Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo chefs in training the hours Are Long and but it is one of few jobs with a lifetime guarantee 31 sports tearful testimony Angella Issajenko broke Down on the witness stand recalling How she injected Ben Johnson with banned steroids for years world deadly Duel shells rain in blasting rus hour cars and killing 39 focus education and natives school system needs teachers sensitive to special needs Clearing tonight 22 sunny tomorrow 10 March vol Noim press Sun rises am Sun sets pm Moon rises am Moon sets am real outside Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class registration number 0286 air Byruth Teichroeb an air Ontario official has apologized for the Way the airline treated relatives of some killed in fridays Dryden air in telling i know we blew Paul Vic president of the Londo based said yester i am sorry for the Way this was its the toughest thing Ive Ever apologizes to his was handled in the confusion after the Mcknight he should have brought in More staff so that families of the 24 fatalities could have been contacted More he he turned Down an offer from air Canada to Send in additional i thought How Blind could i be weve certainly Learned the hard he said the airline should have had someone answer ing the phones at its London office All weekend instead of shutting its switchboard at Midnight Friday and 6 it should never have he also said he should have gone to Dryden to answer Media questions instead of sending Only technical experts to the crash Mcknight apology came after a Winnipeg relative of the Kliewer family killed in the crash criticized air Ontario officials and police for failing to give grieving families enough the Bear facts a drugged and hibernating Black Bear is oblivious to Paul to and Park Warden Pat Rousseau As they carry out their natural resources technician Hank Kristien study tracking the movements of natives blamed for Justice woes by Zena Olijnyk natives often have Only themselves to blame in their clashes with the Justice sys the director of Winnipeg main Street project John Rodgers told the aboriginal Justice inquiry yesterday that natives Are overrepresented in the Justice system because they Are overrepresented in committing who is packing All those knives on main Street and who is responsible for the majority of stabbings and gang muggings in this town Rodgers the Justice system generally treats natives like anyone else who comes in Contact with he told the Rodgers emphasized he was speaking As an not As spokesman for the project a detox cation Centre and shelter in the cites skid Row there May be cases where police overstep the Bounds and need to be he said but see Eyebrow Page 4 police treatment of minorities hit by Michael Boci Urkiw police treat visible including unfairly and frequently investigate ethnic groups for intelligence according to a confidential civic top All members of visible minority groups Are treated in situations of arrest As if they Are presumed to be without status in the 20page report among other the report says visible minorities Are More Likely to be stopped by police for questioning than other and members of Ethan cultural communities who Are victims of crime receive a poor response from police i Vestiga the report does not single out the Winnipeg police department or the but a source familiar with the report says it applies to both the which does not provide exam see report Page 4 32 v Jumble 21 e or watch opens Farmers Eye Southern wheat Belt for signal of prices by Bill Redekop the drought watch for 1989 has it started this month in Oklahoma and Texas the Winter wheat Belt of the United Winter a Grain that lies dormant in Winter and is harvested in comprises 75 per cent of the entire wheat Kansas produces 25 per cent of the Winter the crop was seeded into extremely dry soil last fall and desperately needs rain this month to there has not been any to How crucial is the Winter wheat crop to Prairie Farmers if it Doest wheat prices will if Rains do and if Winter kill of plants from the North american cold snap in Early february is prices could stabilize or even the american Winter wheat crop is so the Canadian wheat Board has told Ottawa to wait until Early april before finalizing initial prices to Prairie the Board has told Ottawa that if there is damage to the it will recommend revising wheat the Winter crop signals the Start of what could be a rollercoaster ride for one Winnipeg analyst has already predicted that wheat prices could reach a Bushel this up from the current Price of close to which is almost double what Farmers were paid a year traders laugh most traders laugh at the prediction of but at least one other analyst says traders Are not picking up Market signals fast enough and that Farmers should be wary of the conventional thinking in a year such As weve come through such a protracted period of pessimism that its hard for the markets to react until its too says Ralph Ashmead of agr trends research but he predicts Farmers Are Days away from markets that will Start to overreact to every crop and weather As Well As politically related this year is going to be the ultimate in Market week by its going to be with the markets bouncing All Over the Ashmead for Farmers throughout North it Means the Start of the most anticipated crop season in there Are conflicting reports on chances for a second the National weather service is saying the drought is Likely Over in its most recent 90day fore said Normal to above Normal precipitation should fall in most american crop growing see private Page 4 somewhere the responsibility to keep families of the victims informed has fallen Between the said Allan whose is a Cousin of the i understand that All the officials involved were under great but it would have been easier for us if somewhere would have been available to answer our see grieving Page 4 Council kept in dark secret report hides City budget details for by Radha Krishnan Thampi City councillors will be asked next week to give approval for bureaucrats to spend Mil Lions of dollars in tax payers Money without knowing where much of it will spending details in such areas As employee car which could double this and general Pur chases items such As cameras and Calculi series of stories on the conf reporter Radha Krishnan Thampi has spent several weeks poring Over City Halls budget working 100 pages of figures that de Tail How councillors spend Winni Eggers tax his we of Cucui Ali tors burned in a dentil estimates starts confidential document labelled budget working a set of which has been obtained by the free mayor Bill Norrie and the 29 who Are to give final approval to this years budget have not been provided with figures on expenditures such As overtime costs could Rise by to million and car allowances which could double to the spending estimates for this fiscal year starting see spending Page 4 retailers remove chilean produce by Alice Knieger Winnipeg supermarkets and wholesalers pulled Chil Ean produce from circulation yesterday while Ottawa turned aside questions about whether the government would cover their financial in what some Industry officials Are calling the largest food ban Ever to take place in shelves were being stripped of onions and artichokes after the Federal government banned imports of fresh fruit and vegetables from the issued followed the discovery of traces of cyanide in chilean seedless red grapes in Phila see Public Page 4 up photo store clerk returns chilean grapes to ;