Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 217 20c with coloured comics wednesday june 12, 1974 a unrest . Sunset . Moon Row Moonset 1 09 . Mostly sunny 40 and 75 threat to quit brings action Kissinger is promised j f Washington special tons the Senate foreign relations committee confronted with Secretary of state Henry Kissinger s threat to resign agreed tuesday to review his role in the Fri wiretapping of 17 government officials and newsmen most committee member and several other congressional leaders expressed sup port for the Secretary and urged him not to resign. I would hate to see him re sign Over a matter like said sen. J. W. Fulbright d chairman of the com Mittee. But some members of the House judiciary committee insisted again tuesday that Evi Dence gathered in its impeach ment committee indicated that his denials had initiated some of the 17 wiretaps that began in 1969. The foreign relations com Mittee set no Date for its re View of the Case. Or. Kis Singer who had requested the review is not expected to re turn from Lus trip abroad until june 19 at the earliest. Meanwhile senators Maine at Odds with the Justice department Over certain i by documents which it is believed could shed some Light on Hie accuracy of testimony in which or. Kissinger said under oath he had not proposed any of the wiretaps. Please see Kissinger Page 5 Packer staffs vote Union locals at two of Winnipeg s three packing houses have voted in favor of a National wage offer from the companies. However the vote is Only part of a National response to the companies proposal. Ballot results have been Tele phoned to the Toronto Hajj of fice of the Union the Canadian food and Allied workers. Union sources Here have declined to release local ballot figures for publication but the Winnipeg results Are known to be Canada packers Ltd., 65 per cent in favor of accept Lance Burns foods Ltd., 52 per cent against acceptance Swift Canadian co., 60 per cent in favor of acceptance. The National vote by allem Plo yees who Are members of the Union at All plants of the three packers throughout Canada Are Canada packers 52 per cent for a c c e p t a n c e Burns 64 per cent against acceptance and swifts 55 per cent against acceptance. The companies have locked out the Union in Alberta be cause they said with a Sti Ike threat hanging Over their please see local Page 9 Leger on the mend by Gerry Flaherty Sherbrooke que. Up governor general Jules Leger spoke to members of his family tuesday and an said later that the 61-year-old head of state had made Marrable Progress in the last 24 hours. Roger Nantel said he visited he governor general and noticed remarkable although i m not a he said or. Leger was sealed on a Couch when he saw him and was Able to feed him self. Or. Nantel said that it is too difficult and too Early for doctors to determine whether or. Leger will recover com lately from a stroke suffered saturday but he described him s being in fighting As it frequently happens in his sort of Case there is some Peech difficulty but there has Een Progress with this difficulty in regard to the Gover aides have indicated he suf cred some paralysis of his left land. Or. Nantel said or. Leger spoke to his wife and to his daughter mme. Helen fre Chette of trois Hivie res que. Earlier in the Day mme. Leger smiled at a photographer As she was leaving the medical Centre at the University of Sherbrooke follow ing a visit with her husband. Please see Leger Page 5 one of the finalists in West Kildonan s 5th annual bicycle safety Rodeo for elementary school Stu dents was seven year old Robert Farle sch a. Grade 2 student at r. F. Morrison school. As part of the Rodeo Robert s bicycle received a safety Check from Constable de Finney. Students from 15 schools participated. Meeting with Sadat called turning Point in history from a Reuter Cairo up president Nixon said today that his meet ing with egyptian president Anwar Sadat May be remembered As one of the great turning Points in history which affect the american Leader was speaking from the Balcony of the Kebbeh Palace soon after arriving Here to a tumultuous Welcome from hundreds of thousands of shouting cheering egyptians. Nixon said the visit is to work for economic Progress and for a peace which is permanent and just and without peace there can be no Progress and without Progress there can be no peace Nixon told his egyptian Host. Rules will affect Bourassa family by Dennis Trudeau Quebec up Premier Robert Bourassa announced rules for his Cabinet tuesday that could Force his wife and brother in Law to sell their shares in a business forms firm that has received More than million in government contracts since 1970. The directives tabled at a committee hearing tuesday night will require All Cabinet ministers to provide a Public legislature reports Treasury branches approved in principle Page 1 Northern affairs Bill gets second Reading Page 4 4 hoist motion fails on trading corporation Bill Page 15 general insurance Bill approved in principle Page 17 list of their land and financial holdings and those of their spouses and minor children every aug. 1. They also forbid private companies in which ministers or their immediate