Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Friday june 13, 1969 19 indians have a future multiple warhead debated by Bob Lowery Thompson Man. Special Cree is a Beautiful Lan Guage so very logical. I d place it just a Little below says a scholarly italian who has found a Home in Northern Mani Toba. The commentator is Rev. Virgil Bonatti a Catholic priest who has spent 15 years in the North. None of them has been against my he says. I m 100 per cent satisfied. I m not giving up a one wonders at the last remark when one reads Between the lines of his modest comment and tries to gain a picture of just what he has left behind in Italy. His father was for five years swimming and diving Champion of his country. One of his relatives was among the Earl Iest pilots to Fly the Atlantic. Still another member of his family Walter Bonatti is world renowned for his daring Moun tinkering exploits on Mont Blanc lava redo Mountain in the ital Ian Dolomite Range and the Himalayas. Several italian peaks Bear his name. Yet another Bonatti Vittorio has won Fame with an artist s Brush. His works hang in museums in Rome Paris and other european cities. The reticent priest admits a portrait of himself is in one of these museums. Adventurers we re a family of adventurers. I m one of them but not the kind that gets written about in this May have been True up to now yet All his modesty cannot hide the Quality of this rugged yet sensitive highly intelligent completely Charm ing italian. Returning to the Cree Lan Guage the 39-year-old priest says it s a Gold mine once in an article for an italian newspaper he used his appreciation of the Cree Tongue to emphasize the High intelligence of the people who speak it. He feels it is wrong to argue that the indians Are less intelligent than the rest of us just because they Don t want to copy the society we have created. Most of father Bonatti s years in Canada have been spent in Indian communities. He has spent five years at Island Lake a year at Cross Lake and three at Pelican Narrows in Saskatchewan. It was there that he got his grounding in the Cree language. Human terms later he served the Indian communities of Moose Lake Cedar Lake and Basterville. Here had had the Chance to understand in human terms what it Means when communities like these Are uprooted because they stand in the path of Progress. He served the people in this area when they had to be moved from their Homes to make Way for the grand rapids Power project. The priest says Moose Lake was relatively simple because it just meant moving the people further up the Hillside they were living on. Some Felt there were distinct advantages to the move. For the other communities involved it was More difficult he says because they had to be transplanted completely. Expropriation is a different thing in these Northern communities the priest feels than in the South. He believes things go wrong because Hydro and government officials Don t take the time to reason things out i with the people affected by their j plans. I in his experience these people Are very reasonable but one May have to spend up to a month with them talking things out. It takes quite a bit of time for people living with such completely different values to grasp what the other person is thinking and trying to accomplish the priest says. Today father Bonatti serves the people of Gillam Thicket Portage and Pikwitonei. Will stay and make it their Home this remarkable italian transplant promises endless adventure in developing this coun try and perhaps creating a new level of human society. He feels the time has come for the Indian Community in which he feels More at Home than even on his beloved italian soil to decide the course it will take. Poverty he appreciates the poverty that must be overcome the struggle that lies ahead to make communities economically sound. He understands ties that bind Young indians to their families and keep them from venturing beyond their traditional society. Education Given to the Stu dents in these communities needs to be rethought and made relevant to experience and needs of the people. If the priest had his Way he d get about "50 Good men to study that material being taught. Much of it he feels just does t get across. It seems to me people Are trying to avoid coming to grips with the n e e h in these schools instead of solving it. We go on putting millions of dollars into it but we have to face that a curriculum contrived in Winnipeg just does not fit the priest also said that the Brandon getting bad image Rapley Brandon Man. Special Brandon is getting a very bad image in southwestern Manitoba and the current disagree ment Between the City s school Board and City Council is Only making matters worse or at least this is the Way the Union of Manitoba municipalities president sees it. Reeve Rapley addressed Dele Gates to the annual meeting of the we Stern judicial District of the umm wednesday and Sug i tested the City of Brandon is slipping badly As far As esteem amongst some of the nearby Rural municipalities i s concerned. He cited eases where he claimed Brandon has ignored the desires of the people of southwestern Manitoba to the detriment of the people of this area. A Case in Point according to Reeve Rapley was the handling of discussion centred around the location of the proposed regional vocational school. Said the umm president despite the fact that Brandon was. The Logi Cal place to locate the school the City Council seems to have priced itself out of but or. Reeve Rapley went on to add that he Felt the municipalities of southwestern Mani Toba were behind Brandon City Council in its plans for the new Keystone Centre. Earlier in his speech to the delegates Reeve Rapley alluded to the conflict Between bran Don s mayor s. A. Magnacca and the City s school Board. If i a school Board and a City Council Are questioning each other it does not create a Good he said. Aid. Marie Skolyk represented Brandon at wednesday s meet ing. When asked what she thought of Reeve Rapley s state ments she replied i am Paradise we Promise through education just does t work out. In the end there Are no jobs for those who do Complete the the future of the Indian communities lies in what the indians themselves decide to do he feels. Talk of red Power signifies a rising desire of indians to be responsible for their own future he says. This he respects but feels that the indians themselves must face their need to develop great leadership to master the Job that faces them. And of the Job facing Virgil Bonatti he simply says my calling is to be an adventurer in human he expects to spend the rest of his Days in Northern Manitoba working about 18 hours a Day. Every six years he returns to Italy for a three month visit. After two months he is restless to be Back in Northern Mani Toba. Positions have been offered him in Winnipeg and Toronto but they have no Appeal. For a Man like me the Job is to go on meeting the needs of people. It s hard work but you can t Stop doing one leaves father Bonatti with the feeling that one has been talking to the Best of Italy and Northern Manitoba and perhaps one of the greatest adventurers of them All. Ivy William Chapman Washington special tons the Pentagon s assertion that the soviet Union is testing a sophisticated multiple warhead missile capable of hitting separate targets is being challenged by other Mem Bers of the . Intelligence Community. Within that Community there is a body of opinion which holds that the rus sians Are not testing independently targe table mis Siles and that the information is at Best ambiguous. It was also Learned wednesday that Secretary of state William Rogers recently told the Senate foreign relations committee that so far As he knew the soviets Are not testing separately targeted missiles. At Issue in the dispute is an evaluation of what the . Learned in observing recent russian missile tests in the Pacific. Prior to those tests there was general agreement that mires multiple independently targeted re entry vehicles were not being tested. It was agreed that the missiles contained multiple warheads but that they could not yet be guided to strike Sepa rate scattered targets. In recent background briefings unidentified Pentagon officials have asserted. That new evidence shows the russians missiles Are Cap Able of striking separate targets with sufficient Force to destroy hardened . Missile silos. Using More cautious phraseology defence secret tary Melvin Laird told con Gress three weeks ago that the soviet Union has the technical a n to economic capability u install mires in their Large inter Continental ballistic m i s Siles the ss-9s. If accepted these assertions would the Pentagon s View that the . Must proceed quickly with its own Mir testing program and with Early deployment of an anti ballistic missile system. Some senators Are exerting pressure to Stop Mir tests and a much larger group is attempting to delay deployment of an abm. But the intelligence Community which includes units in the Pentagon Central intelligence Agency and the state department is far from in evaluating the recent rus Sian tests in the Pacific. One High ranking Intelli gence officer said wednes Day that some experts believe the tests were Only continued experiments with multiple warhead missiles that cannot be separately targeted. He said that the evidence is ambiguous and that no Black or White conclusions could be drawn. That evaluation has been communicated to several key senators who believe the Pentagon s version was intentionally circulated to counter embryonic move a. William Rodgers ments in Congress to have the . Push for a bilateral cancellation of Mir test ing. The Pentagon is opposed to a cessation. Sen. Stuart Symington Democrat Missouri an influential member of the armed services committee said on the Senate floor Early this week that he doubted the truth of the thrust of one account of the Pentagon s assessments. Sen. Symington called it another illustration of the Pentagon reclassifying cer Tain information to support its viewpoint. He had objected previously to the partial declassification of information on the administration s safeguard a n t i ballistic missile system. Other senators were perplexed to read of the Pentagon s evaluation after hearing Secretary of state Rogers testimony last Fri Day in closed session. According to reliable sources or. Rogers was asked directly whether the soviets have tested independently targeted warheads. He replied that they had not so far As his information was concerned. One senator later obtained confirmation of or. Rogers opinion from both state and Cia Intelli gence evaluators. Vote for licensing credit agencies i Ottawa up credit re porting agencies should be licensed and required to notify a person when a report has been made on him members of the Consumers association of can Ada decided at their annual meeting thursday. Delegates voted strongly in favor of asking the consumes affairs department to consider ties of credit reporting bureaus in collecting and reporting information about a person the association said in its Resolution. The reporting Agency should have to notify a person when a report is made on him and make a copy of the report Avail Able to him for inspection in their offices after receiving proof of identification the Asso appropriate legislation to pro i citation said text a person s privacy repute the reporting Agency also should be required to delete or Amend any disputed item in a person s credit report which was proven to be incorrect and to inform All recipients of the original erroneous report of such revision. Before the Resolution was passed m. T. Pearson manag ing director of the associated credit bureaus of Canada told the 175 delegates and observers that credit bureaus did not re fuse or Grant credit. A credit Bureau was a Busi Ness Enterprise organized and operated for the purpose of compiling information on the manner in which individuals and families met their credit obligations. It was a Clearing House for factual information supplied mostly by the accounts receivable department of its clients. He said the associated credit bureaus would like to work with the Consumers association of Canada to discuss any problems facing the consumer. Mrs. K. E. Macintosh of ont succeeds mrs. D. Ii. Slimmon of Winnipeg As president of the National Volun tary organization. Other officers vice presi dents or. H. E. English Ottawa or. R. E. Olley Saska Toon and mrs. F. E. Jones Dun Das ont. Recording mrs. Ranjit Hall Ottawa treasurer Bruce Philip Ottawa. Tion and economic Security by requiring licensing of credit re porting agencies. Licensing should be instituted in order to regulate the Active Good times just naturally go together with this Rev. Ray Bourque Village school his Home gives him responsibility for the needs of two older communities and a thriving new one. There is quite a change going on up Here in the North he says. Just a few years ago we were going around with dog teams where today modern communities like Thompson and Gillam have sprung up. When you have covered 500 Miles a year by dog he continues you can understand How 100 per cent we Are for pro High Hopes the priest has High Hopes and a whistle Stop for the train that s Kasina a Village in Malawi formerly Nyasa land in Africa to which Rev. Ray Bourque returned monday after a seven month leave in Winni Peg. Father Bourque 34, of St. Boniface who belongs to the closed by the Canadian Pacific White fathers an International railway. New use for hotel rumoured a for Sale sign is still hanging on the Royal Alexandra. Hotel two years after it was order returned to his Post As a teacher at a school of about 65 students. It was his first leave since he joined the order seven years ago. After seven months Holiday i m really quite anxious to get father Telephone Back to the Bourque said in interview. He has been visiting his both types one of the rumours circulating about the demolished to make Way for a combined Canadian National railways car office on the site. I this has been denied How Ever by both Crail spokesmen in Winnipeg and the Marathon real estate company in Regina which is handling the Sale of the hotel. Keith Campbell Crail s of Mother and sister mrs. J. R. vice president said such Leblanc 427 up cars Street St. Arc event Leal Possi Iii. Wonderful Boniface. 1 ties but no firm decision has concerns for communities. We have some people coming to the North. Father Bourque said he has i taken and no formal these Days and Many Are spoken to congregations of discussions have taken place. Deciding to make it their1 greater Winnipeg churches and j has received about to be i school mergers there Are still Many who used in repairing he school Alj Chicago one consolidated come just looking for fast Kasina but he was Here strict school usually takes the place of Money he admits. To those who 1 by on a four smaller districts. The Happy Lazy Iager Beer ;