Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, October 08, 1973

Issue date: Monday, October 8, 1973
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weekend sports Roundup Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 8 Price 15 cents with comics 20 cents monday october 8, 1973 . . . Moonet forecast 65 and 50. Pm of to China no dramatic results expected by Stewart Macleod Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau leaves for peking today on a one week visit he Hopes will result in broadened contacts Between Canada and China visit is unlikely to result any dramatic announce ments say officials but they Hope it will encourage greater Trade More travel Between the two countries and a greater sharing of scientific and medi Cal knowledge there Are also official Hopes that or Trudeau s talks with Premier Chou in Lai and Possi Bly chairman Mao Tseung will also result eventually in some chinese being permitted to emigrate to Canada to join relatives or Trudeau will be a com named by his wife who is expecting her second child about the end of this year they Wil spend one night in a traditional japanese inn in Tokyo before flying on to pelting for wednesday reception about 23 officials and More than 50 reporters will travel with the prime minister ill an armed forces 707 aircraft there Are a series of Poten tial agreements being worked on at the official level which could be signed by the prime minister while he is in peking but officials say there will be no major disappointments if they Are not completed by then one would be a Genera Trade agreement similar to arrangements Canada has with Many other countries the agreement Likely would provide for most favored nation treatment for goods passing through the Tariff barriers. Or Trudeau will spend four afternoons talking with pre Mier Chou about Trade hoped for Exchange programs be tween the two counties Diplo Matic and consular facilities please see pm Page 4 Niagara Falls . A three Young persons and a baby marooned about 00 Yards upstream from Nia Gara Falls withstood Swift lowing water for 2v4 hours sunday awaiting Rescue. Before they were helped to safety their Over the Falls a helicopter crashed a patrol boat was lost to the Baty three adults r saved from Niagara Cataract and six would be rescuers wound up in the water. A Small outboard motor boat on the upper Niagara River was carrying Lee Sweitzer 21, Jerry land 20, Joanne. Horn 21, and her son Michael 1v4, All from the Buffalo area. The engine went dead and the boat began to Drift Down Stream. As it approached rapids near Goat Island the passengers climbed out into Waist ugh water. They stood in one spot not daring to move toward the Island 150 Yards away for fear of losing their footing in the current their boat was swept Over the Crest of Niagara s horse shoe Falls. Police spotting the stranded please see baby Page 4 tanks planes Advance is Suez Bridges reported destroyed arabs deny Success claims a Kutek Israel said today it has swung Over to the of pensive As More and More of its reservists take the held but Egypt arid Syria denied israeli Success claims. Ulster loyalists prepare to fight sad Bury death Hospital Gas error found Sudbury ont up Coroner m j. Pie Vost confirmed Leports sunday that pipes used to Supply gases Foi aesthetic at Sudbury general Hospital Weie emitting the wrong gases an investigation is under Vay into that have occurred in the Hospital s million Wing since it opened Jay 7, he said the investigations began Fol owing the death of an apparently healthy six year old Sudbury area girl sept 7 Catherine Dominic of Dowl ing died in the Hospital s a Ray Belfast Cap Northern Ireland s protestant militants Are reported to have drafted a doomsday plan to form a provisional government and mobilize their private armies of masked vigilantes to oppose any move to. With the Irish Republic. The London guardian news paper says the plan was drawn up by the hard line loyalist organizations who have boycotted apolitical talks on sharing Power with Ulster s roman catholics. This plan would Only be used if we were about to be pushed into a United said a spokesman for Van guard one of the major hard line parties. The guardian quotes another source close to the loyalist As saying our plans Are far advanced and no one should take them lightly. Leader warned 10 Days ago Fiat the new Constitution for Stor Thern Ireland under which lie Cabinet wills be formed contains the seeds of Ulster s he said the Mili Tants would fight if Power sharing became a reality. Military sources have reported violence from protestant extremists was increasing and even outpacing Irish Republican army attacks. s launched four bombing raids during the weekend destroying two Border customs posts damaging the housing executive Headquarters in Belfast and blasting a Hole in a big Reser voir to realize nearly a Quarter million Gallons of water. Army experts a 30 Pound bomb planted in an Easl Belfast Church Early today. In Lurgan troops found a mar the Ulster loyalists will fight if they have protestant sources said pro m i n e n t businessmen were prepared to Bank Roll the provisional government. If that body was Ever set up it would mean the protestant hard liners were seceding from the United kingdom and would be treated As rebels by the British. B c f o r e the reported plan would be put into operation the hard liners have some pow Erful cards to pay to prevent Union. These