Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 30 c Sun rises 5 23 . Sets . Moon rises sets details Page 5 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. S3 no. 212 thursday june 3, 1976 2sc with coloured comics alcohol abuse among women at crisis level by Hay free press staff writer alcohol abuse by Manitoba women is reaching crisis proportions h o a r d Fer Guson executive director of the alcohol family service Centre in Winnipeg warns. Or. Ferguson said 63 per cent of the Centre s caseload of More than 200 families involve women with an alcohol abuse problem and the de Mand for help is increasing every Day. Drug abuse in ail forms is on the Rise and this includes women Combine alcohol abuse with abuse of prescription drugs like barbiturates and he said. A Winnipeg spokesman i or alcoholics Anonymous said woman in his organization now account for 40 to 50 per cent of the membership. Five years ago the figure was about 20 per cent. Deaths of Manitoba women from cirrhosis due to excess. Sivc alcohol use have Dou bled in the past 10 years while the female population o f this province has in creased Only 0.5 per cent during the same decade according to figures obtained from statistics Canada. In 1974 the last year statistics Are 15 Mani Toba women died from the liver disease due to alcohol abuse. Many More could have gone undetected a statistics Canada official said. Jim Burdick. Director of research for the alcoholism foundation of Manitoba Sakl More detailed figures on female alcohol abuse in Mani Toba Aren t available now but his group is working on a study which should be finished in a year or two. The increase in the numbers of female alcoholics is attributed to two factors by Ruth Cooperstock of the research department of the addiction research foundation in Toronto. For one. More women Are drinking and for another More women Are admitting to an alcohol problem is. Cooperstock said. In the past it was easier for a a woman with an alcohol problem to remain undetected she said. Often a Man might be forced by an pm p i o y e r to seek treatment while a women spent her time drinking at Home by herself. That situation is changing somewhat now As women be come More visible in the labor Force and in society. Coming out of the Woodwork and their prob lems Are becoming More of v i o u is Cooperstock said. M r. Ferguson acknowledged that Many women hide it and hide it Well and Are More reluctant than men to admit a problem. His group is thrusting out into residential areas like Tuxedo and East Kildonan see alcohol Page 4 labor fights curbs Csc lawyer gets Rocky court ride Ottawa up Maurice Wright received a Rocky ride wednesday when lie attempted to convince the supreme court of Canada that Federal anti inflation controls Are unconstitutional Ami intended to interfere with labor relations. Or. Wright Canadian labor Congress lawyer called the anti inflation act an attempt to assume control Over matters that Are entirely his arguments presented during the third Clay of a hearing to decide whether the act is constitutional were clo sely questioned and some times challenged by the inc Van Bench. He said economic evidence compiled for the Csc shows Llinat inflation was not a prob Lem of National dimension when the act which placed the country under three years of wage and Price controls was introduced last fall. A h o it i d we carry our Money around in a wheelbarrow remarked or. Justice Wishart Spence. That statement reduces the Csc Case to Absurdity it docs not deserve or. Wright shot Back. I m not saying that i m in favor of inflation or that the Csc is in favor of he added. But the matter can be responded to within the framework of the constr the Csc and Alberta argued the act is unconstitutional because inflation did n o t constitute a National emergency. The act oversteps provincial guaranteed by the British North America act the country s Constitution and the Law allows this Only in emergency situations where the Federal govern ment must act alone to ensure and Good government. Sec lawyer Page -1 olympics bedroom As much As by Lawrence Martin Globe and mail Toronto Montreal a Quebec government scheme to regu late olympic games accommodation is running into considerable difficulty As apart ment owners Are bypassing Quebec lodging Bureau regu lations and getting As much As a night for a bed room. Some homeowners Are asking Between and House rental for the olympic month of july. The Bureau says people not registering their apartments or Homes with the govern ment Are acting illegally and can be hauled off to court by Ron Campbell tree press Urbain reporter construction of a Mil lion 983-car underground parking garage at Portage Avenue and main Street was ordered in a 25 to 17 vote wednesday night by Winnipeg City Council. Under the City s 1974 lease agreement with Triec corporation of Montreal City construction of the garage sets in motion the Winnipeg Square commercial hotel and retail development Tri Zec plans to build above the garage in the Block at the intersection s Southwest Corner. Although the agreement obligates Triec to build just Square feet of Renta ble space above the garage the corporation has pledged to eventually build the million 1.5 million Square loot development it first showed Council i 1972. The motion Council passed wednesday As approved lust Friday by civic executive policy committee instructs the City s Board of commissioners to finalize plans for the garage and Call for Eon by Duclion tenders. Total Cost of the three tier 32-foot-deep parking facility is estimated at