Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Iii Whin Peg a House in Hatzic 85 Kilometres East of lies in ruins yesterday after being swept away by rainfall m Snow cause severe n continued from Page 1 hotels Here and in Princeton were booked buses had to turn Back to no vacancy signs were a familiar sight on the other Side of the Rockies As Drivers get into from Alberta because freezing rain closed Mountain flooding also isolated Southern Van Couver Island As the Island Highway had washouts Between ii Alcum Beach and extensive flooding was also reported in the cow Chan Valley on Southern Vancouver the fishing villages of Tofino and Ucluelet on the West coast of the Island were Cut off from port Alberni along Highway farther North on the the Gold River Highway was reported in Southeastern Highway 93 through the Kootenay Region was closed East of Radium hot Springs and the Tran Canada Highway was closed East of Golden to the Alberta warmest Day rainfall was near record proportions in Many areas during the last 24 hours and in the rain pushed the City to an annual precipitation record of Millimetres so far in exceeding the previous record of set in was also the warmest boxing Day on record in a number of Vancouver where the High was Abbotsford was the hot spot in the province with a record 18 eight other communities broke or set boxing Day temperature in the Pacific Northwestern United roads turned to and Homes were washed away As drenching rain and melting Snow caused floods and warm temperatures moving up from Californi wreaked havoc farther up the coast where melting Snow combined with heavy rain to swell right id say its worse than it has Ever been in 100 said Harold mayor of a Community hard hit by a logger drowned near Hood when his Mobile Home was swept away by flood and a woman died near when her car slammed into debris that was strewn Over a Road when a River had washed Over hundreds of people were evacuated from Lowling areas of Oregon and Idaho As swollen Rivers in the 24 hours ended 7 up to centimetres of rain had fallen in Western the National weather service but a forecast of More heavy showers was downgraded to Light and by late the weather service said most Rivers in Washington were re and people began returning to their at least seven Homes in were swept away Skykomish River suddenly changed its and hundreds of other area Homes were officials Wor ried whether dikes would the flooding is a result of the unusually warm which melted the Light Cascade Mountain coupled with heavy said Bob a specialist at tonal weather services Seattle of a resident of watches As the swollen Coqui Halla River batters a railway hostage greetings bittersweet families glad to see film of relatives but angry Over continued Captivity by the associated press the filmed Holiday greetings from some of the 52 hostages in Iran were bittersweet for Many of their who were glad to see them alive but angry they were still held i feel no gratitude for this film and i do not feel it helps for anyone to comment on How Well the hostages said Barbara wife of hostage Barry they Are not in a health in a Brief filmed transmit Ted to the United states yesterday by iranian Rosen told his wife and two children my attitude is Posi and although i cant be with you this Holiday season in with you Spiri i think the iranians Are Able to manipulate us by releasing films like this through the news Media Here in the Rosens wife said at a news conference in new film clips showed 21 of the hostages Reading Brief messages to their rela other hostages were shown but trapper gets around in Winter with Aid of a special Snowshoe continued from Page 1 up with his own answer a Snowshoe about 30 inches Long that he could easily lift with his one sound he rigged another Small sized Snowshoe on the end of his Crutch which gives him Good mobility in the one of his Young Paul said sometimes out on the tra Pline the old Man keeps Well out in front of the rest of Unk later has spent his life in the Northern Bush sometimes his trapping expeditions by would take him about 400 Kilometres Northwest of Here to Reindeer Lake on the Saskatchewan the trips often lasted As Long As three or four he in slaters wife jie4 in they bad three and a with whom he lives when Hes not in the after a Brief Linklater returned to the trap lines two years ago for the Good of my he predicts that they will live through very hard times and need All the help i can give i think of them All the time when in out there on the he he and his son Albert returned after two months on the tramline in the week before Linklater brought in two Lynx four one seven Muskrat and eight his son had 13 a Lynx and a on his Linklater immediately set to building a special Christmas present for All his its a carefcaiyplanne4 and constructed by 18inch wooden Box which is to be used As a there Are two slots in the Structure one for coins and one for folding the pieces of the Box Are designed to lock together so that would be burglars would have a Tough and noisy time breaking into Linklater plans to keep pushing All the Money he earns through the slots until the Box is then hell Deposit the contents with a regular Bank to be kept for his grand at he still enjoys a game of poker with some of his tramline he says Hes not in any Way bitter about the hand that Hes been dealt in old As i Ive never Felt any bitterness toward people and not to even the part of my leg that stiff can still be Ive Learned to take hardship As it comes and keep he said read no and some appeared Only in a six minute silent film released on Christmas others appeared in still photographs released by the Irani an news Agency yesterdays film showed the hos tages sitting at a table at a solemn Holiday in the background was a decorated Christmas and on the table were boxes of fresh the hostages Sang silent night and away in a Manger and got wrapped Christmas they also took com Munion from Bishop Yohannan Issaie of the Catholic chaldean minority in Iran and two roman Catholic word since its marvellous to see said Susan Cooke of Mother of hostage Donald we had no word from him since april and didst know whether he was even of we would have liked to have had our son Home for but this was the next Best on the said he had nothing to add to a message he sent last Cooke said her son was referring to a very sarcastic Christmas he still appears said the Cooke family