Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba One mans Art just Rotten fruit to another the artist Calls it and the Canada Council thought it Worth a but As far As Laurie Gray is con it just gets in the Way of her a Secretary in the University of Manitoba zoology con siders artist Gordon Adams evenings offering a blot on the Campus land the Art situated on the Bank of the red River near the science build Ings on Dysart includes framing for a bar like a Trench filled with Wood and and three frames wrapped in torn plastic sunny today 20 Clear tonight 9 sheeting and Chicken wire supporting bags of rotting a that for six weeks work from Adams and front the Canada Adams Calls it either an environmental sculpture or a temporary Struc the meaning of it Gray simply Calls it she is not alone in her its not Art to says John a zoology professor who admits he finds it i like Art in its More traditional he to be the artists intent needs to be found out but Erwitt another professor in feels it forces people to View the world me looks at it in the Light of scientific inquiry you dont know whats going to happen until you try it and it Doest bother him that evenings offering was funded by taxpayers were not going to Advance unless we explore and develop these he artist a graduate of the University Fine arts says he was surprised the Canada Council came through for what he a pretty controversial sort of me says he chose the Sutof therway site so his suffer the same Fate As Saskatchewan artist John Nugentq number one Nugentq sculpture originally appeared in front of the Canadian grains commission building but employees demanded its it was Cut up and eventually exiled to the taxation data Centre in those at the University who object to Adams piece wont have to mount such a its temporary and eventually will be returning Grays View of the red to its Pristine the rarest of september Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 club offers Lyons ear for by Gregg Shilliday wealthy Manitoba businessmen and who join a recently formed club have been promised the ear of Premier Sterling Lyon and the provincial Cabinet in return for election an organization called the Keystone led insurance executive Derek Riley and former conservative Premier Duff has been set up to obtain Money for the party and its next election the clubs As outlined in a series of letters to prospective Mem is to provide funds and advice to the provincial in potential members Are being offered the Opportunity to meet on a regular basis with the Premier and the and at other times at the discretion of the club direct nip Leader Howard Pawley expressed outrage when told of the let ters contents i cant believe he this a form of influence its elitism of the worst government is supposed to be equally accessible to but Here they Are offering Access Premier if you have enough Money to pay for that club organizers yesterday defended the concept As being purely a fundraising venture without any overtones of elitism or but in a covering recruitment letter dated August Riley said a select group of successful and concerned Manitoban were being invited to join the the club will also offer its members the letter there will be interesting and informative meetings with the Premier and see club Page 4 social spending cuts rejected by maps up pos secondary equalization payments and other social services Are stretched to the limit and there should be no reduction in Federal financial support for a parliamentary study group suggested delivering a carefully worded slap at finance minister Allan Maceachen proposal to trim billion from the programs Over the next two fiscal the seven member Al party committee said it had found no room to Iran new pm fiery orator Beirut a the iranian revolutionary regime chose a new Leader for its governing party to replace Assassin ated prime minister Mohammad Javad but another political religious Leader was slain a few hours after the government buried Bah Onar and president Mohammad Ali rebels want Howato Heslam Ali the fiery orator of Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho minis islamic was elected Secretary general of the islamic re publican party by a party Congress a senior aide but i can assure you he will not become prime said the who declined to be identified by the source said consultations were under Way in the the iranian to choose a new prime minister to succeed he said announcement of the appointment is expected in two or three see fiery Page 4 reduce Overall spending on the sys serious reductions in program fund ing would Cut into muscle and not the maps said in a report released yesterday after four months of study and Cros Canada unless the provinces increased spending by a comparable amount a development the study group said is unlikely services would suffer or taxpayers would have to Bear a greater that would Likely mean greater use of user fees and extra Billing in medi care and higher tuition fees for Stu the maps ban on extra Billing five provinces reacted favourably to the report but most of them had misgivings about sections dealing with pos secondary education and they feared intrusion into