Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Sunj Sun rises . Sets Moon rises . Sets . Details Page a Winnipeg free press vol. S3 no. 201 thursday May 20, 1976 1 1o 25c with coloured comics final edition Pic fraud probe denied Andras no Ordinary problem Ottawa up a senior ramp officer denied wednes Day in parliament by Tom Cossitt pc Leeds and supported by manpower minister Robert Amiras that an investigation is under Way concerning an unemployment insurance fraud which could inn into hundreds of thousands of Dol Lars. Sgt. Gordon butt Tempo Rary head of the commercial crime Section at the ramp a division which covers Eastern and Northern on Tario said he had no knowl Edge that three or four bogus companies had been set up in the Ottawa area to Issue phoney separation certificates As alleged by or. Cos Sitt. Or. Cossitt said he obtained h i s information from an ramp source whom he de scribed As beyond re or. Cossitt said outside the commons wednesday that fake companies May have been filing separation certificates with the unemployment insurance commission with names and social insurance numbers of innocent persons. Those behind the Compa Nies then collected cheques delivered through the mail he said. The amount was in the order of or a week according to ramp sources or. Cossitt said and could total millions of dollars because police Are unsure How Long it has been going on. Or. Andras supported the Gist of or. Cossitt s charges and told reporters that an investigation revealed More than an Ordinary but sgt. Butt said the ramp has Laid one charge of fraud involving one unemployment insurance Cheque. Charged is Gordon Gunn 26, of Ottawa. He said an ramp investigation has been going on since May 1, and that they were dealing with minimal not the amounts de scribed by or. Cossitt. Sgt. Butt said the investigation is continuing. He said the Force has dealt with substantial frauds against the unemployment insurance commis Sion in other cities and that those cases have already been through the courts. Or. Cossitt said he had Learned from his sources that there was a Well organized system of fraud and that it was apparent those involved knew the internal Workings of the commission. He also said he had Learned the investigation was com plete. . Warns of soviet threat Cossitt backs minister Macdonald s budget Bombshell postal charges to Rise 50% to Cut million losses Ottawa up first class postal rates Are expected to increase by 50 per cent Over the next year As the Post office seeks to reduce an an Nual deficit of More than million. A senior official in one department and a political adviser to members of the tru Deau Cabinet both confirmed wednesday that increases to take effect in two stages will in announced in finance min i s t e r Donald Macdonald s first budget next tuesday. The Cost of mailing a letter first class will Rise to 10 cents from eight cents this fall and 1o 12 cents next Spring bring ing Domestic postal rates More closely in line with rates in the . And other countries they said. The sources also said Gen eral increases of about 20 per cent will be imposed for All other classes of mail. The increases will Bear out warnings by postmaster Gen eral Bryce Mackasey that postal rates would go up when a Long and costly automation and coding program in the Post office resulted in improved efficiency. There has been talk of higher postal rates Here As budget Day approaches and critics Are telling a joke at the Post office s expense. The increases they say represent two cents for better postal service and two cents for the increases would be the first since Jan. A 1972, when the rate for first class mail Rose to eight cents from six cents set in 1968. Or. Mackasey warned As Long As a year ago that higher rates were coming but said then that increases would be two or three cents. The higher rates go Well beyond restraint limits set in the government s anti inflation program but officials said can be justified because of the big deficit. Big majority returns Morris As labor Congress president Joe Morris easy win for Csc chief airline pilots threaten to strike if Canadian air traffic con trollers strike and then Are legislated Back to work by the Federal government air line pilots will walk out in protest a pilots spokesman said thursday. Capt. Dennis Giguere local chairman of the Canadian airline pilots association said in an interview the group would support the controllers on the Issue of bilingual communications in the air. Members of the Canadian air traffic controllers association have said they will strike at . Cd May 31 if agreement cannot be reached with the govern ment on a mediator s report and the bilingualism Issue. The controllers want Assur ances from the government that the use of French in the air won t spread beyond five Small airports in Quebec. Capt. Giguere indicated the pilots had privately supported the controllers for the last six months. Today was Shakespeare Salesman reporter or a political conservative Page 44. Sports Winnipeg