Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, August 11, 1978

Issue date: Friday, August 11, 1978
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Previous edition: Thursday, August 10, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Quarantine list grows vaccine shortage feared it it Gums discovering the Folk festival 12 it does it take to get a Dree Grant 33 800 attend local mass for Pope Winnipeg free press anytime business for i final edition Sun Moon rises sets 264 August is cents 2s4 with coloured comics local Church autonomy Only qualification anglican Bishops approve of opening the door to women England a anglican Bishops voted 316 to 37 thurs Day to accept ordination of women priests by the episcopal Church and members in new zealand and Hong seventeen this Means we could see a woman Bishop within 10 perhaps first in or in new said venerable Martha episcopal Archdeacon of but the Bishops approved another Resolution that said any decision to consecrate a woman Bishop should have overwhelming support in that member Church lest the Bishops office should become a cause of disunity instead of a focus of the Newark priest has been watching from the gallery of the Lambeth con held every 10 Bishops in the anglican which has 64 million members in 165 the major Resolution said half the 25 anglican provinces either have ordained women or decided there Are no fundamental or theological objections to women it reiterated that anglican churches Are autonomous and can make their own decisions on admit Ting women to holy some other protestant churches have women but the roman Catho Lic and Eastern orthodox churches have told anglicans ordaining women will upset decades of talks Between them on eventual the Resolution also said anglican churches that do not ordain women should respect those that it said diversity is part of the anglican Heri Tage and pledged to continue dialogue on Christian Unity with other churches opposing women in Bishop William Sheridan of the Northern Indiana diocese said the women priests Issue had bitterly divided episcopalians and led to an angry and growing but Bishop John Coburn of Massachusetts said latest figures do not sup port that among our three Mil lion member 25 congregations or splinters of congregations have left meaning members and about 50 he Donald assistant Bishop of failed to get the conference to say churches that have not ordained women should refrain from doing so for another five pending evaluation of women Elizabeth Wiener of washing who is on the staff of washing ton Cathedral after being ordained in said she was enor Mously relieved by thursdays i had not realized How much i wanted them to come to this decision and i think the Bishops were very i dont think we will see a woman Bishop in the episcopal Church for quite a Long there has been too much division and a period of Healing and reconciliation is now Bishop Paul Moore said during the debate that the 14 women priests in his new York City diocese helped him hold the diocese meet rejects Federal plans by Debbie Sproat Regina Canadas 10 premiers formally voiced their objections to the constitutional reforms proposed by the Federal government in a diplomatically worded com Munique issued on the Sec Ond Day of their annual con Treyve agreed to Advance again a set of proposals approved at a pre Miers conference in 1976 which they say has not received an adequate response from the Federal govern they suggested that consensus constitutes a useful starting Point for discussions involving distribution of Powers and represents a positive contribution toward the Resolution of significant those proposals included Patria Tion of the British North America greater provincial involvement in a guarantee of language rights similar to the official languages act and strengthening of Provin Cial jurisdiction in the area of natural resources that document also said he provinces saw a need for expansion of provincial jurisdiction and discussions with the Federal government see Power Page 4 expansion of Arena supported expansion of Winnipeg Arena to a minimum of 000 seats for million would begin in january and be completed by if City Council adopts a recommendation made at a meeting of civic executive policy committee councillors voted unanimously and with Little debate to recommend million be authorized by the City for immediate expansion of the Winnipeg Arena provided the Winnipeg jets sign a lease guaranteeing million in rental payments Over eight Jim chair Man of Winnipeg enter Prises said in an interview after the meet ing the jets have already indicated they will go along with the proposal and will be ready to sign the lease after a few Legal details have been ironed Ernst Independent Citi Zens election committee Grants Mill said if the club should fold before the lease u would still be required to pay the City total of All remaining annual a photos police officers take custody of move Leader Delbert Africa after his surrender tuesday in Media help sought on shootout Philadelphia a newspapers and television stations will be asked to Supply film and photographs to help investigators determine whether a move member was beaten by police after a shootout at the backs nature groups were not seeking anything conf assistant District attorney Wilhelm Knauer said we need the help of All and that includes news reporters and Pho so we can review ail the evidence to see if it can help us with our investigation and pros ecu among other the police treatment of move member Delbert Orr after he was being some photo graphs show Africa his hands raised when police knocked him to the and then kicked him and dragged him off by his police commissioner Joseph Oneill said Africa struck after police found him carrying a Cartridge clip in one hand and a knife in the other during tuesdays mass arrest at move Headquarters when one police Man was District attorney Edward Rendell acknowledged that photographs hed seen showed Africa was empty hand but that he be sure the Man did not have a weapon before the pictures were