Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada bans ant Catholic comics the los Angeles times los Angeles two volumes of comic books published in Southern California have been banned in Canada because of their virulent ant Catholic a spokesman for the customs and excise department in said the action is the first time that canadians have used a customs Law usually directed against pornography to ban literature that might offend religious the customs official the legislation in our Tariff act mainly prohibits hardcore Roger Kohut of the Canadian Tariff programs and appraisals division the comics were judged to fall within the definition of immoral or indecent the double Cross and the big Are published by Chick publications of Chino and Cuca As part of fundamentalist Jack Chicks crusader comics the comic books have created a juror among roman and were described recently in the Catholic league newsletter As religious hate literature and sectarian por Nogra the Fourcolors recommended by Chick for Reading by adults and Are sold by the thousands in Bible bookstores across the United states and in this is news to Chicks Secre tary said yesterday when a reporter asked for Chicks reaction to the ban of the two comic books in customs lawyers in head quarters for Canadas customs and excise decided to ban the comics Friday after they were referred to Ottawa by customs officers in Cal the Calgary customs said that two people had bought Dou ble Cross and the big betrayal in a Bookstore in and then wrote his office about the Litera see customs Page 4 Ariel Dur ants death severs 66year love historical Cloudy tonight 0 Cloudy tomorrow 10 Winnipeg free pres october 1981 pm Omi final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets survivors of haitian refugee boat tragedy wait in bus after being taken into custody by bodies of 33 others who didst make it washed from the news services Hillsboro some of the dead seemed to be these haitians who had reached America at Only to in the tossing Many were their clothes ripped off by the rough one Man Lay face his forearms stiff reaching for the his eyes were he had a Toothbrush in his standing Over a resident of one of the nearby luxury Beach houses said a policeman told me that an other one Down the Beach had a Bible with thirty three dead haitian refugees washed up yesterday on a Beach North of fort they were drowned Early in the Day after their Eighme Frelong wooden Sailboat broke up in rough surf less than 800 metres from the coast guard the 34 others aboard the boat it was the worst such Accident since heavy influxes of began arriving in the United states by boat More than three years by the dead near naked bodies twisted into broke doll positions by the fierce Waves that dumped them ashore littered the Beach along with boat de including the broken the partially submerged boat washed the bodies littered a Beach normally punctuated Only by signs Advertis ing luxury condominiums at Over look for you come so said Dan a police sergeant in this town 55 Kilometres North of half of them made half of them its so an american who give her name said she had seen the remains Beach of the it was not seaworthy at she it looked like a combat zone there were bodies said police patrolman Joe the dead included 19 men and 14 three of whom were preg All were described As Young adults by authorities at the Broward county walking on the a retired nurse wore a Anne medal around her Helen Bugeda was saying rosaries forthe in praying for she kind of country must they see what Page 4 Bankers say banners in Good shape optimistic picture painted just As liquidation Sale gets under Way up in a major statement on Canadas farm the Canadian Bankers association said yesterday Only a fraction of Canadas Farmers Are in financial and those facing difficulty Are in that Situa Tion largely because of their own out dated As association presi Dent macintosh presented that message to the opening of the organizations annual agricultural credit con residents in the Small Rural Community of about 120 Kilometres North of made Prepa rations to attend a liquidation Sale of the assets of three bankrupt area farm the situation provided a picture of Canadas agricultural the Bankers is mainly but is hurting in Ontario from High interest rates and Low in an aggressive speech criticizing the Media and Federal agriculture minister Eugene macintosh quoted Federal statistics showing 191 Farmers went bankrupt in the first nine months of an increase of 27 Over Aid finds no he said this was a Small proportion of Canadas Farmers and Only a Small additional proportion on half of one per cent face the wider spec Trum of forced sales or voluntary based on this derived in conversation with farm he Esti mated 500 of Ontario Farmers Are in turning to Ontario beef among the hardest hit Farmers in can macintosh said these problems Are largely the result of costs due to feeding cattle with High priced Western Canada but Jim Secretary trea surer of the Ontario cattlemen action disputed macintosh Allega saying most armers switched to Ontario Corn from Western Grain Long Harkness said macintosh is Proba Bly right in his estimate that less than