Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september Winnipeg fee press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published and printed six Days a week 300 Carlten Wynn Liefl r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free prom 18t2 the warm Leo Tribune 1690 Donald publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray sure managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials grasping the Olive Branch that was not quite an Olive Branch that prime minister Trudeau held out to the premiers from Seoul on monday it was More like an Olive which May possibly grow into a however equivocal the prime ministers suggestion that he might make another try at reaching a constitutional Consen sus with the Premier Bennett of British Columbia was quite right to accept it in the most positive possible by displaying Complete openness to by avoid ing the temptation to reply in kind to the prime ministers abuse of the Bennett has helped create an atmosphere which will make it difficult for Trudeau to reject another round of talks when he returns to Ottawa from the Commonwealth conference in of those talks Are to produce anything other than More confrontation and More the Federal government and a significant number of the premiers will have to Back off from their present Ottawa will have to accept less than is in the Resolution now before the House of and the eight dissident provinces will have to accept More than they offered in their proposal of last the reasonable solution would no doubt have been to go to Britain with a package which included simply palliation and an amending and to have dealt with the substantive including a Bill of once the Constitution was fully lodged in political realities make that course the Federal government has invested its political Credi Bili and the Federal parliament has invested months of in the charter of there is virtually no Chance now for a Compromise which will simply throw the results of All that work into the if there is to be a it has to be one which will at least preserve the work which has been done without imposing its results unilaterally on unwilling proposals for that kind of a solution were being floated about Ottawa during the constitutional and politicians seriously interested in accommodation should dig them out now and take another look at one proposal would accept a Bill of rights which initially applied Only to the Federal Power and would permit provinces to opt in to its provisions if they chose to do proposed by Gordon once the Federal govern ments ranking constitutional was a Little More it suggested that the Bill of rights should not take effect for four during that a province could opt out by a Resolution of its initially at that might mean the kind of Patchwork Constitution that the Federal liberals find if Sterling Lyon were still Premier of this province would undoubtedly opt if Rene Levesque were still Premier of that province would but govern ments change and opinions if a charter of rights is As and As As the Federal government then provincial would be forced by Public opinion to provide its benefits to their own whatever the merits of that particular that kind of Compromise is the Only Way to avoid the now More apparent than which would result from a Federal decision to press ahead it probably could never achieve the support of All the premiers but it might Well rally enough to satisfy the rather vague terms of the constitutional convention demanding provincial acceptance of Constitution Al change which a majority of the supreme court has declared to it is vital that a solution be found and be found one that preserves the Bill of which the prime minister feels is essential to protect our while not offending the constitutional conventions which also provide an important Protection for our political is the Only one that has a Chance of labor on the Brink Tony the wealthy has demonstrated consid Erable organizational skill by coming within a whisker of seizing the Deputy leadership of the British labor his loss to right Winger Denis by Only eight tenths of one per has also demonstrated the deep split within the institutions of the official a split that could ruin its chances of defeating the very unpopular ruling conservative party at the next general that same could give a major role in the next general election to a new political phenomenon that partly owes its birth this year to Benns attempts to swing labor to the extreme left the social first formed As an Alliance of dissident righting labor the movement has attracted one conservative has become a political party and has made an electoral pact with the Small Liberal it is a measure of the volatile state of current British party politics that such a minor event As the election of the Deputy Leader of a party out of Power should create such massive the is justified for the stakes Are High for for the for the social democrats and for the whose elastic political principles allowed him to move swiftly from the Centre to the far left of the party after it was Defeated in sought the Deputy leadership so that he would be Well placed to attempt to wrest the leadership from the aging and ailing Michael foot before the next general if he achieved and became prime he would remake the party and the Britain would withdraw from would unilaterally abandon its nuclear would withdraw from the european economic would establish a siege would virtually abolish free would have very much higher taxation than seen before in and would have the most rigidly planned Economy outside the soviet Margaret Thatcher and her conservatives can Only Benefit from his Advance toward control of the beside even Thatcher May seem moderate to British that is Why she must be disappointed that he failed to win the Deputy had he done she would have been tactically justified in considering calling an Early the social democrats and their Liberal allies must be disappointed that he it was widely believed that 20 More labor maps would have walked out of the party and into the had he for whose political emotions lie Well Over to the left of his party but whose Central goal As Leader must be to hold the