Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, July 25, 1973

Issue date: Wednesday, July 25, 1973
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition 80 250 Price 10 cents with comics 15 cents july 1973 Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset forecast Cloudy 55 and 80 Trees in Assiniboine Park pro vide backdrop for the Royal Winnipeg ballets opening night of dancing in the and overcast skies the despite threats of photo by Dave Johnson a crowd of turned out to the which begins nightly at until Cas Mir Carter reviews the performance on Page open to Appeal three vote margin for Asper by Ron Campbell free press staff writer Liberal Leader Izzy Asper of Manitoba unofficially won the judicial recount of Wolseley constituency ballots tuesday by three when judge Irving Keith of Winnipeg county court wound up the Allday in the Law courts unofficial figures showed Asper with his new democratic party opponent Murdoch Mackay with votes and progressive Conser v a t i v e candidate councillor Robert Steen with judge Keith will make his recount figures official monday when he issues his certificate of count As required by the Manitoba election after the candidates have two Days to file an Appeal against the judges the Manitoba court of Appeal is required to hear an Appeal within 10 Mackay said in an inter View that he will seek the advice of his Legal counsel before deciding whether to Appeal the he said he will not Appeal just for the purposes of a in our wed rather win the election on an Appeal to the people rather than to the none of the three candidates personally attended the judicial a july 4 recount of Wolseley ballots cast in the june 28 provincial election had Mac Kay and Asper tied with votes each and Hac Given a member of Winnipeg City As required by the election Wolseley return please see Wolseley Page 4 Canadian students learn pingpong from chinese by John Burns peking with the help of a Federal Grant of about and Assis Tance from the National film Board that will uie Federal taxpayer Many thousands of dollars a group of 10 Cana Dian teenagers is hard at work in peking learning to play in a gesture As political As it was sporting the department of health and welfare dug into its sports budget Lor the Money to Fly the teenagers half Way around the and the film doing its bit to make the whole thing sent along a Threeman Crew to film the in the complication fashion in which the Chin Ese sometimes handle hese things the Canadian table Tennis association made no headway with its proposal that the teen agers travel to China for training until the film m a k e r s indicated that would like to make the trip a move that turned a simple sports Exchange into a potentially rewarding propaganda exercise for the while Ping Pong claims less than serious enthusiasts in film showing Canadian teen agers playing the sport in China held out the Prospect of projecting a slice of chinese life into Cine Mas right across and so the chinese approved the cameras and we were said Jose Tomkins of the cites executive direct who is making the trip on one of the free Rounth world passes that up air provides each year to Amateur sports groups in without the film help i dont sup pose wed have made other told that Federal sponsorship was required to get the Ping ponders across the doubted that it was Luck so much As Otta was eagerness to please peking that made the trip the name of the game is pingpong i so we play them said one Diplo if they wanted to play tiddly winks wed Send them a squad of tiddly Winkers although still in the first of their month Long the teenagers already discovered one of the principal Rea sons Why China has dominated world pingpong for the past decade Dis us a question of Atti tude More than anything said Paul a 15yearold from missis who is current Junior Canadian when we play we often fool but not the chinese when they play there always dead another difference that has emerged during the training sessions is the Superior physical condition ing of the Young who have hardly worked up a sweat while their Ca Nadian opponents begin to Wilt across the their Long hair plastered to their the As Good As their have produced some it their top coaches for the three hour ses among them some of those who produced the team that brought Back both the mens and to mens singles titles from the world championships in Yugoslavia this the coaches have offered a Host of including the need for More intensive but in the games that usually wind up the sessions the and canadians see students Page 6 commons debate no nearer end still talking rail threat grows Montreal up Union and railway management negotiators met tuesday to Iron out procedures in the event of a strike by Onop rating Canadian rail Way even though the workers have set no Date for a also a special fed eral mediator met with Union representatives and is to meet management j and Union of the area spying called Legal Ehrlich Nan says Ellsberg breaking justified by Brooks Jackson Washington a John Ehrlichman testified today that president