Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fidel blows Horn Over old Victory Bay o Prince encounters k letters to Jodie Foster just tip of the fanatic fan Pysanky pre Christian Fertility Symbol Inni Cloudy today 12 Clear tonight -2 saturday april 18, 1981 i vol 109 no 11 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets final 3uc with supplements for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 Farmers win Union pact f homeless but ave Ssell lobby. suspect arson a the ii ured 29 of the need for Energy company questioned experts sceptical that Crown firm will find enough markets to invest in Paul by Paul Moloney solar Energy experts Are questioning the need for Caner tech inc., the Federal government s newly created renewable Energy company based in Winnipeg. Caner tech a subsidiary of Petro Canada will buy into companies producing renewable Energy devices and processes. But the Market for these goods is weak experts said. What s needed is higher Fossil fuel prices to raise consumer demand for solar and other Energy devices along with More research funds to develop technological breakthroughs to meet that new demand they said. I believe they re looking for com Mercial opportunities but the difficulty is the technology in t established to the commercial level said Jim Cameron renewable Energy manager at Imperial Oil Ltd. Our research work on solar Energy since 1978 indicates the existing technology in t Likely to be Cost effective i think for the most part the need is for new products to be Deve when research breakthroughs occur he added companies will have no difficulty committing funds to begin manufacturing. If an item is commercially profit Able there s no shortage of people eager to Cameron said. He said Ottawa apparently assumes established companies Aren t doing enough to bring new Energy products to the Market but if we Imperial Oil had a commercial Winner we would t sit on Barbara Gray project manager of a privately sponsored solar heat collector system being developed by Calgary University professor Tang Lee also questioned the need for Public invest ment in Market if a company has a product that is marketable Why would they sell their interest out to Caner tech unless it s a losing Deal if you be got something that cannot lose Why do you need to go to a Crown Lee who was turned Down by Caner tech for a Grant to study the Market feasibility of his collector sys tem said the Winnipeg operation is see Caner tech s Page 4 plaintiff in lawsuit insures judge s life by Brian gory a Federal judge who presided Over a costly trial Here a year ago has been insured for hundreds of thousands of dollars in Case he Dies before he returns his verdict. Cae industries Ltd., which is suing the Federal government for almost million took out the insurance policy at the suggestion of the judge or Justice Frank Collier. If he Dies before he has ruled on the Case the Money could be used to pay for a new trial. Although the judge was t available for comment his Secretary in Ottawa said he has made similar suggestions to lawyers in other cases. The judge is this in t the first time a judge tas been insured in a Winnipeg trial. Lawyer Michael Mercury took out a policy on county judge Patrick Ferg eight years ago during a mechanics Lien Case against Chur chill Forest industries. Mercury said he was nervous about the judge driving to Dauphin on other cases while the Chi matter dragged on for two years. You invest a lot in a Mer Cury said. He was driving Back and Forth Back and Forth. It could have All underwent medical he recalls judge Ferg thought it Peculiar but he underwent a medical examination anyway so the policy could be issued. In the policy on judge Collier s life cae industries did not want to reveal the amount since the judge is still considering his verdict. But one of the firm s Winnipeg lawyers David Hill said it was in the hundreds of thousands of the Complex trial took place Over a two month period Early last year and judge Collier has been poring Over pages of evidence including hundreds of government documents the judge estimated the trial Cost an hour. Cae has claimed the Federal government owes it million for de faulting on an agreement to provide its now defunct Winnipeg subsidiary cae aircraft Ltd., with a lot of work in the Early 1970s. Cae industries is based in Toronto and manufactures lightweight Auto Mobile parts aircraft flight Simula tors and is working on a control system for the . Space shuttle s Remote . Luther Chambers the Federal government s lawyer in the Case said the government is not sharing in the insurance policy on judge Collier be cause the government insures it Brian gory is a Winnipeg free Lance writer. Mercury a big investment from the news services Warsaw in an emotion charged ceremony heralding further liberalization of polish life the communist government signed an agreement yester Day paving the Way for registration of an Independent Union of private farm ers by May 10. Some 40 Farmers Many embracing and weeping for Joy joined government negotiators in signing the pact in the Headquarters of the United peas ants party in Northwestern Bydgoszcz where demonstrators held a month Long sit in to press for registration of their Union. A spokesman for the Independent Union Solidarity said the agreement seen As a major Victory in the farm ers five month struggle against government and communist party opposition would