Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Morgentaler ready to risk prosecution Over abortion of festival do Voyageur Back in the red by Mike Ward the festival do Winni pegs midwinter is in Finan Cial difficulties again despite govern ment and private sector assistance totalling million in the past general manager Gerald Turenne said yesterday the festival is unable to pay in Short term debts and is Back in the Hole he said most of the Money went toward buying and renovating a tache Avenue the festivals first permanent year round Turenne said the building was bought because it was urgently needed to hold the carnivals 1982 Winter Casino after festival organizers Learned they could not get space in the Winnipeg convention but now they have found the costly building is not suitable for holding and have booked the Conven Tion Centre and three City hotels for its 1983 gambling the festival has received its funding from four sources in the past including a Federal an interest free loan of from the a loan from Bank of Montreal with an option to draw on a further Short term line of cred it for its Winter festivities and a provincial title to the tache Avenue building is held by both the City and the Turenne blamed the province for the festivals current we asked the provincial government for but Only received so we Are Short at he said payments on two of the festivals major Lon term debts to the City and to the Bank of Montreal have to be met in if the festival Doest make a profit this Winter theres going to be prob theres no question its going to be he we paid for the building and about went into renova the festival is indebted Over theres no getting away see festival Page 4 Cloudy tonight 1 rain tomorrow 3 free 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 registration number 0286 december 1982 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets fear of hazards Spur tougher food rules Alice Krueger provincial arid City health officials have issued stricter guidelines gov Ernin the Sale of bulk foods in Mani Toba the new regulations follow the re cent introduction of bulk food sales by Canada Safeway in two of its Winni Peg the Chain eventually plans to offer bulk foods in All of its Winnipeg Safeway Public relations officer Larry Mclennan said bulk foods could become a health Hazard if not properly handled by retailers and the the which were presented to the retail food Industry this apply to All retail stores involved in bulk vats prohibited among the new rules is one prohibiting stores from Selling such items As fruit pie Peanut butter and Honey in huge vats where custom ers help in such sem liquid products will have to be dispensed by store staff from behind the counter or in an area not accessible to the As bulk food will have to be displayed i designated nonsmoking nonfood items such As dog food and detergents will have to be separated from food displays and clearly very concerned about said Winnipeg director of health he said his inspectors have been watching the bulk sales area in one Safeway store since it opened about two or three weeks scoops Are provided and there Are signs cautioning Consumers to use them for health Atamanchuk said the potential for contamination is less Likely in Low Hazard foods such As cereals or anything with a High sugar but a problem is posed by Sticky products such As jams where the floor could become Messy As somebody is going to get a Button in their Jam or a Fingernail who anything can he my major is it has such a potential for Sabo Atamanchuk said health inspectors across the country Are concerned about the potential health hazards posed by bulk food the merchandising method is particularly popular in Eastern from a Public health Point of Jim free press Sadie Pylypiuk and Sonja Sehn fill up on bulk foods at a Pembina Highway we feel this thing puts us Back 50 he listed As potentially hazardous foods and therefore prohibited from bulk self serve sales Are Dairy prod eggs and cereals and dried products such As flour and nuts and cherries must be kept in covered containers with today maximum clean out containers must be made of stainless steel or cardboard lined with plastic and equipped with appropriate dispensing supermarkets Are required to pro vide adequate facilities for cleaning and sanitizing utensils and bulk con another consumer concern about bulk foods is that retailers do not have to provide a list of ingredients As must manufacturers of packaged Only the Cartons in which bulk foods Are delivered to stores must carry such there is no provincial provision for mandatory Labelling of bulk foods and such a decision would have to be made under the Federal food and drug trucking War Over Security for Thatcher reviewed paper raps failure to intercept letter bomb sent to Downing Street London a Scotland Yard has begun an urgent review of Security at 10 Downing Street after a firebomb mailed to prime minister Margaret Thatcher there evaded detection and scorching the face and hair of her office British Security the financial times reported today that five or six suspicious packages have been intercepted Over the past five years at the prime ministers official London residence and that one was an explosive the newspaper gave no other details but said the failure to detect the pack age yesterday showed some remark Able loopholes in Security arrange ments at four similar incendiary devices mailed to the leaders of Britain three main opposition parties at House of commons were intercepted yesterday and safely police a Scotland Yard press officer said Downing Street messenger staff be came suspicious of the package and passed if to the prime ministers office manager Peter who took it to his first floor it ignited As he opened inflicting superficial Burns to his face and the package contained the Heads of a strip of Emery paper and an inflammable the spokesman neither who was hold