Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 10, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 3 sex assault court ramp probed 296 nazi local car Union claims City Yard computerization dangerous by Julia Necheff a Canadian National railways plan to computerize operations at Symington Yard could increase the risk of accidents and will eliminate already scarce jobs for railway Union officials local 990 of the United transportation Union plans to distribute Leaf lets noting possible hazards in the change to nearby local president Bruce Willows said yesterday Canadian National railways is implementing an Auto Matic system for directing trains Over a Hill located in the Yard a procedure known As Willows said the changes will mean that most workers who per form the Job will be he said workers Are vital to pre venting accidents because they can intervene Union officials noted that each Day dozens of cars containing dangerous commodities such As pro chlorine and Hydrogen chlo ride pass Over the Here we have a Hump Yard in the Middle of a said Harold local chairman of the brotherhood of locomotion in the potential for disaster is there its just a matter of Yardmaster Richard Greenway said a transportation Union Survey shows that 450 cars containing dangerous commodities went Over the Hump during one week last Greenway said the number in creased to 730 in one week last no vember representing 60 per cent of trains i representing 60 per i i during the two at cars which Are pushed by an engine to the top of the Hill Are disconnected and allowed to Roll Down into assigned their Speed is monitored and controlled by workers called car the new still in the test will use robot engines and computers to control the cars de scent and eliminate car Greenway car spokesman Jim Starko rejected the unions claim that the Hump Yard improvement program could jeopardize saying the computer operator will be Able to override the system to intervene manually if the improvement program at Symington the first in the car is being implemented Only after years of he Union officials say the program will mean the loss of 16 jobs for switchman and nine for locomotive and they fear the com pants move will pave the Way for future Job Willows said Winnipeg two United transportation Union locals Phil free press firefighters pump water on to Leos Home bakery from neighbouring rooftop the bakery and a Barber shop were school tour barely misses bakery fire fire destroyed a City bakery yesterday shortly after a group of High school students finished a tour of the it All happened so fast it was just Werner an employee of Leos Home those students had just no one was injured in the midday but the cinder lock building and an adjoining woo Frame bar Bers shop were Kenneth general manager of estimated damage at be tween and the fire produced huge Clouds of smoke that could be seen for drawing hundreds of spectators to watch a More than two hour Effort to fight the the fire closed notre Dame ave nue Between Maryland and Arling ton streets for the Early we had trouble getting into the fire because of the Jie avy yellow smoke and intense Deputy fire chief John Henderson it was a very stubborn fire in a Small Henderson said a number of false Walls and false ceilings also hampered their efforts to contain the cause of the fire will be investigated by the fire commissioners we understand there was an electrical Short at the Back of the the Deputy chief the fire gutted the in Storey building next to the it housed ottos Barber shop in the front and storage and a baking area for Leos in the Seidermann said a group of 15 students from an East Kildonan High school had a tour of the bakery yesterday morning and then stayed for they were students from a Ger Man class they came to see How strudel was he Seidermann said no one could re member what school the students were but they would be trying to find they paid for lunch with a Che que and it went in the he Sonia who has worked at her Brothers bakery since it started 18 years ago at 849 notre said the Power went off shortly after noon but staff thought it was just an electrical problem and phoned for an we went upstairs and looked around and see she then someone came in Ana Saia there was smoke coming from the space Between us and the Barber we All got quatember said there were six people working in the bakery at the by the time the fire trucks got maybe five minutes after we flames were shooting out of the Henry owner of the service station across the Becker said he will have to look for space to continue his we have a lot of customers depending on he this weekend is mothers Siddon to unveil action plan for downtown science Institute Becker said he is hoping to be Able to borrow space in other bakeries while he a Delicatessen adjoining the Bak Ery on the East Side sustained smoke and water Ernst hops and Heinz Kratsch were among those watching the they rented space at the rear of the Black Forest Delicatessen to continue making sausages after their shop in Blum Enort was Des troyed in a fire april standing in the Alley yesterday beside expensive meat grinding equipment imported three weeks ago from West the two men watched As firefighters doused their new we Are just not Lucky i Kratsch Glenn for Federal science minister Tom Siddon was expected to make an announcement today on the future of Winnipeg multimillion Dollar Institute for manufacturing techno a spokesman for Siddons office said yesterday the announcement would include an action plan for the which will be called Sci ence place two Manitoba members of Parlia ment also were scheduled to attend Siddons news local Roundup Industry minister Eugene Kostyra said earlier this week the centres future had been delayed because Ottawa was asking the province to provide some of its operating plans for the Institute were left in doubt last year when the Mulroney government said tories fear caucus leaks from student interns legislative internships Are in jeopardy because the tories