Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fans to Stop televised horse racing t an Ltd mat tort by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa despite a formal objection by health minister Jake televised horse racing and Telephone betting will be allowed at Assiniboia sources said Manitoba most senior Federal for Mally asked Cabinet about two weeks ago to quash or modify a decision by the Canadian Radi Otele vision and telecommunications commission allowing the track to broadcast hours of live racing each week on local communications minister Flora Macdonald said yesterday Cabinet voted last week to uphold the crts she confirmed Cabinet had been asked to oppose the september Deci but refused to name Epp As the she said the request asked Cabinet to either overrule the crts Deci Sion or Send it Back for More Public Epp was in Montreal last night and could not be reached for com a Strong opponent of Epp said shortly after the crts decision that he would fight the sources said Epp made the request on behalf of a group of Manitoban who were concerned with increased gambling in the prov Ince and the effect it had on lower income Epp made the representation on behalf of the people and then expressed his own reservation re guarding the social aspects and his fundamental disagreement with a High ranking source 6ut Cabinet intervention is usually Only reserved for major policy changes when there Are major ram the feeling was that this was not a major change and that it was another ministers area of under Federal the Cabinet has 60 Days to Appeal any crts decision before it becomes Church and ant gambling groups have criticized the crts saying it feeds off the poor and invites More people to see telecasts Page 4 Bryan Adams wins two the june including the new entertainer of the year but Lang scores the greater Victory by taking Trie top country female vocalist away from perennial Winner Anne who had taken the award for seven consecutive years Cloudy tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 5 final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9552330 Al second class mail registration number 0286 november 1987 vol 115 no 331 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Glenn Olsen branching out r Lac a City Crew showed up on Doug Martins Yard yester City Martin planted the tree in and donated Day at 82 Fidler Avenue to claim a Christmas tree for it after its 20metres began blocking the Hospital closes another 30 Beds Boniface paediatric wards targets of latest cuts by Liana Simon Boniface general Hospital has closed 30 Beds in its psychiatric and paediatric wards in a bid to Cut the hospitals the move comes just More than a week after announcing 40 Beds in opt apology and orthopaedics would also be closed As part of a cos Cut Ting the Hospital also has announced the closing of 85 mostly for elective during the Christ Mas the psychiatric and paediatric Beds were closed sunday and Are expected to remain out of service until at Reform party greeted by disdain by Jane Armstrong the emergence of a new Western based Federal party during the week end has been greeted with a mixture of fear and curiosity by Manitoba the Reform party of led by Alberta consultant Preston Man has pledged to unite Western Canada and speak for its interests More vigorously than the three main the party Agenda Calls for an elected Senate and a pledge to fight the Meech Lake constitutional a most tory maps immediately dismissed the fledgling party As an association of disgruntled fringe whose Only rallying Point is their disaffection for East Ern health minister Jake Epp doubts the new political alternative will be Felt in Rural Ridings in Manitoba and Saskatchewan now tory i dont place a lot of Stock in he the conference was very a lot of bickering going on they we rent going to Deal with the social policy issues because they they we rent sure of their Epp said discontent in Western Canada reached a Peak last year with the formation of the Western concept a separatist at the he said there were certain discontented segments of the population that were willing to sup port a new party but he added the tory situation in the West is More positive but the government is not about to simply shrug off the new party As a fringe Epp said party officials monitored the weekend Leo Duguay Boniface said it appeared members know exactly what they dont like about the current state of Federal but offered few new he said both opposition parties have already called for Senate re tory Lee who represents rejected suggestions from members that a populist groundswell of support is Clark said any historical compari Sions to the flowering of the see swing Page 5 least the end of the fiscal March the group of 85 Beds will be closed for one month from 13 to the number of Beds usually closed Down at Christmas is 50 for just two its All part of our cos reduction plan to wipe out the approved by the Nick director of the hospitals operating said the cuts were criticized by the acting head of the psychiatry de who said the expected to save will place a great hardship on we operate at a 100percent occupancy and closures pres ent a great hardship to the peo ple of Manuel Matas even prior to the there was a great shortage of psychiatric services and Beds in the a drop from 48 adult inpatient Beds and eight adolescent inpatient Beds to 34 adult Beds and seven adolescents will have a severe Impact on psychiatric he see staff Page 4 Gorbachev tempers Stalin attack the Washington Post Moscow soviet Leader Mikhail in a major speech Deli Vered yesterday on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the russian Rev accused Joseph Stalin of enormous and