Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 24, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday february 24, 1975 cottage owners get ice advice Burlington out. Up or. Tsang whose Field of collage owners can Ward Oil j study is cold Environ men Liy much ol1 the damage caused Byi Draulis said that during a 71 ice each Spring by installing a mile Aii hour wind on Lake ramp like Structure along the Simcoe last year the ice Only Shore says a scientist at the buckled slightly creating no Canada Centre Tor 9 Waters. Gee Tsang who studied the problem for two that by spending thousand dollars years said a couple of to build the or. Tsang said piling begins about the end of february and the worst situation usually appears during the last part of March. Broadened base urged continued Structure on the Shore or slightly into the water the problem might be alleviated. He said the ice would ride up o n the device break into chunks and in the process use i up some of the Energy behind the ice movement. Or. Saug said Strong winds and water currents commonly though to be the cause of ice pileup Are not at fault. The key is. The Gap Between the ice cover and the Shore he said. The pileup occur when the wind direction shifts quickly from offshore to onshore when temperatures Are above Freez ing. I Leor logical station on Lake 18 to the pileup May occur in winds of less than five Miles an hour and in 30 minutes can create party j Solidarity v sought continued include Farmers housewives fishermen native people northerners labor and management he said. Or. Huband has asked the party to hold off on a major give him time to every quest walk of life a re in t Likely to sit the youth Wing an ice pile seven feet High Wullich wants an pol b Calgary mail stopped continued Bridge Alia. There were n indications of a resumption o negotiations Between the Psi and the Treasury Board which fell through last week. Mediator Tom o Connor said Friday after two Days of talk ended in Ottawa that he saw no possibility of a settlement Between the Federal govern ment and Blue Colla workers represented by the Sac. A Union spokesman said the workers who include Posta maintenance men Airport run Way cleaners and grail weigher and samplers Are seeking wage parity will workers in similar jobs in the private sector. Postal service in Toronto which handles half the country s mail has been har dest hit by the strike but the Sac has agreed to a 36-hour truce to allow delivery of 1.5 m i 11 i o n government welfare and pension cheques. William Doherty strike coordinator and Union vice president said the Sac will do All it can to ensure that Federal and provincial social assistance cheques Are sorted and distributed so that none of the recipients suffers any the Alliance has agreed to remove its picket lines at Toronto s Post office from . Tuesday until noon wednesday so mail truck Drivers and letter carriers can deliver the cheques on sched ule. During the weekend thou Sands of jammed letter boxes were cleared and the mail put into storage after 12 truck Drivers resumed mail pickups. Postal officials said the Drivers will be recalled today when workers begin sorting the Che ques. Postal services remained Normal in Winnipeg and were relatively undisturbed by maintenance worker strikes in Van Couver and Regina. A spokesman for the Canad an wheat Board said More than boxcars of Export Grain Are sitting Idle in Winnipeg be cause of the strike. About 25 Grain weigher and samplers were on strike in that City. He said Grain shipments at Thunder Bay out and the West coast terminals have reached an impasse with at icy meeting. He told delegates that process would naturally Tak Lime but that it was essential to talk to people before formulating policy. In the meantime he said the party will have to get b on a Day by Day basis in the upcoming session of the Mam t o b a legislature. And the there Are the two by election for which to prepare one in which or. Huband Hopes t gain a seat in the provincial House. He has staked out cres cent Wood Riding As his territory. Or. Huband freely admit that the fortunes of the Mani Toba Liberal party Are not exactly what one would Call a an All Lime High. The party Wil be reduced to Only three Sittin members in the legislature with the resignation next wee of Izzy Asper in Wolseley. And he admits the party organization at the local constituency level is in bad Condi lion and in great need of Over hauling. That Job must begin immediately and can t be Lef until just before the next provincial election he said. He cited fort Rouge constituency As an example of what must be done in terms of Orga Bizalion in All 57 Manitoba rid Ings. The fort Rouge seat is held by Liberal or. Lloyd a worthy. As Well the distribution of funds Between the Federal and provincial wings of the party must be worked out he said. In an interview later or. Huband said he would also like o see the appointment of an other hard working senator rom Manitoba to help bolster he Liberal cause in the prov ice. Or. Huband s Lone opponent the