Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Of fray january 2, 1976 govt. Picks curbs chief continued he had held administrative jobs with provincial govern ments in Saskatchewan and new Brunswick before mov ing to Ottawa. He now will be in effect the enforcer of the Federal anti inflation program with the Power to Levy fines t and set jail terms for non compliance with the regulations. The search for an adminis Trator has been a Long one. The government had approached several prospective candidates and As recently As two weeks ago had found a Federal judge who was ready to accept. But he backed out later. It1 was because no adminis Trator had been found that Cabinet was forced to inter Vene in the postal workers Case last month and overrule the anti inflation Board s veto of the postal agreement. The Board now can Only refer such cases to the administrator. Powers spelled out in Law for the administrator the ability to Levy unlimited fines and impose jail terms of up to five years. He also can order rollbacks of any prices that he decides Are excessive. Food prices decline continued the City of Calgary float using a theme of let s celebrate Friendship won the ambassador s award in the an Nual Rose Parade in Pasadena new year s morning. The Calgary float was one of 61 Hower bedecked floats that glided past an estimated spectators in the California Parade a prelude to the Rose bowl football a sane Lvere Urcla upset the top ranked Ohio state 23-10. The Calgary float won its award for exceptional Merit in a . Entry and Fea tured an Indian peace pipe symbolizing Friendship bet Wen Canada and the United states Over the years. Where Leyeh of i 2 such items in the Basket . In the .11 other cities from one to four items falling in that category Rose. In so where of Inonu a for the past Price was up three cents to sj.35 in codfish jumped 20 Sho de Jav on pprkvto1 to cents. O t to so and wieners we re up six cent s in Toronto codfish was up 20 cents if Winnipeg to and in Edmonton milk Rose one cent m 53 cents. Items in the food Basket Are priced in the us peril markets on the each month. They include one Pound of sirloin tip Toast beef All beef Centre Cut loin of top Grade Chicken grou Iid Chuck Steak Frozen cod top Grade butter tomatoes Frozen Green peas drip Coffee and apples. A l included Are one dozen medium eggs one quart whole a 24 ounce loaf of sliced White bread 10 pounds of first Grade potatoes five pounds of White granulated sugar and a 28-ounce can of halved pears. In Winnipeg codfish was 20 cents higher. At pork dropped 26 cents to and wieners were lower by 15 cents at 85. Chicken was up four cents to 99, while eggs dropped three to 81. Potatoes were up. Four cents to and peas dropped 12 cents. To 47. Compared. With the november s 316.33, total was 89 cents lower at Cost the previous de year of dragon a Happy one if. Continued ulate the elements so that crops May thrive and men Prosper. Such a prayer is needed More than . Glo bal economic recession which brought inflation bankruptcies massive unemployment and strikes marked the outgoing year of the Rabbit. Inklings of revival Are beginning to show. Business men in the British Colony of Hong Kong Are optimistic that 1976 will he a better year and restaurant owners expect a Boom of wedding banquets As the dragon year is said to augur Well for marriages and for babies too. The chinese in however it will be an angry dragon. They say that the gleam of Light is before a storm and. Shake " up. Of the current International dec no Rizic. Order in the . New China news Agency commentaries. On year prospects look Forward Toof the order and warn of the danger of a hew world Var. Said. Peking also predicted that the two superpowers .the1" determined to continue its March rank of the world to become nation. But despite Coni in units and capitalists All would agree that the year of the dragon will be an exciting year for the dragon never passes stealthily but always in whirl Wintle. Desjardins promises action on cancer Centre expansion Iii i or approval. The Clareon Vayda re port made Public oct. 15, re commended medical re search facilities in and around the. Health sciences Centre not be expanded for the time being. But the provincial government has come under considerable pressure from cancer researchers and their supporters Over this re commendation. Or. Desjardins who acknowledged this pressure during the interview has said on several occasions during the past two months that the provincial govern ment May not go along with the Clarkson Vayda recommendations. Asked if capital expenditures at the Centre during 197g could go is High As million Survey report recommended million -.between1, now continued and 1980 and another by 1985 or. Desjardins said no Way. We Don t have m u e h Money. Maybe As much As half As for Over All government policy regarding the Clark son Vayda report the health minister said a