Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 27 c Sun rises . Sets . Icon rises in . Sets . Details Page 5 Winnipeg free press vol. S3 no. 211 wednesday june 2, 1976 -5t Alfh coloured comics filial edition Power rates could Rise in 1977 prize ticket bought after lottery draw by Daviu Lee free press legislative reporter a Small group of investors used an apparent loophole in the rules of the Western express lottery to walk off with the top prize of in its May 19 draw. The unidentified investors bought their whining ticket several Days after the biweekly draw when it appeared no one was stepping Forward to claim the prize. The group according to a spokesman Lor a credit Union who claimed the prize for them Success Illy gambled that the winning ticket had not been sold before the draw. While lottery officials said they Felt there was nothing wrong with what happened recreation minister Rene Toupin said he would cer t a i n 1 y look into it and present a report to the legis lature. The loophole in the lottery rules that be filed the investors was one giving ticket retailers seven Days to turn in their unsold is Western express tickets for a refund. According to available re ports which conflicted in Only How Many tickets the group actually bought before finding the Winner Here is what happened. Two or three Days after the May 1u draw when no one had produced the ticket that won the prize the group of investors began calling at the City s retailers and buying unsold tickets. All numbers distributed for Sale in the Western express Are included in the drum for the drawing whether or not the tickets have been Sulci after buying Between 55 and tickets the estimate conflicted from one source to another the investors found they had located the winning ticket. There was no immediate report available As to whether any of the other tickets purchased by the group earned one of the Many hundreds of Small Consolation prizes Fred Grossman manager of the St. Alphonsus credit Union in East Kildonan. Said in an interview later he collected the prize for the group of investors. However or. Grossman refused to reveal the identity of the group As he had been sworn to he said he was not part of the group which was greater than five members but less than 10. The credit Union manager said the winnings had been placed in Long term deposits by the investors so it could not be used for a similar venture of future lotteries. Meanwhile Guy Simonis a c n e r a 1 manager of the Western Canada lottery foundation which operates the Western express i Manitoba said it was the first time a top prize had been won in such a manner. Or. Simonis said there was nothing wrong with the sys tem used by the group or the loophole in the lottery regulations that allowed it As the existing system had been in use for five years elsewhere. The lottery official said those buying tickets after the actual draw Date had to greater Chance of winning than those buying earlier and anyone who thought oth e r w i s e was a blithering or. Simonis said that peo ple would have no immediate Way of determining if a win Ning ticket had been sold As its Holder has 90 Days to claim the prize. Any unclaimed prize he said would be added to subsequent draws. Or. Simonis said it simply is not possible for the lot Tery to bar sales of tickets after the draw Dale because it would mean refunds would have to be Given seven Days before each draw. As it is he said the corporation provides refunds up to seven Days after each draw but Only in the tickets arc still in enclosed pouches. A Wildcat ters picket line closes off the main Entrance to Inco workers in Thompson Man., tuesday. The photo by Bob Lowery last of about 100 picketers Dis Persed shortly before 6 . This morning and barricades were taken Down. Leaders remove picket line As Inco threatens injunction Man kicks police suspect in Hospital Kenneth Nicholas Kal Kurnyk 2-1, of w1 Sherbum Street who was arrested about . Sunday in Assiniboine Park and taken to the Public safety building was later transferred to the health sciences Centre after he complained of a sore head. A Hospital spokesman said tuesday that or. Kultur Nyk s condition was Good. Police were called to the Park after a complaint was made that three men were breaking a City bylaw by Selling literature in the Park. Sup. Les lies of the police department s crime division said monday at a press con Ference that a Man kicked one of the police officers in the Groin and leg several times and hit him on the head before twins subdued. The information that or. Kallur Nyk was in Hospital was revealed tuesday in court where he was due to appear on charges of assault ing a police officer and Vio lating a City bylaw. Sup. Hes said tuesday r. Kallur Nyk had ctr planned about a sure head and was taken to the Hospi Tal where he is being held in custody. He said he had t known monday that or. Kal Kurnyk had been sent to hos Pital. Four City police officers and two Park police officers were involved in the incident. Two other men were charged with violating the City bylaw and Given notices to appear in court. Brink s robbery solved police say Montreal up Rene Daigneault director of the Montreal Urban Community Muc police department announced tuesday the Brink s Case is solved after at least eight persons were arrested including a 60-year old woman and her family. But within hours two of those arrested in connection with the March 30, Mil lion robbery were released said lawyer Frank Shoofey. Who said he is representing six of the suspects. Police said the suspects including the Mother her Thiee sons and two daughters were taken during a series of raids by Muc police both in the City and the Northern Lauren t i a n s area. More than s100.00c, believed to be part of the Brink s haul was also seized. We know it was the Money that came from the Brink s hold up because of the serial numbers and the Way they were said or. Daigneault. A number