Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Shane Minkin Law keeps staff scurrying found themselves invest Iulg 4 main Street to Tom store it possible breach of the sunday closing Law yesterday after a told them several employees impair red for cover when a bus Driver entered the several employees and customers were in Kern Hill fun Ture Coop at 843 main Street yesterday afternoon when a uniformed bus Driver entered the according to a police who spoke on condition he not 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 ing strangely and called the source the Teal customer decided some thing want Kosher and called the Kern ill president Nick Hill could not be reached comment flight his who is the party service said he had heard police visited the store yester but could not provide any 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 cers could have done other Titan making everyone take their Coats off to see if they were wearing Kerf Rhill uniforms he added that disguising ones self As a customer is not a jets come out Lorn to sunny today 12 Clear tonight18 free final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified second class mail registration number oj86 March Sun rises sets Moon rises sets he photo a who said she lost a child in the is comforted after leaving shift in population to Cost municipalities Grant funds 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 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 welfare funds gamer substandard housing by Heidi Graham thousands of taxpayers dollars Are spent on rent for welfare recipients who live in substandard hous City officials some of these apartments for which the City welfare department sometimes pays More than a month have faulty poor broken windows and bad or Are infested with mice and other the officials de the cites assistant chief health said 95 per cent of the buildings his department investigates Are occupied by Lowin come or welfare whose rent is paid by that Grabinski estimated the City condemns about 150 houses a year and issues work about 250 of them Are accompanied by a warn ing the apartment will be ordered vacated if repairs Are not completed within a specific time he said Many welfare recipients in those buildings because they do not have Many other John program manager of the cites social services de said the health depart ment inspects Between 100 and 120 apartments a but those Are Only the ones we learn about either through a Home visit or if the tenant Mackenzie he said there Are Many More slum apartments occupied by Wel fare recipients that his department never learns Mackenzie said he believes the tenants do not complain because they fear eviction or some other form of retaliation from their land a lot of these people Are in a position where they feel but theres a lot of Protection for them if they knew How to get Sid president of the Manitoba landlords admitted Many landlords do not want to accept welfare recipients As tenants because they believe they will damage the Why should landlords have to be prepared to rent to destructive ten ants he in not saying All welfare recipients Are but there Are those who have Given the whole group a bad Silverman said landlords who see welfare Page 4 four villages Sioux Hamiota and gods Lake 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 refused to pay the full Cost of policing after a local census showed 746 people and eight other Are freed of policing costs by the preliminary 1986 census in Lynn a population drop to from will increase town taxes about 10 per mayor Stan Geddes the which has a budget of will lose about in Grants through the population eighteen thousand dollars trans lates into about six Mills for tax pay he its going to be very Tough to find that kind of Money without going to the for the town of flin a popu see province Page 4 grieving ferry victims vent anger from the news services Belgium the passenger ferry Lay on its Side like a great bloated whale near the Entrance to this Busy port City yesterday As helicopters and tug boats continued to scour the sur rounding Waters for victims of fridays disaster when the Herald of free Enterprise suddenly on a steady Stream of grief stricken survivors and rela Tives vented their sorrow and at times their anger As they began the grim task of identifying the bodies of their loved coffins containing the More than 50 victims plucked from the icy Waters since Friday Lay in two Long rows on the floor of a local sports Hall which had been hastily converted into a More than 80 people Are Channel fears in the ferry owners said that water rushed in through the vessels loading while several survivors insisted the huge Bow doors were never properly the tabloid news of the world yesterday quoted grieving relatives As saying an assistant Boatswain had been sedated and separated from the rest of the injured victims at a belgian Hospital after shouting its my its my i didst lock them Paul a spokesman for ferry owners Townsend Thoresen in Bel confirmed that assistant boat Swain Marc was in a state of emotional Shock and blaming company officials said who was in charge of the doors on the was being flown to Britain last he left Jan Hospital near Brugge shortly after being questioned by two belgian the ferry rolled on to its Side Friday night outside the North sea port of of 543 people 408 survived and 82 Are fifty three bodies have been with 22 the ship was headed for almost All the passengers were Britain and Belgium Are trying to determine the cause of the discs three truck Drivers who had been aboard the Herald of free enter prise said the ferry sailed 10 to 15 minutes late because the Crew was having trouble closing the they were even trying to close them with one of the Ian told Britain Domestic Agency press the boat started taking in water As soon As she took Calderwood the hold was in certain this disaster happened be cause she took in too much As the Captain made a right hand turn to avoid the Sand Bank outside the All the water shifted to one Side and turned the boat see sobbing Page 4 american arrested in officers slaying Frederic too 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 see sports Page 4 Reagan told of link to paper says Washington Reuter sap former National Security adviser John Poindexter was reported by a newspaper yesterday As ready to Tell Senate investigators he twice told president Reagan that Covert arms sales to Iran were generating funds for nicaraguan 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 Aid the Nicara Guan the newspaper also reported that Poindexter planned to Tell senators he told Reagan in 1986 the Iran sales see Reagan Page 4 Demjan Juk reiterates innocence in letter read to ukrainian group by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Sudbury John Demjan Juk would commit suicide before admitting he is nazi death amp guard Ivan the a group of ukrainians Here was told yester Reading a letter written by his accused Edward Nish Nic told a crowd of about 150 that while Israel May be judge for his alleged War the world would be his the world will decide whether Israel shows its legality or vengeance perhaps this is because i am Demjan Juk said in the i will be found innocent because i have done 1 remain totally Demjan Juk is accused of operating the diesel motors that pumped Carbon monoxide into the Gas Chambers at about jews were killed at the Camp in German occupied Poland from july 1942 to August who moved to Cleve land after the second world was extradited to Israel last after a seven year Battle in he was stripped of his american citizenship for making untruthful statements about his past when he entered the United he consistently has maintained he is a victim of mistaken fostered in part by allegedly forged evidence the soviet government sup plied to american if found Demjan Juk could face the death Nishnic began the Canadian por Tion of a speaking tour raise Money for Demjan Juks defence in this Northern Ontario Community that has a ukrainian population of about in the most ukrainians were reminded of the visit in but priests did not ask members to donate to the defence Nishnic will be joined by the defendants John on March 21 in with More than ukrainians in including in win and another in Alber Nishnic said it is important for people to hear the other Side of the so much has been made about see More 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 11 16 25 14 25 22 7 Jumble 34 24 11 11 sports 33 19 to 11 i i i ;