Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 4, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Angus suggests City invest to get ear of Premier Winnipeg should consider investing for the Chance to meet with Premier Sterling a City Eufr Cirlor told civic executive polity com Mittee alluding Tongue Incheck to the re cent formed Keystone which has promised businessmen the ear of the Premier in return for a John Angus be moaned the dearth of official Ings betwee the two Angus ice University noted that City representatives have met officially with Lyon and Cabinet members Only twice in the last 11 at Ducharme ice left Lawn added that former nip pre Mier de Schreyer was More Access weve been accused of being in bed with the provincial but weve had better relations with by oils mayor Bill Norrie said he is cur Renty negotiating with the pre Miers office for a Date and time for their next Angus indians plan custody Appeal by Maureen and Pamela Fayerman the hint of the big Grassy Reserve in Wirth Western Ontario says he Wilt ask court of Appeal to award it custody of a Foury Earold band Mem Ber who was apprehended by the Winnipeg childrens Aid society earlier this chief Moses Tom said yesterday he will Appeal a recent family court ruling which dismissed the bands application for permanent custody of the in a written judge Ray mond Harris agreed with the society that the band does not have the Legal capacity to aptly for judge hams mid the bands ability to provide Caw on the Reserve or the Quality of that care was not it the substantial question is whether the band is a he if the bands Appeal is it could set a precedent whereby an Indian band would be recognized As an entity capable of obtaining permanent guardianship of a Tom said he will be in Winnipeg next week to meet with his lawyer to discuss the Appeal the chief said he will also attempt to have the child immediately placed in a society approved Foster Home on the Grassy Reserve while the Battle the boy is now in a Foster Home in pm really concerned about weve lost children already to that said a childcare of and a Foster Parent for Many Tom launched the action on behalf of the band after the society refused to give it custody of the the band has an established Foster pro Gram for band children funded by the family and childrens services of the Rainy River District in see indians Page 4 Clear tonight 8 Cloudy tomorrow 21 september 109 no 233 Sun rises Seta Moon rises sets final 250 with supplement Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 profits up 31 Ottawa up Oil companies after tax profits Rose by 31 per cent in largely because of healthy returns at the wholesale and retail says a Federal report released the prepared by the Petroleum monitoring said the companies pocketed billion in prof its last compared to billion in it follows an Energy agreement this week Between the Federal and Alberta governments that sets out stiff new Oil and Gas prices Over the next five years and gives Industry the largest share of the new Lougheed claims the report said higher prices for both crude Oil and natural Gas More than offset the Impact on the Industry of declining production of those re the report was to have been released earlier this but Agency chairman Harold Renouf told a news conference he held off because the negotiations be tween Alberta and Ottawa that eventually resulted in tuesdays agreement were at such a sensitive asked if he Felt the report would have affected those he replied i dont but i want Tak ing any see Oil Page 4 7 jobless rate Marks 5year Low Ottawa up the number of people unable to find work in August was Down from in statistics Canada said adjusted for seasonal the jobless rate dropped for the second straight month to per cent to tie the five year Low set in april this augusts rate was Down from per cent in july and per cent in in the rate was Down from july to per in the rate dropped from july record High level to per the seasonally adjusted rate also dropped slightly in All other provinces except where it Rose by to per and British Columbia where it increased by to per the rate decreased by to in Newfoundland by to in Prince Edward Island by to in Nova Scotia by to in new Bruns Wick by to in Quebec by to in Ontario and by to in the unemployment level dropped slightly for women aged 15 to 24 to per cent from but showed no change for men in that age group at per it declined for men 25 years and Over to per cent from per cent but Rose marginally for women in the same age group to per the rate for students aged 15 to 19 years was per cent and for students 20 to 24 years it was per Andy free press Farmers have bitter words about strike Barry Pierce unloads Grain from Farmers truck at United Grain growers Neepawa by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free press Neepawa angry and frustrated Manitoba Farmers say end up paying for the strike by Thunder Bay Grain its a wonder they Farmers dont Mutiny pretty said and there were bitter words for prime minister Trudeau from some Farmers when asked whether Parlia ment should end the walkout by the Grain handlers which began we had a government like president Ronald something would be but with Trudeau its a lost Hes run Ning around on Holiday All the said Neepawa area Farmer Lawrence interest rates Farmers interviewed yesterday said High interest rates will Cost them dearly if the walkout and some fear disruptions in delivery May Hurt Canadas credibility in International Grain the Board has