Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free sunday May 41 dead As fire sweeps soccer stadium a Bradford soccer fans help to carry one of their mates out of the burning squad spots telltale signs if car was Why is it Miles from nowhere continued from Page 1 if the keys Are found in the he investigators be come suspicious because the Metal ignition plate usually melts from the heat of a fire and the keys will drop to the if the keys Are still they might have been placed there after the he Baker said some cases involve people abandoning their vehicles and then reporting them if someones going to steal a car and then leave it 40 Miles from theres something Baker we know it want for a How would the thief get Home merchants not excited about proposed Park continued from Page 1 owner of solar said there Are already More than enough Parks and Gree space on or near the Portage Avenue strip to be Reeve reeling off memorial Central encore Park and the legislative building i cant see a Park being any he just going to be a waste of Judy of said she is not turned on by the in not terribly Kaplan adding she would like to see drawings of the at this Point it leaves me Kaplan said existing merchants have been ignored in the planning and nothing appears to have been done to accommodate them while the redevelopment takes she said the plan to turn Edmon ton Street strip into a Magnet for downtown nightlife will Only end up pitting it against the existing clubs in the revitalized Exchange area near Portage and main a clerk at Roxy records and Book Exchange said she was unimpressed by the entire Portage redevelopment i still think its a Bunch of said the clerk who refused to be for one there not going to attract business downtown be Treyve already lost she1 said shoppers already attracted to suburban malls will continue to patronize downtown Winnipeg is dying a slow she and no amount of government Money will Ever be Able to revive Halbert was less pessimistic about the future of he said he How Many businesses will have to be sacrificed in the it will take time to bring business he youre talking about once a Case is the who Are sworn As peace will invite the claim ant to the insurance the culprit is confronted with the charged and and handed Over to the special investigations unit has been probing general insurance claims As Pic becomes More involved in that one retailer reported a major breaking but investigators found thieves have stolen that much Stock in the time it took the burglar alarm to Baker a few homeowners have been caught buying insurance Long after the loss of their he with automobile one trick is registering and insuring a car which int in he said some Veteran con artists first approach aut Opac politely and explain the loss As a when it takes too Long to get their the conman starts getting he some end up calling the minister or even getting a lawyer to try to get their claim Baker in one a Man claimed his car had been stolen from a parking lot opposite a downtown Winnipeg Baker wondered Why the Man parked his car across the Street when there was free parking at the he said a Check found the vehicle sitting in the driveway of its registered owner in Royal a Toronto Man was arrested and charged with continued from Page 1 others in the stands tried to beat out the flames with their Coats and a police superintendent said sortie of his officers one of my inspectors got a woman Halfway out but hang onto her and she just said the West Yorkshire police us Barry it was a terrible it was an said Ronald a pensioner who burned his hands helping to drag two children from the elderly people were hurled bodily Over a Chest High Wall at the front of bleachers As burning embers rained onto the witnesses said some fans perished in their others fled for Gates at the rear of the grandstand but found them padlocked to keep out nonpaying police tried to drag victims Over the Chest High Wall Between the stand and the Domaille said about 30 policemen were a Hal dozen of them elderly people get Over the said Malcolm Hains the heat was so people were grabbing the elderly and throwing them Over and we were catching Bradford City club chairman staf Ford Heginbotham said its Normal for exit Gates to be padlocked be cause people who had not paid to come in would get the fire broke out at shortly before halftime in Bradford cites English third division match against Lincoln there had been no the one of the oldest in was packed with spectators for the Endo season with some fans in the main an assistant fire Peter said the Blaze was fanned by a Strong wind and was a very rapid spreading he said it started in the North end of the stand and Enve loped the whole Structure in smoke and flames in four London broadcasting commentator Tony Delahanty related the terrible i saw an old Man with his hair in flames being pulled Over to the Edge of the stands to safety theres women theres people with Cut theres people with Chil Dren theres panic As they had no Choice but to abandon the it was an horrific then Delahanty shouted lets get All those people out of lets get those people just take your go Down there watch for the kiddies theres smoke coming who attended the news provincial tax paper critic says continued from Page 1 he said the paper reads As though people in High