Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Northern spen port Stair Assn Jasbi Huir spree sume Job Fiji i j i Afati gift Nan Cut Prelepa if tired to occur Outing the weekend As native indians in this Nothe Astorfi Britis i Contr Mia collected cheques for Steif shafts of a Windfall it natural of tews or Cash available to then spree fizzles f f1 s of tuft Scott Ftp in fit i ton Uhm Mol big Nhey w be mat in ukr Hub an ilium in a pfc Ima a Hess for a few it Turfe Bach adult among the 900 fort Nel son Indian band members became 000 rusher Friday but there were no Long lineups at the villages two which opened for two hours nor were Village stores especially and police said that despite the abundance of pocket few incidents required their some band members have come in it Bwy but it id nothing out of the said a spokesman for the at the Sears catalogue an Eft Ploec said married couple frown the bated came in to look at a dryer but they didst buy and another person picked of a we had some people order things earlier Iti the she an Imperial Bank of said he was pleased at the response of band but he did not say How Many came to his the calmness May have been due to delays in distributing the band members had known for some time they were getting the it was just a of Banks also after met Fol rare in Euzeb fur Luu Jis u1rkt 19 st6 held if term Tetil they reach Legal tie party Al nost okd when the band and port Nelson lawyer Andrew disagreed Ovet tire size 6t the fee Hie St old be paid Tot helping of negotiate did Royalty that could in Fig or Iii to the Smalt Jack Nicklaus of his sunny today 24 showers tonight 10 v final 200 f fit rat Call 9574550 August Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Metis fail to heal rift by Brian gory Winnipeg free press Brandon charges of vote buy accusations that the government planted troublemakers in the Organiza Tion and the surprising candidacy of a former president marked the turbulent three Day conference of the Manitoba Metis federation held Here during the at stake is direct control Over 000 in Public funds and a say in the dispensation of millions of dollars in Federal programs to the Metis in the cattle rancher and restaurateur John was reelected presi Dent for another two but not without plenty of sniping and backroom each of the 277 delegates received pocket Money for attending the Confer prompted charges that Morrisseau and other leaders were buying the support of people who would be sure to reelect the per Day was in addition to Delegate reimbursement for travel Ling expenses and the provision of accommodations and the Federal government had contributed for the see emf Page 4 murders Shock perish 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 before the service Reg and his wife 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 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 sometimes god works in very sub tie 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 see murder Page 4 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 that despite the rain last nights near capacity crowd of about 350 put attendance ahead of last Carter modifies stand on eve of convention 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 general 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 takes expressed Confidence in a television interview yesterday that he will win both the nomination and the november a series of polls taken before the convention give Carter no More than 27 per cent and As Little As 22 per cent of National voter support against about 47 per cent for with inde pendent John Anderson placed Carters opinion rating places him far below that of any president who has sought reelection since the second world but he insisted yesterday the polls that count in a democratic society like ours Are the polls conducted among the people on election a parallel polling of democratic party members shows Carter took a decisive Lead Over Kennedy last week after the presidents 4 televised news conference denying any illegalities or improprieties in his brother billys acceptance of Money from the libyan despite this and other indications that Kennedy run for the nomination is unlikely to Carter yielded see Kennedy Page 4 Hurricane Allen slips into Texas As a storm 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 South Ern 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 the storm there was flooding from heavy rain and High tides and at least one fishing resort town was heavily by yesterday the Eye of the six Darold storm was East of Lare Doand moving West northwesterly at about 16 the National Hurricane Centre in said winds were Down to 96 below the 118 Cut the weakening storm was expected to move into Northern Mexico during the before the storm had Ham mered Southern Texas with Timber rip Ping 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 Christi streets were blocked by felled Power lines and the splintered wreckage of pleasure boats and shrimp trawlers uttered the marinas and were scattered through some Power was out in much of Corpus Christi and in Many mid coastal 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 South of Freeport on the much of port a pop Tor fishing resort about 64 Kilometres North of suffered heavy dam Shotgun carrying deputies kept peo ple out of the town yesterday because 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 it pretty Well Tore it about two thirds of the place is gone and 90 per cent of everything is see Allen 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 he 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 thamm 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 started on the opposite Side of the building he have seen id hate 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 the fire at the Fairlane townhouses was the subject of an inquiry which ended at fridays session of the a Winnipeg building fam mision spokes Man said the findings could Nave National begin 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 try holding a Street 21 not impressed letters show president Harry Truman did not think much of some of the Roosevelt Cabinet appointees he Index 31 7 22 6 32 7 17 22 7 6 Jumble 61 sports ;