Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday. November 5. 1974 councillors take seats tonight to mayor is councillor Bernie Wolfe now the chairman of the civic finance committee. However there is a move afoot to place coun. Lobert Steen a former ice member who quit the group before the election and who will Sil As an Independent in the running for Deputy mayor against coun. Wolfe. Supporters of coun. Steen Are hoping that the combined forces of the nine new democrats on Council inc 11 in depends nos and the civic re form coalition councillor eve Lyne Reese St. Boniface and councillor Joseph Zuken la Bor election committee com plus a few d i s e n c h a n t e d ice members will unite against coun. Wolfe to give their Choice the Joh. S however several ice i 11 o r s said monday that caucus ranks Are Strong on the nomination of coun. Wolfe and no breakaway ice votes for coun. Steen Are expected. The combined opposition of non ice councillors won t lie enough to defeat coun. Wolfe should he get the solid 28-vote support of the ice. The Only councillor to leave ice ranks since the election is Morris Kaufman Forl huge who will Sil As one of the 13 independents. Chances of coun. Steen succeeding against Conn. Wolfe dimmed even further monday when nip spokesman coun. Alt Skowron East Kildonan said the party May nominate its own candidate probably coun. Alan c. Wade for Deputy mayor splitting further the opposition support. However at a special caucus meeting monday night the nip group on Council decided Loback Conn. Steen for Deputy mayor rather than run their own candidate. An nip spokesman said the decision to Back coun. Steen came after six nip suggestions for committee appoint ments were apparently reject cd by the ice. In backroom discussions the ice has apparently decided to appoint Only three nip councillors to standing commit tees the spokesman said. However the decision to sup port coun. Steen rather than to run an nip candidate for Dep Uty mayor will have Little of i eco on the final outcome be cause of the voting procedures. The Winner must have the support of 50 per cent plus one of inc councillors present and a three Way race would have meant a second ballot would lie needed to decide the come. Wilh Only a two Way race be Iween coun. Volfe and coun. Olcen the position will be. Decided on. One ballot. Mayor uha can Vole Only to break a in coun. Steen said he has ome support and expects a lose race. If the ice has its ways in Ither key appointments and it s Likely that the group will . John gee ice St. Boniface will become finance committee chairman coun. In Talanchuk Selkirk will become Environ in committee chairman ind coun. Gerry Mercier Garry will retain chairmanship o i the works Ommittee. Coun. Dick Wanking ice now the Deputy mayor will be nominated for he Winnipeg police commis Ion and indications Are he. Vill emerge As chairman of the commission. Oiler commission members to be nominated by he ice Are Conn. June West Bury Rouge and ires enl member coun. William Fallon nist Jaines coun. D. A. Abe Yanofsky now environment committee chair Man will be nominated As a number of the executive poll . Coal strike looms continued take Abo tit to Days for a con tract ratified by the membership which produces two thirds of the country s Coal. A walkout probably would begin saturday morning since he miners are1 unlikely to re turn the following Mon Day filial Day of the contract. The negotiations which resumed monday night Afier a 24 hour impasse collapsed a gain several hours alter manage in evil presen cd whal Farmer said was a. Lancial offer wrapping up All issues. A walkout lasting More than two weeks could have a ver serious Impact on the sagging . Economy Albert. Rees director of the president s coun i Ilmi wage and Price stability said monday. With Coal stockpiles already Low Industry spokesmen say steel Mills and Coal burning electric Power plants would be hard hit by a strike. Steel production would by ii to taller after the first week 01 a Coal strike and layoffs would begin to Ripple through the Industry and eventually spread to Oiler industries such As Auto mobiles and construction which depend on steel. The Ford administration has prepared strike contingency plans thai Call for i Vartini Coal supplies from some Clec Trie utilities to other industries an embargo on Coal exports am voluntary Power cutbacks. Before Miller walked out tin Union bargaining. Team hat studied management s Lales offer and rejected Ilas nol a serious Farmer said his bargaining team gave them an offer which in my opinion has not been exceeded to my knowledge in any Lii ajor Industry negotiations this year. The ump is reported to be seeking a settlement