Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Why put people in jail see Page 3 minium vol. 83 no. 82 Winnipeg free press final edition 15 cents with id coloured comics Friday january 2, 1976 govt. Picks curbs chief Ottawa up the government has finally found someone to take on the Job of policing the selective wage and Price controls it imposed More than two months ago Donald Tansley 47, has been appointed administrator for the anti inflation pro Gram prime minister tra de a u s office announced wednesday. Or. Ansley was most recently senior Vicc president of multilateral programs for the Canadian International development Agency the prime minister s office refused to say How much or. Tansley will be paid. But it appears his weekly salary will be Between and considerably less than the weekly paid to anti inflation Board chairman Jean Luc Pepin. The new administrator said he did riot know the salary figure and that was t a fac or. Tansley said he s look ing his new role adding it s the Start of something new and that s the real fun of he said in an interview he was Happy in his Job at Cida but Given the importance government places on the new program Felt he should move. Or. Tansley said he has t had much time to consider his new role. Although there were indications a was being considered he was t told of the appointment until 11 . Wednesday. The Job As administrator won t feel that he said. See govt. Page 4 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Clearing -25 c and -18 c photo by Gerry Cairns Tansley Price test coming Ottawa up one of the anti inflation Board s priorities entering 1976 is to convince the Public it intends to Rule firmly against excessive Price increases and not to concentrate on wage Settle ments. The Board gets a Chance next week. It is to Rule then on a proposed increase in Auto insurance rates by. State Faim insurance co of Toron to it is one of the first major Price increase cases investigated by the Board. Officials have been saying Lor several weeks they hoped for a prices Case they could use to. Set an example vice chairman Beryl plump i a who has been run Ning the Board while chair Man Jean Luc Pepin hol clays in Mexico acknowledges that the Board s work so has been mainly on the wages Side. In the Early Days we had a number of urgent tilings to get done on the compensation she said in a Telephone interview. The prices Side now is going to be a. Bit More Dif see Price Page 4 John and Joanne Kennedy with new year s baby a girl. East St. Paul couple new year s baby a girl v o a five Pound 1 i o u n c e baby girl beat the Normal nine month timetable by about six weeks thursday to become Winnipeg s new year baby. The unofficial first 1976 baby daughter of John and Joanne Kennedy of East St. Paul arrived at ., 43 minutes ahead of her clo Sest contender. Or. Kennedy of 8li5 Hoddinott Road said the fact he can t deduct his daughter from his income tax did t bother him at All. About that with my wife but it s really great having a new year s he said in an interview. It was mrs. Kennedy s second trip to the Hospital in a week. The first on boxing Day was a false alarm. Their first child Jason born in March 1974, was Early too but you would t know it to look at him or. Kennedy said. Or. Kennedy a Macline operator said his wife arrived at Concordia Hospital about eight hours before giving birth. He said the Hospital staff was really fantastic she had a nurse with her from 5 food prices show december decline by the Canadian press As controversy so i r 1 e d around anti inflation Mea sures wage controls and a gloomier economic picture generally december 1975, saw a decline in the majority of food prices sur v e y e d by the Canadian press. In a regular monthly. Cross Canada Survey prices on beef sirloin roast dropped in five of 12 cities and remained unchanged in six others. Only Charlottetown saw an increase of 10 cents a Pound raising beef to in Regina prices dropped on nine products in the 17 item Market Basket and remained unchanged on eight others. The trend seemed to re Fleet the 60-Day Canada wide Price freeze announced in late november by major food chains. At that time most indicated that fresh meat Dairy vegetable and fruit products would be exempt due to the fluctuation of seasonal prices. Marked increases in the Cost of fresh produce were noted in Charlottetown see food Page 4 year of dragon one if. A Agency France Prusse Hong Kong the year of the dragon 1976, should bring happiness and Prosperity but if it Hap pens to be an angry dragon the world May see the biggest havoc Ever according to traditional chinese belief. The dragon is the King of the seas. The winds and rain Are at his Beck and Call. He controls water a source of life or destruction. While he capitalist world prays for rain after a year of economic drought communist China often de scribed As an Awakening dragon predicts dynamic changes and growing tension that May Lead to a. Third world War. The dragon is the fifth animal in the chinese 12 year Cycle. Each year is represented by an animal and uie year is supposed to take on the characteristics of the reigning beast. In this Cycle 1976 is the year of the dragon and in the chinese lunar Calendar it begins on Jan. 31. The Nat leads the Cycle followed by the of Tiger Rabbit dragon Snake horse Goat Monkey cock dog and pig. The last dragon year. 1964, proved to be explosive when China let off its first nuclear wast. The