Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Structural problems Force school closing by Glen Mackenzie the Winnipeg school Board has closed Robert Smith school in River citing structural the 229 kindergarten to Grade 6 students were to take holidays today and tomorrow and Are to Start at other area schools trustee Mario Santos said he said classes will be kept together and accommodated in excess space in other local no teachers will be Laid off because of the Santos an engineers report said cracking of school Wais had in a division statement Yke Day said the report stated that the problems in themselves do not present a structural safety concern at the present but they do obviously present a continuing and accelerating deterioration of the the school was build in 1919 and an addition was added in the report was the turd done on the school since no estimate on the Cost of repairing the school has been Santos said trustees decided at a special closed meeting tuesday to close the school at 4 Santos said news of the boards Deci Sion was withheld from the Media until 5 yesterday so parents could be told of the decision first through a notice sent Home with their Dale Robert Smith school refused comment on the the Winnipeg school division is currently reviewing the effect of declining enrolment on 23 fort Rouge and River Heights a division study last year projected schools would be used at less than 50percent capacity within the next few asked if the decision to close Robert Smith and the enrolment review Are Santos replied if i were a cynic i would look at it that but in convinced there was no connect rain tonight 1 Cloudy tomorrow 1 Winnipeg free december 1982 vol 111 no 3 Sun rises sets Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets a photo injured lebanese moslem Leader Walid Jumblatt is helped by workers after donation gave competitor Casino operator says by Mike Ward a Winnipeg Casino management orator says a rival company owned Tor festival do Voyageur general manager Gerald Turenne obtained an unfair business advantage by allowing Chari to funds to be used to establish a Casino employees labor Casino management services presi Dent Verna Shelley said yesterday 000 raised at a Casino in Aid of wildlife preservation went toward Star Tup costs for the association of Casino that not what the funds were raised for and they have been spent in that she Ca Sinos Are licensed by the Provin Cial government to raise Money for specific charitable what happened Here was Way out of that License was obtained to raise Money for wildlife and Only dont get me in in favor of an but it should have been funded from by the Shelley maintained the donation has helped to give Community Casino an unfair advantage in bidding for Winnipeg Casino management she said turn Neil company has successfully bid on 20 of 26 licences issued by the Manitoba lotteries com licensing Hoard to chair table and nonprofit Turenne knew what he was doing when agreed to help form this association with the wildlife she Hes now got All the association members on his Hes Good Guy and they go out and spread the i received a letter from one Licensee saying that he had been told by an association executive that my company does not supervise that the better dealers will not work for me and that they prefer Turenne company because of their excellent relation Shelley said she also was concerned that the associations Harold was Furrenes business partner and owner of a Rural Manitoba games management who has see festival Page 4 heavy rainstorm hits Southern Manitoba heavy rain swept Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba Early today dump ing from 12 to 22 Millimetres Mois Ture in a stretch from Winnipeg to Pilot Mound Between Midnight and 6 the weather described by 3 Winnipeg area forecaster As very int expected to provide any further warm air pushing North from the Gulf of Mexico and covering cold Northern air on its Way South caused the it will take two or Days to Clear the forecaster he said a narrow band of heavy rain passed Winnipeg Early today and some Thunder was there was Only a Small amount of Cloudt Cloud lightning and no ground More isolated showers were expected for the rest of the Day with the rain turning to Snow sometime tomorrow As temperatures Start dropping slightly below winds Are expected from the North shifting to Northwest tonight Winnipeg Hydro reported a Shorf Cir Cuit in a distributor Box near Donald Street and River Avenue at affecting residences and com Mercial buildings in an area bounded by Donald and and River and Stra Brook Power to the area was restored by 7 a Winnipeg Hydro spokes Man he said the Power failure might have been due to a lightning but this is not it could also have been caused by moisture penetrating the councillors put off Logan Park vote residents angry Over Lack of decision by Patrick Mckinley an eleventh hour bid to slash the proposed Logan Industrial Park to a fraction of its original size and carry out other sweeping changes to Core area plans failed to win the approval of City Council last mayor Bill Norrie unveiled the plan last telling councillors the scheme has the approval of the Federal and provincial the sweeping proposal would spare some residents from having their Homes expropriated for the but it would also reallocate More than on fifth of the million being spent under the Core area initiative program and most City councillors insisted on More time