Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Worthless warranties drive Consumers mad by Lane Armstrong there still May be a few Manito basis who would buy the Brooklyn but most complaining con Sumers were duped on car lots or through the mail last the most common complaint received by harried advocates at the provinces Consumers Bureau came from the distressed who Likely discovered the warranty on his new or used car want under written by an insurance Deputy director de Smith Many purchasers discovered the warranties had been issued by a no defunct company and not the he others found their two percent financing steal Fadeal had significantly raised the vehicles retail he Smith said 1986 also was a year for the Getrich Quick seminar offered primarily by out town salesmen who were somehow difficult to track if students had followup disgruntled Consumers of 1986 also included homeowners left with invoices for improvements they didst ask pay or consumer experts Bureau director Denis Robidoux said complaints by customers Mak ing mail order purchases also were common in the common thread among complainants was their failure to ask the right said whose office gets about 250 Calls a people make a lot of assumptions when there buying a product or he either there too trusting or there afraid to ask the seller to put something in writ Many people think if they de Mand a written agreement there somehow doubting the Sellers in the customer who shies away from requesting a written con tract is often the angry complainant who later Calls the Bureau about the pricey Oak panelling installed in his basement instead of the Maple for which he had after the Bureau see Telephone Page 4 giants score lopsided playoff Cloudy tonight 14 Cloudy tomorrow 10 Winnipeg free press 19870 vol 115 no Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0386 a photo rescuers scour the wreckage of the High Speed colonial which collided with three diesel engines Amtrak crash claims 14 lives App Rescue workers using cranes today dug bodies and a survivor out of a crumpled Amtrak train that derailed in a High Speed collision with three killing at least 14 people and injuring 175 in Amtrak worst the Impact yesterday piled three passenger cars atop each traffic on the Busy Northeast rail corridor was still blocked and at least 24 trains had been Amtrak officials the bound from Wash for Boston and with about 520 people slammed into one of three Conrail locomotives at at least 145 Kilometres an hour on a switch that merges four tracks into the Conrail diesels had apparently run a Stop officials All 12 cars of the Amtrak train derailed As Well As the two electric Amtrak and five of the passenger cars toppled on their said Amtrak spokesman Larry you were sitting and there were a few and then you were on the said Pas Senger Larry of new York Carol also of new York said she helped pull a Foury Earold girl to she was Bourne i just grabbed and got out of i look for my thirteen including those of an Amtrak Engineer and a six year old had been pulled from the wreckage Early today after Rescue workers used cranes to pull apart some of the rescuers believed there might be More bodies in the crushed Bottom which was thought to be empty until rescuers found the 13th body there about said Baltimore county police spokes Man Jay ten of the bodies were found in the top one in the car beneath and another outside the Miller there was no indication late yesterday whether any canadians were Edward Amtrak senior director of communications and said yesterday from Washington the railway had no information on hometowns or a if there were any canadians aboard we Are not Able to confirm he said in a Telephone inter View with the Canadian police Manning a special com Mand Centre set up to handle the disaster also said they had no info see Amtrak Page 4 Aerial View illustrates extent of train Reagan medical tests Normal Washington a president Reagan is to undergo prostate sur Gery today following a physical examination his doctor said showed no new evidence of physicians at Bethesda naval Hospital immediately outside Washington found and removed four apparently benign polyps from Rea Gans Colon John the presidential said the Small Fleshy growths taken from the inside of the presidents intestine appeared benign and were similar to several found and removed in earlier exam he said they would be checked in the Laboratory in a Brief written state said the president feels Good and immediately began read ing briefing papers on items on the presidential decision making Agen during the 75yearold presidents physical his third followup to Check for any recurrence of the Colon cancer discovered 18 months Reagan had a cardio vascular including a stress followed by pulmonary function tests and Chest All were Hutton the which is an internal examination of the full length of the Large went smooth he Alt ugh a army sur is the presidents the special procedures