Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba January Page 3 judge approves move against overbooking ruins Caribbean local police Given names of officers alleged in ticket scam by Don Retson Winnipeg police have been Given the names of police officers said to be involved in a ticket fixing the former waitress who sparked the controversy said she met yester Day with two crime division inspect on the woman said two of at least four police officers who regularly dined for free at Rae Olenn free press jerrys Steak House fixed the staffs parking the who has asked not to be say How Many officers she named during the hour but following the staff George Pike said the woman information could break what has been a frustrating Pike said prior to the the investigation had bogged Down for Lack of an we were dealing with second and third hand he referring to free press accounts of the alleged As a result of the woman info Pike said further interviews will be he refused to say whether police officers will be Al though he said two traffic division officers have been Pike said he expects a report will be Given to acting police chief Stan Scarr within two or three the report will then be forwarded to a Crown he police chief Herb Stephen said at a 10 news conference that Crim Inal charges could be Laid against any officer found to have tickets in return for free but the woman said she Doest care if disciplinary action is i dont want anybody to lose their she i just want whats right and fair for the woman said Pike assured her she wont be charged for conveying four unpaid parking tickets to a police officer at Rae jerrys last restaurant owner Steve Hrousalas has said police officers Are Given free but he knew nothing about his staff submitting tickets to be traffic Mac Allen later con firmed that the four issued to two free press employees be tween 30 and were no longer considered the waitress said she got nowhere 11 when she tried to give the crime stoppers program the names of police involved in the but the woman said she got a Posi Tive response when she met with the two staff inspectors politics cited in aides hiring vehicle checkup a Winnipeg firefighter checks for any sign of leaking the Accident took place around 2 pm at Gas after a sanding truck overturned yesterday after Waverley Street and Willson bilingualism complaints double by Doug Speirs the number of citizen complaints investigated by the Manitoba office of the official language commissioner More than doubled last Maurice the commissioners Manitoba said his office handled 151 com plaints in the province in up from 75 in we did not expect to have that much of an Gauthier said he speculated the Rise could be linked to last years heated debate Over the Pawley ill fated efforts to entrench Frenchman Guage i think the debate in the Legisla Ture sensitized people to some sex he i think its an in crease in people being a Little More aware of their Gauthier said most complaints involve charging they were unable to obtain adequate ser vice in French from a Federal Agen corporation or department in he said air Canada has replaced Canada Post As the Federal Organiza Tion in Manitoba facing the most language related Al though a breakdown want Avail those agencies which have the highest profile Are the ones against which we get the most he it goes without saying that air Canada will get a lot of com plaints weve also had a rash of complaints against Gauthier said air Canadas ability to provide passenger service in both official languages at Winnipeg inter National Airport has dropped to about 40 per cent because of layoffs in recent when they Lay people they Lay off in order of seniority and they had several Bilinguals among the latest so at the their bilingual capacity at the Airport is not Good and is not Likely to get better for some but Ted a spokesman for the Crown said yesterday the airline receives few passenger complaints about a Lack of bilingual i say there is no prob but air Canada is committed to providing French language service and we do provide Morris we have anglophones and fran co phones on and if we have had shifts in staff they Are because of he said 12 of the airlines 65 full time passenger service workers Are As Are one of four part time workers and 13 of 55 Telephone reservation Morris said it take More than a few minutes for a customer to receive service in As he said the airline Doest believe its bilingual capability at the Airport has declined in recent Gauthier said his office looks into All although the official languages act empowers him Only to investigate Federal he said his office unofficially investigated at least 10 complaints against private corporations in when we communicate with the private corporation we specify we Are talking with them As a matter of information and that we have no Gauthier said he asks no Federal groups to voluntarily respond to Lan Guage generally about 99 per cent of the corporations respond quickly and favourably to the recommendations we translation school to open in fall Boniface College will open the Only professional translation school in Western Canada next a College official translations director real Paquette said the school will meet a growing demand for translators in government and private the school will qualify students As translators in specialized easing a shortage of people who can translate technical materials from English to Paquette translators Are needed to provide government services in he and there has been a Large growth in demand from private Sec Tor course offerings will be in areas such As Law and As Well As commercial translation of Busi Ness correspondence and the College decided it needed a separate department for teaching practical translation because courses now offered by its French department Are limited to literary Paquette said the translation school will be funded out of the colleges regular he said the school will offer three types of programs a fou year honors program for a Bachelor of arts degree in translation a two year program for students who Al ready have a and a three year certificate program for people Al ready working in the Field who want to upgrade their he said Entrance requirements will be stringent to ensure that Stu dents Are highly applicants will be required to pass an Entrance exam to be held this he Andre translation services director for the Manitoba govern called the Boniface pro Gram a realistic response to the practical needs of his Martin said government translators must have the flexibility and knowledge to translate a variety of documents and by Fred Youngs a respected highways depart ment employee was demoted while on vacation to make room for a political aide to transport minister John sources its a blatant political appoint Manitoba government employees association president Gary doer said theres no question in the employees senior officials of the department Are holding their nose on this when the minister is perceived to Start parachuting people and people who Are perceived As Good people by their superiors Are being then its Hacks and flacks Plohmann former executive assistant Ken Shewchuk became administrative officer with the licence suspension Appeal Shewchuk was Given the position on a six month term and with out a civil service the person in the position was moved laterally to the Job of administrative officer with the highways traffic sources the woman who had been filling that position temporarily and who had been promised a Chance at it