Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canadian track legend Harry Jerome Hambleton Good Iii Pic by Larry Mill Hugh Hambleton stood by the patiently fingering a piece of Chalk while the Rad Ocanada newsmen and cameras interviewed his it was news that the ramp suspected he was spying for the soviets had just broken and we were taking his course on the economic history of latin the first thought that crossed my mind had Little to do with i didst anticipate that three years later a British judge would hand him a 10year prison sentence for supplying soviet leaders with nato i just Hope the Guy Doest get convicted before our final i honorary Kab said to a fellow worrying that if we lost our id have to stick around Laval University in the summer to pick up missing the Only question about the final exam was whether it would take everybody knew it was harder to fail his courses than to pass and according to the student he let cheating Flower under his nose during the Hambleton didst abandon i finished the course and took another one from him the next year1 on economics in he remained True to his a soft spoken Man who had mastered the French language but whose English accent fuelled mimics in the Back seats of his classes Hambleton told us our exam questions Days before the near the end of students who had taken his other courses or heard of the practice would Start pestering they wanted the goods and something in his unassuming pos Ture allowed them to interrupt his rambling lectures to ask for when do we get the exam questions somebody would hed stall us for a but see Hambleton Page 4 sunny today 22 Cloudy tonight 18 december 1982 press 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0288 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets municipality defies welfare order by Christie Mclaren Winnipeg free press Oakville a Cas hardened so Cial worker cried last month when she left the Frame farmhouse of Joseph hard bread and his Young Fame a suspected cancer a has been pummelled by hard Luck since the family Small hog operation went belly up two years since them the Ashe faced Man has lost his doctors suspect he has cancer and the family pet cat clawed their three Earold sons Eye the family is destitute and the Rural municipality of Portage has refused him unless he cuts Brush of the municipality for an despite the fact that he has a letter from his doctors explaining that he cannot the Manitoba social services advisory committee ordered the Munici Pality to pay More than three weeks but it has saying it May Appeal the decision to the Manitoba court of Bill Secretary treasurer of the said in an inter municipal officials disagree that hard bread cant he also charged that the advisory committees hearing was undemocratic because no one was there to represent the Council was to decide today whether to Challenge the provinces Deci Sion in coldwell Galbraith said in an interview he Hopes Council will Appeal the i dont think we live in Russia Betty chairman of the advisory committee Portage officials would lose both because hard breads medical rec ords show he is ill and because por Tage to come for the it want that they we rent notified its that they refused to to be very honest with i was she referring to a visit she made on 25 to the Frame farmhouse his wife Nancy and four Small children rent South of when i walked out of i stand i Damn Why Are people so obstinate the Rural municipality seems to care said it is a very upsetting is the Only person to launch an Appeal challenging the municipality recent decision to make Able bodied welfare applicants Cut Brush or do other work for the mini mum wage of per in an interview yesterday in the cluttered the soft spoken Man said he does not object to work ing for if i had a vehicle and the Wayne free press Joseph hard bread holds Nancy in the Kitchen of his Home doctor told me i could go to id gladly an hour or no an at least i worry about the Hydro being Cut or the landlord coming to kick us out the and waiting for the water truck to come if people Are looking for i would say its at least the work could help them hard bread says he showed Portage welfare workers a doctors note in september saying he should not work for an indefinite period of and he has no Way of getting the 30 Kilometres to Portage each morning to yesterday he walked More than Kilometres six Miles at 4 on Highway 13 to catch a bus on the Tran Canada Highway tomake a appointment at a Winnipeg when he Hitchhiker to he his Rural who lives up the drives past without pick ing him that shows you How much help there going to i Tell his wife you feel like youre an outcast Over after the 25 Appeal held at the hard breads the advisory committee ruled Portage must pay november and decembers rent As Wellas the hard breads other Ireton said she is annoyed by the situation because 100 per cent of the municipality welfare costs for the hard breads Are covered by the prov at least until doctors Complete his medical 1 dont know what their problem Congress shoots Down my missile fifty republicans break with Reagan administration to cancel funding the los Angeles times Washington in a historic and resounding defeat for the Reagan and the House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to cancel funds for the my the 245176 vote was the first time in the memory of longtime congressional observers that a presidential re quest for a major weapons system was denied by the lopsided vote also marked the first time that a significant number of republicans broke with the administration to vote against a program that represents the Core of the presidents own personal and political fifty republicans joined an Over whelming democratic majority in approving the an amendment to the defence appropriations Bill that deleted million