Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba To province stalls on rights for welfare fathers the province is stalling a measure that would give welfare fathers the same rights As welfare mothers be cause it Doest yet know the Cost of ending the discrimination against says economic Security minis Ter Len an amendment to the social allowances act passed last june by the legislature and Given Royal As but never proclaimed changes the wording in a Section outlining eligibility for widows and single mothers to include widowers and single it was designed to Correct the inequality of the Law and bring it into line with the charter of rights and Evans said the Section has not been proclaimed because the government is still assessing the eco nomic Impact of the we did pass this and it is our intention to proclaim it in the fun the Cost Factor has caused us to be it is a matter of fitting it into our he adding he did not know How much the change would Cost the fathers with children who require social assistance Are not eligible for provincial welfare and must apply for help from local Winnipeg lawyer Patrick Riley Tim Herkert of the Manitoba anti poverty organization said As Many As 500 single fathers Are affected by the unamended Ive seen a number of Fellows who have asked Why it really he adding municipal assistance rates Are often lower than provincial for he said City Wel fares personal allowance rate for single fathers is a com pared to from the he said special needs programs for some families Are also More accessible to people on provincial welfare than on City Riley said single fathers on municipal assistance can also be required to pay Back a portion of the unlike assistance from the prov most people dont realize that see lawyers Page 4 Clear tonight 4 sunny tomorrow 21 May 1985 vol 113 no 144 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises Midnight sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 02b6 a photo Reagan tells germans collective wrong Reagan Light coat and Kohl dark coat Lay wreaths at Pitburg chemical warfare studied u of m research includes military applications by Cecil Rosner two University of Manitoba professors Are working on a project for the Federal department of National defence to study the dispersion of chemicals in either civil emergencies or chemical War the both with the department of mechanical Engineer said in separate interviews the research could be used by the Mili tary to determine the timing of evacuation and other aspects related to chemical Ostap a Waleska said the research will have a variety of a including emergency planning in the event of rail car accidents or chemical but a Waleska refused to say whether the defence department had directed them to concentrate Federal Aid refusals concern province by Brian Cole Industry minister Eugene Kostyra says he is becoming increasingly concerned at the number of local businesses whose Grant applications have been rejected by the Federal Kostyra said the new conservative government has turned Down at least four significant development Grants sought by Manitoba compan ies since taking office last Kostyra said Hes told his staff to investigate whether Manitoba is get Ting shortchanged by the Federal government and if other provinces Are experiencing similar were he were hoping that were being dealt with in a fair the minister said Canada packers has been rebuffed in its application for a Grant from the Federal department of regional Industrial the which is consider ing replacement of its existing pack ing House and expansion of its operations in the has since made a new he it is not known How Many new jobs would be but Kostyra said it would be a significant Kostyra said Melrose foods applied for in Federal Assis Tance but was offered a while Kostyra Grants refused Dominion malting request for million in Aid was turned the two firms were looking for Money to help Purchase High tech he adding he want sure How Many new jobs would be Ottawa also rejected a Grant sought by icon a dutch company which recently purchased see Federal Page 4 More on the military applications or the civil i really cant its their prop you would have to ask he Canada does not have any weaponry of that sort and i sure Hope they never get he but if other countries it makes sense to be prepared to meet the potential he a Waleska said the research will produce a computer program which will predict information such As How the chemical will which areas need to be which areas would not be in danger and so the program would also display information a Public affairs spokesman with the defence department in Ottawa said he could not reach anyone Fri Day to provide information on the Alex who is also involved in the oneyear said the program is not classified and the professors do not have Security he said Emer gency planning Canada is interested in the work and stressed that it will have applications for chemical spills and similar were basically trying to figure out which Way to run and How fast during a chemical he he added the research might also be used by the military during Gas warfare when pseudo agents Are released into the Atmo sphere for the it will be helpful to know How far they will travel so they do not blow