Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 9, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 163 15 cents my with u a coloured comics tuesday april 9. 1974 . Sunset . Moon rom . Sunny 20 and 40 0 Meir have new Homes front a Pigsty to heaven by Wally Dennison free press staff writer i did t fight a War to be housed in a Pigpen like George Beers said monday. The 68-year-old combat Veteran wounded in Italy during the second world War was referring to the Talbot Avenue House from which he and five other men were removed March 29 by three Street workers from the main Street project. The project workers have described the living conditions As so deplorable they could t stand the stench. Now in new quarters at 78 Cathedral Avenue or. Beers and two of the other men Velmer Piette 72, and Charlie Mcleod 65, expressed gratitude to the three workers for intervening and arranging for new accommodations. The main Street workers Are Danny skor Bohach Wayne Rogers and Harry Hawkins. By god i did t live in conditions like that during the said or. Beers. We lived in mud but it was at least Clear he quipped. And i d sooner go to jail then to live there said or. Piette. We raised pigs in a cleaner the retired a r b o r a Man. Farmer added. Of the three men re moved from the Talbot Avenue House a 60-year Velmer Pierre George Beers and Charlie Mcleod in their new Home. Old Man with a heart condition is in Hospital an in continent 84-year-old Man is in a during Home and a 29-year-old retard ate is in another private lodging. The three living at the Cathedral Avenue address agreed with the Street workers description that the difference Between the two Homes is that of Hea Ven and and the various govern in e 111 social assistance agencies assuming the rental Tab for them Are paying monthly just More monthly for each than had been required for the same ser vices at the Talbot ave nue address room and Board food laundry change of bedding and please Sec from Page 4 chinese Hopes joint ventures on Oil Likely ruled out Washington Spe Cial tons the peo ple s Republic of China in recent months agreed to buy million to million Worth of Oil exploration and drilling equipment from United states firms according to . Businessmen and government officials. The sales seem to puncture Hopes of some . Business men that the chinese would enter into joint ventures with foreign companies to develop China s probably vast Oil re sources. The chinese discussed joint ventures in previous negotiations with . Companies but they Are now thought to have abandoned this idea. Instead the sales apparently reflect a determination by the chinese not to allow foreign in vestment inside China and to please Sec chinese Page 8 bar aimed at . Meat imports hit by Jeff Carruthers free press correspondent Ottawa in a move aimed directly at the United states Canada has raised barriers overnight to the importation of any meat or meat animals treated with the controversial growth stimulant Dieth lbs and in effect has pre vented importation of All . Beef and Lamb temporarily. Effective at Midnight monday Only beef Mutton Bambi accompanied by certificates signed by Federal authorities in the exporting country and proving that lbs has not been used in producing the meat can be imported into Canada. Similarly All beef cattle and sheep imported into Canada must be accompanied by a certificate saying that Des has not been fed to or implanted in the animals to stimulate their growth. The move according to reliable Ottawa sources yesterday will result in a com plete or near Complete halt of the imports of . Beef and beef cattle that have been flooding into Canada in recent please see meat Page 8 spending estimates newly hired Boxcar 6 will attend conference by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa transport min ister Jean Marchand told the commons monday a Man to fill the Post of Boxcar Czar to Monitor the distribution of Box cars across Canada has been hired. He will be presented to a National railway conference to be held in Ottawa wednesday the conference is to be attended by representatives of the railways the shippers and All those who Are users of rail ways and traffic. Purpose of the conference said or. Marchand is to get to know exactly what is happen ing in the railway transportation Field. British pm blasts press cowardice London special tons prime minister Harold Wilson blasted Britain s press for sensational izing a legitimate land Deal that brought Large profits to some of his clo Sest aides. In an Al minute statement to the House of commons or. Wilson asserted that the affair amounted to a cowardly Way of attacking me and through me the labor he repeated what his Shar pest Fleet Street critics have already acknowledged that or. Wilson himself was in no Way involved in the transaction. The prime minister evidently his Blunt word the incident. At hoped that would Bury least for now conservative party leaders including former prime minister Edward Heath show no incline nation to pursue the matter further. But whether or. Wilson