party factions the result is deeply he wants Healey As Deputy to present a United front of the left and right of the he was aware that a humiliating defeat of would have led to defections to the possibly including Healey if Healey the departures might become a what the new electoral system foisted on the party by Benn and his allies has produced is a no result that leaves the whole left right Issue wide the labor party stands now at the Brink of a political foot cannot Stop the party falling the result will be disintegration and a major realignment of party politics in the its Breaks even if the Manitoba Telephone system were an investor owned rather than the Crown corporation that it there would not be much demand for its its highest Ever net Revenue million for last represents Only per cent of Gross revenues and Only per cent return on from an investment the Utility is not what is commendable about mass latest report is that its financial picture accurately reflects what it should be doing As a Crown corporation whose objectives include the provision of communications at close to a breakeven Cost to the the Small proft which has been achieved is healthier than a and while no one likes paying the higher Telephone rates that were put into place the annual report shows that they were needed to balance revenues against the balance Sheet demonstrates As Well that it is possible for a provincially owned Telephone Utility to operate at reasonable in the without the ironclad monopoly regulations on every part of the communications business that exist in neighbouring with a reasonable rate its should be Able to continue its healthy financial picture in spite of growing Competition in equipment the Utility will remain in limbo As Long As the provincial government leaves a proclaimed changes in regulations that were passed More than a year these new regulations gave its the ownership of the electronic communications Highway network in but permitted other organizations to travel on these High they represent a reasonable approach to communications its is healthy and the reason Why it should be to operate under a legislative Cloud is where in bla1es Ftfe checkpoint army cana6a planning the War on ded it is fitting that an International symposium and workshop on dutch Elm disease ded will be held Here from october 5 to october for few cities in North America Are so dependent on the Elm As the symposium no doubt will provide some new thoughts on fighting the one does not need an International symposium to reveal a glaring deficiency in the fight Here the Lack of funds to protect the Winnipeg elms will die a Large part of the More than 20 million elms in Southern Manitoba will die because of the spread of an Aerial Survey by the provincial depart ment of natural begun in and now two thirds gives this estimate of 20 million elms with a diameter of four inches or a Good part of these Trees will predicts Vern who is coordinator of the fight against ded in the costs of fighting the disease Are prohibitive and so efforts will be concentrated around Urban wild or native stands of elms in agricultural areas May be in poor condition and so vulnerable to the As in grazing lots where the environment is damaged by the Elm has been Manitoba most popular from 1910 until the year ded appeared three million Elm saplings from the Federal Nursery at Indian were planted along farmsteads and other our the native White or american has been the tree of All it is can grow in almost any Type of soil or it is also a tree of without peer in its magnificent now that it is vulnerable to the Token contributions by the province must be the province pays 50 cents per capita to As Well As the Cost of removing dead or diseased there Are two big gaps in Winnipeg As reported in a previous Trees Are kept healthy by pruning dead branches but funding in Winnipeg limits this to a Val Werier nine year it should be done every three As in private Trees Are ignored even though they constitute More than half the elms in Winnipeg has been fortunate because of the cites great attachment to Hildahl praised the City for embarking on preventive measures in the Early 1960s and stepping up its Sani tation program of removing dead and dying beetles that spread ded do not Breed in healthy but now that the disease has struck More effective measures Neces aside from a greater infusion of there must be greater Public this is one aspect that is being looked at by Alan appointed chairman of a Threeman policy advisory committee on a is an ardent Environ mentalist who is concerned about the threat to our Beautiful awareness needed the City and the province must enlist greater Public or Hildahl says one of the reasons for the spread of ded is the transport of Elm people who go camping pick up the infected Wood and spread the says Hildahl the Lon distance spread of ded is due in Large part to people carrying firewood from one campsite to this is one of our big problems the province passed legislation last March prohibiting the transport of Elm Wood As Well As storing and use of Elm for we do know people transport Elm says during the course of our ded surveillance pro the staff looked into Wood piles and found that about on fifth had Cut Wood is an Ideal Host for Breeding the department of Canadian the provincial department of natural an the City of Winnipeg conducted a study on using trap these Are Elm logs placed to attract within five Days of setting the it is not uncommon to find 250 galleries in a log four inches in diameter and a foot each gallery contains 40 to 50 and a possible Hatch of the traps Are placed in areas of High Beetle once in the they Are sprayed or at two the traps the Cut Elm was insecticide another method of killing the beetles is to Spray the insecticide Durban on the lower trunks of elms where the adults Winter in the this has been done in Crescent Wood and Norbert areas where there have been a lot of experiments at the Canadian forestry service Centre at Sault Marie show will kill 97 to 98 per cent of the spraying is being recommended in Sel Gimli and where there is heavy one strategy is to create a Buffer zone around Urban says it would have a