Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba G free press final edition vol. 81 Price 15 cents w1th 20 cents comics tuesday october 16, 1973 Sunrise . . . Moonset . Forecast a few Clouds 25 and 55 proclaims vice president judging current standards Farthi tests to ethical and unlawful. But the author of any cd plex system of extortion my current list worthy modest for a person of my age and the -54 year old f Orriner governor of Maryland added in a poli Ticar valedictory monday. A veiny Penny of it can be accounted for from lawful denying once again that lie was guilty of bribery and conspiracy Agnew told a National television. Audience1 that he resigned the vice presidency to still the raging for months he had been plagued by newspaper reports and from prosecutors leading to publication of the wildest Rumor and Specula this had weakened his ability to continue in office. An appearance of wrongdoing whether True or false in fact is damaging to any Man he said. But More important it is fatal to any Man who must be ready at any moment to step into the presi had he remained in office end fought for vindication it would have left the country for agonizing months with a Cloud Over the Man in line to succeed to the White House. This he permit. In tier Best of time such an ordeal would be selfish and unpatriotic. But in this critical time with a War raging in the Middle East and the country still torn by the watergate political scandal such uncertainty about the vice president would be intolerable he said. Ariew said he realized that continue please see Agnew Page 6 illegals Register by Elmo Ciprietti Canadian press staff writer i a a s 60-Day Blitz to transform illegal residents into landed immigrants ended Mon Day and the. Final Day Rush of almost applicants brought the total registered to about prompted by a advertising Campaign the pro Gram offered virtually amnesty to any person who entered the country before last nov. 30 and stayed illegally. Saturday coverage in Canada s official languages and More than a others overtime work by immigration and information officers and a hell of a lot of hard accounted for the Success of the program an immigration official said. Please see Page 6 Barge trip fulfils a Trudeau dream by Stewart Macleod Weilin China up prime minister Trudeau boarded a double decked River Barge today and sailed 50 Miles Down the spectacular i River apparently fulfilling a Long held ambition. It s something we Veall dreamed he said As he stood under the canopy and admired the mountains forming Cone topped canyons on both sides of the shallow Waters. It has to be one of the great scene Ries of the it s really added his wife Margaret. I used to think that chinese paintings of this area were abstracts but now i see they were on his last full Day in China the prime minister spent seven hours on the old but recently painted Barge pulled by a tug which manoeuvred around the stones and ledges in the Shal Low curving Waters. About 35 persons on this particular of five in the Fleet made available to the visiting John Small the Canadian ambassador to China and officials of the local revolutionary com Mittee. The visitors were accompanied on the 50-mile boat trip by vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping recently rehabilitated after please see trip Page 6 three police ears were overturned and five others heavily d a be d monday when an angry crowd of about 100 indians stormed the police station at the Caughnawaga Reserve near Montreal after police tried to evict a group of indians from a House which had been occupied by a non Indian family on the Reserve Hea Vily armed police in riot gear used tear Gas to disperse the by Neil Gilbride Ottawa number of persons with jobs dipped in september and the nation s unemployment rate climbed to the Highes t Point this year. Statistics Canada re ported today the jump in the seasonally adjusted jobless rate was the largest in a single month in Al most 2vi years statistics can Ada said. The Rise in the. Jobless rate from 5.5 to six per cent and the decline of employ Niento to a total of million appeared to other in dication1 of slowing economic the figures Are seasonally adjusted by statistics Canada to eliminate Normal shifts for this time of year and More clo please see jobless Page 4 fatality record set a traffic Accident Early tuesday the second fatal traffic mishap in Winnipeg in less than 48 hours has brought the City s traffic fatality total to 32 for the first 9v4 months of the year. It is the inner City s highest traffic fatality count in history. A single vehicle Accident about . On Corydon Avenue Between Oxford and Cambridge streets took the life of Marcia Mary Beaulieu 