Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Accusations deepen Metis rift by Buffan gory Winnipeg free press Brandon charges of vote buy that the govern metro planted trouble fakers in the Organiza Tion and the surprising candidacy of a for ref president at a turn Lett three Day Man Tofta Metis federation Confer ence Here this weekend has widened a rift within the at stake is direct control Over in Public funds and a say in the dispensation of millions of dollars in Federal programs to the Metis in the and restaurateur Joltn reelected presi Detert of but Trot without plenty of sell Ulfig and backroom each of the 277 delegates received pocket Ftp Confer which prompted charges that and other were buying fire support of people who would be sore to reelect the per Day was in addition to Delegate reimbursement for travel Ling expenses and the provision of accommodations and the Federal Fotr overment bad contributed of tie Dock Bay mayor Billy Dela rotted said Wien Money starts coming froth Public it starts Dauphin area Fisherman Jack Flem ing added a lot of people Are they dont know Why there As far As they there Here to sup port the reelection of the presi Morrisseau claimed in an interview that his critics Hao been planted and subsidized by the provincial govern ment to discredit the he said the pocket Money Given to the delegates was 68 help defray lost wages stat like babysitting costs Buck 6y Fie he fee province could justify with folding Fly Job if funds As it attempts to find the real Vesce of offi Softis seat said is has no firm proof of fever Meta but pointed to certain appoint Ems to the gov ernment3 Metis advisory cot Ratcil and questioned Haw the breakaway Metis confederacy of May Titova could for buses and Fod gifts at the conference without Public see buying Page 4 Jack Nicklaus won his fifth pea confirming Hes in a class of his showers tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 24 Winnipeg free press August Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final for Home 119570550 v Carter eases stand new York up policy conces Sions by president Carter to challenger Teddy Kennedy promised peace on at least one front As the divided demo cratic party assembled today in nation Al convention to choose a Leader and a policy platform for the 4 general hostages May be the Massachusetts senator accepted a Carter Promise for a More Liberal economic policy As a Concession to the party then pressed ahead with his underdog Challenge for the presidential the Public peacemaking gesture Fol Lowed publication of a new opinion poll which shows Carter gaining a substantial Lead Over Kennedy within the democratic but trailing weakly be Hind Republican party candidate Ronald Reagan among voters generally another Eveo convention develop potentially damaging to the pres highlighted differences within the Carter state Secretary Edmund a Power in the told a group of reporters he was shut out of an important White House decision on defence policy this this provoked a flurry of reports centring anew on the controversial Carter style of but due in new York on wednesday when nomination balloting see Carter Page 4 wallets kept zipped fort up the Slapdash spending spree some had expected failed to occur during the weekend As native indians in this northeastern British Columbia Village collected cheques for their shares of a Windfall in natural Gas each adult among the 300 fort Nel son Indian band members became 000 Richer Friday but there were no Long lineups at the villages two which opened for two hours nor were Village stores especially but there were cases of unbridled one Young Man gave Bills to his friends and another bought a secondhand car being driven up the Alaska Highway by someone hoping for a Quick some band members have come in to buy but it is nothing out of the said a spokesman for the at the Sears catalogue an employee said a married couple from the band came in to look at a dryer but they didst buy another person picked up a we had some people order things earlier in the she the calmness May have been due to delays in distributing the band members had known for some time they were getting the it was jut a question of Ken free press ferocious Hurricane reduced to storm Welcome to Fol Lorama Lisa a member of the Africa Caribbean Pavilion dance welcomes visitors to the opening night of Fol Lorama Pavilion organizers said hat despite the rain last nights near capacity crowd of about 350 put attendance ahead of last bizarre shooting claims Church pastor up grief stricken parishioners of the Evangeli Cal free Church in this Southeastern Alberta agricultural Community at tended regular Church services yester determined not to let the bizarre shooting death of their pastor diminish their gathered in the tiny about 125 Kilometres Southeast of the 40member congregation wiped tears from their eyes and Many read biblical passages and prayed the service Reg and ins Wile were found shot to death in the basement of their Home ramp say they were apparently shot by Irvin who killed his and their two and before killing we should not be weeping and cry ing for a woman offered in they would want us to be rejoicing for them because they Are in a better place than the service was conducted by Albert Coch who served As pastor in the Community Church from 1964 to 1969 sometimes god works in very Subtle sometimes he whispers to but sometimes he tells us something with a Thunderclap and that what happened with Reg and he told occasionally