Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 91 no. 219 20c with coloured comics Friday june 14, 1974 Sunrise . Sunset . Moon also . Moonset . Sunny 45 and 65 a hooded Bank robber with hostage in front of him gets into an unmarked police car. Hostage tells of ordeal by Dennis Trudeau Quebec thought i was going to faint. He said Don t faint or i la shoot said Bank employee Jean gag non thursday after being held hostage for nearly five hours by a 17-year-old Quebec youth. Or. Gagnon 29, was taken hostage shortly after 9 . When a passing police patrol foiled an attempt by two armed men to Rob a Banque provincial Branch in Quebec City s Limo Lou District. The assistant accountant who had discovered the two hooded men in the Bank when h e arrived for work was grabbed and held at gunpoint by the youth after the second Bandit ran from the Bank opening fire on police. He was shot to death. Police identified the dead Man As Rejean Dufresne 24 or 25, of Quebec City. The identity of the other Man who surrendered to que Bec provincial police after Tak ing Refuge in a summer cot Tage 50 Miles from Here can not be published because he is a juvenile. Standing in the doorway of the Bank with a Rifle at or. Gagnon s Throat the surviving Bandit demanded a getaway car and refused to release his hostage or allow be Molcil re Porter Guy Dube to replace or. Gagnon. Police had surrounded the building and set up police lines to keep Back hundreds on lookers. The police supplied an unmarked police car and the youth forced or. Gagnon into the front seat to sit on his Lap and drive while or. Gagnon shouted to police above ail Don t trailed by a App helicopter the car headed East but after about a mile said or. Gagnon he stopped at Gas station please see hostage Page 2 govt. Worried on Cost Premier put off some construction City asked premiered Shreyer of Manitoba has asked Winnipeg City Council to postpone construction of All major civic capital projects which Are not of a critical enough Beer so far in a letter to mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg the Premier said the provincial govern ment has become increasingly concerned with the High inter est rates and labor shortages Anil has concluded that the encouragement of new capital construction is not desirable at his the letter which was made Public at a meeting of civic sex e c u t i v e policy committee thursday included approval of provincial Grants covering half he Cost of three major projects included in the City s 1974 budget. However it said decisions on Grants toward four other projects approved in the budget have been deferred until late August because of the present economic the four projects in question _ r e construction of indoor swimming pools in Sargent Park East Kildonan and West Kildonan and an indoor artificial ice Arena in the lord Selkirk Community. The City had asked the pro to finial government for Grants totalling million to cover half the construction costs. In his letter the Premier said the provincial Winter works committee will reassess the economic situation in late a gust before making a decision on Grants toward the projects. See postponing Page 2 Lang explains transport policy by vein Fowlie free press staff writer t h e Federal transportation policy announced in Edmonton wednesday does t mean Ottawa has a new system in the wings for Grain handling and transportation Otto Lang min ister responsible for the Cana Trudeau ignores problem Stanfield Thunder Bay conservative Leader Robert stand held thursday charged that prime minister Trudeau has not got the courage to face the press or the addressing 800 tory workers Here or. Stan Field said that journalists had tried to ask about the new Cost further election coverage on Page 45 of living figures but or. Tru Deau chose not to discuss it. The conservative Leader noted that much had been writ ten about or. Trudeau s care fully controlled press conferences. With a threat to smoke or. Trudeau out into the open or. Stanfield quoted the famous Joe Lewis comment he can run but he can t or. Stanfield added you can agree or disagree with our stand but you know where we stand and you can discuss it with us any time. The meeting ended another 36 hour Day of travel for or. Stanfield with almost All of his attention devoted to the Liberal held Riding of Ken Ora Rainy River. M r. Stanfield flew from Toronto to International Falls Minnesota in his chartered do 9, crossed to fort Frances on Tario and toured a paper Plant before speaking to some 200 people in a meeting room. He then flew to Keri Ora the largest Centre in the Riding in a chartered do 3. There he went Mai Streeting with candidate Arnold Beebe and at tended a fish Fry where head dressed another 300 people. The Stanfield Campaign then flew to red Lake for another rousing meeting in polish Hall before heading Back to Thunder Bay for the evening rally. After that meeting or. Stanfield returned to Toronto. Please see ignoring Page 6 Dian wheat Board confirmed thursday. In a Telephone interview from Huni Boldt sask., where i e was Mai