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Friday, November 15, 1974

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Thanks to you its working Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 44 i r. Rtt Mac me with id Cal Nib coloured comics Friday november 15, 1974 Sunrise . Sunset . Cloudy periods 15 and 30 Moonrise . Moonset. . Former . President Richard Nixon is helped from his wheel chair to a waiting lir Lousine at the Long Beach memorial Hospital. Or. Nixon left Hospital yesterday for his Home in san Clemente after a 23-Day stay for treatment of phlebitis. Booza make Blurry talk 32 31 classified 33 to-18, 58 to lil comics 12, 13 deaths 10 finance 21 to 25 Jumble movies 28, 29 sports. Ii to 57 television 2fi women 18, 10 in Earth everyone re ads the free press cily Lona total report clears steel Industry. By Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa the steel Industry in Canada was cleared of any suggestions of profiteering by the Canadian government s inquiry in a report tabled Friday. The inquiry was conducted by or Justice Willard l. Esley of the Ontario court of appeals. It was set up last june by the government Fol lowing a rash of. Steel Price in creases. Ilk. Agog by Bernard Noss Itell London special tons a pretty redheaded gov erness bludgeoned to death below stairs. A Lovely blonde countess staggering into the local pub blood streaming from her tattered face. A handsome rakish Earl hunted by police in two con linens. These could be the ingredients for a spine tingling Agatha Christie novel. They Are instead the elements of a real life murder drama that is taking britons minds off their economic woes. The talc begins in the georgian Belgravia Home of Veronica countess of Lucan now 35 and one of the love Liest debutantes of her Day. She has been separated from her husband the seventh Earl of Lucan for 18 months now. On the cold Rainy night of nov. 7, lady Lucan was watching a father Brown television mystery on the second floor. Sitting with her was her recently hired governess mrs. Sandra Rivett 29, and also separated. Upstairs the three Young Lucan children were sleeping peacefully in bed. Al about ., mrs. Rivell went Down to make a cup of Tea. But lurking behind the stairs was a Man with a Lead pipe. He leaped out from his hiding place and savagely Cal the Green eyed governess about the head. Please Sec . Page 8 the commission of inquiry found that the steel Industry was not by current pricing policies or by increases aft May 15 up to and including oct. 31 this year recovering pro iils Grealer than icy hav customarily obtained. Commissioner Estey sail however the steel making i Dusley has now obtain cd Price so Rulure that is proud ing profit margins at or a preaching Levels found accept Able by the Industry in oth periods of Prosperity in to steel business. As a result an future Price increases Shou be linked directly to Cost i creases otherwise the pro margins which customarily p trained in the Industry will exceeded. Allowance must ice a for the presence in Curry earnings of inventory prof which Are a phenomenon a please see steel Page 10 United action on Oil urged Washington special 3ns United states Secre by of state Henry a. Kis Iger thursday night called i North America Western rope and Japan to act joint to avoid perpetual crisis or soaring Oil prices. Only drastic conservation of clergy consumption and col oration among the consume Kissinger lie Western orld from the threat of a new Oil embargo and the so of financial collapse. He Ade his proposals in a major g or. Id can protect address at the University of Chicago. Presenting the Ford administration s first specific propos als in the global dilemma or. Kissinger said the United states is prepared to Cut its Oil imports 85 Pel barrels cent from a Day to barrels Over the next decade. The Industrial nations during the next decade or. Kissinger said must conserve enough Oil and develop sufficient alternative supplies to reduce their Energy imports from one third to one fifth of their total Energy consumption. Means keeping Oil imports Static As their economies grow or a 40 per cent Cut in the Oil Itiat tale industrialized nations would otherwise import. The. Most serious immedi ate problem facing the major Oil consuming nations is the flood billion a extra Money going to the Oil producers or. Kissinger said. This huge volume of Money dumped on the world s fijian please see United Page 8 by Bob Douglas Ottawa up the Federal government has received Tenta offers of aral Oil Money or housing and is actively in erected Urban affairs min s t e r Barnett Danson said tar Day or Danson said in an inter Lew that he has had offers of Noney in Telephone Conversa Lons but when you try to put our linger on some specific her nothing but he said he has just been old that one offer has been con armed and he will look into it. The would not elaborate. There Are a number of Condi ions that must be he government can acc Cpl Arab Oil funds the minister Aid. One of the problems sern o these offers Are in or. Danson said. The government could not Amble on american Dollar Exchange rates remaining the a me Over a Long period. The government walled Thi Noney in Canadian dollars As he Loans would be for Ion Erms. Payments were in . Dollars Canada could wind up paying More than originally estimated if the Exchange rate changed. The Urban o wide scale foreign Acquini Ion of property. The Arab Oil Money could be channelled in some Way through the Central mortgage ind housing corp., he said. Or please see arabs Page 8 affairs min Isle said the government is Only in Leresley in Money for residential mortgages. It was oppose rejects Aid hike Rome up citing inflation and other Domestic rations the White House has turned Down a request for an immediate increase of one Mil lion tons in world food United states official said today. The decision seemed sure to spark criticism from Many participants in the world food conference who already feel the meeting has done nothing Concrete toward countering starvation. The announcement was made by Anne Armstrong counsellor to president Ford and third please see . Page 10 Luns voices fear of soviet strength Israel curbed in palestinian debate by Paul Whitelaw free press staff correspondent United nations . For the second time this week third world countries have used their majority in the in general Assembly to curtail the rights of an unpopular member state to speak at will. Only two Days after it sus Pended South Africa s right to speak in the Assembly or its committees the Assembly voted overwhelmingly thurs Day to limit each country to Only one statement during the current debate on Palestine the effect of the Resolution is to severely limit Israel s ability to participate in the