Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Exc Nadian jailed three years in John Belushi drug Canadian Dollar monopoly Money in Ohio by Maureen Murray a Winnipeg couple came close to being left Highan dry in Ohio Dur ing the Long weekend because they had Only Canadian Brenda and martial Eagle Hunt said angry pump jockeys threatened to Siphon Gas from their leaving them and another couple with them they looked at it As if we were giving them monopoly the two couples were in route to Winnipeg through the United states on Friday and saturday after a two week Holiday in Quebec City when they needed Gas and ran into a Brick Wall in Eagle Hunt said the first har Dees restaurant they stopped at allowed them to leave with an ice Cream Cone and Popcorn rather than accept Canadian her husband said at least five Conoho Gas stations and hardens restaurants rejected their Money before they reached Toledo at about 7 saturday running on empty and not even at the their out of Eagle Hunt said he filled up at a Gas station without telling the attendant what kind of currency he it was getting he we were thousands of Miles from Home and we needed that when employees of the Union 76 station told him he could Settle the Bill Only with american he an attendant said hed have to Call his Boss when i tried to give him Canadian Eye Lehunt the next thing i two Guys came up to the Van with cans and he said they threatened to Drain the Gas tank if he produce currency the Eagle Hunts were finally rescued by an elderly couple who overheard the commotion and offered to Settle the the american couple accepted their Money at Eagle Hunt adding everyone else had been treating our Money like it was Dis see incident Page 4 Clearing tonight 7 sunny tomorrow 19 Winnie september 1986 press final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 03ao rises sets Moon rises sets North Dakota Farmer crushed Over 21car pileup by Heidi Graham Winnipeg free press a North Dakota Farmer required sedation Mon Day night after dense smoke from a stubble fire on his family farm led to a 21car Highway pileup that killed two his son Hes totally David Halcrow said this whole thing has really got to its really hard for him to Deal Hal crows was unavailable for but his son said he has a heart condition and was taken to grand Forks yesterday to see his a Highway patrol spokesman said earlier that charges of negligence and a barrage of lawsuits could result from the but said the threat of lawsuits is not responsible for his fathers people have asked us if were afraid of the he they dont understand that not what hits its what happened to those peo ple that the hard i wish i knew what to Tell them what to who works with his father at Halcrow Brothers said the family has no idea what caused the fire to spread so quickly and spew smoke across a stretch of interstate just 10 Kilometres North of i honestly dont know what Hap he none of us we Haven asked him Hes just been too two women were killed and 22 other people were injured after cars loaded with labor Day vacationers slammed into each other on the highways smoke shrouded North bound lanes about 20 Kilometres South of the Manitoba eighteen of the vehicles involved in the pileup were All but one from Halcrow said his father knew the dangers of stubble fires and would not have left one Hes been farming Here for 40 years and knew How to do that just have been like who was in grand Forks buying school clothes for his Chil Dren at the time of the said he normally would have been help see Farmers Page 4 Ottawa up it May take an other Century before the depart ment of Indian affairs is despite a pledge by the Mulroney government to scrap it and give control of All programs to native a confidential Federal Docu ment a copy of nation Al management plan for the next four drafted in shows Indian affairs expects Snail like Progress on signing self govern ment agreements with native the document flies in the face of a Promise by prime minister Mulroney at last years first ministers conference on aboriginal rights to move quickly on self government As a critical initiative and under pinning of the constitutional pro former Indian affairs minister David shifted to the multiculturalism portfolio in the june Cabinet once said he would be the last minister in charge of the but Bill the new minis Ter of Indian said yesterday the department will continue to exist under the conservative government unless native groups demand other leaders doubtful most native leaders have called for abolition of the department and for shifting responsibility for native programs to indians Mcknight did not say whether the government is still committed to eliminating about half the depart ments jobs Over the next three As Crombie one former senior in Dian affairs who spoke on condition he not be said top bureaucrats in the department appear to be entrenching for an other 100 years despite the planned the document reveals the depart ment plans to seek Only a minimum of five self government agreements with native and inuit bands by april 1988 and a minimum of 20 agree ments by at that it could take More than 100 years for Ottawa to sign self government agreements with the More than 640 Indian and limit bands across the the former official although the document appears to show senior Indian affairs officials Are dragging their feet on self gov Many native leaders also have doubts about the some native leaders want to enshrine a straightforward and unfettered recognition of native rights in the Constitution before negotiating self government while others want to work out a Deal in Advance of constitutional Gerry free press philatelic clerk