Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Darts Prosper while brokers go broke new York a take four top Stock Market experts from Wall Street the United states High stakes financial Centre. Give each and eight weeks to make Money using analysts computers and Market savvy. Next take nine darts and throw them at the Wall Street journals Stock Market quotations. Then throw one of the darts a second time for Good Mea sure. Now invest where the 10 darts stick. A new York newspaper the daily news tonight did just that publishing the results from the mythical in vestments every Day. And now with one week remaining the darts Are doing better than two of the experts. Clear tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 26 and the brokers colleagues won t let them anybody that got into this thing had to have a thick skin and a sense of grumbles Bill Lefevre who got into the contest Only to see his shrink to about third among the brokers and behind the Dart fund. Taking a beating with All his Peers watching has been bad enough but i have to read about it coming Home jokes Lefevre investment strategist for Purcell Graham co. There s always the Chance the Dart fund will come out ahead of you and on Wall Street news like that travels says Bob Stovall director of investment policy for Dean Witter Reynolds and a frequent guest on Public television s Wall Street week. People Don t remember the winners or even the stocks you picked but they remember the adds the front runner in the Battle of the brokers whose portfolio has grown to Mike Metz vice president of Oppen Heimer co. And dead last in the race with of his investment remaining admits he gets some razing from his Peers. Anyone in this business has to be something of a he says with a laugh. But it does show you that the average Man on the Street using common sense May very Well turn out to be a Good the newspaper s business news staff which lined up one afternoon and threw darts at the Stock listings has t touched its Dart portfolio. Yet the darts stand at threatening invest ment strategist Ray Devoe of Bruns Nordeman Rea who s second with the game is not an accurate test of How the brokers would really do in the Market. They Are Only allowed to Trade at the Day s opening prices which Means they can t buy when securities begin to Rise or sell when they begin to fall. Final 20c Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 thursday june 25, 1981 vol 109 no a in passenger train sits motionless yesterday As 30 protesters occupy tracks at Cormorant. Ive protests suspended by Cecil Rosner and Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Dauphin Metis and Indian pro testers have suspended their province wide demonstrations against Canadian National railways and agreed to meet in regional vice president Ralph Han sen for negotiations in Clear Lake today. We Are suspending the so called illegal protests of occupying and Dis mantling rail tracks Lyle Long claws grand chief of the four nations confederacy said Here yesterday. But he said Public demonstrations and protests would continue in Dauphin and other centres. Long claws and Manitoba Metis federation president John Morrisseau Are meeting with Hansen and other rail and native officials to discuss the june 12 walkout of Indian and Metis workers from a in ochre River work gang. The workers say they were subjected to discrimination and bad working conditions. Provincial soup line study called cop out a Manitoba government task Force has created a red herring by concluding that none of the children lining up at City soup kitchens Are starving the chairman of the Winnipeg school Board s nutrition committee charged yesterday. Nobody Ever said there were kids walking around with distended Stom Achs and bulging eyeballs. Of course no one is dying. The Issue is hungry Chil George Veshka said. In a letter to the school Board Indi Cating the task Force was being Dis banded provincial investigator John Kenny said we were unable to identify any specific emergency situations involving hungry or starving Chil i Don t know what emergency situations Veshka said. Does it mean dying nobody s dying. But there Are a number of kids in need and families in he said the problem boils Down to poverty and extremely High unemployment rates in the inner City. The task Force was set up following a series of reports last Winter that Chil Dren were lining up for food outside the salvation army s Harbour Light mis Sion and other social agencies. Kenny senior consultant to Community services minister George Minaker yesterday refused to comment on his letter. Minaker said the investigation which also involved officials of the City s children s Aid society and welfare department shows most children Are accompanied by parents at the soup lines see provincial Page 4 since the protest started against in monday 23 Indian and Metis have been arrested and Given appearance notices to face charges of trespassing on and damaging railway property. In Cormorant a Bayline Community about 300 Kilometres due North of Dau Phin a two part demonstration yester Day saw ramp lift and Cany More than 100 people from the in tracks in a peaceful protest that had an almost carnival atmosphere despite a steady downpour. Passenger train delayed at about 10 ., 30 protesters were removed after delaying a in North bound passenger train in Cormorant for just Over a half hour. At ., there were 81 people on the tracks and a southbound passenger train was delayed for 31 minutes before a perspiring Crew of ramp from the Cormorant and the Pas detachments had completed their second people lift of the Day. Under an agreement worked out be tween protest leaders and the ramp demonstrators agreed not to return to the tracks once they had had a ride in the arms of police. There were no arrests or charges during the Cormorant demonstration. Long claws said the track occupations were halted As a sign of Good Faith but he said in