Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Misc Huttt miss. A today Augustt 1975 cods River. Lodge with unused boats lying in front. Indians blamed for rotting fish continued dead fish caught by a Nylon net set by Village fishermen Bob to the surface of cods Lake. Goyer tactics attacked continued that or. Hunter s resignation came about primarily Over two questions one being the Bla Tant interference of a prejudiced racial and linguistic basis by or. Goyer with the hiring of personnel for the new Winnipeg mint and the other being the manner in which furniture and equipment was Pur chased for that the documents include a let Ter dated april marked personal from or. Goyer to or. Hunter or. Hunter s res ignation dated May .6, 1975 marked private and confidential in a letter dated May 1975 from or. Hunter to All members of the Board of directors of the Royal Canadian mint. Or. Hunter for three year financial adviser to former Trade minister c. D. Howe six years Deputy defence production Gooij corporate citizen of St. Minister two years Deputy of Boniface where the French by Supply and services and five Lingual population is approx years master of the mint was mately 33 per unavailable Friday Tage up in the Gatineau Hills. Or. Cossitt says he con firmed authenticity of the Doc u m e n t s last night with a member of or. Hunter s family specifically his son. In his letter of May 7 to the directors of the mint or. Hunter pointed out that Winnipeg is not a designated bilingual area and that while the French speaking population of the City is 8.2 per cent of the total the Winnipeg mint has a 68 per cent bilingual staff. I or. Hunter wrote thei be called and the lowest selected As is the custom providing it was acceptable. As i recall lowest bids were accepted in All cases. The minister heard of this and claimed he had directed me to buy furniture through his department of Supply and ser vices. As far As i am aware he gave no such instruction but we did cancel certain orders which had not been filled at the time and then re ordered through or. Cover s depart ment. We arc still waiting for the game Warden pulled out about 40 nets a couple of weeks ago he said and two men working for the provincial government pulled but 41 a few Days before the free press re Porter and photographer arrived. One of the men Mark Gaboury 21, of Winnipeg accompanied us on a boat trip to look or nets in the Lake. With our guide Jimmy Yellowback 21, we set out from the Dock beside or. Ruminski s Lodge. In 15 minutes we located four nets All rotting All with the stinking re Mains of fish entangled in the mesh. The nets said or. Sahoury As he and or. Struggled to bring them into the boat float to wards the West end of the Lake after the Spring gods Narrows is about 25 Miles from gods River. After about a half hour four men and the vile remains of fish and nets floated towards another net Bobbing close to Shore. Or. Yellowback began lifting the net As we drifted along. It was fairly new and had been in the water less than a week. As we moved or. Yellowback kept pulling the net and More and More fish bobbed to the surface. Some had begun to rot but a few suckers and Whitefish were still alive. These or. Yellowback threw into the boat. Or. Gaboury explained that the nets kill the fish by closing their Gills suffocating them. The More they struggle the More they get entangled. The net was about 100 Yards Long and probably was t a commercial net but one belonging to the Village about a mile from the Lodge the natives Are allowed to leave nets in the Lake All year Long for their private use. Usually the nets Are put in one Day and taken out in the next Day or two. If the nets Are left in a few Days longer the fish Are used for dog food at the Village. Back at the Lodge or. Gaboury explained that he was working for the summer with the province s department of environmental manage ment fisheries division. He was at gods River to take a Creel census. Two weeks ago Joe o Connor a sports fisheries biologist with the provincial government arrived at gods River. He and or. Gaboury spent two Days looking for nets expecting to find just a few. They found and burned 41. Along with the dead fish they found a dead Loon and a Duck lodged in the nets. The Warden s mad at me because i complained to said or. Re Garrison study terms set Mideast flexibility urged by Ford by uowa1d Benedict both Israel and Egypt have Washington a understand that flexibility at rident Ford said thursday there crucial time is important is a real possibility of conf Roii to peace of that area and tation Between the United 1 possibly peace in the states and the soviet Union if he said he had discussed the War Breaks out again in of a . Middle East. The president warned Israel and Egypt that they must be flexible and do something soon if they Are to avoid another Var. If there in t a movement right now the possibility for War Between Israel and the arabs is increased signify Ford said in an inter View which showing the was taped same night for on confrontation in the Middle East with soviet Leader Leo nid Brezhnev at the recent european Security conference at Helsinki. I think the soviet Union has acted in a very responsible he said. I