Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wynn pfc nil a toss tucs Tay May to three hijackers killed continued with the hijackers blood inside the passenger Cabin. Only one passenger was slightly wound cd. However senior officers said. The belgian Pilot of the plane. Capt. Reginald Levy climbed out of the Bullet scarred jetliner with his hands covered in blood but smiling happily and apparently uninjured. Thanks very much its Lovely he told defence minister Moshe Dayan who was standing with Israel s chief of staff . David Elazar. And four other generals beside the jetliner. Most of the released Passen Gers walked Down the stairs of the plane instead of using the safety chutes. Shouts of Joy sounded in Israel s Knesset As Premier Golda Meir and the government received word that the troops had taken the plane. The plane had been parked on a Side runway at Lod inter National Airport while the Long and tense negotiations were conducted through officials of the International red Cross. The thwarting of the guerrilla attempt to hold the passengers to Ransom was seen Here As a great Victory for the israeli authorities who had refused to give into the hijackers Ultima Tum because they Felt this would Only encourage further guerrilla extortion attempts. Quebec ports closed continued men Are expected to enter Pris on. The three leaders were served with contempt of court citations last month in connection with court injunctions in tended to provide maintenance of essential services particularly in hospitals during the strike. Or. Justice Cote said that even when injunctions have later been ruled unconstitutional by higher courts the courts have always recognized that injunctions must be obeyed once issued. The unions have challenged the constitutionality of the injunctions. He said he found All the ele ments of a conspiracy among the three labor leaders. The men appeared at a news conference in Montreal monday afternoon and announced their sentences to reporters shortly before or. Justice Cote s ruling was made Public. Or. Laberge said the sen tence was no Surprise because he had always claimed there s no Justice in they Are sending us to jail because we exercised our right to strike while big corporations Are fined Only for major breaches of the or. Pepin said May be this will make it Clear to All workers that the system is not made for them but Only for a youngsters from the Bergenfield Nursery school Ney Jersey get the feel of the Road As they drive their tricycles Over a typical intersection drawn in the schoolyard. When they re old enough to take the wheel of the family Auto they la be ready. . Mines ports describe the latest escalation of the War. The defence department said it was not a blockade in the Rue sense of the word since it did not involve boarding and searching ships. A blockade continued suffer defeat and humiliation in it the Vietnam War. He placed the decision for future american soviet relations on the shoulders of the rus sians saying the United states was prepared to build a peace dragging River for two two boys were missing and presumed drowned tuesday after a boating mishap at lock port man., sunday which took the lives of two other people. The Selkirk detachment of the ramp said dragging operations were continuing tuesday for the bodies of Samuel Earl Westbrook 9, of 149 Worth Street and Thomas Harvey 5, of 1567 Ross Avenue. The free press had incorrectly reported monday that All four bodies had been Reco Vered the Westbrook and Harvey boys were among the occupants of a boat that was swept Over Lockport spillway after an an Chor caught on the River Bottom had caused the boat to be sucked beneath the fast flowing red River. Four other people were in the boat at the time. George Walter Harvey 42, of 3567 Ross and Sandra Alex Andra Westbrook 11, of 149 Worth survived or. Harvey swam ashore and miss West Brook was rescued below the spillway by another boat. The two other occupants Jane Ala Hilda Vucko 30. Of 1567 Ross and Paul Franklin 9, of 200 Cecil Street drowned and their bodies were recovered shortly after the Accident. The ramp said they had in correctly identified Thomas Harvey As one of the persons known to be dead. Instead it was the body of the Franklin boy that was found in the Bow two Miles downstream. The ramp said dragging operations will continue until wednesday if the bodies Aren t found before then. Usually is regarded As an act of Ful relationship with them but the responsibility is yours if we fail to do soviet leaders apparently Learned formally of Nixon s mining order when Moscow am Var. Reuter news Agency said it Vas a blockade and raised the immediate question whether the russians would agree to accept i possibly humiliating setback r use Force to break the Amer can blockade and Clear the mines. The a said that besides asking collapse of Summit talks Vith soviet leaders Nixon s sea quarantine of North Vietnam posed the potential for perhaps he greatest confrontation of world superpowers since the missile crisis a decade go. Nixon combined disclosure of in toughest military moves ver ordered by an american resident in Vietnam with what some Washington officials viewed As a softening of peace Erms an offer to withdraw All is. Forces from Vietnam with n four months after american prisoners of War Are released n d an internationally super ised ceasefire has begun. The military moves include 1. All entrances to North Viet namese ports will be mined to recent Access to them. The mining began at 9 . Saigon Ime today or 9 . Edt monday and the mines were it to activate automatically rom 6 . Saigon time thurs a. 2. . Forces were directed o take appropriate measures within the internal and claimed territorial Waters of North Viet am to interdict the delivery j f supplies. I 3. Rail and other com j Mun cations will be Cut off to j in maximum extent possible j 4. Air and naval strikes against military targets in. Forth Vietnam suspended in vember 1968, and resumed Hen Hanoi s forces invaded he South during the easter weekend will continue. Although Nixon sought continuing co operation with the Kremlin As the soviet Union and the United states moves to wards a nuclear arms limitation pact and other agreements he clearly was in no mood to Brook interference in his pro claimed goal of smashing the North vietnamese offensive in the South. Nixon told the american peo ple and the world he would not p e r m i t the american troops in Vietnam to be end an communist party Leader w h e n White House adviser Henry Kissinger made a secret trip to Moscow last month. After that trip Kissinger flew to Paris May 2 to meet be due Tho politburo member and Hanoi s negotiator at the peace talks but we heard from the enemy was bombastic Rheto Ric and a replaying of their de mands for the president said the United Bassadore to Washington Anat states had made every possible by Dobrynin was summoned to i offer to end the War on a basis Kissinger s office an hour be j that was just and honorable for fore the speech. White House both sides but North Vietnam officials said other countries i has met these offers with inso were notified through Diplo j Lence and Matic vowing that we shall do Nixon s Battle cry monday j whatever is required to Safe night was that he never would guard american lives and accept defeat even if his actions did Force a showdown with the russians and Cost him the presidential election in no vember. He reported total failure so far to engage the communists in serious negotiations at the Paris peace talks and at one Point clearly implied that the guns and tanks he claims Are feeding the North vietnamese offensive in the were re buffed or refused to carry through a Promise that they would use their constructive in fluence to bring about a peace Ful settlement. He said that Assurance was Given by Leonid Brezhnev Sovi legion annual May 21 Regina sask. Special can an organization born in the flapper Era continue to Prosper in the space age what changes Are needed what objectives should be set these Are questions which will face some delegates to the Royal Canadian legion s 24th National convention Here beginning May 21. Although there Are Over 500 resolutions dealing with a Vari Ety of subjects the essence of the convention is expected to be How the sex ser vices organization can gear up for change. American Nixon said he faced a Clear hard Choice among three courses of action immediate withdrawal of All american forces continued at tempts at negotiation or Deci Sive military action to end the he conceded Many Ameri cans favor withdrawal now and said from a political stand Point this would be an easy Choice for me to oblique reference to the fact that his Vietnam policies loom As a major Issue in his re elec Tion Campaign. But he said immediate withdrawal of All . De to number by july 1 under the plan Nixon announced 12 Days mean turning 17 million South vietnamese Over to communist terror and and would leave no bargaining leverage to free american pos. I have therefore concluded that Hanoi must be denied the weapons and supplies it needs to continue its he said. . Officials said that the mining and blockading of North vietnamese ports if effective would Cut off about 90 per cent of War supplies reaching Hanoi. Defence Secretary Melvin Laird has said the soviet Union and East european countries have provided 90 per cent of arms and supplies for Hanoi s War machine. Officials said the Only other route for soviet and East euro Pean supplies would be through China and it was doubtful if Road and rail transportation was adequate to replace the facilities at Haiphong. China with an ideological and Border dispute with the rus Stephen m. Sians on its hands also might Worobetz of Saskatchewan of be reluctant to allow major facially opens the event at the business Well pleased continued was Ana Centre affairs of the arts. Minister a the communists to install their own government by Force in Saigon. Backing his words with deeds he said he had ordered the following four Point military program to begin even before he sat Down in his office before the television cameras he said countries with ships now in North vietnamese ports had been notified that their ves Sels had three Daylight periods j to leave in safety. After that night Saigon mines would become i Active and ships attempting to leave would do so at their own i risk. I his second appropriate measures to interdict supplies in internal or territorial aimed at preventing the off loading of supplies from Large freighters to smaller barges in an Effort to skirt the mines. Officials said these smaller Craft could be blasted by . War planes. Within hours after his address an Armada of Ameri can aircraft were carrying out the third order by bombing rail lines and highways throughout North Vietnam. The president put the russian leaders on notice that he con supplies from the soviet Union to pass through the country in any event they said. Yearance before a legion convention. Founded in 1925, As a Veter i