Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leg free press final edition vol. 79 no.x189 Price 10 cents 15 cents Friday May 5, 1972 but no Bate set transit Winnipeg transit work Era vote d per cent thursday in favor of strike action. W Date for a Trike was set but the Union promised 48 hours notice will be Given before tie up of the City s Public transport tide system. Tom e. Fick business agent. For workers Union the amalgamated transit Union Al Cio the results of the vote. Drivers make a hour Are not the main Issue in the strike or Fick said. What the. Union considers crowding of the front vestibules of buses in Rush hour periods was an important part of negotiations. Same Issue was the cause of discontent earlier in the year Driver was temporarily suspended for publicly criticizing such situations. Is that Drivers want passengers to be required to offer either tickets or the Mart fare to that Drivers would t have to carry Money please see transit paged women photo by Dave Johnson watch a fire destroy the old dutch foods Ltd. Warehouse at Itoga Sarjent attn vein St. A met Ami Niboli. Tit crowd cheered each time a part of the warehouse Walls fell in the fire. Re to make bits bodies flyer industries limited the Manitoba development Corpora Tion s bus manufacturing com p a n y will build a Square foot i Plant in1 Winnipeg this year to make bus bodies for american motors general corporation. Construction of the new Plant in to other bus manufacturers by a . Court order issued to prevent pm from driving the manufacturers Ostrof business but tie terms of the Ower Don t apply outside the United or. Ault said about six of the please see new Page 8 Kellogg Idaho Reuter Rescue teams at the Sunshine mine prepared today for a search through 1m Miles of smoke tilted tunnels to seek any More survivors. Thirty two Are known dead Tad 50 Are missing. The death toll Rose thursday when the bodies of eight miners including two Brothers Elmer and Dewellyn Kitchen were found near the deepest Shaft of the mine. The men apparently had been making a break for the upper bevels Whin they were overcome by the smoke from tuesday s the f a the e r of the two Brothers also a Miner Mani aged to escape from the part of the mine in which he was work ing a sheriff s Deputy said heavy Rescue equipment am a 53-Man Rescue team from the bus a front of the big Slatier building. I employment at flyer plants n Winnipeg and Morris Man s expected to increase to More than 900, from present 250, or. Anil said. He said the company decked to build the new Plant in Winnipeg because there in t a Large enough labor Pool for the new Morris. But the Morris Plant would continue to grow As the company gets new orders for school Sesi trolley buses and Canadian transit buses the am general bus which has a general motors transmission arid diesel engine can be sold Only in the United general motors was forced to make the components available please see women Page 8 die crowd yells As Walls fall Levels editor in judgment files on Iii by Victor Mackie free press staff writer Ottawa a charge that Supply and services minister James Richardson had made a false statement to the House of commons was hurled across the floor at the Liberal benches thursday by an angry John Diefenbaker former prime minister. The Manitoba Cabinet min ister who usually adopts a Low profile in the commons aroused the ire of the most for m i d a b 1 e opposition member when or. Richardson indicated in the commons wednesday that the coat of arms had been removed from government cheques As a Security measure at the suggestion of the Royal Canadian mounted police. Later wednesday outside the House Larry Zolf of the Canad an broadcasting corporation s weekend program asked or. Richardson i f the mounties phase see die Page 9 Kenora ont. Firemen in the Munici-1 Pality of Jaffray Melick had to Call on the Kenora fire department to fight a Blaze Early Friday. The fir which broke out at . Destroyed municipality a the two fire trucks All j ire fighting equipment and the adjacent municipal the Kenora lire depart ment had the. Gushed by 7 . 1 Jaffray Melick fire chief Glen Parmeter an is v Tim ate of damage would not be available for a few Days. Cause of the Blaze is under investigation Istanbul a leftist terrorists followed up the hijacking of a turkish plane with an attempt thursday to Kidnap Turkey s top generals. The half million Man army of country was placed of Alert. Four terrorists surrendered to Bui g a r i a a authorities after living Asylum and did not carry but threats to blow up the plane and its of. Cupants7 at. Sofia Airport. They freed passengers Crew and plane after 27 hours. The hijackers had demanded Freedom for six imprisoned terrorists three of them condemned to death. The demand was rejected by the turkish Cabinet. In Ankara four terrorists tried to abduct Gen. Kema Lettin Eken commander of the tur Kish gendarmerie. In a shoot out at Eken s Home the general and four other persons were wounded. One terrorist was killed arid one Eken s leg wound de scribed As not serious. The martial Law command imposed a 11 .