Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Teacher al Hall has Job Hopes for where to find and How to fix a our new Magazine starts in today free press Winnipeg never gets enough of sunny Low High 4 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final 15 March 25t with coloured comics 141 hostages released x in Basterville after hassle Over fishing an India Metis Community 400 Kilometres Northeast of Winnipeg frustrated by the closing shortly of its Only remaining Industry received the full attention of govern ment thursday when residents held four civil servants hostage for three hours before releasing them in the four government employees Bill Northern regional director of mines and natural two conservation officers and a Biolo Gist were released from the Community Hall in Basterville about after natural resources minis Ter Brian Ransom indicated he would meet with Community representatives to discuss their economic prob the Community of 800 has been trying to get the government to extend the commercial fishing season on nearby Cedar Lake for another grand rapids ramp French said thursday night he a inf think any charges would be al though police investigation of the incident was French said no weapons were displayed during the while the four were being and Telephone negotiations were under Way with government officials in the Only Road Access to the food prices push inflation to Ottawa up higher prices for beef and other food helped push the annual rate of inflation to per cent in up from per cent in statistics Canada said that its consumer Price Index showed a Sharp Rise of nine tenths of one per cent in the month with food prices accounting for about half that in the Federal Agency said that a Basket of food Cost per cent More in february than it did in january and that same Basket of food Cost per cent More than a year the change in its consumer Price which includes food and other goods and services bought by the average Means it Cost in february to buy items it Cost to buy in it would have Cost to buy the same goods and services a year Sinclair progressive conservative finance said canadians Are feeling the Impact of the cheap Dollar on prices of imported particularly see food Page 4 Jean Monnet Europe builder dead Jean Monnet Dies at 91 Paris a Jean the Foremost advocate of european Unity and the inspiration and driving Force behind the european eco nomic Community died today at his Home near Montfort a self described political was the key figure in the drive to bind Western european states economically and but during his Long career he con stantly shunned the his first major step toward european Unity was a six state Pool of Coal and steel formally presented in seven years later it became known As the european eco nomic see details on Page Community was blockaded by a trac Tor and Nathan Vic president of the Manitoba Indian was in Basterville thursday and said the government employees were re leased following Telephone negotiations that involved brotherhood pres ident Lawrence Ransom and attorney general Gerry Mer Mcgillivary said Ransom refused to negotiate new fish quotas the Central Issue in the dispute while the men were being the minister later indicated he would meet with representatives of the Community to discuss their economic Mcgillivary chief Percy Mink of the Che maw Awin band said it was decided to hold the civil servants to try to get a commitment from the government to extend their fishing season on Cedar Lake to april Mink said fishing was the Only Industry left in since the provincial government withdrew funding last year for a Fence Post Industry and a Federal government program to Cut pulpwood ended a month Mink said the Community has a quota of pounds of Whitefish a half to be taken in the sum Mer the other half in about 200 people in the Community Are employed in the fishing he Mcgillivary said the fishermen had been told to pull their nets March but after meeting with government officials their season was extended to March he said representatives from the Community had gone to Winnipeg last week to meet with but the minister had been unable to meet with them because of estimate re views of his departments in the leg Mcgillivary said Hubert Vic president of the Manitoba Metis federation and Henry tribal chief of the swampy Creek tribal Council were also in Basterville Ransom and Mercier declined comment about the incident when questioned late the Basterville incident was raised in the legislature thursday night by Ron Mcbryde Dur ing discussion of health department Mcbryde criticized the government for cutting Back economic help for Northern he said with the Lack of economic Many communities Are limited to the Choice of confronting government or falling Back on Wel a photo new York City police officer Raymond Martucci holds a Billy club and wears roller skates while posing for a Book on roller skating in new York a Par time was not on official duty at the elderly exempt from bus fare increase 16 City tax Rise proposed recommending a 1979 operating City councils executive policy committee thursday voted to excuse elderly citizens from a proposed five cent increase in bus the proposed budget Council will debate next wednesday afternoon Calls for increased property taxes of about or More for a Home assessed at riot including school recommended to become effective May 1 Are new bus fares of 40 cents for 15 cents for students and elderly citizens would continue to pay 10 Young people would still have the option of purchasing 10 tickets for All monthly passes would Cost up executive committee backed the civic Board of commissioners by not approving annual bus passes for Sale at various rates to the elderly and endorsing a final draft of the 1979 executive committee rejected another Call by Jim Ragsdill to hire eight new ambulance service Ragsdill Heights said the added staff vitally needed and would help improve a heart attack recovery rate of less than seven per cent of the cases handled in Yanofsky said the requested hiring should wait until after current wage Pearl Mcgonigal urged delay until the province answers if it will assume responsibility for ambulance ser committee threw cold water on two financing schemes Ragsdill suggest see ambulance Page 4 Oil spills in Cabot Strait Halifax up a Canadian forces tracker aircraft was to Fly Over the broken Bow and Stern sections of the British Tanker Kurdistan this morning to determine How much of her cargo of tons of Bun Ker c Oil has spilled into the ice jammed Cabot the vessels chief Captain Ronnie Bell of in was lifted off the Stern Sec Tion at Daybreak today by a Canadian forces helicopter and flown to Syd he is in Good the remaining 40 Crew members who took to lifeboats when the vessel began to break up thursday night were aboard the Canadian coast guard vessel sir William a coast guard spokesman said the trackers Crew will conduct a com plete Survey of the about 46 nautical Miles Northeast of Sydney in the Cabot Strait Between Nova Scotia and to determine the extent of the he said there was 34 jobless in association says by Glen Mackenzie on third of Manitoba construction workers Are out of figures released thursday by the Winnipeg construction association a total of per in the Industry Are Unzem compared with or per cent the figures Indi the association said in a statement the dont include those who have left the entered Industrial employees started their own there is Little or no work on the drawing boards which would Lead to future construction activity for contractors and the statement figures also show unemployment in the Cleri professional and supervisory category increased about 15 per cent during the six week to 479 from association spokesmen be reached for comment thursday Leo president of the building trades representing construction said primary blame rests with the provincial governments restraint pro which is leading the Way for private Enterprise about 60 per cent of construction is nor Mally done by he Manitoba usually has no unemployed construction workers in but Desilets predicted this summer the jobless figure in the Industry will be 12 to 18 per see construction Page 4 photo of Titt this in on third of Provinati construction work try cant get some leakage from number three hold on the port and starboard Side both sections of the vessel Are still he said Oil must be spilled because the ship is Cut in but How much is really a matter of conjecture at the moment Bunker c is a Black Oil that conceals in cold it is More difficult than crude Oil to clean up and it decomposes More score Board wha Birmingham 4 new England nil by islanders 6 Toronto 2 by rangers 7 Boston 4 Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 4 Buffalo 4 Vancouver 2 9168 winners 27 38 21 57 inside anytime 37 t qty must Pville 43 13 of Tafert i 4t 37 ;