Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wwn1wsg we july if Mufti ii Iii i e of sati Tiberii Manitoba rail route by Victor May flt staff Ottawa transport minister Otto Lang announced Friday the Transfer of Miles to the Basic Prairie rail network by an Cincil and said the government will spend million to upgrade those rail lines As part of its Mil lion Branch line rail rehabilitation this was a recommendation of the Prairie rail action the minister said he Jias not accepted recommendations of the com Milter concerning the proposed abandonment of the Hartfi Eylar Man Miami Are of Southern Manito 1 wish to study further the implications of the Road network in that a further announcement will be made when i have reached a Deci Sion on the next Steps to be he the minister added that in its approach to the Uncertain category of Branch lines he was impressed with both the detail and sensitivity exercised by the commit in coming the grips with the cult rail line problems affecting this particular to was recommended that in subdivision Between Carman Junction and Graysville Miles be added immediately to the Basic guaranteed to the year 000 and the lines be rehabilitated upgrading the steel to 8085 at an estimated Cost of million be undertaken in due the committee also recommended that the in Carman subdivision be tween Somerset and Fiedmont the in Miami subdivision Between Morris and Somerset Miles and the in Hartney subdivision Between Fiedmont and Elgin Miles All be abandoned by in View of the particular Road net work situation in this no action on these recommendations will be taken until their implications Are investigated said the minis1 the significance of these recon mentations is that rail service for Grain deliver is ensured until the year for such communities As tto me Wood and said he said he was pleased that the committee had recommended that rail service to Braysville which had been recommended for ment by the Grain handling and transportation commission be Linued on a permanent will enable the development of a seed processing Plant located at Graysville to become fully he the committee pointed out that the Graysville to Carman area was ast becoming a significant producer of specially crops including for the first time Corn for this is consistent with the Federal govern ments objective of promoting fur ther processing in the West and has added benefits of providing opportunities for producers to stabilize their income through crop diversify according to the the committees argument for tension of the Northern Section of the in Carman subdivision is the exis tence a number of Large volume Points such As Sperling and with abandonment of the lines to the South this particular Tine is expected to receive upwards of two million bushels of diverted production also is expected to increase locally by another lion bushels in the near future with the result that this mile subdivision will carry approximately eight million bushels of which represents bushels per mile of the recommended abandonment of the in in Southern Section and in Miami subdivision would result in the loss of rail service for 20 Grain delivery recognizing that abandonment in the area would have an Impact on the committee also recommended Road assistance be provided where necessary to minimize effect of abandonment on producer disappointed with pm says compiled from dispatches prime minister Trudeau joined other world leaders Friday in condemning the prosecution of soviet dissidents and warned it will have serious implications for de in a roughly worded state the prime minister said he is deeply disappointed with the sentencing Anatoly Alex Ander Ginzburg and Victoras who had been found guilty of ant soviet activities for monitoring the Helsinki accords on human the Canadian govern has already tried to impress on the soviet Union the difficulties that Lack of Progress in human rights can have on other aspects of the and on detente he said the Canadian government Hopes the soviet Union will reconsider its attitude toward its commit ments under the accords and those who engage in activities envisaged in them will have full Freedom to do so without fear of punish president in a for Mal statement issued in Bonn West where he is visiting prior to a sum Mit economic meeting Sun the struggle for human liberties is Long and but it will be there is no Power on Earth that can Long delay its Mozic Toni prepared to fire police up City Council is prepared to fire its 110man police Force unless the police Union halts its opposition to a planned change in police patrol mayor Gary Wheeler said recent amendments relative to the municipalities of new Brunswick have empowered the mayor to declare an he said at an afternoon rips i am prepared to do so if the situation reaches the intolerable 490 of the Canadian Union of Public representing the policemen protective association was harsh in its criticism of wheelers Union president lome Saunders said he found the mayors comments the Union has been without a contract with the City since Wheeler said he would stand by his will support without hesitation any recommendation for dismissal made by the chief of police Greg Cahoon respecting any member of the Moncton police department based on reason Able grounds he Cahoon and his administrative officials have our fullest Issue is a City Council order to Divide the City into three sectors and assign the same police units to it on a continuous the Force currently works on a Pla Toon system by which each policeman works eight hour shifts in regular two week under the new system