would be pressured to rehire the workers who walked off the Job and to replace the Foreman who allegedly hurled racial insults at the men. He also called on in to drop All pending charges against 23 protesters. Ten of the 18 women who were see Indian Page 4 free press Sun rises Sets Moon rises Sets Maternity benefits Snag in postal talks by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press government and Union negotiators resumed bargaining today to try to avoid a postal strike that could begin monday. Although the two sides Are believed to be close on Money matters Canad an Union of postal workers president president Jean Claude Parrot said one of the main outstanding issues was 17 weeks of paid maternity leave which the Union insists be included in a new contract. He said the mood at yesterday s talks with Federal negotiators looked relaxed but we Don t know what it the Union voted 84 per cent in favor of a strike. Parrot said Federal negotiators did not Deal yesterday with tons by conciliator Pierre Jasmin. His key recommendation was the 17 weeks of paid maternity leave. The Union is also insisting that work ers not be monitored by television cameras. The Post office installed the cameras to prevent mail theft but Jasmin said dream soured by dam by Maria Bohuslawsky Winnipeg free press Ste. Anne a family s dream to move out of the City and Settle on land along the Banks of the Seine River near this Village 40 Kilometres Southeast of Winnipeg is rapidly becoming a night Mare. The cause of the Tytgat family s discomfort is the sudden Rise of a dam in the River in front of their Home a project of the local Village Council. Yvette Tytgat said yesterday Large Concrete blocks rusted pieces of rail Way track cars and barbed wire have been piled about three metres High since last week. She said that besides looking like a junkyard the dam was diverting water to one Side of the riverbed leaving their Side dry and eroding their property. Our biggest dream was to Settle by the River. We sold everything we had and invested All our Money in this said the housewife. No one has the right to disturb us and no one is going to move said j the former St. Boniface resident. Tytgat estimated the 5.3 hectares 13 acres and two Storey House built last fall by her husband and brother Are Worth about besides the debris Tytgat said the River stinks and a Large amount of scum has accumulated because its flow is almost at a standstill. She said she found six dead Jackfish weighing about two kilograms each which got caught in a Crevice. She said a path leading to the dam has attracted gangs of youths on to their land As Well. Gangs Are Riding Over on motorcycles investigating and drinking Beer and fishing on my Tytgat was especially upset that the see family s Page 4 the question should be re examined when the Post office becomes a Crown corporation in september. Jasmin suggested postal workers get 70 cents More an hour to bring their wage to an average plus a Cost of living escalator that would take effect each time the consumer Price Index rises by six per cent. The Union was seeking an hour and Cost of living increases. Parrot said yesterday the difference Between the government and the Union Andy free press is 18 cents excluding the Cost of living Factor. Parrot also said the Union will not Back Down on its demand for 17 weeks of maternity leave. Treasury Board president Don Johnston has said the government favors paid maternity leave but that it must be looked at carefully because it would set a Prece Dent for thousands of other government workers and for private sector bar gaining. What kind of Surveyor was asks Farmer John Hodgson. Old surveying error still haunting Farmers by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free press Stephenfield g. N. Albright would Roll Over in his grave if he knew what people Here have been saying about him. Mistakes he made while surveying land for settlement More than 100 years ago continue to haunt Farmers caught up in a thorny dispute Over land Boun Daries just North of this Hamlet 85 Kilometres Southwest of Winnipeg. What kind of Surveyor was asked John Hodgson who May no longer be Able to cultivate about 15 acres if a new provincial government land Survey currently being reviewed is approved and registered. While some Small discrepancies in land boundaries Are common this is a unique situation because a Road Al Lowance is two chains or 132 feet South of where it should be Lionel Boutilier provincial examiner of surveys said yesterday. Hodgson s theoretical 160-acre Quarter Section of land South of a Road is Only 143.25 acres while the Quarter Section owned by Hutte rites on the North Side of the Road is 169.60 acres. The Survey error affects about six Farmers and approximately 84 acres along four Miles of Road. We be been said Hodgson who has Farmed Here for 39 years. His neighbor Jake Dyck has a Quarter Section which has Only 149.67 acres while the Quarter Section of Hutt Erite land North of the Road is 173.37 acres. I d like to know where my land is in said Dyck. See old Page 4 29th out of 30 a Survey covering 30 Canadian cities ranks Winnipeg 29th in terms of employment prospects for Job Hunters in the next three Fox critical or. Ladislav Antonik medical director of the Hospital where Terry Fox is being treated says the Young runner s condition is critical but no worse than a previous High Hopes Manitoba theatre Centre officials Hope to end the coming season with a Western Money squeeze farming once a livelihood on which Many depended has become a costly pastime for some who hang onto their farms by taking jobs in the Index Ann Landers. 22 answers. 37 Billinkoff. 7 Bridge. 22 business.38 classified.44 comics. 30 crossword. 22 deaths.2, 44 editorials. 6 entertainment.24 Horoscope. 23 Jumble puzzle.48 letters.6 Millroy on to. 26 movies.26 people.37 relax.37 sports. 57 sports record.63 stocks.39 Sullivan. 37 Tempo. 21 to listings. 37 ;