Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 2, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. Kun no. 181 Price 10 cents 15 cents May 1qt3 Sunrise . Sunset . Mat a Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast sunny 25 and 55 truce copters fired on two aircraft forced Back by Blaze of gunfire Cut mooted if election of mayor altered Doorn by Douglas Mackay free press legislative reporter if the Manitoba legislature changes the City of Winnipeg act to have the mayor chosen by the elector ate Al Large the government will have to propose other changes As Well perhaps reduction of the 50-Mcmbcr cily Council Loas few As 18 members Public works Russoll Doorn said tuesday. To simply have the mayor elected Al Large would finance minister again a dying column of Sunshine pierces through layers of evening Cloud to highlight Waters of English Bay in Vancouver. The Bay has become a holding area for ships waiting to get into the har Bor to take on cargo As the port prepares to Han dle record Grain movement in May. The Canada grains Council s annual meeting which ended tuesday in Winnipeg discussed Means to improve Grain handling systems and to improve marketing techniques. Please ice reports on Page 34. I ii St Kkt arabs Battle in Lebanon from a renter Beirut up lebanese troops supported by tanks fought a pitched Struci Battle today near a big palestinian ref Ugee Camp on the Oul Skirls of Beirut. Witnesses reported a heavy Exchange of fire Between sol Diers around he Camp and armed men believed to be pales guerrillas. Motorists and pedestrians rushed fur cover As the shooting broke out. Gunfire and explosions could still be heard from the create i arca m nuts later. The clash started after army units took up p o s i t i o n s a hybrid a split system with Quang Tri up two peace keeping helicopters flew into a Blaze of Small arms and anti aircraft fire today As they began a carefully pre arranged flight Over Viet Cong territory in South Vietnam below the demilitarized zone. The aircraft tarrying full Crews and four members of the International commission o f control and supervision managed to return to their base Here about five minutes after Takeoff without damage. This settles said a Dis traught indonesian member of the ices. It s just a matter of time until there s a major i maj. Frank Bulmer of Toron to one of the ices personnel aboard said As he stepped from one of the helicopters it shakes you a bit. At first we i conflict and clash Between the ing debate on a private m c m b c r s Bill which would 1 Amend the act so that the around the sprawling refugee Camp this morning and began checking the papers of everybody going in and out. A number mayor and the Council he said. People were reported detained. Or Len can sep Kini rim i sources said the move was ordered after an army sergeant Doc in was spa Keg dm-1 kidnapped by armed Man at dirt Cronl Points in the cily. Extra army units look up positions near Lac already lense Sabra refugee Camp where it was believed the two soldiers mayor would be elected by the1 were held. I political sources said the guerrillas look the two men to whole Clec Luranc. Lyle act now states the mayor will be appointed by City Council from 1 among its own members after Saul Cherniack nip St. The next civic election in of Johns returned to the Previn j Lobar though for the cur Cial Cabinet wednesday in his a cult first Termi Layol. Slevc Schr Cvar was clcclcl1 at Large. Has been handling the finance premiered Schryer has Portfilio since or. Cherniack i promised that the government resigned from the Cabinet for family reasons in november will continue to Pilot capital Supply and finance legislation through the legislature leaving or. Cli Crnick to negotiate with the Federal government. Or. Cherniack s first task will be to prepare for the Federal provincial meeting of finance and health ministers May 8 and ii in Ottawa. Or. Cherniack was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in and was appointed in the finance portfolio july when the new democratic parly government took office. Propose the change in the continued ice 18-Mlimiieh Page 5 bring pressure on the government to release nine guerrillas arrested in the last two Days. Relations Between the government and the guerrillas have become increasingly strained recently. Leopard s name on thursday Digger role for vice president following resignations Washington a seeking to put his administration in order president Nixon has As signed Vicc president Spiro t. Agnew an expanding role in the formulation of Domestic policy it was Learned today. Al an hour Ion r meeting