Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Red tape ranks High in business lament Manitoba entrepreneurs complain of provincial government red tape More than any other province except a Survey one of every four Manitoba businessmen identified government regulation and paperwork As among the most serious hindrances to Busi Ness Dale Prairie regional director for the federation of Independent the businessmen spend Between six and 10 hours a week doing government related Botting told the Manitoba business regulation and Impact review task Force Many businessmen complained of indifference on the part of Public he the most serious business com plaints were directed against the Manitoba payroll labor Laws and restrictions imposed by municipal policies and procedures of the workers compensation and regulations governing transportation and Botting Mounds of paperwork Are created for businessmen through Cumber some sales collection procedures and accounting techniques for re mitting the provincial payroll he businesses Are continually bombarded with government Statis tical surveys and burdened with government forms that Are poorly de he the federation proposed several remedies to the task headed by Ellice la Brian the task established in mid july by business development min ister Jerrie is to recommend How government can streamline bureaucratic red Botting said he was received warmly in a private meet ing with the task Force but added the federation will closely Monitor the work of government to expedite change in its dealings with Manitoba chamber of Commerce president Donald Vernon and others have condemned the task Force As a blatant political ploy in the months see business Page 4 actor Rock Hudson loses Battle against deadly Cloudy tonight 2 showers tomorrow 7 october 1965 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets real Homo delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 i r second class mail registration number 0286 Dave free press beet Battle a worker on the Diedrich Hiebert farm near new weather hampers the Harvest As it has with Grain Bothwell hurries to Load sugar beets before wet the beets Are refined at a Winnipeg night of torture sentence upheld 10year term reflects shocking attack on Twoy Earold judge says by Heidi Graham Manitoba court of Appeal upheld yesterday the 10year sentence of a teenager who tortured a two year old child last chief Justice Alfred de livering the majority de scribed the assault on the child As a night of he said the child survived one of the most shocking and horrible attacks hed Ever and the harsh sentence justly reflected the assaults so repulsed were the Appeal judges that Justice Charles Huband asked Crown attorney Don Melnyk to be Brief when describing the i have a hard time even Reading about he Kenneth David convicted earlier of aggravated As sat expressionless As the a peal verdict was he will serve the rest of his sentence in protective custody in a Saskatchewan court was the maximum sentence for the offence is 14 Curtins Timothy argued the 10year sentence was too noting manslaughter convictions often carry sentences of Only four or five he said his client was in custody for More than 12 months before his conviction yet the time was not considered part of his indians sue for Clear Lake land an Indian band has started Legal action for Possession of prime recreational land around Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National in documents filed in the Federal court of the Keesee Oowen in Indian band says the property was illegally seized from it 50 years the band says that in 1871 it was granted acres of land South of what now is the in the Federal government issued an order Council giving the band another 756 acres on the North West Shore of Clear although the plot was later reduced by 30 the area became Riding Mountain National Park in 1930 and a year the Federal Justice depart ment declared void the Cabinet order giving the band 726 in the bands 726 acres were expropriated without com the documents chief Norman Bone said in an interview yesterday the land around Clear Lake was a traditional Hunting and fishing Bone said Many Reserve residents lived on the site during the until they were forced off the he said houses were burned before the residents were finally pushed out in the site is sacred with Many ancestors buried Bone he said they want the land but he didst Rule out some other form of he said the value of the which has three Miles of Sandy Beach Trees and is being asked Why it has taken 50 years to begin Bone said it want until five years ago they realized they had a claim following research by the treaty and aboriginal re search Bone said negotiations opened then the Indian affairs depart but the matter want re he said he is to meet this month with Indian affairs minister David Crombie to see if the claim can be resolved without going through the the documents say the with government purchased an additional 320 acres around Clear Lake in the government legally expropriated the property and paid the band for but didst give compensation for the 726 judge Monnin agreed there seemed to be a discrepancy in sen but maybe weve Given out wrong ones he Killeen said 16 at the time of the was ignored As a child and didst develop the inner controls necessary to function in he said his who had no previous convictions or was not a hardened criminal and a lengthy sentence would diminish his chances of Melnyk said the teen Ager had assaulted three other Young children although this was his first he said who was babysit Ting the child on the night of the is dangerous and society must be protected from he added that a lengthy prison term would help the teenager develop the ability to control his court was told that Curtin hanged the child from his heels in the base beat threw him Down the rubbed a pair of dirty diapers in his Cut his Penis with a knife and tossed him against Curtin had earlier told a Friend he thought the boy was spoiled and he would kill him if Given the Melnyk see assaulted Page 4 soviets increase Beirut Security Beirut a the soviet Union increased Security at its Beirut embassy today to guard against the threat of a suicide bombing made by Telephone callers claiming to speak for an organization that also said it killed a