Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ii Churchill plays a waiting game by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Churchill its a waiting game in Churchill this the waiting is Fot for ships Churchill residents for Clear evidence that the Federal govern ment and other responsible agencies want the port Here to some wait in fear and bitter but All wait with said a Churchill Why the hell doff they let us know whether they have decided to keep this port in business or shut it Down then we could concentrate on tourism and other things that might make this Community Fri shop Comar Robidoux of the roman Catholic diocese and patriarch of the port a Lomer this is he its been going on for if people Arent prepared to straggle for problems and sweat it out trying 0 find Why Are they Here the first with 155 eats loaded with arrived a port official estimated this would carry about bushels of enough for on fifth of a i have Foo idea what More shipments Are on the Tine behind this port manager Eton zip ski mayor Howard Brown said Grain shipments to Thunder Are up Iftiger tent films year wer they seem to get ail the Gram they feed and All we get is a late season while the first ship of the season often arrives Here about Luly this season the first Grain ship is due some time after town councillor Danny Demeules said the delay in Grain arrival and the Lack of snips is writing on the Wall As far As the ports future is con when we celebrated the Ston anniversary of Grain shipping Fern Chur chill last year everything was the bigwigs from All Over were Here saying great but where Are they now 1 spent a lot of years As a tradesman working at the port and Ive never seen things get off to such a bad its a sick situation this summer and its a thing to be a hell of a Tough Winter for the people who live every year the National harbours see Churchill Page 4 child has Long to suffer for mothers Cloudy tonight 16 sunny tomorrow 28 for Home Call 9570550 july 1980 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 200 Wayne True press red River sex bids million to buy Downs by Elman Guttormson the red River exhibition association in negotiating to buy Assiniboia Downs for about the Sale has not been but sources close to the negotiations say the Purchase of the Racetrack could follow quickly if accountants for the exhibition provide the executive with a favourable the executive of the exhibition Asso a nonprofit and the Downs have been negotiating for the last two Michael president of the Winnipeg replied no comment when asked about reports he too was interested in purchasing the last Downs president Jim Wright discussed the Sale with Mem Bers of the exhibition executive presi Dent William Vic president senator Nathan and general manager later in the Downs account Tanis met with their counterparts from the exhibition and provided them with detailed financial information on the operation of the the provincial government is aware of the negotiations and is reported to be in favor of the Wright has Long been an advocate of a nonprofit organization owning the track because of the numerous Finan Cial the exhibition association has three major advantages Over private ownership l it Doest have to pay income or amusement it would be eligible for government Grants for capital it would be easier politically for the provincial government to approve the reallocation of Revenue generated by parimutuel which would per Mit the racing Industry to become for several years the exhibition Board has been urged to establish a permanent site for its annual fair on the 240 acres it owns on the West Side of Assiniboia the exhibition also has an option on an additional 200 acres West of it sown if the exhibition acquires the plans to establish a permanent site for the fair would Likely be Wright and the exhibition have negotiated for the Sale of the track about two years ago discussions ended after members of the executive vetoed the last january a Brief entitled Solu Tion to the economic crisis of the Manitoba horse racing Industry predicted the Industry would collapse in a few years unless there was an immediate redistribution of revenues generated by parimutuel in horsemen voted to Boycott the entry Box unless they received a larger share of the Revenue for the Boycott was averted when govern ment representatives and horsemen reached an agreement which included the Promise of a racing review now in Wright and his Edmonton businessman Bory bought Assiniboia Downs in september of Shah buried in no top leaders attend the exhibition owns land to the West of the Downs lower and has an option to buy Moscow games continue to operate in a vacuum by James Lawton up news service Moscow an uneasy truce had returned to olympic Village today Fol lowing an incident involving 30 ath letes and Security mostly swimmers from Australia and tussle with the Village police and shouted get out of Dak head of the British helped to get the athletes Back to their quarters and said really n was just a Case of High one thing is the athletes had not belatedly discovered a political they were protesting Noth ing More significant than the closing of the Village disco at 11 Vladimir Deputy chairman of the organizing sought to play Down the saying mainly it was ill educated Young athletes showing no consideration for col leagues who had not finished their an australian coach said if he had his Way he would have them behind they were probably Ine another Point of friction has been thai the athletes must leave the track immediately after finishing their thus denying them a glory run and recognition from their own Spectra it is noticeable that foreign tourists Are injecting what Little passion there is coming Down from though Popov reported that total at Tendance has now passed the equalling the final Montreal it has to be said that this figure is swelled by huge soccer and that the emotional Content of the rus Sian fans is not in a Large sense these games continue to operate in a from associated press Cairo president Anwar Sadat gave his old Friend deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi a moslem state funeral today surrounded by some of the heaviest Security Ever seen Here to protect the dead mans family from but Many nations were not represented at the funeral of the once Power Ful iranian who died Here sunday following a seven year Battle with More delays for White uniformed police armed with semiautomatic rifles and carbines lined the two Kilometre route along which Sadat and the Pahlavi family walked behind the Flag raped coffin to the Al Rifaie mosque where it was to be most of the police stood shoulder to shoulder and held ropes to contain the expected but there were few Spectator As six horses pulled the coffin on a Caisson through the Sadat led the procession behind the flanked by former presi Dent Richard Nixon and the dead mans oldest son and former Crown Prince were in Side streets and on rooftops along the a Chin gun Crews were stationed on the roofs at strategic truckloads of riot police were parked in Side and military police and not police were deployed throughout the the body of the 60yearold former Monarch was brought this morning to the Abdeen Palace from the Mil Italy Hospital where he died draped in the Green and White Imperial Flag of the closed coffin was placed on a dais in the Center of the Marble Central Hall and Lay in the Shah former Empress Farah arrived in a Black limousine with Prince the Shah twin Princess came after her in a separate both women were dressed in with Black scarves on their they were met by wearing the uniform of the commander chief of the egyptian armed and his also in the two families paused briefly by the went upstairs to Sadat then came Back Down for the silent Reading of prayers from the see few Page 4 shells fired near air Canada Jet Halifax up an air Canada be was flown though a restricted military zone at Camp ear Lier this year while live shells were being fired in the the Dubin Federal inquiry into air safety was told yes Ralph regional supervisor of air regulations for transport Canada testified that the plane capable of carrying 113 passengers could have been hit by the 105millimetre shells it could have happened 1 believe the shells were going Over the air lord said the the plane was flying Between Saint and Fredericton on March an investigation showed that the co Pilot was at the controls at the time was not using a Chart showing the restricted shelling was Only stopped after an Alert military helicopter Pilot spotted the air Canada plane and notified the both the air Canada Pilot and his Copilot were Given four Day suspensions which coincided with their Days off that decision was Only one of several questioned at the commissions we Klong Atlantic hearings which started Here at least two other aircraft were reported flying across though it is clearly marked on charts and known to experienced military might Surprise the Carter administration is confronting Republican presidential challenger Ronald Reagan on arms which could be a key question in the the Calgary stampedes May have a Surprise when they meet the Winnipeg Blue bombers the Stamps might have prepared to play the wrong air fares fall two major airlines launched a transatlantic fare War driving a one Way Londo Tonew York ticket Down to 43 change sought immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy will ask Cabinet this fall to ease Federal immigration 7 Puzzle 35 45 48 Doug i listings 29 i i i i f r ;