Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 4, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 30 c Sun rises . Seta . Moon rises . Sets details 3 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 83 no. 213 Friday Joni 4, 1976 15 cents 2sc with id Cimmo coloured comics Goyer disregarded Lockheed warning Jean Pierre Coyer resignation wanted Ottawa up the conservatives released a leaked document thursday w h i c h showed that Supply minister Jean Pierre Goyer was told of the precarious Lockheed financing problem the Day be fore he told the company that Canada had decided to buy its Orion patrol plane. The document Given to re porters after it was mentioned in the commons by conservative Leader Joe Clark was from j. M Desroches Deputy minister of Supply to his minister. It was dated dec. 1. The memo said three things that add to the controversy that has led opposition spokesman to demand the Resig nation of both or. Goyer and defence minister James Richardson said there was some financial risk involved in the now defunct Orion Deal be cause of Lockheed s Over All financial difficulties but that the risk was acceptable. Said the defence department did not have the Money to pay for the first years of the billion project. Said commercial financing of the project could result in interest charges of about million which has not been included in the pro Gram or. Goyer asked about the document inside Aud outside the commons told reporters there was nothing in the let Ter that would have made him change the decision to Send a message to Lockheed dec. 2 provisionally accepting its offer to Supply 18 Orion aircraft. That decision resulted in Lockheed doing some preliminary work for which Canada see Goyer Page 6 picketers want Ladyman off air about 40 members of the Manitoba federation of labor Friday picketed the Home of anti inflation Board member William Ladyman at 2588 Assiniboine Crescent. The picketers were protest ing against or. Layman s part in the Board s activities. It s the first time a member of the Board has been singled out by organized labor according to Alf Walker a Rog Onul representative in Winnipeg for the Canadian labor Congress. In an interview after the picketers Leil. Or. Ladyman called the picket line cheap publicity and said the pres ident of the Manitoba federation Len Stevens should have More i have been working like a dog for organized labor. I arrived Home late thursday night from Ottawa and i Wake us in the morning to this. 1 was the one who forced a review of the Thompson agreement for the Steelwork the picketers yelled for or. Ladyman to Wake up. Come have Coffee with to s. and someone throw a Brick through the window and we can All go see picketers Page 6 winds lash sask. 1 dead 65 injured Fly the Canadian pit Ess winds of More than 1go Kilometres an hour left a Swath of destruction 200 Miles Long and 40 Miles wide thursday night and this morning in Southwest and Central Saskatchewan. One Man died and at least 65 persons were injured in the windstorm which swept through Swift. Current. David son and Watrous. Trees were uprooted vehicles Over turned roofs torn off and some buildings demolished. The weather office predicted that similar storms might strike each evening fur the next few masses of warm and cold air meet. Tonight s storm is expected to be most intense on a path from Saskatoon to Prince Al Bert to la Ronic. The Only death attributable to the storm came near Davidson where an unidentified Fanner was killed when his Mobile Home collapsed. His wife and daughter were being treated for Shock. Police chief Jim Grey estimated that 65 per cent of the buildings in Davidson a town about Halfway Between Luegina and Saskatoon were damaged and said it is a disaster area. In Davidson the Coop store had two Concrete Walls blown in. The front Wall of a cafe was Lorn off several houses Sec violent Page 6 probe to propose Garrison fund Cut Washington a a United states House of representatives subcommittee Xvi j recommend that the appropriation for the Garrison diversion irrigation project in North Dakota be Cut in half the says. The administration has asked for million for the Garrison project with million earmarked for Lonetree. The total appropriation for the million project last year was s13.2 million. Lonetree Reservoir is the Central feature of the Garri son project and it generally is assumed that if the Reser voir is completed the . Federal government virtually is committed to finishing the project As originally planned. See probe Page 6 today focus critics of High schools still think in terms of the school they attended 20 or 30 years ago. Or. Lionel of Rickow Manitoba s Deputy minister of education describes How much the schools have changed. Page 14. Business report after More than million in Public funds flyer still May close. Page 25. Sports Bruce Robertson emerges As serious olympic swimming medal Hope in the Butterfly. Page 57. Inside Bridge 16 classified 33 55 comics 23 crossword deaths 3 Horoscope .24 Jumble 3fi movies .20 21 television 18 nearly everyone reads the free press cily tighter lottery rules pledged by David Lee free press legislative reporter health minister Larry Des Jardins said thursday Steps Are being taken to ensure that no one can obtain an unfair advantage any longer in the Western express lottery. In an interview or. Des Jardins said lottery officials have been aware for eight weeks that advantages existed and were determined to wipe them out. Or. Desjardins. Manitoba s minister responsible for lot teries was commenting on a top prize win in tic Western express draw May 19 by investors who bought the Lucky ticket several Days after the draw. The unidentified investors combed the City buying in sold tickets when no one stepped Forward within a few Days to claim the award. Since its Story became