Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july 1973 Moog by Allan Dickie Toronto up these Lect legislature committee investigating Ontario Hydro Deal with Canada Square backed away from an immediate confrontation with Developer go Harc Moog despite a speakers warrant ordering the production of Doe Moog has refused to turn Over to the committee a file containing correspondence with a Swiss Bank on financing the new Hydro the committee Dindl ask for the committee members want to give moods d a Chance to Articie late his objections to turning Over the the controversy arose Over a trip to the Bank made by or Moog and Premier William Davis while on vacation in Europe in Moog testified tuesday he had a discussion with one of the Zurich Bankers on the pos sible financing of the Hydro project and was told the Bank could lend up to million at per Premier Davis testified Mon Day that he was unaware of the subject of moods conversation in German with one of the while he Dis cussed International monetary conditions with it was moods further correspondence with the unidentified Bank that gave Rise to the confrontation Between the committee and Finlayson insisted again tuesday that the file is irrelevant and making it Public would damage moods Long Range financial in postponing the confrontation with the consent of most of the 11 m a n chairman John Macbeth pc Toronto York West said he Sweet reason can pre Vail the moment of truth has not yet but James Bullbrook Sarnia i dont think the interest of the Public is served by permit Ting a speakers warrant to be outstanding for any significant period of Bullbrook the warrant was issued monday by the investigating allegations of a v o r i t i s m and political a t r o n a g e to Canada Square Moog is a personal Friend of Macbeth said in an interview after the session adjourned for the Day that while he considered the file Rele vant he didst think it was of such urgency that the commit More Beer drunk by Neil Gil Biride Ottawa up latest government figures indicate the average Canadian adult guzzled a Little More than 11 Gallons of Beer and ale the first five months of this and that was before the really hot weather set the report by statistics can Ada showed tipping of brewed products already moving up to a r d the three Galloper month Mark in May from an Overall five month average of Gallons from january through it said a total of callous where shipped within Canada in May and from january through on the basis that about 60 per cent of Canadas total million population Are the average Legal consumption was roughly Gallons per person for May and Gal Lons for the entire five month clash avoided f tee would have to discontinue its work if it want in his he it would not be necessary to re Call the legislature to Deal with the but that the com Mittee could recommend that some action be taken against Moog when the legislature reconvened in in earlier Moog denied Ever telling Hydro architect Kenneth Candy that he would be acting As financial adviser to Premier Davis on the european prison Tunnel found Prince Albert up two prisoners have been caught digging a Tunnel from the minimum Security farm of the Prince Albert Penitentiary to the maximum Security area of the acting prison director Jim Osullivan said the prisoners who have since been returnee to maximum sunk an eight foot Shaft through the earthen floor of a lumber storage shed on the they had dug about 30 or on third the toward t h e maximum Security area when they were discovered last the prisoners came to the farm from the maximum Secu Rity Section and they apparently had a sense of loyalty to some of their fellow prisoners and wanted to get who withheld the names of the two prison said he no idea of who was to be released through the we have quite a number of men with Long sentences who have Little Chance in the near future for parole or temporary the Tunnel was discovered when a member of the prison staff noticed Sand in an area where it should not this led to suspicions a Tun incl was around someplace and search was made and Dis closed the premiers gain ground continued pledged for port in North Legal drinking age in Cana Dian provinces varies from 18 to about 64 per cent of Ca Nadas population is 18 or older and 59 per cent is Over the statistics Canada figures Are based on shipments of Beer and ale by a brewing Industry spokesman said ship ments correspond closely to t h e figures indicate that heaviest guzzling was in que Bec and Manitoba with More than three Gallons per adult in May and 12 Gallons Over the five months for a total of million Gallons in Quebec and million Gallons in Beer and ale drinking in the Atlantic provinces averaged two Gallons per adult in May and Gallons Over the five months for a total of Mil lion Ontario average was Gallons for the month and 11 Gallons for five months for a total of million Gal Saskatchewan was Gallons for the month and Gallons for the five months for a total of million Albertas was Gallons for May and 11 Gallons for Jan continued of an ice the Harbor Marchand said the National harbours Board which has been approved by the Federal Calls for rebuilding feet of the raising the North half of the Grain gallery dredging the berths in the Harbor to a minimum of 35 they now Are supposed to be 30 but have silted in to a depth As shallow As 28 feet in extending the shipping season to 110 Days from the present 85 Days a but without the use breaker to keep dredging the turning Basin and the River Channel to a minimum of 