Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free May 1976 Minakis immediate fire Hazard under control by Debbie Lyon free press staff writer the danger is Over for fire besieged at least for the time fire Boss Peter of the on Tario ministry of natural re indicated Here Fri Day theres still of Coupland and the Forest fire nearby is still but things look considerably no water bombers were in use Friday but More men and equipment were in the Minaki residents were still on evacuation fire Breaks All around the made it unlikely that even a wind change would endanger the there was no wind to speak of Friday after a Daylong fight by up to 100 men and 10 air the situation for the town looked brighter than 24 hours when fire blocked the Only Road into the Community and local on Tario provincial police were warning things look reasonably Good its not As critical As it looked last Guy an Ontario ministry of natural resources of commented thursday winds saved the town wednesday and some still on the Job at 4 worked until dark and returned Friday at air planes were used to Deposit water and two Dif Ferent types of chemical retardants on the fire thurs one injury was reported a worker dislocated his shoulder during the Day the fire moved somewhat further Northwest towards Worth and Thord a major Point of concern a fire on the Northern tip of the Peninsula on the East Side of pistol Lake was stabilized by most of the burning area was reduced to smoke and smouldering Winterton said that firefighters burned Woods themselves thursday in order to protect the Road into which natural resource officials View As crucial if evacuation is a car work 10 a passenger plane and a helicopter were on standby Coupland re leased these from duty when Crews eased the danger to the about some of which was to form part of a newly designated were affected by the the which began near a car line 4v4 Miles North West of the spread rap fanned by winds and aided by extremely dry con it often jumped Dis Tances of up to two Miles and crossed bodies of while apprehensive Resi dents got Little sleep wednes they tried to conduct business As usual shops and the towns Elemen tary school were the major damage resulted when 13 cottages were Des troyed along pistol near residents dont think the fire will affect although some Busi Ness will feel the yet some Good May Rupert a Hunting said in two or three years Deer could be attracted by Young outwardly there seemed Little panic among Minaki i the first time they had been threatened by some residents left for Ken Ora or Safe spots on Highway 1 and the Road to but most returned Home wednes Day campers staying across from the Minaki Mountain ski resort were brought to the town wednesday evening while new arrivals were being turned away from the grounds Woody president of the Minaki Community Asso suggested Minaki needs a formal emergency procedure and adequate fire a specially geared fire vehicle and train ing program for Volunteer firemen will soon be Avail he other residents expressed concern that the natural re sources ministry no longer stations an equipped fire Crew at or Coupland said equipment and men were flown to the fire scene from Kenora with in about five minutes of receiving the alarm wednes teamster Bosses living High off rebels say Washington a a Small group of Union dissidents is charging wide spread con action among teamster Union say ing they make six figure a use a Fleet of private jets and Dine on French Cui sine prepared by chefs on the Union the or occasional Drivers known As charged that the Union is run by Money hungry and Power hungry executives lavishly lining their pockets at the expense of the rank and the Council pledged to mount a Campaign to Force government action if the Union refuses to clean its own the representing a handful of the unions million documented its charges in a 177page Book showing that teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons and numerous other Union leaders collect six figure have unlimited expense receive expensive gifts and arrange for their own lucrative Arthur a lawyer who serves As prods staff direct told a news thursday that his Organiza Tion found Sale violations of Federal labor Laws during a 10month investigation of Union financial records filed with the labor depart teamsters officials declined to while Many of the charges in its report were not group Pra scented for the first time in a single Docu ment a Broad picture of teamsters officials allegedly abusing their Power in the teamsters Union does not flow Uphill to the president from the rank an file the president derives his sweeping Powers to dictate policy and Domi Nate both officials and the Rankan file directly from the unions capital spending approved members of the Manitoba legislature gave their prelim Inary approval to Mil lion in capital spending proposals Early the approval came about cd at the end of the longest sitting Day of this years legislative roughly half of the Money is earmarked for Manitoba Hydro to help finance its massive Nelson River Power development project in North Ern the exact amount of Money to be spent on a Vari Ety of capital projects this year int funds voted for capital projects dont lapse at the end of a i Seal year and can be carried Over into subsequent fiscal for the capital budget reviewed thursday and Early today includes a authorization for the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation and million for other housing Premier Schreyer of Mani Toba said this years record housing program will be financed in part by million in authorizations previously voted and not a total of million is expected to be spent on compared with the new authorization of million in this years Cap ital other items in the capital budget include million for the Manitoba develop ment about million for resource roads and million for Airstrip improvements in the one Day in jail plus fines for broker on fraud counts Grove Kamesas owned Alice realty and was a signing officer for the other two he and the companies had pleaded not guilty to a total of 30 