Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 10, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Firm Fieg free press saturday september Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade i ability of civil Liberty of religion published Days a week of 360 Eathyn Irwi Yaeg 36 f by cafe draft company limited Telep Tofte free press 182 Tribune 1890 Bonab Nocot publisher John 5af of Fedr total Page Murray Furt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials Why not an inquiry since the heart of the soviet justification for shooting Down the South korean civilian Airlift of 1 is that it was Oft a spy Mission for the United what could be More in the soviet interest than the United nations Security Council Resolution calling for an Independent investigation by in Secretary general Javier Perea de Cuellar yet soviet ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky immedi ate reaction was to Damn the moderate Resolution As completely unbalanced and while swearing to veto it As soon As it came to a vote in the Security is this How the soviet Union plans to prove its Case before a unbelieving and furious world Community such Grassness has marked each soviet step since the first hours in which it became widely suspected that the Long overdue Airliner had been shot Down by the killing 269 Crew and ten of them starting with then denials of any the soviet government has produced confirmation of its grisly role Only in reaction to the formidably detailed accounts supplied by the japanese and one reluctant fact at a time has been owned up to by the consistently accompanied by the unsupported allegation that the Airliner was of course deliberately because it was engaged in even if that were it would not justify the murders of the Only yesterday did the soviets drop their euphemistic word stopped and admit openly what the world had known for a that a soviet Pilot shot Down the defenceless Airliner with a heat seeking Airt air the Progress Ion had been from claiming that the Airliner had been shadowed until it left soviet airspace then that tracer bullets were fired alongside Side it to persuade it to to the final admission of the airliners deliberate also reemphasized yesterday by soviet chief of staff marshal Nikolai Ogarkow was the original loud Tass claim that spying was proved by the fact that the airliners navigation lights were switched the embarrassing existence of the played for the Security Council and the whole containing the soviet military pilots repeated assertion that he could see the airliners flashing Strobe Light and navigation discounted that claim to course changes by the mainly a move to a higher were claimed by the soviets As evidence of evasive action but have been explained by other pilots As routine climbing above bad soviet claims that no reply came to its fighters routine or identify Friend or signal Are weakened by the revelation that soviet fighters Iff equipment is designed to secure a response Only from soviet marshal Ogar Kovs claim that the Airliner flew for ten minutes Side beside with the electronic Sance rc435 which president Ronald Reagan conceded was there for snooping on soviet defence seems to be a conspiratorial interpretation of the fact that both planes were in the air in the general area at the Reagan and the soviets now have that the spy plane had landed and been on the ground at its alaskan air base for an hour before the russians shot Down the civilian it also is not disputed that the rc135 never was in soviet in or by aircraft of both superpowers from International airspace not Only is not frowned on by either country but is the subject of an agreement Between these like satellites and soviet spy ships lurking off Cape canaveral during space Are so called National technical Means that each Side has agreed will be used to verify Mutual adherence to their strategic arms so effective Are those Means Thall is difficult to divine what possible extra information could be gleaned by the unnecessary and dangerous tactic of sending a civilian Airliner full of innocent passengers through soviet airspace for the period to which the soviets finally admitted these Are the facts and pieces of information that have heavily affected the world View of the incident thus they Are the reason for the various punitive such As Canadas 60day ban on landings in this country by the soviet airline the soviet so so poorly backed by credible has been insulting in its that is Why it would seem logical for the soviets to jump at the Chance of allowing an Independent investigation by the United nations Organiza Tion of their claim that they shot Down a spy dialogue of the deaf if health minister Monique begin heard what her Provin Cial colleagues said to her in Halifax this she gave no outward if the provincial health ministers got a better grasp of what miss begin sees wrong in the Way Canadian patients Are it was not and if some minister present had a constructive idea for making canadians healthier or better Redfor than they Are he kept it to miss begin keeps making vague noises about the Immi nent destruction of medicare and Hospital insurance and the loss of Universal Access which results from extra Billing by doctors and user charges imposed by hospitals in some her department has written a new set of rules governing Federal payments in support of provincial medi care and Hospital insurance though the Cabinet has not yet approved these new she will induce provinces to abolish extra Billing and user fees and thereby ensure that All canadians will be Able to see doctors or seek treatment in hospitals without facing a financial the provincial health ministers were opposed to the miss begin has been careful not to give the provincial governments anything they could reasonably be expected to agree that omission would be surprising if she was trying to bring about a joint Effort of the country health authorities to improve health care for but she is clearly not doing she has coolly and deliberately picked a fight with the provincial authorities who direct publicly financed health services for though she has no obvious need to do the provinces would be in a tougher spot if miss begin at least seemed willing to ask their views on what the problem is and help them find once they have got past the complaint that Ottawa int paying them they could probably be induced to intensify the search for ways to get still better value for the eight per cent of Gross National product which is spent on health the