Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free july 1979 seven injured in crash up at least seven persons Are in Hospital and 30 others have been treated for minor injuries after a Voyageur bus carrying a full Load of passengers to Ottawa from Montreal was struck by a truck on the Tran Canada Highway about 20 Kilometres East of officials at two local hospitals said at least six of the 43 passengers will remain for observation and one will be transferred to an Ottawa Laurie an administrator at the Smith said All of the Pas sengers were some of whom Are the injuries were mostly and police Here said the bus rolled Over into the median of the four Lane High Way after being struck by a five ton Box truck travelling in the same the names or conditions of the two Drivers have yet to be released by police although a Hospital official said the bus Driver was not seriously a Voyageur spokesman in Christina could provide no fur ther Voyageur officials say the bus was last inspected As part of a regular program of checks on july 2 and found to be in Good Condi the Accident was reported to police after Saint John averts threat of police strike passengers and rescuers Mill about the scene of a Bustruck collision East of women will meet pm Saint up this old port City of continues to Wear its summer colors with sidewalk shop displays and plenty of festival Decora Tion As merchants discard plans for boarding up their premises in the Wake of news that police will not its a big said Barbara a downtown shop owner and one of Many who feared the worst on wednesday and yesterday when a police strike appeared Immi the had it not been averted by a Las minute Council decision yester Day to pay wages demanded by the 200member would have come in the Middle of loyalist an annual we Klong summer festival marked by scores of outdoor events and a time when merchants wares traditionally spill on to Busy the business Community had feared a repeat of lawlessness As in where Rowdy groups roamed unimpeded during most of a seven Day police strike that ended last Bathurst police crossed their own picket lines three times in the week to put a Stop to reckless vandalism and the police Here were in a Legal Posi Tion to strike More than 24 hours before the dispute was settled when coun cil agreed to accept a conciliation Board report with Only a minor change in a clause dealing with appeals of disciplinary action taken by the police the earlier accepted by both was modified to provide a final hearing by a single person appointed by the new Brunswick labor department rather than by a Threeman Tribu Nal As originally the policemen Are to get the wages they sought a yer in each year of a two year contract on top of the a year now paid to first class Council ratification of the contract came minutes after a 4 Adt deadline set by the police As the earliest time they would walk off the a Union spokesman said no ratification vote by the membership is needed and signing can take place As soon As the documents Are the Force had been poised to walk out at mid afternoon wednesday but Union leaders extended the deadline 24 hours As a gesture of up photo native women protest sexist sections of the Indian act in Ottawa up Indian women and children who walked 160 Kilometres from to the Steps of parliament Hill will meet prime minister Clark today to press Home their com plaint that Section of the Indian act is As 200 women and children lunched on hamburgers and soft drinks after a noon hour March around the Centennial flame Indian affairs minister Jake Epp told them health minister David Crombie and David Mac minister responsible for the status of will also participate in the Dis the government is sym pathetic with your Epp the conference is going to be extremely vital not Only in terms of information but More importantly in terms of moving Forward from the discrimination you have faced up to the present the indians cheered when he also told them that Al though she could not be there to Tell them external affairs minister Flora Mac Donald supports their miss Macdonald is in Geneva for an International con Ference on although most of the or Derly protesters flew to Ottawa from the West and the 63 had begun the March saturday to Tell the government they want the Section changed to allow in Dian women to retain their status As official indians if they marry White during a informal meeting with the marchers at Epp told them he would move promptly to change the which now allows Indian men who marry White women to retain their before a general revision of the act is made in the my for proven cautioned them against expecting too much too soon because he would have to meet Indian leaders before undertaking either re some of the women March ers said band councils that govern reserves and some of the major Indian organizations Are opposed to Chang ing the Section on after yesterdays Cabinet David Macdonald accompanied Epp to the meeting with the protesters and talked briefly with some he knew from his Days As opposition critic on the Sta Tus of i think there is very Little doubt in this group about my position on the specific i have had a Bill on the order papers for the last two years having to do with removal of Section 12 from the he Section 12 is the clause the women want changed and Macdonald promised they would have his Golden coins worthless Metal Toronto up the bag of Golden coins an honest teenager found in the garbage thursday be longed police thought the 24 wafers Michael of Toronto found tied up in an red sock when he was cleaning up at a fast food restaurant at the cites East end were but it took Only seconds for a Gold expert from a Bank to pronounce them an investigating officer described the 50gram coins As whitish color base material covered with several Coats of for a Brief time restaurant workers were lining up for garbage hoping to strike if the Gold had been real and no one had claimed it in 90 a ministers would have owned i would have Given a couple of thousand to my dads he correction Safeway advertisement of july 16th should have read we regret any inconvenience caused to our customers in a Price War with Trust companies dont move without it Home finder Toronto up some of Canadas chartered Banks have quietly entered a Price War with Trust companies by reducing interest rates on personal Loans and even negotiating lower rates of interest on existing Bank spokesmen its the first time for us that Competition has dictated this kind of read said Ray assistant manager of consumer credit at the Royal Bank of Canada in Don the Bank of Montreal Vic president of said All the Banks and lending institutions Are aggressively trying to get their share of consumer Doucette said that two months ago certain Royal branches in Ontario reduced interest rates to per cent for about six weeks to match a special rate set by Canada Trust rates normally Range Between ny2 per cent and per we didst hit the streets Advertis but we met the Competition when it was Doucette he said that for the last three to five years there has been a trend toward what he called an Eaton and Simp sons Type of marketing in the banking business As Banks try to maintain or increase their share of the consumer Loans which last year amounted to More than it was for our own clients Doucette we we rent prepared to lose Good i might add that wed do so Doucette said it is possible to negotiate a lower rate of interest on an existing loan by doing some compari son shopping and threatening to do business with another in a period of downward you might get clients coming to you and indicating rates Are going Down and what Are you going to do about it when a client makes a 36month Hes tied to that Doucette with the Competition among Banks theres nothing to Stop a person who has a loan at one Bank to go to another Bank and suggest they pay off the loan at a better Jack marketing manager for the Toronto Dominion said the Trust companies have made the marketing War a bit More interesting in the last year or you cant just worry about the other now you have to worry about credit Trust companies and All the other people who Are making David a spokesman for the Canadian Imperial Bank of said the Bank is not reducing its inter est rates to meet Competition As a general but individual Bank managers can make their own Deci Patricia a spokesman for the Bank of Nova said the Bank does not intend to reduce its interest which Range Between 13 and 15 per Winnipeg free Ujj were part of the City of Winnipeg East Kildonan Transcona Community notice of meeting notice is hereby Given that the East Kildonan Transcona Community commit tee will hold its regular monthly meeting Date july 1979 time place Community committee 2nd 755 Henderson Highway to consider regular business of the comm All interested residents Are invited to t Transcona Ward Miles Macdonell Ward Henderson Ward Springfield Heights Ward Elmwood Ward 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