Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, June 25, 1987

Issue date: Thursday, June 25, 1987
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fans kick up storm As bombers punted East by Doug Speirs a decision to punt the Winnipeg Blue bombers to Eastern Canada has thrown some fans for a in the very thought of the bombers joining Canadian football leagues Eastern division after the demise of the Montreal Alou ettes is already sticking in the throats of some they should have put Saskatchewan in the East somebody that grumbled the bombers most Rabid Jack who has missed Only one Home game in 31 the Only Good thing i can say is Well be in the Grey cup for the next 20 said who moved als make it his wedding Day Back a week to accommodate a bombers theres nobody out there that can beat what they the Cal Are doing they have to but the Way they did they must have known it was coming three years but they shoved it the switch in everybody they didst ease anybody into free press sports columnist Vince the Man credited with giving the bombers their also bemoaned the decision to move the team East after More than 50 years As a Wester based its a great pity that this has Winni Peg was the Birthplace of profession Al football in Western we were the we were the first Western team to win a Grey cup in now were being shunted aside with our Eastern nothing can be done about weve got to have equally sized divisions and were the closest to the Munfor mayor Bill Norrie charged Winni Eggers will never accept the idea the bombers Are an Eastern Canad an i dont see How Winni Eggers Ever conceivably could be cheering for Eastern Canada and thinking of themselves As were not easterners and Well see fans Page 4 great a a As Driver fat Tim Oscar As a Pool shark in the Gleason one of tvs draws in the 1 won new fans with later movies Cloudy tonight 7 Cloudy tomorrow 19 june 1987 vol us no 204 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second cuss mail w if registration number 0286 Hydro cutoff revoked by Pauline Comeau Manitoba Hydro halted cutting off electricity to More than half the 120 Homes on Lake Manitoba Indian re serve yesterday after being promised payment toward four months of the order to Cut off 75 Homes was rescinded late yesterday after the bands accountant promised a certified Cheque for partial payment was on the More than a dozen Homes were Dis connected before the Promise of on the strength of that we will move to reconnect those other Homes Manitoba Hydro spokesman Glenn Schneider the Crown corporation claims the band councils welfare which is responsible for paying some Resi dents is More than four months in the incident comes in the midst of rumours on the Reserve that mismanagement of funds has left the band with a cashflow residents said they were Given notice about the disconnections monday but attempts to get help from the band office were futile be cause the chief and Council members Are at a conference in Toronto and Are returning i got a disconnection notice Mon Day but there has been no one in the see band Page 4 audience with Pope protested Vatican City up Kurt Waldheim met with Pope John Paul today in an audience that has brought Forth an outcry because of the austrian presidents alleged involvement in nazi War the meeting broke International isolation of the austrian Leader since his election a year no details of the meeting were immediately about 50 members of an association of italians sent to concentration Camps during the second world War began their protest just outside the Vatican More than an hour before Waldheim was due to arrive for the the former concentration Camp victims yelled shame and waved posters showing the names of nazi death Many of the protesters had concentration Camp numbers tattooed on their they were joined by four jewish activists and nazi Hunter Beate Klarsfeld of West Ger a Strong cordon of police and wooden crowd barriers kept the pro testers out of Peters Square but they staged their demonstration at the end of the via Delia Concilia leading into the huge some of the concentration Camp victims carried a mock scaffold with a the atmosphere was tense and one whose parents spent time in a concentration yelled its useless for the Pope to go to Auschwitz to cry for our dead and then receive this the Man was supported by a chorus of see audience Page 4 Wolseley school children pull discarded Safe from mands Creek during children Clear Jun pile Creek by Aldo Santin they say All life originated from the sea but a group of Wolseley school children discovered that life had begun to take Over mands i thought it was pretty Junky in Dan a Grade 4 Stu we found a lot of tons of Clark and 26 along with two teachers and two Parent spent yesterday morn ing cleaning out a 300metre stretch of mands Creek Between Portage Avenue and the Assini Boine teacher Lamar Groube said their Creek findings included two discarded floor a water eight garbage bags of Small junk and two Rusty shopping Groube said the cleanup origin ated with the childrens interest in pollution and environmental they decided to do something rather than just talk about the children from grades 1 through 4 Are enrolled in the schools alternative education pro Grade 3 student Jill Stead said it was a dirty Job but Well Worth the the Creek was just Stead there was a lot of old Rotten stuff in i pulled