twofold Pur pose an area that would attract beetles which would then be sprayed with sanitation would be carried out there too in pruning and removing dead a mistake was made in where All the Trees were cleared out along the River in anticipation of the spread of we evicted the says and moved them into the town of there must be a larger Buffer zone around there must also be a greater Effort to enlist the support of the Public in All aspects of fighting it is time too that the province recognized the danger to our with greater provincial and citizen support we can possibly save some of the millions of elms that Are otherwise doomed to dedicated men with regard to the headline in the september 22 free judge is critical of ambulance service once again it is the dedicated Young men who Are called after a tragedy has and who do their utmost to save the lives of the who Are publicly raked Over the when is the blame going to be placed where it belongs where is the supervision of these children where is the responsibility of the apartment Block owner it was pointed out in an earlier report in the free press that it was a regular occurrence for children in the neigh boyhood to visit this Why was this allowed to go on until there were two tragic deaths Davis Winnipeg use and death situations great White father i noticed in the free press of september 24 that Lloyd Axworthy is bringing Over another South asian while a worthy plays the great White Liberal to a handful of asias starving and homeless approximately one million people remain unemployed in prime minister Trudeau lavishly throws our Money around in and in his ignorance could not answer Joe Clarks question on the Price of a loaf of Premier Sterling Lyon proposes to create a few Hundred jobs in Manitoba at the expense of our and one of Manitoba maps brings in thou Sands More to add to the bread Adrian Ashley Winnipeg Rotten radishes we hear a lot about this being Mani Toba product i went to a supermarket and picked up a package of radishes packed for the Manitoba vegetable producers marketing i could have picked a package of radishes from after hearing about How wonderful Manitoba products Are i made the Choice a poor you cannot Tell by looking through a plastic package what the radishes Are i opened the package and took out a couple of radishes they were Rotten and had to be thrown in the so much for Manitoba products teak of the Market the vegetable producers marketing Milne Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to acid rain Why not Stop acid rain at its source Why Deal with its effects afterwards recent experiments in Western Europe have shown when Small amounts of certain salts Are blown into the flame area in Industrial they have an amazing effect on the furnaces waste soot is largely Fly Ash is Sulphur emissions fall off and Energy is saved because the fuel is burned More completely than it would otherwise in Ontario we Are treating our North Ern lakes with Lime in an attempt to neutralize the effects of acid Why do this when by using a relatively Small Quantity of fertilize like material we can Cut off the offending pollutants at the moment and place of their origin use these manmade inhibitors in the right Way and the unwelcome emis Sions originating in our Power plants and smelters can be reduced by As much As 50 per this can be done at a fraction of the Cost of building High smoke stacks and massive separa tors expensive Plant which is not All that effective the use of ammonia based and other salts to Knock Down pollutants at their source is a new admit but the for have proved that it works in Oil burning furnaces on a Large it also works with we Are to the High Sulphur oils and Lowe Grade coals because these fuels Are relatively abundant in the threat of pollution is therefore a growing so Why not launch a major research Effort aimed at protecting our living Environ ment in this Way the provinces and especially their provincially owned Power utilities should get into the so should our departments of environment and Exter Nal affairs in if our neighbors in the United states can clean up their act in this we All can Benefit from a technological breakthrough of this Jack la North Vancouver Seymour not Winnipeg Ger Here in the we often get the feeling that Winni Eggers see Manitoba As beginning and ending at the perimeter Highway in after what happened to my recent letter to the i am beginning to wonder instead of Steven Manitoba at the end of the you printed Steven let me assure i am Well and living in Steven Ashton profit is people i have been tempted in the past to reply to some of the letters published in the letters after Reading the letter right to strike from to president of the Canadian Cham ber of free septem ber 21 i decided As a Federal i had had enough garbage thrown at Roberts implies that he is speak ing out of concern for the Public i do not believe this to be the he is primarily concerned Only for the businessmen welfare profit he take away the right to strike from All Public service pm i have another before any business can raise the Price of its it would have to get approval from a majority of the the the office who work for a Boss who sometimes decides not to give them an adequate raise until a strike is after the Public interest should take precedence Over the business mens Germain Winnipeg moral decay i strongly object to the article toys in the free septem ber no wonder our society is and shame on the free press for helping moral decay along like the piece was neither educational nor i Hope that in future you will weigh More carefully what is in Good Teichroeb Winnipeg decadence the fall of the Canadian Empire after Reading the article of september toys for the i could not help but wonder what is happening to Are we going to repeat history and end in the same kind of decadence that the roman Empire did if in lovers Wear parties Are Selling things like two headed Pink vibrators pleasure Panda and panties with no you can use your imagination As to what they will be Selling in god created sex to be a Loving and binding not something to be talked about with Mike Charuk Winnipeg and this is one of me know it want ;