Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Park wardens cracking Down on poachers by Andy Becq Winnipeg free press Wasagaming Riding Mountain National Park wardens have marshalled their forces for a crackdown on some of whom Are Selling meat in weve increased our patrols to try and control it said Keith an area or manager in the were setting things id just rather not say too its Safe to say we have a which includes schedules and so said Ray manager for the North end of the while the War Dens were reluctant to give details of the operation of fear of tipping off the Foster said it will Likely to continue through to Angus assistant superintendent of the said there Are quite big shipments of meat going to Winnipeg from Riding he said the wardens Are after a Core of seasoned poachers who have practice their Trade in the Park of a number of there Are a few people that poach for a living and sell it meat of a that the people wed like to Foster said poachers Are generally after the Large population of Elk in the but will also take Moose or me said they travel on on Hofses of in Maclean said poaching is aft ongoing even when Yod catch them it int always a clearcut he Foster added that for the 21 Riding Mountain catching poachers can also be a dangerous every encounter you have with a dealing with an armed he wardens have the Powers of police under the National Parks they take intensive Law enforce ment although they dont carry they have poachers Are difficult to catch and often wardens find themselves chasing them through the Bush on although patrol aircraft and vehicles Are also Foster the area manager added that poach ing has been pretty constant in the 10 years Hes been at Riding a lot of it is thrill seeking because it is he the current maximum Fine for poaching in National Parks is although a higher maximum of is under Prairie whales regulars at Manitoba Clear tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 18 september 109 no 241 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 Home delivery 957o550 classified 956233o second class mail registration number os86 provinces protest sport Pool scheme up photo by Cecil Rosner Manitoba sports minister Bob ban along with ministers from several other has denounced Otta was proposal for a sports wagering Banman said the announced yesterday by Federal sports minister Gerald violates the spirit of a 1979 agreement which left lotteries to the i dont feel this is in the Best interests of Good relationships with the Federal Banman said in an and its not in the Best interests of lotteries in Steve regans progressive conservative called it a declaration of War on the the sport similar to pools which Are institutions in will raise Money for Amateur the arts and medical areas now suffering under Federal spending but Paproski said it will compete directly with provincially run lotteries and heat up Federal provincial rela Paproski signed that agreement which Regan has attacked almost from the Day he became repeatedly he said Federal lawyers were trying to find a Way out of Paproski said the Federal govern ment is due million this year from the agreement and million to million next the Regan announcement could prompt the provinces to withhold pick game scores unlike a lottery where the purchaser Hopes the number on his ticket is a a Pool participant must correctly pick game scores in whichever sport he if he is completely he would share in the top lesser prizes would be awarded to those who were partly a new Crown corporation will be established by legislation that Regan says will be introduced in the fall session of he Hopes the Pool will Start in he said it could raise As much As million for Federal coffers in its first year of at the profits will be split equally Between the medical research and including such special projects As Calgary bid to be Host for the 1988 Winter olym the Federal proposal also Drew Quick protests from provincial spokesmen in British Columbia and they cant kid Ontario recreation minister Reuben Baetz said yesterday Regan May claim the betting Pool is not a but provincial ministers we feel that like trying to differentiate Between a Hare and a he they cant kid us on he said Ontario May seek a court injunction against the proposed what bothers me irritates me is that were having a fed Era provincial meeting of sports ministers in Vancouver on Baetz Regan wanted to discuss lot teries with this is so they make an announcement and then de cide to consult Regan said that while there will be some element of friction with some of the the Pool is Dif Ferent from the provincial there will be meetings with the prov inces to try to resolve their concerns about the Federal Hugh head of the National sport said Canadian performances in next years Commonwealth games in Australia will show the need for the he said that rapidly rising travelling and training costs have outstripped the Money available to Canadian and they Are not improving As fast As competitors from other can Ada won the 1978 games but people see hockey Page 4 a sign of the times Gord unofficial mayor of the newly proclaimed Village of dire poses with about 40 other angry residents of the Village usually known As new about 10 Kilometres South of the residents changed the name of their Community to dire Straits in response to prime minister Trudeau declaration last week that Only those canadians in dire Straits would be eligible for Relief from a troubled walkout threat hangs Over Anco at Thompson Plant will be in Legal strike position by Midnight encephalitis victim Dies in Hospital by Ingeborg Boyens a 75yearold Winnipeg woman suf Fering from Western Equine encephalitis died in Hospital about three weeks health minister Bud Sherman said Sherman said it has been