Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba
4 Winnipeg free july deadlock unlikely to h Ottawa up Consumers can expect to pay More Tot Home heating Oil and All other Petroleum products in coming weeks despite the collapse of Oil pricing talks Between prime minister Trudeau and Alberta Premier Peter Trudeau and Lougheed broke off two Days of facet face bargaining last conceding they were Hope Lessly deadlocked on Many key they did agree that domes tic rates should be raised this year by a it seems that the primary Oiland Gas producing province will authorize such action be fore the existing agreement expires at Midnight thursday that would mean increases for con Sumers of about seven cents a gallon or cents a litre if the rates take effect the new Domestic Oil Price would be a the Lougheed government will con Sider use of two weapons when it meets wednesday and thursday in Edmonton to assess the it holds Powers to raise prices and Cut production on Oil produced within provincial Boun Trudeau made Clear at a news con Ference at the conclusion of the talks that Ottawa would not make the first move in the despite the obvious impasse Over terms of a new its Albertas turn to he told were not starting any to the Federal government Al ready offered to raise prices by a barrel As part of an interim pricing arrangement proposed in june and rejected by Federal officials say it is not Likely the government will fight an immedi ate with a Cor responding Rise a month later in the Price of natural while behind the scenes efforts continue to find com Mon Ottawa and Alberta Are not that far apart on pricing although they disagree on How fast the increases should take the major sticking Point is a Federal proposal to impose a new tax on natural Gas Federal observers say it is not Likely the province Wilt attempt to squeeze Ottawa into accepting its pricing proposals by cutting thereby reducing Supply across the the provincial government passed legislation in april authorizing the cab inet to Cut production in most Oil Fields to unspecified Levels whenever it thinks the Public merest the More a key semm to tar after to to raise the by the tar Wyto level Fri t temporary liter sounding wit the Ether pts Hes before Odding on i final eocene of like All Homs ownership of natural resources hour the government controls pric ing within its boundaries through a Petroleum marketing commission act ing on Cabinet Lougheed has the support Saskatchewan and British the other Oiland Gas producing m Fly Post n thefts Export a news this if the ten premiers m Wishup by next month is or pros Able sift if few can Gunc reaction to Alm has the of a la i big inti a on Nis Udor Tito that the Ewery question be settled before substantial changes Are agreed to in constitutional a subject close to Trot deals tie com it the september first Reform As a Kier to try and Force the prime flt Inister tit Back Down on the cat Export tax Ghotb Zadeh reportedly after Asylum which Way to Rome someone must have meant to be but Edmonton and Ellice appears to be just the Corner Novice Drivers and visitors to the City should in the three signs in the foreground were sticking out from the Back of a City works truck some time after the truck everything became As Clear As ports future remains in limbo Churchill councillor sees latest setbacks As writing on the Wall continued from Page 1 season the first Grain ship is due some time after town councillor Danny Demeulle said the delay in Grain arrival and the Lack of ships is writing on the Wall As far As the ports future is con when we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Grain shipping from Chur chill last year everything was the bigwigs from All Over were Here saying great but where Are they now i 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 going to be a hell of a Tough Winter for the people who live every year the National harbours Board seems to have a different sex he last year it was the Canadian wheat Board and this year its the but theres something damned wrong when they let Churchill go Back or at Best stand when every other in Canada goes polish shipping agents who visited Churchill last week said the sail ing time from Here is Days Shorter to Baltic sea ports than from Lawrence River they also that the Quebec City Grain terminal loads ships about five times As fast As Little backup the Churchill facilities Are old but they operate pretty but theres Little backup if anything goes its like running a car without a spare one polish agent either the polish freighter Ziema Mazowiecki tons or the ced nya tons is expected to be the first Grain ship entering the port this Allan president of the Cana Dian Union of Public employees local in said the port is being discriminated against by Grain suppliers because it is owned and operated by the Federal currently there Are 106 people on the ports at the Peak in Normal seasons it would be More than Johnson said the port authorities Arent calling in any More people and if anyone their positions Are left people have been worried about not making enough overtime to make their jobs Worth Johnson now there concerned about not getting the 20 weeks of work needed to qualify for unemployment insurance next win said Brown our town Council has put up a hell of a fight to keep the army from to get the new fighter planes tested Here and to get the armed forces presence in the right now were fighting to keep the Federal government from tearing Down whats left of Canadian forces base Churchill so that some of the 51 mining companies exploring the North May base their operations in we need All those supporters who came out of the Woodwork last summer when Jack Murta called Churchill a luxury Canada cannot of to prove their words by some significant if the standstill at the port is a source of the lineup of Pacific Western airlines Hercules and other freighter aircraft at the Churchill Ter Minal has Given the Community a Wel come shot in the begins shuffle Cullaton Lake mines has begun an air shuttle