Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnie to Ftfe press saturday May 20, 1972 hurdles still ahead for chinese air link by jo11n Burns peking a week of negotiations Between Canadian and chinese officials has Laid much of the technical groundwork for a direct air link Between the two countries but left several major hurdles still to Clear be fore a service can be established. Ambassador Ralph Collins who led the Canadian team said last night that preliminary agreement had been reached on most of the technical aspects involved in an air Accord be tween the two countries. How Ever at least one More round of talks will have to be held probably in Ottawa this fall to Settle outstanding questions including the route to be Fol Lowed. Even then it will be some time before aircraft can begin flying the route if at All. First Japan must be persuaded to Grant Stopover rights in Tokyo and then a Canadian almost certainly up decide that the route is commercially viable. Despite the problems that lie head the mood among members of the Canadian team last night was one of optimism that Canadian aircraft will eventually become the first to link China and North America since the communist takeover in 1949. "1 am most said or. Collins. The Atmo sphere this week indicates a de sire on both sides to see a ser vice the ambassador s remarks were echoed by the representatives of the airlines. Don Ald Cameron up air s vice president for International ser vices said he was very pleased at the Progress made and Richard wedge director of International services for air Canada said he was both pleased and technical aspects settled Dur ing the week included the communications systems to be used safety standards certification of aircraft taxation questions and matters affecting personnel among others. Ottawa has yet to decide which of the two lines will get the route once an agreement with the chinese is signed. However up air with its Long history of flying trans Pacific routes is the hot favorite. Or. Collins said last night that the five Days of talks with a chinese team headed by Majen Hytti director of the general civil aviation administration of China had included some Dis Cussion of possible he gave no details but the logical Choice would be Vancouver Tokyo Shanghai. time being about the Only sure thing is that the China route once opened will not be flown for some time by chinese aircraft. The chinese have recently purchased some Long Range Ilyushin 62 jets and Are discussing the Purchase of Boeing 707s with representatives of the Seattle based com Pany who Are now in peking but there appears to be no Prospect of their operating across the Pacific in the near future. Copyright 1972 the Globe and mail no hike in Manitoba Hydro rates Premier Relief Force attacked Manitoba Hydro rates will not increase this year and there is a. Reasonable Prospect that they won t increase in 1973-74 either premiered Schreyer said Friday. The Premier said there will be increases in the future but the rates Wal not increase As rapidly As most other costs. During the past year he Sak the Hydro Board of directors decided to withdraw about is Mil lion from the rate stabilization fund leaving about million in the fund to keep rates Down in the future. The Premier explained tha the fund builds up just after a rate increase because the in creases Are generally highe than absolutely necessary t meet increased operating costs so there is a surplus the firs few years after a rate increase when operating costs Rise stil further the fund starts to be come depleted As the Crown Utility uses up the surplus o previous years until eventually another increase is required when the fund becomes completely depleted. Hydro last increased its rate in july 1968, and Premier Schreyer said the sinking fund has been standing up belter than in the past. The Prospect for the Curren year commencing april 1, 1972 is that without an increase in rates Manitoba Hydro Wil break even or be in about the same position As this the Premier said. He said however that there would Likely be an increase in rates for Winnipeg Hydro Cus strike cripples Italy Rome a a country wide strike by thousands of Ita Lian government workers went into its second Day Friday Clos ing scores of government offices and disrupting air travel the courts Highway construction and customs inspections. Firemen in a number of cities including Rome joined the strike refusing to answer All but emergency Calls. Authorities in Sicily closed the Palermo and Trapani airports for fear of fire hazards. The 48-hour strike was led by Italy s three big labor unions including the powerful communist italian general federation of labor. It was called to pro test a government plan to give pay raises Only to senior employees. Premier Giulio Andreotti head of Italy s caretaker government scheduled a meeting with labor leaders next week. Parliamentary elections were held May 7-8 but squabbling politicians have still been unable to form a new govern ment. The three unions said that 80 per cent of the civil ser vants asked to strike did so. Ministry sources said Only 30 to 40 per cent of the workers stayed Oul. Flight controllers at Rome s Fiumicini Airport stayed away from work slowing operations at the big Airport. Supervisors filled in for the strikers. Judges went to work but their clerks did t. Government of f i c e s that remained open operated with Skeleton staffs. Towers As a result rate equalization in the expanded City of Winnipeg. It was explained very clearly last year that if we were going to have Mill rate equalization we would also have Hydro rate he said. Meetings to discuss the method of equalizing the rates Are now in Progress he said. At present Winnipeg Hydro customers pay considerably less for their electricity than Mani Toba Hydro customers and the rate equalization could mean a rate decrease for Manitoba Hydro customers within the City. The Premier said Manitoba Hydro s contingency Reserve was increased during the past year by million and now stands at million. The sinking fund Reserve he said stands at million and Hydro has million in other invest ments. New Canadian citizens. Appeal thought hoax Crown Point . A an Appeal for help for a two year old new York girl who needs open heart surgery