Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 0 Morgentaler ready to risk prosecution Over abortion 2 Era la Kim of Cal festival do voyage Rock in Theta 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 if 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 on1 two of the festivals major 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 Isi debt de Over theres no getting away see festival Page 4 Cloudy today 3 Cloudy tonight 1 25p Home delivery classified 9562330 december rises sets Moon rises sets fear of hazards Spur tougher food rules by Alice Krueger provincial and City health officials have issued stricter guidelines governing 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 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 he said the new guidelines would not involve any major changes in the chains current 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 in designated nonsmoking nonfood items such As dog food and detergents will have to be separated from food displays and clearly were very concerned about said Winnipeg director of health he said his inspectors have been watching the stores bulk sales areas since they first 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 if 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 Mer Jim free press Sadie Pylypiuk and Sonja Sehn fill up on bulk foods at a Pembina Highway Chand izing method popular in Eastern from a Public health Point of 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 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 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 ing firms to operate into the province were in an estimated 200 american applications for trucking 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 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 in the to Canadian carriers for two years unless the removed or modified the restriction i 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 tories reverse roles when the legislature session opens will the provincial government finally to act like a government and the opposition like an opposition during its first year in the government has often been left fumbling flustered by Sterling Lyons blistering attacks on 8 ramp officers guilty of a judge fines three mounties in the Pas for attack on Man at hotel 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 Ana 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 testimony from 14 Crown including six police during the today the officers were charged after Allan of Clearwater Lake complained of being verbally and physically abused by five of duty police officers at the Escana inn in the Pas on june stupid incident judge Gyles said it was a tragedy that three respected police officers with More than 40 years of Public service Between them and previously unblemished records were involved in a stupid perhaps As a result of excess consumption of the judge said the three officers will appear before an internal ramp ser vice court and certainly any future they May have in the police Force is very much in he it is perhaps a to the ramp that citizens can make a complaint of this Type and know it will be investigated and prose John William Inglis of the ramp town detachment said he received a complaint from Hoard about june Hoard gave Inglis the licence number of a car in which of duty officers were travelling and said they harassed him and two friends while they were talking outside the hotel earlier that he then called the Rural relating the incident to James Franklin Hull testified that about he phoned his commanding at Willetts residence and told him of the admitted to slapping Hoard a couple of Hull evidence indicated that after receiving the the five officers got into Willetts car and drove to the they spotted Hoard in the hotel lobby and forcibly removed dragging him into the parking lot where he was backed against a choked by Wil Lett and Gosse and punched twice in the head by court was Hoard told the court he also was threatened and advised to withdraw his complaint against the defence counsel for Norm urged judge Gyles to find his client not guilty on the grounds that hoards evidence was wat Kins noted discrepancies in the Testi Mony Between Hoard and one of his David and said it was unreasonable to think the police offi cers acted without judge Gyles said no evidence of provocation was Given in court and such inferences could not be judge Gyles said on the basis of evidence and Gosse had clearly assaulted and intimidated Hoard in one manner or another Over the course of an eve Hambleton Deal with ramp Ottawa up alleged spy Hugh Hambleton cooperated with the ramp Security service after learning the government want going to prosecute him Tor 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 the so Viets for almost 30 when Hambleton was told of the he gave the ramp information that Canada then shared widely with Friendly Security services in other Kaplan 1 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 police see secret Page 4 bomb Sparks Security Check London a Scotland Yard has begun an urgent review of Security at 10 Downing Street after a mailed to prime i Hister Margaret Thatcher there evaded detection and scorching the face and hair of her office the financial times reported today that five or six suspicious pack Ages have been intercepted Over the past five years at the prime ministers official London British Security the newspaper gave no other but said the failure to detect the package yesterday showed some remarkable loopholes in Security arrangements at four similar incendiary devices mailed to the leaders of Britain Alhree main opposition parties House of commons were intercepted yesterday and safely police Blacks divided Blacks in South Are divided Over How to Deal with apartheid should they collaborate1 or fight for i 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 30 22 45 7 food Jumble Puzzle sport record to 24 46 48 7 55 60 62 35 21 ;