Al Lossl equal to the 38 to 42 per cent wage and Benefit increase Over three years won by steel workers earlier this year. Tanner refused to spell out inc size of the Industry s offer and inc Union spokesman indicated it failed to match inc Sycol settlement. Coal miners currently earn hrs Wincn set and so a Day. By. Committee As Colin. Vandling. The executive Board of the Winnipeg enterprises Corpora Ion the civic body which ministers the Winnipeg Arena Winnipeg stadium Alexander Park and the play Louse theatre will also see ome new faces. Ice sources said three o uie present Ente a Prises members councillors e. J. De Kotowich St. V a r r e n Steen Assisi Boine Ark and Geoff Dixon mid Ami will be returned along Vith coun. Al Duchanno is. Vital and two other new members. Coun. Talanchuk and coun. Gee will represent the City on he Winnipeg jets hockey club executive. The City has loaned Jie new jets owners and a provision of the loan is hat Council have reprise it lion on the cuu a executive there will be. Several h an g e s within the Niem ers Hiji of the three standing 30inmitlees-and policy commit the ice will Nai Utain majority control of ill committees. All policy com nit tee members Wilh the sex Eption of mayor Juba who is Tat Ulory chairman will be rom the ice. There Are 11 members on Ach of the three. Standing committees for a total of 33 p p is t i o n s with Only 28 members is forced o go outside jts fill some committee and it s understood thai talks have Wen held Wil the nip and some independents to Del err nine who will gel the. Non Cec seats on these Commil yes. Councillor elect Brian Corrin Wilt probably get a position on the Environ ment committee and the nip councillors Adam Klym Cen Alan c. Wade Cen Tennial and Johannson fort Rouge will also be Choo in standing committee members. There is also some support among the ice for councillors elect n Eliason and Mike Ark for committee positions. The first business meeting of he new Council will be held Al . Wednesday. Sugar futures soar new York a the so Iet Union s Purchase of tons of raw sugar has sent world sugar futures soaring from the 48.97 cents a poum Price in the March delivery to a record cents. The russians Purchase Mon the Philippines came on the first Day of a new two cell a Day limit on the incr Casi per Pound in the Price of sugar analysis say Arab Coundrie. Have been buying up More sugar than they can use Nii speculating in sugar futures be c a e consuming have been pinched by Short sup plies. The analysis say the lius sians could also similarly b buying to drive the Price up am increase their profit. However Otner Industry observer say the russians May have sold to much sugar and May have run Short. The Competition among con suming countries for sugar a driven the per Pound future Price up 20 cents in the last fix weeks. Many traders have been sur prised by the Sharp jump. German Trade House was re ported to Millio on ils Short position because the Sharp Price made difficult for the trader loge additional financing. Cotton loss Cotton grow i in North Carolina estimate their .1913 Boll Weevil loss Aboul million one of the worst years both for grow i and processors. Sex City men Tell of waste continued living the Federal govern Lenl s Iven to civil servants and employees of most orations. We knew it was e. Said but it was t fast enough for the Union. As a re air Canada employees in Winnipeg got the full while we got a net. Of. After the Days pay was de Frank Gray air Canada s ire Clor of information denied suggestion made by the orders Hal management in act instigated the formation f the Union s "727 commit which effectively scuttled 1 a to schedule overhaul my on air Canada s new being 727 Fleet in Winnipeg. But the workers insist that in committee was set up As a result of management urging o that it would appear that in opposition to the Winnipeg Ork was coining from the orders and not from the Man gement. This View was confirmed by i Fence minister James Richardson who said it was. An pen secret that top manage ent in air Canada had co Pera cd in the formation of in protest committee. Or. Richardson also con armed thai present pm inv Call or no one in a intents scheduling 6f Ork a Way from Montreal Oulen t deprive the Central ase of any jobs. Or. Richardson said Ive schedule had been worked it so that 727 work could be one in Winnipeg without Havig to dead head any air lanes a situation now faced y air Canada with the open no of the new Montreal air Ort at Mirabel. Air Canada s new vice resident in charge of Maine Ance Lyle m. Waverly con that the overhaul base and a incidence of time is through sickness. At one Oil the Rale reached. 