Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials Victory for Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev political stick handling in his intricate game against Domestic opponents of his drive to overhaul the soviet Economy was Well Worth watching last he scored two tactical victories Over the meeting of the 307member Central committee of the communist party of the soviet Union that he addressed in Moscow had been postponed from its planned Early june dates because he was having trouble in gaining acceptance of his newest heresies by senior party he was unsure of getting through the Central committee a dozen decrees that he wants to promulgate in order to give these heresies the stamp of irresistible party his immediate problem Lay in the committee but his greater problem Lay in the the 11man body that is the seat of governing Power in the although its composition had changed since he became party general Secretary in Early so that Only two Hartline supporters of the late Leader Leonid Brezhnev he had been Able to purge and replace with his own choices less than half of the the votes of those bitterly opposed to him and of those not opposed to him but dubious about his impatient iconoclasm were a Barrier to his securing full party authority for his these votes explained Why he could make sulphurous speeches denouncing lax officials and could excite soviet crowds during widely televised visits to towns and factories but could not deliver the sunday punch to Back up his actions on the Public relations he acknowledged his political weakness in the Central committee by the postponement and by not bringing Forward the 12 decrees for committee he continue his relentless Advance towards the real control of the party mechanism that if let him command rather than these commands would not reflect achievement of personal dictatorship but alteration of the top crust of the party so that its consensus would be formed by people who think very much As he his speech to the Central committee was As spectacular As others he has made this time he was advancing the heretical proposals that his country should move from a command Economy to a form of demand Economy and that workers incomes should not Only Rise to match their output but should have no upper limit these Are ideas that Are As shocking to the sclerotic soviet bureaucracy As his advocacy a few months ago of introducing gradually a form of democracy in the party selection of its leaders at most although he did not put before them the decrees that would Start the process of trying to make such changes a he did seek and obtain committee backing for a policy statement based on the ideas in his this associated the committee with his ideas while preparing the Way for another committee meeting in a few months time when he Hopes to be Able to convince it to take the next step of approving the 12 it was a Good step Forward for him that was All the More successful because his party and bureaucratic opponents could argue that it meant it fitted Well with his less showy but very important advances on the personnel in the Central he had the satisfaction of stamping on the last remaining Finger hold on Power of Din Muhamed the Kazakhstan party Boss whose Long Sway in Central Asia stemmed from his loyalty to Gorbachev engineered Kunay evs replacement As party Leader after the Kazakhstan riots last following this by ousting him from the politburo in he completed the process and sent signal to his party opponents by getting Yunayev kicked off the Central committee last in the he added three supporters As full voting including former ambassador to Canada Alexander while pointedly having the new defence minister named a nonvoting Mem Ber like his who was fired after a Young West German flew his Little plane 400 Miles through soviet air defences to land outside the this gave him a working majority in the new 14member politburo while keeping subordinate the defence min that has a voracious appetite for the same economic resources that he needs to make the civilian Economy More As part of his steady Campaign to secure the authority to effect major it was a virtuoso dont wait to worry politicians views of population trends depend on where they when Manitoba experiences one of its occasional periods in which the number of people moving to other provinces exceeds the number coming opposition spokesmen see it As evidence of economic collapse due entirely to the incompetence of the Gover ment in government on the tend to View statistics on net migration out of the province As a matter of Small former Premier Sterling faced with such statistics in late declared that he lost no sleep Over Industry minister Vic presented with similar figures this announced that he would not Start worrying about them until the loss of workers had gone on As Long As it had when the tories were in Lyon woke up 11 months later to find himself out of unless he catches on that population loss is not simply a matter for political May suffer a similar Fate at the next Manitoba tends at times to lose than it not because the Here is particularly bad but because the Economy of a nearby province is doing remarkably in the late 1970s and Early the province that was doing remarkably Well was and Manitoban moved there in when the Oil slump sent the Alberta Economy into a a lot of them moved now it is the Ontario Economy that is booming and Manitoba workers Are heading that producing once again a pattern of net migration out of the neither of those population flows can be blamed on the actions of any particular government at any particular they Point to a in the Manitoba Economy that neither Sterling Lyons conservatives nor Howard Hawleys new democrats have tried hard enough to the weakness is the Lack of Good Quality Manitoba economic growth rate and unemployment rate have been relatively Good in comparison to those in most other Manitoba More balanced econ omy has helped this province avoid the Boom and bust which afflicts the economies of provinces which rely More heavily on resource the trouble too Many of Manitoba jobs pay relatively Low wages and demand relatively few since Manitoba employment rate is relatively it is Safe to infer that Many of those migrants to Ontario not because