Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Future shocks a guided tour to the future Arthur Clarkes latest Book looks at life in 2019 Urban Village Osborne Village comes of age As place to enjoy an Urban lifestyle opera Pioneer the music Bug bit Irving Guttman but he remembers his childhood As painful the spirit of Christmas gifts lagging the Christmas cheer Board is facing mounting but donations Are running behind last years Pace weather Clearing today 5 Clear tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 3 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann Landers Bridge Jumble Puzzle Jumble saturday sky to 26 31 73 60 64 27 73 73 27 6 15 53 73 33 35 7 20 31 7 39 69 61 68 48 31 43 the provincial nobody noticed when building left Steinbach Campus by Jane Armstrong Steinbach Bible College has paid in municipal taxes on a building that has been missing for 10 its president now wants the Money but the towns mayor has refused until he finds out where the building at a recent Council the College argued it had been taxed annually on a building which was moved from the Campus a decade but Council refused the saying the school could produce no building permit attesting to the there was no record of that building Ever being moved with the tax assessment mayor Ernie Friesen we even checked with the highways de but they had nothing Frie sen the mayor said Hes also concerned that no one seems to know what happened to the its not something you just he the colleges president said he too was mystified about the buildings although he said he was confident it want on the president Ben Eidse said a different administration sold the which was then removed from the the former College official responsible for the Sale was out of the country when the Appeal was Eidse the current administration has now tracked Down that official and Hopes to prepare a More convincing Appeal to he Eidse also was at a loss to explain Why the College haunt picked up on the error until were looking into that As he re Friesen said Council has agreed to reimburse the College for last years but added it would be impossible to come up with the full a portion of the property known As the special Levy for would have gone to the local Hanover school Friesen said the town would have to apply to the division to get Back the special dating Back 10 municipalities Only collect tax Money on behalf of school and have no further jurisdiction Over the education Eidse said the College Doest want a confrontation with the town but said is a significant saturday free press december 1986 Winnipeg free press vol 115 no 21 final Homo delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 class mail registration number 086 Lyon appointed to court of Appeal santas mailbag bursting by Doug Speirs Manitoba youngsters Are writing to Santa Claus in unprecedented numbers this a Canada Post spokesman its a record said Brian coordinator of the corporations Santa letter reply pro Gram for Saskatchewan and Northwestern its were More than 50 per cent in very sur the program has received so Many letters to Santa from Manitoba tots that it already has exhausted its 1986 Supply of English language id ordered but i had copies left Over from 1985 and 1984 so in using the surplus letters from those years to fill in for this Garagan he said letters Are far More up beat than in recent years in addition to requesting Chil Dren asked Santa to end world hunger and the threat of nuclear there seems to be a More Posi Tive tone to the whole group of letters were he i dont see the big scare that was in their letters last year and the year the reason for i have no for a Young City boy wrote dear Santa my name is i want i love please wont you get me a i already got and a Fisher Branch girl wrote dear Santa my name is i am seven years i would like to come to the North but my mom said it would Cost too much say hello to most tots who write Santa receive one of two form letters in but Garagan said some letters contain heartrending pleas that demand a More personal re see some Page 4 elves at the Post Mona and Susan with Nicks tapes May Tell tale of Ira Contra Deal from the news services Washington a sophisticated White House communications rec ording system May contain information on the secret Iran arms informed sources the High Quality taping system in the White House situation room was used to record some of president reagans key foreign policy meet according to one source with firsthand several of the key meetings on the Iran initiative were held in the Situa Tion including a 7 meet ing of the presidents National Secu Rity planning group during which Secretary of state George Shultz said he argued against a proposal to sell arms directly to the sources the White House electronics sys tem includes a computer network used for Interoffice communications by members of the National Security including Oliver who was fired last month for his role in the during the watergate scandal of the revelation that tape recordings were made of conversations in the Oval office led to a Legal Battle Over Access to the tapes to the downfall of presi Dent Richard a House of representatives intelligence committee member said at Torney general Edwin Meese Testi fied that Reagan May have approved the first shipment of arms to Iran while ill or under which May have left him unable to recall his action that explanation supports former National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane con Tention that he got Oral approval from Reagan for the the White House earlier denied giving prior Reagan had surgery for Colon can cer in 1985 the first arms shipment occurred the next the scandal widened As italian government officials said yesterday that a trip to Libya last year by the ambassador to the which the state depart ment criticized later As Ynauth took place with the approval of the White House and the help of the italian ambassador William Wilson went to Libya in november when the White House was exploring contacts with the iranian Moa mar the libyan Lead has been an ally of but there was no evidence Williams was asking Qadhafi to Wilson maintained contacts with the libyan government for several years with White House according to italian government official Antonio who said he Learned that last Spring from vice John then Rea Gans National Security Vic president George Bush exhorted Poindexter and North yester Day to Tell what they know about the diversion of funds to the nicaraguan while newly appointed inde pendent counsel Lawrence Walsh promised a fair and thorough in Bush urged the two former White House aides to answer just one key question before Christmas whether they told Reagan about the diversion of i am satisfied the answer will be Bush pms decision shocks Carstairs by Radha Krishnan Thampi attorney general Roland Penner and Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs yesterday expressed Shock and Dis May at the appointment of former Premier Sterling Lyon to the Mani Toba court of but opposition Leader Gary Fil Mon and Leo tory my for said they were delighted prime minister Mulroney finally decided to Reward Lyons Public ser vice to the As a judge of the highest court in Lyon will earn a he fills a position left vacant by the death of Justice Roy Matas last Penner and Carstairs said they were concerned Mulroney chose a Strong opponent of the Feder Al charter of to the court at a time when several charter related cases Are scheduled to be in concerned that the vacancy is filled by someone who up to this Point has expressed himself to be strongly opposed to the Penner he said he int casting any per Sonal aspersions on whom he called a competent but pen Ner said Mulroney selection does Send a bad message to Mulroney could have chosen a woman to the Al male Bench at the court of the attorney general he also said the local bar association wanted someone with trial court expert the most insulting pen Ner was there was no Consulta Tion with the province or the local Carstairs said she was dumb founded by the i Hope that his experiences As a lawyer and a Premier will give him the necessary objectivity to meet the needs of his new she Filmon said he had written to Mulroney urging him to choose Lyon for the i told the prime minister the entire Manitoba caucus will support that we Are very Duguay said its Only natural the prime minister chose a former pre Mier for the sensitive Lyon strongly opposed Penners efforts in 198384 to entrench bilingualism in Manitoba As he spearheaded a fierce attack again former prime minister Pierre Trudeau efforts to Patriate the Constitution and entrench the charter in the cons Titu Penner said although Lyons a see province Page 4 Christmas is for sharing 1965 United Friuk shopping Days to christinas soviets spend cocktail hour at the Cologne counter by Andrew Wilson London observer service Moscow when last month it was reported that planes Landing at kursk Airport were brushing the tops of the Trees with their Landing Izvestia sent a reporter to he found that local disco fans had stolen the red filters covering the approach Caus ing pilots to mistake the naked White lamps for the Start of the recently there was much congratulation about an increase in the Supply of spare parts for but later it was found that the source of this Bounty was the number of volgas and ladas arriving by train with virtually no engines be Neath the then there was the boost in Home computer ownership made it turned by the number of components of whole sets disappearing from factories and on the one hand these thieves Are very observed the newspaper mos Koskii reporting the loss of seven of the 16 japanese on the their intentions to spearhead the Advance into modern technology Are All these items filter motor spare computers Are deficit goods for which even state enterprises must stand for months in a deficit Good of quite a different kind of though the rules have been eased and the wine shops May now open for an hour longer each demand continues to outstrip Supply not Only of the hard but also of its hence there is a current shortage of Eaude cockroach aromatic antiperspirants and anti Dandruff reporting on the shortage of i tera Turnay gazeta said specialists say addicts not Only drink these toiletries but eat them some sorts of toothpaste apparently Lead to the cheapest kinds of now in very Short Are called drinking Cologne by sales robust men standing in line for them Are like everyone to two Small but this has not prevented angry scenes in which women have called for the mens ejection by the militia who patrol every Large shop the militia Are in a difficult As the Magazine puts they know better than anyone that Eaude Cologne is often used inter Nally rather than but there is nothing they can they cannot go up to a person who is pouring Eaude Cologne Down his Throat and detain while it is forbidden to drink alcoholic beverages in Public How can one forbid the use of perfume ;