Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday by Shane Minklen police found themselves investigating a main Street furniture store for a possible breach of the sunday closing Law yesterday after a Cus Tomer told them several employees scurried for cover when a bus Driver entered the several employees arid customers were in Kern ill furniture Coop at 843 main Street yesterday afternoon when a uniformed bus Driver entered the according to a police who spoke on Law keeps staff scurrying condition he Fiot be everyone working at the store thought this bus Driver was a the source so the employees galloped away and disappeared somewhere in the Back and when they came out they were dressed in their Street clothes with their Coats on giving every appearance of being a legitimate who was in the store at the thought the employees were behaving strangely and called the source tile real customer decided some thing want Kosher and called the Kern Hill president Nick Hill could not be reached for comment last his who is the com pants service said he had heard police visited the store yester but could not provide any fur ther we have been checked out before and we had Only four he adding the store has been open sundays off and on for they have been changing the sunday regulations so you dont know where you Are he the two police officers who visited the store yesterday were to submit a report on their findings a police spokesman 1 dont know what else the chefs could have done other than making everyone take their Coats off to see if they were wearing Hemhill uniforms he added that disguising ones self As a customer is not a jets come out lose Clear tonight 18 sunny tomorrow March free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail w registration number 0286 suspect arrested in officer slaying Fredericton up a new Brunswick Highway patrol officer was gunned Down yesterday on a lonely stretch of sparking an International manhunt that ended in Boston with the arrest of an american who is the prime suspect in another Emmanuel Joseph of the father of two Young children was the third police officer killed in the line of duty in Canada this a passing Motorist found a coins body at he was slumped behind the steering wheel of his Blacka Edwhite parked on the Side of the Road with its lights about four hours Anthony of Locust was arrested at Logan International Airport in Boston As he stepped off a flight from a Boyish faced Young Man in jeans and a plaid will be arraigned today on a charge of being a fugitive from ramp expect to begin extradition proceed Ings today and plan to charge him with first degree ramp in Fredericton refused to release any details except that Aucoin was shot to death at about while patrolling Highway Harvey is about 50 Kilometres Southwest of police in the United states were giving out More information than ramp in new Jim a spokesman for the Massachusetts state said Aucoin was shot with a single Bullet from a High powered Rifle after pull ing Over a Gold porsche for a routine traffic police in Nassau said investigators were led to Romeo through a partially written sum Mons found in a coins patrol Maine police seized a Gold coloured porsche with new York licence plates yesterday afternoon at ban Gor where Romeo caught a flight to homicide detectives in Suffolk on new Yorks Long said Romeo is the prime suspect in the 1985 shooting death of 25yearold John Starkey who was found shot dead in 1985 in his parents summer cottage at an exclusive resort Community on fire Suffolk county police Bill Pepper said Romeo has not been charged in Starkey killing and no warrant has been but a judge ruled last week that police investigating the Case could obtain hair and blood samples from police bal Listic tests have identified the gun that killed Starkey As the search for a coins killer was complicated by reports that a Florida Man sought by Jacksonville police in connection with a double slaying in that City was involved in the new Brunswick ramp said later Romeo is the Only suspect in the Aucoin the Florida Leo Robert was arrested near a subway station in Montreal yester this is the first time a Highway patrol officer has been killed in the line of duty since the Force began operations six years its 150 officers carry but their duties Are strictly confined to enforcing traffic regulations on new Brunswick highways and a photo a woman who lost a child in the ferry disaster is comforted after leaving morgue grieving relatives await word on ferry victims from the news services Belgium about 50 survivors and their relatives gathered at Donnas Church today to Pray for those killed in fridays capsizing of a British ferry and to give thanks for their own deliver Salvage welded steel rings to the half sunken Herald of free Enterprise so it can be righted and the scores of bodies believed trapped inside Olivier governor of West Flanders told report ers today that 409 of the 543 people aboard the ferry when it tipped Over fifty three bodies had been recovered As of midday and 81 people were on officials said 408 peo ple survived and that 82 were miss Channel fears Vanneste said the discrepancy was due to the fact one survivor had not reported to the authorities immediately after the the 20minute ecumenical Church service was held 400 metres from the makeshift morgue in the town basketball court where those killed in the disaster were being identified by Twenty six bodies had been identified by midday the service was very said Richard the anglican Bishop of it was very Sim ple but there were deep Emo third and roman Catholic Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Bruges led the service with a Reading from the Book of some 50 spectators and 60 photographers stood outside the Neo gothic Brick there was some pushing and shoving with police As those who attended the service came some you should be ashamed of your see relatives Page 4 housing funds say by Heidi Graham thousands of taxpayers dollars Are being spent on substandard housing for welfare City officials City welfare pays More than a month for some apartments with faulty poor Bro Ken windows and bad or which Are infested with mice and other they one reason Why some slum hous ing is relatively expensive is that landlords know what the welfare department will pay if no one else said de the cites assistant chief health in they welfare have a schedule of rents How much pay for what size