Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba To Winnipeg butt Tours Bat Qto bar 1 9 f8 Start of an economic revolution Alaska Jis May become Energy stockholders Washington Tel Alaska is thinking about trying almost exercise to economic giving residents a share in the states Fieri future of Energy the scheme being studied would give every slate resident ing share of Stock in a new corporation which would get involved in Energy perhaps the trans alaskan pipeline or tally the norther natural Gas pipe line through the idea is being promoted by the states democratic senator Mike who derived it from the theories of san part Weisto Mist Louis kelso5 and who sees it As the Start of an be Tromie last at gravels Era changes that would give such corporations special tax Mem were enacted by with Little in the massive tax Bill now awaiting president Carters in getting Congress to agree to this gravel said the change is necessary for the me also noted that individual shareholders would pay increased personal in come tax As a result of collecting gravel says that for the new corporation might take out a loan to buy British Petroleum share of the alaskan Oil the Oil company has that it might like to sen valued at travels staff calculated that when the Oil pipeline is in full the corporations share of reve nue would be about after deducting operating costs and debt about million would be left for distribution to the dividend a year for each of the approximately cd two state for a family of the total dividend would amount to m and Kelso now is conducting an study commissioned by the state on whether and How the idea might be while Alaska is committed to do no More than think about the gravels staff is hopeful that the corporation might be set up As Early As a spokesman for gravel said wednesday the new corporation would operate As a private company with a Board of directors elected by the difference be tween it and other companies would be that the new corporation would not pay corporate income another project being eyed by the senator is the Fly billion Northern natural Gas pipeline agreed on last year by Canada and the United the senators staff say they have no estimates of possible investment of dividends for that saying the whole question still is too hypo gravels staff admit that there Are a lot of uncertainties about the including such bastes As How if tag a person would have to live m Alaska to qualify and what would happen to a shareholder who moves from the gravel sees such ship schemes As the alternative to state socialism a Way of distributing the benefits of corporate life without turning companies Over to politicians and bureaucrats for Man he has predicted that the alaskan venture might alter american poli tics and economics in profound ways As other states follow with similar women facing financial hardship Ottawa up women who Are the sole support of their families Are becoming a growing proportion of the country the economic Council of Canada says in its an Nual report released the a Federal advisory says in a discussion of unemployment and financial hardship that such women not Only Lack other sources of income but in most cases earn substantially less than among other findings in a Section on social programs unemployment alone is an unreliable indicator of financial hardship and the benefits of social programs such As unemployment family allowances and medical care have gone almost As much to Middle and upper income persons As to the the report says lower incomes earned by women usually mean their unemployment insurance benefits Are lower than those paid to this is in spite of the fact jobless women face longer periods of unemployment than in unattached males in the labor Force received about on third More total income than did their female it among the male headed families who experienced the average family income in 1975 was nearly higher than the income of female headed families with no the Council says unemployment has the depression Days of the 1930s been regarded As an Indi Cator of social the report the unemployment now running about per highest since the is not a Good indicator of a similar line has been taken recently by Federal Cabinet Many fully employed people exist on incomes that Border on the poverty and Many among the unemployed have no really severe Mancial problems at while admitting the definition of financial hardship is the Council studied data for the years 1971 and 1975 and concluded that Only per cent of families in 1975 experienced both unemployment and hard ship compared with per cent in when Only the unattached individuals and families experiencing unemployment in 1975 were Only about one in seven had incomes that fell below the hardship Cut it the study used statistics Canada Low income Levels which in 1975 were a year for individuals and for a family of Broad social Security schemes and growing numbers of multiple earner families have altered the relationship Between employ unemployment and financial the report in addition to unemployment in a Foremost defence against the financial hardship caused by unemployment is the complementary earnings of other family although the report says social Security has reduced the Impact of it also says the pro Grams have been found to have Only minor effects on the redistribution of income in the most of the programs were de signed to meet the needs of special such As the the Young the unemployed and women with dependent they Are not specifically aimed at the the result is that the Universal programs have been Only modestly progressive with net benefits flow ing to the Middle class As much As to the an example is unemployment in which is often not paid to the poor because they Are not Mem Bers of the labor Force due to disability or the need to care for smallpox beaten Somalia a a one year countdown starts today to see if one of the five killer Dis eases to ravage the world since the Dawn of is licked for if by no new cases Are reported in six countries in East Africa and the Middle the world health organization who will declare the disease wiped from the face of the the Only remaining Chance of infection would be from virus stocks stored in As recently As smallpox accounted for Between and deaths a year a Mao who has the dubious distinction of being the last Man known to catch smallpox Natu lives in this Small town on the Edge of the Indian a 23yearold Hospital was infected on during a three minute ride in a jeep that was carrying two children with if there Are no new cases in Soma Djibouti and North and South Yemen by the second anniversary of alis infection medical experts say they will consider the disease jets miss town almost hit up photo John Napier Hemy of Vancouver knew this painting of his Grandfather was but he never dreamed it was Worth appraisers said it was painted by John Singer one of England Best portrait artists in the 19th and Early 20th remedy proposed for sickness in Canadian Industrial sector Ottawa up the government must begin screening out harmful foreign technology if this country is to have any Hope of rescuing its Indus trial sector from the deterioration of the last two says the science Council of in a report for release the Council Calls for the transformation of the Foury Earold foreign investment review Agency into a regulator of technology imports from the entitled the weakest link a technological perspective