Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. 203 Price 10 cents with 15 cents wednesday May 24, 1972 a unrest . Moonrise . Sunset . Moonset . Forecast mainly Cloudy 55 and 75 10-cent Rise in Basic pay proposed .75 urged but minority seeks in new formula Manitoban will Likely find out this week whether the provincial minimum wage will Rise july 1 this year or Jan. And if so by How much labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley said tuesday. Or. Paulley told reporters after tabling a report of the o. V i n c i a 1 minimum wage Board in the legislature that the matter is under Active consideration by the government and he Hopes to be Able to announce a decision this week. Although the matter was t on the provincial Cabinet s pre pared Agenda for its meeting wednesday government sources said it Likely would be raised. The Board s report signed by chairman John Atwell recommended a 10 cent an hour in crease As of Jan. 1, 1973. The report was endorsed by the Board s three management nominees Ivey Feldman Jennie Stier and Gordon k. Gage. The present minimum wage an hour for adult workers and for workers under 18 went into effect nov. 1, 1971. Please see a cent Page 5 rhodesian bitter Smith boasts report Salisbury Rhodesia Spe Cial the guardian Rhode Sian prime minister Ian Smith tuesday night launched a bitter attack on the Pearce com Mission s verdict that Black rhodesian rejected his White dominated government s Settle ment terms with Britain. In London tuesday British f o r e i g n Secretary sir Alec Douglas Home obviously disappointed at the commission s findings told the House of com Mons that Britain would continue the embargo ordered by the United nations on All Trade with the rhodesian govern ment. Sir Alec said he hoped a new settlement satisfactory to All races in the troubled please see Ian Smith Page 12 s. Dakota senator scores Portland Ore. A senator George Mcgovern an overwhelming Victor in the Rhode Island and Oregon democratic primaries Heads South today to Battle senator Hubert Humphrey in California s june 6 showdown. Mcgovern takes the Momen Tum he sought and he says that if he can win California with its please see s. Dakota Page 13 health honesty urged by David Lee free press medical reporter the president of the Canadian Hospital association said wednesday governments must accept responsibility for spiralling health costs instead of pass ing it off on hospitals and the medical profession. And the association president w. A. Holland of Oshawa said governments must also be pre pared to face these rising costs or accept a reduction in Hospi Tal performed services. Holland made the re Marks in an address to the opening session of the association s 29th annual National convention which is being held this week at the Manitoba Cen Tennial Centre and Winnipeg inn. About delegates from across Canada have registered for the Assembly which is being held in conjunction with the fifth annual Manitoba health conference. Please see health Page 12 child welfa1ie series looks at Aid group the Midwest regional conference of the child Wel fare league of America scheduled for june 4 to 7 in the hotel fort Garry Here will be held in Canada for the first time this year. It is the largest child welfare conference Ever held in Winnipeg and Between and Dele Gates from Canada and the United states Are expected to attend. The conference will discuss Many of the problems concerns and issues which Wally Dennison free press staff writer has been examining in a 10-part series on the children s Aid society of Winnipeg and on child welfare. The series beginning today on Page 67, takes a look at the children s Aid society probably the Community s most important social Agency and its least understood. Among the problems Are How children s services can be improved and whether present social planning by the government could help or hinder Quality and delivery of services. Released on Bond Quebec Trio freed Quebec up the prov Ince s three top labor leaders were a least tuesday night on Bond pending Appeal hearings paving the Way for resumption of contract talks Between the Quebec government and Public service unions. Marcel Pepin president of the confederation of National Trade unions and one of the three leaders released said negotiations will resume thurs Day. Or. Justice Claude Gagnon of the court of Appeal released or. Pepin Louis Laberge pres ident of the Quebec federation of labor and Yvon Charbon Neau president of the Quebec please see Quebec Page 13 airmen kill Hijacker Quito Reuter two ecuadorean air Force men shot