Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sports Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 209 a pets 20c with 1c coloured comics monday june 3, 1974 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Mostly sunny 50 and 70 crop outlooks vary Lang still optimistic Whelan less so cordon Fossa of Charleswood who farms South of the Canadian National railways main line began seeding this weekend putting in 230 acres of Neepawa wheat which he Hopes will mature by sept. 1. Federal Justice minister Otto Lang who is responsible for the Ca Nadian wheat Board said Here Satur Day that he was optimistic about this year s crop Outlook. Ten Days ago Manitoba Farmers were pessimistic about this year s crop Outlook since then there has been Little rain and Fields Are Start ing to dry up enough to it pos sible to begin he said or. Lang said he had made a Heli copter tour of Saskatchewan and Manitoba areas and while some areas were still under water seeding had begun in others. The fears of Farmers that seeding would be completed too late was not please see Lang Page 4 Agassiz . Up Federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelan said sunday this year s Canadian wheat crop will be at least 20-per cent below average recent harvests. He told a Small crowd Here that cold wet weather has delayed Cereal seeding from . To Eastern que . Or. Whelan said the wheat crop is the most severely affected. Prairie Farmers have planted Only seven to 10 per cent so far compared with 55 per cent normally by this time we certainly won t have any sur pluses this said or. Whelan speaking in support of Liberal Jerry Pringle who is attempting to regain the Fraser Valley East Riding from conservative Alex Patterson. Fascist plot probed raids reveal plan to spread panic through Italy Rome Reuter police Are continuing in tense investigations into what is seen As an Abor Tive fascist plot to spread panic throughout Italy and Force a Mili tary takeover. In scores of raids in the Milan area and North of Rome police have captured dozens of documents and maps pointing to the fact that last week s bomb outrage in Brescia which killed seven persons and injured 94, was just one part of a major projected rightist terrorist offensive. Other plans included a scheme to machine gun a labor demonstration in Milan and to occupy a Barracks of the paramilitary National police for two hours said. Informed sources continued please see fascist Page 6 tories lost base Sharp external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp placed the blame for Winnipeg losing its air Canada overhaul base to Dorval Airport in Montreal on the backs of the conservatives while speaking to an audience of elderly citizens saturday. Or. Sharp was in Winnipeg saturday to voice his support for the Liberal candidate in Winnipeg South Centre Doug Las e. Mcewen. While Here he also visited the. Polo Park mall to do some Mai Streeting spoke to the Manitoba Young Liberal Asso big changes needed at local level Juba by Paul i Michyn free press Urban reporter Only formal recognition of municipal administrations by the Federal government through constitutional change can improve the fiscal position of local governments and make them viable mayor Steve Juba a Brick Wall and getting no of Winnipeg said monday. Mayor Juba told the opening session of the 37th annual convention of the Canadian federation of mayors and municipalities in the Winnipeg inn that municipal governments Are knocking their Heads against Brothers die in car crash four people two sets of collided with the slower mov Brothers were burned to death sunday morning in a two car Accident on Highway 89 near Piney Man. Dead Are Harry Austinson 54, a e 1 v i n 50, James Thompson 36, All of South Junction Man., and Frank Thompson 31, of Vas Sar Man. In another Accident sunday Patrick Lionel Moore 30, was killed in a traffic Accident. The trailing car went into both vehicles were heading North when the trailing vehicle ing one ahead of it an ramp spokesman said. The slow moving vehicle went out of control into the East ditch rolled Over and burst into flames. All four men where. Until we get some constitutional Power municipal governments Are not going to go mayor Juba said the Basic problem at the municipal level is that local governments Don t have enough authority and Are completely at the mercy of the Federal and provincial govern ments. I would like to see the Federal government recognize the municipal governments for this is the government clo Sest to the mayor Juba said if the municipalities had some constitutional rights under ithe British North America act it could go a Long Way towards solving the financial squeeze that Winnipeg and other Urban centres Are facing and it could help to further election coverage