Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Issues protecting the environment different Winnipeg r iffy a j v 17 financial planners advise savings despite inflation of tax sunny today 28 Cloudy tonight 8 free press vol 118 no 141 second cuss mail req Bation number 0886 april Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 35o we Fly Home Dettery in Winn pig outside Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 news watch hoods halt pizzas a pizza franchise Holder has cancelled delivery after dark because of increased gang Michael owner of 25 Dominos pizza outlets whose Drivers have been robbed re also changed the color of his hot bags used to keep pizzas warm from red to Brown because the red bags had become a status Symbol for bloods gang steel tube nabbed Greece a Brit ish truck Driver was charged yesterday after greek Cus Toms agents seized a 30tonne steel tube that officials say could have formed part of a massive Cannon for a magistrates court in this Western port City charged Paul from North with illegal transport of weapons after it impounded his Rig in Ashwell i was told i was carry ing steel i had no idea what was going on until i was stopped cant complain Washington washing ton mayor Marion Barry was an experienced crack cocaine smoker at the time of his arrest in a Federal prosecutor attorney Jay Stephens said in court papers filed late Friday that Barry could not complain that he was unfairly lured to possess and use illegal drugs because this time he got famed artist Dies Paris a leading figure in Art Deco who de signed every harpers Bazaar cover from 1915 to died yesterday at Cochin friends he was Erie was admitted to the Hospital in poor health three weeks the artist real name was remain de Tir Toff was known As a paint lithographer and set he also designed costumes for the legendary dancer Anna Pavlova and the performer spy Mata Index Ann Bridge letters focus Puzzle sports record stocks to 27 24 27 36 25 25 36 6 28 7 27 30 19 29 31 35 23 26 24 lotto winning numbers 40 Bonus number 42 the plus winning plus number is 943173 armed police search angers sleeping tenant by George Nikides an Assiniboine Avenue tenant is furious after police barged into his apartment with guns pointed in search of a suspected they said open the door right turn on the lights and get against the said the who asked that his name not be their guns were pointed right at it was just it was some thing you see in Miami and Miami vice there a Man armed with a handgun held up the Sun food Mart on Donald Street just after a passerby followed a suspect to 303 where police conducted a search of the a police spokesman the search failed to find the who made off with an Undis closed amount of and police Are still a caretaker said he gave police a master key to the which was used to search All 49 the tenant said police didst pro vide a warrant when they unlocked his door at about while he was the Only thing pre venting them from entering was a Chain which the tenant while the tenant stood in his Bath see police Page 5 Ken free press to them members of the Springfield fire department drench ashes of a barn destroyed by a gras fire leaves residents finning Long wait for fire fighters As barn Burns kindles fears a fire that destroyed a barn and threatened Homes and businesses near Symington Yards has left residents fuming at the time taken for help to witnesses said the fire which Des troyed a barn near Symington Road and Highway 1 started about 10 and the Rural municipality of Springfield fire depart ments pumper truck arrived about an hour a fire Crew sent by in they took another 15 several residents said they want an arrangement made for them to pay the City of Winnipeg for fire noting a City fire truck could have come from Transcona in about five Bob who runs Lakeside Lei sure said he was one of about a dozen businessmen and residents who battled the Blaze while waiting for fire he said the fire got to the Edge of his which has at least Worth of goods such As which have their Gas tanks William owner of the said his House is about 40 metres from where the fire but a family in a House he rents out about 10 metres from where it ended had to be his son said if the fire had occurred at night rather than in the we probably have see in Page 4 family jailed in swindle England Reuter a her a husband and two children have been sentenced to jail for swindling a senile aunt out of her Leav ing the elderly woman destitute for her last Baroness Susan de was sentenced yesterday to seven years for what the Birmingham Crown court judge called her absolutely barbarous treat ment of her aunt the late lady for their parts in the the Baroness former Baron Michael de was sentenced to four years her daughter Sophia to 30 months and her 28yearold son Marcus Wilberforce to 18 lady Illingworth was a former society hostess and second wife of a first world War Cabinet she was stripped of her Fortune of close to million can and dumped in an old Peoples where she died a pauper in 1986 at the age of her relatives gave her the cheapest funeral they could find and had her Cre mated after spending her Cash on vacations an apartment in new cars and expensive see aunts Page 4 soviets impose total blockade by Warren Canagata the Canadian press the soviet Union has imposed a total economic stranglehold on the Deputy prime minister of the breakaway Baltic Republic said according to our an order has been Given to Cut off All shipments to Romual Das the Deputy prime told a group of foreign All goods entering Lithuania by rail and Road will be he although he added it was impossible to provide proof because soviet authorities did not put anything on i believe the blockade has started a total late last Moscow Cut off the Supply of Oil and slashed the flow of natural Gas to the lithuanian officials said Friday some Industrial products As Well As sugar and fish had been added to the Moscow imposed the blockade to Force Lithuania to give up its attempt to separate from the soviet the Republic declared its Independence March Vozolas pleaded for Aid from Western saying if help is not we can say our Strug Gle is lithuanian prime minister Kazimiera Prunskiene said yesterday in Copenhagen she had come to Den Mark to seek political not from the Europe an dec foreign ministers meeting in Dublin issued a statement expressing their serious concern about the economic blockade on Lithia see West Page 4 fear of flying strikes accusers Minneapolis a a Northwest airlines flight from Detroit to Atlanta was delayed about four hours when a Pilot refused to Fly the plane after a passenger accused him of being according to the the who had been called in thursday night after the scheduled Pilot was delayed in route from Milkau insisted he be Given an alcohol and drug test to prove he was the Star Tribune when the plane finally the passenger and her husband stayed behind because other passengers were enraged with Northwest spokesman Douglas Miller the woman and her husband were subjected to quite a bit of verbal abuse from the other passengers and they elected not to take the Miller Miller said the airline supports the pilots we feel he was Miller parole blamed in diluted Justice system by Paul Wiecek the integrity of the criminal Justice system is being compromised by a parole system More concerned with the rights of the offender than the safety of the the head of the Canadian association of chiefs of police has there letting these Guys out on parole unescorted and then when they skip suddenly people read in the papers that there armed and Winnipeg police chief Herb Stephen said in a recent if there dangerous after skip then they must have been cheating Justice part two dangerous so whats the parole Board letting them out for in the first place Stephen he said police agree inmates must be gradually reintroduced into but he said it should not be at the expense of Public i dont know All the but i know the parole system is resulting in a lot of preventable crimes that have happened if these people were still in jail like a judge said they should in 1985 Winnipeg police Laid 310 charges against inmates who strayed while on full mandatory temporary absences or Day the charges included three for five for attempted 18 robbery eight for attempted eight for sexual assault and 33 weapon related according to a study compiled in 1986 by a concerned senior Winnipeg police Gerald Warren then is a Case in he was out on mandatory supervision when he was charged november with killing a Mountain Avenue neighbor during a Drunken his earlier record included three years in prison for assault causing bodily harm in 20 months for Possession of a dangerous weapon in six months for Possession of a dangerous weapon in 1982 and 13 months for assault causing bodily harm that at his april murder Sinclair was described As having diminished intelligence because of his abuse of alcohol and defence lawyer Rocky Pollack said see most 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