Winnipeg Free Press

Sunday, May 19, 1985

Issue date: Sunday, May 19, 1985
Pages available: 40
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Next edition: Tuesday, May 21, 1985

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free May a photo slight miscalculation for the Pitsch lumber and wrecking it was not the finest a 37metre smokestack the company workers were pulling in one direction decided to fall in another yesterday and took the Corner off a building under renovation in grand Safeway reports worry seniors continued from Page 1 go without a she said a Safeway clerk at Polo Park shop Ping Centre told her about the com pants plans two months As Browne said she was told the company will close its Portage Avenue and ferry Road store when it opens a new store at Polo Park late this seniors have gone Doort door in the West and have left copies of their petition in some local Carrie a clerk at me Dimart drugs on two stores away from the Portage and Burnell said customers who read the petition get really Kaye of Arlington around the Corner from the said Shes collected More than 150 there were people who cried when i told them the store was going to med Echuk med Echuk said enthusiasm for the seniors petition Campaign is fuelled by the groups Success two years ago fighting a City plan to tear Down an old fire Hall at Sargent Avenue and med Echuk said it will be tougher trying to Stop the giant food conglomerate from going ahead with plans to close the two once they make up their that she its a slim Chance but its Worth a most shoppers interviewed outside the two Safeway were unaware the stores could be closed Gladys who lives one Block South of the Portage smell Safeway on Preston said its closing will be hardest on elderly people and single of whom dont have the closest grocery store will be the Safeway at Polo about two Miles she Antonio said she believes these Nioras Campaign is doomed to fail noting a similar Campaign failed to dissuade Safeway from closing its Corydon avenues afford Street store last Browne said a clerk in the Ellice Wall Safeway told her employees fear Many jobs will be woman told me they dont think need All of them employees at Polo Browne she told me to bring the petition into the store and shed be glad to sign Browne said Shes received no official word on the company but believes both stores will close about the same time the Polo Park store opens late this she said the group will pres ent Safeway officials with a along with copies of the in continued from Page 1 and discovered three Gallons of Home an unnamed who was also found with a syringe was charged As a result of the the reports show numerous in stances of inmates found intoxicated because of a popular drug inside the institution appears to be the sedative Tuin hashish and other pills also have been found on and items have been seized from relatives visiting Early last an inmate reported to staff he had fallen Down stairs and injured he later admitted he had been hit in the face by three inmates who were pressuring him to bring drugs into the institution after a there were seven reported As saults on staff in 1984 in addition to the last an inmate punched a living unit officer in the he later said he wanted a Transfer to another institution and Felt the Only Way to get it was by assaulting a he said he had nothing personal against the who just happened to be the closest one around at the at least six inmates attempted suicide last and five others inflicted wounds on one inmate tried to hang himself with a skate lace attached to an air while another was found with both wrists Cut and hanging from his underwear which had been tied to a conduit in the by Only two attempted suicides were reported in 1983 and there were far fewer assaults on the documents also contain some reports of assaults on inmates by staff in at least one Case the staff member was while other cases were investigated with no indication of what happened another dated mentions a staff suspension but Federal officials have blacked out All the details claiming it cannot be re leased under the Access in an inmate complained that he had been assaulted by remand Centre officials while making a court appearance in he was checked by prison health officials and found to have multiple l u9 find Gas used at Stony the documents also reveal that a Mel a Legal Aid lawyer overfed three widespread general search of the has represented the inmate the documents also reveal that a widespread general search of the entire institution was carried out late in Over two guards found two baseball seven pieces of 10 three two three homemade three other stabbing weapons and one steel searches sometimes have revealed Cash on in one search in guards found in an inmates television last officials intercepted which was inside a Bic lighter that a visitor gave to an Mel a Legal Aid lawyer who has represented the inmates committee at said the charac Ter of the prison changed dramatically last Spring when officials started to crack Down after some their response was totally snap he the institution appeared to be using those incidents to crack Down inmates were restricted More and More to their and measures appropriate to a maximum Security institution were the More time you spend in the cells the More tensions Are going to Holley world wheat Price expected to plunge continued from Page 1 the United states and the 10 coun tries belonging to the european Community has been increasing for the past five while the now favors less sup port for the dec is continuing a policy of Gilson said producers worldwide have been plagued with declining incomes and a growing surplus of the same factors Are behind the recent escalation of Trade problems Between Canada and the United states during the past he As times get they be come More Gilson Manitoba pigs made headlines this week when they were banned from three american states because this country allows the use of the live Stock drug banned in the