Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 216 i Petts me with Ullin lib coloured comics tuesday june 11, 1974 Sunrise . . . Moonset . Mainly sunny 35 and 70 jobless figure up.2 5.5 rate halts seven month trend by Bud Jorgensen Ottawa up unemployment Rose during May to 5.5 per cent from 5.3 in april and a seven month trend of rising employment Levels was Stop Ped statistics Canada re ported today. The Atlantic Region was har dest hit among areas of the country and among age groups Young men had the largest in crease in unemployment. Statistics Canada does not separate the 1 effect of students entering he labor Force on seasonally adjusted unemployment Levels and evidence is mixed on How much student unemployment is in the higher level for Young men. T h e highest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was combined with a slight drop in the proportion of the Popula Tion actively seeking work. Actual unemployment to talled which was 5.4 per cent of the in the work Force. The percentage of actual unemployed was Down from six per cent in april. A drop in actual unemployment is Normal for tills time of year and sea Sonal adjustments account for these variations. The actual rate in april 1973, was 6.3 Pel cent and in May 1973, it was 5.3 per cent. Two years ago the april to May change was from 0.8 per cent to 6.2. Please see jobless Page 4 Edgar Reiprich 17, of Scarborough orif., who went to the soviet Union with legs Para lazed five months ago returned Home with feel ing in his legs monday. His father Herbert Mother Stephanie and Nephew Karsten Haecker were at the Toronto Airport to Greet him. Please Sec report on Page 4. Experts unanimous housing plans under fire Ottawa up heal is t a i e agents and mortgage lenders have adopted a Pla gue on All your houses approach to housing proposals by the Liberal progressive conservative and new democratic parties in the Federal election. They say some of tiie suggestions May help a Little in a few cases but arc unlikely to have a significant Impact on the current housing Market. Coast Grain goal missed up rail head Lewis criticizes other suggestions by Petek Lloyd the Canadian press David Lewis s two chief opponents were out of the electorate s sight monday but not out of the new democratic parly Leader s mind As he pushed them Over their respect live housing policies. Prime minister Trudeau re charging his political batteries in Ottawa was the main target of or. Lewis who said the newly announced Liberal hous ing policy is a deliberate at further election coverage on Page 8 tempt to mislead thousands of Young canadians speaking to supporters in new Westminster ., he said the program is so out of touch with reality it is More than just it represented an attempt to mislead Young canadians into thinking something is actually going to be done to make it possible for them to own a Home or rent a reasonably priced or. Lewis s criticism was aimed at or. Trudeau s announcements last week that a Liberal government would provide Grants to first time Home buyers 95-per cent mortgages for Low and Middle income persons buying their first Homes and no tax on interest on savings of up to for Down payment on a first Home. The nip Leader said All that can be said about the propos als is that Trudeau has had to admit that Sif years of lib eral government have totally failed to meet the housing progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield s hous ing stand is even worse or. Lewis said. The conservatives were unable to come up with a policy because there Are far Loo Many developers and Mort Gage and financial directors associated with the tory like or. Trudeau or. Slan Field spent monday in Ottawa away briefly from Campaign ing for the july 8 general elec lion. However his parly s Auli inflation proposals continued to draw fire from political opponents and a member of his own party suggested or. Stan Field May be partly to blame Tor misinterpretation of the policy. Please see Lewis Page 5 some of the proposals have serious draw they Sug Gest. Replying to criticism by mortgage lenders of the recently announced Liberal Mort g a g e policy Urban affairs minister Hon Basford said in Ottawa monday lenders prefer a traditional mortgage Market which is built for the upper part of the but the government was try ing to shake up the. Housing Market so that More Low and medium priced Homes were available. This was the Pur pose of the Liberal plan requiring Low Dow payments for moderately priced housing with High Dow payments reserved for expensive Homes. Conservative Leader Roberl Clanfield and nip Leader David Lewis have scoffed at Liberal plans to provide More mortgage Money for moderately priced Homes expand the assisted Home ownership pro Gram shop and offer Cash Grants to first Lime please see Aid Page 5 so much for housing now where s the next Margaret was t Welcome at All Vancouver up mar Garet Trudeau got a rousing Welcome from an Assembly of High school students but was abruptly refused entry to a senior citizens housing Complex when she went election campaigning monday. She spent an hour helping Vancouver Sun columnist Simma Holt drum up Liberal support in the new democratic party territory of Vancouver King Sway where mrs. Holt is the Liberal candidate. Mrs. Trudeau and mrs. Holt called mainly on householders hut also stopped at Killarney secondary school and the fair Haven senior citizens housing development. The time of the Visil to the school was perfect but it could t have been worse at see