Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Every weekend weekend Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine Schreyer plays it Cool please see Page 15 final edition fitness Why swedes Are More fir than the average Canadian . Slave Trade the Way they dealt with paupers summer1 shapes bikinis and one piece suits world jump Auto record Page 2 8 Page 12 Page 14 Good Bye Rupert River Page 18 everyday faces on to Page 24 and in the Leisure Magazine father s Day f poet of the North Gimli car race. Participation is the aim Winnipeg narrow View 10 Manitoba the social benefits. To Washington election Issue 11 on the other hand More vigilance required 1 combining youth and age. 12, 13 Ottawa comfortable mandarins 14 London country less embassies .15 Medicine Community clinics 15 inquiry into bugging italian flavor. Regular features word Wise 2 Horoscope 2 sportsman 4 it happened Here 4 the Herron Folk 5 your Antiques 7 Church Newt 8, 9 the Garden Wall 16 stamp1 collector 16 Chickadee notes 17 the Ethric press 17 at the zoo is about cars 19 Book reviews 20, 21 Sketchbook 22 our picturesque past 22 world of now music. 23 crossword 23. In the paper to radio diary Winnipeg free press vol. 81 no. 15 cents 20c with coloured comics saturday june 8, 1974 Cloudy periods 65 and 40 and elsewhere comics Lumble winners 14 entry form 87 Puzzle 48 Bridge news .13 classified 45 08, 78 85 comics 86, 87 Community Calendar 18 deaths 8 finance. To 43 letters 18, 75 movies 19 night beat 27 Keal estate and you 14 sports g9 to 74 travel 16, 77 women 28 to 32 youths Cne Stanfield raps housing proposals Grant to Home buyers pm by Stephen Scott the Canadian press prime minister Trudeau unveiled phase three of the liberals housing proposals Friday night at about the same time As progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield was criticizing it. Under proposals announced at a rally in Hamilton ont legislation would be proposed under which a tax free Grant would be available for first time buyers of moderately i iced new Homes. How or. Stanfield knew of the. Proposal so fast is not known but at an Ottawa rally he said the Grant will make Little difference. He said the prime minister has bombed out three limes on housing and added you know i get the feeling that the government is living in another world. 1 realize that the government is hard up for policy but t did t know they were quite so please see i500 Page 6 Asper wants report Liberal Leader Izzy Asper of Manitoba has demanded the provincial government release the report of the Chruchill Forest industries inquiry As soon As possible. In an angry outburst in the Manitoba legislature Friday night or. Asper suggested the report has already been read by the news Media and suggested the government is sit Ting on it. Premiered Schreyer replied the government has no intention of sitting on the report and would release it As soon As it was printed providing it would t prejudice any Crimi Nal proceedings. T h e Premier said if a Rhodes Smith the inquiry commission chairman had any reservations about Public re lease of the report the govern ment would take his words under if there is no problem we will release it. But if we Are advised there is a problem we will take the advice under the Premier told a press conference earlier Friday thai the government wants to avoid making the report which is scheduled for completion about the end of june an Issue in the july 8 Federal election. At the the press conference the Premier also said he would seek the advice of or. Smith about when the report should be made Public or. Asper suggested the government is stalling and said a continues please see aspe1c Page g no Branch lines will go if Lang Shaunavon sask. Up Justie minister Otto Lang told a Public meeting Friday night that if the Liberal government is re elected not one railway Branch line on the Prairies will be abandoned As Long As producers deliver to elevators on the line and the elevators continued to operate. In what was billed As a major transportation policy an or. Lang min ister responsible Lor the Cana Dian wheat Board said the government provides Mil lion a year in subsidies to the Grain handling system. He said much of the subsidy is required to offset part of the Cost of rail shipment from country elevators. He said the Federal govern ment also will pay a transportation Premium for each Bushel of Grain delivered to an elevator that permits More efficient rail service. The producer will be Given the Choice of delivering As he has in the past to the local country Federal subsidy will keep the rail ser vice he will also Able to deliver to an Eleva Tor that reduces rail costs and receives a transportation Premium for each Bushel Deli larger capacity elevators on mail rail lines involve less hand Ling costs than Small Eleva l o r s scattered Over Branch lines. Or. Lang said opposition charges that the Federal government is planning to acquiesce in wholesale rail line abandonment on the Prairies Are ridiculous. The Only Branch line Ever abandoned i n Saskatchewan was abandoned when we had a conservative