Wally Tymchyshyn with marred stamp on left and Block of Winni Eggers shun flawed stamp by David Roberts canadians in some Eastern cities have been stampeding to their Post offices to snap up a flawed 34cent but Winni Eggers dont seem to give a a printing mistake on a new Issue of million Stamps Honor ing explorer Henry Hudson has drawn thousands to philatelic centres in Montreal and Quebec City in belief the flawed stamp might be the flawed Stamps about 800 of which came to the Mam Winnipeg Post office have a Small Pink Triangle on the left a few local collectors grabbed some of the blemished Stamps Fri but there were still about 200 available a Canada Post spokesman 1 cant really say weve been that much busier than usual for a firs Day Wally Touchy a clerk in the philatelic the Hudson Are part of Canada see stamp Page 4 of Ron by Radha Krishnan Thampi the chief executive officer of the workers compensation Board has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the provincial Premier Howard Pawley con firmed the finding in an interview Pawley said he had no details on the dismissal of unspecified conflict interest allegations against chief executive Ken Kurbis because he had not seen the a Cabinet source said Board directors were expected to reinstate Kurbis to his Post who had held the top Job for was placed on a paid leave of absence july 21 after Audi Tor Fred Jackson was asked to investigate conflict allegations lev Elled by some Board Pawley said it was the boards decision to put Kurbis on a paid and its up to the Board now to decide whether to take him both Jackson and Board chairman Sonny Arrojado refused to comment on the auditors to be tabled in the House today by finance minis Ter Eugene Arrojado would say Only that the Board will meet today and consider routine including the re both the government and the Board have been tight lipped about the complaints against but the source said it was alleged that he hired his friends Friend to a Junior officers George president of local 1063 of Canadian Union of Public employees which represents about 180 Board refused to say if the Union was directly involved in the he said he is not sure if the complainants were unionized employees or Jackson said the Union was we looked at anything that any one brought to our attention As a possible conflict and we inter viewed All parties who had some he Jackson added his staff looked at a number of recent Board appointments and interviewed the including Union repro both Gerard minister responsible for the and Kos who ordered the special refused to discuss the auditors find Ings yesterday when questioned by opposition Leader Gary Filmon in the a source said the government has not yet released the received by Kostyra last be cause it wants to give the Board time to reinstate Thunder up about 500 of Grain handlers walked off the Job today in their lengthy contract dispute with Prairie Grain elevator workers at the Saskatchewan wheat largest of the six Eleva Tor set up picket lines about 8 but Union spokesman Frank Mazur refused to say whether the strike will Mazur said workers Are striking against Saskatchewan wheat Pool because its affected by a disease called Pocklington diarrhoea a reference to the bitter strike at the gainers meat packing Plant in Al Berta where owner Peter Pocklington is seeking wage chairman of Lodge 650 of the brotherhood of airline and steamship said the Union believes Saskatchewan wheat Pool is the ringleader among the companies that have asked for wage cuts of 20 per cent in contract the other five companies Are Manitoba Pool Cargill United Grain Richardson Termi nals and Parrish and Heim Becker in not prepared to say what in going to do he the move comes after Union and see Lakehead Page 4 divers search ship for 319 missing passengers from the news services Moscow divers in the Black sea searched the sunken wreck of a soviet cruise ship that officials fear May be the watery grave of hundreds of the official tract la newspaper reported seventy nine of the people who were aboard the Admiral Nak Simoy when it collided with a freighter and Sank at about Midnight sunday night Are known to have but 319 people Are still official reports pravda noted that a commission headed by Seidar a member of the communist party was formed to investigate the sink and said divers were working on the liner which Lay on its right Side 47 metres below the daily newspaper Hon Siya said shops and warehouses were donating clothing to survivors in the soviet Black sea port of Kovoros sysk and that priority Tele phone service had been set up for survivors to Call Deputy merchant Marine minister Leonid Ned Yak said yesterday 836 most of whom were cling ing to rafts that floated free when the cruise ship had been found by he said 29 of them were in but did not give their i Hope and All of us Hope that out of the 319 missing persons there May be some Ned Yak but he added 1 believe that most of these passe Fiers Are still aboard the until the divers do their work it will be difficult to confirm this Ned Yak said officials believe the ship Sank within 15 minutes after being rammed on its starboard Side by the soviet freighter Pyotr a see ship Page 4 big savings Bridge building speedup will save Drivers millions by the end of the civic officials car switch transport minister John Crosbie says the car should be privately owned and serve its own Best real Gas a teargas bomb injures 20 and forces a new York audience to flee a soviet dance troupes untrue Blue crooked left breast pockets make new Blue dress uniforms unacceptable for Canadas Index Ann 32 17 24 36 51 32 3g 6 33 7 18 Jumble 40 35 7 45 sports 53 25 29 to 17 ;