Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winter clothing sought for by Fred Youngs six thousand intercity children do not have adequate Winter clothes and the provincial government is joining an Appeal for Public donations to bundle them Many of the children have nothing More than a Light jacket to combat the major David Public relations officer for the Winnipeg salvation said if they do have a Parka or heavier it often is shabby or too he Perry said the children do not complain about the bitter but their suffering they just say that in you just look at the kids and you he he said they Are not in danger of suffering frostbite because there smart enough to get no kid that cold is going to play in the Many of the school age children in need also go about without mittens or and boots Are a Perry if they Are wearing a it usually is a Light summer he there Are about children who Are mainly in the Core area that do need Good warm the major the province and the salvation army Are appealing to the Public to donate warm Winter clothing in Good condition to be distributed to Chil Dren Between age five and Perry that the age group were Zero ing in he adding that older teenagers will not be turned away if they approach education minister Maureen Hemphil is expected to outline de tails of the provinces role at a press conference theres no particular reason that the Appeal for clothing was started this year other than the fact we Felt very strongly something ought to be Perry he added that unlike last when the Winter was warmer and cold snaps it has been consistently this see Winter Page 4 Hawer Chuk leads Trio of jets Clear tonight 34 sunny tomorrow 27 Winnipeg free press january 31 a Boot Nanns cum Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 25c Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 02bg Denis free press col weather duty firefighters prepare to Hose Down a Blaze that forced night from an Ellice Avenue apartment the fire the removal of about 30 people in weather last was believed to have caused in tax layoffs feared in assessment reductions threaten City officials say by Patrick Mckinley taxes May have to be raised or millions of dollars Cut from the cites 1985 spending plans because of a Rollback of tax assessments on downtown senior City councillors said Deputy mayor Jim Ernst said Lay offs of City staff loom As a possibility in Light of the Rollback ordered tues Day by the Manitoba municipal the Board ordered the City to pay partial tax refunds to 69 Portage Avenue retroactive to Cost of the tax rebates has been estimated at million although the City says it is probably lower and the cites draft budget makes no provision for any of Ernst said barring a major tax its really boiling Down to cutbacks in services and a related cutback in he said the tax ruling could mean the City will have to look at taking one of the fire departments 30 pumper trucks out of As police Community service programs May have to be Cut and higher user fees imposed at swim min pools and other City he Reg Wyatt scone said the City May have to ramp to probe Hatfield Case Halifax up an internal ramp review will be held into the manner in which police investigated a charge of marijuana Possession against new Brunswick Premier Richard Federal solicitor general Elmer Mackay said yester Mackay told reporters in Ottawa the investigation will uncover any irregularities in police Al though in satisfied from the police Side of the matter an investigation was done with due if there was any deviation from an internal investigation Hope fully will disclose Pat a television reporter who first asked the ramp about the has agreed to take a lie Detector test to prove he had no connection with the marijuana found last 25 in hat Fields suitcase Blitz Manitoba will spend several Hundred thousand dollars to promote its Limestone during the Queens visit to Frederic Hatfield was acquitted of the charge tuesday in Fredericton after a today but chief provincial court judge Andrew Harrigan sparked a controversy and further police investigations when he mused that the 35 Grams of marijuana May have been planted by a reporter out to get the Juiciest Story Ever to crack the no evidence no evidence was presented at the trial that a news director for the Atlantic television had planted the marijuana nor was he called to ramp in Fredericton said they were investigating Ryan because of the comments by who described ryans Early knowledge of soviet link the murder trial of four police officers hears of a possible soviet link in the slaying of polish priest Jerzy the drug find As extremely suspicious and said there could be Merit in defence lawyer Donald Gillis claims that the marijuana May have been planted by Ryan or one of his comments made in court carry absolute meaning they cannot be the basis of slander suits even if proven neither Gillis nor appointed chief judge of the provincial court in 1972 by the Hatfield have explained their allegations