Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mortgages assure Hardy cup finals by Reyn Davis Jeanette Korechko and Joyce mat Voychuk have More than a casual inter est in North end flyers. You might say they Are extremely concerned about the team s welfare. 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. The folks at the credit Union gasped when the flyers requested a loan of Cloudy today 11 Clear tonight -2 j20.000 to comply with the Manitoba Amateur hockey association s demand to see All the Money up front before Charlottetown islanders left Prince Edward Island. The credit Union needed said Korechko. I suppose we could have raised the Money by other Means but we did t have much 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 the place is packed for the first game the flyers will consider moving the series to the St. James Arena which can seat the bigger the crowds the happier Joyce and Jeanette will be. 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 Guys and girls who grew up together. Their club jackets Are Black most of the players Are the progeny of proud ukrainian Canadian families. Four years ago the club was organized and the North end flyers were founded. Their game so pitch softball. 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 at Lon Don ont. It Cost them to go to London and every cent came out of the players pockets. They did Well reaching the Semi finals before they were eliminated. As a Means of staying together through the Winter months they organized a hockey team. Winning came easy. Two years ago hungry for a Challenge they decided to enter an see flyers Page 4 Reagan recalls shooting. Wonders Why it did t happen thursday april free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final 200 for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 riots spread Ira striker nears death Irish youths behind masks go on rampage in Londonderry streets wednesday hijacking vehicles and setting them on fire. Constitution feud close to end House will vote tonight but several hurdles remain in Long bitter fight by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa 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, Canada Day. Canadian senators British members Atlanta police checking claim that group has identified killer Atlanta a police say they will be Able to determine quickly whether a civil rights group that has come up with an unidentified witness has solved some of the 25 slayings of Young Blacks that have plagued Atlanta Over the last 21 months. I Don t consider the nature of the information something that will take a Long time to evaluate said Public safety commissioner Lee Brown. He did not say exactly How Long it might take but added that As of late yesterday police did not have enough evidence to arrest anyone. Roy Innis staff director of the con Gress of racial Equality announced yesterday that his investigators had found a psychopath they believed responsible for the slayings. Innis said the investigators had also found a witness who could link the suspect to at least six of the killings. He did not identify the witness or disclose details of the group s evidence. However an editor who spent five hours monday interviewing the witness said he Felt the person s Story was i m emphasizing that i m using the word plausible not believable or any thing else but said John Schaffner managing editor of the at Lanta Constitution. I would t literally Call this person a witness but it is a person that possibly might be Able to shed some Light on the investigation Schaffner said. He would not discuss the results of the interview. We Are very convinced we have broken this Case and we can prove Innis said producing an envelope which he said contained a picture of the suspect. Innis fighting to retain control of the see group Page 4 Innis we be broken this Case of parliament and British lords All have Given signs that passage of the new Constitution May not be easy. 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 in the Senate the British com Mons and the British lords will be cleared away. Yesterday in the commons opposition Leader Joe Clark pleaded with prime minister 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. Clark believes it is the latter and it is for this reason that he has insisted from the Start that his vision of Canadian see Clark Page 4 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. Troops bombarded 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 27, is 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 Dolours Price dangerously ill 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. 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. See friends Page 4 pipeline Okay called genocide for Dene nation Ottawa up the National Energy Board has approved a controversial buried pipeline to carry Oil from the Mackenzie Valley in the Northwest territories to existing pipelines in Northern Alberta. The decision was greeted As an encouraging one by the Oil Industry How Ever a spokesman for the Region s native people said he was shocked and declared it amounted to genocide. They Are programming genocide for the said Dene nation presi Dent George Erasmus in Yellowknife. My god i can t believe this but Gerry Kruk a spokesman for Esso resources Canada Ltd., said in an interview from Calgary that the com Pany was obviously encouraged by the decision and hoped Cabinet which has the final say in the matter would approve it by Spring. Energy minister Marc Lalonde told reporters in Ottawa that Cabinet would take several weeks before deciding whether to approve the Board s recommendation that construction by inter provincial pipe line new Ltd. Begin. Esso resources Canada Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial Oil Ltd., plans to increase Oil product Ion to barrels a Day from the barrels it now produces at its Norman Wells operation about 150 Kilometres South of the Arctic Circle. Esso s plans to Drill 190 new Wells in the Oil Field and build six artificial islands in the fast flowing Mackenzie As part of its expansion program have been approved by the Indian and Northern affairs depart ment. The inter provincial pipeline of which Imperial is the largest share Holder will link the oilfield to existing pipelines at Zama alta., from where it would flow to the Energy hungry South. 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