deliberations. An israeli spokesman thurs Day night described the vote As a the Assembly Resolution approved by 75 Arab african and other third world israe to a single ten minute reply Al the end of each Day s debate. Twenty three countries vote against the Resolution while 18 abstained. Canada not unexpectedly please see in Page 8 several Winnipeg councillors have received a letter from a Winnipeg development com Pany offering them up to a Campaign contribution to offset their election expenses. The letter from metropolitan properties ltd., was sent to the 10 City councillors elected by acclamation in the oct. 23 civic election. The dated oct. 17, was the most recent in a series of events posing the question of a possible conflict of interest concerning City councillors and some Large development companies and construction firms in Winnipeg. Mayor Steve tuba announced thurs Day that Baum and the Royal Bank of Canada would sponsor a banquet for former City councillors Reeves and mayors dec. 5 in the Holiday inn. The Cost of the banquet would be about Baom is one of the largest construction companies in can Ada. And one of the major prop Erly owners in Winnipeg. Earlier this year the City of sugar producers urge import quota London Reuler Joseph Luns Secretary general of the North Atlantic treaty organization thursday warned of the increased Mili tary might of the soviet Union. Addressing the opening Annu Al session of the nato Assem Bly Luns said Hal in Casl Wesl by Paul Gessell Montreal up native Peoples announced today thai the Quebec govern Mcnol has awarded them million in compensation to end their Dis Pule on land claims in North Western Quebec site of a Mas Sive hydroelectric Power project. The agreement in principle was to be signed in the Mon Treal office of Premier Robert Bourassa Al noon Loday. The main Points of the agree ment Are Winnipeg switched us banking from the Bank of Mon real to he Royal Bank of Canada. And some cily councillors attended a recep lion in the hotel Forl Garry Given by lad co company ltd., a local land development firm and construction company. Only one councillor Robert Sleen Lias said publicly that he accepted Money from metropolitan properties. He said he accepted Victor Repart general Man Ager of metropolitan proper ties said Friday his company had Contri Fulcd to the campaigns of a number of cily Council candidates. He declined to say How Many but the contributions were All. Between and All of the recipients were either Independent civic election committee or in dependent candidates. Letters were sent Only to the 10 acclaimed candidates he said in an interview and Conn. Please see election Page 9 what is really needed to stabilize sugar prices is a Canad an sugar policy Federal import Quolas provincial regulation of prices representatives of the Manitoba sugar beet growers association said thursday. Association president. Wil Liana Ronald told a press con Ference his group has been urging the Federal government for some time for an inter a Lional sugar agreement and Federal import quotas but so far has had no Success. To s a id Canadian sugar beet growers should be allowed produce 25 per cent of the country s sugar requirements please see import Page 8 West of perimeter sex site backed civic executive policy com Mittee recommended thursday that Winnipeg City Council approve in principle the relocation of Man sphere on a site West of the perimeter Highway and North of Portage Avenue. D. I. Macdonald chief civic commissioner has said such a Large scale development there would be a planning discs no new development should be encouraged West of the perimeter because Portage ave nue already saturated with traffic would be unable to carry the added transportation see committee Page 8 a s75 million payment to the native Peoples Over the isl 10-year period. A million payment Over a longer period for royalties from the province s hydroelectric projects. 9 a share of the province s Revenue from future hydroelectric developments. All payments Are to be lax exempt chief Billy Diamond a spokesman for the native peo Ples old a news conference. Please Sec indians Page 10 relations we have emerged from confrontation into a period of negotiation but the danger is not relations can Worsen As Well As improve. We Are not alone master of our destiny ii is not we who decide on the soviet leadership and comm Nisi policies. And should we find our selves As i Hope we shall not confronted with a Deturi oration in Easl West relations Ihnn the vastly increased military might of the soviet Union would acquire a new dimension and a new importance. Let me Only remind you of the soviet Union s newly built huge Navy a Navy which could threaten our supplies and might if not sufficiently cheeked cripple our capacity Tor conventional reinforcement and so compel us to choose be tween surrender Ami a nuclear Luns added thus we must at All Cost even in i desc Dif Ficula economic limes look Afler our Security. This Means we must continue to allocate sufficient resources to defence even if Hal Means making sacrifices it has at least 31 flavors by Marjorie Nichols free press correspondent Ottawa it would unfair to say thai senator Gil Mol Gal president of the Liber Al parly of Canada actually winced when Charlie Graham dished Oul the metaphor mixed w i i h ice Cream and boy scouts. I Rul it would be Accra la to say Hal the senator was not smiling quite As broadly As he had Heen when Charlie began the presentation on the Art of political fund raising Liberal style. Fund raising is like ice said Charlie. There Are at least 31. Flavors this is kind of like boy Seoul s fund Charlie or Charles Hill Gra Ham As he is formally is a tall thin Well groomed Young Man with thick wire rimmed spectacles who do scribes himself As a professional fund Raiser and Market ing the Liberal parly prefers to think of him As their director of he was hired according loan official parly Locum Cal to organize and promote fund Rais ing acl Vilies Anu to develop requirements of the new elec Tion expenses in simpler terms Charlie is a Sorl of one Man .1. Waller Thompson Ink afield by the lib eral parly to Leach the faithful the Art of door to door solicit ing. The goal to raise million before the a Cal Federal Elc Clion Rolls around. Ii is not As senator Mol Gal concedes going to be an easy Lask. The senator insisted thai this was not Why the press was invited to Liberal Headquarters thursday afternoon. He explained thai numbers of report ers had been calling in recent Days to find out How the Liber als were coping Wilh the new election act and so he thought please Sec raising Page 0 easy does it girls. There s a limit you know of Mother said be Days like to see what the crush is All about please turn to Jim the arc d Page 3 ;