Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 13, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free press thursday july Canadian Unity the Linchpin bilingual advantages chiefly cultural Charlottetown up the bilingual Canadian will have definite advantages if the country remains United says Maxwell Yalden the Federal commissioner of official languages. No one is forcing anyone to learn French or English but there Are definite cultural and practical Rea sons for being Yalden said in an interview wednesday. The cultural advantages of bilingualism include enjoying plays and entertainment in both languages he said. The practical benefits were in being Able to fit into any part of the country. Bilingualism use Ful in employment. The Odds Are in favor of this country staying he added. Many French speaking canadians would like to try existing separately but others Don t believe they could maintain the same Standard of Liv ing he said. Yalden who is fluent in French and English and also knows German russian and Spanish was appointed commissioner of official languages 10 months ago. He is in . To meet with pre Mier Alex Campbell education min ister Bennett Campbell representatives of the acadian Community and the . Chapter of Canadian parents for French a group that wants French education to be available to All children. Yalden said education is a Provin Cial Juristic if off but he is interested in efforts by groups such As the acadians to have their children educated in French. He also said claims by some people that immersion French programs make it difficult for children to learn English Are not Correct. The evidence is 100 per cent Crys Tal Clear that they can t have trouble learning English and curiously they do he said. He added that it does not Cost much More to educate children in both languages once the Start up costs have been paid. Red River co operative it news organizations refuse offer of Maschino interview prices in this paper Good till saturday july 15, 1978 we Reserve the right to limit quantities to Normal family orders Mon. Tubs and sat. 9 . To 6 . Wed. Thurs. And Fri. 9 . To 9 . Watch for the in-8tore specials at All red River Coop stores monday and tuesday of each week pork Side m spareribs 1 79 Cut from Manitoba grown . I a Orange juice reconstituted 41 it. Of. Of Fontia Bud cello lettuce Canada no. 1 a. .47 Montreal up the French language daily la Presse and several Europe an news organizations have declined invitations from wealthy algerian business Man messaoud Zaghar to interview his sister Dalila Maschino. The 26-year-old woman was allegedly drugged and whisked away from her Hus band Denis Maschino in Montreal last april and taken to the Zaghar Home in a Remote algerian Village. The move sparked an International controversy Gimli prepares for annual festival the 89th annual icelandic Festi Val of Manitoba will be held from aug. 5 to 7 in Gimli Man. Sheridan ground the Best aluminium windows Money can buy deluxe weight aluminium Stofle windows up to 59 United inches installed deluxe weight aluminium inside windows up to 59 United inches installed clearance Sale v Mph Tom Par month on Yoot Honvo we the festival will feature a wide variety of activities including a giant outdoor chess game involving live chess men in appropriate costume 1 a sky diving demonstration and a 10-mile race from Winnipeg Beach to Gimli. Chess grandmaster Fri Drik Olafsson of Reykjavik Iceland will Challenge 50 chess players to a match. The tournament is open to the Public for for adults and for students. Tournament organizers say the challengers will receive a suitable memento for participating in a match with an International chess grand master. John Craig Eaton chair Man of the Board of directors of Eaton of Canada limited and grandson of an icelandic Pioneer to Canada will also attend the festivities. Mrs. Lara Tergesen of Gimli has been named the the traditional maid of the Mountain and will preside Over the festival. Along with traditional food and dance two nights of disco dancing will be held saturday and sunday night in the Gimli Industrial Park and a family dance will be held monday night featuring modern and old time music. Raft races Kite flying track and Field and a pan cake breakfast Are a few of the events planned for the weekend. Cake mixes Wall St. Stonewall Rossmere St Norbert Stanley so 7-43 Simi to took Wood sat 15 Only 9 1 . Whats Tel Ondar doors Ltd Iso mcpmwp9 St. Pm. 774-p393 774-9371 with her husband claiming she was abducted because she had married a european Christian and Zaghar saying she returned voluntarily. Zaghar now has invited re Porter Huguette Laprise of la Presse senior editor Oli vier Todd of l express in Paris and a reporter from Antenne ii a French television network to interview Dalila in Algiers. Also invited was Swiss journalist Pierre Pittet who conducted an interview with Dalila last week in Zaghar s Algiers apartment. He was not Able to meet with her alone. His report which quoted Dalila As saying she was blackmailed into marrying her French husband was received so optically in Canada by police Maschino s lawyer and government officials. In an apparent attempt to gain credibility Zaghar offered the latest interviews. A spokesman for la Presse said it refused be cause the meeting should be conducted on Neutral Terri with guarantees that Dalila was not subject to out Side influence. U entrants earmarked for Grants Twenty High school graduates will be awarded Entrance scholarships to at tend the University of Mani Toba this fall. Five awards Are made from each of four funds the Hogg and the Guertin Centennial scholar ships established last year for the University s Centen Nial and scholarships set up this year by the alumni association and Board of Gover nors. The recipients were selected recently by a University committee from names submitted by 157 High schools in the province. The names were of students selected by the schools to receive Chown Centennial scholar ships. In cases where Stu dents win the higher award the Chown scholarship goes to the school s second Choice. The scholarships