Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine Alligator pie contest write a poem about something real to you. Page 3 artificial Sun Nader of the Light scape hits fluorescent ceiling Page 10 please see Page 11 free vol. 83 no. 59 25c with coloured comics saturday december 6, 1975 Sunrise . Sunser . Moonrise . Moonset . Sunny steady at Ioc multiple Choice mohal1ty honesty the Best policy seems just a memory now Sweet Servings Marge s Christmas braid and mincemeat Kringle 4 and in the Page 21 pc n the left n the Page 25 Fri 533 Esa new professional theatre choral contest Medicine economic suicide on the other hand paper shortage a Home Winnipeg on High Speed chases Ottawa backing for Richardson 12 12 13 13 i by Ted Allan free press staff writer at the last political leadership Conven Tion the interloper observed the ousted chieftain of the then opposition party strode into the press room turned his Back and asked would one of you please remove the within the hour the newly elected Leader was seen by the interloper wrestling furiously on the sidewalk outside convention Headquarters with a Man who had the temerity to picket during his acceptance speech. Rift Bitt that was three years ago in the less effete political culture of new zealand. The outgoing Man now raises rhododendrons and fishes for Trout. The new Leader one Rob Muldoon a politician capable of making Barry Goldwater seem Sweet reason incarnate., was recently elected prime minister. This is served up Only As tenuous con Trast to the discreet blood letting which went on at the Holiday inn during the three Day prelude to the provincial progressive conservative leadership vote today. The knives were As surely drawn the incisions made sutures tied and swab Bing up accomplished amid Vinyl Oak furnishings Maroon Wall to Wall and upholstered Leatherette without unseen singly displays of emotion. In fact the right of the conservative party ritually slashed the left while the left replied in kind. And everyone smiled at the sterility of it All. Smiled and clapped each other s backs and was dreadfully careful not to reveal the rancor anger and bitterness against which the operation was played out. It was a curious even spurious act of self abuse. An expenditure of party and private funds on nothing much More than Media seduction and its resultant publicity. A costly piece of political mechanics which should t have take More than an afternoon. The interloper picking his through the welter of bonded Stock catered canapes and boundless counter Feit Good cheer could Only Marvel at the Sandbox self deception and profligacy. Herewith then Are some vignettes from the Tony productions Ltd. Presen -7 see pcs Page 4 sort regular features stamp collector 2 Over the Garden Wall 2 Herron Folk 4 Horoscope 4 sportsman 5 it happened Here 5 Cor Ner 7 Church news 8, .9 Chickadee notes 10 at the gallery 10 wild Wise 11 Sketchbook 11 Book reviews 14 to 17 chess is Bridge. 19 Puj Les 19. And elsewhere in the paper color comics radio diary Jumble winners 40, entry form 77, Puzzle 47 s classified 44 63, to 81 letters comics deaths finance for people labor scene 36 Nih focal 32 by Mary Ann Fitzgerald it was the seeming close and Alice Krueger Ness of the race that intensified the bitterness a bit free press political reporters Tern ass which crime into the open during a Beaupit session the Prospect of a deeply divided Manitoba progressive conservative party was apparent As delegates pre pared to vote saturday on Rio will Lead the party into the next provincial election. The rift that has been growing during the bitter six month leadership Campaign appeared to have widened Friday As both incumbent Leader Sidney Spivak and challenger. Sterling Lyon made their last pitch for sup port among the 481 accredited delegates. C and id ate s. Friday night it is also a which Many privately fear will tear the party apart and Hurt its chances of forming the nex t provincial govern ment. It appeared. So close in terms of Delegate support at the Bear if session it could be a hollow Victory for the Winner who will have to pull the party together or. Lyon who ended the Campaign on a platform of party Unity Drew the most hostility and at one Point was booed. He ended his pitch to Dele Gates with an impassioned plea for party Unity. This is a family gathering lets leave this Conven Tion remembering we Are a family first and Foremost. Like All families we have squabbles but remain a f i 1 y. We must emerge from this convention a uni see party Page 4 tax loom by Victor Mackie staff correspondent i tests i in two by Debbie Lyon. Free press police reporter no blame could be attached to two City of Winnipeg transit Drivers buses were involved in the deaths of a Man and a woman in different accidents earlier this year two Provin Cial court judges ruled Fri Day at separate inquests. However one judge was critical of a Public of non involvement Case of Magnus Kenneth Magnus son who was seen to stagger in front of a number of cars and buses on main Street shortly before he was struck by a bus about . July 26. Judge Wallace m. Ban