Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free january lottery prices inflated by Bob Cox Little can be done about compan including one Winnipeg which offer Canadian lottery tickets for Sale abroad at inflated a lottery official its very difficult to do anything about Richard marketing services coordinator for the Western Canada lottery foun said Cone was commenting on recent advertisements in Spanish and Southeast asian publications asking readers to Send about to a Winnipeg firm for Worth of Canadian lottery it is a very difficult thing to prevent the placing of these ads in foreign Cone there is nothing illegal about there Are no Canadian Laws being lottery officials have tried to Stop overseas mail order ticket opera but they admit they cant control the businesses or the High fees they charge for supplying Cana Dian tickets famous lotteries the most recent ads urge people to participate in Canadas world a Mous lotteries by sending to capital distribution which is described As an official Licensee of Canadian government for their buyers Are promised one super loto two provincial tickets and five Western express tickets each month for one along with an official Publica Tion reporting winning the ads also offer a six month membership for which would give subscribers Worth of tickets for about Canadian More than three times their Cone said there Are no official licensees of Canadian government lotteries and capital distribution is not even licensed As a ticket a spokesman for the company said yesterday capital distribution Doest sell lottery tickets and didst place the we do not sell lottery tickets said the who would not give his i pay any advertising Bills if they came to he described the company As a Small computer operation specializing in computer he said some other group must have placed the ads and the company lawyers Are checking into he refused further the which feature a picture of an open suitcase full of Tell people to make cheques payable to International lottery distributors and to Send them to capital distribution the Correct Telephone number and Portage Avenue address for capital distribution is both compan ies share the same a spokesman for one of the publications running the Al told a Toronto reporter that International lottery distributors of Winni Peg placed the and in december and it is to run until division official faints Snow dump at school High wire feat the recent Rise in temperature albeit slight was a Welcome change for this Manitoba Hydro lineman As he worked above main this Winters marrow Hill ing cold has been keenly Felt by those working up by Brian Cole the City had no right to dump Snow in a schoolyard where four boys were temporarily buried in nearly two metres of Snow a school division official George Buchholz of St Jame Assiniboia school division said City works officials did not have the right to pile Snow at the former Britannia school on Hampton they have no right to do he the property belongs to the school they need approx Buchholz said the school division has asked the City not to dump any More Snow on the Yard and to flatten out the existing dumping prohibited he said Snow dumping is not permitted on any other division property the boys were trapped for about 15 minutes after a City tractor operator piled fresh Snow on top of a fort they had built in a Snow causing the roof to Buchholz said the school division prohibited the construction of Snow mountains in school Yards because it feels they Are Marilyn whose son was one of the boys buried in the has said the City should take action to prevent similar accidents from happening Windsor said tractors be allowed to dump Snow in Fields where children Are Likely to David whose Stepson Robert also survived the said he wanted a full explanation from the City As to who was at fault in the Rod civic works and operations said last night the affair is being considered a Freak he said there is no written Rule or regulation preventing the City from dumping Snow in but conceded it is not generally Mcrae said it was decided to pile Snow on the Hampton Street Yard because the division Hast used the school for a couple of years and no Hazard was he said the Yard is located along an shaped Lane and is a Good place for dumping civic works personnel have used the Yard for at least two he commissioner said the City is looking into the problem of Snow piles and ways to avoid Haz Ards associated with we Are looking into he but Short of warning kids not to play in deep piles of i dont know what else we could Bud manager for District 2 works and said he has already told at least one Parent in the neighbourhood that Snow will no longer be dumped on the tractor Driver unaware boys buried in Snow fort a City tractor Driver who inadvertently buried four children in about two metres of Snow Fri Day didst know about the Inci Dent until the next civic officials Rod civic works and operations said the operator had to be told that he had dumped Snow on the who were playing in a fort constructed out of a Snow Bank about metres Mcrae tractor opera Tor was shocked when he was told of the he was pretty added Bud manager for District 2 it was a Nea Trage