Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo getting on the Green Golf enthusiasts Are switching to colourful Cotton coordinates 21 sports costly injuries injuries Are hurting bombers Enfield performance and their budget 33 focus keeping up with change Europe nations try to keep Pace with continents political change sunny today 25 Clear tonight 12 weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957055o classified 956233o Council looks at minimum tax increase of cent for 92 by Radha Krishan Thampi City Council has asked its bureaucrats to draft three budgets for next with the most frugal one to require a property tax before breaking for a months Holiday councillors approved a motion asking the administration to prepare budgets reflecting increases of and per cent for a hike would add about to the tax Bill on an average three bedroom the 1992 with the three will be similar to the one the administration presented this the administration wants a percent property tax increase for 1992 to reflect the anticipated inflation despite the proposed finance commissioner Bill Carroll said citizens still will have to put up with Between million and million in cuts to civic services staff next Carroll said it would require at treaty to shrink nuclear arsenals Mideast Gamble set by Jim Sheppard the Canadian press Moscow president Bush and soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev signed a landmark arms control treaty yesterday and called a jointly sponsored Middle East peace conference for october As they ended a today the strategic arms reduction which took almost a decade to will Force the superpowers for the first time to destroy thou Sands of their most dangerous Long Range nuclear least an property tax increase next year to maintain ser vices at this years mayor Bill Norrie said the Council motion is Only a guideline to the administration to get the 1992 budget process but Don Mitchelson Hen Derson Doest believe Mitchelson said the in of Baui violence claims this is u major step Forward for our Mutual Security and the cause of world Bush said just before he and Gorbachev signed the 750page treaty with pens made from weapons melted Down under earlier arms control the two presidents then took a big Gamble by announcing they will jointly sponsor a Middle East peace conference this october despite israeli we believe there is a historic Opportunity right Bush this Opportunity must not be he and Gorbachev then announced they will be sending their foreign ministers to the troubled Region to try to persuade both israelis and arabs to soviet foreign minister Alexander Bessmer Nyoh said the soviets will try to sweeten the pot for Tel Aviv by offering to restore full diplomatic both presidents proclaimed the Summit their fourth a rousing the atmosphere was a very warm sin Gorbachev said at the news i Felt Solidarity with president the american Leader echoed those senti i agree More about the productive nature of the he told the news Confer the Summit helped to enhance our Mutual and that not diplomatic that the Way i but the mood in Moscow was darkened earlier in the Day by an attack on a customs Post in the Independence minded Baltic Republic of Lithuania that left six guards dead and several there was immediate speculation the attack was orchestrated by Hartline conservatives in the soviet military and Interior ministry who Are opposed to Gorbachev but there was see air Page 4 scouts die in rollover Palm Springs mayor Sonny Bono comforts a victim of a rollover bus Accident which killed six girl scouts and the and injured 53 the mayor helped Rescue Crews after the bus lost its brakes and rolled 10 times Down a Mountain phone Call discounted in Hunt for missing police scour area around Alexander docks Wack Winnipeg flee press by Paul Wiecek police searchers combed the area around the Alexander docks yesterday hoping to find a Twoy Earold boy who disappeared saturday j while police the boys family received a phone Call during which a child was heard crying in the Lou head of the Winnipeg police missing persons said the Anonymous Call was Likely a sick joke and downplayed the possibility of foul play in the disappearance of Alfred if someone abducted this child and Doest want to give him then Why would they Call Spado it just Doest make As far As were we still have nothing including this phone Call to suggest foul Anna Alfreds received the Call at her Redwood Avenue Home at noon 1 picked up the phone and there was nothing and then someone put this kid on the line and he was then they Hung Alfred Roulette has been missing since saturday evening after his 76yearold Lucy claims he disappeared while she was taking him for a Contois says she left him outside the Bell hotel about 6 while she went in to use the she says that when she returned 10 to 15 minutes the his stroller and an unknown teenage girl she had asked to watch him had Spado said police doubt several elements of see boys Page 4 Georgina Roulette Waits for 1 gives Blanket approval to the bureaucrats for a minimum property tax hike of per he said its unwise for Council to give such guidelines without know ing details of the Revenue and expenditure estimates for next Council also approved in principle the administrations budget Reform report entitled to Ward a strategic and authorized the Board of commissioners to implement its including a Cap on tax sup ported annual capital borrowing As opposed to this years and a three year current and capital budget forecast that pro poses to keep property tax increases to four per cent in 1993 and three per cent in lease puts tory donor in the chips Unte dered lottery he Deal handed to manness supporter by Donald Campbell an Unte dered lease for Square feet of office space for the Rural Headquarters of the Manitoba lotteries foundations video gambling program has been Given to a Rosenorn businessman with impeccable tory connect although Oliver Plett professes not to be tied into any political his neighbor is Syd an influential tory appointed to head the Manitoba governments decentralization pro Gram and the Manitoba disaster assistance and who signed a letter of intent yesterday to rent to Manitoba lotteries foundation his main Street building in mor is co owner of Westfield industries Westfield gave finance minis Ter Clayton who represents the Riding of Morris which includes Rosenorn a Campaign donation last year of in an interview Plett refused to say who told him the lotteries foundation was quietly looking to lease a building for its newest gambling endear at the i dont want to discuss too much about Plett when asked How he Learned about the he later offered around the Morris area it was general knowl Edge i Plett did say that Manitoba lotteries did not con tact him directly to inquire about see pc Page 4 tories gambling on Rural Jackpot from video poker by Donald Campbell the province will sink Mil lion into video gambling machines for Rural Manitoba Beer hoping to hit a Jackpot of new Cash for economic development like most the government will take a loss the venture in the first raising Only about Manitoba lotteries foundation has held a private tender involving eight companies to buy the video Blackjack and poker which can be played for a Quarter and will pay out a top prize of the first gambling machines Are expected to be set up in Brandon by the beginning of no at least 800 machines will be set up in bars and lounges by next March and another 800 by March All proceeds will be pumped Back into the Rural but Cabinet ministers yester Day admitted there Are few de tails available As to How the Money will be handled or there Are Many forms of gaming activity ongoing in Rural said Bonnie Mitchel minister responsible for lot this is the new wave of see Rural Page 4 Wanna buy a town cheap 100 mile up for Handyman Only for that a buyer gets the abandoned Caribou mining town of Hendrix Lake Stock and Curling the Price includes 20 All with three bedrooms and All facing the it also includes a boat baseball two Tennis and a recreation Hall with a gymnasium and Curling youve heard of a Handyman special says real estate agent Phil Roux of 100 mile this whole town is a Handyman Spe most of the houses have been boarded shut since the molybdenum mine at nearby Boss Mountain closed in movies 19 26 Ann Landers answers Bridge 22 sports record 33 business classified 13 Tempo 14 Cleversey listings comics 3 crossword 23 2 utters entertainment focus number Horoscope Jumble Puzzle 23 Mun bar is i ;