committee of senior health department and education department officials has examined All re commendations and is about to report to the government what it feels should happen about them. As Well or. Desjardins detailed description of All research projects now under Way. At the health sciences Centre will be taken into consideration before government policy is finalized. But there is no question about it the cancer foun Dation is our top priority and will be the first project Well take action the health minister said. Or. Clarkson who lives in Edmonton has agreed to be in Winnipeg for the Jan. 8 meeting with the govern ment the health sciences Centre the University of Manitoba medical school and the cancer foundation or. Desjardins said. The fact remains that we Haven t got much Money to spend and there s got. To be a the minister added people must be made to an Derstad this and they be got to he with me on that in the health Field. Generally speak ing when you Tell them there s got to be always come want morn still Sligo used in mystery Dent when in september 1945, a group. Union leaders he terms a and existence of a soviet spy net just been revealed by presence in Ottawa and the. Kind of demonstrations they had been Mak ing makes Clear that Canada Isadore or less h Oney combed with communist three deaths new Ada. During the new year s leaders who have a close As ear s. Eve All in Quebec Holiday. Socia Tion with the movement traffic fatalities i continued i Niay include referents to Ilie it yelping spy scandal. Or. Smith says that the diaries for november and december. 1945 disappeared before the King Docu-1 merits were transferred to the archives. My staff assures me that there is no evidence that they were Ever in the or. Pickersgill retired after Many years As. A Liberal Cabinet minister is fled by the disappearance Wye has been described Asun prec dented by the cans Fiina safety Council flu cd pre dieted that Between 15 and 20 people would die on the highways dining this year s Holiday. During the same 30-hour new year s Holiday period in 1974-75, 33 people died nine of them in traffic. No traffic fatalities have been reported so far in 1976. Two adults and a child who died thursday in a fire caused by an overheated Wood stove in their Home on nut Lake Reserve about 130 Miles East of Saskatoon were among at least 412 persons accidentally in can test coming for control Board a Survey by the. Canadian press from 6 wednesday to Midnight thursday night local times also showed four by fire in Quebec a in a snowmobile Accident in per son Frozen to death in Saskatchewan. The 17 traffic deaths reported for the period Between Midnight sunday night and Midnight wednesday night brought the unofficial number of traffic fatalities in Canada during 1975 to the snowmobile death brought the unofficial count of persons killed in Snow Mobile related accidents this season to 13. The Survey docs not include Industrial deaths slayings or known suicides. In he writes. Or. Smith says the two missing months of the diary Are an unaccountable this is a great he has been assumed that. Or. King did not leave his diary and must have written entries for the period. John Bassett publisher of the defunct Toronto Tele Gram has said he obtained portions of the diaries from a disgruntled employees of the archives 20 years ago but decided not to publish them after consulting his lawyers. There has also been published speculation that rus Sian agents obtained copies of the diaries including the missing 1945 period which continued Kehler son of and mrs. Abram kehlerg3 Kersey Bay he was the first arrival h e a v y w e i g h t at seven pounds s a ounces and was born at . St. Boniface Hospital where the first baby of 1975 was born did t report in until the afternoon .., when a five Pound ounce boy arrived. Three women were in labor at Victoria general Hospital thursday afternoon but the first baby was t born until . He is the son of and mrs. Roman Drebot of 5 Sweetwood Bay and checked in at seven pounds s a ounces. She is the daughter of or. And mrs. Barnard Molinski of 517 Mon Rose Street. The. First baby at Miseri. Cordia Hospital also a born . And is the daughter of or. And. Mrs. Mark Blanchette 1136 valour Road. She weighed in at six pounds 13% ounces. Grace Hospital s first baby was a boy Leslie Leroy continued peat quotas at Border end one area she wants the Board to Zero in on. Is food prices. A special unit is being formed within the anti Fla Tion Board specifically. To Monitor food prices. The Ordinary person is going to judge us by our handling of food prices because that s what s most says. Thev Board will compare weekly computer print on selected food items City by City across Canada. Any Price trends that appear for particular products will be investigated. I think that this is Essen mrs. Plump re says. Should know what s going on and not have to wait for people to Tell us about Price