Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 31, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free 1979 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week m 300 stir lion Winnipeg r3c pc i by f p publications Western limited Telephone 913 9331 second class Moil number Donald Nicol publisher r s Gnu of Teh Mclintock Tail offal Pacio edit of Murray Burt Vaurice Western Ottawa editor m h food pies Tail gun cml the Bench Marks finance minister John Crosbie report and commentary last thursday on our financial and economic situation will earn no popularity dividends and May not endear him to certain Cabinet colleagues and As a it was straightforward we now have the Bench the state of the accounts As inherited by the new the realized and is As was suggested worse than had been anticipated but somewhat the figures Are Bleak enough the governments Cash requirements for the current year Are now estimated at billion the total of budgetary expend investments and advances is still set at both figures Are subject to the billion in additional savings which ministers must somehow facing these grim facts and considering the ominous fou year projections earlier made Crosbie in issued his declaration of Independence As finance whatever was or was not in course of the election he claims a free hand in devising budget policy to fit the economic realities confronting i do not he to bring Down a budget that is going to exacerbate according to the current real growth will be More than one per cent inflation a Good Deal higher than was expected last in the United affected even More than Canada by the surge in Oil costs Are now rising at the rate of per of the government is the conservatives created excessive Public expectations by promising More than can be delivered at this it is True that they received Only a limited Crosbie version of the argument is that people voted against Trudeau rather than for the Clark the mortgage plan however the conclusion is the same that the government is free to do exactly what we think is Best for the that certainly is what the ministers ought to do in our very serious it would be naive and Crosbie is not a naive Man to suppose that they will thereby escape the on his presentation of last the minister of finance is prepared to accept the political buffeting and to bring in an economically responsible this is the perhaps the Only sensible the government will Only succeed in the Long run if it can achieve a sane reordering of our badly deranged financial protecting Consumers in primitive Nian develops a feel about which foods Are Safe to eat that is partly based on watching others get ill or die because they ate something More advanced societies feature complicated systems of getting food to the there Are Many processes and Many handlers before or or pizza arrives in the the Advent of shiny packaging has contributed to a general feeling that the food that we buy in the grocery or supermarket is As free of germs As it possibly can but is this necessarily the Case recent articles in this newspaper suggest they suggest that the Manitoba consumer cannot take for granted the Assumption that the food bought in a retail store is either fresh or what is the consumer cannot take for granted the Assumption that some vague watchdog Organiza Tion is relentlessly working on the customers behalf to make sure that old or imperfect food never reaches the retail Point of it has been demonstrated that supermarkets in this City Are offering for at the full original products that Bear Best before dates that Are not not weeks but months in other Consumers Are paying full Price for stale when tested by the free press in it was found that such products did not contain bacteria harmful to human the reason for this is undoubtedly the fact that such meat and Dairy products Are kept in refrigerated compartments that retard the growth of such but does any consumer believe that it is fair to pay full Price for such or that such stale goods Are As Good a bargain As goods that Are new and fresh it is said that one of the reasons Why stores carry out Date produce is a squabble Over who should remove the produce when its Best before Date this is the consumer does not care whether super Market employee Union members or product salesmen remove the products As Long As they Are this cannot be a legitimate excuse for a store who should be prepared to work All night every if to make sure that no stale food is left on it has also been shown that ground the basis of the ubiquitous is sometimes sold containing pork and it is sold with bacteria Levels so High above Federal guidelines that the consumer might expect it to get up off the counter and walk towards Why does this happen who is responsible what Protection does the consumer have against such happenings it seems that Consumers have far less Protection than they might for an investigation by specialists of the Federal department of consumer and corporate affairs showed that meat other than beef was found in nine per cent of 44 ground beef samples bought in Prairie Region grocery stores but this is not leading to any court prosecutions that have yet been it is As if a watchdog caught a burglar but did nothing about it also transpires that even if bacteria Levels in meat do transgress Federal guidelines there is no automatic prosecution because they Are Only there is a Way of taking using Laws forbidding the Sale of food that can be a health but it seems that the preferred method is a gentlemanly and casual procedure under which Federal inspectors try Friendly persuasion before going to the Good news for Consumers is that they can rely on most of their food suppliers for fresh the bad news is that in some cases they cannot they cannot necessarily rely on government Protection against the hand Ful of careless or greedy food customers can take a Little self help action on such an obvious matter As expired Best before they can draw it to the attention of the store manager and shop elsewhere if that produces no they can also report the occurrence to the relevant government As far As invisible bacteria is customers Are unable to help this is an area in which far greater alacrity can and must be expected from government agencies charged with protecting the any food supplier who knowingly Sells stale or bacteria warming produce after having had it drawn