Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, October 13, 1973

Issue date: Saturday, October 13, 1973
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Previous edition: Friday, October 12, 1973

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Exclusively in today weekend is the cold War Over please see Page 22 3 Canadas leading rotogravure Winnipeg free press final edition Magazine programmed for life you arc what your Mother 81 Price 15c with comics 20c october 1973 Sun rim Sunset ago ont forecast sunny 55 and 30 to messengers a rarity the phone has replaced the Telegraph boy liquid real estate life on a Houseboat has its special Joys restoring Pauls the race to save the famous Cathedral Page 8 Page 8 Page 12 Page 23 popular1 candidate Nixon chooses Ford and in the Leisure Magazine word Wise Page 2 local inventors Page 3 Page 4 whimsy Page 5 time Well spent Page 6 film festival pages 13 Montreal a state of Page 14 big band Page 15 Church news pages 17 at the Page 18 teen Page 19 Book review pages 21 teen tidings pages 21 Sketchbook Page 22 now music Page 23 and elsewhere in the paper color comics radio diary Jumble winners 12 entry form 18 Puzzle 42 Bridge news labor scene 37 Washington up pres ident Nixon has reached to wards the Northern Border for a new picking a former football Star whose con Gressional record is so popular he will have Little trouble get background report Page 5 Gerald Ford Nixon Choice Ting majority approval from his Nixon 60yearold Gerald Republican wheelhorse and minority Leader in the House of represent will be formally pro posed in a White House Mes Sage to Congress within hours of Nixon announcement to a cheering Audi ence in the East room of the White House Friday speculation spread that the Michigan congressman will be a leading candidate for the presi Dency in he is qualified to be pres ident of the United said presidential economic adviser Melvin i would expect him to run in a rugged figure who has hewed close to Nixon policies in said he will not he had no intentions of being a candidate in 1976 for the presidency or the but there Are 3vi years left in the Vic presidential term yielded by Spiro Agnew follow ing conviction on a tax evasion charge and anything can Hap Many a politician has to fessed no intentions of running Only to be pushed into the please see Nixon Page 4 classified 70 movies 17 night beat 6 39 to 65 to 69 Community Calendar 37 Cynthia wine sports 59 to 64 travel 71 to 74 deaths 12 women 23 to 26 finance 27 to 36 youth scene 2 imposes fuel controls Washington special the White House Friday ordered nationwide controls on heating Jet and diesel fuel and the first time the United states has imposed any kind of Oil ration ing since the second world gasoline is exempt from the the mandatory allocation As its being called by the White will involve a hardship system in Stead of priorities and will allow the fuel Oil the states an the Federal govern ment to share in the controls ordered by the White the controls become effective 1 and will be administered by the Interior departments office of Oil and which is even now in the process of building a staff of the Interior department will have offices in 10 where agents will oversee the Way the states rules on fuel Al Interior undersecretary John Whitaker made it Clear that the decision to impose fuel controls was made because de Mand in the is outstrip Ping the Supply of both domes tic and imported please see Page 4 sunny skies seen sunny skies and seasonal temperatures Are what the Weatherman forecasts for the rest of the a High temperature of 55 is expected with winds from the West at 20 to the temperature was expected to drop to 30 or skies Are to remain Clear to with winds shifting to the Southwest at 15 the record temperature for today was set in 1964 when the Mercury soared to the record Low was set in 1881 at 12 cos sharing to continue by Vic Parsons j Ottawa up pressed by the Federal Wel fare minister Marc Lalonde committed his government Fri Day to a continuation of Cost sharing in some Canada Assis Tance plan programs that have recently been made Lalonde said at the end of a today welfare ministers meeting that he will try to Amend the plan so the Federal government will pay 50 per cent of assistance costs for persons who need government Aid even though provinces extend programs to All under present when a program is widened the Federal government stops paying half the in most cases the practice has been that Means tests were required before Aid was once the new arrangement could apply to such plans As nursing Home Dent icare for Chil Dren and Lalonde had been pressed especially by Manitoba and British Columbia for the change because provinces have to Bear full costs once needs tests Are province that opt for uni Versal coverage for their Citi Zens should not be penalized financially because of their de Lalonde he added that the Federal commitment to pay half of costs of needy persons should not be More expensive than if the provinces had not made their programs please see Cost Page 5 forms Agency to control production of Petroleum by Norman Gidney Victoria up the British Columbia government moved Fri Day to set up a Crown corporation with Broad Powers to control production and Sale of Petroleum and natural attorney general Alex Mac Donald said the first Job of the Petroleum would be to raise the Price of natural Gas to nearly double the existing level of 32 cents a thousand cubic establishment of a Crown Agency which would buy Gas from then resell it to Domestic users and for Export was a major recommendation of the Energy com in its report last month on the natural Gas in it also said natural Gas is under priced and the province is losing about million a year As a it called for an increase of 26 cents a thou Sand cubic Macdonald introduced a Bill entitled Petroleum corporation act establishing an Agency with three to five directors and enabling it to sell and otherwise Deal in Petroleum and natural it May lease or otherwise not and Dis pose of gathering systems and storage the Agency May also explore develop and produce Oil and Gas its just a Little mighty to seek to capture for the people of True value for their natural said the at Torne general outside the he also told reporters there will probably be another Bill next week which would in crease royalties paid to the provincial government by Oil and Gas but gave no the Petroleum corporation act should be proclaimed by the end of the within 15 Macdonald please see Page 5 on syrian front Jordan flings