Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ift Tempo Eclectic decade the fashion world took on Many shapes and sizes in the 80s 23 focus justified Washington was right to move against Noriega sports jets beat soviet squad Central red army squad loses 41 to As soviets leave their shabby past behind 35 Clear tonight 21 sunny tomorrow 5 second class Mai registration number ojb8 december vol 118 no 28 by tar outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery i i woo Sun rises sets Moon rises sets i Wahied 9562330 cites poor rely on food Banks by Nick Martin bellies ache for food in maybe maybe nobody knows for sure How Many people go hungry in this those who through an extraordinary voluntary Effort feed Many of the hungry say the problem is a societal malaise that cant be solved by donating a few cans of food to Winnipeg Harvest or sending a few Bucks to the Christmas cheer the social assistance on which Many Winnipeg residents subsist is designed to cover Only Basic clothing and personal that can be As Little As a month for a single adult with no children living on provincial social welfare pays Only the first a month for rent in a City whose average apartment goes for turn to food Banks Lynn co chairman of the social assistance coalition of trudges with the help of a Cane several blocks Over ice covered sidewalks every two weeks to carefully sift through whatever she can afford for herself and her two kids at an intercity pay fair Macaroni and Spaghetti and its not Martin its not when it runs out As it always does Martin and thousands of others turn to food living in a real dump want a better Ken free press welfare recipient Lynn Martin of the social assistance coalition of Manitoba shops for their daily nobody is guaranteed a free meat in where hundreds of the adults and seniors rely on kindness for in a three part reporter Nick Martin looks at problems facing the cites parti place to live that or a month has to come from need a phone to look for a Job need bus tickets to hit the Canada employment Centre think a Coffee in a or a newspaper to Check the Job or a movie once a month int such an outlandish or outrageous expenditure the Money has to come from those who run out of food Money turn to the 175 Volunteer agencies that distribute bags of and canned goods gathered by the 400 volunteers at Winnipeg the food int the and theres precious Little meat or Dairy products in its often a Day or two past its it May be discoloured or in some Way unsuitable for supermarket but its others shuffle into soup such As agape table and the Union gospel where hundreds of volunteers from Many of Winnipeg churches have contributed and cooked simple but filling meals of bread and they May be single parents see minister Page 4 dictator lived like King Ceausescu multimillion Dollar Palace glitters with Gold by Joseph Albright Cox news service Bucharest an antique porcelain Platter depicting two lovebirds still hangs Over the opulent dining porch where the late Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu used to eat their sparse 450calorie lunches surrounded by Gold plated Marble inlaid floors and Bronze Only the few dozen romanians assigned to guard the Spring Palace in the cites North Ern sector have been allowed inside this multimillion Dollar Monument to the ego communism of the now executed cause Romania Sheds the Spring Palace was invaded and looted at the Start of the revolution on popular committees and the army have kept out journalists from around the world since then for unknown the local guard commander yesterday allowed himself to be persuaded to let a Cox newspapers reporter be escorted through part of the inner Sanc those who stand guard to prevent further looting of Gold pictures and fur see Palace Page 4 defiant students vent anger at chinese leaders from the news services Beijing defiant students shouted criticisms of senior chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and his handpicked successor yesterday in a dialogue with a government the Beijing University in a two hour meeting with state Council spokesman Yuan also sought chivas response to events in Romania and hissed when Yuan stressed that China wont veer from its socialist the meeting appeared timed to Deal with the overthrow of Romanias Nicolae which has rekindled Sparks of student activism smothered by the june crackdown on the student led Prode Moc racy movement in at least three illegal posters have gone up at Beijing and Yinghua universities in recent Days commenting on Romanias see Beijing Page 4 Index Ann utters Jumble movies sports to stings 26 24 26 31 39 26 27 28 41 17 28 24 3j8 14 23 24 lotto winning my 47 winning plus number late pcs wife had wry humor the Canadian press wry sense of humor often sustained Maryon helping her tolerate the fishbowl environs of politics while she yearned for a life of the widow of former prime minis Ter Lester Pearson eventually found Tranquility at Queen Elizabeth where she lived unobtrusively for several years before dying at age there was no pain but she had been ill for some her said yesterday from there was no one it was just old who died tuesday on the eve of the 17th anniversary of her husbands is also survived by a funeral arrangements have not been seen outwardly As a shy woman with a behind every successful Man there is a surprised woman Maryon Pearson crinkly smile who left most of the talking to her Pearson frequently amazed her friends with some candid expressions of her which revealed that politics was far from her first Are you enjoying the she was asked in 1965 during her husbands see Candor Page 4 Maryon Pearson died at age 88 from just old her son says t t review vowed in fatal leak Crews skipped Chimney Check by Paul Wiecek provincial boiler inspectors failed to Check an apartment Block Chimney believed to have been the cause of sundays fatal car Bon monoxide leak when they licensed the buildings boiler last one Man died and eight others were taken to Hospital after the believed to have been caused by a clogged at 283 College one James remained in critical condition at health sciences Centre last another Gary had to be flown to to be treated in a decompression he remained in in Tensive care Bill a boiler inspector supervisor with Manitoba labor said inspectors licensed the boiler july 31 after an internal and external inspection found nothing but he said inspectors did not Check to see if the Chimney was even though there was reason to believe it might have review pledged labor minister Gerrie Hammond said last night the department will review boiler inspections in the Wake of sundays anytime something like this where theres loss of Well look at what was done and what could be done different Hammond Campbell said a department investigation into the leak is but investigators now believe a clogged Chimney prevented deadly Carbo monoxide gases produced naturally by the boiler from escaping from the North end its an old building and an old Chimney and its not unusual for mortar to fall Down to the Bottom Over the years until it eventually clogs the he he inspectors did not Check the Chimney last summer and Only occasionally do such checks As part of their annual he said boiler inspectors Are not required to Check chimneys and Only do when they Are easily Well do the Chimney if there is a clearcut and we can Check from but if there int we dont do he the Only Way we could have checked the Chimney there was to have climbed on the roof and looked Campbell adding that want done and almost never see Lack Page 4 one several Hurt in australian quake Sydney up a Strong earthquake hit the Southeastern coast of Australia killing at least one injuring several others and flattening dozens of police witnesses said the quake Cut off Power ruptured water Mains and sent people running into the see photo of quake people were trapped under fallen debris in the coastal City of the worst quite a few people Are injured and quite a few people Are a police spokesman he said one person died when a shop the police spokesman said one police officer in Newcastle described the cites Central business District As a disaster a number of buildings have although communications with the area Are sketchy because of the Lack of he quite a few High Rise buildings have cracks and Are in danger of the spokesman said there had been Many reports of injuries from car crashes As Drivers lost control of vehicles during the the australian seismological Centre in Canberra said the quake measured an Esti mated of the Richter scale and was centred on in a National Park about 100 Kilometres Northwest of i i ;