Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba How the train j i can save our Countryside Page 8 i vol. 83 no. 85 Winnipeg free press final edition 25c with coloured tuesday january 6, 1976 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset sunny and cold -34 c and -23 c these photos show what happened when the free press put two quarters no. 5 on the Winnipeg International Airport parking lot. Photo at left shows the Quarter being inserted. At Centre the parking meter gives the Motorist eight worst buy 8 min., 50c parking meters faulty at Airport Twenty per cent of the parking meters at Winnipeg International Airport tested by the free press monday malfunctioned in one Case giving Only eight minutes for 50 cents. Since the meters tested were in an almost continuously Busy area the lob had to be done when there were no or possibly few cars parked there. At 2 ., in a lot deserted one lonely pickup truck s25 in quarters were pumped into 50 meters. The first Quarter is supposed to Register 30 minutes the second another 30 minutes to a full hour s parking. Ten of the meters tested or 20 per cent malfunctioned though two gave More than the 30 minutes you re supposed to get for the first Quarter. The meter with tie most personality was no. 5. On the first Quarter it registered 23 minutes in Stead of 30. On the second Quarter it backed Down to 18 minutes. When a photographer tried meter no. 5 later in the Day it gave Only eight minutes for 50 cents. Meter no. 3 gave just 36 minutes for two quarters. Meter 57 minutes. Meter no. 14 50 minutes. Meter no. 15 for the first Quarter and a total of 46 minutes for the two quarters. Meter no. 1.8 was jammed. Meter no. 23 gave 46 minutes for two quarters. Meter no. 30 57 minutes. The two big bargain meters were no. 33 and no. 44. Meter no. 33 gave 36 minutes six More than it s supposed to for the first Quarter. Meter no. 44 gave 41 minutes for just one Quarter. The Airport parking lot comes under the Federal ministry of transport. An Airport spokesman said the meters were checked twice weedy and that As far As he was concerned there was no More than the usual and unavoidable malfunctioning involved in any mechanical one of the he said is that some peo ple wet the first Quarter hoping it will Jam in and get. Them a full 60 minutes for the Price of 30. This and Coin size chips washers and other substitutes for quarters tend to gum the spokesman said anyone who reports a malfunctioning meter is Given a special pass enabling him to Park the full length of time he paid for immediately and without few motorists know about the special pass system particularly since there in t any notice to this effect posted anywhere on the parking lot. And if a person were seeing someone off or meet ing someone late at right or in the Small hours of the morning he might find it difficult to find the Man with the passes. Meanwhile cars on time expired meters at the air port still Are being ticketed. Minutes for a Quarter. At right the Motorist inserts another Quarter immediately after the first and receives parking time of the same eight min utes. Net yield eight minute parking time for 50 cents Good profit for the meter but frustration for the Driver. Meter no. 5 was the worst culprit in the free press Survey of parking meters at the air port but others showed varying results when plied with 100 quarters. Two meters gave More time than they should have for the first 25 cents. Religious belief valid reason to stay out of Union court by Scott Edmonds free press courts reporter the Manitoba court of a peal has ruled that Henry Funk a mennonite bakery worker has the right to be excluded from Union membership because of his religious beliefs. The decision overruled an order of the Manitoba labor. Board which had turned Down or Funk s application to be granted conscientious objector status. Or. Funk lost his Job at Mcgavin toastmaster Ltd. In june 1974, after he refused to join the bakery and confectionery workers International Union local 389. Tic said at the time that he was willing to have an amount equal to Union dues deducted from his pay Cheque and paid to a Charity. After the labor Board de Nied his application for conscientious objector status or. Funk took the Case to Manitoba court of Queen s Bench where or. Justice Louis Denise denied his application to have the boards ruling quashed. Chief Justice Samuel Freedman of Manitoba court of Appeal said in his written decision that the labor Board had stepped out of its Juris diction when it dismissed or. Funk s application. The Board asked itself the wrong question not what Are the. Religious beliefs of Funk concerning the joining of a Union but what Are the beliefs of., the Menn Nile Brethren Church concerning that chief Justice Freedman said. He said that in effect the had decided that the beliefs of the mennonite Church fell Short of condemning the joining Union and that or. Funk s beliefs must be taken As the exact equivalent of those of his instead chief Justice Freedman said the inquiry see Funk Page 6 retaliation for re killings ten protest ants slain i Ira claims responsibility Belfast a a group called the South Armagh re publican action Force has claimed responsibility for the slaying monday night of 10 protestant textile workers on their Way Home from work. Security officials said they consider the South Armagh Republican action Force a Flag of convenience for the provisional Wing of the Irish Republican . A Man claiming to represent the shadowy guerrilla organization