Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 16, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press february Page 3 forced Sale of plants to workers Machete attack ruling irks by Janet Mcfarland a Man posing As a police officer lured a 12yearold girl into his car and raped her last but police failed to release the information until another girl was molested this the Man told the children he was an undercover police officer trying to solve a robbery he did not show them a the first attack happened 21 in the West end near Sargent Avenue and Mcgee while the second occurred monday night in the North end near Mcgregor Street and Lansdowne in the a Man approached a group of four children and convinced two aged 12 and to go with he dropped off the but raped the 12yearold before dropping her at the Corner of her the father of one of the children who did not get into the car said he was surprised to hear of the most recent attack on the radio this when there had been no men Tion of the first 1 was angry when i heard about two More he i know i put two and two together right i was hoping somebody would get the right idea so people could Start warning their kids this Guy is still out he said he called police after his nine year old son came into the House to Tell him the girls had gotten into the mans two uniformed officers showed but it took them maybe 45 he they took too Long to get it was As if nothing staff Don Peters was unable explain Why the Public was not warned about the first i dont to be quite Peters normally we would have Given this he said the attack happened on a saturday so the details would usually not be released until monday in some information is withheld for a couple of Days if there Are doubts the Case is Peters said there was no such concern in this he said attacks on children by strangers Are rare in Winnipeg and there is Little doubt the same Man was responsible for both i dont remember the last one that came in prior to it was maybe a year Peters he said Young children should not get into cars alone with undercover if it is an officer should provide some sort of proof by calling for a marked police car or a uniformed we always Tell children they should go to somebody they know before they respond to a Peters they should never respond to a it Doest matter especially at that in the second a Man lured two 10yearold girls into his he fondled one through her but did not rape Gays keep Low Moderator says by David Roberts no Gays or lesbians have applied for ministry since the United Church set off a wave of controversy by potentially opening its pulpits to them last the Church spiritual Leader said Sang Chul in Manitoba for the second time since becoming the Church Moderator last said homosexuals have been driven underground by the backlash following the general councils vote to admit them As potential ministers last they Are afraid to speak but they Are constantly writing Lee they have suffered very is a soviet born korean Anadi he is the United Church first Oriental Church officials have estimated 10 per cent of clergy ordained into the denomination in recent years Are homosexual but Only a handful of candidates have publicly declared their sexual Lee said he has no firm opinion on whether ordaining homosexuals is Good or to be honest i dont really have a Strong he adding he is proud the Church has admitted homosexuals As full Christian attitude but the question of ordination is a very Tricky one for it Doest matter which Way the Church goes on this its a question of we must Deal with it in a Christian Lee said the Church membership split by divergent scriptural interpretations on homosexuality clearly has no single emergent theory on the matter of homosexual for me this Issue wont go he this is a serious we have to be very honest and How can we live with it in peace and loyalty really like to see some serious dialogue Between the majority of members and homosexual Lee said he believes the vociferous de which some blame in part a shortfall in donations has actually been Good for the at the same Lee said he wished Canadas largest protestant denomination would Start looking at less ques there Are at least two other very important he one is the other is global Christian we Are Strug gling with this one homosexuality that bothers Lee said world events in 1988 reaffirmed his belief the United Church of Canada has a Strong role to play in creating firmer Christian ties among the whole world scene is coming Forward its he adding free press Lee says homosexuals have been driven underground by recent backlash in United troop withdrawals from Namibia and and the end of strife Between Iraq and Iran Are positive signs for world Small advances in the cause of human rights in the soviet and Chile augur Well for a reemergence of Christian practice and ideals in those parts of the As the Canadian Church moves toward its next general Council in organizers on both sides of the Homo sexuality debate Are trying to stack the proceedings with their at the next general Council we really have to discuss the homosexuality Issue Lee adding members of other Christian denominations Are watching i expect we will have a very mature dialogue because in the interim congregations Are starting to entertain new Dimen Sions of Lee said he agrees general Council has been seen As a clique with Many of the same faces appearing each there is no urgent need to Reform what he views As an inherently democratic Church political some people have the impression that everything is manipulated by head that absolutely not he but there is one problem As i see when they choose people to go to general Ive noticed the same peo ple coming Back again and Lee said he could see the Church barring delegates from attending More than two consecutive general Lee says the Church is an diverse group but a debate be tween Liberal and conservative elements is if we lost All the liberals in the Church it would be and the conservative elements have a very important role to play in restraining the More Liberal he Shell stood to lose most in Price court told by Heidi Graham Shell Canada would have been the Only loser if an Independent service station had triggered a Price War by Selling Gas at a a court was told if a Price War started in the City of Shell Canada had the most to is that right Federal Crown attorney David prayer asked Shell representative Ron shells automotive sales manager for Manitoba and confirmed Shell would lose the but added the company had withstood Price wars be Shell has pleaded not guilty to one charge of retail Price maintenance Over a 1986 incident involving Jet automatic car the at 532 James stopped Selling Gas at a discount in july 1986 after the assistant manager received an intimidating phone Call and the owner was chastised by a Shell court was told assistant manager Doreen Zachar Testi fied Bruce Lettner warned her the discount could Start a Price War and ordered the Price be raised by 5 or Shell would be ticked owner Les Brent said Lettner also warned him of a Price War and said the station was acting Benson said yesterday he didst believe Lettner