Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba One year after Italy w i Many people dying to get in the last word by David Obrien he take it with so a Winnipeg truck Driver who died recently did the next Best thing had an exact replica of his Tanker truck engraved in his Winnipeg Monument builders say they regularly get unusual requests for epitaphs from families who want their relatives remembered for what they were in others want epitaphs that talk to the like the inscription on one local Tombstone that says get off my this is my Home and youre just a Wayne owner of Larsen said some families have requested epitaphs that were off color and in bad he said they were so bad he reveal their Content for one family with a sense of humor requested this inscription on the fathers Gravestone once i then i now i aint no another Industry spokesman re called requests for tombstones engraved with a Royal flush in the Case of an Indian who worked with dog dog tracks running across the the spokesmen said in interviews yesterday the traditional rest in peace epitaph Hast but they pointed out that unusual re quests have been around for a Long Herb owner of Westwood memorials and president of the Manitoba Monument said he sees nothing wrong with personalized monuments and encourages people to think of something to reflect the persons Cloudy today 1 Cloudy tonight 5 november 1981 109 no 299 free final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets fire aftermath a Winnipeg firefighter shovels debris from a window in the Gordon Down owner motor hotel on Kennedy Street where a fire last night sent a Man to Hospital suffering smoke smoking in bed caused the fire officials French Only trial ends in acquittal by Glen Mackenzie the first Manitoba trial conducted in French in More than 90 years ended yesterday in a double Victory for Pierre son of French Lan Guage activist Georges the Crown counsel and de Fence lawyer All were court documents were in and Forest was acquitted on a charge of driving through a red Light in connection with a March traffic Justice was said who waived his right to simultaneous trans lation because he is we now have a French so Justice was he said in an the Accident want my fault Justice was done of the five witnesses who testified Only Forest and his Lise spoke in but court officials were prepared to con duct All proceedings in provid ing simultaneous translation if Neces the trial was held in judge Robert the Only one of Manitoba provincial judges fluent in addressed the court see French Page 4 impasse broken on rights for natives and women Ottawa up the Federal government and nine provinces achieved what appeared to be a major break through yesterday and agreed to rein state sexual Equality and native rights in the new the lat night announcement by jus Tice minister Jean which stunned the was heralded As Good news for women who had been demanding unquestioned equal rights with but there were indications the agree ment might be unacceptable to leaders of native and care appearing to acknowledge said the government might drop the idea if natives dont accept a spokesman for one of the few native groups that has previously sup ported the Federal government on the Issue said prime minister Trudeau and the premiers have screwed the natives by narrowing the definition of their All i know is that weve been robbery a sign of times by Murray Mcneill the number of Bank and credit Union holdups in Winnipeg Rose by 70 per cent in the first 10 months of this and police Are laying part of the blame on Tough economic Winnipeg crime staff Des Depourcq said that in the 10 months from 1 to 31 this 41 financial institutions were held up compared with 24 robbed to the end of october last at the same the number of Gas station and convenience store robberies has also Depourcq last year there were 161 robberies in the 10 while this year the number has risen to 207 an increase of per and if the past few Days Are any the trend is Likely to continue to years there were four holdups in the City last and four during the week the targets included four convenience two Gas bars and two the staff inspector said although there May be a number of factors behind the increase in he attributes part of the problem to the bad economic conditions canadians Are i think part of it has to be the economic conditions in the Depourcq things Are pretty tight and unemployment is pretty i think in a lot of cases you get people who Are pressured into doing things they normally such As robbing a he while its just a some of the robbery cases that have come before the courts in recent weeks would seem to support Depourcq on for a 21year old Niverville Man with no previous criminal involvement was sentenced to two years less a Day for robbing a Winnipeg grocery store last the reason he gave police for the robbery was that hed been Laid off see hard Page 4 said Charlie chief constitutional negotiator for the inuit Tapir sat of argued that the rewording which now refers to existing rights of natives changes the agreement Between Ottawa and All provinces except Quebec virtually reverses provisions of the 5 Accord Between nine premiers and tru Deau to restrict sexual Equality and drop native