Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press a is final edition vol. 80 no. 1813 Price 10 cents 15 cents tuesday May 8, 1973 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast mainly sunny 35 and g5 opening May 17 watergate hearings set Washington a senator Sain ,1. Ervin dem. . Announced today ills special watergate investigating committee will open hearings May 17 and has agreed to subpoena John w. Dean who was fired is while House counsel. Cables a Ile ged forged los Ai Geles a t c r g a t e conspirator Howard i government investigators Hunt has testified that a special president Nixon personally Ervin said that if the commit toe determines it is necessary Dean Wilt be granted limited immunity from prosecution in 1 order to obtain his testimony regarding High level administration involvement in lie scandal involving the bugging of demo cratic party Headquarters in the i watergate building Here during last year s presidential election Campaign. The committee s immunity j Grant would not prevent Dean i from being tried and convicted on evidence other than that in his own testimony. Dean is reported to have told these workmen begin putting forms together in preparation for pouring Cement for Winnipeg s new million mint. The mint at the trans Canada High Way and Highway 59, is expected to be completed and ready to Start turning out coins by late 1974 and it is expected to employ 100 people initially it is to have the capacity to mint More than one billion coins a year. Lebanon jets Batter palestinians Over All hike 1.1% food Price Leader by Garry a Alltus Aux Ottawa up while the Cost of tobacco a n d alcohol remained unchanged from Marc i to april food prices jumped 2.6 per cent statistics Ca Nada reported today. If that Rale were maintained food prices would Rise almost 37 per cent by next March. Food prices hav per cell Ovi inducement to provinces to take Over health care Ottawa up the Federal government is pre pared to reduce its personal income tax by six percent age Points and eliminate Federal taxes on tobacco liquor and Beer enabling provincial governments to Lake Over those tax Fields As a Means of financing Federal Provin Cial health care programs it was announced today. Health minister Richard pot Ter of Ontario rejected the lat e s i proposal saying among Oiler things thai it is too complicated. Over All consumer prices Rose 1.1 per cent for the month and were per cent above a year earlier. Women held in holdups Beirut a lebanese air Force jets kept up a steady attack on palestinian guerrilla positions near i he Beirut Airport today As government and palestinian leaders struggled to halt fighting thai broke out again monday night. Informed sources said pros Ideal Suleiman Franjieh and i guerrilla Leader Yasir Arafat have agreed to a one hour ceasefire to give Arafat a Chance to bring his forces under control. But heavy gunfire could still be heard and there were Strong indications that Arafat and his associates have lost control of significant elements of the guerrillas. One report said the president has not decided whether to accept the resignation. As the army and the guerrillas battled on the outskirts of Only once in the last three years has there been a larger monthly increase in food prices Xgo per cell jump Between june and july of last year. The consumer Price Index Stoud Al 147.3, up from 145.7 in March. J the Index based on 19g1 prices equalling 100, measures i the Price of goods and services that make up a Large part of a typical family s spending. The 2.6-per-cent. Increase in food prices was in Sharp con Trail to the average March in april increase of eight tenths j of one per cent for the last two j years. Poultry prices jumped 0.0 per cent from March to april while beef prices Rose 2.3 per ccn1 and pork 2.1 per cent. In the j2 months since april. Risen r in announcement made at the last session of today s i Federal provincial conference on Federal proposals made at a january conference. The pre Vious proposal was opposed by Ontario and Alberta who called Lor a Transfer tax Fields in Stead. The january proposal would have limited annual increases in Federal contributions to share Cost health programs to roughly the increase in the Gross National reducing increases in Federal contributions to about five per cent a year from the recent in creases of about 14 per cent an under present arrangements the Federal government pays 50 per cent of the Cost of Hospital insurance and medical care programs. Under the proposal an today the provinces i would receive the Revenue from the tax