Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba The owner of two City hotels says hell give on legged runner Steve Fonyo when he arrives in Winnipeg not that Genady owner of the Leland and Manor has much provincial court judge Arnold Conner ordered Groysman to make a donation to the Canadian cancer society yesterday after he pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing goods obtained by also received a two year conditional discharge with supervised probation and was ordered to perform 700 hours of Community service Over two after his court Groysman said he was looking Fonyo Battles Forward to meeting who is expected to arrive in Winnipeg to Fontos journey for has in m i y Vitoi y y if raised so Groysman was charged last year with being in Possession of electronic goods stolen from the Canadian can cer the Manitoba association of registered nurses and the Manitoba Institute of he said he could have donated the to either of the other but opted for the cancer the society is doing Good Ive donated to them before so it wont be the first Groysman Saul Sim said a Fine would have meant a criminal conviction and the loss of Groysman liquor he said rulings involving donations Are but denied that Groysman got off Simmonds said judge Conner accepted a joint Crow defence Fec Ommen Damion and police Felt the Hotelier had Learned his Groysman denied he bought the stolen although he said they were purchased at the the City of Winnipeg plans to donate to the fight against cancer in Honor of civic finance committee recommended the Grant the City is also planning to make Fonyo an honorary a spokesman for Motel where Fonyo spent last said the runner was Kilometres from Canadas geographical Centre at landmark East of after breakfast at Fonyo is expected to reach the Point by about 9 Fonyo honorary citizen sunny today 28 Clear tonight 34 january 1985 free Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 25t Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second cuss mail registration number 0286 Hatfield cleared of charge by Catherine Clark special to the free press smiling and shaking his lawyers Premier Richard Hatfield acknowledged yesterday he would sleep better now that he has been found not guilty of marijuana during the 40minute which topped two Days of provincial court testimony from 17 Crown wit Hatfield sat at his lawyers table with his hands clasped in front of he refused to com ment on the saying Only that he was to meet his Crown attorney David a lawyer who was specially appointed to the Hatfield said he did not know if the Crown will who has been Premier of new Brunswick since was charged with Possession of marijuana after 32 Grams of the drug were found in his suitcase at the Fredericton Airport before Queen Eliza Beths departure provincial court chief judge an see Hatfield Page 4 Maverick ads vote on split by Maureen Brosnahan the association of Independent physicians of Manitoba will vote this weekend on whether to sever ties with the medical As if the proposal is the group will set up its own Legal organization to negotiate with the province on fees for its association president Jeremy Gordon said the group represents about 90 Manitoba most of them specialists who Are opposed to the Canada health act and favor the right of doctors to extra Bill a most of them Are also members of the but the two groups have been at Odds recently Over a pro posed agreement Between the Mma and the the which is being voted on by Mailin would see Doc tors give up their right to extra Bill and opt out of medicare in Exchange for a form of binding arbitration to Settle fee the voting dead line is next Gordon said that As recently As three weeks ago he was confident the two groups could continue to work adding the Mma is a democratic organization which Al lows diverse views among its Mem but it looks like the split Between the two associations is getting he said what we Are going to think about is getting fully Independent status to negotiate separately with the gov this would create a new Ball game in this noting that such an organization is not barred by the Canada health Gordon said it would offer members Type of fringe benefits now available through the see Maverick Page 4 Glenn free press City loses fight on downtown tax assessment by Paula Martin downtown property owners scored a major Victory yesterday when the provinces municipal Board ordered cuts of up to 60 per cent in some Portage Avenue tax the move will Cost the City Mil Lions of dollars in in extremely delighted that jus Tice has finally said lawyer Michael who re presents some of the 69 Portage Avenue landowners its a great Victory for the prop erty he i would estimate refunds should be in the neighbourhood of at least Mil the municipal Board ordered a reduction of 60 per cent for some properties on the North Side of por Tage retroactive to it also Cut assessments by 50 per cent for those on the South Side Between fort Street and memorial the landowners had appealed a City Board of revision ruling which last year gave them a 40percent Cut in tax retroactive to the City said that ruling would have Cost about million in tax refunds to the provincial Board found the civic body did not go far enough in slashing the assessments and further reduced Mercury said the estimated million Tab would consist of about million in past assessment refunds and several million More in interest he noted interest rates hit 18 per cent in mayor Bill Norri refused to spec ulate on the Cost of the ruling last but said it will have a sub Stantial effect on the cites tax Norrie