Trudeau temper Chretien announced inces have agreed to that the prov d reinstatement of a provision in the Resolution now before the commons that would make the constitutions charter of rights apply equally to men and this would replace a pro vision in the 5 Accord which would have allowed parliament or the provincial Legislatures to pass legislation overriding Equality d entrenchment in the Constitution of guarantees for existing native the word existing was added to a clause approved by parliament Early this native leaders have previously expressed Strong reservations about the use of the the Federal government sought a Broad provincial consensus for change from the 5 but Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney said he would not join eight other premiers in accepting Equality rights unless aboriginal rights also were there still exists a Strong disagree ment to the constitutional package be fore the parti quebecois Premier Rene Levesque objects to Lan Guage rights provisions and Lack of financial compensation for provinces deciding to opt out of certain constitutional opposition Leader Joe Clark suggested yesterday Quebec Amend its own Laws restricting minority language education and then opt in to the provisions in the new since province after province changed position in the face of one of the most vigorous protests by politicians and Public groups in recent Cana Dian Blakeney held out for aboriginal British Columbia pre Mier Bill Bennett and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed resisted Calls for native rights changes for fear their prov inces would suffer from native land other premiers were concerned the whole Accord could be Des troyed if amendments were late last Bennett and Lough eed made separate Bennett said the Federal government must be responsible for costs to the provinces resulting from native tru Deau rejected this and said he believed Bennetts mind could be see existing Page 4 a photo Leonid Brezhnev left and Helmut Schmidt Clink glasses before dinner in Bonn last Schmidt claims soviets serious on missile cuts Bonn Reuter West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has expressed cautious Hope that the United states and soviet Union can make Progress toward reducing nuclear armaments in Europe at talks starting in Geneva next Overall it is quite Clear that the soviet like the seriously want to negotiate in Geneva on medium Range he told a television interviewer after a Day of talks with soviet president Leonid i am sure that both the american and soviet sides Are ready to move toward each other without stating clearly in which in which Way and Brezhnev earlier dashed West Ger Man Hopes of a positive response to president reagans so called Zero option offer to abandon the North at lactic treaty organizations scheduled installation of new Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Europe in 1983 if Moscow agreed to scrap its medium Range nuclear missile speaking at a banquet Given by the original Champion of the Zero he said the soviet Union is actually being asked to pursue unilateral since the offer does not include Marin based missiles or nato rockets already based in eur Brezhnev said reagans proposal would give nato a two Toone superiority in medium Range missile it is Clear the soviet Union will never agree to such a he intentions positive he Moscow delegation will enter the nuclear arms negotiations in Geneva with the intention of achieving positive re Brezhnev countered reagans offer by putting Forward proposals which Western observers said had been made in various forms by Moscow in the he said the soviet Union is ready to freeze the number of its medium Range missiles at their current level during the Geneva if the agrees to it would go further by unilaterally reducing part of its missile Force based in Eastern Europe As a Goodwill although Brezhnev described this As a essential element in our Posi Western experts noted that the missiles could still hit targets in West Ern Europe from their truck trailer platforms if they were moved outside european areas of the soviet Schmidt expressed scepticism in his television interview about the newness of the saying that Brezhnev had put Forward a different combination of ideas which had already figured in Public it has linked this with terms and conditions which must be examined More Schmidt the soviet Leader allotted 40 minutes each to talks with the leaders of Bonns political parties at his baroque guest Home in Gimnich outside his Pri Kliest guest May be opposition Leader Franz Josef just Back from a visit to where chinese leaders continue to accuse the soviet Union of a lust for International domination and Ulster strike thousands of protestants respond to Ian Paisley Call for a Ulster wide general fleeting Fame bombers wide receiver Mike Holmes is oddly detached about an Achilles Tendon injury that could end his pro football dirty red Winnipeg sewage is infecting the red to reverse the situation could Cost says a report to be released fiscal fight finance minister Maceachen and his provincial counterparts Battle Over Federal plans to Cut Aid to the provinces by Index Ann 23 33 7 20 21 34 6 a Jumble 26 26 33 33 49 sports to ;