full was demoted Back to they her demotion came while she was away on a two week they and she was told while she was off it also came about despite the fact she had received written Praise from her superiors for her performance in the higher they the who did not want to be is grieving the changes through the Manitoba government employees the details of the shuffle and the grievance were confirmed by who has asked civil service commissioner Paul Hart to investigate the doer said appointment of Shewchuk was obvious political Tam and that the department staff Are infuriated by the demotion will mean a salary difference to the woman of about a doer a spokesman for Lohman denied doers saying the changes were part of a planned departmental he said allegations of political interference against Lohman Are unfair and theres really very Little problem that i see in this whole the ministers spokesman said that after Shewchuk six month term the position with the licence Board will be open to compe motive for inmates suicide attempt debated by David Obrien a corrections department official says there is no connection Between a heading Ley jail inmates attempted suicide on sunday and his published complaints that jail staff propositioned his the mans wife and a jail source said yesterday the inmate has been harassed As a result of the John assistant Deputy min ister of confirmed yesterday that Robert Hill was taken to Grace Hospital after he attempted to hang himself with was in solitary confine ment at the Bock Hill told the free press 10 that his wife was told by a jail counsellor he could get a pass if she had sex with an a department investigation found insufficient evidence to substantiate the but the counsellor was suspended for two weeks without pay for allowing the couple to have sex on four occasions in his office while he was Hill was moved last week from a minimum Security Annex to the main jail for Bock said the move was made because of fears Hill had become a Security Hills Carol said her husband Felt he had been moved because of his last he was again to solitary Bock said Hill was moved to a confinement cell after a verbal Dis Pute with a a source said Hills Transfer to confinement came after a duty supervisor told him to hurry a phone Call because the phone was being shut made some of handed re Mark like ill get your name in the papers and the guard said that off to the but it was like he the guard really misunderstood Hills Intel the Guy was just he want this officer Over stepped his Bounds by throwing him in the Bock said he didst know the motive behind the attempted but that it could be related to a desire to achieve More that happens he Thorn said yesterday her husband had become severely depressed after feeling he was being harassed by he feels there comming Down on him for speaking she they the guards wont admit but Treyve marked the jail source said theres no question some kind of games Are being played with this and the woman will be come to it the change Doest reflect on her at he there is no reason Why she be consid the spokesman said that when Ever a position is filled on a term basis a civil service Competition is not blast blamed on Crew by David Obrien a City work Crews negligence caused a Gas explosion which demolished a Winnipeg earlier this a report by the provincial fire commissioners office Blaine somerland his daughter escaped unhurt from their Pacific Avenue Home 4 after it was gutted in the the blast also damaged a Boring House after a City work Crew using a Backhoe to repair a broken Watermain struck a Gas the Gas line was clearly marked by the Gas but was disregarded by the Backhoe the report by assistant fire commissioner Derry Newton the operator had repaired a water main leak just to the and had discovered another leak further to the the report he was continuing his digging going to the East when he caught the Gas line with his clearly marked the Gas line was clearly marked and there appears to be Little doubt that when the Crew found there was a second Watermain break to the East of the first they decided to disregard the marking and continue digging with the this could not be done safely unless they were to move the Backhoe to another Side of the they could not dig from the West Side of the Rod the cites commissioner of works and re fused comment on the id like to see the report and understand How they reached the conclusion they did before com Mcrae he said an internal inquiry into the incident is scheduled for later this week to determine if the explosion resulted from a procedural problem or individual he said the departments excavation practices r Are being he said at the time of the explosion the Backhoe was probably responsible for breaking the Gas line and causing the Mcrae said the line joined the Gas main about two metres below the and the Backhoe operator apparently believed it would be at the same depth closer to in it was Only about one metre deep at that Mcrae newtons report Doest comment on this Point and he be reached Somers said last night the City has asked him to make a list of items lost in the he said he will submit the list to the City and discuss exposure ruled Likely cause of bound girls death Candace found dead thursday after going missing probably died of win Nipges chief medical examiner said Peter Markesteyn said too cology tests will be performed on the body and the expected within two will indicate whether the 13yearold had received any drugs or at this subject to Correl the death was due to expo he Markesteyn said he did not wish to interfere with the police investigation by providing further details of the performed his comments followed a press conference yesterday in which police crime Des Depourcq said the autopsy failed to show any apparent cause of Depourcq indicated there were no visible Marks on the girls but refused to say whether she had been sexually Derksen was last seen 30 leaving the mennonite Brethren collegiate Institute where she was a Grade 7 she was found thursday bound and fully clothed in a shed at Alsip Brick tile and lumber by Victor who works there As a Frankowski said last night that youths have been seen near the shed during the but that he was not aware of any activity there during the he said that but for the need of a machine the body would not have been found for some Frankowski said he went out to the shed to get a part on a machine that haunt been used he said that no one from his company had been into the Shack for at least two although at night you never know if someone had gone near the he Frankowski said he had barely walked into the shed when he saw the body face up on the he said he noticed the body As soon As my eyes got used to the the Foreman said he immediately left the Shack to get adding that he didst really look asked whether police had searched the Frankowski said he could not say because the com Pany had been closed for the Christmas police say an offi cer looked into the shed during a search of the area Depourcq yesterday fended off questions about the in relation to the body and things of that its critical to our investigation that 1 cant re lease anything about Depourcq said police have interviewed a woman Clair who last month told a press columnist she saw Der Sens body in a Depourcq said there Are remark Able similarities Between the woman Story and the area where the girl body was As the woman subsequently gave police the name of a Man she said picked up Depourcq say whether police have interviewed the i ;