Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 16, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Firm May lop three floors o by Patrick Mckinley Canada Trust May shave the top three floors off its downtown Winnipeg office building partly because of a glut of office space the Federal and provincial governments Hope to lure developers to build an added Square metres of office space North of Portage ave but Canada Trust manager David James said yesterday a 13percent vacancy rate in downtown Winnipeg office space is one reason the May demolish the top three floors of its five Storey located at por Tage Avenue and fort James said if the building is Shor the remaining two floors will be renovated for use by Canada i mus stress that a final decision has not been he Paul Hahn of Dominion construction which would carry out the Reno said he recall a similar situation in which the top storeys of a Winnipeg office building had been demolished and the lower storeys left Hahn said the mechanical systems of the building Are in poor shape and the about 30 years is not of an economical design for office rent if the renovations go ahead they will turn it into a two Storey Bank ing he adding i feel it would really Spruce up that James said Canada Trust had consid ered other alternatives to demolishing the top three but he said the company fears that if it put up a larger office building it would either have to subsidize the facility or have it vacant for a consid Erable length of he said a new Bank of Montreal building and the air Canada computer Centre now under construction on Carlton Street Are going to have an Impact on our immediate area As far As the office space Market is con James said Canada Trust should make a decision in a week to 10 sunny today 14 Clear tonight 2 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Kuk Luklan influence cited in grassroots by Dave Roberts Kun flux klan members joined the Manitoba grassroots organization and worked with it to scuttle the provinces plans to extend French language ser says the klans National direct the claimed infiltration was done without the knowledge of grassroots human rights experts and the who say they know of no cur i rent klan activity in the 10 killed massacre new York a a Baker who followed a screaming neighbor to his apartment found a massacre of three women and seven children All shot in the head and showing no signs of panic while an unhurt toddler sat crying among the police it was believed to be the largest mass slaying in the cites authorities six of the at were sitting in Deputy police com missioner Patrick Murphy said last there appear to be no signs of there appears to be no disrupt Murphy and other police officials said they had not established a motive for the slayings and knew of no sus no drugs or signs of forced entry were and the 10 victims remained unidentified Early we dont think they were All Mem Bers of the same said Eddie there May have been some people authorities described the victims As three adult one teenage girl and four younger girls and two boys ranging in age from about three years to the Early the Man who discovered the described As the common Law husband of one of the voluntarily came to police Headquarters for questioning Early today but was not considered a see slaying Page 4 grassroots spokesman Grant Russell dismissed the klans claims As although he admitted some klans men May be among the groups Liaison betwee Manitoba grassroots and other righting groups such As the Canadian league for rights is no the Toronto based director of the Bani Alan Shef said in an Julian a Montreal broadcaster and author of White hoods a history of the klan in said the time is Ripe for the klan to reemerge As a potent Force in Manitoba in the Wake of the French language the klan first emerged in Manitoba in the Early 30s Over the French Lan Guage Sher i be at All surprised if they Are once again nonwhites face klan director Anne said in a recent interview from her Home in that klansmen joined grassroots to work against bilingualism because the problem is ethnocentric although not specifically racial in its usually Only the klan who have the courage to address racial problems in who is also the klans National chaplain or spiritual said Manitoba klansmen remain a in but do so As private citizens and not under the Sanction of the she refused to name any local Mem Bers of the ultralight Wing group or to say How Many members of the klan Are present in with the French language its a problem where klan people Are work ing on their own Farmer there Are so Many grassroots right Wing groups emerging and people who Are klan belong to other groups As she insisted the White supremacist group was not Canada was originally both English and French were the founding we feel language is a provincial concern and that there should be Politi Cal autonomy in each province to de cide which language it wants to or but the Only languages which would be considered would be either English see klan Page 4 Moynihan resigns Post Over Nicaragua action Washington a senator Daniel Moynihan said yesterday he is resigning As Vic chairman of the Senate intelligence committee to pro test what he called a breach of Trust by the Reagan administration Over its Central american death squads the new York Democrat said in a statement that his resignation is the most emphatic Way i can express