16.6 per ent a figure described by one order As a record for the in or. Waverly also confirmed lat air Canada s ratio of employees the number of air raft being maintained was substantially higher Ompah Able american airlines it he pointed out that it was own r than the ratio Iriaine aimed by some government1 wed european airlines during the past five years lie airline s employees have increased in number by about 000 while the number of i aft maintained has lir Unk from Liz to -108. Or Ravert y said he had Een hired by the airline to Rove its maintenance picture men he described As being efficient Iri production and Ich Nical excellence. He do lined comment on suggestions y workers Hal extreme prob Ems existed in the areas of Tores deliveries duplication of facilities and labor relations. Or. Raverty said the Prissy Mility of a growing French English problem Maine Ance base was Incon Ceiva and dismissed Sugges ions that some workers were preparing to insist that the provisions of Quebec s new Bill 2 be applied at the base. Technically air Canada As Federal Crown corporation Templ from provincial Legisla Ion but one sex Winnipeg in Jervis or said he was already Ecci ving Complete reports in Tench and was insisting .011 Neir translation. A Raverty said the airline would t consider Makin ils working language a cause. Of the technical Maun ils used All in English and o lie hundreds of amendment o these manuals. He said a switch to French would meal Many translators would have .0 be employed a Silva lion i Felt would t he practical. Or. Raverty also said the Lirline was experiencing no More Ihan usual the number of applications for Early retire men. The workers had Lisle seven senior officials who Hai applied for and received sue retirement during the Pas year. One instance of higher Cost involved at Montreal the scheduling of training flights a Halifax necessitating add Lional flying Lime i rough different answers from two Ai Canada officials. Or. Gray said the flight were probably scheduled Halifax because of Luel Prol lems but or. Raverty agree with the suggestion put of Ward by the former Winnic employees. He said the flight had to be rerouted because the crowded skies above lion trial. Or. Waverly was also the Only air Canada official 1 agree with the workers Sui g e s i i o n that Dorval woul eventually close in favor Mirabel. The workers suggested tha since air Canada was Bein forced to build a new voc thai base anyway some of in building could go to win pc or. Waverly while Agrein thai Dorval would close a any scheduling of work in Wii in pc would be uneconomic. Was their role to buttonhole in politicians and Tell them it is immoral for people to be Eft to starve when there Are in resources there to prevent let s t again and gain and and the experts of the Rome Orum decided at their meet in Over the Vee Keind that the current world food situation is veil worse Shah the official of Chiments prepared for the ii defence. These estimate that about or million people in the world be Iri a chronic state of Mal nutrition from not enough to at and an equal number Are n jeopardy whenever re Short term problems such s crop failures or transport iffy bullies. Aboul 20 million ions of food our to five billion dollars Rorth need to be sent to areas f the world where people Are ving on the Edge of starvation until the next Harvest the Orum estimates and if delegates think1 this Annot he done Aid mrs. Ward As she. Noted iat billion is spent on Riris each year. But this y e a s. Crisis warnings of doom sounded continued Hether millions Are to starve n the next six to nine months r simply a pre figuring Arger mrs. Ward said. Citing the biblical warning of even Good and seven lean ears she noted that the worlds been through 25 years of Ood weather in which the ions to n Nee a situation she described s extreme undirected Good but the lean years Are Oming. Warn hat the. Good. Run of weather Annot furthermore it h e ural technology of the Weste re which with the Transfer mechanism of food Aid has fed in world has been based on 61iar-a-barrel Petroleum but he Days of cheap. Energy and Ith them cheap agricultural cd enology Are Over. In Good years mrs. Ward Aid the world can develop Ithol. Planning sharing and recognition of the in Erdelen ence of All men. But in the Ean times coming the world lust food and work together. To increase food pro action. At a press conference the lome forum went so far As to suggest the people eating Well i the developed world ought to voluntarily Cut Back their food consumption and Nike sure iat the food saved gets to the poorer parts of the world Here it is desperately needed. Lady Jackson noted that per capita of Grain in in developed countries has in leased by