Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 16 1981 rail cutbacks especially hard on northerners by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson there were words of bitterness and humor As via rail train 9091 pulled into Thomp son station for the last time saturday a victim of Federal Cut trapper George shouldering a Large said the train would be missed not Only by communities along the route but by dozens of trap pers who hailed it Down from their i didst really need to go to town this but i had to have a last ride on the said who stopped the train eighty Kilometres Southwest of rail line blockaded in protest continued from Page 1 Regin and the of Queens Bench ruled Friday that it did not have jurisdiction in the the Manitoba government also applied to the Federal court to Block the reductions but court officials in Ottawa and Winnipeg could not say what happened with that in Quebec a group of indians from Weymon tache Attila Umekwe near the isolated Community of 250 Kilometres North of made a last ditch attempt to stave off the indians blocked the rail line and held a number of cars for Ransom during the demanding a meeting with Pepin in an attempt to get him to keep the train running to their a via rail Daniel Ros confirmed yesterday that Pepin and via rail Vic president Leo Moisan will meet with Reserve the the other transcontinental line pulled into Halifax for the last with 65 passengers and Crew on the train linked Halifax and Montreal through Southern new Brunswick and Northern Small crowds gathered at train stations in Southern new Brunswick to Vaye goodbye to the train that was their Only rail link to Ive used old 91 Ever since it was put on the line after Thompson started the train arrived at and Teft for its final return run to Winnipeg 30 minutes most of the travellers came from Thicket a Community of just Over 200 residents about 75 Kilometres Southwest of there Are no roads to the Hamlet and the mainly trappers and Are dependent on the rail the Only alternative is air trans train 9091 has run from Winnipeg to Thompson on thursday and arriving at and return ing a half hour another unaffected by the via cutbacks ordered by Federal transport minister Jeanluc will continue to run from Winnipeg to Thompson and on to Churchill on wednesday and arriving in Thompson at its southbound run to Winnipeg goes thursday and departing from Thompson at two nights use of the two trains made it possible for Thicket Portage shoppers to do their business in Thompson with a on night the elimination of train Means they will have to spend two on Thicket Portage school principal John with his wife Marion and son were busily loading eight Large Cartons of food and other purchases on the baggage they were worried about How they would make their next shopping trip to the train fare is but now the kleins will have to Fly at a Cost of Between and one for a thre seater which would not be Able to carry Many the alternative is two nights in a Thompson trapper George who also operates Kis Tigan Market gardens at Thicket said cutting the train will hit his business we Market a lot of our produce at the department stores and supermarkets in he with the old schedule we could put our bedding plants and vegetables on the train at noon and they be in Thompson by 2 and on Sale by the same its heartbreaking for people who Are so dependent on the i astronauts Joe Jungle left and Richard truly Centre look the space shuttle Over after their touchdown shuttle completed 90 of its goals continued from Page 1 looking at it Page i thought the Bird looked so Good that we were going through a curing process from the reentry heat that made the whole tile system work the reason for the Slayton and Page was that shuttle managers made changes in launch procedures and toughened up some tiles vulnerable positions on the even though the flight of astronauts Joe Henry Engle and Richard truly was Cut Short by More than half be cause of a dead fuel Slayton insisted that Engle and truly worked so hard the two Days they were in orbit that they did 90 per cent of what they had set out to we accomplished so Many of our flight objectives that i envision a mini mum tuning on the next flight to catch Slayton the next flight of Columbia is scheduled for two late because of the countdown problems that delayed the first and second one reason flight directors refused to allow Columbia to Fly on with two of its three fuel cells was that shuttle manag ers desperately wanted information about columbian reentry into the atmosphere that they did not get on the first during reentry on the first when the shuttle underwent maximum heating at an Altitude of almost something happened that erased All the data being recorded by heat sensors along the in my 50 percent of the data we wanted from this flight was