Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, September 08, 1981

Issue date: Tuesday, September 8, 1981
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free Taft Bir 8 1981 officials want freeloaders in Parks to pay police stumped a police officer looks up and around an Accident scene saturday Church on Edmonton Street and knocked Over a the after a Motorist jumped the curb in front of Knox United cars Driver was taken to Hospital for More Churchill shipping urged not too late yet to reroute Grain port authority chairman says Capstaff Churchill the port of Churchill Only operating at on third capacity despite the tie up of Grain shipments my the Lakehead caused by a Grain i of idlers eith chairman of the port said yester Day he Doest buy statements by Canadian wheat Board officials that it is too late in the season to reroute ships to the they and the Federal government really wanted to put out some extra they could get us another 10 ships which would add at least an additional tonnes of Grain to our shipping Rawlings the port is Only operating five Days a week on a on shift Rawlings its strange that the Federal authorities recently spent million on a lighting system at the Lakehead so that the Grain handlers could work around the he theres plenty of Grain on hand at this Point and in sure More could be shipped to us if it was at the Start of the 1981 the wheat Board planned to fill orders for tonnes of wheat to Poland and tonnes of Barley to Russia through these cargoes were to be carried by 13 and so far five polish vessels have picked up cargoes totalling about tonnes of the Churchill tonnage was scaled Down because of a shortage of Grain Early in the season resulting from last years drought in the Prairie Prev the wheat Board Felt it was doubtful that any of this years crop would be harvested in time to reach the regular shipping deter mined by the length of time Normal Marine insurance rates ends on Rawlings Felt ships could be rerouted to the port even before that but he added that if the wheat Board and the government put in some extra Effort it should a possible to arrange to have the insurance company extend the time of their Normal Grain handlers at Thun Der remained on picket duty on the labor Day the which has been without a contract since started the strike at one of the Lake Heads terminals last the next pickets went up at the other 12 the workers Are seeking higher wages and the abolition of a proposed Sevenda week work the which the wheat Board estimates is costing Farmers million a has led the Board to direct rerouting of Grain the Board has asked up rail to Send 500 Grain carrying a total of about million bushels of to Moose instead of Thunder the Board has also asked the car to reroute 80 Grain cars to terminal facilities in continued from Page 1 the unintentional tax but unified said More and More people Are opting for Homes in the Remote wilds of the two years Only 24 families had taken up full time residence in the cottage subdivision of Clearwater the count is closer to he in shocked at the Way the num Bers have said t dont think the problem is going to go the quicker the province takes some sort of stand on the bet Ter Davidson said the government recognizes that Manitoban Are spend ing longer periods of time in so year round Parks use is being consid ered As pan of a current master plan hearings on plan held Public hearings on the master plan for the White Shell provincial Park have already taken place and Turtle Mountain provincial Park is up for review Davidson said municipalities Benefit when year round Park dwellers come into town for supplies and enter recreation costs Are also lower for municipalities Lucky enough to live next to a he but flin flon mayor Nazir Ahmad said Davidsons arguments didst Wash because the 15 families living at nearby grass River provincial Park Are Sim ply old flin flon they simply moved he they Are Selling if we were attracting these people from Winni Peg then i would buy that argue Ahmad said he too is resentful of the free ride residents of the Park Are potential frightening its not the 15 families that Are of concern to he its the potential that is it starts As a summer Home and it becomes a permanent the lure of the tax free provincial Parks Only serves to disperse Rural residents and change the nature of Rural we want to keep our people to Gether and share in the he Ahmad said regulations already exist prohibiting people from living year round in the but the province seems reluctant to enforce those the government is kind of closing its eyes to agreed flin flon Secretary treasurer Earl John Reeve of the local government District of said his Council has Long had to pay the Bills for illegal residents of the neigh Boring Clearwater provincial Bodnar said the provincial govern ment appears to Lack a policy on per manent unlike officials at Federal Parks such As Riding Moun Tain National the province apparently sanctions year round dwell he Ray president of the Union of Manitoba said it should be very simple for the province to require full time Park residents to contribute toward the Cost of municipal and school if they were avoiding provincial they sure would he while the problem is now More acute in Northern provincial Howard said Many municipalities could face similar situations in the Davidson said some people live in the White Shell provincial Park for 10 months of the year and travel the other two a elementary school has been established at Falcon Beach by the province to educate