Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada aids salvadorans in safety bid by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press action by Canadian officials in Ottawa and Mexico has allowed two salvadoran families to Settle with relatives in Montreal and escape their War torn country. Canadian officials said the families were in route to Montreal on easter monday when their bid for safety in Canada was interrupted by an Over zealous customs official in Chicago. The five salvadorans were returned to Mexico City by american officials and were Only hours from being deported to Al Salvador when Canadian offi Cloudy tonight 3 Cloudy tomorrow 15 vials stepped in. The salvadorans now settled in Montreal s St. Leonard District Are Maximliano Sanchez. 43, his daughter Ava Margarita 15, and his son Juan Carlos 16, Yolanda Juarez 37, and her daughter Dora Alicia. Canadian officials say the families were not activists for either Side in the salvadoran conflict the ruling Mili tary Junta backed by the ., or leftists. Canadian officials say the five left Al Salvador during the easter weekend but were stopped by a Customs official at Chicago Airport and ordered to return to their previous Stop Mexico City under detention. Canadian officials said one of the family members telephoned a priest with whom they were associated and and he contacted a Church Agency which then contacted amnesty International. The agencies managed to locate Ca Nadian officials in Mexico who were off on their easter monday Holiday and an special permit under immigration min ister Lloyd Axworthy s name was is sued. By this time Canadian officials say the families had been returned to Mexico City and were being held in detention for the americans. Canadian officials said that Only two hours before the families were to be sent Back to Al Salvador the Canadian embassy in Mexico City was assured the salvadorans would not be returned to their Home land until embassy staff could interview them. We got the Call at 12 noon on easter monday and by our officer in Mexico City had secured assurances that deportation would be set Back to allow for said Joe Stern senior policy adviser to Axworthy. On their second trip to Montreal Canadian officials said the families were routed away from Chicago in the event they encountered the same Cus Toms officer. Village tries to Cope with 28, 1981 free Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets final 200 for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 ossified 956-2330 heading Home the space shuttle Columbia Riding atop a jumbo jetliner makes a Landing approach yesterday at tinker air Force base in Oklahoma for an overnight refuelling Stop before it flew on to Cape canaveral today. The shuttle Boeing 747 landed smoothly in a Strong headwind. It had taken off from Edwards air Force base in California hours earlier. Realtors scramble to find houses sales jump 100% in first Quarter of 1981 real estate salesmen optimistic by Andy Blicq realtors looking for prospective buyers a year ago Are now scrambling to find houses to meet the demand for residential property in Winnipeg. Sales jumped 100 per cent in the first Quarter of 1981, compared with the first three months of 1980, and realtors interviewed yesterday were optimistic about the future of residential sales in the City. But Gordon Swail Winnipeg real estate Board president noted volume of unit sales for the first Quarter of 1981 compared with in the same period in 1980 has returned to a Normal level for this time of year following a slump in 1979 and 1980. There s no huge positive increase being created by demand. All 1 can Tell you is people Are asking More for the House than they were asking six months Swail said All of South Winnipeg is tighter than hell for listings and House prices generally Are up 10 per cent Over this time last year. In Fott Richmond there is nothing available for Sale to speak prices of Homes in the River Heights area have increased 15 per cent during the last four or five months Harv Grayston sales manager at Canada permanent said yesterday. He said he has fairly regular in quiries from out of town investors about apartment blocks rental houses and older properties. There Are two investors from Van Couver for every one from Calgary he added. Despite the interest in Manitoba property among out of province invest Ira kills militiaman in Ulster Belfast a with Ira hunger striker Bobby Sands reported near death today guerrillas shot to death a member of Northern Ireland s protes Tant militia. Supporters of the jailed Irish Republican army guerrilla said his family had been told the next 72 hours Are crucial and Sands might die at any time. Today was his 59th Day without food at Maze prison near Belfast. Sands is demanding restoration of special privileges enjoyed by guerrilla prisoners in the mid-70s. All police leaves were cancelled As authorities braced for the violent pro test they expect will follow Sands a member of the locally recruited Ulster defence regiment was shot and killed today when terrorists ambushed a three Man undercover squad in a Van near Castlewellan South of Belfast a military spokesman said. Another militiaman was wounded in the attack. Rev. Ian Paisley Leader of the protestant democratic unionist party said if Sands Dies War. Will no doubt be unleashed with Savage fury upon he said the