Streeting or. Lang said the new policy As it pertains to Grain simply Means that when Farmers and elevator companies decide what kind of. Transportation handling system they the Federal government will see that they get the Correct sys tem for their needs. Prime minister Trudeau announced the first part of his transportation policy. The policy statement included a Complete revamping of the total Grain handling system from the Farmer s granary to the ships in the Harbor with the co operation of the farming Community. Or. Lang confirmed that any new system of the future will be shaped by the wishes of the Farmers and the elevator com Anies. When the Choice is made he said the Federal government will see they get the right sys Tern for their needs. He said that for example where heavy Grain movements Are to go by rail provision would be needed please see policy Page 2 breweries still that happens by David Lee free press staff writer hotel keepers throughout the province say their beverage room and Beer Vendor operations Are running at Par de spite a shutdown by three Winnipeg breweries. Although most of the hotels have run out of stocks supplied by the three breweries their operators say they Are getting enough replacement Beer to meet demand. They Are worried however that the strike May spread to the Only two producing. If they say the province s Beer Supply will dry up very quickly. About 220 workers at la Batt s Manitoba brewery Ltd. And Kiewel Pelissier breweries Ltd. Walked off their jobs june 3 to support contract demands. Two Days later 22" workers at Uncle Ben s Manitoba breweries Ltd. Also left their jobs. Since the shutdown of the three Molson brewery Mani Toba Ltd. And Carling okeefe breweries Ltd. Have been working to capacity to meet the increased demand for their products. But workers at Molson s and Carling okeefe Are also negotiating new contracts and the possibility of a shutdown of their plants hinges on the Suc Cess of these talks. If even one of them shuts Down As Well then there will please see Beer Page 5 israeli troops move past a smoking building at Shamir just North of the Golan Heights Fol lowing an attack thursday by. Palestinian guerrillas. The attack was claimed to be in response to president Nixon s visit to the Middle East. In the egyptian port City of Alexandria however hundreds of thousands cheered presidents Nixon and Sadat. Nixon visit ends Egypt to get nuclear Aid Cairo a president Packer offer gets snub Nixon wound up his triumphal visit to Egypt today with an announcement that the United states will provide Large scale Aid to Egypt for agricultural and Industrial development including nuclear Power. After an overnight stay in Alexandria a visit to the Pyra to kids and a final conference Nixon and president Anwar Sadat of Egypt appeared to Gether at a ceremony in Cairo to announce a joint statement of principles. No figures were Given on the Cost of the Aid program. Nixon flew to saudi Arabia in the afternoon for the second Edmonton up me infers of the Canadian food and Allied would not accept a five Point contract proposal offered by Canada s three major meat packers even if they were locked out for 12 a Union spokesman said thurs Day. The spokesman said in. A Saskatoon interview that if the Union agreed to the proposal Panov wife leave Russia for Israel Leningrad a Ballet year old former Star of Lenin a Valery Panov and his Grad s kirov Ballet in a harsh dancer by wife left the soviet Union today bound for Israel and the resumption of a career soviet officials interrupted 26 months ago after he applied to emigrate. The couple took an Aeroflot Airliner to Budapest and were to change planes there for Vienna in route to Israel. Everything i have from Russia is connected with Cul Ture and Art but these belong to All Panov said. In Russia they try to erase All human said the 35 legislature reports Lockport Road to be rebuilt Page 3 million Hydro Bond Issue announced Page 9 la salary Bill gets Quick final approval. Page 9 Spivak tries to get human rights change Page 18 Oil tax gets third Reading Page 18 Farewell to the land of his birth. Dismissed from the kirov company when he said he in he wanted to go to Israel March 1972, Panov said plans to practise for an Exten Sive tour in the West. He said he also has in mind the choreography for two new ballets he wants to stage. Ibs wife Galina appeared More troubled than Panov and it May have been due to the fact that she had a miscarriage last monday in a Vilnius Hospital she said. She was three months pregnant. It have been the couple s first child. While mrs. Panov could not hold Back tears when they parted from friends at the air port terminal Panov was a picture of happiness and Satis faction. He said he has no apprehension about adapting to life in the West. Please see Panov Page 5 and signed contracts in one Plant and then went to an arbitrator for More the arbitrator would propose signing with the rest of the plants on the same the spokesman also said the three Canadian co. Ltd., Burns foods Ltd. And Canada packers to close Down