Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Should buses or trains be used on the transit Tempo Mountain Man Bob France believes a Bigfoot roams Chesnut Ridge in police say it Doest take much to protect yourself from shifty Cloudy tonight8 tomorrow 2 free press vol 117 n0101 March Sun rises am Sun sets pm Moon rises am final outside Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 classified 9662330 second class mail registration number 0286 our news watch two nabbed at Tea two British convicts who escaped from but not from were captured yesterday while taking after noon Ian Openshaw and John Corbett were arrested at a House less than a Kilometre from High Security dartmoor prison in Southwest police said the convicts stopped at the House and asked for a a woman brewed them a pot and then phoned the decision detailed a recently demoted communist party official said yester Day four men decided to Send soviet troops into Afghanistan the late soviet Leader Leon id the late defence minister Dmitri for Mer foreign minister Andrei Gromyko and the late Polit buro ideologists Michael sus Boris a former candidate member of the politburo who was demoted from Moscow communist party Leader after criticizing the was the first offi Cial to name the Thatcher tops list British prime minister mar Garet Thatcher Heads an Ira hit list found by police three months the sunday times newspaper reported police yester Day to disclose the identities of the suspected targets on the list found in an Irish Republican army bomb but news reports said Security has been stepped up for 200 Politi judges and army offi the sunday times said police believe an Ira hit squad is hiding in Britain and includes an Assassin trained in Long Range criticism rejected prime minister Mulroney rejected yesterday criticism of the Meech Lake constitutional Accord by former prime minister Pierre in the Netherlands for a conference on the in told reporters that Trudeau was responsible for what he called the mess that resulted from Patria Tion of the Constitution in 1982 without the agreement of Trudeau a Ann 30 23 30 6 17 13 Puzzle 18 sports 29 17 19 to 18 lotto winning numbers Bonus number 30 casual remark eerie Prophesy by Ruth Teichroeb Winnipeg free press Dryden minutes before air Ontario flight 363 crashed in survivors the Pilot unknowingly made an eerie he said you this just int our said survivor Brian of Thunder adding the Winnipeg bound flight had been delayed twice since leaving Thunder officials from the Canadian Avia Tion safety Board Are trying to de Termine Why the Fokker f28 crashed just after Takeoff from dry Den municipal Airport kill ing 24 of the 69 passengers and Crew on i dont have any information re Garding the chief investigator Joe Jackson of the Cash told reporters Here were going to look at the possibility of ice on the of engines not operating crash survivors said the plane was not diced before it took off from Dryden in heavy passengers gave conflicting reports about see ing ice on the recorders investigators recovered the flight data recorder and the voice recorder yesterday from the crash about one Kilometre East of the he they were quite badly but we dont think the information will be both have been sent to Ottawa for Cash communications coordinator Jim Harris Cash officials made Brief visits to the crash site Friday night and yesterday and took Jackson the full team of about 23 investigators from Moncton and Winnipeg were waiting to get on to the site we do not have full Access to the site yet because we have agreed with the Opp Ontario provincial police to stay away from the site until the bodies Are we should be on the site with our whole team by tomorrow so officials have Only sketchy details about what happened after the plane took off in the midst of a Snow Squall about Jackson confirmed survivors accounts that the plane did not climb see survivors Page 8 up photo stench permeates by Janet Mcfarland Winnipeg free press Dryden the stench of fuel still permeated the wreckage of air Ontario flight 363 yesterday after noon As the first 10 bodies were removed from its charred one of the bodies was still belted into what remained of a three bodies seen during a limited Media visit to the site had been tagged and numbered where they Lay in the they were burned beyond a red High heeled shoe and an aircraft wheel were among the debris strewn among Trees for about 250 metres around the a woman Grey and Pink sweater Clung to a Birch tree that had been Cut in two during the the plane itself was broken into three the cockpit of the plane were separated from the Cabin and the Tail Section was broken away twisted Metal the cockpit was entirely burned out the passenger Cabin was a mess of twisted Metal and Only one Wing was All the furnishings inside were but the Tail was largely it was pretty bad in the Cabin Dryden District Coroner Greg Martin those people really got out it is so great that Many people got the plane Cut a 30metrewide Swath through the snapping Birch and Pine it Slid the length of three football Don Jones of the provincial police said 12 bodies were still to be removed when operations shut Down at the crash site just before 6 Crews were to return Early this morning and All bodies Are expected to be removed Jones said there was no Way to avoid leaving the 12 bodies in the wreckage for More than two Days after the plane crashed on Takeoff from Dryden municipal there int any Jones citing the need to follow officers have been working since 4 and Are extremely a team of 30 Opp officers had planned to Start removing bodies see body Page 4 John Biro of smiles As he talks of How Lucky he was in Manfor buyer vows investment Dryden disaster d Hospital officials amazed at number of d photographers capture grim reality of d icing on aircraft wings suspected in d not knowing who was dead hard on Dryden 24 by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Manitoba government has sold Money losing Manfor to Canadia owned Recap enterprises in a Deal that will bring billion in development to Northern Manitoba Over the next four the Sale agreement was signed in recaps Montreal offices late Fri Day afternoon and was announced at news conferences at Manors pulp Mill at the Pas and at Swan River yesterday by Premier Gary Filmon and Recap president George it is to be committed to Legal documentation within the next two after which work on Plant renovations will under the the existing 850 jobs at the pulp and paper com plex will be As 350 to 400 new jobs 250 of them in Swan River be created by the end of the two phased construction in at the Peak of the construction the total jobs created in the Mill and on the building projects will Rise to government officials Recap officials said they will Honor existing Union Filmon told the news conference he was delivering the election prom ise he made a year ago to divest the province of the preserving and increasing the jobs and ensuring a world class facility would the new coupled with spin off benefits greater than those generated by the Limestone will put Northern Manitoba on a solid economic footing for the Filmon we can Only strengthen our eco nomic future if we begin at a Community Petty described the acquisition As an exciting new addition to the Recap which includes facilities in Prince Rupert and and Kimber we approach the acquisition at the Manfor Plant at the Pas As a strategic part of our Forward vision and As a integral part and a vital part of our continuing growth in the pulp and paper Petty we have ambitious but we believe we have demonstrated we have the ability to carry them see Manfor Page 4 loss of jobs feared from tax by Patrick Mckinley a proposed Federal tax on Loans will wipe out jobs in its first five years by stifling investment and consumer a confidential study for the finance Industry it says the proposed by finance minis Ter Michael will wipe out million a year in National economic it adds the tax will unfairly hit Small businesses including industries that employ some of the largest numbers of Manitoba the obtained by the free was prepared by the Coopers and Lybrand consulting group for the Canadian Bankers As the Canadian life and health insurance the insurance Bureau of Canada and the Trust companies association of Alberta treasurer Dick Johnston said last week that Ottawa has confirmed it will go ahead with the which would tax the difference Between Revenue and costs of Finan Cial the free press has Learned that the business groups who commissioned the study have been quietly lobbying the Federal government to scrap the tax the study says the which Wilson wants to introduce in would slash a year from the disposable income of the average Canadian it would add to the Cost of a the tax would go Well beyond taxing consumption and effectively tax the savings and investment activities of households and the study the tax would apply unfairly to various it it would have the most severe Impact on those who spend a proportion of their income on mortgages and insurance As it claims the tax which would be unique in the world would severely affect the competitiveness of Canadas finance to avoid the Large firms will arrange self insurance rather than Purchase coverage from insurance it see la Page 4 i ;