Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pic wastes Money like judge says by David Roberts the Manitoba Public insurance seems to throw taxpayers Money around As though its Confer a court of Queens Bench judge charged Justice John Scollin was com menting on testimony of several aut Opac adjusters in the trial of David Robert who is charged with making unsubstantiated claims to the Crown corporation Worth As much As Why dont you ask claimants if they had any claims in the past five years Scollin asked witness Wil Liam an aut Opac adjust i think its time you started ask ing this is open this is fishing season for your controls Are absolutely Lack Scollin noted he was commenting on Auto acs questionable oversight not castigating Armstrong nor prejudging the he said Armstrong was simply the last of several adjusters whose Testi Mony made him believe the Crown corporation is vulnerable to one adjuster said it is corporation policy to approve claims even though no proof of Purchase is ten dered by the i find it absolutely amazing your system int floating in the Scollin this is the ultimate meaning of the red Armstrong replied he was Only following Manitoba Public insurance policy in not checking whether Mackenzie had other claims with aut Opac before approving one involving goods allegedly stolen from Mackenzie i follow the procedures Laid Down by the Armstrong your corporation is Laid Down to Scollin is charged with four counts of one of attempted and one of burning a car in a series of incidents in at the his Security firm was hired to police the local govern ment District of the Crown alleges a series of bogus claims netted Mackenzie be tween and from the see claim Page 4 renewed ties persian Gulf my my threatened by seek new ties with Egypt o has been a head tit Hazard than a they my they have complained repeatedly to the Prince and and accuse officials of foot dragging in having the mess leaned up Cloudy tonight 8 Clouds tomorrow 0 november final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 St Ono class mail rcgistra7ion numbly 08c Sun rises sets Moon rises sets free press crash aftermath an officer picks up Beer bottles from the site of a car Accident on King Edward Street and Mollard a was trapped in the car when it rolled Over into a ditch yesterday after careening out of he was treated in Hospital and then arrested on various liquor re lated charges and two counts of assaulting Ottawa to fight formula pawning pharmacists required to get prescription approved under plan 4unn if Fillah Hnyp in non nip by Alexandra Paul Ottawa will crack Down on some mothers who Are using a Manitoba Avenue grocery store to Pawn baby formula paid for by the Federal health Paul regional director of the health departments medical services said he has known for several weeks that some mothers passengers deserting air Canada Montreal up As Many passengers made reservations with other airlines air Cana Das ground workers stayed on the Content to watch the Mere threat of strike action scare off were conceded air Canada spokesman Esther syn obviously you dont make frontage headlines and not lose she confirm a claim by chief Union negotiator Ron Fontaine that the airline suffered a 15per cent drop in passengers carried tuesday because of the strike but a senior company executive said late yesterday that the loss of both passenger and has been minimal nothing like 15 per As they reported for work yester each ground worker was handed two letters stipulating the airlines see competitors Page 4 have been using government prescriptions to get formula that they then sold at Yoons food Mart for up to 50 cents on the he said the department was in the process of trying to Stop the abuse when the practice was reported in a free press Story Cochrane said under the current status Indian mothers can obtain formula by getting a doctors prescription and then having it filled at a the pharmacist then Bills the health department directly for the Cochrane said the department would try to curb the abuse by changing the system so pharmacists would have to get permission from the department before filling the what we have is people getting something for a supposedly legitimate reason and then dispensing of it for other he it was reported yesterday that mothers could get up to for a Case of 24 cans of similar concen regularly priced at Over a posing As a welfare sold baby formula to a see store Page 4 Winnipeg free press Curtis Fontaine shows sex response computer used in new program for convicted offenders a computer that measures the response of men to images of sexual violence and children is to be used in the provinces first assessment and rehabilitation program for sex the unveiled is being hailed by provincial chief judge Harold Gyles As a Neces sary step toward reducing the number of sex offences committed in the province every therapists will use a Plethos Zograph to test the penile response of convicted sex offenders to images of sexual violence and the program will also include More traditional psychological testing and interviews designed to de Termine the Type