Fields instead of the fed eral contributions with a Fader . Consul free presidential counsel spec directed i con four Youn. Lice custody women Are in to following an at Ratul Ald him last september him to forge cablegram linking for covering up the role of top tempted Holdup in downtown i the government declared Winnipeg Early tuesday and a successful armed Rob cry a few state of emergency re impose an around the Enofk curfew and president John Kennedy to the White House aides in the closed the Airport killing of South vietnamese Ter Gate Case. In in an army communique president Ngo i Sinh diem. The White House denied lion .lrrcsii.7 Hunt in watergate grand Day thai the president had any will Rob jury testimony released Mon role in any such cover up. Day by the Pentagon papers1 Ervin said the Public hearing trial judge said he Lound to investigate watergate and enough in stale department other presidential Campaign a files to hint at Kennedy involve Tiv tics will be held beginning ment in the iug3 assassination. At .10 . May 17 and will be int lie said special counsel scheduled three Days cent pork prices Are nearly per cent higher and poultry is up More than 20 per cent. Egg prices Rose 8.5 per cent in the latest month reaching Levels i3 per caul above those of a year earlier. The Price us bakery and Cere Al products however dipped two tenths of one per cent i largely because of lower bread i prices in some Western cities. I altogether prices for food i Mexico Consul Mph ii Home have risen 13.h per cent Over the last 12 months while the Cost of Reslaii-1 Hardy when he returned Home a rivals has gone up 10.7 Peri monday night and embraced his cent Wile 7li hours alter a guerrilla i 2.3-pcr-cent i n c r c a s e in band kidnapped him on a Street prices for women s clothing led Here. The Way As the Yigui Iii imia i i am Verv the 1.4 per cent in april. Year old Diplomat said men s clothes went up j Revenue did not equal payments under the january formula Ottawa would make up the Dif Ference in Cash. Ottawa up thirty men sit Down today to Divide Bivion and to try to find a path please see Ottawa Page 10 fee schedule unacceptable dental dispute brewing by Alice kuuegi3k free press legislative be Porter welfare recipients in Manitoba May i ind them selves turned by then dentists because of a Dis Pute that is brewing be tween the Manitoba dental association and the Provin Cial government Over a Fen schedule for social allow Ance recipients. The cause of Llic disagree Merit is a new fee schedule effective april 1, shul was cd vol i please see dental Page 2 Guadalajara a thank said . I the capital with artillery tank Consul Geneva Terrance icon keep planes up constantly. Opposition Cool to privacy Bill by Jim Poling a Rich by 1 2 Ner cent while the i Ottawa c i there were fire i bloodshot eyes and a heavy p Ewa indications monday night that with rockets and mortars Short Grey stubble on his Cheeky and As Price conservatives and new demo j apart and Send an amended version Hack to the commons. Conservative House Leader Gerald Baldwin suggested Dur monday s debate thai con it week Charles Colson said that was t Good enough and ordered the forgeries. Tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays. No witness list for the open immediately in Washington Colson denied ing session was the charge. Available. Please see cables Page 10 i see watergate Page 2 custodians May strike All St. A a schools about 150 custodians and an Effort to avoid a strike. The maintenance staff in the St. I two groups Are to meet again James Assiniboia school Divi-1 saturday Sion have unanimously rejected no i Caps previous a wage proposal which had been accepted by their negotiators and said they will go on strike unless they get immedi ate wage parity with their counterparts in the Winnipeg school division. Negotiating learns of local 730, Canadian Union of Public employees which represents inc custodians and maintenance men and of the school Board met for four hours monday in contract has expired an imme Diate strike would be Legal As would a lockout by the employer it was Learned. The Union local s chief negotiator Ioe Poitras said thai if the 150 custodians and maintenance employees Don t accept a settlement saturday he and his negotiating team will resign. He said he is hopeful the mat please see strike Page 0 Alert nearby residents and then opened her purse to show the. Two Youthful robbers it con. Trained no Money. The woman then convinced inc girls she had Money in her apartment. But when they arrived her Boyfriend grabbed one of the