Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 6, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Thanks to you itts wording Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 35 15 cents me with coloured comics wednesday november Sun left . Sunset . . Moonset 1 h pm sunny 30 and 55 for Las administrators declaration of assets rules seen by Alice Krueger free press legislative reporter legislation requiring Mani Toba Cabinet ministers members of the legislature and senior civil servants to disclose their assets and interests will almost certainly be introduced by the government when the provincial legislature meets Early next year. Designed to prevent future conflicts of interest the Bill is expected to require Manitoba government officials to disclose such matters As their real estate holdings shares in. Private companies management positions and directorships in Pri vate companies. Government of Canada of provincial Bonds and Bank accounts in chartered Banks Are expected to be exempt and therefore remain confidential. However t h a information would t be made Public in the Normal meaning of the word in that it would not be published in the Manitoba Gazette. Rather anyone wishing to have Access to information re Garding the assets and inner e s of his la would have to nominal fee of say to see the information. A committee of the Manitoba legislature met tuesday to Dis cuss the advisability of such and found there was virtual unanimity among the ,12 members representing All three political parties in Manitoba. The. Pitty disagree ment came from Liberal House see declaration Page 17 eggs glut and Scarcity by Doug Small Ottawa up new Brunswicker were forced to cat . Eggs this year at time when the Canadian egg marketing Agency Cema fishing problem aired by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa. Total collapse of the commercial fishing Industry in Manitoba is threat ened by the Freshwater fish marketing corporation at Transcona being on strike the com Mons was warned tuesday. The commercial fishing sea son in Northern Manitoba opened on nov. J. However be cause the fish will he shipped to the marketing corporation at Transcona which is now on strike this will create an Emer gency situation. It could bring about the total collapse the Commer Cial fishing Industry in Mani Cecil Smith pc Churchill told the House. Please see fishing Page 17 was buying Domestic eggs As surplus and tucking them away in inferior storage to rot. Officials of the new Bruns Wick natural products control Board told the special commons inquiry into egg marketing tuesday that their province has had a continuing problem get Ting enough i eggs to fill demand. Bernard Bartlett Secretary of the control Board said wholesalers in one or two in stances were forced to buy eggs in new England states earlier this year to satisfy the few Brunswick Market. At the same time Cema was Jui iding up a surplus so Large hat 28 million eggs would go and before they could he sold. The tale of the .Jmports was first to confront the com Mittee As the egg inquiry moved into its second week. Shortly after maps on the it member committee heard of similar problems in Newfoundland. Clarence Badcock of St. Johns chairman of the Newfoundland farm products marketing Board said Consumers in his province Are paying 95 cents a dozen for Home grown Grade a Large eggs when the same eggs Are Selling for 86 cents a dozen in nearby Nova Scotia. Although there was Only six cents a dozen charge for shipping eggs from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland few producers were taking advantage of what appeared to be the profit please see . Page 5 pay raise delay causes walkout about 200 to 300 employees r t the International Nickel company s mine and smelter operation at Thompson Man., booked off sick wednesday morning to protest against the company s delay in granting a Cost of living adjustment i n pay. Steelwork cars for the Sherritt Gordon mines Ai. Lynn Lake han., and Leaf rapids Man., recently received a Cost of Liv info increase. In some Trade categories the Sherritt increase would create pay differential about an hour Between the two companies. The action started about by Peter Buckley Washington cup the resentments and fears of the american voter descended on the republicans tuesday end ing the party s hold on at least eight state governorships and assuring democrats of even firmer control of both houses of the United states Congress. After an election Campaign dominated by concern about the twin plagues of. Inflation and re cession and by anger Over the political scandals of Richard Nixon s presidency the voters handed Down judgment Senate seats in five states Florida Vermont North Dakota Colorado and s w i t c h e d to the democrats from the republicans. The House of representatives was headed towards a two thirds democratic membership with More than 40 republicans ousted. And democrats replaced he publican governors in new York California Massachusetts Connecticut and a clutch of smaller compensation for then loss of South Carolina to a Republican and Maine to a democratic renegade. Parts of the electoral picture remained to be filled in Early today. Some House seats were still undecided and recounts were i the offing for the Ohio governorship and a couple see saw Senate places. But the democrats had at least 62 seats in the 100 member Senate 281 in the 435 member House and 35 of he 50 state More of each apparently waiting to fall into their grasp with the completion of vote counting. Among the democratic win ners several who will have a Chance to play a King maker s role in future. They in elude representative Hugh Carey who won new York s governorship Jerry Brown Youthful governor elect