about Ryan outside Ryan said he is willing to take a polygraph test and be fingerprinted to prove he had no connection with the a partial fingerprint was found on the plastic bag containing the Mari Juana but an ramp officer testified see behaviour Page 4 take a new look at spending on virtually every aspect of its opera i think there will probably be a directive going around to All depart ments Sharpen your you Are going to have to Cut your budget by five per even before tuesdays the was looking at a five cent in crease in transit higher user fees for a variety of City staff cuts in the police and fire departments and reductions in ser vices offered by Winnipeg decisions on All these items and any additional cuts Are to be made in March when the City completes its Gerry Ducharme Seine chairman of executive policy said the City rent reductions could be looking at a higher Hanan tick rated tax increase unless further cuts Are Ducharme did not estimate How big a tax increase the ruling could if it costs the City million and the refunds Are All paid in one it would mean a tax increase of about on the average Winnipeg House assessed at a value for tax see City Page 4 Price Cut open agrees to lower some of its but the agreement causes a rift Between Cartel tories agree to give an Inch on metric Rule Ottawa up the govern ment has reached what it feels is a Compromise Between those who want Canada to continue along the Road to metric measurement and those who want the Freedom to chose Between metric and Imperi after months of con Sumer affairs minister Michel Cote unveiled a policy yesterday under which businesses will be required to sell and advertise gasoline and Home furnishings in if they want to sell in Imperial As they will be required to offer both but the which will take effect in about a Are couched in a series of qualifying for Small family owned businesses such As Corner and larger operations facing Finan Cial will be exempt from the requirement to install a scale measuring in metric if they have Only equipment operating with Imperial they will be forced to advertise and Post equivalent weights in Cote Gas stations must show a reasonable metric pres ence but Cote refused to spell out whether this Means a separate met Ric Gas pump or just a conversion table somewhere on the Cote said the metric Imperial situation in All other such As Highway Speed signs and weather will not be asked whether Ottawa will prose cute operators defying the Regula the minister said the govern ment will first show so much tolerance and under Only those businesses insisting on operating in bad Faith could face Legal he also said in Light of the new Justice minister John Crosbie will have to review the Case of two Toronto Gas station owners who were prosecuted under the pre Vious Liberal governments Regula Jack Halpert and Ray Christian sen challenged the Liberal Regula passed As Cabinet orders More than two years that made metric the Only permissible Mea sure for retailers of gasoline and Home they won their Case in provincial court but lost on Appeal in county court and were ordered to stand trial they now Are in the midst of an Appeal of their own against the county court in Halpert said the pair will drop the Appeal if further charges Are i didst like the Way the govern ment dictated do this or and see businesses Page 4 Legal Aid collapse warned by Tom Goldstein Manitoba leg Alaid system risks collapse because of Low fees paid to private lawyers by the a spokesman for the Manitoba bar association me and my colleagues Are mad As hell and wont take it Sam head of the associations Legal Aid Liaison said in a Brief to the nip govern the association recommends an immediate increase in leg Alaid lawyer fees to an More than double the current Malamud said the current pay ment is inadequate and Doest cover overhead costs in Many would you take on work if you were losing an hour he adding he personally loses that much on Legal Aid according to the position surveys sponsored by the Canadian bar association in 1980 and 1982 found that lawyers overhead expenses amounted to 50 to 55 per cent of their Malamud said the Manitoba Branch plans to discuss its concerns with government i would like to Hope that the government Doest want to let the Legal Aid system he adding the provinces response see lawyers Page 4 Market tone weak after Al time Toronto the Dow Jones Industrial average was off Points this morning after a surge of buying yesterday sent the Toronto Stock Exchange to an Al time High economists attributed the decline to the fact that the leading economic indicator for december was Down per Wall Street analysts feel that the which failed to break the Barrier it closed at will require some Consoli Dation before renewing its attempt to break through the tse 300 composite widely considered the most comprehensive indicator of Canad an jumped Points to surpassing the previous rec Ord 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