Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Seem Bulf 1979 no Teju atty rights Liberty 6f Wayfe a of 300 Carton Mig 351 a yep publications Western limited Telephone 9436331 second class fail registration number 0286 it Twefi a mfr Nijs fete mud stay it jct h Shelt orb president general manager prime minister be Clark and s piter Are agreed on what Trey will take from Canadian Oil Consumers Over the next few the Point at Issue Bow is hot they will Divide the to Caria Lafis faced with the Prospect of painful increases Jasolene prices and frightening costs for heating their that Issue might seem pretty in Eleft could be crucial to the future of the Canadian j Ottawa and Alberta Are agreed that the Price of Canadian Pipol Euni must go up like it or in face of Ito Fritog shortages and the High costs of developing new they Are the Federal government thinks rather than have 90 percent of the proceeds of the increase go to Alberta and the a substantial proportion should flow to the Federal that proposal makes the record of the Oil a Dusty As a whole in investing its profits in the search foil in Canada has been pretty but recent studies she that some of the multinational giants Are already shuffling Large sums out of that fact ought to discourage governments from giving them much without some strings Ottawa can do a number of useful things with More Revenue from Oil Price it can invest in the search for and development of alternative forms of it can provide canadians with financial assistance in conserving to can give much More help to the old and the poor without which the Impact of higher heating costs will be intolerably the Way Ottawa gets the Money in a just As important As getting Clark has proposed that the Federal government should tap Oil company revenues by Way of a Royalty on Premier Lougheed insists that this would be an infringement of provincial ownership of the me argues that Ottawa should tax Only not Lougheed is while defending one principle he has violated another which is More the Provin Cial ownership of a or provincial jurisdiction Over any other kind of business has never been sufficient to deny canadians As a whole the right to tax revenues from that resource or that and As soon As a provincial government gets the right to Tell the Central government what taxes it can or cannot there will not be much left of Clark is juggling a Host of immediate political and financial interests in his negotiations with the Premier of he should not forget that the Deal he makes could have Lon term implications which Are far More important than the immediate political prospects of his lovers needed the setting up of an organization of dedicated to the promotion of this City As a Winter Paradise and the persuasion of people who do not live Here that Winnipeg is not the equivalent of Mcmurdo sound in the a Welcome it is a much needed Many of take Winter in their stride an even enjoy it hockey and those people who prefer Clear cold and a Blue sky to eternal rain and a Grey but these Joys Are often lost on who regard Winnipeg As the last Stop before the North icis these people that the organization seeks to convert and if a recent report from Calgary in he Globe and mail is any the missionary work could Start according to the Revenue Canada has decided to Transfer 160 of the 500 people now in its Calgary office to Winnipeg another 160 Revenue Canada workers in Edmon ton Are slated for the same the idea is to decentralize government operations by moving them from centres where employment is High to Low employment the former Liberal government which set up the Felt Winnipeg was but while the motive May be the plan is not meeting with overwhelming enthusiasm from the people scheduled to so far Only six of the 160 Calgary people have indicated their willingness to even though they Are guaranteed positions at the same level and the same rate of pay As they now and the government pays moving not All the of Are about Winnipeg alleged some objectors Are married women with children who do not want to move to a strange putting their children into a new on the other As one Man who has worked ten years for the tax department said who wants to move from a cold climate to a colder one perhaps Winnipeg is colder than but colder than Edmonton there appears to be lots of scope Here for some missionary work on the part of the Winnipeg Assiniboine Park China girds for olympics National defenceless Ness defence minister Allan Mckinnons statements on the state of Canadas armed made first on television and then repeated in the underline the need for a Clear definition by the present government of its Overall policy on statements by the previous Liberal administration that Protection of the nations sovereignty would be Given priority had a Nice ring to but the hard fact is since the were efforts by the Canadian forces to Monitor possible intrusions into Canadian territory have Mckinnon has said that if unfriendly forces were to occupy Canadian territory in the North using surface transport that could not be detected by the Only Way we would know they were there would be by reports from Mckinnon admitted that Canada was the Only nation to his knowledge that still had As its Basic machine gun a weapon designed More than four decades the situation in much worse than Mckinnon Canadas Basic infantry its in can no longer be made in this country since the factory was closed like the nations is Well past its useful it has also become prohibitively and costs nearly four times As much As the army pays for its Mckinnon is Correct in saying that a situation that was allowed to develop Over several decades cannot be turned around in a matter of but there is not much encouragement in another of his statements that if we the Money we have allocated for the armed