Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg saturday May 13, 1972 pipeline with such court actions already having delayed Start of construction two years three environmental groups Friday asked the Federal District court Here to Block the proposed issuance of Federal permits for the line. Citing the 52-year-old Mineral leasing act they argued that the Oil companies and the state of Alaska have requested rights of Way far exceeding the Legal Powers of the Interior Secretary. Morton in his announcement thursday also rejected a pro posed Canadian alternative on grounds the . Wants the pipeline under its total Juris diction and for its exclusive any bilateral arrange ment for a trans Canada pipe line was impractical at this time because of uncertainty and delay in arranging for financing of a line through the Mackenzie Valley to Edmonton. Canadian environmentalists have opposed the Alaska proposal on grounds the Tanker traffic from Valdez Alaska to the . Mainland would pose a pollution threat to the British Columbia coast. The environmentalists scored a court Victory thursday when a three judge Federal appeals e blockade sought court decided to permit David Anderson Liberal member of parliament for Esquimalt s a a n i c hand the Canadian wildlife federation to intervene in a Case Here opposing the anti War rallies planned in All hundreds More peace activists were arrested As anti War demonstrations were re ported in 17 states. One of the. Day s biggest marches however belonged to Flag waving school children and wives of . Prisoners As persons paraded through the streets of fort Walton Beach fla., in support of the president s policy. The conservative Young americans for Freedom claim ing More than members announced its support for the president s use of any effective. Military Means including a full scale in v a s i o n of North Quaker groups meeting in Seattle meanwhile issued a condemning the recent course of the War in Indochina. A n t i w a r demonstrators planned to return to Westover air Force base in Chicopee mass., today for their 16th traffic blocking sit in since bombers based there were ordered to Vietnam three weeks ago. A total of 925 persons have been arrested in those sit Downs. Peace demonstrations were scheduled in front of the White House in Washington and in new York Chicago Berke Ley Calif. Louisville by. St. Paul minn., and several other cities. Violence in san Francisco erupted Friday As police using clubs broke up a rally of persons in Union Square outside of the St. Francis hotel where governors Ronald Reagan of California and Nelson a. Rocke Feller of new York were meet ing to open president Nixon s California re election Campaign. The police moved in after demonstrators set a police motorcycle afire and hurled rocks a n d debris. Several demonstrators and two officers were injured. A number of persons were arrested. Thirty persons were injured As police in Columbus Ohio shotguns loaded with wooden pellets at a crowd of 400 demonstrators who refused orders to Stop blocking traffic near Ohio state University s Campus. Seventy six persons were arrested. In about 130 windows were smashed As a crowd of 300 surged in and around the Cornell Campus. Police fired tear Gas canisters and scuffled with protesters arrest ing three two officers were in Alaska line. The canadians argued the threat to Canada s coast justified their intervention and the appeals judges unanimously re versed a lower court ruling saying a Mere recitation of appellants contentions plus a look at the map makes it quite Clear they have a right to intervene. Meanwhile external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp said in Vancouver that he was disappointed with Morton s decision arid the Choice of the Alaska route was a very very foolish move that Canada would fight. The project has been stalled since 1970 when Federal judge George Hart Granter a preliminary injunction to the wilderness society friends of the Earth and the environmental defence fund. They also have requested a permanent injunction. In the court action Friday the three groups sought a sum Mary judgment on Only one aspect of their injunction re quest but if granted it would be sufficient to Block the pipe line. The Law which authorizes the Interior Secretary to Grant right of Way for a pipe line across Federal land no wider than the pipeline itself plus 25 feet on each limit of 54 feet in the Case of the four foot pipe proposed for use by Alyeska pipeline sen ice co. The consortium of seven companies involved in the project. But Alyeska also has requested an additional strip of land 46 feet wide running the length of the pipeline. This would be a temporary construction area for which the company contends the Interior Secretary could Issue a special use permit. Meanwhile lawyers for the various environmental groups involved have scheduled conferences to plan continuation of court Battles. Morton while saying he has decided in favor of the Alaska line emphasized that no permit actually would be issued until it can be