Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six clays a week Al 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray bit managing editor Rudy Redekop controller an instant front runner to says something unflattering about the Othef candidates that Brian Mulroney can step directly from a corporate presidency into a position at the front of the conservative party leadership the after Are reputed to be looking for a Winner and alone among the serious has never won he of never lost anything except the leadership of the progressive conservative which apparently hardly but Joe who had the misfortune to win that contest and to go on to win a National lost it All a few months later and will be perpetually dismissed As a because he has discreetly stayed out of those difficult has not been tarred with the Brush of he in some qualities which the conservative party ought to be looking he Speaks fluent which is an important qualification for anyone who proposes to Lead a bilingual he has a certain Appeal in though whether it will be Strong enough to bring in a significant number of votes is unknown because it has never been he presumably has some administrative or the Iron Ore company of Canada would have offered him a Golden he clearly has some political abilities or he would not have been Able to emerge with his reputation enhanced from a difficult episode in which he closed Down a mine and a his political and economic views appear to be moderate and for the moment at Mulroney chief is revealed by the fact that his Campaign must be devised to conceal his most striking the Campaign will be at pains to play Down the idea that Mulroney is Slick and polished and has Rich and influential but it is precisely the slickness and the polish and the Rich and influential friends which got Mulroney where he is John who entered race the same Day As faces the same need to conceal his most salient Crosbie will set out to convince canadians that he is As they witty and As he demonstrated in his speech to the Canadian club in the first occasion on which he attempted to appear weaned on a he is certain to Crosbie will find his Tongue impossible to he is making no attempt to conceal his unlike most who prefer to tiptoe delicately around most controversial Crosbie is clearly ready to state some firm positions on in the address which launched his he pleaded for a new economic Deal with the United states to Rescue Canada from its present lonely place outside of world Trade at the same he stuck by his 1979 budget which indeed considering the constraints created by other policies of the Short lived conservative government a Good Deal More appropriate for its time than any brought Forward recently by Liberal finance Speaks no his wit is often More personal than he has not proven yet to be the kind of Man who could rally National support behind the conservative the entry of Crosbie and Mulroney makes the tory leadership race More interesting but it does not offer any surefire As Mulroney every candidate has his handicaps and the problem for All of them at the moment is that the handicaps loom premature nomination a time will come for serious consideration of who should stand for parliament As progressive conservative Candi Date in Winnipeg that will be when the party has chosen itself a Leader and a direction and begun to recruit candidates accordingly and when there is an election in when that time the party should see to it that a serious nominating convention is held in Winnipeg Dan Mckenzie has been Able to assemble a band of zealots around his theory that Federal language though it is endorsed in substance by Al three National is one step in a grand strategy to stamp out the rights of no French the Zeal of this group which has hijacked the Winnipeg Assiniboine party plus the broader Appeal of the party of Robert Stanfield and Joe have ensured Mckenzie reelection since but Federal language policy is nowhere near As important in the minds and lives of most Winni Eggers As it is in Mckenzie obsessive Campaign on the Mcken Zie misrepresents both his party and his the constituency needs a member who will play a helpful role in the improvement of Winnipeg International Airport and the development of the aerospace Industry and who will take an intelligent interest in a Broad Range of National it needs a member with two oars in the not one who keeps rowing round and round the same pointless Mckenzie has sniped constantly at his Joe he is one of the group in the Federal caucus whose inability to grasp How a political party must work has sustained Public doubts about the party fitness to it is inconceivable that the june convention will choose a Leader who will reflect Mckenzie eccentric and Mckenzie has shown his inability to March with a Leader whose View of Canada is broader than his the new Leader will presumably have to put up with continued disloyal the party will be the weaker for it while Mckenzie a political party brings together people from All regions of the country holding a variety of views and blends those views into one if the party is to be taken its prominent such As candidates and must then defend that program equally in All parts of the differences of View of course but they cannot be carried on so shrilly As to create confusion about where the party the conduct of Mckenzie and a few others has created especially in Over where the progressive conservative party stands on language while those 75 seats elude the its chances of winning and holding Power Are Mckenzie is manifestly not going to defend before his electors a policy which the progressive conservative party can defend across the he will continue to be a liability to the the Leader who emerges from the june convention should recruit for Winnipeg Assiniboine a Candi Date who will be an asset to the party and ensure that the Issue is Laid fairly and squarely before the progressive conservatives of the Hope for the lakes there is some Hope that Canada can expect a More sympathetic hearing at the environmental Protection Agency for its acid rain concerns now that a change has been made at the this Hope lies not in the fact that Anne Gorsuch Burford has gone and been replaced by that Republican hero of the watergate Bill but in the careful words used by Ruckelshaus when his appointment was being announced by president Ronald he said that he planned to administer the Agency in accordance with the Laws of the