about 350 pounds Ince 1965, an amount equal to Otal consumption per head m Indian sub continent to pounds. America was not larva no in 1905." Lester Brown of the overseas development Council in Washigton a prominent writer on agricultural development prob Ems noted the cutback in con u m p t i o n in the developed world could be accomplished in her voluntarily As is now eing done by some groups in he United slates or through Overn men persuasion As was one to Cut Back fuel use in lie Energy crisis. If a family Back Voun warily in could ensure Hal the equivalent a m o u n t of food caches the third world by Don Ting the amount saved in the Amily budget to a voluntary Elief organization Hal dist rib Iles food overseas. The Short lorm Silva lion nit one aspect of the Confer ence which is being held less Han one year after it was called for in a special resold Ion of the United nations Gen eral Assembly. A conference had been suggested Al a special meeting of third world states in Algeria and it received the support of . Secretary of stale Henry Kissinger., who b to address he conference today Terence has been to subject of considerable speculation and or. Kissinger s speech was reportedly in the 29lh draft on he weekend. W h i 1 e or. Kissinger Wil Sale the Basic .. Position the delegation is being header by Secretary of agriculture Earl Liuz who As yet refuse to say there is a world Foo crisis although he conceded a a press conference yesterday thai the Silva lion is critical. Lie admitted that the work s Al a juncture Point Glicr the conference dare not at the lop of or. Blitz s Lis of priorities is increased tech Nickil assistance to the develop ing world to help it increase in own production. The world must also develop a better system of guidance of Valiona food stockpiling Canada and the United stale arc no longer Content to Carr the entire world Reserve o their own As they did in the 1950s and 1950s. But stockpile ought to remain in Valiona hands and National Contro or Butz said and they Sli Oul not be used to drive Down in Price of Grain on the free mar Kcal. On National control he is i Sharp contrast to the Rosilio of the Rome forum and in conference Sercl print who a suggesting the formation of world foral Security Counci Wilh the kind of Power to Dei Wilh Chr. Food situation in in Way that the. In Security Council deals with other threats to world Security. Implicit in the suggestion is the View that such an Agency should have the Power to Over ride National governments in the global allocation of food supplies in times of crisis. Or. Ward argued that such a Council is necessary in that the potential o f from starvation is just As. Great a threat to world Security As those now dealt with by the in Security Council. Or Butz also argued that the conference should develop a better warning system to provide Early information on the areas of food surplus and deficit and of the timing of surpluses and deficits. Hear Gued that the Parlie ipalion of Russia in such a warning sys Lem , a position that has been taken by the Confer ence secretariat. Fourth of or. Bulz s Priori lies is the immediate problem while the United states is marginally increase big the dollars its pledges to food Aid its Hope the Oil Rich foreign Exchange Rich Arab states will foot much of the Bill. Canada s tactics at the con Ference appear to be similar to those of the United states and or. Butz confirmed at his that the two countries have been in. Close consultation. The makeup of the Canadian delegation a matter of protracted in fighting in Ottawa was not announced until late last Friday. Canada will have its relative Dove external affairs minister Allen Maceachen make the main statement but like or Kissinger or. Maceachen will leave shortly Afler making hib speech and like Kissinger or. Maceachen will leave relatively hawkish minister of agriculture in charge of his country s delegation. From their earlier speeches both or Bulz and Evigene Whelan sing similar songs food prices have logo up production is to increase ant the. Poor people of the world just have to step up their own and it will be seen during the course of the conference if they Start to sing a duet. While the secretariat of the conference would agree that in developing world must in Rease its production and thai his is the fundamental Long pm solution the question is Helper the political will is resent in the would to achieve his according to shared Marei h egyptian whose is Confer Nee we needa1 new. Level of political will arid planning for Uman he told the briefing of non Gover Mehta a servers. Just How Complex the prob pm is was apparent in a de ailed statement made by Saraj Azziz or. Marei s Deputy. The