Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 4, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Modelling Agency fined for hustling suckers by Heidi Graham a former City modelling Agency owner was fined yesterday for what a judge described As hauling in suckers like in the Days of bar num and provincial judge John Enns gave Dennis Wayne owner of the no defunct Den Way Model management creative until to pay the Fine and court costs for misleading you took advantage of a lot of people who obviously had a very real wish for a career Opportunity in this time of High judge Enns they saw your ads and then were duped into paying hard earned Money for what in told was an inadequate Crown attorney Kim Prost told the court Cook placed a series of Classi fied advertisements in the free press last March that listed five agencies offering self improvement and modelling courses free to any one who met their the name of Montebello agencies appeared in the and without the com pants Prost she said the four other names in the advertisement were ones sometimes used for his one com when prospective clients registered for the courses they were told they had to pay an Agency fee of either or she a department of consumer and corporate affairs investigator and a professional Model hired by the government registered and paid for the she both women said the course provided inadequate training for either self improvement or Prost said receipts seized by authorities from Cooks office showed he made at least from the courses and that employees later told investigating officers they believed he earned up to from the at the very it is close to a fraudulent scheme directed at Young people with dreams and aspirations towards a career in this Type of she Cloudy tonight 1 showers tomorrow 8 october 1985 free press Sun rises sets Mon rises sets real Home delivery 9570550 classified 9502330 second class mail registration number oj86 tall order although dwarfed by his Higgy and Trot in new runners while walking the dogs in the warm 16monthold Jeremy Macleod seems hot to Sunshine yesterday in Gillam firms face loss by Fred Youngs Winnipeg free press Gillam a Winnipeg construction firm working on a Limestone related housing project for Manitoba Hydro has left this town owing about in unpaid almost every locally owned Busi Ness Here was affected when Camp Bell construction left town without notice tuesday chamber of Commerce president Wayne Rekus said last theres just owing to people in this Rekus for a town this that a lot of Money to take out of in in for that does a lot to my Cash Rekus operates one of the two restaurants in this town of about located 60 Kilometres from the construction site of Hydro Limestone generating station and Kilometres Northeast of Winni american hostage reported killed in retaliation for israeli bombing Beirut up two Beirut newspapers published today a state ment from the terrorist group islamic jihad claiming that it has car ried out the execution of american hostage William Buckley in Retalia Tion for this weeks israeli raid on Plo Headquarters in islamic in its statement published by the Independent daily Annavar and the leftist newspaper accused Buckley of being an agent of the Central Intelli gence Annavar said the statement and a color photograph of Buckley looking Pale and drawn were delivered to its office in the moslem Western sector of the lebanese capital at 1 5 cd the paper also published the Reuters news Agency said an International new Agency which it did not identify also received a copy of the there was no official word on buckles embassy officials could not be reached for in White House Deputy press Secretary Larry Speakes said the White House had no inde pendent confirmation of the re state department spokesman Joe reap we have nothing on we Are of course checking the islamic jihad written in ungrammatical said we announce in revenge for the blood of the martyrs the execution of the Central intelligence Agency representative in the Middle East and see Page 4 province investigates drug company prices by Maureen Murray the province is investigating a Winnipeg drug company after it was fined for overcharging six Persona care a Manitoba health services com Mission spokesman said last night the Agency is probing the activities of Midwest geriatric the Manitoba pharmaceutical association fined the company after an inquiry revealed it was supplying generic but charging bran name Misc spokesman Gordon Mccaffrey said it was too Early to deter mine the extent of the overcharging and whether criminal charges would be a spokesman for the pharmaceutical association said Misc was told about the problem in Stewart Wilcox said Misc records covering a six month period were subpoenaed during the drug company disciplinary hear ing in Wilcox said in some instances the provincially run Homes were being charged double and triple the actual Cost of the about six different types of drugs were involved including tranquil liners As Well As medication for heart problems and High blood he said the association had no Way see province Page 4 the Gillam firm hit was Jordan enterprises which is owed about for Concrete it poured at the housing construction they Campbell just up and Weldon son of owner Russ one morning they were we poured Concrete for them the night Rekus said the main contractor on the housing de Penner construction of has said the Gillam businesses will be paid off if there Are any funds left from the performance Bond at the end of the but Rekus said the Assurance is Little Consolation for Gillam Busin esses hard hit by the unexpected he said Many firms have joined others in Northern Manitoba by