Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba New years baby dad in minor car Accident driving mom to the Hospital a10 Grozny devastated fierce Battle pages vol 123 no 32 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 in i i i Winnipeg free press f get Post get Post outside City 75c in Ontario weekly Home delivery 53 25 wkly 05 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 Why s3 09 21 Post outside City january 1995 Darold baby abandoned at Hospital police seek parents by Alexandra Paul medical reporter Thompson authorities Are looking for the parents of a Darold baby abandoned at Thompson general Hospital on the Bill Ratchet of Thompson ramp said he had no idea How or Why the baby had been left in the look Ater new channels interest you by Brad Oswald entertainment reporter a pack of new Canadian Spe Fialty channels hit the air Waves and youd be Wise to give them a because four weeks from its decision time and you could find yourself paying for something you dont the new channels the women television showcase Tele the discovery new country life net work and be Reseau de 1information will be provided on a free preview basis until the end of hustling to meet c3 after most of them will be combined with the already re viewed Fox broadcasting signal in an option package that will add be tween and to your monthly Cable to for the 85 per cent of customers who already subscribe to an extend Edba sic Cable package that includes the likes of can and the new channels will be offered on a negative option that Means automatically be added to your monthly Bill unless you specifically Tell the Cable company to re move it really comes Down to finding enough that interests you in this package of new services to justify paying an additional couple of Dol Lars a said Ken president of communications management a local consulting these channels Are being pack there not being offered on an a la carte so it really comes Down to making an assessment that at least a couple of the seven new services look reasonable to customers who receive Only Basic Cable channels 2 to 13 plus High numbered services like Yov and vision to must Contact the Cable company if they want to receive the new the key to understanding this packaging is that while you May be paying for something you dont want if you Only like two of the seven channels the amount youre pay ing is still probably less than if you bought those channels on a free standing said its simple if 20 per cent of the people Are willing to sub scribe to a there going to have to pay five times As much As if 100 per cent Are receiving the marketing strategy being used in where Cable customers have several Channe pack age differs from the controversial plan employed by Cable giants Rogers communications and Maclean Hunter in other parts of those companies have Given their subscribers an allo nothing Choice either pay an extra for the addition of new channels to the extend Edba sic or give up All optional services and take Basic Cable we and the Hospital dont have a Ratchet said the nicknamed baby John by Hospital is with Blue eyes and dark he is in apparent Good health and weighs the baby was less than 24 hours old when found in an examination room saturday Laboratory technologist David who made the discovery along with a said the baby was wrapped in a crocheted Blanket and left on a steel table in the egg nobody on staff reported seeing the baby brought dark it was a it was a morning and we had a Skeleton unless somebody at admitting or emergency saw it would have gone dark the baby had been cleaned and his umbilical Cord was Cut and tied with a his clothes looked like they belonged to a it looked like an old pair of sweat pants wee sweat pants with the legs Cut of f and sewn up into Little dark Ratchet said that for the Childs authorities would like to Marc Gallant Winnipeg free press Bob Ramsay shovels shards of Glass by Banks night Deposit Box on Dublin bomb blows out rocks James offices by Stevens wild staff reporter a bomb planted in a night Security Box rocked a James neighbourhood Early the explosive planted in an apparent robbery blew out 19 windows of a Toronto Dominion office and adjoining offices at Dublin Avenue and James the blast also caused the buildings roof to Buck there were no injuries in the which was heard several blocks the explosion took place at and caused an Esti mated in duty Stan Tataryn said the culprits misjudged the amount of explosive he said they probably planted the bomb and it exploded immedi the Metal night Deposit Box was a Burnt ruin yesterday broken Glass and twisted Metal were scattered in the parking lot in front of the Tataryn said the police bomb squad did not know what Type of explosive had been theres not enough left to Tell at this Tataryn but they will be conducting he said the site had probably been selected because of its relatively secluded an area of offices and Ware the James Dublin area was virtually empty yesterday and was probably completely deserted in the Middle of the he said the excessive amount of explosive used showed the Cul prits were they were not experts in its Tataryn they were not he said police did not believe any Money was by Ullh Rubin a fish dilemma could get you hooked which topped up starts today on Page a fish hesitates to jump out of a burning building into an awaiting net in the latest addition to the free press cartoon written and drawn by Leigh rubes contains an eve changing cast of humans and animals who wrestle with some very off Thelwall moral and philosophical and with the challenges of everyday readers interested in knowing Why cannibals Are disappointed that theres no colonel in the bucket of Kentucky Fried or How budding the perfect get it out of his will find the answers in rubes starts and youll find the fish caught Between the net and the hot on Page rubes replaces Gary larsons the far Larson is taking a the new cartoon was selected by a free press readers far out polling three other the free press joins More than 100 daily newspapers which carry As do a Large number of College rubes is now in its Lith there Are two paperback editions of rubes the wry and witty adorn greeting Coffee Date Post and key know the medical background of his ramp Karen Adams said she suspects the child was born to a teenager who concealed her i Hope the parents come Forward and do the right Adams if the parents decide to put the baby up for there Are Many couples who would be More than Happy to take the baby was left at the Hospital Between and 10 saturday and is believed to have been born earlier at least the child was left in a Hospital and not in a Ratchet he said the child is now in the custody of Thompson child and family is the Well about to run dry advocacy groups fearful As Grant process delayed by Bruce Owen staff reporter Manitoba advocacy groups Are worried that a government imposed delay in their Grant applications to Ottawa signals a Cut in funding in the up coming Federal and they May be Liberal backbench ers As Well As Reform maps Are calling for an overhaul of the Grants its a system that pays out an Esti mated billion a year nobody seems to know for sure because Grants come from All government weve been told to wait until they groups will get fund said Susan administrative coordinator for the Manitoba action committee on the status of women were told we wont find out until the end of macs gets a year to fund its funding which has already been Cut by 10 per cent Over the last two Banks said any Cut would restrict macaws efforts to educate canadians on issues such As violence against women and the need for Ade quate women it definitely affects the volume of work we can she you cant focus on the bigger picture or bring issues out into the Lloyd spokesman for the Manitoba league for the physically said possible Federal Grant cuts would Hurt the Organiza the league got in operational funding last we pretty much recognize that whats going to Terry we realize were going to have to look at other areas of fundraising if inside Story hoping to silence voices we want to continue to do the we understand that some groups might be but theres no said Mike spokesman for the human resources develop ment things Are in a state of flux right but the Issue int whether the groups will get their but More of mechanical details of How they apply for pressure to Cut or withdraw Grants for advocacy groups comes from the Reform party and Liberal who say these Spe Cia interest groups should be Mem Berushi driven rather than tax pay it comes As the Chretien government prepares to table its budget in artificial when the government inter Venes to keep a group alive or Start then these groups Are Ontario Liberal my John Bryden Frithey dont reflect real i Wendy administrator for the Norbert Chil Drens said a Cut or withdrawal of funding could derail a special project by the Centre to study family violence and Low self esteem among teenage the Centre recently got confirmation it would receive a onetime Grant to study the but has yet to see any this is How wed like to keep things going in the Bloomfield without it would be really hard to provide ser vice to the o d a Farewell far hello rubes quote of the Day Why is the life of a receptionist Worth More than the lives of 50 innocent human babies antiabortion activist Donald Spitz praises John accused of murdering two receptionists at an abortion clinic five other people were wounded in the retells on Page a2 the weather today mostly i Cloudy and very wind new 30 in a tonight tomorrow sunny skies and High Sun Soti Moon Riita 8qo inside diversions rubes and Ann doctor in record to ;