The Brandon Sun from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada • Page 3

keystone atiltott notebook BRANDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1 6, -197 1 Page 3 Si HONEY WINE mm It's a lotia bull, buddy By GARTH Marriage for convenience Outlook good for rapeseed VANCOUVER- fCPTho titillating' case of a marriage- juj auituiu oil Canada's West Coast involving female bigamists more' than 300 East Indians is expected' to be before the courts for several months. The allegedly. who married Canadian-born women and in some cases fern a 1 impersonators to qualify for landed-immigrant status, first came lo light last January when police began a series of arrests following a i0-mon(h investigation by immigration a r.t rh n't officials, RCMP and city police. Fighting worms pays well, risky expected to be dealt with in a mass trial in Vancouver. Charges against remainder are expected lo be heard starting later this month and in September in courts situated in a 'number.

communities in the lower British Columbia mainland. Among those charged is Anton Paul, commissioner of marriages at Abbot sford, B.C. A marriage commissioner is a civil servant who issues marriage licences and keens he necessary records Tor a district. A police spokesman said Friday that fewer than 100 marriages are involved in the cases now before the courts although the immigration department estimates at least 350 marriages for convenience took place. "We just haven't enough in a to investigate every one in sufficient detail to bring it before the courts," the spokesman said.

With lhe case before the courts, police and immigration officials are Unwilling to provide precise details of evidence to be presented during the trials. But they say their investigations show some East Indian men went through marriage ceremonies with female impersonators, including two actors who had been performing Female iinperr sonalion in Vancouver night clubs and another seven men who regularly follow a female I i 1 in dress and appearance. They' also report their investigations turned up some instances of bigamy with married women going through marriage ceremonies wilh Indians. When the case broke last January, L. C.

Hawkins, Pacific region director, of immigration, said investigation of the marriages started in March, 1970 when applications for landed-immigrant status started piling up from recently married East Indian men-who had 'entered Canada as visitors; Most were unskilled workers 'who would nol normally qualify for admission. He said discovery in Jariu- ary this year thai some mar-' I'iages involved trarisvestites, including some, performers who impersonate females in Vancouver clubs, was the "big break" in the case. "We had identified some fransvestites, but we're not sure how many of them we've questioned," he said at lime. "You'd be surprised how difficult it is to tell which is which. I won't go into detail as to how we identified them, but il was not.

normals interrogation." The impersonators' wore women's clothing and makeup while applying for marriage licences and in applying to immigration authorities for landed-immigrant status for their "husbands." Members of Vancouver's East. Indian community also assisted the authorities, reporting 'the marriage scheme fa immigration officers after rejecting requests from some recent, arrivals that they be allowed to be married in lhe Sikh temple in south Vancouver. Members or Lhe community said some East. Indians had been charged as much as $10,000 to be brought lo Canada and lo go through the marriage ceremony in. order to gain landed ist.alus'.

They said operators of the scheme' had conducted what amounted to recruiting missions in India, particularly in' the rural areas of the Punjab. cbtild receive (fie average annual price for their rapeseed this system could be combined wilh an open 3. The Canadian wheat board could be the sole purchaser from producers, offering them an initial price with additional payments according to selling price. 4. A producer-controlled marketing agency.

The study lists advantages and disadvantages of each system but makes no over-all judgment. says lhe open market system requires no subsidy on the part" of 'government, "tends, encourage ration alinaiion of production" and provides producers and others with market price indicators up to nine months in advance, among other advantages. But the open market system also makes producers bear the bulk of market risk on an individual basis, lacks a government-guaranteed initial price and has "apparent complexity because of- poor or market, mechanism and market information." Advantages of. voluntary pooling: are: Equal prices lor all producers in the pool; market risk shared equally among producers in pool; freedom of- choice' for plus' the other advantages the open market. EYES EXAMINED, I CLASSES FITTED GERALD R.

DRESSLER OPTOMETRIST 23 Tenth Brandcn. 717-JBM OTTAWA fCPKA (Mailed Federal study exciting for rapeseed -Kin world markets, but warns that the industry must be able to in v. quickly to meet changing market conditions: "World trade, policies arid buying practices are changing rapidly, and the- Canadian rapeseed iiidustrv 'must respond quickly 'to any situation which' would adversely affect its improving market situation. marketing system which may. be appropriate for 1971 may' be inappropriate for 1975.

Market conditions therefore must be monitored continuously to discern significant changes in The l2G-page study, released this week, was produced by this Week, was produced by. a three-man committee appointed in April, 1970, tn evaluate alternative marketing systems for rapeseed. Its members are James McAnsh, executive director of the Rapeseed Association ol Canada in Vancouver, Forest- Hetiand of Naicam, president the Rapeseed Growers Association Saskatchewan, and Paul Babey of Edmonton, president of Unifarm. "After 30 years or relative insignificance, rape-, seed, 'tlie Cinderella has iidw emerged as a major-Prairie grain crop." the'study says. "Agricultural, mists predict continued growth for (he foreseeable Eulurc." Four marketing sysl en is are analysed: 1.