29, of 500 Centennial Street suite 305. Please see fatality Page 6 everyone benefits Turner details tax reduction Index scheme tax bracket limits was announced today by finance minister John Turner to offset the effects of cent med he said the. Result will be lower taxes for All taxpayers compared with Arhat they would have had to pay under existing exemptions and tax Scales. In a news release is in accordance with a tax pro posed., by or. Turner in his feb. 19 budget speech and later approved by parliament. It is designed to offset the effects of inflation. The result of this will be to reduce taxes for All taxpayers from the. Amounts they would be required to pay in the absence of indexing. It is expected that some taxpayers will be dropped entirely from the the legislation passed by parliament an amendment to the income tax act provided for major personal exemptions and deductions to be raised each year to reflect changes i the consumer Price Index. In this the news re lease stated taxpayers will no longer be pushed into higher tax brackets by purely inflationary increases in in the adjustment for 1974 is please see Turner Page 6 Centre by Nick Hunter free press education reporter the University Centre the major gathering place for Stu dents on the University of Manitoba Campus May be closed if vandalism continues during the service workers strike. John Perrin president of the University of Manitoba Stu dents Union said monday the University Centre s joint operations Board made up two members of the students Union executive and two members of f the University administration might have to take action to spare the building fro m costly damages. Or. Perrin said he believes the damage was done by Stu dents not strikers. Posters have been plastered to the windows of the students Union managed building trash has been thrown on the floor and the men s washroom has a layer of powder stuck to the floor. A member of the students Union executive also said some tools have been stolen from the print shop and foreign objects have been jammed in the shop s machines. Minor damages have also occurred in the Fletcher argue arts building and the arms science building and Garry Slobodian a member of the science students association please see vandals Page 6 today business report 25 28 Slatery today 23 missiles poised Sadat extends rocket threat peace offer ready to attend in peace conference egyptian Leader declares Cairo a president Anwar Sadat w arned today that egyptian mis Siles Are poised to strike the very Depths of Israel any but that Egypt was ready to accept a ceasefire and attend a peace conference at the United nations on two conditions. He also said Egypt was minute to open the Suez canal As a contribution to world Prosperity. I have ordered the Suez canal authorities to take the next necessary Steps. Preparations Are under Way for the canal to be ready for Sadat spoke in an hour Long see other Mideast stories Page 4 i Syria Iraq hit Hack classified 33 to 43, 50 to 55 comics 18, 19 deaths 7 finance 29 to 32 Jumble. 36 movies 22 sports 45 to 49 television. 21 women 15 to 17 nearly everyone reads the free press City Zoni .10i.j70 total speech to the people s Assem by which was broadcast live y Cairo radio. He was Clad in full military uniform and was met with shouts of great Leader and the Leader who has Iven us Hope egyptian missiles called Lafer which Means victorious can Cross the Sinai. These and to land missiles Are ready now to be launched to the very Depths of Israel any Sadat said. But he added. Egypt is ready to accept a ceasefire an open letter o president Nixon outlining Egypt s conditions for peace. The two main conditions were Israel s withdrawal from All the Arab territory it occupied in the 1967 War and res oration of the Rij palestinians who. Israel when the created 15 years ago. However Israel has rejected both these proposals in the past As prior conditions for negotiations. We Are ready to attend a peace conference at the United Sadat said. I shall by to convince other. Arab naders and the leaders of the palestinian people so that All will take part in this Confer if Israel refuses to accept he arabs demands he warned t faces a War of attrition which we can endure with greater ease than they can1 in Sadat warned israeli Lead ers if you imagine you can lit at Arab depth i want to warn you that the trans desert egyptian missiles of Zafer Ype Are now fitted on their ases. I have always warned that in our confrontation with Israel t will be an Eye for an Eye a please see rockets Page 4 israelis Cross canal Jerusalem Reuter israeli prime minister Golda Meir said today an israeli Force has crossed the Suez canal and is operating there. Mrs. Meir