Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Banker sought in theft of up to by David Obrien a senior assistant manager for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce who is a suspect in an embezzlement that May reach has been tracked As far As new York Winnipeg police said a Canad wide warrant was issued for Kristian Vladimir of waterhouse when the theft was discovered last week at the Banks Branch at Portage Avenue and bar grave Johnson had worked at the Branch for about two years and was with the Bank for 21 police have Laida single charge of theft Over against Johnson in the theft of in Bank funds Between 23 and police crime Herb Stephen said More charges will be Laid As Bank Audi tors and police Complete their invest police traced Johnson to new York City through airline records and have alerted police Stephen said Johnson failed to show up for work a and the Bank began an audit when he did not appear the following Stephen said the Case was one of the largest incidents of Bank theft he could Bank spokesman Everett Mccrim Mon said auditors have discovered that As much May be but he added they Haven pinned Down an exact figure he said it Hast been determined when the thefts occurred or if they were Over a Long period of in a Telephone Call to Johnsons Charleswood Home a woman identified herself As his but refused to say anything else to the Eric who lives next door to the said the couple had lived there about two years and had two both in she said when in formed he was wanted by he was a very likeable they were both very bombers name Paul Robson new general Cloudy today 16 flurries tonight 26 december free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 fogging report slammed by Patrick Mckinley City entomologist Roy Ellis slammed key recommendations of the provincial report into Mosquito fogging yesterday and called on the City to spend More to control the Ellis told the cites recreation and social services committee that if the recommendations were environment minister Jay Cowan could veto Mosquito fogging operations on Little More than a worst Ellis said in the worst the City could obtain approval from the clean environment commission and spend to buy Only to have Cowan veto the spraying at the last the recommendation to give Cowan a veto is part of a report which the clean environment commission produced this fall after conducting a gov Enmen ordered inquiry into the use of chemicals in Mosquito the commission also recommended the province spend Money on research into Western Equine the provincial inquiry came after controversy Over spraying programs carried out by the province and the City using the chemical in his Ellis also criticizes the Pawley government for cancelling a research fund set up by the former Lyon government to look into control of Western Equine Excepha which is spread by the present provincial government should take a More responsible position in regard to research fund ing in this important area of Public says the City which Ellis introduced by showing a film depicting the ravages of the brain Larry Fleisher cent Heights said yesterday the City should consider including a plebiscite on ballots for civic elections next fall asking citizens if they want the City to you would have More than two thirds of the people of this City saying said who charged a Small minority blocked effective fog Ging this Fleisher said one person elected by a few thousand people up North a reference to la for Chur chill should not be Able to Tell the elected representatives of peo ple what to the committee ordered City administrators to prepare a response to the Elliss report says the City could do More to make the Mosquito control program adding the program has been impaired in the last few years by restrictive operating Bud Breeding Sites his report recommends increased spending on ditch maintenance to improve drainage and reduce the number of potential Breeding the City also should spend about to increase the number of fog Ging units to about 20 or instead of the 12 now in the report also suggests spending about 000 on computer equipment to maintain better records and adding about 000 a year to the budget for an alternative would be for the City to seek added provincial funding to extend the spraying program to a Radi us of 24 Kilometres around the instead of the eight Kilometre radius now1 included in the the added Cost would be about a Ellis but there would be no guarantee that wind could not still carry mosquitoes into the James free pbe88 a woman covers her face against c cold on Portage Avenue yesterday As temperatures plummeted about c below Normal after rising to record highs at the end of last forecasters predict Snow flurries and temperatures of about c for Hambleton testifies to spying for soviets London up Canadian economics professor Hugh who had claimed he was a double has admitted in court that he spied for the soviets under pressure from the Hambleton said yesterday he had some regrets about what he had done commenting that any nato document in soviet hands could do some damage claimed the material was not top the alleges the material Hambleton passed to the soviets included 80 to secret Docu Hambleton was also forced to name in court the agent he said was his Contact in the Canadian intelligence Hambleton identified the agent As Jacques a French Canadian now living in Hambleton admitted he gave nato documents to soviet spies without the knowledge of officials in the Western defence he had insisted he fed the Kab nato Docu ments doctored by French Intelli gence As part of a double agent then you were spying for the rus there is no other said British attorney general sir Michael who put Hambleton through three hours of gruelling Cros Examina Tion in old Bailey Central criminal i suppose said the 60yearold looking admits passing secrets at