one per cent of Farmers in Canada Are in but noted a Survey this fall in Western and Central Ontario showed nearly half the permanent beef producers have dangerously High debt there Are All kinds of people in the beef business who have had to Mort Gage their property to keep their Heads above Harkness Ron first Vic president of the Ontario federation of even doubted macintosh half fone percent White said Macin toss estimate is based on Only one Short period of time during the if All of 1981 is taken into he that figure could be multiplied As much As four Harkness criticized the say ing aggressive encouragement of farm borrowing during the last few years helped Many Farmers get in Over their Pepin vows to go ahead on via cuts by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa transport minister Jeanluc Pepin said yesterday he was born with railway smoke in his but Only a court injunction now can Stop a Cros Canada series of Passen Ger service cuts by the Federal via Pepin was speaking before angry opposition maps and a commons Public gallery containing some of about 100 protesters fresh from a Cross country trek in support of transcontinental ser the protesters Are angry Over a Federal Cabinet decision announced in july to drop the supercontinent Al and create an intercity Cros Canada rail cutting 13 routes and reducing service on the cuts takes effect in about three alternately philosophical and rejected Calls for special consideration and postpone ment from progressive conservative and new Democrat maps representing most parts of the he even rejected an Appeal to his emotions from Patrick Nowlan pc Annapolis Valley ants who asked with Pepins background How he could allow the cuts to go Pepins was a train Man for in and the son admitted i was born with railway smoke in my but he said the Only thing that could delay cuts affecting about 20 per cent of passenger routes would be a Success Ful court an injunction bid is but Pepins office is not sure from where or before what earlier reports said a lawsuit filed Friday in a Winnipeg court by via supporters was aimed at stopping the on the chamber of Commerce announced it is planning to take the Federal government to court Alberta government support to Stop planned Pepin said hone of his opponents has denied that the passenger rail system needs but instead they Are objecting to the loss of specific routes which concern Manitoba opposition maps were at least As angry As their counterparts from other parts of the but they aimed their attacks at the Cabinet minister responsible for their province in the Liberal Hierarchy employ ment minister Lloyd Charles Mayer Quette told Axworthy the cuts will Cost direct jobs and spinoff he demanded that Axworthy intercede in Cabinet on behalf of the made arrangements Axworthy said anyone who listened to Pepin would know that the transport minister has made arrangements to effectively take care of anyone who will be displaced As part of changes to improve railway service in Axworthy was also hauled on carpet by Dan Mckenzie Peg Assiniboine who said As chairman of the Cabinet Western development the Manitoba minister should never have allowed cuts which will result in a devastating effect on the Western Axworthy said there have been All kinds of benefits to the West and Mani Toba including new hangar and High technology situation he said is preferable to supporting Obs Pepin said railways could not managed to service three revolutions he explained the see court Page 4 Pawley hears rent complaints by Maureen Brosnahan Winnipeg free press Brandon angry Many of them senior citizens who said they face rent increases of up to 72 per jammed a Small meeting room Here yesterday to Lay their complaints at the feet of nip Leader Howard tenant after tenant stood quoting their own some As High As a Anne is facing such an increase in her on bedroom apart ment in her rent will go to from i refuse to be she told i can make but ill have to Cut a Corner somewhere while expecting some com plaints since rent controls were lifted last seemed surprised at the nip Campaign organizers expected about 40 people from the bran Don West constituency where High rents Are a major but almost 100 people crowded into the Small area near the swimming Pool and Patio in the Canadian see Pawley Page 4 election u81 nip wont sell seed company nip Leader Howard Pawley says government owned Mckenzie Steele Briggs seeds would not be sold if his party and the liberals and progressives have condemned a Csc decision to bar their leaders from a to London blast a British explosives expert laughed and joked before going into a London restaurant to examine an Ira bomb it blew up in his flesh blood James River on trial for the murder of his said he was a Vampire and needed his grandmothers blood or he would his Mother Argo Nono Toronto argonauts mistakenly placed quarterback Condredge Holloway on the clubs injury list losing his services for 60 Blind Leader egyptian police have arrested a Blind Man they say is ideological Leader of the fanatic moslem group blamed for the assassination of president Anwar Index Ann 18 33 7 22 27 crossword 22 40 6 21 Jumble Puzzle 33 49 sports 17 to t ;