Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 23 c Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sels . Details Pige 5 Winnipeg free press final edition if vol. S3 no. 206 thursday May 27, 1976 25c with coloured comics Minaki dreads signal to flee by Debbie Lyon free press staff writer Minaki oat. Residents Here Are waiting for a sound they Hope they won t hear the shrill whistle of a Tram. If the whistle sounds it will be the signal to evacuate in the face of an advancing Forest fire. At noon thursday the fire was Only three Miles North West of Minaki. A decrease and shift in the wind saved the town wednes Day night from the fire which started in the after noon on the Edge of pistol Lake. Thirteen cottages owned by Winni Eggers and. United states citizens were destroyed wednesday As the fire worked its Way along a two mile strip and jumped the Lake to a Peninsula be tween pistol Lake and Sand Lake. For most of the town s 300 residents it was business and school As usual thurs Day morning. But if the fire swings Back toward the town aircraft buses and a train were standing by to evacuate Resi dents. There was t much that could be said As three Winnipeg Brothers looked at the smouldering ruins of their three. Cottages which used to sit on a five acre site at pistol Lake. The Brothers Bob Al Bert and Art Early went to their cottages thursday morning after hearing of the fire at the Lake. As they stood among the ruins one of them asked How can you place a value on As he pointed to the ruins. One of the cottages built of old railway ties was estimated to be about 100 years old. The other cottages were newer. Albert Early recalled carrying every bloody piece of lumber up that Hill to build his cottage about years just last weekend he brought Down bedding and groceries to equip the cot Tage for summer use. His new fibreglass boat Lay melted in the Lake across the Road from their property. The Earlys had no is t i m a t c of damage Ami could t say. Whether they would rebuild. As Art Early put it there is just no Way you could replace what has been while Art agreed the family had yet to feel the full Impact of their loss there was time for some humor. His son in Law Ron Hawry Shok pulled a hunk of melted Metal from one of Many smouldering piles at the site and pointed out the remains of a five horse Power out Board motor he had rebuilt. It needs a Little More re building he said. Constable Larry Lamme of the Ontario provincial police detachment said about 500 to 600 acres of Forest were affected by the fire the big Gest since a fire Burnt Over the same area about eight years ago. This is the first time Minaki itself has been threatened. One air plane was bombing the fire site with chemicals while three others were see Minaki Page 4 saudi Arabia objects open Oil Price Rise is expected Bali Indonesia a saudi Arabia today opposed any increase of the Price of Oil for the rest of the year As the Oil Cartel opened another Price setting meeting. But observers expect an increase of five to 10 per cent in the base Price. We oppose any increase in Price and we have a very Strong position on saudi Oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani told reporters at the opening of a three Day meeting of the 13-member organization of Petroleum exporting countries Yamani said open s cur rent base Price should be maintained until the end of the year. Open raised the Price oct. 1 by 10 per cent to a barrel and agreed to a Price freeze until the end of june As a Compromise Between Iran s demand for a 15-per-cent in crease and saudi opposition to any increase. Iran and Iraq Are again pressing for an increase and Oil Industry analysts expect the Bali meeting to vote an increase of five to 10 per cent. Opening the meeting pres ident Suharto put Indonesia on the Side of the Hawks with a Call for continuing adjust ment of Oil prices to the inflation rate. We Nave every right to de Mand a reasonable and fair Price for our said Suhar to. The adjustment of Oil prices to the rate of inflation see open Page 4 safeguard pledged for patients files a spotter plane Flics into fire area just East of Minaki in photo at left. White spots near a service Road show four burned out cottages on Hie photo by Jim Haggarty Side of pistol Lake in photo at right. The town of Minaki h in danger. Looking for a tent trailer this want and under trailers campers 715 custom built tent Trail Eri excellent condition. Phone 256-2788. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Milk up one cent Junel the Price of All types of milk in Manitoba will jump one cent june the Provin Cial milk control Board announced thursday. The Board s decision will bring to 52 cents the Price of a quart of homogenized milk in Winnipeg with partially skimmed milk rising to 50 cents and skim milk to 45 cents a quart. The one cent increase includes three quarters of a cent for the dairies and one Quarter cent for producers. At a milk control Board meeting april 13, Winnipeg dairies had for an in crease of from 6.3 to 6.5 cents a quart and producers asked for another 1.5 cents. Or. Paul Phillips chair Man of the Board said the increase in the maximum Price dairies arc allowed to charge is due to increased processing costs and Dislo cation caused by changes in Federal Dairy policy. The Board tempts from All the Cost information received to ensure a reasonable rate of return to producers and