Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg final edition vol. 81 pension raise Ottawa up the Basic old age Security pension will use to from a effective july the health and welfare department announced wednesday night. The maximum guaranteed income supplement for a single person or a married person whose spouse is not a pensioner will Rise to from added to the Basic old age pension this payment will produce a monthly total of the boost is part of the third quarterly increase since the old age pension was pegged to the Cost of living. The maximum supplement for a married couple both pensioners will increase to from added to the Basic pension this will give each pensioner for a combined payment of thursday june 13, 1974 Sun Row . . Moon rom . Moons . Mainly Cloudy 50 and 70 presidents Sadat and Nixon wave to a crowd of 100.000 better facilities vital cancer team to quit City by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter there is a renewed Indica Tion that a number of principal investigators of the Manitoba cancer. Treatment and re search foundation Are getting ready to pack it up and take jobs in More elaborate medical centres on this continent. If the move comes it will be linked to the growing frustration Over delays in expansion plans for the research and treatment Centre on Bannatyne Avenue or. Lionel israels executive director of the foundation said wednesday. The news of the various Job offers major researchers and clinicians in the 12-Man team first revealed by the free press More than a year ago when two of the scientists said they were tempted to move away from Winnipeg was received from Winnipeg Art dealer mrs. Elvie Blum wednesday. Mrs. Blum said in an inter View the cancer specialists have been plastered with written contract offers from major research centres Here in Canada and in the United slates where they would not see researchers Page 10 8 pcs walk out charge closure by Egon Frech free press legislative reporter eight progressive conserva Tive members of the Manitoba legislature walked out of the legislature s Law amendments committee Early thursday morning charging that the government had invoked clo today inner space 12 Nuh t Ark is classified 44 to 03, 75 to 79 comics.80, 81 deaths 20 finance 35 to 40 Jumble 47 movies 32, 33 sports 65 to 74 television 31 women 24 to 27 nearly everyone reads the free press City toll 137.hi sure on a Section of a Bill to Amend the consumer Protection act. The eight including progressive conservative Leader Sid Ney Spivak walked out of the committee at . After labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley the acting govern Man House Leader put a motion to Call the question on Section of Bill 7. The Section was passed Bill immediately after the eight members walked out the com Mittee adjourned on the suggestion of or. Lloyd Axworthy l fort the Only Liberal present who said would in improper to continue without representation f r o a the official opposition. The incident was preceded by an argument Between Harry Shal Ransky nip Radisson and j. Frank Johnston pc Sturgeon Creek Over a possible conflict of interest on the part of or. Johnston. The Section of the Bill in question would make it Manda tory for a Salesman who sold a piece of merchandise and also please Sec 8 pcs Page 7 living costs vexing transportation plans could t hold the stage by Peter Lloyd the Canadian press prime minister Trudeau chose wednesday to unveil Lart of his new. Transportation Ulicy but his announcement Ivas overshadowed on the Cam Laign Trail by the latest details n soaring living costs. Announcement by statistics Canada that the May increase n the consumer Price Index streets packed millions cheer Nixon on tour further election coverage on Page 43 Alexandria up a rapturous crowd estimated at up to a million people roared and cheered a Welcome to president Nixon As he drove through the streets of this ancient port City today. More than two. Million Egypt ans greeted him in Cairo wednesday and it was estimate d that three million lined the Racks As he came Here by rain. Slogans Strung across the t r e e t s of Alexandria pro claimed we Trust Nixon Ong live american egyptian entente keep it up n d More pointedly re number the was the highest in 23 years evoked the wave of criticism or. Trudeau had predicted a please Sec living Page .7 fogging on the City of Winnipeg s can Ker worm and Mosquito Contra program suspended temporarily wednesday in the Light of a recent court judgment was or dered resumed thursday by a civic committee. The spraying was noon wednesday on the in str Elion of civic administrators but civic executive policy committee decided thursday to risk the possibility that a fun please see fogging Page 7 shades of 1912 Toronto up motor Cycle policemen dress a Little differently since George die k e n s o n 94, patrolled the roads 