Margaret Bage 4 the possibility of meeting Grain movement targets has reached the Point of no re turn at Vancouver and is at a knife s Edge at Thunder Bay Ian d. Sinclair chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian Pacific Ltd., said monday. At the present time unfortunately because of labor prob lems at the West coast Termi Nal elevators the Grain is nol 6% Gas increase sought the greater Winnipeg Gas company has asked the Mani Toba Public utilities Board 1 or a six per cent Price increase which if approved could add a year to the average Householder s Bill. Austin Paul ral hic pres ident of the company told the opening hearing of the Board tuesday the company Felt impelled to seek the increase be cause it has been exposed to Strong inflationary and added that annual payroll costs have jumped 28.7 per _ to from a Gas company spokesman said that if approved the in continued please Sec 6% Page 4 slow Yule Prince George Up the Post office is currently bringing christinas cheer to area residents but it s a Little Lale. A bag containing about pieces of Christmas mail for Prince George from All Over the world was recently discovered in the mail bag depository in Scarborough ont. The depository is used to store empty mail bags. Mail in the bag was All postmarked last december. We Are very said local postmaster Bob Dumas. Being handled. Because of this slowdown the targeted move ment of Grain through Van Couver cannot possibly be or. Sinclair said at a press conference. The loss of Grain movement Over the past three weeks Wilh no improve ment in sight will be impossible to make up before the end of the crop year on Tilly 31. At Thunder Bay there is 66 million bushels of Grain in storage a greater amount than had been at Thunder Bay at the opening of navigation. This is 10 million bushels beyond Thunder Bay s proper operating capacity of 55 million Bush Els he said. If there is a dramatic improvement in the next couple of Days at this port and enough ships begin arriving so that a great output of Grain can be made the Canadian wheat Board target for Thunder Bay May be met. But a break Down at Thunder Bay will obviate the possibility of meeting the targets at either or. Sinclair added. As a result of the situation up s rail feel is not being fully company has at present cars backed up All the Way to the farms. Up please see coast Page 4 better today Iii . Progressively improving Sherbrooke que. Up governor Gen eral Jules Leger s Condi t i o n continued to prove today after he spent a restful night re covering from a stroke he suffered saturday. Roger Nantel an aide said doctors at the University of Sherbrooke Hospital informed him the governor general has had a Good night and every thing is progressing to their the aide described the go Vernor general As having fighting spirit and said he sat up in bed and even helped himself i eating some of his or. Leger was moved out of the Hospital s intensive care unit and into u private room of his own monday As his Condi Tion passed what doctors de scribed As the first critical 48 hour period. There has been no mention of further tests or. Nantel said. Other aides to the governor general have said that or. Leger is Able to recognize members of his family but re fused to say whether his left Side is paralysed or whether he can speak. Or. Robert Sickert of the famed Mayo clinic in Rochester minn., was flown in sunday for consultations on the Case but has since departed. Darkest hour in 28 years crisis grips Italy after govt. Quits Rome a the resignation of Premier Mari Ano Rumor plunged Italy into a political vacuum today compounding the country s worst economic crisis since the second world War. Rumor quit monday night after the socialist party the no. 2 faction in his coalition government and the Trade unions refused to go along with Ilis proposals for an austerity program of Light credit and higher taxes to stave off a Lional bankruptcy. It was the second Centre left coalition leaded by Rumor to collapse n 11 months. The current government the Oil tax Rise Green by Carol Partridge free press legislative reporter proposed legislation which would increase provincial taxes on crude Oil at the wellhead and provide the government with about million in additional Revenue was outlined monday by resources minister Sidney Green of Manitoba. In introducing Bill 85, amendments to the Mineral taxation act for second read ing or. Green said it would give oilmen a fair return for their product and give govern ment the financial capacity to reduce retail gasoline prices by about two cents a gallon. The minister said the in creased taxes on crude Oil would provide the government with about million which it would use to Cushion the effect of recent increases in motor fuels at the pump. He termed the proposed crude Oil tax modest saying a sliding scale would be used to determine the rate allowing please see Oil Page 4 36th in Post War Italy lasted Only three months. President Giovanni Leone asked humor and his Cabinet o continue in office As a care taker regime until a new government is formed. The pres ident was expected to Start consultations with political leaders today in search of a new Premier. Please see italian Page policemen to face assault charges by Brian Blo Sime free press courts reporter charges of assault and improper use of firearms against four inner City police consta Bles Are expected to be dealt with some time this month by Gnu shows 1.7% real growth by Bud Jorgensen Ottawa up a Statis tics Canada report shows the Economy was As far ahead As the United slates was behind during the first Quarter. Real growth of 1.7 per cent in Gross National product total value of goods and services produced by the pushed the season looking for a truck camper 1 this want and under Camp ers 83 truck camper United son Skyline 1971, fully equip Ped mounted on 1971 Chiev. Ton truck Miles reason Able. 772-7809. 