greater part of it passing through the ministerial miss begin would do More for health care in Canada by drawing the provinces into a discussion along those lines and collaborating in honest putting the provinces in the wrong from the Start of the discussion is no Way to win their Farewell third option it has taken More than a decade for the Federal Liberal government to concede that the United states is and will remain the most important single Export Market on which most Effort should be during that Federal Export policy has been hobbled to the chimera of the third Well described in its Early Days by the Canadian manufacturers association As a bucket of while the Federal government went one Canadian business went the statistics show that Canadian business was the unstated premise of the Federal governments Long delayed discussion called Canadian Trade policy for the is that the third option is it has been dead for most of the past ten years but the department of external affairs and the prime ministers office refused to Issue a death certificate until Canadas Export Trade policy was one of the areas reviewed in Ottawa by order of Pierre Elliott Trudeau after his Assumption of leadership of the Liberal party and Federal government in the outcome was As uneven in Quality As those done for foreign and defence the Central fact that Canada was the Best Trade customer of the United states and that the United states was the Best customer of Canada was examined with an Eye to seeking a As change was sought in foreign and defence in late 1974 and Early prime minister Trudeau made formal visits to each of the nine member states of the european economic he was Selling his concept of a contractual a framework agreement for enhanced Trade links Between the economically mighty dec and politeness ensured a receptive Public reaction by dec governments but privately they viewed the request As even nothing Canadian businessmen interested in european markets went there and got assistance from Canadas Trade commissioners and diplomats As they Al ways they did As much or As Little business As the hard faced dec bureaucrats would allow under the severely protective dec Trade with Asia increased largely because of japans insatiable appetite for Canadian natural such As British Columbia this did wonders for the Trade balance but Little for Canadas manufacturing Trade remained the main area of Canadian business concentration and in Canadas Senate foreign relations com Mittee produced a report recognizing this fact and calling for Complete free Trade by the end of the the report pointed out that the two countries already were very close to a technical state of free despite a rash of inconvenient no Tariff barriers that were being erected on both sides of the Border in reaction to recession caused Domestic the discussion paper just released is the first coherent Federal government response to that Well argued the response is a rejection of full free Trade or any customs Union but the rather unrealistic suggestion of seeking limited free Trade with the United states in sectors in which Canada would be Likely to have the proposed is free Trade in mass transit textiles and bromides about open and constructive dialogue for resolving bilateral Trade disputes and improvements in the world multilateral trading system Are supplied to sugar the Pill of a on sided it Only a discussion since exports today earn 30 per cent of this country Gross National compared to 20 per cent in As Well As supporting two million Canadian their economic importance justifies the widest and most vigorous Public debate on what Canadas Trade policy should the Good news from the discussion paper is that the Federal govern ment seems to be thinking More realistically than gallery Phil Mallette s at Happyland by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press How time moves Many of us have vivid memories of Winnipeg 75th now preparations Are being made for the one Hundred and yesterday is almost close enough to touch and it is often As close As a visit to the Down from my mothers attic came a Box of old photographs a family group at Winnipeg circa 1909 the Kelvin graduation 1914 various now Middle aged or elderly my aged off to the great War my Grandfather in overalls and an old making a Garden at Pone Mah Beach in Mere memory at the Bottom of the Brittle and yellow with a copy of Happyland news for june Happyland was a Mere memory when most of us were described As the City of fun for old and it was a Large open Field Between Portage and Westminster at the place now occupied by parts of Garfield and Sherburn the circus raised its tents there every my mothers family lived on Aubrey Street when Happyland was a popular Winnipeg resort and their Back win Dows looked out Over the amusement from a screened upper Verandah they could watch the High diver climb his during a Barnum and Baileys elephants broke Loose and stampeded through my grandmothers Happyland vanished in the building Boom that followed the first world but for a few Summers when the City was Young it was a Centre of in the crumbling pages of Happyland news we catch a glimpse of that far off and innocent we get a fleeting As of what life in Winnipeg was like during those last Summers of the old during that Long vanished summer of 1907 visitors to Happyland could see Lydia and the celebrated French described As the most daring and Graceful act Ever there were baseball on june 17 and 18 the Winnipeg team played coming attractions included the Steiner Brothers Novelty bar the Bonn sett the great diving ponies and the Ouetti there was a scene orium featuring the Johnstown flood and a trip through an old at the extreme end of the 1907 edition youll find a most inviting place to while away an hour or what was used last season As the dancing Pavilion has been converted into a roller rink and the Superb floor is most Ideal for this fascinating there were also band con certs featuring Robertsons orchestral with Cornet so on june they played my Irish Rosie by Jerome and the slavery Days March by Zita and selections from the Ameer by Victor there was a rollercoaster and a figure described As one of the largest Ever Ferris wheel provided a splendid View of the entire a sight at night time no one should miss no offence ladies and the Public was need have no fear in attending the Park without male escorts As every precaution to guard against anything that would tend to give offence has been provided the advertisements in Happyland news