to his attention belongs in court and then fewer jobs for Manitoba the Federal governments decision to alter its Job creation programs May come Back to haunt ostensibly aiming for More restraint and the Clark administration has taken the two programs which were in effect last year the Canada works and local employment assistance program leap and changed the in the the Canada works program had applied to constituencies with a seven per cent labor surplus this year it has been increased to nine per cent and has eliminated from the plan areas such As the Federal constituency of with its rate of per that rate is calculated on the number of people on the unemployment insurance Rolls in As a percentage of the entire labor Force in As critics have pointed this has always worked to the disadvantage of Many of whom Are no longer on the Pic by virtue of the new the entire province of Manitoba will not receive Canada works a joint news called by nip members of parliament David Orlikov and Rod Murphy and Manitoba nip Leader Howard pointed out the inequity of the despite the Federal governments assertion that while the Canada work program has been eliminated in there would be an increase in leap the critics maintained that the entire leap budget is less than the reduction in Canada in Manitoba the combined funding provided with million going to under the present the total allocation will be with million allocated for presumably the administration Hopes to achieve less government it is an admirable but Given the present it is instead the Public will still pay for it May Cost but it will be even less Friendly the old military if it Salute it if it paint has been Given a twist that creates new problems for lower ranking members of the armed a Short item on saluting in the the newspaper published at the grand Forks air Force tells its readers As a member of a military you Are not Only required to Salute superiors in your but officers in any of the armed forces of the or Friendly foreign our in today world of rapidly changing this would seem to put a bit of a Burden on the luckless who is obviously expected to keep up with Washington latest a matter that is Seldom Crystal Strauss in the ring by Edelgard Simon special to the free press Germany ten years Franz Josef Strauss said he would rather try to grow pineapple in Alaska than try to become Chancellor of West he also said he hoped that the West German people would never become desperate enough to try to elect him As their the political climate in Germany has changed enough since then for Strauss to think governing the germans easier than growing Pine Apple in Alaska and for the germans to become desperate enough to possibly elect him Chancellor next a year ago nobody would have believed it possible Strauss As new prime minister of the state of Bavaria seemed firmly installed Well away from the political scene in his foes and he has As Many of them As he has friends believed him to be in political retirement and heaved a sigh of the ruling social democrats spa and their teetering free demo crat Ftp coalition partner saw themselves easy winners of the next parliamentary election set for the autumn of the Black giant Chancellor Helmut Schmidt knew that he had nothing to fear from the Black Helmut the Chris Tian Democrat Union cd oppositions candidate for Kohl is a hard but he lacks the Charisma that a successful political Leader in he seemed to be forever lecturing the germans on the Dos and fonts of everyday life More like a schoolmaster than a his style did not go Over although everybody knew he meant the Caus bavarian sister led by Franz Josef was to put it there were even rumours that the Csc was planning to Campaign nationwide in Stead of confining itself to the state of such a step would have brought a sure split with the cd and created a fourth major political party in West this was something that the cd wanted to avoid at All Cost for fear of losing Many voters to the forceful bavarian by May the internal bickering had taken on proportions which made Strauss move in the Only direction he can by temperament and inclination Kohl was talked into resigning his candidacy for the Chan but kept his chairmanship of the As soon As that step was Strauss skilfully and deftly continued on his Road he let it be known that he was available As Candi Date for the cd if called he cleverly never said he was a in he kept on denying that he was even in the then he sat Back to let things take their new candidate the cd hastily offered a new Candi Date Ernst the Bright prime minister of lower Saxony ostensibly to avoid a split in the party Over the search for a new Candi More bickering and outright strife the cd remained top news for Days As the nation watched with the cd and Csc parliamentary groups decided to get Down to business and vote for the candidate of their Strauss won handily Over who withdrew gracefully and pledged sup port for since then Strauss has announced that he plans to have Albrecht in his Cabinet if elected so much for the mechanics which led to the candidacy of Franz Josef his candidacy came after everybody had predicted Early political retire ment because of his no sooner had his candidacy been officially pro claimed than the spa started to dig into this which does yield a few Juicy titbits and a lot of murky the Best known of the various Esca Pades in which Strauss has been involved in his 33yearpolitical career is the Spiegel at the Strauss served As defence minister in the Cabinet of the now legendary Konrad Strauss allowed his Well known temperament to carry him into some slightly illegal his own phrase later action when Der Spiegel published top secret defence Der Spiegel is West Ger Many Nosy news Magazine which often indulges in tactics which would Cost it millions in libel suits in other Strauss had clearly overstepped his Powers in haul ing the Spiegel editor Back from a vacation in that action alone probably would have been forgiven but when he lied to parliament about the details even a Strong Chan cellar like Konrad Adenauer had to sacrifice his favorite minister to quiet the Public Strauss did Bounce Back from this As Well As All the other Controvert time and he is a healthy 65 a bit More subdued and More willing to think before but still firm and ener he is a believer in his Catholic in his native state of Bavaria and in his ability