ing a meeting in her study on the second nor anybody else in the building was the charred remains of a note in the parcel addressed to Thatcher said it was sent by the previously unknown animal rights Scotland Yard the four devices spotted by Post office staff at commons were addressed to labor party Leader Michael 1 Liberal Leader David so Cial democratic party Leader Roy Jen and Timothy minister of state at the Home the govern ment official responsible for animal Post office officials said All mail bound for Downing government ministers and other politicians is subject to special screening at Post office sorting centres by staff using xray machines and other electronic but 10 Downing where be tween and items of mail Are received each does not have any mail screening the times it said the nearest screening device was at Cannon Row police station 100 metres All mail is reexamined on receipt in the Downing Street sorting room and Taylor is informed of anything sushi it is up to him whether to Send an item to Cannon Row police station for open it himself or Call in the Security a senior civil service in charge of Security at 10 Downing the Security coordinator can Alert Scotland Yard special Branch and the bomb squad if but the financial times said he was not present yesterday because he was on two weeks the Scotland Yard spokesman said the Security review will he headed by William chief of Antiterrorist by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the trucking War is highways minister Sam Yuskiw announced the Manitoba motor transport Board will begin hearing immediately applications from carriers seeking authority to operate into the Yuskiw this results from the United states governments decision to drop its discriminatory practices against Canad an Yuskiw he said he had received a letter from the Canadian embassy in Washington which confirmed the govern ments decision to lift its current moratorium against Canadian carriers seeking trans order operating author the Manitoba motor transport Board in mid october suspended hear Ings into applications from Ameri can trucking in retaliation for at the hearings into applications by three american truck ing firms wanting to operate into the province were in an estimated 200 american applications for tracking rights into and about 150 applications by have been held up during the trucking Battle Between the two the dispute began last Winter when the american interstate Commerce commission imposed an administrative moratorium which had the effect of preventing Canadian carriers from obtaining the necessary authority to conduct trans order trucking opera in the Senate approved the bus regulatory Reform which contained a measure preventing the granting of operating authorities with in the to Canadian carriers for two years unless the removed or modified the restriction this president Reagan signed a congressional measure reinforcing the ban on issuing certificates to Canadian subject to conditions More restrictive than those applied to the order was in response to the american trucking lobby belief that Canada was restricting the truck see trucking Page 4 will horses reverse roles when the legislature session opens will the provincial government finally Start to act like a government and the opposition like an opposition during its first year in the government has often been left fumbling or flustered by former Sterling Lyons blistering attacks on 8 Hambleton warned against visit to Ottawa up alleged spy Hugh Hambleton cooperated with the ramp Security service after learning the government want going to prosecute him for solicitor general Robert Kaplan told the commons Kaplan also said the Security service warned who is being tried for espionage by the not to go to Britain because he would face a hostile the revelations prompted Progress Ive conservatives to suggest in the commons the ramp had made some kind of Deal with but Kaplan denied it there was no Kaplan said the government decided in 1980 it did not have enough evidence to prosecute a Laval University professor and onetime economic adviser with nato who allegedly passed secret information to the so Viets for almost 30 when Hambleton was told of the he gave the ramp information that Canada then shared widely Security services in other Kaplan Kaplan did not elaborate on the nature of the except to Indi Cate that the ramp Learned More about Hambleton activities As a re who holds dual Canad a British has been detained in Britain since june and went on trial monday charged with Supply ing information to the soviet Union which might have been or was intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an he has pleaded not Britain attorney general sir Michael testified that Hambleton confessed to see Hambleton Page 4 mounties fined in assault Case Gerri Stowman special the the free press the Pas three ramp officers were convicted in provincial judges court Here yesterday on one count each of common assault and chief judge Harold Gyles found staff John Henry Terence Christopher and Harold Lloyd guilty and fined them each the Crown stayed an additional charge of common assault against both Hossfeld and charges against constables Richard Clayton and Robert Ashley were dismissed for Lack of the three convicted police All members of the ramp detachment which polices the Rural area surround ing the were sentenced following see mounties Page 4 Blacks divided Blacks in South Are divided Over How to Deal with apartheid should they collaborate or fight for ready to run after celebrating the 40th anniversary of his election to Stanley Knowles says he May seek another avoid fights limits on ownership of transport and pipeline companies Are aimed at avoiding inter provincial Trudeau bound for the third Leo Mckillip has become a member of Ray Fauchs coaching this time in Index Ann 21 61 22 30 22 6 45 7 Jumble 24 46 48 sports 60 62 35 to 21 ;