for procure ment of the first five my the amendment was sponsored by the houses chief my Joseph Addabbo Denmark cuts in a statement issued president Reagan called the vote a grave and said those who had voted to kill funds for the my were sleepwalking into the the defeat of the although Only one of a series of legislative Steps that could Lead to cancellation of the entire could have repercussions among the North Atlantic treaty organization the administration has argued that a demonstration of unwillingness to put land based missiles on its own territory might undermine the 1979 nato Deci Sion to accept nuclear missiles on european the defeat could also Mark the beginning of the end for land based one leg of the strategic triad of airborne and submarine based nuclear missiles on which the United states has Long relied for strategic Many analysts have argued that because of the increasing accuracy of intercontinental ballistic land based missiles can no longer be made Invulnerable to attack and should be phased critics of the my argued yesterday that the fact that the air before settling on the dense pack Mode had tried and rejected More than 30 differ ent Basing modes for the my and found them All unacceptably vulnerable to soviet attack was further proof that the Era of land based missiles is following an afternoon of often see missiles Page 4 Manitoba deficit to hit million by Murray Mcneill Manitoba deficit this year is now expected to reach million million higher than was forecast last finance minister Vic Schroeder announced the Bleak financial picture was out lined in the second quarterly financial report which Schroeder tabled in the the which covers the period from april 1 to blames the soaring deficit on a dramatic drop in government the province now expects to receive million less in corporate income tax revenues than it originally million less in retail sales tax and million less in Feder Al Transfer Schroeder said the Revenue reductions have been brought on by the ongoing economic which has gouged gaping holes in the Revenue bases of provinces across the coun he predicted that once a National recovery begins to take Manito Bas revenues will pick up and the financial picture will in the the government will continue to hold the line on its and implement Cost cutting measures wherever the finance minister some of the new which have already been in clude limitations on out province a freeze on purchases of vehicles for the government limits on new a requirement that trea sury Board approve All new Road con see Lyon Page 4 parliament urged to rein in firms Ottawa up parliament must Wake up to the danger that it is losing control Over Crown Audi Tor general Kenneth Dye warned after releasing his annual report Crown corporations now number ing 306 to the Best of my knowl Edge have mushroomed into a sub Dye told a news Confer at the degree of parliamentary scrutiny to which Crown corporations Are subjected varies from sporadic to virtually he said in his second report As auditor he also told reporters he feels extreme concern about the Lack of information and criteria for some government bailouts of ailing companies such As Chrysler and dome parliament should get More facts about these very big risks and about Crow owned Petro Canadas controversial takeover of Petro the Lack of information on i he take Over constitutes a serious weakness in the management of Public opposition buoyed opposition politicians buoyed by the report that supports fears they have expressed in the past say they will continue to fight for tighter controls on Crown Michael progressive conservative finance said government controlled firms which operate continually in the red should either be More closely regulated by Ottawa or be turned Over to the private Doug new Democrat trea sury Board and Public works said the companies must Start Supply ing More information about their oper Treasury Board president Herb Gray called the report useful and said the government has legislation it wants to pass As soon As possible that will increase Crown corporations a but Dye said that while the Legisla Tion is helpful As far As it goes i am not satisfied that it addresses Sig Dye highlights Federal follies highlights of the annual report of the auditor tabled yesterday in the commons the vast number of Crown corporations has created a virtual yet parliamentary scrutiny of their actions varies from sporadic to virtually n thirty per cent of Public servants surveyed say they Are not adequately informed about what they Are expected to u n i i parliament should have More information about government moves to invest vast sums in troubled n u 11 further investigation is required of Petro Canadas controversial takeover of Petrosina n n n Ottawa has still not defined goals and standards of services for Indian health care via financial risk corporations out of baby Bonus controls if cant concerns of mine or of my predecessor or of the Royal commission on financial management and account the problem of making Crown Cor which employ More than a Quarter million More account Able is Dye most of these corporations Are virtually unknown even to the Best in formed members of the taxpaying they represent a Hole in the see auditor Page 4 lost at sea a family is recovering from a tortuous ordeal of sailing for 25 Days in two Small boats in the South houses up Home builders credit provincial subsidies for a sixfold jump in the number of permits issued last month for Homes compared to remedies an unknown number of new canadians still adhere to the simple medical philosophies of their ancestral execution the execution of Charles Brookes yesterday in the represents a significant change in the administration of the death Index Ann 21 66 72 71 72 6 53 7 Jumble 76 54 56 sports 65 67 41 to 21 ;