Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba M Winnipeg free press october Page 3 Safeway halts imports from South pegu is has no room for former by Parade what do you say our Silver tongued Politi Cian award for this week goes to agriculture minister Bill who appears to talk Only in a Sample from a pile of official ministerial state ments treating Slough or Marsh Hay with anhydrous ammonia can make a big Dif Ference to its Quality and Pala we recommend this sort of line for breaking the ice or to scare off n n n Winni Eggers can take com fort in the fact their interests Are being watched by a news paper concerned with consumer the the educated run by Box ing Jay ran an interview last week with a restaurant and what hot con Sumer Protection issues did it tackle heres a Sample what kind of drapes did you go with they Are peach Why peach velvet we picked the colors out of the which we chose what kind of carpet did you go with we imported it from in Why did you import the carpet from England we went to the carpet loft and they sent to England for the carpet that we chose from was it expensive its a Good educated consumer recently graded Winnipeg two daily papers on their cover handing out a lot of is and we wont Grade the con since we Are still reel ing from the excitement of the above which goes on like that for a d d d when youre trying to wrestle a million deficit to the you have to Start shaving dollars to transportation min ister John Lohman says snowmobiles must make do with beat up License plates for three More Biebuck savings Are involved Here to be to save you calculate that of this years or roughly the Cost of a minister Naides junket to Paris for a world conference on peat 6 it Premier Howard Pawley missed work last the said an his absence coincided with the appearance of picket lines by striking i think Hes got the Engi neers offered a who had hoped to at least abuse Pawley As he crossed the ticket its the real Pawley indeed spent the week at eating pain relievers and sipping Chicken n n n you May recall Reading about the Way Howard Pawley dazzled the three piece crowd at a Canadian club of new York dinner last after a barrage of on liners by diners who had stuffed themselves with Mani Toba delicacies finished things off with Winnipeg but what on Earth Are Winnipeg mints i dont said Paw when asked to define a Winnipeg i should have brought some Back so you could try n n n How Many judges can dance on the head of a pin while philosophers Ponder that they May As Well tackle another question posed by one judge this it All started when judge Charles Newcombe was ask ing a questions to de Termine if she was capable of providing sworn what do you think god would do to you if you told a Newcombe at this Point the judge realized there May have been a reason for Lack of it seems a Little ridiculous to ask a child these questions when a philosopher answer he drug squad chases not and likes result drug trafficking charges in Winni Peg have nearly tripled since police started cracking Down on drug dealers instead of staff Tony head of the Winnipeg police vice says 380 trafficking charges were Laid in the first eight months of up from 140 in All of at the same Cherniak the number of charges for drug Possession has fallen to 596 this year from 842 in All of Cherniak attributed the turn around to a reorganization of drug squad priorities last rather than concentrate on pos session we have concentrated on he 1 Felt we were not getting at the Root of the if you can eliminate the Traffick to a certain extent you can control drug but if you get a person for simple what have you done eliminating one trafficker might affect 20 or 30 he going after users Doest make much sense in Many cases because sentences Are usually Light for Possession charges normally an absolute or conditional discharge for a first Cherniak charging a trafficker is More effective because even first time offenders often face Large fines or Evert jail he he said the increase in trafficking charges May also reflect greater drug activity in vice squad statistics for the first eight months of this year compared to All of 1984 also show d police have seized Grams of marijuana this compared to Grams in d Grams of solid hashish have been compared to 614 last d 755 Grams of hash Oil have been compared to 892 Grams in d167 Grams of cocaine had been seized up to the end of com pared to in police have also seized More Tal win tablets and Ltd so far this year than in All of the figures do riot include drugs seized or charges Laid following joint operations with last officers from the two Point Douglas residents picket a scrap and protest against the idea that some Homes be Hemphill joins scrap Yard picket about 75 Point Douglas including the areas la and City yesterday picketed two scrap Yards in their historical com this int just a Point Douglas education minister Maureen Hemphill its a fight for the heart of the intercity and everyone who trying to keep it full of i think were going to the Many elderly and others Young parents with children in strollers and dogs on started picketing in front of Western scrap metals and Monarch scrap metals on Sutherland Avenue just before 11 most held and one dog wore a protesting both the existence of the Yards in the neigh boyhood and a City commissioners suggestion the 20year controversy be ended by expropriating several family instead of the that the stupidest suggestion Ive Ever City councillor Harry Lazarenko Norquay i thought we were fighting to keep not in the cites disrupted the orderly protest was disrupted slightly when a worker from West Ern scrap metals drove his truck through the line and shouted at the the Railroad was Here before any of you he that Why we started up we needed it to haul the but i guess none of you care about the worker then drove re fusing to answer any Olga who has lived next to one Yard for 20 said the recent explosion that killed a student worker in one of the Yards intensified residents people suddenly realized the extreme big Larski sometimes they have men work ing out on the streets with their flares and and children walk theres really no Protection for those she said the trucks that line up to enter the Yards during the week Block traffic and often drop heavy pieces of Metal on the pcs and Oil pollute the neighbourhood making it More difficult for residents to live jugular ski she said expropriating the family houses end the Contro it would just mean the Yards would get who plans to speak on the Issue to the cites environment committee said the Yards negated work being done to upgrade the they certainly dont help a neighbourhood that trying to pull itself up by the hem Phill this is one of the first residential areas in the we should All be proud of she said she and Lazarenko want the civic Centre to Start negotiations with the province Over financing the expropriation of the two were going to ask them that at the she prof argues for dropping of abortion charges University of Manitoba Law pro Fessor Freda