Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Issues debating baby bonuses where the three parties stand sports a preview of what could happen this season in the nil sunday trouble in Paradise controversy follows pm of the Bahamas Mark Twain Mark born 150 years was part part and a True literary master mansion grandeur on the red an mansion was inspired by nearby lower fort Garry Blue Jay loss the Yankees beat the Blue jays 43 last night As the Pennant eludes Toronto ill weather Cloudy today 8 Cloudy tonight 0 Cloudy tomorrow 8 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann 14 40 83 40 6 19 81 Jumble 44 Jumble 45 7 25 39 saturday 65 56 15 71 to 39 6 the provincial indecency Case concerns aired at a judge dealing with a fellow judges son expressed concern yesterday about people who commit indecent acts in Public being treated As provincial judge Arnold Conner said courts Arent always the fight place to Deal with such judge Conner said if a person has continuing problems leading to com Mission of an and takes Steps towards going to court can make the matter it is sometimes unfortunate that a matter of this nature is dealt with in a criminal sometimes it would be in everyone interests that the accused person be treated in a noncriminal the judge made the comments during the sentencing of Gregory Allan who pleaded guilty to a charge of committing indecent acts in a Public he imposed a oneyear conditional discharge and ordered Rubin to get psychiatric son of provincial judge Charles exposed himself to a group of 10 teenage girls in Assini Boine Park twice last court was Crown counsel Brian Kaplan and defence lawyer Greg Brodsky jointly recommended the discharge Brodsky said his client has been receiving psychiatric help since the incidents and will continue to do judge Conner said the sentence was comparable to what any other accused in a similar position would i consider it would be in the Best interests of Rubin and not contrary to the Public interest that Rubin be he judge Conner said publicity concerning the charge against Rubin probably Hurt his rehabilitation of in my View it was unfortunate that the press turned this into a cause the judge criticized the free press for a Story last month say ing officials were having trouble finding a judge to hear the the article appeared after Provin Cial judge Charles Newcombe Dis qualified himself from hearing the Case because he knew the judge Conner said he had agreed to hear the Case a week before the Story appeared and judge new Combe had not been except for that it was a sensitive Issue for this court to Han dle there was no problem for the court i cant help but have the suspicion it was treated by the press As it was because this accused was the son of a an accused person should not be singled out because he is the son of a he Winnipeg free press vol 113 no 292 october 1985 final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Junior managers City told a photo excessive pointless jobs estimated to Cost million a year Gorbachev gestures during news president Mitterrand sits beside him Gorbachev blasts leaders peace talk not backed by soviet Leader says from the news services soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba slapping the table to make his accused american leaders yesterday of political demagoguery for talking about peace but taking no Concrete Steps toward achieving but the soviet Leader quickly backed Down during a news Confer ence in Paris when asked if he had president Reagan in making it Clear he did not want to Poison the atmosphere before his 1920 Summit meeting with the president in Gorbachev praised Reagan for offering a very serious response to the latest so Viet arms control proposals rather than the stereotyped answers that our proposals were Gorbachev outburst and then change of mood came at a rare joint news conference with French presi in condemns Israel for but no sanctions threatened United nations a with the United states the Security Council adopted a Compro Mise Resolution yesterday that condemned israels bombing of Plo Headquarters in Tunisia As an act of but did not threaten is Rael with the vote was 140 on the Resolution that also upheld Tunisia right to appropriate reparations As a result of the loss of human life and Materi Al unlike previous the final version of the Resolution did not make an outright demand that Israel pay the nor did it threaten the jewish state with possible sanctions if it repeated such israeli ambassador Benjamin be addressing the Council be fore the warned that passage of this Resolution would be a Victory for terrorism and a profound set Back in the War against see in Page 4 Dent Francois Mitterrand on the Day before the end of the soviet leaders official visit to his first to the West since taking Power in he spoke in russian to a huge contingent of euro Pean and soviet and his answers were translated into French and Gorbachev received both a Rebuff and an important endorsement from who sat at his Side Dur ing the news conference in an ornate reception room of the Elysee presidential Mitterrand rejected Gorbachev Surprise proposal that their coun tries hold separate arms control talks to limit the size of the French nuclear the which came in Gorbachev speech to a French parliamentary commit tee also included a soviet bid to Start similar talks with great after the Rebuff on arms Mitterrand announced his support of Gorbachev views on space based nuclear defence sys agreeing that there can be no see Gorbachev Page 4 by Patrick Mckinley the City has been told it is Over paying on third