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 Watt Street Joumas 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. And the brokers colleagues won t let them forget. 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 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 Kim. 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 newspapers 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. Favor military look sunny today 24 Clear tonight 10 rnal200 Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 Sun roses . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Thursday june strike threat hovers Over postal talks a northbound in passenger train sits motionless yesterday As about 30 protesters temporarily occupy tracks at Cormorant. Native groups suspend protests car regional vice president agrees to meet with Indian Metis officials Bob free press 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. 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 carry More than 100 people from the in tracks in a peaceful protest that had an almost carnival atmosphere despite a steady downpour. 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 of police. There were no arrests or charges during the Cormorant demonstration. said the track occupations were halted As a sign of Good Faith but he said in would be pressured to a dire the workers who walked off Pijie 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. 10 remanded ten of the 18 women who were charged with trespassing after refusing to Budge from the in track in Dauphin tuesday appeared in court Here yester Day. They were remanded without plea to july 7. Hansen had been invited to come to Dauphin for discussions but he re fused. T i have recommended we go to a Neutral town so we Don t have a cheer ing Section there of some two or three Hansen said. Earlier in the Day he said he would agree to a discussion with the native leaders if there was a guarantee that illegal protests Stop and do not Start up again. Hansen said he did t think the 28 workers who walked off the Job june 12 were provoked by their Foreman. He said he did not believe the workers were going along with the protests in Dauphin willingly. On monday and tuesday protesters delayed freight trains As they staged three hour demonstrations on the track from 11 . To 2 . Each Day. Only when protesters began dismantling parts of the track following the Demon see Dauphin Page 4 by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Federal government officials and negotiators for Canada s postal workers ended talks Here yesterday and were to begin again today in efforts to Avert a National postal strike. The Canadian Union of postal work ers has received an 84 per cent strike mandate the largest in its history. A strike could occur As Early As monday but c jew president Jean Claude Par rot said last night in an interview that talks yesterday afternoon Only dealt with minor details. They wanted to Deal with the House keeping stuff or the Kitchen he told the free press. The Union made no demands because it was there to hear the Federal position he added. I Don t think they had the authority and maybe tomorrow someone else will come relaxed mood he said the mood at the talks with Federal negotiators looked relaxed but we Don t know what it Parrot said Federal negotiators did not Deal yesterday with recommendations by conciliator Pierre Jasmin. The key recommendation is 17 weeks of paid maternity leave and the Union is insisting it be part of a new contract. The two sides Are believed close on Money issues but the Union is also insisting that workers not be monitored by television cameras. The Post office installed the cameras to prevent mail theft but Jasmin said the question should be re examined when the Post office becomes a Crown corporation in september. Spokesmen for the Federal Treasury Board were unavailable after yester Day s talks ended and reporters were barred from the -21st floor of a Down town office Tower where the negotiations were held. 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 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 see paid Page 4 dam turns family s dream sour 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. See junkyard Page 4 soup line study findings disputed ramp officers remove rain soaked protester from rail tracks. 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 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 and none of them were starving. Veshka said the task Force appears to have set out to prove there Are no starving people and there Are no kids dying in Back alleys so they could conclude there is no problem. It s a cop out. See task 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 editorials. 6 entertainment.24 horoscope.23 Jumble puzite.48 letters.6 Millroy on to. 26 movies.26 people.37 relax.37 57 sports record.63 stocks.39 sullivan.37 tempo.21 to listings.37 ;