Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leg free press final edition vol. 79 138 Price 10 cents 15 cents wednesday. March 8, 1972 Sunrise . Sunset . Moon Rosa . Moonset . Forecast mainly Clear -10 and 10 school Aid most explosive Issue by Egon Frech free press legislative reporter the next session of the Manitoba legislature which will be opened thursday afternoon with the Reading of the speech from the throne by lieutenant governor w. John Mckeag May be one of the most explosive so far under the current new democratic party govern ment the top Issue of the session will be premiered Schreyer s personal proposal that the government give tax Money to Pri vate schools. Feelings run deep on the Issue and they know no. Party lines. Sidney Green who re signed his Post As minister of nines and natural resources and Urban affairs last week Over the separate schools Issue is expected to Lead the Battle in the House against his Premier when the question is raised. The Issue dates Back to the and since 1916, Mani Toba has had no Public financing of separate schools. Only last year a Bill was passed by the provincial legislature solv ing the companion Issue of. Whether students in Manitoba could be instructed in All school courses in the French language. Little new legislation is expected to be revealed in the throne speech but there May be a general cleanup of the nip program from previous years when certain items had to be dropped from the Legisla Tive program because of the amount of time consumed by the debates on legislation set Ting up Public Auto insurance arid the new Central City of Winnipeg. A number of items in last years throne dealing mainly with health and social. Development department mat ters quietly faded from sight As the last legislative session developed. They Are a report on the expansion of health facilities particularly of Community clinics. The government has promised that it will Issue a White paper on healthcare policy and this is expected during the coming ses Sion. A guaranteed annual in come Pilot program which was to have started before the end of the year but has run into problems. Government spokes men say it is going ahead but recently there have been doubts. A program to reduce the Cost of prescription drugs. The Klass committee has now re ported to the government and its report is expected to be tabled during the coming session. The government could be think ing of introducing legislation Al lowing pharmacists to substitute generic drugs where Doc tors prescribe Brand name drugs. The proposal would meet stiff opposition from the phar please see school Page 13 proposed exemptions Liberal Leader Izzy Asper and conservative Leader Sidney Spivak favor the provincial government s in crease in exemptions posed succession duties r men however disa greed with the principle of such legislation. V finance minister Saul Cher Nick announced tuesday that exemptions for a surviving spouse hid been raised to too Jook from and that estates less than going to other individuals would t be taxed. The previous proposal for. Taxation of. Estates. Worth More than or. Asper said in a Telephone interview tuesday night the government was trying to take out of it the legislation some of the most vicious i Welcome what he or. Cher continued Pymm see Liberal Page 7 Florida is next s by a slice of Mountain spills across the Tram Canada Highway in the Frasor Canyon 100 Miles Cait of Van Couver. The fad cup and 300 feet Down monday night in the Wake of a smaller spill in area. Works Crews had just cleared the first slide when this one came Down missing a highways department truck Driver by inches. Case tossed out the onus for the Winnipeg so Piaf of the stewardesses was placed squarely on the Manitoba censor Board wednes Day As charges against the metropolitan theatre of possessing and exposing an obscene film to Public new were dismissed. Movie Bouses and film distributors Are compelled to rely Oft the Board magistrate i. V. Dabie Roki said in Winnipeg magistrate s court. He made the observation in a i 17-Page judgment delivered at a preliminary hearing. Charged along with the metropolitan theatre 285 Donald Street were its manager Loris Tenner 55, of 249 Metcalfe place and famous players Ltd. Dismissing the charges of possessing an obscene film and exposing an obscene film to Public View against All three. Magistrate Ubienski said the accused had acted with lawful justification and excuse in showing the stewardesses which purported to depict the sex lives of a group of off duty stewardesses. The Law must protect those that comply with the please see court Page 13 gun Csc gets to deadli1ve hockey face of today by the Canadian press will keep mine open Schreyer Manchester . A senator Edmund. Muskie of Maine the Winner of new Hampshire s Lead off democratic presidential primary fought today for control of the state s delegation to the democratic National convention in an unexpectedly close primary contest with senator George Mcgovern. The South Dakota senator enhanced his presidential credentials by polling Well Over one third of the vote in the presi d e n t i a 1 preference primary tuesday a Strong second place showing which he said would give him a big boost across the country. As counting in the separate vote for the 20 Delegate spots continued through the night Early indications of the expected Muskie sweep faded and me govern s backers moved to wards a possible split of the delegation. With 83 per cent of the Dele Gate vote counted the tally showed Muskie with 11 Dele Gates Mcgovern with nine. The 20 delegates will cast 18 convention votes next july i Miami. The increasing Chance of a split return in the contest for i delegates further clouded the i showing of Muskie As he headed for a Tough contest in Flori through Twa Jet explosion follows phone threat i from mystery extortionist Las vegas Nev. A a bomb went off in an unoccupied trans world airlines Boeing 707 today hours after it arrived Here from new York and authorities said it apparently was part of an extortion scheme that set off a worldwide bomb Alert on Twa jetliners. The sheriff s office said the bomb apparently was one of those an extortionist said he planted on four planes in order to get s2 million in Ransom from trained dogs sniffed out one bomb in a cockpit set to go off less than an hour after a Twa flight from los Angeles landed in new York