Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition i 140 Price 10 cents 15 cents Friday March 10, 1972 Sun Russ . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast mainly Cloudy 20 and 35 spin ii Dull and unimaginative Govi by Paul Pihi Chyn free press legislative reporter progressive conservative Leader Sidney Spivak and Liber Al Leader Izzy Simi Lar reactions to the Schreyer t h n e speech thursday both men said it was Dull and or. Spivak said the speech was As Barren As Mother Hub a a r d s and or. Asper said the provincial government to be out of the speech was delivered thursday afternoon by lieu tenant governor w. John me Keag at the opening of the fourth session of the 29th Manitoba legislature. Or. Spivak said the govern ment repeated the promises it made in the throne speech opening the last session of the legislature but which still Haven t been met. Last year they promised in creased farm Market research and it is promised again. Last year we were promised an integration of the welfare system and now they Are going to study the same welfare system. The throne speech indicates the government is suffering from a paralysis in accomplishing its or. Spivak said. The conservative Leader said the speech was dominated by two that Manitoba has the third lowest per capita civil service in Canada and that aut Opac has saved Manitoba motorists Money on automobile insurance. Or. Spivak said Manitoba according to the Canadian tax foundation has. The fourth High est civil service in Canada and the second highest if the number of municipal employees is taken into account. Or. Spivak said aut Opac has actually Cost motorists More Money and that the Manitoba Public insurance corporation is not As the throne speech claimed. Or. Asper followed the. Same line of attack saying the speech was marked by Gross the government is obviously embarrassed by the size of the civil service and it s trying to defend its position. Manitoba has the largest per capita civil service in Canada twice As High As Ontario or said or. Asper. The government is smart or. Spivak make special note of one part of the speech in please see Page 4 i Wilt taxes hinted London a britons woke up astounded thursday As news swept the country that High rising living costs Are to through government induced Price cuts in such Sta Ples As sugar milk and other Dairy products. At the same time speculation i mounted that the government s a Lav a t .91 1iiifirtn4 but Only by committee will get Mackie free stiff Ottawa Security requirements could change the electioneering pattern in the upcoming general election this sprint or fall. I the emphasis probably will shift towards More television appearance and fewer Public appearances a spokesman for the National Liberal federation said today in 1961, prime minister tru Deau made Many Public appearances in which the was c o my 1-e t e 1 y surrounded by crowds when he stepped Down from temporary platforms erected at shopping centres. Often he was nearly swept off his feet by pushing and shoving throngs when he made his Way out of Large auditoriums of Halls following an election speech. The Royal Canadian mounted police responsible for the safety and Security of the prime minister has stressed the need for greater Security measures to. Protect visiting vips and the prime minister following the re cent incident in which soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin was at tacked on parliament Hill. The need for increased Security has been duly noted by the prime minister s office. The Liberal federation in its pre election planning has been giving considerable thought to the Security aspects of the com ing election Campaign. However no formal decision has been As to what form the Campaign should take. Certainly there will be More Security personnel assigned to the prime Minster s party when he makes Public appearances and mingles with the crowds. A politicians like to mingle with the voters daring an elec Tion Campaign. They like to meet the people and or. Trudeau has become increasingly adept at this style of campaigning having lost much of his initial shyness i a. Recent pre election trips that j Trudeau has made to Dif j Larry Dejardins in j Ferent regions have then in the i the Manitoba left Latare to Day form of trial runs. If they can j that the the Stewar-1 be taken As a to Bow the will resubmitted to j liberals win Lay oat the Cam j pain for the prime minister it j budget will contain substantial t a x c u t surprises probably aimed at stimulating the consumer Market and open ing More Job opportunities for the unemployed. General expansion which would possibly mean a bigger for and Otter May also Lead to reduction in Britain s huge surplus in her International accounts. V but the British Pound currently is so Strong the surplus concluded it can Rii Kiethe " Prospect of heavy Iloyar fire Over All result is reduced Domestic unemployment and a greater measure of Industrial peace. Price cuts also May reduce opposition needling of prime minister Heath who promised in his e 1 e c t i o n Campaign 2 months ago to reduce Price at a instead Price kept pushing up bringing agony to old age pensioners an others trying to subsist