dragon is a mythical animal symbolizing Prosperity nobility Imperial Power and anything that is Good and magnificent. The chinese artist depicts him As a composite Ani Mal with the head of a Camel the horns of a Deer eyes of a Rabbit ears of a cow neck of a Snake belly of a Frog Scales of a Carp claws of a Hawk and the Palm of a Tiger. He breathes a kind of vapor that May coagulate As rain. He loves to frolic in the Clouds but lives in the depth of the sea. His voice is like the clash of cym Bals. When there Are droughts or floods that Means the dragon King is angry. The chinese Pray to him to Reg see year Page 4 or 6 o clock adding that the nurse stayed past her . Quitting time. Gift certificates baby food and dinners for two Are among the prizes the first baby and family receive. Or. Kennedy said he did t know what was involved in the prizes but everything we get will be appreciated. We re just Happy everything is going the second new year s baby a seven Pound girl was born in the women s Pavilion of the health sciences Centre. See new Page 4 drugs merger delayed merger of two provincial government drug Cost Assis Tance programs with phar Macare has been delayed until March 31. 1976, in response to concern expressed by persons enrolled in the plans health minister Larry Desjardins of Maii Toba said wednesday. The three month delay will allow officials in his depart ment to determine whether merger of the diabetic drugs and lifesaving drugs pro Gram s with Pha Macare would result in hardship to people covered under the two plans the minister said. The plans pay full costs of diabetic and lifesaving drugs to people who Aren t on so Cial allowance but can t afford the High costs of the vital medicines. Cystic fibrosis patients Are also covered by the plans which can be entered Only through a patient s doctor. There Are people enrolled Iii the diabetic drugs program and 758 in the life saving drugs plan. They May continue to order their drugs in the usual Way until March 31 and new prescriptions. From those enrolled May be sent in As before or. Des Jardins said. Venezuela in charge Caracas a Vene Zuela s takeover of its Oil Industry the world s fifth largest presents Hie wealthy developing country with a number of immediate and Long Range problems. Many of the country s 12 million citizens who overwhelmingly support Oil nationalization believe the state can run the Industry just As Well As the foreign companies who ran it for six decades. Others Are not so sure pointing to potential risks involving administration technology marketing and poli tics. On new year s Day the state took Over concessions and property of More than 30 mostly companies under terms of a National i z a t i o n Law approved by Congress and signed by pres ident Carlos Andres Perez. The takeover is the result of peaceful negotiations be tween the government and subsidiaries of Exxon Hoyal dutch Shell and Texaco which will receive compensation totalling billion. Payment based on net Book value of assets is being made in government Bonds payable during five years at six per cent interest. The Industry now will be run by 14 state operating companies made the invest see giant Page a 700 on. Annual list Queen honors Diefenbaker London up the Queen has bestowed a Knighthood on actor director Bichard Attenborough in a new year s honors list giving awards to More than 700 Brit ish and Commonwealth citizens. The list has an unusually Large representation from the arts Media and sports Fields including honors for Everest Mountaineer Chris Bonington and novelist Iris Murdoch. Former Canadian prime min ister John Diefenbaker was made a companion of Honor ii in recognition of conspicuous National or. Diefenbaker said it is the highest Honor he has received since being named to the Queen s Imperial privy Council in december 1957. I m naturally very highly he said in an interview. It is a designation by the Queen herself and not based on a recommendation by the prime or. Diefenbaker said he was told of the appointment five Days ago. It came As a he had previously scheduled a visit to England in late february to a d 1 r e s s the London chamber of Commerce and thought he might be invested into the order at that time if that suits the Queen s see Queen Page 4 cancer Centre action pledged by Manfred Jager free press staff writer health minister Larry Des j a r d i n s of Manitoba said wednesday expansion of the Manitoba cancer treatment and research foundation will be the first action the provincial government takes in connection with the Survey report of Hospital consultants or. Graham Clarkson and or. Eugene Vayda. A decision on the cancer Centre is expected soon after a meeting of All concerned parties Jan. 8, the minister said in an interview. However the matter will still have to go to the provincial Cabi see Page 4 spurs go to Ottawa Toronto up the w o r i d hockey association said Lodz Denver spurs have been moved to Ottawa and will play the remainder of the season As tie Ottawa civics if there is enough fan support. The move is effective immediately. The civics will play their first game in Ottawa Jan. 7 against new eng land. Diefenbaker Attenborough gunfire shatters Lull in Portugal Lisbon renter a bomb was hurled from a speeding car. Today at the Oporto Headquarters of re publican guards who shot dead three leftist demonstrators thursday night. The explosion slightly dam aged the Entrance but caused no