Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Customer hangup leave sets on Hoof by Manfred Jaget Jame Assiniboia and Wood residents have some kind of a according to the Manitoba Telephone v Bob an mrs information offi said yesterday so Many subscribers ill the 832t 888 and 889 Exchange Are keeping their receivers off the Hook that its creating prob the five prefixes Are All handled through our building at 2491 Avenue and the equipment there monitors whats going on in the exchanges through a system of and telling our people that switches afe left when the appropriate checks it turns out the people have indeed left their receivers off the Drain said to his knowledge the Tion has never Arisen in any other its Exchange certainly not to the Point where we Felt we had to place an and in the the advertisement ran in wifi Peg Community papers a rite this saying in Par a Taffe stuff Ibex of customers in your exp Range Nroa have been leaving their Telephone receivers off the Hook for extended Peri ods of this practice ties up Tele phone switching equipment and can deny other customers Access to phone Drain said it seems May not want to be bothered by evening Calls after a hectic at office annoying Calls to shelf Orf it May just be the receive of an Extension set May be slightly off the Hook without the Cus of wifi said to fief ate fid its regulations waking it m w take a Teie Whotte Ofifi at the stifle Trefe also is no need for this if Ysa dont want to be just iffy pm the pftthie6r Doit ails we when it fir gov the fact parents of teenage is take the that strings pails Yew Utt def no oblige receive of off because of of Clear tonight 15 sunny tomorrow 28 looking into ii 1 f w 25p August Volin no 225 Sun aids sets Moon riles sets i delivery i classified 9562336 in second class mail i registration number 0286 winning smiles jubilant members of the Canadian women softball team celebrate on the Victory stand last night at the pan american games in the canadians upset the Heavil favored team in the Gold medal game with a 54 hear stopping heading Ley escapes highest improperly installed razor wire Challenge to inmates by Catherine Clark the number of escapes at heading Ley correctional Institute was higher last year than escapes from jails in at least three other provinces de spite the installation of a new razor Sharp Coil around the exercise but officials admit the Coil was improperly installed and could be doing More harm than guards and inmates say because the razor positioned on top of the sports Field is not slanting out inmates Are easily slipping Over its Sharp there the inmates always going Over that a heading Ley guard this new razor wire was in stalled All for a oneyear period ending 31 heading Ley inmates escaped in British columbian nine correctional with four times the prison population there were 58 escapes for the same Charlie president of the heading Ley resident said the wire on the Fence is put up its too easy for the Guys to climb its a he they guards see them going Over All the the wire is Strung too they just climb up the part where the posts Are and there through corrections commissioner Hans Schneider said the razor which was added to the Fence around the prisons sports Field in has been a cause for concern the see heading Ley Page 4 seized Morgentaler files used to question patients by Cecil Rosner Winnipeg police Are using medical and office records seized from the Morgentaler clinic to interview women who have visited the a practice clinic officials say is harassment and breaches at least 15 women have been visited by police in the last two weeks and asked about their Contact with the Ellen of the coalition for reproductive Choice said its having a devastating effect on some of particularly those who told no one about being pregnant or seeking advice about an she quite its destroying families and relationships for and putting other women in real Dan Ger of Krueger said later she didst believe the women would want to discuss their complaints with the free press even if their names were not police raided the clinic on june 3 and june seizing equipment and Morgentaler and other clinic employees Are facing abortion related charges As a Deputy police chief de Igelski con firmed yesterday that police Are using the information obtained through the raids to further their see files Page 4 rejected Portage plan to receive second look consortium wants to scrap bus mall hotel by Dave Roberts another contender has emerged in the dogfight Over which plan will be accepted As a Model for Winnipeg North of Portage a plan which earlier was rejected by a Tri government task is again being Given City Council lors said the proposal by the Winnipeg developers unveiled in private before the executive polity rejects a downtown Arena and recommends Cor Earea housing and a new the task Force 12 Days ago recommended acceptance of its own plan for a Glass covered pedestrian mall along the South Side of Portage called por Tage and a rerouting of the existing Portage but before approving the taskforce Council decided to take a closer look at the consortium proposal As Well As the Winnipeg Jet Fairweather properties Call for a new downtown in the running according to some City councillors who saw the proposal for the first time the consortium plan is in the running and a but others were so Council is expected to decide shortly which of the three plans it favors for the redevelopment while most councillors said they were excited yesterday by the alter Nate it is far from being rubber stamped by along with new housing units the plan Calls for Portage venue a fitness and recreation Square metres Square feet of office and retail and a science and cultural the consortium is asking that the bus depot and mall hotel be scrapped to make Way for its development rejected june 30 it is the same plan rejected june 30 by a Tri government administrative task Force appointed to look into the redevelopment of North the