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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1982
Page
2
By W. Roger Worth many Canadians face unemployment while Ottawa pushes six and five salary caps for civil servants. The plan contrasts public sector security with private sector layoffs, bankruptcies, and wage struggles. Critics say the policy ignores end user hardship and inflation.
The piece discusses civilians and Israelis at odds over Arafat led PLO fighters in West Beirut. It notes options to trap or ship Arafat away while the PLO withdraws. Arafat’s Rome greeting contrasts Churchill’s warning that victories aren’t built on retreats.
Bill Smiley recounts letters from Jim Ross and other readers reacting to his criticisms of taxes banks and professionals. He quotes a Yellowknife accountant and a Port Colborne resident, notes editors courting him for a column, and recalls a Walters Falls reader praising his stance while discussing a loan and collateral.
A report notes Caner 9,ame David Dunn losing stacks in a recent fire and H McCoy narrowly escaping theft, while a cattle drive moves over four thousand head from Yorkton to Grandview. It also mentions CN R freight advantages, labor shortages, hotel bus service, bank leadership changes, harvest milestones, and local fire duties across 1942 1952 1962 era items.
Canadian broadcaster recalls interviewing Roy Brown born in Killarney now aged. Brown and his four brothers popularized Big Band in western Manitoba through groups like Four Aces and Roy Brown Orchestra. He booked major stars into Brandon over the years and wrote Steamboats On The Assiniboine and The Brandon Hill Connection. He also crafted a Christmas song Last Year’s Dolly and spent years in the Manitoba Sanatorium.
Neepawa presses warn community and local workers over a new delivery system that shifts beer distribution to a major city trucker. Editorials urge residents to support local services, fight for local firms, and defend community employment against corporate competition.
In the St. Regis Hotel lobby Reggies notes Finance Minister Marc Lalonde saying he would trust crystal ball insights from MacKenzie King over present day budget guesses. The quip suggests Lalonde doubted current methods to solve fiscal problems facing minister Alan MacEachen.
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