said he doubted the refunds would be As High As estimated by but conceded its a very substantial reduction in our assess ment it May Well neutralize the in crease in assessment that we expected for he we were looking Forward to a fairly Good the mayor said the decision Points see Norrie Page 4 Epp under fire Over social policy wading right in wearing wading Gordon Hopko stands in ankle deep As he uses a shovel to search for a sewer Drain on Lipton a Watermain broke last backing water up to a half a metre deep in water found its Way into at least one residential basement before City Crews shut off the main and drained the War criminals harboured Laurent legalized nazi Hunters say Ottawa up the Louis Laurent government of the late 1940s not Only allowed known nazi War criminals into this but the Cabinet of the Day passed orders legalizing their officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the Canadian government protected their identities since that time and has blunted efforts of for eign countries to extradite War criminals and bring them to said sol Canadian representative of the los Angele based Littman and rabbi Abraham Coo per of los Angeles were speaking to reporters following an hour Long meeting with solicitor general Elmer Mackay who they praised As being deeply highly motivated about finding nazi War criminals who May have entered Canada after the second world Littman could not say How Many War criminals were protected by Cabinet orders or provide exact dates except to say it happened after Laurent came to Power in no vember he did say one Case involved a Frenchman who arrived in Canada using false a special order Council was passed to permit him and four or suit seeks nazi five of his colleagues to remain in Littman Littman said some of these War criminals were offered Sanctuary in Canada in Exchange for giving the allies intelligence although he suspects they made up most of the intelligence they sold to the British and the Ameri in other cases we were caught up in the cold War he anyone who was anticommunist we were prepared to accept them on any i think that our government had a serious distaste for the whole it really didst know too much about what was going they just didst want to get they thought it was a rather Messy business and they rather remain at a Littman said the government of the time assumed that Many of the War crimes cases were sort of that these were not really that this was All european politics and that we didst have to pay any attention to see Canada Page 4 Ottawa up welfare minis Ter Jake Epp and opposition maps locked horns yesterday about the Way Middle class families would be affected by possible changes in fed eral social Liberal Leader John nip Leader de Broadbent and others said the proposals would barely i benefits on touch the Bank presi Dent often put Forward As an exam ple by prime minister but they would cause suffering among Bank tellers and Bank Jani tors and the million or two other canadians from families with mod est they told the com Epp rejected the claims and said they run counter to the detailed calculations contained in a govern ment discussion paper on family allowances and tax Breaks for families that was made Public the minister said 70 to 80 per cent of the benefits that would be redistributed under options in the paper would come from families earning at least a earlier in the members of the watchdog social policy Reform group More or less sided with Epp and took Issue with opposition maps who claim the Middle class would Bear the Brunt of any changes in the Louise of said calculations in the discussion paper clearly show that upper income canadians stand to lose the most under the calling the paper an attack on the Middle class is either a misrepresentation or a red she the Reform group is a coalition of six organizations formed to scrutinize possible changes in Federal so Cial Dulude and other coalition Mem Bers talked to reporters after a meeting called to review Epps Dis Cussion two packages of options were put Forward in the both would see the Federal child tax credit increased and the income tax exemption that parents claim for dependent Chil Dren reduced or one of the two options would also see family allowance cheques Cut by More than one the two packages would generally provide higher net benefits for the see Federal Page 4 and firm on passing farm Bill by Brian Cole a debt adjustment Law for Farmers will be introduced at the next Legisla Tive Likely within two agriculture minister Bill Uruski he said the still in the formula Tive Likely will pro vide for the restructuring of farm ers debts Over longer it also could Force lenders to re Duce interest rates on existing farm he Uruski last night said the Legisla Tion is necessary to help Stem the record tide of farm bankruptcies and particularly to help keep Young Farmers in the fundamental Point is were looking at about 17 per cent of farms across Canada being in the minister the hardest hit Are the Low equity Farmers who have been in business for about 15 he these Are the ones who Are see most Page 4 Brushoff Core officials have denied a downtown hotel received the Brushoff it presented plans for a multimillion Dollar r exploitation Pope John Paul warns against exploitation and says work exists for but Man is not slave to rolling along the Way Kerry Burtnyk rink is rolling Mca May have to hold Over t Grain policy wheat Board minister Charlie Mayer says he Hopes to have a new livestock feed Grain policy in place by Index Ann Landers 13 57 23 41 23 6 7 Jumble 27 36 37 sports 56 58 31 13 ;