consortium demand that the bus depot and mall hotel be scrapped was greeted with caution by mayor Bill Norrie they seem to be insistent upon the question of moving the Norrie the City has talked about that be but we have a significant report suggesting Over one million mainly from Rural Manitoba come through the depot each that presents a bit of a Norrie said the City has previously looked at moving the depot to a site near the Airport or the old up rail Sta Tion on Higgins but the downtown hotels and retail ers might be he on the other Norrie i have talked to the bus companies and their lease runs out in six or seven years maybe the timing of this would be Norrie also expressed serious reservations about another of the Consor tums that it have three of its people on the 10member develop ment corporation which the North of Portage administrative task Force said should oversee the whole redevelopment once one group has representation you get All the the labor the chamber of it just the Winnipeg developers consortium is a joint venture by five major Winnipeg based companies Lakeview properties the Imperial metropolitan properties Quali co and the shelter Cor of its bid Calls for More than million of private sector Money to be matched by the Public the consortium estimate of million in Public sector participation was met with scepticism by Phil see rejected Page 4 psychologist sounds student drinking alarm by Paul Moloney almost half the students at an Undis closed suburban Winnipeg High school have a drinking according to a Survey conducted earlier this year by a University of Manitoba Psychol the Survey of the grades 10 to 12 students showed that 46 per cent ranked As problem drinkers because they had got drunk at least six times in tiie previous the unveiled by Gordon Barnes at a drug addiction seminar revealed that per cent of the students had been picked up by police at least once due to drink of 134 students polled per cent said they usually drank Beer one or two Days a six per cent said they drank three or four Days a week and per cent admitted to drinking Beer in terms of per cent said they usually drink six bottles of Beer at any one nine per cent said about nine bottles and six per cent said 12 or More almost 37 per cent of the students said their Al time consumption record was 12 or More bottles at one while per cent said it was about nine bottles and per cent said six Barnes said the findings Are Proba Bly conservative because of Peoples tendency to understate How much they he noted that Overall liquor sales Are higher than suggested by what people say in it is a very serious Barnes told the sponsored by the alcoholism foundation of Manitoba and the University of Alco hol suicide appears to be if weve got All of this alcohol abuse see problem Page 4 judge drops charges against Mackasey Montreal up there is not enough evidence to Send Veteran my Bryce Mackasey to trial on charges of influence a sessions court judge ruled sessions judge Benjamin Schecter made the decision after a three week hearing in More than 200 Docu ments were tabled and 15 witnesses who turned 62 was charged May 16 by the ramp after an eight month inquiry by the forces commercial crimes squad into the bankruptcy last year of Les Ateliers Duvinage Hall he was charged under criminal code article in a Section dealing with bribery of Public officials and corrupt he was accused of illegally and corruptly agreeing to accept a Valu Able consideration amounting to 000 in Exchange for exercising influence in an attempt to obtain Federal contracts for Les the Man named in the charges As the target of the influence peddling was Supply and services minister Jean Jacques Mackasey was also charged under article and in a Section of the criminal code dealing with frauds upon the also charged in the Case were Robert former president of the Mon Treal Board of Trade and a former senior partner with the accounting firm and Jean a lawyer and former conservative organizer in the two Are charged with attempting to bribe a Public a preliminary hearing for Harrison and Bruyere was postponed until the end of Mackasey preliminary hear Gay civil servant loses benefits Battle Igelski confirmation a Gay provincial civil servant has lost his Battle to get dental benefits for his homosexual Lover because he is not a member of the opposite a human rights adjudication Board has Chris Vogel complained the Manitoba government discriminated on the basis of marital status and sexual orientation by not providing his part Ner with spousal benefits under the employee dental Vogel and his Richard were formally married by the unitarian universalist Church in 1974 Al though the registrar of vital Statis tics refused to Register the but the Board ruled because sex discrimination refers to the sex of the employee and marital status can Only be considered in relationships Between members of the opposite Vogel is not discriminated in being Vogel in also insulted that people presume to say my relationship is different than most heterosexual its irritating to have Large deductions taken from my pay Cheque for Benefit plans i have no Choice in the ruling said the denial of dental benefits is because of Vogels sexual not his but because there is no reference to sexual orientation under the human rights adjudicator Marshall Roth Stein said he could not Rule on whether Vogel was being discriminated against because he is a Vogel said the ruling Only proves the human rights act does not protect Gays despite assurances from attorney general Roland powerless when key murder Case witnesses turned hostile and there was nothing that could be says a Crown curiosity up Newfoundland my Roger Simmons mysterious resignation As mines minister has whetted curiosity Back not enough Cloutier drive tenants Are upset at the mini Rollback in their rent partition fears had officials fear France will allow their country to be Western winners 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