Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Homes mortgaged to Back hockey finals by Reyn Davis Jeanette Hrechko and Joyce mat Voychuk have More than a casual inter est in the North end flyers. Yesterday their husbands took out second mortgages on their Homes to raise to cover the costs of Stag ing the Hardy cup finals in Winnipeg this weekend. Apart from a few Grey hairs they re holding up said Orest Korechko the team s manager. A credit Union sought collateral when the flyers requested a loan to comply with the Manitoba Amateur hockey association s demand to see Money up front before Charlottetown islanders left Prince Edward Island. I suppose we could have raised the Money by other Means but we did t have much Korechko. The will be used to cover the islanders travel expenses plus their meal Money and hotel Bills. Tomorrow night the Best of five series starts at the 600-seat Keewatin Arena. If packed for the first game the flyers May move the series to the St. James Arena. Helping the team is nothing new for Korechko or Terry Matveychuk the flyers president. Their Homes have served As the head quarters of the North end flyers sports club a close knit group of boys and girls who grew up together. Four years ago the club was organized and the North end flyers were founded As a so pitch softball team. They went to the Manitoba summer games at Neepawa then a couple of years later won the provincial so pitch championship and represented the province in the National finals. The trip Cost them and it came out of the players pockets. They did Well reaching the Semi finals before they were eliminated. To stay together through the Winter they organized a hockey team. Winning came easy. Two years ago they entered an intermediate league. They became the scourges of the Manitoba Assiniboine hockey league capturing the league championship then advancing to the Canadian final. Their record since the Start of the season is 37-6-0. Their following is Small but it s growing. The to Rechko and Matviy chunks won t get their Money Back from Gate receipts this weekend. But they Are comforted by the knowledge that la Batt s has promised to help while Lowry distributors the Green Briar inn and Prairie re manufacturing have chipped in apiece. Reagan recalls shooting. Wonders Why it did t happen Clear tonight -2 sunny tomorrow 13 thursday april 23, 1981 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final 200 for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 trucks Burn As Ulster s riots Worsen Belfast Reuter renewed riot ing the worst in a week of Street fighting in Northern Ireland broke out last night in Londonderry and Belfast As Ira hunger striker Bobby Sands moved closer to death. The Londonderry violence followed the funeral of two roman Catholic youths killed by a British army truck during violence there sunday. Young mourners set fire to hijacked trucks and cars and hurled homemade bombs and rocks at British troops. Several soldiers were hit by gasoline bombs and the troops retaliated with plastic bullets. Officials said the violence in London Derry was the worst in the eight consecutive Days of Street fighting in Northern Ireland s second largest City. Cheque bounces attackers a smooth talking woman warded off a pair of potential rapists monday when she convinced them to take a Cheque for and hire a prostitute rather than rape her. Winnipeg police crime supt. Herb Stephen said yesterday the woman 26, was walking through the underground Tunnel connect ing the civic Centre Parade and the Centennial concert Hall at about . When she was confronted by two Young males. One of the males indecently assaulted her and fearing that they planned to rape her the woman told them she was ill and suggested they take and hire a prostitute to satisfy their needs. The two bought the idea but be cause the woman did not have enough Cash with her she persuaded the pair to accept a Che que instead of Cash Stephen said. Stop payment order after she wrote the Cheque the males took it and left. The woman then reported the incident to police who notified her Bank to put a Stop payment on the Che que in the event the assailants tried to Cash it Stephen said. While police did not expect the assailants would try and Cash the Cheque a 17-year-old youth appeared at a downtown Bank the following Day with Cheque in hand. The Bank called the woman s Bank Learned of the Stop payment order and called police. The juvenile was arrested and charged with indecent assault and turned Over to juvenile authorities. Police meanwhile Are continuing their search for a second suspect in the incident Stephen said. There was also renewed violence in Belfast where Security forces were bombarded with gasoline bombs and rocks and a number of vehicles were set ablaze. The British government has ordered the release on medical grounds of do hours Price one of two Sisters jailed for life for their part in Ira car bomb attacks in London in 1973. A spokesman said she was dangerously ill with anorexia Nerosa a disease in which patients will not eat but denied the move had anything to do with the Sands Case. Both Dolours and her sister Marian were Force fed when they went on Hun Ger strikes earlier. Marian was freed on similar grounds a year ago. Sands in the 53rd Day of a hunger strike in an attempt to put pressure on the British government to Grant Irish Republican army convicts political prisoner status. Britain has refused saying it would give credibility to the Ira s Campaign to wrest control of the predominately protestant province from London and unite it with the overwhelmingly Cath Olic Irish Republic. Ambassador meets Premier British ambassador Leonard Figg met with Irish prime minister Charles Haughey yesterday at Haughey s re quest during what Irish officials de scribed As a feverish Day of activity in Dublin. Earlier Haughey was briefed by for eign minister Brian Lenihan about his meeting with three members of the Irish parliament who met with Sands monday. The hunger striker said by friends to be close to death had told the Legisla tors he is determined to die if the British government refuses to meet his demand for special status for Ira prisoners. Moves to save Sands elected a Mem ber of the British parliament from his prison cell earlier this month were centred in Dublin capital of the Irish Republic where his supporters approached the papal Nuncio archbishop Gaetano Allisandi. Ready to visit Sands Allisandi said he was ready to visit Sands in Belfast s Maze prison at any time provided the British government had no objections. He said Pope John Paul could intervene in the Case if he received a request to do so and consid ered it necessary. The two Catholic teen agers were killed sunday when