think they understand the potential consequences of no Progress for continued peace and understand ing in the Middle about 150 Public broadcast system pcs stations in the . The broadcast was not Avail Able on Canadian television networks. We be had four wars in the Middle Ford said. A fifth one not Only Means that Israel will be fighting the arabs but the potential of confrontation Between the United states and the soviet Union is a possibility. Asked by Paul Duke pcs and questioners Martin Agronsky if he were optimistic about the Middle East Situa Tion Ford replied that prospects Are better today than they were yesterday and they re better today than last March when talks unfortunately broke off. I m optimistic but i have Learned that until it s signed in Black and White i should not predict that it will be he said. Minski after the boat ride. He said it was t his Job to pull the stinking nets out of the the provincial government said or. Ruminski in t looking into the situation enough. I think there should be some sort of penalty for leaving the nets in. They be switched to Nylon nets from Cotton and they can last up to 10 or. De Graff in an interview at his Home on the gods Narrows Indi an Reserve said it s a straight Case of the fault lying with the Fisher men the chief was told about it in he pulled 10 nets in himself or. De Graff said not 40, but he has t time to look for others. The chief said he would Send Crews out As soon As the ice went out i guess they expect me to pull them or. De Graff 26, has been Warden at the Narrows for 10 months. He said the 60 fishermen in the band Agency caught pounds of fish last Winter. The limit is pounds. With the assistance they get they should do a lot the assistance comes from the provincial and Federal governments through Arda which is specially designed to native people of Canada. Merv Mackay of the Northern affairs department says it was estimated that 60 to 100 nets were left in the Lake. It s the responsibility of the com Mercial fishermen but it s an enforcement problem you can t get the co operation of people if you try and Force the problem has to be. Solved through education he said with sur Veys done every year after the com Mercial fishing of the Lake. When asked if there is a penalty for leaving the nets in the a spokesman in or. Mackay s office suggested it would be difficult to identify the owner of the nets and difficult to determine whether they Are commercial or private nets. But he did say a charge could he Laid for spoilage of but that would have to be determined by a local magistrate. In an interview with chief Ogemaw and two officials of the Northern affairs department wednesday the chief said he did t want to speak for his people until they All could get to Gether aug. 19. The. Officials said the chief was making the first move and was co operating by asking that the Story of the fish nets not be printed until after the meeting. Gap reported reduced continued or. Dinitz smiling met re orters after a 90-minute Meel no with or. Kissinger and de cried his message As Preli Minary reactions to the Egypt an proposal. Or. Dinitz said is not in any Way in final and that he and or. Kissinger probably will meet Ach other again in the near the israeli envoy declined to characterize the response head presented to or. Kissinger. When reporters noted thurs Day in Jerusalem that Israel is in the final stages of negotiations on an interim agree or. Dinitz responded if or. Peres said so he is minister and i would take his statement at face israeli state radio said in a broadcast earlier in the Day Egypt s position has moved closer to Israel s on several issues. Or. Kissinger wishes to come to tie Middle East in about two weeks but will make a decision when he receives the israeli american sources declined any immediate comment. A major reason for this is that Israel s formal position on the egyptian terms awaits a Cabi net meeting in Jerusalem on arid the reply Del ered by or. Dinitz thursday night was understood to ask for further clarification of the egyptian position. The . Ambassador to Egypt Hermann Eilts is presently in Washington prepared i return to Cairo with the Rae i reply. According to informed o u r c e s major differences ave now been largely Over o m e Between Egypt and Srael Over israeli withdrawal rom two strategic choke Points in the Sinai the Gidi and Mitra passes. As now projected egyptian toops would be posted at the Vestern end of the passes israeli troops would be Posi toned on Heights overlooking he Eastern end of the passes and american technician would Man Early warning sys tems in the passes As Assur ances to both sides against the launching of military operations and also As a measure of guarantee for Israel of Ameri can involvement in maintain big the Accord. Among the further advances reported Egypt is said to have reduced its demands for a land corridor to the Abu Rudeis Oil Fields which Israel captured from Egypt in the 1967 Arab israeli War and would now re turn to egyptian control. The current terms also reportedly assure that Israel will retain its major air base of Bir if Gafa North of the passes. Air Accord reached with Cuba Ottawa up Cuba and Canada have reached tentative agreement