The open market, with competitive buying arid selling by the grain trade. 2. Voluntary pooling, by which participating On Thursday Gur'charanjit Singh 20, pleaded guilty in provincial court to a charge of conspiracy, admitting- he arranged "marriages" for two East Indian, men to ale impostors to enable' the men to gain landing status. He was put on suspended sentence and ordered to leave Canada by midnight Monday for his native India. Atwal is the third person" to plead guilty to charges laid in connection wlih case.

Two women pleaded earlier Ihis year, one being fined and the other is scheduled for sentence later this month. Another 52 have been charged, including 38 injured in six power line incidents this week. He knocked a flag pole marker from the top of a half-ton truck Thursday. "The lady who was acting as the flagman at one end or the field 1 was spraying told me about it later. "But I didn't' feel it at the time and I sure got 'kidded quite a bit by.

the farmers." He 150 acre's Monday night' after arriving at the small airstrip adjacent the North. BatlleFord-Uoyd-minster highway just of MaidsLone. Tuesday's Flying covered 600 acres and another 320 were co vered Wednesday. High wirids held up Flying Thursday night after 470 acres had been covered, Tuesday's spraying involved nine hours in the air after-a 5 a.m. start "And was really tired by noon Wednesday." However, Mr.

Hastings said he now is getting into his stride and was feeling "really good." "And anyway, I'm in no position to quit there's so many farmers depending on us and they're treating me exceptionally well." Maintenance on his aircraft is no problem. "There's few moving parts on an arcrafl and one of the chaps -here is an ex-commer-. cial piloL and he's virtually taken over looking aEler my aircraft." He has been averaging about 50 minutes in the air between returning to the airstrip fur reloading the highly-toxic insecticide Lannate. The workers make sure, he is well away from the. aircraft when they load the chemical which' attacks the central nervous system of the army worm, ft has the same effect on' humans and about 40 persons working with the pesticide have received hospital treatment so far in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

"There arc many volunteers helping to mix the chemical and load il, look after the aircraft and act as flagmen in tlie; fields we spray and there's a great spirit of cooperation." lie was in' lhe air by 5 a.m. Friday morning and the conditions were ideal. "You know, 1 didn't even realize it was Friday, never mind being the J3Ui." he "Any anway, superstitious is the last thing a spray pilot wants lo be." iru EXAMINED BRANDON Bullfighting doesn't rally enter into the many problems facing Brandon or western Manitoba not at the at any not bull-FlGHTING. In; Winnipeg, the suggestion that there are plans to build, a bull ring in that city has caused reaction leading to open line radio comment, a public protest of some vehemence and the. establishment of "citizens anti-bulllighting league" and a food store chain is leading the attack.

As: I it isn't a Brandon-western -Manitoba fight, yet, and although can't imagine squandering my dollars to see bulls buck stacked odds while men with swords, become heroes in the son by killing crippled animals, I'm not going' to get involved nuw in a debate the relative merits of the sport. If, howeverj (be sport became as humorous as, attacks against its spread into the heartland of perhaps it could replace the Ed Sullivan Show or even council meetings. An advertisement placed "as a public service or your Mac's Convenient Food Stores" in Winnipeg papers proclaims the creation or a "citizens anti-bullfighting league" as a result of the "shocking possibility that organized bullfighting could appear in Winnipeg at almost" "any moment! This could happen here because there is no Anti-Bullfight League here carrying on a continuing defence at our city-. "Recognizing that there was not a moment to lose," the ad continued, "we immediately organized a CITIZENS ANT I -BULL FIGHTING LEAGUE and are launching a campaign to keep bullfighting out of Winnipeg. "We need your support to win this fight." What got me was the clincher: "JOIN our league today by visiting your nearest Mac's Convenience Store arid pick up your.

imembership card and lapel button, you could win ISO pound of beef." They' call it an ounce-bf-prevention campaign but might it not have been a little more palatable had they decided to offer another gate prize? Why not a bushel of potatoes, 'a bundle of. a covey of quail almost anything but .150 pounds of beef. However, perhaps the beef they are giving away didn't die by the sword (or the' knife) but just lay down with hooves folded; and "went to sleep." Sony, Mac, your heart is obviously in the right place but why not replace that red and blood-filled door prize with something vegetarian? One of Roy's boys is upset; Jack McCloy is a National Farmers Union executive member in Saskatchewan. And Jack McCloy is ''appalled" because of. "the reaction of elements of Saskatchewan's business community to the proposed Family Farm Protection according to an NFU release from Saskatoon.

McCloy rinds it reprehensible that farm implement dealers "seem to be reacting against the legislation because," says Mr. McCloy, "the implication seems to be that farmers are Comparing the bill now before' the Saskatchewan legislature to (he Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act, a federal statute of 1.934, Mr. McCloy says; "Farmers have a reputation of paying their bills if they have the money and what they need is a chance to pay fheir day-to-day operating and living expenses until economic conditions improve so they can tackle their capital obligations. "The implement dealers," wai ns Mr. be well advised to support the proposed legislation and in addition support farmers in their demand for realistic prices Tor Farm all, their future and the Future of rural communities in Saskatchewan both depend upon prosperity on the And not to disappoint, Mr.

