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THE WINDSOR STAR, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1993 A4 CorrectionsClarifications The Windsor Star corrects all errors of fact as soon as possible after they are identified. The Star also publishes clarifications of information that could have been misunderstood or misinterpreted. If you know of an error Beer stores restrict, wont ban charities TORONTO (CP) Brewers Retail says charities havent been banned from soliciting outside beer stores they Just have to get permission first. HThere was a need lor control and a little restriction because customers complained of having to run a gauntlet of outstretched hands to buy beer, company spokesman John Fraser said Monday. MIt was an unpleasant shopping environment, said Fraser, vice-president of operations for Ontarios 432 beer stores.

He said a Barrie-area manager for Brewers Retail erred over the weekend in saying a complete ban is in place. Fraser said Brewers Retail intends to remain active In co-operating with charities. Organizations seeking permission to solicit donations or sell tags outside beer stores must get prior approval from head office or area offices. Beer stores also allow about 100 charities to put coin-collection boxes beside cash registers on a rotating basis, Fraser said. vice-president Ron Powell and local president Roger Whitson listen as Mayor Hurst outlines planned cuts City Hall cutbacks widespread In addition, all programs at City Hall are under review.

The department of property and housing may be eliminated, since the top three officials of the latter are about to retire. Its duties may be spread among other departments. But before any of the measures can be enforced, city officials have to sit down to negotiate with the unions. No meetings have been scheduled. Hurst said the provincial money is gone and the cuts have been identified.

It is now up to local unions to negotiate how they are implemented, or face having the cuts legislated as part of Queens Park social contract. Continued from A1 Council voted behind closed doors to accept a package of wage freezes, unpaid leaves and staff reductions through early retirements, combining city departments and contracting out work now done by municipal employees. Details of the staff savings have not been determined, although it is said some city employees are already scrambling to book their 12 days of unpaid leave. I fully anticipate that City Hall will have to be closed for some period of time in 1993, Hurst said. CUPE wont deal Most wanted robber dragged into court ST.

CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) A man once featured on television as Americas most wanted bank robber was carried into the courtroom by four police officers Monday for the start of his trial on robbery charges. Im not a willing participant," Charles Warren Boomer, 57, told Justice Patrick Gravely of the general division of Ontario Court "(They) can tie me down, gag me, and might drug me. I have no intention to hurt anyone, not at all, but Im going to resist every moment I can." Boomer, who was handcuffed and wearing leg shackles, refused to stand when the robbery charges were read to him. He did not answer to his name, and did not enter a plea to any of the eight charges.

BOOMER WAS ONCE featured on the' television program Unsolved Mysteries as the man allegedly responsible for more than 50 bank robberies in the United States and Canada. The show was based on a series of lightning-quick robberies by a man wearing a disguise. He would enter a bank, flash a trademark silver pistol, dump the cash into a shoulder bag and run. The pattern was spotted in bank robberies throughout southern Ontario and Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and parts of Oregon. A jury was selected Monday even though Boomer dismissed his two lawyers and said he would represent himself.

Earlier, he jumped up, sat on the rail of the prisoners dock and tried to pivot out of the box while kicking at a police officer and his lawyers who restrained him. He fired his lawyers because they were unable to persuade the judge to delay the trial because his "memoirs have been misplaced by jail officials. THE NOTES WERE for a book, the court was told, and were necessary for Boomer to refresh his memory as to where he was when seven female tellers at four banks in this southern Ontario city were robbed at gunpoint between September 1990 and his arrest in his hometown of Hamilton a year ago. Boomer faces charges in the Ontario communities of Hamilton and Niagara Falls as well as other Canadian cities. Bandits kill dog in heist The Toronto Star TORONTO Armed bandits shot a Doberman during a heist Monday and drove away with 3250,000 to 3300,000 worth of jewelry, York Region police said.

The wounded seven-month-old guard dog named Benz died at a veterinary hospital while undergoing surgery. The two bullets that Struck the dogs chest caused too much damage, a clinic spokesman said. Police were searching Monday night for two men who escaped in a light blue Cadillac after demanding the keys at gunpoint from two couriers on delivery rounds for Fine Craft Jewel- ry, a Toronto wholesaler. The robbery occurred when the couriers stopped at a store in Vaughan, York Region police Sgt. Norm Miles said.

Pharmacist- Continued from A3 secured creditors with title to the doctors assets, court records on file in London show. They are, however, among nine unsecured creditors later registered with trustee Deloitte and Touche Inc. as owed money by Smol-ing. Azad submitted a claim of 310,907.86 to the trustee. Smoling voluntarily filed for bankruptcy on Dec.

21, 1990. On Sept. 27, 1991, a justice of the Ontario Court general division heard Smolings application for a discharge from the bankruptcy which would wipe out all debt. The justice agreed, provided Smoling pay the trustee 352,500 or 38 monthly instalments of 31,750. By March 3, 1992, the doctor had paid just 33,000 toward that amount, trustee Ivan McKague wrote in an affidavit.