United states As passed by the this is a revolutionary concept for the since Reagan became the Agency leadership has worked strenuously to flout the letter and spirit of the Laws that govern its reagans own View that environmental Protection is a code phrase used by ant growth subversives to mask their goal of stopping big business from making an honest profit had been enunciated during the 1980 presidential just As Macbeth feared Only the Advance of Birnam Wood to High Reagan feared the massed giant redwoods of California As a major contributor to air if youve seen one Redwood youve seen them he explaining that cutting Down these and other Trees helped to Stop them filling the air with noxious Vapours As hazardous As Lead smelter smoke stack his appointments of James Watt As Interior Secretary and Anne Gorsuch As Epa administrator were his personal guarantee to big business polluters that they could Epa was ordered to be an instruction that was rightly interpreted by reagans appointees As meaning that they should Stop harassing this was done by deep cuts in funds for key areas of the by repeated Lon distance transfers of the Best and the brightest Epa by dismissal of those unlucky enough not to have by by lateral promotions Andy merciless harassment of anyone actually trying to obey the Law by protecting the Environ one senior Deputy to Anne Gorsuch spent his time compiling files on the political reliability of everyone working in Pas Washington another filled his working Day with meetings at which he asked for whom he had previously How Best the Agency could serve their a third asked a giant chemical company to examine and alter to its satisfaction before publication an Epa report on proposed new regulations to control chemical a fourth worked to exhaustion to ensure that raw toxic sewage could be dumped without treatment in Public Waterways by big towards the this transformation of the Epa was so advanced that its with the full backing of impudently defied congressional committees de manding Congress went eyeball eyeball with the president and the president ordering release of the information and finally betraying those at the top of Epa who had carried out his instructions so now that the old gang has gone Reagan has reached for one of the men who defied Richard Nixon order to fire watergate prosecutor Archibald Ruckels Haus refused and was this excellent political reputation is what Reagan it is More important than the fact that he was the Agency first Ever reagans environmental views have not his options for he no longer has a Servile Hack but a Man of Honor who plans to obey the Law and will resign if forced to do herein lies the Hope that the Epa no longer will seek to propagate the myth that acid rain is a that would be a Large step towards Canada and the United states seeing Eye to Eye on this Issue and i says to was that there candidate i saw you with last night there and i that there was no candidate that was seriously folks saving our dashing past Bill Del a Dapper individual who resembles the famous British actor Laurence is one of a Breed of dashing men who have made Manitoba illustrious in aviation his in at the age of he formed trans Canada airways and of course the next step was to Purchase a along with Reg Roland he travelled to the factory in Missouri to pick up an american a biplane that cruised at about 80 Mph and Cost plus in customs duty to bring it into railway map half an hour out of As he was navigating by a Railroad map there were no aeronautical let alone Highway maps at the time the engine began making unfriendly noises and vibrating Del Bigio made a forced Landing on a farm in those Days it was Handy for a Pilot to be a Mechanic and fortunately Bill was he examined the engine and found the clip around the Magneto had Bro releasing the High tension he ran to the farmhouse for but no one was i took off my shoe says Del and used it As a the Field was so heavily populated with ant Hills that he could not get sufficient ground Speed to take so they Cut the barbed wire of the farm ers Fence and taxied on to the they asked a trucker and a Motorist to Stop traffic while they took they headed for Omaha which had a rare convenience a Field equipped with the signal of their arrival after dark was to Circle the Field twice and the lights would go they ran into a severe one which took off the roof of the Omaha hangar and the motorists came to their Rescue and trained their lights on the the next Day they flew to min were running out of Gas and landed on a Farmers Alfalfa after they flew on to Winnipeg where Bill was the first Pilot to land at Stevenson now the inter National they were levelling the Field with two horses and a recalls Del Bill and his partner went on a barn storming executing aerobatics at circuses and his daredevil Val Werier exploits started when one of his friends bet him he would not walk out on a so he taking off his shoes so As not to damage the fabric if a tire blew out while at a Bill got a tube froma Model t looped it to make it Shorter to fit into the aircraft such exploits were legend in Early Western flying history when pilots had to be resourceful to this Rich and colourful along with Arti facts and is being preserved and extended by a devoted group of volunteers supporting the Western Canada aviation incorporated in the behind the Centennial is crammed with fascinating including a shop for the restoration of Vintage among them is the first helicopter designed and built in Canada of All places in by the inventive Froebe Brothers in retrieves wrecks the museum has acquired More than 36 planes of historical significance and several of these and component parts Are on display at the it retrieves wrecks in the wilderness and restores an operations map shows the locations of a dozen or so planes in cold these Are planes that have crashed in the Many sunk and preserved in cold Lake one to be salvaged is a rare Fokker Stan Dard another a Lancaster museum Volunteer divers have located the a Tiger Moth is ready to the parts obtained from Many sources if we want to get parts of an old training says Steve we go to Farmers who bought them As surplus after the for and like Tiger Avro Ansons and were sold for to after the second world in the museum shop an entire fuselage of a 1929 Fairchild is being rebuilt by re tired aircraft executives and techno Cam Frankard and Tony the Fairchild was retrieved from the Yukon