Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Exclusively in the sailing Manitoba think look will military might sunny today 22 Clear tonight 12 july 1980 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 1 final 200 with coloured comics for Home Call 9570550 Energy Price negotiations end in failure St free press by Jeff Carruthers up news service Ottawa negotiations Between prime minister Trudeau and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed broke up yesterday without a new Domestic Oil and Gas pricing agreement to replace the ones which end 1 and 1 while neither Side appears ready to begin taking unilateral pricing action the Prospect appears All too Lougheed said he will not decide what happens next until he can meet with his provincial caucus Trudeau said he will have Energy minister Lalonde present his package to Saskatchewan and British to see if they will accept fallout confrontation just As according to Are delays in major new Oil Sands projects now on the drawing boards and slowdowns in Oil and Gas exp Mora desperate act leads to Gold at Moscow by James Lawton up news service Moscow can you imagine bag pipes on Gorky sporrans ablaze in red Square it happened Here last but it was no More extraordinary than the seconds which carried Allan Wells to the 100metres Gold in the Lenin As sturdy As any of the big old buildings of his native car ried something close to the ultimate Light finish when he lunged his head Forward at the it was an act born of desperation Bui for seconds which stretched into a lifetime it seemed that it had photographers rushed around Cubas Silvio a sad faced negro who had burst along Lane one with a withering change of Pace Over the last 20 cubans danced on the terraces and Wells olympics turned his eyes then he glanced up at the big screen replaying the you could see his body stiff the the naked were Wells strode around Lenin stadium waving in the direction of umbrellas Emblaze with Union Wells was celebrating More than he was enjoying the knowledge that at 28 he had at last liberated himself from the kind of pessimism that can ravage a Talent even As potent As his Wells is the kind of Man who can pick holes in a sunny Day if there Are no problems he has to invent whether or not he had to invent one tonight he will never know for see scottish Page 4 aircraft grounded due to bad runway by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson All Pacific Western airlines Boeing 737 flights have been cancelled from the Thompson Airport because of poor runway conditions Jack pea Public affairs said the airline was forced to take this drastic action after receiving a report from a Boeing we were told the runway was Piu Ting too much stress on the aircraft and shortening its life As Well As being a Hazard to the safety and Comfort of our Lawless said the Engineer used laser beams and other special equipment in making his Lawless Lawless said pea has chartered two Maloti air twin Otter aircraft each Able to carry 20 passengers to shuttle Thompson passengers to the Pas air port where they will Board Boeing flights to pea expects to charter a 50passen Ger con Vair aircraft to operate the shuttle by the annoying Lawless is that pea and trans air have been trying to get transport Canada to do something about the Thompson Airport fur the last two see pea Page 1 Tion in Western at least until an agreement on pricing can be both first ministers agreed at Sepa rate news conferences that they were far apart when the talks both had made offers which the other Side rejected As while the Oil pricing positions were very the major stumbling Block appears to have been Ottawa insistence on retaining the right to impose a natural Gas Export Alberta finds this totally Ottawa offered to increase Oil prices by a barrel six cents a gallon at the pump on 1 for a increase this counting the 1 in a barrel every six months Between 1983 and july Ottawa proposed a higher Price for synthetic Oil a indexed each year in relation to the Chi and an incentive Price for enhanced recovery of heavy oils a barrel plus a similar annual increase proposed Alberta proposed a increase on 1 and for a a barrel increase for 1980 increases of a barrel every six months Between 1981 and july 1982 times the Federal a increase july 1983 and finally an increase estimated at to 75 per cent of North american prices on since both sides referred to the near agreement Between Alberta and the previous conservative that would have seen a increase in in an automatic in crease to 75 per cent of Chicago or world if lower on and 85 per cent of Chicago prices by in Alberta backed away from the near Deal by postponing the track ing mechanism a year and dropping it a hefty 10 per cent As Trudeau noted that such a tracking mechanism is unacceptable to since it produces both higher and Uncertain based on external he noted that since prices Are to reach world Levels next the North american Price would itself track world ties Gas to Oil prices Alberta also proposed to keep natural Gas prices tied to Domestic Oil at 85 per cent of the Energy equivalent Price in the while the Federal proposal does not give a specific pricing tru Deau noted that such a link Between Oil and Gas prices is especially in View of Canadas growing surplus of natural Gas and the need to encourage canadians to convert from Oil to he noted that Alberta has promoted exporting this both sides made proposals to divert Large sums of Energy revenues to both Energy and transportation mostly in the in both were jockeying for larger shares of the Oil and Gas Revenue on the under standing they would then spend much of it on specified projects getting ready Jim a Winnipeg High school gets up to give his Nichols Sheppard steam tractor some Oil before firing up the machine for the daily Parade at the thres Hermens reunion in steam threshing machines and other agricultural implements of Days gone by Are a popular attraction at the Austin fair and Rodeo which ends changes made in election Bills in Marathon eight hour sitting by Ron Campbell Manitoba attorney general Gerry Mercier today yielded to nip pressure and made wholesale changes to his two elections Bills in a Marathon eight hour sitting of the Legislatures privileges and elections in a committee session lasting until 4 the attorney general made 35 changes to Bill the proposed elections finances deleting 11 sections of the original 66section the Bill is an attempt to control the tax deductibility of political donations through registration of political parties and candidates with an elections com the commission would also be the Agency with which political parties and candidates would file audited financial statements and statements of contributions and Campaign Advertis ing Bill 96 also limits the amount political party and candidate May spend on advertising in elections and All these general purposes of the Bill remain intact despite changes one Section which Drew vent Mem objections from the nip in committee would have required a new political party to submit to the commission a list of members in order to be Regis Mercier withdrew the Russ Doern said he major deletions Mercier was making to the Bill were what he and nip Leader Howard Pawley had Hen demanding in a private meeting with the attorney general yesterday nip committee members originally demanded the Bill be withdrawn and but consented to support it jut of committee after the changes although the Bill is largely admits 11 alive in it did contain a truth clause making it an offence for any one to publish false statements about a party or candidates positions during an Flection Campaign Marc it proposed it deletion and the committee concurred with Only hurry Lens opposing fund growing hundreds of Anonymous Good Samaritans have sent donations to the free press Sunshine which now totals never too late Olga the siberian Tiger May be slightly Over the Hill when it comes to giving but the litter of three she brought into the world nine weeks ago is still safeguards More Protection for tenants whose apartment blocks Are being turned into condominiums is included in a Bill ending Manitoba s rent misinterpreted a nurses note 1 misinterpreted a doctor s instructions regarding a Man who later committed an inquest has been told 3 Index carib inc careers Ca Sifea c d Orrid Jumble entry movies to sports Rico i Soi to is 1 24 be 49 i ;