and killed a Hijacker tuesday after he allowed them to Board an Airliner to show him How to work a Parachute handed Over As part of a Ransom. The Parachute technician and another airman pumped three revolver shots into the Hijacker who had ear Lier threatened to blow the plane up with a bomb. The Pilot Captain Hernan Valdiviez co was wounded by one of the shots fired by the rescuers. The shooting ended a drama which began with the seizure of the dc-6b Airliner of the Empress ecu Toriana de aviation As it took off from Quito for the port of Guayaquil 300 Miles away. Please see airmen Page 13 today Wakeler with 57 67 letters to editor 68 classified .39 to 56 comics 29, 30 deaths .11 finance .33 to 36 Jumble 42 movies 32 sports .57 to 66 television .31 women 21 to 28 nearly everyone reads the free press City com total All Oveil Page one visit gets big splash Moscow special tons the soviet news Media tuesday gave president and mrs. Nixon unprecedented celebrity treat ment. Thirteen minutes of the 15 minute main news program on soviet television tuesday night was devoted to the Nixon visit and related events. Tuesday evening Izvestia the govern ment newspaper published two and pictures of the president one of mrs. Nixon. Such elaborate coverage is extremely unusual Here and it contradicts predictions by soviet journalists who had said that no big fuss would be made Over the visit. On the contrary the Nixon have been Given the sort of attention that is re please see visit Page 5 Ottawa s Rideau club male bastion under siege Ottawa up a group of elegantly attired c h a u f Feur driven women set up a sidewalk cafeteria in front of the exclusive Rideau club tuesday to protest the club s rules concerning women. While their protest which included serving Cucumber sandwiches and iced Tea to passersby Cut Little ice with management their cries were heard in the House of com Mons. Treasury Board president c. M. Drury was greeted in the House by cries of male when he said he had talked with the gentler sex about the policies of the private club often used for official government functions. In answer to a question by David Orlikov Peg or. Drury said the government would not hold official functions in the Rideau club if women were to attend As participants. The protesters members of the Ottawa women s re source group a group formed to improve the status of women in met out Side the club to hold a mock luncheon to protest the bar ring of a female government employee who had been invited to a May 15 luncheon. Jane Caskey a lawyer with the environment department had been officially invited to the luncheon which was at tended by Canadian and american experts on the Law of the sea. Miss Caskey was denied entry into the club s main Din please see male Page 4 a break in a 16-Inch Watermain Early wednesday resulted in the collapse of a Section of pavement on Ellice ave nue Between Sherbum and Carfield streets disrupting traffic during the morning Rush hour. A Section of Ellice Avenue was closed to traffic and Winnipeg inner City police rerouted traffic including Ellice buses. The break which was re ported about ., did t affect water sup plied to Homes in the area. Special machinery had to be brought in and repair work did t Start until . City pub Lic works officials said that full use of the Road probably won t be re gained until thursday. Soviet Union . Nearing weapons pact agreement expected to provide for verifying by satellite from a Reuter Moscow up president Nixon and soviet Lead ers continuing their Summit talks today virtually reached an limitation Accord that will embrace both a treaty and a less formal agreement. Sources said negotiators for the two countries Hope to be ready to place their signatures on the documents Friday. Treaty aspects will be limited j no answers magistrate heroin growing by Bill Pethick free staff writer magistrate Lawrie Mitchell of provincial magistrate s court estimated tuesday that the illegal heroin traffic i Winnipeg alone costs merchants and Banks to million a year in goods stolen to enable addicts to support their narcotics habit. Magistrate Mitchell a former Crown prosecutor told a Lun Cheon meeting of the kiwanis club of Winnipeg at the hotel fort Garry that the problem of heroin abuse and of All drugs seems to be getting worse but in an interview later the Manitoba Jurist admitted i m at a loss for answers about How to Stop the drug use please see heroin Page 13 to curbs on the erection of anti ballistic missile Sites it was said while the agreement would freeze offensive missiles whether land or sea based at their