfare funds by Larry Hill tight isted welfare workers humiliate cerebral palsy victims by making them beg for funds that Are rightfully a provincial task Force on social assistance was told and it is totally unacceptable that welfare recipients with severe Handi Caps Are stuck in the House with Little Chance to get members of the cerebral palsy association of Ito a told the task most people walk or use Public Tran sit to participate in the said association Vic president Doris but inadequate transportation services for those in wheelchairs and financial restrictions for welfare recipients have turned disabled people into second class she Reading from a it would be unspeakable to restrict the Able bodied person to one or two social trips a this is in fact what the current social assistance system is doing to the disabled per she noting that these unemployed people most needed Contact with the outside begrudging echoing the views of Many people who have testified before the task which began Public hearings last september and will conclude them next Maudrich complained that welfare officers treat applicants in a begrudging they dont always inform clients about All the help available or of their right to Appeal if refused she association president Brian Stewart said cerebral palsy victims who find work should continue to receive Wel fare during the first month of their responding to a question by task Force chairman Joseph Stewart said the overlap in assistance would help those facing new clothing and transportation expenses As Well As great fear of taking that jump into an Uncertain work a Stewart said single adults on welfare receive about a and that handicapped people can also get for vocational training and other who manages a firm that helps handicapped people improve their work skills and find said welfare recipients having More than in savings lose their cerebral palsy is a Handicap of varying severity involving paralysis of voluntary it usually re sults from a brain disorder suffered before or at birth or during infant during another the task Force heard that some mentally troubled adolescents who Are wards of the province face sudden hardship when they turn we drop them off a big we withdraw All their said Reg superintendent of the seven Oaks Centre for when the teenagers reach the age and May no longer stay in Foster Homes and centres such As seven which sees about people a we give them a Golden handshake and Send them out in the school hike province to offset Cost of payroll Levy by Murray Mcneill school Board officials Are pleased with education minister Maureen hemp Hills decision to give provincial boards a per cent funding increase in in making the funding announcement Hemphill also said the prov Ince will maintain the supplementary Grants program it announced in March for at least one More and will provide school boards additional funding to offset costs of the percent payroll spokesmen for Manitoba association of school trustees and Manitoba teachers society welcomed yester Days but said it want Norm executive director of said the provinces education support program has a provision which Calls for yearly Grants to be based on the increase in the National consumer Price which was per last year school boards received million in an increase of million Over the previous As the province spent million on supplemental and special including million to subsidize school divisions with poor assess ment a spokesman for hemp Hills office said further details on exactly How much Money is forthcoming and How it will be allocated will be released Early in the new the spokesman said although per cent of million would equal about declining enrolments could reduce that he added the increase should enable school divisions to main Tain program Hemphill said earlier this fall she planned to leave the three year pro Gram in effect until it expires at the end of next Harvey both he and its president Rex virtue said the announcement the province will provide additional fund ing to cover payroll tax costs was particularly Good that had been promised and we hoped it simply be rolled in with the other Harvey its really Good to virtue it the payroll tax would have been a real hardship for most school Divi Harvey said the supplementary Grants to school divisions with poor assessment bases Are also important because they help those divisions maintain school taxes at reasonable negative effects Hemphill introduced the supplementary Grants last year to offset the negative effects of the education sup port program on such the support introduced in 1981 by the former progressive conservative based Grants on the amount of Money each division spent per Pupil in As a result divisions with Low expenditures and Low assessments in 1980 would have been stuck with the same Low level of funding each year who has sharply criticized the education financing has launched a major Public review of the Oneman inquiry by seven Oaks school division superintendent Glenn Nicholls has begun holding Public and should report to the minister by next the minis Ter said she Hopes to make changes to the system before the Start of the 198485 fiscal soviet visit raises Trade speculation by Jack Francis soviet Trade officials paid a visit to Canadian wheat Board Headquarters in Winnipeg raising Grain Trade speculation of further Grain the visitors included Victor number one buyer for the soviet in port Export Agency that handles Grain Board officials had no comment on any business being but confirmed the Trade officials were in the City following a visit to major Grain trading centres in the United Early possibility no reports of major new soviet Pur chases of Grain were before the officials headed North to Washington officials Are hopeful Moscow will take Large amounts of Grain out of huge traders on the Winnipeg commodity Exchange floor said the soviets visit lends substance to recent hints by wheat Board minister Hazer argue that More business under the Lon term pact was an Early the Board sold million tonnes of wheat and feed grains Worth about billionth the soviets in a Deal announced in but a soviet Grain crop this year Well below target Levels has kept Moscow based buyers Busy shopping around in a soft world Market for the Best buys in a a visiting soviet farm journalist ear Lier this month told the free press More feed grains would be needed to support cattle herds and the govern ment was committed to a policy of avoiding food one Trade source called it a Proba ble protocol Odds considering senator argues remarks about Sale that More business has al ready been residents get eviction delay Low income families whose Homes Are to be razed to make Way for a senior citizens Home have received some extra time to find alternative says an official of the rentals mans Ken Kort said the workers Benevo Lent which owns the prop Hast formally extended its deadline of but has agreed not to begin evicting people on that the associations Ken a would say Only that he plans to Contact the rentals mans office on 30 to discuss the Progress of relocation the 24 who were on monthly tenancies in buildings on Mcgregor Street and Pritchard and Manitoba were Given a months notice to vacate on Talanchuk said so far about on third of the families have found new its rapped for Middle East adventurism by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba Telephone system has been rapped on the Knuckles by the provincial auditor for its electronic adventurism in saudi in his annual Ziprick said he Felt jul strayed beyond its legislates Luth City when it formed a subsidiary company to join with two other Telephone systems to bid on a electronic venture in saudi guess its prick said after releasing his report during press conference i believe it would be before the of operations tended beyond the Cus Tomary to obtain legislative authority which clearly authorizes such an Ziprick lat january the Cabinet passed an order creating Max telecoms services subsidiary of the order also allowed Max to join with Alberta government phones and Bell Canada International management and research and consulting to bid on a project to set up an enforcement and monitoring system for telecommunications in the Middle East the was unsuccessful in but Max has signed a five year Deal with a saudi Sheik to set up Adit communications partnership in the is investing in a partnership with Sheik Abdel Ai al who will put up an equal its Board chairman Saul Miller said the Crown corporation acted be but through creation of the subsidiary it is now More clearly obvious that its operates outside of Manito i guess he likes everything neat and said he said he believes the government will act on zip Ricks request for authority in Ziprick said he was concerned the loss suffered by Max in the year in Cong March and any future losses by the might be charged to Manitoba Telephone he said the advanced by its to subsidiary in the form of equity was already costing the phone system with no charge for the use of the the Telephone users in the first instance pay for the use i that they pay for the interest and the carry big Ziprick said the losses and profits of the subsidiary should remain separate from the Telephone although the government could decide to con tribute any profits to the auditor said he was anxious for clarification in legislation because the risks could be it Max is getting into risk Miller said it is inevitable the Tele phone system will undertake other ventures like the saudi arabian it is necessary because its has the the knowledge and the know How and it would be wrong not to take advantage of what it has to Ivery other Telephone company does Miller said the Board chairman pointed out residential and commercial Telephone user rates Are regulated by the Public utilities he a significant part of the Telephone company such As the highly competitive data communications Arent he it is Wiser for its use a mechanism for projects such the Middle Eastern it can be More easily identified and charged against those he its has been involved in saudi Arabia since when it Lent to Pell International which had a con tract to upgrade the country Tele phone Ziprick said technically he could have been critical at that but its involvement was of a size and a kind not to be considered out of the Ordi Ziprick urges clarification ;