Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday october 31, 1974 to Iii Means Money Lagos Router r a nigerian company lost More than on a Deal to relay the Ali Forman world title fight in Kinshasa to Nigeria because it got the time of the fight wrong. Duro Dania head of the onit finance Nigeria com Pany said he had arranged with a London firm to relay the fight without knowing that the contest was scheduled for tuesday night. The loss arose from the cancellation of the closed or Cuit showing of the fight at stadiums in Lagos and Iba Dan he added. More than couples honeymooned at Niagara i alls in Agency takes blame continued to take any blame for an Over production of eggs or the faulty storage which led to the spoilage. It s goddamned time we got the truth and congratulations for telling exclaimed Allan i a w r e n c e Berland Durham after Eldridge had told the committee that Cema takes full responsibility creating the conditions that created this spoilage Eldridge emphasized that the circumstances which led to the egg spoilage were the most easily Corre Lible of the Agency s problems and it should not and we believe will not Herb Gray the for dior con Sumer and corporate affairs minister who gave a hard time in committee to a Chelan when he testified said in an inter View the Cema officials had been Well advised to make a clean breast of things they came Well Well prepared they were is suing a 72-Page Brief and three separate statements minutely documenting the mistakes and Adverse conditions which led to the egg destruction. The key Point in the Malad ministration is the destruction of the eggs we were put Ting together a full National package something none of us had any experience doing be fore. Basically there was an in ability to make decisions when decisions had to be Eldridge added and this was due to the. Fact that the Agency had not been give the necessary time to get used to our new Whelan and the Femc were not completely off the Hook opposition maps pointed out since Eldridge testified the Agency had been in constant communication with the coun cil throughout the affair. The in turn was set up to report and advise the minister of agric iture. Cem a s function is to set quotas of egg production in each of the 10 provinces and to buy All surplus eggs produced within these quotas the object being to keep prices Sta ble throughout the year and Birchmont furniture last two Days repeat of a special offer repeated one More time by Specif arrangement with the makers. A Complete 4 pee living room group at an exceptionally Low Price. Euf Prejean. Inspired contemporary style where con temporary style All began. Distinguished by Over lapped arms and thick buttoned pillows. 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Compare at iq88 hundreds of unadvert1sed specials throughout the store budget terms charge master charge free delivery furniture 61 Albert St. Phone 942-0781 open daily sat. 9-5 open fridays 9 . To 9 . I of one year to the next. Eldridge pointed out that this u n c t i o n was successful As for example in Calgary tlta., had remained unchanged it 92 cents a dozen while on a ree Market they would have fluctuated from 50 cents to ver in the same period of a year. Before april 15 of this year provincial boards arranged for ale and storage of surplus eggs themselves. Cema limit no its role to setting the Price emitting the difference in the it Price and the amount received for the and con ult the provinces on egg mar b u t april 15 was when Jema look Over the function if arranging for storage Sale Jilling and transportation of surplus eggs the provincial boards now being Only paid the set Price and doing Little else. It also took Over All response Al tics for existing inventories and this is when our inability 0 move stocks a s quickly As possible Eldridge old the committee. A Sharp collapse at that Jeriod of . Imports occurred and this is when the Agency found itself with millions of eggs to store. Storage places were for the nost part adequate for the but the storage sys e a was under very heavy pressure to handle quantities of eggs Well beyond its Normal capacity. The and the of ventilation Hen caused spoilage some of 1 due to rot and a Good part attributed to mildew. In retrospect it is certain hat Cema should have and would in similar circumstances Oday pursued to much More policy of either Cus of processing surplus eggs 0 its own account or sales to processors to ens u re tha hese conditions of Long wails in storage and congested con 1 i t i o n s of storage did nol there was no question of putting the eggs in super Nark cts at lower prices since they were Grade a Type which could Only be used in Industrial processing. Asked about another spoilage incident involving two freight car loads of eggs which Wen spoiled while being transported from Newfoundland to British Columbia Eldridge said Cem. Was suing the1 railroads of breakage and undue delays ii transportation. The eggs he explained Wen to travel in from St John so. But. i been breakage and delay s at St. Johns be cause they had. Been tans feared to different cars for the wider gauge rail system on the Mainland and other delay along the Way. J e s Mcgrath pc St John s asked Eldridge we the hell told you it took seve rail from St. John s i Vancouver it takes that Long just t get to North Sydney mow i Leve Eldridge declined to com agent. Today the special Commilla hears Beryl plump re chair Man of the food prices View Board and the consume association of Canada. Vetoes save in seat continued Africa s delegation but it Cai lot expel a member without recommendation from the Security Council. On sept. 30, the Assembly voted 08 to 23 to r Jet the credentials and too the additional a to of 125 to asking1 the Sec Rity Council to take up Sou Africa s future in the world o a animation. Speeches during the Assen Bly and Council debates Mac Clear that the South Africa government will be under re sure to gel it to change its p Lipics. . Ambassador John sea said the South african polio of racial segregation known apartheid is evil and ugly. 1 called on the ruling while n Jority to end it and create society of Equality. But Scali said expulsion w. An All or nothing policy the would make it harder lha Ever to influence the South a Picans to change. He said the should continue to be expose Over and Over again to to Blunt expressions of the abhor rence of Mankind for apart Scali and British Amba Savior of Ivor Richard said c aulsion would Only strength the most extreme racist a matits in. South. Africa at Lime when there was Hope f change. To hey based this to on a statement last