Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 14, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba St. Valentine s Day the gift of love give blood Call four red Cross today Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 119 20c coloured Friday february 14, 1975 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Clearing -15 and 5 Montreal up four persons were shot dead and five others one a woman were injured when three masked gunmen opened fire in a hotel bar in suburban Brossard thursday night police said. Two of the injured were re ported in critical condition Early today at the nearby Charles Lemoyne Hospital on the South Shore of Montreal is land. The four men shot dead were Pierre Prevost 38, of Montreal Roger Letourneau 31, of nearby Verdun Richard Banning 33, of nearby Green Field Park and Andre Lefebvre 32, of Montreal. A police spokesman said we Jiow of All police believe the killings were an underworld settling of accounts. About sixty persons in the bar and adjoining discotheque of the hotel Lapinere at the time of the killings were ques please see four Page 4 Mideast Hopes less High James Sebring and Mother reunited after 32 years. After 32 years Mother son i together at last 1 Norfolk a. A Navy radioman James Sebr ing 33, and his Mother cried thursday when they met for the first time in 32 years. H Sebring s Mother was waiting at the pier when he re g turned from a three week training cruise aboard the air g Craft Carrier Forrestal. He bad not seen her since his father took him away h from Home when he was one year old. G later Sebring s efforts to Trace his Mother was unsuccessful. Nor could Alberta Sebring find her son. But the Sailor s wife Terry Sebring introduced the flyer i to get i More g million loan m brings total i to million by Mike Ward i free press staff writer flyer industries limited is to receive a further Millim from the Manitoba develop m e n t corporation bringing total Public investment in the company to almost s33 million since the provincial govern ment took an interest in the firm five years ago. The latest loan brings the total Over the past five months to million. The announcement is expected to be included in the development corporation s quarterly assistance granted report published in the official Mani Toba Gazette a government source said. By Bernard Nossiter London special tons the labor government thursday overcame its biggest threat to Industrial peace when negotiators for the strike prone Coal miners agreed to a new one year contract. The Deal however appears to have rudely shattered prime minister Harold Wilson s in written social contract to hold Down wage costs. A rough estimate indicated that the con tract will increase pay for the Quarter million miners by 31 per cent. Norman Siddall the Deputy chairman of the nationalized Coal Board emerged from the bargaining to say that there will have to be a fairly sub by Richard Reston Jerusalem special tons As United states Secretary a. Kissinger re turned to Israel for More peace talks thursday night a senior . Official said a new egyptian israeli d i s e n gag ement agreement is conceivable but that the chances Are Only 50-50 at Best. Earlier in the Day this same official suggested that Israel will have to consider the de Gree of flexibility in the Posi Tion As negotiations move to Ward a second More detailed stage in Early March when or. Kissinger returns to the Middle East. Or. Kissinger s return Here slant Al increase in the Price of he blamed other Cost in creases As Well As the new settlement. Even so the government is clearly relieved that it won t have to face a miners walkout. In a Britian that still imports All its Oil uninterrupted Coal please see British Page 5 for a second time during this peace Mission completed a Long Day of whirlwind Diplo Macy in three different coun tries. He began the Day in Cairo where he concluded a 24-hour visit and an extensive review of Mideast problems with egyptian president Anwar then flew to Damas Cus for a similar review of the tortured military and political issues of this area wit i pres ident Hafez Assad of Syria. Well after dark the Secre tary landed in Tel Aviv and immediately motored for an hour to Jerusalem where he plunged into a working Winner please see Mideast Page 5 furniture Sale to Cuba approved please see background Story on Page 13 earlier this month it was disclosed in the Gazette that Between oct. 1 the Day 550 men went on strike at the firm s Transcona and fort loaned Valentine s Day gift. Terry said she started with her husband s birth certify and chairman of flyer s Board area before she found i n.y., hotel. I used to ask my father where my Mother was but he please see Mother Page 4 m week. It is Likely that an announcement will be made please see new Page 4 former employee Aims to retain his 1% share although Manitoban Are kept in the dark about what goes on at shareholder meetings of flyer Indus tries limited Bill to w a 1 c h u k employed by motor coach industries limited knows All. He owns one per cent 320 shares of flyer s common Stock. The Mani Toba development Corpora Tion owns 99 per cent. It purchased most of the Stock in july 1971 for and paid for shares Between october and december 1973. Sen. Arthur Laing Dies at age 70 Vancouver up Sena Tor Arthur Laing who spent More than 25 years involved in Canadian politics died thurs in after news of his death was announced tributes poured in from political allies and opponents alike. Prime minister Trudeau re Columbia Liberal Leader was respected and admired by politicians from All parties. Short Day in Hospital of stomach cancer at the age of 70. Mem ered senator Laing As the former Federal Liberal a person who could fight Tena Cabinet minister and British Cipully for what he believed in without allowing his personal convictions to Blind him to the Worth of an opponent s Posi former prime minister John Diefenbaker said he was a devoted parliamentarian and a Good i knew him for 30 he added. He was always a Ray Perrault government Leader in the Senate