Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 4, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba G free press final edition vol. 81 no. 5 Price 15 cents with 20 cents i comics thursday october 4, 1973 forecast mainly sunny 35 and 60 israelis offer hand to arabs but Egypt says Eban plan completely unacceptable United nations a Arab delegates have thrown cold water on an israeli proposal that the jews and arabs follow Western Europe s example and join in a new Middle East com Alta. Reacts on Oil Ottawa tax answered by Royalty hike by John Dodo Edmonton up photo by Gerry Cairns Dean Liscum finds that cleaning up the leaves in the Yard is a full time Job. After he and his three friends raked the leaves Dean was Given a fall Shower. Here he sits at the Bottom of the Heap thinking about the Job of cleaning the leaves up again two yeah Cov tract City workers get 20% a i s the Alberta moved government to increase substantially royalties on Oil and natural Gas in an angry reaction to Ottawa s recently imposed tax on crude Oil exports the detrimental effects on the provincial Economy of the 40-cent-a-barrel tax left Alberta with no Choice Premier Peter Lougheed told a news Confer ence. We Are effect have no to respond with in Alberta s Oil and Gas policies legis lation and Royalty arrange ments which in our judgment will protect the Alberta arid Canadian the Premier said the new Royalty system to go into effect next january will be based on a formula whereby the rate will increase As the please see Alberta Page 5 w i u n up e g City Council wednesday ratified a two year contract providing for pay in creases totalling 20 per cent for about civic employees who Are members of the Cana Dian Union of Public employees the contract approved last month by members of cupe local for.a-10 per cent salary increase retroactive to Jan. 1, five per cent increase Jan. 1, 1974 and a further five per. Cent july 1, 1974.-.the agreement expires dec. 21, 1974. It. Contains no written., guar Antee that the City tract out work now done by civic workers to private Enterprise. Cupe spokesmen had warned before negotiations Pegah that the Union would go on strike if necessary to Force such a Guarani tee. The agreement provides for a 35-hour work week and in creased fringe benefits such As increased sick time and holi Days and a better compensations clause for injuries. Council also approved salary Scales for 687 Middle manage acclamations order of the Day acclamations were the order of the Day and a majority of centres weren t even involved As nominations for the 1973 municipal elections in Mani please see other reports Page 65 Toba closed wednesday. Where necessary elections will be held oct. 24. With Many towns villages and Rural municipalities Chang ing Over to three year terms for their councils in 1971, the number of positions up for election this year was greatly reduced. As a result of this change and a Large number of acclamations wednesday the oct. 24 municipal elections will Fea Ture voting in Only 12 towns and villages 17 Rural municipalities and 18 school division or school districts. Only two towns and one Vil Lage will have mayoralty con tests this year with a further 13 mayors winning by acclamation. Voters will have to choose mayors in the towns of Emerson and rapid City and the Village of Teuton. Elections will be featured in please see most Page 7 ment employees and senior administrative personnel who Are not members of cupe. The salary out salaries for employees in 24 Levels each with1, five different classifications salaries Range from a year individual classifications with in the salary i vels have not yet been determined. Councillor Joe Zuken labor election. Committee communist lord Selkirk objected please see cupe Page 5 car Park of d Library Cost expected to hit Unity. Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban made the proposal wednesday during the general debate in the United nations general Assembly. He called for a Community of Sovereign states in the Middle East As in the european commune empty said Leban Ese ambassador Edouardo go o r r a egyptian ambassador Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid old a reporter the idea was completely what works in Europe would not work in the Middle East said Saadat Hassan of Trie pal Estine liberation organization because we and the israelis Are not the same ambassador Abdalla y. Bishara of Kuwait called the pro p o s a 1 the same jingoistic dicta couched in a Little More Eban reviewed the failure of Israel and the arabs to negotiate their differences but said his government does riot de Spair of the if the Arab governments will take example and inspiration from the prevailing spirit detente they Wilt find in Israel a willing partner in regional development and Coop he said. We should Alta. Gas threat fades new Norway Alta. Up residents of Central Alberta chased from their Homes tues Day by a Cloud of deadly Hydrogen Sulphide Gas began re turning wednesday afternoon on roads newly