Nixon ordered his aides to take such Steps As were necessary to crack the Case of the Pentagon papers but did not in express terms authorize any Bur this was an Effort to crack what at that moment was the largest raid on secret Docu ments that had Ever been made in the history of this Ehrlich Nan told the Senate commit and the former Domestic affairs adviser to Nixon said White House assistant Egil Krogh might Well have consid ered his instructions As contemplating extraordinary Steps to get information about Daniel who leaked the Pentagon papers which recounted the secret history of the Viet Nam after a Long lawyers debate in which his counsel contended the president May have a Reservoir of Power permitting the use of burglary in foreign intelligence f a e d detailed Ehrlich Nan questioning strike by no operating about the breaking at the office workers grows William assistant Federal Deputy labor entered management Union talks monday after a Union re quest for government intervene Kelly described the talks As exploratory in the Union had held out no real Hope for averting a Richard chief Union said after the meeting with Kelly there was nothing in our indicated Media we just explored by Ken pole Ottawa up with no end in sight to what some maps Are calling m i d s u m m c r the commons echoed tuesday night with sometimes passionate debate on Amend ments to the criminal code de signed to make rape or Kidnap Ping capital offences if the Vic Tim the amendments to a controversial Bill to reestablish the partial moratorium on until 1977 were pro posed by Albanie Marin l debate on them began last was put off until Mon Day find by tuesday the House had spent More than eight hours on when this Section of debate is it will be a repeat performance o n companion amendments from Allan Lawrence Northumberland Durham to make air piracy a hanging of Fence if death is involved and to hang second time murder talks which Tion to several possibilities for an eventual basis for please see rail Page 4 i of Ellsberg psychiatrist in Ehrlich Nan said he did not authorize the Al though he has acknowledged signing a memorandum which approved a Covert operation to get information about Ellsberg Long As it could not be traced to the White we didst know whether we were dealing Here with a spy just an individual or whether we were dealing with a serious penetration of the nations military and other Ehrlich Nan senator Herman Talmadge asked Ehrlichman continued please see spying Page 6 also disappointment premiers gain some concessions by John Dodd Calgary up the four Western premiers Are gaining concessions from the Federal government but generally Are not getting what they asked strike set up air talks fail Vancouver up negotiations Between up air and the International association of machinists and aerospace workers Iam broke off tuesday the talks were called to pre vent a nationwide strike scheduled for this after the two groups began their capita punishment will have to because today the commons is scheduled to get Back to consideration of a Bill that would per Mit insurance of special coins and Stamps to raise Mil lion for the 1976 olympic games at that May take a Day or even a government spokesman solicitor general Warren All in a Brief interview out Side House tuesday please see commons Page 6 truckers seek sunday rights meeting at 4 tuesday and ended it six hours later when it became apparent a successful contract could not be agreed the Union demands Are far in excess of the recent air c a n a d a settlement package and the unions last stated position to the please see up air Page r the premiers emerged from the first Day of a meeting on Western economic opportunities disappointed and somewhat prime minister tru Deau said he thought the open ing sessions tuesday had been the dealing Only with topics on which they could had worked the hardest on their presentation for transportation this is what they got Federal commitment to provide the provincial govern on a confidential with All the information Avail Able on railway commitment to recognize regional development As an essential part of transportation Promise to ask the rail ways to withhold any across the Board increases in freight rates for the next 18 to ask the Ca Nadian transport commission to review some of the rates which aroused complaints from the proposal to create a be Dera provincial transport body to examine transportation problems in the Federal commitment to improve primary highways in the develop ment of the port at and abolition of tolls on licensed commercial carriers passing through National please see premiers Page 4 freight rate plans leave West cold handcuffed Boap 11 year old handcuffed and seated next to a policeman in the front seat of a squad was shot to death tuesday by an officer seated behind police a police spokesman said Santos Rodriguez and his were being questioned about a Gas station burglary when the shooting of police chief Frank Dyson told a news conference he will push for a murder indict ment against patrolman Dar Ryl Dyson