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A3 News editor John Harder 894 2231 ext 615 Kitchener Waterloo Record Thursday March 21 1991 The Third Page More news A family dispute in Calgary i is believed to have triggered a three death killing spree Page A8 Missing kin unhappy with probe PORT DOVER (CP) Investigators are refusing to re lease the name and background of the captain of a Cana dian Coast Guard ship that collided with a fishing trawler sinking the tug along with its three member crew "It's not our policy to release names in the midst of an coast guard spokesman Rosemary Samp son said Wednesday Sampson and other officials including provincial po lice and federal marine investigators also refused to reveal the age length of service or professional background The coast guard ship Griffon collided with the much smaller Captain fishing trawler in heavy Lake Erie fog on Monday afternoon The 55 year old craft sank immediately in about 40 metres of frigid water Search crews have yet to find the bodies of Capt Gary Speight 49 and deck hands Dean elker 28 and John Walsh 19 All three men are from Port Dover a fishing town of 5500 on the north shore On Tuesday the distraught father of one of the miss ing fishermen rebuked investigators for the pittance of information being released about the accident mistake has cost me a son" John elker lament ed as he gathered with neighbors at the town pier A federal investigator however said Wednesday that it could take several weeks before the cause of the acci dent is known takes a long time there are so many factors in said Brian Thome of the Marine Transportation Safety Board the watchdog agency co ordinating the probe if Hk Pslksr Walsh Speight "We have to look at every aspect of this occurrence before we can make a Thome said from his office in Hull Que Thome said the agency has three investigators in Port Dover who are interviewing the captain of the Griffon and others among the 38 member crew The team is also examining equipment aboard the Griffon including its radar system Thorne said The ship remains anchored at the scene of the colli i sion about 20 kilometres off Port Dover in the fertile fishing grounds of Long Point Bay Ontario Provincial Police divers have examined hull of the coast guard ship and are expected to dive today to the sunken wreckage of the Captain where the bodies may be trapped Sgt John Mason said investigators wanted to look at pictures of the wreck relayed by a remote control cam era before diving to the sunken vessel "They want to know exactly what getting into before sending divers down there" said Mason of the provincial police detachment in nearby Simcoe $699 $999u MSRP $995 MSRP $1699 I Cwai fsVM 8000M PORTABLE eatures: Auto redial I 25 speed dials Memory scroll Call in absence indicator Dall PaIIi ikr Approved VWiUMl Agent 14 105 Lexington Rd Waterloo 747 4822 CELLULAA PORTABLE IALAEH eatures: Alpha numeric Menu mode Auto answer 165 ounces in weight Auto redial CELLULAR PHONE SALE MWR sDMl OH teWW I rfvWWl Senators lose out on bonus OTTAWA (CP) Commons Speak er John raser has scotched a bid by senators to pay themselves a contro versial $153 tax free allowance for each day they show up for work raser ruled Wednesday that the Commons authorize the $22 million the bonus would have cost for this year and next because the perk part of the pay and bene fits package set out in the Parlia ment of Canada Act Conservative MP Rene Soetens could barely contain a grin as he left the House after hearing rul ing Soetens is the backbencher who asked the Speaker to rule the living allowance out of order understand (the con cern about costs and what it costs to be a member of Parliament or a sen ator" the Ontario MP said what they were proposing was not the correct solution by any stretch of the NDP MP Rod Murphy who had also argued against the bill said he surprised by the decision "I think that it was just such bla tant abuse of both law and parlia mentary procedure that the Speaker had no choice" Murphy told report ers Ontario News digest Court delays seen as a ride' TORONTO (CP) Some youth court judges are sending kids the message that a delay coming to trial can mean a free ride through the jus tice system the Ontario Court of Ap peal was told Wednesday Some Toronto judges have come up with a number" of four months before throwing out charges against young offenders Crown at tomey Jane Amup told a panel of three judges including Chief Justice Charles Dubin Kids soon wise up to the fact: you prosecute for four months she said Job equity law to aid minorities TORONTO (CP) Mandatory hir ing targets will be central to a new employment equity law for Ontario Targets for racial minorities wom en aboriginals and the disabled is the best way to the playing favored white males Juanita Westmoreland Traore said Wednesday The program will be mandatory for all employers in the private and public sector she told a legislative committee reviewing her nomination for employment equity commission er Police hunt man in 2 rural deaths i BINBROOK Ont (CP) Police were searching for a male suspect to day after two people were found shot dead at a rural home Hamilton Wentworth Regional Po lice found the bodies of a man and a