four children might have become injured or i had to talk to him to Calm him the Kenny Shawn Jason Mcfarland and Robert Gau were buried in their snowy Tomb for about 15 according to Winnipeg they had been sitting in the fort telling jokes when the tractor began dumping Snow on top of the causing the roof to col three of the boys interviewed last week said they were immobilized until two teenage friends realized what had happened and began digging them fire department and ambulance personnel were also on the Halkewycz said the operator is one of the cites older employees and is considered Good at his agriculture ministers spurn Uruski meeting Alberta inmates moved to Stony by Brian Cole Stony Mountain Penitentiary should be Able to accommodate a number of new prisoners from Al Berta without becoming overcrowd prison spokesman Pat new ton said last the Alberta inmates Are being transferred to Stony Mountain be cause two institutions there Are so overcrowded there is nowhere to Send newly sentenced Glen regional director of transfers for the Federal correction Al services said the prisoners will be returned to Alberta As soon As space opens in the two medium Security prisons there Newton was not aware that the in mates were being transferred to but said the prison has a number of open Ceils and could accommodate some inmates without becoming Stony has a capacity of 508 prison although at its Peak two years ago it held 517 the jail had a population of about 450 in but Newton said she did not know exactly How Many Are currently being held at David executive director of the John Howard said the Transfer of inmates to Stony Mountain will place an added Strain on the last i there were plenty of inmates in he said last Kennedy said it was difficult to determine the significance of the move without knowing the number of inmates to be the reasons for it and the current popu lation at the but he said his group considers inmate transfers to be a generally bad it destabilizes the institution and increases the potential for Vio he overcrowding at Stony has been a contentious Issue in the last few particularly after the deaths of two living unit officers last Manitoba agriculture minister Bill Uruski has called off a pro posed Federal provincial meeting next month on the financial prob lems of Farmers because no one wants to 1 am extremely disappointed that my fellow agriculture ministers Are not willing to confront the serious financial circumstances facing a growing number of Canadian farm Uruski said Federal agriculture minister John Wise and ministers from All prov inces except Newfoundland have either refused to attend or have not responded to his he Uruski proposed the 45 meeting at the same time he announced the nip would introduce legislation to Aid Farmers unless private lending institutions Cut Down interest rates on existing farm Loans to eight per Manitoba now will have to take another look at its plans to legislate debt adjustment Aid to Farmers be cause of the meeting the minister we Are going to have to reassess our situation in Light of inaction at the National and provincial Uruski it is Clear the Federal govern ment and the other provinces Are not interested in a cooperative approach to assisting the serious plight of underscored recently by both Feder Al and Ontario has to be tackled at the National he Uruski said he had hoped the february session would produce an agreement to write Down outstand ing Loans and to hold rates on new ones to no More than three per cent above plan turned Down As he wanted a Promise that the Federal government would rein reduce Bill c17 to legislate court arbitrated settlements of Farmer Lender Uruski said other agriculture ministers have claimed his proposed february meeting was premature in Light of discussions at their meeting in but he recalled that a major proposal for a National operating loan guarantee program was flatly turned Down at that time by As proposals to lower the Cost of credit through agr Bonds or the special farm financial Assis Tance program were to be but no Federal action has yet been at the close of that i expressed my disappointment at the Lack of Uruski breaking suspects tracked by police fresh footprints in the Snow resulted in the arrest of four men police believe Are involved in two separate weekend crime Des Depourcq said officers and a police dog tracked footprints and arrested two men in connection with a robbery at grapes restaurant on Kenaston Boulevard sunday a Lone Man with a sawed off Shotgun held up the restaurant manager when he answered a Knock on the Back Depourcq the manager was forced into his office and ordered to hand Over the robber fled after taking car keys to an employees 1984 Toyota Depourcq said the car was later located at notre Dame Avenue and Border Street and police followed footprints from the car to a nearby he said two aged 23 and were arrested and charged with Rob theft of a use of a firearm and possessing a prohibited in the second Depourcq said police arrested two men Early saturday in connection with a Cass Street breaking after following footprints in the Depourcq said the two men were also charged with a series of breaking in the