on Canadian Industrial under develop says the government cannot afford to wait until it finishes its Long awaited Industrial policy to Rem Edy the sickness of its manufacturing it Calls for the following immediate remedial action review of All proposed techno logical government incentives to encourage the formation of consortia and joint business ventures to make Canadian companies Large enough to compete preferential treatment of Cana Dian firms in government Purchas government incentives to help finance High technology investment for an Industrial our capability to design and Engineer new products is at a distressingly Low the Council the los Angeles times wonder the Navy began an investigation wednes Day into the accidental dropping by Jet planes of eight tons of live bombs 32 500pounders on an area about Miles North of this desert Community of residents near Twenty nine a Man who had been target shoot ing in the area with his 8yearold son said they fled in their pickup truck As the bombs exploded sunday on Feder Al Bureau of land management lands three Miles South of the bombing the James said he and his saw flying shrapnel from the bombs kick up dust in front of the truck As they got the hell out of neither was a Pacific Fleet naval air Force spokesman in san Diego disclosed later that the bombs were dropped by some or All of six jets from the aircraft Carrier Ranger on a training Mission in which the bombs were sup posed to be dumped in the bombing Twenty four other 500pounders dropped by the aircraft did land in the target it was Wheeler said he and his son had stopped target shooting for a time to sit a Hillside and watched the jets drop bombs on a Mountain Range far inside the target the jets were making their bombing runs two at a then Wheeler a couple of bombs hit on a Knoll not too far away from them and we Felt the con Wheeler said he and his son jumped into their truck and took when the bombs fell and Jack chief of the Community Volunteer fire was seated in front of his television set at Home about five Miles he said the House began to rattle and it Damn near took the windows out of the Mcconaha i walked outside and it looked like they the bombs were hitting in our residential the Community covers 78 Square Mcconaha said he immediately got on the Telephone to the duty officer at the Twenty nine Palms base and told him they were tearing the Heck out of us out the Navy said the planes involved were for a7 Corsair ii Light attack jets from Lemoore naval air station and two a6 intruder medium attack Craft from Whitbey naval station in Washington the a6 intruder is the same Type Jet involved in the accidental bomb ing of the Fleet tug Cree 18 during a training exercise off san no one was but the tug was so badly damaged it had to be Jerome chief of staff of Carrier group was appointed by rear Robert Kirk group to investigate the Johnson is an experienced aviator who has commanded an attack Squadron and who is familiar with the target confined As ill 45 Granny goes Home the Washington Post its Al most its almost said 69year old Virginia Gunnoe As she kept looking at her watch on the flight from Washington to Gaines Ville after being confined for almost half a Century at Forest the District of columbian institution for the mentally where she was taken 45 years ago because she was suffering from typhoid Gunnoe was about to be reunited with her when the plane her family burst from behind the barricades to Greet the woman they had fought for 15 years to get released for Forest out in front was her 18yearold Earl who had led the Effort for gun noes Freedom because i needed someone to talk dont dont Gunnoe said to her Mary Louise who was seeing her Mother for the second time in her of my this is my baby Gunnoe said to the Forest Haven social Gwendolyn who had accompanied her on the this is my who was born in 1909 in Santo dominican re to a Spanish speaking father and a French speaking spoke virtually no English at All when she arrived in the United states As a Young she married at the age of she had delivered five children when in at the age of living in she caught typhoid i was a i took care of the children of a Friend of my Sis she then j got very with a High and i was taken to a the doctor put me in there Forest Haven my childen were taken away from and i get although her family made efforts to get her released from Forest they were rebuffed by administrators who told them that gun noes commitment was irrevocable and relatives such treatment was Standard procedure until according to mental health and mental Retar Dation officials fifteen years Mary Louise her youngest tried to get her Mother released from the institution where she had been a competent and trusted seamstress in the tailoring i kept telling the officials that she want insane a Legal reason for the incarceration of the mentally but they one of them told me not to write to him Hunter last Hunters Earl har became depressed at the loss of his paternal and decided to write to his maternal for sup he i needed someone to talk an elder someone i could talk a joyous Harvey said after his grandmothers it was Harvey who renewed the Contact with Gunnoe that officials had tried to and who organized the other grandchildren into Chipping in the airfare for the one Way ticket to although Gunnoe was la belled moderately retarded by Forest Haven the original records made prior to the incarceration have never been Accord ing to Ruth a Forest Haven social people with a poor command of Enli Sfa and who were in a marginal economic class were sometimes la belled As retarded and institutions especially during the years of the according to Robert the senior attorney for the mental health Law in although he did not know of gun noes he there Are Many cases similar to what she went we see them All the he Harvey and other family members credit a Volunteer aide at Forest Darlene and a so Cial Gwendolyn with helping them get Gunnoe Darlene told us that she Gunnoe could leave Forest even though someone else had told us they let it Harvey said More than 15 years Gunnoe had been taken form Forest Haven by a relative to live with her in Iowa for some reason the experience was an unpleasant it want very Gunnoe said and she was returned to the cottages at Forest since then officials had told Hunt and that they let her Harvey Darlene told Harvey that in fact his grandmother could be if the family would care for they Walker told him about the Federal gov moments Dein begun in which in the last seven years has reduced the nations population of institution residents from to Walker told the family that As one of the higher functioning Forest Haven gun Noe would have a Chance of being re leased under the in june this As the family continued its efforts to free District court judge John Pratt signed a historic consent in which representatives of the District of Columbia agreed to release of its residents to Community treatment and cease admitting anyone else to the because the family had expressed an interest in having her live with Gunnoe was one of those selected to As Gunnoe was Leav ing her cottage at Forest 10 other elderly Many of whom had been there As Long As stood in the waiting room and waved her dont do anything to come one resident advised fighting Back Why cant 1 get out of like her another woman asked a social who later told a reporter that the woman family refused to take ;