their plants to Force up prices. The packing companies first said they would lock out employees across Canada if no settlement was hut they said thursday they will delay any decision until the Union has had time to consider their latest proposal the companies offered their five Point program after the Union rejected a mediator s proposal for settlement this week. The proposal called for a increase Over 26 months on a base rate ranging from an hour to plus Cost of living reviews and fringe benefits. The three firms replied by suggesting the Union sign con tracts in plants favouring the mediator s proposal with strike and lockout threats being with drawn and binding arbitration enforced to bring a final Settle please Sec Packer Page 2 Stop on his five country tour of the Middle East. The joint statement said the s and egyptian govern ments will negotiate an agree ment to enable Egypt to Gener ate nuclear Power by the Early 1980s. Upon conclusion of such an agreement the unite d states is prepared to sell nuclear re actors and fuel to the statement said. While these negotiations Are under Way the United states and Egypt will conclude a provisional agreement for the please see Egypt Page 5 note is a hoax a Winnipeg City councillor Gerry Mercier has told police that an Anonymous note threat ening to Burn Down the House of l. R. Bud Sherman progressive conservative member of the legislature was a hoax perpetrated by a client of coun. Mercier s. Acting chief John c. Webster of the inner City police depart ment told a press conference Friday that coun. Mercier had told police May 10 about receiving the note and that he d please see note Page 8 monetary changes will replace Gold looking Foll left handed Golf clubs this want and under mis Cellaneous articles for Sale 59 left handed Golf clubs 529. 269-381.1 or 947-1243. 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. Take Down signs pc Man s Agency by Egon Frech free press legislative reporter an apartment rental Agency in East Kildonan owned by a leading member of the progressive conservative party has ordered tenants to take Down political signs from the outside of its apartment blocks. The Agency in a letter to All tenants in a number of Large blocks warns that if the occupants Are not willing to Lake Down the signs voluntarily the management will take them Down. Included with the letter is a document giving the tenants 24 hours notice that the landlord intends to enter the premises. Such notice is required under the provincial landlord and tenant act before a landlord May enter a rented premise without the consent of the ten ant. P r e s i d c n t of the Agency Edison rental Agency 1969 Ltd., is Martin Bergen a vice president of the conservative club of Winnipeg and a Strong supporter of Dean Whiteway the progressive conservative candidate in Selkirk constituency in the july 8 Federal elec Tion. Secretary of the rental Agency is Winnipeg lawyer Nathan Nur Gitz a former National president of the progressive conservative parly Al Cerilli Campaign manager for nip candidate Doug Rowland has advised the Len ans in the blocks to ignore the notice and to refuse to allow the landlord s representatives to remove the signs. Tenants have a right to put up any signs they want and to express their opinions in this he said. We fought two wars Over this kind of he said the party would Lake the rental Agency to court if necessary to prove its Point. Please see take Page 2 by Peter Buckley world monetary leaders shaped tie beginnings of a new monetary system thursday to replace Gold with a bookkeeping Type entry known As special drawing right As the chief form of official credit Exchange. . Treasury Secretary Wil Liam Simon said it was an important step for world financial stability approved by the com Mittee of 20, finance ministers and Central Bankers from Industrial and developing coun tries. A e accomplished almost everything we set out to do be fore the meeting Simon told reporters. But Only a last minute com Promise broke a deadlock Over demands by underdeveloped countries that they receive Spe Cial help from the International monetary fund if in their development needs. That proposal opposed by the United states will be considered again in february next year. T h e monetary agreement makes the special drawing right sir the Basic unit of please see changes Page 5 today brainwashing curtain lifted 33 49 classified 19 to 32, 35 to 45 comics 46, 47 deaths 4 finance 58 to 63 Jumble 22 movies 12, sports 49 to 57 television h women 33, 34 nearly everyone reads the free press cily com total. Heifer stolen 5 years jail Prince Albert up Joseph Inglehart 33, of Prince Albert was sen ten c c d thursday to five years in prison after plead ing guilty to theft of a one year old charolais Heifer. Judge t. D. Agnew passed sentence after noting hint at one time this was a hanging offence they did t bother with the the Heifer valued at was found slaughtered on the farm of the owner near Here. Ramp discovered parts of the animal wrapped and partially Frozen in Ingle Hart s refrigerator ;