Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 3 Price 15 cents with comics 20 cents tuesday october 2, 1973 . . Sunset . Forecast mainly Cloudy 40 and 55 s h a r o n b e wears a snowsuit As she prepares to take Paradise Brady for a Trot round the course at Assiniboia Downs. She was one of hundreds of people who reacted to the 20-degree drop photo by Gerry Cairn in temperature from monday s High which brought fog and Drix to Manitoba tuesday. Low visibility caused overflights at Winnipeg International Airport and delayed departures. Allt ii Xvi l in site fog rain Pesce Iid fog and Light rain covered Southern Manitoba Early today reducing Visi Bil and disrupting flights at Winnipeg International Airport. The weather disturbance which moved in from the West also brought lower temperatures. Southern Manitoba was expected to be Cloudy today with the fog and Light drizzle ending during the morning. A High in the mid-50s was forecast com pared with a High monday of 71 de Grees. The Normal for this time of year is about 59 degrees. The fog moved into the Winnipeg area about 3 ., reducing visibility to to of a mile. As a result air Canada flight 238 from Vancouver and Calgary which was due in Winnipeg at ., was diverted to Saskatoon and was expected in Winnipeg about . Trans air had three departures delayed by fog. Flight 711-712 from Winnipeg to Thompson and Lynn Lake left at . But was rescheduled to . It was expected Back in Winnipeg at instead of i two. Other trans air departures also were delayed until . They were flight 723, to the Pas flin flon Thompson and Lynn Lake which was to have left at . And flight 133, to Thompson and Churchill which was to have left at . Neither air Canada nor trans air officials expected any further flight disruptions due to the weather. _ Southern expected to have a Low tonight of 40 to 45. Wednes Day is expected to have a High in tha mid-50s. Northern Manitoba was Cloudy this morning but escaped the fog and rain. Plump re now under fire from Consumers group Winnipeg Board hit trustees travel Cost probe sought by Carol Partridge free press education reporter the Winnipeg school Board has become the Centre of controversy Over trustees travel expenses which have More than doubled since new democratic party trustees gained control of the Board. Leading the attack on the Board Are progressive conservative Leader Sidney Spivak of Manitoba and councillor Olga Fuga a Winnipeg City Council member and a former chair Man of the Winnipeg school Board. Or. Spivak and coun. Fuga called for a Complete investigation of travel expenses of the Winnipeg trustees. As Well the opposition Leader said he will introduce Legisla Tion to prohibit a political party interfering with the affairs of any elected municipal body including school boards. Trustee Michael Baragar an Independent member of the Board said he will bring the entire matter of trustee travel expenses before the Board at its meeting tuesday night. Please see travel Page 6 Bridge draws Sisters St. Catharines out. Up the ill fated Lake Shore had Bridge across the Welland canal forced 1 to close in May when. S t t to c k a Geiman freighter had to close again monday when to by the freighter s sister ship. The Bridge will be closed for Amu two weeks for re pairs of damage caused by the 482jfoot freighter Bur Gen Stem officials said. It closed for two weeks after being hit Fay the sister ship bunt Enst Sih. Quebec Premier attacks Bourassa hits opposition labor leaders by the Canadian press Premier Robert Bour Assa kicked off his que election Campaign monday night with swipes at his opponents both in and out of the legislature. In addition to attacking opposition parties the Premier aimed an attack at Quebec s three top labor leaders Marcel Pep in Louis Laberge and Yvon Charbonneau. Or. Bourassa was speaking in his Home Riding of Montreal Mercier where he officially opened his Campaign for the oct. 29 election. Among the accomplishments it his government he listed was its handling of the province we Public service strike in which the labor leaders advised some of their Union members to defy Back to work injunctions. He said it was intolerable that thousands of old and in firm persons were the victims of the strike which affected hospitals and said the labor please see Quebec Page 6 . Labor Bill has vast scope by Michael Hughes Victoria up sweeping revisions to British Columbia s labor Laws including a new labor relations Board Leb with expanded Powers Are Ottawa up Beryl plump re the chairman of the food prices re View Board is under fire again time from the con Sumers association of Canada of which she is a former presi Dent. The association in a state ment monday said it could not agree with the conclusions reached in the first quarterly new evaluation system sought by Carol Partridge free press education reporter Manitoba teachers have called for an evaluation system other than provincial examinations which would give reliable information to students parents teachers and the pub Lic on How Well schools Are meeting student and Community needs. The request a new Way looking for a Mobile Home this want and under Mobile Homes 82 14 x 68 like new 888-0309. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Of assessing students was contained in a 31-Page Brief presented tuesday to education minister Ben Hanuschak by the Manitoba teachers society. The Brief states the Educa Tion system has developed to a stage where provincial examinations Are inadequate a new evaluation system must be found. It noted the teachers society has already begun work in the area of student evaluation and asked the minister to support professional development schemes which worked to this end. The teachers society also asked the minister to review the provincial Grant system set in 1907 which provides funds to school boards to hire teachers. Teachers continue to be see evaluation Page 0 report of the prices review Board released last week. The cac is concerned with the serious problem of rising food prices and the Board report fails to reflect the serious food problems. Con Sumers Are facing in the mar association m a r y o n Brechin said that while the Board did outline Many of. The factors which underly the rapid Price its report does not even touch on some specifics which cac considers fundamental to please see plump re Page 6 Austria stays Chancellor Kreisky to reject plea by Israel a Reuter Vienna up austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky says he will reject israeli pre Mier Golda heir s plea today that he repudiate his pledge to Arab terrorists to close the Schoenau transit Camp. Mrs. Meir decided to Fly to Vienna today to meet with Kreisky after delivering a speech monday in Strasbourg France to the Council of Europe s advisory parliament. Kreisky told reporters Mon Day he had no intention of going Back on his Promise to close the Camp for emigrating soviet jews. That pledge was Given saturday to obtain the Freedom of three emigres and an austrian Border guard kid napped by two Arab terrorists. Kreisky said he would explain to mrs. Meir the prac tical Steps his government plans to take so that emigration of. Soviet jews can continue via Austria. These have not been made Public but the Chancellor declared. The decision of the austrian government is of such a nature that it allows us to fulfil All out obligations As a human tar continued please see Austria Page 13 Bill King proposes new code contained in a Bill introduced in the legislature monday. The changes Are in a new code of labor relations which also Calls for the appointment of a labor ombudsman. The three main pieces of legislation affecting unions and manage me n t in Trade Union act the labor relations act and the Media Tion services be re placed by the code. The major thrust of the new legislation said labor minister Bill King is in the granting new Powers to the lab. It the Board will be an age icy equipped to get at the cause of disputes rather than Deal with them in a punitive manner As the courts have done in the he told a news conference. The Bill also would enable an employee to Appeal to the Board if he wants to opt out of Union membership on religious grounds. If the Board agrees the workers will not have to belong to a Union but will nonetheless have to pay Union Days. The revamped Board would have exclusive jurisdiction Ueo please see . Page g May get report in March by Vern Fowlie free press staff writer the report of the commission of inquiry into the Churchill Forest. Industries Complex at the Pas Man., is expected to be ready in March 1974 at a Cost of or More. Provincial government is t i m a t e s have earmarked a total of for the inquiry for the three year period end ing March the inquiry was established Jan. 27, 1971. Industry department officials indicated monday the inquiry is within its budget. When the 1973-74 estimates of were set it was known the in Quiry would be doing some for please see Chi Page 6 today business report 25 to 32 life in the mafia. .9 classified 35 to 45, 50 to 55 deaths 2 Jumble 38 movies 9 sports.57 to co television 8 women.47 to 49 nearly everyone reads the free press City total cod War Britain pulls out frigates London a Britain ordered its naval shield of three frigates and three tugs out of Iceland s disputed 50-mile fishing zone today. Wheat Deal set China Sale rumoured at 2 million tons the Canadian wheat Board is in the process of negotiating a Sale of wheat to China that is rumoured to be in the neighbourhood of two million tons. D. A. Suderman director of information for the Board con firmed in a Telephone interview tuesday that a team of negotiators is in peking. However he would not reveal the Quan Tity of Gram under negotiation. The quantities Are never Given out until the