has caused people in Massachusetts new York and on a ship in the Pacific to collect perhaps millions of cigarette pack wrappers in the belief they could be redeemed for Money. The entire project appears to be a hoax except that Tammy Keast of Crown Point ., still needs the surgery. Tammy s Mother mrs. Robert Keast said she began a Campaign to collect cigarette pack wrappers after hearing a Rumor that cigarette companies would re deem them with a contribution to help finance the sur Gery Tammy needs. The Campaign spread through friends and relatives to areas of Massachusetts and new York and to a Carrier based in the Pacific. Now the beasts have cigarette wrappers and others have thousands More. Apparently they Are of no value. We tried to turn them in and found out that they weren t any mrs. Keast said. Norma Parrish a spokes Man for the tobacco Institute in Washington said it Hap pens two or three times each year. Cigarette companies do not give away any Money medical machines seeing Eye dogs or anything else in Exchange for empty cigarette packs. The operation for Tammy who has a Hole inside her heart will Cost about a collection has been set up in Crown Point to help pay for her surgery scheduled at medical Centre Hospital of v c r m out in Burlington in july 1973. Soviet Airliner crashes Moscow Reuter a soviet Antonov 10 Airliner capable of carrying up to 100 Passen Gers crashed thursday near Kharkov killing All aboard pravda reported today. There was no word on How Many people were on the four engined Turboprop plane at the time. It is extremely unusual for accidents to the soviet airline Aeroflot to be reported Here Al though rumours of air disasters circulate from time to time. The fact it was made Public could mean either that there were foreigners aboard the plane or that the disaster had become widely known and for some reason caused special concern. No unofficial reports of the Accident have reached foreign correspondents Here. Pravda said a government commission had been set up to examine the reasons for the crash which it said happened in the Kharkov District of the Ukraine but gave no precise details. Admiral wounded Rio de Janeiro Reuter a brazilian Admiral was wounded and his chauffeur killed by four bandits fleeing from an armed Holdup of the brazilian Bank Here Friday police sources Naid. 250 attend ceremony on citizenship act by Carmen Litta Magnus special ceremonies were held Friday across Canada to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the passing of the Canadian citizenship act on Jan. A 1947. The citizenship Council of Manitoba presented a special court session at the Manitoba theatre Centre Friday evening attended by about 250 persons. They were witness As 19 new canadians from 13 countries received their citizenship certify c a t e s from Peter Taraska judge of the citizenship court. Guest speaker at the ceremonies was or. Henry e. Duck Worth president of the univer sity of Winnipeg who spoke about tolerance and the sense of values As applied to Canada and canadians. He said Canada is often quoted As the land of the future. A prediction which is becoming a realization or. Duckworth believes. Not trusted Montreal up Donald Pollock a 31-year-old Mon Trealer who has spend 14 of the last 16 years in jail says econ vices return to crime because people mistrust them. What you be got to understand is that i m going to test you to see if you Trust me. I m going to watch your eyes and i m going to watch where you put your purse. It s a psychological game for participating in the special ceremonies were representatives of the various Levels of government and the recently elected president of the Canad an citizenship federation mrs h. H. Roeder president of the citizenship Council of Manitoba. Musical and choir selections were by the Andrew Mynarski school band and the Kelvin mixed choir. Ghost town Harrison Mills up the provincial government has taken Over a rambling House country store and museum All rolled into one in this Fraser Valley Community listed in history books As a ghost town. It is run by Acton Kilby an 81-year-old pack rat who Over the years has collected bits of nostalgia ranging from a 32-Pound Cannon Ball to a 1901 Eaton s catalogue. Saigon a hundreds of North vietnamese infantrymen backed by tanks sprang from the rubber plantations North of Saigon today in a fight to Stop a South vietnamese drive to lift the siege of an Loe. Advance elements of a government Relief Force were less than two Miles from linking up with the weary and Shell battered defenders when the North vietnamese struck. In a 44-Day siege the an Loc defence Force has withstood More than rounds of artillery rockets and mortars to hold onto the ruined provincial capital 60 Miles North of Saigon. President Nguyen Van Thieu has ordered is army to keep an Loc at All costs. For three Days the South vietnamese re Lief column had moved up High Way 13 toward an lot with Little opposition. It was the big Gest Advance since the North j vietnamese offensive began i March 30. But just As Dawn was break ing today the North Vietnam Ese counter attacked. Seven tanks were reported knocked out. About 2.000 artillery rocket and mortar shells were fired into an Loc Friday. Field re ports said eight South Vietnam Ese were lulled and 38 were wounded. The town has been hit with an average of More than shells a Day since the siege began april 7. . B-52 bombers kept up heavy strikes on several sides of an Loc. Nine of the big bombers dropped 225 tons of explosives on North vietnamese i troop concentrations. J the command meanwhile announced that . Air Force bombers destroyed a fuel tank j Centre containing More than five million Gallons of Petroleum during heavy bombing raids thursday on the outskirts of Hanoi. Spokesman for the command said about 75 per cent of the depot was wiped out and bombs from the . Jets left one huge less plumbing bad Washington the number of . Housing units with deficient plumbing declined from 16.8 per cent in 1960 to 6.9 per cent in 1970. Canadian play Medicine hat Alta. Up the Medicine hat College drama department is present ing a Canadian play. The ecstasy of Rita Joe by George Ryga at the theatre Canada 72 festival May 21-27. 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