Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, August 14, 1981

Issue date: Friday, August 14, 1981
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba l Ottawa says it will punish 137 controllers Ottawa up the Federal Ern ment plans to punish at least 137 air traffic controllers for disrupting International traffic Early this week by refusing to Clear flights bound to and from the United the made Public was Given to the controllers Union by the it represents about 15 per cent of the 900 controllers who Are directly involved in operations involving the Union Hopes to convince the government to moderate or drop the ties if plans to a peal each one on grounds the controllers were justified by dangerous air traffic conditions in the Domestic flights returned to near Normal yesterday for the first time this spokesmen for air Canada and up air country two largest said flights within Canada were leaving and arriving within minutes of their air Canada spokesman Brock Stewart said Domestic and International flights were virtually on schedule in All Canadian weve been said up air spokesman Michael it is taking several Days to totally restore our International service the planes have to come Back from where they were delayed and we have to catch by this our problems should be the penalties against controllers Range from verbal or written reprimands to suspensions without pay and transport officials Are writing penalty guides for local managers so that punishment will be consistent and fair across the the controllers on the penalty list Are those who the government says refused to carry out their Normal most work at seven main air traffic locations Edmonton and some controllers refused to handle aircraft on grounds the safety of airspace jeopardized by the use of unqualified controllers who brought in to replace those fired after launching an illegal strike last the disruption of flights ended wednesday following an agreement tween Bill president of the Canadian air traffic control and transport minister Jeanluc the controllers agreed to re sume handling american in Exchange for extra monitoring of safety the list of controllers subject to penalties will also be used by the govern ment in its attempt to get the Feder Al court of Canada to uphold an last fall to bar con trollers from illegal strike the next court hearing is roughly of the members of the controllers Union Are engaged in direct control of air the rest Are supervisors or air traffic control instructors at training under the Public service staff relations act covering government employ Erem Loyee the controllers and their Union have the right to Appeal every they can Appeal to management under grievance proce dures and they can Appeal the manage ment decision to adjudicators on the Public service staff relations Board decisions can then be appealed to the Federal court of in a second related action against the controllers in the Federal the government is attempting to prove the controller violated an injunction against illegal strike activity and Are thus in contempt of and in a third the government is trying to have controllers stripped of their right to it is appealing a ruling by the staff relations Board ear Lier this year that All but 270 controllers should have the right to Calgary Black joins the klan in Alberta Calgary up Louis a 40yearold Black construction work says he is joining the Alberta Chap Ter of the Kun flux overturning a Century old tradition of the notorious North american racist lifelong Calgary said in an interview today he was unofficially sworn into the klan july 31 by its Alberta Tarlach Mac a Mac a Phearson confirmed the adding an official Cere Mony before the Alberta klans 330 members is set for Proctor is the first Black Man to join any klan chapter on the said Mac a who expects the move to cause real screaming among some american klan the younger members in the states Are for it its the older ones that Are going to be for his Proctor said i think it will be a great Honor to he has already assumed the role Ofa or klan with the task of getting others to in supposed to bring in any Mem Ber but in concentrating on Black he in addition to seeking members in the two men Are also planning a membership drive in soon concentrating on getting Blacks to join the chapter Mac a who owns the Canadian copyrights to All traditional klan symbols and noted his Alberta chapter is already known As probably the most Liberal in North since its official incorporation in 1972 and its re incorporation last year after the organization died out in the mid1970s it has allowed Blacks and others to interracial Are not encouraged because they destroy the distinctiveness of each both men see the Swearingin Cere Mony As a symbolic a hew for the White and Black races in North we can prove that Black and White can live together in peace and Harmony joining forces to wipe out racial said he admits there is bound to be Seri Ous opposition from both sides Blacks who see him As a traitor and racist Whites who naturally object to him Proctor said he was inspired to join the klan after Mac a Phearson appeared on a recent Calgary television talk insisting the Alberta chapter was looking for nonwhite Man held Vancouver up aft fled male was in police custody yester Day connection with one of three recent child killings in southwestern i police refused to release any details about