Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free ement of Trust funds at Ontario rest Home alleged f 4 Okony 0 f Fust funds of a it umber of senior Veitii Jeffis a fest Home in Northern Ontario were managed by the Homes former Admire says a confidential govern Nerit 1 the draft report by the Ontario ministry of and social ser leaked yesterday by Liberal Leader David lists a number of irregularities concerning Trust accounts of residents at the f Pioneer residence a nonprofit facility in Kirkland Lake managed by a Munici appointed Community and social services min ister Frank Drea said in an interview that although Jack the Homes former administrator who died last didst follow proper nobody was being siphoned of their Armstrong cited health problems when he re signed in 1981 the prepared by the ministry last says m meth artist existed until to assure the Home complied with provincial regulations concerning residents Trust under provincial when seniors enter one of Ontario rest Homes they must Transfer their Finan Cial assets to a Trust fund administered by the maintenance charges Are taken from each residents fund until the account reaches a minimum usually about when the province pays the at that residents ate not charged any fees and their f Effia ining nuclear stockpile hits 20year Low the Baltimore Sun Washington the Reagan and combating a perception that it is expanding the nations Arsenal of nuclear said yesterday that the nuclear stockpile is at the lowest level in 20 even if negotiations with the soviet Union fail to achieve agreement on arms a government fact Sheet our Long Range plans would entail Only a moderate increase in the size of the american stockpile Over the next 15 the number of nuclear after such an would still be far below the mid1960s it was the Sheet was issued by the defence department and was de scribed by administration officials As part of an administration Effort at better communication of its nuclear arms the data communicated was mainly in percentage terms and was carefully obscured to avoid revealing actual numbers of weapons in the nuclear stockpile or the total megaton age that destructive Force of the the government analysis appeared to reflect a reduction in the number of and of the outsize bombs loaded on since the of intercontinental missiles have remained Static for Well Over a a further Factor was the removal of older Battlefield atomic weapons from Europe after the Western Alli ances 1979 decision to seek an agree ment with Moscow on medium Range missiles in if an agreement is not and the planned 572 cruise missiles and Pershing it rockets Are yesterdays statement the United states will withdraw an additional 572 older nuclear eve increasing accuracy of missiles and bombing As Well As advances in weapons has enabled the United states to prod uce nuclear warheads with much lower or detonation than those of 20 and More years the Titan intercontinental now being carries a 5megaton warhead yielding an explosive Force equal to that of 5 million tons of the first minuteman missile carried a 2megaton the later ones carry three each with the explosive Force of tons of the Pershing la medium Range mis Sile now in Europe has a warhead with 20 to 40 times the yield of that on the forthcoming Pershing the latter compensates with its great what is yesterdays fact Sheet is that when new nuclear warheads Are we disassemble and destroy older less explicit was the fact that Overall reductions in numbers appear to have come mainly in the Arsenal of or the Arsenal of weapons actually mounted on Long Range missiles and aircraft has in creased Over the past 10 to 15 the statement yesterday said it was often stated or assumed that Ameri Cas stockpile of nuclear weapons has steadily increased and that we now have More than that is True for the soviet Union but the opposite is True for the it was c commission probing Aquino slaying meets continued from Page 1 would investigate the murder of his Arch political shot by an unidentified gunman As he was escorted from the Airliner that brought him Home after three years of self imposed exile in the United Aquinas political opponents of the and columnists in pro government newspapers have pressed Marcos to mount an Independent and thorough inquiry into Fernando told Reuters the first open session of the commission May be postponed to wednesday from monday to allow Aquinas relatives to attend the which he said would be thorough and exhaust the delay was needed because Aquinas funeral would take place he during a requiem mass attended by tens of thousands of people Aquinas political allies brushed aside the they said it lacked Independence and the largest Public crowds seen on the streets since Aquinas death surrounded a procession carrying the body to Church from his Home columns of people continued to file past the body in the Church hawkers and Street traders set up stalls students also began a class Boycott in ostensibly Over internal issues but coinciding with plans for a March and prayer rally at the state run University of the the March and rally Are designed to commemorate Aquinas killing and to pressure the government to form an impartial committee authorized to investigate thoroughly the Circum stances surrounding the assassination of the a student Council statement Fidel commander of the paramilitary Philippines con said yesterday Security forces were preparing to Deal with radicals who might cause disturb he said his forces had made contingency plans in Case there was trouble at the Cash is saved for funeral any Money remaining after the funeral is to go toward unpaid maintenance the report on the Kirkland Lake Home indicates that in Many eases the remaining funds were paid track to relatives of the deceased it says that since the Home was founded in 1985 the ministry and the town of Kirkland Lake have had to pay More than million in resident maintenance costs that were not this Guy Armstrong was just playing Robin said who added he want condoning Arm Strongs actions but that he is con Vinced there was no criminal what was happening was that the Money was going directly to the families instead of the which is hardly something youd be held As Eosin table for in the1 other irregularities in the report include 0 the payment of estate funds to people who claimed to be the sole beneficiaries without any investigation As to the accuracy of this inform while in other cases funds were released to persons claiming to be the executors without proper authorize done residents property was sold for shortly after moving into the then resold within a year for d funeral directors were apparently told by Armstrong How much Money was in the Trust funds of deceased residents because the amount of funds available approximates to the Dollar the amount paid to the undertaker for funeral d relatives were often Given Money from residents Comfort allowance special fund which was supposed to be used by the Resi