my View that the Senate committee was not properly briefed on the mining of nicaraguan harbours with american mines from an american ship under american if this action was important enough for the president to have approved it in it was important enough for the committee to have been informed in he Moynihan made his announcement in Don free press an interview on a ctr program this week with David his office later released a statement elaborating on the on the interview Moynihan said that if the committee had been told of the mining we would have you cannot do they did not Brief he but another member of the commit senator Patrick Leahy said senators were told of the mining although not at Abc said the mining was described in 27 words during two hours of testimony before the committee on Central intelligence Agency Leahy said his own briefing was private be cause he had to miss the committee but Moynihan said that reference see committee Page 4 Mission commando organizer Bill Ashdown hides in scrub while waiting to ambush players from opposing Mission commandos live to fight again by Dave Haynes at least 10 men and one woman were killed yesterday in a series of gun Battles near Birds Hill Park but they were All Back at work Mission commando some of them covered with splotches of blooded had taken part in a weekend of trial runs of Winni pegs first survival dressed in camouflage Battle fatigues and brandishing Carbon dioxide powered machine teams of engaged in several intense variations of the old childrens game capture the organizer Bill Ashdown Hopes to have several teams of weekend commandos playing from now through october on More than 40 hectares 100 acres of leased land near the East Gate of Birds Hill Northeast of for a players get a pain filled Gelatin Ball fatigues and Eye pro testing As they have to sign a form that among other waives the organizers liability for injury and makes players responsible for the return of the Mark 1 Worth who Sells insurance on admits Many people will think the game is just recreation for paramilitary he expects Public but says Hes a pacifist at heart who views the game As nothing More than a lot of fun and this is pure Ashdown his face and hands smeared with camouflage the mental age for this is about but it has its the other players including a credit Union letter veterans counsellor and a receptionist All agree the game is essentially Danny a veterans affairs used his pistol to eliminate several opposing but he says he never Felt like hed actually shot you dont get any More of a thrill out of this than you would scoring a goal in but like the other he got nothing but incredulous looks from friends and relatives when he mentioned what he was going to do even my Janz i had to get up at in the morning to get she looked at the clock and youre youre going off to Hugh a credit Union says he got involved through a Friend and viewed storm see game Page 4 Patti Irving moves into adoption changes Sou aim to enable More children to be reunited Moynihan breach of Trust by Joscelyn Proby changes in provincial pos adoption registry policy May be introduced in the current session of the Reg provincial director of child said he Hopes the changes will enable More parents and children to be he said he is recommending that if either an adult adopted child or birth Parent registers department officials will Contact the other party to see if they want to be we would do it quite confidential he noting that Only in quiries concerning people Over 18 would be he said department officials currently do not Contact the parties involved unless both birth Parent and adult adopted child have made individual voluntary Alcock since the registry was established in Only 26 children have been reunited with their he said the remaining 350 adult adopted 311 birth and 23 adoptive parents registering on behalf of their have been Norma a director of adopt tees welcomed the propos Nevison said she believes the plan will make it easier for the 500 people who Contact her Agency annually at tempting to track Down their birth parents or natural she said Only six to 10 people Are reunited annually by the adding that it is hard to look for a who May have had a child at 16 and has since changed her name herself described the experience of tracking Down her birth parents As a great she said she would do it despite some adjustment problems with her new you dont arrive in a family at 38 years old and find everyone holding out their she they adult adopters dont want a parenting they want a continuity they need to find someone who looks like if youre an adoptee you have never looked like anyone in your Nevison said Many of the adopt tees also Are anxious to learn their parents medical an adoptive who asked to remain admitted she would feel threatened initially by a natural Mother appearing in her Childs it is the hardest thing for an adoptive Mother to have another woman see adoption Page 4 contradiction organizers for John Turner and Jean Chretien both claimed Victory in Liberal leadership Delegate selection in Moonwalk Michael Jackson dance alike contest Drew to Assiniboine teaser the Macdonald Royal commission report will tease canadians today with dozens of economic Power out Power Short Johns residents played musical lotto winning numbers 49 Bonus number 6 Index Ann 21 35 37 29 37 6 22 7 20 Jumble 41 31 19 47 sports record 57 17 to 31 ;