Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 18, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba A passerby checks the new armed forces recruiting forces recruiting via billboards by Ritchie Gage the department of National de Fence has taken a new tack on recruiting personnel for the Canadian armed forces colourful billboard the theme no life like it is attempting to revitalize the image of Canadian military the strategic billboards have be come apparent in the past six weeks along Winnipeg thorough Captain assistant commanding officer of the Canad an forces recruiting Centre in win said the new Campaign is an improvement compared to the abstract boards of a year were using color blowup photographs of Young men in armed services he said in an in Sykes said its too Early to Tell just How effective the Post ers one billboard shows a Young sol Dier sitting in the Hatch of a shows a head and Shoul Ders picture of a Soldier in combat Sykes said earlier Post ers consisted of sketches of armed forces personnel and while Young men Arent flocking to the recruiting Centre Here for Sykes said the armed forces offer a Range of 100 occupations with training for people be tween the Ages of 17 and last year we got about applications for jobs ranging from administrative positions to military technicians and of these we chose he they form part of an approximate recruiting quota in Canada of about personnel the hopefuls take aptitude tests to determine the jobs for which they would Best be right now we have about 25 jobs from which recruits could their Choice if they meet entry require Sykes women comprise about 35 per cent of they Are allowed Only in noncombat All the including those in the Reg ular officers training attend a three month Boot the Boot Camp for privates is in Nova officers train in British the starting salary for privates is a month and officers get a after four privates earn about a year at pres and officers up to a a Soldier can live on the base for about a month room and Board or off the base and pay civilian sex length of service is four or five Sykes said armed forces personnel can terminate this time with ample notice they can retire after 25 or when age food Supply system urged for world poor food Aid for development purposes in poorer countries can Only be effective if there Are assured supplies Over a reasonable period of says executive director of the world food who has issued a Call for establishment of an internationally coordinated system of National food former head of the Canadian wheat Board in says that in spite of recent Good crops which improve world Grain stocks general the food crisis of 197274 is too recent for us to forget the lesson that it is the poor in All countries who Bear most of the Burden of higher prices and reduced consumption forced on the world by inadequate stocks and that for the poor of the developing countries the Burden often becomes a keynote speaker at the International Cereal bread Congress which opened sunday at the Winnipeg convention Vogel said he believes failure to reach agree ment on Trade and Reserve Stock issues has prevented establishment of a enlarged food Aid Conven Tion which should have a main objective of ensuring availability of not less than 10 million tons of cereals a year As food figures he provided showed that food Aid in cereals set for 197778 total million not yet up to the 10 million ton target set by the 1974 world food at the same the United nations food and agricultural organization Fao policies and programs committee Esti mates that Between 15 and 16 million tons of Cereal food aids will be needed by Rural production Progress in devel Oping countries Doest appear to be making rapid Progress in Many with some actually slipping backward Dan per capita according Tofano the percentage of population with food intake below critical minimum Levels of nutrition actually Rose from 24 to 25 during the Early most such countries Lack enough foreign Exchange to buy food from surplus areas and at the same time maintain their development Fao surveys estimate that under nourished people in developing mar Ket countries Rose nearly 15 per from 401 million in 196971 to 455 million in Winnipeg free press City news 2rtd Glass mall number 0286 3 explosive expert warns old War souvenirs could be deadly by Jim Haggarty throughout people Are living with was souvenirs they use As and shelf Decora Many of these pieces of armament Are inert and but military and civilian experts ask Are you will ing to bet your life on it Kelly chief of a Winni Peg based Canadian armed forces team of four men known As the explosive ordnance disposal unit said they Are called in on 20 to 40 assignments a year by police throughout the although the police have bomb Dis postal Eod is called for Mili tary pieces of ordnance or if their expertise is Early this past children found an egg shaped object about the size of a mans fist in their backyard in a residential area of downtown Walker their father thought he recognized the piece of and called the City police who then called in the Eod team members who arrived re cognized the item As a military anti personnel before the team attempted to re move the tape was immediately wrapped around the handle because the safety pin was almost rusted through and there want too much holding the safety lever Walker because of the methods used to dispose of the i can prove without doubt that it was live and could have caused serious injuries or resulted in the loss of he Walker assumes the grenade was under or in a garage on the and when the garage was moved the grenade became dislodged and rolled into the the property owner had bought the Home the previous year and where the explosive came nobody the Busy time of year for the team is in the Spring when homeowners do their annual cleanup and throw out he Hunting through and people often come up with one or More of the three general types of military