Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rovlin Elbl 5941413 and 4416493 festival of life and learning t 2v 27 deaths 31 skate of record alls at Manitoba meet Glamor crop May nit weather report from f Winnipeg free press Sun rises 7 it sets Moon rises sets 85 february 1978 i cents with coloured comics for people m i2g Jan note 53 Movita Tete Vislai 22 weather 5 final edition on Page 30 disciplined liberals eager for election economic stand keeps mid Road easier travel believed key to National Unity delegates favor easing pot Laws photo by Jim Halo arts Jim Bernat tends to his fatally injured teammate Jerry Bunke in Canadian championship snowmobile races sunday at witnesses said bunkers machine tangled with one driven by de Schubitzke coming out of a snowmobile Driver killed in crash Beausejour races end tragically Jerry last years top North american professional snowmobile was killed sunday during the Canadian Power Toboggan Champion ship Sno pro races in organizers cancelled the remainder of the races for the first time in because Jurss i year racing of was pronounced dead at Beausejour Hospi Tal shortly after an Accident during the snowmobile races about 1 on Sun Bunke drove for the Polaris racing his birthday was last and he was to appear in Early March at the Sno pro races in race officials refused comment on the preliminaries for the Canadian championship were run earlier in the but after the Drivers Learned of the fatality All competitions were shut the Accident happened in the fourth Lap of the super mod final Midas Ter non Bunke was running near the last of the Field of com ing out of the fourth turn into a staight witnesses said Bunke and de Schubitzke of the Yamaha racing team tangled coming out of the Many of the several thousand spectators never saw what happened As Atten Tion was on the Snow dust powdered ice from the 12inch ice track obscured the witnesses said Bunke started to move away from his overturned but Brad running eighth on the track and last years number three hit bunkers body was about 50 feet away from his machine when the dust cleared and the crowd realized what ramp were not releasing Drivers Only saying Bunke had tangled with one machine and was hit by an racing officials wanted the races to continue after the Accident before they realized the Driver was earlier in the two machines came together on the first two other machines had separate accidents West hits ditching of Senate Reform in under attack Geneva renter the United states accused the United nations human rights commission today of using a double Standard by attacking human rights violations in Chile while not acting on cases in other addressing the 32member commission during a debate on Delegate Edward Mezvinsky said we must face up to the double Standard which is found in our decisions on Chile and our failures to act on other the government of Chile can legitimately complain of this double it affects not Only the very credibility of this commission but ultimately its viability As a meaningful Many of those who judge the government of Chile most harshly speak As representatives of governments whose own human rights rec ords fall far Short of the standards which the United nations has proclaimed for us delegation sources said Mezvinsky was refer ring to such countries As the soviet Union and both of which Are members of the strategy tied to tried ears personality by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa the liberals emerged from their weekend convention counting less on policy to retain Power than on two personalities Pierre tru Caus and Joe facing Likely their toughest election in More than a they appeared to preview a strategy that will ask in to choose Between experienced leadership and the the prime minister set the theme when he downplayed economic and National Unity problems to stress Faith and Hope in Cana Das he also charged that the greatest threat to National survival is his political opponents Trudeau enthusiastically applauded statement that Canada is a healthy country in a difficult world seemed Likely to be a recurring line in Campaign the convention approved hundreds of resolutions that also set the stage for a Buttle of personalities by narrowing ideological differences with the at the Windup session Trudeau noted that one of the three Day gatherings main directions was a new determination to rely on the private sector to ensure economic policy resolutions had a Clear message that government must become less costly and less said who leads a party that borrowed from the new democratic party and its cooperative Commonwealth federation predecessor in pass ing most of Canadas social but Trudeau carefully sidestepped the party move to the political saying delegates other main direction was a commitment to social Justice that distributes wealth in an equitable he said a Good formula would be to say we Are a party of the extreme Centre or the Radical cubans Back eritrean rebels claim Rome