Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 18, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba All work and no Hospital educators take working trips to resorts smuggling trial told of heroin students pay Price for scavenger Metis worried about loss of artefacts retailers not giving fair stud Ming wobbly jello proves to be the ultimate Comfort food Good idea to feel your Grapefruit first meal exercise improve weight bad hair Day Battles Are won with leather loses its scratching a 41year itch indians Knock mariners head to first world series since jets dump Tampa 52 at Arena Winnie for the be jets ready frustrated nabs fire Lack Ridgway fumes classified d8 comics c2 deaths diversions Cross rubes and Ann c3 editorials a10 in births d8 Jumble 011 movies c9 sports record 04 to listings c10 the weather mainly High Low details on Page d12 Winnipeg free press 5o plus taxes higher in outlying areas october talks end in u of m professors on strike by Bill Lisa Saunders and Kim Guttormson staff reporter correspondents striking University of Manitoba professors were to set up picket lines at today after negotiations with administrators broke off late last talks ended at about 11 when administration negotiators refused to respond to the faculty offer to take eight Days off in each of the first two and three Days off the third year of a three year the proposal amounted to wage concessions of three per three per and per professors making picket signs at the strike Headquarters applauded their negotiators at about in sitting Here looking at picket signs and a whole Bunch of angry said Grant u of m faculty association presi the strike is a major disruption for More than students and Midnight last night was the strike deadline set by which has been feuding with uni making Sparks Fly welder Wally Koehn stands by while two pieces of rail Are automatically joined North americas most modern rail welding facility opened recently at Winnipeg Transcona the new million Plant will allow in to Weld 640 Kilometres of track annually at on third less than the Cost of conventional spirit drop gloves by Paul Samyn legislature reporter the Winnipeg jets and spirit of Manitoba Are facing off in court Over who has the right to interest from a Deposit the hockey teams owners received during the aborted Effort to buy the and caught in the Middle of the is an Provin Cial government loan advanced to spirit in spirit and the jets major Ity owners began court action yesterday in an Effort to gain control of the Money and the in interest that has accrued since june at Issue is the question of who is responsible for the failure of the Rescue the majority owners Are asking a judge to Rule 24 on what they contend is a straightforward agreement on who would get the Deposit if spirit was unable to fulfil its end of the continued please see Community fundraiser to Aid Cri Meriden retailer store owner finds help in time of need by Bruce Owen stall reporter Gerald Thiessen has had his store robbed and broken into so Many times he thought soaring insurance costs might Force him out of but he didst count on the com munits it started five months ago when thieves drove a car into his Waverley Heights variety Corner store and stole cigarettes and lottery two weeks an inmate from heading Ley correctional institution on a Day pass walked in with a gun and told the clerk to give him the then his insurance company told him that because of those crimes including nine break ins in nine years they no longer cover another com Pany said it would insure but Only if his deductible was if i have to absorb this year because of till be pretty Thiessen said yes its a marginal business to Start youre always walk ing the youre always Bor but Thiessens business might be thanks to the generosity of his customers and neighbors neighbors who Are also tired of rising these people plan to hold a fundraising social for Thiessen so he can afford his increased insurance Marc free press Thiessen at a favorite target for its so discouraging when you see people trying to make a living and someone else is trying to take i away from Lapointe and other neighbors booked the Waverley Heights Community Centre for 10 for the social and silent its really Thiessen i dont know what else to when we were my wife and i just sat there and looked at one we didst think people cared that its not their Lapointe people Are just getting tired of turning around and not doing know a local hero let us know at 6977292 and Well let everyone Treyve the Thiessens been picked on so Many times we had to do social Coorg Nizer Brenda Lapointe there just regular people Liv ing in our Community who Are trying to eke out a varsity administration Over Layoff proposals members say would seriously inhibit academic the last major movement from the administration came last Fri when it offered to remove its unpopular Layoff plan in Exchange for faculty accepting an eight per cent wage Rollback Over two prior to the University had insisted on its need to be Able to downsize by removing some tenured professors through retire ment transfers and eliminating redundant continued please see mayors chair up for grabs Kaufmann in dead nipping at Thompsons heels by Nick Martin City Hall reporter free 1995 mayor Susan Thomp son leads Terry Duguid and Peter Kauf Mann with a week to go before the 25 municipal according to a poll conducted for the free press and one voter in four is ready to give Thompson a second while Duguid and Kaufmann Are running neck and splitting the support of More than on third of Winni Eggers who dont support the current Thompson was named by 26 per cent of those asked who would make the Best while Duguid and Kauf Mann gleaned 18 per cent with 25 per cent saying they were but the numbers dont mean Thompson has the race in the said pollster Scott Mack a of probe research theres nothing in the data civic u poll fort Rouge dozes a6 mayor says Shes Best a7 contrasting aspects a11 that tells us about Mackay this is nothing like a big Lead for her two rivals Are just nipping at her part of the reason is that eight per cent of Thompsons sup porters say there unlikely to bother voting at whereas Only two per cent of dug ids support is soft and Only five per cent of Kaufmann backers Arent interested in continued please see jobs 1 but candidates cant solve it by Treena Khan staff reporter free 1995 Winnipeg mayoral candidates face a Tough political climate Grap pling with Many voter concerns that they cant address according to a Winnipeg free health care and Educa Tion were listed As important issues of concern to Winnipeg according the poll released and theres not much a civic government can do about said Scott president of probe research they cant come up with great deals for like a Hoover dam project to create said the candidates have said they we rent but there in not a lot they can while unemployment and jobs were the 1 crime and taxes came in second and third and those two areas Are within civic at least in voters were asked to name the top Issue facing then invited to add one or two additional they were not told the poll was linked to the mayoral race until they completed their none of the leading con tenders for the mayoralty has unveiled a major Job creation but mayor Susan Terry and grocer Peter Kaufmann have All proposed the province and Ottawa cooperate in infrastructure renewal pro Grams to ease both Thompson and Kaufmann Are Strong proponents of reducing the size of the civic workforce and contract ing Kaufmann says eliminating business tax Over 10 years will allow Small business to hire theres this remaining anxiety about unemployment this lingering feeling that the recession never no one is talking about a big work pro Mackay collect the mayoral candidates Arent speaking to that con continued please see better than Bank foreign Exchange rates guaranteed corporate accounts c Tum House currency Exchange 9876000 ;