Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba jets up cold in Calgary see Page 49 vol. 83 no. 8c in 10 25c with coloured comics Winnipeg free press final edition wednesday january 7, 1976 is -33 c -2t c fire caused an estimated damage tuesday to this House on Balzoria Road. In North West Winnipeg. City firefighters battled the Blaze for More than two hours in a temperature of minus 33 a despite Frozen and a shortage of wafer. The High temperature predicted for today was minus 27, combined with Strong winds. See Story on Page 3. Kasser interview criticized by Mike Ward free press staff writer attorney general Howard p a w i e y of Manitoba criticized the Csc tuesday for broadcasting a television interview with or. Alexander Kasser the Man accused of haying masterminded the million Churchill Forest industries fraud. After watching the inter View on Csc s fifth estate program or. Pawley said Here is a Man who had the Opportunity to appear before a commission of inquiry into the Chi affair appearing nationwide on television with nobody there to Cross examine him. As i understand it or. Kasser imposed certain conditions regarding the inter View and one of them was that he did t want to be is r. Pawley said after Reading a transcript of the1 interview earlier in the Day he had contacted the Csc to express my extreme Dis pleasure for allowing this to after watching the pro Gram however or. Pawley said he found the interview better than he had anticipated. But my criticism of the Csc for conducting the inter View with these conditions attached still he see Pawley Page 4 today naked 17 rent bureaucracy 26 Brink of civil War spearhead troops ordered to Ulster by David Macdonald free press correspondent London the British government has ordered its so called spearhead battalion to move immediately from England to the blood soaked South Armagh Sec lion of Ulster where Ira killers murdered in protes Tant workers on their Way Home. The battalion of 600 men raises British army strength in Northern Ireland to this is less than the troops with which the army launched its last major offensive against the Ira in july 1972. This battalion so described because it is on per manent standby for emergency duty with nato is also to be supported by armoured vehicles withdrawn from the British army of the Rhine. It will support the army units already on duty in South Armagh in a bid to head off what a protestant paramilitary Leader yesterday called Ulster s slide to the Brink of civil this decision came after a tense 80-Mimite Cabinet meeting hastily joined by Northern Ireland Secretary me Rlyn lines. Who dashed Over from Belfast after talks with politicians and protestant paramilitary Lead ers about the explosive situation in the Wake of the massacre. Glen Barr spokesman for the co ordination com Mitten of protestant paramilitary organizations said on television that there is intense pressure on the com Mittee and the so called army Council of the Para military groups to move instantly to a military Offen Sive against the Iea that would inevitably mean clashes also with the British army. A lot of people think the British military policy is not Tough he added. British sources said an urgent meeting has been arranged at the request of the Dublin government be tween the Irish Republic s defence minister Patrick Cooney and air. Rees. They will meet thursday to discuss stepped up Border Security As part of a drive to stamp out the Mutual Slaughter of catholics and protestants in Armagh. A source in Dublin also said that sinn fein the political Wing of the Ira is trying to Contact a Cler Gyman in Ulster who helped on previous occasions with a View to discussing ways of heading off a new round of religious killings in Armagh. By pii1lip Rodgers with Little Prospect of any increase in provincial Educa Tion Grants Winnipeg property tax owners can expect to absorb most of a million increase forecast in the 1976 estimates. If the estimates Are accepted it will mean a 15 Mill increase in school taxes for property owners in the Winnipeg school division trustee Michael Baragar said when they were presented tuesday to them Ioard of education. A Homeowner with a House assessed at for tax purposes would have to pay s105 More in taxes this year. Excluding a million Al Lowance for salary increases still to be negotiated the estimates show an 11.4 per cent increase to about million Over the 1975 estimate of s55 million. The estimates include Mak ing up an deficit incurred in 1975, mostly for unbudgeted salary increases and a one Mill Levy for the building re serve fund. With special meetings to be held thursday and again tuesday trustees made Only tentative comments on the estimates. All. The speakers deplored the increase in property tax but while some trustees de fended existing programs and increased government support others Sug g e s t e d re examining what could be afforded. In his introduction to the estimates superintendent Howard Loewen said the objective of increasing spend ing no More than 10 per cent proved impossible. Inflation caused uncontrollable items to Rise in Cost More than 10 per cent including heating up 37 per building