Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 7, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Oscar Jinx despite the general overwhelming desire to win an history suggests its recipients Haven usually been blessed by the Best of Luck Barracuda Eric the is expected to Call the shots for new tory House Leader Ray Hnatyshyn turbulent time Central America is a Region that is in a state of turmoil and transition 745 no Field Day its not easy being a big woman on Manitoba top women athletes find weather sunny today 18 Cloudy tonight 3 Clouds tomorrow 16 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann Landers Jumble Puzzle Jumble saturday to 26 37 26 30 57 38 29 26 38 6 17 61 26 42 87 7 22 37 7 45 37 81 31 68 37 54 6 the i accused Swap roles after acquittal by Kevin Prokosh a Motorist who deliberately drove Over a parked motorcycle to Stop its rider from pursuing and assaulting him was acquitted of wilful damage provincial court judge fed Lister accepted the explanation of Glenn Lov stad who testified he drove Over Dar Rell Smilinski motorcycle Early 4 after deciding it was the Only Way 1 can Stop this the judge said he was satisfied the brewery worker was afraid of Smilinski after he was harassed on his Way Home from work and was punched twice in the face when the two men stopped at a traffic Light at har Row Street and Grant despite the the two men will be Back in court later this but this Tittle Lovstad will be the complainant and Smilinski will be on trial for outside court defence lawyer Neil Kravetsky criticized the Crown for not using its discretion in the Case and because it chose to sit on the Fence by believing both men and charging earlier in court he had told the judge he was astounded Lov stad had been the defence counsel said the Crown had offered to accept a guilty plea to the charge and recommend a Dis charge to the but Lovstad re fused to plead guilty and receive a police Kravetsky of Hizinski was the first witness for the Crown yesterday wild told the court he had just left a hotel where he had no More than five he was South bound on Erin Street when a truck Cut him he said he pulled alongside the accused asked him what he was doing and was sworn the complainant said the truck Driver twice More attempted to drive him off the Smilinski said he followed the accused to Harrow and Grant where he was punched by Lov stad while the two were stopped at a Stop As a result the motorcyclist said he hit the accused in the he said Lovstad swung around in his truck while he was off his Bike and barrelled Over the destroying Lovstad told the court that a motor Cycle pulled in front of him several times and he said the motor cyclist continued to harass him until they both stopped on Smilinski grabbed his Arm through the trucks open window and tried to open the Lovstad the complainant then punched him in the face he adding he drove Over the motorcycle so the Driver follow him free press 750 april 1984 Winnipeg free press vol 112 no Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 jobless figures trigger heated commons Row Phil free press Ottawa up the House of commons exploded into an Exchange of insults and accusations yesterday after statistics Canada reported that unemployment climbed Back above the million Mark last in a rare display of Progress Ive conservative Leader Brian Mulroney accused finance minister Marc Lalonde of indecency in abandoning the its a total Mulroney added outside the his budget Lalonde considers Paris Post by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa finance minister Marc Lalonde was repeatedly criticized in the commons yesterday by both opposition parties because he is in the unofficial running for the Post of Secre tar general of the Paris based organization for economic cooperation and Lalonde confirmed yesterday that he has been approached about the Post and said he believes the 24nation body is also considering opposition Leader Brian Mulroney and new Democrat Ian Waddell Van Couver Kingswan criticized Lalonde on the grounds that he pushed the unemployment rate to peo ple in Canada and is now bailing out to take a Plush Job for himself in the words they used were but acting Deputy prime minister Jean Luc Pepin said the fact Lalonde was approached for the High level Post was an Honor for the finance minister and for Mulroney said Lalonde has his party Blessing for hobnobbing with the cancan girls in place Pialle providing he promises never to return and touch the Economy Waddell described the plight of an unemployed construction worker in his Vancouver constituency who is out of Money and then said the worker has no possibility of bailing out to a Job in Mulroney said Quebe cers and canadians Are fed up with the hypocrisy of people who inflict unemployment on them and then find themselves Well paid jobs in but Pepin countered Mulroney charge the fact that the minister of finance of Canada has been approached for that without his having sought is an Honor for Canada i see Lalonde Page 4 is not three months old and its already been Lalonde responded by attacking the sincerity of Mulroney concern for the telling the commons Mulroney turned Schefferville into a ghost town and close about half the North Shore in Kostyra claims jobs there is probably no other business person who has created More unemployment and misery in the country than the Leader of the conservative Lalonde referring to the Layoff of hundreds of workers by Iron Ore of Canada while Mulroney was head of the opposition maps devoted the entire 45minute daily question period to grilling the government on the Job less which Lalonde admitted were a the figures show the unemployment rate in March climbed for the third consecutive to per cent from per cent in and the number of jobless increased to Only less than the record High of a year the figures hit canadians while being repeatedly told the economic recovery is Are facing the threat of higher interest a sagging and greater the opposition derided Canadas pointing to the United states where unemployment in March remained steady at per when he told the House two months ago that things were was he just stupid or was he lying asked Ian nip Job creation be patient Lalonde urged maps to be saying the recent increase in productivity shown by workers Means Canad an goods Are becoming More compete and that fact will eventually translate into More and better paying the Economy is not performing As badly As the opposition he but opposition maps pointed to in creases in interest the Rise in inflation and the declines