Chuk of provincial judges court in the Public safety building said that despite a number of motorists in the Vicinity and the obvious poor condition of or. Magnusson no one bothered to Stop or to even Call police. Under the circumstances of the Case in which or Magnusson was found to have a blood alcohol count of ,40, it seemed almost inevitable an Accident would happen the judge suggested. The Legal blood alcohol limit is .08. Judge Darichuk hoped the loss of life would t he in vain but would result in a Fri thinks moved in barrel Detroit a the Fri believes the body of former teamsters Boss James Hoffa May have been hauled to new Jersey in a barrel and buried in a Jersey City Landfill grand jury witnesses and other sources say. The grand jury recessed for the weekend but Jersey teamsters were headed for a police lineup today. A government informant has fingered the three men two of them reputed mafia Fig ures As responsible for the abduction murder of Hoffa. The lineup will the viewed by a second mysterious government witness said he actually saw the auction of Hoffa but does no know the names of the men who abducted him Federal investigators said. Several Federal investigators said they regard Bonobo ration of the informant s statements by the eyewitness As crucial to solving the Hoffa disappearance. All three East coast teamsters Are associated with local 560 in Union City n.j., the same Union local where Anthony Tony pro Provenzano is trying to stage a comeback in the teamsters. Provenzano who openly opposed Hoffa s bid to re enter teamsters politics was one of three men Hoffa believed he was on his Way to meet when he disappeared july 30. Two employees of Gateway transportation co. Said Fri Day night they were among six of the trucking firm s employees questioned by the Hoffa grand jury about com Pany procedures for keeping track of Large Metal barrels. We were asked whether there were any missing bar said Edwin Streicher see three Page 4 More concerned and involved citizenry. In the second inquest judge c. C. Sparling of provincial judges court in the Public safety building said he could attach no blame to anyone in connection with the death of Dorothy Gra Ham 67, who lived at 335 Beaverbrook Street. Mrs. Graham the judge found died As a result of in juries received when she fell while getting off a bus tra Velling East on Sargent ave nue near Sherbrook Street at about . April 18. Mrs. Graham fell out of the rear door of the bus and struck her head on the curb or pavement. As a result she received a fracture of the base of the Skull with bleeding into the deep sur face of the Scalp and contusions on the brain. She was pronounced dead at the Gen eral Centre shortly after the incident. Or. Magnusson who was 44 and lived at 551 Spence Street suite 4, was pronounced dead shortly after he was struck by a bus driven by Norman Jona Schick on main Street Between Church and Anderson ave Nues. Or. Jona Schick who Tes see inquest Page 4 Jeanne Sauve takes Over sensitive portfolio w minister looking for a snowmobile Sleigh this want and under snowmobiles 750 fibreglass snowmobile Sleigh exc. Cond., or Best offer. 783-6909. 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. By Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa Jeanne Sauvi 53, minister of the Environ ment in the Trudeau govern ment for. The past 17 months Friday was named to the sensitive communications portfolio. Fisheries minister Romeo Leblanc was named acting minister of the environment in the Cabinet Ripple that was made necessary by the upset defeat of Pierre Juneau in the hoche Laga by election two months ago. For mrs. Sauve it was a move into a More delicate and More prominent portfolio than she has held previously. A former journalist and broadcaster and wife of Maurice Sauve a prominent minister in the government of Lester b. Pearson mrs. Sauve was first elected to the commons in 1972. She was immediately named minister of state for science and technology. Fol lowing the 1974 general elec Tion she was named minister of the environment see Trudeau Page 4 big business will get an unwelcome from the government privy Council president Mitchell Sharp confirmed in the commons Friday. He said a Resolution will be introduced into the House be fore the Christmas adjourn ment preceding a Bill for the proposed special Levy on profits realized from Export sales. Export companies Are worried about the Bombshell waiting them in of the special Export tax. They Are now waking up to the fact that it will Drain off Bil Lions of dollars in Windfall profits realized from sales abroad it is part of the Federal government s anti inflation program. The exporters Are seeking the help of organized labor to convince Ottawa that Spe Cial Export levies would interfere with the country s economic recovery. The commodity Export companies Are arguing that the Export tax will not be helpful in the anti inflation fight. They contend it will have the effect of curtailing Export sales. The exporters want organized labor to help them in convincing the Federal government that far from helping