estimated Grain Farmers will lose More than million a Day in sales Revenue if the strike if i were a foreign Canada would be the last place id said Laurie who farms with her near the Village of about 110 kilo metres West of i think they should can the whole Damn said Paul theres a lot of people unemployed who would take the Grain movement to Thunder Bay is grinding to a with some Manitoba elevators already filled to Capaci Thunder Bay facilities handled 55 per cent of Canadian exports last year and almost All the Domestic Grain shipped to Eastern once the elevators Are the Grain will have to remain on the once were filled that Well have to sit till the strikes said Kelly or of the United Grain growers ele Vator in about 200 kilo metres Northwest of there getting used to its a hardship on he see Manitoba Page 4 Union Leader a fighter Thunder nothing happens in this Union unless i of growled Frank some Call me a some think in an ugly said the undisputed ruler of the Grain handlers on strike in this most important of All Canadia Grain it Doest bother an imposing figure at six Foo three and 240 is also fondly known As the Friendly giant but not to any of his opponents out Side the labor the Bear of a Man with a polish name and ukrainian heritage has been a fighter All his but he also see Grain Page 4 it trailer residents dont pay school taxes the Pas disputes Indian claim that land near town should be classified As Reserve property by Ingeborg Boyens residents of a trailer Park in the Pas sent their children off to school yester Day knowing that neither they nor their landlords will have to pay a cent to Ward the Cost of their youngsters Edu for the fourth year in a other taxpayers in the Kelsey school division will be charged extra for the schooling of the 40to50 Young Timberland trailer court last it Cost local ratepayers an additional or four per cent of total tax to educate the Chil Dren of the trailer court the 84 Timberland families Are the unwitting beneficiaries of a jurisdictional squabble that has involved the local Indian the school the the province and the Federal according to 1979 changes to Mani Tobas municipal the trailer Resi though they Arent in immune from school and property taxes because they live on land classified As Reserve property of the Pas Indian the act says that persons residing on an Indian Reserve Are not considered residents of the municipality and cant be municipal and provincial people have no business on Reserve agreed the Pas Indian band chief Charlie Federal authorities Are still not so sure that no Indian residents should be granted the same rights As treaty a spokesman for the department of Indian affairs said a Legal opinion was requested of the Justice department last May on whether the provinces 1979 amendments were school division officials in the Pas have Long hoped the Manitoba govern ment would agree to cover the costs of the much As it has for other no Indian residents occupying Agri cultural land on the about 400 treaty children from the Reserve Are also educated in but their education is paid for by the band under a special education minister Keith Cosens promised in april to investigate the there has still been no word on whether the province will assume the Ken Secretary treasurer of Kelsey school said the division is More concerned about the principle than the the residents of the Timberland trailer court Are not contributing to the school he see trailer Page 4 Africa denies new assault on Angola Johannesburg a radio Mozambique said today that South Africa has launched a new offensive against but a South african military spokesman called the report 1 ridiculous the monitored in Johan quoted official angolan sources As reporting the new military action about 250 Kilometres North of the namibian like is a former portuguese Colony with a marxist the official angolan news made no mention of a new offensive but it quoted the Ango Lan defence ministry As saying that South african soldiers Are occupying a Southern previous reports said South african forces drove about 100 Kilometres into Angola with soldiers on 24 on a Searcha destroy Mission against Black nationalist guerrillas of the Southwest Africa Peoples Organiza Swap has been fighting a Bush War against South Africa for Independence for formerly known As South West the guerrillas Are based primarily in South Africa has said it was with drawing its forces after killing almost 400 angolan soldiers and Swap Ger but no timetable was foreign journalists who have been to the Battle area and several sources Here said they believe the withdrawal is monitored in said almost All the Southern province of Kunene and its capital City of Giva have been occupied by South african forces backed up with heavy Armor and a South african military spokesman called the report of a new invasion ridiculous propaganda timed to today opening of a United nations general Assembly session on the session was called by Black Afri can states to protest South african Rule in fire Power team Canada exploded for five goals in five minutes during the third period last night to swamp team nip says no opposition Leader Howard Pawley says an nip government would not accept the Deal the government of Premier Sterling Lyon has made for an aluminium smelter in the Trade pattern president Reagan has suggested Trade relations should be based on the pattern of the 1965 Auto major players Canadian developers Are becoming major players 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