of treatment convicted sex offend ers should chairman of the provincial committee for the assessment and treatment of sex said the new program is necessary if the number of sex offences is to be committee member Curtis Fontaine said statistics from february 1987 show 180 convicted sex offend ers were in Manitoba the treatment is Gyles adding few programs treat sex offenders after they have been people be surprised when a sex offender see computer Page 4 Grain Sale loss blamed on Lack of rail cars by Stevens wild the Canadian wheat Board has turned Down sales because a Short age of rail cars on the Prairies has limited the amount of Grain available at Export the boards chief commissioner said weve had to tailor our sales pro Gram to fit that Esmond Jarvis said after a speech to the annual meeting of Manitoba Pool hauling incentives Grain supplies at terminal Eleva tors at Thunder Bay fell to unusually Low Levels in october because in rail repeatedly failed to meet its wheat Board targets for boxcars delivering Grain to the weve had to limit our sales to the capacity of the system to put Grain into Export position and certainly when we Are Short of rail cars it does limit our capacity to make Jarvis Grain is hauled by in and up rail from Prairie elevators to Thunder where it is loaded on to Lake after being shipped to Eastern the Grain is transferred to Ocean vessels for Jarvis would not put a figure on the amount of sales lost by the rail car its very hard to weve got record record so id be hard put to say weve had to restructure our program to any Large Mike the director of West Ern transportation for the wheat said it appears the situation could improve by when in rail is expected to have More criticized Board statistics indicate Mil lion tonnes of major grains were exported As of the highest level in his Jarvis said world wheat prices have not responded to declines in International production because the United states is subsiding exports of its in a blistering attack on Agri culture the commissioner told the 80 delegates that the Ameri cans were responsible for the Low Grain prices currently devastating Western if you look at wheat Supply and demand around the there is every reason to think there should be a recovery in Jarvis for the first time in seven world production this year will be less than and stocks will because the Export enhancement known As subsidizes american wheat exports to As much As a prices have not responded to the decline in i can Only reiterate that Over the past 12 the world Price War has gotten progressively Jarvis the bicep or Export enhancement program has lived up to our predictions of becoming a Vir Tual Blanket Export and Al most every major and minor mar including the soviet has been receiving Javis said that in some cases the United states has deliberately re leased wheat stocks in order to de press the american subsidy program was originally intended to regain markets lost to unfair Competition see wheat Page 4 Reagan dismisses pact fears Washington up president Reagan told canadians yesterday not to worry about losing their Independence and identity because of the proposed free Trade in his first major speech on free Trade since the bilateral agreement was signed a month Reagan dismissed fears Canada will be swallowed up by the United states now that the two countries have agreed to integrate i need hardly does not imply the presi Dent told a Blu Chip corporate Audi who had just received a Pri vate briefing on the Deal by the administrations top Trade in a True Alliance of the the unique charac ters of National identities of our Northern and Southern would Only broaden our understand ing and strengthen the mandate of see Reagan Page 4 Union fight cold War by Lisa priest the Manitoba food and Commer Cial workers and West fair foods Are engaged in a cold just weeks after signing a collective agreement to end a four month Union president Bernard Christophe Christophe said the which represents workers in 12 super shop easy and econ Mart stores across the has filed two unfair labor practice charges with the Manitoba labor claiming the company has failed to live up to the terms of the he said More charges and grievances Are expected As Union and company officials continue to Bicker less than one month after workers returned to work after ratifying a three year a new Battle has started this one inside the Christophe said last see Transfer Page 4 import Rule Canadian football league is undaunted by a decision that import quotas Are discriminatory coffin cheer several thousand people wildly cheer the coffin of former Quebec Premier Rene Levesque modelling every about most them Erroy in local modelling there Are also about 500 people mostly graduates of modelling who Call Thern selves their chances of reaching the top Are minuscule stocks resume slide North american Stock markets continue to and analysts Lay the blame on Washington no time for fluff sir Richard Attenborough says hell devote the rest of his career to serious movie projects lottery winners 33 51 49 46 17 Jumble 7 46 pfc Inifi 51 62 76 snorts 45 62 6 47 ;