Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 30, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 years of i women liberation weekend goes Dawn to the wire Coupon keeper All the details 66 shoulder or Way into fashion Leisure is Manfor nearing the breakeven Point 16 target per cent of goal Elp the old Block 29 Fri 58 tenures 2948 m 48 Jumble 49 60 sunny High Low 8 sum rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final september 1973 is cents with coloured comics 86 2 Green Light flashing for overpass project by John Sullivan the Canadian transport commis Sion Etc has approved construction of Winnipeg Long awaited Sherbrook Mcgregor a transport Canada spokesman said the Federal a surface planning officer with the depart said a Green Light recommendation on the Bridge plans by the commission would be waiting for transport minister Otto Lang when he returned to Ottawa Friday after noon from a 24hour visit to Winni asked about the cites application shortly before his Lang told the free press he thought the Etc verdict was already on his although he haunt seen the minister said there is Little doubt he will accept the Lang also said approval of the plans after a year of commission scrutiny will allow him to make a concerted pitch to the Federal trea sury Board for More government funding of the conservatively estimated to Cost Lang would give no hint on his chances of persuading his Treasury Board colleagues to Sweet in the he denied speculation the decision could be tied to the 16 by election in saying he doubts it will come that mayor Robert Steen said its been our understanding that approval for Sherbrook Mcgregor was on langs desk for quite a but we cant do anything until we get our licence to we dont need to wait for the special funding to be but we will continue to press for it any Steen agreed with Lang that approval of the special funds would hold no political mileage for the Liberal 1 find it hard to believe that the Federal government would approve anything like that in Hopes that it would have any effect on the Boniface he Sec City Page 4 a photo crowds line up in Peters Square Friday to see the body of Pope John Paul i lying in state inside the Basilica in the stunned roman catholics mourn death of John Paul i Church starts process to select new Pope Vatican City up a stunned roman Catholic suddenly bereft of its new Leader by the inscrutable designs of mourned Friday the death of Pope John Paul the Humble labourers son whose Brief but cheerful reign had heartened Mil Lions throughout the the 65yearold pontiff was found dead in his bed Friday stricken by a heart attack at 11 the Light was an opened Book of meditations Lay near by said a senior his face still bore his usual John Paul reigned As pontiff of the 700millionmember Church for just 31 the shortest pontificate in modern Providence took him away from us so said Carlo Gonfalon Lyon expresses sorrow services set the people of Manitoba Are profoundly shocked and grieved at the sudden and unexpected death of his holiness Pope John Paul Premier Sterling Lyon there is a deeper Only recently he had brought to his High office a vision of Hope and Promise and a personal Mission to serve All he was a Man of essential who carried within him a Bright vision that renewed the Faith of people the Premier Manitoban joined in paying trib Ute to the spiritual he a state funeral mass for Pope John Paul will be held in Winnipeg this tuesday at at marys the archbishop of George Cardinal was expected to arrive in Rome during the week end for funeral services at the Vati can and to take part in the conclave to select a new a spokesman for the archdiocese of Winnipeg said Friday it had not been determined who would con duct the funeral mass locally in the absence of Cardinal flags at Manitoba legislative building and at government House hew at half must Friday in tribute to Pope John Paul the jobs not problems Wielan Eugene when Washington up unemployment and the Economy Are not prob lems for Canadian Agri culture minister Eugene Whelan said the minister also said in an inter View following a seminar on world hunger that canadians trained like seals to eat at fast food junk outlets do not know Whelan blamed the Media for the View that Canadas Economy is is ail let me ask you this Whelan Ford motor in my area invested general motors Over lever Brothers 3o they think its so bad acre Why toe Yaeju Are they investing in sick and tired of people say ing Canadas Economy is so but you people the news some of have implanted it in Peoples asked Why unemployment was so the minister replied unemployment int so High in you have More people work per capita than Ever in our his weve created More new jobs Luau he then took a slap at those who would let some jobs go begging be cause they regard the work us Meni you try to find somebody to do some of the jobs that you want Why Are we not producing vege tables because nobody will do that kind of in the interview Whelan called for a minimum Prie for world wheat As i said Here today at the does it make economic sense that we give our wheat away 85yearold Dean of the College of we Are All with our eyes turned upward wondering about the inscrutable designs of longtime friends of the who had a history of frail said John Paul May have worked himself to evidently of late he had to undergo efforts and tensions that he probably could not physically said Mario Secre tary to the former Albino Luciani when he was Cardinal of possibly the Burden