telephoned a Bel fast newspaper and gave a code word known to police. We wish to claim full responsibility for the shooting last the caller said. It was in retaliation for the killing sunday night of the k e a v e a Brothers at Whitecross and the o Dowd family at police said the two pairs of Brothers and an o Dowd from a Reuter United states president Ford said monday he does not expect the soviet Union to continue pouring Money and equipment into Angola. It was his strongest hint yet that he expects a solution to the question of big Power intervention there. Ford s remarks to a closed door meeting with 18 . Midwestern newspaper Edi tors were reported by John Carlson Deputy White House press Secretary. Carlson said that when Ford was asked what would happen if the soviets con Linued their material support for one of the factions fight ing in Angola the president replied i Don t assume that is going to happen. I Don t think that will be the result. The situation there today is better than it was in response to a question Carlson said he thought Ford was speaking figuratively in referring to today and yester Day and simply meant that the situation recently has shown improvement. Earlier in a speech Ford called for an immediate ceasefire in Angola and warned that continued soviet intervention there will damage re lations with the United states. Making his first speech of the . Presidential election year Ford said in St. Louis mo., that if soviet activity in Angola continues damage to our broader relations will be we favor an immediate ceasefire an end to All All All outside intervention and a government of National Unity permitting the solution of the angolan problem by the an g o 1 a n s Ford told the annual convention of the american farm Bureau federation. He added that he feels the problem cannot be handled by cutting off Grain sales to the soviets. The president said it will be a serious mistake to assume that b Nideng our exports of Grain to the situation in ango1 la would serve any useful purpose hear see big Power Page i Uncle All catholics were slain by gunmen Beh eved to be protestant extremists who burst into the Keavey and o Dowd Homes and opened fire. Monday night s slayings were the latest and most gruesome in a series of. Sec tarian killings in South Armagh that began Friday when three protestants were murdered. More retaliatory killings were expected. Flin flon s Jobin tipped As . Base Ord finds sugar bitter appeals against acquittal Ottawa up Justice minister Ron Basford d a y launched an Appeal a g a i n s t the acquittal on charges of conspiring to fix prices of three Eastern Cana Dian sugar refiners. Notice of the Appeal was filed in the Quebec court of Appeal in Montreal barely two weeks after a decision by or. Justice Kenneth Mackay throwing out the charges. Consumer affairs minister Andre Ouellet has been asked to appear before or. Justice Mac Lay in Montreal thurs Day to show Why he should t be charged with contempt of court for remarks he made concerning the decision. Or. Ouellet said dec. 19-he would ask the Justice depart ment to Appeal the Case. The decision to Appeal was made by or. Basford who was consumer affairs min ister when the decision to place the charges was made. The companies charged were re Palch industries Ltd., Atlantic sugar refineries co. Ltd., and St. Lawrence sugar which w a s jointly charged with sask holdings Ltd. They were charged with conspiring with one another and with h other companies to fix sugar prices in Eastern Canada s six provinces from 1960 to 1973 and to Lessen Competition in those prov inces in that period. Speculation i s mounting that flin flon s mayor f. L. Bud Joriu May be appointed lieutenant governor of Manitoba to replace w. John Mckeag. Or. Jobin an Industry and Commerce minister in the Cabinet of former Manitoba Premier Douglas Campbell could t be contacted for comment monday. A spokesman in the prime minister s office in Ottawa said monday no firm Deci Sion has yet , but it is expected imminently. Or. Mckeag s term originally expired in september but was extended to january. The spokesman said other men and women Are still under consideration. The name of Alison Gat wife of senator Gil Gat former Manitoba Liberal Leader has also been mentioned As a possibility if a woman is chosen. There has been some pres sure on the prime minister s office by individuals and organizations to appoint win l o e w c n president of the f. L. Bud Jobin front runner Manitoba Liberal party to the Post. The prime minister is vacationing at the West coast and in t expected Back in see flin s Page 6 kidnappers want million Ransom for return of French record head Paris a six Young gunmen who May have been mistaken for Rock musicians kidnapped the 54-year-old head of France s largest re Cord manufacturing company in the Middle of a Board meeting carried him gut in a Wicker Basket past an unsuspecting guard and Are de manding million Ransom for his Safe return police said monday. The kidnappers aged be tween 25 and 30 and wearing Blue jeans and sweaters much like Rock stars who fre q u e n t the firm s head q u i e r s grabbed Louis Hazan in a mid morning dec. 31 raid on the head office of the Phonogram co. In the heart of , authorities said. The Wicker Basket appeared no different from the Bulky electronic amplifying gear often tarried by Rock singers witnesses said. The gunmen have been in touch with mrs. Hazan by Telephone several times and the Ransom Money is ready for delivery police said. Police had ordered an embargo by news Media on the kidnapping but allowed it to be lifted monday. Witnesses said the gunmen burst into the Phonogram Board meeting and asked who is the chief and when Hazan stood up they bound him and placed him inside the Wicker Basket. They then locked four other Board members in the Board room and took a fifth the financial director of the com Pany along with them. Today dream collector 11 vote stump.22 5 impaired Drivers Are jailed 10 Days each for 1st offence classified.27 to 38 comics 39, 40 deaths 38 finance. 