of weapons and police radio monitoring equip ment were also seized during the raids. Mr., Shoofey said Early today that two suspects both men. Were released by police. But Lieut. Larry Lovis police Sec Brink s Page 4 today for people cleanliness is the Best Way to Deal with food borne illness. Page 21. Sports Dull Day for Winnipeg at the Canadian swimming championships in eco Bicok. Page 61. Finance profit controls make business Outlook Bleak says John Meyer. Page 67. Mining bonuses divulged the president of Manitoba Mineral resources Ltd. Said tuesday he could receive a Bonus Olas Muerl As for every High profit mine found by the government owned exploration company. As Well he said an Bonus could also be paid to the company s chief geologist i or such discoveries with an o t h e r in bonuses available for distribution among employees the company president Al Bert Koffman revealed the Bonus package during discus Sion of the firm s 1974-75 an Nual report before the legis lature s economic develop ment committee. Or. Koffman replying to questions from George min Aker said he was paid annually As president of the exploration company in which the province has invested about million. However said or. Koff Man he could earn tomorrow if he looked for s Job elsewhere. T h e Bonus arrangement was reported in the firm s annual report As the last item. It said the Hoard of directors on which or. Koff Man serves As chairman had approved of such a sys tem. The report stated the Board has approved a staff Bonus arrangement whereby 2vi per cent of the company s share of any Dis covery is to be allocated for staff Bonus purposes but the am omit for any one Dis covery is not. To exceed the president and the chief geologist Are to receive 20 per cent each of the see mine Page 4 by Bob Loweke free i Ress Northern reporter Thompson Union officials broke their own dissident members picket line outside the Inco limited Complex tuesday morning in the face of a court injunction obtained by Inco. The last of about 100 picketers dispersed shortly to fore c ., i Sci barricades w Ere taken Down. Other members of the United steel workers of America. Local gig i then began streaming into the Plant to get Back to work after a 31 hour shut Down. Monday afternoon hourly rated employees voted 1j20 to 546 let premiered Schreyer assist them in appealing an anti in Lalion Board Rollback to the Federal Cabinet. The Premier had offered to set up a meeting with prime minister Trudeau to discuss the matter if the Union would agree to return to work for two weeks local president Dick mar tin said the holdout Pic Kuters. Who had maintained the barricades through the night despite the vote were asked to leave and did. There were a few he said. This is the hardest thing i be Ever had to do. We had no Choice. Junco was ready to serve an injunction on the see Inco Page 4 a Rise in Manitoba Hydro rates is possible next year As a result of poor Power Supply from Low Levels on the Lake Winnipeg water system. Hydro chairman Leonard a. Bateman said tuesday in an interview that dry conditions could Cost the province million. This would be a Combina Tion of lost Revenue from Export and Cost of Power import from the . And Cost of Coal for use in Thermal generating plants at Selkirk and he said. Or. Bateman said the in crease in consumer rates would probably be for one year and would depend on Hydro s rate stabilization fund. This is not a new Condi Tion. It occurred i 1961 but we had Small Power de mands then and we could handle the situation simply by use of Coal in the Thermal plants. Now our Power commitments Are he said. Or. Bateman said flow on the Winnipeg and Saskatchewan Rivers has dropped by 25 per cent of Normal. We will have to keep our reserves High for the Peak period in Winter. If we do not diet any rain we will have to buy Coal and import Power from the . This he said. The Power situation was revealed tuesday during the Manitoba legislature s Public utilities committee hearing of Hydro s annual report. Hydro is seeking a new Power Trade agreement with a Minnesota Utility company. The agreement Widd allow the two companies to get Back As much Power As they exported during their Peak needs. Manitoba Hydro will apply to the National Energy Board of Canada this summer for approval of the Power Trad ing a g r e e m e u t with the Northern states Power com Pany Minneapolis. Or. Bateman said he hoped the application would be heard next year by the Board. The application proposes construction of a alternating current transmission line Between Winnipeg and Minneapolis. The Cost of the line is estimated at million to Manitoba and million to the . Company. The agreement would be for 12.5 years and is expected to produce net revenues to Manitoba of million. Or. Bateman said this was one move by Hydro to offset a possible Power shortage in 1983. The other move was to. Begin construction of a new Hydro generating station on the Nelson River called Limestone. The contract for the Plant construction has been let. The first Power from the Ini tial phase of the station could be available in the fall of 1983 or. Bateman Lold the com Mittee Hydro would have a two year period in which to assess the rate of demand in crease so commitments of million i major con tracts would t have to be made until 1978. Moslem troops resist syrians . Jolts Ottawa by hedging on its support i or control Ottawa up Federal attempts to justify its Anli inflation controls received a Jolt in the supreme court of Canada tuesday when British Columbia s qualified support appeared less Laan had been expected. The anti-1 Illarion act which last fall placed the country under a three year program of wage and Price controls is valid Only if inflation constituted a National e m e r g e n c y said h. Vickers counsel for the . Government. But on the evidence before this court 1 do not conclude there was an emergency. . Feels there was an emergency but this had