Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine water or fish Don to despair at Grassy Narrows Over White Man s Poison to generation illiterate Page 4 English to College students like distasteful Medicine. Page not so angry Young Man fairy tales have helped Cool nip s Stephen Lewis Marco s cooking school soup Stock preparation lesson no. 1 in new series Page 12 Page 19 and the classic Spanish drama 3 homesteading in the City. 10 events at the school of Art. 10 David Cassidy j new image.11 Medicine regular Check necessary. 14 Winnipeg cultural Grants Cut. 14 on the other hand television commercials. Is tourists visit London cemetery 15 the elusive John 20 regular features stamp collector 2 Over the Garden Wall 2 Horoscope 4 Herron Folk 4 if happened Here 5 sportsman 5 senior citizens 6 children s Corner 7 Church news 8, 9 Chickadee notes 12 at the gallery 12 word Wise 13 Sketchbook 13 Book reviews 16, 17 chess 18 puzzles 19 Bridge 19. And elsewhere in the paper 9 color comics to radio diary Jumble winners 35 entry form 75 Puzzle 43 Bridge news 2g scene 74 classified please see Page 34 Winnipeg free press i vol. 83 no. Csc with coloured comics saturday january 10, 1976 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Clearing -12 c and -21 c take fixed fee or get out doctors told health minister Larry pcs Jardins announced Friday the Manitoba health services commission has arbitrarily set medicare fees and Doc tors practising in the plan can either accept them or opt out. He said there will be no More negotiations with the Manitoba medical association which had earlier set a Jan. 35 deadline for an agreement with the commis Sion. In addition the minister said the commission will Dis solve its last agreement with the doctors. Or. Desjardins said in future Manitoba medicare will lie run on the same basis As the government s social Al 1 o w a n c e and Pha Macare programs. The province will set Rales without negotiating agreements with the doctors. He said however that the province wants to continue consulting with the doctors on All professional matters including fees. The minis Ter said the health services commission will Send the medical association the required 30 Days notice dissolving its last agreement with the doctors Early next week. The com Mission will begin paying fees at the new level immediately he said. The minister said there will be no More negotiations with the association Winch earlier set a Jan. 15 deadline for a settlement. Or. Desjardins told a press conference in the legislative building that the government won t Bow to the doctors threats of some form of withdrawal of ser vices if the deadline in t met. Richard Sprague executive vice president of the medical association declined 1 a the r Friday to comment on the government s action. The Manitoba health ser vices commission which administers the medical care plan has offered the doctors a two part increase of nine per cent effective Jan. 1 on a new fee schedule. Of this 4.8 per cent would be permanent to cover in creased costs of practice. The remaining 4.2 per cent would be in effect Only until individual doctors have in see ads Page 4 am to ideas s policies Ottawa up Energy minister Alastair Gillespie says hell meet some Toronto business friends monday in one of a series of regular meetings la discuss the state of the or. Gillespie said Friday the major item under Dise is Sion will be the recent state ments by p r i m e minister Trudean on the future of uie free Enterprise system com ments which have drawn expressions of concern from the business Community but the minister said in an interview Frum Victoria where he is meeting British Columbia officials that he meeting had not been called specifically to discuss the Issue. This is something i do on a regular basis particularly when the House is not sit said or. Gillespie a prominent businessman him self before he entered the commons in 19gs. Or. Trudeau in a series of y e a r e n d interviews said there had been some failings in the free Enterprise system and discussed the current need for massive state intervention in the Economy. Or. Gillespie said there is no doubt the business Community is concerned with some interpreting the comments is a threat that government is moving towards a state con trolled Economy. But the minister said he did not interpret the prime min ister s musing that Way and urged businessmen to look at what he said and not what people say he the free Enterprise system is continuing to develop the minister said. The system could remain even with some government intervention to Check its excesses. I think we Are developing a much More responsible Enterprise he said. It s when the system is not accountable or responsive to the Public interest that you run into aut Opac rates to Rise by 15% by David Lee free press staff writer Manitoba motorists will pay a maximum 15 per cent More most cases Between s20 and for their a topic coverage in 1976. The new Rales