Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 4, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 210 15 cents tuesday Iune-4, 1974 Sunrise . Sunset . Aaron Ilsc . Moonset . Becoming sunny 55 and -70 leaders on move across country Ted Cabinet return made pm brings Mackasey by Gerry 30urdeau the Canadian press while other political leaders rested monday new democratic party Leader David Lewis wooed the elusive nip vote in Quebec and received Good news. The Quebec federation a labor the province s largest labor group called on its members to. Support the nip for the july 8 general election. The nip has never elected a member to the commons in in Saint John n.b., just be fore moving on to the Quebec City area monday or. Lewis expressed Delight with a Al s backing. He said it Marks the first time the group has thrown its weight behind the nip in such a specific Way although there has been support prime minister Trudeau who was to move his Campaign to Vancouver today announced the appointment of Bryce Mac Kasey former manpower and immigration minister to the Federal Cabinet. Progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield who completed a six Day tour through Central and Western Canada last weekend went to Montreal today and then to the East coast. Social credit Leader Raoul please see backing Page 4 task Force on govt. By Frances Bidewell free press Urban reporter Canada s three Levels of government Are setting up a National task Force to study pub lit finance the president of the Canadian federation of May ors and municipalities said monday. The first meeting has been set for june 17. Speaking during the opening session of the federation s four Day annual conference Here the president mayor j. W. Bird of Fredericton n.b., said he is convinced the task Force report will substantiate the please see task Page g liquor Law changes of amendments to the liquor control act one of them to allow mixed drinking in Beer Parlours without a local referendum were quickly approved in principle monday in the Manitoba legislature. Few objections were raised by Las to the proposed amendments most of them prompted by a special study of the existing act by or. Edward Hea a University of Manitoba professor. The changes known As Bill 88, will eliminate the need for a local referendum when a hotel keeper wants to change his men Only Beer parlor to a mixed establishment. Allow Beer vendors to re main open until . An extra hour. Ban drinking in Mobile Homes or trailers except when they Are stationary or being used As a residence. Allow the establishment of a duty free liquor store at the Winnipeg International Airport. Allow liquor to be served in private rooms on trains. Allow breweries and win eries to serve their products to employees and guests on the premises. Require that liquor in a motor Home must be kept in a Cabinet away from the Driver unless the vehicle is being used As a residence. Require that liquor car ried in a station Wagon or Hatch Back Model car be car please see liquor. Page 15 Ira hunger striker Dies in . Prison London. A the Irish Republican army accused the British government of callous brutal and premeditated murder today following the death of an Ira member who was on hunger strike in a Brit ish prison. Convicted Bank robber Michael Gaughan 24, died Mon Day night in the top Security Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight after developing pneumonia. He had been fasting since March 31 demanding political prisoner status and Transfer to a prison in North Ern Ireland. Gaughan was the first hunger striker to die in Britain since the death of Terence Mcsweeney the lord mayor of Cork and an Irish Republican Leader ill 1920. Security forces in Northern Ireland braced for new trouble after Gaughan s death but an army spokesman reported no immediate incidents in Retalia Tion. An unidentified Man was found shot to death on a Road Side on the Edge of Belfast but officials said he apparently was killed by sectarian guerrillas. He was the confirmed fatality in nearly five years of religious War in Ulster. The Irish political hostages committee said Gaughan will be buried with full Ira Mili tary honors and demanded an please see hunger Page 4 Back by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa former labor minister Bryce Mackasey was taken Back into the Federal Cabinet monday by prime minister Trudeau who said he was a Strong voice for work ing canadians and was needed in the Cabinet. The Surprise announcement came shortly after 6 . Fol lowing the visit to government House by or. Trudeau and or. Mackasey for the swearing in of the new Cabinet member As administer of he will take on various assignments in different depart ments where his qualifications As a spokesman for the work ing people of the country will be the prime min ister told newsmen curious Over this sudden decision to re appoint or. Mackasey to the Cabinet. Following the disastrous re suits of the election Campaign in october 1972, when the tru Deau government was returned with a Small majority Over the official opposition progressive conservative party there was unhappiness in the Cabinet. Ministers tended to attribute the poor showing at the polls please see Cabinet Page 4 Mackasey rejoins Cabinet Kettle ban coming Calgary up con Sumer affairs i sister Herb Gray announced monday he will Issue regulations thursday Banning immediately the importation advertising and Sale of electric kettles releasing potentially hazardous amount of Lead in boiling water. He told the 27lh annual meet ing of the Consumers association