on the first air Accord tries Cossitt said that or. Minister was most dissatisfied cover s letter is a disgrace with the result of our hiring document which would be policy for the Winnipeg mint sufficient to make any co Sci and claimed he had Lold that the mint should act As a potatoes envious Public servant resign which is sex acid what or. Hunter or. Cossitt is publicly calling for a full parliamentary Inqui i by into or. Hunter s Resigna or. Hunter in his letter oltion and said he will make a Canadian embassy official also denied the existence of a tentative agreement adding that very Good Progress has been made in efforts to work out guidelines for the inc. Canada is worried that re turn flows from the million North Dakota irrigation project would cause serious water pollution in neighbouring Manitoba. Ottawa believes damage to the Quality of the red and Souris Rivers and Lake Winnipeg would violate the 1909 Canada . Boundary Waters treaty. Ottawa and Washington agreed earlier this year that the matter should be referred to the quasi judicial body of Canadian and Ameri can officials which studies continued matters it deems said the spokesman. A key provision of the refer ence would instruct the inc to report its findings and recommendations no later than oct. 31. 1976. The draft agreement which congressman Fraser s o fice says was outlined by the state department would satisfy several important demands the Canadian government. Canadian negotiators insisted that a referral to in Call for study to alternatives to Garrison. . Officials were Between the two it was announced Here. The transport department said in a statement that the agreement providing for scheduled air service and group travel is expected to be Tari fied by Early autumn. A department official said that final details Are being worked out but it is expected that cuban aircraft will be Al Lowed to Laud at Ottawa and Montreal while the Canadian airline designated by the Feder Al government will be permit Ted to operate to Havana and Paradero a cuban resort City. The airlines operating on these routes will be allowed to Fly groups on scheduled flights at rates close to Low air charter prices. Other airlines will be granted charter flights Between the two countries As Long As eco nomic viability of the regular scheduled services is not undermined the department said. Did you know that we Are having a Sale of Brand new 1975 Toyota Corolla this compact 2 door Sedan features automatic transmission am radio Block Heater and much More. On Sale this week so-7c1 for Only of 3 i Stock is limited and this Opportunity won t happen again. Drop in and test drive the 75 Toyota Corolla today. Reported to prefer a study that Canadian officials have sex would merely gather data on pressed concern that the 1jcjwater study might not be completed before construction starts on key segments of Garrison which would directly affect Ca Nadian water Quality. Those sections Are not scheduled to be built until 1977. Golden mile Toyota 693 Pembina Highway Between Stafford and Grant phone Cross Border Lions. But pollution there has ques been directors said he had absolute copies of All the documents j difficulty agreeing on terms of by no recollection of any such j available As evidence. Reference direction from either or. Goyer or his Deputy Jacques pcs Rochus. J or. Hunter in his letter Toj ithe directors further pointed out that at the mint in the of j Tawa Hull Region where in j Glish is still predominate the i bilingual percentage of employ i pcs has been increased from 52 to 58 per cent. And he commented As far t jazz great Caius Onvall Adderley Dies reference. According to congressman Fraser s office the state department informed him that ithe inc will be instructed to recommend modification alterations or adjustments to Garrison necessary to avoid i treaty violation. J a spokesperson for the con Kelowna Man sought Oil family Mailer the ramp was trying thursday to locate Victor Earl of Kelowna b.c., on the Way to Newfoundland on a Vaca Tion. Or. Earl is con tact the nearest ramp detach ment concerning an urgent family matter. Stalled Halifax up _ plastic i agreement As outlined by the Tifi Cial Knuckles and Finger Gary. Inri. Famed state department also Calls on joints using Only local Anes As i am aware this is the High jazz musician Julian to examine present uses thetis. Plastic Sursson or bilingual percentage of any b a 11 Adderley died today. And conditions of the red and Winston Parkhill said five department or Agency of the nearly four weeks after suffer i Souris in addition it joints can be replaced within entire Federal i ing a stroke that left him Para would be instructed to deter 90 minutes in the procedure. Or. Hunter further accused lazed and unable to speak. He mine the effect of the Garrison j the joint replacements Are an the minister of direct 46. Project on water Quality. Treatment or suf enc in the a of Furni a spokesman at St. Mary were by the of rheumatoid arthritis lure and equipment for the methodist Hospital Here said department that the terms whose joints have become Loo mint at Winnipeg in these i Adderley three tenders were 10 cot of died at . 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