not been proven before the High court during two Days of arguments he said later in an interview. Quebec also offered Quali fied support but like . Left the court to decide whether a National emergency existed. The nine judge court must decide whether the act contravenes the British North America act. The country s Constitution that outlines fed eral and provincial Powers. The anti inflation measures overstep provincial Powers but the san act permits this in emergency situations involving peace order and Good government. Beirut leftist moslem troops manned positions on the Damascus Beirut High w a y today As syrian forces advanced toward the lebanese capital. Syrian troops and tanks that moved into Eastern Lebanon on tuesday to end the civil War pushed to within Rifle Range of the Dahar Al Baidar pass 20 Miles East of Beirut. I e i t i s t lebanese forces with tanks maimed by Rene Gade moslem troops of the disintegrated lebanese awaited them there. They were taking up positions on hilltops with rifled pistols rocket propelled Gre Nades and 50-calibre a said associated press photographer Harry Koundakjian who arrived by Road from Damascus. It s crazy. What can they do against those big russian Security officials said civil War fighting Between the lebanese moslem and christians diminished sharply tuesday As the leaders of the factions concentrated on news of the syrian Advance. The syrian invasion was another attempt president Hafez Assad of Syria to end the lebanese War before the moslem leftist forces led by Kama juin blast and their palestinian allies eliminate Christian resistance and in Stal a Radical moslem regime in Beirut. Yasser Arafat s palestinian command said about troops with 150 tanks crossed the Eastern Bonier tuesday. Beirut newspapers said an additional syrians with 65 tanks invaded from the North to halt a heavy moslem attack on two Christian towns. Rhode Island vote gives Brown boost inside Bridge 31 classified 72-79 comics 35 crossword deaths 5 Horoscope Jumble 51 movies television 2s nearly everyone reads free press the rules Ait total City Brown top challenger the Washington Post Washington Jimmy Carter the South Dakota presidential primary tucs Clay but his image As the fron runner in the race for the democratic nomination was tarnished somewhat by two new defeats in Rhode is land and Montana. California gov. Edmund g. Brown jr., whose name was t even on the Rhode is land parlayed a heavy Media Blitz in the slate into a narrow Victory Over or. Carter for a slate of uncommitted delegates that or. Brown had endorsed. In Montana sen. Frank Church of neighbouring Idaho like or. Brown a late starting democratic candidate Defeated or. Carter easily. In the Republican Pri Maries president Ford easily Defeated Ronald Reagan in Rhode Island sweeping All 19 of the state s gop Conven Tion delegates while or. Reagan won in South Dakota and Montana. Virtually Complete returns from Rhode Island gave the Brown endorsed uncommitted slate 31 per cent of the vote and Carter 30 per cent. Church who also campaigned in the state was t far behind with 28 per cent of the vote. Carter South Dakota Winner Pound plunges to London political controversy added to Bri Tain s economic difficulties today As the value of the Pound continued to fall reaching a Low of be fore stabilizing at about the British Pound s plunge on world Money markets drove it Down More than three cents from the tuesday close. It has lost 15 per cent of its value since january and today s fall was the sharpest that foreign Exchange dealers could remember since it was floated in june 1972. I n Canadian terms the Pound dropped More than four cents at the opening of Montreal trading today to an unprecedented by Jack Francis tree i Ress staff writer million Dollar precipitation or fool s that is the question in the minds of Farmers this week As anxious eyes scan the Prairie sky for signs of rain. Acreages have been in creased in wheat this year with the objective of raising m 600 million Bushel wheat crop valued at More than billion. Any serious reduction in yields due to drought would result in Multi million Dollar losses to the Economy. With seeding of major grains and oilseed crops virtually completed by the first week of june All Western crop experts see an urgent need for rain to support see d 1 i n g plants from Early planting and to germinate the seed that went into dry topsoil in recent weeks. Widespread showers and scattered , s p r c a d i n g from Alberta across Saskatchewan and Manitoba arc indicated in the weather office s five Day Outlook Starling t u e s d a y a n d ruining through the weekend. S o u t i e r n Manitoba received about millimetre.? i a sixteenth of an Inch Over night tuesday and More rain is scheduled for the weekend. S u r 1 a c e moisture conditions have reached the is Aye of serious concern Al mar tin soils and crops specialist with inc Manitoba depart ment of agriculture said in in interview. It does seem like an extended period of those fool s those Cloud buildups thai Farmers who Rome Mai a the dirty 30s drought can Tell you about. Time after Lime during those years of five successive general crop failures prom Ising looking Clouds would develop rumble and Flash and disappear without rain. Pasture lands Are also Sill i Cring from the dry weather. Grass drought bet Ter than crops because of its. Extensive Root system. But where the grass has been this Spring there is i problem Wilh recovery by the plants. Or. Martin said. Badly cracked i Arlo is starting to show up. This is apparent in research plots at the fort Garry Campus said prof. S. B. Helgason head of Plant science at the University of Manitoba. The planting was done there april 20. Lie said Thor was also cracking in Fields planted i May at the Colon Lea re search station several Miles South of the Campus Al though not severe in the heavier soil and later seeded areas. A bit of precipitation in Sec i Kairie Page 1 ;