Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus palestinians May get elections israeli pm Shamir int ready to Grant full Independence yet 7 Tempo diet dining weight conscious often Overlook risks to heart sports jets sink to new lows last Lanny Mcdonald finally made now the Winnipeg jets May be history Clear tonight10 sunny tomorrow 1 March Sun rises am Sun sets part Moon rises am Moon sets pm final 250 35t outside Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second cuss Tegi Shaton number 0286 test Tipoff denied coach tells Dubin inquiry National track officials agreed to drug test Tipoff Federal drought Aid dries up bureaucratic red tape thwarts Farmers bid to Cash in Onur Ogran by Gerald flood Dauphin Fanner John Burak says theres a Good Chance he wont Plant a crop this year because of confusion surrounding a Federal drought assistance Burak said yesterday he needs to borrow about to seed his 260 hectare but he says he cant get credit be cause it is unclear whether he is in line for support under the unveiled by the tories during the Federal election Campaign last we still owe for last years crop so they lenders Are not going to put out credit for another year if theres nothing to Back it i guess ill wait till the last minute and if nothing happens it land will just have to be left Burak is one of thousands of Mani Toba Farmers who have not received forms to apply for assistance even though the deadline announced As both March 15 and april 1 to apply is Burak said he spent half a Day phoning a special hotline number to find out Why he and some neighbors had not received while some others by sheer he he got Only to be told that his name was not in a Federal computer Bank and that to get it his name would have to be vetted through a couple of layers of that was last since he has not been Able to get through on the line to find out what became of his cleric vows to help find Job for mom by Lisa priest a Concordia Hospital chaplain has Given a grieving dismissed from her Job three Days after the death of her seven Earold a Promise to help her find Jacob Krause said last night his heart was torn out when he read that whose daughter died Friday after being struck by a pickup was dismissed monday from her full time Job As a waitress at the Winni Peg hotel the Way this gentleman let her go i cant believe people would have a heart like the minister its very distressing and people Are absolutely angry the talk of the memorial service who performed the memo rial service for Martins daughter at Bardal funeral Home and crematorium said he has approached the hospitals management about hiring the he approached and i told him we would try to find something for said Sig Concorida executive right All we have available is casual housekeeping and dietary so Well try to find her something Martin said earlier hotel owner Bill Bauming told her monday that her full time Job had been Given to someone else because he Felt she needed time to Grieve and would be unable to Martin said she told Bauming she see hotel Page 4 March winds roared Over the City like an angry lion causing several woman Dies on Slick Highway by Greg Pindera a Winnipeg woman was killed yesterday when her car was struck by a semitrailer As she was driving Home from freezing rain yesterday caused dangerous driving conditions outside the while Winnipeg police reported numerous accidents on streets that resembled a Sheet of Karen Rae died after a 4 Accident on the Slippery perimeter High Way about a Kilometre South of Wilkes an ramp spokesman she lost control and went across the me and was hit broadside by a said Ashcroft of heading Ley Tomashewski 1979 Pontiac acadian was destroyed in the Accident and the truck was heavily Ashcroft adding the vehicles ended up in a he said ramp considered closing some highways in the late afternoon following the but roads remained open last the truck Driver escaped injury and Toma who was alone in her was pronounced dead at Grace general electricity went out in South vital last night for 30 minutes As the weather see Hydro Page 4 Dollar rocked by if report on deficit from the Canadian press Toronto the Canadian Dollar came under pressure in Europe and North America yesterday on the heels of published accounts of an International monetary fund document in which Canadian fiscal policy came in for harsh but prime minister Mulroney said Ottawa agrees with the spirit but not necessarily the numbers of the ifs Call for massive deficit emerging from a Daylong session with his inner Cabinet in Meech said a recommendation by the if that Ottawa Cut billion from its deficit or face severe eco nomic repercussions is their calculation it is not necessarily the prescriptions for dealing with our problems will be devised by canadians in he told reporters following the plan Ning and priorities committee there is no magic everyone and his brother has a the if report put a scare into the Europe an causing Choppy trading for much of the by the end of the the Canad an Dollar had weakened by almost half a closing Down cents at cents it reached its Low Point in morning hitting the Story appeared first in a West German causing Selling in before North american markets the also obtained by the financial was based on a leaked internal if staff Docu the report urged that Ottawa slash its deficit to avoid a weaker higher interest rates and a fall in Stock the if forecast that without drastic Mea sures the deficit would remain in the see if Page 4 the line was Busy when the free press called it seven times Between and 5 repeated Calls to the administrator of the program also were an aide in grains minister Charlie Mayers office promised the minister would Call but he did acting Manitoba agriculture minister Jim Downey also did not return far Asim concerned they promised see Farmer Page 4 Farmers in limbo Over plan by Bill Redekop the Federal drought program has turned into a Bureau cratic leaving about 000 Prairie Farmers in limbo As Spring seeding the complexity of the program has resulted in payment delays and administration costs of Mil lion five times the Cost of administering the special grains program in problems began in january when grains minister Charlie Mayer said payments to offset what has been tagged the worst drought in 50 years would not arrive until the end of this month three months the payments will be just 40 to 50 per cent of the total amount due compared to the 70 per cent Mayer promised last the remainder is to be paid in adding to the confusion is news that this months payment will be calculated differently than the july Flat payment Ottawa announced last week that the first Cheque will be a Flat payment of an acre for severe drought and an acre for moderately affected the remainder will be paid when the government completes its damage estimates of the 1988 a Federal official said this Means some Farmers May receive just 20 per cent of their total payment this forcing them to wait until summer for the for the first payment May be 80 to 100 per cent of the an example of the confusion is Pilot Mound Farmer Earl who is also president of Keystone agricultural Geddes seeded 25 per cent of his land with flax last year and harvested just four bushels an acre for a loss of per his first drought expected to arrive at the end of this will be an for reasons Geddes Doest he is considered to reside in a moderate drought i will have a net loss of an acre on 160 he see program Page 4 off Walding enjoying sem retirement Exilas thoughts turn to gardening by Greg Pindera on the first anniversary of the Day his vote brought Down Manitoba nip Jim Walding thoughts turn to the tulips coming up in the Garden and the grass that needs for today is just another Normal Day of enjoying sem retirement in the forecast is for Sun he said last Walding said he Doest regret his vote against the a move that toppled Howard Hawleys new democratic govern ment last that and his 17 years As an nip member of the Manitoba Are be Hind him and he has begun a new chapter in life As a private he about a month he and his opened a Bedan breakfast in their suburban and Walding is dabbling in his former Trade by doing some Par time work As an instructor for a local optical see Walding Page 4 Walding sits As his nip Rise in support of the 1988 and Landers 38 Bingo 69 Bjuge 36 business 20 45 crossword 6 entertainment vow food 4 37 Jumble Puzzle m 49 motifs 41 Russell 7 Sinclair 57 sports 60 stocks i Tempo 33 to 13 Ward 3 Teriw ;