on pit Tances. Starting next month a pint o milk currently costing about 15 cents a pint will be reduced by please see Britain Page 4 drug Cost 11eport Poison movie to censor now there will be two if not More Security staff with him at All times. The seventies have marked the end of the. Easy going Atti tude prime ministers in Canada adopted toward min gling with the Public. Last year saw a High Iron Fence thrown up around the official residence of the prime minister on Sussex Street. In the past it had been guarded Only by a Low hedge or Bushes with ramp on duty on the grounds. Now there is a forbid Ding Iron Barrier and More mounties on patrol. The Days Are Long gone when residents of Ottawa thought Little of. Passing a prime minister strolling Down Wellington Street or Sussex Street or. And mrs. John Diefenbacker and or. And mrs. L. B. Pearson used to take strolls Down the streets Border ing the official residence. Today a Security officer is on hand if tighter Security ordered please see Security Page 6 the Matoba censor Board the viev about the off duty sexual activity flight attendants was seized late last year by police a a downtown win theatre. Charges of ass to enc material were by Magrs team routed by fire new York a pres ident Nixon ordered United states airlines thursday to step up Security measures and controls As bomb threats and phoney scares disrupted air travel in the aftermath of a s2 million extortion plot against trans world airlines. In new York Twa president f. C. Wiser said the airline has had no Contact with the extortionist since tuesday evening and no Ransom has been Nixon s order called Tor immediate Steps by every Carrier to prevent or deter weapons or explosives from being carried aboard its aircraft to tighten i t s baggage checking proce dures and to improve the Secu Rity of its cargo and bag Gage loading in another development the Federal aviation administration proposed new roles to improve communications among please see tighter Page 4 Beirut a a shipment of seed from Canada or the United states is blamed for an outbreak of Mercury poisoning in Iraq that travellers say has taken As Many As lives. But the travellers said the seeds distributed for planting Only were packed in sacks plainly marked with Skull and crossbones. The reports received Here Tal lied in Many respects with one Given in Stockholm wednesday y swedish scientist. However said thousands had died from eating the seeds which were treated with a Mercury compound As Protection against rats and other pests. The travellers arriving in Beirut gave these details peasant banners ignored the Poison warnings and fed the seed to cattle or ground them up As flour for themselves. The entire meat Market was soon contaminated and the Sale j of local meat was banned. With reports coming in of hundreds of cases of poisoning the government ordered the seed to be handed Back and the death penalty was decreed for anyone caught Selling it. I please see Poison Page 13 i Ottawa up opposition attempts to take up the cudgels on behalf of auditor Gen eral Maxwell Hender son who claims government parsimony prevents him from do ing his Job wound up thursday More with a whimper than with a bang. Allan Maceachen govern ment House Leader ended a fractious 90 minutes commons by adopting an opposition motion giving or. Hen Derson a hearing before the commons Public accounts com Mittee. This is the same forum where or. Henderson has been com Laining for several years that y holding Down pay Levels for his staff while giving higher a for similar in other departments the Liberal Titi eau government has kept him Hort of staff and prevented him from doing a proper Job of checking into and documenting government spending mistakes. Before or. Maceachen de fused the situation with his offer of a special committee study of the complaints the House waded through a proce Dural morass. By Alice Krueger free press legislative reporte a report recommending legis lation to bring about lower Dru costs in the province was re leased thursday by the Hani Toba government. The 224-Page report a made Public to coincide wit the speech from the throne in which the government announced its intention to in Grain orders halted please see auditor Page 12 big win for big 0 Vancouver up port o Vancouver officials agree thursday night with the federa government s decision to Stop temporarily taking orders for Export Grain hat would move through Here but they maintained that the fault lies with the railways not the port. The move was described As a temporary withdrawal from he Market because of delays shipments through Van Couver of Export Grain sold under Curr Cai foreign contracts. It could last for a said w. E. Wellman Vancouver manager for the wheat Board. I won t predict How Long it might last Justice minister Otto Lang in charge of the wheat Board told the commons thursday that the port of Vancouver be cause sales already made have taxed the port to its limit May have ceased offering deliveries for a particular period of time to particular or. Wellman said that offers of delivery have ceased and the situation now is being handled on a Day to Day or. Lang said Snow and mud slides have blocked