Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg frit May Page 3 robbers patience cracks after Bank Tetter parents say sex course too local 1 j Pitk s3 tellers want out of Union tellers at one of the two unionized Banks in Manitoba say they ate angry at their unions attempts to Block their bid to leave the spokesman Wendy Rolfe said that six out of the Sevell female tellers at the Canadian Imperial Bank of com Merce at Portage Avenue and Moor Gate Street want out of the Manitoba food and commercial workers Union because they Are getting Little in return for their Union our salaries Are Low and we dont have any benefits that other non unionized employees dont Rolfe the Moor Gate certified in was the first to be organized in the Rolfe said the Union which recently applied to certify 15 workers at the c1bc and the Bank of Nova Scotia in the Pas has been fight ing the tellers applications to be come de certified since what right has the Union to make us stay in and pay their dues each month she two applications she said the salary Range for the Moor Gate Branch employees is from to noting that nonunion sized tellers at the Cibic Branch in the Pas Are making an the Winnipeg tellers have filed two desertification applications with the Canada labor relations she the Union successfully contested the first she because it was filed while contract negotiations were still she said the Branch employees filed again in april after a new contract was signed which takes effect the beginning of Bernard president of the Manitoba food and commercial said the Union has filed its objections to the tellers latest de certification the Union negotiated for the Moor Gate Branch employees a Job Securi to Protection clause and a seniority a system for he eastbound and westbound traffic squeezes onto the South half of Portage Avenue As a the Bank is to blame for making major resurfacing project gets going on the other Side of the cites busiest the reconstruction work is to be finished in flyer expecting Mega Oilar loss on 84 operation bus firm lost million in but expects worse news this time flyer industries expects its losses for last year will exceed the million it lost in the chairman of the Crown corporation said in the losses would be very High Hugh Jones said in an they be More than the losses would be in the Indus try Trade and technology minister Eugene Kostyra ruled out any Bai lout of the company by the prov no intention Kostyra said the government had no immediate intention of a Cash Transfer to the problem plagued bus Jones said he could not put a specific figure on 1984 loss be cause auditors have yet to Complete their a final figure for total warranty commitment costs Hast been de Jones noting it will have a significant Impact on the final the troubled manufacturer has had its buses pulled off the Road in some cities and had huge orders cancelled because of defects in its it has invested in consultants Stu Dies and research reports in an attempt to cure the which employs 120 lost More than million in Jones was responding to com ments in the legislature yester Day by opposition la Bob ban who said the bus company lost on each bus it produced last during question Banman predicted the bus company would lose million to million in which he taxpayers were giving a subsidy to bus neither Jones nor Kostyra would confirm ban mans projections and Banman told reporters later the financial situation is becoming titular by precarious at flyer be cause the losses Are approaching the payroll t in the company payroll was million about million More than its Kostyra has said the negotiating with various companies about a possible Sale of flyer a joint venture in the Stony trial told con confessed escape bid bottleneck by David Obrien a Stony Mountain prisoner said he and two other inmates planned to escape in an ramp Cruiser after taking guards a murder trial was told riot squad and Security believing we would if they didst do what we Gode reportedly Gode didst say who stabbed the guards and said at the outset of his statement that he implicate anyone but Gray go mayor tells enterprises Norrie warns against Panicky Purchase of piece of the jets by Patrick Mckinley mayor Bill Norrie says he opposes a proposal by the Cit owned Winni Peg enterprises to buy a share in the Winnipeg jets just to ensure the team stays in the a number of the directors have always had a hankering to own a hockey Norrie no Ballard he said the corporations offer to buy a share in the team was sparked by what he feels is an unjustified panic Over its future in the mayor dismissed speculation the City is in danger of losing the National hockey league he called on the teams landlord at the Winnipeg to seek City councils approx Legal firm want Sam claims la society Franco Manito Baine was misled into paying a Bill submitted by a Winnipeg Law Guay Smith and a court heard Lucille an Sam Board said she moved a motion during an 1983 Board meet ing that the Bill be paid because the Law firm had said it had been hired by a former Sam Blanchette said she later Learned that the headed by Renald had not been she said that at the time she accepted quays claim of a verbal agreement with former Sam executive director Lucille Blanchette said the Board did not question who had resigned about six months because it had no reason to doubt Guys she added that if Roch was still on staff and had in fact hired she would have recommended that the Board fire Blanchette said Guay Smith was instructed to submit its Bills monthly from then but this was not done despite repeated requests made to the firms Remi then an Sam Board Smith had joined an Sam commit tee to help negotiate terms of a Manitoba government proposal to extend French language services hut the Board had believed he was working As a she Quay Smith periodically tendered Bills Over the next seven totalling about and the Sam paid about Al before entering a Deal that would give it a share in the hockey it seems to a major decision like that would have to be a decision of Council and not just the Board of he in a strictly Legal they May have the but its a major policy the mayor said he feared an inter est in the jets could result in enter