Public earlier this week sell ing lottery tickets after the draw has been criticized. Or. Desjardins said tickets would continue to be sold alter draws but buyers would no longer have the advantage of being Able to eliminate certain tickets. When draws Are made the prize is attached to a number in a certain series. At present there Are three series in each draw with one More on standby in the event of unexpected High sales. After the draw buyers of unsold tickets have been Able to eliminate two series and buy Only those in the winning series tickets on the draw held every second wednesday Cost they Are sold to retailers in sealed packages of five and can be returned unopened to lottery officials for a refund within seven Days of the draw. Or. Desjardins said that for the june 16 draw the series number won t be printed on the outside of the package sent to retailers. Instead he said the five tickets in each package will be a combination from All three series. As Well he said Western express officials have been asked not to announce the Winner of the top prizes for at least seven Days after each draw. Dairymen boil Over on the Hill Federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelan a struck by a bottle and showered with milk As he to address demonstrating Dairy Farmers thursday on parliament Hill. Or. Whelan was t injured. Ottawa up about fired up Quebec Fann ers Laid seige to parliament Hill for four hours thursday but gained Only promises to discuss their grievances from Cabinet ministers they Heck led harassed and bathed in whole and powdered milk. Protesting a new govern ment Dairy policy that in clude s reduced production quotas and lower subsidies for Industrial milk the often violent Farmers were told Only that Federal ministers would discuss their grievances with Dairy association officials. Industrial milk is used for production of such things As butter cheese and milk powder. While farm leaders met twice inside the parliament buildings with the ministers the Farmers chanted jeered speeches and hurled plastic bags filled with milk powder and butter at riot police parliament politicians and their own leaders. As the crowd dispersed about 6 . Not Parlia ment Hill lawns were littered with debris walkways were Slippery with butter and strewn with broken Glass. Several Small fires burned amid clumps of Evergreen Trees near the main peace Tower Entrance to parliament. Agriculture minister Eugene Whelan drenched by direct hits from missiles of milk and butter was hissed and booed As he started speaking to the Farmers. I am your Agri Sultani he said in English before he was drowned out by the jeering predominantly French speaking crowd who came from across Quebec. Don t blame the Farmers i d be pretty upset he told reporters before Retreat ing to the Centre Block. Or. Whelan has said repeatedly that parts of the new policy Are unfair to some Dairy Farmers especially those who stayed within their provincially assigned quota level in 1975. The agriculture minister was preceded by regional expansion minister Marcel Lessard who told the ers in French that there was see rate Page 6 firefighter Dies during Blaze Dusablon fire victim a Winnipeg firefighter died and a baby and Man were taken to Hospital Dur ing a fire Early Friday that caused about damage to an apartment Block in West Kildonan. Acting Captain Leo Usab Lon 50, of 427 eugenic Street St. Boniface collapsed while fighting the fire at 445 Partridge Avenue. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the health sciences Centre at . A Winnipeg police spokes Man said the cause of the fire is under investigation by both the police department s arson squad and the Provin Cial fire commissioner s of when asked whether the arson squad was usually involved in such an investigation the spokesman replied Well this one s a Little More two tenants in the Block were also taken to the Centre suffering from smoke inhalation. Brett Macdougall aged two weeks of suite 503, was reported in Good condition in the children s Centre. Mark Scott 41, of suite 510, was see firefighter Page g who killed Toupin s bugs pcs ask in legislature he s Back by Paul Stan wat free i Russ staff writer the ticklish Issue of re creation minister Rene Tou pin s bugs got close scrutiny from Manitoba Las thurs when it was suggested Park s Branch equipment had. Been used to rid the min ister s Yard of cake norms. Acting progressive Conser v a t i v e Leader Donald w. Craik Riel asked if Parks Branch equipment had been used at or. To pin s Home on Hoddinott Street East St. Paul. The minister said he was t sure who had sprayed his 25 infested Trees. He explained that last week he had tried to get the St. Boniface based firm of Poulin s to do the Job but they had been Busy. So he contacts a an expert his assistant Deputy minister Walter Danyluk. To ask if he could suggest anyone else to Deal with the bugs. The next thing he knew the Trees had been sprayed. I was t Home when it was done so 1 cannot say if Parks Branch equipment was used or or. Toupin told Las. The minister said in an interview later that he had wanted to find out if he could hire any spraying equipment being leased by the Parks Branch i live Between two Parks Highland Park and Birds Hill Park and equipment being used to Spray in those Parks has to pass along Hod he said. The equipment that is being leased by the Parks Branch is on a Fec for service basis so i Sec nothing wrong in me hiring it the same Way. People who live around the Parks know this can be done h is common knowl Sec Toupin Page 6 Canada gets seat at talks despite French objections Washington c p Frozen out by France last fall from a major economic sum Mit conference Canada has squeaked to a place at the table for a follow up meeting june 27-28 in puerto Rico. But Ottawa s future role in big Power economic