Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 10, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba I i i my Phil Itic 1 Ros Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. 192 Price 10 cents 15 cents wednesday May 10, 1972 . Sunset . A Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast Cloudy periods 40 and 65 Artelt week Long hell two miners v found alive Ron of toy embraces wife Kellogg Idaho Reuter two miners came Back tues Day night from the week Long hell of the Sunshine Silver mine fire after being trapped near the bodies of seven dead comrades Tom Wilkinson 29, and Bon Flory 28, told rescuers who hauled them up in a capsule from a mile Down in the mine that they had survived by eat ing food from the lunch pails of the dead miners. Both appeared in Good condition and were Able to walk. Looking dazed As they walked from the blackness of the mine into applause and a barrage of television lights and camera flashbulbs they were whisked off to Hospital their wives accompanying them. At least 47 miners have died in the fire which flashed through the mine May 2. An additional 44 Are missing. Or. Elbert Osborn director of the Federal Bureau of mines who organized the Rescue at tempt of lowering rescuers in a torpedo like capsule Down a narrow ventilation Shaft told reporters these men were in please see miners Page 10 Tom Wilkinson emerges from mine Ottawa Grants for Chi hold by Paul Jackson free press staff correspondent Ottawa Manitoba pre Mier de Schreyer flew Here tuesday night for a 90-minute Chat with regional economic expansion minister Jean mar Chand and extracted a Promise from the Federal minister that Ottawa would live up to earlier commitments to provide some million to Industrial incentive Grants for the Churchill Forest industries Complex at the Pas. Or. Schreyer also expressed protest grows Quebec up Union pro test against one year jail terms handed Quebec s three major labor leaders spread across the province tuesday As the men were taken off to their cells. Fernand Daoust Secretary general of the Quebec federa Tion of labor called for local study sessions across Quebec in protest. The 10-member administrative Council of the member Quebec teachers corp. Demanded to be imprisoned with their Leader. The provincial Council of construction trades told Premier Robert Bourassa by Telegram that construction Sites where its members Are working be closed Down for an in please see Quebec Page 9 Moscow balks at pact Bonn special tons the soviet Union tuesday vetoed a bipartisan foreign policy declaration by the West Ger Man government and its opposition designed to help ease the passage of Chancellor Willy Brandt s controversial Eastern treaties through parliament. Opposition Leader Rainer bar Zel demanded a postponement of the ratification debate Over the treaties scheduled for today and said his party would vote a solid no if the rus please see Moscow Page 4 optimism that some million More originally promised by the Federal government for the controversial project will eventually be handed Over to Mani Toba. As far As the million is concerned the new democratic party Premier said he under stands the Only problem remaining is whether the Money should be paid to the official receiver or directly to the Crown. Either Way it will eventually go to the government of Mani Toba. The Premier said he feels difficulties in obtaining the Money to Date have largely centred around fact that the Multi million Dollar Bonanza was legally promised to the original management of the project however the project has been built and it in providing the jobs it was intended to pro vide. Therefore there s no doubt that we Are entitled to receive the said or. Schreyer. He said there was no Indica Tion of How soon the million will be handed Over by Ottawa although he would like to see it sent out today if possible. However until Legal knots Are untied the Crown will have to wait. Or. Schreyer also touched swords on a number of other Points with or. Marchand including please see Ottawa Page 8 election whits issued Wolseley vote june 16 a by election to fill the vacant Wolseley seat in the provincial legislature will be held june premiered Schreyer announced tuesday. Election writs issued late tuesday specify that june 2 will be nomination Day and june 8, 9 and 10 will be and Vance polling Days the Wolseley seat has been vacant since dec. 3, when the sitting member progressive conservative Leonard h. Clay Don died after a Long illness. Candidates already declared for the by election Are Liberal Leader Lay Asper who will at tempt to enter the for the first time since being chosen party Leader in october 1970 progressive conservative Ernest Enns a former Winnipeg Alderman and brother of Harry Enns arid new democratic party Price Index goes up .8 looking for a trailer this want and under Trail ers 83 Utility trailer Stop and turn lights safety Chain pm. 832-3492. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Tanks Don t float Vancouver up a Young British Soldier was res cued from the water of Van Couver Harbor by a longshore Man tuesday after plunging 60 feet to the Harbor Bottom aboard a 51-ton. Chieftain tank. Private David Cowling 21, was driving the tank up a ramp from the Stern of the vessel sir Beldivere to a wait ing Barge when the weight of the tank forced the Barge Back sending the tank Over the Edge of the ramp into the water. Pet. Cowling managed to escape from the tight cockpit of the tank but struck his head on the Bottom of the ship As he bobbed to the surface about 45 seconds after going under. Longshore Foreman Ken la Mirand aboard the Barge stripped to his trousers and dived to the Rescue. A Harbor tugboat pulled them both from the water. Less than four months ago or. Lamirand received and a workmen s compensation Board bravery award for saving the life of a Workmate who was knocked unconscious into the Harbor by a Sling Load of lumber. Pet. Cowling after drinking a Glass of Brandy with his res Cuer was taken to Hospital for observation. He was in Good condition Early today. Preparations were being made to Salvage the tank valued at the sir Beldivere brought ammunition and 16 tanks from Britain for use of the British army training unit at Suffield Alta. Toronto strike settled Toronto up truck no. 3127 got a standing ovation when it spewed its Load into Toronto s commissioners Street incinerator tuesday. Lugging a Load of rotting refuse the garbage truck was the first to report at the end of the 30-Day strike by outside workers. An estimated tons of garbage Are piled throughout the metro area the zoo has Wall to Wall dung the Golf courses have no end of rough and the Parks tree planting schedule has been but City officials Are hoping please see Toronto Page 8 candidate Vic Schroeder a University of Winnipeg Law Stu Dent. Present standings in the legis lature Are nip 30 progressive conservatives 20 independents 2 social credit 1. The seat a Long time progressive conservative Strong hold was held from 1949 to 1s69 by former Premier Duff Roblin v please see Wolseley Page 4 Ottawa up the con Sumer Price Index Rose to 138.2 in april from 137.4 in March an increase that statistics can Ada called close to the average for april. A year earlier the Index was 132.2, based on 1961 prices equalling 100. The main contributor to the april Price increases was food prices which Rose nine tenths of one per cent Over the month. The largest Rise came in Tobac co and alcohol costs which were 1.9 per cent above the March prices. . Railway unions threaten slowdown London up leaders of Britain s railway unions Are threatening to plunge the country s train services into an other round of turmoil by re suming a work slowdown this week unless pay demands Are met immediately. Union officials said today however they Are prepared to hold further talks with the pm publicly owned Brit ish rail at any time before their latest deadline expires thursday night. A relatively Small margin separates the bargaining positions of the two sides but neither has shown signs of willingness to Compromise further. Both Are agreed on an Over All salary increase of 12vz per cent a year and a minimum weekly wage of a week. But British please see . Rail Page 6 legislature highlights other increases were in cloth ing prices up seven tenths of one per cent housing up three tenths of one per cent transportation up two tenths of one per cent and health and per Sonal care up four tenths of one per cent. The Over All Rise for the year Between april 1971, and april 1972, was 4.5 per cent. Food costs were up 7.1 per cent Over the year. The food Index stood at 138.3 in april compared with 137.1 in March As meat eggs and fruit marked the largest Gams. Over All meat fish and poultry prices Rose eight tenths of one per cent led by a 1.3-per-cent increase in Chicken prices Over the month. For the year they were up 12 per cent. Egg prices jumped 11.7 per cent from March to april but were Only four per cent above their level of a year earlier. Please see Price Page 4 Wolseley by election set for june 16 Manitoba income tax rate hit Page 7 Evans rejects Mac disclosure Bill Page 7 opinion divided on sunday Hunting. Page 7 Mcgill asks about Columbia Forest products Page 8 opposition misses bid to debate highways report Page 9 six Bills get Royal assent Page 10 Federal budget to offset provincial tax Page 29 first Public loan in Germany Cherniack Page 29 tax change Bill becomes Law Page 29 Assiniboine Valley flooding condemned Page 29 huh loses Nebraska by Ronald Batchelor Omaha neb. Reuter senator George Mcgovern the leading anti War presidential candidate won the democratic primary election today in Nebraska America s conservative heartland turning Back the Strong Challenge of senator Hubert Humphrey. The 49-year-old South Dako Tan who has led the bitter fight against . Involvement in Vietnam for the last seven years against presidents Lyn Don Johnson and Richard Nixon captured Nebraska by a solid margin. Please see Humphrey Page 4 two mothers soviet Supply ships believed veering away from Haiphong Washington a is some sign soviet ships heading for North Vietnam have changed direction since president Nixon ordered North vietnamese harbours sealed off by mines defence Secretary Melvin Laird agriculture minister Olson examines embryo Transfer calf in Hull Quebec. By Jeff Carruthers Ottawa a Black As night calf born in Hull late last week is the Only calf in Canada perhaps in the world that can rightly claim to have two mothers. Nine months ago the embryo that is now tulips was surgically removed from one hoi Stein cow and