before deciding about such a massive shift of City councils refusal to make an immediate decision left some spokes men for Logan area residents this is said a trembling Fluelen a Leader of the Resi dents fight against the exp Opria who said residents Are fed up with waiting for a decision about their described councils Deci Sion to refer the plan to executive policy committee As sheer residents and nip councillors also criticized Norrie for presenting the reshuffling of the million As part of a package with changes to the Industrial because the two issues were presented Council could not make a decision on the Industrial see proposal Page 4 Hambleton takes stand to deny spying charges London Cap Canadian University professor Hugh a former nato economist on trial in a British court on charges of spying for the soviet denied today that he Ever spied against Canada or taking the witness stand after the prosecution completed its Hamb Leton said he never communicated any information to the soviets that would have harmed either Hambleton testimony came after his defence lawyer claimed wednesday that the defendant in fact was a double agent working against the soviets for Canada and government Ottawa re fused comment on that but the defence argument was questioned by a former Canadian Cabinet minister who should have known about Are you aware the defence in this Case would be that Hugh Hambleton was at All material times a Canadian and French agent who successfully penetrated the russian espionage organization defence lawyer John lloy Deley asked a police witness wednesday during the third Day of Hambleton trial at the old Bailey Central criminal visit by French alleged Peter who helped interrogate a 60 year old Ott Waborn after his arrest in Britain last replied that the first he knew of the double agent claim was in a hint during a closed session of the lloy Deley made Clear that Hambleton will claim members of the French Security ser vice visited him in a nato economist in Paris from 1956 to 1961 and economics professor at Laval University at que Bec City since pleaded not guilty monday to two charges of spying for the soviet Union Between 1956 and despite the his lawyers have not challenged his statements to police after his arrest in which he described almost three decades of work for soviet including photographing hundreds of nato the statements As outlined in court by the prosecution contained no men Tion of being a double Hamble ton said he tried to restrict the information he passed to a damaging material and quit his nato Job be cause he could no longer but he also said he had a sense of belong ing with the the soviet secret and continued working for the soviets after he quit who has dual Canadian and British was arrested by Canadian police in and evidence indicating espionage was found at his office and Home and at his mothers defence lawyers conceded earlier that that material seized by the Canad an police included nine confidential nato decoding and Mes Sage sending attorney general sir Michael Havers told the court tuesday that while working in gave the so Viets More than 80 to secret nato documents carrying the organizations cosmic meaning Dis closure could result in exceptionally grave damage to the see never Page 4 Man gets Salt Lake City a surgeons removed the failing heart of a 61yearold Man today and implanted a polyurethane device in the first attempt to replace a human heart with a permanent mechanical doctors called the operation a the Guy is being sustained entirely by his new said University of Utah medical Centre spokesman Mark Sands As the Long operation neared a the announcement came 5yi hours after surgeons made the first incision in the Chest of Barney a former dentist who lives in sur Buban Seattle and heart suffers from incurable Herat the surgical team was headed by William chief of cardio thoracic surgery at the controversial hotel approved by Council by Doug Speirs a Hotl contested proposal to build a motor hotel on Lagimodiere Boulevard was narrowly approved by City Council Early despite continuing opposition from a growing number of area after debating the matter at Council voted 1610 in favor of a zoning change to allow construction of East Pauls first dining room and Public beverage resident Lloyd who has spearheaded opposition to the develop lambasted councils decision in an interview and promised residents will continue their Battle to halt its con these councillors didst even read the information we presented to a disgruntled Searcy they had an obligation to listen to the residents and they didst Searcy said opponents of the hotel will now plead their Case to the Provin Cial municipal Urban affairs minister Eugene Kostyra and Munici pal affairs minister Pete Adam and examine the possibility of obtaining a court nothing is a Remote possibility at this we dont want the motor see residents Page 4 nato flexible nato officials Are showing a willingness to Compromise in talks on reducing nuclear missiles in 0 Al Miguel que la Madrid became president of Mexico yesterday and announced a program to combat recession and improving Boston Bruins Forward Normand Leveille is fully though partially from the brain Haemorrhage that felled digit thieves beware of Telephone sales reps asking for credit card Western winners 2685440 3420796 2190499 1736963 1194706 Index Ann 48 53 22 53 6 45 7 Jumble 57 47 25 25 sports 67 49 37 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