Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press {Newspaper} - 1981-05-06,Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press. Wed newday. May i 19ai More fasting in Ulster jail riots keep up from the news services Belfast sporadic anti British rioting continued in Nort Liem Ireland As thousands i died past Bobby Sands open coffin in his family s Small Row Idause. In the the prison where in 27-year-Oid guerrillas hunger strike ended in death Early yesterday three other fasting members of the Irish Republican army s provi Siana Wing grew weaker and 70 of the 440 Ira prisoners threatened to join their Liun Ger strike. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher Bald again that by stain will never Grant the of asters demand that imprisoned Ira members be classified As political prisoners. Leaders of the opposition Lii bar party supported her stand. Up to Midnight 22 people wore Recar rates better in City continued Ron Page i mileage rates for employees Are Noi included in contract negotiations Between the City and unions he said. Evans pointed out that if employees Reet ised to use their own vehicles for work the City would be ii Quot a hell of a the City cannot impose is on its employees requirements that they use their own tars or drive a certain vehicle size he said. The new rates now move on to exem Tive to icy and finally City Council Tor approval Evans told finance committee the possibility of a two tier mileage rate in �982, one rate for Large cais and an. Other for Small cars is being examined. A report presented to the committee yesterday Suys the City s mileage increase is based on substantial in creases in car prices interest Mainie Aiice and operating costs. The new rates were established through a policy accepted by Council and a formula agreed upon by the Canadian Union of Public employees and the Winnipeg association of Public service officers under the policy mileage rates for City staff May also be increased throughout the year in accordance with hikes in the Price of Gas. The report says civic employees will receive .6 cents per Kilometre increase for every 2.9 cent per 1 tire change in the Price of Gas from 30., i cents per litre. As Well employees would continue to have of per Cunt of their parking at the office paid by the City. In 980, mileage and parking of private vehicles Cost the City 862,766.79. A total of casual and regular filed for mileage expenses last year. Meanwhile a spokes Jan for the International brotherhood of electrical workers said Union members receive about 19 cents per Kilometre for Job related driving. Free Preni editorial employees receive a dime for every City Kilometre i hey drive their own vehicles in the line of duty. They Are paid 11.9 cents per Kilometre or Highway driving. Lei Llort ported injured three of them critically in the rioting that erupted in roman Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry Early yesterday when word of Sands death spread. I was the worst violence in two weeks of disturbances since it became apparent that he was determined to die and that the British government Wotila not give in Security forces were prepared for worse violence after Sands fungi Al tomorrow and the end of the three Day mourning period proclaimed by the rioters hurling gasoline bombs clashed repeatedly through the Day and night with soldiers and police Polico said a police car anti an army patrol were fired on in West Belfast and a policeman was oui idea in the shoulder. Supermarket bombed in county Tyrone a supermarket was bombed and vehicles were hijacked and set ablaze. In Dungannon rioters hurled fire bombs at the police who replied with plastic bullets. Sands death also touched off violence in Dublin the capital of the Irish Republic to the South. Marchers carrying Black flags rallied in Dublin Imd Cork and youths who broke away from the Dublin rally fought with police in the Centre of the City set fire to cars stoned shopfronts and threw rocks through the windows of the exclusive Royal hibernian hotel in London a letter Homb addressed to Prince Charles was detected in a postal sorting office and defused. Ira sympathizers were suspected. Buckingham Palace said it was the first mail bomb Ever sent to a member of she Royal family. Mourners file past coffin meanwhile a steady Stream of mourners filed past Sands open co Fiji in the living room of his parents in Belfast s twin Rook municipal housing development. The body shrunken to 85 pounds from 1,55 pounds during the so Day fast was Clad in a White yellow and Blue Smock. The hands held the Golden Crucifix Given him last week by Pope John Paul a personal envoy. Rev. John Magee who made three futile attempts to get him to abandon his fast. The coffin was draped in the Green White and Orange Irish Flag. A the looks like an infant very Small and very frail a said a Friend standing guard outside the House. Long lines of Mou tiers waited for hours in a drizzling rain. The body was to be taken to nearby St. Luke a Church this evening. The