Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bootlegging j Brandy Blicq Winnipeg free press St ton mention a Bootlegger making Moonshine most people imagine Shotgun toting hillbilly who jealously guards his still in a hidden Back Coultry but not Hes a self confessed Farmer who dodged of comp Here for six years to help feed his Between 1958 and 1964 you might have seen Sam who asked that his name not be used to protect his family cornering the Root Beer mar Ket in the local when he ran out of gallon jugs to fill with his 85pfoof when i was Short sometimes i had to buy 10 or 15 Gallons of Root he said in an dont jump in your car and head for this about 30 Kilometres North of to find some Moon Shine because Sam says bootlegging operations Here Are virtually at a the penalties Are a lot higher and Treyve got better equipment to find he Small air planes flying Over wooded areas where he used to operate Are a risk because the smoke from a still Tan easily big Sam that does St Titean Mak ing Home has stopped Al Ogeth Hank of the Dau Phin Rural of temp detachment said two local Farmers were charged last Winter with operating a when asked if there Are Bootleg Gers operating in the Mclauchlan said chances Are there Are a but its not As big a Fen to 15 years ago it was a big he adding that the Dau Phin and Yorkton areas Are Well known for their bootlegging Active Sam said some Farmers continue operating a produce Only enough lot their own if i got Ift 1 have any problems Selling he he stopped producing As his Chil Dren grew up because he didst want them to know he was if a Fella had a Gity could Rig one a still it be too Damn said when he was operating his still every Guy was just about in he and during the depression Many men fed their families on the Money they made from their see in the Page 4 Jolly Good English Budusk odder the Washington Post Montreal after centuries of tension with their English speaking French canadians Sud Denly seem to think learning English May be a Good More than 500 persons had to be turned Down when the provincial governments a univer of Quebec began a Home study television course of 13 weeks of conversational but when the first class of 950 graduates in the language its members speak May Surprise their neighbors in North Earnest Quebe cers learn English by following two families at at at work and at Tucey Are a Lively and ohs English Bunch who frequently have poached Haddock for use Span ners to tighten bolts and Cross the see Quebe cers Page 4 Clear tonight mild tomorrow Low t 1 High 2 december 1979 Sun rifles sets Moon rises sets Inal 200 to x for Home Call 9439331 two weeks for outside City 2b i pcs drop 8 Trail grits 28 to 47 the popularity of prime minister Joe Clarks progressive conservative party has dipped to its lowest level in More than a according to the latest Gallup poll the Gallup released by the Canadian Institute of Public opinion this shows Only 28 per cent of the electorate would vote for the conservatives if an election were held while the liberals would pick up 47 per cent of the popular tories take on a popular vote to 36 for the tories and 40 for the liberals translated to a two seat minority conservative govern ment in the last general election in in the 1974 general election when the liberals had 43 per cent of the popular they won 141 the pcs elected 95 members with per two years earlier when no party had a the liberals elected 108 members with per cent of the vote compared to 109 for the tories who had support from per cent of the elec in the Trudeau mania election of the liberals won 154 seats with 45 per cent of the vote compared to 71 for the conservatives with 31 per in 1958 when John Diefenbaker swept the country by winning 208 the pcs had 54 per cent of the vote com pared to 33 per cent by the liberals who won 48 the latest results show the tories have dropped nine percentage Points since with the liberals seizing five per cent and the new democratic party the poll was taken about a month after parliament convened and about two weeks before Pierre Trudeau announcement that he would step Down As Leader of the Federal Liberal Gallup poll interviewers questioned canadians on their attitude towards the leaders and towards the conservative on voting there has been a significant shift away from the conservative party towards the liberals and the the liberals now Are seven percent age Points above the 40 per cent they received in the May election while the nip have gained five percentage Points and now hold 23 per cent of the decided the conservatives have dropped in Gallup poll All regions and currently have the support of 28 per cent of decided voters Well below the 36 per cent they received in the Spring the question asked was if a Federal election were held which party candidate do you think you would favor the table fallow shows National re sults among decided voters in the elec Tion and in Gallup polls conducted since pc lib nip oth Gallup reelection results 37 37 19 6 May 1979 general