abe v 2 ; . : amy. Lb Dean Page 2, Tha Herald, Monday, Janary 10, 1963 0: Ay “a avery weekday a 3010: Kalu. eh oe B.C, _by.. Sterling : mal Rep td. : ; In Re “ hea a fasracts + Staif Writer Protegraper: _Kelth Alford. : : “Reception-Clessifieds : "Carolyn Gibean + an ~Gireulatl lon: Marla Taylor © ons , a oo o . - NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT. ee : The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright _ In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial .| or photographic content published In.the Herald. oo - Reproduction Is not permitted without @ the written ma “Permission of the. Publisher. Lae, 4 Assets seized TORONTO (CP) —The temporary seizure by the Ontario. . government of the-assets of three trust companies Is the © culmination of a controversy that began when details of the: -- financing of a series of transactions involving 110,931 Toronto apartment units were made public last year. . The apartments were sold to Greymac Credit Corp.; the’. private holding company of financier Leonard Rosenberg, ‘by. Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd. for $270 million. Before the deal was closed, Greymac Credit assigned its __ interest to Kilderkin Investments for $312 million. Kilderkin resold for a reported $500 million to a series of private, numbered companies said by Consumer arid Commercial Relations Minister Robert Elgie to be controlled by Saudi: - Arabians. * Seaway Trust Co. has $76 million worth of mortgages on 7 the properties, Crown Trust has advanced:$56 milllon in “mortgages and Greymac Trust Co. has- advanced another $20 million. Here are the key players. invalved: in the transactions: . ‘MIE Toronto financier Leonard Rosenberg controls Crown ; 7 . Trust ‘Co:" and" GreymacéTrast througtr-his~srper-eeit’ ———“f—" - ownership of: Greymac Credit Corp. Greymac. ‘TrostiCo,, formerly Macdonald-Cartier Trust, is a tially owned i subsidiary of Greymac Credit and was bought by Rosen- . berg in .1981. . Three months- ago, . Rosenberg ' purchased contro! of Crown Trust, a firm established in 1897. An attempt to ' amalgamate Crown and Greymac was temporarily =) by the Ontario Securities Commission last month. aft allegations that the small shareholders of Crown ‘Trust had not been given enough information to make an informed decision on the merger. .°: The fact that Crown Trust had paid $7. 5 million’ to Greymac Credit. last Oct. 26. became known .to Crown Trust's small shareholders orly as a result of a securities commission. hearing last week. The final purchase price will not be set until ain evaluation has been set on the value of Greymac Trust. . wae . — Branco Weiss, a mysterious Swiss financier who lives “in Zurich, holds 49-per-cent ownership of Greymac Credit. . Rosenberg and Weiss have.been involved in numerous business partnerships | in:C€anada ‘during the last decade. — William Player, president of Kilderkin. Investments Ltd., acquired Greymac Mortgage Corp. a3 part of the financing arrangements in connection with the. Cadillac- - Fairview. apartment unit sales. Kilderkin Investments is the former property management. division of Macdonald- Cartier Trust ‘Co., now Greymac Trust.Co. - — Andrew Markle, a Midland, Ont., financier; has con- - trolled Seaway Trust Co. since 1980, It was established in 1978 as a financial institution to serve the Niagara Penin- sula, ‘but has concentrated Its efforts in the Toronte region since Markle bought control. a Seaway Trust holds 5%-per-cent ownership of Seaway Mortgage Corp., formerly Eaton-Bay Mortgage Co. and Kilderkin holds 29-per-cent ownership. . The fedéral government -took control of ‘the assets of - . SeawayjMortgage Corp. and Greymac Mortgage Co. at-the same time as the provincial government took control of the three trust companies. ™ oe | P nv ve e been at the hospital all -day. a My wife broke her fist,"” vo ? ia yh ¥ : . mh s a cs riers in, hi: Ponsenatie” pbariers of free sppec _ fetching up to-20,000 times their face value from collectors. . . ‘Supply and demand is. ihe. simple answer to why some _ Stores and servicé ‘establishments in. Moscow, Leningrad, i And the establishment; confronted with. the rorth ideas | of a numetically. insignificant. party, opted f jerk repression ; on_a scale: thet. diems iy ‘The police, the courts and the politicians; éncduraged by Le : “the newspapers of. the day, were quite willing to:bend and ‘2. even break the law in their pursuit of the Red imetiace. Generally; the y enjoyed the backing. of publi aplnion, that the ends: ‘justified the means. i. For their part, the Communials did not Pell want, io oe . traffic for hours.’ se oe disservice hy largely ignoring them. But in: Winnlpeg 19: ‘the. Ontaiie attorney-general. ° ; ‘7 She editorial sald it didn’t matter % whether the vo king lived or ete y ati power res tet Parnes And. . cs Aare. Vaara’. wes found -guilty of: ‘sedition ” g Criminal Code did not detine Bedition + — im" : xanet without’a =; ine! “In Toronto, Communist party dein‘nsirators were allel - . - a8 vagrants for disrupting traffic although one judge gave ~ the: ‘opinion that der. this bending of the law almost all " : vagrarits at oné Unie oF another ~ even: Santa Clause atthe annual Christmas parade that snarled -Torontonians ” Betcherman doea‘a: rémarkable job of telling a complex story in a alim volume, judiciously. selecting editorial and — __other- comment to reflect the'mood of ‘the early 1990s and — guiding the’ reader through a maize of court and legal ace Hons.. a In the forefront are Tim Buck, the leader who followed INS & OUTS a TURTLES fin) fee ns . Slush, Or you ony ORL coeeaed Get rid of your cat, your Hush Pup pp . Fill your life with turtles! Look, | don't eat much. Furthermore, ifyou're:s could strap a few of them on your feet 4 might get d real big one. and drive tte Lae -}~ work. Sure it will take its time. Bab shouldn't’ youleo “Hell, thal. turtle 1s gping k iooutlive YO * a adauide dao oo * . ies and your Rabbit... they" a) quiet pets and they. out, you avoid all that.’ .. LoaAyu. 05 cup to ae da peeeey / Com VANCOUVER (CP) -_ Comic books, 8 says a ‘local lifetime collector of the colorful cartoons, have. grown up. - : ‘The reproduction, art work, story line and. charac- terizations are much more elaborate now than they’ were in the days. of the early 8 rherpes; says comic book dealer », 0 Note y pe “ comié books? -. Ron Norton.” .. _ “You find motivations behind characters’ actions, why , they are -what. they are,” he says. Norton. says: that while today’s comics are more sophisticated, they are by no means as. valuable as some of ~~ the old four-color books. Some of the older books‘now are ‘comics are worth 50 much,” says Norton, showing off: the : 1940 premier issue of Submariner. -. - Through a clear plasti¢ wrapper. ‘sporting. a §1, 200 price ’ tag, the early superhero is depicted dumping a Nazi landing _ eraft above the caption: “Tavasion of Britain — ~ Submariner Againat the Nazis." -.. * n A 25-year-old Jimmy Olsen’ first. dition sells for $10. But ” two-year-old copies of Teen: Titans lists at'$19.° ar “There area lot more Teen Titans around than Jimmy - Olsens, but Jimmy has’ a: limited following,” explains: Norton. ''More people want: Teen Titans.” Norton. and his partner, Ken Witcher, opened the local Comieshop eight years Bgo," ery “A Communists raid Soviet bars : “vowed to reduce Moscow (AP) _ ~ Police and Communist party officials . have started raiding bars, barber shops, restaurants and stores, searching for peapte who slip away from their jobs. ‘during working hours, Soviet sources say. . . The raids apparently are part of new party. chief Yuri Andropov’s “campaign to strengthen. the alling’ Soviet ;: economy by improving worker-productivity. — State newspapers ackriowledge the high absenteeism. But - - they say one reason for it is that workers are forced to go. shopping during office -houra if they want: to obtain * _ necessary but scarce consumer goods and services: One Soviet source reported seeing a squad of uniformed. * ‘police enter a beer bar near his apartment, recently and a demand the documents of. all the patrons, - a Ita drinker’ 5 papers showed. he should be at work, he was. 43 + ordered out-of the bar and iold to go back: ‘to-his job. His | . name was taken down and a letter was sent to his superior at work explaining: the person was found drinking beer on’. _ Stale time: Other Soviet. sources ‘yepott: ‘similar raids by. diatrict, ‘Comniunist party: workers on: barber shops, reatairahts, Kiev and far-fhing’ cities in the provinces.. in his first major ‘speech after succeeding ihe ‘late: Presi Leonid: Brezhnev as Party leader, Andropoy books grow. up. lof They plowed thelr profits info enlarging ther stock. — \ buying collections, . hard-to-find first editions. And the. demand grew right aldng ‘with the