Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, February 21, 1977

Issue date: Monday, February 21, 1977
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 21, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press monday february 21. 1977 carriers needed Ideal for students age no Barrier earn extra Money apply today for a free press route in your neighbourhood you can make your own spend ing Money plus gain valuable training in your own business venture. So join the free press delivery team now 943-9331 Plains pastor resigns in face of firing threat Plains a. Reuter t h e pastor of president Carter s Hometown Church announced his resignation on sunday after members of his congregation called for his dismissal. Rev. Bruce Edwards 32, blamed the dismissal move on his consistent opposition to the Plains Baptist Church s former policy prohibiting Black membership. The policy adopted in 1965, was rejected last nov. 13 and ask for the circulation department or mail this Coupon the Winnipeg free press circulation department 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba r3c 3c1 is the final deadline for renewing your aut Opac coverage if you Don t renew by then. I name Grade or level address phone postal code when the Church voted 120 to i to admit Blacks. The vote came 11 Days after the presidential election and 13 Days after Rev. Clennon King a Black minister from nearby Albany tried unsuccessfully to become a member of the Church. Attempts to fire or. Edwards then were voted Down by 107 to 84. But he said Sun Day that his opposition to the 1905 Resolution had continually generated resentment. Sunday s meeting of about 100 members which was held after regular services had been called to discuss repay ment of a Church loan. In a Telephone interview or. Edwards said a motion was raised that i be fired immediately. It was a Complete Surprise to me and to most of the but after bitter argument he said it seemed the peo ple were not going to leave until we voted on the matter. It became evident to me that the Church was deeply divided and they were not going to leave until they had my Job. I just got up and turned my resignation in at that he said he would be leaving the Church at the end of april. Asked whether he might stay on if asked or. Edwards said i doubt very seriously that 1 would accept a recall from the Church. My time Here is Over he said he had always maintained that the Church and the gospel should be open to everyone but found fierce resistance to that position in Plains. News analysis Horner fan club members in danger of a trampling by w. A. Wilson free press correspondent Ottawa the Jack Horner fan club is clearly be coming Over crowded with just about anybody signing on nowadays. A member could easily be jostled or find his toes being trampled in the crush. It used to be Small and exclusive. In those Days its members prided themselves on special qualities of discernment the ability to see past the facade and appreciate that the big Alberta cattle rancher who appeared to be the conservative party s leading Maverick was really a highly intelligent and responsible Man. Joyce Fairbairn who works for the prime minister now As his legislative assistant was one of the charter members of the club when it was a More exclusive group and she was a political journalist. Tily own colleague. Peter Thomson comes from a family that has been raising cattle in Manitoba for More than a Hundred years and he always Felt a certain occupational kinship with or. Horner based on a common knowl Edge of cows and politics. John Turner was never quite a full fledged member of the club until he began Patching up some of the Oddi ties of tax Reform after be coming minister of finance. Early in that game or. Horner made a convincing you cant drive your car. Let s talk i retirement savings plans or Vancouver take your Choice registered plans needless to say with the tax benefits received today while your savings have years to compound and grow for retire ment tomorrow the Pia Holder enjoys the Best of two worlds All contributions invested into 1-5 year term guaranteed certificates at customer s Choice. Average Annua yield rates can produce 10.69% no fees or charges of any description. I Trust 201 postage at 1050 main St 417 he. Telephone 147-0111 to Tahoe sm.mi7 speech in the House of com mans criticizing the Way the rearranged succession duties applied to family farms. The new finance minister listened with care Xmas impressed and after some further discussion became convinced that the Alberta conservative Xmas in deed right. The outcome Xmas that or. Turner sponsored the Jack Horner amendment to our tax Laws in the House and being a shrewd and Able poli t i c i a n gave the Alberta member Public credit for the change. After that the finance minister was velles to abolished As a member of the Jack Horner fan club a while it Xmas still in its Early stages. Serious ideas while he was finance min ister or. Turner Xmas disinclined to get into too much discussion a Villi journalists of the monthly fluctuations in the Cost of living and unemployment figures correctly reasoning that his predecessor. Edgar Benson had done himself nothing but harm through such in of Vemens. From time to time he took to slipping out the Back door of the commons chamber which opens into a hallway that is without heavy traffic and which is served by a Handy staircase. On at least one occasion he found convenient business in the nearby speaker s Chambers while the press milled around in search of him. On others it was said reliably he slipped into or. Homer s office and sipped a Glass of whisky peacefully until the correspondents had i Given up and gone Avay. This writer approached the fringes of the fun club through the intervention of miss Fairbairn. Insisting that some of my earlier impressions of him were faulty she look me along to a two hour meeting with or. Inonu rum Day during a conserva he party conv in Niagara fails. Fui kid Mem if talking to a Man of interest Hosi ii Loas. Xii Clarr 1 happened to agree or not. Vell Nui Anil Siut Ira ii a in Illier the dub. The Giixh. Until much later after the election. Ai. Usury set about remedying some of the defects in the initial no Hurgus i ism. Some of the problems Anil some of answers seemed familiar. I went Hack re read the speech that those so to speak were the Good old Days. Now we have come to the Grey flannel Jack Horner the conserva Tive who can pull the liberals in to speak at his fund raising dinners and everything is Dif Ferent. The entire country seems to have caught on that or. Horner is a serious responsible Man. The sober Well Cut suits have replaced the old shooting jacket with leather patches on the elbows that he once favored. There is a crowd around him. The crowd is indeed so thick that after it became known that or. Turner was speaking at one of his fund raising roasts and Bryce Mackasey at the other one prominent Liberal was heard saying forlornly i wish they asked me too there is More Good will across party lines in politics than usually appears on the surf a but it is doubtful if Many conservative maps Cei ild get Liberal Anil sex ministers Piny key roles n efforts to pay off the debts of a Leader ship contest. It does raise the question Low or. Horner Lias lion it. There is also of course the question How he managed to get As Many Young people working in his organization As he did when he was contest ing the conservative Leader ship. He is after All a real conservative do Litreal Miles away from the red tories like Gordon Fairweather and Flora Macdonald. He is not a reactionary which is a Dif Ferent Breed of cat but he is firmly on the right of demo cratic politics. Mart Ricc there Are several reasons. At tile head of the list Nib Ash. Is the fad that he is a Frank Ami honest Man who is never afraid of the unpopular in Silion if he is satisfied thai it is Nyhl. He is politically very Sli Reud. Almost As shrewd As John Turner. He works hard and Haxe often or oxen him right. The Hunick View of a problem is Worth consider not to be dismissed Liuha or. Horner had delivered in Cial languages act was origin ally being debated. It was a sensible speech in which the albertan had correctly put his Finger on some of the problems that were Likely and had offered solutions not unlike those or. Drury came to later. It seemed to me that the commons when the offi it was moreover a very fair speech As Well As one of considerable Wisdom. By. But other men in politics hate inure or less the same qualities and could nut got Turner. Mackasey. 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