was too much to Bear for the new commented Viennas Cardinal Franz Koenig upon learning the As it did Only 54 Days ago on the death of 80yearold Pope Paul also of a heart the Church set into motion an ancient mourning rite and the process of choosing its spiritual the conclave of cardinals to elect a successor must open within 20 Days of the pontiffs death by 18 at the John who would have been on was a dark horse before he was elected to succeed Pope Paul in the first Day of balloting one of the shortest conclave this Cen tens of tens of thousands of mourn ers nuns in italian political leaders in dark business tourists in Bright summery dress find past the Popes body As it Lay in state beneath a Fresco of Angels in the Vatican Marble Clementine a few doors Down from the bedroom where he the Pope was Clad in red White Miter and red his head Lay on two pillows atop the a White Crucifix standing the hands were entwining a to a pastoral staff rested beside the what will we do now asked a tearful woman praying in nearby Peters we had such a Good Man and Hes gone his whole life was in his see would Page 4 signal interference by Winnipeg firms Rural Cable to scuttled by dispute by Gary Hunter a dispute Between the Manitoba Telephone system and Winnipeg cab Levision companies scuttled Cable to service to Brandon and Portage la Prairie Friday less than an hour after it went on the according to a spokesman at bran Don fireball of subscribers hooked up and waiting for the likes of waiter won Der the incredible Hulk and Johnny Carsons 16th anniversary tonight show there was a Nice Clear picture for about 45 minutes then it went All like reversed by they were Back to two Gordon director of marketing and administrative ser vice for the Manitoba Telephone sys said Friday night the reason for the Short lived launch of multichannel Cable service to outlying communities was intentional interference with the signal by Winnipeg Cablevision a spokesman for Videon Cable to old the free press they did have lit1 technical wherewithal a to the Jack assistant general manager of Videon Cable stopped Short of admitting wilful interference with the signal but said his company Felt no obligation to Supply a Clear signal to the Telephone system for Transfer to Rural Cablevision companies in the absence of serious negotiations Over the cos sharing of a microwave a Baigrie said a letter had been Han delivered to Backhouse Friday afternoon in which the companies said they would be seeking bind ing arbitration under the terms of a contract with he Telephone sys tem for a cos sharing agree Backhouse said the microwave cos sharing lease was about a month he said he had suggested a meeting with the Cablevision companies tuesday to resolve outstanding Baigrie said he found it unbelievable that Backhouse would pro pose negotiations occur after the service already gone into of together with greater Winnipeg own a television signal collector facility at Tol from the signal is via microwave owned by the Tele phone to distribution Points in the Winnipeg compan ies currently pay the full Cost of the microwave lease and see dispute Page 4 Dollar loses ground Montreal up unexpectedly Low foreign Trade figures sent the Canadian Dollar sliding More than two thirds of a cent against its american counterpart on International Money markets the closing quote on Toronto Interbank wholesale Market the International Hub for Dollar Trad cents Down 16 25ths of a cent from thursdays close of it was the biggest drop in a single Day since february when the Dollar lost 1720ths of a rent before closing at traders said the a gust merchandise Trade announced in Ottawa Early was substantially lower than Market participants had at the same the july deficit originally announced in a gust at was revised to one senior trader said an August surplus of at least million had been expected by Many Market Par the Dollar is now Worth Towanda half cents less than at the beginning of the in workers walkout some freight disrupted in railway workers in and Rainy off the Job causing the suspension of some freight trains on the Prairie Region mainline and resulting in the cancellation of the Friday night passenger train from Winnipeg to a in spokesman said yardman and switchman in the three centres had left their jobs in support of a Small group of rail workers in Thunder Bay who have been off the Job since 13 protesting the operation of Coal trains destined for new bulk handling facilities on mis Sion a Union spokesman said late Fri Day workers in Winnipeg were off the Job for an information he said negotiations were under Way and there was a possibility the work ers would return 10 their jobs during the neither the company nor the Union could say exactly How Many workers were off the Job the spokesman for the United transportation who asked not to be said the dispute in Thunder Bay concerned working conditions and he said there had already been a few layoffs be cause of the new handling procedure and it was feared More would in a statement released a in spokesman said it is Regretta ble this reduction of service will leave a Large number of other railway employees not involved in the illegal strike action without work to pre the spokesman said the daily via transcontinental passenger service would continue to operate Over com Pany lines As Long As Crews were Grain trains Are still operating to and will continue to do so for As lung As the in statement said i 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