30 providing a new tug for the port and stationing a dredge there Marchand said the pro Gram is More than maintenance and the Only reason it is taking six years to Complete is the relatively Short Churchill construction the transport minister also said he would be willing to Dis cuss with Premier Schreyer and Premier Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan the idea of using Churchill As a Northern Supply and having the North Ern transportation company a Federal Crown Corpora resupply Arctic Points from Churchill rather than shipping goods through Mon about 300 Miles More in most Blakeney said Small businesses Iii Manitoba and Saskatchewan which Are sometime successful in submitting Low bids for a government project in the Arctic or the Northwest territories now Are made in competitive because the extra Cost of shipping through Mon he they Are less than Miles from the final destination via part of the proposal advanced by the Manitoba government included diverting the Churchill River for a Short Dis Tance at its Mouth in order to prevent formation of Slob ice in the this proposal was apparently confused by National harbours Board officials with the provinces planned diversion of the River at South Marymay for a total of Ern Indian Lake for Hydro elec million Gallons and British co Trie and was rejected was Gallons for i As a purely provincial the month and 12 Gallons for even with the hydroelectric the five month virtually All the Federal con Cessions were announced in an opening statement by trans port minister Jean Marchand the West gained Little in hours of hard they had wanted Public Dis closure of railway Cost info and a rewriting of the transportation act to stress the importance of regional Dev the Western provinces hat hoped for some Federal reaction to their major proposal de signed to lower freight rates in relation to actual costs of the with Ottawa taking Over the railway Road Beds As part of the prime minister tru Deau criticized the premiers for not giving him the proposal in he said the Fedora government will study How neither he nor mar Chancl appeared the prime minister noted after the conference that both Premier Allan Blakeney 01 Saskatchewan and premiered Schreyer of Manitoba had Saie they want to study the propos Al further before Marchand estimated that the proposal for the Federal government to take Over rail Way Road Beds might Cost More than for some thing that will not have been improved by the fact that we own Premier Lougheed saying the Cost would be More like 25 per cent of the trans did Nof give the wests proposal was that freight rates could be lowered if the Federal government provided As much support for the fixed assets of railways As it does for other forms of transportation which have federally financed and High the West did gain agreement on some statements of philos prime minister Trudeau agreed that the West no longer should be treated As a Hin designed chiefly to provide raw materials to serve Central the Federal ment is committed to a balanced and diversified Western the prime minister he listed four objectives for National broader Range of employment greater stability of income a stronger Western voice in National decision Mak and greater concern by All Levels of government for the individual some to the West have been announced outside the three Day British Columbia and Federal government announced a plan for port and resource development aimed at encouraging economic growth in Northwest Ern British the government decided to freeze further abandonment of railway Branch Ines until Premier Blakeney was the most critical of the four provincial we did expect to get from hem a much clearer and a much More comprehensive blueprint for approaching a new formula designed to re move the anomalies in freight rates which we say exist and which they acknowledge we have what must surely be among the Clumsy est approaches to restructuring the freight rate Structure that could possibly be analysis of or 75 individual rates from which we would apparently attempt to distil a new principle which could be applied on the remaining Premier Schreyer was not very Happy because there was too much imprecision in the opening meeting and be cause no decision was made on whether freight rates should be based on the Cost of providing the Alberta Premier Peter Lough eed saw mixed Progress while Premier Dave Barrett of British Columbia thought it was too Early in the conference to Tell How things were the conference had been due to leave the prime topic of transportation today and move onto Industrial and commercial procedural a g u m e n t s delayed tuesdays discussions and negotiations on air and Highway transportation had not been the final was scheduled for discussions on capital financing and financial and judge Irving Keith counts Wolseley recount to Asper continued census ratio Washington the census shows 105 to 106 males born every year compared with 100 project in there would still be enough Down Stream flow in the Churchill to pose an ice problem when the fresh water enters the provincial officials said they would take up the idea again with the wants rift healed Washington Reuter senator Hubert Humphrey asked Congress recently to support a resumption of Normal diplomatic relations with he introduced legislation designed to induce the administration to reestablish Normal relations be c a m e strained last August when swedish officials criticized bombing of in the ambassador m Stockholm left his Post and no move was