Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba 32 pages vol 123 no 246 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get t Post outside oily 75g in Ontario weekly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg wkly outside City August wider War feared As yugoslav forces reported on the move croat Blitz alters map from Preu Tersip Zagreb Croatia announced an end to its Blitz against serbs yesterday but the United nations said fighting continued and thousands of yugoslavian troops were reported on the move toward the action has been croatian defence minister Gojko Susak tension persisted with reports of Large scale yugoslavian army movements through Serbia to Ward witnesses also re ported seeing a huge military column heading toward Croatia across Serbia held Battle line As Early an armoured Divi including modern self propelled howitzers and other heavy Armor left the yugoslavian capital witnesses it headed in the direction of East Ern 100 Kilometres to the if yugoslavian troops enter a larger will re witnesses in Bosnia later spoke of a huge Convoy of trucks towing guns and buses full of Bosnia serb sol Diers heading from Brcko in the Northeast toward the Central City serbian stat police units were with the bosnian witnesses they said the column appeared to be moving toward Western near the croatian tens of thousands of terrified ser Bian refugees fled across Croatia hoping to reach safety in in workers said As Many As croatian serbs could be seeking safety in Bosnia one of the biggest mass exod uses since War erupted the former Yugoslavia in the roads Are there Are lots of cars without fuel or broken everything is jammed the situation is very a in re Lief worker croatian foreign minister mate Granic said his country will not fight in the near future to regain the East Ern sector held by the but Susak said we Are ready to liberate the territory by should All negotiations quote of the Day we dont answer questions about Ben Donovan Bailey and fellow Canadian sprinter Bruny Surin Are fed up with discussing the Man whose legacy inspired details on Page d1 the weather today sunny with increasing afternoon Cloudy 40 Chance Oil lat Day High Low tomorrow a mix of Sun and High Sun sets Moon rises details on Page d7 Cool dudes Marc Winnipeg free press left Olivier squirts Evin at Mabries Lockwood Street Home yester the Mercury hit 33 c yesterday and could hit 35 but a thunderstorm tonight should help As things Cool off to the mid20s by the end of the please see spirits numbers attacked civic report says plan marginal jets could be gone in five years by John Douglas business reporter the spirit of Manitoba financial plan could be out by More than million and the Winnipeg jets May have to be sold within five years even if it is Only marginally two Independent re ports reports by the National hockey league and City officials question spirits numbers As it Heads into a last crucial week of after being warned last week its numbers were sources say nil commissioner Gary Bettman will inform spirit today its plan could be off by As much As Mil lion by City Council will be told today that spirits plan is marginal at a 40page report for City officials says everything hinges on controlling salaries and increasing revenues through higher if revenues and salary projections Are off by 10 per cent the re port says the jets will have to be sold within three years of moving into a new the nil is also questioning Spir its salary last year player contracts in on per even with a new collective agree the league believes a 10 per cent annual growth rate would be considered spirit has said it plans to keep Sala Ries Flat Over the next three years and expects a total payroll increase of 20 per cent by the year spirit plan worries nil if the nil is that would Lead to a deviation from the spirit plan in the next three we continue to be quite concerned that the projections regard ing player costs Are unrealistic and do not accurately reflect the Likely operations of the an 3 let Ter from Bettman to spirit chairman Alan Sweatman Sweatman admitted last night nil has serious concerns about spirits salary but he noted the Nils salary concerns can be resolved by drop Ping a couple of Sweatman vowed last night spirit will Soldier Gary Bettman has said he will take whatever we give him to the Board of governors and hell have to take less than he if they say then they say the nil has again told spirit it needs million in Cash immediately if it Hopes to get its plan past the two weeks ago the nil said the same but spirit downplayed it As a bargaining spirit has said it needs at least million by 15 to close the in his 3 letter to Bettman clarifies the leagues Posi my views expressed on july 25 Are certainly not a bargaining Posi bats should feel at Home in this haunt by Gordon Sinclair free press columnist i haunted when youre the owner of a once glorious and youre determined to restore its elegance and prof Tabil youre Apt to try almost but bats in the Chimney there Are sceptics who think the Man be Hind the fort Garry hotel managing partner Rick already has bats in his Bel but the bearded former economics pro who shares the hotel management with his Ida seems Bel got the idea while visiting a hotel in aus which is near a site where tourists gather at dusk each evening to watch a Black Cloud of bats take he believes attracting hundreds of the mouse like mammals to nest in the gothic style buildings roof is just one More Way of making people take another Jook at the 82yearold Grande Dame of Winnipeg Don the hotels assistant says Bel is proud of innovative ideas like the Bat Klassen Doest expect the bats to be Check ing in he says the hotel has other like fixing the structures Crum bling face before it Falls the historically designated to tej has been falling on its face since the who been at the fort Garry since says he Doest know if the hotel is turn ing a profit but theres no doubt Bel and Albo have turned the place around since they took Over last our occupancy rate is Way says Klas it was 93 per cent and the week end 85 per cent of the hotels 246 card locked rooms were occupied at rates ranging from to Bel and Albo have also hired Veteran Winni Peg hotel manager George Gershman to mar Ket the fort i intend to rekindle the spirits of the Glori Ous says there Are those who say the spirits dont need any legend has it the hotel is the bats should feel right at inside diversions rubes and Ann c2 editorials in c7 sports to lasers Blaze from Sci i films on to Manitoba Farmers Fields Sybil Redekop staff reporter la Salle most people expect to see lasers in science fiction not blowing Farmers but Manitoba Farmers Are turning to High tech laser guided machinery to Grade their land for better Drain when you get thunderstorms in heavy Clay in Southern you get puddling and that kills said Ray who runs a vegetable farm near Cormier used the laser device to Grade two five hectare he sloped the Fields so excess water runs off into then into inside Story Farmers regaining land b3 Roadside its impossible to Grade with the naked says Farmers using the laser system place a transmitter in the Corner of the Field which relays information by an invisible laser beam to a receiver in a tractor that equipped with a it will show you the Low and High and figure out where to dig a its All explains Isaac Peters of who gave a demonstration to about 60 other Farmers at a soil conservation meet ing the laser also tells the Farmer whether to raise or lower the Blade of the and How deep to dig a if the ditch is dug too water wont Drain David Rourke of an in dependent research firm in said farms near Minto were As wet As any in Western Manitoba from Spring flooding this but Farmers with Good drainage got on their land a lot sooner than Farmers without he Grain Farmers with larger Fields use the laser device to put shallow 15centimetre gullies in Lew spots on their land to help remove excess Snow melt and Peters rents out his laser system for a Day and finds most of his customers in Hilly farm the laser system costs to buy and a scraper that attaches to a tractor costs about second its just one of the innovations starting to take hold in the says Keith Murphy of for there is a move away from disc which churn up soil and cause wind and into seed boots that put in both the seed and fertilizer at once without disturbing the the new seed boots place the fertilizer underneath the he said More Farmers Are adopt ing Zero till or minimum tilling in the Sander soils of Western Mani ;