Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 7, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1983 3 councillors Cut meeting dates City councillors plan to reduce the number of meetings they under a proposal approved last City which until now has met once every two will meet at three week intervals Start ing in meetings of councils standing committees also will be reduced to one every three the three week Cycle is intended to eliminate bottlenecks and delays that develop in the preparation of minutes and councillors shied away from a proposal to reduce the number of meetings held by executive policy the most powerful civic the policy committee will continue to meet each Charles Birt told councillors the policy committee is supposed to give direction to the City by developing reducing the number of its meetings would amount to abdicating that he councillors also Defeated a proposal to Start City Council meetings at instead of lottery joke costs Man by Kevin Prokosh an unemployed Man who doctored a lottery ticket to fool his wife into thinking they had won was fined yesterday for then trying to fool officials at the Western Canada lottery i just wanted to make a joke for my wife and then decided to take it to the lottery office said Javed Muzaffar who pleaded guilty to uttering a forged Schneider workers talk strike by Brian Cole members of an employees association at schneiders Panet Road Plant Are preparing to strike following the breakdown of negotiations with the company last members of the Schneider Manitoba employees association voted 30 to 21 this week to reject the company latest contract offer and have requested financial assistance from their Sis Ter association in the who earn an average of an Are demanding average wage increases of about 22 per cent Over two the company has offered 11 per the action comes less than two months after the meatpacking firm and its Marion Street Plant represented by the United food and commercial ended a lengthy dispute with an agreement giving the workers an 11percent wage increase Over two unusual move Ron president of the association local for the Panet Road agreed it was highly unusual for his organization to be preparing for a strike against the the Asso which represents workers who make meat Sticks known As hot rods and distribute other Schneider prod is not affiliated with any unions and has not had a single labor dispute during its 12year weve always had Good relations with the but it seems management is changing its Cha teau said although a strike vote has not been chateau said preparations Are under Way to hold one unless an agree ment is he said the association has offered to resume bargaining next week under the supervision of a provincial a spokesman for the company could not be reached while wages Are chateau said the major Issue is Job he said the company wants to reduce part time wages to an Over the next two this would increase the Gap Between Par time and full time average wages to an hour from 15 cents an he said workers fear the Gap would make it financially attractive for the company to hire More Par time work he said the company Tough bar gaining position was causing some members to think about abandoning the association and joining a court was told the native of Pakistan was so debt Ridden he see when he could pay off his Bills so he hatched the scheme after watching a lottery commercial on defence lawyer Greg Brodsky said his client kept seeing the television ads demonstrating How easy it was to be come an instant made it to the winners lounge at the foundations offices on Carlton Street on 19 before he was he gave a supervisor a tic tac toe ticket which appeared to have Glenn free press clothes rescued an unidentified suffering from minor rescues his clothes from the Golden City 257 King where a fire caused an estimated damage Shine Rama decision a official says by Andy Blicq a Winnipeg school Board decision to prohibit students from fundraising during class time is a devastating blow for the Shine Rama says a cystic fibrosis it was like a Brick Wall hitting said Sam 1983 Shine Rama we stand to lose about kids by this Winnipeg school trustees voted 81 tuesday night not to give students a Day off to Shine shoes in the annual fundraising the with Only Board chair Man Brian Dixon made the decision1 after administrators recommended the division continue its policy of not supporting fundraising efforts of outside groups using Reiner said he cant understand Why after almost 20 years of trustees Are barring student Particia i dont agree with in sure a lot of kids and parents Reiner said if some of the trustees children suffered from cystic i think some of their minds would have been while Shine Rama will still be held on Reiner said he does not know to what extent and he is worried about its school spirit he said students from the Winnipeg school division covered much of the downtown area and if students Are brought in from the suburbs to Shine shoes outlying areas will not be Gordon Bell High school students said yesterday the decision takes away one of the few events which stimulate school i think its said Jackie a student at Gordon which raised of the brought in by Winnipeg students during the on Day Campaign last Gordon Bell student Council presi Dent Chris Ferris said the Board Deci Sion will be discussed at a student Council meeting be mad about that for he said of the feeling among the who have had a history of Strong support for student Lorna said the fundraising event is Good for students because it teaches them How to Deal with the they will Likely launch a petition to have it some students said it is unlikely there would be the same participation if they Are expected to do it on their own like on a i think it has always been a terrific thing for the said staff adviser Doug noting that Shine Rama playing with matches blamed for Blaze a Home at 1291 Wellington Crescent received about damage last night when a bedroom caught fire As a result of a child playing with a fire department spokesman said there were no was something that bound the Junior and senior students who have taken part in the fundraising event have often carried on with Volunteer work for the foundation after leaving he but Gordon Bell school principal Fred Taylor believes there is some justification for the boards i services and administration As Well As already reduce the number of teaching some school divisions contacted yesterday said their students do not participate in while others said their boards Haven set a policy on it and it is up to school principals to decide whether students will take in some divisions a Small group of Volunteer students Are Steve superintendent of the Assiniboine South school said it is possible other school divisions May now look at Winnipeg a winning line of which entitled the bearer to a prize of he was interviewed by As Are All winners of More than and told them he bought the ticket at a local department the ticket was then checked to see whether the Security number on the ticket matched a number registered in the prize redemption computer sys but seeds number never came a closer visual inspection of the ticket revealed it had been an 0 had been glued Syed was he initially told police he never pasted up the ticket and that