of Canada that the ban would apply to electric kettles made with releasing More than 0.05 parts per million Lead in boiling water considered unsafe by the Feder Al health department. The association itself was de bating a Resolution calling on or. Gray s department to ban the Sale of kettles made with Lead solder and order the re Call of those types of kettles Al ready sold. That Resolution was please Sec Kettle Page 6 Broad Range of coverage govt. Plans general insurance the Manitoba government plans to begin Selling All forms of general insurance next year in Competition with private companies Public insurance minister Bill Uruski said monday. Outlining the government s proposals in the legislature or. Uruski said the province will offer coverage for every thing from fire burglary and property damage to livestock. The minister said the government s entry into the Gener Al insurance Field the Only exceptions and life insurance was prompted by the failure of private insurers to fulfil their obligations of providing adequate coverage at reasonable rates. Or. Uruski made. The com Auto repair the Manitoba government in tends to set up one or More Auto body repair shops to do research on repairing motor vehicles and to Analyse costs Public insurance minister Bill Uruski announced monday. Speaking in the legislature the minister emphasized the repair shops would be set up on an experimental basis Only and would be used exclusively for research. He said the government will seek authority to establish the centres which were being pro posed As a result of costs of vehicle repairs. Rising he said that in aut Opac s 1972-73 fiscal year 65 cents of every Dollar spent by the Manitoba Public insurance Corpora Tion went for repair of motor vehicle damage. Or Uruski s announcement came during the introduction of Bill 83, amendments to the automobile insurance act for second Reading. The act which contains a number of changes to the automobile insurance scheme will be renamed the Manitoba Public insurance corporation act to reflect the government s entry into Gener Al insurance As Well. Please see Auto Page 4 ments during introduction of Bill 83, amendments to the automobile insurance act which will be renamed the Manitoba Public insurance corporation act to reflect the move into the general insurance areas. He said the proposed insurance plan is primarily de signed to assist Rural and smaller Urban insurance agents to find markets and to make a profit just As does any other business. In some instances smaller agents been compelled to approach the Saskatchewan government insurance Corpora Tion for insurance on Mani Toba risks because a competitive Market could not be found in he said the government s entry would Lead to rate stabilization in Rural and in North Ern Manitoba where rates have been inordinately High. That the private insurers had failed to live up to their responsibility was clearly demonstrated by the recent rain storm in Winnipeg in which homeowners experienced prop erty damage As a result of sewer backups he said. Thousands of homeowners please see govt. Page 4 Garrison funds hiked by Peter Buckley Washington up the Garrison irrigation project in h Dakota which threatens .0 damage two Rivers flowing nto Manitoba was Given a Oost in Public funding monday by an important congressional committee an informed source the appropriations commit be of the House of representatives added million to the million requested by the Nixon administration for the controversial project the informant said. There was no pubic announcement of the com Mittee s action. The funds along with other Money approved for the Interi or department Are scheduled for a vote thursday by the full House. The Senate takes up the appropriation later. Congressional observers believe the Senate May provide still More Money for. The project because of the influence of senator Mil ton Young of North Dakota senior Republican member of the Senate appropriations commit tee and an ardent advocate of the Garrison project. Officials of the Interior department s Bureau of reclamation which is responsible for Garrison testified earlier that although their budget request please see Garrison Page 6 shut Down threat boiler men hit proposed change in legislation by Egon Frecie free press legislative reporter a spokesman for about 250 of Manitoba s 500 operating steam engineers threatened monday to shut Down the province if a Bill now before the Legisla Ture to rewrite the legislation for his Trade is passed in its present form. The threat came from George Smith business manager for local 827 of the International association of operating engineers who said in an interview that All Manitoba s steam engineers would shut Down their boilers and go on strike if the Bill were passed. He said such a strike would affect most Large institutions including hospitals and the be Jis Lalive building. A number of other government buildings including the Norquay building the Law courts building the provincial archives and the legislative building Are sup plied with Power and heat from the Central Power House on memorial Boulevard. Or. Smith was one of a number of spokesmen who objected to the Bill at the hear Ings of the legislature s stand ing committee on Industrial re lations. The most strenuous opposition however came from Art Coulter executive Secretary of the Manitoba federation of continued please see shut Page 6 former White House Side Charles Colson accompanied by his wife talks to newsmen out Side . District court in Washington after pleading guilty to a grand jury indictment