flu cd came As Little Surprise because of earlier predictions by government officials were announced Friday at a press conference by Public insurance minister Bill Uruski. Or. Uruski said the provincially run Manitoba Public in is France corporation expects to break even or to show a slight profit on its 1975 operations and the 15 per cent Aulo Pae increase will be the Only increase Manitoba motorists May expect this year. He said a two cent a gallon insurance surcharge on Gaso line Driver s licence insurance surcharges and various other surcharges for accidents will remain unchanged in 1976. With Hie Driver s licence and gasoline Premium remaining unchanged the net increase on the total insure a n c e costs for passenger cars will be less than 15 Pel he added the minister said the 15 per cent increase will affect All vehicles in territories one and two Winnipeg and Rural Manitoba. In territory three he said the increase will he 15 per cent on about one third of the vehicles and slightly less on the reminder. Territory three covers Thompson and areas North of the 55th parallel. See aut Opac Page 4 Al Mutton graphically indicates his displeasure Friday with proposed increases in rates set by the insurance corporation of Brit ish Columbia. While or. Mutton demonstrated outside the . Legislature in Victoria the Cabinet was inside discussing reductions. Canadian piracy feared to stations in . Want to get ready for jamming school year near ruin Toronto up the strike by metropolitan Toronto secondary school teachers May have serious harmful effects on the students involved the teach ers said in a Brief today to the provincial education be lations commission. The Brief to be presented at a Public celing said that part of the problem May be solved by compressing courses to the Bare essentials but there is a limit on How see Story Page 5 much can be compressed and the amount of knowledge the average student can absorb in a Short time. Education minister Thomas Wells said Friday there appears to be no alternative to legislating an end to the strike that began nov. 12. After meeting with metro school Board officials and negotiators for the teachers or. Wells told a news conference there is Little Hope of renewing negotiations. By Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Washington three american to stations fear ing talks with Ottawa May fail to prevent what they feel would be piracy of their pro Grams by Canadian Cable outlets appealed Friday for permission to Start installing equipment to Jam their Sig nals to Canada. The Buffalo new York stations whose programs Are picked up by Cable outlets in Toronto and other Ontario cities told the . Federal communications commission acc it is vital that the United Stales be in position to respond expeditiously if negotiations with the Canad an government break Down i we Are prepared to take the risks involved in constructing the proposed facility without Assurance that operating authority will be the stations said in a Brief to the commission. The . Government under Strong pressure from american broadcasters and their allies in Congress wants Ottawa to reverse plans to order Canadian Cable operators to substitute Canadian commercials for . Commercials when pick ing us programs from . Stations. A delegation of . Of including acc chair Man Richard Wiley will be in Ottawa next tuesday to press their Case that the deletion of commercials would amount to piracy of Amer ican programs. The americans also object to a Canadian government policy that would prevent Ca n a d i a n advertisers from claiming lax deductions for advertising carried on . To stations. The Buffalo stations when a Kew and wok want to install their jamming equipment pending an acc decision on their request filed last oct. 10, to Block out their signals in the Toronto area. If technically Success Ful it would follow that the stations signals in other areas of Ontario such Asha Milton and parts of the Nia Gara Pensula could also be jammed broadcasters in other . Centres near the Canadian Border Are As concerned about the proposed Canadian regulations As their Buffalo counterparts. They View the Buffalo request for Permis Sion to Jam programs As a lest Case and Are strongly supporting the Appeal before the acc. Toronto giants Toronto up major league baseball will come to Toronto in april if a Canadian group s Purchase of san Francisco giants is approved next week by National league owners. Charles Ruppert general manager of the giants said Friday from his office in san Francisco the group had reached agreement in principle to Purchase the giants for million. Ruppert said million of the Price is earmarked for Legal obligations. After the announcement the mayor of san Francisco and the head of a san Francisco boost ers group threatened to file suits to Block the move. Approval of owners of nine of the 11 other teams in the league is needed for the Purchase and move of the team. The owners meet wednesday in