families hold shares from Selling to the government or receiving government Loans or subsidies and forbid ministers from engaging in real estate speculation. With the combined disclosure and ban on business the directives go farther than almost All other conflict of interest rules or legislation in Canada or. Bourassa said. An immediate of the directives will be that tourism minister Claude Simard the Premier s brother in Law will have to sell his shares in Para gon business forms a com Pany controlled by a Simard family holding company if it if to continue receiving govern rent contracts. Please see rules Page 9 Nixon said will Cement the foundations of a new relationship Between two great president Sadat welcoming his guest said he is confident the visit will be a Milestone in shaping United states egyptian relations on a sound and solid the egyptian Leader said the Challenge which faces them is whether to substitute the cease fire now achieved in the mid dle East with a just and Dura ble peace. Nixon is paying the first visit to Egypt by a . President since 1943, symbolizing the startling change in relations Between the two countries since the october War. Nixon received one of the most enthusiastic welcomes Ever Given to a foreign Leader Here. He stood and waved be Side president Sadat As they please see Nixon Page 5 few nurses 38 Beds lost by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter Art Hodgkinson administrator of the Winnipeg municipal hospitals said wednesday the institutions Are losing nurses so quickly that there is no Hope of replacing them with summer Relief staff and two entire wards will have to be within the next few a development nobody really has a definitive answer or. Hodgkinson said in an interview. Closed weeks. It s Ginter men voting strike May end brewery Purchase considered the 22 workers at Uncle Ben s breweries Manitoba Ltd who went on strike june 5 for More pay were to vote wednesday on whether to return to their jobs. There is also a possibility they will buy the brewery after All from Ben Ginter the owner. John Slobodian business manager for the Union in Winnipeg when asked wednesday at out a possible return to work at Uncle Bens declined to be specific. There is something in the offing but i m not in a position to say too much about the thing. They will be taking a vote today As to whether they go Back to work. An investigation of the Plant will be taken during a period of time 10 Days if the men go Back to work. Or. Slobodian would t elaborate on please see Ginter Page 5 All we can say is that it has something to do with Resig nations because people want to stay with their families during the summer months and with leaves of absence by nurses who Are single and decide to spend Hie next weeks and months travelling Here and about 300 registered and licensed practical nurses work at the municipal hospitals or. Hodgkinson said. By mid april 17 of them had Given notice please see to Page 0 banks9 step nearer a Bill which would allow the provincial government to establish Treasury branches or near Banks was Given Sec Ond Reading approval in principle in the Manitoba legislature tuesday. Despite bitter opposition from progressive conservative and Liberal Las the govern ment majority passed Bill 64, the Treasury branches act in a 26-16 vote. Earlier the government turned Back a conservative motion to postpone for six months second Reading of the Bill in a 25-17 recorded vote. Finance minister Saul Cher in acc said monday the passage of the Bill did not mean the government was no longer interested in participating in a provincial Bank. He said organizers of the proposed North lands Bank a co operative credit Union Ven Ture had turned Down provincial support but the govern ment was still willing to negotiate joint ventures with other groups or provinces. He said the establishment of Treasury branches in Manitoba was still some time in the future but suggested the first one would be in Winnipeg. George Minaker James said the government s entry to the banking business was an attempt to gain control of the Economy at the expense of the Freedom of the people. Please see Banks Page 5 consumer Index up 1.7 per cent Price jump in May hits 2 3-year High by Bud Jorgensen Ottawa up a three per cent jump in May food Price Levels contributed to the highest one month gain in the consumer prices Index in 23 years Statis tics Canada reported today. The May increase of 1.7 per cent in the consumer Price Index was the largest monthly in since the korean Wai period when the Index Rose at the same rate in March 1951. The May All items Index was 10.9 per cent higher than its level of the previous May and the food Index was up 18.3 per cent during the 12-month f period. F it about half the May increase in the consumer Price Index j was due to higher food costs and about one Quarter due to High prices for Petroleum products. Hit on c by Petek Lloyd the Canadian press progressive Leader Robert conservative Clanfield charged tuesday that prime minister Trudeau is two faced on income and Price controls further election coverage on Page 81 while or. Trudeau indicated he will not get bogged Down in criticism Over