the other than that he was More than 36 years he was being held for questioning in the death of Judy whose body was found july 25 at Weaver Lake 85 Kilometres East of she had been stabbed 19 two others found two other children have been found murdered and five others have Disalv geared Over the past police suspect All cases could be relat ramp Bruce who Heads the would not confirm reports the Man had been arrested on Vancouver were not going to release any in formation that would identify the suspect in any head Ding later that Paramount to us is the safety of the the suspect can be held for 48 hours without being Northorp also made a plea through the Media for any of Kozmas friends who had not been in touch with the ramps serious crime unit to Contact several of Kozmas friends told to Tri i f Fri y i 1 1 1 lice that since the girls murder they dont worry about in the Van Driver told girl threatening one c7 girl was told by an unidentified person ramp Bruce Northorp announces arrest of suspect in the death of Judy but hitching rides Vancouver up sure in but i got no other Way of getting so i gotta right so Bobbi of Pitt Mead keeps hitchhiking while Vancouver area police investigate the disappearances or deaths of eight youngsters Over the past several were hitchhiking when they who hitched a ride with a 14yearold Friend in the same area where another girl disappeared june admitted her Mother Doest like her to she gets you i got no and the there Arent any so i gotta in not really you sometimes the Guys come on to there was a Guy in a Van and he slapped my Arm and dont worry about in the and i Felt like my guts were coming out of the and he and i laughed boy the two girls were picked up Only eight blocks from the bus Stop where Ada was last seen heading for a Date with her but for Heather of who used to Hitchhike seven Kilometres to her Job As a hotel the fear is too close to she keeps her German Shepherd in Side with her at night and Shes stopped hitchhiking to to rather walk id rather walk than risk hitching a ride with the Guy who killing those she sometimes i grab a ride with a otherwise i a Coughtrie lives in a simple Cabin like House on the Shore of Green 90 Kilometres North of last someone dumped the stained and torn shirt and Slacks of a missing Maple Louise Marie on a path Only 100 metres from Mcnaug tries i was terrified when i found out the police had found some clothes just Down the Street beside the path to the its just too close to but the same Down Highway 99 about five Kilometres North of where a teenage girl and boy stood thumbing a ride to a nearby Michelle and her 15 year old of knew the Chartrand girls clothing had been knew three Young sters were dead and five were miss Michelle was aware of the risk involved in hitchhiking i once had some trouble with a Guy in a Van who picked me he tried to take me Back to his place instead of taking me to my so i had to jump out at a traffic asked if the abductions or incident with Van Driver discourage her from further she replied no i can look out for that she was Northorp said at an earlier news police said they thought her killer had obtained an address Book from Kozmas which contained friends phone several of the three murdered and five missing children were last seen search continues the bodies Raymond King and Daryn Todd were All found within 20 Kilometres of each King and Johnsrude were beaten with a Blunt clothing police believe belonged to the missing Louise Marie was found in the Whistler 90 Kilometres North of a ground search with dogs was continuing an ramp helicopter fitted with infrared photography hampered by servicing May return to the search today around Weaver pm rubs elbows Down on the farm Trudeau pays visit to canadians in Tanzania turning rhetoric into reality Basurto Tanzania up prime minister Trudeau rubbed elbows briefly today with some of the people who turned ideas of helping the worlds poor to reality from the prime minister stayed hour at a big Canadia funded wheat project that looks like a Cor Ner of Saskatchewan on the High East african Trudeau was with about 20 or so resident canadians and african work ers in a garage for a lunch of Bat roast Gazelle and cakes baked by their with Grain in bottles As Centrepieces plastic table clothes and ragged Nomad tribesmen staring in at the the fare was a Radical but refreshing change from formal meals provided by Trudeau kenyan and tanzanian hosts in the proceeding the prime minister chatted briefly with a few locals and thanked representatives of the tanzanian agriculture department for gifts of Shields and shirts for him and his three the resident canadians were Happy to see an important visitor from but were visibly disappointed at the prime ministers Cowkey it would have been Nice if hed said something to All of said Charley Nightengale of who asked Trudeau to say a few but instead got a Brief private chit Tanzania president Julius Nyerere was reported to also have come and gone without opposition Leader Joe Clark made the resident most of them Wes proud two years ago when he stopped by during his Brief stint As prime he gave a very Nice said recalling the pc leaders saying he was proud of what we were we get More dignitaries Here than you can shake a stick added her husband who is in charge of maintaining the farms they say this is the Only paying Aid project in Trudeau and his contingent had a