present Levels. The agreement apparently would not bar either country from installing improved Offen Sive missiles aboard submarines or in Earth bound silos in the future. It was expected that the agreement would provide for the use of reconnaissance Satel Lites to verify that missile emplacements were not being in creased by either country. Gerard Smith chief . Negotiator at the strategic limitation talks in Helsinki was expected to join the american party Here thursday to help wrap up the settlement. Please see weapons Page 4 violence denounced degree again mortar boards tassels academic gowns and sheepskins will be cons i Cious this weekend As Mani t o b a s three universities Confer degrees on More than students. In five sessions thursday Friday and monday in the East gymnasium of the old students Union building the University of Manitoba will graduate a record Stu dents. See pages 8 and 15 saturday afternoon in Brandon in the Western Manitoba Centennial auditorium about 250 of 314 graduating students Are expected to attend Brandon University s Spring convocation exercises. The University of Winnipeg holds its convocation sunday afternoon in the Winnipeg Arena and 440 students will receive their degrees. Saigon end run pays off from a Reuter Saigon up . Amphibious Craft and helicopters landed nearly South Viet namese marines on an end run into communist held territory North of Hue today and scores o f american planes blasted North vietnamese Industrial plants in the Haiphong area in a new phase of the bombing Campaign. The . Command announced that one helicopter was shot Down supporting the land ing and another was downed 15 Miles West of Hue on a Supply Mission for other government troops. Nine americans were reported missing in the two crashes. Reuter correspondent Brian Williams reported from Hue that North vietnamese troops were retreating by the hundreds after putting up fierce resistance against the South vietnamese marines. The marines launched their three pronged assault by air sea and land spilling ashore from Landing Craft and Heli copters of the . 7th Fleet in the first amphibious Landing since the communist offensive was launched 56 Days ago. The operation is designed to trap some North Vietnam Ese troops who have been prob ing government defences North of Hue. As the marines moved South r o m their original position about 10 Miles Northeast of communist held q u a n g Tri sity they freed about Vil agers who had been trapped behind communist lines. Please Sec Saigon Page 17 Down Belfast a a mass meeting in the roman Catholic Creggan District of Londonderry voted overwhelmingly tuesday night for an end to the violence of the Irish Republican howled Down Ira hecklers and refused to let an Ira chieftain speak. The crowd of cheered a priest who said we love our brother protestants in Derry and we want to live in peace with the Ira rules some persons in the Creggan and bog Side districts of London Derry an area called free Derry because the British and the protestant police stay out of it. On monday 200 Catholic women demanded an end to Ira violence after a 19-year-old Soldier Home on leave was Mur dered by guerrillas who charged he was a spy. The women claimed he was in n o c e n to and their protest mushroomed into tuesday night s meeting. There was wild applause at a motion which utterly rejected please see Ira Page 13 Ballard trial opens Toronto up the trial of Harold Ballard president of Maple Leaf gardens began tuesday with the Reading of a 2 0 p a g e indictment charging theft and fraud of from january 1964 to december 1970. Ballard who pleaded not guilty to defrauding the Gar Dens of and theft of Gar Dens funds totalling stood silently in the Dock for 40 minutes while the court clerk read the indictment. Ballard 67, who was arrested last june has elected trial be fore a judge alone. Please see Ballard Page i women protesters lunch outside exclusive Rideau club tuesday. Ottawa s looking for a car this want and under autos 66 valiant convert., slant 6 . Radio Blue Wilh White top excellent condition. Springfield motors Oak Bank Manitoba. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Legislature highlights minimum wage raise recommended Schreyer criticism draws Spivak criticism sunday Hunting debated discount hotel policy revealed Hydro customer service offices said closing no for Manitoba libbers Schreyer Mackling questioned on heading Ley Row Spivak says corrections paper overdue opposition hits Toupin Spivak predicts further Winnipeg tax hikes Page Page age x age 10 age 111 age 10 age Page 10 pas0 1s 16 ;