forces in an attempt to retrieve ground lost in the last ten in ten years time we will be where we Are surely what is these Days of expensive and sophisticated military is a realistic assessment of Canadas Canada does not need the Best armed forces in the but it does need armed forces that reflect the reality is that any serious defence of North America will be undertaken mainly by the United Canadas efforts to protect and Monitor its sovereignty need to take this fact into Canadas Protection of its sovereignty can supplement and service any plan for Continental superfluous study communications minister David Macdonald decision to abolish a committee set up by the former government to look into sexual stereotyping in the Media is As Macdonald pointed about 30 similar studies have already been this at a Cost of about was As superfluous As it was the minister said that sexual stereotyping in the Media is a serious and Complex and what is needed now is to this he established in september a Ca Nadian radio television and telecommunications commis Sion task Force which is to prepare guidelines that will eliminate within the feminist sexual stereotyping appears to be a subject of some it is not a that seems to be shared by most if most women objected to the manner in which they Are shown in advertisements for detergents or to they would surely Stop buying the products that insult and men would no doubt buy a different Brand of Chain saw if they objected to the image cast of them by any particular but what is objected at its Basic is not the fact that women Are portrayed in some television commercials As brainless or in som shows As brainless sexpot offensive though that the kind of stereotyping that some of the feminists and their fellow travellers object to is that which portrays Little girls who like to play with Little boys who like to play with women involved with family and household duties and men Busy at the there is no doubt that this is sexual it is a pretty accurate reflection of that reality May be changing As the traditional roles of men and women Are but it has not vanished there can be no argument against allowing women Equality of Opportunity in All areas of life and changing the image can go a Long Way toward changing the sub to accomplish feminists want the govern ment to control the Content of radio and television commercials and and to rewrite books and school that should not be the governments but it is one in which the government has become increasingly one without realizing what it is by Richard Breeze special to the free press Hong Kong chinese athletes Are already in training for their great leap Forward into the next olympic games at Lake Placid and the 89 members of the International olympic committee voted overwhelmingly last month to put China Back in the games it last attended 27 years chivas return to the olympic stage in the new York Winter resort of Lake Placid be modest a handful of Speed and figure skaters and Alpine and nordic the appearance at Moscow will be More spectacular with a team that could number several hundreds and involve Competition in 15 events including track and Field and Strain for athletes peking athletes will be straining every muscle1 to score upset triumphs on the Home ground of their Arch Ideo logical but having to perform on hostile turf will mean added Strain for athletes already badly handicapped by a Lack of International com petition and the ant sport policies of the cultural revolution and the follow ing Radical chivas Best chances of having its Anthem blared out infuriatingly from to sets across the soviet Union lie in Volley Ball and chivas gymnasts Are rated the worlds fifth Best and they Are High in the first ten Volle Balling some pundits also see the chinese As an outsider for basketball officials frankly admit they have Little Chance for glory in the most prestigious Arenas the track and the swimming id rather not talk about our standards Are not said Lead ing sports Wei Only 14 athletes have so far attained the necessary olympic minimum Stan Dards mainly in women Dis Cus and Long jump and the mens step and High and Long but standards slowly improve and so far this year chinese stars have bettered no less than 36 National and five asian Progress is also marked in yet Only three swimmers have so far qualified for most of chivas stars Are under 17 years of age a Good daring divers in the King of water daring with very chinese attention to detail and the nerve to tackle higher degrees of difficult dives in top compe could stun the chinese won six of the 12 diving medals at the University games at Mexico City in and the reigning women student platform pretty 17 year old Chen could capture peking first olympic Gold medal As she soars and somersaults off the to meter preparations for Moscow got fully under Way with the Mammoth fourth National games at peking in october which attracted around competitors in 34 some provincial teams trained for three months for the with worker athletes drawing full eight world records were the most significant being in Rifle and pistol but Overall standards were summed up by chairman Hua Guofeng realistic assessment in Many sports China still lags behind advanced world this is not for the Radi competitive sport was almost sports teams and organizations were disbanded and Normal Competition and research work disrupt sport life was almost brought to a standstill and suffered serious dam say official peking today sport is ranked along Side the four modernizations in importance and sweeping a country hungry for Leisure pursuits and the new friends and prestige that visits and victories chairman Hua stresses that people in Good health can develop the National Economy still millions perform a stat designed exercise program like the famous Ca Nadian