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. Ally adjusted annual rate to billion. The continued expansion of the Canadian Economy contrasted sharply with preliminary estimates of first Quarter developments in the uni cd slates where real Gross National product declined by 1.5 per cent following three quarters of relatively Small percentage the inflation component was 3.2 per cent As Gnu grew by 4.9 per cent compared with a fourth Quarter increase of 4.4 per cent. But during the of real growth was 2.6 per cent and the inflation component 1.8 per cent Strong consumer spending and a bullish investment pro Gram by business have combined to create the expansion. Among major Industry groups wages and salaries in manufacturing had the smal please see Gnu Page 5 France closes atoll for nuclear testing Paris Router France closed off the remole muru Roa atoll in French polynesia today in preparation for its series of nuclear Icsis in the Pacific. The series is the last Franco will hold in the atmosphere be fore going underground on a neighbouring atoll next year. France began testing nuclear weapons 14 years ago in the Sahara but in 1966, under pres sure from Algeria the Paris government transferred its lest site to the Pacific where Early British and uni cd slates nuclear tests were carried out. The French less have aroused opposition from Pacific sales especially Australia and new zealand which fear the effects of nuclear fallout. France suspended the 1071 series in apparent deference to objections from Peru with whom an arms Deal was then pending. Pro less increased last year when new zealand Send a ship toward the Lesl zone and the Canadian protest yacht Green peace Iii was towed away from the area. Please see France Page 4 today bus inc report 21-30 Day one. 51 classified 31 to 42, 43 to 50 comics 8a, 9a deaths 6 Jumble 31 movies sports .51 to 55 television 10 women. 14 to 18 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total West Berlin frees Arab guerrillas West Berlin Reuler two palestinian Arab guerrillas were released from jail Here monday and expelled to Egypt following threats of terrorist attacks on the _ world cup soccer matches in West Germany this week. Announcing the decision monday Justice senator Horst Korber told a news conference that secret service sources had warned authorises Here of terrorist plans to free the guerrillas a Salem and Mohamad Zaher. The two were sentenced to three and four years respectively on april 22 for possess ing explosives and planning bomb attacks on israeli institutions in West Berlin. Korber said the world cup beginning thursday had played a not a Cen trial one in his decision to re please Sec w. Berlin Page 4 the inner City police commis Sion. Councillor Robert Sleen commission chairman said monday the commission would like to1 make a decision on the charges by june 28. The com Mission still has to hear Ings on the charges. He said the charges against the four constables were Laid Aboul two weeks ago by acting chief John c. Webster after an investigation by the police de p a r t m e n t into allegations against the constables. Coun. Sleen said the proce Dure is for a citizen to make a complaint to the chief against a member of the department. The chief then orders an hives see policemen Page 4 Lucien Lamoureux speaker of the House of commons who has been appointed ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. Please Sec report on Page bicycle Plant to grow by Johanna Powell free press staff writer a million expansion pro Gram was announced monday by Sekine industries co. Ltd. For its bicycle Plant at Rivers Man. The expansion is expected to provide 75 new jobs in the company which employs 80 per cent indians now. Indians will make up 75 per cent of the work Force at the Rivers Plant when the company reaches its sales target of million a year and Peak production with 200-person work Force com Pany officials said h. C. Paul Sekine Board chairman who announced the expansion at a press Confer ence also announced the appointment of or. Ahab Spence Manitoba Indian brotherhood president to the Hoard of Sekihe Canada Ltd. Please see bicycle Page 5 Kissinger May resign Salzburg Austria a United Stales Sale Secretary Henry Kissinger said today lie will resign unless the Eon Iro Versy Over his role in a Lional Security wire tapping is cleared up. His voice breaking with Emo Tion Kissinger said the controversy is hurting . Foreign policy. I do not believe it is Possi ble to conduct the foreign policy of the United sales under these he told a news conference. If it is not cleared up i will Kissinger his eyes glistening with tears said leaks to the news Media have defamed his Lionor and reputation. It is not possible to conduct National policy under this sort of he said in deliver big his threat to quit. The Nobel prize winning dip please see Kissinger Page 5 legislature reports govt. Proposes tax on crude Oil politics for civil servants approved Page .1 lending groups oppose consumer Bill Page j Deer Hunting ban considered i affy 8 pros and of helmets before committee Page 7 rights penalties advocated i age 19 ;