made to replace ing officer Jim Maloway broke the lie by declaring a a member of the new democratic declared that the Winner was but in the judicial judge Keith accepted three mailed in ballots which Maloway had rejected for non compliance with election act the three ballots were All for who represented Wolseley in the last lawyer Mel one of map Kays representatives at objected that the three ballots were improperly Are used by voters because of physical cannot make it o the polls on election the actual ballot is contained in a ballot which is Side a so called certification which is inside an envelope with the returning of ices address on two of the Asper mailed in ballots were in the same Enve on the certification Enve it appeared that the Hus band and wife had certified each other As registered Wolsey third Asper mail Din ballot did not the voters name on the in satisfied with the certify cation and in adding three More to Aspers declared judge the court of Appeal can do what they want with the judge overrode other ejections to his acceptance of rejected ballots by saying he was there to count and what pm going to he advised Myers to Ake his objections to the court of Appeal that what its Here on another of he referred to object ions As the mailed in ballot poll was he 39th of Wolseley 40 it is a constituency with 37 regular polling the last of the 40 being the and Vance vote the mailed in poll and the Hospital until the counting of mailed Asper and Mackay were tied in the re for purposes of the judicial Maloway declaration of Mackay As the Winner was not legally a and was not judge Keith rejected four otes Maloway had pre accepted for Asper and four which had been pre piously accepted Lor Mac one vote for Steen was rejected and four were accepted which had been previously rejected for a net gain of three for the conservative at the Start of the Hospital vote Steen had three Hospital Asper 10 and Mackay though Aspers and Mackay representatives of judge Keith accepted four previously rejected Hospi Tal ballots and All turned out to be cast for As Aspers and Mac Kays representatives held their the judge Tore open the sealed envelopes and could not help adopting a wry air As the ballots for Steen were this is like playing with by breathed lawyer Guy one of Aspers representatives at the when the recount was completed at 5 some confusion reigned because the Fig ures had not been judge Keith and his clerk went into another courtroom to add up the figures on an adding and even this procedure became confused when the judge forgot to count in some ballots listed for some the judge came with an unofficial figure of votes for Asper and for and didst bother to total Steens but nip representatives agreed something must wrong with the adding ma1 because before the Judi Cial they added up the votes on three separate adding machines and came up with the same totals which showed nothing like a 10vote spread Between the leading can everyone agreed the count was Only unofficial at this stage the clerk read out the poll poll recount and everyone had the same figures for interviewed after the re Aspers executive assistant Peter Liba said he expected tuesdays results would be upheld if the recount is the outcome is pretty Well what we Liba Asper was in Calgary attending the Federal provincial conference on Western economic and could not be reached for Mackay said in an inter View that premiered Schreyer has promised him the provincial attorney generals Post if he is finally declared the Winner in i could be the attorney go n c r a 1 i which i feel is a wonderful it would be a big drop in pay from his present income As a Mackay but representing Wolseley As actor Ney general would be a great he disagreed with judge Keiths decision to admit the three previously rejected Maile Diri we have seen those ballots before at we have seen the envelopes and i am satisfied myself that they ought not to have been admit he said he has been through recounts with judge Keith be fore and found him a reason Able Mackay said he believe news reports that portrayed the judge merely As a counter at this particular the nip candidate said he would not seek to have the Wolseley election voided and held Over again by going through controverted elec Tion proceedings in the but he indicated that judge Keiths controversial decision on the mailed in ballots could cause the recount to be a if Mackay will he resume his chairmanship of the Manitoba labor Board i dont know if they have me he i As sume they anyway that was Only a Par time he his other work is As a and this has helped keep his mind off the recount tension of the past three he now i know what clients go he i hear it on the news first that in three its not the end of the rate plans get Cool reception firm throughout tuesdays ses Sions that the solutions to freight rate problems in the West can be achieved without amending the National transportation act to spell out the encouragement of regional eco nomic development As a part of National transportation policy or to changes the Basic Way in which freight rates now Are set to meet the rates charged by Competition when and where such Competition the question of freight rates was seen by the three Prairie premiers to be the key to eco nomic development of their re although it does not particularly concern British co the attended by observers and delegates from across the West As Well As from the Federal government was open to the Marchand told the West Ern premiers that the National transportation