Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba It Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 15 cents coloured coloured comics thursday april ii 1974 Sunrise . Sunset . Moon Rise . Moonset . Mostly Cloudy 25 and 40 Monitor named Boxcar cure offered by Marchand by Bob Douglas Ottawa up transport minister Jean mar Chand called a halt wednesday to a struggle Over Rai freight car problems by announcing his own package of remedies. These included pressure on United states railways to re turn Canadian equipment Taj changes appointment of a former Canadian National railways official to Monitor rail movements and further conferences of shippers rail Waymes and government officials. Earlier g. N. Vogel chief commissioner of the Canadian wheat Board led shippers at the first National rail car meet ing in criticizing railway performance while the railways suggested their customers could improve rail car use by unloading More quickly. Or. Vogel said Grain move health Cost zooms officials warn Brace yourself for a kick by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter Brandon Pital and nursing Home officials at the Manitoba health organizations inc. Annual convention Here indicate the handwriting is on the Wall inflation in the health Field is really taking off this year. The consensus is that the people of Manitoba should Brace themselves for a giant jump in inflation and that its effect will be direct rapid and profound on individual taxpayers. First signs of this appeared late last year when the mighty Canadian Union of Public employees served notice that it would push for pay and fringe increases of up to 35 per cent in the Canadian health Field in 1974. The Industry reacted with the expected signs of being softened up by the verbal Broad Side. The broadside itself has now been followed by news that non professional workers in the health sciences please see health Page 4 ment in the West has reached crisis proportions. He said the wheat Board is ready to buy additional Grain Hopper cars if the railways meet cer Tain conditions. Please see Boxcar Page g today will. French election 5 52 classified 27 to 40, 48 to 51 comics 24, 25 deaths 9 finance.19 to 23 Jumble 30 movies 13 sports. 41 to 47 television 11 women 17, 18 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone Toui says old can t Jet my care Brandon Man. Staff the executive director of one of Winnipeg s largest Homes for the aged said wednesday old people in permanent institutional care in Manitoba have increasing difficulty getting doctor services and physicians Are actually refusing to look after them. The charge was made at the first Day of this week s annual convention of Manitoba health organizations inc. When Jake Suderman executive director of Lions Manor addressed 250 Hospital and nursing Home delegates on nursing Home con Cerns. Or. Suderman who is also Board chairman of Dogwood Manor in Winnipeg told the Hospital Board and administration officials we have a real and growing problem involving the withdrawal of services of doctors who Don t want to look after the or. Suderman said he has been confronted with patients who no longer have a doctor of their own despite the act that medicare gives them the right of free Access to physicians. " physicians Are not exactly looking for 85-year-old patients and we find that Many of them Tell their patients to find a new doctor when the time comes for them to live in a place like Lions Manor. Gerontology is an aspect of Medicine it seems to us that Many general practitioners Are please see say s Page 6 reinforced Earth Dike at Gretna Man., on United states Border. Photo by Dave Bonner threat of flooding question of weather by Barry Mullin free press staff writer s it All depends on the that May be an. Over simplification of possible flood threats to several Southern Manitoba towns this Spring Cason but water resources in town officials in c i p a 1 representatives say Veather conditions within the next week or so will dictate in flood situation. S e v e r a 1 Rural Manitoba owns along the Souris pern Tina and Boyne Rivers and he town of Morden on dead horse Creek have begun preparations for possible flooding within the next few weeks. An informal Survey of South inmost Manitoba. Can flu cities revealed there in t excitement or fear of flooding. The same take things in stride attitude is being exhibited now As it sure Cool weekend below Normal temperatures for this time of year Are expected to continue in Winnipeg during the Long easter week end it was expected to remain Cloudy today with a High be tween 35 and 40, and there is a Chance of a Shower this Ever Ning the Winnipeg weather of fice said. The it will Likely be., cooler Tomor. Row saturday arid sunday Al wide to get half a Manitoba woman has been successful in court action to claim a half interest in a farm on which her husband held title. J the decision was made by chief Justice a. S. Dewar of the Manitoba court of Queen s though the Sun might bring he Bench. Temperature up to the mid-30s. Chief Justice Dewar said a the Normal High tempera recent order by the supreme tires for april 12 to 15 is Bo-1 court of Canada in which Irene tween 47 and 49 degrees the Murdoch was refused a halt by will be during and after the flooding no matter to what cd please Sec flooding Pace 4 women children guerrillas kill 12 in Israel i Ryan a three Arab terrorists sneaked across the lebanese Border into this Little israeli town today killed More than a dozen men women land children and blew themselves up As israeli troops stormed the apartment building where they were hiding senior police officers said. They were with rocket propelled grenades and they were throwing children from the top floor of the build said an officer in a bulletproof Vest standing outside the scarred and ransacked apartment bloc. A splinter palestinian group in a Telephone statement in Beirut claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on i Ryan Shonah. It said the purpose of the raid was to gain the release of 100 guerrillas from israeli prisons. Three More guerrilla infiltrators seized a school in the Mountainside Frontier Settle mint but it was empty for the passover holidays and the gun men abandoned the building and escaped police said. The state radio reported that bodies of women and children found in the apart Sec guerrillas p g forecaster said. More seasonal weather is expected monday with a High be tween 40 and 45. The forecaster said move Snow will to melt before the temperature will hit 50, please see Cool Page 4 interest in her husband s farm did t apply. The Crux of the application by Katie Kawalchuk Oak Burn Man., was that since 1938 she was jointly responsible in working and running a mixed please see half Page c companies giving Omok a Iii ii hike by Elmo Ciprietti the Canadian press Canadian work ers suffered a