ordnance project Iles designed to be fired from guns ranging from calibre to 155 my which Are about six inches in Diame mortars or projectiles with and tear and fragmentation usually some relative brought the ordnance Back from a the explosives expert the exterior casing offers no clues to whether the ordnance is Walker a casing which has been left out in the elements and allowed to rust is sometimes More sensitive to actually going he if there is some form of sophisticated arming mechanism it is possible that it has rusted or corroded in some so they can be far More the explosive ordinances Range in age from first world War Vintage to relatively new in a lot of cases we dont take the time to attempt to identify the exact age of if we get a Shell we safely dispose of it to keep the Public Walker often clips news reports to prove to the unaware that the Situa Tion is still isolated events in the daily news take on new importance when viewed As a he in the United states a teacher confiscates a live artillery Shell which a child brought in for show and another teacher in Montreal brought Back two shells As souvenirs from and one fell from a desk photos by Jim Halo arty Kelly chief of the local Canadian armed forces ordnance disposal unit displays some common War souvenirs which could blasting Caps inset have been termed the most dangerous explosive for their the pipes condition shows the damage caused by detonating the blasting Cap injuring several children in the Walker has accounts of people who tried to Drill holes in the ends of blasting or children who take bullets or shells and try to set them off with a War souvenirs Are More common in the City because of population Den but abandoned commercial explosives Are More common in the farming he but one of the More common souvenirs is a practice bomb used on the 11 practice bomb is about 18inches Long and about four inches in and is usually but it is possible that they have an explosive charge in although disposing of military explosives is their prime they Are interested and available to Aid civilian police forces if whatever Type of explosive is us the first thing to do is Call the police and they will organize the proper he there Are no charges against peo ple who have War if people Arent positive that a piece of ordnance is Call the police and the possible explosive will be disposed of without Cost or Crimi Nal he we just want to get these items Back for the safety of the although Eod training involves recognizing and disposing of All types of the military personnel refuse to discuss the full extent of their training and operations other than to we Are available to support the police at All Walker downplayed the possible dangers in his work and said he had Confidence in his training and his team members and that every Situa Tion would be handled you dont become overconfident in this Case it May sound but your first mistake could be your Farmer from South Africa wants to bring his family to Manitoba seeking land where fear unknown by Rich Blanchau what would i be like to live in a country when fear is unknown for a 36yearold Winnipeg native who farms in South and Job Hunting this month i can Ada must be closer to that Ideal than fear of racial strife is prompt ing Tom to direct his Fame Lys search for Freedom to his wife is South african and three although South hold Canadian we were going to try South America but that would be like going from the frying pan into the Neufeld daily the world is told of rising tensions in Southern while in South Africa Case the number of Whites leaving outstrips the number arriving in the White ruled its an old even for Neufeldt family his mennonite father fled the soviet Union in 1925 to seek Refuge in Neufeld left Winnipeg in 1965 with his South african wife and now rents 700 acres in North Transvaal prov Ince raising Sun Grain and Neufeld says documented proof exists showing that dissidents and other recruits gleaned from racial tension in his adopted Homeland Are sent to the soviet Union for training in sabotage and he says they Are infiltrating Back As guerrillas who bring in arms and ammunition for Bidden caches throughout the Many Farmers in Bis about 250 Miles from the rhodesian carry Tye Feld says he has one in the House and carries it when out at he says schoolchildren Are abducted from Rhodesia and brainwashed by terrorists and rebel armies to join their he predicts it wont be Long before those Young children Are from South i think were sitting on a vol he Here to seek a Job As a farm friends in South Africa have asked him to look at the opportunities Here for Hes relatively suggesting at no time an alarmist his cur rent visit to Winnipeg is a step in taking a Long look into the my three sons have Little future Over the decisions by South africans to leave their country because of impending bloodshed is being called the yellow route or the Chicken run by those who have chosen to re there Are always the eternal optimists on one pointing at recent economic news or and those who Are very pessimistic his Story has been told around As a he exchanged banners recently with three Winni Peg clubs and spoke to two the Assiniboine River and West Winnipeg clubs to give them the real Situa Tion in South figures available from the Canad an government show South africans came to Canada in 1977 54 to the total to Canada in 1976 was 31 to in the first six months of this year 924 South africans 20 Indi Cating they were going to figures released in May by the South african government show that the number of people permanently emigrating from the country jumped per cent Between january and october last As compared with the same period of but is it that bad Neufeld was he said he would stay another year if farm circumstances demand although he would like to bring his family Here next Spring after his crops have been his visit appears to have been a Success a Job offer at Portage la Neufeld on Volcano ;