air Force 5bx in 15 minute work Breaks or the Dawn the swimming pools and sports grounds Are now crowded and it is a matter of urgency to provide additional says Xinhua news Agency analysts say social spending needed to transform the 960 million chinese into a sports super Force will be hard to they estimate that China devotes less than per cent of its million annual state budget to peking National sports and physical culture with its 11 gyms and 60 sports is in ramshackle condition and Given Only million a year for its installations and Stu the country has physical training instructors for 300 million school no clubs enterprises and the armed forces sports there Are no clubs like those in but facilities Are being for a artificial ice Square meter skating rink with a 400 meter Oval track opened october 13 at Harbin in Northeast and with improvement in food sup plies if not dietary Content the chinese Are becoming bigger and their 12man basketball squad for the asian championships in november averaged As with new techniques Are being swiftly Ger Man experts teach chinese How to toss the a group of top american track and Field coaches recently lecturing their chinese one of the was psychological preparation indu eating hat China anticipates a tense olympic comeback in Richard Breeze is a freelance correspondent in Hong letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to appalling As a past president of the Winnipeg Junior humane i am writing to complain of the appalling state of affairs at the Winnipeg humane so i recently visited the premises on 5 Kent and found the most dread morose atmosphere and As i walked in there was no greeting of what can i do for May we help you select a pet the two people so engrossed in their better Homes and gardens did not lift a Finger to show me to the where my dog was i then made my Way through the overpowering stench of stagnant Darold and yelping in cell 17 or Cage 17 i found my dog with no food nor water in his sitting among an uncleaned cold floor and a Pool of that had obviously been from several previous every other dog and the Mother dog and her Newborn were in the same i eventually paid to get my dog free from that i dont know what they use the Money it is not for the that is for sure Michele Daniels Winnipeg name dropping i am wondering just How Many of your subscribers take Barbara Cansino seriously does this person really Bave an interested readership Cansino at displayed an adequate handle on the presentational techniques and possibilities inherent writing a regular column in this major City daily her handling of the recent wet shirt Issue at studio 44 comes to More often than not i find the subject matter of her column blatantly pointless and threatening to Fly up into the Clouds of my suspicions were first aroused last Spring when she treated us to a Multi part discourse on her deliciously Continental roman and she has since then consistently bored us with trendy verging on Petty name drop How Many times in the last few weeks have i seen the words Eskimo print in her and which Hope Lessly obscure Winni Eggers own one or two i would has ten to guess that you would do a lot better if you took the spotlight in your column off Petty gossip relating to Winnipeg Beautiful people and i suppose it yourself and your own and tried to get the majority of the papers readers interested in you have to if you cant do the in quite sure that a certain Sullivan Damon Rondeau Winnipeg sentencing our society has reached a sad state of affairs when it places More value on the almighty Dollar than on children i am referring of course to the Man who received 15 months for buggery and Gross just yesterday i read where a Young Man received two years for now if that Doest ring a Bell nothing will an individual can molest our children with relative impunity and a robber is frowned it is a sad state it does not seem to matter that one of our Young people has been subjected to these atrocities what decs seem to matter is that someone touched our monies therefore he should be led to the Gallows the local mentality seems to say that it is perfectly All night to molest our children but leave my dollars alone enough said Dupont Winnipeg poor bus service on december the bus leaving the Charles Convent at 7 did not bother to Stop and pick up custom not Only but the bus was marked As this unfortunate occurrence left my wife and myself standing outside in subzero tempera fortunately the 730 scheduled bus managed to arrive on finally we had secured our upon i asked the Driver what had happened to the 7 his reply i dont after informing the Driver that it was unpleasant remaining outside in the cold waiting for a bus that never showed up his reply so what do you want me to do about it a simple apology on the part of a representative of the Winnipeg transit the Driver would have been in conclusion i would like to say that these incidents Are not isolated Driver disrespect and poor scheduling is a common occurrence which i have been subjected to for Many Richard Enns u 11 us unbelievable after Reading City Man jailed for six months for killing his wife in your november i think that contemptible and Dis wish cow think of stronger adjectives to express How furious i am about the Inadequacy of this months i cannot believe what i where is the Justice Uura Lowry Hall Winnipeg warning o we had the unfortunate and heart breaking experience of having to give our dog away recently and place an advertisement in the four Days phoned to inquire about the to my i was told Shes i was horrified to think some people would stoop so Low As to use the giveaways in the newspaper to run a lucrative Trade i urge generous pet lovers to beware of whom you give your beloved pets to Allen Winnipeg just once id the adds to get a took a Jouy of ;