Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Abandoned turned Over continued from 1 which it has guaranteed to keep in operation to the year at current the million would Only achieve 60 per cent of the Pepin the original program was designed for Kilometres of rail line on the but As the result of three the figure has grown by another Kilometres of pendent funding approved by the Federal cab inet for the next three years amounts to million in 198182 million in 198283 and million for work in he Orchard disagree Manitoba transportation minister Don Orchard said yesterday he fears Ottawa May use a drop in rail Passen Ger travel resulting from the loss of the country second transcontinental rail service to deny westerners the intercity trains which via rail is buying for Eastern Orchards warning came at a press conference with Federal transport min ister Jeanluc in which the two agreed to disagree on Pepins new passenger rail policy announced last Orchard predicted the outdated equipment which will be used in the West for the new intercity routing replacing the second transcontinental coupled with a Cut in will Lead to a drop in passenger service to the Point that when a decision is made on instituting the new rapid trains in two or three years there wont be the passenger count to War rant Pepin countered that westerners Are using the system mainly for inter City travel it is my dream that westerners and mar timers will ride in the arcs rapid and Comfort under the plan to reshuffle rail Pas Senger service announced by Pepin in 13 railway passenger routes will be six others will be reduced and the Money saved will be used to modernize via rails equipment and the West is to get none of the 10 new High Speed arcs which will go to Ontario and under the the passenger rail service on the Lazare Rivers line will be cancelled and the Winnipeg ser vice will be replaced by a Winnipeg re Gin Saskatoon Orchard repeated his earlier opposition to the changes by the Federal Cabinet without Canadian transport commission he acknowledged that it is but said it was a method not used in the last 81 it is difficult to imagine the com Mission making a decision other than the one i am making Pepin plans include Bank widening and drainage on ballast and ties for resurfacing of Kilometres and 790 kilo metres of details of the specific lines slated for work will be announced when an agreement with Canadian National railways and up rail is completed in four or five he since the original in million has been spent on Kilometres of with 853 Kilometres now com he with the added Pepin the government is nearing the lion Mark in our commitment to improve the railway Branch line network and to modernize Western Canadas railway service to carry the forecast 30miliion tonnes of Export Grain by the agreement turning Over abandoned railway rights of Way to the province involves 18 car and up rail lines in the Plum Nee notre pleasant rapid ton Varcoe and Wakoa railway sub i Orchard said provincial departments and such As the highways Manitoba Hydro and Manitoba Telephone system will have first followed by municipalities wanting the land for Public he the vast majority of the rights Otway will go to individual Farmers whose land is Adja cent to the rights of Way for a Transfer fee of possibly to cover the Cost of administration and to ensure a transferable property owners wanting the right Otway will have to file which will soon be available from municipal the under negotiation for the past Doest include 78 Kilometres of track situated in the Erwood which is still being considered by the Canadian transport a few areas involving abandoned Branch line property on or near Indian reserves is also with the department of Indian affairs coordinating their while Alberta has reached a similar agreement for the Transfer of hectares of land formerly owned by the Saskatchewan is still negotiating the agreement for Hect United stand continual of Fin Page 1 Premier Sterling Lyon kicks up his heels with tahitian dancer at Barbecue for d Foft eco Lotny must be built up by using its natural resources and Oping the skills of the labor premiers believe that the positive effect of implementing these measures will provide renewed Confidence in the strength of the Canadian econ the nine Points Are similar to objectives set out in a 198 first ministers meeting on the but the pre Miers have said that the goals of that conference were not achieved because there were no followup meetings held to ensure that action was Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon called for support of the other prov inces for a return to the bargaining table with the Federal government to resolve the constitutional he also appealed to Premier William Davis of Ontario and Premier Richard Hatfield of new Brunswick to join the eight other premiers who have signed a Patria Tion Accord to allow for any fur ther changes to the other than an amending to be made in Canada by criticizes Ottawa Lyon also criticized the Federal government for what he termed its grow ing practice of by the use of unilateral action the Federal government is undermining confederation and trying to destroy the responsibilities that have always