Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press final edition vol. 79 no. 39 Price 10 cents 15 cents thursday March 9, 1972 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonet . Forecast Cloud Snow 5 and 30 speech the throne speech provincial labor wreckage litters Street after a bomb destroyed a taxi outside Londonderry s main Post office wednesday 3 die As bomb shatters As time bomb ticks from a Reuter Belfast a three per sons died and four were injured Weir a huge explosion Shat. Tired a House deep in Belfast s roman Catholic lower Falls enclave 1 i policy said they believe the blast came As Irish Republican army bombs myths primed Joe Lignite charge in the four room House. Security forces sealed the area off and clawed at the rub ble to recover the bodies. The lower Falls is a1 known Ira stronghold and has not been policed by the Royal Ulster constabulary for two years. ".protestant, workers angered violence by terrorists reported give the t debate by Ron Campbell free press staff writer Manitoba s Liberal Leader Izzy Asper turned Down a Chal Lenge thursday by David t. Winchell chairman. Of Tanta Lum mining corporation to de Bate with him the viability of a Manitoba development corporation loan to the com Pany. Or. Winchell who is also president of Chenalloy Miner als Ltd. Of Toronto which wholly owns the tantalum operation at Bernic Lake Man., said in an interview wednesday he was absolutely incensed at the criticisms the Liberal Leader hat made of the development corporation s loan. He spoke of or. Asper s Chal Lenge to Manitoba s premiered Schreyer to debate before any financial institution on the topic of the loan to tantalum with the loser to resign. I m absolutely incensed at or. Asper s performance be cause it s just cheap politics that he s playing for personal Benefit he should be put on the carpet for what he s saying be cause be has t done his Home work. I wish to put myself in the Premier s position and debate or. Asper at any time or place be or. Asper replied if or. Winchell wants to de Bate this matter hell have his. Day in court i want to debate it with the Premier just the Premier. Strike today and bring Northern Ireland Industry to a halt spurning urgent appeals from government and Trade Union leaders the loyalist association of workers said it will stage a four hour stoppage that will be backed by workers in Ulster s four Power will mean there will be no juice of r factories at All so they won t be Able to work even if they want said loyalist organizer William Hull. The support the loyalists receive could have profound effects on British prime minister Edward Heath s Long awaited peace initiative which is believed to include More conces Sions to the roman Catholic minority. The loyalist association of workers is a major component of the Ulster Vanguard move ment pledged to fight to keep Northern Ireland under the Crown. A series of almost 200 persons were wounded and two were killed in two blasts at the and guerrilla assassination raids have stirred protestant anger in recent weeks. Londonderry Northern Ireland a a desperate father raced against the clock wednesday to save his 13 month old baby strapped into the rear seat of a car As a 60 second time bomb ticked to Ward detonation Only Yards away. The drama was enacted in a garage As terrorists unleashed a full scale bomb assault on the City and a government official was shot dead on the Border be tween Northern Ireland and the. Irish Republic. Police father and child disappeared immediately after the incident in which the garage and two dozen cars were wrecked. A police spokesman said the unidentified Man had just driven into the garage when two armed with sub machine guns b or s t in and dumped a package beside his car " they shouted it s a time by mar you have 60 seconds to garage workers fled the Man ignored the smoking and for vital seconds grappled with straps holding the baby to its seat. The pair got Clear of the building with Only seconds to spare. Here Are highlights a new code substitution of prescription drugs by licensed pharmacists As a Means of cutting drug costs. Agricultural products marketing legislation to improve the farm income position. Expansion of farm sewer and water assistance program to include towns and villages. Clean environment Legisla Tion. Previously announced legislation to change the Manitoba income tax act and establish a provincial succession duty. A policy on health care trends. A women s Bureau in the labor department. Increased workmen s compensation benefits. Expanded Road construction especially in Northern Manitoba. Additional funds for alcoholism and drug addiction programs. Changes in penal Reform programs. Expansion and revision of the student Aid bursary pro an enlarged student sum Mer employment program. Amendments to the jury act. To the Public automobile insurance program. In Hospital admission practices. Increased Grants in lieu of nip govt. Hints at tax shift measure mixed bag in speech legislation on drugs environment penal Reform to be proposed in Manitoba legislature the Manitoba legislature will be asked this year to consider passage of a new labor code legislation permitting the substitution of prescription drugs by licensed pharmacists measures to improve