Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free july 1979 ii hit 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 was found to be in Good Condi the Accident was reported to police after w m a by Saint John averts threat of police Striice passengers and rescuers Mill about the scene of a Bustruck collision East of 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 if 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 native women will meet pm 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 a 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 nation 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 honest youth turns in Toronto up an honest teenager has found a sock full of in Gold pieces and turned it Over to Michael of made the find while taking out the garbage at a fast food restaurant in the cites East end wednesday i was hauling a bag to throw it in the garbage out the Back when it ripped Neale i was putting the spilled garbage into another bag when i found this old red sock which was quite heavy and tied at the 1 opened it and found it was filled with what looked like i told the manager to Call the police at police said they gave the Gold to the Centre of forensic sciences for testing while they search for the under police if no owner can be found within 90 Days the finder is the Newfoundland budget raises taxes for Drivers correction Safeway advertisement of july 16th garlic rings should have read garlic rings we regret any inconvenience caused to our customers up newfoundlands new progressive conservative government brought Down its first budget asking for More Money from Adver aircraft operators and insurance cigarette taxes were pushed up by five cents on packs of which now retail at a minimum of about another was added to the Cost of passenger vehicle registration in the where weight classifications mean a Volkswagen sized car now car Ries a licence a tax on insurance company reve Nues was increased to three per cent from two per one insurance executive said this is a hidden tax that Likely will have no immediate effect on premiums but will have to be built into costs in the Long he also said it is a common tax which has risen to about three per cent in most but he said newfound Landers already pay a separate 11per cent tax on those premiums tax that was unique when it was Intro the province entered another rare form of taxation in the new budget with a four percent Levy on All Media advertising costing More than finance minister John Collins said in an interview he expects that Media tax to bring the province about in the first in an official of marketing Magazine said Only Quebec had an advertising tax similar to the one proposed in Newfoundland and added that Quebec was the first government in North America to introduce the Quebec tax is two per cent of Advertis ing the official said Quebec radio stations Are expected to declare How much advertising they sell and pay two per cent of the total to the a new tax of seven tenths of one per cent on a litre of aviation fuel also was introduced in Newfoundland with the 1979 Collins described the budget As one designed to give the government of Premier Brian reelected june time to stamp its own style on How things will be the budget outlined a number of new spending including a planned seven percent increase in Public service Liberal opposition Leader Don Jamieson said the new provincial budget is not a Good budget because its too Jamieson said that while he com mended the Peckford administration for keeping the amount of borrowing there was no Relief of any real significance in terms of the Cost of Jamieson made the comment after emerging from a Brief Liberal caucus meeting called after the budget and he explained the Brevity of his re Marks by noting that the government had not Given him an Advance copy of the budget address and that report ers had had the document Long before he he said that while the government is drawing attention to the fact there is a current account surplus in the it has not admitted that the surplus is due to Federal Transfer mostly in equalization Jamieson said that while the conservatives campaigned for office on a pledge to remove their dependence on Federal the budget still shows that traditional Reliance continues to exist in the form of Federal Transfer dont move without Home finder Winnipeg free 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 councillors chairman Ward Zorowski Macdonell Ward Ward Heights Ward Skowron Ward Why to More for Rye a ryes Quality is judged by its age and its Hudson Bay and Quality Are Hudson Bay special Rye whisky is a Mellow 5yearold at a 3yearold you get two extra years Quality at our not Tyson distilled and bottled in Union ;