Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba By John my Maulus after five years and an estimated the Federal government has dumped the Winnipeg area airports system a transport Canada spokesman con firmed yesterday there will not be a master plan developed for expansion of the runway and terminal at Winnipeg the expat soft recommended by the study Ift 1s77 and approved by the former Liberal no were the two year commissioned in was to report airports and services within a 50mile radius of it had an initial budget but it id estimated that salaries Foi the full time members 6 the St tidy Cost an additional arid private Consul Tants who took pan in specialized Stu Dies earned another the study investigating everything from the safety record Winnipeg International to its parking Public meetings Oil pollution in neighbourhoods bordering the Airport were held and projections for future Airport needs transport Canada after former Winni Peg mayor steve1 Juba had proposed his own plan of redeveloping the Winnipeg Airport site and surrounding in the Wass team produced six recommendations to re Lieve the pressure of the Winnipeg terminal and Airport swamped by the past Cengeri traffic growth and facilities made obsolete by the introduction of giant at a news conference in Winnipeg in the transport minis Ter Otto accepted the study groups recommendation that the pres ent Sites runways be moved to the away from densely populated the former government apparently decided on the study because of the uproar caused when it made an in House decision to build a new Toronto Airport at without lie what had been designated As phase 4 of the an Are system master slated to be completed by the end of will now not be an official confirmed each do j hut Quan it could have been any bail Applina but it this one was of a a Foury Earold retrieved flamed the dog was picked up earlier this month on suspicion of biting a child and detained in one of the cites dog his Frank Rob of 784 South fort was charged under Section 532 3 of the City of Winnipeg act and has pleaded not yesterday defence counsel Ray 1 acting for asked provincial judge Ken Peters to release the dog into the custody of Robson until the Crown counsel Jerry win hams countered that the dog should be kept in custody until the court Dis posed of the he was sup ported by Pound supervisor j6hn Mcconkey who told the judge the alleged attack by the dog was one of the worst he has seen in the last eight judge Peters ordered the dog be Taine until the trial Cloudy tonight Snow tomorrow Low 12 High 9 final 200 november Sun rises sets Moon rises sets for Home Call 9439331 two weeks for outside City 25 Ken free press minister admits double Standard in aut Opac Law just friends its great to get together with friends for David got a close look at sesame Street character Ernie while he waited recently to talk to Santa at the Uhi City tougher Law sought to curb foreign buyers of Farmland by Andy Blicq tougher provincial legislation to crack Down on foreign investors Pur chasing Large tracts of Manitoba farm land has been requested by the Manitoba agricultural Protection Frank executive direct or of the said about 15 Canadian registered companies suspected of rep resenting european investors Are currently being investigated there is evidence that foreign investment Here is there seems to be an amazing amount of Money available from some of these he were talking about deals that ran Geb tween million and million usually involving from to acres and these people the Best lawyers advising he weve the Money is com ing from unknown sources in he we cart identify the owners in some of these kiss than through their corporate t Muirhead said about 60 landed Immi Grants have purchased 28j899 acres in Manitoba since the beginning of the yeah As he said research shows foreigners an average of about five per cent of Manitoba Agri see tougher Page 4 by John Sullivan the Manitoba government has cashed in on cheaper aut Opac rates in a Way denied to private owners of vehicle fleets and should Correct the government services minister Harry Enns admitted As a Enns the govern ment will consider legalizing the prac Tice of registering Fleet vehicles in Rural areas to allow private to take advantage of the lower insurance Enns told the free press late yester Day that he had been led up the Garden path by aut Opac officials ear Lier in the based on the wrong information he had been Enns said he had wrongly told a news conference that other Fleet operators could already Register vehicles outside the ministers comments came in response to a free press copyright Story saturday which uncovered Mas Sive government vehicle registrations in where aut Opac rates Are the practice is prohibited under two provincial statutes which require a vehicle owners primary address to be used on All despite Enns would not concede that his government and the previous nip government had broken the Law for the last eight years by Register ing 85 per cent of provincial vehicles outside but he said the government will consider amending the statutes to legalize the begun in 1971 under a Little known Deal Between the prov Ince and the internal pact allowed the government to Register its cars in Brandon and other centres if there primarily used for Rural trav As the government will Likely move to extend the same privilege to owners of private vehicle Enns told the free press i was wrong about that it Doest apply to private he and i have trouble accepting the double set of if aut Opac accepted