Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 29, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Most juniors just had fun see Page 28 Winnipeg press vol. S3 no. 79 25c with coloured comics monday december 29, 1975 s us be r o temperatures and a Winter Moon give Canada s Arctic a lunar like appearance. Dew line electrician and photographer Olav a. Rognmo found the Moon Over Baffin Island in the Northwest territories. This scene was taken from a Dew line emergency hut on Broughton Island in Canada s High Arctic. Contest British trounce i new York a the russians have taken the first round of the first encounter Between regular teams from the soviet Union and the National . The soviet army team Champion of the soviet first division dominated new York rangers on sunday night trouncing the nil team 7-3. The rangers Steve Vickers scored the first goal 21 seconds into1 the game but the soviets retaliated four minutes later and after that it was never really a con test. In the soviet National team played team Canada an All Start team of Canadian players from the nil. The four games the soviets three and there was one tie. On this tour two different soviet teams the army and the wings play against eight different nil teams. The wings play Pittsburgh penguins tonight the rangers Are struggling in last place of the Lester Patrick division. Soviet coach Konstantin Loktev said of them they have a weight problem. They have a Carriage problem in skating. They re not As fast As we. They must improve their they really move the puck and they really said ranter Rick Middleton. That s what hockey really but Ranger Captain Phil Esposito one of the stars of the 1972 series put it this Way we did t play very Well. We did stupid things. We were not ready. But if the nil loses All eight games of this series i la eat the russians uniforms in front of the Montreal forum and you can have nine hours to sell Boyic Javk Iceland a the Captain of an icelandic gunboat reported sunday that his ship was rammed and damaged by British naval frigate ending an unofficial Christmas truce in the fishing fights dispute Between the two countries. In London the British de Fence ministry said there was frigates Are built for Speed and Are thin skinned. The idea of a frigate ram Ming a gunboat which is built like a tank is ridiculous British spokesman said. I icelandic coast guard head quarters said it received a message from capt. Gudmun Dur Ker nested of the gunboat an accidental collision but no Tyr saying the British frigate intentional ramming. A nor o m e d a came at full weekend 64 Canad by the Canadian press eighteen persons who died in traffic accidents in Quebec five from one family in an Accident Satur among 64 persons who died accidentally in can Ada during the Holiday week end. A Survey by the Canadian press from 6 . Wednesday to Midnight sunday night local times also showed 28 Only a miracl e can save 372 Indian mine being drained new Delhi a officials say it May take 10 Days to Drain the flooded Coal mine in northeastern India where at least 372 trapped Are feared dead. Prime minister Indira Gandhi said everything humanly possible is being and will be done to Rescue the workers trapped saturday by an explosion and subsequent flooding in the Chasna a co Hiery 160 Miles North West of Calcutta mines minister Chandra it Yadav said it win take 500 re soviet of Fex secret service 16 comics .37te43 36 45 53, 54 far people.17 23 23 51 21 scum workers and five pumps 10 Days to remove the 110 Mil lion Gallons of water he estimated were in the flooded Shaft. Of facials said mrs. Gandhi has asked several other coun tries to Send Rescue and pumping equipment but they acknowledged it would be a Miracle if any of the men sur Vived. High powered pumps sucked water from the mine sunday while the grieving wives of the trapped men remained at Home certain their he stands were dead. The attendance Register at the government Nan mine indicated that 372 miners were in the Shaft at the time of the explosion. But officials of the mine workers Union said men from the previous shift May still have been below and that As Many As 700 workers might be missing. Officials said the deep Shaft was filled with water to within 150 feet of the surface and most of the miners would have been working in the lower Levels. But Yadav said some might have been saved by air pockets. Unofficial reports said the explosion was due to accumulated Gas and that it caused the mine s Walls to buckle opening a passage for see Miracle Page 5 other traffic deaths nine snowmobile fatalities seven fire deaths one person Frozen to Dea Fand one person decapitated. The Canada safety Council forecast 55 to 60 accidental traffic deaths for the Holiday weekend. The traffic deaths plus 14 during the first three Days of last week bring the unofficial number of persons killed on Canadian roads this year to Quebec also reported two fatalities a Man Frozen to death in his car and a Man decapitated while working on his car. Twelve Persona Siw on on Tario roads and four in Snow Mobile accidents. Six traffic deaths were re ported in British Columbia. Alberta had four traffic fatalities and one fire death. Saskatchewan had two traffic fatalities and Manitoba had a snowmobile death. Four persons died i a fire in Prince Edward Island. Three died in traffic in Nova Scotia and one in new Bruns Wick which also had two snowmobile fatalities. Newfoundland reported no accidental deaths. The unofficial number of deaths in Canada in Snow Mobile related accidents now stands at 12 for the season. The Survey excludes slay Ings Industrial deaths and known suicides. The Tyr s port Side and rammed her a raging the plates and. Slash ing a four Yard Hole above the main deck. The Captain said the damage was not so bad As to Force him Back to port and the Tyr remained at sea. The incident took place in Good weather but heavy seas the coast guard said. Three British trawlers were in the Vicinity but they did not have their nets out. The Tyr s Cap Tain located the incident 14 Miles off the East coast of ice land at Cape Norf Fjar marhorn. A coast guard spokesman in Reykjavik said the incident shows Only too Well that it is the policy of the Royal Navy to have the frigates ram the coast guard vessels and dam age them to Force them to re turn to Harbor for repairs. This allows the British trawlers to continue fishing in the forbidden the spokesman said 30 British trawlers operated within Iceland s unilaterally declared 200-mile fishing zone during Christmas. There also were West German belgian and danish trawlers in the zone but these were fishing in agreed he said. Moonrise . Moonset . Sunrise . Sunset final