tuesday Nixon assigned Agnew to a new position As vice chair Man of the Domestic Council at the White House. Although this will involve the vice president More deeply in policy deliberations on the Domestic front sources said he is in no Way taking on the functions of Joni d. Ehrlichman. J Domestic policy assistant who resigned monday. Part of Agnew s new duties it was said will involve Liaison work with governors and local officials putting him Back in a thought it was mechanical fail ure but it did t take Long to figure out what was happen in Saigon Canadian Ambas Sador Michel Gaivin termed the incident please see Tutu Cli Page 38 suit filed in death Liy Vern fowi.1e free press staff writer a new Snow Leopard. So far i More than has been raised. A name for the Snow Leopard school children throughout being sought for Assiniboine Winnipeg have been staging All Park 7.00 will be announced sorts of fund raising ventures i thursday i among the a Venus scheduled Field from which he was re moved in Nixon s second term reorganization. Agnew s role came to Light As former Treasury Secretary John b. Connally a potential rival for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination arranged to hold a news conference in Houston to announce his switch from the democratic to Republican parly. Please see new Page 19 bribe attempt alleged scots Tell of ii Mac director resigns Fly David Humphreys free press staff correspondent Edinburgh scottish wit Nesses shed More Light at an inquiry into the failed Churchill Forest industries Complex tues Day on the hazy picture that still obscures the roles of a Bahamas based investment com Pany and of the acknowledged Mastermind of the entire Ven Ture. The Manitoba commission of inquiry into Hie Churchill project came to Edinburgh to hear Fence lawyers in the Pentagon j senior officers and directors of a member of the Board of directors of the Manitoba devel o e n i corporation Sidney Shreiber has resigned his Posl because of Negolia Lions by the corporation to sell the flyer industries Ltd. Bus manufacturing Plant at Morris Man., to a United Stales firm. Resources minister s i d n e y Green minister responsible for development corporation confirmed in the legislature us Day that he had received or. Shr her s letter of Resigna Ion. The Matler arose in the House in response to a question rom by Gonick or. Shreiber a Winnipeg accountant was appointed to Board of directors ii bout one Vear ago. Please see Mac Page is los Angeles a do papers trial accusing former presidential adviser John Ehr Lichman of trying to bribe the trial judge have demanded that any watergate or White House links to the trial be made pub Lic. I hundreds of ballots have been i flowing into the free press in for this week Are a stage show i magical act and refreshment i Booths at Victoria Albert i Nanic the Leopard school 110 Ellen Street. The ballots have been Babulal a four Grade 6 students Are to cd and the name chosen. I i1 1 a in the schools gymnasium thurs continued a Winnipeg Man court action against two major Winnipeg hospitals and one clinic As the result of the death of his wife june 2, 1972. The state men of claim has been filed in meanwhile the free press Las produced a Bonus As several entrants sent some m o n c y in Wilh their name choices adding about s10 to the school children s Snow Leopard fund. The fund has been established please see to name Page 5 Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. The defendants in Lac action Are St. Boniface Hospital the to raise Money to buy a male for Shadow the male Himalayan Snow Leopard at the 7.00. Shadow s former mate Suki died in March. When the news health sciences Centre and a Hent inc death. Reached Winnipeg Manitoba clinic. The plaintiff is Gustav Albert Vanelslander whose 47-year-old wife Anila died at the health sciences Centre As the result of Saul Cherniack an acute lung infection. School children it led to the launching of a fund raising Campaign for a replace Mcnol. The objective is to buy looking 1 w a piano this want and under Musi Cal instruments go upright piano. Ivory. 1500. 269-4763. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Party gets recruit Houston Tex. A John 15. Connally president Nixon s former Secretary of the Treasury announced today he is switching from the democratic to the Republican party. There has been recent Specula Tion the former Texas governor and protege of the late pres ident Lyndon b. Johnson has Given serious thought to making a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976. "1 believe that in our time the Republican party Best rep please see party Page 19 Federal judge mall Byrne rejected tuesday a government request to keep from the press further developments in a continuing court ordered i Vestiga lion. He said he will make pub please Sec bribe Page is today you and the Law marketing clout 34 classified comics deaths finance Jumble movies sports television women 41 to 59 71 i in to ii fill lil to is 22 to 30 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total James Bertram and son limited of Scotland Parent firm of one of four companies the Man Zloba government put in receivership january 8th 1971. Commission chairman c Rhodes Smith cominis Soonei Leon Mitchell and counsel d Arcy Mccaffrey at a sitting in the sheriff s court Examinee four witnesses under an order taken out Here requiring the witnesses to appear. Commissioner Murray Don Nelly slayed in Winnipeg. Key witness William Morris one of two remaining on the Montreal reporter wounded by Dennis Trudeau Montreal up a be Devoir reporter specializing in covering organized crime who was shot in the tuesday in the newspaper s newsroom says he has already been warned a couple of Jean Pierre Charbonneau 23, who has been covering the que Bec police commission inquiry into organized crime spent the night in St. Luc Hospital under police guard after being treated Edinburgh schedule is fight info for a gunshot wound and Frac an order for him to appear. Ture of the left forearm. Air. Morris is a former Man-1 or. Charbonneau doubted the Ager of the Bertram scottish attack was related to his cover please Sec scots Page 4 i please Sec Montreal Page 5 Sheffield . Up i did t have my Spring clean ing done downstairs i did it upstairs but not downstairs. Was t i chatted Bridges seated in the Back of a Rowboat at the front door of her two Storey Home at Sheffield. Dirty water lapped at the top Handrail of the Sun porch and stood four feet High in the front room. The smell of fuel Oil was Strong. Harry her husband and i got the girls to their grand Mother today but we re stay ing we have everything we please see Hardy Page 18 legislature highlights Ontario doctor incomes hit Doorn canlers mayoralty debate i Are m do director quits Over Klyur i age Long distance rate abolition studied Page insurance details to he provided Page june Menzies to run for liberals Page algae problem in lakes discussed lotteries employee Rel Lirlind Page nursing Home regulations May be changed Page i Hank governor to of asked to appear i Afie Desjardins praises film Board i Are i four Hills riven Royal ass Cal pane by John Toronto up health insurance watchdogs found their eyebrows lifting right up to their scalps As they looked at the Bills from a doctor in a Community of 100 souls. Over a period of Aboul a year he had rung up claims or payment amounting to some h i s fees were drastically slashed by Lac Ontario College of physicians and surgeons the dnclors1 licensing and disciplinary body who reminded him that health insurance was not a get Rich Quick scheme for the medical profession. That was an extreme Case and occurred before the Ontario health insurance plan Chip look Over last year with a com Puter surveillance s c i u p that produces a month to month profile of a doctor s practice. Seeing aside the few caught trying to hit the Cash Register for a month or so and the Odd one Billing for 300 a Licals a Day Ontario doctors have suddenly bounced into average net incomes approach ing a year and Hie up Ward slide continues. In the last seven years since the Ontario government entered health particularly since Universal coverage began in Cost of Doc tors services to Lac Public Almuly doubled. The big jump far exceeding pre insurance calculations is slim laced p e r 11 y by Many More people getting service Llian before including those whose Lack of Money Kepi them away from the doctor. Experts cite additional Ria s o n s higher doctors fees Over use by the Public now that a session with the doctor is free or apparently Over servicing by doctors to swell their Bills. And Iacre is a sizable temptation students of of Iii say for doctors to embellish the value of their work by such gimmicks As translating an office Visil into a general assessment or checkup for Billing Pur poses. Late in april the College of physicians and surgeons announced a dam Down on the scale of payments to doctors who appear to be i rating too Many patients to give them adequate care. The College said that certain physicians whose pattern of practice indicates thai Lac qual Ity of service is less than acceptable will have their fees Cut through a formula now being devised. Please see Ontario Page 5 ;