beat inflation the proposed Levy would hamper the Battle. Representatives of some of the major commodity Compa Nies have been making the rounds in Ottawa interview ing maps and trying to make their Case. In a word they Are lobbying. The Canadian Export association Hopes to win the sup port of organized labor. James m. Mcavity association president told financial reporters we think the politicians Are making a false least so far As the Export situation is concerned. We re convinced the responsible labor leaders understand and believe that profits arc necessary to pro Duce jobs for themselves and i hair he added. The association met this week with Canadian labor Congress president Joe hoping they can get the sup port of labor to fight against Morris. The exporters Are the special Export tax. R. Bee Moch Shafei indonesian vice Consul comforts a Young indonesian girl right after she was released by rebels who seized the indonesian consulate and at least 50 hostages in Amsterdam thursday. The rebels Are seeking Independence v from Indonesia for their native South moluccas is lands. Seven from a Reuter mid Amsterdam up South moluccas nationalists released seven children from the indonesian consulate Fri Day. They 55 hos tages under threat of death in the consulate and aboard a hijacked train 90 Miles to the North. A moluccan and a hostage were reported wounded in an -.i-. Trinin Nanri Aix Aluciic do Udall Luc a Luibil were taken to a Hospital. Premier Joop Den Uyl said there were indications new actions May he Talicen by moluccan exiles demanding that their Pacific islands be granted Independence from in Donesia. Den Uyl called the execution of a third hostage on the train thursday a cold blooded murder 1 and declared his government is prepared to use Force if any others Are Villon see terrorists Page 4 d angry by the Canadian press Canada s inside postal returned to work this week ending a strike which begin ocl 21, but strikes continued to disrupt the clothing Industry Polp and paper Mills and schools across the country. The Canadian Union of pos Tal workers voted to accept a contract offer from the Feder Al government which will in crease salaries by is .70 an hour or 35 per cent Over 30 months. However the Union s request for a reduction in the work week to 35 from 40 hours was not granted. Negotiations resumed Fri Day under the direction of three provincial appointed mediators in an Effort to end Ai eachers strike which began nor. 12. Two Days after contract talks broke off Between the metropolitan Toronto Board of education a fid its secondary school teachers. Disrupt representatives for the striking teachers Are protest ing a ruling from the Federal anti inflation Board which said last week that the metro school Board s latest salary offer of a 39.2-per-cent in crease is excessive. The teachers Are seeking a 43.9 per cent increase and full Cost of living Protection. Teachers in Montreal que Bec City and other communities in that province disrupted classes to protest against the provincial government s offer in current contract negotiations. Students in Montreal held rallies to support the teach ers and riot police were called to remove about 400 teachers who set up pickets outside offices of the Mon Treal Catholic school com Mission. About 25.000 members of the Canadian paper workers Union cup Are on strike a. Mills across the country sex in British Columbia where papa workers have been legislated Back to work. Premier Richard Hatfield of new Brunswick said All paper companies Bat one have asked him to introduce similar legislation there. The it100 employees of the boaters Newfoundland Ltd. Newsprint Mill walked off the Job ibis week. Strikes by cup members have stopped see Stokes Page 4 Amsterdam a Homeland for the Molus cans now living often Discon tent edly in the Netherlands is a Large group of islands in the Eastern part of the indonesian archipelago. The moluccas islands lie be tween the larger islands of new Guinea to the East and celebes to the West. They in clude both mountainous vol Canic islands and smaller Low lying Coral formations with a total area of 33.315 Square Miles and population of once known As the spice is lands the moluccas were go vented by native sultans until the dutch arrived and finally won control in 1667. Except for two Short periods of Brit ish administration the is lands remained dutch Emtil j the japanese seized them a in colonial years moluccan soldiers were regarded among the most Loyal of dutch troops and after the second world War the Molus cans supported dutch efforts to return to the area. They resisted inclusion in emerging Indonesia and when the is lands became part of in Donesia in 1949t the Molus cans blamed the dutch who they said had promised them Independence. The moluccas Are generally Short dark and Strong descendants of a 1 a y a n tribes and african slaves brought to the islands by the dutch to work their plantations. Watered by Monsoon winds the islands produce a wide variety of tropical products. Priit Pauy copra Forest prod wets fish and the spices to fact first brought them Fame ;