tuesday. In the bomb blew a Large Hole in the top and right hand Side of the cockpit fuselage scatter ing debris for 30 to 40 feet. No injuries were reported. Charles Wyre. Twa general manager in Las vegas said there was no indication the bomb was aboard the plane nonstop flight 57 from new York to Las vegas until it exploded at . Post . The plane Mccarran International Airport at . Tuesday. Wyre said the four engined jetliner had been searched for bombs before leaving new York and upon Landing in Las vegas. He said that it was under surveillance by sheriff s deputies and Twa personnel while on the ground Here. I Don t think anyone could have got aboard in Las Wyre said. He said other Twa planes at Mccarran were being searched again for explosives. The plane carried less than a full Load of. 129 passengers but Wyre did t have an exact tally. Bomb squad officials were please see bomb Page 13 food leads the Way Pri ice the Manitoba government will use All Legal Means at its disposal including nationalization if necessary to keep the tantalum mining corporation of Canada limited mine at bar Nic Lake from closing premiered Schreyer said tuesday. The Premier was speaking at a news conference called to ans wer statements by Liberal Leader Izzy Asper that in taxi r years just society secret by 5 . Today hockey fans across Canada should know which or will telecast Home games of Toronto Maple Leafs after saturday night. That was the deadline set by Ted Hough vice president of Maclaren advertising co., Ltd., which holds to rights to i All nil games played in Canada for assurances from the Csc s striking National Assoc an Escapee from Stony Moun i action of broadcast employees lain Penitentiary arrested and technicians that future tuesday night was sentenced j Leaf games wid be shown with. To a total of a. Years in the i out disruption Penitentiary when he pleaded saturday s game from Maple i guilty to 10 charges wednesday Leaf gardens will be carried by i in Winnipeg magistrate s court j Cito to Here an outlet of the auditor blames govt. Manitoba development Corpora Tion s loan to the mine was a bad investment and that the government ought to Back out of the Deal. The Premier speculated that the mine is somehow being used As a Pawn in a Power struggle Between two . Corporations. Despite the nay say i n g and carping of certain p e r s o n s the government of i Manitoba does not look kindly on the Prospect of a mine being closed in our province a new i mine capable of productive operation and employing local people in the Lac Dubonnet area because it has become a Pawn in a Power struggle be tween . Corporations. Please see will Page 7 a next week without the Over j whelming new England sendoff the that would have strengthened his bid the White House. Muskie. Battling Mcgovern j and three other main Chal j Jenners fell Short of the abso-1 Lute majority in preference vol ing that his managers had set privately As a new Hampshire Ottawa up Yves Geof Geoffreys waive rights goal. Democratic returns covering Froy and his wife have waived j 94 per cent of the anticipated j extradition and Wil be escorted o Canada from Spain by police please see Muskie Page 7 i in a couple of solicitor up .6 Ottawa up the con Sumer Price Index Rose again last month to 137.3 from 136.7 in january mainly because of higher food prices and scattered increases across Many other categories of consumer spending statistics Canada re ported today. The february Index last year was 130.9, based on 1961 prices equalling 100. The gain for the 12 months to february this was 6.4 Index Points or 4.9 per cent. This is almost times the two per cent a year increase which economists say is All that should occur to have relatively stable prices. The increase from january to february this year however was about equal to the Ary increase for the last sever Al years. Please see Price Page 7 soccer Pool record Ottawa up auditor general Maxwell Henderson i said tuesday the morale of his has been seriously affect government policies Down Craig Stewart Campbell 26, j private ctr National grading his senior assistants who escaped custody dec. After Harold Ballard. President and failing to recruit sufficient was arrested after a number of of the gardens kicked the Csc i help. For these and other reasons and because More errors than we have Ever encountered be fore have turned up in the government s financial books it police cruisers blocked off a out of his rink monday. He said i taxi at main Street at Pioneer he was fed up with to tech i Avenue around . Nicias walkouts. Campbell threw a snub nosed if Maclaren does not receive .38-Caiibre revolver to the floor the assurances from abet. I of the taxi after it was stopped or the Csc. Or. Hough indicate May not be until May this year Toronto cup prime j of police. De rights to the season s re that he can submit his 1971 re minister Pierre Trudeau s just be a number i Mahring Leaf Home games Are port to parliament. Society has become a secret of charges in Winnipeg Magis expected to be switched to the opposition Leader trate s a writ at the time of his ctr network. Robert Stan fief said tuesday escape. Jobless Loans queried Rogers warns Canada might Campbell had been reformed in x speech before about 2.00d j to Stony Moon Tam for a Park people who paid a plate at violation pending the trials on a a progressive conservative i series of charges. Fri raising dinner. Or. Stan j the Man complained of being fiem said fee Liberal govern 91 Woefle in Perrit Eutry and meat to be die Defon was Ikea to the waa Peg gab save. I Hospital. 08 sewing Waspi Tike crr Kosfa set id he fled a it anti covers of and fates Coe try i Forf acco pram isow from the to is Mottet Washington up state Secretary William Rogers in three pages of his annual report devoted to Canada says 1971 was a year of reassessment in Canadian american relations hut issues remain thai Are highly visible and trouble issues Range from Trade frictions to the environment being damaged by nuclear tests such As the one the . Set off on Amchitka Island despite Strong Canadian protests. Ottawa the government he promised every Effort auditor general is re has launched investigations into will be made " to resolve quire by Law to submit his re lending operations which and Ference but Rogers warned port by the of december or v 3 n c p Money to per it a reasonable to expect within the first 15 Sii trn ;