Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 80 no. 187 Price 10 cents Csecs 15 cents Mayo 1 471 wednesday mat a if it Sunrise Sunset . Moon la . Moonet . By precast Cloudy periods 40 and 65 May join in 20 Ridings free Enterprise candidates would r Uii against nip Manitoba liberals and progressive conservatives May decide to join forces and run a single candidate against the new democratic party in 20 constituencies and possibly More it was indicated wednesday. Already plans Are being com lated which could Lead to a Ingle free Enterprise can Idamc in six Ridings the Pas st. George Gimli t. Boniface and Selkirk. Ii these plans come to Fri no i i Ion there will be three Conser 3 it i 17" Vai Ives two liberals and one Al cs.j.ivi3 Independent running against the nip Standar bearer in Icse Ridings. As Well the group for Good government a n organization dedicated to running single free Enterprise candidates against he nip is organizing in 14 contract continue by Dudley Magnus free press labor reporter bargaining sessions Between supermarket and Union representatives which ended after Midnight tuesday at. The charter House hotel were to begin again at 10 . Wednes Day a Union official said in an interview. Cliff n. Evans Canadian director of the retail store employees Union Al Cio Csc said the bargaining Jor nov. Contract for store clerks was too far away to be Able to say yes or no As to whether so Luzion would be found in the wage and work conditions Dis Pute Between the Union Anc four supermarket chains. He saw no likelihood of Settle m c n t being reached today we re playing it by Victor l. Pinchin the Degoti Alor for Safeway one of the chains involved telephoned a his Home said he had no com mint on the situation. Please see contract Page 1 other provincial Ridings. They Are Crescent Wood Osborne Radisson Kiel st. James st. Matthews st. Vital Selkirk Transcona Wellington win Lipco Centre Point Douglas st. Johns and Dauphin. William palk of the Gugg says his group will be mailing out literature shortly urging that Only a single candidate he nominated to fight the nip ii Hose Ridings. Meanwhile t h e provincial conservative and heart cars refused to confirm that any move was afoot by them to run single candidates. It would be up to the individual can Slit ency organizations Asio what they do the leaders said. In the Pas George Takashima who was nominated As a Liberal will run As an Independent with both Liberal and progressive conservative support against Northern affairs min ister Eon Mcbryde. In Thompson Alderman Blain Johnston who has been the lib please see single Page u mexican police intensify search Guadalajara a troops and police searched today for the terrorists who held . Consul go neral tar Rance g. Leonhardy hostage for 76 hours. A mexican govern ment spokesman said several arrests have been made but declined to say How Many or where. The 58-year-old Diplomat was abducted Friday night As he drove Home by members of the previously u n known a Volu tonary armed forces of the people. He was freed monday night after the flight to Cuba of 30 prisoners from mexican jails and the payment of ran som. There was no bodily torture but the mental torture was re ally Leonhardy told a news conference tues Day. You have to Pray a Guadalajara s police Chie Jesus Ahumado Mercado Sale 350 of his detectives Are so eking the terrorists along with special political police from inc Interior ministry other Federal a cols troops and Sale police. The demand for Ransom Money was made in a note to Leonhardy s wife sunday a hours after the government complied with the kidnappers earlier demand for release of irs. Leonhardy Hie Money at be suggestion of gov. Alberto Orozco Romero and a Volun car wearing glasses and a red Carf to identify himself handed he Money Over to a Man u rent of a shoe store downtown. The governor said he Hope he . Government will repay he loan but the state depart mint indicated it expects the mexican government to rim Burse the Bank. State department spokesman Charles w. Bray said in Washington that it is against please see. Police Page 32 Ottawa Biu fails provinces Cool to health cure Swap Liy Doug Small Ottawa up after it began tuesday what was to have been a two Day Federal provincial con Jerk acc to Settle the intricate problem of financing health and cd a Caiyun ministers from both Levels of govern ment agreed Only that the problem should be left to their leaders at a first ministers con Ference May 26. If the horse is dead there s o Point beating it even fur Hearth minister Marc Ralonde said As provincial min sters scrambled to get out o Ottawa a Day earlier than sex cd cd. Behind them Lay the latest in series of Federal suggestion named at solving jurisdiction differences Oyei the right to control Money destined Foi health and education. This one outlined by finance minister John Turner and i Lalonde at the beginning of the conference would give prov inces is additional cents Froid each income tax Dollar of health programs. As Well it would give thai the right to use what now i garnered by the Federal eminent in excise taxes on t Bacco alcohol wine and Beer. Ontario treasurer Job White however echoing Sci tibents of most other pro please see Federal Page l the Driver of this vehicle really did t intend to shop in this drugstore. He was trying to avoid police in Edmonton during an Early morning Chase during which speeds of 90 Miles an hour were reached. The Driver and passengers escaped injury but the Driver was charged with impaired driving damage to the store estimated at Thyce Cherniack airs opt out fears explosions Roek Beirut Beirut a explosions rocked Banks and a restaurant in four different areas of Beirut today Cannon and artillery fire rumbled intermittently and