weekend leadership con est Rev. Lloyd Henderson of Portage la Prairie also made an Appeal to broaden the party s base. He suggested the Iberal party in Manitoba had n o u g h lawyers and must tart attracting people from ther walks of life As Well. Tion in the caucus without con Cern for the party. An aide to or. Spivak said sunday that the conservative eader had scheduled a press conference i of 1 . Monday and that he would t be Mak ing any comments on the weekend caucus meeting until then. The saturday caucus meet ing at the hotel fort Garry dealt specifically with the events of the past week and the reports of dissatisfaction Over or. Spivak s leadership. As or. Craik described it was to get the air there wan t that much to it when we got right Down to he said. Or. Craik said he saw the whole controversy As one which was the result of the party adjusting to new provi Sions of the Constitution which was amended several years ago to go to a challenger sys tem. We wanted it to be Clear to the present Leader that people Huband will Lead liberals the new Leader has charted a Centre of the Road course for his party a course or. He band Hopes will return the Manitoba Liberal party to its traditional position in the Polit ical spectrum. Or. Huband says if he s right about what he thinks Manitoban want then that path should naturally also mean Success at the polls in the next election. The course involves communicating to Manitoban thai the provincial Liberal party represents a valid Choice Dis Tinct from the extremes of its opponents to the right and left he said. It also Means a substantial b r o a d e n i n g of the party s present base of support and a move away from the image it now has in some eyes As the South Winnipeg social or. Huband told delegates. In his nomination speech the 43-year-old Winnipeg lawyer said he did t want to raise any false Hopes about a major resurgence of the parly. To think that the Manitoba liberals could form the next govern ment require a minor Miracle he admitted. The party should t count on miracles he said yet they to be happening Willy nil jul the new Leader called on will be testing the or. Pc Micro de to Cau in Firtl i n 11 Rti-1 least 28 ships waiting to Lake on Grain in Vancouver Harbor. Grain handlers at govern ment elevators in Edmonton also wire on strike. In British Columbia workers returned to the Job saturday in the Rogers pass area which had been closed by Snow. There were reports that no serious inconvenience was caused by maintenance Crew pickets at Victoria Airport but Airport officials said service might be affected later. Passengers were taking taxis to the air terminal because Drivers for coach lines refused to Cross the picket line. Airport runways in most centres were being cleared of Snow and ice after strikes ear Lier in he week. The Airport at Windsor out., was reopened sunday after to cameras ready continued parliamentary procedures has Een authorized. Cameramen t Ere sometimes permitted to 1m the Start of committee meetings but had to Stop As Oon As official proceedings Egan. In the commons this week Craik continued. I personally feel the whole thing is a healthy As for presenting a unified front in the next session or. Craik said that was never really at Issue. He said the meet ing was cordial and lasted for Only a couple of hours. J. Frank Johnston the con Lions of dollars on specific projects such As Saunders air Craft and flyer industries the government should encourage Industrial development in Gen eral he said. Or. Huband said the Federal department of regional eco nomic expansion was As much a part of this pattern of establishing sick businesses in places where they Are unlikely to succeed. Bolh the Federal and provincial governments must get away from the concept of Industrial development in which artificial stimulants Are used to create enterprises that will fail when the props Are removed he said. He criticized the Manitoba government generally for its intrusion into the private Sec Tor and for creating a Munici pal Structure in the City of Winnipeg that was an absolute he said the question Mani Loans Musl answer is whom do you a party that would make a Deal like Chi one that is less than candid about Auto insurance premiums or the Liberal parly. Promising to be honest with people above All else or. Hull a n d said my detractors m a y accuse me of Many tilings bul Lack of Candor is not one of later in an interview. Or. Three die in Cave flood pcs woo continue Joti Quebec continued the Young up clunkers or Cave explorers drowned Satur these maps satisfied with situations which do not satisfy que Bec " Leeward g r a of t e y pc bronc missis quoi told the an Dince the party had shown it had a single policy for French and English canadians. Claude Wagner pc Day officials said. The victims Sainlez Hyacin Wilhe said recent Impi i. A wry in events had shown the party were Terry Yokem 19 Kim Aldridge 19, and Marsha Bott 18, All of Indianapolis. Rescuers found their bodies and the four stranded explorers sunday. We were awfully scared