in Cali fornia and Senate victors John Glenn of Ohio a former Aston a naut and Dale bumpers of a Kansas the slate s current governor. See democrats Page 17 in hit Maiden commons speech last White Way pc Selkirk pledged to pitch a tent if necessary on the Doorstep of the postmaster general to solve a constituency problem. The 30-year-old my did just that. The protest involves irregularities in Post office hours in Sandy Hook Man sip by Ori Page 8. Kit attacks free Market says prices Mani . Among Inco s Shoi workers. Early reports were that All 100 were out in tha Section. Almost All smelter main penance men wore also reported off sick. So far the Book offs have applied Only to surface workers but the move May shift to underground tradesmen. A spokesman for the com Pany said Inco believes the reason for the walkout is re lated to a Union request for a supplementary wage increase Over and above the negotiated agreement of March 1, 1973." in a Telephone interview he said discussions with the Union have been by Elaine Brown free press staff writer agriculture minister Samuel Yuskiw of Manitoba launched a scathing attack on the free Market system tuesday insist ing it must be abolished every where in the world. Comparing the pricing practices of the Oil exporting coun tries with the manipulation of food prices or. Yuskiw demanded the free Market be come a thing of the the situation is glaring in the beef Industry he said in calling for a National food policy based on the Utility concept. He told delegates attending tile annual meeting of the Manitoba Pool elevators that they should not consider the exist ing open feed Grain situation to be closed to further changes even though the present mar Ket was established Only six months ago. He warned the delegates the feed Grain Market was being manipulated the leeches have been allowed Back in the Foremost the producers must consider the hungry peo Ples of the world or. Yuskiw said. In these times we must accept the fact that it really is truly is immoral to allow conditions of malnutrition to exist in our own land or anywhere in the world which brings us to an important policy decision which hopefully will evolve from your it May not be palatable to continue please see attacks Page 5 Canada promises More food Aid. Looking for a 30" stove this want and under mis Cellaneous articles for Sale 59 Viking 30" stove White excellent condition. S100. Pm. 475-5107 alter 6 . Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what Yon need shop and save in free press want ads. Rome up external affairs minister Allan Macea Chen promised today to double Canada s current food Grain Aid to one million tons a year for the next three years to help Dis Pell the acute distress of spreading hunger. In his speech to the United nations world food Confer 8 n c e Maceachen also announced that the government has allocated million of Canada s total Aid spending to curing food problems. He s a i d traditional food donors and All Rich countries have an obligation to maintain and expand food Aid while emergency conditions exist. But he added repeatedly that recipient countries must aug ment their own food production and improve their ability to store and process food. Sugar gets blame spiralling sugar prices could mean higher Candy and pastry costs some Winnipeg business men say. An official of Weston foods Ltd., a Candy manufacturer with a Plant in Ontario said wednesday that Candy prices would go up with the increased sugar costs. This has happened before and Likely will continue. An official of the Helvetia Swiss pastry 170 Sher Brook said in a. Tele phone interview wednesday that higher sugar costs would be reflected in the store s pastry costs. The bakery s in creased costs could t All be absorbed and some would have to be passed on to the con of Weston a flows proposed conference or where Canada can help to make these problems More manageable it and it would try to see that International Trade in such goods As fertilizer is maintained on a non discriminatory basis. One million tons of Canadian Grain yearly would Supply 10 per cent of the 10 million tons of food Grain Aid by the food Gani Zers in the in food and agriculture organization Maceachen said 10 million tons is a minimum target and we Are facing a situation of extraordinary the promised Canadian contribution would increase its food Grain Aid from a 1973-74 total of about tons. Canadian Grain Aid totalled please see Canada Page 8 . An official series Ltd. Said bread prices Rose in August and no other in Cre ase is in sight. Tablac Mcwood beverages 1965 Ltd. Official said soft drink prices went up about 10 per cent in october. He said the soft drink Industry faces the same problem of spiralling costs experienced by other firms. Please see sugar Page 18 old Lei outgunned 32 soviet youth 38 classified.42 to 58 comics 69, 70 deaths s finance 34 to 37 Iii ble .45 movies 7-1 sports in to 07, 75 television 71 women it to 27 reads the free press City Zoni total f at Amin s by Colin somewhere on the ugandan Frontier Spe Cial owns general Idi Amin s a Lucri Dada Amin has escaped from Uganda because he fears that his life 13 no longer Safe. He has taken refuse in Gairc and is building a House in a Small Village called Adieu. Gen. Amin is in longer on speaking terms with his Ihrck Sisters and his brother. This family division which is symptomatic of what is happening inside Uganda is the culmination of a series of events following the brutal murder of Gen. Amin s wife Kay ordered by him. Gen. Amin s own life is in constant jeopardy. Two weeks he narrowly escaped death when two air Force officers attempted to shoot him Down when lie was flying Buck from a visit in Mogadishu in Somalia. They missed him because he