impossible to determine whether the unidentified woman death was caused by sleeping sickness or by several other such As Parkinson disease and heart of which she was also a the elderly woman was among seven new cases of Western Equine encephalitis in Manitoba identified Over the the number of confirmed human cases of sleeping sickness now stands at two of the six new victims Are still in Hospital and not doing very said the rest have but Are still one victim is an while the others Are adult All but one live outside of about half of the new cases contracted the disease during the first few weeks of August when pesticide Spray ing by the province had just the others caught the disease during the latter weeks of the month after the Bay on application had been compleat Sherman maintained the million spraying which covered 21 was still the most effective method of coping with encephalitis carrying culex tarsal is the pesticide was effective in killing about 90 per cent of the but a few surviving mosquitoes evidently passed on the virus to the new victims of the the minister i want to make it Clear the Only effective weapon we have right now is the Aerial spraying and the Only truly viable form of insecticide against this Type of Mosquito is the controlled a see Sherman Page 4 by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson workers at Inco metals company voted per cent yesterday in favor of striking to Back contract the workers at the Plant can legally strike at Midnight tonight when the present contract runs victorious hoots and hollers in front of the United steelworkers of America Headquarters Here last night greeted the announcement that a strike had been Inco is pulling Power in the Plant and will prepare for an orderly Shu Down by Midnight tonight if a strike is Terry the company chief said Blake president of steel workers local said we will meet today to prepare for a strike but we Are also ready to talk with Inco at any time or for however Long it the Ball is definitely in their they will have to come Back with a contract a hell of a lot better than the ones that have been agreed to in the Basic steel Industry to meet the needs of our people up the vote was a Flat rejection of incas final wage and benefits which the company claimed would boost earnings of miners and refinery and surface workers by be tween per cent and 55 per cent Over a three year when the ballots were counted under the scrutiny of local Church leaders and the had voted in favor of a strike and 501 More than 87 per cent of the eligible voters turned said the company offer was the richest Ever made to Inco or other Industrial workers in Mcgrath and Union negotiators claimed the company calculations were misleading because they included a number of benefits gained in previous Lineker said the Inco offer is better than any of the Basic steel he stressed that the company is pre pared to reshape its but insisted the company has no More Money to put into a the Union has got their big mandate so it is up to them to come to us with a Lineker the Ball is in their Mcgrath said the Union would put no conditions on its efforts to reach a settlement and is even flexible on the length of the Inco wants a three year saying it would give More stability to the Community and the steelworkers have demanded a oneyear agreement which would expire in the same year As incas Ontario division in Sudbury and port it would open the door to Industry wide the Union local residents and business people were Quick to express con Cern about the Impact of a one operator of a service and Supply business said he would have to immediately Cut his staff in half if he hoped to stay in doctors Lead lawyers As nations top Money earners Ottawa up has replaced As the Canadian City with the highest average but doctors still Lead dentists and lawyers As the biggest Money earners in the a Revenue department report re leased yesterday and based on 1979 in come tax returns shows the average income in Markham was while Oakville residents averaged Calgary was third at burling fourth at and Edmon ton fifth at Winnipeg ranked with an aver age income of was at the Bottom of the departments ranking of 100 communities with popu lations above it showed an aver age income of the department said that of the income tax returns filed in or just under on fifth of one per cent of the reported incomes above Only said they earned More than while accountants and engineers re ported average incomes of More than fishermen said they earned an average of Farmers Small business owners and pensioners the department said in a news re lease the average income for who along with dentists and lawyers Are classified As self employed proves was per cent higher than in dentists averaged per cent higher and lawyers had an average income of 10 per cent the highest paid group of employees was teachers and University professors with average salaries of Feder Al government employees earned 587 while the average armed forces pay was one thing that was Down was the Cost of collecting in it Cost for every compared with in 1978 and in jets scramble insiders say Only eight of last years Winnipeg jets have so far made this years and the rest Are locked in fierce Competition to keep their Al Sands doubt a major sponsor of the proposed Al Sands Oil Sands Plant says it Doest appear commercially viable under terms of the Alberta Ottawa Energy moral support an external affairs official expresses moral support for exiled vietnamese soldiers who say they Are planning to retake their yellow rain the is asking the United nations to investigate evidence that three pro soviet countries Are using an outlawed chemical Poison in military Index Ann 23 39 7 26 47 24 47 8 23 Jumble 51 Klady 39 59 sports to 1 ;