but we never lost sight of the fact we were eventually going to get out of Robert Bondurant 32, of Robinson 111., said i a Telephone inter View. The worst was the cold it Aler and the Novice Cave explorer ran Dall Masterson 25, of Newton 111., said the men talked about their survival their families and told dirty jokes to occupy immediate in i Huband said he had no intention of making wild promises Serva Tive member for Stur Geon Creek also confirmed that the caucus would stand firmly behind or. Spivak throughout the session. I terms of this session we re 100 per cent behind our he said. Sidney asked for our sup port in the session which he has always had and that sup port will still be but we have to realize that because of our Constitution we will have people coming for Ward if i was running i be starting to in that regard or. Johnston said he told the caucus h Widd not be seeking the leadership. Or. Johnston said the caucus and or. Spivak have to be aware that anyone who i going to run for the leadership s going to Start campaigning and everyone must face up to t. If anybody is interested in running for the leadership it s not Start calling my mis Chievous or say that he is disrupting party he continued. He said it was agreed that Hose who do have ambitions must be allowed to their campaigns but within pursue Ebale of the ibus income Mammoth of lax Bill continues. Clause by clause consideration of the Bill today enters its 17lh Day. Gerald Baldwin progressive conservative House Leader said Friday that commons consideration of the Bill might be finished by mid week if we get some answers from finance minister John John Reid parliamentary Secretary to government House Leader Mitchell Sharp said it looks like it is going to take at least until the end of the the commons still has not Given final approval to the con t e n t i o resource taxation clauses which would allow Ottawa to tax provincial royalties paid by resource companies. Critics say the provisions would Strain Federal provincial relations and place an unfair being closed for three Days due tax Burden on resource Indus to fog and fire tries fighters had refused to Cross picket lines. Postal workers in Montreal the Bill is an amalgam of measures contained in or. Turner s nov. 18 budget. Rebates for 1974 tax returns certain Bounds. For example f members started to openly impose the Leader or go against caucus decisions just to further heir own leadership ambitions then i would be very Digap he said. L. R. Bud Sherman Ort Garry said caucus members with things to say got it off their chests and he caucus was stronger for it. The free Exchange of views a s in the tradition of the Ica thy spirit of conservatives e said. Or. Sherman said no de hands were made and the caucus consensus was to put first things first and to go no the session a fighting United the conservatives had constitutionally provided for a periodic leadership review and hat would come later in the ear he said. So events of the past week r e not contradictory unhealthy or unconstitutional. It s a leadership year and we an expect people to do some manoeuvring to assess their chances and to assess the performance of the or. Sherman said. H e said the attitude of caucus was cordial and it was a consensus decision to fight the nip and try to discredit its government in the session and in the by elections when they come. Conservative House Leader Warner Jorgenson declined to say what went on at the caucus meeting other than to say it was held to prepare for the session. There were some decisions to be made prior to the open ing of the session he said de Clining to elaborate. He said he had also briefed the caucus on some Rule changes for the session. Regarding the leadership or. Jorgenson said the party s Constitution provides for a periodic review and this would happen next fall. He said peo ple would naturally announce their intentions to contest it. There never was anything very exciting about this except that which was created by the or. Jorgenson said. Were Able to maintain near Normal operations although 75 cannot be made until the Bill is maintenance workers remained i approved. Crescent Wood where or. He band has said he will run. The seat was declared vacant when the election of new Democrat Harvey n. M. Pat Terson was declared invalid after he took the constituency by a single vote. Or. Huband who turned 43 sunday said i m prepared to run referring to recent develop ments with the Manitoba progressive conservatives and at the recent new democratic party convention or. Huband said it would appear the two parties Are moving to extreme positions of the right and left. I can Only believe that some heavenly intercession has prevailed to enable the Liberal party to occupy its traditional position in the area of the Centre of the political spec he said. Or. Huband said he believe Manitoban want a choir somewhere Between the Shri manifestos of the nip an the backward and moribund ideology of the conservatives he had an abundance of Cri scism for both parties. Most o his