ans organization the legion s membership today is at its highest Point Ever. About goes into Community projects each year goes towards bursaries and scholarships and Low rental housing for the elderly is valued at Over personal tax unchanged sask. Waffle Safe Regina up Premier Allan Blakeney said monday j night he does t see any de mands for disbanding the Waffle element of the new demo cratic parly in Saskatchewan. Commenting on developments in Ontario where an executive committee of the provincial nip has recommended the waffles be dissolved there or. said the same sort of problem does t exist in Saskatchewan. He said the Ontario situation siders Vietnam to be his Over j is not surprising because the Riding concern involving Amer ind did t do As Well As sex ican Honor prestige and an in petted in a recent election breakable commitment to Sai gon even though he is anxious to visit Moscow and do business with them. But he also warned that he was prepared to risk these top priority goals and face a dangerous military confrontation continued equipment purchases t o process Mineral ores to the prime Metal stage to be Eligi ble for a depletion allowance. Pensions and allowances for veterans to be increased annually in step with Cost of Liv ing rises. Tax exemption for persons Over 65 and for the Blind or disabled to be increased to ,000 from s650. A recent there. It is not unusual in those circumstances that some ten Sions arise. But in this province the nip was successful and we have not had the same sort of problem that parties that lose with the russians rather than elections seem to have. Eyeglass lenses and frames prescribed by a physician or optometrist to be exempt from Federal sales tax. Provisions for accelerated depreciation on pollution control equipment to be extended one year through 1973. Scientific research equip ment bought for testing and developing new products or processes to be exempt from the 12-per-cent Federal sales tax. Duty on knitted goods imported from Britain to be in creased to 25 per cent from 18 per cent. New democratic party had no Faith in the corporate tax reductions at All. He called or. Turner s _ expressed Hope that the reductions would stimulate employment sheer stupidity and bluntly labelled it a we business the progressive conservative critic Marcel Lam Bert said the budget offered few incentives to Domestic in vestment in the Economy and i Max Saltsman his nip counterpart said it made a Sham Bles of tax fairness and would Lead to higher corporate profits and higher wage demands. In the Nova Scotia s Liberal Premier. Gerald Regan said the budget provided some of the things we badly need and would help the provincial Economy to grow. He also welcomed what he called or. Turner s reconfirm m a t i o n of the equalization payments that take tax Revenue from the wealthier provinces and distribute it to the have not. Ontario Premier William Davis found the incentives to business encouraging but said he was frustrated by the Way Ottawa did not have to impose some of the restrictive Mea sures Ontario found necessary. It Points out very clearly the need for tax he said. Provinces must have an expanded share of the tax reve Saul Cherniack finance min ister for Manitoba s nip government. He did not expect the reduction in corporate in come tax to do anything for the unemployment level. He said the proposed measures will simply line the pockets of the big Saskatchewan s nip Premier Allan Blakeney echoed the sentiment. The Federal budget offered ransoms to the Rich and peanuts to the he said. General motors and other giants Are to have their taxes slashed by close to 20 per cent. Senior citizens the Blind and War veterans Are to have their benefits increased by 3.5 per provincial treasurer Gordon miniely of Alberta s progressive conservative government did not expect the tax conces Sions to do much for his prov Ince. We would have much preferred or. Turner to announce across the Board tax cuts for All he said noting the tax reduction on equipment for processing Domestic ores will not apply to Alberta s Oil refineries if past guidelines apply. In British Columbia social credit Premier w. A. C. Ben Nett said the budget contained some useful measures. Such As tax incentives for Industry and Cost of living allowances for pensions but it should have included wage Price and interest controls. It should also have removed the 12-per-cent Federal sales tax right across the and or. Bennett regretted the absence of a Basic income for All canadians such As a negative income tax. Neil president of the Canadian chamber of com Merce said the corporate tax reduction to 40 from 49 per cent will increase business Confidence in the Long term growth of the Economy and will enable business to plan he said the Over All effects of the tax measure will help Cana Dian Industry offset the Adverse effects of the Domestic International sales corporation set up in the United states by improving its competitive position. Eastern businessmen and Many in other parts of the country echoed his sentiments though some such As r. V. Hicks president of the Board of budget benefits 3 groups cmdr Urcis a Cut to 29 per cent from 25 in tit corporation income tax for manufacturing and process ing profits eligible for the Small business incentive also goes into effect next year. This covers about five per cent of total corporation income. Or. Turner at a news Confer ence Folio Wing his budget speech said his priorities were incentives for Job producing