the lebanese army warned guerrillas it will retaliate intensively and violently to cease fire violations. An official communique said guerrilla rockets and mortars Ere hitting army positions and is identical areas. The army said 13 soldiers bad ecu killed 65 wounded and six rocket and heavy mortar attack on the army Tyre Garrison and the ambush of a military con vey on the Tyre Sidon Highway eight soldiers were a senior army official said a erupted monday night. Guerrilla casualties were not a medially Luion. The explosions destroyed the Csc Loument Bank g. Trad Ank the lebanese Commerce Ank and a restaurant. The army said its positions he radar station Cir it air Ort a combat school and an Fri cars housing compound vere being fired on by mortars and rockets. Outside Beirut the army Aid in the Bekaan Valley army positions Are still under hostile wins ceasefire commission making desperate efforts to Senate terms 5.8-Mill hike approved for City tax rate Winnipeg accepts province s last minute Grant. Terms a 1973 municipal property tax rate of 44.6 Mills an increase of 5.8 Mills from last year was struck tuesday when Winnipeg City Council approved a 1973 operating budget of the Mill Rale increase is lower than had earlier been anticipated because of the City s acceptance a last minute offer of a Grant million by the provincial government which decreased the projected tax rate by almost 1.6 Mills. The provincial Grant Iii go toward offsetting Jeroie Czetl million operating deficit of Winnipeg transit and will sup port the Cost of inner City health units and court services. Dental up although the tax rate for i in nips is up this year Many residential and farm property intensive As for shelling by armed the an Stop the shelling. Guerrilla attacks today also were reported against a number of army installations and villages in Southeast Leban on near the syrian Border. There was speculation in Beirut that the attacks were made by palestinians who had crossed into Lebanon from Syria As they did during the fighting last week. The guerrillas military com Mander Atallah Atallah told the newspaper Asafa that be tween 30 and 50 of his men were killed and More than 100 nou Cement said following the see explosions Page 9 concert raises for Simba a noon hour concert tuesday by the musical group Mclean and Mclean at Daniel Mclntyre collegiate raised for the school children s save the Leopard fund. The fund is past the Halfway Mark. Brad Patrick manager of Mclean and Mclean and of the Goose and Gomez musical group said tuesday s concert was one of the Best received concerts we be Leopard fund. Done for the lie said about 250 students teachers and staff turned out for the concert and contrib ions to the Leopard fund Cam irom All groups. Or. Patrick said so far the musical groups have brought in a total of for the Leo pan fund and the is to i Mclean and Mclean s nex concert is Sut for technical vocational school at . I . Friday. Also tuesday office staff a the Winnipeg school division o ficus 1577 Wall Street sent in jingling Piggy Bank contains please see concert Page 9 ready to Grant immunity to eight Washington a Senate investigators Are said to be offering limited immunity from prosecution to obtain sworn and Public Testi Mony from As Many As eight persons linked to the watergate Case. Disclosure from source be to the Senate s watergate omit the came tuesday As e committee announced it will in Long awaited Public hear is next week. The committee said it May ant. Partial immunity to the an who has sought it the har White House coun 1 John Dean. In addition to Dean the com it tee is reported considering tending immunity to the four Miami men arrested in Wash n g t o n s watergate building Une 17, and also to Jeb Star former Nixon Campaign official and to con cited watergate conspirators Howard Hunt and g. Gordon Day. Dean has been quoted As say g he has information linking resident Nixon to a cover us the bugging of a quarters in the watergate. As the committee prepared t go other figures ii he Case were reported near indictment or under pressure t sign government jobs. The new York daily news u o t i n g an unimpeachable please see Senate Page 13 for tax in each of Winnipeg s 12 divisions see Page 13 owners could end up with a lower tax Bill than last year be cause of decreased education Mill rates throughout the City and the minimum property tax credit plan announced by the provincial government. The total property tax rates combining municipal and Edu in air health minister Kene Toupin has apparently backed away irom rigid adherence to a schedule of fees to be paid to Manitoba dentists for work done on welfare recipient s Teeth. Fees paid dentists after the 1973-74 year for this work will be the subject of future consid the minister wrote tuesday in a letter addressed to Manitoba dental association president s. M. Claman. Or. Toupin read the letter in the legislature tuesday evening Bate on by Paul Jackson free press staff correspondent Ottawa Manitoba i the 30 prisoners. A Guadalajara Bank loaned today to enemy and tin Nance minister Saul Cherniack said Here tuesday he fears the Federal government May be on the Way to opting out of its responsibility for maintenance of National health standards in an attempt to avoid paying its fair share of escalating health costs. I Haven t had a Chance to study the new tax proposals in detail but from a superficial look in worries me. It would be deplorable if the Federal government started to shed its responsibility for National health standards and an equitable share of health said the new democratic party Cabinet minister at a Federal provincial meeting of health and finance 35 7 classified.43 to 5j comics comic features 60 deaths finance 35 to 39 Jumble movies ;