comments about the conservatives centred around thei current leadership problems and their involvement in the Churchill Forest industries scandal a Deal which he Sai was entered into by the pre Vious conservative administration for crass political Pur poses.1 he also Laid to rest any possibility of coalition with the conservatives telling Liberal they should t want to be associated with dishonesty naivete mismanagement and in competence. While the conservatives were negligent in their handling o the Manitoba development corporation. The nip government was no better in its dealings with the Crown lending Agency he said. Instead of squandering Mil Turner to visit Mideast continued off the Job. In Nova Scotia. John Enman. Regional representative of the Alliance said his area was waiting for directions from the National office before picketing would resume. Czech Triu Fiphs Fairfax a. A mar Tina Navratilova 18, of Che and Mineral resources and kind Faisal s Harvard educated spokesman to the world. Meetings with the Shah of ran Jordan s King Hussein Syria s president Hafez Assad Lebanon s president Suleiman Franjieh and Egypt s president Anwar Sadat May be arranged f possible. The three Mideast potentates to the world stage have got the Oil and the Power Are King Faisal of saudi Sheik Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah the Emir of Kuwait and Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Kahayan the ruling Sheik of ibo Dahabi and the president of the United Arab emirates. The United Arab emirates is a confederation of seven per Sian Gulf states formed in 1972 after the British pulled out their last military forces East of Suez. If arrangements can be made or. Turner would like to meet these leaders and discuss How they intend to use their Multi million Dollar incomes. It runs into scores of billions of Oil Dol Lars each year but they have Only a few million people on which to spend it. Saudi Arabia is the biggest Oil producer with an output of 8.3 million barrels daily and a pop for the Sake of political expediency. Not going to prostitute myself for a few Hundred votes if i Don t believe in some he said. And he spoke candidly about his predecessor Izzy Asper saying that one of his failings was his determination to espouse an immediate policy on everything. As Well he said one of the regrettable disabilities of or. Asper and of progressive conservative Leader Sidney spi Vak was that both Are jewish. The fact is that there is anti semitism in and i would wish it or. Huband said. As for his opponent in the leadership race or. Huband said or. Henderson deserved credit for entering and making the convention More interest ing than it would have been with Only one candidate eve though the outcome was a for gone conclusion. He said he was t Surprise at the number of votes or Henderson got but he added should t be interpreted As protest vote. A lot of Delegate probably Felt compassion for. Henderson As the obvious underdog and did t want see him humiliated he explained. And neither do he said. In spite of the onerous Las ahead to rebuild the party or Huband does t plan to Dro his Law practice. As a Senio partner in the firm of Richard son and company or. He band s major client was Mani Oba s nip government. Or. Huband and his wife Mickey have three teen a children. There had been a third can Bondurant and another experienced Spe Lunker Paul Homan 37, of Robinson had persuaded Masterson and Gene Strain 40, to join a four hour exploration of the Cave. Bon Duranl is a High school biology teacher and the three other men work for a special Educa Tion project. This is my first and my last Strain said later. The men said they heard Rushing water after they reached the Midway Point of the four mile Cave. Strain said two men attempted to Wade through the water which Rose to Chest level but were repelled. The group found a High Ridge and huddled next to each other to keep warm. They Only three Candy bars and a pack of chewing gum to eat during the ordeal Strain said. Officials said the men were treated for exposure at a hos Pital. Party had increased its popular sup port in the province and that without Strong participation from Quebec the progressive conservatives could never form a Federal government. Roch Lasalle pc Joliette referred in his speech to or. Wagner As perhaps the future prime minister of Canada. He said it was necessary for the party to continue the work or. Stanfield had started to de centralizing its structures to Betler face the needs and conditions of Canada s regions and provinces. He also said the time has come to allow a francophone to Lake Over the destiny of this p a r t y most observers in Ler peeled this As an expression of support for or. Wagner s candidacy for the party Leader ship. Or. Clanfield said we arc still determine Al to Merit the Confidence of Quebe cers. Our or. Wagner said later that while it was very Fine and Gra Cious of or. Lasalle to speak so highly of him he did not think it proper to make any formal move towards trying for the parly leadership