Choppy ride into Basurto yesterday aboard a lumbering Buffalo the wheat funded by Canada since is comprised of four acre farms which will produce about 25 bushels an acre there Are three other similar farms in two Canadian couples live at each farm with about 45 full time african the nearest town is a Sixto eight hour drive the prime minister and his three sons later flew to a game Park where they will spend the final weekend of their african Alberta town evacuees Hopes for return dashed by the Canadian press women and children evacuated from Swan monday had their Hopes of returning Home dashed ousting winds were expected to blow a Forest fire toward the about 180 Kilometres Northwest of fire officials had hoped to allow evacuated residents Back into the town but said it now will be Early saturday before that can be forty people were allowed to re turn to their Homes briefly yesterday to pick up personal the evacuation has not been easy on use women of Iwan j didst think wed be Here this said Pat who has been camping out with other evacuees Ujj a farm outside fort their Days have been filled with frustration since leaving their Homes and vow Bear one and then an said Pep be first the whole town is burning and then the fire firefighters and equipment have been trying to Check we Advance 01 we Swan Hills one of hundreds of fires raging throughout the three Western in Oil Industry officials said there will not see any serious Energy shortage because of the Swan Hills Blaze which has forced some Well shutdowns and put daily production in the province by about five per they say the production cuts Are temporary ones that can easily be made we after the fire danger has passed theres no question about Scon As we get Back in production we can make up this said Gric director of operations for Home Oil owners of the Protection pipeline near and one of sever Al Oil companies producing in the Home Oil has temporarily shut Down All its production we Are already considering going Back up to full added Pon Smith from am Ftp Canada Petroleum i4d Amoco has Cut its production by about 20 pier other Oil in the including Tesja Canada and Shell sources have air instituted Tern Horary helicopters set 120 Hect ares of Timber aflame near a Home of storage Plant containing barrels of hoping to Stop the lire by burning off its officials said the efforts were although some spots were while helicopters and bomber pilots fought the fire from the 400 native firefighters armed with axes and battled the flames on n evacuated Resit dents of Michel were told they can return saturday if tit Village is not threatened by a fire which has been burning Early this shifting wind fld changing weather conditions have hampered firefighting efforts throughout he and yesterday officials had mechanical difficulties Witt their n British forestry officials reported i36 new fires started last week 10 of which Are out of Geoff in charge of fire manage ment for Forest said a total of of hectares of umber Bat Birned so the largest fire is of fort Nelson aj4 covers fort vol rage near towns Liberal backs Down on by election pledge forestry department spokesman Buss Cajen said the fire was headed toward the town wednesday when the wind a Mem Gastesi the be to Montreal up Liberal Candi Date Michel seeking election in mondays Federal by election in backed Down yesterday from his Lier statement that the government plans to help owners of single family Homes pay their record High Denis said in a radio interview yesterday that the Federal government was about to announce a special tax on banking institutions that would be used to pay homeowners the difference Between a if percent interest rate and any higher rate they had to pay to renew a mortgage either this year or last but Liberal organisers in Joliette issued a clarifying statement liter in the Day saying Penis intends to pressure Obj gov frument for such a plan if and Federal housing minister Paul reached at his to Pronto Home of Cerf is Alaska Bers were near the Way including 30 Mem Proffert Cosgrove acknowledged the govern ment is looking at the mortgage Situa in View of rates now running around i record 31 per said Chi Grove no threaten of Flat government had announced contingency plans to evacuate the Community of using military i from last february Federal several of the eight candidates Are predicting that fewer than half of eligible voters in the Rural Riding East of Montreal will turn up at the polls on election there have been five Federal or provincial votes Liette in the last five years and dates Are doing their Best to overcome Public apathy main contender the main contender appears to be Roch who represented the Ding for 13 years As a progressive conservative until list apri when tie quit to run in the april 13 que Hect election As Leader of the Union National his Effort to revive Oie in failed and Lasalle want elected although he said he wanted i break from persuaded him to run again As tin pwty9 Best Chance to retain the Only seat it held in if Quebec when w4s Tiu my seventy our of 75 Quebec ride Najj Puring the has attacked the governments economic swat w constitutional Joliette chief electoral officer Nicole Kourassa announced that persons voted at Advance polls yesterday decline of about 400 the Only motor dilate with a snows Chance 9 via has told voters they should elect another my to the government Side of the ;