processors while maintaining maximum restraint on or. Phil lips said. We think this in crease is fair Given the in formation we Sec milk Page 4 says alternatives Hunt vital Schreyer attacks budget s non renewable fuel policy Ottawa chases Kasser Manitoba premiered Schreyer says he is disappointed the Federal govern ment made no moves in its budget brought Down tues Day to encourage the development of alternative Energy sources. A substantial portion of the costs of finding and develop ing non renewable fuels should be going to research into other forms of Energy he told reporters wednesday. For example the Premier said much More work needs to be done on ways of break ing Down water to obtain Hydrogen As a partial substitute for natural Gas. Finance minister Donald Macdonald s budget contained incentives to encourage exploration Tor Oil and natural Gas. It also included tax measures to make it cheaper to buy Energy saving equipment and More expensive to buy heavy cars. Or. Schreyer said he has no quarrel with Ottawa s efforts to promote the conservation but he said Tion by itself will not solve Canada s future Energy prob lems. The Federal government also announced changes in its anti inflation program re Garding controls on prices and profits including stricter limits on corporate profits. Or. Schreyer said the changes May be significant to some individual companies but there probably will not be much change in the amount of profits realized by corporations in total. Earlier wednesday in the legislature opposition Leader Donald Craik asked the Premier if the Manitoba government would be willing to change its policy and remove the five per cent provincial sales tax on Energy saving items such As insulation in Light of the Federal budget or. Schreyer said the idea could be considered for next year s budget but it extremely difficult to make any changes in exemptions from the sales tax this year. Corpses used for targets in bizarre gun research today y of focus just whose sexual acts Are deviant . Court ruling on sodomy. Page 44. Sports to s been 14 years since Winnipeg last won a major sports team championship. Page .65. Finance the budget declares War on tax Shelt ering according to tax expert i. H. Asper. Page 74. Inside Bridge 27 classified 47-62, 78-83 comics crossword 26 deaths 5 Horoscope 26 Jumble 50 movies 29 television 29 nearly everyone reads the free press total City 2ont Detroit a at least three bodies have been exhumed from paupers Graves by police investigating a bizarre unauthorized firearms Experiment involving the use o f bodies at the Wayne county morgue. Two bodies were dug up on wednesday from the United memorial gardens near Ypsilanti. The exhumations were based on the belief that firearms research including the firing of shots into the bodies said Rob Ert Healy chief trial lawyer for the Wayne county organized crime task Force. On monday night the body of Glenda Ann Reed of de troit who was 24 when she died was removed from an other grave in the same cemetery where it had been buried last aug. 6. It is believed bullets were fired into mrs. Reed s body a s part of firearms re said Patrick Foley head of the organized crime task Force. The shooting took place in the Wayne county morgue and it s unknown who did the shooting or who ordered he said. Foley said he Hopes to have the investigation completed within two weeks. Mrs. Reed died dec. 1, 19v4 of a brain Haemorrhage said a autopsy report which also identified the woman As a drug user. Orders were signed by judge Edward Deake for the removal of the bodies of mrs. Reed and Peter Kohut who died sept. 19, 1974, and was buried last August. Vienna up Canadian external affairs minister Allan Maceachen told aus Trian officials wednesday he has difficulty in understand ing the delay in revoking the austrian citizenship of Alex Ander Kasser and returning him to face fraud charges in Manitoba. Maceachen t o 1 d a press conference he raised the question which has been the subject of correspondence be tween prime minister trip Deau and president Rudolf Kirchschlage during lunch with foreign minister Erich Bielka. Hungarian born Kasser who also held United states citizenship is wanted in Manitoba to face fraud charges relating to the controversial Forest industries project in Northern Manitoba. Maceachen said Bielka without giving any commit ment stated that Austria would continue to co operate in trying to untangle the Issue. But he also reiterated there Are Complex problems created by the fact that Kasser s citizenship was granted by the province of Tyrol As is possible under Law. Maceachen said he exp a i n e d that he believed Kasser should be returned to Canada to face charges and to test whether he is in Nocent or guilty in a free there is an extradition treaty Between Canada and Austria but Austria does not extradite its own citizens. By Manfred Magek free press medical reporter Public insurance minister Bill Uruski of Manitoba said wednesday he plans to introduce an amendment in the legislature to change the Manitoba Public insurance corporation Auty Pac act to preserve the confidentiality o f medical records after motor accidents. The minister was contacted after an earlier free press report this week quoting two Winnipeg physicians As concerned Over what they de scribed As an unprecedented breach of medical information confidentiality for a topic. The corporation is Able to