the British vehicle slowed into a mob of rioters hurling gasoline bombs in Londonderry. At the funeral the Mother of one of the victims hurled herself on the grave and relatives of the other teen Ager collapsed and had to be carried away. Several hours after the funeral a mob smashed into an Auto showroom in Londonderry drove out six cars and set them afire. The trouble soon spread to other areas As mobs attacked police with stones and gasoline and acid bombs. Police said some Sharp shooting youngsters used Sling shots to fire bal bearings at troops and police. Groups of youngsters Many of them masked threw up barricades around the roman Catholic bog Side and Creg Gan quarters despite appeals from priests who buried the teen agers not to attack Security forces. Masked Irish youth uses a catapult As he and others assault British Security forces yesterday. Patria Tion faces hurdles Resolution leaving commons court ruling comes next by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the bitterly fought highly controversial Federal constitutional Resolution finally leaves the floor of the House of commons tonight. But it faces several major hurdles before what has become a Saga for the history books actually takes its ultimate form. Today and tonight the debate on the Constitution gears up As members from the various parties place words they know will be read by future generations into the official Hansard. Shortly before 9 ., the House of commons will be asked to vote on amendments proposed by the three parties. The new Constitution including what Ever amendments pass will then go to the supreme court of Canada for a ruling. If it passes that hurdle it will be brought Back for two Days of final debate in the commons. The two Days will be chosen by the government under an All party agreement but there is no Deal on How Long Senate debate can last. If the Constitution passes the supreme court and the senators it goes to Westminster for a vote by the British commons and the British lords. Prime minister Trudeau is still ing to have the Constitution proclaimed on july 1. Canadian senators British members of parliament and British lords All have Given signs that passage of the new Constitution May not be easy. Courts in conflict but government strategists and leaked transcripts of private negotiations among Canadian and British ministers show that if. The supreme court clears up a Maze of conflicting lower court decisions much of the potential trouble will be cleared away. Yesterday in the commons opposition Leader Joe Clark pleaded with Trudeau for one More try at discussion with the premiers. Trudeau said he had been ready to talk All along and had made them an offer to meet. It was the premiers who had not taken him up on it he said. Although the premiers knocked themselves out of the Ball game last week by coming up with an Accord nowhere near what All Federal parties have agreed upon Patria Tion and entrenchment of a charter of rights Clark s latest plea has real significance because it puts its Finger on precisely Why the constitutional Issue has taken countless Days of time from most of the nation s leaders and permeated Many Levels of the population s conscious Ness. The gut Issue of the whole debate is How Canada is defined. Is Canada or should Canada be a nation consisting of 23 million individuals with several Levels of government operating within specified and strictly defined spheres of influence. Or is it a country made from a Union of the various provinces with a hefty degree of Power and responsibility retained by those provinces. See Patria Tion Pap 4 water rate up 28% by Ron Campbell City Council yesterday raised Winni Peg water rates 28 per cent and sewer rates 11 per cent despite objections from councillors Joe Zuken Norquay and Alt Skowron the utilities had predicted a combined operating deficit of by the end of the year if the new rates were not approved the actual amounts about 34 cents a month for a one person Home and 79 cents for a four person Home not hard to said John Angus chairman of the civic works and operations committee. Last year the City raised water rates about 10.5 per cent to cover an anticipated deficit of million but sewer rates weren t changed. From 1982 to 1985, annual water rate increases of Between eight and 11 per cent and sewer rate increases be tween 10 and 23 per cent Are expected. Although bylaw amendments Rais ing the 1981 rates Are retroactive to april 1, the next Bills sent customers will reflect pro rated charges for sewer and water based on the number of Days of use at the old and new rates. During debate yesterday Zuken said that within a month Council has added million to City revenues through in creased transit fares and water and sewer rates. Lose million Zuken moved that consideration of the increase in water and sewer rates on residential property be delayed until september pending a report from waterworks waste and disposal director Alexander Penman on restructuring water rates charged to residential commercial and Industrial users. Angus said the utilities would lose Between now and september if the motion was adopted. Zuken s motion was Defeated by a 15-5 vote and Council approved the recommended rate increases. Following Are the new rates for water with the old rates in brackets 86 cents per 100 cubic feet on a usage of Zero to cubic feet per Quarter year 70 cents 55 cents per 100 cubic feet on usage from to cubic feet per Quarter 54 cents 42 cents per 100 cubic feet on usage Over cubic feet per Quarter. For sewer service the new rates based on water used Are 52 cents 4654 cents per 100 cubic feet per Quarter. Barbados court sets Biggs free Bridgetown Reuter bar Bados High court today quashed an extradition order against Britain s great train robber and jail breaker Ronald Biggs and set him free. Biggs claimed he had been abducted from he had been living for 11 five men who put him aboard a yacht which brought him Here. Biggs escaped from London s wands Worth jail in 1965 where he was serving a 30-year sentence for his part in the 1963 great train robbery which netted the robber band More than million. Back to basics the Young Man about to enter the work Force should establish priorities and plan what to Wear to the office to get the most for his Gretzky again Wayne Gretzky s Superb play making led the oilers to a 4-3 win Over new York islanders last night and a Chance to tie the series goal ignored the Federal government is spending More time lecturing others on bilingualism while ignoring the goal itself says Max Yalden official languages savings Alcan s Hydro proposal would save the firm Landers 23 letters 37 Mcl Troyon 7 24 people 45 sports 57 sports 45 Sullivan 6 Tempo 21 25 to listings ;