Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Timber set Back 60 years duh Mac of Skaib f Clit inca irom Page i reserves and the Blaze whose intensity was curbed by about 20 Millimetres inches of Fain which had fallen there by 7 said Brent a District supervisor for the department of natural the rain is not sufficient to Guise the but it has certainly Given us great assistance near the Lees the Beresford Lake made up of to cottages at the Northern tip of nop iming provincial suffered no More damage after the fire destroyed three old cottages there Over the Long firefighters have established a protective fire line Between the subdivision and the Are Lees reducing the possibility of further about 470 firefighters were working in Eastern Manitoba yesterday where fires continued to destroy thousands of forested hectares in the fatigue a problem near cat one fires perimeter contained about hectares acres of smoke and Lees Bill the fire official responsible for coordinating the attack on the cat Lake said the Blaze was far from under control and would need two weeks of Damp weather and Light winds to the cat Lake fire appeared contained but that Only because its not Windy and its not Medd employing 115 men for up to 16 hours a Day at the Medd said he expected another 50 to join in the attack on the cat Lake fire today and he could easily use More than 300 men fatigue poses a problem for who toil in that weighs heavily after Long hours of we have to watch our pilots very Medd while eight hours of flying a Day is the magic number within which Medd would like to see pilots such ideals Are not always adhered to in times of youve got to keep you have to have you have to have you have to have fire dry Forest conditions paved the Way for widespread fires when lightning struck Eastern Manitoba last Friday and predominant Rock surfaces in the Park have made it difficult for machine operators to Check its and Vance by Clearing Medd coordinating the actions of All those Tom f wee circus cancell puts tour in doubt Forest firefighters in the Kenora area take care of their More mundane Dis washing battling the fire looms As a great he its like an its moving peo ple into the logistics Are Medd after ensuring human fire officials decide which areas deserve the most Protection such As cot Timber land and Canoe routes and act to save them he the Timber is very important to this theres a lot of people that make their living at Medd along 20 Kilometres of Highway 314 at the South end of nop iming Park closed to the Public since saturday huge puffs of smoke drifted across the Road and patches of flames licked skyward from fallen while Many areas were Green and displayed few signs of others had been razed by furious heat which exploded rocks and incinerated All Moss and places in nop iming that held Quality Timber stands until last thursday have been set Back 60 years time it will take for Wood of similar size to return to the Lees across the Border in at least three of 82 fires were listed As burning out of said Fred a spokesman for the Ontario ministry of natural resources in one about hectares 000 acres in was moving in an eastward direction about 40 Kilometres Northwest of the Grassy Narrows in Dian White the 400odd residents of the situated about 75 Kilometres Northeast of were evacuated sunday because of smoke from the massive continued from Page 1 Hundred and sixty nine people including eight canadians and two landed immigrants died when a soviet was planic shot Down korean air lines flight which had entered so Viet the Wec decision came on the heels of similar rulings made earlier Day in Calgary and a Toronto engagement was called off earlier when Harold owner of Maple Leaf cancelled performances Nova Scotia Premier John Buchan an cancelled the five Day Halifax engagement and received support from mayor Ron we feel Honor bound to support the sanctions against the soviet Union As a result of the outrageous korean air lines Buchanan hockey tour unlikely he said Cabinet had decided on the cancellation before the soviet Union admitted shooting Down the Commer Cial Ottawa City Council planned to Dis cuss the circus today and most Council lors have indicated they favor dropping the City from the performances also Are scheduled for Quebec City and Edmon the Montreal based said yesterdays rapid series of cancellations has clouded the future of the entire he said he would have to discuss the matter with soviet officials before reaching a decision on whether to proceed or cancel a decision is expected by he brother of former Mon Treal canadians managing director Irving said the Moscow circus tour had been seven years in the the Wec decision will also probably Force a Winnipeg trucking company owner to scrap his plans for a Cana Dasovie old timers hockey Tournai members of the soviet unions 1972 Canada cup team were to have played members of the original Winnipeg jets squad at the Arena games were also set for Brandon and if Treyve cancelled the 1 guess the hockey promoter George Smith Smith said he was not embittered by the Wec i cant condemn our people for making the Treyve got Rea sons for taking he f cant turn the clock if could the plane would never hav gone soviets to blame continued from Page 1 was known he complained that Moscow still has not apologized or accepted responsibility for the the soviet statement said the regularly scheduled Kal flight 007 from new York to South was stopped in compliance with soviet but did not