store. °° ro What, ‘Norton is asked, compels an adult ‘to devote. his spare time and part with lange 2 amounts of cash to- collect ‘ay suppose it's like collecting anythinge else. A comic book" ‘ only takes 15 minutes to read, but you can look ata stamp or 8 coin -in-15.seconds. ‘Why do peopte.collect-them? -_ “Something in childhood reading of: ‘comics’ may have ~. triggered . what in. adulthded.. becomes. a passion. Onte °‘eollecting is in‘ your blood, it consumes you. "Comics used to be just action, right? Cardboard, ones. ; _ dimensional Characters that went around mashing bad. ” guys. for truth, Justice’ and the. American way.. While it comes, aia sheck. to those ‘who had their’ collec-: a tons taken away by stuffy leachers, those who wrote term * papers using Classics Comica wilt recognize the importance ‘ t comics as a teaching aid. . ‘Teachers. have’ told. Norton they” use’ “the ‘more. ; -goiphistleated comics: to stimulate students’. interest : dn’ - reading. And he stocks a cartoon history” of the Universe, ‘explaining the: big-bang, - evolution - and tracing man’s ‘development through the ages w written ‘and produced. by a teacher, ee - 4 waste | and corruption, in in the sprawling country. His crackdown on. absenteeism has besit joined by a -. simultaneous’ press campaign urgirig shops to give better _ service and to rearrange their hours tc make it easler for co Workets to run. errands after’ work hours.” Izvestia, the government newspaper, complained itt an | article Saturday night that In the republic of Turkmenia,. the amount of produeticn lost from: workers -Punning _ errands: on state tIme is mionumental.”- - incl -(in the past half year alone industria} enterprises Ib: the. republic have lost 35,770 man-days because of abeenes'from! work. with the permiasion of the administration of. the: en , terprise,” the newspaper said. mt ‘quoted textile worker L. Sotstkova | as baying orvices . are so bad it-Ashkabad, the: Tutkmentian capital, that she.” could not get a haircut “because the beauty, parlor is only. ~ open until 7 p.m. and when you go: there after work there is - always & big long line.” Workers in Moscow Complain of similar problems, With * moiat ‘gongumer guods' in chronic short supply, they Have’ devéloped’. a: ‘private ‘system for. alerting friends when dealrable, items go on sale. : ‘- - colleagues. Bosses look thoether way; understanding that | _ there fs no other way to Sbtaln needed goods, wo , SRR PTT the. ‘news ‘reaches «a “Workpliee;- one person. is | a "designated the shopper and ryshes out ‘with orders from his the. Moscow thi ” deviatloniats, sanialer dam Carr, the short : Buhay, outgoing, and brash Annte Buller, and. others. * As good times of the '20s ‘turned to depression; inereat in ‘communism increased: with the length of the ‘bread lines, , “Vancouver . authorities did the. Communists “a” great | mayor}: Col. Ralph Webb,-waa hot for battle, saying all the : Reds should be dumped in the Red River..° “Tg, the ‘Toronto estaUiishinent, |”: Reichernian: veites, an’ organized body of uiemployed making demands. upon -the’authoties was sheer bolahevism. aoe - “To thelt way of thinking, the. growing. ‘problem ofthe ~ fobless was'a matter for the private charitable institutions ,. . cor for the employment bureaus which placed men in day - _ labor’.,-anid, women . ‘ine domestic. _Betvice, , whenever. available.” me ra ° Finally in 1891 came the big “police rouidup, and trial of “pine leaders-on charges: of seeking thé violent overthrow of ° the government and which led to the virtual banaing of the : : party, ° ’ ~ Ww “Buek told the court that eabltalisin we. ‘in the fil stage ; af turning fasclst. Communism. did not advocate violence, he said, but simply reacted to it'as’ employed by the ruling -¢lass to keep workers in thelr place. | -- The prosecution, pointing to the little band, ‘oid the jury they were the general staff of a planned elvil war. -All were convicted and sent to prison. ‘misery, solicitious orly of Its cushioned. comfort,. anxious only to preserve its power, prosperity and ‘privileges. : ‘The Communists also did not care about the welfare of the people, seeing the Soviet Union as thelr first loyalty. and seeking to malign and undermine other groups trying to alleviate suffering. - “Only by comparizon with a atony-hearted eatabiiahonent might they: seem like the. heroes of this book.” . ‘There, unfortunately, the book ends abruptly. ‘It seems to ery out for even a brief postscript cn what happened to the principals after 1832 — Buck, for instance, went ‘un- derground and died ate? in Mexico; Carr was j jailed. on apy ’ charges growing out of the Igor Gouzenko inquiry,” , -Possibly Betcherman thinks that's another story’ Maybe . she'd write it some @ day. os Sex telephones “TORONTO (CP) — . Telephone sex has. sprung. ip ‘in Toronto, promising’ “fantasy fulfilment” and “whatever “+ pets you through the night’ to anyone witha credit card and a telephone. 