act already recognizes that freight rates other than those dictated by the Competition can be set if ii is in the National and the Federal government has the Power to Tell the Canadian transport commission what the National interest Marchand announced four specific Points that Are of in Terest to the Prairies there will be a freeze on abandonment of unprotected railway Branch lines until Jan the Federal government will discuss with the rail ways the need to refrain from any general rate increases across the Board for another 18 months while the entire ques Tion of freight rates is re Federal government will embark on a million program to upgrade highways in Western Canada to the Load limit now in effect in Manitoba and Saskatchewan at present have tolls for commercial carriers operating through National Parks will be removed such tolls now Are charged in National Parks in the Rocky mountains and in Manitoba Riding Mountain National both Marchand and Trudeau referred in a general the possibility of subsidizing the trucking Industry in order to provide effective Competition to the railways on the but the premiers did not seem taken with the they the railways cd makes bid prisoner exchanges suspended Saigon Reuter prisoner exchanges Between the Viet Cong and South vietnamese government have been sus Pended for the time the government announced wednes a spokesman said the re lease of prisoners throughout the country bad been stopped pending a meeting Between the top military representatives of both it now seems unlikely the re lease of More than prisoners held by both sides will go ahead before the july 28 deadline set by last months Paris communique which Reaf firmed the january peace the prisoner exchanges broke Down tuesday after 24 civilian detainees being handed Back to the Viet Cong asked to remain in South vietnamese hands and were set upon by communist a govern ment spokesman Here the South vietnamese sus Pended the Exchange after Only 225 of the civilians they were to release had been handed continued the government now owns All shares which it purchased for if the corporation opened its 200 million shares to the Public with the acquisition of Texas Gulf for a common shares would provide billion in nonvoting preferred shares could add an other with still an other billion possible for t u e s d a is announcement could be the catalyst needed to open cacs shares to the pub but the political ire of of positions parties surfaced tuesday following the an conservative House Leader Gerald Baldwin said it was never the purpose of the cd to do this sort of j it reeks of questions that have to be new democratic Leader David Lewis said that con s i d e r i n g the corporation is operated by not the he is not too excited by the continued Are also the major operators of trucks on the and be c o n d 1 y building expensive roads seems a roundabout Way of getting lower railway freight premiered Schreyer of Manitoba hammered Home the saying provincial governments can achieve drastic reductions in freight rates to Northern but Only by spending millions of dollars on roads to provide the rail ways with he said there should be a new system of setting freight rates that does not depend on the Competition Factor but rather is related to the costs of providing the the provinces won one major Point in the they will on a confidential All the information they want on the railways Cost Structure so they can presen arguments on rates they con Sider at such information was to be available for specific instances but the pre Miers successfully that unless they Are Given All the certain injustices might go prime minister Trudeau eventually agreed that the transport com Mission will provide All re Quested even for fishing in the the provinces have been hampered in Mak ing their cases for rate reductions to the commission be cause there is a clause in the transportation act prohibiting disclosure o f railway costs unless such disclosure can be shown to be in the Public inter the Federal govern ment has the discretionary Power to Tell the commission what is and what is not in the Public Marchand also indicated that existing rate inequities will be speedily rectified by the commission once they Are brought to the attention of the Federal the government has already written to the commission ask ing it to justify More than 20 existing rate anomalies which provide examples of raw mate rials being shipped East much More cheaply than Are finished o f manufactured products from Eastern Canada being moved to the West coast at a cheaper rate Tolian to Prairie Points and of lower rate groupings applying Only to Large rather than to All Western Marchand invited the premiers to submit further alleged which will also be placed before the com decisions on such rates should be made fairly quickly under a new procedure now being he Premier Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan was he referred to the commis Sions recent decision to allow rapeseed a sem finished to move East under the preferential crows nest pass the same As raw while not accepting the argument that rapeseed Oil should also qualify for the Ower we started in 1970 and it is now and we have solver the meal end but not the Oil end of one head Ding that it had Cost to fight the Case and at this Speed would be years before any positive effect would be Premier Schreyer also up braided Marchand on this handcuffed boy shot and killed saying the rapeseed meal decision int a Victory for the West because the com Mission