net decline in buying Power in 1973 due to inflation but some have recently won Cost omit ing increases from employers. With inflation continuing at about 10 per cent annually Many pinions have sought to renegotiate Multi year con tra c t s that provide annual wage increases of about five or six per cent. Spokesmen for organized labor welcomed the news last week when steel co. Of Canada ltd., Hamilton unilaterally announced that by aug. 1, its production workers in Ontario and Quebec will be receiving about 30 cents More an hour to help them meet rising prices of goods and services. Legislature reports overhaul base talks Premier Page 8 Paulley won t investigate complaint Page 8 s housing Trency should Oik Money Page 14 req Eit or Revenue inform Tara Falls 14 hoist motion 14 Winnipeg mayor Why expected it Bill Page 14 Schreyer Meelike loan Page 21 j 17 gets the Coral Reading Page 28 shortly afterwards similar Cost Omi ving increases were announced by Dominion found Ries and steel ltd., Hamilton Algoma steel corp., suit St. Marie ont., and Westinghouse Canada ltd., Hamilton. Employers unions Industry and government officials across the country were asked about Cost of living pay in creases in a Cross Canada sur vey by the Canadian press. In Moncton n.b., j. W. Stewart Atlantic regional Man Ager of the Canadian manufacturers association said Many firms in the Atlantic provinces feel that if you de stroy the concept of a contract then it opens everything but in Ottawa Donald Mac Donald president of the Cana Dian labor Congress said Cost of living pay in creases Are needed because of the terrific Impact of prices on our Federal labor minister John please Sec companies Page 4 geese Are returning to Manitoba Only to find no open water or Bare ground to land on. This flock Wai photographed Low Over Carman Ai they searched for a suitable Landing spot. It appears that they will collide with the water Tower at Carman. Landlord denies House a Pigsty o 8y Dave Bonner Lalonde football by Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa legislation to protect Canadian football from . Influence was introduced in the commons yesterday by health and welfare minister Marc Lalonde in the name of Canadian Unity. The Bill specifically Canadian football leagues from expanding into the . And american teams from expand my into Canada. It sets strict limitations on the numbers of Amport players who can play on Cana Dian professional football teams and provides severe penalties for anyone contravene Jig the act. Please see Story Page 41 specifically the legislation Vilt permit Canadian professional football teams to carry not More than 15 imports this season or a maximum of .45 percent of the roster can be made up of imports. The restriction applies not Only to any team based in can Ada but also to any professional team playing in Canada except in an exhibition game. Next season the restriction ill be tightened. Then Only 40 percent of the roster can be made up of imports. The maximum of 15 imports could be please see Lalonde Page 7 House break walked a Trivis stirs election talk again by Peter Lloyd Ottawa up government s plans for an easter adjournment fell apart wednesday amid a commons clamor Over Ris ing prices and renewed election speculation. An adjournment motion in the name of Justice minister Otto Lang was withdrawn after the minority liberals were unable to get opposition support for its passage. Discussions were expected to continue on a possible agree ment to Salvage the easter recess scheduled from late wednesday to monday april 22, but party spokesmen seemed pessimistic about any Deal being made. Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield told reporters his conservatives would agree to adjournment Only if the gov please Sec House Page c Good Friday schedule april 12 the frae press will be published and delivered throughout the City on an Early afternoon schedule. The main floor office will be open from . To . To receive classified advertising for Satur Day s paper. Phom number 943-9331 All for direct line after business hours see Telephone directory million urged for unified Force by Brian Blomme free press staff writer the landlord and caretaker of the Talbot Avenue House from which six men were re moved two weeks ago denied wednesday that Pigsty conditions existed in the House. Three workers from the main Street project 594 main Street removed the six men from the Talbot House March 29 after they visited the House and found what one worker de scribed As deplorable living conditions. The landlord said the care taker was being crucified and for what he said neither of them had Ever seen the workers from main Street project before March 29 and they bad no right to remove the men. He said if there were Pigsty conditions in the House they were the fault of the tenants and not the caretaker. The House is owned by a Man in Toronto who leases it to the landlord who in turn sublets the House to the care please see denies Page 7 looking for a piano this want and under Musi Cal instruments 66 piano Mason and Reisch like new s7so. 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. By Paul Pihi Chyn free press Urban reporter Winnipeg civic finance com Mittee recommended thursday the City spend million As the proposed 1974 operating Cost of the unified police Force. The estimates include nearly for the addition of 87 members to the Force. The recommendation is to be reviewed by civic executive policy committee and requires final approval of City Council. The police estimates Are part of the proposed million civic operating estimates for the year. Chief Norman Stewart who will head the unified depart ment told finance committee the 87 new members 78 con stables and nine civilian employees Are required to bring the Force to full operating strength. The chief says in a letter to the committee that salaries for the additional personnel will Cost this year and they will bring the strength of the unified Force to 892 policemen and 185 civilian employees. Costs of uniforms and other equipment for these additional personnel would bring the to nearly the chief says. The unified Force which will continued please see Moke Page g Washington a time to vote for a Broad House of representative to cover everything Ciary committee today committee asked for in its a last minute Compromise request on feb. 25. From the White House to White House offer ply some of the tapes 45 before the de for the impeachment was to deliver by but delayed voting to of the tapes in a Day or Pena it was supported by most a request by republicans but the Delbert Latta said it came too make the subpoena More civic led to a recess of time to Send a message committee until liter in the playing of games is Day when a vote Wilt be and the committee Means there clearly Cha it support in the committee see Congress Pige 6 5s. ;