Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Going away drive Caie Famy am h a v c a my. Tut before y w t forget to Cerf cams Moon Saafi. Calf today make a a Jwj buy save a life. Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 264 25c with comics Friday augusts 1975 Sunrise Sunset . Ftp Toomire . Jux Nett . Mostly Cloudy 13c and 25c fish rot in Lake t 1 la i charges sparked by Glenn Somerville Ottawa up higher prices for food As Well As a special excise tax on gasoline continued to push consumer prices sharply higher during july statistics Canada reported today. The consumer Price Index Rose 1.4 per cent in july Only fractionally less than the 1.5 per cent increase for june which ended a trend of relatively Low monthly increases that started in january. Food prices up 2.3 per cent since july accounted for one half of the Over All Index Rise in july. Seasonally higher fresh produce prices As Well As pork prices that were 44 per cent higher than a year. Ago were the main reasons for the food Price Rise. Also a major Factor in the july Index Rise was the special 10-cents-a-gallon excise tax on gasoline for private use an see consumer Page 5 inflation warning issued Mark Gaboury left to Iurii his Back to foul odor of a fishing net pulled from cods Lake in Northern Manitoba. Jimmy yellow Back holds the remains of the rotting net con Taining remnants of decayed fish. Reporter Alan Christie uses a stick to hold up part of the net one of Many left unattended in the Lake some for weeks others for months. Gods River Man. The fish bobbed up one at a time almost All of them dead and rotting eyes and lips pointed skyward their final pose in a desperate struggle to escape the net. Last Winter commercial fishermen from the gods Lake Narrows band Agency put nets into by the Middle of Many perhaps 60, perhaps 100 were still in the Lake. The fish the nets caught Pic Kerel Trout Whitefish suckers remained in the Lake with them rot Ting. The rotting fish and the rotting nets have created problems for gods River Lodge owner Tom Ruminski and the provincial government. And the nets increased the tension Between the native people on the Lake and the Lodge operator and the White people at both gods River and gods Narrows. The Whites say the native Fisher men Are to blame for letting the nets freeze in the Lake last Winter. The Whites says the indians Are too drunk and Lazy to pick up the nets because they get the nets free from the provincial government. The provincial department of Northern affairs says a Grant of was awarded to the band last Winter but the1" fishermen Haven t Cree Indian band at gods Narrows says the fishermen have their Side of the Story but Aren t ready to Tell it until a meeting at the Narrows 19. Northern affairs officials say they want the Story of the nets told of. Until that meeting because the com from Lodge Story by Alan Christie it j photos by Dave Bonner As yet used it to buy nets plus Bombardier and ice augers the department and the fishermen say the. Nets left in the year belong to the fishermen. But Ken de Graff a game Warden at gods Narrows Indian Reserve says 300 nets were supplied to the commercial fishermen last Winter and that s still no excuse for them not picking them chief Alec Ogemaw head of the owner give Only one Side of the Story. A free press reporter and a photographer visited Tom Ruminski at his Lodge at gods River about 365 air Miles Northeast of Winnipeg. He and the game Warden or. De Graff put the blame for the fish problem squarely on the shoulders of the native fishermen. Or. Ruminski and his brother Joe have invested in their fishing Camp at gods. River. Sport fishermen mostly from the United states spend up to a week to fish there Many iof them easily catching their eight Walleye eight Northern Pike five Lake Trout and two Brook Trout. Or. Ruminski noticed the nets in there was still ice in the Lake. He told chief Ogemaw that the band was responsible for picking up the nets. But by of them were still submerged. Two different groups went out and got drunk i february and just never bothered to go Back and get the nets they put nets in and. Two Days later they forget about them they re seriously depleting the Stock of fish in the or. Ruminski said. As the fish rot while Hung up in the nets they attract More fish because some species Are cannibals he said one net can catch More fish than 100 please see indians Page .4 by Iain Hunter free press staff reporter Ottawa prime. Minister Trudeau declared thursday Attiat Canada faces dire consequences unless inflation is brought under control. But the prime minister at a press conference immediately preceding a two week holi Day had to be prompted to Issue the warning. He was asked if his recent silence on of inflation compared to his and finance minister John Turner s much publicized search for a National consensus on wage and Price restraint at the be ginning of the year meant that the subject is no longer a prob Lem. Trudeau acknowledged that the government s efforts to Tacker the inflation before the june budget had been Only see inflation Page 5 n pensions up Ottawa up monthly old age Security payments will be increased by in october to the new con Sumer Price Index indicates. Old age Security the Basic Flat rate pension for 1.9 million persons Over 65, is one of four Federal welfare payments indexed to provide higher pay ments As the consumer Price Index rises. Old age Security and Guaran teed income supplements for nerdier pensioners Are a adjusted quarterly. Canada pension plan and family allowance payments Are adjusted annually the july Index published 186.5, up from 184 in june. The indicated in please see old Page 5 iv1 rpm i up pilots threaten to strike Over bilingual air control i Vancouver up the Canadian airline pilots association decided thursday to halt All flight operations in Canada for 24 hours beginning at mid night oct. 17, unless the Feder Al government ends experiments in bilingual traffic control. Ken Maley. President of the culpa Sion at announced the Deci a news conference Here he said the association s Board of directors has also decided that if at any time the government implements the recommendations of the Bil com report on the use of French in air traffic services the 2.700-member culpa will cease All flight operations until such measures Are with j pilots. Tion Balcom report has re commended that the use of French be permitted beyond the five Quebec airports where it now is being used experimentally. Or. Maley said the decision has the unanimous support of the organization s member