-to-5 .. Curfew in the capital and the armed forces were placed of Alert until further All the terrorists were. Believed to be members turkish peopled liberation army a leftist group. Please see turkish Page 7 free staff writer fire destroyed the old dutch food Ltd. Warehouse thursday night but St. James Assiniboia firemen stopped the fire from spreading 4o two nearby build Ings. A fire department spokesman said there were no injuries and a company official estimated damage at the presence of acetylene and oxygen tanks in one of the nearby buildings caused fears of explosion until the tanks were taken out. Yvern Forue free press staff writer u n d e r Cross examination thursday e. Grose testified he might have made in error in judgment i taking special government related files which were kept confidential under lock and key with him when he re sighed from St. James Assiniboia fire chief Alf Miguez said the alarm was turned in at . And by the time fire trucks got to please see fire Page 7 holidays Bill cqm1kc Canada legislature highlights highways report finds staff competent Page no commitment on tax equalization yet Page million approved for student summer jobs Page 1 3 3 nip lax proposals says Mcgill Page 5 More tourism for North Borowski Page 5 Churchill to jct sewers and water Page 5 Moug sceptical about unemployment figures Page 5 Borowski criticizes recycled lax debate Page 31 flyer expansion Silc Uncertain Page 31 Churchill port efforts continuing Page 31 Farmers won t get Hood compensation Page 31 statutory regulations committee meets Page 31 Ottawa up prime min islet Trudeau hinted thursday that the government will inv Traduce shortly to rename Dominion Day As Canada Day. Colin Gibson Wentworth raised the Issue in the commons asking whether the government plans to change the title of the july 1 Holiday. Or. Trudeau replied that he was Happy to hear the question and that the government plans to present a Bill on statutory holidays shortly. Outside the House state Secretary Gerard Pelletier refused to comment on the contents of the forthcoming Bill. His department arranges july 1 celebrations and avoided using any name for the Day last year. Or. Gibson told reporters he took or Trudeau s reply As a firm commitment to change Dominion Day to Canada Day. Federal Laws including the Dominion Day act set out official National holidays. The Bills of Exchange act includes As holidays sundays new year s Day Good Friday easter monday Victoria Day Dominion Day labor Day remembrance Day Christmas Day a Day celebrating the Sov c r c i g n s birthday and any other Day proclaimed As a Public Holiday or As a Day of general prayer or mourning or Day of Public rejoicing or Rex e. Grose testified thurs Day about attempts to find out what other Mills the principals behind the Churchill Forest industries Manitoba Ltd. Project had been involved in but said the principals took the position it was none of our Damn or. Grose was being Cross examined before the commis Sion of inquiry into the Chur chill Forest industries Complex by Scott Wright counsel for the Manitoba government. The Cross examination dealt with a number of events sur rounding the proposal and acceptance of the initial project in the forestry Complex. It was said officials of Mono Ca a of Switzerland indicated the firm had been involved in four major ventures in Spain and North America. But or. Grose said it never was found out what the North american ventures were. Or. Grose now with the Prince Edward Island govern ment is the. Former chairman and general manager of the m Ito b a development fund now the Manitoba development Manitoba development fund in March 1970. He also told How former progressive conservative Premier Duff Roblin asked to and look at some of those files in Toronto prior to testifying be fore the commission of inquiry into the Churchill Forest Indus tries last fall. Or. Grose was being Cross examined before the inquiry by Scott Wright counsel for. The Manitoba government now working for the Prince Edward Island government or. Grose is the former chairman and general manager of the fund now the Manitoba development corporation and former Deputy minister of Industry and com Merce. He testified monday about How then Premier Duff Roblin said documents relating to the Northern forestry project should go to fund and How this put them under a cloak of confidentiality. Or. Grose said thursday the documents covered the period from about 1960 to 1966 and formed a pile about four to six inches deep. Please see took Page 7 forecast Cloudy showers 35 and 45 Borowski s dept. Dogged by suspicion sex minister s staff was competent report to Premier by Egon Frech free press legislative reporter an investigation into the Manitoba highways department commissioned by premiered Schreyer Dur ing Joe Borowski s term As highways minister has found a professionally conscientious staff operating within a Milieu of suspicion and sometimes arbitrary top level the report prepared by three Federal civil servants Early last year was tabled in the Provin Cial legislature thursday by highways minister Peter Burt Niak after repeated prodding by members of the progressive conservative opposition. The investigating team headed by Federal assistant Deputy minister of Supply and services w. Wallace Muir said the fact hat employee morale appeared p be still Good despite top level interference in the Day to Day Workings of the department suggests that the personnel of the Branch were individually and personally concerned i n at tempting to effectively construct and maintain the prov Ince s highways. The team suggested the whole personnel administration of the department be brought under the civil act on the ground that even quite Junior bliss9 corporation and former Deputy minister of Industry and com Merce. A sequence of events so far put before the inquiry is that the Monoca a proposal was made to the provincial govern ment sept. 28, 1965 was a please see data Page 7 today rangers Bounce Back Dryden awarded Calder trophy. 