and is being restored to flying rare Sitka Spruce for the fuselage had to be purchased in the Don Helms is working on a fair child super the first Al Metal Cana Dian plane built in which crashed in the Northwest once employed by Canada Helms is now restoring the very same plane which he once overhauled As a great Job the Guys Are doing just a great Job says Gordon executive a former Bush he too is of that resourceful Breed for would repair his Cessna in the North with the steel Frame of an old a Library of historical movies and has been assembled and catalogued with such excellence that the smithsonian Institute of Washington has used its re aviation is a comparatively Young institution and there is still time to record the exploits of such pilots As punch who made the first flight across the Barren lands in 1928 out of Emberley has recorded on tape the experiences of such individuals As Frank who died two years ago at the age of 89 in was the first Canadian to make a Parachute jump just for the hell of he did it from an old Jenny he went on to barnstorm with the Canadian air Craft of the company minutes of state that he got a month As a Mechanic with the Addi Tion of for each descent made at once he stood on the Wing and was about to shake hands with the Pilot before he plunged for the hand he held out was the one he used to hang on to a on my Way out of the Emberley pointed to an aluminium pro peller someone had contributed a few months it was the propeller from Del Bogios american the first plane to land at Winnipeg Airport 56 years ago this pollution Reagan explained that most air pollution actually is caused by that statement caused a great outcry of i would suspect that you have not seen the followup news stories that explained the source of the Evergreen Trees exude chemicals polluter that Are closely related to the emis Sions of internal combustion engines and the pollution caused by by far the greater amount of pollution in the atmosphere is from natural the natural pollution put out by the eruption of mount an eruption in Mexico and another in the East indies put More pollution into the Atmo sphere than Man can create in Many the Navy has billions of dollars Worth of cranes and equipment along the Atlantic they Are rapidly corroded in that so the Navy spent a lot of time and Money finding the source of the poll the Navy study concluded that if All manmade pollution were eliminated the reduction in corrosion might be so Little that the savings would not come near equalling the Cost of the pollution the american people worry just As much about their welfare As do the people of As any pollution control program in the will be Many times More they perhaps have a greater interest in the Correct path than Many canadians who As sume that we can make the americans clean up the Ken Kennedy Winnipeg the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to righteous critic la Gary Filmon Tuxedo has no business in the affairs of the Seine River school he is not a resident taxpayer nor does he represent us at the provincial he does not know any of the parents and Stu dents affected directly by the Forth coming school in he Des what Filmon is doing is responding to the lobbying efforts of certain card carrying members of the progressive conservative party from Ward these Peoples thinly disguised opposition to anything linked with a Francais pro Gram is Well known in our in his attempts to discredit the need for this which would serve four communities he Des Chenes and Lorette he is appointing himself As guardian of the Public purse in his desire to save the province the sum of he should be More thorough in his Zeal Why has he not taken the vital school Board to task Over the proposed i construction of a new school in River Park South at a Cost of million while there Are two empty schools within a few Kilometres in Windsor this too is Public Why does he not suggest to vital area parents that they bus their children to these schools or add wings to present vital schools he has stated that this could be done in our Case at considerable savings to tax pay vital area parents would oppose this and ask for their own school As we if Hilmons thrust is purely eco he should revise All provincial this righteous critic of provincial spending would soon create double standards As to the feasibility of some Filmon should stay within his Bounds of authority and leave us to our that of enabling our students to receive an equal Opportunity within their own division As their parents and the school Board have rightfully chosen for Michele Lagimodiere Gagnon infant formula there has been abundant publicity recently concerning the right to life for the what about saving the lives of millions of third world babies whose naive mothers have been persuaded to bottle feed them the promotion of infant formula in the third where illiteracy and poverty Are is the major cause of malnutrition and death in millions of the Gigantic Swiss transnational Sells More than on third of All infant for Mula in the in the Nestle Boycott was formed As a worldwide protest against the Way Nestle markets infant particularly in the third responding to the Way infant formula makers were advertising and promoting sales of baby formula in May the world health organization adopted an International code of marketing infant Nestle is seriously distorting this code and is using marketing practices prohibited by the who until Nestle complies with this worldwide ethical 1 refuse to buy any Nestle Terry Carlson Winnipeg prewar your editorial deterring nuclear free March 4 in support of Canadas participation in the arms race is pathetically at least ill the terms of the argument you you say that Canada should make guns to create Here Are a few reasons Why this does not at least in Canada armaments manufacture represents the extreme of capita intensive Indus this Means that very few jobs Are created relative to investment product profits go to the United states big business armaments this Means that it will be a Long time before we see those profits coming Back to Canada in any form if arms manufactures Are to be certainly your tax dollars would ultimately go to the creation of jobs in arms rather than to interests which promote peaceful you Are supporting a foreign policy whose purpose and inevitable result is the kind of rationalization used in your editorial scares it sounds like prewar Carol Fisher Winnipeg ;