the rationale for this Type of registration for the Jhen it should be the same for private the minister also admitted the government had goofed by registering a car assigned to provincial auditor Ziprick in he said the registration Law had been somewhat Bent in that because staff get reas signed from time to there Are he with the car As signed to an error of that will be Enns said he has asked officials to examine All government vehicle registrations because there May Well be other errors that have to be corrected and in addition to it was found that Cabinet Secretary Derek several Deputy ministers and other top government officials drive Brandone Gisterek All live in Winnipeg and work at the in Enns could not explain Why All cars assigned to Cabinet ministers Are registered in including Enns and sport minister Bob who live outside the see registration Page 4 iranian students mine embassy from the news services Tehran moslem students occupying the embassy in Tehran said today the have mined and wired the embassy with explosives and urged people to keep away from the com they said agents plan to raid the Mission and free the 49 hostages still held brainwashing the dirty agents of America plan to enter the nest of espionage somehow to free or harm the the Stu dents said in a communique broadcast Over the official Iran stepped up military activities today after Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho Meini exhorted his followers to mobilize to fight the satanic Power of the United paratroopers in full Battle dress were seen at Tehran Mehraban which is also a major air Force embarking on Hercules transport air Craft for an unknown newspapers reported that the Irani an Navy started defensive operations in the persian the commanders of the the Navy and the air Force All said that their forces Are on ready to defend Iran with the last drop of their the ground forces identified Only As was quoted in the islamic Republic newspaper As saying he has ordered the air space Over the holy City of qum closed to All 160 Kilometres South of is the permanent residence of Iran religious and political the War fever and expectations of see iranian Page 4 eight civic workers charged with theft an investigation into missing funds from Winnipeg transit Cash boxes has resulted in charges being Laid against eight City finance department employ police said an undetermined amount of Money was stolen Between the begin Ning of March of this year and Friday from the transit fare boxes which Are taken to the financial services Branch offices on fort the employees who have been charged Are involved in counting receipts from the finance commissioner Roy Evans confirmed today that the employees have been suspended from their jobs pending the outcome of the he said this is Normal practice when City employees have criminal charges lodged against one of the men was arrested thurs Day and appeared in provincial judges court while the others appeared All were released on police said the investigation is con the mens supervisor was not police charged with theft Over Are Howard Russell of Hender son Albert of Munroe Roy Garth of Dogwood Marshall of Kilbride Glen Allan of Wales and Craig Martin of Buxton charged with theft under Are Allan of Fidler and Richard Martin of Leighton inside today musician turns author a player in the Winnipeg symphony orchestra has recreated the Haydn Era in a Book for children Between the Ages of 7 and the boy who loved Musk is David Laskers first Book and sales Are going Loans Bill approved a Bill designed to maintain the volume of Loans available for Smau businesses received rapid approval in principle in the commons last night after the opposition took a few potshots at the creative Energy Saver a retired welder uses two novel methods to help keep Bis House Bright and warm while conserving Energy and cutting Utility blasts Rock Ulster at least 21 bombs exploded in Belfast and other Northern Ireland centres yesterday in Lasker Success what police described As coordinated attacks by Ira police said five persons were one infiltration of Fly a Quebec headed by lawyer Jean has found some hard evidence of police infiltration of the front de liberation do Quebec during the later stages of the 1970 october crisis and throughout City hockey reports the first weekly statistical report from the Winnipeg minor hockey association with league standings and scores As Well As upcoming games appears so reds warn tories the social credit party asked yesterday for changes in the conservative governments mortgage interest and property tax credit plan in return for continued support of the minority Ontario makes it Clear allegation denied Ontario intergovernmental affairs minister Tom Wells says Quebec cannot separate from the rest of Canada the parti quebecois is fooling itself if it believes that life would be business As he bigots out of closet the bigots come out of the closet every so often and provide Vancouver with a some times brutal reminder that racism East indians Are the main target of overt and Covert acts of discrimination interest rates May fall Canadian interest rates May soon according to an economist of the Royal Bank of several major Banks have Al ready lowered their rates and if the trend it would soon spread to he Jeanlouis a member of the Canad an radio television and telecommunications last night denied charges by a conservative my that he once was a communist and once was seen with a soviet 39 27 7 64 24 Doug 5 7 Jumble 39 scores nil Seattle 30 by jete 7 ;