on pages 11, 49 were Able to overcome Obsta cles. We have been trying to do something to he said. He termed the return of some facilities to Winnipeg As a step in the right or. Sharp said he believes conservative Leader Robert Stanfield has forced an election he no longer wants. We did t want it we had All sorts of legislation ready for Canada he said. Or. Sharp said expected sup port for Price and wage controls had not materialized. Even his own party is the question. Please see tories Page 4 his Mideast Accord reached Geneva a syrian and israeli generals announced today they have reached a g r e e m e n t on All essential Points of a plan for disengaging their forces on the Golan Heights and will sign it wednesday. A United nations communique issued after three Days of meetings of the so called Mili tary working group of the Gen Eva Middle East peace talks said it completed work on All Basic documents that will be signed on wednesday june 5." agreement has been reached on the modalities for the Exchange of All remaining prisoners of War and the re turn of dead it said. A subcommittee will pre pare the final maps that will be signed also on Gen. Herzl Shafir of Israel and Gen. Adnan Tayara of Syria were the principals of please see Mideast Page .6 May put limit on rights body Calion and appeared at House party to present views. Or. Sharp and or. Mcewen told the audience that the conservatives under then prime minister John Diefenbaker took the air Canada base from j the Manitoba government Winnipeg. The decision was made in 1957 to 1958 to move the Winnipeg base to said or. Sharp. Later Liberal governments were caught by the gradual phasing out of Winnipeg facilities to Dorval said or. Sharp. It was ouly recently that we by Carol Partridge free press legislative reporter plans to restrict the provincial human rights commission to investigating complaints of discrimination and to turn its judging Powers Over to an in dependent body. Under an act introduced for second Reading in the Legisla Ture saturday by attorney general Howard Pawley the control inflation. Ulii m 1111u la tults. Fill 1uul 11ici1 n to r died inside the burning car the please Sec changes Page f legislature reports role of rights commission May change Page 1 Urban affairs needs minister Axworthy says Page i banking Bill criticized pase ii duty free Lif Luor store proposed Page 3 City of Winnipeg act changes approved Page 3 commission would no longer have the Power to hand Down decisions and Levy penalties against those who contravene the act. Instead a Board of adjudication would be appointed by the minister to hear complaints which have been previously investigated by employee s of the human rights commission. If it decides a party has contravened any provision of the act the Hoard May make an order directing payment of wages lost due or payable to the person discriminated against. 0make an order requiring the guilty party to do or re Frain from doing anything in order to secure compliance with the act. 0 allow such period of time As it considers reasonable for compliance with the order. Please see May Page 4 105 injured blast kills i Twenty nine in Britain Flixborough England a the British government today ordered a Ziajor inquiry into the Bypro chemical Plant explosion that official reports said killed 29 persons and injured 105. All the reported dead were workers at the factory in Rural Eastern England but Only eight bodies had been Reco Vered by sunday night because fires still raged Over More than 20 acres of the Plant site. Damage from the explosion saturday exceeded Mil lion. In addition to the Chemi Cal Plant about 100 Homes in nearby villages were ruined their roofs blown off their win Dows and Walls shattered. Announcing the government inquiry environment under Secretary Gordon Oakes said surely dangerous processes and Homes must be kept Well leading newspapers speculated that government controls Over chemical plants Are inadequate and one paper said the government s chief inspector factories Brian Harvey told it scientists Are creating technologies they do not under stand fully. Flixborough a Village of 310 persons 150 Miles North of Lon Don was declared a disaster area Rev. Ken o Riordan a roman Catholic priest walked the blackened streets sobbing this is terrible terrible. There is nothing i can do but at the height of the Blaze saturday an estimated persons living in the sur rounding Lincolnshire villages and Fields were evacuated to shelters set up in schools and churches because of poisonous fumes. Housewives wept As please see blast Page 6 naval threat seen London a soviet naval exercises on the norwegian sea North of Scotland have again aroused British concern Over the growing offensive Power of the . S Navy says the Navy Captain who