Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1982 r sought in theft police say assistant manager Kristian Johnson has fled to new York by David Obrien a senior assistant manager at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce who is a suspect in a embezzlement has fled to new York police said a Canad wide warrant was issued for Kristian Valdimar of waterhouse when the theft was discovered last week at the Banks Branch at Portage Avenue and har grave Johnson had worked at the Branch for about two years and was with the Bank for 21 police have Laid a single charge of theft Over in connection with the theft of in Bank funds sometime Between 23 and 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 on a and the Bank began an audit when he didst appear on no exact figure Bank of Commerce spokesman Everett Mccrimmon said auditors have discovered that As much As 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 Stephen said the Case was one of the largest incidents of Bank theft he could in a phone Call to the fugitives Charleswood Home a woman identified herself As his but refused to say anything else to the Erika who lived next door to 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 Riediger added the couple seemed Wayne free press Vintage fire ladder fire chief Lloyd moist and former chief Jack Coulter in seat take delivery yesterday of a 1921 Vintage Aerial ladder recently purchased by the fire fighters historical society of the vehicle served the City for about 35 years before it was sold to video parlor operators prepared to face charges Al Al by Doug Speirs City amusement parlor operators Are prepared to face charges if it can be shown they Are contributing to the delinquency of a special meeting of civic environment commit tee was told last if any Arcade operators Are running their businesses in a manner which contributes to the delinquency of a minor then i am instructed to say Here that the person operating those premises should be lawyer Sidney Green representing the Manitoba amusement operators challenged Arcade opponents to prove that arcades Are being run in an illegal or harmful More than 100 people attended last nights meeting to voice their opposition or support for arcades and to recommend possible changes to City bylaws governing the operation of amusement Parlours and environment committee chairman Alf Skowron told reporters no recommendations will be made on changes to existing legislation until the commit tees policy meeting at that the committee will review last nights presentations As Well As reports from other cities on How they have dealt the Arcade and examine a report by civic officials on the number and location of arcades in also head of the provincial progressive told the meeting he is unaware of any prosecutions of violence or alcohol related charges in association with video As Green scoffed at suggestions Dave free press Winnipeg lawyer Sidney Green makes Point at City Hall thai video games tempt High school students into skipping i Sug Gest if that were the video games would be a Haven for finding children because truant officers would know where to find them but it is not he Green warned that City Council should not use its Powers to impose a Standard of conduct in the Community that has not been imposed by any lawmaking most people who visit arcades Are and they have the right not to have their enjoy ment tampered he Arcade operators wish to have a Happy City Council and a Happy com but they also wish to be in and if there is a conflict Between the two they will fight for their Green Ron operator of a downtown optical dispensing lashed out at saying breaking have increased dramatically since they arrived on the Dorman conceded there is no direct evidence to link the increase in break ins to video he said there is no difference Between a video game and a Slot Arthur a spokesman for the downtown Winnipeg said Council should consider a moratorium on granting Arcade he said arcades should not be allowed in areas where local residents oppose Jones also said downtown arcades have been counterproductive to the attempts of the Core area initiative program to upgrade Portage ave opponents of Tolje arcades argued that video games contribute to drinking vandalism and drug but lawyer Sidney Schwartz warned that it would be improper for the City to attempt to legislate the conduct of people Over the age of Schwartz also criticized the state of City saying this might be a Good time to require the City of Winnipeg to bring our bylaws at least into i didst understand How they did they were spending Money left and right All the Stephen said if Johnson is arrested in the he Likely will be held Pend ing an extradition using computer police forces have Access to information in Canadian police com so he would be detected if picked up during a routine spot he Mccrimmon said the theft was far from the largest Case of its kind in the Banks about a year an assistant Man Ager at a Toronto Branch successfully stole several million but was eventually arrested in the he Boniface left floating the Fate of an outdoor Pool on Marion Street was left hanging yesterday when a City committee voted not to keep the Pool and not to scrap City Jim Moore ice Charleswood moved that the City add to its capital budget to carry out needed repairs to the Happyland Park his motion ran counter to a recommendation from City who re commended demolishing the Pool at a Cost of rather than spend ing the higher sum to fix it but when Moores motion was voted on there were three votes in favor and three that resulted in the motion being As motions require a majority to pools Fate by councillors when the committee voted on the original recommendation to de Molish the the same tie vote preventing that motion from being committee chairman Phil Rizzuto who voted against the said councillors who voted for the repairs should allow the demolition because the repairs were but the opponents of the demolition refused to Back the impasse Means the Issue will have to be resolved by City coun City administrators reported that use of the 47yearold Pool is decline but Guy Savoie ice tache said children who use the Pool would have to travel three Kilometres for a dip if it is million scheme aiming for jobs by Murray Mcneill Between and unemployed Manitoban a month Are exhausting their unemployment insurance Bene fits and the figure will Likely hit a month this says Manitoba labor minister Mary Beth Dolin and Federal employment min ister Lloyd Axworthy revealed the Fig ures during a news conference yester Day to announce the signing of a letter of understanding which paves the Way for a plan to create about Ottawa and the province will each contribute million toward the Job creation which is part of the new employment expansion and development need program announced in finance minister Marc la Londes october economic the program is aimed at helping jobless canadians who have exhausted their unemployment insurance Bene have been unable to find and Are on or about to go on Axworthy said although the number of unemployed Manitoban who Are exhausting their benefits is running at about double what it was before the recession Manitoba monthly Fig ure is still considerably than in some other catchup both he and Dolin that this will change in the first four months of next the ministers noted Manitoba has been slower than Many other provinces to feel the effects of the provinces such As Ontario and Quebec were hit and As a