and the labor government will suf Fer from a lingering aftertaste that something must be wrong is still unclear. The incident has dominated front pages Here for six consecutive Days although the known facts add up to Little More than a mild piece of political irony. At the Centre of the transact see cowardly Page 4 legislature reports Gonick not pressured out Hanuschak Page 3 Talbot Avenue House Miller Page 4 Schreyer promises to Check North broadcasting Page 12 Cabinet spends Little on foreign travel Page 12 engineering tradesmen act introduced Page 32 amendment to attorney general s act criticized Page 32 joint lottery legislation unveiled by Toupin Page 32 trustees to set own pay rate says Hanuschak Page 33 Brandon Centennial auditorium Bill approved Page 33 civil service Bill debate continues. Page 33 education financing crisis Craik Page 33 housekeeping City act changes proposed Page 33 Green confident of . No pollution pledge Page 33 14 of land cases 33 dealers Bond won t be increased Page 51 " we will ask the railways what we want to ask or. Marchand told the House. The minister was questioned about the proposed abandon ment of railway lines. S. J. Korchinski recalled that several years ago the railways presented a list of lines they intended to abandon. The government of that Day stepped in to guarantee that those lines would be operated until Jan. 1, 1975, said the Saskatchewan member. He wondered if the transport minister has authorized the railways to abandon lines now or Are the railways acting on their own initiative in closing Down lines on the Prairies the Only policy known at this time is that All these Branch lines Are Frozen. We do not know exactly what is going to happen in the said or. Marchand. Or. Korchinski said some of the lines in the West Are opera please see Boxcar Page 5 . Guns tanks Duel from a Keuter syrian and israeli forces plunged into another Day of tank duels and artillery exchanges on the Golan Heights today the syrian command re ported. Bitter ground fighting resumed with enemy forces at Dawn today on it. A communique broadcast by Damascus radio said. Syrian heavy artillery and tanks also went into action in the Northern sector of the 40 mile Long ceasefire line in the salient Israel captured on the Kun Eitra Damascus Road Dur i n g october s Middle East War. It was the 29th straight Day of hostilities Between the two countries. The it. Hermon fighting during the last four Days apparently is for control of a strategic Vantage Point on the Western slopes of the High Mountain. Israel maintains a major observation Post there that monitors most of Syria s military movements on a plateau stretching from the Golan Heights to the outskirts of Damascus the syrian Capi Tal. Please see guns Page 8 Oil Price leeway sought by govt. By Bill to close this possible Ottawa up of tax legislation before pointed during provides for Extension of to what they consider Export tax to Oil products governmental Power in Well As crude Energy proposed legislation. Donald Macdonald said monday. Andre Calgary Centre said the Bill would pm said the charges could Federal officials to seize imposed by not Only from Pri absence of a charge Oil firms but also from products has meant thit agencies regulating in that form have not Industry. Their share of Baldwin peace said in the said the Bill which in now that an agreement the1 recent Federal been reached for 12 to continued months it is. Important see Oil Page 4 pcs move to shift by Peter might Force Ottawa up a debate on a proposal to native attempt to Force the House wednesday Confidence showdown april 22 for an easter minority Liberal this could keep the Drew both scorn and a hint sitting through the sympathy monday from break. New democrats. Of. Finance minister the conservatives moved Turner s budget expected take advantage of what this month or Early in see As wavering nip is behind the conserva for the government by attempt to take advantage for an opposition Day in nip discontent. Week of april air. Bell said there is an Aii this would provide indefiniteness about the gov with a Chance to move future and we fee Confidence in the air should be cleared be on a motion folded As the As possible to nip conservatives want to conservative House the latest nip feelings Tom Bell said in an rather than waiting to he understands the matter How it reacts in the budget being considered by when As one conserva minister Trudeau and a said nip threats May Winnipeg s financially troubled transit system is lose almost ?11 million this year or million More than the actual 1973 deficit of million. The estimated transit deficit was included in a summary of 1974 spending estimates for the City s five utilities presented to civic works and operations committee monday. Estimates for the other four utilities Winnipeg Hydro the steam heating Utility water and sewer show slight prof its projected for 1974 opera Jons. Figures for All the utilities have already been included in the City s Over All 1974 current i climates of million. The transit system