the children of government employees who work and live year round at the a Park spokesman said she didst know whether any illegal might be taking advantage of the free school Ron Deputy minister of said the province has a responsibility to educate children no matter where they he provincial Grants to school divisions cover four fifths of the Cost of Only one fifth of the Price of education needs to be raised by school Dree funds cause Battle continued from Page 1 i am prepared to spend even More Money than they Are asking he As Long As we reach an agree ment similar to the Core area Initia Tives program where we had some clearly defined operating rejected de Banes claims As far As their talk about philos Debane said he agreed with our North lands philosophy last time he was Here but now Hes changed the philos Ransom said he see any change forthcoming in the positions of either he said Manitoba would continue to fund its share and predicted Debane would up a system for direct Federal funding of its unresolved labor fights bring warning continued from Page 1 Dennis president of the Canadian labor said there is renewed talk of wage con although those in and out of government who promote the idea know very Well that controls Only create additional we called 1981 the year of the says Donald Wood of Queens University Industrial relations Centre in noting that settlements of 18 and 20 per cent were common before wage and Price controls were slapped on in Wood is coauthor of an annual report called the current Industrial relations scene in in this inflationary Union and management leaders Are under growing pressure from increasingly restless and militant work forces to deliver hefty wage he Here Are just some of the major strikes that have helped tie up the Canadian Economy this year d a nationwide strike by 000 inside postal they won a wage settlement of 26 per cent Over two years and a provision for 17 weeks paid maternity a 42day strike by Forest Industry workers in British Colum Bia that crippled the provinces most important workers won in creases of 15 and 13 per cent Over two d a Mont hold strike now under Way by Quebec and Ontario employees of Ste co the United steelworkers of America is asking for a 30percent raise Over two d a therean Dahal month strike by technicians at the they Are scheduled to vote this week on a tentative and the worst May be yet to Corne As an estimated workers whose contracts run out before the end of this year enter negotiations in a militant mood although he labels 1981 As a catch up Wood says workers will be Lucky to maintain their real incomes at the end of the inflation is running at 13 per cent but wage settlements in the first six months of the year averaged just slightly More than 12 per were dealing with a Young work most of whom have never been on strike and know Little about said Gerard National director of the United steel but there in a fighting most of them have seen their Mort Gage payments double this chinese flood kills injures from the news services peking China disclosed its second major flood disaster of the year yesterday saying 764 people been killed and More than injured in Western shaan i prov in neighbouring Sichuan floods killed 920 people in july and revised figures issued Dur ing the weekend the latest calamity in shaan i with heavy rain seven Rivers reached their highest recorded the Peoples daily said in a frontage Story yester apart from the dead and in people were made a total of people were affected in 33 counties and the newspaper manure gets blame Halifax provincial health officials now believe sheep manure used to fertilize cabbage May have led to an outbreak of Lister Osis which caused 13 deaths in the prov Ince this Twenty eight cases of the flu like which usually affects preg Nant women and their were reported in Nova two cases have been diagnosed in Prince Edward Island since april and five in new Pierre provincial said investigators have Learned that a Small number of provincial cabbage producers re begin Energy the southwestern province of Balu a pakistani defence ministry statement it was the first report of a ground incursion by regu Lar troops since the outbreak of Afghanistan civil War Between moslem rebels and the soviet backed government in Hurricane winds drop Miami Hurricane Bear ing 120 Kilometres Eshour whirled toward Bermuda today As puerto Rico and the Virgin islands Felt the effects of tropical storm which was moving through the Northeast forecasters predicted floyds Centre would pass this morning just South of the hurricanes winds had dropped to 120 from said Miles a forecaster at the National Hurricane Centre in Accident kills Sailor news Roundup Manila an a7e Corsair fight Jet on the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a taxiing f14 tomcat and pitched the f 17mil lion f14 into the Indian the Navy a Sailor working on the flight deck of the Carrier was crushed to the Navy but the two fliers in the f14 ejected and were pulled unharmed from the while the Corsair Crew pulled up and landed gently used sheep manure As fertilize sheep have been known to con tract he afghans Cross Border Islamabad afghan troops crossed into Pakistan yesterday and confiscated weapons in a Housetop House search at a Border Village in Vance meet new York israeli prime min ister Menachem looking full of discussed personal things and the Middle East political situation at lunch with Cyrus the former Secretary of state begin planned to leave 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