result their layoffs came sooner and people began exhausting their i benefits Manitoba really is now in a catch up position with other Dolin and this Winter it will do much of that catching she said there Are still details left to be ironed out with the need but she said she anticipates the pro Gram will be in place within 10 and the first projects will be approved by the turn of this Axworthy said a wide Range of organizations will be eligible for including Community based municipalities and projects can cover a wide Range of but they must create jobs and contribute to the social and economic betterment of the Axworthy examples he cited were repairing renovating housing and municipal he conceded Many of the jobs created will Likely be Short term or tem but it is hoped some will develop into full time Dolin said she also Hopes the projects will provide retraining for the Unzem and enable valuable Community improvements to be Axworthy said there is no one Sim ple solution to helping those who Are faced with he said programs such As need Are designed to try to help those who most desperately need such As those who have lost their jobs and also their i he noted that in addition to the need Ottawa is helping fund about 500 work sharing projects in Manitoba which Are designed to help avoid further with the signing of yesterdays letter of Ottawa will be spending a total of million a Mani Toba through the need a worthy about million will be spent on Job creation projects initiated directly by Federal departments and he Winnipeg hotels awaiting dish warning Winnipeg hotel operators using Satel Lite dishes to bring in television signals have yet to receive letters from the Federal government warning them to i Haven seen any said Dario executive Vic president of the Manitoba hotel and if there were id hear about in Early Ottawa announced its intention to Clamp Down on bars and condominiums illegally receiving in the communications department began i issuing warning letters to an Undis closed number of Dan the departments Extension of services policy said yesterday that warnings Are still being issued to operators across the by he refused to give the number or identify the of the dish owners warned to some say they will Stop using their equipment and others Are ignoring the Rainboth said in an interview from the government intends to seize equipment and Lay charges against users who refuse to he adding the first seizure could occur before the new it appears there will be some prose but the number is unclear at this Rainboth in announcing the Clampdown on communications minister Francis Fox said pirating of pay to and other television signals off Satel Lites threatens the orderly develop ment of Canadian Cable television Broad casters and such businesses As the Canadian football league have complained that commercial establish ments Are showing programs not generally available in Perfumo said a Winnipeg Law firm is being selected to represent the hotel association of Canada in the Controvert he refused to identify the firm until the appointment is approved by the National based in the National group has requested a meeting with Fox to obtain further clarification of the Federal govern ments he the employment minister said Ottawa could have simply extended i benefits for another 26 but that would have Cost the fund an extra billion this and it is already running a deficit of that a sum that would have created an enormous increase in i Axworthy said business and labor leaders also Felt it would be More worthwhile to give the unemployed a Chance to rather than remain Idle collecting i he that Job creation has to be a cooperative it can Only work if we get a lot of Good ideas coming in from Community based municipalities and private Lyon lashes nip in two hour speech by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoban have lost Confidence in the nip government because it has failed to come up with an economic game plan that would create meaning Ful jobs for the provinces Unzem opposition Leader Sterling Lyon charged postures of concern and handhold ing Are no substitute for Good govern ment the unemployed cant eat a posture of he told the Legisla Ture during throne speech Lyon claimed construction of the the Limestone generating which would employ peo could be under Way to serve the Prairie Power Grid if the minister of Energy haunt fumbled it the Grid in the last throne the nip government perpetrated the myth that they were still pursuing the Meg projects the aluminium smelt the Potash mine and the Power Grid which the tory government was Lyon but they knew by that time they had frittered them All this there is no mention of because there Lyon lashed the government for its deceit and Lack of ending his near two hour attack with the traditional non conf Dence Haemorrhaging to death he characterized the throne speech As a thin bowl of which offered Only make work cos shared with the Federal no one can say a Banda id int helpful at but when you Are Haemorrhaging to a Banda id int what youre looking a Veteran of 20 years in Manitoba Lyon has said he will step Down before the next although no Date has been set for a leadership his on term government was Defeated a year despite Lyon showed he has not tempered his vitriolic attacks on his nip he taunted them for now claiming they will help the hardest hit by the when a year ago they were promising the electorate they would turn around the harsh economic circumstances resulting for the last four years that writes volumes about the credibility of this natural resources minister Al one of the chief trouble shooters on the government later in debate characterized Lyons speech As an destructive attack on regulation in society a negative carping when the government didst meet tory the opposition became petulant and Mackling Lyon repeated his demands for a new budget to bring order out of chaos and for an immediate repeal of the payroll tax on which he claims is an invidious piece of a disaster for the people of Lyon said the government pulled a Lyon vitriolic attack Shady by failing to table a financial statement for the first six months of the year before he there great people for information the Only they want to give the people of Manitoba is very finance minister Vic Schroeder has promised to table the financial state ment this Lyon said the statement would offer some accountability on the govern ments rear ionization program and withholding it was a crude or crass attempt to manipulate debate in this he claimed the governments spend ing had risen Between 16 and 20 per cent during its year in office and the civil service has grown by about judge rules air pollution Federal Issue health risks arising from air pollution Are not restricted by provincial boundaries because they pose a nation Al health a court of Queens Bench judge ruled Justice Vern in a written was ruling on an application by Canada Metal to quash a provincial court judges decision that allowed a charge against it under the Federal clean air act to the company is charged with failing to comply with a National emis Sion Canada Metal contended Environ mental Law is a subject of a local and private nature and therefore Falls within provincial judge Simonsen found that control of air Quality is not a purely private or local a province cannot legislate to control the Quality of air which it receives from an adjoining province or he he dismissed Canada metals application and sent the matter Back to provincial j ;