the Board will watch retailer distributors and censers profit margins. It will demand justification of a n y in margins she says. Tie. Board also intends to make Federal and provincial farm product marketing boards give prior notification of a Ciao rises provided that the provinces agree. To this proposal. So far none of the prov inces has actually signed an agreement to follow the fed eral wage an d Price guides despite general approval in principle. The. Ever expanding Board expected to double in size to about 400 employees still has some organization problems it lacks a second vice chairman because no one with a labor background could be convinced to take it. Washington up effective with the arrival of the new year Canada United states formally re moved All remaining quotas on the Cross Border flow of meat Between the two coun tries. Canadian agriculture min ister Eugene a statement issued through tie Canadian embassy Here late wednesday night said effective at Midnight to night quotas on beef and veal will be removed by both countries. It clears the Way for restoration of. Normal Trade in two Way Trade in live Anir Mals was restored last a gust. As Whelan was releasing his statement president Ford was at the White House sign ing a proclamation rescinding Section 252 of the Trade expansion act. It was under that Section that Ford had slapped Retalia tory quotas on the Slu pent of Canadian beef veal and hogs and their products into the a move which came in August 1974, following in of. Canadian beef quotas. In his statement Whelan said the action reopening the Border to a two Way flow of. Meat products is a direct re sult of his meeting in Washington on Pec. 19 with .. Agriculture Secretary Earl Blitz. R during our meeting or. Butz pointed out that the. Has a meat import Law. Mil in its statutes and they must operate under Whelan said. Taking that into account i advised Butz that Canada would need to provide similar safeguards to protect against any unusual or excessive meat flow into Canada. We have reached agree ment in this context and Are very satisfied with the a Whelan said. In Broad terms the Mil is which should Volun tary Export quotas be exceeded by trading partners touches off mandatory controls Canada has i traditionally been exempt from but the u a has Jait into account the. Trade when negotiating these voluntary quotas with other trading countries. L detailed information i s being sent to beef and veal exporters and importers by Hail Whelan said wednesday night. In general As of Jan. 1, 1976, exports and imports of beef and veal will be under open general licence and individual Export and import per mits will not be required. Will continue to be monitored and should any unusual circumstances arise there will be consultations be tween the two Whelan s statement said. The agriculture minister rioted that the agreement opens the Way Fob discussions with Australia and new Zea land countries which have been the world wide Canadian quotas. These two significant exporters of beef to Cayia Daj Whelan said. We advised both countries that we want to make similar arrange ments with them to insure or Derly the Cana Dian minister said. Queen honors Diefenbaker continued actors honoured include Harry h. Corbett the son in the vastly popular television series Steptoe and son rag a n d b o n e dealers of. The 1960s. It inspired an Ameri can version called Sanford and son. He becomes an officer the order of the British Empire As does Norman painting senior scriptwriter for the radio series the Arch ers in which he also has the role of Philip Archer since it began in 1951. It is heard in Many parts of the world including Canada. Painting also is a Tutor in Anglo Saxon history and holds an honors degree in English. Janet Baker 42, one time York Bank clerk who is hailed As Britain s finest Mezzo Soprano becomes a Dame commander of the order of the British Empire the female counterpart to a Knighthood. The Only other new Dame is Joan Evans noted author and expert on antiquities and museums. Among diplomatic honors Simon Yelverton 52, British Consul general in Montreal becomes a com Panion of the order of Saint Michael and Saint George he earlier served in Brussels Tehran Algiers Prague and Athens. Enid Bagnold whose writ Ings included National velvet the movie version of which starred then child Star Eliza Beth Taylor becomes com Mander of the order of the British Empire she is the widow of the late sir Roderick Jones Long time chair Man of Reuters the International news service. Miss Bagnold 80, recently flew to Philadelphia to supervise the pre Broadway production of her latest play a matter of Gravity. A similar Honor went to miss Murdoch renowned novelist philosopher and lec Turer whose books include the severed head. Aside from Aue Borough others among the 34 new knights include Denis Hamil ton 57, chairman of the times newspapers Ltd. Diehard Marsh chairman