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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba St. Valentine s Day the gift of love give blood Call your red cios today Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 118 15 cents thursday february 13, 1975 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Becoming sunny -15 and 5 the creative juices of Jon Verne left and Shane Sanders Are flowing As fast As their scissors and crayons can Fly. To see what the students at Laura photos by Gerry Cairns Secord school Are doing please see Page 3. Want federation cypriot turks set up state Nicosia a leaders of the turkish cypriot Community proclaimed a separate turkish cypriot state in Northern Cyprus today but said they wanted to federate it with a greek cypriot state. The proclamation was made jointly by the Council of ministers and the legislative As Sembly of the autonomous turkish cypriot Nistra meeting in joint session in the turkish cypriot Quarter of Nicosia. The proclamation came seven months after the turkish invasion of Cyprus. It ended in turkish occupation of the Northern 40 per cent of the is land and the de Facto partition of Cyprus. Hundreds of turkish cypriots in the main Square of their sector of the divided capital cheered As the proclamation was read Over loudspeakers. Rauf Denktash the Leader of the turkish cypriot Community and the vice president in the Long defunct greek turkish is ind government was unanimously chosen head of the new state by the joint session the loudspeakers said. City will request govt. Budget Aid by Paul Pihi Chyn free press Urban reporter Winnipeg civic executive pol committee delayed making Public the City s 1975 current spending estimates thursday and agreed to make a last ditch attempt to get an in creased share of Manitoba government revenues to offset tie projected 20-Mill increase in the civic property tax rate. The committee had planned to make Public the estimates which indicate spending of million and revenues of Only ?134 million leaving a Budge tary deficit of million. However mayor Steve Juba told the committee the estimates will be released at a special meeting monday. In the meantime civic officials will meet with the provincial Cabinet and ask for about ?26 million which the please see City Page 14 civic fete in red Centennial books Worth still unsold Winnipeg s Centennial celebrations actually Cost More than the set aside by City a preliminary statement of sex p e n s e s released wednesday which indicates the festivities were under budget. In calculating total expenditures of More than Worth of unsold Centen Nial books were included As recoverable inventory. John Klassen chairman the Winnipeg Centennial sub committee explained wednes Day that the books Aren t shown As a deficit it is expected they will still sell. We re not trying to pull the Wool Over anyone s lie said after releasing the budget at the final meeting of the Cen Tennial subcommittee. The books should be looked at As an inventory he suggested several ways of Selling off the almost books of which Haven t been bound including reducing the Cost giving a discount see Centennial Page 6 cannabis cases Ottawa plans drug paroles by Jeff Carruthers free press correspondent they can be Given an Early parole. Or. Allmand said the parole Ottawa the Federal gov eminent plans to give Many of j review promises to be of most the hundreds of Young Canad Benefit to persons convicted of ans now in jail on cannabis con importing cannabis and sen fictions a special parole break a tended to the minimum seven years in Ama As soon As the less stringent cannabis Bill now before the Senate becomes Law solicitor general warrant Allmand revealed in an inter View that he has asked the National parole Board to automatically review All cases involving persons jailed on cannabis convictions before the new Bill came into Law to see whether Tours who would Likely have received a Shorter or even no jail sentence under the pro posed Law. Under the proposed new cannabis Laws the minimum jail sentence for cannabis importation is Only three years on con please see drug Page 4 tax Bill scrutiny May delay refunds Ottawa up As the commons moves into its second Day of clause by clause scrutiny of the massive omnibus tax Bill it appears that those 1974 income tax refunds will not be out soon. Debate wednesday barely want to go into this conference with his hands bloody i simply ask that before parliament passes the edict that no provincial taxes or royalties Are deductible let there be one More Opportunity for consultation to see whether can be or. By Marilyn Berger Cairo special tons the egyptian government is studying the possibility of sign ing an agreement not to Start hostilities against Israel. That agreement would be linked to Progress toward further israeli withdrawals informed egyptian sources said. Such an agreement which these sources said would be carefully circumscribed could provide the key to a second stage israeli pullback in Hydro hike seen the Sinai. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin has said that if egyptian president Anwar Sadat would put in writing what he has said publicly that neither Egypt nor Syria would Start another War he would be prepared to Relin Quish the strategic Sinai passes and the Oil Fields at Abu Rudeis. Or. Sadat has said there could be no agreement without withdrawals from these areas. Egyptian readiness to consider such an agreement which would fall Well Short of Israel s demand for an end to the state of belligerency would explain the optimism being expressed by United states officials. Fol lowing More than two hours of private talks with or. Sadat wednesday . Secretary of state Henry a. Kissinger said he believed the egyptian and israeli positions Are recon i please see peace Page 14 Oil Cartel under Strain no rates set May equal last increase Premier Manitoba Hydro rate i _ creases Are coming and could e Washington special tons pressures that will p ultimately Lead to lower Oil prices Are beginning to mount s on the arabs and other Oil exporters and their Cartel is h showing signs of Strain according to government sources s e administration and congressional sources said a con s p tinting decline in world Oil consumption is forcing the 13 h member nations of the organization of Petroleum Export s 1 ing countries open to hold Back from the Market an in g g creasing amount of their potential production to maintain h Manitoba Hydro rate in current High prices s g As a result open countries Are now producing 10.6 equal those of last year pre million barrels a Day less than they otherwise would if i Mier de Schreyer of Manitoba they did not want to keep prices High according to a . I said after a rotary club Lun Treasury department source. 3 Cheon wednesday at the hotel last autumn this so called shut in production i fort Garry. G amounted to Only barrels a Day. At the Start of last year s rate increases the 1973 embargo it stood at less than barrels. Averaged about 19 per cent. _ the More Oil the open countries hold off the Market 1 however or. Schreyer said p the More income they must forego and Many of the sex s no decision has been reached g porting countries including Iran Venezuela and in on the rate change. Geria require a continuing Supply of Jobars and other speaking to the luncheon g foreign currencies to finance their economic development or. Schreyer said Manitoba s g programs. Increases in Hydro rates have g meanwhile More than barrels of new Oil s been nominal compared with discoveries have been made in non open countries during s rate increases in the United the past year according to . Government estimates. H states. N these include at least in Mexico another s a study by new York based g in the North sea and or More in 1 National utilities service inc. G a variety of Southern hemisphere countries. S indicated rates charged by the together the new supplies will support added product 50 largest . Electric Utility g Tion of barrels a Day for 20 years. Companies increased an average of 55.4 per cent during g the first six months of 1974, he said. During this period Florida Power corp. Increased its rates by 89 per cent and South please see Hydro Page 4 in addition Iraq which is currently producing about please see Oil Page 14 lug Ouhaj dec Ujco 287-Page Bill an amalgam of measures proposed in the nov. 18 budget. Or. Turner rejected the suggestion that the government d e 1 a y proclamation of the in addition to considering the clause until the april con. 142 clauses in commons will the Bill the Ference. Have to Deal with 41 amendments proposed j please see refunds Page 4 by Bernard d. Noss1ter London special tons like All her subjects Queen Elizabeth is having a tougher time making ends meet because of inflation. So prime minister Harold Wilson a socialist by profession and monarchist by instinct wednesday asked parliament to in crease her expense accounts by pounds Sterling about the last time the Queen got a raise was in 1972 and the Cost of living has gone up 40 per cent since then. Accord ing to or. Wilson s artfully contrived arithmetic the new increase would Only add 27.6 per cent to the Monarch s Upkeep a bargain for the country. Inflation hits Heads of state As Well As everyone or. Wilson told the commons. It strikes with special Force at Large employers he added and the Queen comes under this heading. Her staff at Buckingham Palace alone includes 337 full time and 126 part time workers. Before wednesday s announcement several labor members of parliament threatened to make an Issue of the in creases on the grounds that they set a bad example for a government trying to hold Back wage costs. But As Hap pens so often Here when the monarchy is discussed the protesters were silent. Only Willie Hamilton a labor my who has made a career of baiting the Royal family raised any objection. He said he was appalled at the request. While conservative maps loudly jeered or. Hamilton said he always knew or. Wilson was a member of the establishment but he does t need to go Down on All fours to prove As or. Wilson outlined it the accounts for the Royal household go like this. The civil list which pays for some of the running expenses was fixed at pounds Sterling a year in 1972. But last year the Queen dipped into her own funds for pounds Sterling to meet these costs and this year expenses will Rise to pounds Sterling the Queen said or. Wilson will contribute pounds Sterling to the deficit but parliament should provide the other pounds Sterling or. Wilson neatly defused any opposition by stressing that