awarded two Canada cup games plus Russia Canada exhibition. Page 63. Finance study shows women still restricted in banking despite improvements. Page 73. Inside compiled from dispatches Quebec City Joe Morris was re elected with a thumping majority today for a second two year term As president of the two million member Canadian labor Congress. Results of the secret ballot taken at the convention Centre Here behind locked doors a routine practice for Union secret balloting were 1.492 for or. Morris and 375 for John f. Macmillan director of organization for the Canadian Union of Public employees the Only other candidate for the top office a year in salary plus expenses. Or. Morris was loudly cheered and received a Long standing ovation. Ballots cast totalled fifteen were spoiled. Some of the More than delegates still at the convention were outside the Hall when the voting was called and officials at the door had instructions not to let anyone in which accounts for the comparatively Low number of ballots cast. The majority of delegates gave approval wednesday to an economic policy statement which Laid Down specific conditions for labor s co opera Tion with government. The statement said the gov e r n m e n t has badly mis managed the Economy and As Long As the Federal anti inflation program is in effect we have an obligation to oppose its policies to the the policy statement said the Only Barrier to genuine tripartite participation in the drafting of National policy is the prevailing government strategy of manipulating labor and labor s representatives and failing Dis credit them in the eyes of their members and the pub Oslo up . State Secretary Henry Kissinger told nato foreign ministers today that soviet leaders Are under temptation from some of their ideologists to use the growing soviet military strength a Diplomat who at tended the meeting reported. But Kissinger was said to have added that in his opinion the soviet Union is not Bent on world domination. Kissinger was the first speaker at a working session of nato ministers that has been clouded by concern Over the state Secretary s effectiveness which has been weakened by the . Presidential election Campaign. Kissinger said soviet Mili tary strength is the result of Long Range planning and not a reaction to current events the Diplomat reported. The Diplomat said Kis Singer added the warning that see Kissinger Page 4 checkups can save Owney my says by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter a Winnipeg physician says physical checkups May save As much or More than their costs by Early diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. The physician who can t be identified because he is in private practice and could be accused of advertising said preventive Medicine May Well save More than the estimated million Mani to bans spend on physical checkups of healthy people. Or. Norman Corne chair Man of the Manitoba health services commission s medi Cal review committee said As much As million might be spent on physicals for healthy people. The doctor has made a study of the Efficacy of Thor o u g h periodic health examinations d has per formed them on his patients regularly Over a number of years. See checkups Page 4 Seine school land Transfer overruled by Robert Willaard free press staff writer the Manitoba court of a peal has unanimously ruled against the Transfer of a 1c Square mile piece of land that includes two schools from the Seine River school division to the neighbouring fort Garry division. In doing so the Appeal court s five judges Over turned the Jan. 28 decision of Winnipeg county court judge Irving Keith who had ruled in favor of transferring the land and the St. Norbert and pare Lasalle schools to the fort Garry division. Judge Keith allowed the Transfer which was sought by a group of St. Norbert residents saying it would be in the Best interest of the cd cation of the More than 1.300 students who attend the two schools. The Appeal court unanimously disagreed saying Evi dance presented to the courts Sec Seine Page 4 Orion financing talks Start again Mark laramae holds up a string of five Sauger he caught wednesday while fishing at the Confluence of the red and Assiniboine Rivers. The area just East photo by Gerry Cairns of the main Street Bridge has be come a favorite fishing Hole for Winnipeg anglers particularly when the fish Are running. See Page 3 for More fishing photos. Compiled from dispatches Ottawa up Lockheed aircraft corp. Was Back talk i n g with the government today to see if the Orion patrol plane program can be made to Fly. Vice president Bill Wilson said in an interview that exploratory talks were held with defence minister James Richardson today and talks will be opened again with Ca Nadian Banks about financing. The failure of the company to obtain a loan of More than million from the Banks resulted in the demise of the Orion offer to Supply the government with 18 Orion Prpa Long Range patrol aircraft earlier this week. The govern ment had reversed itself in 24 hours and refused to provide the financing that the Banks would not provide. Or. Richardson made for Mal announcement of death see Richardson Page 4 it s Caterpillar spraying tune Vifa with his tots classified 18-61, 77-83 comics crossword 22 deaths Horoscope 2fi Lum Lile 51 Mihovics 3-, 33 television. 