involved in the checkup were performed by a civil Ian medical team flown in specific Al see Reagan Page 4 investigators focus on arson in hotel Blaze san Juan up investigators Are focusing on flammable chemical substances in trying to determine How arsonists set the Dupont Plaza hotel fire that killed 96 including two officials did not name any suspects in the new years eve fire that also injured about 140 but have said the Blaze May be related to a labor dispute at the the investigation now is going to determine which person or How Many persons participated in this puerto Ricos Justice Secre Hector Rivera said yes speaking at a poolside news con Ference in the Shadow of the burned out 21storey Rivera Cruz said we have determined the of origin of the fire and How it we concluded that it was survivors return he said an incendiary sub stance was used to Start the but refused to give details on what the substance May have been Pend ing results of further Laboratory the new York times quoted an Atlanta Guerry today As saying his firm Learned from investigators evidence indicated two bombs were planted and both went Thornton was quoted As saying the bombs were not professionally made More like Molotov Rivera Cruz said evidence from the rubble of the hotel will be sent to a Laboratory of the Bureau of tobacco and firearms in he said the tests will focus on flammable chemical sub the bureaus along with Fri and puerto rican arson invest based their conclusions on examination of the physical Evi Dence found at the Rivera Cruz we Are trying to establish responsibility in any group related with the he we Are not dismissing any person or any the canadians who died were to Ronto residents Lily Snider and Jean in their their remains were returned to Toronto on Satur Day ninety four most charred beyond were recovered from the rubble of the one Man died in Hospital shortly after the fire and the 96th victim died yesterday also in said a spokesman for puerto Ricos Gover Rafael Hernandez see seventy six Page 4 fight kills Canadian medal bid Czechoslovakia up head coach Bert Templeton says hell take the left Winger Scott Metcalfe says Canada was cheated and Canadian hockey executives agreed the concluding game of the world Junior hockey Champion ship was a in the most scandalous fiasco Iri the history of International where fighting draws automatic sex Canadian and soviet play ers dropped their Sticks and engaged in a 20minute Brawl that cleared the benches in the second the game never the International ice hockey federation convened one representative from each of the tournaments eight com Peting countries under president Guenther Babetzki of West Germany and disqualified the two combatants after a 35minute meeting while the teams sat in their dressing rooms and spectators awaited the outcome of the no Impact with the Best was awarded the Gold Czechoslovakia the Silver and Sweden the Finland had beaten Czecho Slovakia 53 earlier in the Day and the title was its first in the 11 years of the Canada was leading 42 at the time of the Brawl and needed to win by five goals to capture the Champion a win by any number of goals would have Given Canada the the most heavily penalized team in the were see team Page 4 hospitals ask province to help cover deficits by Kathleen Engman six Winnipeg hospitals Are Appeal ing to the province to cover expected deficits for the current fiscal year ranging from to Mil Hospital differ on whether the province will Grant their requests with some raising the spectre of layoffs and bed were All in a bind fiscally the whole province it int said health sciences Centre pres ident Rod Boniface general Hospital president Tony Quaglia said he has no idea if his facility expected shortfall will be but warned the Hospital has no re serve funds to turn to if it Victoria general Hospital executive director Dieter Kuntz is count ing on the province to shoulder the centres i dont think the government has any he we cant put a Cap on health sciences Centre is expect ing a shortfall for 1986 87 and Thorfinnson said staff layoffs would be one Way to Deal with the which is million higher than last More than 60 per cent of Boni faces expected deficit stems from Cost increases for with the rest due to an increase in obstetrical care and the Transfer of medical records to Quaglia bed closings would be one Way Boniface could Cope if the govern ment does not cover the but that depends on what the prov Ince he Kuntz said Victoria general has used the government approved num see hospitals Page 4 lagging City assessors Are lagging behind in their inspections of Winnipeg residential properties for Church visit John Cardinal Oconnor is the highest ranking Vatican official to visit the office of an israeli Leader in Reform the time has come for provincial tories to come up with a plan to help Reform Canadas Federal sole result alzheimer disease 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