of the state owned British rail ways and Campbell Adam son director general of the confederation of British Industry also knighted was conserva Tive my Peter Kirk a linguist fluent in French and German who led the British delegation to the european economic Community dec Parlia ment. Fro m the Media new knights include Francis Boyd until recently parliamentary correspondent for the guard Ian Harry Boyne political correspondent of the daily Telegraph and Huw when Don recently retired manag ing director of bbl television. New life Peers include sir Brimlow 60, former the foreign and common wealth office and head of the diplomatic service sir Alan Charles Bullock 59, master of St. Catharine s College Oxford and sir Frani Schon s3, chairman of the National re search development corp. Attenborough who made his stage debut in 1941, appeared in such films As the ship that died of shame and i m All right Jack the Hilar ious spoof on British work men that won International acclaim. Hamilton who also is director of Keuter and of the Thomson organization headed by Canadian born lord Thomson of Fleet was Hon ored for service to the arts. Marsh 47, frequently the butt of jokes and criticism for his running of the railway suffered a personal tragedy last summer when his Young wife Caroline was killed in a ear crash on Holiday in Spain. Giant Oil takeover in Venezuela poses problems continued with the same Structure As their foreign predecessors but under direction of Petro Leos de Venezuela a state holding company that will handle Over All management. Although they will no longer run the Industry the International companies will continue to participate through contracts under which they will buy most of the country s Oil production and Supply technical Aid for a fee expected to total about million a year. The government has in effect set its hostages said a foreign Oil company official who asked that he not be identified. From now on they will be making the in vestments and taking the risks not our i o r to nationalization International oilmen complained that while their companies made the invest ments they had Little control Over the Industry and had to pay about 98 per cent of in come generated by it to the government in taxes and royalties. President Perez is the first to acknowledge that Independent operation of a the huge earned the government s3.4 billion in 1974 and billion last a difficult undertaking. He warned in a nationwide speech thursday that the nationalization of Petroleum is and will be difficult and management of tie Industry will not be an easy Tastel observers agree that the Success of state management depends fundamentally on the government s ability to keep politics out of Industry administration and to preserve High standards of efficiency achieved by the private companies. More immediate is the problem of International marketing of venezuelan crude Oil and refined products most of which is sold to the United states and Canada which buy 1.1 million barrels and barrels a Day respectively. The government has agreed to sell foreign Oil companies approximately i 5 million barrels a Day during the first Throe Moats of 197c, Al though this Falls Short of Cov ering planned production of 2.2 million barrels daily. Tie country produced 3.4 million barrels in 1973 and three Mil lion in 1974. Last year s production averaged 2.3 million barrels. The companies have offered to buy Between 1.4 and 1.5 million barrels at govern ment with those set by the organization of Petroleum exporting coun tries 2.3 million barrels at prices which the government says Are 20 to 30 cents a barrel lower. Gunfire shatters Lull in Portugal continued the three demonstrators killed. The portuguese government news Agency Anop and the Republican guard both identified Iii As Guenther Bruns born in Hamburg. The other Livo men killed were portuguese. Among 15 people injured was the three year old Daugh Ter of . Arnao Metelo who served As vice Premier for a month last summer in the government of the pro communist general Vasco Goncalves. The girl was wounded but doctors say she is out of danger. Mellelo was not believed to be in the prison at the time. A military report last month named him As one of group of detained soldiers transferred to a Barracks elsewhere in Oporto. The crowd tired to invade the prison when the front Gates opened to let a car drive out the military spokesman said. The revolutionary left Wing virtually collapsed on no vember 25 during a crack Down by Loyal army units after an attempt to under mine the government coalition of socialists. Centrists and non communist left Wing officers. But the radicals have Resur faced in groups formed to press for the release of the men arrested at the time. On new year s eve troops and police with armoured cars sur rounded the capias Security prison on the outskirts of Lis Bon to head off a March by another crowd of protesters ;