rail lines to please see Grain Page 4 j produce a Bill this session per mitting pharmacists to substitute lower Price equivalents for drugs prescribed by Brand name. The drug study commissioned by the Schreyer govern ment in january 1971, was con ducted by the advisory commit tee on Central drug purchasing and distribution. It was headed by or. A. A. Klass and comprised of six pharmacists four medical doctors and a professional economist. According to the a number of preparations manufactured and distributed under different Brand names and at varying prices Are actually equivalent in composition and effect. In the opinion of the commit tee members a licensed pharmacist should be permitted to select a variety of Brand names classified As chemically biologically and clinically equivalent one which is economically advantageous to the patient. In releasing the report. University affairs minister Saul Miller who Heads the Cabinet committee on health education and social policies stressed hat the remainder of the rec emendations made by the committee Are recommend ions will not Neces warily be adopted As govern ment please see drug Page 4 who s to blame see Page 26 won t be sucker Premier can be assumed he win do much of his travelling by air j with several Side trips Laid on j St. Louis a about 100 by automobile and helicopter j persons including members of however with his office now jibe Montreal canadians of the More Security conscious it i National hockey league were the theatre had Legal Tion for showing the film since it had been geared by the Cen Sor Board. The movie also Drew com ment from former highways minister Joe Zorowski. Member of the for Thompson. Soft cd Tenet last year Over pm he asked a s he Appeal of Case in View wet fee Caf Ieti an Cook mean and end to the free and easy Type of campaigning in the past the prime j one room own to tvs Tjimis Cai 7khcs2. Rooted from their rooms Early fire broke oat in of the Hilton inn often been left on j across from Lambert St. Louis Bob Williams. Canadians Trainer said Only one of the players is ored. Defend Ceman Serge Savard suffered a Cert on the Moorcr pkg As he ticked oat s window to Tail of Temofei. Of teams said Savard was treated and released Toon bos he said fee Tea Tel affix Here by water looking for a drum set is Matt to fire bad Trees we Vita it j save is today 5 of Uttira if mems. I 3 Airi 5 vim is Mattoc Fec win 41 classified 27 to to 51 cries it ii drafts of Wace 33 23 Rawe a merriex 3k. 21 sports n 17 govt. Snoop Iii alleged by Victor Mackie Lang premiered Schreyer said thursday the opposition parties arc trying to play him for a sucker by pressuring him into calling a by election in Wolseley constituency which has had no member in the provincial legis lature since december. When i begin to suspect that the other parties would like to use either the government or me As a sucker then i will rely on he said at a press conference in the Legisla live building. I he recalled that the Liberal party ran paid advertisements in Rural newspapers in 1970 i prior to the announcement of j the by election in Ste. Rose a i casing the government of Tram Ottawa Justice minister j a whig on people s civil rights by Otto Lang admitted in the j not calling a by election Only 14 game this after House of commons thursday j Days after the sitting member has a 8-1 record hat Canada is missing oct on Isen. Gel Mol Gat had resigned. St. John s special 0 r e s t Meleschuk s Manitoba rink edged British Columbia s j Bemie Sparks foursome 10-8 Here this morning assuring themselves of at least a tie for first place in the Canadian Curling championships. The Only rink left in Conten Tion besides Manitoba is que Bee. Bill Kent s rink upset Sas i Kat Chewan s Doug Wyatt 10-6. At the same time. New i found land. For the first time in by Paul Jackson Brier history downed an Alber Ottawa charges that the final end. Federal government was Manitoba who play Alberta d c the final operation m intercepting and a. Ter Fering with communications Nas a from civil servants to members Quebec is 7-2 while Sas Katche of parliament were made Fri wan and Alberta Are 6-3. Day. Of Manitoba loses to Alberta two members of the Progress _ _ _. Sive conservative opposition Ontoh voiced concern the commons co Imbia the two rinks Roald treat tetters from civil servants be tied with s-2 some opportunities to sell More Grain to Export markets be cause it can t always guarantee delivery times. Or. Lang minister response for the Canadian wheat beads use weft Board said sates have already to members of Paris Werft were Berag intercepted. Opened and in ga7re5 Hortjan sex Anred atom that _ Date taste fetes Cowe Caes Bress writ beef and record Barry of clearer of ha5 won is nest gang Vaea phase Prince Edward is cad 7-5. Pricy cent bucs Ype Orgei Tojo fed a record Law please see Joe West Law Page the other two parties when they were in Power waited As Keg As 11 months before Call ing by elections to fish vacant seats in the legislature he said. According to Law. The Premier rant cafe the beef Ecton Fri Tahiti taxed the pen of to a year after s vacancy occurs. H met at certain tires. 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