McCloy dug into the NFU closet to dig out that old NFU bogey-man, big-business and the industrial giant that has- been created by agribusiness just to -throttle NFU supporters, as concluded his press release: "Could it be that the implement dealers arc taking their position under duress, suffering pressures put upon them by rapacious machinery companies who have no social conscience?" Are dealers, in trouble, too? Could it indeed, Mr. McCloy, or could it be that those farm. implement dealers many of whom have been hanging on by a. broken finger nail for quite a few years while they suffered the same economic decline as farmers are suffering pressure's put upon them by families who want to eat? by grocery bills? by bills From their suppliers? by mortgage payments? What about the Fellow who sold his farm a couple of years ago, retiring to a town or city and expecting to live out his retirement in relative comfort on the annual payments which he counted on from the buyer? What would you suggest, Mr. McCloy, that this chap do? If the bill gives his buyer a chance lo payments for a year, should the retired farm owner he forced lo seek welfare support until the buyer again feels tic can pick up the payments? the Saskatchewan bill might be designed to.

prove a political party's devotion to the little guy, and in Lhe Saskatchewan instance it has been, decided that the family farmer is the little guy, but has political emotion gone too far? It just happens thai. I've known some "little guys" in Saskatchewan wtio ran farm machinery dealerships, little guys who pinched pennies and tightened belts every spring-fhrough-summor waiting for harvest when they hoped to see. the cash for the machinery, the repairs, lhe gas and nil and other things that their friends, the local farmers, needed tn gel through the secding-harvest season. These little guys in many cases also had families. They also had debls.

They owed someone for much of what they had sold "on time" during the summer. Today, unless he is either stupid or a bit funny in his thinking, guv" in the dealer's office certainly STOUTER any parts or machines or businessmen remain friends. MAIDSTONE, Sask. (CP)-The pay is high and so are the. risks for Keith' Hastings, a farmer-pilot on the front line in the battle against the Bertha army worm invasion of Saskatchewan's rapeseed crop.

Mr. Hastings risks his life eveiy time he takes off and is paid about $150 an hour. He" sometimes thinks he's overpaid. Piloting a single-engine aircraft equipped- with worth of spraying equipment, he was "pressured" into helping spray crops, in this district which calls Uselt the rapeseed capital of i previous spraying operations were confined mainly lo the Farm he operates with (wo brothers near Lloyd minster on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary, 40 miles west of Maidstone: Mr. Hastings, who learned to fly L4 years ago, started spraying on his own farm about four years later and until this year sprayed a maximum of.

1,000 acres a year. During the last week he has covered more than 2,000 acres and there's enough left to keep him in the air another two weeks. A quiet spoken bachelor, he said that' some days when weather conditions are ideal and the terrain is level he feels he's "overpaid, but then on other days we may well be underpaid." During the current rapeseed crisis in Saskatchewan, farmers arc paying the spray pilots $1.50 an acre and they adm'jt if is money well spent, if it can save the SnO-an-acre crops. But Keith Hastings' flying skill is only item the payment covers. There's the cost of his aircraft, its equipment and the operating costs.

Add insurance costs? "Forget it," he said. "I don'L even try to get insurance and if I rack the aircraft up, I'm out about $5,000. "Even life insurance costs me an additional S120 a year in premiums because I'm a spray pilot." The- prime attributes of a good spray pilot include good judgment, reflexes and sight. "Many people don't realize jtist what is involved and it's just like flying a rnckpile when you takeoff loaded with' 40 gallons of spray." Wind is tricky when you're flying between five and eight feet above the Lop of a crop on a level field. "But the power and telephone lines arc the main hazard, followed by rough terrain." Two flyers have been UIHEII YOU'RE smiunG CALL FOR LRBRTrS isn't likely lo be handing out supplies to anyone wiio coma quality tor a year debt holiday if the proposed legislation became law.

No. if I were a machine dealer I'd either be on a cash-only basis as of right now, or else I'd be finding a way to gel whatever cash 1 could out of Hie business and looking Inwards a province where if is ordained that everyone pays his wny. EXECUTIVE DRIVEN 1971 JAVELIN SST 2-DOOR HARDTOP SfiO c. in. engine.

3-spcert nntnmalin console shift, com-bination radio and it-track stcrcn, corduroy trim bucket scats, splil vinyl roof. cVcinc rear window defngger, power stonring, power brakes, rally stripe, rubber bumper guards, Ugh I csuini rqupinicnt, low mileage, color mustard vclloiv. BRANDON FOREIGN CAR CENTRE LTD. If, as. that government obviously feels, there is no gamble for anyone in giving lhe tax holiday, why hasn't the Saskalchewan government created a loan fund from which farmers could borrow lo- pay their neighbors for THE TRUE-BLUE FRIENDLY BEER niacnines, ianu, etc.

Such a move would put cash into farmers' hands, help many struggling businessmen to survive and would perhaps even let farmers and.