Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 11, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Four men Charley Pride is looking toward a career in Ursery Ftp press Thompson Island Lake is giving tip its mystery of the missing a uniquely Flot then partnership a Metis a Manitoba Hydro a diver from Nova Scotia and an old local Tappet have found a payload of Gold concentrate that went missing in they found it 80 feet under the sur face of Island located at rut 420 Kilometres Northeast of so far Treyve brought up about one ton and the Winnipeg firm Hersey appraisal my assayed it at eight the n hmm fall pet the fun fiefs their disco Kif is Worth anywhere from to to justify its Billing in stories that have circulated almost since the Day the payload was lost 46 years to Kattef Al Gate Weald Only be r it was in late March or Early according to the now almost legendary two sleds loaded with 500 bags of the precious Eon citrate were being dragged across the Lake by a tractor about eight mites Fol ten Den the Lee gave and while me Crew evidently w leap to the aft tent him truck tractor and me two state vanished i the frigid reports also say five dogs chained to the Seward sled went Down with the no Salvage operations were a Parent try Dan termer Fly mayor of Bowden and now regional Vic Epresi debit of the Manitoba Mentis said Hes heard tales of the treasure for about As Long As he can during his Days working around Manitoba Hydro Jenpeo Power con St outwit mgr m seem to areas a anti Wayne a Nova Scotia Nathim they wry and last november we decided to take a crack at finding the train this both men Are and have their own to Juhrig hts Early Mcl Vot came Abraham of Garylen who had been trapping in the area when the Accident Hap Mcpherson said he saw the train see trapper Page 4 sunny today 30 Clear tonight 15 july vol 108 no free press Sun rises sets rises sets final 20c 304 with coloured comics pot Home Call 9570550 town is saved after residents flee from by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Pelican a controlled Backburn yesterday morn ing is being credited with saving this Village from a Forest fire that forced Many of the residents to thank goodness we decided to Backburn when we said Dick a fire control officer with the department of Northern Sas Katche if we haunt done the fire would have burned right through he a Backum is a Blaze started in the direction of the Forest fire to consume All the potential fuel in its City police raid Homes seeking guns by John Sullivan Winnipeg detectives have raided the Homes of a major firearms dealer and a provincial employee in their continuing search for guns missing from a City police sources close to the investigation As a number of local gun collectors and dealers said police Are trying to Trace up to 200 firearms which left official custody and either disappeared or were preregistered to outside per City police Are now running gun serial numbers through the ramps firearm computer in Ottawa to Check on they two Winnipeg both with the departments gun control were charged two weeks ago in connection with the missing guns and have been transferred to other although police chief Norm Stewart said information were sworn against the two officers in connection with Crown prosecutor Wayne mesh Kowsky has delayed court proceedings pending an internal police i Vestiga the firearms were among about surrendered to police during a 1978 gun control amnesty program or seized in criminal they were stored at the District 3 North Winnipeg police station at 262 Hartford several Large gun who didst wish to be said Detec Tives searched the business Home of one of the cites largest licensed arms dealer within the last two see collectors Page 4 hostage leaves Tehran Tehran Reuter hostage Richard his health damaged after eight months in left Tehran today for presidential aide Saeed Sanjabi he was in fair condition and wide Sanjabi told Reuters news Agency after accompanying the 28 year old new yorker from his Hospital to Tehran Mehraban Queen left on Board Swissair flight 363 to Zurich which took off just before 1 senior foreign affairs adviser to president Abolhassan Bam said the american was Able to walk i went on Board and asked him if he Felt up to the flight and he i Sanjabi he said the consular one of 53 americans held in Iran since last was a tall and robust Man who looked in Good shape Queen is the first hostage to be released since the hostages militant student captors released most of their female and Black captives during no As Well As the no american parents Queen was reported by Hospital and presidential spokesmen As possibly being in need of psychiatric treat Sanjabi said a full statement on the medical reasons for the hostages release will be issued Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini office announced that Queen would be re leased in a Surprise statement shortly after Pelican located 96 kilo metres Northwest of flin was threatened by an out control fire that was burning on a six Kilometre front most of the towns women and Chil Dren were evacuated to nearby islands or neighbouring towns wednesday night As the fire moved to within a couple of Kilometres of the Telephone lines to the Community were still but electrical Power was restored about 500 women and children the islands were provided with the clothing and tents they the men in the Community had stayed behind to fight the the evacuees were taken in Small boats to the almost one kilo metre away from the and a few families drove to nearby com no injuries were reported and Resi dents were expected to return to town the Success of the started about allowed about 230 Many of whom have been without sleep for 24 to begin a direct attack on the town Safe the Backburn was started after fire fighters used four bulldozers to construct a 100foot mile Long fire break about one Kilometre Northwest of i think were going to save the provided everything goes Hutchinson adding that a North West wind could put the Village in trouble this portable pumpers and other equipment were to brought into the Battle against the Wall of Orange which at times reached 33 metres into the about 230 men Are using four bulldog two Canso water two helicopters and seven fixed Wing air Craft in the weve got to get around said if we can keep it the Way it is we should be he i experience a Factor the fire began tuesday evening when lightning ignited a Blaze about seven Kilometres Northwest of by wednesday it was within two kilo metres of Pelican consuming nearly acres of Timber in the Phil a local said the Success in fighting the fire is due in Large part to the experience of the Indian and Metis hts said every year the men face similar situations and that Over a period of time they have become quite Good at the villagers Are also used to fight Forest Ratt there was no conf Only took us an hour to evacuate about although the fire has destroyed at least acres of it int Likely to cause any economic hardship to local residents or threaten any other see 66 Page 4 James free press firefighters Battle a Forest fire As it approaches the tiny Village of Pelican Narrows 400 workers to lose farm implement jobs by Cecil Rosner More than 400 farm implement work ers Are being Laid off across Winnipeg As manufacturers respond to a massive decline in demand for versatile manufacturing company says it is laying off 200 temporary employees indefinitely effective today and has told another 160 full time staff they wont be needed until the Middle of september at the the layoffs Are in addition to the 43 office workers who were let go last Coop says it will Lay off 68 production workers in it says they will remain off the Job at least until december and possibly depending on the de Mand for versatile personnel spokesman Lorne Blue said the company hired about 200 men earlier this year to do work on a line of with the Swather production Complete by the end of the employees were no longer he Blue said the temporary workers were told when they were hired in March and april they Likely would be out of a Job in but the further Layoff of 160 full time staff is a result of slow sales and general Market he these workers will Likely All be called Back in mid september if production schedules Are he the entire which employed about workers before the will be closed from now to 5 for its annual the recent marginal improvements in weather conditions and slightly see despite Page 4 rate declines the Bank of Canada rate fell slightly yesterday to per cent and prompted the Bank of Montreal to lower its own lending rates 51 Norrie upset mayor Bill Norrie will petition the province to keep conflict of interest penalties in the City of Winnipeg report gloomy a report published today predicts that Canadas Economy will grow at its slowest rate in More than 25 aliens killed a smuggler killed four aliens lost in a desert after they begged him for death to escape their says a woman who survived the Index anytime Biu jux Bridge forum Foufa hero 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