Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Please see Page 10 weekend Magazine Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine secondhand Harry the funniest shop in Montreal Page 2 elusive cold mine finder talks about prospecting Page 6 Winnipeg free press vol. 81 no. 173 15 cents breaking . Records Page 10 cold Rush Trail by Paul v. Baich Page 14 How firefighters feel about their jobs Page 20 and in the coloured comics saturday april 20, 1974 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Showers 60 and 40 War National strike Arborg hardest hot ethnic music victims of poverty. 7 Winnipeg results of probe. 10 Manitoba voter comes first. 10 London the Long Tunnel 10 volunteers in schools. 12 just one of the boys. 13 Ottawa maintenance base. 14 Washington Congress up for crabs 14 Manitoba Marine disaster 17 annual Art fair. 19 regular features word Wise 2 Horoscope 2 it happened Here 4 sportsman 4 Herron Folk 5 senior citizen 6 your 7 Church news 8, 9 stamp collector 16 Garden Wall 16 Chickadee notes 17 the zoo 18 teen tidings 19 Book reviews 20, 21 Sketchbook 22 Environ ment Manitoba 22 world of now music 23 Cro word 23. And elsewhere in the paper color comics 9 to radio diary Jumble Winner 22 entry form 67 Puzzle 43 Bridge news 12 letters 12, 73 classified 41 to 60, 74 to 79 comics 66, 67 Community Calendar 12 Cynthia wine 22 deaths 22 finance 30 to 39 letters movies 17 night beat 29 sports 61 to 65 travel.68 to 72 women 23 to 27 youth scene 6 by the associated press israeli defence minister Moshe Dayan says Israel is free to attack Syria without restraint following the first dog fights Over the Golan Heights since the october Middle Easl War. Dayan appeared on state television Friday warning thai United states state Secretary Henry Kissinger May find a Battlefield Here instead of a negotiating table when hear Rives later this month in Hopes of working out a troop disengagement plan. As syrian and israeli jets battled ground fighting increased on the Golan. Syria said seven israeli jets were shot Down in dogfights Over mount Hermon and anti aircraft guns knocked out 10 others. Israel said it downed two syrian planes and lost two of its own the first israeli air losses since the october War. The israeli High command said today that its planes hit a syrian radar station at Zebe please see War Page 11 mail cutoff warm weather showers add to flood danger gets Union Sanction by Bill Coulthard Ottawa up inside postal workers were called out on a National strike Friday night and their Union leaders said they will seek sup port of letter carriers to dose Down postal service completely. The decision announced b Joe Davidson president of the Canadian Union of Posta workers cup after negotiations with postmaster Genera Andre Ouellet broke off give Sanction of the Union Leader ship to Wildcat walkouts tha began More than a week ago. Please see mail Page 11 Turner speech agricultural and Industrial tax ease hint by Nick Hunter free press staff writer finance minister John Turner hinted in Winnipeg Friday that the Federal government will increase its tax concessions to Canadian Industry and provide some form of incentives to Farmers to increase Agri cultural production. He told a luncheon meeting of lawyers and accountants that the Best Way Infra lion and unemployment is to increase Industrial and agricultural production. Rejecting wage and Price controls As a cosmetic Solu. Tion or. Turner said new agricultural and Industrial in vestment Means More jobs More Supply stability. And More Price to provide greater productive capacity Farmers and businessmen must earn sufficient income to provide the funds that Are essential to help finance new investment in Plant and although or. Turner did t say the tax concessions and incentives to Farmers would be part of his coming budget he left Little doubt in his speech that this would be the Case. When asked following his speech whether the incentives would be part of the budget or. Turner replied i would t want to make judg ments on my own in the speech to the Institute of chartered accountants and the Law Sci Oil of Manitoba in the Winnipeg inn or. Turner painted a Bright picture of what government s last corporate tax concessions did for the Economy in terms of in please see Turner Page 11 legislature reports Trinidad turkeys Page 3 Miller defends Hospital plans Page 9 four Bills get first Reading Page 19 three petitions introduced Page 19 ctr Northern hassle explained Page 19 ombudsman to appear Page 19 Chi sparring debate inconclusive Page 20 Asper advises Saunders cutoff Page 20 air controllers set strike Date by Bob Douglas Ottawa up air traffic controllers announced Friday a strike Date two weeks away but both government and Union negotiators expressed Hope a settlement can be reached be fore the May 5 deadline. Jim Livingston president of the Canadian air traffic control association said the Union revealed the May 5 strike Date to lift a sword hanging Over the Public s the strike would be nationwide. It leaves people enough time to plan he said at a news conference. Air con trollers struck two years ago tying up commercial air traffic for 10 Days. The mediation talks headed by Montreal lawyer Stanley Hartt were recessed Friday to next thursday to allow association negotiators time to Dis cuss certain proposals made by or. Hart with the Union s regional representatives. Firemen offered raise by the Canadian press firefighters remained off therb Friday at six major Cana Dian airports driving Home heir wage demands to the Public and causing thousands of travellers to alter flight lans. Meanwhile the government Friday offered the fire fighters who belong to the Public service Alliance of can Ada a four stage pay increase Over a 26-month contract which would boost average pay Cales to per year from Elow at present. Union negotiators accepted he proposal but it was Sot lease see Page 11 m r. Livingston also sail there would be discussion about unusual settlement offers made by the govern ment to Airport firefighter and St. Lawrence River pilots. The firefighters have been offered 30-per-cent wage in creases Over two years while the pilots have received offers that would raise the average annual salary to from Over three years. Or. Livingston said this com pares with government offers of about six per cent to 7.5 Pel cent increases annually to the controllers. But Bill Oliver chief trea sury Board negotiator in the dispute said the controllers earn considerably More than the firefighters. Pay for con trailers now ranges from a minimum of to a maximum of while most firefighters