to Lead the he is a formidable opponent for Helmut Schmidt and no one knows this better than Schmidt Brilliant mind nor is there any question about his Brilliant this was grudgingly conceded even by his fiercest Herbert when Strauss served in the Cabinet of Willy Brandt during the so called grand coalition when the cd formed the government with the spa As its coalition All Strauss needs to do is sit Back and let the spa make him look like the Devil personified to win the one political observer Helmut Schmidt will do everything to keep his party from doing but the question is whether he can manage this he has Many Young people in his party who believe the Only Way to beat is to inform the poor befuddled voter about his Many whoever wins next it will be a fierce and hard fought for the first time in the candidacy of Franz Josef Strauss promises Germany a real not one of the usual lacklustre Edelgard Simon is a freelance journalist based in Joe a puppet in response to Collins letter re Garding Paul sullivans i would like to add that he is Correct in his Assumption that All canadians who voted for Joe Clark Are he Collins is wrong in Assum ing that we put Clark in i feel he should keep his narrow mindedness to since i believe in revolutionary communism and in no Way support any capitalist Clark is a wooden headed puppet of the Friesen Winnipeg prime minister Clark not a cult a recent guest interview radio pro Gram on Job seemed to carry Strong implications that would classify be vent Day adventists among the seventh Day adventists deeply resent such nearly All religious cult leaders and their followers Are marked with a per or Complex that encourages flight from the the threat of atomic or other matters of now anyone with but a smattering knowledge of adventist should know that such description does not apply to adventists zealously promote support and allegiance government and they undergird their loyalty with supportive Bible cultists tend to Render a single mind obsessive Devotion to some Charis Matic personality who leads them to Ward the the the the the the or the none of these bizarre characteristics appears within the adventist framework of beliefs and and any such implications by uninformed commentators Are justifiably does concern for Healing the ills of humanity which has prompted be vent Day adventists to establish 397 clinics and launches encircling the Globe make them a does a desire to prevent disease and make life healthfully enjoyable which prompted adventists to provide a letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to healthful format for including the recommendation of a vegetarian make them a does their stand against and alcohol As a longer life formula adventists live longer and Are More cancer free than no adventists by government surveys make them a does their biblical interpretation that god created the Earth in six literal resting on the seventh Satur sanctifying that Day As a Perpetu Al Monument for acknowledging his creator ship make adventists a does their belief in baptism Only by immersion make them a does their belief in the Promise of Jesus to return to this Earth As King of Kings make them a if these things make seventh Day who Are orthodox bib Lical a then i guess we will just have to be a cult but we surely have a lot of company among the other Good churches of Christi Andom Spencer Burrows Winnipeg noisy area when i moved to my present address Seaton and Newton i chose it because of the Beauty of the Kildonan the and As i am a disabled War for the quiet for Many years it has been getting noisier garbage dumped from and sidewalks plus fumes and heavy car and bus this has become a undesirable City of Winnipeg parking lot Arm Leila and Newton for rain Bow stage and the i believe the City of Winnipeg should clean up its and limit on Street parking Here plus reduce our taxes to slum area after i go to sleep at and by Midnight All hell traffic Breaks Loose As Rainbow stage All hell Breaks Loose during any hour Here As people come and go to the let us Cut up the Golf there Are no Homes there Only people Chas ing Golf balls and use it for of Street stack Winnipeg Windsor reunion Edith Cavell Public school in wind Ontario in the former town of Riverside is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with a Diamond Jubi Lee reunion schedule for november 2t3 and the reunion will be for former Stu dents and staff members of the three schools which were housed in the build namely Edith Cavell Public Riverside continuation school and Riverside High the organizing committee is anxious to make Contact with All who were associated with the Complete details and registration forms May be obtained by writing to Diamond Jubilee reunion Edith Cavell Public 5955 Ontario n8s Jim Cornett broken hydrants in reference to the recent controversy surrounding the works and operations department and in particular the waterworks operating division of that department concerning out service fire we would like to submit a few facts from the employees Side of the we Trust the facts and figures Are an enlightenment to you and your readers and perhaps to the elected officials of our quoting from the 1977 Winnipeg municipal manual the most up Odate edition available to the writer the waterworks operating division at that responsible for a total of fire hydrants including 157 High pressure hydrants in the downtown business this number of being two years behind the times and allowing for recent construct we estimate the responsibility would now number something in the neighbourhood of All of these hydrants Are maintained by the six District each District in turn has one hydrant repair vehicle usually manned by one Man trained in the repair of hydrants and one labourer to assist the key word in that phrase is usually de pending on staff requirements and More pressing this boils Down to the Point we wish to make in that each of these six people Are therefore responsible for major repairs on Well Over is it any wonder then that this City has a problem with broken hydrants it should also be noted that the City of Winnipeg does not have one style of hydrant but approximately ten different All with different operating mechanisms and different we will be pleased to Supply you with any other information you May As we feel this is a dangerous Situa keep Winnipeg problems with hydrants ;