Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday March 5, 1975 crts retreats on Csc proposals by Michael Lavoie Ottawa up the Cana Dian broadcasting corporation and the Canadian radio television commission crts have reached a Compromise which will give Cabinet the final say in proposals to make drastic cuts in Csc television advertising. The Choc is also retreating from its proposal that the Csc give More prime time prominence to Canadian television programs communications minister Gerard Pelletier and Secretary of state Hugh Faulkner said in a joint announcement. However the publicly owned television and radio network will carry out plans to abolish most radio advertising by March 31 and to gradually eliminate children s Advertis ing television by oct. 1, the ministers said. The Compromise Means that the Federal Cabinet with its ultimate control Over Csc spend ing will decide How far the corporation should go in meet ing crts proposals for fewer commercials on television. It was reached after lengthy three Way negotiations involving the crts the Csc and the ministers. Both Csc president Laurent Picard and crts chairman Pierre Juneau said in inter views they were pleased with the agreement. We re Happy with it be cause it Means the Cabinet Wil review the whole said or. Picard who earlier protested that implementation of the crts proposals would deprive the Csc of Revenue needed to improve program Quality and replace obsolete equipment in Toronto and elsewhere or Juneau said he was satisfied that crts proposals for abolition of most radio advertising and of All children s television advertising were accepted with Only minor variations in Tim ing. The f e r a 1 broadcasting regulatory body was willing to Back Down on requests of More prime time Canadian television programming and t turn Over to Cabinet the ques Tion of reducing the number o All television commercials i said. In its approval last March o Csc broadcast licence Rene Wals for another five years the crts said the television network should limit commercials to a maximum of eight minutes per hour starting oct 1 and reduce this volume by one minute per hour annually to a level of five minutes be hour by 1978. At present Csc broadcasts about 10 minute per hour of Corine rials. The Csc said the recommend lation would Cost about nillion a year million in Ost advertising Revenue and 30 million in program costs to ill time vacancies. Unlike private broadcast operations which must comply Vith crts orders the Csc is Only by non binding proposals which can be Over turned by Cabinet. M r Juneau said Cabinet should have the final say on proposals to reduce television advertising because the government must subsidize the re Hulting financial losses. The Csc s budget for the Fis Cal year starting april 1 is million Milf Lon More than n the current year. The estimates include million to cover reduced revenues from ending television advertising aimed at children under the be of 13. We made the proposal and now Well have to see to what extent it can be tar. Juneau said. Or. Juneau said the crts agreed to drop its. Proposal that 50 per cent of program Ming during the daily prime time 8-9 . Hour Between oct. 1 and june 30 every year of of Canadian Content be cause the Csc had reasonable arguments against the quota. In their statement the ministers said no specific quota would be applied at this time but that the Csc would strive to increase the prominence Given to Canadian pro Grams especially on the English television network. The Csc now has about 70-per-Cenl Canadian Content in its programming. The ministers said it was agreed in the discussions that once a satisfactory level of Ca Nadian Content was achieved excellence and diversity become the More important or. Juneau said the crts was willing to accept timing changes in Csc commitments to abolish radio advertising and children s television Adver Tising. Radio advertising i end March 31 and children1 television advertising will pm by oct. 1. The crts a called for an end to both practices by last Jan. 1. The ban on radio advertising will affect All commercials except those on programs which Are Only available to the Csc on a sponsored basis election Campaign advertising an sponsored broadcasts in area where the Csc is the Only out let for a Community or Ian Guage group the minister said. Lieutenant governor w. John Mckeag of Manitoba in his official uniform and premiered Schreyer wearing a boutonniere walk into the legislative chamber tuesday afternoon where or. Mckeag delivered the speech from the throne outlining the government s plans for this year s session of the legislature. Found guilty in death Houston a a jury of eight women and four men meets today to determine the punishment for David Owen Brooks convicted of slaying one of the 27 victims in the Houston mass murders Case. The jury deliberated Only 90 minutes tuesday before finding Brooks 20, guilty of the . Ads threaten to strike new York a some doctors have announced they will carry out the first strike i the United states involving a number of hospitals. The members of the committee of interns and Resi dents said tuesday night they will go on strike against 11 nonprofit hospitals in the City March 17 because of a contract dispute involving working conditions and schedules. The doctors have been with out a contract since sept. 30, a committee spokesman said a spokesman for the league of voluntary hospitals Anc nursing Homes said the 11 hospitals which have a total Beds would feel minimal effects since ample doctors Are murder of William Lawrence 15, one of the those killed by that police was a Homo sexual torture murder ring. Brooks was charged with four counts of murder but he was tried Only for the slaying of Lawrence. Defence lawyer Jim Skelton told reporters he would Appeal be said District court judge William Hatten decided Brooks