another Havers asked professor you handed Over nato classified documents with out believing your employers at nato had approved it is that True Hambleton replied Havers then said in a loud voice if you did it Means you Are a after a Long Hambleton said i prefer not to answer that ques Havers said that even you Are still anxious to protect your russian spy i am wondering Why you Are so keen to protect your russian Are you pro russian Hambleton replied if you want to think so i am in pleading not guilty to the espionage charges last the professor at Laval University in Quebec City said he had been a double agent for the French and Canadian governments while employed As a nato economist in Paris from 1956 to he said two thirds of thousands of nato documents he photographed and slipped to Kremlin agents at secret meeting spots were but Havers accused Hambleton of concocting his Story about being a double agent because it is almost impossible to disprove without enor Mous after Hambleton admitted acting in Dependently of his purported spy Havers asked we have come to the Haven we once you have passed one document you Are in a Arent you see Hambleton Page 4 City welfare Roll finds Short by Christie Mclaren with welfare Rolls threatening to swell beyond his highest predictions by the end of the Winnipeg welfare director Ron Hooper has asked the City for yet another increase in the 1982 welfare if it would be the second unplanned budget increase this at the end of individuals or families were getting municipal welfare in Winnipeg in crease of 131 per cent Over the welfare cases 12 months Hooper said in an interview its also an increase of 659 cases since he plan to create 3 the City had predicted it would get cases by the end of the year which would have doubled last years total of by the latest Date for which figures Are Winnipeg spent almost million on a budget increase was approved in creating a new budget of almost Hooper said he has submitted a request for an additional amount Over that to City environment com missioner David i am not at Liberty to discuss despite the jump in municipal an expected increase in applications from people who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits has not Hooper in september and about eight per cent of Winnipeg welfare recipients were those for whom i benefits which run a maximum 12 months had in that figure increased Only slightly to per he which is similar to the rest of Western a substantial number of people Are exhausting their Pic but Are not applying for welfare Hooper they May be living from a a temporary or permanent or May have moved in with he another eight per cent Are awaiting their first i Hooper provincial welfare is expected to exceed its million budget by about although he provide Statis Deputy Community services min ister Ron Johnstone said the Rolls have increased very other communities have noticed Sim Ilar increases in but smaller centres still Arent As hard hit As because everyone runs to the big cities thinking find said Florence supervisor of welfare for she said 438 people were receiving welfare in Brandon by the end of compared with 294 last most of them Are waiting for unemployment insurance which had an original welfare budget of for already has spent More than said City clerk Doug in 52 new cases were opened and by the end of the month 646 people were on he Mcewen said we Are sensing that there Are increasing numbers of people getting welfare because their unemployment benefits have run Portage la Prairie spent Between and More on welfare in november than Eileen the cites welfare Ive been taking six to 10 new applications a week within the last two or three its Texas murderer executed a convicted murderer Charlie Brooks was executed by lethal injection Early today becoming the first prisoner in the United states to be executed by this the injection of sodium pent Othal was administered at Cost and the 40yearold Brooks was pronounced dead seven1 minutes Texas department of corrections officials conferred with William Clements at and were told no stay had been granted for convicted in the 1976 murder of a fort Worth used car Brooks was the first Black and the sixth person to die since the supreme court allowed re institution of the death penalty in the last execution in Texas was in the supreme court voted 63 earlier yesterday to reject an emergency request at keeping Brooks alive until his latest Appeal could be fully considered by a Federal appeals see lethal Page 4 secret trial launched Over Canadian policy Washington up Canadas program of screening foreign invest ment to ensure Domestic a Central feature of its National eco nomic policy for nine is on secret trial before an International panel in nip seeks tougher a hearing of charges against Tolje Canadian foreign investment review believed to have opened yester could result in the dismantling of a program enacted by parliament in after prolonged Public Canada already has retreated under pressure from 1980 pledges to expand the fir a but details of the Geneva proceed the the Dian even the membership of the International panel judging the Case under the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Are being withheld by officials the Canadian press heard about the unannounced panel session by Chance see International Page 4 quid China has endorsed israels right to peaceful but insists Israel also recognize palestinian rights to Evans angry Community services minister Len Evans has angrily denied meddling in the affairs of a Media Coop and seed Plant located in nightmares Canada has warned the its intransigence on the Law of the sea Issue threatens a dream of All liquid lunch four times a Day Ted Kopp plugs a Needle in his sits relaxes and enjoys a liquid lunch Courtesy of a Home intravenous Index Ann 32 36 52 36 6 25 7 Jumble 40 26 26 31 sports 5q 33 17 to 31 ;