provincial committee chairman Herb Breau rejected suggestions that the Liberal do minted task Force put itself on a collision course with Maceachen by refusing to support his proposal and by rejecting his arguments the cuts Are needed to help trim the growing Federal but opposition maps claimed Victory in the Compromise wording which All but called on the finance minister to drop the bitterly opposed by All 10 Liberal my for Gloucester in new was accompanied on the committee by Don a progressive conservative representing Mississauga David weather Liberal my for Scarborough West and Bernard a Liberal representing the Quebec Riding of ver also on the committee was Bill Blai a new Democrat and my for Winnipeg Birds Elaine tory my for Lethbridge Foothills and Hal Liberal from Vaudreuil see study Page 4 Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed is noncommittal As he is pursued by reporters after a meeting with aides in Montreal v Lougheed to meet today agreement on Domestic Oil prices appears at hand after six Days of talks Montreal up an agreement on Domestic Oil prices appeared within reach today As prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed scheduled an afternoon meeting in Ottawa to review Progress made by their Energy ministers during six Days of concerted the announcement of the top level meeting came yesterday evening As the Marc Lalonde of Ottawa and Merv Leitch of finally ended talks that haunt been expected to run More than two Days when they began Here last in the Globe and mail re ported that the topic of the Trudeau Lougheed meeting would be a 30page draft agreement touching on 18 substantive the paper quoted an unnamed senior official As saying an Accord is within striking distance and the document has a 6040 Chance of being the basis of the final an Alberta spokesman said the province had not changed its mind about today scheduled Aday cutback in Oil third such reduction applied by the province to protest the Lack of a pricing earlier cuts of barrels a Day took effect in March and including today the total shortfall amounts to 10 per cent of Canadas daily Oil Lougheed arrived unexpectedly in Montreal late sunday to consult with Leitch and made plans to go to Ottawa Early Lalonde hurried Back to the capital yesterday afternoon in order to Brief the prime the ministerial talks just concluded were longer than any of the four pre ceding rounds this year and they were much More with Nei ther Side giving the slightest hint of what issues remain the Oil dispute flared last october upon release of the Federal govern ments National Energy which gave Ottawa a bigger share of Oil and natural Gas revenues and restricted in creases in the Price of Alberta Oil to see pm Page 4 emergency Call to 911 gets runaround by Pamela Fayerman a vital couple trying to report a House fire across the Street was shunted from one number to another by Emer gency an inquest was told at the inquest into a june 28 fire at 305 Beliveau which claimed the life of Donald George and Madeline Cowan testified they d called the emergency 911 number and were told to Call a nonemergency police d called the police number and were told to hang d tried an emergency number for the deaf and were told it was the wrong d called 911 again and got an operator prepared to take their while the runaround by emergency operators caused a delay of about five minutes in the fire department response to the Cowans medical authorities testified that the possibility was Remote that Perreault could have survived if he had received medical attention that much investigators estimate the which started when the 49yearold victim fell asleep with a cigarette butt soldering in a piece of could have been burning up to one hour before the fire department arrived on the the Cowans told provincial court judge Arnold Conner their immediate reaction was to Call the 911 emergency number when they saw flames shoot ing out of the House at 305 across the Street from their apart but for some which even the operator who handled the Call George Cowan was told to Call a number normally reserved for nonemergency police Cowan followed these directions but again his report want As shown in a transcript of the dialogue presented at the inquest Cowan there is a fire on Beli Veau operator a Cowan operator nothing i Cowan Well there in telling you there operator Well you hang up and dial Cowan i just dialled there and she just told me to phone operator a what kind of a see couple Page 4 Best Ever the great soviet goaltender Vladislav Tretiak considers this years edition of team Canada the Best Ever assembled and the team to tension in air growing tension Between Canadian and american air traffic controllers is threatening air says the president of the Canadian air traffic control prices up the first Price increases in More than a decade for flour and cereals were accepted yesterday by polish Consumers without 1 housing help Manitoba is expected to spend about million during the next 10 years to make a Federal Home renovation program More attractive to Low income Index Ann Bridge entertainment 24 Jumble 25 15 7 26 15 31 53 15 20 61 24 sports 53 32 6 28 to ;