reopened by the ramp. About evacuees from the villages of new Norway and Bittern Lake and the Ham let of Gwynne were Given per Mission to return to their Homes after the blown out Sun Oil co. Well was capped about 5 . Brisk winds had carried the Gas Cloud which observers said looked like a Blue fog High into the atmosphere and Pete Fearnehough of Camrose Alberta emergency measures organization co ordinal of said tests found no indication of Gas pockets left in the area about please see Alta. Page 7 when the trouble started. By Frances Long Ana uru at inc free press lir ban continues see Isit Aelis Page 7 plans for new Central Library Are to include provision underground for 625 cars. City Council decided Day to add 525 parking at a Cost of up a plans for the downtown department Captain ing despite a civic works illness wednesday Mittee recommendation prevented a Man from the original proposal of off a 12th-Storey parking spaces be left in downtown Toronto. C a p t Bernard Beazer the increased parking into a hotel other design modifications and collapsed on the proved wednesday by about eight feet from bring the estimated Cost of 20-Inch ledge where the project to an Man was stand crease of Over. Nal All out p breath site of the new Library is too old for this Block bounded by Donald fire Captain said hop Smith streets and Graham the Man would think he St. Mary climbed 12 flights of the City is to attempt to continued please see Library Page see illness Page t Regina release Regina up seven said the prisoners an and Metis prisoners one guard on the head and leased Early today the overpowered Mckinnon they had been holding As his keys and opened the hostage and gave to a recreation Yard. Up after the Warden at the attempted to scale a 1g sectional Centre agreed to Wall in the Yard but were 11 police said. The guard Tom continued to hold my a jail officer for 14 years hostage and issued the prison officials said first officer was taken to seven All from the Centre s and later released. Mand unit and awaiting prisoners d e in a n d c d on charges ranging armed robbery to the list be publicized murder were trying to continued Hydro natural Gas widening set for City tax by Paul Pihi Chyn free press Urban reporter a civic Revenue tax now applied Only to inner City Hydro and Gas Bills will be extended to entire City effective nov. 1, Winnipeg City Council decided wednesday night. The tax will result in a deplores surrender to terrorist tactics keep Camp open Nixon urges Austria Washington special tons president Nixon wednesday urged the austrian government to reconsider its decision to close a transit Centre for jews emigrating from the soviet Union. At a news conference Only a Day after austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky said that he would not reverse his decision or. Nixon voiced unhappiness Over the situation in firm but polite words. Declaring that he did not want to dictate to my Friend or. Or. Nixon said that on humanitarian grounds and on geopolitical grounds of the highest order he hoped that the decision would be re considered. We simply cannot have governments Small or Large give in to International blackmail by terrorist the pres expense hiding alleged Winnipeg school trustee Robert Para Shin has accused former trustees of covering up their expenses by charging them to administrative accounts. T r u s t e e Para Shin an in dependent member of the Board made the statement after Winnipeg councillor Olga Fuga called for a Complete investigation of travel expenses of the current Board. Coun. Fuga a former school Board chairman said earlier this week that she found the present travel expenses which Are budgeted for this year extremely High and Felt the situation warranted Complete Public sex however trustee Para Shin said it was common in the past for trustees to travel on a i m i t e d budget because the school division administration picked up the Tab. Trustee travel expenses averaged slightly More than a year before the present Board took office. Informed sources at the j o a r d administration office continues per cent Levy on residential Utility Bills and a five per cent Levy on commercial Bills. Extension of the tax to the entire City will mean an additional a year for the civic Treasury doubling the amount now received from the Levy on inner City Consumers. The decision to extend the tax came on a recommendation from civic finance com Mittee. In addition to the civic tax All Hydro and natural Gas users in Manitoba both residential commercial now pay per cent provincial tax and five based on their Utility Bills. The Extension of the tax to the whole City is de signed to tie in with the equali1 please see City Page 7 in ups fares Toronto up Canadian National railways has filed passenger fare increases with the Canadian transport Corn i s s i o n to offset increased costs of labor material and food supplies the company announced wednesday. Y. I Masse general manager of passenger sales and ser vices said the new rates will take