and which has been linked to a blood disorder in but Canadian officials say the real Issue is the Contention that this country hogs compete unfairly on american not the drugs health the government already was considering imposing permanent hog import Canadian Honey and potatoes also have been the target of protectionist lobbies by producers in recent Canadian cattle producers currently Are fighting a similar Battle against what they consider unfair Competition from a flood of dec beef on the Canadian a pending agreement Between Canada and the dec to allow million pounds of the highly subs died meat into this country is nearly four times the ceiling imposed last year of million we feel very strongly that theres no Way Canadian cattle producers should have to compete against a subsidized product coming into the Fulton in Canadian exports to the dec Are charged a Tariff Worth 20 per cent of the meats but to reach Canadian supermarkets the dec pays Only 4 cents per he Jack president of key Stone agricultural producers said its ironic that top level Canadian and politicians have been supportive of Freer Trade Between the two but the opposite is Penner said it was time Canada examined its role in the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Gatt and took a stronger Posi Gilson said the upcoming Gatt talks Between the world Powers Are the Best Hope Canada has for avoid ing damaging Trade he said the talks which the Hopes to have scheduled for 1986 must grapple with the Issue of non Tariff Trade such As the one imposed on Canadian pork this if tensions Are to be smeared by soviet ukrainians in Winnipeg say continued from Page 1 when he said it was the interview he ukrainian leaders blame a free press Story last week for helping to fan feelings of animosity toward the Story said the soviet Union had made an official request for the extradition of a North Winnipeg identified As a native of the soviet government has said the who lived in the Chernigow Region of about 120 Kilometres North of served As the of his Village administration during the nazi occupation and committed War i object strenuously to the fact National origins Are being attributed to the a Waleska Israel spokesman for the Midwest Region of the Bani brith league for human said he too objects to War criminals being identified by National i take the position that a criminal is a Ludwig adding he believes the jewish Community would largely support that spokesmen for several ukrainian groups said they expect this weeks hearing of the Federal inquiry to be Well attended by ukrainians and other groups anxious to Point out the soviet evidence is they the soviet Union will do All they can to break up any emigre ukrainian commune Nestor regional executive Mem Ber of the ukrainian National federation Treyve got All sorts of Means and motives to do such things so really question any of the evidence that comes from Harry Dmytryshyn of the ukrainian Canad an committee said hews swamped with com plaints about the free press Story and its citing of soviet you cant use soviet evidence to try peo he it has been known to be but Charles Deputy director for operations in the Justice departments office of special said although the charge is often no soviet Union evidence has Ever been found inaccurate in american we Haven had one Case in court thrown out because it was found to be inaccurate or forged or any other Way he in a lot of its the single defence that some accused do bring but we just Haven had any experience where soviet evidence used was because of its Gittens said soviet evidence is scrutinized by every possible expert during de naturalization and Deporta Tion Dmytryshyn said the Community is sensitive to the allegations because there being raised 40 years after Many members escaped communism to come to people have become used to a it brings Back a lot of sorrow and he by he said members Arent trying to protect if somebody is no one is trying to protect a guilty the Federal commission of inquiry into War headed by Justice Jules Des is to hear submissions May 22 and 23 at the Winnipeg convention 6 hour Holiday Sale pay to theft cases Tough continued from Page i failed to heed a first warning and was reported to he Baigrie said before charges can be Laid against known police must obtain a search warrant and find that persons television left on a pay to Channel to prove an intention to pirate the in some court defendants have argued successfully that they were using a de scrambler to get a better picture for Cable stations they subscribed even those who Are convicted receive at most a Baigrie tie noted that a Crown attorney stayed such a charge against a Winnipeg woman last week after she claimed her Boyfriend had hooked the service up for her and she would lose her Job if prosecute Baigrie said the police were notified of this Case months before she was dealt with in in a similar Case six months a Manitoba Telephone system caught trying to illegally tap a Cable pay to line after he blew a Power line received a conditional Dis he last a Brandon provincial court judge reserved his decision until june 24 in the trial of a Man charged with having an illegal pay to Baigrie said he understands the com passionate Way these offenders Are people dont realize that what they Are faced with is a charge of stealing he the sad Baigrie said he didst report a welfare recipient who resumed her illegal Hookup just hours after being warned she was breaking the Law because he Felt sorry for she has Swee agreed not to farther abuse the he we would rather caution them than alienate them by taking them to after he they Are All potential save 30 natural Oak solid Wood includes 2 night and Sale solid brass free delivery free setup from twin Queen 395 495 never needs available As a waterbed phone orders Welcome setup free removal of old Mattreis it made in Canada by Canadian craftsmen in Bryl Osbed 5leep Centre monday downtown the bedroom Shoppe 1u6i just 1 pm West of Polo Park ;