Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 4, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba U Tempo fashion forecasts Economy to influence designers in experts say 25 business Hydro opts to go it alone Manitoba Hydro forgoes Ontario help in financing the Conaw Apa project 17 sports jets make it four in a Row solid hockey keeps the jets Roll going As they beat Hartford 42 41 Stoud tonight 22 Cloudy tomorrow 15 second cuss Mai Fleo Slaton number 0286 january free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 35c outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery i Winnipeg out site Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Gas Price increases outstrip inflation rate by David Roberts natural Gas prices have risen in Winnipeg by More than double the rate of inflation in the past after two separate Rul Ings bythe Public utilities drug term Cut to keep Man Safe by Terry Weber the provinces highest court yesterday reduced the jail sentence of a convicted drug trafficker out of con Cern for the mans Justice Charles Huband of Manitoba court of Appeal Cut Vincenzo Deitos six month sentence to 60 to be served and a in making the Huband noted the 22yearold Man Cooper ated with police immediately after his arrest and could face the Wrath of his cohorts when they Are sentenced later this last provincial court judge Judith Webster sentenced de Vito to six months in ignoring a joint recommendation by Crown at Torney Clyde Bond and defence Law yer Hersh Woich for a sentence equal to that adopted by the Appeal court in this the recommended sentence might be recognized As almost As significant As the sentence Huband Devito and three other men were arrested last april 6 after police discovered about Worth of hashish Oil inside condoms in Devi tos the initial investigation into incident started several see drug Page 4 can last forever London a a company has come up with the ultimate last Call for people whose idea of heaven is a cozy English for the equivalent of about can customers can have their ashes rest under their favorite stools or beneath the bar where they Bent their elbows and be toasted every year As a instead of being stuck in a cold graveyard in a cemetery where few people the deceased will be surrounded by friends who will have a permanent reminder of the Good times they said Colm owner of the Little pub Brewers society spokesman Mike Ripley said he doubted anyone would Ever be buried in a its a very silly Ripley i suspect the idea was thought up at on new years eve and if someone had told me tomorrow was april first i be at All the firm is offering eternal rest at the pack the Little tumbling Sailor or any of the other of its 10 Ann lancers 29 26 Bridge 28 17 Ctet Ruffal 34 cute Vertex 7 33 32 34 editorials letters 6 entertainment 30 7 32 a Timbie Puzzle 38 26 Sinclair 26 44 stocks 18 Tempo 25 to listings 26 lotto bout number the Price of Gas went up a year in and in Rural with the latest pub approved in retroactive to the average Winnipeg Homeowner faces a yearly Gas Bill of or More than As of the pub approved the increase the third in four months though it acknowledged it didst have time to study the figures presented by Gas the latest Rise represents More than a 10percent increase in the Price to Winnipeg natural Gas customers since january and the average Brandon Resi who paid annually for natural Gas last will now pay that a jump of jump of nearly 22 per cent in the last 12 with Manitoba annual rate of inflation hovering around five per Brandon residents Are fac ing natural Gas Price increases of about times above consumer advocates say and the Public utilities Board admits they have been hit so hard and fast with applications from the Gas companies for rate in see Gas Page 4 Noriega no Pushover 14 Panama jubilant As Noriega Falls pyjama Clad citizens hug gis a photo from the news services Panama City this War scarred City went wild within moments of ousted dictator Manuel Antonio Noriegas final helicopter flight from his embassy hideaway of the previous 10 As the news spread last panamanians took to the streets even in their pyjamas to Pound pots with spoons and mingle in jubilation with sol Diers still on duty on the streets in their War paint and Field Viva the americans shouted the As they hugged and kissed each other and the Viva Panama the soldiers re traffic across the City was Grid As people spontaneously formed a Victory waving panamanian and Politi Cal party at a television station on 50th Street seventh infantry soldiers who were supposed to be guarding the station simply gave up any Effort at crowd control and joined the i guess in kind of losing control but these people have been through so said Robert who was heading the he Learned the when he saw a commotion inside the to station and went inside to invest he heard the first reports of Noriegas departure and went outside to relay the that when All hell broke see Panama Page 4 deposed strongman arrives to face charges Panama City streets take on party atmosphere As word of surrender spreads last from the news services Homestead air Force toppled panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega arrived Early today at a military air base in Florida to face drug trafficking air Force officials he arrived at an hour earlier than the time the government had and was flown off in a Lear Jet six minutes later to an unidentified officials plans for a press Pool were can celled at the last and re porters had no Access to the toppled who could face 145 years in prison on All the charges for which he has been panamanian exiles waited out Side the Homestead air Force 45 Kilometres South of in the Early morning darkness for the c130 plane carrying the de posed one of Noriegas Steven said last night that Noriega would plead not guilty to the drug charges facing him in a Miami see arraignment Page 4 Airport chief seeks answers from ramp Over bomb scare the manager of Winnipeg International Airport says he wants to know Why the ramp failed to in form him about a bomb threat yesterday afternoon until after the blast was supposed to have Harold Bell said he was informed by the ramps Airport detachment at about that a bomb threat had been adding he was unaware it was supposed to have gone off at 2 we take these threats Bell adding he will ask the ramp to explain its Bell said the ramp conducted a search of the Airport terminal and administration using a police dog trained to sniff out expo no explosives were he adding it was decided not to evacuate the an ramp civilian dispatcher said the detachment was notified about the bomb threat at about ramp officials could not be reached for a Winnipeg police spokesman said the department was first notified about the bomb threat just before 2 adding a Cruiser was Dis patched to the Airport Winnipeg police evacuated a fed eral building at 303 main which also was a target of the same bomb the downtown location was evacuated at about there were no explosives found and employees were allowed Back into the building an hour the threats were contained in a letter anonymously dropped off in the free press newsrooms recep Tion assistant City editor John Sullivan said he received the letter around and notified Winnipeg police 10 minutes Farmers face High tillage costs farm values drop sharply by Bill Redekop Many banners will need at least up front this year to till 400 or acres of but a recent Federal farm income forecast says Many Farmers wont recover the Money needed to buy the necessities of including fertilizer and her As unbelievable As those costs May sound to people unfamiliar with those Are the economics of farming Farmers Are at a Crossroads heading into As Federal Agri culture minister Don Mazankowski begins the most ambitious program review Ever free press reporter Bill Redekop talked to producers and analysts about their worries and Hopes As they say goodbye to the dust bowl 80s and face a new and Cloudy winds of change Grain Price predictions Plant seeds of doubt in Farmers mind last of a series a 400hectare farm can be Worth As much As if you just had the in the Bank it would be making about 000 a said Don farm credit research manag but a Fanner has to be doing pretty Good today to be making that kind of Money off As Between 1984 and 1988 the average net Worth of a Manitoba Grain farm fell As land values that the Worth of the see Many Page 5 by Bill Redekop Winnipeg free press Minnedosa dont worry about the horse being just Load the Minnedosa Farmer Richard Lemo ing says a producer has to take that attitude As he sits on his farm and listens to predictions that Grain prices Are about to go into another who knows maybe there All says who oper ates a 283hectare Grain Andhor in the late the so called experts told us we lose buying and look what happened land values dropped 50 per were not going broke were just not making he the farm is supported by his see Low Page 5 ;