Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 23, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Marchand accused of patronage by Paul Jackson Ottawa staff regional economic expansion minister Jean Marchand came under heavy attack in the House of commons wednesday As charges flew through the air that government Grants arc handed out on a patronage basis. James a Mcgrath pc St. John s East said that accusations Are being levelled at or. Marchand that his program in Quebec is patronage and Alberta my Jack Homer pc Crowfoot charged that the Only Way or. Marchand could Clear his name was to re sign his position As a top elec Tion Campaign organizer for the Liberal party. In a House heavy with loud and vocal heckling or. Horner said that or. Marchand should assure the commons that there is no conflict of interest involved in making economic expansion Grants. The Alberta my also said he wanted or. Marchand s Assur ances that there Are no Politi Cal Bagman receiving information from his department As to w h o m to tag for political shouted or. Horner Mil lion out of million to the Liberal retorted or. Marchand this is the regional economic development minister suggested that or. Horner could not prove one Case of patronage. As or. Horner called on or. Marchand to resign his organizational position with the Liber Al party in order to Clear his name he was interrupted by speaker Lucien Lamoureux who reminded the commons about his earlier remarks on main Taining the dignity of Parlia ment or. Marchand challenged or. Horner to resign As he could not prove his charges. Earlier or. Mcgrath had waded into or. Marchand for statements the minister is alleged to have made to the que Bec newspaper la Soleil that More than had been paid out in Grants to Quebec firms which later went bankrupt. The Newfoundland my wanted to know what criteria the minister used for deciding these companies were worthy of Grants. He asked whether or. Mar Chand had consulted the Dun and Bradstreet credit ratings angry Senate replies continued he said j o u r a a 1 i s t s and some politicians Overlook the parliamentary Rule that the Senate cannot Amend Money Bills. This ban also applies to tax Bills he the political commentators of this country and at times politicians themselves show a very immature attitude toward the established institutions of our bicameral system. They exhibit a Lack of sophistication which causes them to be Imper Vious to an understanding of the work of this a 11 i s t e r Grosart Tario said it is a matter of great regret that television and press reports had created the impression the Senate did not give proper attention to the tax Bill. I am an old Newspaperman and i do not remember a single j occasion in the reporting of any j Story at any time Over a period j of Many years when All the facts on either Side on a pro and con basis were j or. Grosart worked for the j Toronto Star from 1928 to 1934 j and for the Toronto Globe and mail in the late 1930s. I before deciding to pump More Money into unworthy Compa Nies. Or. Mcgrath also said that some million had gone to companies which had either gone bankrupt or else had sub Stantial Lay offs of employees after getting a Grant aimed at promoting employment. Or Marchand said the number of companies which have gone bankrupt or Laid off employees after receiving Money is extremely Small com pared with companies which have flourished. He said decisions to hand out Grants Are not made or approved by him alone. A number of groups or departments Are involved in assessing what com Pany should get a Grant. Or. Marchand said that while a lot of the Money did go to Quebec this was because the province had a larger number of unemployed than some other provinces. However on a per capita basis it certainly was t the most favored province. Housing revamp suggested continued authority for Public housing and Urban the reports says. If the municipal government is to have the responsibility for planning the City for guiding Urban growth for controlling Urban development for deter mining the character of the City and its physical environment then it must have the necessary instruments which include the initiative and the authority for Public housing and Urban Rene Wal. And in addition to the authority and the initiative it must1 have the financial re says coun. Galan Chuk s report. If the City fails to create Ade quate housing programs after a trial period then the province can take Over again the report continues. In a debate following presen tation of the report coun. Ber Nie Wolfe spoke of the stupid idiotic kind of housing pro Gram the Marc has. Produced. He said it is Unco or donated and disorganized creat ing even bigger Low rent hous ing problems for. Easy to create the illusion of Progress when you re spending other people s he described coun. Talanchuk s report As an exposition coun. J. A. Art Coulter said he would like to see the City Start an aggressive Public hous ing but doubted the new Central City Council would accomplish anything because of its coun. Andrew Robertson agreed but put the blame directly on the Independent Citi Zens election committee whose endorsed candidates hold a majority on the new Council. He indicated the nip has shown itself to be More productive in the area of Public hous ing. Italians catch mafia suspect Naples Italy a a raid on a Villa on mount Vesuvius tuesday bagged Gerlando Alberti. Reputed to be Italy s no. 2 mafioso. The 44-year-old Alberti was wanted on suspicion of complicity m the slaying of Palermo s chief prosecutor Pictro Scag Lione shot As he left a Ceme Tery in the sicilian capital in april. Police also said Alberti was believed to be behind the disappearance of journalist Mauro do Mauro. Winnipeg free press thursday. December 23. 