Are financed by private donations and bequests. Up photo Judy Cameron 24, sits at control console of an air Canada Jet in Montreal. Air Canada s first woman Pilot hired after freeze ends Montreal up air Canada hired its first woman Pilot this week along with 11 men ending a five year hiring freeze on pilots company officials announced wednesday. Judy Cameron 24, was warmly congratulated by dozens of flight attendants and agents at Montreal International Airport As she talked with the press near the air Canada ticket counter. I m proud of one stewardess told chief Pilot Norman Beauchamp. But i Hope i feel Safe the first time i Fly with Beauchamp answered if she was t equal to the others we would t let her As do All air Canada pilots is. Ca Meron will begin her career As a second officer on Boeing 727s. It takes an average of five to 10 years for pilots to work their Way up from second officer to first officer and another 10 to become commanding officer. Is. Cameron who is married to an air Canada Mechanic has flown for three years with local airline companies in Brit ish Columbia and the Northwest Terri tories. I be wanted to be a Pilot Ever since i interviewed pilots for a Survey for the ministry of transport in the summer of is. Cameron said. She then took a two year aviation technology course at British Columbia s Sel Kirk College. In 1975, she applied to air Canada s Pilot training program but was turned Down because of a hiring freeze. Last april she became the first woman to be admitted to air Canada s three month Pilot training program. She had perfect said Beauchamp. The Ideal age is 24. She had hundreds of hours of flying time and she had the required commercial Pilot s License twin engine training and instrument is. Cameron said she will paid a. Month for a maximum of 75 hours flying time. If she becomes pregnant she is required to notify air Canada immediately and to cease flying until three months after delivery. I Don t know if i la be paid for the maternity she said. We Haven t discussed these things Beauchamp said reaction of air Canada s pilots to is. Cameron has been very Good. I Haven t heard a negative remark at Church of England reaffirms stand on divorcees marrying o 40% off London a a 10-year Effort to per Suade the Church of England to remarry divorced persons in Church collapsed wednesday after archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan spoke against a change. Bishops clergy and Lay members Assem bled in York for a session of the general Synod turned Down the reforms by a vote of 213 to 206 with six abstentions. The vote rejected the majority report of the Synod s own marriage commission that divorced persons should be allowed Church marriages at the discretion of their Bishop. Current practice is to refuse a Church marriage White a partner of the failed marriage is still living although a service of Blessing May be held after a civil ceremony. Archbishop Coggan who Heads the Church admitted that his disagreement with the report is a matter of some agony to he said its adoption would give the impression that the Church is bending to the wind of cur rent laxity with regard to marital faithful Bishop of Lichfield Kenneth Skelton who produced the report after 10 years of debate said the Church must free itself from its obsession with divorce and instead be courageous in giving people whose marriages had failed a Chance for a new Start. The Church remarriage Issue flared up last month when Pope Paul refused a roman Catholic Church wedding to the austrian Catholic Divorcee Bride of Britain s Prince Michael after she said their children would be brought up in her husband s anglican Faith. They were wed in a civil ceremony. With Lys new Rue for All Han 2 is a group. Get together and save. When two or More adults travel together the firs per son pays the Basic fare and the remainder of the group enjoys discounts o 25% to 40% depending on the number in the group. Chil Dren under 5 travel free two children 5-12 paying half fare count As one Adulf. Group fares Are just one after the first person 2 to 6 adults off 7 to off 30 or off Way you can save with our new fare for All plan. Talk to your travel agent Joc rail or to via rail Canada. Well our new incentive fares to work for you. Compromise key to end of strike Christophe says be Good to yourself Tak the Traia Bylo Blower Thompson Man. Staff Bernard Christophe president of the retail store employees Union local 832. Said Here wednesday he wants Only a settlement and neither a or a loser to emerge from his Union s province wide strike of Canada Safeway supermarkets. The key to breaking the almost six week strike he said is for the Union to lower its demands and the company to increase its offer. He added that both sides know this has to happen to Pra Doce a settlement which he said he Hopes will happen Saon. In Stobbe was m Thompson to meet with onion members employed in two Canada Safeway stores and 25 others locked out of the Skaf easy store. Too Ordyk to Christophe easy was prepared by Safeway to dose its Tromp sow Baw desire it men the people of by dosing its Only supermarkets of plan was to beep swe right bargaining table Christophe said noting that Safeway had offered a separate Settle ment to the Thompson employees. It would have guaranteed them the settlement which comes out of the province wide negotiations plus part of their extra demands for working in the North. The northerners did t Christophe said. For the first time they realized that the onion members i Winnipeg Brandon and Dauphin with stand with Christophe said that about ten per cent of the retail clerks membership in Winnipeg have returned to work. He did t think this was a High percentage after six week strike. He accused Safeway s store managers of telephoning striking employees to invite them Back to work. He claimed that in come cases employees were threatened with the loss jobs if the retail clerks have been asked to sign a statement Gran testing that there wort be reprisals strike against hmm Mem Bers be bore or wed picket fines awl have that hmm mom surrender Ali Well mean ;