implanted in the uterus of another Holstein a Foster Mother. Tulips birth at the animal diseases research Institute Friday marked the first Success in Canada of transplanting fertilized egg Between cows. Seven similar calves arc expected to be born during the next few weeks All of them like tulips nurtured through the first nine months of their development by a Foster Mother. The technique promises to be very useful in cattle Breeding. For example beef cattle could be raised using Dairy Herd Foster mothers. By using a hormone treat ment a single donor cow of Superior genetic Stock could be made to produce at one time 10 or More viable fertilized eggs. The eggs could then develop into calves with the Aid of genetically inferior Foster cows. And the Foster mothers would have no effect on the genetic make up of the calves. A t least three companies have been formed within the past three months in Southern Alberta to perfect and Supply Sec transplant Page 9 said today. At the same time he said the . Troop withdrawal pro Gram will go on at the same time of the new military action in Vietnam. Laird made a Brief reference in a news conference to the change of direction when asked about the effects so far of Nix on s monday announcement of the mine sowing. He also said there is no Evi Dence the soviets have tried to sweep the mines from the har Bor entrances. In noting there is some Evi d e n c e of some change of course by soviet ships Laird said there is still a full period of Daylight before the mines will be activated. Laird said 36 ships Are in the main North vietnamese Harbor please see Laird Page 12 martial Law declared Saigon renter pres ident Nguyen Van Thieu declared a state of martial Law throughout South Vietnam to take effect at Midnight tonight the presidential Palace announced today. The announcement was read Over Saigon radio but gave no details As to what measures would be included under the state of martial Law. Thieu had demanded he be Given special Powers by Parlia ment to Deal with the communist offensive in South Vietnam. From a Reuter Washington up pres ident Nixon s decision to Seal off North vietnamese harbours with mines has touched off civil disturbances at Home and raised a blast of democratic opposition criticism including one demand calling for his impeachment. The White House meanwhile awaited the soviet verdict on its blocking the North Vietnam Ese ports. But the Impact of dropping the undersea explosives to keep ships Laden with military cargo from entering North Vietnam Ese ports probably won t be Felt on the Battlefield for at least three weeks said White House adviser Henry Kissinger. Perhaps the strongest denunciation of the president s latest War decision came from Senate democrats who tuesday voted disapproval of the action in caucus and an anti War member of the House of representatives anti War Democrat Bella Abzug of new York who please see martial Page 6 today youth scene 13 letters to editor 27 Eagleson expects . Co operation 76 classified 43 to 58, 70, 71 comics 60 comic Page features 68 deaths 10 finance 62 to 65 Jumble 46 movies 67 sports 73 to 77 television 66 women 19 to 24 nearly everyone reads the free press City total Boukassi piqued Turner annoys Quebec by Paul Whitelaw free press staff correspondent Montreal Premier Rob Ert Bourassa of Quebec reacted strongly against the new Feder Al budget tuesday night and he and finance minister John Turner exchanged biting com ments before 200 International Bankers and finance officials. During a dinner marking the opening of the four Day International monetary conference at which the finance minister was main speaker or. Bourassa made it Clear Quebec is upset that it was t consulted about old age pension increases and other social measures announced in the Federal budget. The Quebec Premier re marked that his government was still waiting for the news from Ottawa following the Mon Day night budget and hoped or. Turner might say some things about which Quebec would be pleased. He later told reporters the Federal budget will affect our general social policy and it might upset our budget. Quebec has As much to say As Ottawa about that in the Field of social Security but we were never consulted in this Case. Please see Turner Page 4 men working one shift Columbia Forest products Ltd. Officials said tuesday the company Plant at Sprague Man., is continuing to operate on one shift while about 50 employees have been temporarily Laid off. In a statement the company said efforts still Are being made to arrange financing to cover current obligations including payrolls. And the company said employees Are maintaining operations on a Volunteer basis and Are aware they might not receive compensation. The Manitoba development corporation recently launched Law suits against Columbia and against great Northern capital industries Ltd. The Columbia statement said in part the recent Legal action be tween the Manitoba develop ment corporation and inc industries Ltd. Has resulted in the freezing of certain accounts of Columbia because of the resulting shortage of working capital some reductions in the level of operations has become necessary at the statement said every Effort will continue to be made to fill the needs or schedules of customers with orders placed. Please see men Page 8 ;