said sen-1 Alor Laing was one of the most dedicated Public servants in the history of this Allister Grosart Deputy opposition Leader in the Senate said he was absolutely out standing and when he spoke in the Senate he added greatly to everyone s Robert Stanfield progressive conservative Leader praised senator Laing As a warm and generous Man who was always see Arthur Laing Page 4 or. Kowalchuk rubs shoulders with some of Winnipeg s b i g business men who hold 15 per cent of the preferred shares in the company among he attends the firm s annual general meetings or special meet Ings. The development corporation owns 85 per cent of the preferred shares he said in an interview this week that he has bad offers to sell his shares but he has refused every time. Ill never sell them. I was with flyer for almost 32 years and worked my Way from the Bottom of the ladder up to the top. These shares Are of great sentimental value to me and i am going to hang on to them. I be got a let Ter somewhere in my files from the development Cor by Peter Buckley i Washington up with j a Bow to the importance of United states relations with Canada the state department said today it has granted an application by the California based Litton industries for the Sale of Worth of office furniture to Cuba by a Toronto subsidiary. A department source spell ing out official policy but spel i flying that he not be named j said the application on behalf of the Cole division of Litton in Canada was decided on its own asked Why an exception to the embargo on Trade with Cuba was made in the Litton Case the official said there is no hard and fast Rule and added our relations with Canada were obviously of importance in a decision on this Trade minister Alastair Gil Lespie had protested angrily in december when it first a please see furniture Page 5 Cabinet to decide if killer will hang Vaillancourt hanging delayed by Stuart Lake Ottawa up his last Legal Appeal rejected thursday by the supreme court of Canada Rene Vaillancourt of Mon Treal now must wait until May for a Cabinet decision on whether he should be hanged. In an unanimous judgment the supreme court upheld lower court decisions that Vail Lancourt shot and killed Toron to policeman Leslie Maitland while trying to make a Geta Way from a Bank Holdup. While turning Down Vaillancourt s Appeal the court expressed concern that Vaillancourt was interviewed apparently without his consent by two psychiatrists prior to his preliminary hearing. The two later gave evidence against him. The court said it would seem proper if accused persons were Given notice of such examinations to protect their rights. Please see Cabinet Page 4 sync rude takeover urged by Kip by Frances Bidewell free press political reporter Western Canada s three new democratic party premiers and other nip leaders called thursday for Public takeover of the sync rude development in a 1 b e r t a s Athabasca Oil Sands. Two of the premiers David Barrett of British Columbia and Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan told a press Confer please see he Page 5 ence in the Manitoba Legisla Tive building that their govern ments would invest in the project provided it was publicly owned. Premiered Schreyer of Manitoba although agreeing that the Oil Sands development ought to be owned by govern ment stood by his govern ment s position that Manitoba s priority is its investment in Hydro electric development and that sync rude ought to be Fin please see Public Page 4 greek cypriots angry thousands protest new turkish slate Nicosia a thousands of students demonstrated in the greek cypriot towns of Cyprus today protesting the proclamation of a turkish cypriot state in the Northern part of the Island and their i government called for an or i gent meeting of the United nations Security Council. I the greek government an i bounced that foreign minister j Dimitrios Bitsios had cancelled j a meeting in Bonn sunday with i . State Secretary Henry i Kissinger because of the tur i Kish cypriot action thursday. I they were to have discussed the Cyprus situation. J More students jammed the main Square in i the greek cypriot Quarter of j Nicosia chanting give us i weapons to fight no to parti j Tion one unified Cyprus refugees to their i armed troops and police j with clubs guarded the United i states embassy and British diplomatic offices which were j attacked when the students i last took to the streets in Jan uary. J in sources in new York said the Security Council was i expected to meet in the next i few Days to debate the new developments on the East Mediterranean Island where in j troops have been stationed since 1964. The sources said the debate 1 probably would focus on a i Council Resolution adopted i after the turkish invasion of i Cyprus last year calling for talks Between the greek and turkish cypriots with a View to reaching freely a mutually f please see greek Page 5 hundreds massacred the following dispatch was compiled in embattled As Niara during the past few Days by dial Torgerson los an Geles times Nairobi Bureau chief. He subsequently was i detained for six hours by ethiopian authorities for the in i authorized visit i by dial Torgerson Asmara Ethiopia special government troops i have killed hundreds of civilians in a wild orgy of blood let i Ting and looting in rebellious Eritrea province. The first reporters to reach this Permis Sion from the Central a death toll of i 331 known dead. A diplomatic official estimated 500 slain. I a roman Catholic Agency said that including those killed in the Countryside May have died. I hospitals Here Are crowded with survivors some Muti lated Many crippled. Thousands of residents Are fleeing the Bullet scarred City fearing further violence. The killing began after guerrillas fighting for eritrean Independence attacked army troops Here with rockets mortars and automatic weapons. I the guerrillas hit and ran. But troops of two divisions i sent Here from the capital at Addis Ababa 450 Miles away ran wild for four Days shooting civilians in cars on streets and in their