the bilingual Communia 2-3 year backlog in care Beds seen he said the decision also has the support of the International pilots federation because the group has endorsed English a the Only language for use on International flights. The culpa president said a flight stoppage would include All Domestic and International flights in and Oit of Canada Jand if the Balcom report is implemented the store age j continue until the Issue was resolved. A senior official of the Mani a personal care Home Section Ini the text of the Resolution has Toba health services com the facilities division of the Jeen sent to the office of Sion said thursday most of the j h c a 11 h services commission transport minister Jean mar nearly Manitoba us await said in a interview it takes Cliance. Truce Yake. A Pilot told the world Home or housing project before i aerospace conference Here causing mint master to quit Cossitt attacks Goyer tactics by Richard Jackson free press correspondent Ottawa staff Supply and services minister Jean Pierre Goyer today was accused of using reprehensible Means to drive out g. W. Hunter recently resigned As master of the mint. The accuser Tom Cossitt conservative my for Leeds says he has documents in his Possession an Exchange of letters Between or. Goyer and or. Hunter and the mint direct t o r s substantiating his charges. Or. Cossitt declares the documents clearly show please see Goyer Page 4 lightning kills flagman in season s worst storm Garrison study terms arranged by Paul Whitelaw state department the agree by Debbie Lyon and Glen Mackenzie free press staff writers at least one Manitoban died As a result of a series of heavy Thunder storms which hit the Southern part of the province thursday and dumped almost two inches of rain on Winnipeg by 1 . Friday. The storms offshoots of a system centred around North Dakota resulted in Power blackouts throughout Southern portions of the province sever Al Small fires in Winnipeg and the death of Lee Rowson 19, of 227 Hill Street St. Boniface. An ramp spokesman at St. Pierre. Man. Said or. Rowson was working As a flagman on Highway l four Miles East of provincial Road 207 when he was struck and killed immedi ally by lightning at about . Thursday. Ramp spokesman said. Many of the pigs were run Ning Loose and had to be rounded up he said. The storms brought varying amounts of rain to various Manitoba centres with Winnipeg hardest hit with 0.88 Inch of rain up to 7 . Thursday and a further 0.94 Inch up to 1 . Friday. Winds peaked at 30 Miles an hour during the 7 see lightning Page 7 terrorists free hostages in Libya Tripoli Libya a japanese lied army terrorists freed their final four hostages and surrendered to libyan authorities Early today four b y a s Arab revolutionary news Agency reported. The Agency said All aboard the aircraft were Safe. The flight took 15 hours including. Derly people unable to Cope for themselves will be looked after the new. Facility opens. I wednesday that pilots will not within two or three years. A number of additional fact i accept French As a Lane Aee and while the government is duties Are in the final planningj0f flight communication be i catching up in Matching facile stages now ties to the demand services dictated. Or. Kitchen in cause the use of French could such As Home help and Home care will Aid the elderly. Alf Kitchen manager of the Lead to confusion free press staff correspondent Mem. Which would permit an or. Rowson was a flagman study to commence Wilh Nelson River construct lightning struck a pig barn near Oak Bank Man., causing a fire which killed several of the 500 animals in the building an reached tentative agreement on terms of reference for an International joint commission study of the controversial Garrison irrigation project according to a Minnesota con and i Gressman. Congressman Don Fraser s he said Manitoba now has i catastrophe. Said thursday he please see care Page 5 i please see pilots Page 5 j been informed by the but reacting to the Congress Man s announcement a state department official said no tentative agreement exists Al though there has been Progress in talks with Cana Dian officials. Days after they seized the . I a two hour refuelling Stop in embassy in Kuala Bumpur. Tight Security measures were in Force at Tripoli Airport As the Japan air lines dc-8 landed after a flight from the malaysian capital i Colombo sri Lanka. The plane flown by a nine Man japanese Crew left Kuala Bumpur on thursday with the please see hostages Page 5 had us. I please see Garrison Page 4 s Isa today by Dan Pottier free press correspondent Ottawa the losses would Likely outnumber the gains if Canada unilaterally declared a 200-mile offshore limit now. Prime minister Pierre to ideas said yesterday. Or. Trudeau told a revs con Ference such action could de stroy Canada s International claims in other arc tic the North Wisl passage and the Continental shelf beyond 200 Miles out. He repeated that unilateral action remains a possibility but marshalled a Host of arguments to show Why sea rights Are Bel Ter dealt with at the negotiating table. Been considerable pressure upon the government recently to declare a 200-mile limit to protect depicting fish stocks. We prefer to try and change International or. Tru Deau said rather than have Canada take the Law in its own he said Canada had a great Deal at stake at the Law of the sea conferences and we Are asking a Devil of a lot of things for this a would be shortsighted and a bad bargain.1 he said to lose our other claims by con fronting other nations with uni lateral action on the 200-mite please see Trudeau Page 5 business report 2 j to 28 flyweight .51 classified 3 to 48 comics .55 comic Page feature 13 deaths s for people 9 to 17 Jumble .34 movies 15 to j7 sports 49 to 53 television .14 nearly everyone reads the free press cite negotiating Gap reported reduced by Murrey harder Washington special tons the Gap Between the israeli and egyptian terms for a new military disengagement in the Sinai desert was reported considerably reduced in an israeli response delivered thursday night to Secretary of state Henry a. Kissinger. Sources in Jerusalem and Washington said the stage is now being set for a new round of shuttle diplomacy by or. Kissinger in the of aug. 18. His trip is intended to re solve remaining israeli egyptian differences. Israel s ambassador to Washington. Simcha Dinitz. Gave an unusually Swift reply thur stay night to Lales offer for a second agreement in the Sinai desert which or. Kis Singer had handed Over to or. Diniz on tuesday. Please see Gap Page 4 ;