He sought a court order, granted Jan. 27 this year, that 31,750 of the doctors OHIP earnings be assigned to the trustee each month. SMOLING HAS been making regular payments but as of May 31 had paid the trustee a total of 36,000, McKague, the Deloitte and Touche vice-president, said in an interview. McKague holds all payments in a trust account until the file is closed or interim payments are made to the creditors. Azad agreed to meet with The Star on June 18 but then contacted his lawyer, Don Tait, who said Azad did not wish to comment because of the charges against Smoling and a continuing RCMP investigation.

My client could in fact be a witness on a criminal charge," Tait said. "1 am not indicating that he is in any way being investigated as an accused. Vintage Continued from A3 We gave Uncle Adolf's gang a rough time all right," said Sterr, 71, as he cleaned the side of the bomber. "Riding in this old thing sure brings back some memories." IN 1978, Sentimental Journey was donated to the Arizona Wing of the Confederate Air Force, an American non-profit group dedicated to restoring Second World War aircraft to flying capability. The bomber had spent the previous 17 years dropping borate on forest fires.

CAF members painstakingly cleaned, painted and rewired the plane, honing it back to wartime condition. When its not on tour in the summer months, Sentimental Journey is on display at the Arizona Wing Hangar in Mesa, Arizona. The bomber which sports a painting of famous pinup Betty Grable on its nose will be at the Windsor Flying Club until Friday. It will not fly again until it leaves Windsor for the next stop on its U.S. summer tour.

We agreed to host the airplane mainly to bring a bit of history back to the Windsor populace," said Ron Holden, chief flight instructor and manager of the club. Everyone's interested in these planes especially the greyhaired people like myself who were around in World War Two." Continued from A And while Mayor Mike Hurst said he's optimistic a deal can be negotiated, union leaders on Monday were skeptical. He (Hurst) has a lot more confidence in the talks than I do," said Rick Sanders, president of CUPE Local 82, which represents about 320 outside workers. "Theres a lot of incentives for the employers, but I dont see any incentives for the employees," Sanders said. Not true, argued finance commissioner Chuck Wills.

Under the provinces legislation, the amount municipalities must cut is reduced by about 20 per cent if a negotiated deal is reached at the provincial level, he said. And a local agreement also means any employees laid off can use a 3300- million Job Security Fund to top-up unemployment insurance payments and give them more time to retrain, Wills said. The government has created a package of incentives to at least get both RICK SANDERS sides to the table, he said. No local bargaining sessions have been scheduled. Both Whitson and Sanders are attending a national meeting of CUPE presidents today in Toronto where strategies for the coming talks are to be discussed.

Mitch Malec, a member of City Halls 100-strong non-union supervi- sors group, said he agrees with City Councils decision to cut spending and reduce wage costs because the alternative is raising taxes. The corporation has no choice. We have no choice, said Malec, a roads supervisor. I dont know what my group is going to say, but I think we have to co-operate thats my own personal opinion. Councillor Tom Porter said there are only three options for the city and its employees: negotiate a deal locally; wait for the province and the unions to negotiate a deal at the sectoral talks in Queen's Park; or wait for legislation.

Waiting for the legislation will cause the most pain and the most layoffs, Porter said making it crucial that the employee groups negotiate. If they refuse, it is at their peril," he said. Sportsplex site Continued from A3 Docherty agreed that using the sportsplex site for parking of necessity puts the project on hold for at least two years. He promised that within 30 days of the art gallery giving up the casino, he'll start work on the sportsplex. Docherty argued he needs the permanent downtown casino in operation to provide some of the traffic to make the sportsplex economic.

Docherty said he originated the idea of a local casino on a much smaller scale as part of the sportsplex for precisely that reason. Because the province decided to build a separate casino, Docherty said it's only fair" that the timing for his sportsplex project shouldnt be pushed ahead of the casinos completion date. The casino was the way to make the sportsplex possible," he said. Besides the sportsplex site, the art gallery is also counting on Docherty to provide another 500 parking spaces with an expansion of his downtown parking garage a block away. Other parking spaces needed for the art gallerys bid would come from a mix of public and private properties within three or four blocks of the art gallery.

THE GALLERY IS one of three bidders for the interim casino, along with Devonshire Mall and Windsor Raceway. The deadline for submission of bids for the interim casino is June 30, with the winner announced July 16. Hurst believes the art gallery has a very good chance to win. The mayor doesnt buy any conspiracy theories that the specifications In the bidding for an interim site favor Devonshire Mall or Windsor Raceway. The specifications allow bidders to offer a gaming area from 40,000 to 60,000 square feet a 50 per cent variation.