the Philadelphia inquirer said that unpublished matter is not voluntarily turned Over to 110 workers walk out strike shuts Down port of Churchill by Bob Lowery National harbours Board employees withdrew their services shutting Down the Churchill port in the first strike of the ports morethan55 year the port shut Down operations after thurs Days 4 shift and picket lines went up Early this Clint Public service employees of Canada regional said the strike decision followed a meeting with har Bors Board officials in which it appeared nothing would be added to an earlier contract offer already turned Down by a 75percent majority of the 110 port manager Theophil t Lauzon said he was deeply disappointed at the breakdown but added i had nothing More to the harbours Board offer included a six per cent wage increase retroactive to when the old contract plus two five percent raises during the rest of the two year Hornby said the Union originally asked for an 18percent increase to close the Gap Between Churchill and other Canadian the differential Between Churchill and Lake head is 23 to 57 per he Hornby said the Union lowered its demand to per cent and at one Point the parties were about two percentage Points Lauzon said there is no telling what effect the strike will have on the shipping season it had been would reach a record 32 million two ships have already sailed with a Mil lion bushels there Are two More waiting at the Landing wharf and two More Riding at Anchor outside the Harbor Lauzon said ship owners with freighters scheduled to arrive in Churchill would be notified so they could decide whether they wanted their ships to Hornby also said Union members Are angry about a harbours Board announcement that Board and room for men living at the boards trailer Camp would increase to a Day from a Day starting Lauzon said the rate was subsidized under the Union management contract and is now cancelled because of withdrawal of ser vices by the the attitude the harbours Board is taking makes us feel like pawns in a mighty big chess Hornby it seems to us that in the Long run they want to see Churchill closed and have us put into the position where we have no alternative but to that helps their mayor Les Osland said the town would offer its services to both sides in an Effort to find a weve been hit with so Many things this year this is the worst thing that could go wrong because the port is the one thing we have left to keep our Economy Stanfield surprises even his family by remarrying Ottawa up Robert former National progressive conservative married a former history teacher and party official thursday in the Surprise Sta Fields was to Anne a Toronto Divorcee with two grown Sta Fields first died in a 1954 Auto his second died last october at 65 of lung Stanfield has four grown All from his first mar his was married Here last the marriage at austins parents Home was kept apparently even from some family Stan Fields second marriage on May also was the believed about is a former president of the Toronto Don Valley progressive conservative association and former Canadian history teacher in North a former aide said Austin travelled in the 1974 election Campaign As an aide and companion to Mary the now believed honeymooning in is expected to live in Ottawa although Stanfield has said he will not seek Law unconstitutional Beer importing Case dismissed by Cecil Rosner a Man charged with importing 240 bottles of Beer into Manitoba during the recent Beer workers strike had his Case dismissed thursday by Provin Cial judge Mike who said the charge should never have been Laid in the first in dismissing the charge against Robert Hunt of win Baryluk said he questioned the constitutionality of provincial legislation which prohibits people from bringing More than two Gallons or 24 bottles of Beer into Manitoba from another i dont see anything in the British North America act which prohibits said if i can bring 15 cases in from Why cant i bring 15 cases from Ontario As lawyer John Scurfield was beginning his argument As to Why the charges should be the judge interrupted him and said that he had already made up his mind to dismiss the Baryluk also pointed out that the Crown prove the Beer found in Hunts car had actually been bought in see Beer Page 4 know the scores Ottawa Happy with Garrison Resolution see Council Page 4 Ottawa up Federal govern ment spokesmen thursday expressed general satisfaction with provisions protecting Canadian interests attached to a United states Senate Resolution that has allowed renewal of construction on the controversial Garrison diversion project in North the Senate voted wednes Day to deny a request from presi Dent Jimmy Carter to defer spend ing million on the project designed to create about acres of arable land in semiarid regions of the state which Borders on an external affairs department spokesman said Ottawa was Happy the Senate has clearly indicated that the funds will not be spent in ways which could Barm Canada or otherwise affect our standing assurances from the on Garrison and that the importance of the International joint commissions us report is re he added that Canadian officials were looking Forward to further consultations with the state department As requested in a letter delivered earlier this a spokesman for the Environ ment department said his depart ment was satisfied with the provi Sions of the Resolution protecting Canadian Carter had asked the Senate to freeze the funds because of Canad an concerns that certain alien Spe cies of fish and Blac flies could eater this country through posed diversion the cosponsored by North Dakota senators Milton Young and Quentin passed the upper House u carried clauses stipulating that All water diverted by the project would be kept within the As originally the project would divert southward running water from the Missouri and James River systems into the northward flowing red River and the Souris River which loops Down from Saskatchewan into North Dakota and Back into the 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