include breaking the Power of the already fragmented unionist party the protes Tants traditional political machine which is in favor of Power sharing and wrecking moves by that party and other moderates to form an administration with catholics to gov Ern the province. The conference Between the moderates on forming a Cabi net resumes today. William Craig Vanguard s slumped across of a car with Bullet wounds in the face Chest and hands. Room while under aesthetic to reset the cast on a broken Elbow. Following an autopsy or Prevost said in an interview hat Hospital officials and Sud Bury detectives examined the oxygen and nitrous oxide pipes in the room where the Gir died. A subsequent analysis of this samples by the Centre o forensic sciences showed tha nitrous oxide was coming of of the oxygen pipe and oxygen from the nitrous oxide outlet he said. The pipes were sealed am the fault later corrected by the equipment will not be used until results of the investigations Are known. These result will be made Public at an in quest dec. 10 into the death o the Dominic girl he said. The inquest was ordered b Prevost after consultation with or. B. B. Cotnam Ontario chief Coroner. Or. Prevost said the administering of aesthetic to the girl was the first time an is thetic had been applied in tha particular room. Please see Hospital Page Cen win t music Reed responds classified 25 to 36, 44 to 47 comics 20, 21 deaths 5 finance 22, 23 Jumble 28 movies 19 sports 37 to 43 television 18 women 14 police used i department ladder truck sunday to search rooftops along Edmonton Street near Ellice Avenue for a murder weapon according to a fire department spokesman. However police re fused to say what they were looking for or that a murder had taken place Stanfield blames Ottawa Edmonton up the ederal government has no excuse for creating the presen ederal provincial conflict Over Petroleum exports and prices conservative Leader Rober Stanfield said saturday. Or. Stanfield at the end of a three Day Alberta tour told a news conference that it a sheer nonsense for the fed eral government to suddenly impose an Oil Export tax with out prior consultation with the provinces. The 40-cent-a-barrel Export tax has touched off a Majo Battle Between Oil producing Alberta Federal gov Erna ent. There is not the slightest excuse for the present Confron tation in this province with re Gard to or. Stan Field said. The Federal govern ment had been developing a Energy policy for Long enough to have consulted fully wit the provinces. There should have been n difficulty for Federal govern see Stanfield Page 4 murder plot thwarted nearly everyone reads the free press ally Zoni toll Nicosia a archbishop Makarios escaped what Cyprus police said was an attempt to assassinate him sunday when a Small Bridge was blown up a few minutes before the presidential motorcade was due to pass. Police said the incident occurred near Adios ser los in the famagusta Makarios who was on his Way to the Village continued Vila an other route and no one was injured. Police said they searched the urea immediately after to blast and arrested a Mombe of the anti government Eok underground of Gen. Gcorge Grivas. The Man who was arme with a sub machine gun Admi Ted that he had planted the c Plosives under the Bridge p lice said. 1 forced to land . Airliner released London Retei a Antish airways jumbo Jet flying from London to Johannesburg was intercepted by two Mig fighters this morning to land at Aden a airline spokesman said Here. At Dawn on the third Day of he new Middle East War Stael sent its Armor and air orce into action on both fronts Suez against Egypt and on he Golan Heights against reported heavy Osses inflicted on syrian pm it ions. Israel said today its planes had destroyed the last of the pm upon Bridges the egyptians lad thrown across the Suez canal leaving egyptian tanks and troops trapped on the East Bank. Reserve Gen. Haim Herzog acting As unofficial spokesman for the military said Israel is near a dramatic turning Point n the three Day War. He said tanks with Crews moved up during the night on both Irons and were winning the initiative. Israeli military correspondents on the Suez front said Israel is fighting the big Gest Battle in its history. They said that in a 60-minute period sunday the israeli air Force dropped More bombs than Dur ing the entire six Day War of 1967. Israel lost several fortified positions along the canal Sun Day moving Back to a pre pared defence line opposite the three main egyptian Bridge Heads. Egypt and Syria said today their forces were still advancing on both fronts and thai they had. Brought Down 101 israeli planes More than 20 per cent of Israel s air Force. Israel gave no figures on its aircraft losses but said its air Force had i command of the skies. Arab guerrillas israeli settlements in North Galilee please see Israel Page 5 later the British foreign of ice announced that the plane and been released and allowed o continue on its Way. In Addis Ababa ethiopian in traffic control authorities Aid the fighters there from Outh Yemen. Meanwhile the British civil Viat Ibn authority said today hat israeli egyptian and syrian airspace was closed to Ivil traffic though Israel s a Lonal airline Al Al was expect d to have some flights into Al Aviv today. The plane carrying 221 p As engers and 19 Crew was Fly no via Frankfurt Bahrein and Nairobi. The spokesman for tile Brit so state airline said the