off the test he Thornton Trump said the idea be Hind the research is to develop a program which does not have to be run on a Large mainframe but which is Mobile enough to be taken to the site of police and fire departments might each have one and others could be see Winnipeg Page 4 from the news services Pitburg president Rea making a determined gesture of led an austere Wreath laying ceremony yesterday at a Small West German military cemetery where members of the nazi is Are buried and said he did not believe in collective to mute the storm of protest Aris ing from his homage at the Ceme Reagan spent an hour earlier at the Bergen Belsen concentration Camp where jews and others were put to death by Adolf hitlers nazi the horror cannot outlast the Reagan said at the his message to those who accused him of ignoring nazi in one of the most controversial acts of his spent Japan angers Only eight minutes at the Holme Shohe cemetery in Pitburg with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on a Grey neither soldiers carried two wreaths to the base of a slate close by two is the two leaders they Shook hands with a group of including berth old von Stauffenberg whose was executed for trying to assassinate then left two my nutes in the town of mostly and West German Servi lined the streets and waved american but they were Over shadowed by jeering Demontra Many of the protesters were Stu dents wearing the six Point de Star of David that their forebears were forced to Wear during hitlers my Brothers blood cries out to me from the read a before Reagan police armed with riot gear scuffled for five minutes with 200 demonstrators who never there were no after the Wreath laying at bit Reagan drove to a near by air base where he some old wounds have been and this i regret very because this should be a time of he adding that god not he had judged the deeds of the buried one of the is troopers was a boy of a there were thousands of such soldiers to whom nazism meant no More than a brutal end to a Short Reagan we do not believe in collective the visit to Bergen Belsen was added to defuse criticism after Rea Gan had earlier rejected a death Camp Stop to avoid offending the to holocaust survivors he said see Kohl Page 4 a photo protester Burns Flag during mass protest in million spaniards protest Reagan trip Madrid Reuter windows were smashed and flags burned As More than one million spaniards took to the streets yesterday in countrywide protests against american foreign policy on the eve of president reagans today organizers said people marched through Madrid to protest reagans Central american policies and in opposition to Spanish membership in nato and the presence of troops in a similar throng turned out for an anti Reagan demonstration in bar organizers where a Flag and a bust of the president were ceremonially burned outside the communist party general Secre tary Gerardo Iglesias and former party Leader Santiago Carrillo were among left Wing politicians who marched in Carrillo said the March was a demonstration of the opinion poll published in the Al pais newspaper that showed More than 70 per cent of spaniards consider Reagan a threat to world witnesses reported several scuffles in including one when riot police intervened after protes ters broke windows and Glass doors by hurling rocks at the Headquarters of the popular Alliance conservative opposition Jorge Deputy Leader of the popular said the party Headquarters had been badly damaged in what he described As a Savage and uncouth two flags were burned during the Madrid demonstration and a Flag of Nicaragua sandinista govern ment was raised to the National news Agency efe see Spain Page 4 customs supplies identities by Cecil Rosner the Federal government has inadvertently supplied the free press with identities of several people who have had goods seized at Cus Toms ports in following a request under the a Cess to information the Federal customs and excise division re leased about 25 reports on seizures from people charged with smuggling or failing to report although goods were seized in each none of the offenders was the government said it would protect the offenders privacy by blotting out their names and personal information from the but an examination of the Materi Al revealed the identities of eight of the often with such other information As National hair and Eye color and a detailed description of the goods one of the named a Winnipeg was charged with trying to smuggle a Keg of Beer into Manitoba after a three hour stay in North another the wife of an insurance company was caught with dozens of concealed items Worth More than another Winnipeg teacher and his whose identities could also be were found returning from san Francisco with underwear and other items Worth More than they had to pay duty and penalties see human Page 4 resignation the Secretary of the multicultural committee hands in a letter of Homecoming Cross country runner Steve Fonyo savors a warm Welcome Back Home in drug use a recreational drug called ecstasy is growing in popularity in the United six dead six people Are reported killed and 30 wounded As Christian and moslem militias Battle in Index Ann 17 50 34 51 34 6 31 7 Jumble 38 33 17 17 sports record 49 2 to 17 ;