is speculate ing that the film was Cut because her sons comments seemed to be broken she although two algerian diplomats who Are acting As Gobet Weens in tons with Iran said they saw All 52 hostages and found them looking quite healthy and relatives of hostages who didst appear in any of the released film were t 1 1 pole official blast West for stance continued from Page 1 explanation of its 1968 Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia As a duty of the communist bloc to preserve it meanwhile the communist party paper in a major new attempt to Deal with Poland Independent Trade flatly asserted that in communist unions dont need the right to strike and when they did they played into the of anti socialist subversion the lengthy pravda article sought to show that history made Clear the Evo Lution of the state and communist party As supreme arbiters Over All other factions within a socialist state and that Trade unions must conform to this historic work stoppages hit soviet dog artists watching the Rise of Solidarity and other Independent worker unions have quoted Lenin to prove the supremacy of the party in All aspects of Union professor a Legal wrote in pravda that Trotsky and other powerful enemies of soviet communism wanted unions to be either in opposition to the state or a part of state he the system in place today allows unions to defend workers rights yet accede to the party since the party is the main Pathfinder of the marxist Lenin is in he fac tory work stoppages and this is shown convincingly by recent polish developments play into the hands of anti socialist elements who strive to turn society away from the socialist path of numbing Impact As always to Western these doctrinal disputes have a or Impact in trying to determine the direction in which the leadership May be but Over the five months of the polish the Kremlin has consistently pursued two paths d it has brought its military strength and readiness in its strategic Border re Gions to full strength and the highest and it has steadily and doggedly Laid out a Range of ideological justifications for eventual da11 this has proceeded even As the Kania leadership has seemed to achieve in recent weeks some added sense of and As the Catholic Church and the unions themselves have been largely calling for the pravda article seemed to accept the general notion that the poles will never adhere to the soviet by assert ing that different socialist countries have different paths to Iran says iraqi attack blunted Nicosia a Iran claimed its forces blunted onslaughts by both invading iraqi troops and kurdish rebels in Northwestern Kurdistan province but few details were available a communique carried by Iran pars news Agency said counter Revo Lute varies of the kurdish democratic party besieged a police Post near i 80 Kilometres East of the Border with Iraq and about 400 kilo metres West of that was the Only specific action mentioned in the dispatch that said iranian army units and revolutionary guards were resist ing the invaders and insurgents at other earlier iranian communiques acknowledged iraqi troops had invaded Kurdistan Marian they claimed 92 iraqis were killed and 15 were captured wednesday and thurs iraqi president Saddam Hussein announced Christmas Day that his army had opened a new invasion front in Iran Kurdistan with his forces still controlling Large sections of iranian territory in the Central Frontier Section and Southern Khz Stan prov state of Ayatollah Ruhollah spirit Ual Leader of Iran revolutionary islamic said Hussein will go to hell Tehran radio said the 80yearold Khomeini made the com ment yesterday at a meeting with delegations from Kurdistan and Kuzis it quoted him As saying Hussein has reached a state of madness and is on achieving a even a relative by whatever Iraq is supporting the kurdish rebels in Northwestern Iran who want Auton omy and also the Arab minority in Oil Rich Khz Stan an Over whelming majority of iranians Are persians and speak not they also Are predominantly shiite while most of the kurd and arabs belong to the larger sunni Iran and Iraq also made these claims late yesterday about the War that erupted 22 seamen evacuated d Iraq said it had completed the evacuation of 980 foreign seamen from 62 ships stranded in the Shatt the disputed Estuary leading into the Hiorth Ern tip of the persian it said the seamen had returned to their International efforts to get Iran and Iraq to agree to let the ships leave the Estuary had d an iraqi communique also said two iranian naval ships were destroyed by iraqi defences when they approached the Mina Albakri Oil port on the Shatt pars said guards in the besieged Oil refining City of Abadan at the North Ern tip of the Estuary arrested four men and three women for smuggling pistols and it said they were members of a student Branch of the marxist fedayeen organization which pretends to support the islamic d a pars dispatch on the Central and Southern sectors of the 880kilometre War front said artillery duels and ground fighting Cost the iraqis heavy human and material Dan iraqi which made no mention of the Northern said 143 iranian soldiers were killed in com Mando raids and helicopter gunship attacks in the Central and Southern it reported 32 iraqi pm criticizes firms for Oil policy beefs Montreal up canadians should take multinational Oil compan ies criticisms of the National Energy program with a Grain of prime minister Trudeau said yesterday in an interview on the French language Tva the oppose the pro Gram because they dont want to sell their operations to he serte4 and despite ail the complaints you hear from the they Are not at All anxious to sell their operations because they know the future for the future for this will be Rich the Federal Energy program sets new Oil taxes and provides for government owned pet Franada take Over the Canadian assets of some foreign owned Oil the prime minister said the Energy program does not impose a final Price on we Are still in negro he adding that the Mer conservative government of Joe Clark had also failed to reach an agreement with turning to the Trudeau said Patria Tion was not a major Jet for him when he first became prime minister in it seems to me that since the que Bec it has become More essential if you defuse constitutional bomb and to have the Constitution at capable of amendment by and when that i think the rest will by i t ;