9. “Peer Fo Operators of thd iid businesses, who: shun’ ‘the spotlight for their personnel and clients, guarantee ‘thelr -conversatlonalists will etitertaia, listen or just. talk for ¢ ‘and for. as long a the’ caller:wants. me Angela Jordan M who ‘cre Ad, Enterprises, says a fantasy telephiéne ¢all- ia -like buying a pornographic magazine except that a call is more personal. ‘the «| In conclusion, Betcherman finds fault on bothi aides. “ . ‘The establishment, in panle; was uncaring about-buman . She gays the telephone lines provide crank callers’ ‘wlth an outlet for their urges to talk about sex. "It’s been going ona oe me en now they're paying for it. pees chepked inte the figms, ene Rane iene and “ people a on both ends of the telephone are’ consenting parties — and as long as the managers and employees are. not ‘soliciting business — their ‘operations are legal. . Sharon « McConnell and Christopher Bryan," “who ‘run Sensuous‘ Sounds, arld several other managers say thelr _ dlal-a- -fantaby! busingssed ‘provide prudes, sexually . . frustrated. men and women, lonely people and the rest of soclety with a valuable service. ° “T absolutely feel we're keeping lot ‘of perverted péople own homes,” McConnell said in an interview... Half her clients say they are married men, and half say _ . they aresingle men and women, both gay and heterosexual. - _ off the streets arld théy'te Yaing it in the privacy of their She said they all call because they want to tall about their 7 fantasies, which range from elaborate and: bizarre sex ~ encounters to wanting | to become the president of the United ‘States, * " ™Phat was one man’s fantasy,"’ McConnell. sald. “Then there was the one guy who just wanted, to. ‘argue about politics, 1 think there’s a lot of lonely peopte out there.” McConnell says she has been open three months and already has 5) regular customers who like the security of ‘knowing there is always someone to.talk to them about ‘whatever they choose, any day of the week, 24 hours a a day, for as long as they want. my “The hitch is that employees are e prohibited from taiking to ‘their clients in persoh no matter how. ‘Attached callers: become to them. - Employees are under oath not to use their clients names outside the business, said Bryan, and they‘alsa give their - word to clients that their conversaliong veill bot ba taped and used for other purposes. . ‘tall ere who work out of thelr own homes or offices; most . say they-have about 15 or 20 full-and part-time workers. . The talkers include teachers, actors and actresses, social ‘ workers, housewives and real estate agents, who earn about, $10 from each call, most of which’ last about 20 minutes. but have gone on for as long. as 2% hours. William Wallace, owner of Tele-Fantasy, | says that. while his sétvice is so effective It could conceivably: prompt a aller interested in molesting children to act out his fantasy — in in real life, the issue doesn’ t concern him, enough, 16 close eatiere ry always that rlak, ” he said inan interview. “Bil _ would that prevent me from creating a. | mult mlllen dollar , business? The. answer. is not eee Mee tteis. we we ‘ hr u Tate « ih 2 Welcome 7 ‘Herald’: welcomes. its: renders. com-- ments, All letters to. the editar'sf general public Interest: will ba printed. ‘They = : should be submitted 48 hours in advance of desired publication date, - ‘We do, _ however, retain the right to refuse to Print letters on grounds of possible. libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for . Style and length. .All letters to be ‘con-. & sidered for publication must be signed. It. “./Is. Impossible to print a letter submitted a within: 24 hours of d i ate. esired - publication 7 sreterese.tF, Hateterer ener e a wet we ‘eet Pa me : Poenecosoonintestoceeis os spasncenn a sont eM TS ie RCO ET “One agency says it has.a staff of” 50, male aid female —