family some of these landlords know what it is and make that their rent no matter what shape the building is he and the rent schedule has Noth ing to do with the size of the apart if it can be rented to a family of four instead of the landlord can get almost twice the so the idea is to get As Many people As possible in there without really overcrowding Don the provinces assistant Deputy housing said he believes some landlords take advantage of the welfare system and re he said the government is trying to address the problem by Advertis see housing Page 4 welfare system horror Story by Maureen Murray Manitoba welfare system is a mess because the government gives local politicians far More leeway to attach strings to payments than in any other critics we have never heard elsewhere some of the horror stories we Are hearing out of said Havi Echenberg of the National Antipov erty the tales include deduction of family Federal child tax credits and other benefits from Wel fare cheques by some municipal others require recipients to use food vouchers and shop in certain or provide welfare officials with itemized grocery the disabled Ana single mothers separated for More than 90 Days receive welfare directly from the but All others fall under municipal the discrepancies arise because the government allows its 201 municipalities to define deductible income and set welfare Echenberg and its time the system was the provinces social assistance program has come under fire from a number of quarters in recent including attacks from fed eral health minister Jake a spokesman for the National Council on welfare said Manitoba system gives a greater degree of autonomy to its municipalities than see welfare Page 4 Reagan told of Contra paper says Washington Reuter sap former National Security adviser John Poindexter was reported by a newspaper yesterday As Reddy to Tell Senate investigators he twice told president Reagan that Covert arms sales to Iran were generating funds for Nicaragua the Washington Post report contradicts reagans assertions that Al though he knew of the efforts to sell arms to he was unaware that some of the sales profits were being sent to the a White House spokesman had no comment on the who resigned after the Iran arms scandal broke in no and a key Oliver North who was fired for his have refused to testify before any of the congressional committees investigating the the Post said the Senate panel May Grant immunity to the Post reported that one source close to Reagan said the White House anticipates that poin Dexter will say he had direction and directly or Montreal from Reagan and that the former Security advisers eventual Testi Mony could be damaging to the presidents claim that he was unaware that proceeds of the Iran arms sales went to the Nicara Guan the newspaper also reported that Poindexter planned to Tell senators he told Reagan 1986 the Iran sales were raising Money for the Nicara Guan a Well placed Legal source said that in the first weeks after his departure from the White House on Poindexter and his attorneys planned to construct a Legal defence around his Contention that on two occasions in 1986 he told Reagan that the arms sales to Iran were generating Money for the con the Post it added that a source said poin Dexter did not Tell Reagan there was an illegal diversion of funds to the but rather that it was an ancillary Benefit of the the diversion of funds to the con tras was illegal because the Congress had imposed a ban on financial assistance for the rightist rebels fighting Nicaragua leftist sandinista David reagans adviser on the Ira Contra said yes Ter Day he is convinced the president was not told that contras were Bene fiting from the arms there is one Ronald Hes deeply Hes deeply dedicate and he tells the Abshire and when he says he has no he has no see Reagan Page 4 drop in population to Cost municipalities by John Douglas More than half of Manitoba municipalities will receive less Provin Cial funding this year because their population has statistics Canada figures while interim figures show Mani Tobas population increased by to Between 1981 and about 60 per cent of municipalities experienced a the City of Winnipeg accounts for the largest with its Popula Tion climbing to last year from in the province funds municipalities on a per capita basis for provincial municipal tax sharing Library and ambulance Grants and school funding the population decline forces smaller centres to try to maintain services with less provincial four villages Sioux Hamiota and gods Lake will suffer additional costs because their populations Are listed at More than by the province will not pro vide police Protection for a Munici Pality with More than 750 when a Village reaches that Popula it must pay the Cost to retain one in the Cost to each tax payer for its increase will amount to about next for the last five the prov Ince has paid for our Protection and now the local taxpayer is going to have to said Earnest Hamiota in where preliminary statistics show there Are now 755 the Cost of one Constable will almost break the with 1987 spending tentatively set at the Village has nothing left for the Cost of a Village official said Treherne will wait until the province forces it to pay for a Constable and it May ask the province to conduct another the 1981 census showed Emerson had 762 but the Village see province Page 4 feelings Are mixed on Holiday Moscow a men rushed to deliver expensive bouquets to Daugh wives and sweethearts As the soviet Union celebrated International women Day yesterday with the sentimentality of mothers Day and the patriotism of a civic the Holiday was celebrated in Many Homes with special reflecting the traditional role still filled by most soviet the meals typically were prepared by the wives and mothers being we hate this said one Anonymous Moscow she said women have to buy extra groceries for the Holiday creating new lines at stores and new Short Ages in an Economy plagued see feelings Page 4 dead letters three dozen Manitoba centres Are among about 500 communities across Canada due to lose their Post aids tests Laila Cadham provincial laboratories assistant says aids testing in Manitoba has typecast a new Book explores the roots of ambition by identifying four Basic types of grounded a Greenpeace protest against Federal Liberal cruise policy fails to get off the Index Ann 16 25 14 6 22 7 Jumble 34 11 sports 33 19 to 11 ;