of which million was included Iii the City s 1974 capital works budget and the rest in the 1975 capital budget. After three hours of de Bate 20 members of Couch c 11 s Independent citizens election committee ice caucus and five Independent councillors voted to go ahead with the garage. Opposing them Mere seven members of the new demo cratic party caucus seven independents one i c e c member and Council s loue civic Reform coalition and labor election committee members. Councillor Gerry Murcier i ice fort Garry moved to reduce the sue of the garage to two tiers 651 cars which he said would Cut s3 million off the Cost but this was Defeated. He said he thought the Tri Zec agreement then could be renegotiated so Triec would pay for any larger parking garage that Winnipeg Square might require. Also Defeated was a motion by coun. Morris Kaufman Independent fort Rouge to refer Back to executive policy committee the motion to approve the garage plans and Call tenders. His motion would have instructed policy committee to have the 1974 City Triec agreement arbitrated As to the size of garage and the amount of structural support that should be included in it. Coun. Kaufman expressed doubts whether the agree ment legally obligated the City to build a thousand car garage As Triec claims. The City must adopt a position that is different from Triec. Otherwise there is nothing to arbitrate or Lego t i at if the arbitrator ruled the City must build the larger garage coun. Kauf Man said he would accept that. However City policy encourages the use of Public transportation in the Down town area he said and coun cil should remain consistent with its own policy. Hear Gued Public transit could pro vide for the development s transportation needs. Coun. Joe Zuken labor election committee lord Selkirk argued the City had two alternatives As provided in the City Triec agreement a dispute on the size of. The garage could be arbitrated or else the City could seek a court declaration on a reasonable number of parking stalls. Coun. Robert Steen Midland counted four alter natives. Council could rub see Portage Page 4 Cable firms 1 teen on pay to Winnipeg s t w o Cable television companies will definitely go into pay to operations Here but both must wait for Federal regulations which won t be determined until the end of this year. We re a regulated Industry and we have to wait for Sid Boyling. Vice president of Winnipeg Videon limited said. The government has Given the regulatory Power to the crts Cana Dian radio television telecommunications com he said thursday that Videon has always Beeri interested in going into pay to. There s no doubt about Doug l u d 1 o w sales manager for greater Winnipeg Cablevision limited said an announcement at the annual convention of the Canadian Cable Tele vision association wednes Day in Toronto was the first definitive statement government has made about pay to Federal communications minister Jean Sauve told delegates of a proposed crash pay to program across Canada. Definition and regulations were left up to the crts. It s too soon to say exactly what course greater Winnipeg Cablevision will take or. Ludlow said. We re certainly very interested in the prospects of pay to of the viewers May be Able to buy programming on a subscription or unit basis. Or. Boyling said. But lie said regulations will de Termine adaptations the company will have to make. Cabinet v clashes on Orion bungle by Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa secluded Init ing turned to open conflict Between Cabinet colleagues yesterday As Supply and ser vices minister j p. Goyer openly accused defence min ister James Richardson for bungling the Purchase of 18 Long Range patrol aircraft from Lockheed corp. In a stunning question period often tumultuous but sometimes strangely silent the rift Between the two ministers spilled into the open. Comments of or. Goyer prompted former prime min ister John to charge that the government is trying to make a scape Goat out of or. Richardson As a result of the stupidity of or. Goyer. Or Richardson later said he appreciated the words of support from the opposition. The Canadian once the flagship of the up Fleet is no longer the sleek Silver Beauty of her youth. Travelling from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay ont., by rail liner now takes about 12 hours. Here the rail liner stops at a siding to let photo by Dave Bonner a Long freight pass by. This picture was taken through the end window of the passenger car the Lead unit on train in today s for people Section on Page 39, Ted Allan files his report after travelling to and front Thunder Bay. Minimum pay Board advice ignored Basic rate will in crease by 13.5% immediately if a complaint is received. But Many people who Are ignoring the Bureau said in interviews they Are unaware of the regulations. Some say they have tried the Bureau but either it is ing shoddy service or they cannot get enough Money for the places by working through it. Others have taken to rent ing their places on their own because the Bureau has turned them Down. Bureau spokesman Robert singher said yesterday one of the reasons was racism. We get sae olympic Page 4 Toronto up leaders of the country s broadcasting and Cable television Indus tries say they Are ready to join forces to bring pay Tele vision into the country s Liv ing rooms. However they do not agree on who should control a country wide pay As you View television system. Pay to dominated discus Sions at the Conven Tion of the Canadian Cable television association cd t a on wednesday