fear Stu dents hired under the program could leak information to the government in an election Warren Steen Heights said yesterday the tories rejected the selection process for choosing the he said the tories made no Bones about selecting pro tory students to work As party he said the caucus did not want to take the Chance of having a student working for the tories passing information to the which must Call an election by november of next Steen scoffed at suggestions Many of the students applying for intern ships were noting it was difficult to imagine a University Stu Dent interested in the Job who had no political government House Leader Andy Anstett refused to discuss the saying it might jeopardize negotiations today to try to Salvage the under the six students were to be paid a month to work on research speech writing projects for the nip government and tory the two parties were to get three interns chosen on academic and personal Back the selection Board consisted of one person from each one professor each from Manitoba three universities and the clerk of the Steen said the caucus thought the government and opposition would be Able to choose who they wanted with advice from the he said they were surprised to learn the professors would have equal say in deciding which students were after viewing a list of about 40 Steen told the selection Board the tories Only were interested in a dozen he said fee could have used a but decided that providing a list of acceptable candidates would save it would finish construction of the Ellice Avenue but that it afford its annual operating the conservative government said it wanted the province to pro vide but Kostyra has repeatedly rejected the has promised to locate the Manitoba research coun cil in the Centre to help Ottawa offset but the Federal government has said that is not cemetery vandalized the caretaker of the James cemetery said he Felt like crying when he discovered about 30 head stones tipped Over yesterday morn Leo Cadotte said the stones had to be picked up by hand because there is no room for moving equipment in the vandalized he said five of the broken in the which he believed was done by caretaker of the Doreen Street cemetery for 20 said vandals damage the grounds at least once a he said most of the stones were put Back into place by late after Appeal dates slated the Appeal of Thomas Sopho nows second degree murder conviction in the slaying of doughnut shop wait Ress Barbara Stoppel will be heard in 11 through 13 were set aside yesterday for the Manitoba court of Appeal was convicted by an Assize court jury of beating and strangling the 16yearold waitress to death in the washroom of a Goulet Street doughnut shop on caretaker Leo is broken grave voted 100 per cent against the com pants plan at a joint meeting last Starko noted that the general chairman for the Union in Western Canada signed a tentative agreement with the company last fall that included provisions to phase in the Jim who represents workers from Vancouver to Thunder said although he reached a tentative agreement with the Winnipeg membership rejected knifing remark recalled inmate seen bleeding by David Obrien one of four inmates accused of slaying two Stony Mountain prison guards limped bleeding into a cell Range after the incident saying he had Hurt himself trying to attack a a jury was told inmate Gary told court of Queens Bench that Donald Hoard was bleeding from the lower leg at the time and was hidden by other the sixth prisoner to said another inmate who is not an accused entered the 20cell Range with he Hoard said we thanked stabbed a guard and i think we killed said who is serving six years for Cartwright said he was locked in his but could hear Hoard say he injured himself while trying to get at a guard who was hiding in a prison Daryle and Frank have pleaded not guilty to two counts of first degree murder in the Stab Bing deaths of guards Joseph and Rudy they were slain july 1984 when they began to lock up prisoners for the witnesses have said that during the incident a guard hid in the where one of the victims one convict testified earlier if the rioters had found he would have been Cartwright and four others were moved to the prison in Prince Al after the while one is in Stony Mountain penitential he and others who testified said their lives have been threatened As a result of their decision to take the witness lawyers in the Case have suggested that some of the inmates had ulterior motives for the inmates said they received no parole consideration or any favors in return for their Evi two men said they were testifying partly because the victims were Good guards and the riot was sense one inmate said he heard the defendants say they wanted to riot because they were unhappy with new prison but there was no the trial was adjourned until monday because Justice Patrick Ferg said he had to attend a meeting of court of Queens Bench judges at the Gull Harbor resort on Hecla while there have been conflicting eyewitness accounts of the All witnesses but one have said the assault was led by Sinclair and the two accused were hiding Ina washroom when Wendl and Friesen entered the Range about 11 the jury was a struggle ensued and one wit Ness said armed with Scisro stabbed Wendl in the another said Kent then held Frie sen from behind while Sinclair stabbed him in the the four were heard by other inmates discussing plans to the jury was they had been drinking Home witnesses and two of them were seen handling a pair of scissors and commenting on its effectiveness As a killing they Are held at the Public safety while the inmates who testified against were kept in ramp Headquarters on Portage a inmate slips away from heading Ley an inmate of heading Ley jail was still at Large Early this morning after escaping at police said Richard Henry was apparently going from the jails Annex to the main fut failed to show he is described As about 5 feet 8 inches weighing about pounds and wearing Blue a Blue shirt and a Khaki f ;