done without violating any court steelworkers stay Continental Irene Corne Wolfgang Oeste who will Ting in the festival opera croup s presentation of an evening of grand opera featuring excerpts from Faust the magic flute Tosca and at . Wednesday and thursday in the Manitoba theatre Centre. Mrs. Corne will sing selections from Tosca . Oeste will sing the role of Faust. The show is directed by Nenad Ahorlu of Winnipeg and the musical director is Elma Gislason. Miners goal of plan continued these efforts had a failure rate in excess of 90 per cent. The natives he said simply could t make the transition from the Remote reserves to a White Man s kind of Community and a permanent Job and went and avenues my continued still on the subject of Colum Bia Forest Industry minister Leonard Evans in response to a question from de Mcgill pc Brandon said the government has not received any communication from great Northern about Columbia Forest in recent but that Legal counsel for the Manitoba development corporation May have. Troops Churchill by Paul Jackson free press staff correspondent Saskatchewan my Stanley Korchinski went to Bat for the port of Churchill man., in the House of commons Friday. Or. Korchinski Zie wanted to know what the government had been doing to try and extend the shipping season from the port. Replied transport minister Don Jamieson or. Jamieson said the government had established a port authority made up largely of local Churchill residents to in the preparation of a plan to solve technical problems such As dredging and ice breaking. A Federal govern ment study into ice conditions. Most important of All in terms of getting a Short Extension of the season soon invited a group of key Marine in s u r a n c e underwriters from around the world to visit the area. They Are expected this summer. M Korchinski suggested that if the insurance officials were not acceptable to lowering the Premium rate would the f end e r a 1 government put its Money where its Mouth is in Stead replied or. Jamieson it s More like putting the Money where the Mouth of the River he went on to say that the problem was not As simple As it seemed. However the govern ment was examining the possibility of working with the insurance this was one of the reasons for the visit to the reserves after fail ing to adjust. Sherritt Gordon now has lived a native person As a Liaison officer at Leaf rapids and the new program designed to retain the native workers will be planned by two co managers one representing the company and one appointed by the government. The Premier said construction of the first 119 of 250 housing units at Leaf rapids planned for this year will begin immediately. The total Cost of the pub Lic housing program in the new town will be about million. He said the Manitoba govern ment has secured Loans from Central mortgage and housing corporation at interest rates about one half of one per cent lower than the current Market rate. He said 25 of the housing units would be subsidized Restal accommodation and the real will be a mixture of full re co v e by rental and rental Purchase units. The single family housing units will be arranged in Small town House clusters and will have an average of three bed rooms. Each will have private parking entry and Garden space and ready Access to Large Park and open spaces in the Centre of the town. This will be the first time that non subsidized As Well As subsidized Public housing has been introduced in the first stage of the development of a Northern mining the Premier said. He said the entire Public housing program is being de signed to ensure that residents won t have to pay More than 30 per cent of their income for shelter. He said Low and moderate in come families moving into Leaf rapids with relatively few assets but Good Job opportunities Able to afford Kiouses under Ordinary financial arrangements but under the government s program they will be Able to move into Good hous ing As soon As they enter the work Force. By Ian Porter Capelaa press later writer Ottawa Xci Canadian nationalism bucked and sawed Friday As Canada s largest Union the United steelworkers of America staged a Demon stration of Continental Solidarity for International president i. W. Abel. The demonstration itself was a Success As Only four of More than 330 delegates at the steel workers National policy Confer ence voted for a Resolution to break away from the giant International Union to create a new United steelworkers of Canada. Introducing or. Abel after the vote William Mahoney Ca Nadian director of the Union told delegates he had arranged for the Resolution to be debated first so that the president could hear the views sex but once aroused the nation Alist Issue was not to be bedded so easily even though or. Abel s speech dealt plainly and at some length with the matter of autonomy for the Canadian Branch of the Union. Or. Abel was interrupted at one Point when a clutch of out siders appeared at the door of the convention ballroom to hurl in an embarrassing question about a steelworkers local