Scottsdale Ariz. The Canadian group includes Labatt s breweries of Canada Ltd., Vulcan assets Dominion Ltd., and the Ca Nadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Vulcan assets is controlled by r. Howard Webster chairman and pres ident of the Toronto Globe and mail. Toronto giants would play their Home games at Cne stadium which seats for baseball. See Story on Page 61. On note to Queen Quebec up the opposition parti quebecois will address another letter to Queen Elizabeth urging her not to open the olympics in Montreal next summer after a first letter was returned in Pel son by the British Consul Here. The party which advocates Quebec Independence repudiates the Contention of the con sul w. D. Symington that the letter must be sent through the lieutenant govern or of que acc see separatists Page 4 majority feel Triec Deal wrong poll of Council shows by Alan Christie free press Urban reporter a majority of Winnipeg City councillors say an agree ment the City made More than three years ago with Triec corporation Ltd. For an so million development at Portage and main was a mistake. In a free press poll 26 councillors agreed the Deal was t a Good one and that they would vote against it if the proposal came before Council again. Another 12 councillors and mayor Steve Juba said the agreement was a Good one for Winnipeg. Eight coun c i 11 o r s said they could t commit themselves until More information becomes available about the future of the site where construction has yet to begin. Three councillors were out of town and a fourth Pearl Mcgonigal has refrained from discussing Triec since her husband set up his consulting firm two years ago and took a subsidiary of Tri Zec As a client. In january 1974, City coun cil approved the spending of Sll million for the first phase of the development a three level underground garage providing space for cars. The garage and All that is to be built above it by Tri Zec have been the focal Points of debate at City Hall for the last three years. The 26 councillors who criticized the agreement represented a Cross Section. In clude were six members of the Independent citizens election committee which with 25 members is the Lar Gest group on Council. Many of the councillors weren t in office when the original Deal was made in june 1972, but there have been subsequent votes Deal ing with Triec. Councillor Bob Bockstael ice St. Boniface said City Council did make a mistake and if it did come up again i would t vote for he was t a member of Council in 1972. I be been concerned from Day one. There s been no de finite commitment from Tri Zec about How Large a development it would mayor Juba said he really did t want to give an Opin Ion because he did t know what the free press Story was about and did t want to be quoted out of context. But he said the cily has a binding agreement with Tri Zec and must live up to it. Triec was wailing for the City to build the Parade and then it would proceed. City Council in Blunder and see Page 34, tenders for construction of the Parade will be called this Winter the mayor said. A major concern of Many of the critics is that Triec is committed Only to the build ing of Square feet of office space above the Par King. Mayor Juba said How Ever Itiat Triec will build than the minimum commitment. Triec is being lashed Over the coals being treated like the villain but it was t they who came to us we the City went after them. I have an obligation to see this through whether i like it or not. City Council made the decisions not just coun. C. John gee ice St. Boniface was one who Felt More information about the future of the site now being used As a parking lot is needed before any decision can be made As to the merits. It s too Early to judge. If the plans Are fulfilled there s no doubt it was t a mistake. If nol fulfilled it will be a but i m not pessimistic it s too late to turn Back. Those buildings which were Lorn Down to make Way for the development were an eyesore and there s no regret about Cotin. Bernie Wolfe ice the Deputy mayor said i will make my opinion known after a re port from the mayor to the executive policy committee. I Don t presuppose or prejudge Many councillors said the concept of the development is Good but that the City gave away too much in at tempting to secure the agree ment. Coun. Bill Chornopyski new democratic parly lord one of eight nip members critical of the Deal said i Don t think there is any doubt it was a mistake and a serious one bul we can t get to the Bottom of the Silva lion. It s a deep dark coun. Bill Norrie ice fort said the Origi Nal agreement was t really a mistake but i would not be in favor of a similar Deal i h e s e so called joint Ven Tures. The City should not get coun. Don Perry in dependent Transcona and seven other independents Dis liked the arrangement. "1 voted against it every time it came up. If the same agree ment came up again it would never get through Council. We won t be buffaloes ;