casualties. In Braga another Northern town a bookshop belonging to a communist Sumpat Luizer was attacked at Dawn by an unidentified gunman who riddled it with bullets. Police said there were no casualties. The paramilitary guards opened fire thursday when a crowd tried to its Way into the cd stoics military prison in protest against the detention there of about 100 persons allegedly involved in a nov. 25 left Wing rebellion. The incident shattered por Tugal s six week respite from political violence. A West German was among see gunfire Page 4 business report 9 to 14 pm s about face 18 classified 31 to 40 comics 51 comic Page features 30 deaths 40 for people 17 to 26 Jumble 34 movies 25 sports 43 to-50 television 22 City zone total divers Greet 1976 in icy Lake Depths King s diaries still shrouded in mystery v j Ottawa up personal diaries and documents belonging to former prime minister William Lyon Mac Kenzie King were opened to the Public for the first time key sections Are missing. The 1915 diaries made pub Lic under a 30-year Rule for release of secret documents reveal or. King was anxious about what he considered a threat of communist subversion As details of a soviet spy ring were made available by Igor gon Zenko a soviet embassy clerk in Ottawa who defected. But mystery shrouds the whereabouts of a number of important documents King s diary entries for the period nov. 10 to dec. Have disappeared. Special secret diary on the Guzenko affair from to oct. 31 is missing. Notebooks or. King kept on spiritualism also Are believed missing. A notation after the entry for nov. Reads the volume which contained entries for the above period nov. 10 to dec. 31, 1945 is missing. It was not with the other diaries which were assembled after or. King s death in july 1950, Only volume in the entire period 1893 to 1950 which has riot been accounted another note in the diaries and Handwritten in Black Loose Leaf a secret appendix was kept for the period 6 to oct. And was not included in the regular diary for the period. They were kept in a separate volume because of the highly secret nature of the in the note says. Carman Carroll head of the prime minister s Section of the National archives said in a note to reporters consult ing the diaries that the liter Ary executors of the King papers Are reviewing secret Guzenko diary and Are expected to make a decision soon on possible Access to it. Or. Carroll said he sure where the special diary is but said it could be in the hands of j. W. Piper Sui a former King aide and one of four executors. Or. Pickersgill who used e x c e r p from the secret diary in the Mackenzie King record his four volume edited version of the 1939-48 diaries declined comment on the secret diary saying Only there is some problem about Wilfred i. Smith Dominion archivist and literary executor said he has t seen the secret diary and not been discussed specifically by the literary or. Smith said it was a major decision for the executors to open the diaries to the Public in the first place. Or. King had said in his will he wanted the diaries destroyed except for parts he designated for publication. However or. King never managed to write his memoirs and never indicated what passages of the diaries he wanted destroyed. Thirteen years of the diaries from 1932 to 1944, were made pub Lic last year. I think it was understood that in opening up the diaries there arc one or two other diaries that Are not a part of the Normal or. Smith said. I think there Are a number of other notebooks. I m not sure whether they were destroyed or or. Smith added that he believed the notebooks relate to or. King s interest in spiritualism. Entries in the diaries for the 1939-44 period include be v e r a i reports of seances where the Liberal prime min ister allegedly spoke with dead people including his Mother and sir Wilfrid Laurier former prime min ister. The diaries Are not yet the property of the archives Al though the executors recently transferred King correspondence and other Docu ments to the archives. Or. King s will did not provide for the diaries to be transferred to the archives but or. Smith believes they eventually will be transferred. Or. King s concern about communist Evi see King s Page 4 t h r e e Winnipeg scuba divers decided to forego the customary new year s eve drinks on the rocks in favor of a different kind. Of ice the variety on West Hawk Lake about 90 Miles East of Winnipeg. Gerry Zamulka 23, John Barber 28, and Ken Rodeck 23, Dove into the Lake at five minutes before Midnight dec. 31, and emerged when the new year was 25 minutes old. The three planned the event several months ago and were Well prepared with heated tents and warm cloth ing. Two of the divers wore dry suits which Aie simply slipped Over Ordinary cloth ing. But or. Zamulka wore the usual wet suit and found the excitement enough to keep him warm. The temperature of the Lake at the time was below Zero celsius he said. Sakharov series the physicist Andrei Sakharov is the leading political dissident still living and speaking out in the soviet Union. A father of the soviet a bomb he has for More than a decade openly attacked abuses in his country and argued for International demilitarization and detente. Last month he Wes awarded the Nobel peace prize. This Man s views Are documented in his latest Book ily country and the world. The first of five excerpts from the Book will appear Satur Day in. The free press ;