week the South african prime i Istir Lohn Vorster and speech to the Security Louii in which South african Amba Sador k. F. Botha snid 1 country would work against i Cial discrimination. Nixon Oil mend Long Beach Calif. Richard Nixon s doctor says is too Early to make a Long nge prediction on the health the former president. But or John Lungrin said wednesday that Nixon s vital is have stabilized although remains on the critical list. Nixon lapsed into vascular Ock following urgent surgery r phlebitis tuesday. Doctors worked for three hours to re Ore stable blood circulation. Nixon s former presidential tvs Secretary Ronald Egler told reporters mean h i 1 e that the go year old Ixon came extremely close to 2ath during the Post operative Ner gency. There is no doubt that we most lost president Nixon esterday said Egler. Ziegler said Nixon s Condi on grew so serious that i Ink it s fortunate that pres ent Nixon was in the intense care Nixon s doctors however de stepped questions on Hether Nixon s life was in anger during the period of Ost operative Shock bleed a behind the membrane that in rounds his Abdomen. By memorial Hospital medi Al Centre s definition critical condition Means vital signs Are of stable and not within nor Are i a Hospital spokesmen Sak hat by keeping Nixon on the list it Means the Doe or still fears that or. Nixon May have further govt. Aim at More houses policies of the Federal govern nent were on the right course and that any further measures should be instituted on a Selec Ive basis. After the meeting with All 0 premiers the prime minister and finance minister John Turner met privately first with Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney and then with Alber a s Peter Lougheed. The session with Blakeney centred on equalization. And the Lougheed meeting apparently was devoted to a Gen eral discussion of the contentious Issue of sharing of Petro Leum revenues. The Alberta Premier was Curt with reporters who questioned him As he emerged from the prime minister s of fice. He refused to disclose any details of the. Discussions but said he was apprehensive of an Energy shortage in Canada within a Lougheed also denied that his government would consider altering its own Petroleum Roy Alty structures should Ottawa press Forward with the provi Sions of the May g budget. Last week at a meeting in Edmonton with Turner two Al b e r t a treasurer Gordon miniely and inter governmental affairs min i s t e r Don the health of the Petroleum Industry would take precedence Over principle in any show Down with Ottawa Over reve nue sharing. In effect the Alberta pre m i e r overruled the earlier statements of his ministers re fusing to be pinned Down on the Choice the would make if Ottawa proceeds to Institute the More contentious provisions Hasl Spring s Bud get. I d heard you d made a mistake on Lougheed told a reporter who asked about the statements of his two continued said Felt it would be useful to adopt a scheme whereby spending would be concentrated on construction of housing and production producing plants. One of the premiers clearly in support of this scheme was Saskatchewan s Blakeney. He once Trudeau said the source Issue had been Dis cussed at the meeting with All provincial represent in i n i s t e r s that was not Parlier news Confer suggested that non essential at his Eai Liei news Confer would such things As shopping centres and Post offices. B c s Dave Barrett also mentioned Post offices As an example of the kind of construction which could lie postponed in order to re direct re s o u e s to essential areas such As housing. Barrett said he thought Ottawa was on the right in its economic policies. He termed the meeting one of the most productive hearings i be attended and said it was apparent that the participants. Had done their Homework. The premiers who were col Lared one by one As they left 24 Sussex told reporters that they had no reason Iff believe the of the a tics. The p r o v i n c e s put their views and Ottawa put its tru Deau said but there was no at tempt to come to any conclusions. The prime minister did add however that the two sides were working towards what 1 would describe As a asked about the prime min ister s statement and whether Alberta was also willing to Compromise Lough cd said his government had compromised for Canada when it agreed to the wellhead Price. Asked following the private meeting with l o u g h e e d few Federal budget in whether there had been any change in the Alberta attitude the Federal finance minister said Only that Loughe Eri was very forceful in his a Turner added that he thought the private session had afforded an Opportunity to explain elude any stringent new Belt tightening measures. Ontario s William Davis de scribed the meeting As useful and said there had been very Frank he said on Tario believed there should be a system of information Shar ing in such areas As capital borrowing. The Federal viewpoint and the problems of dealing with 10 j Robert Bourassa of Quebec Janc the maritime premiers on the suggestion that action j were also satisfied at the a should be taken to encourage complis ments of the meeting. The Frans ferral. Of funds and labor from non essential con t u r n e r repeated that the Issue had been raised by several of the provinces. Some of the premiers he the prime minister echoed., the sentiment. He said there was general agreement that it was conducive to the kind of. Confidence we want to main the organization that saved thirty five Polar bears from being killed desperately needs your help. In the last few years 35 magnificent Polar bears would have been killed in and around the Churchill area of Northern Canada if it had t been for operation Polar beara humane airlifting of the Polar bears out of the area. The Polar bears chief crime against humanity was to wan Der too close to a population Centre lured there by a inefficient garbage disposal system. Operation was paid for and managed by the International fund for animal welfare Jin operation with Manitoba conservation officers and Lamb air in addition if thousands of. People throughout North America had t Given their Mora land financial support to the International fund for. Animal welfare this world would be sadly missing 35 of creation s most spectacular examples of w hat wilderness is All about. Regrettably the govern ment has once again authorized the killing of up to 50 problem bears who might wander close to civilization this fall. The wandering seems almost inevitable since garbage disposal for the Churchill population Centre is faulty. 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