require health facilities to reveal medical files without prior consent of the patient concerned. The two physicians who spoke As individuals with the free press although they Are full time employees of the health sciences Centre Are or. Barry Kauf Man an internist and or. Jim Brown a psychiatrist. The two said Section 46 of the Manitoba Public insurance act which governs a it Opac is unparalleled in Western society and gives aut Opac authorities Powers no other insurance company has. Either aut Opac should be required to obtain the consent of patients before their medi Cal records were revealed the doctors said of the corporation should be required to obtain a court order to see medical flies. Nobody that i know of right now would use this in formation in a Way that is or. Aufman said Dur ing an interview. But who knows what can happen 1u years from now if the fas cism of the left or the right conies to Power they can use this for every Pur pose they want. The Laws to cover such action would Al ready be existent and we Don t think that they should be. This kind of thing aids or. Uruski wednesday de Nied or. Kaufman s and or. Brown s allegations that a topic officials the two physicians said even Junior clerks walk into hospitals and after identifying them selves ask for individual medical files saying the per sons concerned have had car accidents. Part of this whole thing is my own the minister said. We could have corrected this a Long time ago because the manager of the bodily injury Section of the insurance corporation tells me we have obtained the patient s consent where we could right from Day one of or. Uruski said he is writ ing to or. Kaufman and or. Brown giving them an undertaking that Section 46 of the insurance act will be changed to require patients consent before their medical records Are revealed to a topic officials. An amendment to Section 46 would be introduced in the legislature this session if the session lasts beyond next week which i think will probably be the committee stalls base closings by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa defence min ister James a. Richardson said wednesday his depart ment s plan to close several defence bases across the country has been stalled in a Cabinet committee. Until it is approved by committee it won t go before the full Cabinet. Meantime there Are suggestions that closings should be accompanied by Federal financial assistance to the areas affected possibly through the department of regional eco nomic expansion. We Hope to have decisions in the near the min ister said adding that there is talk of providing special assistance in some of the the proposal for shutting Down or reducing several military bases has aroused a storm of protest. In several cases bases have become an integral part of the local eco Momy and closing would mean substantial financial loss. See closing Page 4 fringe benefits put car prices the los Angeles times first of a series fringe benefits to general motors corporation employees added to the Price of every car truck and bus that the Auto maker produced worldwide last year. United slates employers Are paying premiums on employee group life insurance policies with a total face value estimated at trillion. To Call these benefits fringes has Long been a said pm chairman Thomas a. Murphy. Now it becomes a tragic delusion which deceives not Only the company which pays them and the employees who receive them but the american consumer who ultimately must carry their historically organized labor has argued that executives such As or. Murphy Over state the Cost of fringe benefits in order to discourage higher direct wage de mands. And there s no doubt the mex ecu Tive has Eye on his company s forthcoming negotiations with the United Auto workers Union the difference is that now. Even the unions increasingly concede some Merit t o corporate concern Over spiralling fringe Benefit costs. The culprits both sides agree Are Infra. Tion in general and skyrocketing health care costs in particular. Due to the Way Benefit programs Are designed those re lated problems mean that employers Are committed to picking up an Ever larger Tab even without improving their Basic Benefit package. Pm for example says its employee health care costs shot up by 21 per cent or million on an annual basis just last fall. Only million of the increase was for improved benefits. Now according to the Bureau of labor statistics the typical non farm . Worker gels in fringes for every in direct wages. That s about double the ratio of 20 years ago. The larger the corporation he works for the morn sizable the worker s Benefit Pac Kage is Likely to he. A continuing Survey of several Hundred medium and Large companies by the . Chamber of com Merce indicates fringes account for about 34 per cent of their total payroll. Virtually All non farm workers get some vacation and Holiday time off and Are covered by unemployment insurance. About nine out of 10 Are covered under life Accident and health insurance plans and iwo out of three Are included in a Pri vate pension program. Probably no Benefit has received As much attention lately As health insurance. Health care costs arc going up much faster than the Over All Cost of living Tri pling just since 1965. They increased by billion in the last year alone. The rising Cost of health care promises to be major Issue at the bargaining Sec fringe Page 4 ;