effect nov. 1 and will in crease the railway s Gross Pas Senger revenues by three per ent. Under the new fare Struc ure rates for Basic transport Polonco s jul Maul please see expenses Page 5 taif in win average 5 5 cents please see Regina Page 7 today mile for travel up to 100 Miles i and decrease proportionately please Sec in Page 7 ident said reflecting a fundamental United states Deci Sion not to pay blackmail to terrorist groups. The president began his news conference the first since sept. 5, by announcing that Secretary of state Henry a. Kissinger to peking oct. 26 to oct. 29 for another with chinese political please see Nixon Page 7 Kreisky repeats no Vienna special tons Austria n Chancellor Bruno Kreisky wednesday angrily rejected mounting International pressure to keep the Schoenau transit Camp for soviet jews open saying not even pres ident Nixon could make him change his mind. Or. Kreisky reaffirmed his decision to close the Camp through which some so Viet jews have passed on their Way to Israel shortly after or. Nixon told a news conference lie hoped Austria would recon Sider the Case. It also followed by a few hours the rejection by in Secretary general Kurt Waldheim of or. Kreisky s Compromise proposal that the Camp could be reopened under the auspices of the in High commissioner for refugees. D r. Kreisky openly Dis Turbed spoke to an eight Man delegation representing some 400 jewish students who please see Kreisky Page 7 life in the mafia. Russian lushes classified 37 to 55 comics 66 deaths 18 finance 07 to 71 Jumble 40 movies 32, 33 sports 57 to 60 television 31 women 23, 24 nearly everyone reads the free Pressi City total president defends Agnew s opponent Washington special tons president Nixon wednesday described the allegations against vice president s p i r o t. Agnew stemming from the Federal probe of Polit ical corruption in Maryland As serious and not at a White House news con Ference the president defended Henry e. Peterson the Justice department official heading the investigation who had been singled out for criticism by or. Agnew. Or. Peterson or. Agnew charged had been try ing to redeem his professional reputation by victimizing the vice president. Or. Nixon also told newsmen that the vice president s Deci Sion not to resign even if he should be indicted is Al together and he re minded the country As he had done before that or. Agnew is please see Agnew Page 7 woman set afire by gang of youths Boston a six youths burned a Young woman to death in the City s Roxbury Section after forcing her to pour gasoline Over herself police said wednesday. Evelyn Wagler 24, who moved Here from Chicago just five Days ago was accosted by the youths As she carried a can of gasoline to her stalled car tuesday night. No one has been arrested in the slaying. Police say they be Lieve there were witnesses but none has come Forward. Before she died several hours later mrs. Wagler told police she was beaten by the gang when she first refused their order to pour the gasoline on herself police said she told them she was dazed by the that she got up and poured the Gas and then one of the youths throw a match at her engulf please woman Pago 7 soviet psychiatrists answer critics Moscow special tons Twenty one soviet psychiatrists wednesday defended the prac Tice of psychiatry Here against Western criticism and said violations of Public order and spreading of slander could be symptoms of mental illness requiring forced treat ment. Their defence was contained in a letter published we docs Day morning in the weekly newspaper literary Gazette. Wednesday night physicist an Drei d. Sakharov and another member of his unofficial com Mittee on human rights issued a reply saying increased number of nonconformists Are being diagnosed As mentally sick and sent for forced treat ment. To Are firmly convinced that in majority of cases there arc no medical grounds for such Mea wrote or. Sakharov and Grigory Pody Apolski a geophysicist. They called on foreign experts to investigate six notorious mental hospitals run by the soviet ministry of internal affairs and named 17 persons who have been declared men rally sick for political Rea the official psychiatrists let Ter signed by members of the presidium of the All Union society of Neur pathologists and psychiatrists said no one was forcibly detained in a soviet mental Hospital because of his opinions. Their unusual letter said that in an country there s a number of psychiatric patients whose illnesses the Conse Quence of menial disturbance delirious ideas or other psycho pathological symptoms can cause anti social actions which Are considered to be violations of the Law for instance Viola Tion of Public order spreading o f slander the display of arc Shive intentions sick people can do these things according to sneakily schemed plans of the letter said quoting the Early russian psychiatrist v. P. Scr sky who is famous for his progressive these people can seem outwardly Normal the letter added an please see critic Page 7 ;