45 classified 18 to 28, 35 to comics 55 comic Page features 4 deaths i finance 32 to 34 Jumble. 21 movies 1-. 1s sports to 53 television h women 2ft, 30 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone. Toui cures fish Kenora ont. Up a Lodge operator. Says some indians in this Northwestern Ontario area were paid a bottle of whisky for each Mercury warning sign they took Down and delivered to certain tourist Camp owners. Barney who operates a Lodge at Ball Lake told the Hamilton Spectator wednesday that these tourist Camp owners then wrote to their regular guests from the United states saying it was Safe to come and fish. He did not name the owners. The warning signs recommend fishing for Lun Only and Tell fishermen not to eat the fish because of Mer Cury contamination. Or. and a number of other Lodge owners in the English River system have not opened their facilities since High Levels of Mercury were found in fish in the area in 1970. He has launched a suit against companies cited by the Ontario government As Mercury polluters. Or. said the operators who paid the Bounty for signs knew the govern ment would t replace the ones taken Down. Hit tanks Field guns please see suspicion Page 9 libel award Vancouver up ish Columbia supreme court judge thursday found the Van Couver Sun had labelled the two sons of Premier w. A. C. Ben Nett in a Story published feb. 17, 1971, and awarded damages of in a 27-Page written judg ment or. Justice Richard an Derson said the evening news paper was not fair or accurate in an article it published on a . Legislature committee hearing in Victoria. The judge ordered the Sun publishing co. Ltd., Pacific press Ltd. Publisher Stuart Keate and managing editor Wil Liam gait to Russell j. And William r. Bennett each. In addition or. Justice an Derson ordered the defendants to each of the four Bennett stores in Kelowna Vernon Penticton and Kamloops total of the newspaper is published b y Sun publishing for the owners Pacific press. The Story in question dealt with proceedings before the legislature s Public accounts com please Page 9 gon jets score from Reuter a Saigon up South Viet namese Jet fighters blew up 16 North vietnamese tanks and three heavy 130-millimetre Field guns being moved South to wards Hue. In an apparent build up for a drive on the former Imperial capital Mili tary sources Here said today. The sources said that pilots flying the jets also reported knocking out four anti aircraft guns and killing More than 70 North vietnamese troops in strikes around mid Day thurs Day about 23 Miles Northwest of Hue. . B-52s, each capable of carrying 30 tons of bombs hit the same area during the night the . Command said. Three b-52 missions also were flown against North vietnamese troop concentrations in the mountains 13 and 15 Miles West and South West of Hue. The sighting of tanks and heavy guns Down across the Salt Flats beside Highway one Between the captured far North please see Saigon Page 9 court walkout staged Quebec up three Lead ers of the Union common front in last month s Public service strike said delays and the pres ence of riot police caused them to walk out of a court hearing thursday before arguments were heard on contempt citations against them. Louis Laberge president of the Quebec federation of labor likened the atmosphere in the court to that of a ban Ana we re not going to stand trial before that damned he told reporters out Side the court referring to a dozen riot equipped provincial policemen. At a later news con Ference All three leaders Cate picks up Washington a a Hijacker claiming to carry explosives commandeered an East Ern air lines Jet aircraft today picked up Ransom Dur ing a Stopover at Dulles inter National Airport and continued aboard the plane for an undeclared destination. Passengers among the 56 per sons aboard the Boeing 727 were let off at Dulles after the Money and escape gear including six parachutes were delivered to the Hijacker. The Federal aviation administration had no clues a to the Hijacker s or please see court Page 7 planned destination. Asked where the plane was headed an Faa spokesman said you get out your Crystal Ball and Tell the Man described Only As Light skinned hijacked Ern s flight 175 shortly after it left Allentown pa., at 10 . The flight was bound for Washington National Airport and Miami Fla. The plane was refuelled at an isolated runway during its pvt hour Stopover giving it a Range of Miles for an ensuing flight ;