entry Slayton if we had lost an additional fuel cell we would have lost All Slayton explained that if col Nibia returned to Earth on fuel the astronauts would not have had enough electricity to bring Columbia Home to a Safe Landing and keep instruments such As the heat sensors the sen sors that collect data on How the fuse Lage heated up during reentry are1 among those instruments not needed at had they been turned shuttle managers still would not have the vital information they need on How Columbia behaves during reentry even though the shuttle had made two test maps slaying angers protestants a photo continued from Page 1 from the Secretary of state for Northern Ireland James prior to every member of that govern Paisley those Are the men who Are placed in Ulster to destroy those Are the men against whom we must Strug Harold another protes Tant member of the House of commons from Northern called for a on hour strike throughout Ulster Dur ing Bradford funeral the Leader of Northern ire lands democratic unionist is a militant opponent of the agreement last week by Thatcher and Irish prime minister Garret Fitzgerald to set up an Anglo Irish Council to improve relations Between the two other protestants fear the coun cil is a step toward the British surren Der of Northern Ireland and its protes Tant majority to the predominantly roman Catholic Irish Mccusker in a radio interview said the Thatcher Fitzgerald agreement was motivating the Ira fighting a guerrilla War to reunite Ulster with because they think they Are win another protestant political Ken Maginnis of the Ulster unionist told a news conference the protestants will protect themselves in a Way that will put the terrorists in he did not was shot and killed by masked gunmen who burst into a Community Centre in Belfast on a 90metre Tanker is pushed aground off Cape in a coastal storms hit coasts from the news services Vancouver thousands of Homes remained without Power yesterday As Hydro Many of which had worked through the moved from one downed Power line to another throughout windbag tired southwestern Gal Force winds of up to 65 Kilometres an hour downed hundreds of including one that crashed through the roof of a killing a North Vancouver the which weather officials said originated in the Pacific hit hardest in in Oreg nand Washington state on its journey Seaborn storms assaulted the United Stales from two sides during the off the Atlantic where a to Lemi ally dangerous storm was working its Way toward new England Large were in in new ads and tides broke up a 91metre stretch i Roadway envoys Home attacked Glen a gunman Satur evening fired a dozen bullets into the me of the soviet ambassador to the red Oleg shatter ing windows but causing Little damage and no police reported a Man who would not identify Fin self telephoned the associated press Aid said the defence league was r news Roundup responsible for the Gambia merge Ivory coast gambian pres ident sir Dawda Jawara has formally placed his tiny West african country under Senegal umbrella less than four months after senegalese troops helped him foil a coup an official announcement in Banjul saturday said Senegal and Gambia had decided to the new state of Senegambia will be headed by senegalese president Abdou greek Diplomat murdered Australia the greek Consul general in Sydney was found dead in his Home today with a Long bladed knife in his Back and his hands tied behind police the blood covered body of Constantine was found by a staff member from the consulate who went to his House after the Consul general failed to arrive for police said they could not say what motivated the Concrete collapse kills 51 Mexico fifty one people were killed and 49 injured when a Concrete stand at a Bull ring collapsed yesterday during a political meeting in this Eastern mexican a red Cross spokesman said he said a crowd of about were attending a political rally at the Plaza de Toros when the Concrete stand gave Way and fell on a corridor where people were milling the spokesman said Many of those injured were trampled in a Stampede and that the condition of some was reported to be Korchnoy extracts draw Italy challenger Viktor Korchnoy and reigning titleholder Anatoly Karpoy of the soviet Union begin the 17th game of their world chess championship Battle today with Karpov still needing one More win to keep the title for the next three but the exiled soviet grandmaster and trailing has the initial of opening with the White and his morale was boosted yesterday by a carefully engineered draw against the run of play in the 16th peacekeepers arrive Ndjamena the Vanguard of an african peacekeeping Force for Chad arrived in Ndjamena yesterday As the last group of libyan troops in the capital flew military sources some 250 zairian paratroops arrived aboard a civil Ian air Zaire dc10 ;