62 years ago. In 1912, when sgt. Dicken 11011 and three other men be came Toronto s first motor Cycle policemen the uniform was a business suit. And or. Dickinson added to it by wearing a Carnation in his Lapel. We wore business suits so we could sneak up on speeders without arousing their suspicion. I thought the Carnation made me look even less like a policeman so a fresh one every when the motorcycle was introduced he did t really need one because the Speed limit was 15 . And he could run 22 . Often sgt. Dickenson Trot Ted up beside a speeding car rapped on the window and pulled the Driver to the Side. Later motorcycles were please Sec shades Page 8 hundreds of thousands of shouting cheering waving peo ple packed the narrow streets of Alexandria so tightly that the presidential car could squeeze through Only with difficulty. President Nixon and his Host president Anwar Sadat stood beside each other in an open car just As they did to drive through the streets of Cairo wednesday. The two leaders had continued their talks during the 314-hour train ride through the Nile Delta from Cairo probing deeper on How peace come to please see millions Page 19 terrorists kill women Tel Aviv a three Arab guerrillas wearing Long Lair and Gaudy headbands to ook like hippie style foreign Volunteer workers slipped across the lebanese Border Oday tilled three women including one from new zealand and wounded three men in an israeli farming settlement officials said. They said an off duty Para Rooper filled two of the terror its and the third blew himself up with his own explosives. In Beirut the popular front or the liberation of Palestine general command claimed responsibility for the attack and said the raid was our reaction o the Nixon visit to the Arab see terrorists Page 8 Gold freeze ends new agreement permits use As collateral Washington special the United tales arid other leading Indus rial nations have agreed in principle that Gold could be sed As collateral for internal Lonal the Treasury announced wednesday. This major breakthrough in effect unfree zing Gold re Erves As Long demanded by 5uropean nations was greeted Vith open Relief in Italy which adjust about run out cred to meet its mounting balance of payments deficit. The Compromise agreement mounting to recognition by he United states first Ime that the official an Unce Erice for Gold is unrealistic was reached tuesday ight at a watergate hotel Din Ier hosted by italian Central Lanker Guido Carli for the so ailed group of it came on the eve of a two a session of the International monetary fund s committee of Wenty which met wednesday to approve a package of in Erim monetary Reform Steps please see Gold Page 17 Kissinger threat alarms egyptians Cairo special tons Secretary of state Henry Kis Singer kept a Low Public profile Lere wednesday following his great tuesday in Salzburg to if attacks continue on Lis honesty and integrity. However Kissinger played Lis usual role in the conferences president Nixon held with egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Egyptian officials privately expressed alarm Over the pos i i b i 1 i i y that or. Kissinger might leave the Nixon adminis ration. Like a number of Lead ers in the Middle East or. Sadat has developed an extremely close relationship with the Secretary state and re Gards him As essential to fur ther Progress toward peace in the area. But or. Sadat understandably made no reference to Kissinger in his Public state ments although he did pay personal the pics ident for his leadership and Wise there appeared to be a fierce debate within the Nixon entourage regarding the wis Dom and the effect of the sur prise Kissinger press Confer please see threat Page 17 legislature reports opposition Las walk out. Panic credit unions opposed to Treasury branches Page 3 Las raise Bill gels second Reading Page 8 Oil tax Bill gets second Reading. 10 pension improvement Bills explained 40 four minor Bills get second Reading 40 wants fish marketing corporation action Page 41 trading corporation Bill Basic of Page 41 dams can t control Lake Winnipeg Levels Page 41 workers reject mediator s ideas packing houses offer 5-Point plan by Stephen r. Hyde free press staff writer Canada s three major meat packing companies wednesday offered the Canadian food and Allied workers Union a live Point plan to resolve labor prob lems in the e Industry. The companies Canada packers limited Burns foods Ltd. And Swift Canadian co. Limited made the offer Fol lowing the rejection by Union members across Canada of a mediator s proposal to end the dispute. The problems revolve around a contract dispute with the Union executive having been authorized to Call a National strike although no deadline has yet been set. The three companies have countered the strike threat by announcing that beginning sat u r d a y they will lock out workers from