in Hamilton ont., that has been clapped into trusteeship by the Union following an attempted breakaway. The invaders members of the Canadian liberation front immediately were repulsed by a couple of Union delegates acc hustled Back to the Street out Side the hotel they had picketed during the two Day meeting. The front a left Wing nation Alist group is dedicated to severing the ties Between the . and Canadian labor movements As a first step to economic in dependence. After or. Abel s speech or. Mahoney rallied the vast majority of the delegates to put Down Pesky questions from the convention floor. Just peddling non he called Down at Rob Ert Chartrand vice president of the local 6500 or. Chartrand had risen to protest that he was upset at the interference in the local s affairs by National and interns tonal officers of the Union. Another Delegate told to is Down by or. Mahoney was George Gilks of Hamilton member of the left Wing Waffle caucus of the new democratic party. Or. Gilks started to ask or. Abel As a spokesman of . Labor for his views on the assault the body of the second of two Winnipeg boys missing since april "6, was found Friday in the red River near Lockport inner City police said. The boy Gerald Reuther 5, of Evanson Street disappeared april 6 with a Friend Dennis Shaver 5, of 45 Evanson Street. The Shaver Hoy s body was found late wednesday in the red River at St. Johns Park. At the time of the disappear Ance of the two boys an Exten Sive search was made in the area of their Homes and the Assiniboine River at the foot of Evanson Street. Coot need decisions organists to meet the Winnipeg Centre of the Royal Canadian College of or Canistr will hold its annual meeting at . Monday at 288 Wellington Crescent. Airlifted South Vietnam Ese joined by a column of 500 Saigon marines moving on foot reoccupied the District town in less than three hours Arnett reported. The 19 . Marine Heli with Between 75 and 100 Crew members from the 7th Fleet amphibious Force off the coast landed the South Viet namese attackers in two Waves. Arnett said one big ch-46 helicopter was destroyed by a mechanical Quang Tri City capital of northernmost Quang Tri prov Ince fell to the North Vietnam Ese May 1. South vietnamese forces have since retreated to a new defensive line 30 Miles South of the demilitarized zone pushed Back by the North Viet namese invaders. The South vietnamese marines engaged North Viet namese troops immediately after Landing in Hai Lang District on. Highway one 25 Miles North of the threatened former Imperial capital of Hue. At least two South vietnamese marines were wounded and Sev eral North vietnamese troops were reported killed in the first 15 minutes of the operation. At an Loc just 60 Miles North of Saigon a score of b-52 bombers pummelled North Viet n a m e s e troop concentrations again. About 500 tons of explosives were dropped within one to three Miles of the City Al ready 85 per cent destroyed after five weeks of fighting. An Loc on Highway 33, has been under heavy siege since april 7. It has taken shelling barrages ranging up to More than rounds a Day. Continued the policy committee e pie in the sky but it s pie in he sky Worth striving Stony silence met Robert Marion of Thompson man., who charged that it is sheer hypocrisy to attack Multi a ional corporations while we re multinational in his speech or. Abel met be Issue head on. Workers problems Are the same in every country. Their managerial adversaries Are the same. To today s Multi National corporation National boundaries and National patriotism Are subjects to be said. The fact that Many of these Multi National corporations Are headquartered in my country Las not made them put Ameri cans profits have been exported abroad along with . Know Bow to be combined with Low wages and generous tax arrangements to exploit everyone e said. Of common concern to both . And Canadian unionists he said Are government efforts to control wages. He noted thai the Canadian leadership refused from the beginning to co oper ate with a system of voluntary controls. He said . Labor at first tried to co operate on the pay Board created by president Nixon but As things worked out we might As Well have Fol Lowed your example. We have All had to at a news conference later or. Abel said . Labor Lead ers initially agreed to sit on the pay Board because everybody recognized there was a need for some sort of regulation. We thought we might be Able to bring about fair play and he declined to say if labor would return to the pay Board under a new administration. Or. Abel did have some Kin things to say about voluntary arbitration As an alternative to strikes As a Means of settlin disputes. A 1968 Experiment in steel Industry negotiation turned out to have been not bad Simpsons Sears correction Simpsons Sean advertisement on Page 36 of thurs Day May 11 edition had a wrong illustration in the Woven shoes advertised for 14.99. Pension hike Bill moves coi timed additional for single per on for couples which rises two per cent each year to make up for