they Are desperate to find work but because the jobs they can find in Ontario Are better than the jobs they had Manitoba relatively healthy Economy at the moment is resting on an uncomfortably narrow foundation massive hydroelectric construction in the North and downtown revitalization in Manitoban could be a lot More comfortable about their future if they could see that the hydroelectricity was being developed to provide Power to new advanced industries at Home rather than to be exported to the United the Lack of enough Quality jobs is not simply the fault of provincial it is based on a lot of including Federal policies which assume that sophisticated jobs belong in Central provincial govern do have a vital role to play in economic development and neither the one we have now nor the one which preceded it can claim to have done the Job very Schroeder should not wait until he and his colleagues match the record of the Lyon govern he should Start worrying chemicals i am deeply concerned at the continuous assault of chemicals Winnipeg and its inhabitants Are subjected to my knowledge there Are at least 12 chemicals emitted into the City of Winnipeg ecosystem every the concentration of which occurs during the Spring and sum Mer although there is documented research on these 12 Chemi the research itself is limited to Short term effects due to the fact that these chemicals Are relatively there seems to be Little data on How any of Chemi cals react with each if any one or All of these chemicals Are Why is there an Auto Matic Buffer zone around water sup apiaries and food processing plants if this is the kind of precaution automatically Why Are these chemicals being used in densely populated areas where susceptible pregnant mothers where Little children play and and where Home gardeners have their own food processing plants in their backyards i am also per letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to flexed if these chemicals Are Why is protective clothing and gear such As Gog Gles and coveralls worn i believe it is the responsibility of the City of Winnipeg to review and reflect upon the chemical warfare we have waged upon our local environment and its we must begin to research and implement less More natural ways of controlling and harmful we must begin to tighten the reins on our Pursuit to control and manipulate nature through the use of chemicals and foreign Johnson Winnipeg Rural mail Why must we pay such exorbitant prices to mail a then have to pay to receive our mail when an other part of the who pay the same rate to mail a have their mail delivered to their Homes free if you want Doort door delivery you should pay for it out of your own pocket and not be subsidized by us who can not get Home a Small Post office Box rents for a and wont hold More than two Days i drive 10 pm each Way every Day to pick up my Why not give All residents of can Ada the same consideration with Home for All or none Cedric Gibson Manitoba priorities striking you have been warned sometimes when a Little child is frustrated it strikes out at the one who feeds it How can mature men and women be so thankless As to Rise up and strike at their the Post office Are our letter carriers Blind do they not see the millions of jobless ones Jake Dick Manitoba Fred Cleverley article nuclear subs will take big bit of defence budget free june 22 draws erroneous conclusions based on in Complete understanding of the governments recent White paper on he is incorrect in stating that contributions to Canadas alliances Are not a the White paper clearly identifies participation in collective defence measures As a Cornerstone of Canadian defence he is wrong in believing there Are no Alliance requirements for More nuclear powered a simple numerical balance Between East and West is not sufficient and ignores the fundamental differences Between sea control and interdiction we need More submarines to control the sea by a misguided twist of Cleverley infers that planning to fight the next War is a change in the aim of Canadian defence be Lieving the real aim to be avoid fighting a War at deterrence is also a Cornerstone of defence policy if Cleverley really under stood the he would know that it is in by having the credible capability to fight and thereby discouraging potential enemies from initiating he is also incorrect in stating there is no separate budget for the within and there is a separate budget devoted to person operations and maintenance of the it is controlled and administered by the the capital budget is operated for the Benefit of the Canadian forces As a regular and Reserve components of the army and air Force Benefit from All equipment acquis tons within their James Cox Kapyon Barracks 1 Winnipeg theres Cash on memory Lane Bill and Bob Are known As the crazy Brothers in antique circles for their surname of Kasey easily lends itself to that in a Collo Quial they Are crazy about collecting stuff and Selling or barter ing for a were modern says the a individual with Light Brown hair and Pale Green we go All Over North America buying and strikes pay dirt he loves the Independence of his vocation and the surprises it May the biggest pay dirt was struck in a Deal in Winnipeg when Bill paid for two wooden crates which turned out to contain Small tins each containing 100 gramophone they had been imported from Japan before the Sec Ond world War and had ended up in a the Kra Seys sold them within about two months for collectors and dealers liked the Pristine that was unusual and it is illustrative of Bills Enterprise and eagerness to pursue a the Brothers arc movers and says one they dont sit still very they know How to take care of pay lop dollars to get the Bill is what is called a one of a select Breed of individuals who travel the Countryside looking for articles for dealers and he was 16 when he caught the Bug from a when a car rental firm advertised for people to drive vans Back to he and his brother saw an Opportunity to do some picking on the during the two week trip they knocked on doors in Small filled the Van with articles and sold them in Vancouver where they had a wed have a go fishing and have a Good Bill Val Werier int that what life is All about they Learned a lot about the Busi Ness after More