plane Vas forced Down at it. He said it was understood the jumbo had been Given per Mission to proceed from Aden it this had not been con firmed. Four persons die in four people were killed in traffic accidents in Manitoba saturday and sunday dead Are David John shiels 25, of Winnipeg. Howard Murray Holden 15, of Napinka Man. Mrs. George Taylor 4g of Dugald Man Bruce Mcquistin 23, of 849 Mcdermot Avenue. Or. Shiels and or. Holden died in a single vehicle Acao gushing Over Geyser Newport Beach Calif. A William Cooper struck Oil saturday in South Ern California. But he in t Happy about it. It All started when the Walls of his duplex started moan ing. We All thought it was an Cooper said. Cooper s duplex was being shaken officials said by an erupting abandoned Oil Well some feet deep. Its Cap Ping apparently had worn out after about 35 years. The Oil bubbled up directly under the Cooper s Kitchen and cause Al crude Oil to gush nearly three feet deep through the House. The Oil flowed out the door the Yard of the duplex in this coastal Community South of los Angeles. Gas also fumed out Caus ing two minor fires ignited by the kit Jien stove Pilot Light officials said. Firemen posted no smoking signs around the area. Cooper surveying gooey floors and buckled Walls grabbed his wife Judy five year old son Glen and belongings and headed for the Home of nearby relatives to think Over his Gusher. Looking for a pet this want and under dogs cats Birds tropical fish 21 purebred one year old. 253-4041. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section no Mailer what you need shop arid save in free Poss want ads. Cadent near Melita Man. A . Sunday which sen free other people to Hospital. Ramp said that the car a southbound o n Highway 8i when it left the read hit the Side of an approach flew int he air and landed upside Down in the ditch. Or. Shiels s wife Elizabeth Ler brother in Law g a r e t shiels 17, and Leonard Bali 17, were admitted to Brando general Hospital in Guarde condition. Mrs. Taylor died in a head on collision on provincial Roa 213 one mile East of Highway 59 at . Sunday. Ramp said mrs. Taylor a a passenger in a car driven b her daughter Shirley Taylo also of Dugald when it was i collision with a vehicle drive by Edward Johnson of 21 was Gale. Mrs. Taylor was dead on a rival1 at St. Boniface Hospital both Drivers were injured an admitted to Hospital. Miss Tay Lor was reported to be in Satin factory condition and m Johnson in fairly Good cond Tion. An ramp spokesman Sai aft inquest will be held int mrs. Taylor s death. M r. Mcquinlin was pronounced dead on arrival a Grace Hospital after a single car smash on the perimeter Highway near Highway 6 at . Sunday. Ramp at Oak Bank said the eastbound car driven b Joanne Mccllan 17, of 53 Maryland Street failed to n gotta to a curve and Flippe Over several times before Lam ing in Iho westbound Lane. Or. Mcquistin miss Mcle Ian and the car s owner pc nth Macdonald 19, of 2 Gallagher Avenue were thrown out of the car the survivors Are ported in Good condition Grace Hospital. Security Council split by Al Colletti United nations up tie in Security Council deep divided on a ceasefire waste focal Point of a diplomatic Mist today to Stop the new a in the Middle East. The United states formally requested sunday an Emer e n c y meeting of the 15 member Security Council after private american efforts Satur a failed to head off the ii Glit no saturday Between Egypt Syria and Israel. A Council session is Automa c at the request of any coun 11 member. Although Canada is not a number of the Council its de negation at the in spent the weekend in behind the series discussions on How to bring bout a ceasefire. Ambassador Saul Rae per Anent head of the Canadian Mission text of a statement by external affairs Linister Sharp to in Secre Ary general Kurt Waldheim before noon sunday. Kae also eld lengthy talks with the Secretary general. We discussed the situation n terms of what the in could Rae said. In his statement saturday in Ottawa Sharp deplored the outbreak of hostilities and red the three waning coun Ries to bring their dispute be Ore the United nations. He urged the three to seek i immediate ceasefire and by to work out a peace within lie framework of a 1967 coun cil Resolution calling for negotiations and the return of is Ali occupied territory to the Arab states. Rae said he and members of the Canadian Mission were in consultation with Council members directly involved in the crisis. But a majority of the Council members after a weekend of f please see Security Page 5 Grain buyers warned the Manitoba feed Grain marketing commission has told Manitoba Grain companies they will be breaking provincial Law if they Purchase feed Grain As agents of the ural products Board. In a letter to the Grain companies last week r. D. Chase manager of the commission also said intervention of the Federal Board is expected to re Duce potential returns for feed Grain sold outside the Prairies. A c c o r d i n g to the coarse Grain marketing control act and the natural products marketing act of Manitoba the Board is neither authorized nor licensed to Purchase feed Grain Liere. The coarse Grain marketing control act designates the Ca Nadian wheat Board As the Only Federal Agency authorized to Purchase feed grains in Mani Toba. The natural products marketing act requires that All substantial purchasers in the province be licensed. Please see Chain Page 4 ;