Fate when he permit de the state to present Evi Lence on All .27 slayings. In closing arguments Don ambright assistant District attorney described Brooks As he manipulator in the mass murders the most horrible crime in the history of modern Lambright said Brooks helped Elmer Wayne Henley 18, lure youths some of them friends and neighbors to the Home of Dean Corll 33, a Power company employee who police say was the Leader of the murder ring. Lambright said the boys were stripped tied to a bed homosexually raped for god knows How Long and finally kill Ign. Skelton said the state never proved Brooks actively participated in any of the murders. The slayings came to Light after Corll was shot to death aug. 8, 1973, by Henley during a paint sniffing sex party. The death was later ruled justifiable homicide. Brooks and Henley later led officers to 27 bodies buried at three Houston boat shed a Gulf of Mexico Beach and a forested area near Lake Sam Rayburn. Henley was convicted last year of six counts of murder. He is serving a 594-year prison sentence. Billion for rubber Washington about 1.5 billion pounds of natural rub Ber valued at million was used in the United states in 1974. The comparable Fig ures for synthetic rubber were 5.3 billion pounds and Bil lion. Lorenz relates ordeal by Klaus Jonas Berlin Reuter local politician Peter Lorenz said today he was drugged bound gagged and transported in a trunk to a Small basement cell after i kidnapping by Anar lists last thursday. Released tuesday night Lorenz the Christian demo cratic party s mayoral candidate in sunday s elections looked tired but Calm. He told a news conference that throughout his six Day or Deal i had Faith in god but i was his greatest worry was that the authorities would find it impossible to meet All the leftist kidnappers demands including the release and flight out of the country of jailed anarchists. I bad to reckon with the possibility that i would be he said. As he spoke police conducted an All out Hunt for his kid nappers. He said the behaviour of his kidnappers the self styled june 2 movement toward him was Correct. Lorenz said he was Given sufficient food and his base ment cell had toilet and Wash ing facilities. He talked with his masked abductors and was even Given written about this Case was cd out. Sometimes i had Only the sports the 52-year-old conservative opposition Leader was freed a a suburban Park six hours after former mayor Heinrich Albertz who had accompanied five anarchists to Freedom in South Yemen returned to Tell the kidnappers All their conditions had been met. Lorenz was tied to a Bench but freed himself and walked to a Telephone Kiosk to inform his wife Marianne he a free. Whaling poet san Francisco is the world chief whaling port. Patty Hearst sister nabbed Buffalo . A l. N n e Randolph Hearst a younger sister of fugitive news Aper heiress Patricia has Ilca ded not guilty to a mis Demeanour drug charge follow no her arrest at the . Acadian Border. Miss Hearst 19, was arrested tuesday at Niagara Falls along with one of two passengers in the car she was riving when the Trio entered he United states at the rain Bow Bridge . Customs said . Attorney Richard Arcara said that in a routine search of the car and its occupants a customs agent found 1.2 Grams of crystallized amphetamine popularly known As in a sock worn by Donald Moffett 21 of Denver Colo. Both miss Hearst and Moffett were charged with mis Demeanour Possession of a con trolled substance. In an affidavit filed in connection with the arrest the customs agent who made the search and a drug enforce ment administration agent who was present said both Moffett and miss Hearst told them the amphetamine belonged to her. The affidavit also said the substance found in a plastic bag in Moffett s sock a proved by tests to be an amphetamine. The third person in the car George Boomer 21, of Grosse p o i n t e mich., was not charged. Moffett and miss Hearst were arraigned before magistrate Edmund Maysel in Buffalo within four hours of their arrest. Both pleaded no guilty. Maxwell released them on a recognizance Bond each. He scheduled a preliminary hearing for March 19. Miss Hearse s arrest followed recent unconfirmed rumours that her sister Patricia would soon attempt to Cross from Canada into the United states in the Buffalo area. Officials declined to com ment on where Anne hears had been while in Canada. Arcara said he had no Way o knowing if she had intended o Contact her fugitive sister. Arcara also said he did not what brought the Trio to his part of the country. Officials said they had no indication that Anne s arrest was n any Way connected with their search for Patricia but hey declined comment when asked if they planned to ques Ion Anne about Patricia. Miss Hearst told authorities Here she was a student at legis College in Denver but or. Miles Anderson the Dean of Campus life at the College said no one by the name of Anne Hearst was registered at he College. Her parents Randolph and Catherine Hearst recently said one of their five daughters was attending College under an assumed name. Hearst is pres Dent and editor of the san Francisco examiner. Moffett said he worked at the school which began its Spring break last friday., Stu dents Are not due to return Jere until next monday said a spokesman for the school. Miss Hearst was kidnapped Erom her apartment at Berke Ley calif., feb. 4, 1974, by the terrorist sym ionese libera Tion army. She subsequently renounced her family and. Said she was joining her abductors. She now faces a variety of site and Federal charges. If she should be convicted they could bring her life in prison. Shipyards to be Busy new York the value of work performed in private . Shipbuilding and repair facilities is projected at billion for 1975, a 7 per cent increase Over 1974, the . 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