Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba U u Success Story what has made much music the to Success Story of the 80s scrappy win Winnipeg jets beat Detroit red wings 75 in tug Amania at Arena creative couple the arts has considerable influence on this House bid derailed Federal court rejects groups bid to Block via rail cuts weather fair today 10 Cloud tonight 20 Cloud tomorrow 8 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann Jumble Jumble news and 33 21 69 48 21 21 16 23 64 43 32 52 52 17 29 62 24 17 24 65 70 57 3 the provincial Winner 4985652 Miami vice cop gives City officers arresting performance by Paul Wiecek a Miami Beach narcotics cop pulled double duty this week to Winnipeg police about cocaine before posing As a drug dealer to bust two Quebec sources close to the investigation said the who cant be posed As a dealer and negotiated Price and Quantity with two men in a downtown hotel during a five hour Marathon bargaining session thursday the men finally produced us As upfront giving ramp enough evidence to kick in the door and make the Money and a Small amount of hash and cocaine were charged with conspiracy to import narcotics Are Pierre of and Serge Mercille of both men appeared in provincial court yesterday and were remanded in custody until a Canad wide arrest warrant has also been issued for Gaetan of Montreal in connection with the thursdays arrests climaxed a joint Canada investigation which began in Florida in Early at that two canadians seeking to Purchase substantial amounts of cocaine approached the Miami Beach who was posing As a cocaine a ramp source the officer agreed to sell the men some cocaine and a meeting was set up later the same month in but it was scrapped at the last minute when the Byers had trouble raising the the source the same men contacted the Miami Beach officer a second time to say they still wanted to the knowing he was going to Winnipeg for the drug told the men to meet him he told them he was going to be Here on which was but i dont think they realized the kind of business he was talking the ramp source the an expert on crack was invited by the ramp to speak at the today believed be the first on the powerful cocaine derivative in it was sponsored by the ramp drug intelligence unit and was attended by ramp and Winnipeg drug officers As Well As Federal health and see undercover Page 4 free press vol 118 no 43 january weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Home delivery 957o55o classified City told to repay mall million Wayne free press Cory Connell will soon travel to Toronto fora double lung transplant operation that will give him a Chance for a Normal but he and his family need because Many expenses they face Arent covered by the free press has started the Cory Connell transplant fund to help the family through this Winnipeg boy needs your help by Zena Olijnyk even when a collapsed lung forced him into Hospital Christmas Cory kept his spirits up with the Hope that a double lung transplant operation May soon be on the sure its no fun to have to go Back to the but in hoping someday i wont Ever have to go through this again if i get the Cory said from his bed at the childrens Hospital in the Grade 10 student from Transcona has been accepted into the double lung transplant program at Toronto general the youngest candidate Ever in contribution the free press has established a fund to help Corys family with nonmedical expenses that wont be picked up through various provincial programs once he leaves for Toronto with his the free press launched the fund yesterday with a but much More help is needed for Cory and his while the Manitoba health services commission will pay for the transplant As Well As the Cost of flying Cory to it wont pay Day today costs of staying in one of Canadas most expensive of course were worried whether Well see Lack Page 4 Cory Connell keeps up spirits despite being confined to Hospital prompts Axworthy twice about grabbing for brass ring by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa an emotional plea to stand up for the backed by promises of fresh has Lloyd Axworthy thinking twice about a bid for the Federal Liberal less than an hour before he was to announce he would not enter the race to replace John a flurry of support prompted Axworthy to the Winnipeg South Centre my will take four or five More Days to decide if he will be a candidate at the june 23 convention in Axworthy faces there has been a response to my candidacy sufficiently encouraging to this is not Axworthy said in an All the Good political reasons for staying in the race Are still and the financial reasons Are getting ill give it a few More Days and Well it was a dramatic conclusion to a rollercoaster week that had a worthy about to quit after a wednes Day meeting with a group of close advisers in that meeting indicated support was soft the Campaign faced a debt by months As of i was Axworthy by aides were booking interviews for the an but 30 minutes a group of Western supporters called promising to raise More than 000 by its looking like about has been put together now and Given a Little More it May be 50 see backers Page 4 assessment justices say by Patrick Mckinley the Manitoba court of Appeal has ordered the City of Winnipeg to repay an estimated million in property taxes to the owners of Grant Park shopping in a strongly worded the court dismissed the cites Appeal of a Manitoba municipal Board Rul ing that a 1987 reassessment of the mall failed to reflect its current Market the City failed to account for obsolete features in the construction and design of the shopping built and expanded Between 1962 and the Board in upholding that the a peal rapped the cites assess ment department on the saying it ignored an earlier High court ruling that assessments must be based on Market value at the time they Are carried this Grant Park Appeal Illus trates again the chaotic state of assessment in wrote justices Alan Kerr twaddle and Sterling Ernie chairman of the cites finance con firmed the City could have to repay close to including interest on school and municipal taxes levied in 1987 and expects Appeal but Gilroy Daniel Mclntyre said the Case May end up before the supreme court of my guess would be that there would be an and i think the Appeal would be he Nestor of the cites Legal noted the Appeal court was not entirely satisfied with the municipal boards calculation questioning some of its conclusions on what the Correct assessment should but the court ruled those were questions of not questions of and therefore beyond the its Bodnarchuk said in any the City would have to convince the supreme court of Canada that the Board erred in it will have to live with the he As Well As criticizing assessment officials for failing to perform their Legal the court of Appeal raked the province for failing to Reform the assessment system Over the past the ruling comes just As the legis lature is putting the final touches on a Reform lawyers involved in the Grant Park Case said they have yet to see the final version of the which passed final Reading yesterday of but none Felt it would have had a major Impact on the out see court Page 4 inventors flying car takes off childhood dreamers lining up to buy fully certified aircraft by Malcom Abrams and Harriet Bernstein this is the stuff of comic Sci i magazines and the dreams of generations of Little boys who loved its called the Moller in its a sleek Cross Between a Corvette and a rocket in its a helicopter and air plane All in it seats takes off can do 644 land softly and Park in your and its almost As easy to operate As a video the inventor of Moller 400 is Paul who now Heads his own Moller internal he is putting the final touches on his which he modestly Calls an alternative to the family future future stuff by Malcolm Abrams and Harriet Looka at consumerism in the 21st offering a catalogue of fun and stimulating products that will Likely be available by the year skiing uplifting the Moller 400 is about ready for its wide and metres it has an Economy cruising Speed of 362 gets 24 Kilometres to the gallon and is powered by eight 528cubiccenti metre rotary each engine generates 150 or More than two horsepower per four times that of a typical aircraft the eight compact engines Are encased in four with no exposed the Craft is much safer to manoeuvre on the ground than either a helicopter or a Small Moller has built the Moller 400 with safety in three inboard computers Check each others work and can Back up one these computers will also provide the air Craft with a sophisticated collision avoidance system expected to Aid air traffic safety by the year at speeds above 201 Altitude can be maintained even if six of the eight engines should and if All the engines should the Moller 400 will land with the Aid of an emergency its Sti Letto nose will crumple to absorb Moller believes that the crafts first application will be performing search Andrescu missions in isolated there Are a lot of childhood dreamers already lining up for the fully certified according to Jack marketing director for Moller 47 people have already reserved a Moller 400 by paying a fully refundable Odds 100 per cent Eta 1991 Price see smart Page 4 ;