give us a picture of Winnipeg life As it Scotland Woollen Mills at the Corner of main and Portage offered made up to order summer suits at lots at Kirkfield place were going fast at the hotel the cites was advertising rates of a Day and if its we have bragged Stiles and cloth hatters and furnishes of 261 Portage Rich British Colum Bia Valley land was being offered for Sale at an the Western Cigar Drew the Atten Tion of Happyland patrons to its famous to Home hand Union Royal Crown Witch Hazel shaving soap was guaranteed not to dry on the new method dental Parlours at 317 across from promised that filling and extracting was positively painless by our new water problem Winnipeg had a water problem Crystal Spring water was available at four on gallon bottles for 40 Genser at 428 main Street had sound advice for Happyland merry makers get buy grand trunk but if you want some of Greenway gardens you had better see me Happyland closed for the win children used to find big pennies in the trampled grass one after the circus had my Mother found a dead left behind by the the feats performed by the stars of Happyland were attempted in backyards All Over that summer of 76 Back in casts a faint Light through the if we listen carefully we can just hear Robertsons orchestral band playing the final notes of von Suppes Light cavalry overture and in the end of summer the great wheel casting a dim carnival glow on the ghosts of my grandmothers in a Long Diminu Endo we hear the Farewell speech of the celebrated High diver about to perform his death defying leap into a Small tub of water and dont forget dear old Canada a Roll of Drums and he is the music of the dance Pavilion fades out on the autumn rows of elderly houses March across Happy lands and cars pass where the rollercoaster once the echoes of 1907 Are growing Happyland is All but an innocent smile on an old canned Beer is no Blessing to ecologists Molson brewery hails the introduction of canned Beer in Manitoba As a the Only break through i see is in persuading the liquor commission to approve the Sale of canned As an i take a dim View of the introduction of having witnessed pop cans tossed around the it cannot but contribute to the pollution of the to some de Gree it will defeat the principle of returnable if the practise Here is similar to that of according to Bob Olvett of Vic president of Brewers warehousing which distributes Beer throughout Over 60 per cent of the aluminium cans Are returned be cause of the refundable Deposit of five in 98 per cent of bottles Are returned the same As in Manitoba because the Deposit is twice As much so a lot of alumni num cans end up in the garbage or As litter Manitoba has the same refund of five a Werier cents per Beer the Deposit should be 10 cents to make certain the cans Are the main culprit in the litter of beverage cans is the soft drink it is not logical to impose a Deposit on Beer cans and not on soft drink according to a Survey of soft drink consumption in Southern Manitoba from december to May canned soft drinks ranged from 12 per cent to 21 per cent of sales return Able bottles from 80 per cent to 85 per cent plastic bottles from to two per the provincial environment Branch says about nine million cases 24 in a Case of bottles and canned soft drinks Are sold annually in the on this basis about million cases of canned drinks Are sold in Manitoba that accounts for a lot of garbage and cans strewn around the Saskatchewan bans canned soft drinks for environmental Al Berta has a mandatory Deposit of five cents on canned soft As Well As on liquor and wine George assistant Deputy minister of the is concerned about the potential litter he says an informal arrangement was made with soft drink companies to withdraw All no returnable bottles about 10 years at that time City Council passed a Resolution to have them As for the the soft drink companies also agreed not to promote the problem Here has been the recent practice of Ontario franchisers dumping canned soft drinks in Manito which have been promoted by some smaller Independent Manitoba does not regulate the pack aging of soft As do other prov and Bowen says so far the Industry has been very cooperative dealing with these the soft drink Industry is Home free on it does not have to impose a Deposit and that causes a lot of pollution in discarded As for the Beer Why not insist on a Deposit of 10 cents Don Lus assistant manager of marketing of the liquor says the five cent Deposit was established to make the canned Beer competitive with bottled the net Price of a six pack of canned Beer is compared to for the add a 30cent Deposit for the and 60 cents for the bottles and the Gross Price comes out even at so in the interests of there is some potential sacrifice to the the aluminium cans can be but they will not be if tossed in the Lussier explains that one of the reasons canned Beer was introduced was to compete with american canned Beer sold by the the introduction of canned Beer by Lavatts and Molson has Cut heavily into higher priced american canned sales of american cans have dropped by about cans a aluminium cans Are imported from the while All bottles Are manufactured in cans Are preferred by some because they chill Are lighter and easier to each can contains one half ounce More there is intense Competition in the Beer business and it extends across the american Miller introduced Here by Carl has been popular and that is another reason the other Large breweries wanted to get into canned Beer As a Means of capturing More of the in cans account for Only one per cent of Beer according to Vic president of the distribution firm in that the great majority prefer the Many will not drink the canned Beer because they feel there is a metallic although there is none imparted by one per cent of sales is a lot of Beer cans in one per cent constitutes a lot of Beer cans in Mani Toba Gary of associated distributors in says sales for the year ending in june were dozen the re turns amounted to dozen Bot representing per cent of the bottles the Deposit per bottle was raised from five cents to 10 cents in and did increase the percentage of the year preceding the the return was per that May not seem a great improve but it represented an increased return of about dozen bottles we get a lot of dirty bottles in the says there picked up in the the 10cent refund does attract the it is rare to find a 30cent refundable pop bottle tossed the least that the province can do to insist on a 10cent Deposit for Beer and soft drink ;