16 to 19 for people 11 to 15 Jumble. 30 movies 15 sports.23 to 26, 41 television j4 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone. Total Belleville out. Up a provincial court judge imposed jail terms monday on five persons convicted for the first time of impaired driving and indicated ills Rul ing May mean the end of a probationary program Here for impaired Drivers. Judge j. L. Clendon Ning sentencing the accused to 10 Days each said he was extending a directive by Ontario attorney general Roy Mcmurtry on impaired driving offenders. Or. Mcmurtry advised Crown attorneys last month to insist on mandatory mini mum sentences As provided for in the criminal Days for second offences and three months for third or sub sequent offences. Judge the court that if the government accepts incarceration As the Only Means of deterrence for repeaters of impaired of fences then he must consider incarceration applicable also to first offenders. He noted that although the probationary program Here was designed for second and subsequent offenders there was also a provision to extend it to first offenders. However he said or. Mcmurtry s directive placed the program in jeopardy and that he no longer would direct off Enders to participate in it thereby virtually rendering it the program an eight week course made mandatory by a probation order was based on similar programs in North Bay and Oshawa. The five Ontario residents sentenced monday were Brian Lawrence Cameron 23, Napanee Robert Douglas Fox 20, Stirling Ronald Morris 20, Frankford Glen Elgin Pollock 28, Belleville and Robert Pruner 19, Spencerville. Lawyer George Murray said later he filed appeals of the sentences on behalf of All except Pruner who waived his right to Appeal. Hellyer enters leadership race Ottawa up Paul Hel Lyer the 52-Ycar-pld former Iberal Cabinet minister who helped precipitate the fall of the country s last progressive conservative government in 1962, monday announced his candidacy for that party s leadership. He told a news conference his previous association with the liberals and his own ill fated populist movement action Canada would be one of my greatest pluses As one of 16 conservative leadership hopeful. There were Many Disen chanted liberals and popu lists who must be courted by the conservatives ii that party is to establish a National base Large enough to win the next general election he said. Or. Hellyer quit the Liberal party in 1971 following a series of spats Over party eco see Hellyer Page 6 the los Angeles times London Britain has failed to achieve its 10 year goal to go fully metric by the end of 1975. It will take an estimated five years More before the old Imperial units of the mile the quart and the Pound and their subdivisions Are completely replaced by the met Ric metre litre and Gram. Much of British Industry which is heavily dependent on Export sales to a world that is virtually exclusively metric is already largely failure lies largely in the consumer Field and in isolated Small Industrial and business firms. It is due to what As an Alphonse and Gaston Type routine in which everyone seems to be waiting for everyone else to take the final Steps that would Complete Britain s voluntary metric conversion program launched in 1965. Part of the problem is the failure of the govern ment to enact enabling legislation that would permit changing weights and measures from Imperial to met Ric on Many consumer items including such Basic foodstuffs As butter Margarine Tea and cooking fats. The resistance and suspicion of the British citizen in part slows government change. As an official of the metrication Board an advisory group set up in 1969 to co ordinate the changeover said the chief problem is on the consumer level. There is obviously in every citizen s mind Basic resistance to change and the British Are exceptionally Good in re sisting a Middle aged housewife put it another Way i am used to buying a half Pound of butter and a Pound of Lea so Why should i because of such views and the Lack of government action the 82-store Safeway supermarket Chain an affiliate of the . Company is doing nothing about met Ric conversion. We stick to the old Imperial units in our meat and produce department and in some other said Graham Ellis a Safeway official. With our canned and packaged goods there is Little problem since these items Are generally marked in both metric and Imperial by the producer or the 60-member metrication Board used Strong Lan Guage in its latest annual report. It declared looking Back Over a period of four years there is no doubt that there has been a Lack of Resolution and courage on the part of successive past governments in relation to the Board was especially critical of the govern ment s failure to select a Days target dates for Many important metrication conversions such As in Energy and Road signs. Government officials deny there is any systematic slowdown in conversion but conceded that it ought to see Britain Page 6 ;