diverted his flight to Torero. This was the second attempt on his life from within the air Force. The previous Effort was made last May the details of which Are Only now becoming available. I was Jinn a first hand account of life at Idi Amin s court by a prominent ugandan who has been at his Side Ever since Gen. Amin s military coup in january 1971. By cause his family is still inside Uganda his name and the place of our meeting must be kept secret. This Story begins with the arrest and murder of Gen. Amin s former foreign Secretary Michael Ondego on March i. Gen. Amin is said to have been jealous of on dogo s close Friendship with Princess Elizabeth Bagayas whom he made foreign Secretary in Ondego s place shortly before he arranged for his killing. Ondego was picked up at on the morning of March 6 As he was dropping his two year old daughter at the kindergarten of the Nakajiro primary school. She was left screaming on the pavement As five men bundled her father into a car. This body was found in the Nile River a Tew Days later badly mutilated. Kay Amin whose Lughart family is close to that of Michael Ondego intervened vigorously with her husband to save his life when she heard about in within minutes of his Abatie Tooji. When she later Learnt he had been killed she left Gen. Amin s House and went to live on her own. Tri cover the shame of her leaving him Gen. Amin publicly that he1 was dissolving his moslem please see Teh Kok Page in 1 needs j new faces by David s. Broder Washington special tons the Best face that the White House and the republicans can put on yester Day s election returns is that the voters were venting their dissatisfaction with two years of Nixon Ian scandal and economic blundering not their disapproval of three months of president Ford. That s a convenient rationalization it s also probably True. Despite his frenetic campaigning president Ford never really became a Central part of this mid term elec Tion. The voters obviously did t accept his description of the dangers of a legislative dictatorship by the democrats. But it s also doubtful that by election Day Many of them were cutting the local Republican congressional candidate because of or. Ford s act of Charity in pardoning the ailing and broken former president. But if the mid term election does not constitute in any real sense a referendum on the Ford leadership it certainly provides the occasion for him to put. Himself Back in. The Centre of the political picture rather than being the sideline character he was in the past Campaign. It is time in Short for or. Ford to make that clean break with the voter repudiated Republican past by mov ing to fashion an administration of his own. It is time to clean House in the Cabinet and agencies. On sunday Donald Rumsfeld the new White House chief of staff was on television arguing that or. Ford has please see new Page 5 economic struggle in Congress seen by Walter r. Hears Washington a that Ood marriage . President Tord proposed to Congress May in headed for a Quick divorce. The election returns Point to in compatibility a s the Likely grounds. The voters have confronted he Republican president with he most heavily democratic Congress since Lyndon John son s landslide election a dec Ade ago. And while Ford said he is confident he can work with the new Congress to Deal with Infra Ion and the economic slump All the signs signal a heightened struggle Over economic Mea sures. Against the background of tuesday s election outcome it is Likely to begin almost immediately when the current 93rd Congress returns for its lame Duck session beginning nov. 18. For one thing any slim Prospect that Congress would act this year to give Ford the mid dle and upper income tax sur charge he proposed As anti inflation measure appears to be gone now. And Given the new Congress that will Convene in january if Ford please see economic Page 8 joint arson squad by Brian Blomme free press police reporter a joint arson squad of police men and fire officials in t needed in Winnipeg at this time chief Norman Stewart of the Winnipeg police depart ment said tuesday. Chief Stewart said in. Would be an inefficient use of Man Power to have several fire fighters and policemen working on a squad that investigated Only arson. There would to be. Enough work for such a squad in Winnipeg he said. The chief said he met Mon Day with chief c. N. W. She wan of the Winnipeg fire department and August Thorimbert provincial. Fire commissioner and the consensus was that there is no need for a Spe Cial arson squad of members from the three groups. Chief Stewart said arson investigations will continue As in the past with each of he three services taking a role. The chief said a conservative guess would be that there Are Between 50 and 75 men with arson training on the police Force now. A number of police officers have received special arson training at the Canadian police please see Stewart Page 5 Ore flyer industries t h e entire three member personnel department of flyer industries Ltd. Resigned tues Day afternoon continuing a rash of resignations from the bus manufacturing Plant owned by the Manitoba development corporation. The free Doreen Hanson Myrna Clearwater and Diane a Kolewski were said to have left after being criticised by the acting president for laugh ing and listening to the radio during their lunch break. One of the Ihrcke with five years experience in the person Nel department said she Felt the company was Over promoting employees beyond their level of competence to fill vacancies left by the dozen or so resignations. I n t c m management has made Little Effort in motivate people and staff is left without supervision or direction she said. Morale is terribly Low. Please see Tilk Kovago 5 ;