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 Whim pet cd for rerouting of Grain ships All together now a soviet tu95 maritime patrol plane top has a Royal Navy North of Scotland sunday during Anglo american naval Centre and an american f14 tomcat As company the soviet intruder was checking out the province Swap charges from Page 1 3ng Manitoba with general direct funding of regional develop Debane admitted the increasingly dispute is centred on control of Federal monies currently administered by the employment minister Lloyd who also attended the press added that Ottawa is on More control because Dree programs were mainly Federal we cant just hand Over Large sums Jbf Money without some Axworthy Debane said Dree is a philosophy and a discretionary depart adding that the province would to accept Drees rules before a new agreement could be we have a a philosophy and a Content which they must de Bane All they talk about is Money i we must have a communion of the question of Money will come the Debane said if such a meeting of the minds he has Federal Cabi net approval to sign a expanded agreement 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 set up a new system for direct Federal funding of its it looks like they want to do it Ransom and it will probably turn out to be the same kind of disaster As their drought assistance the Public will see once again How difficult it is to deliver programs from writers forced to bite the Bullet continued from Page 1 break sunday afternoon to describe her Hal finished its a i a Holo Caust novel taking place about forty years in the in Basing it on a Short Story i wrote a few years an editor with the University of Manitoba student news said she liked the idea of a three Day novel contest because it forced her to bite the i work Best under pressure this is probably the Only Way i would have Ever finished another Jean Maurice was writing a parody of spy thrillers tentatively three the books premise concerns a group of agents for the soviet secret police during a slow spying Are ordered to participate in a three Day novel writing but because none of them know How to they resort to torturing soviet dissident writers for Labelle said that after two Days of he was beginning to feel like a soviet dissident organizer laser said he Hopes the contest will turn into an annual of it gives All those Manitoba writers who Haven yet been published a forum for their material and a Chance to get a cps Tiff Churchill the port of Churchill is Only operating at on third capacity despite the tie up of Grain shipments from the Lakehead caused by a handlers Keith chairman of the Churchill 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 if 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 tonnage scaled Down the Churchill tonnage was scaled Down because of a shortage of Grain Early in the season resulting from last years drought in the Prairie prov 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 be 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 continuing labor woes predicted continued from Page 1 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 o a 42day strike by Forest Industry workers in British Columbia that crippled the provinces most important workers won in creases of 15 and 13 per cent Over two a Mont hold strike now under Way by Quebec and Ontario employees of Ste co the United steel workers of America is asking for a 30percent raise Over two a therean Dahal month strike by technicians at the they Are scheduled to vote this week on a Tenta Tive and the worst May be yet to come As an estimated workers whose contracts run out before the end of this year enter negotiations in a militant although he labels 1981 As a catchup 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 but there in a fighting most of them have seen their mortgage pay ments double this its the potential that is frightening flin flon mayor says he resents free ride Park residents Are getting continued from Page 1 said Davidsons arguments didst Wash because the 15 families living at nearby grass River provincial Park Are simply old flin flon Resi they simply moved he they Are Selling if we were 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 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 said 764 die in second major flood to hit China within one year 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 started 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 afghans Cross Border Islamabad afghan troops crossed into Pakistan yesterday and confiscated weapons in a Housetop House search at a Border Village in he 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 begin full of Energy news Roundup 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 Manila an a7e Corsair fighter Jet Landing on the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a taxiing f14 tomcat and pitched the 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 Vance meet new York israeli prime 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 new York City for today to meet with president Rea Gan tomorrow and couple allowed to wed peking a Montreal student has married his chinese Fiancee in the inner mongolian capital of hot after the intervention of Canad an external affairs minister Mark Macguigan and chinese Vic chair Man Deng Xiaoping following her mysterious disappearance last Gervais said in a Telephone interview from Hohhot today he had married Bao a dancer of the mongolian Minori Guatemala severs ties Guatemala City Guatemala severed consular relations with Britain yesterday to protest Lon dons decision to Grant Independence to Belize government spokesman Carlos Toledo Vielman Guatemala claims it inherited Spanish sovereignty Over for Merly known As British 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 neighbouring 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 he Ray president of the Union of Manitoba said it should be very simple for the province to Park residents to contribute toward the Cost of municipal and school ser 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 residents 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 permanent membership every spa features Thi latest ultramodern reducing body building and conditioning equipment at All 6 spa locations open daily 1010 a wac 224 16o7 474 1347 5894316 8893441 ooh Tohn 956o81o Gamin 2695971 ;