industries moves to encourage medium term growth in the Economy inflation control Protection for those who have no defence against inflation and then a tax Cut for the Middle class. I did t have the Money unless i were willing to risk inflation to solve All the prob part of the package to stimulate the Economy was provision for a two year write off for tax purposes for purchases of equipment to be used in manufacturing and processing goods in Canada. This goes into effect immediately and replaces a schedule that takes 10 years to depreciate about 90 per cent of he value of equipment. Gerard Futon president of he Canadian manufacturers association said the budget Vas a shot in the for business and the tax Cut was the Best news manufacturers ave had in a Long opposition Leader Robert Tanfield said concessions to business were not enough. A reduction in personal income tax ates also was needed. David Lewis new Democrat c Leader said it was sheer stupidity to expect business to use its concessions to provide More employment. Or. Turner told the news con Terence incentives for Busin esses in other countries including the United states made such incentives necessary in Anada. The effect of the Bud get would be to make More financier Dies in prison Vancouver up Corne los Gerard is Polliet. Former of the common wealth Trust co., has died at Agassiz Mountain prison where he was serving a three year sentence for theft and fraud. A spokesman for the prison about 70 Miles East of Van Couver said Poh Liet 61, died sunday apparently of a heart attack. Potvliet was sentenced in october 1971, after pleading guilty to theft in converting s 1 00.0 0 0 in Commonwealth Trust funds for use of a Commonwealth subsidiary. He also pleaded guilty to defrauding Commonwealth acceptance corp. Ltd., of a three year 9v4 per cent promissory note in connection with the theft. Former Commonwealth Trust president a. G. Duncan Crux is currently serving a seven year sentence after he was found guilty of theft and false pretences in dealing with securities of a Kelowna investment firm. Potvliet was born and educated in Holland and held a number of positions in govern ment agencies there before coming to Canada in 1957. He became vice president of Commonwealth Trust in 1964. Election talker continued it was estimated that directly benefiting from the budget will be some old age pensioners including the needy receiving the supple mental payments. Also benefiting will be about veterans on pension and dependants on allow ances. Approximately Stu dents and trainee j come in for Assis Tance. Or. Turner had promised to bring responsible Bud he told the House he believed he had done just that. He had been acutely cons Cious of the Bounds within which he could manipulate the Economy doing everything to stimulate it while at the same seeking to avoid the risk of adding fuel to the fires of inflation. Trade of metropolitan Toronto thought the tax cuts should have been implemented immediately instead of being delayed until 1973. Sisler Ward a Public meeting of Sisler Ward residents has been scheduled for 8 . Thursday in the n o r t h w o o d Community Centre 1415 Burrows Avenue. Sister Ward is in the lord Sel Kirk Community area. Jobs provided Portland Ore. Forests poured nearly billion into the Oregon Washington Economy in 1971, the Industrial. Forestry association estimates. They provided jobs and Bil lion in wages. Cash available for s use. I will be wat Dunt to see How this flow it res poom to a question he the automobile prices Here relative to prices in the . Would be among things he would be watching. In the budget speech or. Turner also announced govern ment plans to implement a preferential Tariff system for imports from developing coun tries. The Cabinet would decide which countries Are eligible for the preferential Tariff. Other items in the budget included 1. Immediate elimination of Federal sales taxes on eyeglass lenses and frames ordered by prescription 2. An immediate Tariff in crease to 25 per cent from 18 per cent on British knitted goods 3. Adoption of a tax saving Al Lowance covering expenditures for equipment to process Miner Al ores to the prime Metal stage 4. An increase to from starting with the current tax year in the tax exemption for persons Over 65 and for the Blind or disabled 5. Immediate elimination of Federal sales taxes on scientific research equipment bought for testing and developing new products the changes in the old age pension payments will be made in two stages. Retroactive to Jan. 1, there will be an increase of a on the increase ast year in the consumer Price about pensioners. The one million elderly receiving guaranteed income supplements will get retroactive raises ranging to a maximum of a month for a single per son and a month for a mar ried couple. Beginning april 1, 1973, the Are you getting enough out of life come to this Christian science lecture by Thomas 0. Poyser sunday Way 14th . Of Edmund Partridge or. High school main St. Combined old age pension and guaranteed income will be increased by the of the increase in the Crammer Price Index during the previous year. The new escalator fur pensioners replaces an escalator with a two per cent offing which applied Only to those receiving the guaranteed income supplement. T h e Cost Omi ving escalator for the almost disabled War veterans and dependants also is retroactive to Jan. L based on last year s change in the consumer Price per cent. 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