Homes. J a government medical source said soldiers shot to i death 100 villagers who had gathered in a coptic Church i outside of Asmara a survivor told this reporter j the priest held up the Cross and begged mercy in the i name of god. Then they started i some discipline was imposed on the soldiers Early last i week. Civilian killings have been few since then. Gerril i Las of the popular liberation front Elf have returned j to strike at night at government installations and fighting j continues along the roads and in the Hills around Asmara. J during the worst period of the Slaughter the Addis Ababa soldiers broke into Homes looting them then kill ing the residents. They sacked shops and they machine gunned passing cars seemingly by whim. A doctor said he had treated Many women whose earlobes had been hacked off with bayonets by soldiers stealing earrings. I the worst massacre was at the Village of Woki Deba four Miles Northwest of Asmara. Government soldiers turned Back by an ambush beyond Woki Deba and a i used villagers of helping the guerrillas. The soldiers or i dered everyone into a Church. I i we thought that they the government troops were i i christians and that if we gathered in the Church they would t kill said Sebehat Leab 58, a Farmer in an i Asmara Hospital. They killed us i he said the troops called the villagers out into the i compound Yard. Kechi Kifle Yesnes the priest held up the Cross and begged mercy in the name of or. Be i Brehaut said. The people cried for mercy. Then they started please see hundreds Page 5 Union free to strike result of vote awaited Ottawa up in a Legal position to strike since mid night thursday night the general labor and Trade group of the Public service Al Liance of Canada is awaiting the result of a vote today. The vote by the generally referred to As Blue Collar to accept or reject the report of a Concilia Tion Board that recommended a 15.4 per cent raise in the first year and a 10.66 per cent increase in the second year of a two year contract. The report was presented feb. 7 by Montreal lawyer Stanley Hartt and agreed to by the Federal Treasury government paymaster. But the Union has been ask ing a 42.5 per cent increase in one year above their top present hourly wage of Claude Edwards president of the Alliance said last week his group was recommending that the membership reject the re port in effect giving the Alli Ance the Power to Call a Gener Al strike. As the workers involved in clude those who clean Federal Airport runways and maintain Post offices Grain weigher welders aircraft mechanics and others a strike by them could sharply affect the econ omy. They could effectively close Down airports and Post offices and Stop All Grain exports. By thursday afternoon the vote was about 40 per cent Complete and reported running five to one against accepting the conciliation report. And stalled talks resumed thursday at the request of the Treasury Board broke off again please see Union Page 4 six die on snowy Manitoba highways two men were second Accident today business report 13 to 20 tax tips 8 classified 21 to 27, 29 to 39 comics 9, 10 deaths 5 Jumble 25 movies. 54, 55 sports 41 to 48 television. 54 women 50 nearly everyone reads the free press City Zorn total by Peter Osnos Moscow special tons soviet communist party Leader Leonid Brezhnev made his first Public appearance in six weeks thursday night when he turned up for the opening session of Kremlin talks with visiting British prime minister Harold Wilson. Or. Brezhnev seemed in Good spirits and Good health according to reporters present for the beginning of the ses Sion. The soviet Leader s prolonged Dis appearance had prompted a wide Vari Ety of rumours about his physical and political condition that May at last sub Side. As recently As wednesday some Moscow based diplomats and correspondents were trading graphic accounts of or. Brezhnev s supposed ail ments. The russians themselves never commented officially about or. Brezhnev s health but sources had said that he suffered a flare up in a Long standing respiratory problem and spent most of january recuperating. These sources maintained that there was no indication that or. Brezhnev was in political difficulty and said he would resume Normal activities in a matter of weeks. The credibility of that version required or. Brezhnev to be seen at close Range and photographed for soviet television officiating at a top level function or. Wilson s visit apparently offered the Ideal Opportunity. The British prime minister arrived thursday afternoon for a round of talks expected to cover the full Range please see Brezhnev Page 5 reduced visibility from blow ing Snow was thought to be a Factor in six Highway deaths in Western Manitoba thursday. A family of four from Kam sack sask., died in one Accident and killed in a near Swan Lake. Dead Are Harold 41, of Kamsack. G Sophie Rezansoff 36, his s wife g Lisa Anne Rezansoff 5, his h daughter. G Allan Rezansoff 4, his son. Rev. Robert Thomas his Ted 53. Of Swan Lake Man. Roy Rouleau 36, of Mariano Lis Man. Or. Rezansoff was Driver of the family car headed East on Highway 4 about six Miles cast of Gladstone Man., when it was in collision with a Semi trailer truck about ., the ramp in Gladstone said. The truck was driven by Barry Simpson 16, of Breden Bury sask., who received Only minor injuries the ramp said. The ramp said visibility was near Zero in blowing Snow at the time of the collision which was nearly head on. The ramp in Crystal City also reported blowing Snow and poor visibility in the Sec Ond Accident. Or. Histed was driving a Sta Tion Wagon East on provincial trunk Highway 23 and attempted to pass a Semi trailer police said. He was in the West bound Lane when he was in collision with a pickup truck driven by or. Pouteau police said. The ramp said there was no please see six Page 5 looking for a Pony this want and under live Stock 22 registered Welsh Pony 3 years old. Snow Quality Dap pled g e id ing reasonably priced. 1-bm-2j25. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads ;