Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 26, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Montreal ats dominate i Cal All Star team i _ f see Page 61 vol. 83 no. 77 15 cents free 2sc with coloured comics Friday december 26, 1975 shots shatter Yule from a Reuters christians around the world celebrated the birth of Jesus with worship and exchanges of gifts thursday As prelates prayed before pilgrims to Bethlehem and Pope Paul de fended the Young in a Christ Mas message from the Vati can. But the peace of Christmas was shattered by violence arid tragedy in Many parts of the world. In Lebanon there is no said a teen age gunman As the. Country s civil strife provided deadly counterpoint to the occasional sounds of broadcast carols. In Sydney Australia As Many As 18 persons died in a hotel and in France four persons were killed in a train crash at Chalon sur Saone. More than worship pers heard the roman Catho Lic patriarch of msgr. Giacumo Giuseppe Bel Tritt Sung High mass in the Church of the nativity built Over the site where tradition Jesus was born. Visiting prelates conducted prayers in the Church through the night but few worship pers were seen Christmas Day and the usually bustling streets were almost deserted. A few tourists wandered into the Church stooping through the tiny door to see the Olive Wood doll of the in Fant Jesus lying on a Silver Star in the sacred Grotto. Christmas decorations were left in place for greek Ortho Dox and armenian Cerebra see shots Page 4 youth the los Angeles times Vatican City Pope Pat Lvi in his annual Christ Mas message thursday to Rome and the said modern youth in its disillusionment with materialism is increasingly Reli Gion. The modern generation the Pope said has shown Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Final edition mainly Cloudy -7 c and -14 c by Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa people wih gain a Little and lose a Little from their weekly pay cheques starting Jan. 1. They will gain because of indexing of the income tax. They will lose of higher unemployment insurance premiums people on unemployment insurance will get a Little More and so will pensioners. Looking at the bad news first contributors to. Unemployment insurance will find a much larger bite taken from Premium payments. As a result of legislation passed last week the maximum weekly insurable earn Ings will be increased to from at the same time the Premium payment per of insurable earnings will increase to from a week. R the total effect will be an increase to from a week la the maximum weekly employee an annual total of in j1976, in 1975. to the headache of altering deduction sched Ules for All employees employers will-have1 their maximum Premium per employee increased to a week i 1976 from a week in 1975. On the other Side of the Coin people receiving the maximum allowable unemployment insurance benefits will get a week in 1976, compared with a maximum of a week in 1975. On the plus Side of the Ledger All taxpayers will Benefit from indexing of the personal income plan introduced three years ago to prevent taxpayers from being penalized by see canadians Page 4. In Dartmouth s Winnipeg s vietnamese Community refugees of the. Vietnam War celebrated their first Christmas in Canada yesterday. Hung Phi Pham third from left came to Winnipeg with his family last june. The family left to or. Wife Canh daughter q. Chi his brother by Alan Phuoc daughter Giao Chi and sons Truong and Jung set up a Christmas tree in their Balmoral Street apartment. About 120 vietnamese now live in Winnipeg Many of them working in the local garment Industry factories and plants. See Story on Page 3. I r Dartmouth . Up a 22-year-old.resident of nearby Enfield has been with murder punish. Able by death while police pressed their search today for a second Man sought in the shooting deaths of a City poli Ceman and a taxi Driver. Allah Craig Macdonald a 230-Pound construction worker was charged before a Justice of the peace Christ Mas Day following intensive investigation into the slayings of Cpl. Eric Spicer 30, a plainclothes detective Alid taxi Mccallum 23, of Dartmouth. Macdonald been remanded in custody until Mon Day when he is to appear be fore a magistrate. Police declined to identify second Man they were seeking but said the search has spread to other areas of Canada. More information 1 see Dartmouth Page 4 startles Barrett that it the possibility with happiness of an encounter with Christ. Christ is speaking from Bis crib in a that is unmistakable penetrating and said the 78 year old pontiff from the bal Cony of St. Peter s Basilica. May god Grant for to Day s youth and of us that the fruit of the holy the acceptance of this word that is the expression of blessed Christ Mas. Full text on Page 57 the Pope gave his speech after celebrating Christmas Day mass in is Peter s. Earlier he. Officially closed s special doors end ing the 1975 holy year. During the holy year the Pope had been particularly pleased by the Large number of Young people coming to Rome , Vatican sources say. And clearly his Christmas a reflection of this feeling that Young people were becoming More tally minded the holy father referred to Radeni youth As the in see Pope Page 4 the world s spy webs f unravelled by series w the cloak and Dagger world of spying has Long fascinated Man. Stripping the covers off some major undercover agencies such As the Kab and Cia is a series of six Ning saturday in the free series sur Veys major spy networks in the world s leading nations including France the soviet Union and China. Canad Ottawa up if the cold War Ever heats up in Europe Canada will Fly Over men to bring its army brigade up to Peak fighting strength the chief of the de Fence staff says. The men will be flown to the Central front within 48 hours of the Start of the emergency and their equipment will be waiting for contingency plans to pro vide for this Are being re drawn for Gen. J. A. Bex Carlos boasts of 40 Tehran Iran a the Leader of a terrorist group that abducted Oil ministers from Austria to Algeria ear Lier this week says he has 40 trained professional com Mandos ready at his com m a n d to launch similar operations anywhere in the world an iranian newspaper reported thursday. The newspaper Kayhan said its information was from informed authorities in Al Giers where the Oil ministers and other hostages were handed Over to authorities and the terrorists surren dered. The newspaper said the Leader of the group claimed he is the to police As is being sought by police in France and other countries. The newspaper also published photographs to support the Man s claim. Carlos said he is fight my for the Freedom of Palestine and treat be Psi be its Tanate Ibe paper said efe said ibs Arab has bees by Radical Gaer As Reese red army West Gervaas fiem Rist f d War h up Trade chief of defence staff Gen. Dextraze discussed plans for the Canadian nato brigade in an interview a Cou ple weeks after the govern ment said it will get new or refitted tanks and better artillery. V the general did not com ment on past european com plaints about the stale of the Canadian brigade. But he said a properly equipped and manned brigade in time of emergency would have three battalions of infantry with four companies each squad Rons of tanks and three Bat teries of artillery. At present in Europe there Are canadians in two battalions of infantry of three companies each two squad Rons of outmoded tanks and three batteries of artillery that Are Short on guns. The general said it would be difficult to Field a Force of that nature in time of Emer gency even it More men were flown Over. He now plans to have three squadrons of vehicles i including Europe at All times six new self propelled guns would be sent Over and Allar Tillery would be modernized to increase Range. In an emergency 400 men would be flown Over to bring artillery and tanks groups up to strength. Another 700 would bring the infantry battalions up to four companies and to provide such additional support As May be Nec Essary. Today split deepens 43 Rabid acts.___7 classified 44 to 50 comics 58, 59 deaths. 51 for people .25 to 36 Jumble 47 movies 34 sports. 61 to 68 television.29 nearly everyone reads the free press City Zont Tolar wet Mouth boy Dies in his Home a 13-year-old boy from Whitemouth Man., was killed and two men were Jared in three separate accidents wednesday. Dead is Koyck Allen Mel Nick son of or. And mrs. Daniel Melnick the hemp said the boy s body was found in a closet in his Home at 2 . Wednesday. He had accidentally hanged himself. The ramp also were re leasing few details of a three car mashup which occurred about . Wednesday at the trans Canada Highway West and the perimeter Highway. After an initial two car collision a third car also struck the wreck. One Man was sent to Hospital with minor injuries ramp said. No further details were Given As to the names and see boy Page 4 Victoria up former Premier Dave Barrett said wednesday he was startled by comments of a civil ser vant in the provincial finance department regarding British Columbia s budgetary Condi Tion. Bill Stow director of finance and economic research for the province said tues Day , could be faced with a minimum million Defi Cit at the end of this fiscal year last week shortly before the new democratic party government was replaced by the social credit administration or. Bartlett and former finance minister Dave Stu Pich predicted a deficit of million and said this could possibly be eliminated by March. Or. Barrett told a news conference wednesday he Felt the announcement or. Stow was the result of a personality clash Between or. Slow and someone in the finance department whom the former Premier would not name. I would not like to com ment any further. I think it s a personality he said the figures provided by or. Stupich were As accurate As possible with the in formation available at the time. Or. Barrett called the Deci Sion by Premier Bill Bennett to have the Toronto based firm of Clarkson Gordon audit . S books a straight political he said he has the utmost Confidence i n comptroller general j. W. Minty and Dep Uty finance minister Gerry Bryson to give an accurate picture of the province s finance situation. 100 families homeless arson suspected in Montreal fire Montreal up More than 100 area families were left homeless Christmas Day after their Homes were destroyed in three separate fires one of which police suspect was caused by arson. A police investigator said a Hasty Check of the ruins of the Homes of 80 families in North end Cartier Vine seems to indicate the fire started in two different five people including two firemen were injured in the five alarm fire which destroyed a Faar Storey apart ment building and heavily damaged another. The in jarred were released from hos Pital after fight treatment the fire broke oot abort . Thursday forcing to flee in their into the Street. Temperatures hovered -35 c. Water smote forced Ilies in two buildings lost All their possessions in the fire and were not insured. Another apartment building a Short distance away was destroyed by fire almost a year ago. Later Christmas Day 20 families saw their possessions go up in smoke within five minutes when a three alarm fire broke dirt in the sooth Western District of Point St. Charles. Police said the fire started when a Bedspread was set alight by an electric beater and it rapidly spread to several attached dwellings. They had no time to get their belongings ont it took about five minutes before the whole place went no in said a pose officer on the scene. Two firemen were Sig fitly in the fire while a was treated for s of leaves the and and a baby for Sra once Jacent bonding carry. Aofter fire in two Buffie said Tsosie Faw f Arches free atom fire i Day. Pm left 80 t ;