Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Charity business once the Domain of Are now run by business professionals 721 o copycats real life murderers and serial killers Are providing fodder for to miniseries 749 lofty living re tape snarled warehouse but theres a Happy ending 729 fund soars increased awareness enabled the Sunshine fund to raise this raising the total to towards a goal weather sunny today 29 3lear tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 29 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 739 Index Ann 15 36 27 36 49 Jumble 41 Jumble 43 23 55 news and 69 16 3 the provincial 2149536 a bomb exploded Early yesterday at the fort Garry Home of a Revenue Canada tax who neighbors said had received Telephone threats related to his Loreen Pouteau said she and her raced from their Hadley place Home with their four children at after the we ran outside and across the Pouteau they were quite sleepy when i dragged them out of the explosion was the first of two bomber lated incidents in Winnipeg about a worker at a Brookside Boulevard ing forces tax family from u Tea a i we trucking firm found what appeared to be a homemade bomb near a natural Gas meter in the company police later detonated it at the no injuries were reported in the Hadley place damage to the living room was estimated at Winnipeg police refused to say if the explosive device went off in the or Wayne King comment when asked if the family was put under police neighbors say Wayne Pouteau recently received several threatening phone Calls connected to his work in the audit department of Revenue Revenue Canada officials refused to discuss Pouteau Loreen Pouteau said she had no idea who might be responsible for the in More concerned that everyone is going to see what a Messy housekeeper i she told a neighbor As bomb squad detectives collected debris in a two lock area cordoned off with police she said she and her husband were digging in the Back Garden until about thursday before retiring and tucking their Jennifer and in Wayne who is Active at maty Mother of the Church was described As an outstanding citizen by his i cant understand Why anyone would do such a father Michiels Firmin Hes such a Nice King would not speculate on what kind of explosive destroyed part of the Home until experts in the bomb squad have had a Chance to Analyse 6 Tom Arfield said he believed see employee Page 4 May 1989 free press final Home delivery 9570550 cd matted 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 free press vol 117 no 162 arson probed in Ashern fire ii n stiff Jeff free press a natural resources department official races to his truck As a fire jumps a Road near Manigotagan salvation army tends evacuees busloads from stricken communities Given emergency shelter by Allison Bray about 190 tired evacuees from fire stricken communities Northeast of Winnipeg were Given emergency food and shelter Here yesterday after raging fires forced them to flee their the which arrived in bus loads from Seymour Ville and hollow Are among people moved yesterday and thursday night from communities Northeast of Winnipeg and in the Interlake glum faced adults and children sipped soft drinks and cof fee at the salvation army Headquarters cafeteria on Henry Street where they were Given Light meals and assigned temporary lodgings at area hotels or salvation army Resi Manigotagan Deputy mayor Lynn Bennett cleared of insider trading Vancouver up former Premier Bill Bennett and his brother Russell were typical Stock Market gamblers who won big by taking their brokers not by using an inside a provincial court judge ruled judge Wallace Craig acquitted the millionaire businessmen and their longtime Friend Herb Doman of charges of insider trading in shares of Doman a Vancouver Island based Forest he found that on a balance of probabilities the Crown had in fact established that the Bennetts instructed their brokers to sell More than Doman shares last 4 before they could possibly have received any outside the Bill Bennett expressed i had mentioned when i came into the court when the proceedings first started that i have done nothing not guilty and reiterate a tanned and smiling Bennett said after phoning his wife at Home in Russell Bennett and who share ownership of several race made similar comments As they waded through a throng of reporters on the sidewalk outside the courthouse in a seedy area of All three ignored a persistent Heck Ler who wanted to know what about the Little Guy Laid last january alleged that the Bennetts sold shares on the basis of information not generally disclosed to the Doman was charged with conveying that documents introduced during the two week trial the most High pro file set of inside trading allegations Ever tried in Canada showed the Bennetts made a profit of Mil lion by dumping their shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange an hour before a trading those profits were Frozen pending see Bennett Page 4 Clark