Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january 1990 Industry cites transport demand for rising Price Cost tinted from Page 1 Tion system was at capacity and some areas in the get Supply to meet As a Rolf Vordenbaumen producers were forced to adjust prices but not everyone buys i dont know if 1 believe i Haven got a clue Why the prices Are so said Dave co owner of henrys car Wash on Pandora Enns Sells about litres of propane at his pumps every people really Haven been watching the he it was per litre last now its up to almost 33 cents and some people Are at towns said hed heard the Price increases had something to Limestone Camp likened to prison continued from Page 1 the notion that the scene makes the station seem but the men and women who work Here do its like a prison with Only one says electrician James you can walk away if youre willing to lose your compare this place to Joe cockers song said Mill Wright Steve youre just a number added Guy every thing is life has always been hard in the and at where some 400 workers Are about a year away from completing construction of a generating it still Manitoba Hydro has tried to make it building a Model Camp for single workers and a Model Community called Sundance where families try to carry on a Normal but they remain isolated out despite the four Lane Bowling the pin sized curl ing the indoor Arena and sprawling Leisure Centre where Pool tables and free movies Are available 24 hours a theres not much to do except the nearest is not much bigger than its main attraction is the which offers thrice weekly escapes to win 800 Kilometres to the the nearest is 240 Kilometres West Over gravel beyond the ring of Street lights at Sundance lies nothing but trackless wilderness to the Lime Stone is at the very end of the Road into northeastern life is strictly controlled and re Cam dwellers must pass through Security Gates to get in and private vehicles Are while Are served cafeteria style at fixed although each worker has a Pri vate guests of the opposite sex Are families Are not allowed to leave their Homes unattended and must arrange for House Sitters if they de cide to get away for a infractions of these and scores of other rules Lead to since there is nowhere else to Evic Tion amounts to Job Cycle of its not a bed of roses concedes millwright John while big Bucks millwrights Gross about for each 54hour labourers about lure Many family men to Long separations Are hell on mar he i bet half the Guys i work with Are on their second Bestland said his wife wants to join him with their three but he wont have i told my wife people Are crazy Here and she said at least there All most workers Mark time waiting for their next paid trip after 45 Days on the workers Are eligible for seven Days unpaid the 52day turnaround is called a wrap by a Cycle of misery by ill Tell 45 Days is too Long and Home is too far Souque Ive seen Guys Start throw ing trays around and shouting at people for no Mark a construction agrees that if you spend enough time up Here you learn you can live in the but that lesson includes the necessity of getting out when you he in March it starts to show who didst go out at boredom and depression Are com and Relief frequently is found in a sure i get depressed and blow the occasional shift cause i got Harlton ninety per cent of the Guys added who is i the tiny local liquor outlet sold Worth of booze last the local grocery store stocks four shelves of pornography really Gross a clerk con fides compared to two shelves of other newspapers Are three Days old and 75 cents unhappy prostitution appears to be non the men claim Hydro puts Saltpetre in the Hydro Camp administrator Pete Porter dismissed the allegation As ridiculous and refused to answer questions about you can be Lieve it if you he Porter has Little patience for complainers and says he firmly believes that without serious Camp rules everyone would be theres an in every he if that one upsets too Many youve got a pretty unhappy you come Here to work and you know the if you dont like theres a Road at the recreation Centre the woman running the canteen alternately complains about Hydro rules forbidding a deep Fryer and the unbearable cold listless teen agers sit in the lobby All its Shelly said in a stage i miss living in the what do you like about life at Limestone she pausing for a theres Only so Many teens and were All one big so theres Linda one of 50 women now working at the said it was hard to adjust to life a what remains a mans in used to it she when i first came i was really you get to the Point where you just say right if they make it should be noted that in five years of construction at one of the most treacherous stretches of the Nelson on a project re plete with every workplace Hazard there has not been a single fatal one was killed in his room last he was shot four Northern town residents resent hydroids Gillam staff people Here they would kill to become a Hydroid the unflattering name they give Manitoba Hydro the reason Hydro gives workers Perks that make life in the North a lot easier than it is for Hydro workers with for Are paid a Northern allowance on top of regular wages and guaranteed the allowance is to offset higher i like those at a local local grocery store where a kilogram of ground beef costs compared with in Hydro at least those not provided with company pay cents a litre for Hydro employees with families Are provided with three bedroom Mobile Homes for a while not the double wide trailers Are the hallmark of housing in isolated in Hydro has decided to improve its housing Stock by putting up three bed room Side besides with attached garages to replace the 20yearold to bile heating which no Hydro workers say run up to a month in Are subsidized so they do hot exceed what the employee would pay in moving expenses Are picked up by the Crown As Are travel costs for medical and dental ser children who must leave the Community for schooling Are eligible for three roundtrip flights Home each families Are eligible for three trips out a year after three years of Northern the trips include paid travel Canadian airlines International charges for a Winnipeg Gil Lam return single Hydro who Are not eligible for Northern get free room and Board at staff and roundtrip tickets Home about once a waitress Karen a 17 year resident of says the benefits paid to Hydro workers Are resented by Les fortunate she said the Perks Are particularly irksome because they attract employees from the South to work in the taking jobs that permanent residents i make an hour and they make twice she id kill for a Hydro she said the Perks allow Hydro employees to live better than and that in turn fuels a clip lishness among Hydro that Why we Call them by she they think they Are a step above Hydro Public affairs spokesman Glenn Schneider defended the the fact is we need people up skilled and we certainly need incentives to get people up do with the pending Sale of ices