edits Jane s fighting ships. I believe there is a cause for great Captain John Moore said sunday. The new russian Fleet is not a defensive Fleet. It is de signed to have great capabilities to be worldwide and to implement the soviet Union s political the Book he edits is consid ered the authoritative manual on the world s navies. The Royal Navy has been Sha dowing ships involved in the current soviet manoeuvres which it describes officially As fairly routine Antisubmarine Moore said however that two warships taking part in the please see naval Page 4 ramp holds to system Ottawa up ramp representatives from across the country concluded a two Day meeting Friday saying they Are proud of their Heri Tage and Are optimistic for the the meetings follow recent unrest among ramp rank and file and proposals by some members for the establishment of a Union. But a new style of manage ment is developing within the National police Force and com missioner m. J. Nadon has indicated he is prepared to play a leading role in its evolution the ramp said in a statement Friday night. Members of the Force also had accepted the divisional representative program As a vehicle for airing their grievances. The program which has existed for several years elects representatives from each Divi please see ramp Page 4 today War popular. 22 Wallaby shoot out 19 classified 30 to 48 comics a deaths 2 finance 12 to 15 Jumble 33 movies 7 sports 23 to 29 television women 1c 9 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total Quebec bus toll 13 baie St. Paul que. Up a picnic excursion ended in tragedy saturday when a bus carrying elderly persons from la Tuque plunged co feet into a Ravine killing 13 persons and injuring 31. Reports that a 14th Passen Ger had died from injuries could not be confirmed by que provincial police or Hospi Tal authorities late sunday. The Accident occurred when the brakes it the bus failed on a Steep Hill a App spokesman said sunday. The dead were identified As Benoit Lafontaine 67 Pierre Jeffrey 69, Leandre Moisan 74 mrs. Joseph Lapointe 90 Martha Vertefuille 67, mrs. Joseph Boivin 69 Lucienno t r e in b 1 a y 72 Louise a s e n e a u 11, 71 mrs. Henri Hamel it Blanche Bordeleau 69 Anita Boilvin age in please see Quebec Page 4 looking for a mini Bike this want and under motor cycles 87 mini Bike Rupp scamper condition 4100. 334 2114. 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. Spokesman said. The trailing car went into the West ditch and the Driver escaped with minor injuries. The spokesman said the Driver a juvenile was licensed to operate the vehicle. The four bodies were taken to St. Boniface Hospital. The spokesman said an autopsy has been ordered. In the other Accident a Motorist was to appear in Provin Cial judge s court monday in connection with the death of one Man and the injury of an other. Tiie second Man who has not been identified was reported in Good condition monday in the health sciences Centre with two broken legs and a please see Brothers Page 4 Indian Leader restates Kenora plight by Joe Dupuis. Kenora ont. Up on Tario Cabinet ministers touring the Northwest part of the prov Ince heard a stirring plea sat urday from an Indian Leader for a plan of action to pre vent what he said might be rampant destruction and Vio Lence by Kenora s disenchanted ojibway population. I have a feeling the Situa Tion is getting out of Robert major representing a reserves belonging. To grand Council 3, said in an interview afer delivering Hie Brief to government leaders. Most of the complaints of the Community s Indian problem had been heard before. But Kenora mayor s. N. Davidson minced no words in his Brief saying the problem has become worse and the Council could not Cape with it alone. To h e human degradation that results from the abuse of alcohol alone is plainly evident on the main Street of Kenora and along the the mayor told the seven ministers headed by Margaret Birch provincial Secretary Tor social development. Why do humans of any race or condition of life in this wealthy province of Ontario cat from garbage he said the indians whom he described As the Public inebriated drink cheap fortified wine obtained at the main Street outlet of the on Tario liquor control Board in great the result was defecation urination and copulation in Public As Well As assorted acts of violence fires of unknown origins natural deaths from exposure suicides and murders. These Are symptoms of a moral pollution that deserve More attention than All the efforts now being made to eliminate sources of environmental pollution of our air Waterways and the mayor said. Police picked up per sons a year for drunkenness. He said an All out Effort was needed by the Best brains in Hie but he had no proposals for the ministers. Please Sec Indian 4 ;