elaborate on the Fate of the it indicated the soviet air Force would act similarly in any future Moscow ignored or rejected contentions that soviet jets fired a heat seeking missile to bring Down the plane Over the sea of Japan last the soviets maintained that the air liner was on a spying Mission Over the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin is both Sites of antiaircraft the government argued the plane sought to pinpoint the bases and study their reaction so the United states could destroy them in Case of the statement said the passengers on the plane that was used by the Ameri can special services for their dirty Aims fell victim to a fresh the military decided the plane was on a spying Mission after radio control services picked up coded radio signals transmitted from time to such signals that Are usually used in transmitting intelligence inform the statement it said fighters were scrambled and made warning shots with tracer shells along the route of the intruder the statement said since even after this the intruder plane did not obey the demand Fly to a soviet Airfield and tried to evade the interceptor fighter plane of the anti aircraft defences fulfilled the order of the command Post to Stop the such actions Are fully in keeping with the Law on the state Border of the which has been it added soviet pilots stopping the actions of the intruder plane know that it was a civilian Sam very worried about proposed rights changes big 4 sales continued from Page 1 Sims stance will make it any tougher for the government because i Long ago ceased to Hope that anything will be easy with respect to this asked what the government would do if the Sam withdrew its he said we will proceed with the Resolution As we think right and proper after these Vaughan the lawyer representing Roger Bilodeau in the supreme court Case that sparked the drive for an refused comment on the amendments until he sees among the proposed amendments that upset the Sam Are i Garrison award upsets province continued from Page 1 cans have said they would not build anything danger Ous at this later on they there certainly building an infrastructure of something that is potentially very harmful to Mackling despite a recent diplomatic note promising no harm will come to Manitoba Waters As a result of Bruce Canadian embassy offi Cial in charge of the said yesterday assurances have never been Garrison is supposed to divert Missouri River water to Eastern and Central North Dakota for Lonetree construction could permit water to flow across the natural Divide that keeps southward flowing water out of foreign fish and organisms carried North could damage Manitoba fish and Hurt commercial Mackling said he is concerned about possible Northern travel of pollution from a municipal and Industrial outlet into the Sheyenne River that Hooks into the red but he said he has had assurances from the americans that no foreign biology would be introduced to Northern flowing d changing the declaratory statement that English and French Are the official languages of Manitoba by adding As provided for in 23 and sections to Remi Vic president of the said that change opens the possibility of a tailor made constitutional attack on us through a route very similar to Bill 101 the language legislation of the parti As he said it would limit the effects of making both languages but Penner argued that the new wording would Only make explicit that which was clearly implicit in the declaratory and would not affect its intent at d Robert said the Sam believes the agreements current definition of government services to be offered in both languages is the least that the francophone Community can pro posed changes eliminate areas that Are extremely important to the francophone Smith said some of the changes would leave French language services open to the dangers of governments restructuring so they could avoid com plying with the intent of the constitutional Amend d the Sam is very worried about a plan to More clearly define significant demand for French ser Robert were not convinced you can define significant demand in a strictly numerical sense were willing to leave the interpretation of significant demand up to the d the proposed changes also spell out the exclusion of municipalities and school boards from the agree Robert said that Doest bother the Sam because it believes that the original agreement did negotiations occurred in Good and these negotiations were not respected and the agreement was not Robert he told reporters that the Sam was not consulted on the although it had a Good idea what was being considered for change after 18 months of French language activist Georges for whose Victory in the supreme court in 1979 led to the Start of translating provinces unilingual said he would mount another court Chal Lenge if the changes to the agreement Are a 4 Good buys mens suits 400 suits to Clear look at these values to tailored by Rubin and other Fine considered to be an excellent fit for most gentlemen that expect a Good Quality sizes 3646 in assorted patterns shorts this week Only ladies fashion shoes our Tow discount Price is 12 childrens outerwear s a v 30 off marked prices sizes 23x 46x Veteran Irish police officer killed first Quality mens Lee jeans Belfast a gunmen killed one of Northern Ireland longest serving police officers in a Hail of bullets today As he returned Home in his car after police a spokesman at 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