said the killing was uncalled Ille Gal and unjustified and that there was no attempt on the part of the boy to escape from the Cain was arraigned before a magistrate re leased on Dyson said Cain has been in Shock since the shooting and was in see handcuffed Page 4 by Bob Douglas Ottawa up a Sharp struggle is already underway in what is Likely to be a land Mark Case in the trucking in it pits motorists against truckers Over whether two trucking companies should be allowed to transport goods on Reimer express lines and Imperial roadways both of have asked the Canadian transport com Mission Etc for exemption from prohibitions against Sun Day trucking in the lords Day a Public hearing is expected this the Canadian automobile association Caa has told the commission that if Reimer and Imperial Are exempted other trucking firms will seek Sinai Lar the Caa con tends that highways Are Al ready More heavily travelled on sunday than on any other the association said trucks would ruin sunday pleasure Hurt tourism and create safety it Points to an Accident near March 18 involving a lumber truck and leading to 12 Reimer and Imperial request the exemption for Long haul trips to Ontario and Quebec centres because they say Sun please see sunday Page 6 today native women Here 1 8 you and the Law 25 classified 33 to 58 comics 31 deaths 14 finance 2g to 29 movies 25 sports 48 to 55 television 21 women is to 22 nearly everyone reads the free press City Zont total by Egon Frech free press political reporter Calgary the Federal government offered some con Cessions on the key question of railway freight Rales at the opening Day of the Western economic opportunities Confer ence Here but left the four Western premiers relatively unhappy with its reluctance to change the Basic Way in which freight rates Are the conference will end j t h e four premiers came away from tuesdays talks Dis playing varying degrees of Dis satisfaction but agreed that thai Federal governments answers were of the tinker and Patch variety rather than taking and entirely new approach to a i problem that has stumped numerous Royal commissions in the an Alberta calling on the Federal government to nationalize the roadbed on which the railways run in order to put them on the same basis As the heavily subsidized Road and air transport got a Cool reception from Ottawa although trans port minister Jean Marciand promised it will be studied fur ther by a committee of officials which will be Given specific instructions to find Addi l i o n a 1 ways of eliminating Western freight Rale Marchand and prime minister t rude a remained please see Kate Page 4 is pledged or by Egon Frech free press political reporter Calgary the National harbours Board will spend a total of million Over the next six years to upgrade Churchill As a transport minister Jean Marchand announced Here Marchand told the West e r n economic opportunities that a special study on the future of Churchill is not very optimism the report will be made pub he premiered Schreyer of Manitoba said the Federal pro Gram amounts to nothing More than a moderate maintenance program that will not really help develop the the he has suggested a number of specific improvements that probably Cost More than million in see pledged Page 4 cd makes first bid to open shares program by Gerry Bourdeau Ottawa up catching everybody by the Canada development tuesday announced a that if could open its stalled program to the pub the cd jumped new York i n d Toronto Stock Market prices by almost in offering to Purchase to million shares of a multinational natural company based in new with about million in ils the cd would Pur Chase the shares for Mil lion or a closing prices on the new York and Toronto Stock markets tuesday w Ere a share for if successful in its the cd would own More than 35 per cent of the approximate million s h a i e s of Texas gulfs outstanding c o m m o n the cd now owns shares of common this coupled with the 20 per cent of common Stock now owned by private would give canadians voting per a multinational although cd officials were unavailable for former cd president mar shall Crowe said in March Hal the corporation is waiting for a major acquisition in the re sources Field before offering its shares to the Texas Guli is basically a min ing operations with interests in Oil and Gas development it operates Kidd Creek mines at one of the worlds largest single producers of Zinc and it has reported that Canadian operations have contributed to approximately g8 per cent of operating income since established in 1971 to develop and maintain a Strong Domestic control in the private sectors of the the cd was intended to give canadians a greater Opportunity to invest in Domestic economic but the cd has been hold ing off making shares Avail Able to the Public in an Effort t o establish an investment record for potential investors to examine before they decide to buy Pri vate investors will hold 90 per cent of the 200 million authorized common which Are restricted to Canadian Citi Zens and please see cd Page 4 ;