Ira was planning a military funeral to Mari of afternoon and burial was to be in the Milltown cemetery s is Public can plot the burial place of other Ira men and women killed in the sectarian Parfai e in Nort Heiji Ireland. Work stoppage urged the anti a Block committee which takes its name from the configuration of Maze prison has called for a National Day of mourning tomorrow and it has urged in a statement that a fall work places shops and offices to close Down throughout the 32 counties to allow maximum participation at the funeral in at Maze i Ison the three other Ira hunger strikers continued their Fasi and 70 or so other Ira prisoners wer e reportedly ready to join them if ordered. The roman Catholic primate of All Ireland Cardinal Tomas o Faich and Bishop Edward Daly of Londonderry appealed to the i incr strikers to Cail a off their fasts. Stiffer conflict penalty councillor who violate rules should lose their seat commission says continued from Phee 1 with in a Smau continued from Page 1 they said the current rules have discouraged Many businessmen from seeking Public office. Some smaller municipalities also have to go farther and pay More for certain commodities because a councillor is the Only local supplier. Quot anybody who s in business for themselves and who might otherwise be interested in a uniting will usually disqualify themselves because they might get a contract with the town Quot said Gilmour. A it s a very Tough situation to Deal with in a Small Community Gilmour said there is a a lot of Merit in requiring councillors to voice their conflicts and withdraw before an item is debated. He also supported the to uglier penalties for offenders Espe. Tally those who net Large sums by influencing land and zoning measures. The commission s backing of a of conflict Law is a marked departure from the current Quot divestiture rules under the mimic pal act and the City of Winnipeg acl both acts now Forl Jid anyone with major conflicts of interest such a ctr ii tract with the municipality from running for local office. Essentially the acts require candidates to divest themselves of these interests. The current City and municipal acts bar councillors from voting on an Issue it they have a financial interest in it but they do not require disclosure and registration of the interest. The Law Reform proposals would also require Oral disclosure and withdrawal from debate by a councillor who owns five per cent of the Stock of a company or serves As an officer partner employee or director of a company or organization involved in an Issue before Council. The City no Winnipeg act now says councillors can to vote on any Issue affecting a company in which they Are liar holders. Councillors in other Manitoba municipalities can to vote if they own More than five per cent of the company s shares. Local officials can now forfeit their seats Only if they actually vote in a direct conflict of interest situation and then Only if an election petition is filed. A the maximum Fine for a offence is s300 or six months in jail on default. A a a i i 3ja Inu Juiia lib ail Oil be inuit. Nip Leader alleges ramp forgery Edmonton Topi of my of Firari Infin Thuja. Edmonton up a ramp officers or others who distributed a forged letter in the Edmonton area about 10 years ago committed a serious crime and must be prosecuted Alberta nip Leader Grant Motley said yesterday attorney general Neil Crawford said distributing the forged letter was not As serious a matter As was the actual forge Tan act which took place outside the province. If Ordinary citizens had been i solved the matter probably would have been ignored Crawford said in an interview. A there is no doubt a slightly higher perhaps even a considerably higher duty on policemen in their conduct but you can Only carry that so far a he said a by any definition it is on the scale of criminal wrongdoing a very minor and unimportant matter and that a Why i chose to describe it As an indictable offence. A the Only justifiable reason for not laying charges if the Aboniey general is going to retain any credibility in this matter at All is insufficient the Case of a forged Zelier linking known communists with members of a National organization abuse Friday. Crawford said then that the Alberta government had reviewed details of the Case a part of the re Fps operation checkmate against Security risks a acid found no it Asun to Start a criminal prosecution. A second Case had been dismissed As minor. More than two possible cases turned up in interviews and searches of newspaper files since his Jannoun Cenceni. Uliey involved the National a armers Union the Canadian labor Congress and Edmonton ans who had signed a petition again . Bombing of Hanoi. Most attention has been focused on a letter which circulated through Northern Alberta through the Early 1970s. Discredited at the time it purported to show a communist party of Canaria official commenting on his party s sup posed manipulation of the National Farmers Union. The letter was read into