unforgivable but stopped Short of a full scale denunciation of the dictator whose policies and purges Are widely believed to have caused the deaths of millions of the soviet Leader cast new Light on once forbidden areas of soviet his tory and sanctioned an ongoing pub Lic debate Over the role of Stalin and other communist party but he carefully balanced his Revi Sion of the party official line on giving both liberals and conservatives equal Gorba Chev for the first time publicly implicated Stalin in the massive repressions of the but minimized their scale by saying Only that thousands of people had even official historians Here put the figure of people killed or sentenced to labor Camps by Stalin in the almost half of the speech was devoted to a review of which in soviet terms is considered of key importance in setting current policy Gorbachev also criticized those who Are trying either to Block his reforms out of fear or to implement them too quickly out of Imp he pledged to work unremittingly for a palpable breakthrough on strategic and space based nuclear arms negotiations with the United Gorbachev acknowledged that or his Campaign of economic and political restructure see Gorbachev Page 4 Manitoba Pool reaps first loss in 52year life by Stevens wild Manitoba Pool suffer ing from the Overall effect of a slumping farm has re corded the first annual financial loss in its 52year the shortfall during the 198687 crop year was due to the pools participation in a Money losing fertilizer chief executive officer Murray Cormack told the pools annual meeting yester the Pool did enjoy a net profit of million on operations Down from million the year the pools combined profit from operations and affiliated companies was Down from million in act to stay the Overall loss comes despite a two percent increase in the amount of business from last Manitoba Pool handled about 58 per cent of the Grain produced in the province this Cormack told the delegates the red Ink came from a decision to write off million from the ailing Western cooperative fertilizers jointly owned by Manitoba Saskatchewan wheat Pool and Alberta wheat the fertilizer firm has closed plants in Calgary and Medicine Cormack said part of the write off was for part value of the fertilizer company Calgary the value of commercial property in the Calgary area has not Reco Vered it has shown a further de he it seemed prudent to recognize that there is Likely to be an eventual loss upon resale or refinancing of this property and to take a portion of this possible loss into this years he assured the 80 delegates that Only million represented a Cash outlay for the the rest of the million represented a Book keeping the decision Means the Farmers who belong to the cooperative will not receive a dividend this in the 198586 crop members received about per tonne of Grain delivered to the Manitoba Pool elevators across the a loss on the cooperatives farm supplies division also contributed to the red Cormack the division lost million last Cormack said a drop in fertilizer sales accounted for a 10percent drop in sales for the As country elevators where Farmers deliver their Grain lost million in after a see Pool Page 5 Weinberger ready to quit defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger has decided to resign because of the deteriorating health of his wife and president Reagan is expected to name National Security adviser Frank Carlucci to the according to administration while Weinberger departure is not the result of pressure from within the it May presage a new approach to arms control in reagans final Quebe cers shaken by Levesques death Montreal up Quebec was in mourning yesterday for former Premier Rene whose Sud Den death at age 65 seemed to touch All Quebe cers no matter what their the loss of a was the Way Premier Robert Bourassa described Levesques death As he announced plans for an elaborate state funeral for his for Mer political the 65yearold for Mer who led Quebec through a tumultuous nine year period starting on suffered a massive heart attack at his Home late he died 45 minutes later despite desperate efforts to revive an autopsy revealed that the Chai smoking Levesque has suffered from heart problems for Sev eral years and had experienced several mild heart attacks prior to sundays fatal Andre the provinces top said yesterday the earlier heart attacks had gone undiagnosed because of Levesques Well known aversion to most Quebe cers awoke to the news of Levesques having gone to bed sunday night unaware that he had died at the Montreal general Hospital at they snapped up newspapers and flooded radio open line shows with Calls expressing their disbelief and admiration for the baggy eyed politician who was a preferred target for newspaper cartoonists across the people Are a bit sad said Quebec City tour guide Jocelyn summing up the mood of see Trudeau Page 4 under fire the nip government is under fire for appointing a Man to a political Post while he was facing fraud charges i higher prices an Energy economist predicts free Trade will cause higher natural Gas prices for canadians 15 games Philadelphia flyer Dave Brown is suspended 15 games for Cross checking new York Ranger Tomas Sandstrom in the although it is the stiffest penalty meted out by nil Vic president Brian the general reaction was that it want enough false expectations unrealistic expectations Are the most potent Factor in undermining successful weight control deficit increases Ottawa spilled More red Ink in july than it did a year earlier restaurant future the new head of the Manitoba restaurant association says the future is Bright 17 24 30 Index Ann 30 36 47 36 6 20 7 Jumble 40 27 sports 46 32 17 to 27 ;