Diplo Macy remains Uncertain. It was Learned thursday that France has again privately expressed grave reservations to the United states about Canada s presence and agreed to an invitation being extended Only on certain conditions. The puerto Rico meeting second of its kind in seven concentrate on the dangers of a new bout of inflation developing out of the current economic recovery on Exchange rates stability and on formulating a com Mon response to demands by third world countries for a new economic order. In addition to Canada the United states and France others attending will be Bri Tain West Germany Italy and Japan. Sources say the language used in announcements of the new Summit illustrates France s reluctance to in clude Canada As a permanent member of such gatherings. President Ford said thurs Day in a statement i am pleased to announce the leaders of six other major industrialized nations have accepted the invitation of the United states to attend a Summit conference later this in a formal communication to prime minister Trudeau on May 31, Ford wrote i be Lieve that a meeting of Lead ers of major Industrial democracies to review recent developments to be Desir in neither ease was1 Canada singled out for special treat ment. But in a joint communique by All participants such special treatment was Evi Dent. Sources say this was see Canada Page 6 Dave Barrett the former nip pre Mier of British Colum Bia scores a convincing win in the Vancouver East provincial Bielec Tion thursday. See Story on Page 6. Looking for a sofa and chair this want and under furniture 575 Gold sofa and chair Good condition. Phone 832 10.30. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Plo stages walkout Vancouver up the United nations habitat con Ference weathered a sudden walkout by Arab african and East european countries thursday but the action demonstrated Canada s delicate position in the dispute Over the National rights of pales Tinian refugees. The Palestine liberation organization Plo and sup porting delegations walked out when Josef Burg Israel s Interior minister and israeli delegation head Rose to speak in the conference s ple nary session but they re turned shortly after. Plo spokesman later said the walkout was traditional at in meetings arid assured re porters it would not under mine the conference. Enrique Penalosa habitat Secretary general also dismissed the walkout As Normal and said he does not think anyone gives any special significance to but the protest highlighted a tense political dispute that has been obvious in Confer ence working sessions throughout the week despite Canadian Hopes that the meeting would Slick to the Universal social problems of water Quality and housing. The iraqi delegation has put Forward in conference working sessions several resolutions that have been sup ported by the Plo. Dealing with the refugee Issue the resolutions have created some discomfort among the Canadian delegation. Justice minister Ron Bas Ford head of the Canadian delegation said at the delegation s daily news conference thursday that one iraqi proposal relates to the in Reso Lution that zionism is a form of racism. Canada opposed the Resolution. Canada will seek to keep these extraneous political issues out of the declaration of general principles being developed at the conference the minister said. Other countries that disapprove of the iraqi Resolution include Australia and the United states. Blamed for rash of slayings the Washington Post Rio de Janeiro Brazil s death squad is on the Loose again and is being held responsible for 22 mysterious Vio Lent slayings in the greater Rio area during the past two weeks. The victims have been suspected Small time criminals who seemingly were summarily executed by police linked vigilante gangs. Rio newspapers once again Are run Ning emotional editorials calling for an end to these killings and top police of f i c i a 1 s Are repeating Long standing promises to break up the death squad. But based on past experience it is unlikely anything effective will be done. The fact is that Many Middle class brazilians who Are victims of increasing crime Are perfectly Content to have someone rid their communities of Poten tial muggers Holdup men car thieves and drug dealers. There s no Law around Here. You could say that violence is our Blue plate declared a Veteran policeman in Nova Iguacu a crime infested Rio suburb that is a death squad stronghold. There Are people Here who will come up to you on a bicycle or even a horse and hold you up. No wonder it has become routine for citizens to want to take the Law into their own Brazil s leading National news Magazine Veja in a report this week on the death squad killings concurred with the policeman saying there is a growing conviction around Rio that everyone ought to take care of himself and not expect anything from the auth death squads emerged in Brazil in the late 1950s because of a feeling that the country s regular police and court system were becoming ineffective in combating crime. The number of death squad victims in this huge South american nation now stands at More than death squad executions in the Rio area alone have been running at More than 20 a month for the past several years although in May the figure jumped to 39. The Rio de Janeiro state Public safety director this week ordered the head of the police department s homicide Divi Sion Helbert murtinlv., to get out of his downtown Rio office and set up shop in Sao Joao de another poor crime Ridden suburb where death squad killings have been occurring. Or. Mur minho promptly had his men round up 551 suspected criminals for questioning. This the homicide chief admitted really did t have anything to do with the death squad investigation he was sup posed to be carrying out but it shows that the police Are out doing their 1 ;