rising costs. Under the Dill All pensions his year would Rise 3.6 per ent amount of inflation ast year. Pensioners with sup elements would get a month instead of if they re single instead of married. First cheques which will go Utas soon As the Bill was ably by be big or than Normal to make up for increases for the first part of this year. Or. Knowles ran Harding West and Orne Nystrom Melville said the pension hould be based on a month rather than the current 80. Pensions should be linked o the growth in a country Sliv no Standard not just the Cost f living. Proposed increases would just allow pensioners to maintain he same Standard of living hey had when they retire or. Knowles said. It was inhuman and uncivilized to Tell old people they would not share in improved living standards along with the rest of the country. Or. Harding and or. Nys rom said the pensionable age should be lowered to 60 from 65, permitting earlier retire m e n t and More jobs for younger workers. Or. Matte and Henri Laiu Lippe reiterated party philosophy that a Guaran teed income for All should re place current social Security programs. Or. Latulippe said the government should concern itself More with Why the Cost of Liv ing increases rather than with raising pensions to stay in line with them. Ambrose h. Peddle grand Falls White Bay Labrador and fellow conservative Paul Yew Chuk Athabasca threw in Short speeches in the dying moments of the debate. Pensioners said or. Peddle Are for All intents and purposes employees of the government. Yet the government pays them poverty level pensions. Or. Yewchuk suggested farm ers should qualify for pensions at 55 or 60 to compensate for a lifetime of hard work and government policies forcing them off the land. Opening debate on the Veter ans Bill Public works minister Arthur Laing hinted that Veter ans and dependents on pensions May soon gain More than in creases offered in the Legisla Tion. Increases for the veterans Are based solely on the increase in the Cost of living similar to those proposed for other pensioners. But the government was carefully studying the possibility of increasing the base rate of veterans pensions which would be Over and above the Cost of living increases or. Laing said. The veterans Bill will affect about canadians Benefit Ting from various veterans and. Dependents pensions plans. They would get a 3.6-per-cent. Increase retroactive to Jan. 1 and annual increases in the future based on inflation rates each april 1. Their last in crease was in april 1971. The increase this year for the average disabled Veteran would be about a month if he was receiving the average a m o n t h pension. Completely disabled veterans who now get a month will get an additional a disabled Veter. An s widow currently get a month and would receive an in. Crease of or. Laing said the govern ment would seek authority to make sure the increase would not be treated As income if vet Erans qualify for old age pen Sions As Well. Got a dote for tomorrow you Are invited to a free lecture on Christian science by Thos. O. Poyser sun., May 14 . Edmund Partridge or. High school main St. At Royal. Deaths Byron Bjorn 77, of 11 May Bank drive fort Garry for Merly of Oak Point man., re tired Farmer and service Sta Tion operator. Candaele Charles 65, of 158 Provencher Boulevard suite 5, St. Boniface. Chmielowiec Marta 91, of 254 Talbot Avenue. Dodd John r., 84, of 66 Sadler Avenue St. Vital retired from Eaton s. Drabyk mrs. Michael Ste 63, of 525 Balmoral Street. Wachewski Nicholas Ernest of 457 Arlington Street employee of Black Woods beverages limited. Fraser Margaret Lilias in Montreal formerly of Winnipeg daughter of or. And mrs. A. M. Fraser. Greenway Ida l., 98, of Crystal City man., widow of Earl j. Greenway. Jolly Sarah 76, of 635 Roch Street suite 3b, East Kil Donan widow of Christopher h. Jolly. Kelly mrs. Frank a. Hat 84, of 232 Kingston Row St. Vital formerly of Saska Toon sask., and Guelph out. Lapointe Oscar 62, in Winnipeg general Hospital for Merly of Bannatyne Avenue. Nelson Harry Leonard 69, of Whitemouth man., retired from merchants consolidated Winnipeg. Nilson Axel Helmer 69, of 900 Warsaw Avenue retired Manitoba Pool elevators building superintendent. R a b u Rin mrs. Samuel Reuther Gerald 5, of 19 Evanson Street son of or. And mrs g. Reuther. Shaver Dennis John 5, of 45 Evinson Street son of or and mrs. Allen v. Shaver. Smith mrs. Thomas Alice 79, of 308 lock Street. Sundstrom. Olaf 63, of Lac Dubonnet. Man. Wakeling Edward Alfred 69, of 219 Vaughan Street suite 21, retired from uniroyal limited. For further details please Sec classified death notices Simpsons Sears correction Simpsons Sears advertisement of wednesday May 10, in the Garden City citizen read color portable . Reg. 599.48. Should have read color portable . Reg. 399.98. Sweepstake. Total prizes first m so Var Mem Sta Tot to by in m or life a great race with prizes. Two Early Bird draws May 4 and june 1 mean two extra chances to win if you buy tickets Early. 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