propane division to a West coast which in turn plans to sell ice propane to Amoco and pet Ocanada produce More than half of Canadas propane in where eight billion litres of propane Are produced almost 60 per cent goes to the United mainly for Home heating George a spokesman for Superior says cold weath depleted propane higher transportation and increased demand for propane from the petrochemical Industry have conspired to drive prices Superior propane and Federated cooperative Are among Winnipeg largest Auto pro pane its like pork Olah said from propane is a freely traded commodity in the North american when demand is prices Are Norman Estey of ice a division of intercity Gas said he Doest blame Consumers for complaining about the new were really reacting to the Price set by the he ran a Jorn free press dangerous passage Cross country skier on the Assiniboine River near the Sherbrook Street Bridge approaches a gaping Hole in Milder weather in the past few Days has melted the surface City police and fire department officials Are warning Winni Eggers to stay off the River until the next cold snap removes the adding ices increased costs Are inevitably passed on to Estey said the Price of propane is the highest Hes seen in five but he predicted the Price will slide in Spring when consumption he noted Manitoba propane unlike those in and face a Centre litre provincial Road included in the retail Price of observed As bugs Munch continued from Page 1 spot where the beetles were released there was just grass and no said Mark also a depart ment Weed one of the americans said i guess were seeing Goodwin said the Weed costs Prai Rie and great Plains Farmers tens of millions of dollars a he said the damage in Manitoba alone May be upwards of million the Weed is More a problem in pastures because its Milky sap Burns cows the cattle can also become sick with a disease called dermatitis that makes them susceptible to a lot of Money is lost in terms of cow Goodwin As the Weed stunts pasture growth on Manitoba badly infested the Weed costs farm ers about an acre on lost forage Goodwin heavy infestations Are found in Sandy soils in southwestern and sout Central in recent years infestations have increased and spread because forages have been stressed by dry cleans out Weed Goodwin said testing has shown the tiny Bronze no bigger than a can clean out 94 per cent of a Fields Leafy he said scientists dont want the Beetle to be 100percent its important that a Little Spurge survives because that Means the bugs can its a Way of correcting an imbalance of a the Beetle was introduced to Manitoba by agriculture Canada re searcher Peter he tested it to make sure it harm other the provincial depart ment look Over from testing its effect on Leafy Spurge and its ability to survive the Prairie Cli the department will distribute to Farmers colonies of the beetles next Sturko is holding Field Days to demonstrate to Farmers How to distribute the beetles on their own Sturko said the Spruce Woods site is being used As a Nursery for har vesting the beetles and moving them to satellite colonies throughout the Farmers can obtain the colonies panamanian resistance surprised officers continued from Page 1 seven of Noriegas known residences and bases of some of which had been put under surveil Lance before the the teams quickly discounted three of the including a ranch 32 Kilometres West of Panama special assault teams that had been prepared to attack these locations were standing ready to seize Noriega if he showed the special forces units attacked four other locations but came up in the next five the military picked up and lost Noriegas Trail several times As he moved from Safe House to Safe House in Panama officials the noose kept getting tighter and said a member of they were systematically reducing his options by the if he haunt gone into the they had his last hideaway had been taken out when he ran into the at no time during the five Day officials did Noreiga come up on the communications which meant that he Cut himself off from command of his forces and concentrated on his sur Vival and failed to tap Cia some of the intelligence gaps in the Panama invasion represented a failure of the military to tap the resources of the Central intelligence whose network of agents in Panama had collected information about the military Arma ment and motivations of the Panama defence forces that was not available to the Southern congressional sources the level of resistance by psf units in the opening hours of the the firepower of some weapons they employed and the fact that Noriegas Street Tough dignity battalions were armed came As a Surprise to Carl the invasion and other military the most fatal intelligence sur prise came when Navy Seal sea airland teams slipped on Toi Pattilla Airfield to Block the runway and seize Noriegas Boeing 707 that could have been used for a in the midst of their the seals ran into heavy resistance from psf troops in armoured cars that had been purchased on the open Market in the United three seals died and another was fatally wounded before the psf de fenders were one offi Cial said that in one of the few departures from the strict discipline of the the remaining seals destroyed Noriegas air plane by blowing the cockpit apart with a Light antitank weapon that left a gaping Hole in the the seals didst expect armoured one congressional source Stiner was frustrated by when the military Why the hell didst we have the Intelli gence according to one congressional the Cia be cause they probably didst ask about one congressional Leader explained that the Cia is responsible for collecting human intelligence from agent networks and reporting it through the Cia station chief at the embassy in Panama to Cia Headquarters in there is no mechanism for sharing such even when it bears on military with the Penta dismissed warning the Pentagon is proscribed by Law from having its agent networks in foreign but has its Intelli Genc collection such As military reconnaissance electronic eavesdropping and Liaison intelligence gathered by the military military Contact of and panamanian but i think once the invasion was we did have decent said one member of military officials have told members of Congress that Amado shed Light on How Noriega most Likely got a Strong warning that the invasion was but did not take it at 10 three hours before the television networks broadcast reports that c141 Star lifter transports loaded with air borne assault troops had taken off from fort other reports said c141s were Landing at Howard air Force base at the rate of one every 10 but throughout the Day tuesday As signs of invasion Noriega did not head for cover or he drove by car from Colon Back to Panama City and to the hotel that adjoins Ocumen he just didst take it serious until he saw the parachutes in the one congressman lotteries lotto the winning numbers in last nights lotto649 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