woman around 7 a after being called to the home near Binbrook about 15 kilometres south of Hamil ton Staff Sgt Bob Buck said Neighbors said they heard at least two muffled shots outside the house and other shots later inside the house The suspect fled in a red four door Plymouth Horizon which was later found abandoned about five kilome tres from the house Buck said Lottery results Lotto 649 I The winning in Lotto 849 draw were 2 5 6 8 32 and 46 The bonus number was 49 The Encore number was 116867 4 I MM vM 7 Jgia KMM Ri AM I WDULOMM I LQgesMg 1 I MM8LM MLl 4 DA 4 11 9 GM fl Patricia Starr leaves court in Toronto on Wednesday with her lawyer Peter West Canadian Press Starr guilty of 4 charges TORONTO (CP) Patricia Starr was found guilty Wednesday on four counts of violating Ontario's Elec tion inances Act Starr the central figure in a fundraising scandal that rocked the former Liberal government of David Peter son has been on trial this week on charges of making political donations above the amount allowed by the act She was convicted Wednesday in the provincial divi sion of Ontario Court on two counts each of making ex cessive donations and donating a cheque without the name of the contributor printed on it said Crown attor ney James Ramsay A further two counts against Starr were dismissed Those charges related to knowingly giving false informa tion to chief financial officers for the campaigns of Con servative Gordon Chong and Liberal Ken Keyes in 1987 In ruling on the charges dealing with the $2500 dona tion to campaign Judge Bruce Young said: Starr showed a deliberate intention to make contribu tions with no regard for the legal Ramsay said the money was contributed to the Keyes campaign for election in Kingston and the Islands and five receipts for $500 each were issued to five different people The limit for donations from a single source is $750 what she said was she know exceeded the limits and been told multiple receipt ing was OK said Ramsay On Tuesday court heard evidence on the three charges involving a $1500 donation to campaign in the York Mills riding Starr told the court that the donation was solicited by Toronto Sun publisher Paul Godfrey a former Metropoli tan Toronto politician and acknowledged there was no name of a contributor printed on her cheque The former president of the Toronto section of the Na tional Council of Jewish Women a charitable organiza tion originally faced 33 charges The Crown withdrew 16 of them at the start of the trial and she was acquitted of another Monday Young has yet to deliver a verdict on the remaining counts He will then sentence Starr who faces a maxi mum fine of up to $1006 for each conviction 195 Huge selection of all kinds of bikes accessories: CYCLE 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revamped guidelines for the care of children in provincial institutions from Zanana Akande minister of community and social services It listened to Solicitor General Mike aman react to a court deci sion on Sunday shopping And it heard an announcement from Natural Resources Minister Bud Wildman that delays a decision on a new lottery system for moose hunting until 1992 incredible that they have anything to say about any said Sorbara Liberal Leader Bob Nixon said government appears to have been knocked off course by Premier Bob firing on Monday of cabinet minister Peter Kormos over an es calating series of indiscretions After the first six months in office Nixon said most of the govern initiatives have been shuffled off to committees for study But Rae denied the government's agenda is bogged down think be able to judge thdt better as the session Legislation drafted during the last three months will be introduced over the next 14 weeks including laws on rent control family support pay ments labor adjustment programs and a wage protection fund for work ers who lose their jobs he said Meanwhile Conservative Leader Mike Harris has been left scratching his head this week saying he expect ed more from the government as its second session in the legislature gdt under way guess continually surprised that having anxiously waited on the sidelines for so many years it has taken this government so long to geh up and running" he said High profile his downfall i Kormos tells businessmen ORT ERIE (CP) Peter Kormos was reflecting Wednesday night on his brief careers as a cabinet minis ter and newspaper pinup learned if you stay in the sun too long you get the New Democrat from nearby Welland said after a speech to the ort Erie Chamber of Com merce Kormos appeared as a Sunshine Boy in the Toronto Sun earlier this month a day after announcing he would bring in tough guidelines to eliminate sexism in advertis ing Then it was disclosed one of policy advis Arft hart hftAn rnnvirfoH nf Kaofinar hie wifa Citing judgment" NDP Premier Bob Rae fired Kormos on Monday as consumer minister and minister of financial institutions During a 40 minute speech to about 120 people Kormos insisted the NQP was the best choice to lead Ontario through the recession He paused several times during his speech to remind himself aloud: not in cabinet anymore" When he noted he was just another backbencher a man shouted from the audience: where you Kormos Lottery results.