in the housing starts and business investment As signs the Economy and the govern ments economic policies have my for Vancouver Kings listed a meagre diet on which one of his jobless constituents with a family of five was being forced to he later displayed to reporters a Brown shopping bag containing what that one family had to eat for a passed the blame to the social credit government of British whose restraint poli cies have reduced the amount of Aid available to the unemployed and whose policies he said Are similar to those espoused by the that is a pathetic retorted people Are looking for not see liberals Page 4 horsing around Devi Hershbain and her horse Floyd showed up at Kelvin High school yesterday for a Grade 10 English class project with Devis instructor had assigned a multimedia presentation and Floyd doubled As projector while Devi gave a demonstration of equestrian Legal Aid funding rejected by Larry Hill Canadas provinces have rejected a Federal government offer to help offset the increased Cost of Legal Aid for adolescents facing criminal charges this year under the Young offenders after almost a year of talks about the costs expected to Rise dramatically because the new act entitles youths to Legal counsel Ottawa and the prov inces Are at Odds about How much the Tab for Legal Aid will be and How it should be spokesmen for both sides said the Federal Justice department tabled its offer in a 24 letter to the provincial Deputy attorneys a Federal spokesman said Glenn Rivard said the Federal government has estimated the provinces Legal Aid Cost increases for Young of fenders during the 198485 fiscal year at half that sum is the maximum that we would allow under the current said who is the depart ments program manager and policy adviser for Legal we feel that its reasonable As an Rivard said from but the chief negotiator for the prov which have joined forces for the countered that Ottawa offer was too Robert Adamson said we have argued strenuously that any arbitrary limit on the Federal share of expenditures int who is also British Colum Bias assistant Deputy attorney Gener said there was a very real risk the new Federal statute will drive the provinces total Legal Aid expenditures for juveniles beyond million this fiscal the new which was a decade in see provinces Page 4 Turner takes Early Lead in race for Liberal delegates in Manitoba by Gary Hunter John Turner supporters picked up 12 of 18 votes yesterday in the first round of Manitoba meetings to select delegates to the Liberal leadership convention in Ottawa in at a meeting last night to select 14 delegates from among the 36 Liberal candidates in the last provincial elec Turner backers grabbed nine the other five delegates Selec Ted were earlier three Turner and one Chretien supporters were elected As delegates by the Liberal clubs at the universities of Manitoba and Winni an elated Jay the Winnipeg lawyer who organized support for Turner among the former said i think what happened Here tonight could be translated into the Overall provincial the same percentage for however City councillor Guy one of the uncommitted candidates said too much be read into yesterdays its Early some of the other candidates Are just starting to come into the during a today Stop in Winnipeg earlier this Turner met with both youth delegations and a group of former provincial four of the other including Energy minister Jean Are expected to be in Winnipeg during the next Savoie said the results show some body has done a lot of work for turn but he predicted there would Likely be some changes in attitude Between now and june even among those who now say they support Twenty seven of the 36 candidates who ran unsuccessfully for provincial office in 1981 turned up for the meeting last night at party Headquarters on Roslyn Doug the for Mer Leader who now lives in was among those to put in an a see Turner Page 4 Silver liver delivers research dollars Stanley cup eludes but cites business elite dominates league by Doug Speirs the National hockey leagues holy the Stanley May never find its Way to Winnipeg on the other the liver cup May never the liver cup is the Symbol of supremacy in the National liver a nationwide hockey Pool organized by Canadas business elite which has raised about for liver research since its an exact replica of the Stanley but instead of the cup on its got a big Silver its a very impressive said Richard an the leagues Winnipeg chair weve won it three out of the four years that the National liver league has been in said president and general manager of Powell equipment 1978 the problem is Winnipeg keeps winning All the time and the Guys in Toronto have never seen the league was launched As a fun Draiser in 1979 by corporate giant Montegu president of Argus and Michael Firestone of Michael Firestone associates in dont like liver we had been working with the Nadian liver foundation trying to raise Money for liver research and it was very hard because people dont like liver for some reason like Black so we decided to come up with a gimmick and we started thinking about All these hockey with franchises in win Toronto and the league operates on the same principle As hockey pools which Are As common As paper clips in most participants in the liver How include some of Canadas Finan Cial for instance Federal conservative Leader Brian Mulroney until he recently won the Leader ship of the an organizer in Mon each City in the highbrow Pool is allotted 25 teams with two or three each member pays a entry with most of the proceeds going to the liver foundation to fund a variety of we wanted to get a franchise going in but either they didst have 75 Guys with or they didst have 75 dinner Black prior to the Start of the nil play the liver leagues throw a gala function in each City where they select 10player squads from the rosters of clubs vying for the Stanley its held just like a regular nil Andison its a Blackie after the draft takes theres a gourmet dinner and during dinner youre allowed to make the liver league team in each City with the highest scoring squad in the Nils postseason theatrics wins a such As a trip to Las ultimate goal but at the end of the Road for the Canadian liver league team whose players prove most prolific in the Nils annual shootout lies the ultimate goal the liver Home of the defending liver cup held its 1984 liver league draft this among those taking part was Winnipeg jets president Barry a spokesman for the liver foundation in Toronto said the Pool has been a Boon in the liver disease Nesses vie for River ;