Are in the level one see air Tower Page 11 River pilots wait Montreal up results of a Friday meeting Between representatives of striking St. Lawrence River pilots and the Laii Gentian Pilotage authority la Are to be made Public today a spokesman for the pilots said. The spokesman for the corporation of mid St. Lawrence pilots who have been on strike since april 8, said the results of the meeting Are to be made Public after the corporation s 136 members Are informed of him at a gathering in trois rivieras que. The meeting Friday was Only please see River Page 11 by Barry Mullin free press staff writer several Rural Manitoba towns were bracing themselves saturday for a weekend of flooding As scattered showers and forecast temperatures near 60 degrees were expected to add to rapidly swelling Rivers and creeks South of Winnipeg and in the Interlake area. A r b o r g where 70 people were evacuated Friday from a Home for the aged and the hos Pital in the Interlake Community of about 700, continued to be the hardest hit area in the province. It s gone Down about three mrs. Ken Reid wife of Arborg s mayor said in a Telephone interview late Friday night. But there s so much More to come. Heaven knows How much More. We be never had it this bad mrs. Reid said Many Arborg residents Are resisting full scale evacuation and Are plan Ning to put All their efforts into fighting even greater flood threats. See flooding Page 11 this Whirlpool was created Fri Day by the Rushing Waters of Stur Geon Creek As it burst Over its Banks on Portage Saskatchewan and Ness avenues. The Whirlpool was formed As water poured be Neath Portage Avenue and swirled in the Ravine that carries Sturgeon Creek by the Grace Hospital in St. James Assin Ifania. City traffic Cut the normally docile Sturgeon Creek in St. James Assiniboia burst through dikes on Portage and Ness avenues Friday afternoon flooding the major streets and cutting off traffic. Portage Ness and Saskatchewan avenues were closed 0 traffic saturday morning and police were advising peo ple to Detour around the be 1 meter Highway or Roblin Boulevard we Vijh is in Charles Vood on the South Side of the River. St. James Assiniboia police Aid Hamilton Avenue was also Josed to All traffic except emergency and transit buses saturday morning but some please see City Page 11 Drury promises Reid eng Rush inflation offset to town by Richard Jackson Ottawa the government is going to have to do soms i s titular by in relation to future wage and salary increases do men women and Waters had swept through the not fit the existing Circum poured into the Interlake town stances so consideration is. Of Arborg Friday afternoon Al Flatiron says Treasury boar president. Charles m. Drury. In a statement to the free press carefully choosing his words he put it this Way it is quite Clear that three year Public service con tracts entered into some time ago under the then existing economic circumstances Par being Given As to How Best to most meet this new As fast a the flood Kidnap victim swims to Freedom Hallandale Fla. A Bank official Albert Dantzler who told police he was kid napped at gunpoint by two men Friday waded ashore Early today after jumping from a boat to escape his captors police said. Dantzler 43, came ashore about Midnight Cost after swim Ming in the Atlantic Ocean for More than two hours. Police found him lying in the front Yard of a House. A doctor who examined Dantzler said he was tired but otherwise unharmed. 1 Dantzler assistant vice president of the City National Bank of Halle Dale called the Bank at . Friday and told an employee he was being held for Ransom. Bank officials delivered the Ransom to a designated site but the Fri said it was never picked up. After the Telephone Call Dantzler was not heard from until he stumbled ashore. He said he thought they were going to kill him so he jumped overboard and started police detective Bill mix said. He thought he had been in the water about two hours. He was obviously exhausted and in a state of mix said police received a Call from area residents complaining about a Man knocking on their doors. The people would t open the mix said. When we got to the area we found a Man lying in the front Yard of a House. He was soaking wet and extremely shaken. He said his name was Dantzier and was the Man who had been a mix said Dantzler told him he was abducted at gunpoint please see victim Page 4 what precise action the m m h eminent intends taking or. Drury declined to say. Will it involve writing an escalation clause into new contracts As urged Friday in the commons by c a r i e t o n conservative my Walter Baker v nominee a no no or As he suggested later in the corridors of the House will it go As far As inserting Cost of living increases As done by some industries such As Al Goma steel International Nic Kel and the steel company of Canada into existing contacts i or. Drury in t saying but he did say in the and later outside the House hardened it up in his statement something must be done for the Public service to help the nearly on the government payroll Cope with the economic ravages of inflation. Or. Baker had raised the Issue during tilt daily question j period in the commons against what he said was the Back please see Drury Page 11 Calgary up when the Calgary tourist and convention association passes out its awards to people in the tourist Industry next week a Cal Gary Call girl who was one of 638 nominees for the awards won t be among the winners. Even though her sponsor described her As a great Comfort to visitors tourist association spokesmen say they could t consider her. The award categories in clude service station opera Tor accommodation receptionist cashier hostess and foreign Exchange Teller. Town a Day earlier. Boy of boy do people Ever come when there s a said mrs. Ken Reid wife of Arborg s mayor. We be had hundreds of peo ple offering help fighting the flood and others have Tele phoned to say they have room for people who have to be evacuated. People work so Well to Gether under the toughest of circumstances. Everyone has been great. We be had Calls from people in lunar and Eriksdale offering assistance. As Long As we be got the determination to see this thing through Well make airs. Reid said in a Tele phone interview. Food Waters from the ice jammed icelandic River hat usually flows quietly through he town about 75 Miles North of w i n n i p e g Rose steadily through the town thursday and i Friday. It s gone Down about three inches this evening but it could come up five to eight inches she said. We be never had anything this bad Sec everyone Page 11 ;