summary shows an estimated 1974 Defi Cit of however the system also plans to spend that was budgeted for the last fiscal year but was t used in that period. That brings the deficit on 1974 operations to million. The provincial government agreed last week to increase its share of the system s 1973 deficit to 50 from 20 per cent and is to be asked to approve a similar arrangement for 1974. The summary shows an expected profit on 1974 operations for Winnipeg Hydro compared with an actual loss please see transit Page 8 jobs total up unemployment rate drops to 5.4 from 5.5 by Neil Gilbride by Neil Gilbride Ottawa up total employment Rose in March for the sixth consecutive month to a total of 8.7 Mil lion while unemployment edged Down to 5.4 from 5.5 per cent of the labor Force statistics Canada reported today. The month s total Job gain of was shared by Ontario British Columbia and Quebec and was greater than the seasonally expected in crease for Early Spring jobs declined in the Atlantic and Prairie regions. During the past year total please see jobs Page 5 looking for an aquarium and fish this want of under dogs cats Birds tropical fish 21 i aquariums and 20 Gallons. All accessories and fish. Phone 475-9706. 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. Cut off Vancouver up spokesmen for striking Airport firemen expressed frustration monday night at not having been contacted by two ministry of transport officials who flew Here in an attempt to get fire fighters Back on the Job at 10 Federal airports in British co Lumbia. Meanwhile in civilian fire men employed by the depart ment of National defence at Esquimalt Victoria voted monday night to begin study sessions today to sup port Airport firefighters in the province. The naval Yard firemen please see . Page 8 today Butine report 13 to 20 Gan fun wall.3a classified 34 to 44, 45 to so comics.4a, 5a deaths 10 jumble.37 letters 4a movies 30 sports 55 to 69 television 29 women.24 to 28 nearly everyone reads the free press City com total is expected today. If the government does not comply with the request the be please see tories Page 8 loot in pockets robber sentenced a three year Penitentiary term was imposed on a 41 year old Man arrested in the beverage room of a downtown hotel with his pockets bulging with loot taken in a Bank robbery. The Man Hugh Otis hush ton of no fixed address was arrested March is within four hours of robbing the Royal Bank 504 main Street after indicating to a 33-year-old woman Teller that he had a gun in one of his pockets. Rushton who had Only been released from jail a few months before was arrested during a routine police Check of hotels and licensed premises. He matched the description of the Bank robber. Lie a drinking alone and when checked out by Detec please see Bank Page 4 India fears naval race in 6her sea new Delhi. Special tons Day in and Day out the big Gest naval Power in the Indian Ocean is surprisingly India. However if the Pentagon succeeds in convincing the United states Congress to sup ply funds for setting up a naval installation on the tiny Indian Ocean Island of Diego Garcia the United states will again gain a permanent foot hold in this Region and its naval strength would grow. When the Suez canal Reo pens the soviet Union is expected to boost its presence in the Indian Ocean by sending in vessels from the Black sea. From new Delhi s Vantage Point successive rounds of naval buildups by the soviet Union and the . Would be bound to overshadow India s predominance in the Indian Ocean India s Mare nostrum our fears that Indian prestige would be buried under a great Power naval race lie behind new Delhi s outcry against the Pentagon s plan to spend million expanding Harbor Airstrip facilities on the Bri Tish owned ii land Miles Southwest of the Southern tip of the Hindustan Peninsula. India and number of other littoral states have demanded that the entire Indian Ocean be declared zone of thus making it off limits to foreign warships. To win support for its View India has lunched a diplomatic offensive. New Delhi has successfully lined up such normally pro . Countries As Australia new zealand Indonesia and Malaysia in the chorus of pro tests against a Diego Garcia naval facility. Under the proposed ban on foreign men of War India with her aircraft Carrier vibrant two cruisers six destroyers 21 frigates and four patrol Summa please see naval Page 4 sick cat collects Lubbock Tex. A eighteen year old Debra Cranford accepted a Cheque on behalf of her sick cat Kurt after a county judge ruled the feline could t be Dis qualified As a door prize Winner. The presentation on the court House Lawn came nearly two months after Debra and her father William Conford filed a civil suit against the John s jeans clothing store. The Cranford claimed their pet won a Cash prize in a drawing conducted in connection with the opening of the store in 1972, but when store officials Learned the win Ner was a cat they refused to award he prize. The petition said there were no rules posted limiting the contest to human beings. F ;