income brackets were deliberately trying to avoid create a deficit and attack social that the hateful kind of ideology that is expressed in that kind of he Ransom demanded Schroeder sup statistics which show affluent1 Manitoban were not paying their fair to what extent Are Well to do profitable Manitoba corporations avoiding taxes and contributing to the deficit in Manitoba he i wait to be convinced that this is Why we have a deficit of half a billion in the tory critic said there was nothing wrong with ensuring every one does pay their fair but that not what this state ment he but Schroeder said it is Public knowledge that there Are Many peo ple earning Large amounts of Money paying no tax or not enough he noted the Federal auditor Gen eral recently estimated the Cost of tax preferences and incentives could Cost the Federal government As much As billion a the report suggests an obvious need to begin looking at tax preferences More he the minister said a Federal paper on tax issues noted income tax preferences effectively reduced the corporate tax rate to 15 per cent from 36 per cent of he said it also stated that personal income tax incentives and preferences have steadily eroded the Gen eral tax base and that those provi Sions have benefited higher income Revenue Canada advises that Over canadians with incomes Over paid no income tax in he noting the number has that Doest talk about the other thousands of canadians who also earn Large amounts of income who pay reduced level of taxes because of he Schroeder attacked most of the Well known tax but spared Small registered retired Sav Ings rasps Are equivalent to pension provisions that people on wages re he but Ransom said the tax loopholes were developed for specific Rea there seems to have developed this idea that when retain Money they have earned that there is leakage in the that that is a tax he conference with bandages on his blistered said he was standing neat one end of the stand when he saw smoke at the other about 90 metres i thought at first it was a smoke but i soon realized it was More than that because people were standing theft a matter of seconds flames appeared and within seconds again the whole roof and the Back of the stand were he Geoffrey who was in the 1 made my Way Down a passageway to an exit but the Gate was two or three Burly men put their weight against it and smashed the Gate otherwise t dont think i would have been Softie victims were burned beyond one Man struggled Over the Wall engulfed in police men and spectators beat him Franti Cally with jackets and gaily coloured team scarves trying to extinguish the More than 100 firemen and a Fleet of ambulances rushed to the and victims were ferried to three absolute disaster witness says England a halftime was approaching and no goals had been scored in the soccer game yesterday Between City and Lincoln it was their last match of the season and a capacity crowd of had turned then disaster first there was a puff of smoke from the rear of the main grand stand where people were seat then flames leaped through the within four whipped by a stiff huge columns of fire had engulfed the entire wooden killing at least 40 people and injuring More than it was an absolute said Spectator Ronald millions of viewers saw spectators Rushing Down the bleachers and struggling to climb Over a Chest High Wall onto the playing club officials said the Gates were always padlocked to prevent people from sneaking in without some people died in their others scrambled from the bleach ers with clothes and hair on police and fans beat at the flames on one Man with Coats and brightly coloured team some fans on the not aware that people were chanted a boisterous soccer slogan Here we Here we Here we John the place was full of families and old i saw a Man on fire and i dont want to see anything like that As night the 77yearold grandstand was a smoking he cause of the fire was not but police said they had not ruled out Bradford team had already secured top place in its third Divi Sion and was planning a Celebration at the end of the Bradford joins Long list of ghastly tragedies London a Here is a list of various disasters that claimed the heaviest loss of life in Britain in this according to the guinness Book of world records d 1913 Coal mine explosion and fire at 439 d 1914 worst year for lightning killing d 1915 three train wreck in Scotland claimed 227 d 1918 influenza kills d 1918 munitions Plant explosion at Chilwell killed d 1939 submarine has thetis Sank during trials killing u 1941 heaviest loss of life in single second world War bombing raid killed in d 1966 Welsh Colliery waste tip col lapsed on Aberfan school killing d 1971 worst sports disaster when spectators leaving Glasgow Brox stadium Tumble Down crushing 66 to d 1972 Bea Trident jetliner crashes after Takeoff at killing All 118 aboard in worst civil air disaster in d 1975 bus crash in Yorkshire killed d 1979 gales strike fastnet yacht 19 d 1980 North sea oilfield sem sub Merrible deck 24 d 1985 Bradford City soccer stadium fire kills at least 19 journalists receive Harvard study award a Nineteen in eluding abcs the journal cohost Mary Lou have been awarded Nieman fellowships for the 198586 academic the Fellowship allows them to study at Harvard University for the year in a Field of their