of its 760 Junior Deputy mayor Jim Ernst said mayor Bill Norrie estimated Wip ing out the waste could save taxpayers million a he said that beginning Early next the City will look for ways to eliminate excessive salaries and pointless the process will involve negotiations with the Winnipeg association of Public service the Union representing Junior he Norrie said jobs will be eliminated when the changes go into but he hoped that could be accomplished without speculation at this Point its speculation whether there Are going to be layoffs or the planned shakeup comes after a similar move earlier this week in which Council revised the pay Scales for senior and Middle management councillors raised the pay of 34 top officials and imposed three year pay freezes on 22 others in Middle management but while the City was Able to impose unilateral changes on the senior who Are not Union councillors predicted it will be harder to change the pay of their Junior arbitration Ernst said if the Union does not agree to negotiated the Issue could go to he also predicted it could take several years to phase in any spokesmen for the Union could not be the revisions to senior and Middle management pay resulted from the first phase of a study by the management consulting firm of Stevenson and it is the second phase of the study that is to look at the 760 Junior management Ernst said the final report on those positions is not due until january or he said the consultants already have told the City that of the 760 about on third Are on third Are underpaid and the rest Are earning about the right an official in the City personnel department said yesterday the 760 jobs include everything from minor supervisors up to the Heads of smaller City the pay scale starts at a but those in the most senior of the affected positions can earn As much As she Norrie said the cites pay Scales and management Structure Are out of whack because of the amalgamation of suburban areas into a single City government in Desjardins Soninlaw suspended two senior Manitoba lotteries foundation one the son inlaw of health minister Larry Des have been suspended with out pay pending an ramp investigation into employees accepting Eugene Kostyra called a Hasty press conference yesterday to Dis cuss the suspensions after a senior lottery official had been asked by the free press to comment on the police Kostyra conceded the newspapers inquiries were a Factor in Call ing the press he said Leonard the foundations marketing director and a Soninlaw of Desjar and Terry the 000ayear sales have been suspended indefinitely and without Lois lotteries foundation said a complaint to the ramp was based on criminal code sections dealing with secret com Garth the foundations general said officials dont know exactly How much Money is but it want in the millions of he foundation ticket sales for the year ending March 31 were Mil he the free press obtained information about the investigation and sus pensions earlier and contacted manness who refused comment but promised to get Back see senior Page 4 Northland Staves off liquidation application a Manitoba judge refused a Feder Al government request yesterday to appoint a provisional liquidator for the Calgary based Northland Justice Daniel Kennedy of Manitoba court of Queens Bench said there is no need to change the status of the government appointed Hon Kong Bank eyes curator of the Bank to that of provisional Ottawa announced last week that the Bank was to be liquidated be cause the curators report showed expected losses on Loans exceeded its capital the Canada Deposit insurance then applied to have a provisional liquidator the application was made in Winnipeg be cause Northland obtained its charter in Kennedy said the accounting firm of touche Ross has All the Powers it needs As curator under the Bank act to Deal with the affairs of appointment of a liquidator can wait until after meetings of share holders and he lawyers opposing the liquidation were told they be allowed to address the the two of us Are effectively see court Page 4 i i i i 1 la Iii i Ottawa to flog whales in by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Federal govern ment will begin spending millions of dollars next year to advertise Brand name tourist attractions across the including Fol Lorama in Winnipeg and whales in tourism minister Jack Murta said the departments marketing strategy for 1986 will also Tell americans that Canada has sophisticated big cities which Are Safe at night and cheap to Murta said the Money will come from the governments advertising budget the largest departmental advertising budget in the program is a departure from past years when the tourism department advertised Canada by showing scenes from across the country on one Murta said this concept did More to confuse potential particularly in the United As to what Canada was All the advertising budget is part of a marketing program undertaken by the government this year in a bid to strengthen a Industry which has been in decline relative to other countries in recent department reports say Canadas travel deficit tripled Between 1973 and 1983 to about it dropped by billion in but former tourism minister Tom Mcmillan said the Industry was still in a because every other Industrial country in the world was beating Canada in the fight for for eign tourist who took Over in said the major component of the advertising about 85 per will be aimed at the Market and will gear up in february the rest of the Money will be spent advertising Canada in Europe and Pacific rim see Moose Page 4 Murta tourism Booster ;