Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Nato to boost donation to Casino group under review by Mike Ward the general manager of the Manitoba lotteries and gaming licensing Board said yesterday Casino licences Are issued on the Clear understand ing that funds Are raised for a specific Charity or Steve Adams said the Manitoba wildlife federation should not have Given to help a Casino labor organization form an he said he will take another look at the federations audited statement to see if the donation was we Are still trying to locate the original application to see what it he added he believes did go to the Assoc Tion from that but i am not sure if the Board was aware of the general principle involved Here is that on the application they have to stipulate what the Money is to be raised we do require them to verify disposition of proceeds just to prove to us that the Money did go where it was supposed to Adams said he was reluctant to com ment about newly appointed vice pres ident of the association of Casino employees Harold Swick operating a Casino management As Well As holding a financial interest in two other Casino companies owned by festival do Voyageur general manager Gerald Turenne and festival Casino consultant Don the Board has concerns they dont want to see anything or unethical or any conflict of interest he Board chairman Ike Toews said he finds the donation highly Irreg had the Board been made aware of we would have had serious discussions with Richard the associations for Mer said it want unusual for licensed Casino organizers to def Nate Charity funds to the Kaye said the Money was used by the association to buy food and liquor for members after casinos they just wanted to express their gratitude at a Job Well he Clearing tonight 12 Cloudy tomorrow 5 free press december 1982 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 million Job program pledged in throne speech helping hardest hit All we can declares by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Only about of Manitoba unemployed will Benefit from a modest package of Job creation programs in vexed yesterday in the speech from throne opening a new session of the provincial Many of the programs Are redesigns or extensions of existing the package includes a lion Home insulation million to match Ottawa employ men expansion and Extension to the end of april of the Low mortgage rate affordable new Homes that program was to expire the previously announced additional million for capital works in Winni to Speed up a program of school renovation in and a acceleration in provincial Public works in about 70 projects also were included in the Odd bedfellows As the government promises to Transfer about left in special employment funds for Short term win Ter jobs in Northern the insulation program will replace one now operated by Manitoba government officials they have no estimate of the number of new jobs it will the government insists the Mil lion is new but officials Are vague about the number of jobs which will actually result because some of the programs Are still on the drawing they estimate about new jobs will be provided on top of the jobs they say have been created by this years pro this years program includes the see Page 4 jobless reach new High from Canadian press Ottawa the number of unemployed Rose in november to a record but once for season Al the jobless rate remained unchanged from october at a posted pression High of per cent of the labor statistics Canada said in Manitoba the unemployment rate Rose a full percentage Point to per in the rate was up at per the provincial labor Force is Esti mated at and of these people Are without the unemployment figures follow an announcement by air Canada that it will Lay off 170 including 24 in on 3 As part of the Crown corporations plan to Cut 500 workers across the unemployment is 55 per cent higher than a year ago up from in the jobless rate is up from per cent in no vember of the Agency said there were hidden up from 000 in hidden unemployed Are those who have stopped looking for see jobless Page 4 highlights of throne speech d a study of the possible entry of the Manitoba Public insurance corporation into the Field of life insurance and pension d legislation requiring motorists to use seat d Freedom of information n a loan program for Home d million to match Federal funding for work g a speedup in provincial capital d deadline for Low mortgage rate program d Transfer of about projects in Remote d a provision to remodel seven schools in d provision of million in venture capital for Small and medium sized la creation of a government Oil d reproduction of a new farmlands ownership d legislation to control hazardous d conflict of interest d amalgamation of the court of Queens Bench of Manitoba and the county court into one trial nip life insurance plans leave executives puzzled by Ingeborg Boyens life insurance executives were puzzled yesterday with the announcement that the province Hopes to get into the life insurance and pension the Manitoba Public insurance corporation would have to compete with the 113 companies licensed in Manitoba and would have to suffer inevitable losses in the first years of they it would Cost a lot of Monarch life Assurance president Harold Thompson Why dont they get into the milk business in Stead greatest life president Kevin Kavanagh said the initial step into the life insurance Market was bound to Cost the government Pic would have to get government assistance or do business beyond Man Tobas Borders if it hoped to log prof Kavanagh regulation favored unless the gives to itself some competitive advantage at the taxpayers expectation for growth would be quite he Kavanagh said greatest life does Only a Small proportion of its business in there is very Little Prospect of profit for a life insurance company if it confines its operations to he the insurance executive suggested the government would be better off simply regulating the Industry to ensure the interests of the Public Are Well Thompson agreed companies would tolerate Competition from the Manitoba Public insurance corporation Only if the Crown Agency works without government we have no concern about Pic getting into the Market As Long As we Are on the same he Thompson noted the Saskatchewan Public insurance corporation has had the legislative authority for years to see nip Page 4 Hambleton claims French connection London up former nato economist Hugh described by his lawyer As a double agent spying on the soviet Union for both Canada and says at his espionage trial that a French intelligence officer was his control Contact or in ramp commissioner Robert Simmonds yesterday told the commons Justice committee an ramp travelling to Britain on other will consult with British prosecutors of the London trial and bring Back some documents the mounties might find solicitor general Robert Kaplan told the same committee earlier that Brit ish prosecutors have asked informally whether Canadian Security service officials might be available to testify at Hambleton trial at the old Baily Central criminal court in he could not confirm or deny whether Britain has sent a formal but said if a subpoena is Cana Dian Security service officials will be available to serve the interests of jus in another related development in Ottawa former solicitor general Allan Lawrence said the Laval University professor May have been a major communications link Between the soviet Kab Security Agency and its espionage in who has dual Canadia British identified the French Security officer yesterday As Jean Jean Masson would bring me Docu ments that i would photograph and turn Over to the Kab he told the he said Masson was an official of the French service of external documentation and counter espionage but did not identify him the prose cution is expected to demand More information when it Cross examines see Hambleton Page 4 cutting Logan plan rapped by Patrick Mckinley the proposal to scale Down the Logan Industrial Park would cripple the Core area initiative program and could re sult in the entire redevelopment agree ment collapsing in some City councillors said i think if there was a vote last night on withdrawing from the Core area it would have been very close to passing it haunt said Al Ducharme Council refused wednesday night to endorse the new which would allow housing on some land formerly slated for the Industrial Ducharme said councils insistence on first taking a closer look at the plan underlines councillors growing residents tired of problems with Core cos shared equally by the provincial and Federal govern the problems arise from provincial insistence on changing aspects of the he those 33cent dollars Are getting very expensive and we would probably be better off if we were to throw our hands up and say were not interested in the agreement said do he added the cites share might be better spent on Watermain renewals and other programs that would really Benefit the citizens of the Charles Birt chairman of the ice said councils refusal to see cutting Page 4 Ken free press sober looking Pearl Mcgonigal leaves legislative chamber after delivering throne speech mechanical heart patient recovering from operation Salt Lake Utah the first recipient of a permanent mechanical heart regained conscious Ness nodded his recognized his wife and indicated to doctors he was not in patient feels no i think its a declared William who during a seven hour gave retired dentist Barney Clark a if somewhat tenuous lease on life by implanting a cloth Metal heart in the 61yearold mans describing the implantation As almost a spiritual Devries it int Over its just a Jingle department stores Are confident Steps they took to reshuffle Christmas inventories will translate into Normal sales and disgusted Howard Cosell says he is so disgusted with the professional boxing he will 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