30 nearly everyone reads the free press Tow cily one it s that Creepy Crawler time of year again. Homeowners Are advised to watch for tiny Green and Black caterpillars that could eat newly Green Trees Back to Bare Brown twigs. Spokesmen for the City of Winnipeg and the Manitoba government s agriculture department suggest that Home owners who find Forest tent caterpillars or fall canker Worms on their Trees Spray with malathion or Methoxychlor. Or. Ellis the City s entomologist said wednesday about 95 per cent of the Forest tent caterpillars expected have hatched in the City. The fall canker Worms started to Hatch last thurs Day. The City began spraying Friday in heavily and moderately infested areas but spraying has been hampered by recent High winds. The City has sprayed with Methoxychlor in East and West Kildonan and the North and Central parts of the inner City. Depending on weather conditions the pro Gram is expected to be completed in weeks. Dave Smith an entomologist with the Provin Cial agriculture department said major spraying in Rural areas against Forest tent caterpillars in t expected to Start until May 25, possibly later. Rural residents were asked to Contact their municipalities which Are coordinating local spraying programs or. Smith said. Winnipeg residents wanting further information May Call the City s Bug line at 885 1500, Extension 138. Freak snowstorm hits Eastern . Old forge . A snowmen dotted the lawns of this Adirondack Mountain Community wednesday As 25 centimetres about 10 inches of Snow blanketed optimistic Spring Flowers. It was 27 c in Boston on tuesday afternoon but at mid afternoon wednesday the Mercury had slipped to 8. See photo Page 4 plows were also brought out of storage to Clear the streets of Lake Placid which reported 7.5 centimetres of Snow. Other parts of upstate new York reported accumulations of Between five and 10.5 centimetres. Snow also fell in scattered parts of Southern new eng land. Agent admits african plot a hoax London cult. Col. Frederick Cheeseman would be secret agent with an inside knowledge of South african Security was today again Plain Fred Cheeseman unemployed. The Dapper dark haired Cheeseman 51, told millions of British television viewers tuesday he was a former . Air Force intelligence officer who had been offered by by South african Security services to help disrupt Bri Tain s third ranked Liberal party. Whole Story about me being a spy and trying to infiltrate the South african intelligence Agency is made head fitted wednesday in an interview with the daily express. I m sorry i hoaxes the i invented that rank three years ago because i was Down on my Luck and like any other Man 1 wanted respect from my friends and he said. I had to build an image. For the years my wife myself and four children have been living on 20 Sterling a week state Cheeseman claimed earlier that he flew to Pretoria South Africa in 1974 where the Bureau of state Security showed him dossiers on Liberal party legislators including former party chief Jeremy Thorpe. Thorpe accused by a male Model of engaging in homosexual relations denied the charge but resigned his party Post May 10. But wednesday night he told Independent television news that although he borrowed the fare to Pretoria in 1974 and unsuccessfully sought a Job with these purity Bureau he had seen no dossiers. Cheese Maiv s Story followed charges in the guardian newspaper that a South african Diplomat Here was trying to obtain a pornographic film said to feature a prominent British politician. South african embassy officials categorically denied the allegations but they recalled second Secretary Johan rus soul from London saying the press was hounding him. Scotland Yard detectives Are investigating the allegations. Cheeseman admitted that while he had served in the air Force the highest rank lie made was sergeant. Stories emerging about him include one that he worked in Littleton colo., from december 1961 to May 1962 As a sheriffs investigator but was fired when it was discovered that he was not a . Oit.i7.cn. Police records show that Cheeseman s fondness for the rank of colonel Cost him a year in jail in 1866. He was convicted of buying a Jaguar car and obtaining about in other goods with Worth less checks after telling salesmen he was a . Air Force colonel stationed in Germany. Cheeseman s neighbors in the Village of Aldington 40 Miles Southeast of Lon Don said the would be colonel has been unemployed for years. They described him As a Crank and a Walter Mitty the fictional character created by the late ,1 c s Thurber who always dreamed of being somebody else. They said he would return from the so Cial Security office by taxi and remark just done a hard Day s work at the War ;