out a tree stump and helped take out the two we usually play in the Park Omand and it Felt Good to clean up the Groube said the junk was piled up near the he said City Park officials had promised to Send a truck to haul it he said the safes were empty and had obviously been one had the Bottom blown out and the other had the door ripped off its Groube said the youngsters Are prepared to go Back next year1 if the neighbourhood continues to use the Creek As a junk mental health committal Appeal sought by Catherine Mitchell changes to the provinces mental health act have left out crucial items to protect individual the executive director of the Manitoba division of the Canadian mental health association Bill Martin said provisions in Bill drafted primarily to protect civil rights of the mentally lean heavily upon a persons right to Appeal his committal to a psychiatric the amendments do not guar Antee the right to an Appeal because they do not insist review boards be set Martin said of the Bill says Only that the provincial Cabinet not establish review boards for psychiatric Martin said the creation of review should be and not left to the discretion of Cabinet the sparked by a court Challenge to the act last spell out an Appeal process to be used in the Case of committal to a psychiatric if such an Appeal is and makes Clear that patients Are to be informed of their status and Why they Are under health minister Larry Desjardins said yesterday he was surprised by the wording on How review boards will be set who recently introduced the amendments for second Reading to the said he was concerned about and would Check on How it was if the whole concept of an Appeal see Public Page 4 prime minister Calls for negotiated end to postal dispute by the Canadian press prime minister Mulroney called on both sides in the postal strike to negotiate a but he did not say yesterday How Long he would tolerate mail disruptions and Vio Lence on the picket lines without taking Mulroney said he backed labor minister Pierre who on tuesday refused Canada posts re quest for a Federal mediator in its dispute with letter tension moves the rotating strikes by the letter carriers Union of Canada hit Atlantic Sas British Colum Bia and the Yukon with More picket line scuffles and Mulroney agreed with Cadieux comment that Union and manage ment negotiators Are still too far apart for a mediator to i think its time for mature peo ple to get their Heads together and to Send out signals of Confidence in their capacity to provide a Public service in a reasonable Mulroney told reporters in Canada Post sent fresh Waves of replacement workers across picket lines telling striking let Ter carriers they would have to take blame for any new violence that Canada Post and Union negotiators did meet informally yesterday to discuss the format for further meet formal talks Are expected today the first since last Mulroney said anyone who at tempts to use violence to Advance their cause knows very Little about Canadian Public new Democrat Leader de Broadbent accused Mulroney of trying to prolong the strike for Politi Cal purposes and he called Cadieux decision Hes attacking the Union and reducing its democratic right to bar gain for its Broadbent said in an interview in his Riding of in Shirley president of the Canadian labor condemned Cadieux decision and said she had found her own Media Carr said Ted an experienced mediator and a former chief adjudicator under the Federal Public service staff relations was willing to meet the two she said she has sent a Telegram to Canada Post officials asking if they see Union Page 4 Chrysler indicted for fraud Toronto Cap a fed eral grand jury indicted a top offi Cial for Chrysler Canada yesterday on a charge of As vehicles that had been driven by company managers with the odometers Frank Oreilly of Windsor and a senior executive of Chrysler motors along with the latter were named in the 16 count indictment alleging conspiracy to commit mail wire fraud and odometer fraud in the Sale of the indictment released in Washington by the Justice department also makes it Clear that Windsor based Chrysler Canada was involved in the Chrysler the car making division of Chrysler denied any some of the cars were involved in repaired and the company sold them As new said the indictment which followed an investigation by the postal inspection the Missouri department of Revenue and the the Missouri Highway Windsor police said they Are unaware of any similar investigation or charges in i think i woul Dve heard about it if there had been said Neil see Chrysler Page 4 House Row Premier Howard Pawley narrowly avoids ejection from the House in a dispute with speaker Myrna 3 Phillips up review plan the death penalty debate prompts a commons committee to plan review of parole and sentencing 18 dog attacks stories about the savagery of fighting pit Bull terriers Are fuelling a controversy across North some legislators and citizens Are asking that the Breed be banned while other groups say the fault lies with owners who train their dogs to be aggressive a tax time bomb finance minister Michael Wilson should clarify his proposed sales tax bidding for work a Winnipeg engineering company is bidding for work on the North warning system lottery winners lotto 47 Bonus 38 lotto 636 36 Bonus 13 46 Index Ann 46 52 35 52 6 42 7 Jumble 56 sports 47 37 to 21 ;