someone was playing a joke on a search warrant was later executed on his Home where police found another mutilated ticket and a Syed told police he Felt the incident was a practical joke that didst he explained he just wanted to see How it worked and thought it would go through the computer province gives Ottawa break on unpaid tax the provincial government has decided not to try and recoup about million it says it lost because the Federal government refused to pay Manitoba payroll tax for the last fiscal finance minister Vic Schroeder told the legislature yesterday that while the province still believes it has the Legal right to insist Ottawa pay the it has decided not to press the Schroeder noted the Federal govern ment has starting with the 198384 fiscal to pay Manitoba a yearly Grant of million to cover the value of the tax on Federal were getting that payment now and we expect to continue getting so Why would we want to jeopardize that with a court action Schroeder opposition Leader Sterling Lyon questioned Schroeder on Why the prov Ince did not take the Federal govern ment to court if it feels it has a Strong Legal Schroeder said that unlike the Lyon the Pawley govern ment does not believe it should be running into the courts to sett Leall disagreements with when you go into the courts you May believe you Are right and find out theres a judge that thinks in another added the All things it int Worth risking the agreement it now has and its future relations with Schroeder the Bottom is were getting the Money he Lyon said we said he said in addition to the million government Grant to cover the tax on Federal Federal Crown corporations will contribute a further million in payroll tax mental health care balance advocated by Fred Youngs a provincial government thrust to improve mental health care in Manitoba will succeed Only if it includes expanded Community treatment facile spokesmen for mental health groups said Bill executive director of the Manitoba division of the Canadian mental health said capital project and Community care spending must be that connects it institutions Back to the he i Haven had anyone say to me you dont need an institution but you do need a balanced current programs and standards at some guest Homes Are inadequate for helping men Tal health patients trying to recover in a Community he health minister Larry Desjardins announcement of capita spending plans for the next year is one of two and if the other shoe drops then i think were off in the right said Tim executive director of the social planning Council of in announcing his departments More than billion in spending Esti mates tuesday the minister said improved mental health care facilities would be one of the governments major priorities this residency program Desjardins announced several including a upgrading of the 100 Beds at both the Brandon and Selkirk mental health a 25bed adolescent Centre in the Core area of Winnipeg to be completed by next Spring and a Resi Dency program for psychiatric Stu dents operated in conjunction with the University of As Desjardins said a comprehensive review committee examining mental health care would include representation from private All of that More or less hangs together As a said Sale and while he Doest believe the pro Grams Are what is needed they do have immediate budget Sale pointed out that the review committees proposals will have an Impact on next years Desjardins said yesterday the government gave extra emphasis to improved mental health care this year because we know that were weak in Lottie premature both Martin and Manitoba health organizations executive director her Man Crewson were concerned that Desjardins was jumping the gun by putting into place capital projects be fore makes its recon its a Little premature to go running out said Desjardins is pre guessing his own working added burglar fails memory test when a pedestrian carrying a steel pry a flashlight and binoculars was found tuesday with Worth of coins in his he admitted to breaking into a but said he recall its police said he tried to show them where it was but he didst said a the was stopped by police around As he walked near the Corner of Mary land Street and Portage he has been charged with pos Sessing stolen goods and House breaking police Are checking reports of recent breaking to pin the stolen coins to a specific court told baby death followed series of accidents by Paula Martin numerous accidents befell a four Mont hold baby prior to her death in including being unintentionally sat on twice by her father and falling off pieces of a county court judge was told the infants Tracie Marie and Robin Harold Are both charged with Caus ing death by criminal negligence and with causing bodily harm by criminal negligence to Lee Anna the baby died in Hospital May Urbanovich and Brown have both pleaded not court was told yesterday of state ments to police in which the couple described the various mishaps the child Brown police Lee Annas head struck a door Jamb one night when he lurched through a doorway with her in his arms after a few Brown said the girls head was Swol Len the next Day and he noticed a line on the top of her Skull that Felt like two uneven when Lee Anna was two months she tumbled and fell against the bars of her crib after one Side she also fell off her parents hitting her head on the and fell sideways in her Jolly jumper the accused said in statements to they were just accidents and they Urbanovich told the Day before her Brown was feeding Lee Anna when suddenly she just went like a piece of rubber in my arms and she went backwards in my she started to vomit a lot she went the baby Mouth her eyes rolled backward and she stopped Brown told Martin a said the infants Chest rays revealed one fractured rib he estimated was four or five weeks another rib fracture May have been As old As 10 he and a third Reed said it was unlikely ribs would be fractured in a fall because it generally takes a crushing Force to fracture childrens the Type of fractured Bone in the baby leg is one commonly seen in abused children and can be attributed to a twisting he a shaped defect in the baby Skull represented an old pos Sibly older than four weeks before the Childs such an injury would require considerable he although it could also result from a fall on to a hard surface from a sufficient if i see a pattern of injuries like this i am always concerned about the possibility of child Reed after police interviewed the Cou ple in Brown called hem and said he remembered accidentally sitting on the baby once on a Couch and once in the Back of a he said the baby cried a but after a trip to a doctors he was told the child was not i dont want to take the he told police Over the Browns Margaret testified yesterday she saw the baby after her head had hit the door one Side of the head was bigger than the Bailey and the baby had blackened when Bailey asked her brother about the he said the baby was All although she didst want to interfere in the baby upbringing by the she said she thought there were a lot of accidents in a Short Span of Baley also described one Spring Day when the couple came to visit and left the baby in the car for about three hours Down the Street from her she said she told them it was too Long for a baby to be left ;