Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fishy tactics charged in bid for Angling tits by Heidi Graham Angling for the title of Catfish capital of Manitoba May land the town of Selkirk in the Middle of a fishy Legal the mayor of Emerson mayor Bill Wightman said he believes Selkirk is using fishy tactics to try to monopolize the which he says belongs to his were not going to take this sit Ting said noting his Council will discuss the possibility of a Legal fight a Selkirk area Community group registered 12 different Catfish Capi Tal titles two weeks including the Cor Dentious Catfish capital of registration prevents any other town of corporation from using that the group also registered the titles Catfish capital of the uni Catfish capital of the Catfish capital of the Catfish capital of North Catfish capital of Catfish capital of the red River Valley and there trying to create a to Wightman Selkirk and Emerson have been embroiled in the fish feud since when both announced plans to promote local at the Wightman said he planned to have Emerson proclaimed Catfish capital of Selkirk mayor Bud Oliver landed a bigger saying his town was going for the title of Catfish capital of Wightman said his town could have lived with the smaller Fry but Hes annoyed Selkirk is trying to prevent Emerson from calling itself Catfish capital of Greg a spokesman for the Selkirk said the registered titles reflect the we feel like were so its Michie said he Doest know if his group would take Emerson to court if it tried to use the Catfish capital of Manitoba Wightman said he wont pay any attention to registration of the we said it first and 1 dont think anyone can Stop us from using bombers tame Lions in Cloudy tonight 1 Snow tomorrow 4 final october Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Al Al second class mail registration number 0286 Tom free press Kenora residents look Over Argyle ii which Sank while tied up for the Winter at a local tour family Luck hit Bottom vandalism suspected in sinking of Argyle ii at Kenora Dock by Maureen Murray a Kenora family was marvelling at its Streak of bad Luck last night after their 50yearold tour boat Sank while docked in Lake of the a second tour boat owned by the Affleck family suffered a similar Fate two years ago while it was docked on Lake the stroke of bad Luck is unbelievable were very shaken by the said Bev whose husband owns the to make matters the of flecks were negotiating the Sale of the 19metre the Argyle the boat was tied up for the Winter a few Days Bruce the boats Yective said the contract was drawn up last but was not its really a heart wrenching experience for the Mcphail raising that boat is going to be the which can carry 140 has been giving Lake of the Woods Tours since one witness said the wooden which has been in the Affleck family for three was quickly Chris owner of the Marina where the boat was said Only the tip of the Mast was visible 15 minutes after the boat began taking on it just sort of tipped Over on one Side and went Borse adding the boat was still tied to the Dock when it Sank about 5 Borse said he was preparing to close the Marina for the season when he spotted the boat filling up with he said a porthole of the Argyle apparently was left Borse said the Lake was Calm when the boat Sank and speculated that vandalism May be behind the the boat has been Cut Loose and broken into several times Affleck confirmed that the boat has been broken into and set adrift countless vandalism is a real problem its almost As if tampering with the boat is some sort of she said the family second the Island Cruiser which takes Tours to Sank two Winters ago while it was Affleck said the previous sinking of the 12metre steel boat was blamed on vandalism and their insurance covered the she refused to speculate on what caused the Argyle ii to go Affleck said she did not know if their insurance would cover the Mcphail said the boat was not in Good condition and he had Pur chased it in part As a Goodwill Ges Mcphail was in the process of taking Over Kenora Marine transportation which includes the Argyle ii and the Island he said he was Only interested in the Island Cruiser and had made arrangements to sell the Argyle to a who planned to convert it into a floating israelis vow Long War from the news services israelis and palestinians counted their dead yesterday and vowed to continue fighting one another forever if in More than people heard the pledge of further armed palestinian action against Israel As they attended the burial in of 31 men killed in the israeli raid tuesday on the Palestine liberation organization Headquarters in a burial Cermen ony for More men whose families live in Egypt was to take place today in and 20 men were buried in Tunis Satur inspector quits claiming tuna tainted Toronto up a former lab technician at the starkest tuna can Ning Plant in says he quit his Job rather than continue to process rancid fish that could make people wed set aside the bad stuff and the management would order us to just push it Michael a senior inspector at the Plant from 1982 to told the Globe and John Fraser was forced to resign As fisheries minister last month after it was revealed he had Over ruled government inspectors and or dered one million cans of rancid tuna the Plant to be released for the cans have been ordered off store starkest Canada officials could not be reached for comment on dug ass they have insisted the Quality of its tuna equals or exceeds International Dugas told a different As Quality control he had to supervise Plant operations and reject unacceptable i would reject fish whenever i saw any form of Dugas sometimes it was very Green in decaying very and smelt like Pussy and they Plant management would