fighting Back it was the most difficult thing Ive had to do in my entire Coch said after the 1 had a daughter that was in a coma for weeks and died after being in a traffic but having to face these people this morning was much More difficult than Fred in charge of the local ramp said yesterday that Levens went to the House of another congregation member on be night of the but Bickerstaff said the member and his family were away on he said Levens shot himself with a Rifle about 4 met Friday in a neighbors motor he also said police now have established that the murders took place thursday night rather than Friday As Origi Nally the bodies of Levens and the children were found at the Levens residence about 3 Friday and the bodies of Tomlinson and his wife were found at their Home four hours Bickerstaff said All five murder Vic Tims were shot thursday Bickerstaff said Domestic problems Between Levens and his partly due to the couples religious differ apparently triggered the Inci Corpus Texas a once described As the second strongest Hurricane of the Hurricane Allen was downgraded to a tropical storm last night As it moved sluggishly across the sparsely populated Range lands of Southern thanks to an Early evacuation of about people along a 720kilo metre stretch of no deaths directly attributable to the storm were although two people died of heart attacks while the storm was in the at least 100 people died As the storm crossed the Carri Trio defies no injuries were blamed on the Hurricane but 12 people were injured at san which was struck by one of the Many tornadoes spawned by he storm there was flooding from heavy rain and High tides and at least one fishing report town was heavily by yesterday the Eye of the six Darold storm was East of Tare Doand moving West northwesterly at about 16 the National Hurricane Centre in said winds were Down to 96 the 118 Cut off and the weakening storm was expected to move into Northern Mexico during the before the storm had hammered Southern Texas with Lim Ber ripping winds of 175 and swamped this Industrial seaport with the highest tides in 60 leaving beachfront property in a the but dangerous storm had slowed across the resort of South padre Island immediately North of Brownsville shortly after 12 yesterday and moved sluggishly Northwest into the Mesquite Range land of the King dumping flood building Rains up to 19 a three metre the worst seen in this City of people since a Hurri Cane came through in sent water up to the windows of it is the first major Hurricane to hit Corpus Christi in a Hurricane Celia in 1970 left 11 people dead and property damage estimated at million in the costliest Hurricane on Many Corpus streets Wen blocked by felled Power lines and the splintered wreckage of pleasure boats and shrimp trawlers littered the marinas and were scattered through some Power was out in much of Corpus Chesti and in Many mid coastal towns most of the Rio Grande Valley was without electricity and the storm moved into a desolate stretch of Range land Between Corpus Christi and Hurricane warnings remained posted from Brownsville North to immediately Buluth of Freeport on the much of port a popular fishing resort about 64 Kilometres North of suffered heavy dam Shotgun carrying deputies kept people out of the town yesterday be cause of the danger that butane and ammonia tanks would weve got butane bottles leaking All Over the said Willacy county Deputy Glen weve got a lot of see Hurricane Page 4 Alert bus Driver spots fire by Bob Armstrong Barnabe noticed smoke coming from the Balcony of an apartment in the 78 Quail Ridge Block and realized there was too much smoke to be just a a Winnipeg transit bus was driving on the Crestview feeder route at the Corner of Hamilton and Silver avenues when i saw smoke yesterday at about he said last he got out of his bus and ran to the building and began shouting a warning to the people outside and in their apart one woman from the apartment Block said Barnabe was the first person to see the she thanked him personally after the she after the residents of the building were alerted to the which the fire department said was started by Barbe Cue ashes placed in a plastic garbage three men put it out with a Garden Barnabe the fire caused about damage to the cabinets and ceiling of the apart the fire department Barnabe said that if the fire had marked on the opposite Side of the building he have seen id Hute to think what could have Hap there Are 12 families in a woman from the apartment said the building is similar in some ways to the Fairlane which were gutted by fire in a few minutes on May both buildings were three Storey Gar Den apartments with exterior Balcon Itie fire at the Fairlane townhouses was the subject of an inquiry which ended at fridays session of the a Winnipeg building commission spokes Man said the findings could have National threat israeli prime minister Menachem begin threatened to resign and form a new government As a Way of imposing order on his deeply divided going Strong last november Anne Farmer Phillipe Lebrun lost his right Arm in a combining today he and wife Claudette run a 36head Dairy i neighbor in this transient How can you get to know your neighbors one which can provide everyone with general All round is a Street not impressed letters show president Harry Truman did not think much of some of the Roosevelt Cabinet appointees he Index a by tint Billinkoff bid fax Bridge 31 7 22 22 21 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