accusing him of obstruction of Justice. Colson says hell Tell everything Washington a House counsel Charles Colson s desire to Tell everything i know May make him a key figure in the House o f representatives judiciary committee s impeachment in Quiry. Colson s conversations with president Nixon on a number of subjects involved in the in Quiry Are among those tapes the committee has subpoenaed and Nixon has refused to pro vide. He also has played a leading role in White House dealings with the International Tele phone and Telegraph Dairy co Ops and in the activities of the White House plumb e r s the committee begins looking into itt matters today. Colson pleaded guilty Mon Day to a single count of obstructing Justice in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg accused of leaking the Pentagon papers. Under an arrangement with special watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski he will not be prosecuted on three other charges in the Ellsberg Case arid in the watergate cover up. Colson said he agreed to the arrangement so he would be free to Tell everything i know about the watergate and watergate related the 42-year-old lawyer will be sentenced june 21 on a charge that he carried out a plan to defame and destroy the Public image and credibility of Ellsberg. A felony it carries a maximum penalty of please see will Page g Rabin meets new Cabinet 16-year-old boy jailed 13 years the Story of a 16-year-old boy who became a criminal at 11 unfolded monday in court of Queen s Bench when Jamie Vance Baker of no fixed address was sentenced to 13 years in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of Man Slaughter in the stabbing death of a Winnipeg drug addict. The victim David James free in the attracts Toronto s finest Toronto Steve Necheff did what he threat ened to do publicly and gave away free Beer monday. M r. Necheff owner of Uncle Steve s Village restau rant on Queen Street just East of the City s Core said he would give away Beer to Reg ular customers who ordered meals because the liquor licence Board of Ontario la to has rejected several applications for a regular Beer and wine licence. He kept his word monday and police subsequently charged or. Necheff with illegally Selling liquor illegally keeping liquor for Sale and illegally having liquor in a place other than a residence. But the police raid did t come until after to camera in the. Street for footage of a possible raid left the scene and with Only three customers left in the restaurant. Two cases of Beer were confiscated. Please see free Page 6 Bray 22, formerly of 3g5 Ken Nedy Street suite 12, died in his suite As a result of 33 slab wounds inflicted oct. 6 by Baker. In sentencing Baker or. Justice w. Scott Wright said Baker s juvenile record is outrageous. Both Crown counsel h. C. Please see boy Page 4 today business report 17-24 flying tricksters 14 classified to 47 comics. A 9a deaths .-2 Jumble 32 movies 28 sports. 10 to 14 television 27 women 8, s nearly everyone reads the free press cily zone total legislature reports goal. Plans general insurance entry Page i a Lopac repair centres proposed Page 1 liquor act amendments approved i age 1 Public trustees office employees pad expenses Page 3 immigrant teachers discriminated against Page 49 lending agencies must reveal hidden fees gov. Page 49 galloping socialism la Page 49 Tel let answers charges outside committee Page i by the associated press Yitzhak Rabin s new israeli Cabinet holds its inaugural meeting today following its approval by a 61-to-51 vote of Confidence in the israeli Parlia ment. The Knesset accepted the jewish nation s first native born or and his 18-Membcr Cabinet after nearly eight hours of Stormy debate in which conservative hard liners said that the new government was lop heavy with doves. The winning margin was one of the closest on a Confirma Tion vote in israeli history. But it is Likely to be much closer on votes in the future since Habin s coalition numbers Only lil of the 120 Knesset members or a majority of two. Although Rabin is a moderate on relations with the arabs and his Cabinet includes at least four members who considered the previous government s foreign policy too unyielding the new Premier in please see kab1n Page g no Beer shortage seen talks on Bill Houston Secretary manager of the Manitoba Brewers association said tuesday he does t foresee a possible Beer shortage in the province despite a strike which has virtually shut Down la bait s Manitoba brewery i m i t e d and Kiewel Pelissier breweries Ltd. Or. Houston said his to sumption is based on continued operations by the other three big breweries which so far Are producing normally despite the Labatt Kiewel situation. I Don t foresee any prob air. Houston said concerning stocking hotels with Beer. Tuesday morning representative of local 330, United Bre Wery and soft drink workers and company officials reopened negotiations in the Airport hotel in an attempt to Settle the strike by 200 members of the Union which began Midnight sunday. The Union which is sucking a raise of about an hour broke off negotiations when the companies presented a three year contract proposal. Union officials have refused a three year package and Are seeking a one year agreement. Contracts at the three other big breweries Curling breweries Ltd. O Keefe brew please see no Page 15 looking for a bedroom suite this want and Furni Ture 04 7 piece Walnut bedroom sulfa very Good condition. In 562-3711. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. 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