Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Remand inmates denied 31 service by Cecil Rosner in convicted inmates who Are kept in heading Ley jail on while awaiting trial Are denied the right to attend Catholic worship jail officials despite complaints from inmates that the denial is a violation of their religious spokesmen for the jail said the policy is necessary because of the potential Security risks involved in allowing remanded prisoners to mix with regular Hans provincial commissioner of said yesterday a problem Man finding full time roman Catholic chaplain in the last two although Par time ministers Are brought in for religious the remanded prisoners Arent allowed to attend because the practice causes too Many difficult Schneider said contraband was being passed Between the prisoners during the and other violations were taking there Are usually about 90 remand prisoners in the Schneider said no Steps have been taken to pro vide separate services for regular and remand inces adult corrections said in a written reply to an inmate who had complained about the Lack of religious services that bibles and other religious materials Are available to All prisoners on but he agreed that remand inmates take part in the organized worship services because Many of them Are potential Security he said these prisoners chose to be have in a disruptive manner when they were allowed initially to attend the right Norman Chartrand of the Catholic archdiocese of Winnipeg said director of the yesterday he is aware of and concerned about the Lack of a full time chaplain at but says the matter is now entirely in the governments he said the archdiocese has proposed someone to fill the Post who can take Over immediately if the effect Loiis officials and said he understand the government Chartrand said the to Sitofi has been vacant for about two be fore a Catholic chaplain was employed at the jail continuously since Schneider attributed the delay in placing a chaplain to the difficulty in finding someone who is he said the person being proposed by the archdiocese is a Lay Deacon rather than aft ordained and the jail would prefer to wait until it can get some one who is authorized to say mass and administer the As for the question of remand prison ers not being Able to attend worship Schneider agreed that theres been less concern than there should have been about the subject because the inmates do not stay in the institution for Long periods of but he called the situation a bad state of affairs and said new Steps will be taken shortly in an attempt to re solve the ammlam6 Call proves pain it was not a Good night for to City ambulance shortly after to Midnight they were called to the Cambridge 1022 Dembina but the victim Uliey had been summoned to collect refused to leave with and when they returned to their it was about 10 minutes later District six police recovered the ambulance in a Field near Taylor Avenue and Ash a Man was arrested at the but police said that by then about damage had been done to the Clearing today Snow tomorrow High 14 Low 20 free december vol 1 of no 1 o Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Turners pullout shocks opens up race final 200 for Home Call 9439331 two weeks Lor s2 outside City Jim Wiley free press up photo from the news services John Turners decision not to run for the Liberal leadership has added a new twist to the surprised liberals Lloyd Liberal my for Winnipeg fort appearing puzzled by Turners announcement yester said things have certainly become More interesting for now its All a potential leadership said he still want ready to make a regarded As Federal Liberal Leader waiting since his resignation As finance minister in shocked Many political observers yesterday when he announced he will not be among the candidates to succeed Pierre citing what he described As highly complicated personal Turner told a news conference in Toronto i do not intend to seek the leadership of the Liberal this is a definitive statement and the decision i am announcing is of his role in the leadership Cam see liberals Page 4 jobless John Turner highly complicated personal reasons total City saves rises through private weather service by Ritchie Gage acc weather a private Ameri can meteorological saved the City of Winnipeg about last night by getting weather information to the City quicker than is available from environment says the cites director of Rod Mcrae said because acc weather updated an oncoming storm from the West throughout the City officials were better Able to judge the size of the Snow Clearing Force need Mcrae said mobilizing the cites Snow Clearing equipment for a storm costs about an or a using the updated weather fore cast on Snow from the City was Able to hold off mobilizing City signed a contract with acc weather of state Penn Sylvania to predict Snow fall this win acc weather is oriented to Snow see Snow Page 4 Ottawa up the number of persons unable to find work Rose for the second consecutive month to in statistics Canada reported the unemployment rate was up from in october but the seasonally adjusted rate dropped up to per cent from per cent a month the seasonally adjusted rate declined in and the two westernmost Alberta and British in Manitoba the rate dropped from five per cent to per cent and in Alberta it dropped from per cent to per those were the Healthiest rate in the statistics Canada reported that the labor Force which includes those working As Well As those seeking jobs fell to from in octo see november Page 4 Winter games kick off these students at fort Rouge 120 Mayfair were in High spirits yesterday As they took part in a Toboggan sprint at Mayfair Park to open the citywide Junior Winter the which run from december to Are expected to attract As Many As provincial population drops Manitoba this year will log its first net population loss in More than a statistics Canada figures re leased yesterday Manitoba is also the Only province or territory in Canada to show a declining As of the provinces net popu lation had dropped by people because of a reduction in births and an increase in there were people living in Manitoba this compared with octo the statistics show More people have already moved out of the province this year than have moved in the first nine months of Manito bans left the while moved in from other during the same period last the net emigration was nip economics critic Len Evans said the statistics reflect poorly on the tory government since no other prov inces show a similar population this has to reflect on the failure of the conservative government to pro vide adequate jobs for our said there can be no question that conservative economic Boih provincial and Federal Are a said the la for Brandon Manitoba population has steadily increased for the past two decades with the exception of when census figures indicated a drop of 100 Resi inside today Oil Supply improves despite All the furore Over the heating Oil situation for this Canadas Supply situation actually improved slightly in october Over the previous 35 crunch comes tonight finance minister John Crosbie looks at tonight budget As the Climax of his relentless six month Campaign to teach canadians to expect less from 7 quit your grumbling pcs served notice Index the horror lingers Twenty years four members of a j Kansas farm family were shot to death renal lists Sele Tecl in their for those touched by the tragedy and the publicity that followed Truman capote Book about the the memory still 17 the finalists for Manitoba lop female and male athletes of the year have been 53 v by on noncommittal Premier Sterling Lyon was noncommittal yesterday on the future of Al though he vowed aut Opac is Here to the Premier refused to say whether that meant it will remain under government remember Albert Ballantyne the next time you grumble about Winters on Winter mornings he scrambles out of bed onto an icy Cabin floor and Shivers until the Wood stove is fired then its out for a predawn look at the fish pcs restrict debate a motion by the minority progressive conservative government to restrict debate on its mortgage tax credit legislation passed by a comfortable vote of 120 to 85 in the commons last Trade experts Are increasingly insisting that the Clark government begin offering More competitive Export credit financing if Canada is to keep Pace in world soviets implicated the soviet Union has sent troops and advisers to Afghanistan and has lost at least 500 men in that country 19month civil a spokesman for antigovernment afghan forces in India said anytime Budge business comics crossword deaths Doug Small Fot Henegham Horoscope Jumble Puzzle 19 38 t9 21 43 j 7 l 47 scores Grain snags discussed special status lost football the controversial Crow nest pass Grain freight rate took a Back seat to current snags in Grain shipment when Federal and Western provincial ministers met in Winnipeg nurses educated and licensed in Canada no longer enjoy special status when applying for visas to work in the United new immigration requirements remove the special nil Houston 20 Pittsburgh 17 hockey nil Buttito 4 Detroit 0 68 ;