farm income programs on alcoholism drug addiction and penal Reform and a new clean environment act. Taxes to municipalities for provincial buildings and property. Increased emphasis on recreation with proposals for the recreational use of the Winnipeg flood Way. Airline negotiates Ransom attempt fails we be just about taken said Hull a Union organizer at Belfast s giant har land Wolff shipyard. Please see three Page 4 councillor gets suspended sentence by Ritchie Gage free press court reporter councillor Kenneth c. Cochrane 21, a new democratic party member on the St. Johns Community committee of Winnipeg s Central City Council thursday was put on a two year suspended sentence for theft of Worth of Long playing records. Cochrane of 710 Union Avenue appear Din county court Edge s criminal court before fudge Benjamin Hewak who ordered that Cochrane also re to a probation officer Dur no the first year of the ended sentence. A report submitted by de Fence lawyer Roland Penner to All a mistake i m not questioning whether tantalum itself is a Good com Pany or a bad company i am Jost questioning the political Wisdom of granting it of lion of taxpayers Asper said. Or. Deputy killed in gun Battle Detroit a a Wayne j police and sheriffs depart county sheriffs Deputy was ment spokesmen gave this fur the judge from a psychiatrist said Cochrane when under stress was a compulsive shop Cochrane s conviction Means he must give up his seat on the City Council. He said late wednesday he would be making a statement within 48 hours. Crown counsel David r. Bir Chard told court that Cochrane had a previous conviction in april 1971. At that time he was convicted on two charges of theft of records of under and was put on one year Pended sentence. The april theft of records was from the Bay store. Or. Penner said that his client had been seeing a psychiatrist for the past few months and the prognosis was that Cochrane had the Opportunity to overcome his tendency. Judge Hewak told Cochrane that he would have to realize that in future the courts would not take such a lenient View of j this repetitious behaviour and j would tend to disregard the j medical Side of the problem. J Cochrane was convicted tues j Day of the oct. 16 theft of 15 Long playing records from the . Kresge department store at 368 Portage Avenue. See suspended Page 5 by Mac folding by Elman Guttormson free press staff writer lighting materials Ltd., which has a loan with the Manitoba development corporation will be closing Down its operation at 1535 Seel ave nue fort Garry. Peter c. Briant chairman of the development corporation said thursday the corporation had been conducting an orderly winding Down of the com Pany for the past five months. He also said that the Canad an Imperial Bank of Commerce wednesday called due its loan with lighting materials. The amount of the Bank loan new York up trans world airlines officials were re ported today to be negotiating with extortionists who planted bombs on two jetliners and demanded million Ransom. Police said one unsuccessful ran som delivery attempt had been made. A third bomb was found on a United air lines Jet. Extraordinary Security pre cautions were in effect on Twa and other airlines after a sophisticated bomb exploded in the cockpit of an unoccupied Twa Jet in Las vegas wednes Day. A bomb was defused in the cockpit of a plane at Kennedy Airport tuesday. A Twa spokesman would not comment on a report in the new York daily news that negotiations were under Way. Despite the company denials new York police said a private please see Ransom Page 7 these were the major planks in the new democratic party government s throne speech read at the opening of the fourth session of the 29th Mani Toba legislature thursday after n o o n by lieutenant governor w. John Mckeag. The speech gave notice of the government s intention to introduce an income tax credit system for Low income groups that the full Impact of the a year Homeowner rebate an annual Bill of about million would be Felt during the coming fiscal year. The program was announced last year and was put into effect Jan. 1. Since the fiscal year does t end until March 31, part of the Cost will be charged to the 1971-72 accounts. Please see mixed Page 12 pcs move for hearing Rosy picture painted if s Alta. Man. And sask. Las not been disclosed but it is ii ought the company put up its inventory and accounts receivable As Security for the loan. Please see backed Page 4 jury indicts Irving snot to death and three deputies were wounded today in a shoot out with Detroit police who broke in on them during a card game. Authorities called it a misunderstanding. Five deputies and three poli Cemen took part in the free inv ote gun Battle at a near West apartment House. Ther account at a news Confer ence the stress officers thought they had come upon an illegal gambling establishment the deputies apparently thought the intruders were hold up men and someone fired a shot that touched off the Gan Battle during which More than fired. Yers who Are represented to Mit stands the Safe said be to tinted that or. Is Liberal Leader s of Abaft flitting Boft pose see Sty sheriff s fee Henderson of Detroit died Laoj trek Gan Sfat Deputy Janes 29. Esd Erwest surgery for a the Bead Arras and a ;