maintenance 18 per transportation 27 per equipment re placement 14 per cent and fixed and financial charges 17 per several programs newly established resource centres alternative programs in secondary schools Industrial arts equipment upgrading Community use nutrition inner City projects French see estimates Page 4 on Umon Eligi Case studied May Appeal by Scott Edmonds free press courts reporter a Manitoba court of a peal ruling that a former bakery worker has the right to work without joining a Union because of his religious beliefs will have to be examined carefully for its. Pos sible effects labor minister a. R. Russ Paulsey of Manitoba said tuesday. It could have an indirect bearing on our labor Legisla Tion which we May have to look at in its the minister said in an inter View. The court s ruling quashed monday an earlier decision of the Manitoba labor Hoard. The Board had turned Down an application by Henry a member of the mennonite Brethren Church to be classified As a conscientious objector to Union membership because of his religious beliefs. Chief Justice Samuel Freedman said in his written decision that the labor Board erred by concerning itself with the religious beliefs of the mennonite Church rather than the beliefs of or. Funk. See beliefs Page 4 . Officials concerned soviet destroyer tank ship steaming toward Angola the Washington Post Washington a soviet guided missile destroyer and a Landing ship for tanks Are steaming toward Ango a informed sources said tuesday night. The movement and capabilities of the two ships were being viewed with grave concern by United states officials watching the fast developing Angola situation. The destroyer sources said is of the Kotlin class and was steaming Southeast toward Angola from a Posi Tion off the Shore of Gabon. Sailing with the destroyer is a soviet Oiler so that the warship can be refuelled As it continues toward Angola. Not More to . Government officials studying information tuesday night was the presence of a soviet ship off the Congo which is capable of Landing tanks armoured vehicles and troops. This ship informed sources said has soviet personnel aboard but How Many there Are and what their mis Sion not been determined by see soviet Page 4 olympic building race clouded Montreal up news of further delays and changes m the construction of installations for the 197g summer olympics raised further speculation tuesday whether the race Mil be won in time to accommodate the world s athletes. The latest problems to emerge in the troubled project Are vital Section of the pre cast Concrete stadium Struc Ture has been improperly in stalled. Report that planned dressing rooms for athletes and offices Are to be scrapped and replaced with Mobile trailers. Professional football and baseball teams won t have Access to the stadium this year because of construction delays Boger Trudeau director general of the olympics installations Board said the improperly installed Section one of a series of interconnecting panels housing wiring for lighting and communications systems is six inches Short of linking with another panel. And unless All 38 see olympic Page 4 Pickersgill to spill Guzenko secrets Pickersgill to release documents Ottawa Cut. W. Pickersgill former Liberal Cabinet minister decided tuesday to make Public Hajje Cret diary on the Guzenko spy affair written by former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King less than a week after it was withheld be cause of possible Security problems. The 60-Page typed diary is to be opened in the Public archives where King papers and diaries for 1945 were made Public for the first time on Mew year s Day. Or. Pickersgill on his own judgment decided there was t any Security prob says Wilf Smith do minion archivist and one of four literary executors of the King estate with or. Pickers Gill. Or. Smith said or. Pickersgill a former King aide telephoned two of the executors for approval of the Deci Sion to release the diary. The secret diary covers the. Period sept. 5 to oct. When Igor Guzenko a soviet embassy clerk was revealing see missing Page 4 major Christian stronghold Falls to guerrillas in Beirut on teachers paper Toronto up the Globe and mail Bays the on Tario Cabinet. Will recall the legislature next week to legis late an end to the strike by metropolitan Toronto High school teachers if they reject the metro school Board s contract offer. See Story on Page 4 the teachers who went on strike last nov. 12, Are to vote today on the Board s final offer. The newspaper quotes legislature sources As saying the government will recall the House probably on Mon Day and legislate the return to work if the the contract is or the teachers de cide to hold rotating strikes. Premier William Davis vacationing in Florida Titis to return Home Friday regardless of the out come of the teacher vote for a meeting with education minister Thomas paper says. It says that if the Legisla Ture has to act the teachers would be Back in school next tuesday at the earliest. Liberals disenchanted there appears to be a growing split in the Liberal party Over the government s methods of fighting inflation and recent statements by