In addition to the gaming area, 20,000 to 30,000 square feet of space is needed for cashier windows, offices, security and other facilities. SOME OBSERVERS believe this favors either Windsor Raceway or Devonshire Mall because they have the space available to put up the larger, more profitable gaming area, while the smaller gallery is limited to the low end of the range. A temporary casino with a gaming area of 60,000 square feet would rival the 75,000 square feet gaming area planned for the permanent casino. If a temporary casino is built on that scale at either the raceway or mall, some fear it'll create a powerful lobby not to build the permanent one in the downtown. Hurst has heard those fears expressed, but doesnt feel theres any validity to them.

Failure to develop the permanent downtown site would turn the provinces proposal call into a sham," Hurst said. THE MAYOR SAID he doesnt believe the province would invite major corporations to spend millions of dollars putting together bids for a 3200-million plus permanent casino, only to allow a temporary casino costing a fraction of that amount to do an end run around the process. I don't buy into tha( speculation at all, he said. Hurst said at the end of the temporary casino's two- or three-year run, he expects to see just one casino operating in the downtown on the site now being acquired by the city. Witness says Green bleeding when hit DETROIT (AP) A policeman demanding a motorist let go of something in his hand bashed him in the head with a flashlight as blood pooled on the pavement, a medic testified.

When Malice Greens fist was later pried open, "just a piece of paper came out, the witness, Albino Martinez, said Monday. No officers picked it up, he said. Martinez was the first witness in the trial of Larry Nevers and two other white officers charged in the fatal beating of the black motorist outside a suspected crack house Nov. 5. Martinez was to be cross-examined today.

"Officer Nevers was telling him to 'Hold still, open your hand, Martinez said. "All the blood was just coming out of (Greens) head in a big puddle." Nevers, 52, and his former partner, Walter Budzyn, 47, are charged with murder. Robert Lessnau is charged with assault. All three officers were fired shortly after the beating. Green, 35, took at least 14 blows to the head, an autopsy showed.

The slaying heightened racial tensions in Detroit, though prosecutors have not alleged race as a motive. "WE SAW A MAN DANGLING out of a car and Officer Nevers was holding him," said Martinez, a member of the ambulance crew flagged down that night. After Nevers struck Green twice on the head with his flashlight, a sergeant who arrived on the scene told Nevers, "Take it easy, Larry, Martinez testified. Nevers "gave him two more quick flicks with the flashlight in the head again." Nevers and Budzyn could get life in prison, Lessnau up to 10 years. The show goes on Continued from A1 "We missed our lunch but we werent really hungry anyways," Wright said.

"Besides, we wanted to phone our families and tell them we were fine." Relaxing in the cool auditorium before the show, with their friends empty seats stretching on either side, the two said they were relieved no one was seriously hurt. "We are thankful and very lucky," said Wright, adding she had only suffered a little bump on the head. They praised fire and ambulance workers for responding to the accident scene so quickly. "The response was amazing, they were very fast," said Bedford, who was trapped in the bus for about half an hour. Eighteen of the 47 passengers were taken to hospital with minor Injuries.

AT ONE POINT IN the rescue, crews used the bed of the flatbed truck trailer to treat injured passengers. Seniors also rested on the ground, sitting beside the bus on blankets provided by emergency crews. Another bus was sent to pick up 29 uninjured passengers who went on to attend the afternoon concert put on by seniors. Back at Hamilton Place, after the opening number, Chris Hamilton, director of the Follies, gave a special welcome to the contigent from the accident The crowd gasped as Hamilton described the accident "I have a special welcome for the group from Dunlop Senior Citizens, who had a nasty accident on the way, but still made It for the show. "Stand up and give them a big hand, they showed true senior spirit they paid for their tickets and theyll make It even if they have to come on crutches," she said.

Bedford said she and Wright were feeling better by the time they got to Hamilton Place and decided to stay for the show. "We didnt want to miss It, this is the fourth year we've come. I Victim terrorized Cracked and potholed sidewalks, water on floors, poorly maintained stairs and of these conditions can cause injuries. But the laws are complex and you may need legal help to get everything you're entitled to. Call us for a free evaluation of your claim.

We'd like to help. Continued from A3 brother, as a family. When those strategies were unconvincing, the young womans testimony showed other forms of persuasion were used. She said she was burned with cigarettes, and threatened with a sword as the man molested her when she was 13. Morin considered evidence that the victim habitually drew lurid pictures depicting sex and violence as a child and wrote macabre horror stores based on Satanism and the occult Morin wondered where she would have gotten the knotedge to compose such grisly tales.

He concluded that the accused was "the conduit" for the information. After the verdict, the wife of the man broke down and sobbed. The accused man stared straight ahead and showed no visible reaction to the decision. He was taken into custody by police and will be sentenced Thursday. Michael Kruse, the mans lawyer, said the family will weigh the possibility of an appeal.

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