largely roman Catholic Ira is stockpiling weapons ammunition food and Medicine and demanded the British government Send More troops to Northern Ireland to reinforce the regulars now based Here. See protestant Page 4 tors Swail said i Don t think the single family Homes Are being stimulated by out of province buyers Are looking for investment property he said. He and other realtors said Winnipeg Gers now Are accustomed to High mortgage interest rates and Are going ahead and buying. He predicted steady growth in the Winnipeg Market. Gordon Mackenzie vice president of a. E. Lepage said increases in the prime lending rate have slowed sales but not appreciably and the Market is still very in some cases houses Are Selling at prices at which they were listed while Many Are listed within five per cent of the Selling Price he said. Mackenzie predicted sales will slow slightly during the next year but the Market will continue to be Good and prices will go up an average of 15 per cent. It has been a very Active Market and will continue to said Murray Sigmar Manitoba Region general Man Ager for Block Brothers realty. Our company is enjoying a Market that is a lot better than we be seen for a Long Renews Constitution meeting Call by Cecil Rosner Winnipeg free press Thompson Premier Sterling Lyon said yesterday he has again asked prime minister Trudeau for an imme Diate Federal provincial meeting on the Constitution. The message on behalf of the eight premiers opposed to the Federal constitutional proposal should remove doubts that the provinces Are in any Way reluctant to negotiate he said. I be indicated we Are prepared to go to such a conference on five Days no the Premier said. Lyon made the comments As hear Rived Here yesterday for the annual Western premiers conference. Top of Agenda the state of Federal provincial relations will be at the top of the Agenda when the premiers begin their formal talks today. The eight premiers have agreed on an alternative constitutional package which does not include a charter of human rights and provides for an amending formula which would allow some provinces to opt out of some amendments. Lyon has said he is opposed to the charter because it strips the Manitoba legislature of jurisdiction it has had since 1870. Meanwhile attorney general Gerry Mercier said yesterday that about 140 pieces of legislation could be invalid ated by the Federal government s pro posed charter. Quebec research if included in a new Constitution the charter would permit the courts to interpret whether certain pieces of legislation infringe on the guaranteed rights entrenched in the document. Mercier based his. Estimate on a research paper done by a team of lawyers hired by the Quebec govern ment. Manitoba has t compiled a list of Laws which could potentially be invalidated while the constitutional question will be an important subject at the pre Miers two Day meeting British Colum Bia Premier Bill Bennett said it will not consume ail the premiers time. He said one useful aspect about the Parasiuk staff inadequate Western premiers meeting is that it has never been a single Issue con Ference but has always dealt with a wide Range of concerns. The four premiers Are not politically aligned but find a common interest in a number of areas Bennett said. And Seldom before has it been so important for the Western leaders to bind together so they can be heard he added. The issues to be discussed Range from Grain handling and transportation to health manpower training and drought Relief. A report by Western finance ministers on Federal provincial Cost sharing and Transfer arrangements also will be considered. See speedy Page 4 ministers flunk Over Thompson Thompson this year s Western premiers conference is providing West Ern politicians with a Good Opportunity to become acquainted with Thompson but it s also putting Manitoba politicians knowledge of the province s third largest City to the test. Premier Sterling Lyon told report ers yesterday Thompson was chosen As the site of the conference because it is a Large Northern Centre and an important mining Community in Manitoba. Lyon went on to say Thompson is a vibrant and dynamic City with a population of about the pre Mier turned to labor minister Ken Macmaster to confirm the figure and his colleague who represents Thomp son constituency agreed. But Thompson mayor Don Mclean later confirmed the City s population has slipped to an estimated from a High of in the 1970s. Recent cutbacks in employment Levels at the mine a depressed construction Industry and government restraint have led to a diminishing popu lation in the City. Hospital probe urged in death by Brian Cole new Democrat la Wilson Para Siuk says inadequate emergency room staffing at seven Oaks Hospital May have played a role in the death of a youth who was treated there for in juries suffered in an explosion. But a seven Oaks spokesman said yesterday the Hospital s emergency room is As fully operational As it will Ever however Hospital adminis Trator Gudmundur Myrdal was not available to comment on staffing of the emergency Ward. In making his allegations Parasiuk called for an inquest into the april 16 death of Timothy Sarna 16, to deter mine Why the youth had to be transferred from seven Oaks to the health sciences Centre where he subsequently died. 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