dents for personal expenses like cigarettes or the report also shows that in 19t3 a property Worth was transferred to Armstrong one year after the death of a former resident who owned the but Drea said it used to be common practice for some especially those without to Transfer their estates to rest Home admin Stra tors for the Money would then go towards their outstanding who called Tor a Public inquiry into the operation of the said the Teek example raises Lions about the ministry ability to protect the interests of residents in Homes for the Drea said a final report by his is try will be delivered to Kirkland Lake Council next the minister said officials will seek repayment from natives who were inappropriately Given estate Money if there in a position to repay officials at the Home declined to comment on the release of the but town treasurer Rick Fiebig said All administrative problems have been tightened up and the Home is running Gerry a floss Birds on a wire thousands of purple Martins Are using Telephone lines in they make their Way people in the area say the the fort Rouge area As a temporary Stop this week As Bug eating Birds Are a bit but Mosquito Are Mackasey credits Luck of the Irish Vete Rait Liberal my is cleared of several influence peddling charges continued from Page 1 utes into a spoken judgment that ran during break in the Macka Seys eyes brimmed with tears As gave his a Brawny Ive been very Lucky As the Irish tend to my for the Southern Ontario Riding of said later on the Steps of the this is one birthday ill remember for the rest of my i will return to my seat in Parlia ment where i Mackasey told at the preliminary hearing which could not be reported on at the time because of a publication ban imposed at the request of Mackasey lawyer Raphael Schachter Blais testified that he visited Les Ateliers at Macka Seys request in sought contracts the company was interested in win Ning subcontracts on the cf18 fighter plane but Blais said that even he had no influence Over which companies won named minister of defence in a Cabinet shuffle two weeks added that Mackasey had exerted no pressure on on the testimony showed showed that a company owned by Mackasey Robert borrowed from the Bank of Montreal in to buy the maps Stock valued at Only half that the was Given to the Bank of Montreal As a payment on a 000 debt owed by the Bank accepted a settlement from Mackasey on the remaining but Only after he resigned from the House of commons committee on Les which had backed the loan with a promissory went bankrupt in and the Bank wrote off the the judge described Mackasey As a helpless a puppet in the of Mackasey was relieved of his debt Only by the Grace of the theban was paying itself with its own Schecter was highly critical of Crown attorney Michel saying with a hint of sarcasm that neither the prosecutor nor the ramp investigators had fully understood the for the Crown to Lay new charges against he would not Only be manifestly unfair but would Border on being Saintcyr said he might Appeal Schecter he said he will proceed with charges against Harrison and Jean the former presi Dent of Les who Are charged with trying to bribe a Public official their preliminary hearing is to begin either 6 or depending on the availability of a outside the Mackasey spoke bitterly of the Montreal whose reports earlier this year on his dealings with Les Ateliers led him to request a House of commons inquiry into his referring to the Gazette As that goddamn he said he had not yet decided whether to in a great believer in the Freedom of the press and the press has had great Freedom to play with my my in Ive counted 17 cases of potential the Gazette today gave its account of Schecter judgment Bann Rhead line treatment on Page its sum Mary of the 15 Days of evidence also began on Page one and continued for pages inside the first Gazette management declined to make any immediate open sundays Kozy Koats your Back to school store final research on students urged continued from Page 1 son said she thinks parents need the information so they could know what they Are up Anderson said the federation strongly supports any Way we can look at the find out what it is and try to do something about How do we Deal with what we need to Deal with if we dont have the information Anderson adding that her personal View is that the school system is one place to gather that she said the result of Barness sur vey in the unnamed suburban which Barnes described As Doest astound Anderson said liquor is accessible to Many students and they Are quite prone to Experiment with Jack the Winnipeg sep Pori vision superintend Stu who vetoed ii Ness study at cordon while students May drink on s or in the drinking is opt showing up a major problem school High school superintendent for the said the number of research requests and the potential disruption of classes Are the main reasons most Are turned but there is always that fear of controversy and sometimes things Are taken out of context and he Smyth said the school division was disturbed when one group of re searchers published results of a study on racial prejudice in three Junior High schools without first letting the school division look at the he said the school division was Dis Turbed that much of the information in that study was presented in a rather negative George chairman of the Jame Assiniboia school said the division normally turns Down re search requests because otherwise schools would be he said there is no question that the school Board would be under pressure from parents if a study resulted in negative publicity about a particular Sara chairman of the seven Oaks school said the Board turns Down research requests because of the need to protect students Tregubov questioned the results of Barness saying that in More than a decade on the seven Oaks school Board she has never seen statistics indicating such a serious drinking asked How the Board would get such statistics if it Doest allow the re search that produces Tregubov agreed that could be a she said she thought Princi pals would let the school Board know if they thought the drinking problem was that Tregubov said she would have to be extremely naive to think that no drink ing goes on in its happening in every school in the she denied that school boards Are trying to hide from the facts by not allowing its not a matter of biding anything because certainly most schools know what is happening re Garding she childrens jeans and Rugby pants 26x Savi up to jeans size 2840 Dpi childrens parkas snowsuits w Wicker clearance 2 semitrailers full of Wicker must be sold 30 to 60 off 85 Adelaide 125 Marion 2082 Ness 9436254 247 3075 8853467 Rattan pining room suites fancy Peacock chair Large twist style Coffee tables Rattan 4 piece suite 3 Only Sale thousands of Wicker shelves must go 11 to 9 out door location Redwood main carvings hurry last Chance Only 5 Days 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