still say there was nothing wrong with the the both Good and was cooked at High temperatures during the Canning process to destroy deadly As a the rancid tuna was not its not going to kill Dugas it can cause vomit see inspector Page 4 israeli defence minister Yitzhak vowed a Long War against terrorists in an inter View in new York he was being questioned about the raid on the Plo Headquarters while Back at Home Israel was noting the hostile atmosphere emanating from Egypt where seven israeli tourists one of them born in Canada were killed the palestinian mourners shouted slogans of support for Plo Leader Yasser Arafat As men crowded to help unload most of the coffins were marked simply Martyr because 21 bodies were unrecognizable mutilated by fragmentation bombs used in a raid in which 69 people were the palestinian revolutions reply to this will be More armed action and continuous struggle against the crimes of israeli occupy see syrian Page 4 officer 200 injured in London riots London up hundreds of police reestablished control of a battered housing estate Early this morning after a night of burning and violence that left one police officer dead and More than 200 people just before Dawn massed forces of police moved in to secure the Broad water farm estate in the North London District of sup plies for making gasoline bombs were found and the Hunt began for the ringleaders of the worst riot in a monthlong series of Urban littered the area among the hulks of burned out cars and shattered Glass remnants of pitched Battles waged by hundreds of Black and who attacked and re porters during sunday nights Vio most of the injured were police the death of a 40yearoid police Constable and the use of fire arms by both firsts in recent marked the most serious level of Urban violence in modern British heavily armed police sharpshooters from a special squad were on standby this morning in Gas and stun guns were also deployed by police but were not used either during the riot or the retaking of the estate where residents spent a night in the rioting began sunday night after a crowd gathered to protest the unexplained death of Cynthia Jar the 49yearold West Indian woman collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack while police searched her Home Friday her son was suspected of being in Possession of stolen the Tottenham violence follows similar outbreaks in other poor inner City districts of Brixton in Handsworth in and Toxteth in the riots the worst since 1981 have tested police to the a demonstration outside the Tot Tenham police station started to go sour sunday afternoon and the Trou ble began in the Early by dozens of cars were on shops had been looted and hundreds of youths were pelting police with bottles and fire reinforcements were called from other parts of London and at the height of the violence More than 500 police in full riot carrying truncheons and wearing i sorted helmets were Keith Henry a married five year Veteran of the died when he and a group of other officers trying to protect a fire brigade squad were attacked by a group of about 100 police Blakelock died of Stab apparently from a at least six people were also struck by either from shot see residents Page 4 farm failures climb by Laura Ranee the number of farm bankruptcies in Manitoba is climbing at a record Pace while National figures Are Federal statistics for the first nine months of this year show 46 Farmers declared bankruptcy in the prov three More than in the same period in across the number of producers who filed for bankruptcy to the end of August dropped five per cent to 353 from last there was a record 62 farm bankruptcies in Manitoba for the second consecutive year and 551 across the rising rate of bankruptcy Here reflects poor conditions faced by Farmers since University of Manitoba economist Daryl Kraft the province had a drought in High interest rates in the years following and a damaging Frost in he those sort of shocks set the business Back so far they cant re cover unless its followed by a couple of exceptional he another indicator of an ailing farm Are at a record level for the Federal farm credit acc regional director Russ Holm said declining land values and Low commodity prices Are continuing to push Farmers off the about 200 farms in Manitoba had been repossessed or were on the verge of failure when Ottawa declared a moratorium on acc fore closures last Holm that represents 22 per cent of the 922 farms the corporation controls see Farmland Page 4 trustee claims bilked from two seniors Manitoba Public trustee is try ing to recover More than he claims was bilked from two infirm in one an 85yearold Man now living in a Carman senior citizens Home withdrew from his Bank account and gave it to his according to a statement of claim filed in court of Queens in a second the trustee says a 79yearold resident of Winnipeg Fred Douglas Lodge withdrew Al most and gave it to a City both victims Are mentally disordered and in the Public trustees Legal the documents the trustee is suing Violet Emma Niece of Truman Manley claiming she induced or coerced him to withdraw from 1980 to 1982 and turn it Over to also named in the suit is the Bank of contacted last Morgan denied the i dont know if he had any Money if he i dont know what he has done with Morgan see Bank Page 4 no proposals the pc women caucus decides against Ham stringing tory maps with specific in Bloom after being stuck in a closet during the 60s and Romance is finally Blooming sincerity South african newspapers question president Bot has sincerity Over racial pipe dream striking government engineers dry up Farmers plans to pipe water to their crops next Index Ann 16 21 22 24 7 24 14 25 6 17 7 Jumble 29 19 21 21 sports 13 to 21 ;