said about 900 residents of the three neighbouring communities about 130 Kilometres Northeast of Winnipeg were removed yesterday or late thursday he said the which started around noon thursday and pro Gressed to within eight Kilometres of the Manigotagan Metis Community by 6 had caught town officials off but despite the Short Clark said the area was evacuated within 90 with Between 300 and 350 residents shunted to Pine Falls thursday night and the remainder to Winnipeg late thursday and yes few of the evacuees expressed emotion As they sat quietly with friends and family waiting to be assigned but Clark said Many dont seem to be aware How serious the situation people dont realize what the danger he they dont realize now whats happening but maybe when they get Back realize How bad it while the fire threatening the area see evacuees Page 4 fight weather by Allison Bray and John Lyons More dry weather expected today will continue to fan the flames of More than 100 fires burning throughout the but the situation has eased fire officials said ramp Are investigating a Mas Sive Blaze that destroyed at least 14 Homes South of it is believed to have been deliberately set along a Highway 35 Kilometres South of that about firefighters and seven water including two Dis patched from the have been deployed in the last two Days to fight 105 fires burning throughout the Bill superintendent of fire management with the department of natural said last the number of fires in the prov Ince so far this year reached 273 More than double the number at this time last while the fire situation remains it improved slightly yester with less property damage than Medd it was still a bad he temperatures were expected to continue Between c and c today with Only a 10percent Chance of the wind died Down to about 30 yesterday and was expected to be about the same Medd adding gusts in some areas of about 60 made the situation we May be Able to steer the fires away from the but if we dont get any rain just keep Twentyfive including 20 in the were out of three others rage near Cross Lake and Norway House in the one near Manigotagan about 190 metres Northeast of Winnipeg and one in Western Manitoba North of Swan the fire raging near Ashern in the Interlake had moved East of the Village and was no longer a threat to the Community 600 at least 14 families Are and at least 15 farms suf see ramp Page 4 fire forces Charleswood winds hamper bid to contain deregulation fuels air travellers fears by Ruth Teichroeb the deregulation of the Canadian airline Industry has fuelled air travellers fears about safety in the while record numbers of passengers Are taking advantage of cheap fares offered by the major canadians Are also More doubtful the government is doing enough to ensure Safe air a recent poll found 72 per cent of the respondents wanted not regulation of air the Angus Rei Southam news poll also reported that 51 per cent of the people questioned in March Felt air travel in Canada is less Safe than a few years besides fears prompted by the March 10 air Ontario crash at Dryden that killed 24 theres growing Public anxiety that the Boom in air travel is putting a Strain on the How Safe an our skies deregulation of Canadas airline Industry has raised the question and Many travellers fear the Dryden disaster two months ago Points to the free press reporter Ruth Teichroeb has spent several weeks examining the part 2 country air transportation reports of near misses Between aircraft have risen steadily Over the last four years throughout including the reports of such problems As engine smoke or decompression or Crew incapacitation also Are on the combined with shortages of air traffic con trollers and air Carrier aviation watchdogs warn that Canadas airline system could be beading for the same problems that have plagued american skies since the Industry was deregulated in we should have Learned from the fiasco in the said Roy director of the Otta abased lobby group transport deregulation has created More frequent but the system int geared to handle for Toronto Pearson International Airport Doest have enough air traffic Security staff or terminal space to safely handle its More than flights and Over 16 million passengers a he three near collisions at Pearson in Decem Ber and january prompted the Canadian aviation safety Board to warn transport Canada Early last month about fundamental safety problems at the congested in two of those air traffic control Ler fatigue May have contributed to planes coming within seconds of midair the Board the latest near misses came on the heels of 21 others reported at Pearson last five of which were serious enough to warrant Cash in the Prairie 19 near misses were reported last five of them in just five such cases were while congestion is not yet a problem at Winnipeg International Airport which handles Only on fifth the number of flights and on eighth As Many passengers As Pearson Manitoban who Fly to other major centres see use Page 4 ;