soviet soviet officials have appealed to syrian and lebanese leaders to help free three other embassy employees who were abducted monday by kid nappers demanding that Moscow pressure Syria to Stop a Battle be tween pro syrian and pro Palestin Ian militias in heavily armed militiamen of the lebanese communist party and the progressive socialist party of druse Leader Walid Jumblatt manned All approaches to the soviet embassy compound in Western the main Gate to the walled com plex was shut and police said Mili Tiamen also had taken up a round the clock watch inside the com callers claiming to represent islamic apparently an organization of sunni moslem that supports the pro palestinian to wheel islami in told West Ern news agencies and Beirut news papers yesterday that the soviets must abandon their embassy by 8 cd we shall mount Sui cide bombing attacks to level the whole compound upon your the Anonymous callers it was impossible to verify the authenticity of the in the fighting Between Lawheed islami and the pro syrian militias continued today after a Brief ceasefire dampening Hopes the soviets would be released soviet cultural attache Arkady was found dead yester Day after a caller claiming to represent the islamic liberation organization said the body of a soviet citizen had been left in a West Beirut the caller said islamic liberation would kill All four soviet hostages unless the assault on Lawheed islami Syria is Moscow chief Middle East see soviets Page 4 Indian affairs shakeup threat to jobs Crombie confirms changes Ottawa up Indian affairs minister David Crombie confirmed today that his department plans a major shakeup that will fundamentally change the Way Indian affairs works and which one source says could wipe out department jobs Over the next three said no final decisions have been made on the overhaul aimed at giving More responsibility to indians for manag ing their own affairs and promised no cuts to funding for native without being Crombie also confirmed that depart ment jobs will be million tag tory my Felix a Mem Ber of the commons Indian affairs committee who has been following the Issue said in an earlier interview that the shakeup could result in savings of million Over the next two or three the Canadian press reported yesterday that an informed source with one of the country major native umbrella organizations says the department Hopes to eliminate jobs within three years from the current Leyel of the report that was on the up wire is a report that is substantially Correct in the sense that it a part of our move to Indian self govern Crombie told reporters As he entered a Cabinet meeting regional control the shakeup will enhance the in fluence of regional offices within the it is also expected to affect native land claims in a major Way by breaking up the depart ments land claims office and put Ting comprehensive claims under the responsibility of the new self government the department also wants to axe person years from its total current budget of about per son a person year is the equivalent of one Job for one person for a period of pne the departments key economic development component is to been said department officials and the native group al though none of those interviewed said any programs will be eliminated an official within the department confirmed that at one responsible for inuit is being see Manitoba Page 4 sweeping pay pact approved by Patrick Mckinley hefty raises were handed to some City officials last night but others have had their pay Frozen for the next three in a 1712 vote after a eight hour City Council approved a sweeping package of pay changes that covers most of the cites 67 management the move comes after a Consul Tants report found the City is Over paying most of its Middle but under paying those at the very it compared their pay to salaries in other cities and private for 34 employees in top it will mean average increases of per phased in Over the next three the raises Are in addition to any costo living raises the City gives them during the but 11 employees Are to get Cost of living increases and 22 others face a three year freeze in the City expects to save a year from the wage but the raises for others will Cost leaving a net Cost of a the decision came after a Stormy meeting of it closed where some councillors charged that the package was being rammed Down their throats without proper time to study supporters of the package argued see pay Page 4 two tory maps deny Chat tainted by tuna up three new Brunswick tory maps chatted with three or four starkest Plant workers in last april but at no time was the Issue of tainted tuna formally two of the maps said last Dennis Cochrane of Moncton and Roger Clinch of Bathurst each said their conversation with Plant work ers was nothing More than an informal Chat on the front Lawn of the Stephen legion Hall As part of a new Brunswick tour by seven of the pro Vinces nine conservative the third my Jardine of Northumberland Miramichi could not be reached for a spokesman for the Union that represents starkest workers said in Saint yesterday that problems at the Plant were discus sed a meeting attended by eight conservative that was april a week before the rancid tinned tuna was released to the Frank International vice president of the United food and commercial workers called for the resignation of the eight whom he identified As Fred Robert Robert al Bert Bernard Jar Cochrane and Clinch and Cochrane each said Valcourt was not even in Ste Clinch appeared to contradict himself when he said that although a reference to shelved tuna was Likely made during the Brief he had no recollection of in assuming the tuna was probably he i just dont he said neither Man took the Issue see Union Page 4 weekends two Winnipeg men receive weekend jail terms after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a deaf mute Tough stand South african president Botha rejects Call from his own party to repeal the Law that forms the Core of clinched los Angeles dodgers can relax for a few Days after clinching the National leagues West division lottery winners Western express 107045 220519 409577 lotto West winning numbers 52 Bonus number 29 lotto winning numbers 46 Bonus number 31 Index Ann 43 48 57 48 6 38 7 Jumble 58 21 21 sports 56 44 33 to 21 i ;