fraud after hearing 12 Days of evidence last judge Darichuk dismissed 12 charges and convicted Thomson and the companies of 18 charges judge Darichuk said in a written judgment the charges were particularly serious but there appeared to be extenuating he said the pre sentence report indicated Thomson had a Good reputation in the Community and the victims of the fraud were actually enjoying a degree of Security where none existed As a result of the invest said judge Dari Thomson will undoubtedly lose his licence As a real estate the judge also noted that Thomson continued own company appeared to have suffered the greatest after full neither incarceration nor substantial fines would meet the Aims of Justice As re Gards judge Darichuk he said the companies involved were Mere pawns in the hands of the and one Western perimeters acted Only As a trustee of evidence presented during the trial indicated that be tween and Jan Thomson had offered for Sale 100 units of participation in a Syndicate at he then used Syndicate Money to buy an Par cel of land through Brandson enterprises and sold the land to Western perimeters for court was court was told Thomson also used in Syndicate funds to buy a 58acre piece of which he mortgaged to make another nuclear pact opens soviet bomb Sites Washington a president Gerald Ford and soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a priced ent setting treaty today that will open some soviet nuclear test Sites to american inspectors for the first the simultaneous ceremonies Here and in Moscow Fol Lowed 18 months of Complex negotiations and officials Spur actions in Geneva to reach a Long delayed agreement limit ing strategic nuclear Wear terms of the five year treaty permit inspectors to visit Sites when the rus sians conduct certain underground blasts that have potential use for changing the Levels of Rivers or excavating for years american scientists abandoned the idea of experimenting with underground nuclear explosions for those but the russians remain interested in such and the treaty limits the megaton level of any single blast for such a purpose to 150 Kilotons equivalent of tons of until the soviet Union has refused to permit any foreign inspectors on russian although weapons Sites remained officials said the breakthrough might eventually remove a principal obstacle to a treaty prohibiting All nuclear test flyer industries fighting to survive continued contents of burned out cottage Are grim reminders of happier times on this More pictures on Page police Honor for spotting burglars Globe and Toronto Toronto Paul thursday be came probably the youngest person to receive one of the citations the metro police commission hands out to those who help he had just gone to bed april 17 when he heard breaking Glass and people talking outside the bedroom he he called his who called he was a policeman Helper he after the citation for outstanding service and unselfish Assis Tance to the metro police was and pretty Happy about two youths were caught in the House next door by police when they arrived a few minutes after Morganstein called Inco workers taking strike vote staff United steelworkers of local heard from the Federal Antii Fla Tion Board thursday that wage Benefit increases in their contract with Inco limited have now been rolled Back to per cent in the first year of a three year this is up two per cent from the original Rollback to per cent from the per cent increase provided in the contract negotiated in the latest Rollback provides for eight per cent in the second year and six per cent in the third year of the local 6166 president Blake Mcgrath said the Union committeemen and shop Stew Ards meeting thursday night was charged with Militancy when the boards Deci Sion was the Union representatives gave unanimous support to their executives recommendation that a strike against the Rul ing begin june the contract expired May 31 and the Union can strike legally june the Inco employees in local 6166 will vote on the executives recommendation Friday morning and the ballot says Are you in favor of strike action june 1 to support your agreement As negotiated what makes our people mad is that the Board totally disregards our historical relationship with the Inco workers in Sudbury since the Early 1960s our agreement has been patterned on the con tract we negotiated Here in february brought us into line with now our wages will be from 20 cents to 40 cents and hour Mcgrath what seems so unfair is that the Board allowed the employees at Falconbridge Nickel mines a 23per cent increase to bring them in line with the Inco Sudbury workers after the Antii Fla Tion legislation was in of other Union officials were concerned the Rollback eliminates an increase in the pen Sion plan during the first year of the perhaps the most serious blow in the whole ruling is cutting out the costo living Liis hits very hard in an area like where the Cost of living is said Dick pre silent elect of local Martin said the Cost of living in Sudbury is lower than Thompson and yet workers there have a Cost of living he said a five Day Wildcat strike Here in resulted in a Cost of living adjustment from he predicted there could be More Wildcat strikes of this kind which would be eliminated if the Board had Al Lowed the Cost of living clause to stay in the latest dairies blast in Rise continued Many times before and Are the usual announcing the decision Phillips said the joint Brief by a consortium of six area dairies had made for us to figure out their average the Board had then requested More Cost information from the processors and found their request was in but Speirs angrily rejected Phillipss reason saying much More in formation can be sufi fitted in a joint Brief than individual if three or More Compa Nies submit their Cost information in Confidence to an outside its easy to come up with an Overall average Cost increase for the if we submit briefs we cant say As much because we cant make financial information like that available in Spiers said the joint Brief had clearly proven a Price increase of cents was justified