Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba J Fri structural problems Force few 4 a f i 3 Taj 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 24 said cracking of school Walls had in a division statement yesterday 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 built in 1919 and an addition was added in the report was the third 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 rain today 3 rain tonight1 december 1982 closing 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 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 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 Nome unveiled the plan last telling councillors the scheme has the approval of the Federal and provincial tie 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 massive shift of City councils refusal to make an immediate decision left some spokes men for Logan area residents this is said a trembling Helen 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 Norric for presenting the reshuffling of the million As part of the same package As the changes to the Industrial because the two issues were presented in one Council could not make a decision on the Industrial see new Page 4 told Hambleton double agent London a the claimed yesterday that a former nato economist on trial As a soviet spy was a double agent working for Canada and France As Well As i he soviet injured lebanese moslem Leader Walid Jumblatt is helped by Rescue workers alter Beirut a terrorists detonated a Remote controlled car bomb yesterday in a failed attempt to assassinate lebanese moslem Leader Walid Lebanon state radio said the fiery blast killed six other Hospital authorities reported four killed and 38 massacre emergency room attendants at american University Hospital said Jumblatt had several shrapnel wounds in his but was released from the Hospital cleaned and bandaged his his Ger was being treated at the Hospital for Hospital staff said Jumblatt body Jamal and a lebanese police officer were among the no group claimed responsibility for the attack in moslem populated West the righting Christian Pha Lange party denounced the bombing As an Effort to rekindle sectarian War fare and Block the March toward but whose druse moslem militiamen have been battling Maron Ite christians in the Central mountains during the last five vowed the bombing will not affect the general peacemaking especially in the Mountain the attackers packed an estimated 40 kilograms 88 pounds of dynamite and nine kilograms 20 pounds hex Ogene a much More powerful explosive into a Fiat car and left it on a West Beirut Street 15 metres 50 feet from the spot where Jumblatt had parked his Mercedes Benz yester expert Youssif Bitar said they detonated the bomb by Remote Cost As Jumblatt climbed into the Mercedes with his attacks on political leaders in Leba non have been increasingly frequent since the 197576 civil in which Christian armies fought an Alliance of moslem leftists and Palestine libera Tion organization the 33yearold Jumblatt is the most influential Leader of Lebanon Esti mated druse moslem and Heads the an Alli Ance of moslem lebanese Casino operator claims donation gave competitor upper hand by Mike Ward a Winnipeg Casino management operator says a rival company owned by 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 of 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 Prover Cial government to raise Money for specific charitable what happened Here was Way out of that License was obtained 10 raise Money for wildlife and Only dont get me in in favor of an but it should have been funded from by the employ Shelley maintained the donation has helped to give Turenne Community Casino an unfair advantage in bidding for Winnipeg Casino management she said Turenne company has successfully bid on 20 of 26 licences issued by the Manitoba lotteries Corn see festival Page 4 Are you aware the defence in this would be that Hugh Hambleton was at All material times a Canadian and French agent who successfully penetrated the russian espionage organisation defence lawyer John lloy Deley asked a police witness during the third Day of Hambleton trial at the old Bailey Central criminal Peter who helped interrogate a 60 Yea Rokl Ott Waborn after his arrest in Britain last replied that the first he 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 1950 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 sense of belonging 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 the 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 Cany ing the organizations cosmic meaning Dis closure could result in exceptionally grave damage to the in Ottawa former progressive conservative solicitor general Allan Lawrence said Hamble ton possibly have been a Dou ble who was briefly responsible for the ramp in 1979 and said he was never told Hambleton was double agent and he does not believe the defence at if it turns out to be True that he was a double 1 can assure you All hell is going to break see tory Page 4 Man to get artificial heart Salt Lake City team of doctors removed the failing heart of a 61yearold Man today and said the surgery was going bettor than expected in the Kirstever attempt to replace a human heart with a mechanical the operation was planned Tor this but the patient was rushed to the operating table last night when his condition a University of Utah medical Centre spokesman Barney who suffers from incurable heart waa having serious irregular heart said Chase University Vic president of health he said doctors decided to operate while the heart was still pumping enough doctors were Uncertain How Clark would respond to a healthy heartbeat and it is Likely they will Start him on a reduced controversial hotel approved by Council by Doug Speirs a hotly 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 promising 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 Al Presidente Miguel de 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 7 48 53 22 53 6 45 7 Jumble 57 25 25 sports 67 49 37 to 25 ;