Prises or the City putting Money into the team again and again in the event the team lost i have personally never been in favor to taking an equity position and i think a lot of questions would have to be answered before that could be Larry Fleisher inc recent chairman of the enter Prises could not be reached yesterday for Board member Bill Clement in Charleswood said enterprises would be in a Posi Tion to finance the Deal without hav ing to tap into City tax Clement also said the enterprises Board had Good reason to believe there was a threat the team could move out of the City before it offered to buy equity earlier this Norrie said Winnipeg enterprises was set up to run the Winnipeg Arena and Winnipeg not to go out and buy an interest in he said regardless of How a cur rent struggle for control of the jets he does not believe any of the principal participants wants to move the team out of jets shareholder Michael Gobuty was shut out earlier this week in a bid to gain control of the but the future ownership of the jets remains Bill son of Toronto Maple Leafs president Harold has denied reports that Gobuty was try ing to buy the team on his behalf so he could move it to Ballard he would listen if Gobuty offered such a Gobuty refused at the time of the takeover bid to sign a letter of intent to keep the team in he said later he planned to keep the jets jets president Barry has said he cannot say anything about whether there is a Chance the team will pared to threaten to do so if their demands we rent ramp Dennis Gray said Gode told Walter Daryle 22 and Donald have pleaded not guilty to two counts of first degree guards Joseph and Werner were stabbed to death july 1984 while trying to lock up Gray testified that Gode told him he and two other inmates hatched the escape Gode said the three of them were waiting in a Shower cell when Wendl and Friesen entered the Range and tried to lock the Gray the three inmates then fought the guards and Gode said his role was Only to provide cover for his Gray said he was their plan was to take the guards hostage at knife Point and threaten to kill them if they we rent Given a gun and an ramp he said Gode told we took into consideration that we were pretty brewed so the Guy who was the sober est would do the talking which was Gode said in the which Gray said he refused to our main objective was not to kill the but to have the the but that he Only planned to take Kent denied he stabbed blaming one of the stabbings on court has in his police admitted to one but he explain Why he did drinking Home brew some inmates have testified that the defendants were drinking Home brew before the the jury has heard that Home brew was easily available in the the circumstances surrounding the taking of codes statement were questioned by his Michael Gray testified that Gode was arrested at the prison a week after the incident and moved to ramp head quarters on Portage he said Gode was allowed to Call lawyer Cathy but he was Only Able to reach her answering ser before the interview was com Dunn went to the ramp building and demanded to see Gray Ruby Burns said she refused to let her see Gode because she believed the lawyer was just soliciting North Portage Quickstep bothers area businessman Strauss claims North Portage being rammed by Gary Hunter the shopping mall and Urban Vil Lage proposed for North of Portage Avenue is being railroaded through City Hall without provision for Ade quate Public an area businessman Martin managing director of stage West dinner theatre on Kennedy said the North Portage development Doest have to face a formal Public hearing on its subdivision application because of a Treyve made the two new roads in the project private property and so they dont need the Public Strauss the ques Tion when is a Street not a Street the theatre who faces eviction 1 after having Square metres of property expropriated for the said that without formal the Public has to scramble to find out when the project will he considered by for Strauss said he Learned Only by Accident about a City Centre fort Rouge Community committee meeting last tuesday to consider a service agreement for the 1 happened to overhear a conversation a couple of hours before the he late tuesday the gov Erna entreated corporation unveiled its redevelopment including a shopping two office towers and a hous ing project for the area Between Portage and Ellice Vaughan and Carlton As Well As a covered mall linked to the South Side of Portage by two a residential Urban Vil Lage was proposed for the area immediately North of the the shopping mall is to be built by Cadillac Fairview while the first phase of housing is being undertaken by the Imperial the project would require the closing of part of Kennedy and Edmonton streets and create two new Easu West roadways Between Vaughan and Edmonton Strauss said the project looks but he has a number of questions and fears the current approval process wont provide an adequate forum for citizen con in not sure the project will he Able to meet its aim of bringing people downtown to for in he and there Are also questions about Security in the area and what will happen to people who live Here now1 have All these questions and i dont know if in going to get a Chance to ask Don District planner for City Centre fort said no special privilege is being extended to the he said the City of Winnipeg act does not require a formal Public hearing on a subdivision bid if there is no opening of Public it can also be approved by the cites environment committee without having to go to executive policy committee and the full City he Pentland said the abbreviated process is called a Short form sub division and was designed to save developers time in getting approval for projects that dont require new the As far Asim is straightforward and he Pentland said if the subdivision application were to go the formal Public hearing it would prob ably add two months to the earliest possible approval As it the environment committee could give the subdivision the Green Light at its june 3 at the Community committee meeting tuesday Isadore president of the warned councillors that delays in the development process could Cost the City a ;