end sit ins in Bydgoszcz and neighbouring in wroclaw. Major defeat but it was a major defeat for the country s rulers who had made it Clear they did not want another rival Power Centre this one in the Countryside springing up alongside the already existing Independent Trade unions for workers in the cities. The agreement paves the Way for full Legal activities by the the official Pap news Agency said in announcing the agreement. The struggle to legalize the Farmers Union though drawn out Over the last six months was in its own Way As hard fought As the Battle last summer to Register the Industrial Trade Union Soli Darity which now claims More than 10-million members. And like its More senior brother the new Farmers Union to be called Rural Solidarity will almost certainly develop into a major political Power in Poland beyond the control of the government or communist party. Leaders of the new Union said they represent some of Poland s 3.5 million private Farmers who own much of the agricultural land and produce 80 per cent of the country s food. It is not known immediately How Large a percentage of Poland s 3.5-Mil lion private Farmers who produce some 80 per cent of the country s agricultural output will Rush to sign up with Rural Solidarity. Food crisis in any Case their Power will be formidable should they choose to use it. Poland is now in the grips of its worst food crisis since the end of the second world War and the the govern ment is expected to extend already existing meat and sugar rationing to Many other agricultural products. This was one of the reasons the government has so strongly opposed formation of Rural Solidarity. The leadership in Warsaw feared that too much Effort would be exerted by the scattered Farmers in organizing themselves. But the objections were mainly a matter of the government and party trying to keep what Little authority it has left. Stanislaw Kania the polish communist party Leader said he was flatly opposed to Rural Solidarity because he did not want to see the Countryside become a theatre of political struggle. The Farmers refused to give in How Ever and with the backing of the powerful Solidarity Union began a Long series of talks with the authorities that went so slowly the Farmers occupied several buildings in Bydgoszcz. As recently As thursday militant Farmers in the nearby City of Ino Wro claw announced a hunger strike. Sources in Solidarity said the govern ment s change of heart Over Rural Solidarity was part of the agreement reached March 31 that headed off a threatened nationwide general strike. The agreement signed yesterday after an 18-hour bargaining session will allow the Union to begin Legal operations immediately. Lyon blasts from the news services Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon accused prime minister Trudeau yester Day of misleading canadians about an agreement among eight premiers on the Constitution because Ottawa s own unilateral actions Are indefensible. Lyon said in Winnipeg that Trudeau Practised the big lie by distorting some parts of the agreement announced in Ottawa thursday by the premiers of All but Ontario and new Brunswick. Proposal outshines the prime minister conveniently overlooked other provisions of the Accord that Calls for Patria Tion with an amending formula Only Lyon told an Airport news conference after arriving Back in the City. The Manitoba Premier was chairman of the talks that led to the Accord and the comments were his first in response to criticism Trudeau made in a television interview. I be never heard such a piece of misrepresentation As that in my Lyon said he retains his philosophical objections to an entrenched charter of rights although discussing such a Char Ter would be the next logical step. Lyon said the premiers stand by their offer to give High priority to consideration of the charter of rights if their plan is accepted. But he repeated his Long standing opposition to entrenched rights. Trudeau said in the television inter View on thursday that he is prepared to discuss the eight premiers Accord Al though the document is a Victory for those who want to move Canada slowly toward i am prepared to discuss tru Deau said. I made it Clear to the premiers that i would be prepared to sit Down with them today tomorrow the next Day Trudeau s main objection to the proposal by the premiers is that it does not include a charter of rights and that the amending formula they favor would still allow provinces to opt out of cer Tain measures in a new Constitution. I believe there is a different View of Canada in the minds of Many of those premiers and in our Trudeau said. And i think that their acceptance of the Checkerboard formula is an see Lyon Page 4 no remorse mayor Bill Norrie remains unrepentant about attending the 40th anniversary Celebration last weekend of the Independent state of Power hat trick Denis Potvin s three Power play goals and two assists yesterday paced new York islanders to a 2-0 Lead in their nil playoff series with Edmonton curbs to stay British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has rejected a request by India to ease Britain s immigration play the May 1 9-30 Landers answers 20 performances of 10 Broadway musical Annie have been classified crossword 29 38 26 2. 38 j 17 61 1 i 26 v Jumble 42 Jumble entry 72 Loyal 80 letters 7 Millroy on to 23 movies 23 Russell 7 sports 73 sports record 79 stocks 11 Sullivan 45 to Perior 6 ;