edition clouding Over -12 c and -2 c by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter the Manitoba health ser vices commission Lias offered the medical profession a. 1976 pay increase of nine per cent above the estimated 1975 fee for service payouts of the commission. The increase would Cost medicare about million the commission said monday. Announcement of the fee increase offer. The first got nations Between the health commission and the Mani Toba medical association Tor average practitioner would receive More and doctors in Anaesthesiology and physical a 1976 collective bargaining Medicine would receive less agreement started Early last because their overhead is fall was made As Neotia minimal. Tors sat Down at the bargain ing table monday morning. Under the health commis Sion proposal most doctors would receive 4.8 per cent while some specialists such As radiologists and pathologists who have higher Over such announcement since be head expenses than the free Market system fails the commission also pro poses a 4.2 per cent increase to the fee schedule to reflect a maximum net income increase per physician of in accordance with the see Manitoba Page 5 j pm to seek Angola Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau says Cana Dian values habits and institutions will be transformed by the government s anti inflation program. Many people i think still see those controls Asoh Well it s a Strong medi Cine we to take in order to get inflation but it s really More than or. Trudeau said Dur ing ctr s annual year end interview with the prime min ister taped for broadcast for sunday. It s a massive intervention into the decision making Power of the economic groups and it s telling canadians we Haven t been Able to make it work the free Market sys he said there is. To Way that the free Market sys tem can be made to work now or when the anti inflation pro Gram ends. We can t destroy the big unions and we can t destroy the instead the government must take a larger role in running them both As we re doing now with our anti inflation controls now and presumably after the controls Are he said he will not state that wage and Price controls will be permanent because he is optimistic that canadians will learn an attitude of eco nomic restraint and self discipline. However if there is Evi Dence that after three years the planned sector of society As opposed to the Market sector is going to go Back to Fele see controls Page 5 a women s rights official s i Equality dawns London Reuter British women enter the age of Equality today As Laws Banning discrimination on grounds of sex or. Marriage come into Force. The Laws cover education training employment housing and the provision of goods and services. Al though they apply to both men and women the country s nine million female workers Are expected to be the main beneficiaries. The Complex equal pay and sex discrimination acts will be monitored by an equal opportunities commis Sion whose role is to identify and of discrimination. The commission can investigate any matter from allegedly sexist school books to particular patterns of employment and training within a certain Industry or re Gion. It can then Issue a non discrimination notice s kind of restraining order against an offending employer Fol lowing a formal investigation. Subsequent failure to comply can result in an Fine or in hardened cases jail for contempt of court. See British Page 5 Washington a High ranking United states Diplomat is in Africa seeking support for a truce in the newly Independent country of Angola a state department official says. William Schaufele Assis Tant state Secretary for Afri can affairs is to visit five countries on his trip to Afri Ca the department spokes Man said sunday. He said Schaufele was sent to Africa on Christmas Day by state Secretary Henry Kis Singer in an Effort to achieve a negotiated settlement of the civil War in Angola newly freed by Portugal. The spokesman said Schau is to visit government leaders in Senegal Gabon Ivory coast Cameroon and Zaire hoping to drum up sup port for Kissinger plan for removing All outside forces from Angola. All five coun tries Are Friendly to the United states. The Mission by Kissinger s new african affairs assistant coincides with the coming Jan. 10 meeting of the organization of african Unity where there probably will be an Effort to Block recognition of the soviet backed popular movement for the liberation of Angola which controls much of the country. Schauffle s trip to Africa followed by two Days Kis Singer s statement at a news conference that we Are going to make a major Effort both diplomatically and on the ground to make do with what we despite a Senate vote to Cut off funds for Covert military Aid to anti soviet factions at War in Angola. A High state department official said following the news conference that Kissinger s remarks signalled the continuation of Covert arms ship ments to the anti soviet factions in Angola. Despite the Senate vote the administration still had about Mil lion in funds for that purpose. Algeria freeing As id Tehran Reuter Al Geria has agreed to free the pro palestinian guerrillas who kidnapped the world s top Oil ministers from the organization of Petroleum exporting countries open Headquarters in Vienna says the Algiers correspondent of the Tehran newspaper Kay ban. The report says the guerrillas negotiated their Freedom with algerian foreign min ister Abdel Aziz Bouief Lifcia in return for their hostages. It says the algerian min ister promised that the guerrillas would be allowed to go free if they spared the lives of saudi arabian Oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani and i r Atn i a n Interior minister Jamshid Amuzegar. The guerrillas surrendered their hostages in Algiers last tuesday and were taken into custody by the algerian authorities. On Holiday prime minister Trudeau and his family arrived Here Satur Day night for a week Long hol iday. A press Secretary said the family will spend time with mrs. Trudeau s family in West Vancouver and will ski on Whistler Mountain. It s purely a the Secretary said. There will be no government the family arrived in Van Couver on an air Canada flight. Yule Holiday traffic toll in . For 75 Falls to 367 ibis us Rig Fps cuff Chicago a the Christmas to a tree ced states reached 357 by a Sway f at fee few of the safety Condl Eoa eels Fead e i Frewa to 5w the few Day wee Tessil Drivers in Masy Central states were hampered by As flames fes i Row great laces across in rests of Cora so. Texas Hie associated press began Tab Breting traffic deaths at . Est wednesday be period ended at w a acc time Rae of the test Orrist Weece and m died ;