told parliament at this very moment israeli forces Are on the Western Bank of the waterway. At the outbreak of the mid dle East War oct. 6, egyptian forces stormed across the 103 mile Long waterway and Over ran israeli on the East Bank of the canal. Since then the israelis have reported repelling egyptian at tempts to drive deeper into the Sinai desert. By the associated press syrian and iraqi forces launched a new offensive against israeli troops in Syria today the israeli military command announced. It said tank and artillery Battles were the egyptian front with the War in its 11th Day United states transport planes were Rushing arms to Israel s battered War machine and a soviet., Airlift was doing the same for the egyptians and syrians. Israel said its ground and air forces were holding off the new offensive on the syrian front. It said and two helicopters were downed by israeli planes. Israel said monday that it shattered the iraqi Force of in Fantry and tanks that had been sent to Syria but it appeared from today s report that the earlier claim was premature. Syria reported a fierce tank and artillery Battle raging since Dawn in the Northern and Central sectors of its front with Israel. Message. From Sadie Tel Aviv a in Israel the War reaches into every household every Kib Butz every office Block. For a trip of the Golan Heights a reporter ordered a Box lunch from room service. Wedged Between the Anchovy paste Sandwich and the ban this note please or. Foreign correspondent if you meet my son Shmuel with his tank com Pany up North Tell him his Mother is not worrying like he told her not to. Signed the both Israel and Egypt re ported successful naval attacks against each other monday night. Israel said its missile boats shelled radar stations and other military installations along Egypt s Mediterranean coast both West and East of Cairo and accurate were observed especially at radar Egypt said its Navy bombed israeli positions on the East coast of the Gulf of Suez inflicting heavy losses in men and while other naval units attacked Cipal administrative area of the Bertemy in Romani on the Northern Sinai coast setting it on fire and inflicting heavy the egyptians said that Early today their naval patrols intercepted an israeli naval Force approaching the egyptian coast Sank four of the boats and drove the rest off. In the Central sector of an egyptian communique said our forces discovered a 2l-Tanlo enemy Force advancing last night toward our it was surprised encircled and completely wiped out by our although heavy fire continued on both the syrian front please see arabs Page 4 Manitoba govt. Doctors clash see Page 10 Kissinger Tho honoured Oslo a United states state Secretary Henry Kis Singer and North vietnamese poli Bureau member be due Tho were awarded the 1973 Western bingo9 Victoria up the Western Canada lottery will probably kick off next april 30, provincial Secretary Ernie Hall said monday. First prize of will be awarded by a formula yet to be established but or. Hall who was Host to a meeting of officials from the three Prairie provinces said the draw won t depend on any sports event such As the Grey cup Stanley cup or a horse race. There will be four draws a year he said probably of Lucky numbers from a drum. But to make it More exciting the four provinces might set up a system with flashing lights or bouncing balls or a Glori fied government run Bingo game. We Haven t settled the do tails of that. The main Point is though and it is very important to us that we burst lives have control Over the event that determines the Winner. That Way fewer things can go Tho first draw next Spring will have prizes totalling be tween and meeting Here monday were or. Hall Alberta recreation minister Horst Schmidt Mani Toba tourism minister Larry Desjardins and Deputy recreation minister William Clark from Saskatchewan. Next meeting which will in elude provincial attorneys general is scheduled for Winnipeg at the end of november. Or. Hall said it will set up a formal memorandum of agree ment among the four provinces detailing the terms of the lot Tery. Nobel peace prize today for their work in bringing an end the Vietnam War. Kissinger and Tho were named Over 45 other accepted candidates including president Nixon president Tito of Yugoslavia and 10 International organizations. The prize was about and will be shared equally Between the two win ners. The Nobel committee chair Man mrs. Aase Linnaes a judge and member of Parlia ment announced the decision after the five member commit tee reviewed the candidates for hours. When announcement of the award came Kissinger was re ported in a meeting at the White House and was unavailable for immediate cd mint. V ;