a eritrean insurgents re ported today for the first time that cubans Are fighting alongside ethiopian troops on the Northern Wing of the two front conflict with ethnic rebels who seek to secede from about cuban soldiers supported an unsuccessful attempt last week by ethiopian forces to fight out of rebel besieged capital of the East african country Eritrea spokesman Amde Michael Kahsai of the eritrean Peoples liberation front Elf said in Rome he said the ethiopians suffered heavy losses and failed to crack through the Eri Trean insurgents around he said Elf intelligence inside Asmara had discovered that cuban troops Are Manning heavy Artil Lery and soviet made rocket the eritreans had claimed earlier hut cubans were present As advisers on the Northern intelligence reports that More than cuban several thousand rus see cubans Page t take Home pay lessens As tax Impact wears off see snowmobile Page i Farmers picket City stockyards about 15 Manitoba farm ers picketed entrances to the Union stockyards in Boniface today As part of the Canadian agriculture move ments National two week the Many of them from Eastern Manito set up picket lines at 8 and were successful in turning Back a number of trucks carrying cattle and spokesmen for the picketers said they were marshalling forces at the stockyards main Entrance and intended to Send Pickul ters to Winnipeg packing houses later in the a number of Winnipeg police were at the scene using an amplifier to order farm ers not to obstruct after a few minutes police began guiding cars and trucks through the picket the Farmers Are demand ing parity with the rest of the beef producing Industry and an end to All beef a number of Farmers on the picket line said they were being driven off their lands and into while others said they had to take other jobs to Farmers carried placards Reading Down with the exploitation up with parity for and crime Doest pay neither does we built the Yards Back there if it we rent for us you have a group spokesman Mike Mel Nyk told passing Many passing truck Drivers sounded their horns and waved to the As see Manitoba Page i Ottawa up most of the country wage and salary earners will find their pay packets lighter beginning this week As the Impact of the governments temporary tax Cut announced last october wears personal income taxes will revert in March to the originally planned formula for the meaning workers earning the aver age Industrial wage of about a week will find their take Home weekly pay about less than it has been for the past two the cuts in take Home pay will hit million of the country estimated Mil Len employees in varying tax announced by finance minister Jean Chretien in his 20 was geared by the govern ment to Cut taxes and increase consumer spending during the High unemployment months of january and by giving the Spur to consumer the government hoped to boost Job in the country had an Al time High of Chretien said the Cut would Cost the government More than but the reduction helped run the governments estimated deficit for this financial year to a record during january and take Home pay for millions of taxpayers Rose by a month because of he lax about six million employees gained full Benefit of the reduction and another received lesser but the changes in taxation which begin in March and extend throughout the year mean those temporary benefits will be some examples of tax increases starting this month they Are based on Ontario see pay Page 4 let the buyer consumer agencies warn b Allan Wilson there Are several agencies in Winnipeg who give consumer help but dont expect them to do All the they the Heads of the major agencies All agreed Consumers have to be willing to do their share of the work with a buyer seller most of them treat complaints the same when one is first we try to give them information to solve the problem if this Doest the next step is defining the problem and getting it Down in Roger a consumer services officer with the provincial Consumers we try to put it in a Legal per moving the complaint away from being my personal see be on Page a eight businessmen revive jets Hopes Winnipeg teetering on the Brink of have been taken Over by eight businessmen including their Star left Bobby other members of the group Are Michael Marvin and Barry John Harvey Bob Graham and Gerry the group Hopes to keep hockey in Winnipeg by gaining entry into the National hockey the first move by the new owners was to match the contract offers received by the clubs two swedish Anders Hedberg and Ulf from new York see Page 45 or details hockey sunday nil if Luis 3 Detroit t Toronto 5 Chicago 3 Montreal 2 by islanders i Philadelphia 6 Washington i Pittsburgh 4 Buffalo 4 wha Indianapolis 6 Birmingham 3 new England 6 Edmonton 5 Winnipeg 9 Houston 6 american new Haven 4 bang Hamon 4 Hershey 3 Maine 2 Rochester 9 Springfield 3 Pacific san Diego 7 san Francisco 2 Long Beach 4 Phoenix 2 saturday nil Louis 5 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