until the Dale of a convention was announced in his speech or. Stanfield said the Only National policy of the government which seems to exist at the present time is that of bilingualism. We sup ported this Law and we continue to do so. Unfortunately it does not carry much weight Given the present economic situation. This policy of bilingualism Musl not mask the bad management of our National affairs. Now Many Canadian families with Low or average in comes Are not asking for bilingualism but for bread and but Ter at reasonable he also said a Stop must be put to the strikes paralysing vital sectors of our and that wave of violence in our great cities must be the pc s spent the belter part of two Days behind closed doors analysing the results of the last Federal election in the province. Duos a delegates work will be even tougher in seemed to cell that by Keepin the months to come. 1 have an important end insight that of routing the parly of Quebec dilate for the leadership Whei nominations closed Frida Light but by saturday morn my he had pulled out. Mark Smerchanski who withdrew from the race Only 13 hours after filing his Nomina Tion papers said he decided to drop out after a Light and consultation with his business associates. I just decided there was no Vay he could accept the leadership if i had to go in on a half interest basis because of a Side he said. He said he withdrew for the Ake of the party and for the Sake of Charlielo whom he threw his support. Or. Smerchanski said he Vas aware his backers Felt the arly was being run As a liver Heights social club and e had accepted the Nomina Ion under tremendous pres ure from Many friends within he party. However he said he believe dissatisfaction could be healed within the party if it got be ind its new Leader got to Vork and got Good candidates throughout the province. The Liberal party must be the former my for Rove Cher said. I want to have no part of by dissension w i t h i n the however Many delegates annoyed with his actions and said it not Only damaged is own reputation bul also Urt the party. Elation of 8.7 produces two million million Kuwait barrels daily in a nation of about one million people and Libya with food prices petition sent the Winnipeg food prices Ommittee has called on Feder 1 defence minister James i Larson to Forward a petition o prime minister Trudeau de manding an immediate reduction in food prices and an end to what it called profiteering in the food Industry. Or. Richardson. My for Winnipeg South received the 1500 name petition saturday Al the Boston the celtics Cho Slovakia. Routed Kerry Mel scored 100 or More Points in 74 j Ville of Australia 6-3, 6-1 Sun of their 75 games played Dur Day afternoon to capture the ing the 1959-60 season which first prize in a May be a record in the Aba so women s professional Tennis books. Tournament. An output of 1.4 million barrels Manitoba Liberal party Leader a Day has a population of 2.2 j ship convention. The committee also urged the provincial government to establish a Public ally owned re Middle East and try to es-1 Tail food outlet to sell Manitoba t a b 1 i s h Good working rela-1 foodstuffs Tio ships first As the chairman of the if interim committee million. Or. Turner wants to establish Contact with the leaders in the quit base Spanish ask us. Train collision kills 27 continued continued reports that Spain wanted the . To quit Torrejon were published in the controlled Spanish press earlier this month following the third round of bases talks in Madrid publication of the unattributed reports was considered a deliberate leak to prepare Spanish Public opinion for the move. Negotiations which began in december Are being held alternatively in Washington and Madrid. The next meeting is to be held in Washington next month. Recent Spanish Public Opin Ion polls have shown that majority of spaniards oppose renewal of the military Accord under its present terms. In apparent reaction to this opposition . Officials have con ducted an Independent Survey of Spanish attitudes toward the j a military presence in Spain. Under the 1970 Friendship and co operation agreement extending an anti soviet Mili Ary Alliance which began in 1952, the .and Spain main Ain major joint air and naval Jases on Spanish territory. The . Is also granted the use of ill. Spanish air Fields without he need to obtain prior Diplo Matic approval. The Spanish source said that if the . Withdrew from Tor Rejon the base would become Madrid s second Airport substantially lowering the . Military profile at a time of rowing political unrest. The eventual loss of Torrejon would make Zaragoza air Force base now mainly used for gun Lery and bombing training the major . Air facility in Spain. Currently there Are 800 air Force personnel at Zarago a. Midway Between Madrid and Barcelona. The base was cacti aled in 1969 after the Oss of wheelus air Force base n Lybia. It was not Clear whether Aragoza would be expanded o absorb the personnel and warplanes currently at Tor Ejon which is manned by .000 americans and is used by ;