Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leaves its on Hook by Manfred Jager and Charles Wood residents have some kind of a Aero fading to the Manitoba Telephone Bob an of s Pintoff Flatiron offi said yesterday so Many subs fib ers if the and Exchange afe keeping their receivers off the Hook that its creating prob the five prefixes Are All died through our building at 2491 Pottage Avenue and the equipment there monitors whats Ping on in the exchanges through a system of timers and telling our people that switches Are left when the appropriate checks Are it turns out the people have indeed left their receivers off the dram said to his knowledge the Situa Tion has never Arisen in any other its Exchange not to the Point where we Felt we had to place an and in the the advertisement ran in Winnipeg Community papers earlier this saying in part a Large numb ref of customers in your Exchange area have been leaving their Telephone receivers off the Hook for extended Peri ods of this practice ties up phone switching equipment and can deny other customers Access to phone Drain said it seems people May not want to be bothered by evening Calls after a hectic Day at the parents of teenagers May take the receiver off because of a flood of annoying Calls to their it May just be the receiver of an Extension set May be slightly off the Hook without the Tomer knowing Drain said there Are no Laws of regulations making it an offence to take a Telephone off the at the there also is no need for if you dont want to be just unplug the phone or dont answer when it the fast that it rings puts you under no Tion to pick it looking into sunny today 31 Clear tonight 15 Winnipeg free press August 1983 vol m no 225 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified second class mail registration number 0286 up photo 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 escapes up at heading Ley Challenge of razor wire at jail cited As breakout cause 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 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 Morgentaler clinic files used to question clients 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 yester its having a devastating effect on some of particularly those who told no one about being pregnant or seeking advice about an she 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 these Are exhibits seized by search see police Page 4 rejected Portage plan to receive second look consortium wants to scrap bus mall hotel by Dave Roberts a new 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 policy rejects a downtown Arena and recommends Cor Earea housing and a new the task Force 12 clays 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 according to some City councillors who saw the proposal for the first time the consortium plan is now in the running and a contend but others were not 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 the plan Calls for a Portage Avenue 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 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 see moving Page 4 my sounds alarm on student drinking 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 the 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 seminar 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 going on in High we know half of them will keep up with it so these statistics Arent going to get better unless theres a massive amount of will on the part of the Public to try and do he suggested that rather than at tempting to prohibit parents see alcohol Page 4 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 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 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 past few weeks with an increasing number of inmates going Over the it Hast been very he some people think its been an increased Challenge to the Schneider said the razor wire will be see spa Pintley Page 4 Axworthy sees Winnipeg As transportation capital Axworthy larger levers by Brian Cole twelve Days into his new Porto transport minister Lloyd a worthy is already talking about re examining the question of rail Relo cation and restoring Winnipeg As Canadas transportation but his willingness to discuss Winnipeg future potential is exceeded Only by his reluctance to discuss his personal ambitions for the leadership of the Liberal during a wide ranging discussion with reporters Axworthy said the proposed Grain freight rate modifications could be used As a lever to boost economic and techno logical activity related to As he suggested the time is right for expanding the potential for manufacturing in the Urban transportation Field on a smaller development of the aerospace commenting on what role he could play and what his new office would mean to Axworthy joked Ive lost some of the levers As employment but Ive got some larger transportation levers to pull but on the question of his personal Axworthy said he haunt really thought about being the employment minister see Axworthy Page 4 Gay civil servant loses benefits Battle 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 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 being 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 that i have no Choice in the government is penalizing Gay see in Page 4 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 Price tenants Are upset at the mini Rollback in their rent trivia partition fears Chad officials fear France will allow their country to be Western s winners 2930155 1833961 1315084 2725254 2160862 Index Ann 37 46 22 56 22 6 38 7 34 Jumble 26 21 51 sports 54 47 31 to 21 i ;