negotiations Are he said. Or. Suderman discounted rumours the Canadian wheat Board was in China requesting a cutback in deliveries on present contracts. It has been rumoured that Canada was asking China to Cut Back deliveries from four million to two million tons of Grain. However or. Suderman said Canada has never sold that much wheat to China in one year. He added that two sales were completed with China in the last 16 months. An agree ment signed in june 1972, provided for 1v2 million tons 58.5 million bushels to be delivered Between july 1972 arid March 1973. The second Sale signed nov. 10, 1972 included 62.7 million bushels and or. Suderman said deliveries for that Sale will be completed by the end of this month. Keuter news Agency has projected the Sale to China at too million tons in a recent news item but or. Suderman refused to confirm or deny this figure. T h e move was disclosed after prime minister old the icelandic government in a note that the British War ships and tugs would be out of he disputed area by wednes Day. The withdrawal will be made on the Assumption that the icelandic authorities will not take any measures against British trawlers fishing or which have fished in the disputed Heath told icelandic prime minister Olafur Joa Hannesson. The Navy and the tugs will return if this Assumption proves to be Heath at the same time invited Johannesson to London for talks on achieving a love and let live arrangement in the zone. Iceland extended its limits to 50 from 12 Miles 13 months ago and met British and other International Heath sent his letter about 12 Tours before the expiry of ice land s ultimatum to this country demanding a pull out of the naval shield by Midnight tuesday night. Otherwise ice land warned diplomatic relations Between the two fellow members of nato would be broken. Heath told Johannesson he trusted that the Reykjavik government in the Light of the British decision will maintain its diplomatic ties. Immediately after the note As delivered a foreign office please see Britain Page 13 Egypt s troops alerted Cairo a Egypt ordered a full Alert in the Northern and Central zones of the Suez canal front line the Middle East news Agency said. It said the emergency was caused by israeli troop concentrations and movements on the Eastern Bank. It did t elaborate. In Tel Aviv israeli Mili t a r y informants denied egyptian reports of israeli troop concentrations along the canal. Time is on Side of Agnew lawyers Washington a fed eral prosecutors investigating vice president s p i Agnew Are being pinched by the knowledge that a Good portion of their Case May be unusable in As Little As three weeks. Agnew is under investigation by a special grand jury in Baltimore for possible violation of extortion bribery tax and conspiracy Laws during his tenure As Maryland governor under Federal statutes limitations prosecution for bribery extortion and conspiracy to commit either offence must be initiated within five years of the commission of the crime. Agnew s lawyers May argue that the statutes As they relate to the extortion and bribery allegations against the vice president expire oct. 22, it was Learned monday. It was on oct. 22, 19b8, Al most five years ago that Agnew attended his last major session of the Maryland Board of Public works. At that meet ing seven major engineering please see time Page 6 peking underlines need for orthodoxy by ii. D. S. Greenv Vay Hong Kong special tons time was when China watchers looked for Ward to oct. 1, China s National Day is the Day of great parades and rallies in peking when you could Tell who was really who in China from the list of who stood on the Rostrum in Tien an men Square with chairman Mao tse Tung. 1971, however the Parade was cancelled on Short notice. The absence of the then second ranking Man in China Lin Piao from any of the official functions was noticed and China watchers speculated thai he might be sick or dead from tuberculosis. It. Was Only later that China revealed that Lin had tried to assassinate Mao and had died in a plane crash along with his wife and several of the top leaders trying to do fact to the soviet Union Only a few weeks before National Day. Since then there has been no More National Day Dis play of China s top Leader ship atop a Rostrum in Tien an men Square. This year following the 30th party Congress in late August which helped re store some degree of order to China s leadership it was speculated that per haps the custom might be revived. But according to new China news Agency reports monitored Here National Day in peking passed in an atmosphere of vigor and gaiety but without the top leadership appearing together with Mao. The news Agency re ported that leading members of the communist party and the govern ment were with the people at gala As in the past a great portrait of chairman Mao graced the Gate of a Cavan please see need Page 13 ;