election result 36 40 18 6 Gallup studies excluding undecided june 1979 38 40 18 4 july 35 43 20 3 August 37 40 20 4 september 37 41 19 3 october 37 42 19 3 november 28 23 2 questioned further on the record of the conservative government in Otta 47 per disapproved while 29 per cent voiced Only in the Prairie provinces Are voters More Content than discontent with the pc the question was do you disapprove of the record of the conservative government dont approve disapprove know National 29 47 24 Atlantic 37 37 26 18 53 29 Ontario 29 53 18 Prairies 44 34 23 29 42 29 canadians were questioned further on their attitude towards the three Federal the first question Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with Joe Clark As prime minister results nationally show 32 per cent of the electorate Are satisfied while 52 Are dissatisfied and 17 per cent Are unable to rate Clarks As in the above Only in the Prairie Region do significantly More claim satisfaction than see poll Page 4 Gerry Pec press do the learning math is really at the fingertips of Helena Gross at Rockwo ocl school Are using new Chisa Bop fingertip math Robinson Centre and Tara the Grade 2 students teachers works see Story Page hostages face new threats Tehran a Shah move to Texas brought new threats to put the hostages on trial As iranians voted Canada an in a referendum to approve Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini new islamic con radio announced the revolutionary Council has set up a Centre for National mobilization to carry out Kho minis orders to create a Peoples army ready for Battle against the United hostility toward the in the mos Lem world continued to find expression in mob about libyans sacked the embassy in Tripoli and set fire to the four Storey building but the embassy staff escaped iranian foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh said the Shah flight yesterday from a new York Hospital to an air Force base outside san Antonio was part of a plot against our revolt if the United states decides to continue the crisis the trial of the spies Here will if the Shah leaves the United states for another we will try the said a spokesman for the students holding the 50 americans who see Iran Page 4 yesterday began their fifth week of Captivity in reports persisted that some of the hostages had been moved from the occupied a student at the embassy denied the reports and said we Are very capable of taking care of the hostages in the the embassy occupiers also said that Man firefighters injured in Blaze an 82year old Man died and three firefighters were injured when fire gut Ted a Harbison Avenue Home Early helmets fire chief Jack Coulter said the name of the dead Man has not been cause of the Blaze is under i Vestiga but Coulter said the which began shortly before 1 in the living room at 105 May have been caused by careless two of the injured firefighters were searching for the elderly victim when a downdrafts from the attic sent a Sheet of flames flashing Over acting lieutenant Erwin suffered first and second degree Burns to his neck and firefighter Charles sustained second degree Burns to his left neck and both men were taken to the health sciences treated and District chief James required seven stitches to close a wound to his right wrist caused by broken he was treated in Hospi Tal and the Blaze caused damage to the the dead Man was alone at the damage to the fort Garry Curling 31 main has been estimated at following a fire Early Coulter said there were no injuries in the which gutted the clubroom and destroyed about 50 feet of the a fire department official said fire Crews responded to about 30 Calls Dur ing the inside today memories sold saturday was the final chapter in the 60yearold Story of the Stock Exchange hotel at 910 Logan Avenue As it disappeared bit by bit to the highest the last federalist Saskatchewan Allan Blakeney May rank As one of the least known Public figures outside his own but he is quickly becoming known As the last Lamarsh stricken Judy a minister in the Liberal government of is seriously ill with a spokesman for Toronto Sunnybrook medical Centre the fourth Man second of a infighting claimed scores jets shut out the islanders scored their first win in seven games 40 Over Winnipeg last contracts lost american contractors Are losing big Middle ease construction a new Book about the supreme court suggests that personal antagonisms and political infighting often play important roles in big Buck for pulps most kids who grew up in the 1940s or 50s did so with their noses buried in comic now those same comics thrown put by outraged moms Are Worth big plight noticed immigration minister Ron Atkey says the plight of immigrant women employed As domestics in Canada has not gone unnoticed at the government hockey nil sunday by islanders 4 Winnipeg 0 Detroit 4 Philadelphia 4 Buffalo 2 Washington 0 Quebec 3 Vancouver 1 Colorado 5 Boston 3 nil saturday Winnipeg 4 Minnesota 4 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