they would work hours which they would set themselves according to the Peak crime n that Union officers that policemen be called from their Homes at any hour of the Day or night to handle problems i the sector they were assigned the Union has said it objects to the order because it would infringe on the family lives of its bit of flexibility in Sadat declares v Egypt a said Friday it sees bit of flexibility in israels Middle East peace policy and president Anwar expressed Hope that for Vine near future there will Concrete Sadat returned to Egypt from an eight Day visit to Austria that included talks last sunday with israeli opposition Leader Shimon Peres and a Surprise meeting thursday with israeli de Fence minister Ezer Wei to reporters at the plan Aclis military base near Sadat indicated of direct High level egyptian israeli peace talks on several Weizman also returned Home Friday and went directly to Jerusalem to re View the talks with prime minister Menachem the government gave no de tails of the 80minute meet Sadat said Weizman will be notifying me after re porting to both men said they plan another meet ing at an undisclosed Date in Alexandria Jav Mohamed Ibrahim Egypt foreign previously was scheduled to meet in London next tues Day Najj wednesday with his israeli counterpart Moshe those arranged by the United two killed in fire v smoking believed cause unidentified woman and her son were killed Early today in a fire that destroyed their East Kildonan a police spokesman said the 93yearold woman and her 57yearold son died after fire broke out in their Home at 813 Linden Avenue at about spokesman said it is believed the fire was caused by careless names have not been released pending notification of under investigation by the provincial fire commissioners caused damage to the Itei Wayand will include state Secre tary Cyrus israeli and egyptian officials spoke of the possibility of following the London con Ference with negotiations at an undisclosed Date in the israeli egyptian town of Al Arish on the Mediterranean the abrupt flurry of negotiations followed a break Down in direct talks six months ago after Egypt re called its negotiators from Israel to protest what it said was israeli Vic president my on hand at Gianaclis to meet was asked by reporters Why Egypt resumed talks with the israe there is a Little bit of flexibility in the israeli Mubarak that is Why president Sadat accepted to meet with them asked about results of his Austria told re porters it has been More than a Success from my Point of and let us Hope that in the near future there will be Concrete asked if he saw any signs of increased Sadat replied we must wait for the not Union talking Ottawa up the Csc and its technicians Union agreed Friday to resume formal contract negotiations aimed at settling a dispute which could disrupt coverage of the games in Edmonton next a on sentence statement issued by the Csc and the National association of broadcast employees and technicians Nabet said Nabet and the Csc have agreed to resume negotiations on sunday in the Union has been without a contract since july the Csc said ear Lier this month it feared technicians strike would disrupt coverage of the Commonwealth games in Edmonton the Csc has a commit ment to provide Broad casts of the games to other Commonwealth the Alberta govern ment asked wednesday for Federal government intervention in the dispute to prevent a disruption of israeli prime minister Menachem begin described a jewish Active As one of the bravest Freedom fighters of our he said the struggle to free soviet jews will be in the wife of exiled soviet author Alex Ander Solzhenitsyn denounced the sentencing of the 30yearold Shch Aransky As a comedy intended to impress people in the Natalya speaking through an inter said has no doubt her husband shares her Carter said the sentencing was Saddest of All for the soviet people who have seen their own government pledge two years ago to re Spect these human rights and and who now have seen that pledge broken once a computer was tried for espionage and ant soviet activity and his trial has ignited an uproar of protest in the in the foreign office said the Swiss government stands ready to receive on its soil the dissidents whose trials just the announcement does not name the but the wording left no doubt they Are Shch Aransky and Carter denounced the dissident trials once in his formal statement and earlier at an news conference after meet ing with West German Chan cellar Helmut speaking in Ger told reporters i would like to express my full agreement with what the president has Churchill base to stay open the military base in Chur chill will be kept open for another year while the Feder Al government studies Possi ble alternate uses for fed eral defence minister bar Ney Danson said in a letter the study is being done in reply to protests from the town about a possible Clos Churchill has suffered a series of economic blows As military and other facilities have been withdrawn Over the last few Popula Tion in the area has been As High As and is now Down to there Are 34 families stationed at the base in Chur Downey denies sending cattle Bill draft Mill 1 tie producer group and has challenged the minister to boy a pro Ducer referendum on the Jua Soja tabled a six Page document called the cattle producers Pwu Otoju act with the won graft stamped on rut Downey said any have written it and notes it hear the logo or name of his he added it could have continued front his department without his Jetton testimony was fuel Lor the fire of it skew and other of Niwor tip Ehmet