was trying to intimidate either Brent or Zachar into raising the i think he was permitting them to make their own Benson they were still free to choose whatever Price they wanted to he acknowledged that if a Price War had started that Shell would have lost More than its dealers because the Corpora Tion had to lower the Price it charged dealers during Price wars to ensure they would continue to make a and Shell probably stood to lose More than its Competition if the Street Price fell below Cost because then had 20 per cent of the he Justice Daniel Kennedy of court of Queens Bench asked Benson Why any dealer would keep his prices at Market level when Shell had guaranteed they would make a motion rejected what incentive would there be for any dealer not to discount he Benson replied that the guaranteed profit margin dropped from around four cents per litre to about two cents As the Price of Gas Kennedy rejected a motion by defence lawyer lome Morphy that the charge be dismissed for Lack of Morphy said the Law required the Crown to submit evidence that a Shell representative influenced the Price by Promise or any like although there was evidence Lettner tried to influence jets Morphy argued there was no evidence he made any agree promises or threats during his at a threat can Only exist when one person declares to another the intent to inflict an injury economic or otherwise in retaliation or conditional an act or course of he prayer argued the threat did not have to be explicit and urged Kennedy to consider All of letters actions Kennedy rejected the saying he believed enough evidence had been presented on which a properly instructed jury could f the children said he was driving a newer four door Grey car with a dark Interi in the first the children said the Man was driving an older Model White car with a red Peters said the suspect is Between 25and with Short Blue a moustache and a pimples in the first he was wearing Black a White shirt and a in the a Grey suit with a dark both attacks happened about 9 but Peters said it is difficult to predict Pat its hard to say with these Type of they have a very warped sense of tories to plug tax Hole Dodge threatened to Cost Manitoba million in 1989 by Gerald flood finance minister Clayton manness says he plans to plug a tax loophole Worth millions of dollars to buyers of High priced real the which allows purchasers of Large properties to avoid land Transfer was identified in december by land titles Branch officials and was spreading at an alarming manness said the officials found that Large property titles increasingly were being broken at time of Sale into smaller shares called undivided each of which was then registered under a separate the number of shares As High As 100 in some cases was calculated to ensure that each was Worth less than the Point at which a title becomes subject to Transfer the Worth on a threatened to Cost the province million this As manness the increasing use of the loophole threatened to clog the land titles Branch with masses of the province has been trying for the past year to reduce a registration backlog at the manness said the government will Amend the Revenue act retroactive to 16 during the next session of the serving notice were serving notice now that we Are closing that he the amendment will require that taxes be assessed on the value of the entire title rather than on the value listed for each title manness said the concept of undivided devised to allow partners to jointly own single is legitimate and will not be tampered he said it appears that and real estate lawyers realized they could use the loophole to get around the and word travelled fast in the if you see your neighbor is using youre going to use he the Transfer introduced by the nip government in May nets about million annually for the it is calculated on a sliding scale so that buyers of Homes Worth less than pay buyers of properties Worth to 000 pay per cent of the total the tax rate increases to one per cent for properties Worth to and to per cent for those Worth More than probe into death lands Man in jail a 22yearold Winnipeg Man has been arrested As a result of an investigation into the death of a 79yearold woman whose body was found last week at the scene of a police Warren Bradley of William ave was arrested last night and charged with break and enter with intent and sexual assault in the recent burglary of an Archibald Avenue police discovered the body of Julia on the Kitchen floor in the House last Fri seniors Challenge Federal drug Patent Law by Terry Weber a Manitoba seniors group is challenging the Federal governments controversial drug Patent claiming it infringes on provincial Powers under the under 1987 amendments to the Ottawa gave manufacturers developing new drugs a 10year monopoly on the production of their the legislation also established a Medicine prices review Board to Monitor whether drug companies were using the new Protection to gouge lawyer Arne Peltz told a news conference yesterday the creation of the Board infringes on provincial acting for the Manitoba society of said he will ask court of Queens Bench to quash the Peltz said he Hopes to have the 10year monopoly provision struck Down by arguing Ottawa have been Able to give the manufacturers Patent Protection without establishing the if we didst have the we need the Price control because we would have Competition As weve had in the he they the monopoly and the Board really were a package As far As parliament was he so if part of it the legislation is All of it is the review set up to protect has said it can Only control prices at the manufacturers additional costs to the such As a pharmacy markup and prescription fall under provincial Peltz said the Case May eventually end up before the supreme court of critics of the new known As Bill say it will drive prices through the roof by keeping Low Cost generic copies of new drugs off the Market for 10 before the amendment was passed in the Patent act encouraged companies Mak ing generic or Noname drugs to produce Low Cost copies of popular bran name prescription bran name drug companies promised to double their spending on re search and development within 10 years to 10 per cent of sales if the amendment went Marguerite past president of the Manitoba society of said the effects of the legislation Are already evident in drug for she the Cost of such As has risen significantly since the Bill was Chown say How much of the increase resulted from the new Legisla Tion and How much can be attributed to inflation and rising dispensing Jack executive director of the Manitoba society of professional said no pattern of significant Price increases has surfaced since Bill c22 was Davis added that the association has Cei Ved no complaints about Price increases that could be directly attributed to the Chown said the group is confident it will be successful in having the amendment struck Jenny president of the Manitoba Branch of the Consumers association of said her group also opposed Bill c22 when it was but is still waiting for the godhead from its Ottawa office before endorsing the court ;