Charleswood area Between 5 and about Worth of jewel video cassette recorders and stereo equipment was taken in the he two men aged 20 and 19 were charged with several counts of enter and theft and enter with intent in connection with the Brick thrower arrested police have arrested a Man for throwing a Brick through the window of Osborne a shelter for battered yes a police spokesman said a Man went into the Balmoral Street Agency with a Rifle but left moments he then threw a Brick through the police arrested a Man at a Talbot Avenue he adding the incident apparently occurred after a Domestic the incident is under investigation and the Man in custody has not yet been the spokesman heavy stolen the theft of a 227kilogram Safe from his service station sometime sunday night has left owner Jake Wiebe scratching his they just put it on a Dolly and put it on the Back of a truck and away it owner of Why Tewold Gulf service station at 2267 Ness Wiebe said the thieves must have used an Hydraulic lift to get the Concrete encased Safe onto a the Safe contained about and was Worth about he youth charged in robbery police have charged a 17yearold boy with robbing a 7eleven store Early yester Day a spokesman said a male youth armed with a knife and wearing a Scarf Over his face escaped with a Small Quantity of Money from the store at Edison Avenue and Rothesay Grandfather to stay away a judge has ordered a Man not to communicate with his grandchildren Pend ing the outcome of a civil suit by their the woman has filed a statement of claim alleging that her father inlaw improperly touched the two children and that they have suffered emotional anguish and trauma As a the against whom criminal charges were dismissed after a preliminary maintains he has not communicated with the children and Doest intend to do but Justice Hamilton granted the woman an interim injunction barring the Man from having any Contact with the children until the Case is indecent assaults net jail a 71yearold Man was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for indecently assaulting his teenage daughter several times in a five year in passing Justice Vern Simonsen said he would have imposed an even longer term were it not for the mans the Manitoba court of Queens Bench judge agreed with Crown and defence lawyers that the Man clearly is an ill Man who suffers from some form of sexual but the Man violated the Trust placed in him As a his conduct was abhor and the court must impose a penalty that will help deter others from similar the judge the accused had pleaded guilty to one charge of indecent his Heather had recommended a period of supervised probation rather than saying incarceration would be very hard on someone his Hes an old she Hes not going to fit Tran Canada closed a provincial highways department spokesman said last night the trans Ana a Highway was closed near Elie after ramp reported Low visibility caused by there were reports of two including a cattle and six cars becoming involved in there were no major according to the Brandon Man injured a 30yearold Brandon Man was seriously injured in a two vehicle Accident yesterday on the Tran Canada Highway near Vir ramp said a vehicle driven by Wayne Green was crossing the Highway at when it was in collision with a Semi trailor truck driven by Dwayne the Best in modern consumer news and Winnipeg free press Home delivery 9570550 correction re smarts Dollar Days supple ment in saturday 26th free Page k1 the Tania brushed yarn should have read 70 acrylic 30 we apologize for any inconvenience this error May have caused our valued photos 21 locations to serve in Manitoba correction Carlton Street fish Market Carlton York advertisement of 28th should have read lunch monday to Friday fish chips and dinner monday to thursday Complete jumbo shrimp dinner or fresh Trout includes salad dessert 25 off poor Economy blamed for stereo chains debt All jewellery repairs and Vancouver up poor economic conditions in Western Canada Are blamed for financial problems at Kell Deyong sound which operates 13 corp rat owned Kellys electronic world stereo stores in the the company owes about million to various suppliers and new spa none of the 21 stores owned by Independent franchise holders Are said a Kell Deyong who added that All the stores both the corporate owned and the franchise operations Are continuing to open for company owned stores affected Are those in new Westminster and Victoria As Well As others in and other Prairie the Winnipeg Branch of Kellys elec tronic world on Portage Avenue is a corp rat owned said manager Russ Hen he said there has been talk of financial but he want aware of details or How the problems will affect the Winni Peg i think that everything is going to be worked Henley i really dont think there will be any Kell Deyong sound is a wholly owner a subsidiary of Richmon based Stein Ron International electronics the Kell Deyong spokesman said the corporation had filed a proposal with Credi tors for a 60day which would allow time for the company to prepare a definitive proposal for Credi officials at the stereo store Chain plan to meet with creditors within a month in an attempt to avoid receivership or ;