1971 sask. Warns spas Regina up attorney general Roy Romanow has warned health spas and similar keep fit operations the govern ment will come up with Tough legislation As soon As possible to control them. This Type of Endeavor is just not Welcome in or. Romanow said wednesday after Reading reports that a health spa in Regina had closed its doors leaving paid up members without services. In recent weeks in Regina Moose jaw Prince Albert and Saskatoon health spas have closed without any notification or reimbursement to members. Or. Romanow said his department will be investigating immediately. We just Don t have adequate consumer Protection Laws on the books in Saskatchewan right now the Only authority we have is to investigate and mediate and see if we can help the injured Par the attorney general said he frowned on the Type of opera Tion which uses membership Money paid in Advance to maintain Day to Day operations without offering the services bargained for. I warn health spas and other similar operations they give the government no alternative but to come up with some Tough this three month old baby boy is temporarily in the custody of the Oklahoma welfare department after his Mother allegedly attempted to sell him for a bottle of Beer. A ruling on the sanity of the Mother 39-year-old Sharon Shaffner was postponed by a District judge until Jan. 18.___________ pm if continued but the words if i run were on the record for nervous or dismayed liberals to Ponder. The prime minister As he had made known beforehand had no announcements. But he commented on several subjects from the Economy to relations with the . To the Quebec situation. Despite several questions on the subject he declined to say whether the next election will be held in 1972 or 1973. He said he does whether he will have time in the next month to consider major Cabinet changes. He would see Energy min ister j. J. Greene within a week or so for a decision on his Cabinet future. Or. Greene has been recovering in London ont., from a stroke suffered in Japan in september. The commons when it adjourns will not reconvene until feb. 16 and or. Said the Cabinet will use this time to prepare legislation for the next session. It is supposed to be the pre election session but or. Tru Deau would not be drawn out on he maintained that it is still True As he had said a year ago that inflation is licked. Canada s economic growth was better than that of any other country except France which was equal. But unemployment was still too High and the government was still working on measures to lower it. At least one Federal provincial conference on the Economy would be needed in 1972. But a new constitutional con Ference would depend on que Bec s Success in formulating amendments to the British postal services Are Busy More than nine million pieces of mail and parcels have been handled by the Winnipeg Post office since dec. 1, a postal official said wednesday. However this year s Christ Mas mail is Down about 95.000 items for the same time period last Vear. Last year almost 10.9 million items were mailed. However the postal spokesman said they could possibly surpass last car s figures by the of ser vice on thursday. The main balk of the mail was handled during the last several Bat the spokes Man said White it had uni Etc they were still pretty most of the extra help hired earlier this in kith was still working be said. And. Mail. Effective Jan. I letters wifi Cost the it gusts cents each in froth. Ore Severi wis for Raja Febi May stir Tizzy North America act which would be acceptable to Mosi of the other provinces. Or. Trudeau also said that certain people Are trying to use the Quebec labor movement to promote social upheaval and class warfare. Vancouver up an official of Palm Springs spa health resorts said wednesday the keep fit firm is not responsible for the closure of a number of health spas in Saskatchewan. Robert Nordin advertising manager in the regional office of Palm Springs was comment ing on a statement in Regina earlier wednesday in which Saskatchewan attorney general Roy Romanow warned health spas they face Tough Legisla Tion to control their operations. Or. Nordin said Palm Springs had operated some health spas in Saskatchewan under a Mana Gerial agreement with the Actu Al owners roman health spas. The agreement was terminated earlier this year. My Lai Promise not binding army Atlanta special tons the United states army no longer is bound to a Promise by former army Secretary Stanley Resor to release substantially All of the report on the my Lai massacre prepared by the official army inquiry headed by . William r. Peers an army spokesman said wednes Day. Noting that Robert Froehlke has become army Secretary since the Promise was made March 17, 1970, the spokesman said it would be up to him now to say whether an uncensored version of the report will be made Public. These remarks by . Harry Heath a Pentagon Public information officer who has Long served As the army s chief spokesman on the my Lai affair came at a time when there