didst recognize that rapeseed Oil should also be shipped at lower most of the processing of grown on the will still take place in Eastern Canada As a he Premier Peter Lougheed of who carried the Ball for the provinces during most of the discussions on freight seemed especially disappointed that his provinces de tailed proposal for an Essen t i a 11 y new Way of setting freight rates got Little More than a cursory initial Examina the presented by highways minister pea cock of would have All rates set on the lowest rates now charged by the railways for a Given commodity Over a Given and would group commodities not by Type but by what kind of cars and handling they require As Well As by bulk and if the Federal government took Over the he the railways would be on the same system As the truckers and would be Able to charge a rate that would not have to take into account the fixed costs of the Lougheed had also battled valiantly but unsuccessfully to have Trudeau and Marchand accept the idea that the transportation act should be amended to include a statement setting regional economic expansion As a goal of the National transportation Marchand promised that the act will be amended if just How it could be amended will be discussed by the Western Federal provincial transport said after which a meet ing of All provinces should be convened to make sure the proposed changes Are accept Able to All rail threat grows continued continued definitely suspended and and w Browin stripped of his Toronto Greenwood said the news smells of a sellout to it might be a Good invest ment but the cd was set up to promote development of Domestic As a multinational would have Little loyalty to he David Texas Gulf said in new York tvs essay night that the cd offer comes As a com plete he declined further government officials also were unavailable for since the cd has made a number of major in vestments operating on Money received from shares sold to the included Are the controversial purchasing of polymer a petrochemical corporation based in from the government con naught medical research laboratories in others include 35percent ownership of a Toronto venture capital com seated in the front seat beside Pany major ownership of Ven police said Cain was Tures West capital to be i seated in the Back seat with formed in Vancouver majority David Rodriguez seated beside ownership in Omni medic a Quebec holding company Santos a Pupil at Travis elementary was dead on arrival in Hospital with a Bullet wound in the 4 police spokesman said who has been with the department since was holding a gun to Rodriguez head when it officers said patrolman Roy Arnold spotted a burglary at a North Dallas Gas station shortly before 3 police said Arnold saw several youths run from behind the two other patrolmen responded to Arnolds Call for they were identified As Cain and police said Arnold recognized the youths but lost them in a foot race in the police said Foster and another patrolman went to the Rodri Guez boys Home and received permission from their Grandfather with whom they lived to return them to the Gas station for the Union management meeting was confirmed by a spokesman for Canadian National one of 11 Ca Nadian including up which would be hit by a strike by the no operating the spokesman would give no details of the tuesday the unions have stated they will give Between 12 and 24 hours notice before interrupting services but in said tues Day it can no longer guarantee service in the West or Between Montreal and the neither Grain shipments from the nor Mari time ferry services operated by in will be Union officials any one of the rail regions among the mar Quebec and the and British co Lumbia could be the first to be Union officials have said that service in no Region would be inoperative for More than three Days at a in the commons labour minister John Munro announced that the government is considering the appointment of an adviser to work out difficulties in the employee pen Sion negotiations for new contract terms have been going on since last the Union wants raises of 53 cents an per cent of the average the year and 13 cents in the Sec managements last offer was seven per cent in the first year and in the the Union also wants an attrition formula applied to Job management wants the right to Lay off men whose jobs Are made redundant by technological members of one of the eight no operating unions struck for four hours tuesday afternoon in Thunder pickets in front of the rail Way representing the brotherhood of railway and airline said instructions to strike came from the Union strike coordinator for the Thunder Bay Frank said he was not aware of the picket two killed in Accident up a trocar Accident tuesday night on provincial Road 305 near police said the boys were Here claimed the lives of and a venture capital company i to answer questions regarding being formed in i the burglary and Cain pulled the cd also has shown an i his pistol and pointed it at the interest in purchasing govern Back of Santos handcuffed and placed in a patrol car with Santos Rodriguez j the dead have been identified As Harold of and Steven of the mishap occurred about four Miles from this Community 20 police said the boys refused Miles ice Iwest of ment interests in pan Arctic Northern transportation and Eldorado mining and re fining conc Cikut Park first the first police said Cain was leaning american amusement Park Forward when the gun went i Lake opened at the Bullet striking the boy in Bristol More than 100 years the ;