first critical lest of the oni Terence he said will be whether the developed and fid lations Are prepared to in Rease the flow of resource or agricultural development in he third world from nil on to ?5 billion a year. The second lest whether the developed work can assure the developing world that it will receive the asic and Pes which agriculture development in the poor coun Ries requires particularly ii he Short term where there Art Hort the third test he said i whether the technical Klvan Ces needed will be made and then spread Nihro Ghoul the developing world. For exam lie technology which require Ess Energy and capital mus e developed if in is to be Usei by like poor countries. And the poor countries them selves must meet the Teal b. Developing social and Politica frameworks which mobilize heir Farmers particularly tin i Casals for increased product lest we mrs. R. E. And mrs. D. Webb stand ready with poppies to pin on Winni Eggers Friday. The poppy stands for the memory of All Veter ans. Monday is remembrance Day. Parliament May get More maps the 1972 census prompted Par 1 i a m e n t to postpone any changes until the end of this year to the past seats have been lost in some provinces because of shifting population patterns across the country. Existing redistribution rules allow Only a marginal increase in the number of seats. The total would be 270 by no changes were made. Some maps this would discriminate against Hea Vily populated Urban centres by concen Raling Loo Many voters in each Riding and against Rural areas cons tit Veneie is Fri grow too Large. West Memphis Ark a an accused Bank Rob Ber inadvertently freed from the county jail and driven Lalion has l been heard from since. Authorities said the . Mar Shal s off ice in Little Rock Tele phoned the sheriff s office Here monday to authorize the release of Billy Charles Lasker 31, who had served a 10-Day Send enc for. Illegally opening a letter while employed by the Post of fice. Carl Eugene Webster 27, of Jacksonville f 1 a charged with attempted Hank robbery stepped out when jailers called out for Lasker. He was driven to the bus depot. Lasker who claimed he was asleep when Webster left the cell has been charged with helping Webster escape. Continued in the present commons Newfoundland has seven seats Prince Edward Island four Nova Scotia 11, new Brunswick 10, Quebec 74, Ontario 88, Man Zloba 13, Saskatchewan 13, Al Berta 19, and British Columbia 23. The plan outlined earlier. Ibis year on of the 19711 seven seals in Ontario three in British co Lumbia on each Jin Manitoba Saskatchewan Al Berta and the Northwest Terro lories and the Resl of the prov i n c e s and the Yukon unchanged. The total it population fore casts Are accurate would jump to 29y Afler the census after the 19u1 census and 335 by 2001. Newfoundland representation would Rise to eight members in 1381, to 10 in 1991 and remain at 10. In i2001. Q u e b e c would go to m in 1981, to 83 in 1991 Aiki 87 in 2001 Ontario progressively Low 313 and 127 members by 2001 Alberta to 22, 25-.and 28 maps and British Coin m .1 i a to 30, 37 and 40 members. Manitoba would Rise to 35 members by 1981 but would re main at this level through 2001. No increases would occur by 2001.ii Prince Edward Island Nova Scolia new Brunswick Saskatchewan or the two Terri tories. I i e average constituency size in population has grown from about in 1867 to roughly Loday. The plan outlined by the government would keep the average in Range through out the period it cover Siv. Or. Sharp did not whether his Bill will vary in aspects from the original government proposal. But he said was favored by of Toorev maps than any alternate solution proposed. It any plan to raise the Cozik Mons membership substantially is carried out a space problem will develop eventually. A maximum about 280 maps seated at desks now used could be a in the commons chamber. Beyond that. The government might have to implement a Bench system such As that used in the c35-seat British Parlia ment. All about women plays by Alice Munro and Beth Harvor about Mother-1 daughter relationships and directed by women will be Lele Casl by the Csc in 1975 to Mark International women s year. Re monday is 1m Day and of november 2nd. Paper towels 2 Roll pkg. 3 pkg. Should have read 2 pkg. My Elegante mint patties 16 of. Box. Should have read 6 of. Box.-3 boxes thousands of canadians no monthly service charge on this free package. Free chequing plus 3% interest. No service charge on . And Canadian travellers cheques personal Money orders and return of cancelled cheques. Paid on savings accounts. Move your chequing and savings accounts today. 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