often Mbere who the Bill Watt give the proposed associations Board of directors unprecedented among it would Levy a fee up to 25 cents per Bead of cattle producers in recent beef producers have twice voted Down such i checkoff system although under the Hill their Lees Are refundable at the end of each the proposed association which win also have the Power to have members fined or even to is to promote the beef Tadus try rather thin act As marketing body bump three evenings of Public Mas heard 30 briefs from beef some of whom trav Elled More than Goff eighteen delegations spoke against the l in those against doubted the majority of beef growers would support the Bill in a 4 few oppo such As members of the National Farmers Union said the Bill Doest go fat As the association wont have Impf Battag among them the Manitoba beef growers claim the Bill will unite rut Rudy president of the Manitoba Independent cattle producers said there Are now six producer groups and for we will have six in the opponents Are also concerned the first of directors would he appointed by the government rather than elected Parker of 4gatbe said he had no bang ups about that but Marlene a Sinclair among makes the Bill a View Rewun piece of oppressive photo by Gerry Cairns customers took Beer out of stores As fast As workers right could unload Beer prices no deterrent As imports go quickly continued Highway patrols have been told to use their discretion in confiscating out province at least half the Beer smugglers caught so far were stopped because they resist sampling their the spokesman theres been an awful lot of drinking in the liquor Board officials in Saskatchewan and Ontario say they Are Selling twice As much Beer As usual in Border towns and in some local residents Are irate about the Lack of Beer for a spokesman for an Ontario Beer distributor in Thunder Bay said they have All kinds of supplies of a spokesman for the Beer Vendor in Kenora said local residents Are Happy about the Revenue thirsty Manitoban Are bringing into their in Saskatchewan Beer suppliers Are hard pressed to keep Beer in the stores at two As brewery strikes and lockouts Are also continuing in shortages at the liquor store at the Border have made local residents a Little a store employee to said last week Cartons of Beer were sold in four almost double the usual amount at this time of a spokesman for a store said were having a hard time keeping he said the Molson brewery faces the highest employees at Manitoba liquor control commission offices Are also scrambling to keep up with the demand for racism flares in strike As shoppers insulted going to end the he the demonstrations Are to convince them there not going to break the results would come wednes Day when negotiations with Safeway he the pickets were most angry at Safeway workers crossing the who faced a barrage of jeers and per Sonal wait til we get one Man was during much of the Demon stration at the Ellice store a Security Man crouched on the roof of the store with a quietly watching the picketers and ignoring their inside the store the few customers were mostly elderly women or people with Young a Man shop Ping with his wife and child said Bis Union supported the strike but he decided he support their de rapeseed firm ruled entitled to Low rates continued by police firmly controlled Access to the Ellice store and the demonstration lost its picketers began they think were going one picketed the heats too were going to the other Sargent they dont know most picketers did go to the second where they started banging on the stores however police similar demonstrations it other Safeway stores were reported provincial role cited in slump continued Ottawa up the Canada packers rapeseed refinery to Winnipeg is emitted to the same Tow railway rates for its products moving to Eastern Canada As its competitors in Western can toe Canadian transport commission ruled Friday since 1977 Canada packers has been negotiating with Bat Canadian National railways and up bail for minimum compensatory rates from Boniface As Well As Stop off at Boni face for refining rapeseed Oil in transit under the rates established for six other rapeseed crusting based mainly on past and current things Are going to happen which they cant predict and which Are going to change things for the he Bob chairman of civic executive policy agreed with the reports observations that councils housing policies Are vague to which makes it difficult to coordinate initiatives with other housing a lot of lip service has been paid to there have been Stu Dies there has been a lot of but i Haven seen any Concrete results As to what were going to do to improve our housing Bockstael ice said the provincial govern ment must assume most of the blame since cutbacks in municipal financing make it impossible for the City to undertake any housing improvement without its Particia Yanofsky said improvements in housing Stock alone will not solve the the Root of which is the High number of unskilled native and Indian people migrating to the City from estimated in the report at housing is really one manifestation of the social its really toe inability of people to look after themselves that is the cause of the he said its a problem not of our its a Federal a training program should be set up by toe Federal govern ment so they can learn to adjust to a new Way be Bockstael and Yanofsky said they would have liked More growth but Are oat pessimistic about the Lack of the City will now be Able to concentrate its resources on improving existing services instead of extending them to new they ;