i s considerable behind the scenes debate As to whether and when the report which is several Hundred pages Long May be made publicly Avail Able. The vast parts of the report that have not been made Public reportedly contain As Complete an exposition of official findings about the my Lai massacre As exists. They include a summary of conclusion As to what happened at the South vietnamese Village along with maps and what is described As a pretty precise sequence of events at my Lai and a study of the investigation that immediately followed the incident the Peers panel interviewed about 400 witnesses Over a ,3ms month period in late 1969 and Early 1970. When a highly censored ver Sion of the Peers report was re leased March 17, 1970, or. Resor then Secretary of the e army declared ultimately substantially All of the report will be made he indicated this would occur after the my Lai judicial proceedings had been completed so that the report which reportedly is very specific would not prejudice any of the rights of defendants. In the Wake of the acquittal of col. Oren e. Henderson last week on charges of covering up the massacre an acquittal which marked the end of the my Lai trials a number of questions have been directed at the Pentagon As to when the Peers report would be made Public. But wednesday asked whether the report would be re soon col. Heath first re plied the judicial proceedings have not been completed the Calley Case is under Appeal. Until that time there s going to be no release of any White but cold Christmas Winni Eggers can expect a White but cold Christmas. Temperatures will probably drop to below Zero by tonight. Temperatures this morning were around the 15-degree Mark with Light freezing drizzle and Light winds from the North East. But colder air will be brought in As winds become stronger and shift around from the North says the forecaster at the Public weather office. The mild weather will Gra dually come to an end As North Ern winds bring in colder was the unwelcome news he had thursday morning. The freezing rain is expected to end Early today with Snow flurries this afternoon and to night. Some flurries Are expected tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow will be colder with a about Zero said the forecaster. A Clearing trend is expected for Christmas Day and the Sun will probably Shine but temperatures will remain cold. Eskimo school use increases Ottawa staff the number of Eskimo children starting school at the Grade 1 level has steadily increased in he last three years. The Indian affairs depart ment reported wednesday that Eskimo children who started Grade 1 totalled 669 in 1968-69, increased to 739 in 1969-70 and Rose again to 925 in the 1970-71 period. Morris workers strike about 25 employees of Glen Dale Mobile Homes lid. At m Orris man., have started strike action to protest against their Layoff last weekend by the company. Pat j. Mcevoy who represents the employees said a conciliation officer has filed a report with labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley. The report says negotiations Between the company and workers have ended. A strike now is Legal. Or. Mcevoy said the workers members of the Cana Dian association of Industrial mechanical and Allied workers have asked Union members who Are affiliated with the Independent Canadian Council of unions not to buy the company s Mobile Homes. The Union which began represent ing the workers a few months ago joined the Council recently. Or. Mcevoy had said Satur Day that g 1 e n d a 1 e Mobile Homes the existing contract with the workers renewed and refused to negotiate a new agreement. Under the existing contract inexperienced employees Are paid an hour for the first three months for the next three months and then or. Mcevoy said the Union is seeking a one year contract of Fering a 40-hour week a 50-cent hourly wage increase an improved seniority clause 10 paid statutory holidays improved sick leave benefits and three weeks vacation after five years service. The Union representative said the workers aim is to receive parity with Western flyer industries Ltd. Of Morris where the average hourly wage is he said the Only fringe Bene fits the company has offered Are the payment of medical premiums and three weeks vacation after 10 years service. The company we feel is going to use the Union As a. Scapegoat for them the com Pany pulling out of or. Mcevoy had said earlier. Ocean depth san Juan greatest known depth of the Atlantic is feet at the Point just North of puerto co. To j asian Kong to be Ite lift our country Canada. Christmas. Watch a child s face on Christmas morning and feelings you had almost forgotten come flooding Lack. The sheer wonder of being alive. The simple pleasure of storing our love and affection with one another. For when Canadian snows lie deep and the winds now chill it s sometimes easy to forget. Yet in the midst of Winter comes Christmas a shining Brilliant jewel that brightens the Winter dark and brings us together once again. A reminder that in this Hardy Northern land our greatest strength lies in our Unity our togetherness. So As we share our Christmas with one another let us also remember the Joy of being a part of this vast adventure called Canada. Canada our country. A Community of people cultures and ideals holding to a common Pride. Together it is ours to keep and to build. Seagram s . Modi in proud of if ;