steel wants attorney general Roland Penner to stay or drop abortion related charges against Henry steel told a Law Union of Manitoba panel session that attorneys Gen eral have numerous options if faced with enforcing Laws some believe Are Quebec refused to prosecute Morgentaler because of his three acquit while those in Ontario let him operate pending the outcome of steel she said the Manitoba new democratic party supports abortion on and therefore Penner should have used his in Stead of letting police repeatedly raid Morgentaler Winnipeg also a denied he has absolute recalling that when Premier Howard Pawley was attorney general in the the Manitoba court of Appeal Over turned the Blanket immunity he gave indians charged under Federal fish and game he said if such discretion were used on a widespread basis it would create a Checkerboard system of Law and a political police Morgentaler and eight other clinic staff members originally were charged with conspiring to commit an but Penner later changed it to performing an Abor Tion and dropped charges against everyone except an other doctor and a he told the session yesterday he has decided these charges will stay in pending the out come of Morgentaler Appeal of an Ontario Case to the supreme court of Penner said later he believes the issues in Ontario and Manitoba Are the and Doest want to do something which could be found in other provinces he said he expects other prov inces will be asked if they want to intervene in the but that no decision has been made on what Manitoba will nor on what positions the province would Penner also came under fire from Winnipeg lawyer Paul who said Canadas criminal Justice sys tem is layered with discretion and has numerous unjust Walsh cited the provinces Legal monopoly on the lucrative gambling which he said constitutes a classic hypocrisy because private operators doing the same thing would be he said Penner has considerable discretion and used it when he told police to get Tough on wife Penner said ordering police to carry out the Law on wife beating is far different from telling police not to enforce the abortion he said he considered Walsh argument on gambling trivial be cause a consensus supports his governments a University of Mani Toba Law professor said the Law society of Manitoba should consider taxing wealthier lawyers to subsidize Legal Aid Manitoba inadequate no crossing guard for fatal Corner Board rejects Community awaits report on Childs death Winnipeg school division wont Rush to place a crossing guard at an intersection where a student was killed last despite Strong Community Board chairman Mario Santos says trustees will await a police report into the death of Chris Tina and discuss the matter further in a Board committee meet ing later this trustees received a 72signature petition last calling for a crossing guard at Ellice Avenue and Arlington where Veri was hit by a car while crossing the the victims fran urged division officials not to saying other children Are at risk at the Busy West end who works at a nearby convenience said she had premonitions of disaster Long before her daughter was screeching tires Ive worked at that Corner for five years and i know All the neigh boyhood she there were so Many mornings i would shudder when i heard screeching tires and children would come running into the i think they should she not just As a Parent who lost a child but because Ive seen other children crossing every i said the division cant afford crossing guards at every he called the measure a Banda id we should be looking at Long term he suggesting education for children and adults should take some responsibility for their childrens safety As he and More he the City should reduce Speed limits in some Jana a 14yearold Grade 9 student at nearby general Wolfe Junior High started the Peti Tion the Day of the who was acquainted with said the younger girls death prompted her to gather Signa Tures in the Hope of preventing an other although the division does not pro vide crossing Protection for Junior and senior High Reis said she thought general Wolfe students also Are at although Grade 7 kids Are sup posed to know even they need Protection because they run across the signatures of several staff Mem Bers from general Wolfe school appear on the petition As division officials Are at present negotiating a funding arrangement with the City to cover half the costs for adult crossing i forces seized 46 kilograms of Nafi Juana at the bus the same ramp seized kilograms of hashish Oil at Winnipeg International Cherniak said the crackdown on traffickers has also raised the spirits of drug officers who find the work More challenging and any Guy can get someone for but to get a Guy for trafficking takes he its a Battle of wits to get a trafficker to sell to Union beaten to draw after strike staff locked out about 700 workers at the versatile farm equipment Plant were locked out at just after they voted 85 per cent in favor of a a Union spokesman said yester Day employees will Start picketing the Plant tomorrow most of the who Are fighting a company demand they accept a 15 per cent pay were already expecting to be Laid off starting next because of the labor they will not be eligible for unemployment insurance even Dur ing the 12week Plant spokesman Hemi Mitic said they will receive strike pay from their the United Aero space and agricultural implement the company move made Good on a threat which led to an abrupt end wednesday to Mitic said the company told the Law it would lock out the workers unless they accepted the immediate wage he the reduced which would lop to off the average hourly would re main in effect until next Mitic said the strike mandate was sought to give the Union an addition Al bargaining tool if negotiations were to no intentions he said the which last july replaced a 25yearold staff had no intentions of accepting a wage a Canada employment and immigration commission spokesman said workers who have left their jobs because of a strike or lockout Are ineligible for benefits even if they have been notified they Are to be Laid she said the Only Way they could become re entitled is if the strike or lockout is resolved and they remain Laid off or if they find other permanent work and Are Laid off from she said the legislation involved was upheld in a Federal court of Canada decision earlier this year involving Quebec paper company officials have refused to comment on the labor versatile has suffered financially because of a slumping agricultural company Vic president lome Blue said in late june that sales had fallen nearly 50 per cent from the level a year which at one time had a work Force of about shut Down for about 10 weeks ear Lier this year and also has Laid off workers it Laid off More than 300 Plant and office workers indefinitely in a several workers interviewed Fri Day said the company Hast Given them any justification for the wage in the 10 years Ive been nothing like this has Ever de Bain i dont understand what the company is employees ;