government i n Power in Ottawa and a Kcf government in a partial text of his remarks was released before delivery. Close race possible in 91 Ridings workers reject offers Edmonton up workers at two of Alberta s meat packing plants overwhelmingly rejected contract offers Friday sending Hopes for a Quick settlement Down and Slaughter cattle prices up. Employees at the Canada packers Ltd. And Swift Canad an co. Ltd. Plants in Leth Bridge members of the Cana Dian food and Allied workers Union turned Down a wage in crease of an hour Over two years plus fringe benefits. The offer negotiated by mediator Bill Dickie Ontario Dep Uty labor minister was made to the Union by the two Compa Nies and Burns food Ltd. The three firms locked out workers june 5, saying they were unable to operate without an assured labor sup ply. This resulted in the shut Down of eight of the province s 17 meat packing plants. The companies have threat ened to lock out about employees nationally if the Dis Pute is not resolved by june 15. Please see workers Page 7 by Vic Parsons Ottawa up for some Cabinet ministers and. More than one third of All maps the july 8 Federal election promises a particularly hard Battle if narrow margins of Victory in the last vote Are any Indica Tion. A Survey of 1972 election re sults shows that 91 seats were won with pluralities of 10 per cent or less. Of these 27 were no justification for Legal action an investigation by the Manitoba attorney general s depart ment has found no justification for criminal or other Legal action against three civil ser vants accused earlier Lhi-3 year of conflict of interest in land dealings in Assiniboine Forest Park. Miller tabled a report of the investigation Friday in the legislature. It established that certain parcels of land were acquired by Terry Moslo Way an appraiser the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation Park area. In the proposed All purchases of the lands in question were made after the proposal to develop the Park became Public. The acquisitions there fore do not appear to have been made by reason of or pursuant to some special information derived by or. Mosto Ivon by margins of two per cent or less. The issues and candidates competing for Public attention May have changed in this Campaign. But these 91 seats based on 1972 returns Are Vul n e r a b 1 e and might decide which party will form the gov irn men. The Survey of 1072 results done by journalism professor Joseph Scanlon of Carleton University in Ottawa shows How tenuous party holds Are on Many Ridings. When the results turn from these Ridings might give a firm indication of political trends. The marginal Ridings Proba Bly will see More intense campaigning than other constituencies. They were chosen by or. Scanlon solely on the basis of 1972 election results. He con please see close Page g pour in election night overs in Early returns Sisters end strike London a Irish Sisters Dolours and Marion Price have taken their first voluntary meal in 205 Days ending a prison hunger strike which threatened to provide he Irish Republican movement with its newest martyrs. Unconfirmed reports said w o other hunger strikers Hugh Feeney and Gerald Kelly jailed along with the Price Sisters for an Irish be publican army bombing raid in London also broke their fasts. The government announce ment of the Sisters decision came late Friday As Irish re publicans were holding an emotional requiem mass for Michael Gaughan an Ira member who. Died monday while on prison hunger strike. Please see Sisters Page 7 Pat Hearst vows fight until death los Angeles Appa denounced her family s photo a Gerry Cairns Jamie Cameron sits ready to handle anyone who plays the wrong Way in this Windsor school re creation of an Early Frontier Saloon. At the card table with Amie left to right Are Bruce ried and Jeoff Ward while waiter Harvey winks stands ready with a modest libation. The Saloon is one of a number of ways the school celebrated Winnipeg s Centennial this week. For another Way please see Page 3. Ricia Hearst kidnapped heiress turned gun carrying evolutionary says she fell in Ove with one of her captors and watched on television As levied in a shootout with Poce. Miss Hearst said in a taped message from the underground Friday that she and her comrades watched televised overage of a blazing gun Bat be Between sym ionese Liber Tion army Sla members Jid los Angeles police May 17. members died. In the tape sent to radio Sta Ion a pfc miss Hearst pro Essed her love for the Sla older named believed o be 23-year-old William Volfe one of those who died. It s so hard to explain what was like watching our of rads miss Hearst Aid. It made me mad to see he pigs looking at our comrades w e a p o n s to see hem holding cujo s .45 and his Vatch which was still ticking be would have laughed at that. I died in that fire on 54th it reel but out of the ashes of 11 was reborn. I know what 1 have to do. My comrades in t die i miss Hearst who was kid napped by the Sla on feb. 4 and now Calls herself Tama vowed she would rather die Han return to her family. She she spoke in a quiet voice