filing hens against Jordan said Campbells decision to abandon its part in building the 44 duplexes in Gillam was mystifying because the Winnipeg subcontractors excavation and foundation construction was 90percent Rekus said he understand Why the company quit with a week or two weeks of work to Jordan said his which has the Only Concrete Plant in the employs eight Fulland Par time workers and the debt May mean it will have to Lay off some his said the company had received compliments on its work at the construction but that was Little compensation for the loss it has Rekus said other businesses owed Money by Campbell include the towns which is out More than for rooms and Gil Lams Only hardware a garage and a trucking he said he talked with Campbells Tom As Well As see Gillam Page 4 tories rapped for subsidized vacation trips by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa new Democrat my Svend Robinson has accused two Mulroney Cabinet ministers of Abus ing Public funds during trips on government Robinson Burnaby said he questions whether it was appropriate for Secretary of state for transport Suzanne Blai Grenier to allegedly subsidize her vacation with taxpayers he also questioned whether it was appropriate for health minister Jake Epp to take his Campaign Man Ager on an expenses paid trip to China As a political Blai Grenier is reported to have generously mixed Leisure activity with business during two trips to Europe with her Albert director of the Montreal conservatory last Spring and Blai Grenier at she is reported to have travelled to Sweden on an official visit Long after she knew a conference on Auto pm missions that she was to attend had been prior to going to Blais Grenier is also reported to have taken a fou Day trip to Paris for a meeting with a Junior officer within the organization for economic co operation and the meeting was apparently re Quested by Blai Grenier in but not for any apparent according to Ottawa sources quoted by the Montreal she apparently had the use of a car and Driver during the during a second trip to Europe in Blai Grenier apparently made an official visit to Paris for a three Day Recd conference on the but she spent the next two weeks touring Robinson asked in the commons whether it was an appropriate use of taxpayers Blai Grenier said she took two official which included Holiday she said she paid for time spent on leaving Ottawa the Tab for the official she also challenged anyone to make allegations about the propriety of her trips outside the where they would not be protected against Legal she refused opposition demands that she table the expense accounts of her saying they were already in the Public Robinson then turned to prime minister Mulroney and asked whether it was appropriate for Epp to take his Campaign manager to Mulroney responded Epp would answer All questions about his trip see conservatives Page 4 third pc recant claims by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa Jerry National director of the conservative has become the third tory in recent weeks to withdraw state ments contradicting prime minister Lampert had tendered his Resigna Tion Over the but it has been refused on Mulroney a Toronto Star Story reported yesterday by Canadian press said Lamperts resignation was to have taken effect in a 26 Lampert said he had told senior staff in the prime ministers office of an ramp investigation into the election financing of former communications minister Marcel he said he had the discussions weeks before the investigation became Public Mulroney says he was not aware of the Masse investigation until 24 and that no one in his office knew of the matter until yesterday party president Peter Elzinga released a letter from Lam pert dated which said i thought that prior to notifying Masse on june 14 that i had raised the matter with the on checking my rec ords i have determined that this was not the Lampert submitted his resignation in the but Elzinga said the party executive declined on advice see Mulroney Page 4 mayor Breaks tie to kill hotel expansion plan by Patrick Mckinley City Council has shut the door on the Brittany inns plan to build a major hotel North of Ellice the hotels Vic president said last Craig Kushnier said the 400room hotel cannot go ahead without land that the City refused to turn Over in a 1615 after a three hour debate last mayor Bill Norrie cast a Sec tie breaking vote to defeat the hotels the Council decision reaffirmed a Core area initiative plan to use the land for an Extension of Central proponents of the hotel argued the City was turning Down a lion to which would have provided tax reve nue for the City and jobs for City they said the City has been trying to upgrade the downtown area and should not be rejecting entrepreneurs who were prepared to sink their own Money into although some councillors questioned whether the project would have proceeded Jim Ernst Mill said there was mounting evidence that it would have been Ernst waved a letter from ramada International hotels of Toronto which he said showed the company was interested in taking he said councillors should not think they know More about the projects viability than the ramada Anne Zorowski see residents Page 4 losses a lockout by versatile farm equipment could Cost workers facing a planned Layoff unemployment mystery Twenty three years Marilyn Monroe death continues to be shrouded by mystery and controversy 731 i memories Pierre Marc Johnsons swearing in As Quebec Premier triggers some old Boycott South african students protest apartheid with a Mario Winner c571887 Index Ann 21 22 40 7 28 36 40 6 31 7 36 Humble 44 37 our 32 21 21 51 sports 55 24 to 21 ;