than a year of driving vans to they collected old Cash pinball old signs and Roll top Bill has become knowledgeable in his chosen speciality advertising he will buy motor Oil signs such As White red Indian and Mccol Frontenac As Well As soft drink signs and old Tea and Coffee All stemming from the an example is Jobi Marrin Chal Lenger Indian Ceylon packed in a three Pound tin in nicely illustrated in color and featuring a a tin like this can fetch rare tins such As the pocket sized Uncle Sams smoking tobacco Are Handy in Wheeling and Bill swapped this in a Toronto Deal involving a pepsin gum a Champlain motor Oil sign and an 1899 fetches the Calendar was from the brew Ery of Edward Drewery of Winni Peg and was of poster it showed a Lawn Tennis game in the Back ground and a Northwest mounted police a general and a naval officer in the the a collector of Beer advertising Mem paid for the Calendar even though it pretty rough around the Bill is also into doubleheader gasoline pumps used in service stations decades he traded one for a Large porcelain blues Edwhite sign saying Ford v8 in firs class Condi Tion from the year some collector of Ford relics will buy he anticipates a Chevrolet Freak will want his genuine Chevrolet sign of the same some of the signs May go for times their original such is the multicoloured glazed about 25 by 40 promoting Dia mond dyes by Wells and Richardson of before the first world dolls watch the titled a Busy Day in depicts a Small child Dye ing clothing in a vat with dolls on a Bench As the Back of the sign notes that additional copies can be purchased for a into dolls or May pay for such a Bill will drive anywhere he drove to recently where he knocked on doors and the word soon spread that he was paying Cash for old Merchan Dise and he picked up three Vintage Oak chairs with the countenance of sir Wilfrid Laurier embossed in the Back rest and one chair with Queen Victorias Bill relates a Story that illustrates the series of trades that can take it concerns a wooden Cradle or a Good piece of turn the Century ethnic furniture with High sides and Curli cued it is of ukrainian design and built of the original paint survives in the decorations of the the cot was found in the Back shed of a Home Stead in Pine River and purchased for by a Farmer who picks As a he sold it to a dealer in Saskatchewan for who sold it to another dealer for a buyer in Vancouver purchased it for and he will probably get about for Bill says this shows the pickings that can be made in the Rocky Road ahead for tories by Stewart Macleod special to the free press the Brian Mulroney government quite apart from the forthcoming summer is a rather Quick upturn in the opinion there is every reason to believe the conservative party might have one hot perhaps even More so than the most of the attention during the last few months has been focused on the internal discontent in the grit As the new democratic party keeps gaining in the and the liberals Edge downward in the general direction of the the leadership of John Turner has been understandably subjected to con Stant View and spilling out what the Liberal along with some discernible has done is distract attention from apparent discontent within the govern ing tory party discontent which is beginning to spill out in it is coming just As the party Leader along with some talk optimistically about regaining control of the Agenda and getting major issues Back on a recent opinion poll also recorded a slight gain for the conservatives up to 26 from 24 per much More is needed in this re if the tory maps Are going to have an enjoyable summer in their there Are obviously a great Many questions for them to answer and there is wide disagreement Over what those an Swers should it is one thing for a majority of maps to differ with their Leader on capital when the party is Riding High in the polls and clearly headed for another electoral it is quite another when the party is languishing in third threatened with if the death penalty was the Only lingering it would not be such a there Are other some potentially dangling there in front of Many uncomfortable tory the rumblings of the last week Are enough to give Brian Mulroney cause for in the Wake of finance minister Michael Wilsons Long awaited tax Reform when the govern ment hoped to bask in the appreciation of lower the tory chair Man of the committee studying the measure managed to spoil the Don Blenkarn criticized some of the reforms for hideously complicating existing East understand Blekham is not just an Ordi nary backbench my As chairman of the influential commons finance the Man carries not needed on the eve of a summer the tories also did not need chief free Trade negotiator Simon Reisman betting against or International Trade minister Pat Carney getting embroiled in another of those arguments about what is and what is not on the bargaining neither did the prime minister need that Little misunderstanding about the Meech Lake Accord and whether his government would entertain any before it was straightened and attributed to a translation a furious tory Pat had stood in the commons an said Mulroney was turning Public hearings into a delivers blast a Day former Cabinet min ister Suzanne Blai Grenier Rose in the same chamber and blasted the government for threatening to in Voke closure to Cut off debate on capital first we resumed a discussion which Many found quite the government wants to close the debate right before the summer where is the logic in this she if the government did not need these types of questions right neither does it need another raging argument Over whether Public works minister Stewart Mcinnes might have breached conflict Fin Terest guidelines with his Stock mar Ket after what this government has been through Over the last couple of even the slightest whiff of real or is enough to drive the average tory my to the Brink of the Ottawa the mutterings of discontent that have been heard in Public As like the tip of the proverbial when things Are shipshape in any party you simply do not hear these individual of can work magic and perhaps they but if that magic is not performed for the tories before parliament resumes in the prime minister and his 209 maps can Brace them selves for a rough i ;