of equipment to their Gold mining site 200 Miles Northwest of the company expects to employ 120 people for anywhere from six to 30 years when it gets into full production in the company is expected to establish an administrative Headquarters in currently there Are 51 mining companies using the town of Churchill and the Airport As their starting Keith manager of the arc tic inn hotel in estimates that the total number of tourists visit ing the Community this year will in crease to from in Security heavy at state funeral of deposed Shah front the news services Washington a Clandestine Ira Nian radio station said yesterday that iranian foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh has resigned and left Iran to take Refuge the broadcast was monitored by a government monitoring the which the monitoring ser vice said it cannot identify due to poor said Ghotb Zadeh in tends to request political Asylum in France or the United the state department said it is unable to either confirm or deny the radio life sentence imposed Calgary Suk Woon Lee of Winnipeg has been sentenced to life for the Shotgun murder of his estranged Kore an wife last Lee pleaded guilty in court of Queens Bench Friday to second degree he was sentenced yesterday by Justice Mary Lees Barbara was found dead in a Van in steam stops firefighters a blast of steam yesterday morning from mount Helens halted most firefighting efforts near the but Crews were sent in later to Battle one the Forest service More than 130 firefighters had been scheduled to work on Small fires smouldering beneath the volcanic Ash near the but were held Back after steam shot to an Altitude of metres at much of the Forest around the Volcano was set afire by the May 18 some of the fires have continued to smoulder in logs buried beneath a thick layer of volcanic relations to be restored Jeddah saudi Arabia and Brit Ain agreed yesterday to restore full diplomatic relations following a four month break Over the screening of a film in Britain about the execution of a saudi Princess convicted of resumption of full links Between the two countries will take place next fishing talks scheduled Washington Canadian and officials meet in Washington today for preliminary talks aimed at avoiding another fish War Over migrating Alba Core Canadian ambassador Marcel Ca Dieux and state department officials a Qto continued from Page 1 the two families paused briefly by the went upstairs to Sadat then came Back Down for the silent Reading of prayers from the Koran after the arrival of other rela Tives and close friends of the egyptian officials and representatives of foreign the most prominent foreign mourn ers were Nixon and eking Constan Tine of foreign governments either designated their ambassadors in Cairo to represent them or sent no one to the funeral for fear of angering the revolutionary regime that drove Pahlavi from his throne 17 months Nixon came As a private to pay his last respects to a Friend for 30 a Loyal Friend and ally of the he said on his arrival yester he told reporters the Carter administrations failure to give decisive sup port to the Shah during the revolution against him was one of the Black pages of american foreign policy and his treatment by the administration after he left Iran was 1 think that president in providing Haven for the Shah in his last at a time when the unites states turned its Back on one of its is an inspiration to us Nixon the state department designated ambassador Alfred Atherton to at tend the prime minister Trudeau sent his condolences to former Empress Farah Diba but Canada will Send no official representative to the funeral in the prime ministers office said yesterday Trudeau sent a private Mes Sage to the Shah widow expressing his personal but it declined to give an external affairs spokesman said yesterday in Ottawa the Canadian ambassador to Egypt will not attend the funeral in Tynan dead of mews Roundup want to head off another confrontation like that which occurred last year when 19 american boats were seized for allegedly violating Canadas 200 mile fishing limit while pursuing the playwright Tynan dead Santa playwright and critic Kenneth who won Fame with his unsparing critiques of other playwrights in Britain and the United has died after a Long Battle with he was Tynan play of i Calcutta became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic despite controversy surroundings its explicit he had been writing a number of lengthy profiles of show business figures for the yorker runway tenders bypassed continued from Page 1 were All set to and Well probably get on the Job by Maclean if the weather holds we should be far enough along to have beings Landing by but it will take us until if the weather holds to finish the Job he said that some private who would like to have bid on the May be unhappy with the cites a Thompson received More Good Newt the mayor the Provin Cial governments mu2 air plane used specially for medical is to be stationed at Thompson later this w60il the mayor and other Thompson Lead in requested this in View of the strike at the Thompson general Telegram med minister transport Canada gave its godhead or the City to do the work alter a clean Telegram med transport min ister Jeanluc Pepin urging the action and after Manitoba labor minister Ken Macmaster and economic develop ment minister Frank Johnston also Telegram med Pepin calling on the government to bypass the regular tender ing slamming Ottawa Damn Nenorth Macmaster said yesterday that pea had first notified the Federal ministry of transport two years age about the need for runway the two ministers Tow Pepia repairs Are to take Only five to ii but regular tendering procedures could prolong the interruption m air service to about Macmaster commended pea for putting Pas eager safety he said that former conservative transport minister Doe Mattott Kovsca bad promised repairs this past liberals to ppm to have re tuned 10 their Standard practice of
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