laced with profanity. Please see Hearst Page 6 15.5% favor French Montreal up Only 15.5 per cent of Quebe cers favor making French the prov Ince s Only official language Vith no recognized status for English says a poll commissioned by Siree daily newspapers two French and one eng Lish language. The poll appearing today in the Gazette be Devoir and Quebec City s be Soleil shows 42 per cent of those questioned thought both English and French should remain official languages and 40.5 per cent said French should be the official language with English recognized As a second Lan Guage. The random Sample poll was conducted by Telephone be tween May 29 and May 31 by the Quebec Institute of Public opinion. The Institute said of the persons polled please see 15.n% Page 7 legislature highlights Asper demands release of cf1 report Page 1 no action taken in Park Case. Page 1 dal care centres demonstrate Page 5 reduce tax a horse races says my Gojii Page 5 Slop Garrison now Craik Page 5 mosquitoes get Green too Page 14 human rights Bill gels Basic of Page 14 withdraw insurance Bill Asper Page 14 trading Bill debated. Page 14 10 Bills get final nod Page 21 Treasury branches opposed Page 21 Nixon warned to co operate Washington a pres ident Richard Nixon risks appropriate procedures under the contempt statues by refusing to allow full Access to White House documents wanted in the so called plumbers trial . District judge Gerhard Gesell said Friday. Gesell in a lecture to the president s chief lawyer James St. Clair said Nixon s shielding of the material Bor Ders on obstruction of i Don t think he understands the consequences of what he is said Gesell of the pres when it might be released to the Public is Uncertain. At the Gesell hearing the judge said Nixon and St. Clair had under ident. In nearby courtroom meanwhile judge John Sirica lifted the secrecy on a grand jury report that is known to in clude the president s name on a list of a indicted co conspirators in the cover up of the a t c r g a t e political espionage scandal. The material is in the hands of the United states supreme court however and broken an agreement which defence lawyers would be Able to accompany John Ehrlichman in a review of Handwritten notes Ehrlich Man left behind at the White House. Rebuking St. Clair Gesell said when you make a commitment in open court Yogi make it to me. You broke the White House policy of n a r r o w 1 y limiting Ehrlich Nian s Access to materials he May need for a fair trial is totally Gesell said. It Borders on in the plumbers Case Ehr Lichman g. Gordon Liddy and two others Are accused in the 1971 break in at the office of or. Lewis Fielding the califor Nia psychiatrist treating Peu please see judge Page i flood prone areas eligible for Aid flood prone areas around Lake Winnipeg the Winnipeg River system Lake Dauphin and the West Side of Lake Manitoba including Many cot Tage and recreational areas will be eligible for flood com pens a lion premiered Schreyer of Manitoba announced Friday. However although Perma nent Homes suffering flood damage in the area will receive full compensation most summer cottages will be Eligi ble for no More than the maximum for buildings consid ered appurtenant to a dwell ing the main area of damage is expected to be the South end of Lake Winnipeg where a combination of an expected Lake level of 718 feet above sea level and wind and wave action is expected to damage not Only summer cottages but also a number of permanent Resi Dences. The provincial government please see some Page 6 lightning strikes 5 girls in Park Urban affairs minister Saul Way As an employee of the Manitoba housing and renewal Torrastan Ltd., a Corpora Tion launched by or. Mosto Way and Stanley Swiderski formerly on the corporation s Board of directors and now its Legal counsel no longer exists. Please Sec no Page 6 looking for a piano this want and under Musi Cal instruments 06 apartment sized piano and Bench excellent condition firm 469-7521. 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 Esther Tennenhouse free press staff writer two girls were in Hospital saturday one still in guarded condition As a result of being struck by lightning Fri Day in Kildonan Park. Three of their schoolmates who were also struck escaped serious injury. It was a big White sort of one said later. The Shock which threw the girls into the air was sudden and apparently painless. Jodie Nicenko 13, of 421 thames Avenue who was admitted to Hospital in guarded condition remained in intensive care saturday in Gen eral Centre. One of her four companions Linda Schulha 14, of 538 Castle Avenue reported in fair condition in general Centre. Jennifer Church 12, of 740 Union Avenue Catherine Bis sell 13, of 728 Martin Avenue and Judy. Harrison 13, of 111 Grey Street suite 209, were taken to Hospital but allowed to leave. The girls who were attend ing an Elmwood Junior High school Outing were running across the North Field together when the lightning Bolt struck i watching students saw a Flash descend and said the girls flew up in the a West Kildonan police Constable said. Sec lightning 8 ;