the Cost of Liv ing. In the Offen Sive of the Day or. Stanfield Guelph ont., the prime min ister is playing the worst kind of politics with the inflation Issue. He accused or. Trudeau. Of contradicting his own Contin gency plans for controls to fight inflation by criticizing please see pm Page 5 the household operation Index was up to two per cent in May and this gain was1 largely due to a 15-per-cent average increase in fuel Oil costs. Higher gasoline prices initiated in May accounted for about four fifths of the 1.7-per cent Rise in the transportation Index. Beryl plump re chairman of the food prices review Board had warned Friday in a speech in Quebec City that there would be gloomy news about food prices in the May con Sumer Price Index report. She said it should be noted that the prices surveys Are taken during a week in the month and in the Case of May food prices the Survey de scribes conditions in the first week in the month. Since that time the Rise in Price of Dairy products has been arrested the beef Price situation has stabilized and please see Price Page 9 transportation policy unveiled by Iain Hunter free press correspondent Edmonton prime min ister Trudeau today unveiled the first part of his revised transportation policy designed to improve freight rates rail car Supply and rail Access to ports in Western Canada. The policy he told a press conference Here includes the removal of regional inequities in freight rates to in sure that rates for Shorter hauls shall not be higher than for longer hauls. In place of the existing rail charges based on Competition where it exists on the value of goods transported the establishment of pric ing based on actual haulage costs. Introduction of the transportation information act to provide Ottawa with Access to ail information it needs to for please see transport Page 9 customers misled firm reprimanded looking for a motorcycle this want and under motorcycles 87 Honda Iso Miles Good condition phone 233-0525. 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. A Winnipeg House building firm has been reprimanded by the Public utilities Board of Manitoba for misleading prospective purchasers of its Homes. As Well Greentree Homes Ltd. Has been ordered to pay to cover the costs of investigating complaints against it and for hearings held by the Board into the matter. The reprimand and assess ment of costs against Green tree were made Public tuesday in a decision handed Down by inc Public utilities Board. The Board which is responsible for the administration of the real estate brokers act had held two hearings this Spring into complaints against Greentree for its treatment of buyers. The complaints primarily involved the company and a sub s i d i a r y Pace Homes Ltd., which has since ceased operations Selling Homes to people and misleading them about Possession dates. In its decision the Board please see Board Page 0 unborn Ilar saved after Mother Dies Toronto up doctors at two Toronto hospitals have saved the life of a baby girl born a few hours after her Mother was fatally injured in a car Accident. The Mother Lois Mcrrow 17, of Orono ont., was taken to Toronto general Hospital from Bowmanville following an Accident sunday night in which her sister a Cauich Gail 12, was killed. Doctors at the Hospital examining Lois found her Clini Cally dead but seven months pregnant. They delivered the baby by caesarean Section monday morning. The 4.4-Pound baby was transferred to the Hospital for sick children. Initially a breathing device was needed but by tuesday the baby was breathing on her own. Allan Gerrow father of the two girls involved in the Accident said tuesday he and his wife will adopt the baby. An employee of general motors in nearby Oshawa or. Please Sec baby s Page 9 Lam today Coffee com up you and the Law classified 46 to 67 comics 77, 78 deaths 5 finance 36 to 40 Jumble 49 movies 80 sports 69 to 76 television 79 women 27 to 33 nearly everyone reads the free press ally Zon. Total. Europeans fear . Will use pressure to Back soviet plans for Summit by Ernest Conine London special tons with president Nixon dead set on going through with his sum Mit visit to Moscow at he end of this month europeans Are nervous that . Impeachment politics is about to be played at their expense. Specifically quite a few european officials worry that the Nixon administration is preparing to pressure them into giving in to soviet desires for an Early 35 government Summit spectacular celebrating the successful conclusion of the european Security conference. The trouble is that thanks to soviet intransigence the con Ference is not Success. The conference on Security and co operation in Europe As it is officially known was the brainchild of soviet Leader Leonid i. Brezhnev. He wanted a document which would in effect constitute formal Western recognition of soviet control Over Eastern Europe. He also wanted increased opportunities for Trade and Access to West Ern technology. Most of All perhaps the so Viet Leader wanted to produce the impression that the cold War in Europe is indeed Over that from now on the communist and Western halves of Europe will live happily Ever please see europeans Page 5 ;