aside from an other television reporter and a photojournalist Are among the 11 men and eight women who will receive a stipend from the Nieman foundation to study at according to an announcement those named Are Micha photojournalist with the new York times and magnum Harry Bis Singer reporter for the Philadelphia Madeleine staff writer for Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald Lynn pm reporter for the Chicago tribunes metropolitan news desk Roberto Eisenmann president of corporation la Prensa in Panama and Mark Ethridge managing editor of the Charlotte Carmen re Porter for we Vav in ton Gustave executive news editor of Caretas Magazine in Peru Nadarajah Kanagaraj a 43yearold editor of the Star in malay Sia Athelia re Porter for the Washington and Geneva Deputy editorial Page Edi Tor of the Des Moines Regis Laura re Porter for the Seattle Post intelligencer Barry East Africa correspondent for the associated press Frank Soto assistant metro Politan news editor of the los Angeles times Richard editor of the Natal witness in South Africa David sylves business writer for the san Jose Mercury news Stanley editor of the Shreveport journal in Loui and Yvonne Van Der social economic editor of the Eindhoven Dag Blad in the nether film developing special Econn color 135 and prepaid regular size 12 15 24 36 double prints or double size 5x7 12 15 24 36 plus free anniversary Silver medallion with every Roll of Ellei developed end scoters 22 woman humiliated by police questions by Mary Ann Fitzgerald two employees of an apartment manage ment firm say they Felt humiliated by the personal questions police asked during polygraph tests they took Marlowe Vic president and part owner of can win Judy the office and two other employees offered to undergo the test to establish their innocence after in rent Money was Johnson and another employee who took the test said they were expecting questions Daung with the missing Money and some general Johnson said she was upset at being asked if she was pregnant and when she last smoked although she was not questioned As to whether she had Ever smoked As she said she was asked details about her most traumatic personal to if she had Ever been to a psychiatrist and if there was anything in her past she was ashamed i Felt so Johnson said in an interview a few hours after she had taken the she said she was cleared by the it seemed As if they wanted me to Tell them All my Deputy police chief Stan Scarr said later that there were valid reasons for the personal after a certain stage in there is some suggestion that the cardio cuff used for blood pressure might harm a As Scarr use of marijuana or any other drug can affect the Validity of the he said this is explained to Candi dates for the test in a preliminary inter Johnson said she answered the personal i wanted them to believe i was an honest person and j didst steal the she was told before the questioning began that she had a right to a lawyer and that she could leave at any As she said she was asked to sign a form which said she volunteered to take the was not mistreated or forced to answer questions under Johnson said she Felt if she left before the test was completed she would have appeared As she said she was told if she didst answer the it would destroy the Validity of the Johnson said she want told that the test was being videotaped until she noticed a notes also were being i went in there on my in Good i went to prove i was even if you Are they seem to want you to feel it made me fee like i was a Scarr said he didst know about the but since the person doing the test and the candidate Are alone in the room it would appear not to be a bad he maintained All the information is even information not Pertik nent to the it is privileged he said no one has Access to a few minutes after the a detective told Johnson there were two things in her past that she had not been honest she said he told her the test showed she did not steal the Money missing from but Only after she he seemed More concerned about what i was ashamed of in the she her Ray a diabetic whose test was not said he was asked somewhat similar i Felt under the he said he was told the results would be kept on file and could be used against Harvey said his polygraph scheduled for tuesday was suddenly cancelled and police seemed upset when they Learned that he and the Johnsons had been talking to the free press about the Deputy attorney general Tanner who admits Strong reservations about the polygraph As an investigative says it is questionable whether the types of questions asked the Johnsons Are Elton said if those undergoing the test feel rights have been trampled they can complain to the attorney generals depart the Winnipeg or Manitoba police commissions or to the new Law enforce ment review whose mandate is Broad enough to cover polygraph take an extra 100 fishing offer expires May 17 save on the pure Hast Price of your 1985 sport fishing Uco Noo to receive fill out the form below and bring it with this information will allow us to prepare your licence for your signature while you person shopping Only resident of Canapa Manitoba sport fishing licence valid april i 1985 to March 1986 req use number and Street or Box no Wurfl pay less fishing 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