Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december paged lawyers slow to Bill provinces Legal two suspects arrested in Reserve local Parade sorry for the Mustake As an act of weve decided to Start the new year with yet another confess it seems a recent Story about the mind numbing Fash Ion statements being made in City High schools contained a tiny Faux under a photograph of teen age punker Adam who sports a glistening Bald the caption described How the Kelvin High school student loves to Putter about in a Pink leather jacket with a studded shortly after the yarn a Lestha amused Khan called up to let us know his trendy jacket is not deepest we can Only Pray it Doest color your Nan City councillor Don Mitchel son was boasting recently that while he could never persuade former River East la Phil Eyler to Back the proposed Kildonan Bridge Hes had no trouble persuading eylers we feel compelled to mention that Mitchelson now has certain methods of persuasion at his disposal he use to Sway that because the new la for the area is his Bonnie it would at least in this that bedfellows make strange a on in other urgent civic mayor Bill Norrie has demanded that City taxpayers Exchange the present they gave him for it seems the Rug in Norries office had lost its so new carpeting recently was installed but Milfs habitual cheesy Grin vanished when he saw for reasons carpeting was supplied in two foot wide strips with the seams More visible than the the carpeting is being ripped out for the second time in two we find it strangely comforting that Winnipeg is the Only Canadian City whose mayor consistently pulls the Rug out from under d d d our news release of the sent to us by those cards at the american con tract Bridge breath Lessly announced that Winni pegged Mike Yuen has been appointed to the leagues Good will Good will committee we quote each approximately 50 people Are appointed to a special committee designed to promote politeness and Courtesy during Bridge games and its time those Bloodthirsty Bridge hooligans dealt d d d just to prove Santa int the Only one with a hefty heres a glimpse at a pair of mind wobbling missives that landed on our desk last our first which were cleverly calling letter number comes from a Friendly fellow who offered this puzzler who has tears in his wears a sweater once a year to inform his fellow Manitoban that he can Only hold the Lan Tern while they Cut the Wood in the dark because his Chain saw ran out of Gas your guess is As Good As but it sounds like a Cross Between Perry Como and the Texas Chainsaw d d d letter number addressed to Ronald comes from a deep thinker who had this novel suggestion for the president i and people like me Are requesting that you open negotiations with our Fine Howard for the Purchase of Manitoba the Cost to one million dollars Canadian to each Boni fide sic inhabitant since your Dollar is Worth double what ours it would Cost you Only per woman and sounds like a Good but since the americans bought Alaska for million that about two cents per acre or five cents per if you maybe we should charge them another and throw in its seeks a gender Neutral officials think by Maria Bohuslawsky the Manitoba Telephone system has asked companies outside Mani Toba for a gender Neutral Job evaluation system but some officials Arent sure what it gee said its spokesman Bill it beats i dont want you to know that i dont know what it said personnel manager John i know what it but i just cant articulate a classified advertisement under tenders in yesterdays free press was headed request for proposals for a gender Neutral Job evaluation it said proposals should be submitted by the and says the lowest or any proposal will not necessarily be Milne said the request is part of the provinces pay equity system which is in the process of being Valerie human re sources specialist for said at least 20 american and Canadian companies have been invited to sub Mit the Winner of the contract is to come and Tell its How much More to pay their female Hochbaum said she Doest know How much the contract will about half of the employees at its Are Hochbaum said gender Neutral Means the system contain inherent biases that would cause it to judge mens work More valuable than for for giving Little weight to interpersonal and human relations Milne said an its pay equity officer together with the representative unions will determine which women jobs Are equal in value in mens jobs but pay for exam ple secretaries versus truck drive reestablishing the pay scale for women is the Job being contracted out gender Neutral Job evaluation these people will come in and apply some formula to determine the Milne its a very specialized Hochbaum factors such As responsibility and work conditions Are the province passed a Law imposing pay equity equal pay for work of equal value upon the Public Dave free press Charles Manitoba 55yearold Deputy finance gets accolades for the skill and integrity he brings to a difficult Curtis the Man in a crunch competence and integrity Are finance Deputy Stock in Trade by Mary Ann Fitzgerald while the Max scandal was Mak ing headlines in Charles Curtis slipped away to the Middle East to Start sorting out the it int the first time a Mani Toba government has brought in its quiet mannered Deputy minister of finance to Deal with a in Sterling Lyons conservative government named Curtis interim head of Manitoba Hydro to guide that corporation through troubled this Premier Howard Paw Ley summoned Curtis to take Over As interim head of Max a subsidiary of the Manitoba Telephone system when allegations of fraud and coverup swirled around its ill starred partnership with a saudi arabian turn to Curtis whenever theres a crunch and they need a person with Interi they turn to one senior civil servant Urban affairs minister Gary who recently took Over Cabi net responsibility for the Telephone says Curtiss credibility and Businesslike approach make him the obvious