prime minister Trudeau that the free Enterprise system no 1 o i g e r seems capable of de meeting the economic mands of Canada. Despite a denial of a split by senator Alasdair Graham p r e s i d e n i of the Liberal party of Canada More and More liberals Are speaking out against the prime min ister. For details see stories on Page 30 Beirut a pales Tinian guerrillas overran a major Christian stronghold in Northeast Beirut today after a night Long artillery barrage. Lebanon s capital was plunged into a new round of civil War after a two week Lull. The palestinians appeared to be taking a greater part in the conflict. A police spokesman said the guerrillas attacked Horsh Thabet a two Square mile area at Daybreak and punched a Hole in the blockade with which right Wing Christian militiamen had. Been keeping food con Voys from two palestinian refugee Camps since sunday. Christian militiamen were dislodged from Horsh Thabet in Savage fighting that included hand to hand combat. First reports said 16 persons were killed and 29 wounded the spokesman said. A guerrilla s anti tank Roc Het knocked out an army personnel Carrier caught in the crossfire and six troops were seriously wounded the spokesman said. Tiie christians mounted a counter attack later in the Day and regained control of a Small part of the area the police said. They said the christians were besieging guerrillas in a four Storey apartment building and the guerrillas Flirea Leutel to kill the tenants unless the siege was called off. Classified.35 to -17 comics 12, j3 deaths.34 finance 54 to 59 for people .17 to 25 Jumble 38 movies snorts.49 to 53 television 23 nearly everyone reads the free press i Tysom total a record number of Jolani t of b a n s Are buying High priced Holway packages in warmer climates this Winter despite the increased Cost of such vacations. In interviews this week spokesman for several of Winnipeg s 60 travel agencies said the Winter sea son is certain to become the Best Ever for their Industry. It has been absolutely said Brendan o Eric at o Brien world travel service. Sometimes it in this province is travelling this while estimates of higher volume varied sharply with different travel agencies most of them agreed that an Over All increase of 16 to 18 per cent is Likely in Manitoba for this year s Peak Winter season. Our volume has increased dramatically this year. I d say by about 40 per by David Lee free press staff writer said Chris Weigl. District manager for Thomas Cook world travel service. December was easily the Best month we have Ever added Doug Mackie of Mackie travel service ltd., who estimated an increase of about 18 per cent in the amount of business his firm has handled. As in the past hawaiian holidays have attracted the greatest number of Mani t o b a n 6 eager to escape Winter for a few weeks. The second favorite is once again the Caribbean with Florida and Mexico a close third. Despite the attractiveness of the traditional Holiday spots however City travel agents say Many people Are planning Winter vacations in a number of other locations. For the first time Maui to bans can Fly to Cuba for a two week Holiday near Havana and the travel agents say this vacation package has been virtually sold out for some time. In the cuban package tra Vellers can spend As Little As and in return get air transportation a Villa and meals for a two week period. Sec warm Page 4 bigger role for women marriage in . Fares badly study Washington a the institution of marriage apparently is faring poorly with Young people in the United Stales. More Are remaining single and those who marry Are divorcing or separating at higher rates the census Bureau says. A census report released tuesday on marital status and living arrangements in the United states in the first half of the showed a continuation of trends to Ward a greater number of families headed by women and More children living with single parents. Based on its nationwide annual Survey conducted last March the Bureau said the number of. Persons Between 25 and 34 years of age who never married has increased by about 50 per cent since 1970, to 4.2 million persons from 2.9 million. And the number of persons in that age group heading their household almost doubled to 1.8 million from the report said. As a result the number of persons in the Young adult age group living away from their parents Home Rose to 1.2 million in 1973 from in 1970, the study said. On dissolution of marriages the report noted that in 1975 10 per cent of All persons 25 to 54 years old who had married were reported As either divorced and not. Re married or separated. The 1970 figure was seven per cent. One consequence of higher divorce and separation rates has been an increase in the number of families headed by women and the number of children living with Only one Parent. The study showed that in 1975, 80 per cent of All Chil Dren under 18 lived with both parents compared with 85 per cent five years earlier. In the same period the number of families headed by women jumped by j .6 million to 7.2 million. That Means the percentage of families headed by women increased to 13 per cent in 1975 from 11 per cent in 1970 ;