guns against Israel from Preuter Lebanon a Jordan announced today it has ordered its forces to Cross the Border into Syria to join the War against we have committed part of our elite forces to play their part with the syrian army on the syrian a military spokesman reported Peter Salah of the jordanian information Hussein army is considered the bes trained and Bestis Cip lined of All Arab the israelis earlier reported that they encountered iraqi reinforcements on the syrian front probably elements of a full division in the Israel speculated that the iraqis were being used to replace soldiers who have been pulled seeking to save detente Washington special tons Secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned Friday that a prolonged War in the Middle East would create a High possibility of great Power increasing tensions to a Point that would affect the entire International the objective of the United Kissinger is to end hostilities on terms that Are just to All without exacerbating relations to an unbearable in projecting the Kissinger nevertheless repeatedly stated that the actions of the soviet Union thus far did not threaten he please see seeking Page 5 Back toward the latest israeli report said the iraqis were eliminated and added the remnants of the iraqi Force Are Meir former head of the israeli military in said the arrival of the iraqis on the syrian front showed the syrians Are not please see Jordan Page 5 Israel getting weapons Washington special tons the United states has begun an extensive Airlift to replace military including f4 phantom lost by Israel in the Middle East the decision to Shore up heavy israeli losses serves As a counter to a soviet move three Days ago to Airlift Mili tary supplies to Egypt and according to informed the decision was apparently taken Friday at the highest Levels of the it followed nearly a week of in tense negotiations Between israeli officials and administration it was understood that the please see Israel Page 5 photo by Gerry Cairns this paper t i g was seen strolling along the Polo Park mall atthe Junior leagues zoo an event being held this weekend to raise Money for a new classroom at the Assiniboia Park please see Page 3 for further citizen action urged by Frances Bidewell free press Urban reporter the concept of citizen participation in the government of Winnipeg is a University of Manitoba professor said speaking during a seminar on Urban problems and information Philip of the University department of political said City councillors seem oriented toward disregarding and disrupting citizen what is it in local govern ment that hates to see citizen participation and somehow sees it As a threat asked who is chair Man of the residents advisory group in fort about 75 people attended the on Day sponsored by the Canadian Council on Urban and regional research in the Northstar a member of the Ross who is chairman of the Winnipeg association of please see citizen Page 5 Campus sympathies split u dig in heels by Nick Hunter free press education reporter striking service workers and University of Mani Toba administrators have dug in their heels in a labor dispute that has split the sympathies of professors and when the 500 service members of the Ca Nadian association of Industry a mechanical and Allied workers went on strike Friday professors and students were forced to de cide whether to Cross picket strikers said several professors and students refused to Cross the but Ernest University of Manitoba said at a press con Ference that by Friday after noon All the professors were working and classes were nearly Jim a member of the University of Manitoba Stu dents Union has called a rally for tuesday in an attempt to organize student support for the the students Union executive voted 3 to 2 Friday to ask the students Union next wednesday to impeach Maloway for his handling of the strike Situa Maloway is the University Liaison commissioner and a member of the students some students said they were annoyed at the Union be cause of traffic tie ups caused by picket lines and because of the Lack of food on the University Resi Dent students Are being fed i the Pembina Hall please see strikers Page 5 disease outbreak reported by Alice Krueger free press staff writer a major outbreak of trichinosis a disease caused by a worm which persons who eat improperly cooked meat has been reported in the Churchill area in Northern the outbreak involves about 80 Churchill area most of them of native origin from Dene who ate meat from a Black Bear which was infested with the worm in the larval Emanuel director of preventive medical services for the prov said in an interview Fri Day All the people who ate meat from the Bear Are being examined by provincial health he said he has received 20 positive Laboratory reports of persons infected with the Dis Bumie said he expected please see disease Page 5 liberals coming on stronger As vote nears by Bob Bull Montreal with less than three weeks to go be lore the Quebec election the liberals Are still coming on Strong although Premier Robert Bourassaw party organizers have made some strange the which at present looks like its coming in has been running a Cool Campaign presenting itself As a competent group of rational people with a solid base in Many the credit Ste revival hour has taken off for the Back Woods circuit with party Leader Yvon Dupuis hurling lire and Brimstone at All and sundry and quibbling with newsmen about attendance at his reports of the demise of the Union National seem there has minimal concern shown about issues which would be considered major elsewhere in there seems to be a trend to the Quebec highly praised permanent voters list appears to have been badly the provinces English speaking minority Nas come under fire and on the surface at least nobody seems very concerned about the upcoming in Are still the liberals do look while unemployment has not gone Down perceptibly since the government took Over in april the Liber als have presided Over a period of economic expand Premier Bourassa recites his regimes economic accomplishments like a Litany at Public new 3905 this lower in Terest rates on provincial new investment in construction the Hospital and school systems have been Over provincial taxes have not been raised in four there have been moves to protect the French but Bourassaw new fighting image has also accompanied a sidestep to wards the right which is particularly notable where Quebec labor organizations Are his outspoken attacks on Union leaders have even please see liberals Page 4 ;