been Provin he British columbian Bennett said action to rectify economic problems required the Good will of the Federal he also rejected suggestions had been accomplished by the premiers on the economic he said it was time for a return to the Canadian Way of conciliation and the premiers also released a second communique on fiscal arrangements Between Ottawa and the provinces in which they condemned a proposed fed eral move to trim billion from Federal payments to the provinces Over current annual pay ments Are about the cuts would mean lower health care and pos secondary education the statement Reagan letter suggests soviet Summit continued from Page 1 people have Ever started a War asked if he intended to have such a meeting Reagan said there would be preliminary meetings at the ministerial level first before were ready to go in and actually negotiate legitimate arms reduction to remove this night Mare that hangs Over the world today of strategic while Reagan gave no hint when or where the meeting might be a Well informed government source said it would be within a my impression is that they Are talking about next maybe a year from said the who asked not to be answering other defence related Reagan said he expects to announce next week if he will end his embargo on the shipment of f15 and f16 planes to the embargo was put into effect after the israelis bombed Iraq nuclear the president said decisions on my missile Basing and a new strategic bomber very possibly will not be made until Congress returns next Reagan signs into Law huge spending cuts from the news services Santa Presb Dent Reagan signed into Law yesterday the largest package of tax and spending cuts in the spending Bill set a Federal budget of about billion for fiscal year billion less than the budget mined by president Carter before he left office last the tax Bill reduces Federal income taxes 25 per cent Over the next 33 beginning 1 when the amount withheld from most workers pay cheques will drop by about five per additional Ikpe Rilent reductions in withholding will be made next july and in 13 believed dead in crash Condon thirteen men aboard twin engine helicopter ferrying warts ers from Gas rigs off Eastern England were believed to have died when it plunged into the the crash yesterday was the worst involving a British helicopter an of company official said it to have been caused by something Cata guerrillas wet american Guatemala City besieged by government troops at a hideout West Here killed Kajj napped american executive Clifford Bevins before soldiers stormed in and killed the five the government of was the news Roundup manager of a guatemalan subsidiary of the Goodyear tire and rub Ber he was kidnapped on and had not been heard from in Royal pair resume cruise London the Prince and Princess of Wales have resumed their Honey Moon by cruising along the sue canal in the Royal yacht Britannia and then gut into the Gulf of put the privacy which had surrounded them since they left Gibraltar nearly two weeks ago was broken and Prince Charles was photographed wearing bathing trunks As the Britan Nia left port the previous the Royal couple bad entertained president Anwar Sadat of Egypt aboard the yacht at port ads Bope Fiu about Pope Rome a Pope John Paul has Recor Vered from gunshot wounds he suffered in the May 13 attempt on his use and May leave Hospital for convalescence whenever be his Doc tors said the roman Catholic pontiff is expected to return to his Vatican apart ment today and stay for several Days before going to his summer Home in Cartel Gamolo South of claim reported on estate the internal Revenue service is seeking Mil lion in additional taxes from Elvis Presley claiming the estate failed to report All revenues generated from the singers a newspaper said the commercial Memphis morning said the irs has challenged everything from the valuation of Presley Graceland estate to the amount of a divorce settlement granted Presley former soviets jail dissident Moscow a soviet ethnic German who had been seeking to emigrate to West Germany was sentenced yester Day to years in a labor Camp for ant soviet dissident sources Artur was convicted by a court in capital of soviet Tajikistan this the sources part of the Case against him was that he had slandered the soviet Emi Gration authorities in letters he had sent to relatives in West the sources executions set in Uberia Monrovia Liberia former vice Thomas Weh will be executed by firing squad the liberian news Agency re ported it said web Syen and four others have been found guilty by a special military tribunal of plotting to kill head state Doe last a 3 is d Al m ast by great Plains Honda and North main Honda for 5 Days Only August 18 open 9 9 All Days except 9 5 while they ust Hatchback Model sl431 of soft similar to the great Honda car Sale we held in great Plains Honda and North main Honda have 130 new hondas on Sale each dealer ship has a full selection to choose from and rather than go to the expense of moving both our inventories to a com Mon location time we decided to both stay at Home and pass the savings on to Bank financing on the spot on approved credit Sall lasts i Days Only open 9 9 All Sile saturday 9 pc v ;