his role is to try to get Manitoba out of the failed arabian adventure and recoup As much of its Multi million investment As when you have a highly charged partisan it is Nice there is someone there who both sides feel comfortable doer he is very that assessment is echoed by financiers from Tokyo to Manitoba reputation on Money markets has developed certainly in part because of Charlie says Joseph okeefe of the acclaimed new York credit rating firm of Standard and Naotako Canadian presi Dent of the Industrial Bank of agrees Curtis is one of the he understands the japanese Way of doing Deputy minister of the governments most powerful department for 11 remembers his first venture into the foreign Money capitals of the world at a document signing i Felt like an he recalling a Long night in the boar Droom of a Luxembourg Ual in the 1960s and Early Mani Toba seeking financing for major Hydro development tapped into offshore including Curtis spent about three one night a studying the Lan Guage with a priest of the japanese Buddhist went Public he went Public with his newly acquired language at the close of a Bond signing ceremony in i worked on the speech for a couple of he i was quite he got a thunderous ovation from around Crescent we walk for Miles and just enjoy being out doors and each others she they met in the Early 1950s at a Myca Square dance Charles became president and Hilda Vic president of the swing is dance Curtis also is a member of the Manitoba Hydro Board and Secre tary to the powerful Treasury Board which screens government expend but he finds some time to read and listen to symphonic born in Curtis attended King Edward school and East Kildonan High he gradual thunderous ovation from japanese financiers signing his name at the rate of times an hour for 15 Curtis had been sent to Complete documentation for a the printed in were to be flown to Luxembourg for but an air controllers strike a private aircraft was and by the time it Curtis had 15 hours left to sign the Neces sary papers to get the the Bankers were very Nice about he they put me in a fancy left lots of wished me a Good evening and locked the the first thing i did when i got Back was to draft legislation to change the requirement for a Man the japanese they Are very pleased when anyone Speaks to them in Japa says Saul a for Mer finance minister who has made several trips to Japan with hard taskmaster who Learned Japa Nese As a wartime intelligence offi said the energetic Deputy was a hard he works very hard and relaxes hardly at Cherniack relaxation comes at the Start of the Day when Curtis is up by 5 to walk for a couple of his Doest have a the two leave their fort Garry Home about 6 for a hike de from the University of Manitoba in 1955 As a chartered for 12 years after his he worked for Revenue Canada be coming its chief assessor in new Brunswick in he resigned the same year to join Manitoba finance a High school and University soc cer Curtis says his athletic activities now Are limited to a once week game of Badminton at the Winter As a Curtis says he weighs about 10 pounds too much at 215 hell shed Bob Van Vic president of Wood Gundy it is a sign of his self discipline that he can Slough off 10 or 15 pounds when he wants a de scribes Curtis As the consummate civil Able to assist whatever government is in Power in devel Oping the Guy does his Job very Vandewater it is a very hard line to former conservative finance minister Brian Ransom he is very much aware of his and avoids making any comment that might Impact on Ransom he is not Given to making any statement unless he can Back it staff like family Jim an assistant Deputy says his Boss treats department staff like a hamburger Points to place Mats Curtis has brought him from Macdonald restaurants around the Hes just like Eldridge while Curtis admits he likes a he finds it difficult Deal ing with crises like you Are working with staff which is being he it is natural to have sympathy for them because they Are working in an environment that is not easy for friends say Curtis could write his own ticket in the private earning much More than his pres ent but he shows no sign of being tempt Ive always Felt it is an Honor to be Deputy minister of he local lab bites off testing contract for and the department of National de Fence has enlisted the Canada biting Fly Institute in Winnipeg in its quest to find a better Black Fly and Mosquito Mary director of the Centre and associate professor of entomology at the University of said and awarded the Institute a contract to test two new types of insect Well be testing to see How Long an application of the new Chemi cals will be effective and against what Type of Galloway the she will be con ducted in two one under Laboratory conditions and the second in the the lab tests started this while Field testing wont be done until mid june 1987 when mosquitoes and Black flies Are Galloway said the Field testing will involve people entering a Bugin tested area to study the effective Ness and duration of the the mostly University Stu will first expose themselves to mosquitoes and Black flies without repellent As a pretrial exercise to gauge the appetite of the Galloway some subjects will sport the new repellents while others again face the insect hordes she the people will be expected to expose themselves to the by walking around or just she there might be some degree of discomfort for those not wearing the i think Well have to draw straws or some of the Fiel testing will be done in areas around but it May be necessary to travel to Northern areas to find More Active Black Fly she a and spokesman in Ottawa said new repellents Are being tested be cause the old one didst perform As effectively in certain environments As was were always looking for some thing Steve wills right now we Only use one repel Lent and wed like to have something for a wills said and used litres or bottles of liquid repellent and another solid repellent Sticks in ;