three quarters of the civil list outlay goes for wages and salaries in the Royal establishment. These payments will have gone up 70 per cent in three years. Or. Wilson insisted to sceptical cries that this was consistent with Union anti inflation guidelines. All this will please the Palace. But the Queen and her entourage will not please see pay Page 4 is by finance minister John e Turner. H meanwhile no income tax h refunds can be mailed by the Revenue department until the Bill becomes Law. Al the opposition concentrated s most of its attacks wednesday on the contentious clause h which would require resource companies to pay income tax h on provincial royalties i Alvin Hamilton Pelle Moose Mountain said Dell laying the Federal resource tax h changes might facilitate a wider agreement at the april Federal provincial Energy con Ference. A delay in imposing the re source tax would show that Ottawa has left room to negotiate p at the april 9-10 meeting he s said. Does the prime minister today tax tips 33 soviet scrapbook 52 classified 35 to 52 comics 64, 65 deaths. 15 finance 61 to 63 Jumble 39 movies 32 sports 53 to 60, b6 television 29 women 21 to 24 nearly everyone reads the free press i y Zono total Hospital work urged by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter administrator Art Hodgkin son of Winnipeg municipal hospitals said thursday the expansion and renovation plans which his Hospital first submit Ted to the Manitoba govern ment 15 years ago with a Price tag of about million now Ifould Cost the taxpayers of Manitoba Between million and million. Or. Hodgkinson said in an interview the work is More urgent than Ever and a decision on approval is expected by the end of this month. Or. Hodgkinson said his hospitals situation is particularly precarious because of the institution s old obsolete Power Plant which can t be repaired because the boilers Are no longer manufactured and no spare parts can be obtained. We have a Power House that has the original boilers which Are said or. Hodgkinson. If we blew a boiler this would put us right out of business and we d have to evacuate All our patients. There d be nothing we could do on a cold Day but shut at stake in the development please see Hospital Page 14 Eye blink dead Man Milwaukee wis. A assistance but a doctors said William of his brain showed no a Grond showed no brain Iris Winogrond was told and was clinically dead her husband was clinically being rushed to the after a heart attack. But Winogrond signed later a blink of an Eye authorizing donation of he was husband s kidneys and Winogrond 46, an and Home. Trator at the University of than 12 hours after the Consin Milwaukee suffered the doctor to heart attack monday and her that her husband was he reached Hospital he was Winogrond said she was doctors and nurses continued his heart and breathing see Eye Page 14 land lease cuts costs by Frances the minister comment free press legislative during a hearing in the the Manitoba legislative building could stabilize the Price a special legislature com farm land and increase studying the question of productivity by leasing ownership of land. Land to Farmers at question of foreign own rates agriculture minister appeared of minor in Muel Yuskiw of Manitoba however As the com spent most of the Day if the government were representations on Purchase to ownership of farm land. Through the Manitoba Yuskiw contended that re Ture credit corporation land costs would reduce lease them to Farmers at Cost of food production based on the original Cost enabling Manitoba the not the who now Are faced Market the Price disadvantageous freight other land would be to compete better for or. Yuskiw markets. The Public docs not have to spa lip. A profit. In land continued Plo Asp. Sep. Scheme. Pace 6 called inefficient slow moving Brussels Reuter nato s elite International to bile Force designed to move rapidly to any member country under threat of aggression is inefficient and slow moving nato assistant Secretary general Gardiner Tucker said wednesday. Or. Tucker said in an article in the latest edition of the nato Magazine that these Ven nation Force to which can Ada contributes uses too Many elite different kinds of weapons and equipment to be fully effective. The Force with Headquarters in Meckenheim West Germany uses seven Dif Ferent types of combat air Craft six kinds of recoilless rifles and different types of mortars Rifle and machine guns. Because their weapons and supplies Are so diverse each of the seven National units in this Force must maintain its own logistics personnel and establish its own logistics or. Tucker said. The Force was designed to move quickly to a threatened area so an aggressor would face a United front of several nato allies rather than the one country under attack. Or. Tucker said that if uie Aram events were standardized within the Force and with the potential Host country the time required to ready the Force would than half. Be Cut by More a spokesman for the defence department in Ottawa said the diversity of weapons and sup plies does not hinder the Speed of the Force. X he said nato exercises carried out every one or two years depending on budget restrictions have proven that the Mobile Force can move with designed Speed and efficiency to Ater catered member ;