Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Complete listings Fame and Fortune b1 or relaxing ride on the Waves c1 60 pages vol 123 no 244 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get t Post outside City weekly Homo delivery is wkly t 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 wkly 09 21 Post Oul Sido City August huge croat Force hits serbs Preu Terrp Croatia Croatia launched a major assault on breakaway serbs shelling in peacekeepers and civil ians and defying warnings that it could ignite the worst Balkan conflict since the second world the croatian army mobilized troops with Armor and air support to attack the Krajina in safety Law sets off Boom Auto wreckers Happy to accept flood of beaters by Bud Robertson staff reporter its the Boom of the new legislation designed to improve vehicle safety is driving those rust buckets and clunkers off the roads in droves and Auto wreckers around town be bad dream a13 wreckers Are swamped with of fers from frantic owners trying to unload their beaters following the enactment of Manitoba new mandatory vehicle inspection its been a big Boom for said Dave owner of Kildonan Auto and truck parts and vice pres ident of the automotive Disman tiers and recycler s of since the program came into effect july the number of vehicles his Transcona shop has bought has gone from about two a Day to said we got flooded with people try ing to sell us said Louis Hogue of Aimes Auto people Are finding themselves stuck with cars that need More re pairs than they can wreckers and in some the vehicles Are so far gone they cant be registered even with a lot of times the vehicles cant be brought up to snuff because the new inspections Are pretty rigor Blayden used vehicles bought through a dealer or by private Sale must now pass a comprehensive safety inspection before they can be prior to the july 1 Only use car dealers were required to have their vehicles the province also conducted random inspections of older from the provinces the new Law is doing what it its driving All the beaters off the Street that too dead panned Adam the Provin Cial director of transportation safety and the new regulations have also been a Boon for the provinces 800 certified inspection ail the dealers that Are doing it seem to be doing a fair said Garry service Man Ager with Canadian tire on Portage theres go ing to be a lot canadians chased from posts Aid Canada urged Clave at Dawn in Defiance of Unap peals for nato warplanes flying in support of embattled peacekeepers fired two harm missiles at a croatian serb radar site after the planes were threatened with surface air mis said Jim an Alli Ance there was no dam age estimate from the nato Canada called on the croatian army to halt its saying its action could end the in Mission in former Canadian peacekeepers were ducking artillery shells and being chased from observation posts by the nato warned that attacks on in peacekeepers would be met with air strikes after one danish peace keeper was killed and two poles wounded in attacks on in by last croatian troops claimed advances on front lines across ser held but the serbs resisted a massive govern ment bombardment of their self proclaimed which lasted All Freedom at last Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Leigh Weatherman releases a great horned owl in Birds Hill Park the Bird was found weak and flightless beside Kenaston Boulevard in a snowy owl and a red tailed Hawk were also set please see Story on Page d y quote of the Day the peacekeeping Mission has broken Down Ltd Mefi Jeff a Canadian military spokesman in says croatian soldiers forced canadians out of four observations details on Page a5 weather school supplies headed to Bosnia by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter y sunny High Low tonight sunday mainly High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details Phi paged 1 inside business b9 careers classified comics diversions rubes and Ann Landers deaths editorials a6 Faith in births c7 c10 sports record t the hard work and Hopes of hundreds of school children have finally taken flight along with kilograms of pencils and collected at carpathia school ear Lier this the school supplies Are destined for bosnian Safe havens where refugees Are trying to regain some semblance of Normal its great that its finally out the door and headed to the kids who need said a Parent with Carpathian Parent teacher or its been a Long time waiting to get this thing a communications radar technician with the Canadian and his launched the drive last january after hearing from Canadian peace keepers in Croatia that children were desperate for the Basic tools for the Parent teacher group organized the collection and invited eight other area schools to join this after a five month de the supplies will be loaded on a plane and shipped to via the flames licked through buildings and streets were deserted except for the occasional car loaded with civilians fleeing in thousands of serb refugees in tractors and some with were headed for ser held territory in neighbouring Between and shells hit knit by last said Andrew a senior in military starting youll notice some Sto Ries in your free press carrying this local heroes youll find them anywhere in the just As youll find people in every walk of life who go the extra mile for their they neither expect no want Praise or re but they deserve our notice be cause their great and Little acts of kind Ness make this a better you prob ably know some of if you Call one of the editors whose phone num Bers run at the top of the front pages of the business or sports let us know about a local a dwell let everybody United along with 1u tonnes of clothing collected by the Menno Nite Central the supplies sat in a warehouse in Winnipeg until recently when the Mcc was contacted by an american Church to say the military had offered a plane for Relief the Canadian military had said its planes were needed to lift Highpi Ortity items such As i was real Happy because now the kids in Bosnia get the schoo sup said Anthony anyone interested in donating school kits for overseas Relief can Call the Mcc at he spoke of serious loss of civil Ian life in the about 200 kilo metres South of within croatian troops were said to be close to breaching defence the croatian assault marked a re turn to full scale War that could merge with the War in neighbouring Bosnia and draw in serb led Yugo Slavia for the biggest Balkan conflagration since the second world wildlife trophies fetch up to in animals have Price on Heads by Doug Nairne staff reporter an american Market hungry for trophy animal parts has placed bounties As High As on the Heads of the provinces trophy Heads from big game animals such As Moose and Black bears have made Hunting for profit a reality As collectors scramble for the biggest and and the smell of Money has the people who protect the provinces wildlife fearing what the future could Gene a Federal wildlife enforcement said he has encountered extraordinary incidents where americans have come to Canada expecting to pull out All the stops in their Hunt for trophy in one he said a group of Hunters brought a helicopter into Manitoba to scout out a prize i told them that if they used that helicopter it would become property of the Canadian Whitney it is illegal to use aircraft to Hunt in the population of big game in Manitoba is growing and some question whether trophy Hunting puts pressure on the viability of the but Whitney said it was not Long ago that the Hunting seasons on the most plentiful animals such As Deer were closed due to fears they would be hunted out of by slaughtering the largest and most robust trophy Hunters Are also depleting the Gene Pool and leaving the weaker animals to he Dave head of enforcement for the provincial department of natural said concern Over the Impact of commercial trophy Hunting is weve seen a growing problem As the value of trophy Heads and animal parts he m profit part one inside Story i dealers after big trophies a13 the amount of Money involved keeps growing and so does the level of awareness about How much can be a relatively Small trophy head from a White tailed Deer will fetch on the american the larger ones bring in much the record Heads Are said to be drawing offers in the the Heads Are coveted by collectors for show and Are used by dealers to create replicas for mass production and the exact size of the Trade in Manitoba is not known As much of it goes on some estimate As Many As 40 trophy animals Are taken in Manitoba each it is not known How Many were slaughtered in the Pursuit of the Purvis said there has not been a Large increase in the amount of poaching known to be going but cautioned that it is difficult to police the Large expanses of wilderness where the Hunting takes he said the lure of easy Money makes animals an enticing last there were 640 charges Laid under the Manitoba wildlife a further 147 warnings were the charges were Down from a High of 937 made in but Are still above totals 10 years everyday Cash million bps Dollar grand Day crowing grand prize hurry More than sold already Call 774 1 995 toll free 1 8oo6672946 ;