Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba E 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 newsmen 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 Busi Tess 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 tax 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 2vfchour 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 Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president de Martens and others have condemned the task Force As a blatant political ploy in the months see departmental Page 4 or actor Rock Hudson loses Battle against deadly sunny today 13 Cloudy tonight 2 october 1d8s free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Dave free press beet Battle a worker on the Diedrich Hiebert farm near new Bothwell hurries to Load sugar beets before wet weather hampers the Harvest As it has with Grain 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 molester sentenced to four years a court was told yesterday that a six Earold boy sits in his class room thinking about which girl he will he then carries it out during Crown attorney Jannine Lemere said the boys behaviour stems from being sexually assaulted by a Man who photographed the Inci she said the who has the mental abilities of a now has the potential to become a paedophilia a his Ernest Frank was sentenced yesterday to four years in provincial judge Winston Norton told Gudmundson he didst believe he had molested the boy Only the fact you had a film and everything else there shows it was he Lemere told the court the child said he had been assaulted several she said the boy continually masturbates and cannot be left alone for fear he will put an object in his Lemere said the child will re quire extensive counselling if he is to live a Normal a Transfer to a special school is being she said Gudmundson molested the child when he was babysitting him last police Learned of the assault after the child told an older brother about she a photo album containing 30 photographs of the assault was seized by Lemere the album had an Index in the front and each picture was accompanied by an the photos featured the boy with and without Lemere she asked for a lengthy citing the prevalence of such crimes in the City As Well As the revulsion society feels for sexual crimes against defence lawyer John Michaels argued for a Shorter say ing it was his clients first such he said Gudmundson Felt re Morse for what he had done to the noting his client was relieved when he was he said Gudmundson pleaded guilty to the charge to save the child from the trauma of giving testimony in judge Norton said the existence of the album and the inscriptions below the photographs cast doubt on Gudmundson the judge said the accused was in obvious need of help and that hed recommend to corrections officials that Gud Mundson receive it while in Pris Kenneth David convicted earlier of aggravated As sat expressionless As the Appeal 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 Gurtins Timothy Kil 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 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 see assaulted Page 4 abductors warn of More soviet deaths Beirut a kidnappers of four soviet embassy employees killed one of them and said yester Day the others will die unless Syri a backed militias halt an offensive against moslem fundamentalists in the Northern port of an Anonymous Telephone caller claimed a second captive had been and another said moslem extremists planned to blow up the the Battle raged on for control of where More Titan 500 people have been killed and wounded since the militias supplied by Moscow main ally in the Middle have the fundamentalists cornered with their backs to the sea and syrian artillery has joined the the body of cultural attache Arkady was found shot once in the head at close it was sprawled on blood stained rocks near the cite a stadium adjacent to the Sabra palestinian refugee which was destroyed by hellfire in Leban on decade Long civil an Anonymous caller claiming to speak for the islamic liberation organization gave the location of the body in a Telephone Call to a Western news we have carried out gods sen tence against one of the hostages and we shall execute the others one after the other if the atheistic Campaign against islamic Tripoli does not he the four soviets were abducted monday in two separate incidents in West the Capi tals moslem the islamic liberation Organiza a sunni moslem fundamentalist is Allied with the islamic unification whose Blacks carved warriors Are fighting for their lives in another also purporting to speak for the telephoned Beirut moslem radio station voice of the nation and said another Cap Tive had been police said no second body had been in a third to a Western news see embassy Page 4 Indian affairs shakeup threat to jobs Ottawa up the Indian and Northern affairs department is planning a massive shakeup that one source says could axe depart ment jobs within three years and which a tory my says could result in spending cuts of million Over two the Canadian press has official department spokesmen say no decisions have been made by a High powered internal task Force that began a review of the entire department earlier this sum Mer and nothing has been approved by Treasury they deny the reorganization stems from the recommendations of a controversial government Docu ment leaked last May which recommended million in savings through program staff reductions and the Transfer of some responsibilities to provincial govern an informed and Well placed source with one of the coun try major native umbrella organizations says the department al ready has its goals in place and an initial outline is set for a revamped department to reflect Indian affairs minister David crumbles goal of self government for he said the shakeup is a result of Crombie strategy for natives and other but added that certain elements look at part of the thrust of the leaked he also outlined the Way in which the department plans to realign its divisions to create a special policy Section specifically for native self 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 one 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 least 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 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 most 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 Ernst 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 at 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 j just dont he said neither Man took the Issue see Union Page 4 b weekends two Winnipeg men receive weekend jail terms Jitter being found guilty of sexually assaulting a deaf mute Tough stand South african president Botha rejects Call from his own party to repeal the 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