after communications minister Jeanne Sauve told delegates the government will announce a new policy this fall Clearing the Way for the new service. Manitoba s mint mum wage will c 1 i m b 13.5 per cent sept. 1, ignoring a unanimous recommendation from the minimum wage Board that the increase not be that great. Labor minister a. R. Russ Paully told the legis lature wednesday the mini mum wage for employees Over 18 will Rise to s2.35 an hour from s2.go. For employees under 18. The wage will go to s2.70 from s2.35 an hour. He s a i Al the increases would be approved shortly by Cabinet order in Council. They la be tic third hike in 20 months. A management member of the minimum wage Board Ray Crun Rineau said that the Board recommended the government adopt a formula to figure the minimum wage. The Board recommended a formula whereby the mini mum wage would be go per cent of the average weekly salary of Manitoba workers based on the Manitoba Indus trial Index As of june in the preceding year or. Cousin eau said. That would have set the minimum hourly wage at s2.79 starting sept. 1. The average Industrial wage was 5187.01 in june 1975. Gordon Gage a member of the minimum wage Board said in an interview wednesday that the Board s re port to or. Paul Ley had been submitted april 30. For employees older than 13, the increase is a jump of 13.5 per cent for those younger it s 15 por cent. The existing minimum wage Rales Rose from s2.30 an hour for employees older than is and s2.05 for those younger than 13 last october. Wednesday s announcement Bia s and the Yukon Territo Means the minimum wage has gone up about 30 per cent since the beginning of 1975. Minimum wage legislation covers All Manitoba workers protected by the employ ment standards act and excludes agricultural and do Mystic workers. Or. Paully said thursday he did t think the increase was excessive under the circumstances. There was a certain amount of catching up to do. We were quite a Way behind m i n i m u m wage Levels in other pans of the the minister said. Sec Cabinet Page 4 riot police alerted Ottawa up Parlia ment Hill Security tightened dramatically today As ramp riot troops prepared for a major demonstration by que Bec Dairy Farmers. Protective railings were thrown up in front of the Centre Block which houses the commons and Senate to keep Back crowds of Farmers massing at a downtown University. Specially trained riot police wearing helmets and face Shields assembled at entrances to the parliament Hill grounds. Farm leaders and agriculture minister Eugene Whelan were expected to address the demonstration through loud speakers set up on the Steps leading to the Centre Block. One commons Security guard said there were reports the Farmers upset Over recently announced cuts in the amount of milk they Are Al Lowed to produce would Slaughter a calf on the kill As a protest Symbol. Dos Washington a one of the four . Drug companies producing experimental Swine flu vaccine made about two million doses of the wrong vaccine the Public health service said wednesday. As a result vaccination of elderly and chronically ill persons scheduled to begin in late july will to delayed four to six weeks government health experts said. The health services said that Parke Davis and co. Used the older Shope Strain of influenza virus instead of the a new Jersey-76 n.j., Strain which was isolated from military servicemen at fort Dix n.j., where a Soldier died of flu earlier this year. The other three vaccine manufacturers Jerreu National laboratories Wyeth laboratories and Merck Sharp and Dohms used the Correct virus in vaccine production the Agency said. Congress has appropriated s135 million to produce More than 200 million doses of Swine flu vaccine to protect most of the . Population against the Swine Type influenza virus. Some Public health officials believe that the virus is similar to one that caused a worldwide epidemic in 1918-19, killing an estimated 20 million people including americans. Parke Davis changed the virus Strain after the mis take was discovered during routine testing of inc experimental vaccines used in clinical trials the Public health service said. Although the company has increased production the service probably would not have enough vaccine to begin inoculations of the High risk group in late july said a spokesman for the health education and welfare department. The High risk group receive a combination vac Cine against the Swine Type influenza and a Victoria influenza. Parke Davis was a principal producer of the combination vaccine. The older shop virus also is a Swine Sims but is not identical to the virus which infected about 500 recruits and killed one Young trainee at fort Dix. The Public health service said that antibodies produced by the Shope Strain probably will provide some Protection against the a new Jersey-76 Strain. The two million doses produced by mistake will be held in re serve for use if the Correct vaccine combination runs in Short Supply it added. Use of the vaccine grown from the Shope virus Strain would have caused no harm and would probably have produced some immunity against the a new Jer sey a statement said. Today finance t. H. Asper tells How Quebec has be come a death tax Haven. Page 15. Focus Money Drain italians Are sneaking their lira abroad. Page 22. Sports Winnipeg s Stephen Badger sets a record and qualifies Lor olympics. Page 59. Inside Bridge 42 classified 23-36, 50-56 comics is crossword 42 Dealis 5 Horoscope 42 Jumble 26 movies 16, -17 television m nearly everyone reads the free press total City zone ;