juveniles and held her Emtil police arrived. The second juvenile was arrested As she to run 1 from the apartment building. Both girls have been turned Over to juvenile court authorities. In inc St. Boniface robbery two Young women with knives held up a Lone clerk Al the country style donuts shop Archibald Street and the trans Canada Highway at about . A police spokesman said the two women escaped with a please see jets Page 10 please Sec . Page 2 please see food Page 0 Small amount of Cash bul were caught within an hour by patrolling policemen. They arc expected to be charged in Union voted sunday please see Heaitly Page 10 Cial judges court tuesday with robbery. Legislature highlights no hurry to sell Tanco Premier Page 60 9 civil servants May get political leave of absence Page 60 4 Complete Premier Page 60 Toupin would prefer no fee increase Page 3 govt. Gives notice of speedup motion Page 3 committee okays million capital estimates Page co told free to refuse welfare patients Page 1 toll free Long distance Telephone debated Page 3 Early weekend shopping advised Winnipeg shoppers perhaps i to strike beginning 8 . Kri should be planning to get that Al 52 Dominion s Friday night food shopping stores in done thursday just in Case. I Union a spokesman for Dominion a n d management continued stores Ltd. Head office in tuesday. Toronto said officials Aren t j our decision is a strategy prepared to announce whether decision so we re not prepared the supermarkets will close if clerks strike Friday. However customers will be told ahead of to Dominion s Nuudi age enl spokesman said in a Telephone interview tuesday. Time if the stores in close would give our customers sail members of the Ile Tail store j continued business report 1 3 to 20 Garden Wall 60 classified 3-1 to j3 comics deaths Jumble movies sports television women 43 to 51 58, 5 j 5 n to 28 23 to 25 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total police in certain cases. Opportunity Forill but they be said they la give members to be non partisan it second Reading just to get it and arc Etc a better Bill into the House Justice commit i Tec. There they could rip it see opposition Page White Leopard Sale raises for fund two enterprising Young girls and converted them into held a White Leopard Sale slur for the Leopard fund Day and raised for the fund i meanwhile tuesday a noon established to buy a new Lima. Hour concert by and Layan Snow Leopard for the Mclean and Bruce and zoo. Two of three musical groups Luau rec Molgaard 11, Grade which arc staging Benefit per g at Gladstone school 500 Ger for manics for the fund was Trude Avenue and Cathy Gushulak 10, in Grade 5 at glad Stone held the Sale their ver Sion of a while elephant Sale at the Grant Park Plaza shop Ping Centre mall. They Galli Rcd up various articles to sell scheduled or Daniel Mclntyre collegiate. A similar concert is scheduled Friday at inc technical vocational school. Please see a White Page i Israel series this month Israel is Cele Brating Llic 25th anniversary of us founding in 1918. A Niimi Xor of former Winnipeg citizens arc now living and working in Israel and Sam Nrman himself a former tells the stories of some of these in a series appearing exclusively in the free press. These stories will be published from time to time through out the month Ami the first appears today on Page 52. It figures Bell Gordon Bell High school Are determined week in june on Campus who Are bettor than won a National aggregate of the lop Ihrck University of May begin univ Cisily contest for the second year in each school. A studying mathematics and while still attending Healing Oul 960 High score on the lest would school or. I Hodgkinson from across although judges said o f Gordon Bell this is the second year students Bill Leslie has Ever obtained i Hodgkinson said a advanced students from Green and mall Ellis made in the 10 years of the in the Success of Bell have had the of the championship team is the to Lake first year uni ing against students 1972, Gordon Bell system used at mathematics. Last year wrote inc 30-qucslion Lesl first Manitoba school to went la the University of mathematics contest 1 11 d c n 1 9 Are allowed for classes but this the contest sponsored by year it became the in subjects at the course itself is taught University of Waterloo school Ever to win rate in other schools Gordon Bell. Started in 1963 and is open would have to Slick Leslie who was also on All Canadian students i hair it forms the course offered in a Conli lid in grades 9, 10, and 11. Bell students will Gordon Belt Page f ;