the record of the Alberta legislature in december 1975, by Jolgui Bavlnk pc Vegreville. Batlik still a member of the legislature said in an Intel Lew yesterday he will not look into the authenticity of the letter or do anything else about it. Quot unless the person who forged it comes and tells me it was Crawford said the forged letter he spoke about was undoubtedly accurate in its identification of certain persons As communists. Gazette clarifies Story on Lyon Notley contended the criminal code of Canada makes the distribution of to documents known to be forged a serious matter. Standing on the Steps leading to the Lugisk Steve chamber he showed reporters a Section saying distribution of documents known to have been Foi ged is punishable by imprisonment for up to m years. A a we re prosecuting people for shoplifting in this province a he said and distribution of forged documents Quot is continue from Page i when the free Fiek attempted to Contact Lynn at his Home this morning the Premier refused to come to the door. He told his wife Fbarbara to Tell the reporter to Contact his executive assistant this afternoon a Lyon spokesman said the Premier would talk to reporters later today. Managing editor Mel Morris in an Inte Yiew said Gazette editor Mark Harrison had ordered an investigation after the Story was challenged. Morris said a we had some things wrong such As the timing of the Row on the charter of rights and Tiitu the Basic fight was Over the amending formula Quot but Morris said a this Isnit a retraction its a clarification of what Actu Aliv went on a Quot asked if today a Story was a response to Lyons threat to sue the paper Morris said Quot not really. Tie threat still . We certainly would have gone with the Story anyway. A we re confident now that tiie version we have is the right following the meeting in Ottawa Quebec intergovernmental affairs minister Claude Morin told reported s that some premiers wanted to make it More difficult for provinces to opt nut of future constitutional amendments by requiring a two thirds vote of provincial Legislatures in order to opt out. Premier Levesque argued against the two Tii Lrus Rule and was successful in convincing the other premiers Fiat a simple majority of the legislature should be is efficient to opt out. A there Are not too Many govern Nicols that Lui pc a two thirds majority a Morin said. In today s Story. The a Niette a known dues thai the disagreement among the Premier centred on the question of whether to include the two thirds Rule in the amending formula. Soup one children draw attention picking up Speed Terry Roth 11, leans into a turn at the Moison Street go cart racing track. Terry knows style is in a Lilac . All i go carts at the track have fixed Speet a so the a Bilili of to Ritsi a to get through Tunis quit Kly can give them a big Edge. A a continued from Page 1 offi Tais say the estimated 600-ti5ll children Are also receiving meals in at least nine other locations including u the night time soup kitchens operated by the salvation army a agape table a lunch time soup Kitchen run by about 15 Church groups Ai Balmoral and Broadway i a three times weekly food sharing program operated by an inner City group that has asked not to be publicly identified la similar twice weekly group at a different location a on sundays at immaculate Conception Parish Hall on Austin Street a the Aberdeen club a youth club which area residents say has a weekend Pancake breakfast a through emergency food Relief offered at Mossbrook House a through St mat theft s anglican Church food programs ant the United Church Stella Mission. The ii member and hoc committee of educators Church spokesmen youth workers. Children s Aid and City officials last week received a mandate from the school Board to draft a plan and document its findings. Of the More than 2,01� children receiving meals of food outside then Homes Laii Neci estimates 20 per cent come from Wal fire Homes 35 per cent to 10 per cent Are from single Parent frames which May be receiving supplementary welfare 15 per cent arc Natl be. Children and 30 per cent to 25 per Ceni Are children of former refugee families no longer getting Aid from sponsors. In the school program about two thirds Are referred by teachers or school nurses and nne third come on their own to the schools for breakfast he says a a any Large program like this must have an abuse rate Quot Lai Mecz said in an interview. A about 150 to 170children come without totally empty stomachs. They might have had a Coke or Cereal at Home a a a sure there is actual need and that need must be met a says Schwartz. Quot but we Don t know to what a i am convinced that this is a Multi. Lac fixed Issue with Many causes As to. The reason children appear in food lines anywhere a she wrote in Hei letter to a the committee. A what is known is that there has by in an increase in the number of children who have availed themselves of the school feeding programs in the last few years and that is cause for concern Quot she added ;