packing houses throughout the country wednesday the companies offered to sign contracts in the 11 plants where employees voted to accept the mediator s settlement. The contracts would give the employees of those. Plants the benefits of the mediator s proposal immediately including wages from april the second Point in the com panics plan would be the sub Mission of the questions of wages fringe benefits and con act duration to binding a ional arbitration. Benefits and other changes e s u 11 i n g from arbitration would be passed on to workers in plants which had already signed contracts under the first Point in the plan. The last two Points in the plan Call for the companies to withdraw the lockout notices and for the Union to urge its members to return to work and to remain there throughout he arbitration process. Please see packing Page 8 is f ton hockey Deal Vancouver special Prairie sportswoman june Sif Ion has acquired 25 per cent o he Vancouver blazers hockey e in a Deal with Neonen interests controlled by Jim Pattison. Mrs. Sifton widow of the ate John Sifton of the up publications newspaper Chain concluded the Deal with or Pattison wednesday after the Pacific National exhibition approved some technical changes in the world hockey Assoc a lion team s Vancouver Collo scum lease. Or. Pattison acquired the ailing former Philadelphia franchise in May 1973 As a per please see Sifton Page 17 record British deficit was the fifth straight London a Britain suffered a record foreign Trade deficit in May of million the government announced today. The figures suggested the country was heading for its worst economic crisis since the second world Ivar. Month that Britain s Trade with the rest of the world ran at about billion i the red. Earlier the govern ment arranged to borrow billion abroad to cover the expected deficit for the whole year. It was the largest foreign loan in Britain s history but the amount now seems unlikely to cover the expected deficit for the first half of the year alone. Oil prices which have quadrupled since last october have been a major source of Britain s Trade deficit. Britain imports about 80 per cent of its Oil. But the latest figures re leased by the government showed that Oil was not the reason for record deficit. It was the loss in non Oil Trade that did the damage. The department of Trade re ported that the Oil deficit for May remained constant at the please see record Page 17 Portage ave. Fire injures 2 women two women were injured in a fire wednesday night at Adams furniture company limited 339 Portage Avenue. Both victims were from Thunder Bay out., and were treated for their injuries at the health sciences Centra and then released. Maude Greer 72, received cuts to her head from falling Glass and Jean Ferguson 74, suffered a Cut to her leg and cuts to her head. Although the fire was c fined to the third floor of the six Storey building it made its presence known by an explosion which blew out the win Dows of the top floor sending a Shower of Glass across por Tage Avenue. Edward Montgomery jr., of 2461 Portage suite 16, St. James Assiniboia said that everything was quiet and then there was just one hell of an explosion. Please see women Page aut Opac claims Rise nearly 20% the Manitoba Public insurance corporation has shown a continued increase in claims Over last year and claims for the first seven months of 10.74 Are up 19.5 per cent from the comparable period a year ago general manager j. 0. Dutton said wednesday. Public insurance minister Bill Uruski asked about the figures said aut Opac appears to be headed for another sub Stantial deficit on lop of the million loss experienced last year. He has previously warned that the insurance company which is operated As a non profit co operative would again have to raise its rates if it incurred another loss. A rate increase this year was designed to allow the in s u r a n c e company to break even if claims did not Rise fur ther and or. Uruski has warned that if claims continue to Rise a rate increase is inevitable. Please Sec aut Opac Page 17 Quebec Bank robber flees with hostage Quebec up a police helicopter shadowed a car con Taining a Bank robber and his hostage today As they sped away from the scene of a hold up attempt in a car provided by police. A police spokesman said the vehicle being followed by the helicopter was headed toward the St. Anne de Beaupre re Gion 20 Miles cast of the City. The incident at a Bank in the Limo Lou District of the City took place shortly after 9 . Edt when police surprised two armed men coming out of a Bank one of the bandits was shot and killed and the other fled Back into the Bank where he took a Bank employee hostage. Police tried for two hours to gel the second Man to surren Der and finally gave in to his demands for a car. The car left the scene shortly after 11 . With the hostage driving ;