by rising adding1 that moderns wage settlement earlier this had added two cents a quart to the Cost of process economic development com under a barrage of questions from opposition members about flyer Indus especially from Sidney Spivak Parsons said the firm will run out of work in about one year if no new contracts for buses Are while the firm has already produced and sold about 200 buses this and has con tracts for another he said it has not received any new orders for eight Parsons said there Are usually orders for buses across Canada every year to Talling 700 to and flyer industries could expect to receive contracts for 200 to 250 of he the firm would need firm orders for at least 500 buses annually if it was to operate without a major even by reducing its overhead through staff he said losses of to million were Likely if sales dropped As Low As responding to he said that while the firms Board of directors has not Given serious consideration yet to it is an alter native that May await we have Given consideration to several alternatives that a shutdown is the final he that is the ultimate Parsons was criticized for failing to produce an an Nual report for 1975 for flyer which he said was unavailable because of auditor problems involving the firms he provided com Mittee members with a 1974 which showed the firms accumulated deficit had grown to an increase of about million from the 1973 yearned Defi Cit of Parsons said he had no idea what the accumulated deficit As of might and he declined to comment on Spivak suggestion that it would be to Parsons said the bus company and the provincial government had also signed performance Bonds in connection with contracts to pro vide buses to several he included one for million from the prov Ince and million from the development while million was listed in the 1974 report for losses o n incomplete Parsons said flyer was at present delivering All buses on time to meet con tract the lengthy questioning of Parsons by Lloyd Axworthy Rouge and George Minaker came de spite frequent interruptions by committee chairman Harry Shafransky Radisson and mines min ister Sidney responsible for the development Cor at one Shafransky stunned opposition members when he said questions put to Parsons about the future of flyer industries were hypothetical and had to be ruled out of Spivak persisted and said that if he was a Holder of shares in a firm and was getting responses like those of Parsons he would be quite Spivak said the prospects for flyer in the future were quite depressing and that some consideration should be Given to closing the Industry Down before m or e Public Money was Manitoba wants Saunders placed in receivership said there is no question that the provinces million in v e s t m e n t is a Complete the minister said Protection of Saunders such As unsold air Craft and miscellaneous sup will help to slightly de fray the loss once they Are Green said he could not place any estimate on the value of the aircraft company assets at he said they will Likely not amount to very much once in the legislature earlier continued Green told Gordon Johnston por Tage la Prairie that Saunders aircraft had virtually paid All of its out standing1 Bills from the governments final infusion of Public he said some creditors May still step for Ward and try to make a claim against the and the government is wary about handing out any More were not prepared to authorize a Blank he we will Deal with our accounts in a responsible a statement on the aircraft company pre pared by the development corporation shows that As of March the governments interest in it had reached the amount was up sharply from its interest of As of a s the statement showed that employment at the firms Gimli Plant had dropped from 530 about 15 months ago to 12 on March Oil ministers split Over extent of Price hike Indonesia Reuter ministers of the worlds major Oil producing countries Here to set the Price of Oil after july talked late into the evening with one minister saying he believes a Consen sus is emerging for an in crease of Between five and 10 per but sources close to other delegates at the conference of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries open said they doubt whether a consensus can be found for a Rise of More than five per the declined to be he was unable to confirm his impression until he has talked with saudi arabian Oil minister Sheik Zaki who said earlier thursday he would argue strongly for a freeze on prices until the end of this f Iran probably will seek a Compromise Between saudi Arabia and those open coun tries demanding a larger in crease in Iran is considered favouring an increase of about five or six per sources the who will Dis cuss the general Price level said thursday they agreed in principle to adopt a new system of setting prices for particular types of crude Oil based on the value of the end products they sources this will replace a system based on density in which lighter oils sell at a Premium and heavier oils at a discount compared with the open Marker which is saudi arabian some open Are concerned that the new formula might Over or under Price some crude particularly in the per Sian Gulf the old de open to set their prices leading to accusations within the organization of unfair Indonesia president us speaking1 at the open ing ceremony on behalf of the worlds poorer stressed the need for Oil prices to keep Pace with Infra we have every right to de Mand a reasonable and fair Price for our he it our Strong belief that the adjustment of Oil Price to the rate of inflation is Only fair and but the saudi arabian Oil sheikh Ahmed Zaki whose country re serves Are larger than the rest of the open countries put said he will oppose any Price our position is that we will oppose any increase in Price and we have a very Strong position on sheikh Yamani told report sources said Algeria and Qatar support saudi arabian demand for a further but they said Iraq put for Ward a demand for a 15per cent increase and libyan minister Ezzedin Mabruk told the meeting he wants at least a five percent ;