Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 5, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Story Power of state Page 11 Toronto lawyer w. A. Mcdonald sees the chief danger of our time As the Nightmare of the naked Force of the state As the Only source of order. He wonders on the focus Page about present Day governments Abil Ity to govern. _ squalid strip Page 21 two red River Community College journal ism students have investigated Winnipeg s Core area with a View to assessing the main Street project s Impact on the City s squalid downtown strip and the role the welfare Cheque plays in the area. Loans up Page agricultural banking officials say the Strong demand for farm Loans in Manitoba May re sult in a record sometime this year. Agri cultural machinery and equipment sales Are up by 13 per cent rather than Down by 15 per cent As had been forecast by implement companies. Batter up Page 63 Winnipeg colonels opened their Home season at Charlie Krupp stadium Friday night but had Little Luck dropping a doubleheader to Edmonton monarchs by scores of 6-3 and 5 to scene Complete television listing keep it throughout the week Leisure Magazine Bridge chess news. 18 feminist 10 it happened Here. 4. Weekend crossword 19 guide 11 your Money 18 youth scene 8 weekend Magazine color comics Jumble winners 42 entry form 23 Puzzle 47 classified 41 71 82 Horoscope 26 comics 18 letters crossword.s3 movies 2 deaths. 5 travel 15-17 Winnipeg free press vol. S3 no. 214 saturday june 5, 1976 15 cents find edition weather Lotty Mph 30 c details Page 5 court to take time to weigh controls _ _ i Roll Cut up threat to Stephen Badger Montreal up the Gazette says that swimmer Stephen Badger was threat ened with physical harm Fri Day in Toronto at the Canad an olympic swimming trials. Earlier Story Page the newspaper says unit Badger was under police guard after signed threats from an irate Parent warned that swimmer would be Cut the note was flipped under the hotel room door of Tony Fraser b a g e r s coach. Badger originally from Australia and now attending University of Manitoba in Winnipeg became a Centre of controversy when after months of sorting through Lake area burning the Muriel Lake fire in the while Shell provincial Park was burning out of control saturday morning provincial government officials said. Fanned by Strong winds and tinder dry conditions in the Forest area the fire has spread to Miles North of the Canadian National rail ways track and up to one mile wide in parts. From 500 to 600 acres have been burned so far officials estimate. All Forest Back roads in the White Shell have been closed to Public travel. A ban has imposed on open fires in All the province s Parks. In grand Beach provincial Park the fire Hazard is de Yuri co. As extreme and a travel ban is Likely. More than 80 firefighters were battling the Muriel Lake fire saturday assisted by water bombers and Heli copters. There is no Indica Tion As to what started the fire late Friday afternoon the provincial spokesman said. Olympic and government red tape officials finally cleared him to swim for Canada at the 1976 summer olympic games. The newspaper says the note was from the father of a swimmer who might have been chosen for tote relay had Badger not won the 200 metre freestyle. Ottawa up the supreme court of Canada has begun the brain bending task of deciding whether the Feder Al government s anti inflation controls Are constitutional. Some lawyers say it is the most difficult and important constitutional Issue to be faced by the nine judge court in the last 50 years. The court completed a Day hearing on the Law Fri Day then reserved its Deci Sion. All parties involved in the Legal dispute expect that a ruling will be announced be civil servant won t quit by Stephen Scott Ottawa up a Public servant abruptly transferred because he allegedly gave faulty information to his min ister in connection with the Lockheed affair was reported Friday to have refused a re quest he resign from the sup ply department. The report about Larry Stopforth was Given in the commons by Walter Baker conservative House Leader and was not denied by Supply minister Jean Pierre Goyer w h o told reporters such dealings with Public servants is not his responsibility. Or. Baker said he under stands the resignation was re Quested by 3. M. Pcs Rochus the Deputy Supply minister. Or. Stopforth until monday was Deputy chairman of the interdepartmental project of fice that dealt with Lockheed in the search for a patrol plane for the military. Or. Gocr announced in the commons monday that or. Stopforth was transferred out of the project office for not in forming the minister that the defence department consid ered it had a verbal agree ment with Lockheed to finance the first stages of a billion transaction to provide 18 Orion patrol fore the justices take their summer vacation at the end of this month. The anti inflation act which placed the country under three years of wage and Price controls last fall oversteps provincial Powers outlined in the British North America act the country s Constitution. Ottawa is Al Lowed to interfere with provincial rights Only in Emer gency situations where it must act to maintain peace order and Good government. A key Point in the Issue is whether an emergency did exist when Ottawa introduced the far reaching legislation. It argued that inflation had be come an evil of serious National concern which might have led to an All out Emer gency. Whatever the court decides will be a precedent that will More clearly separate the individual Powers of the Provin Cial and Federal governments. But a ruling that the Law is unconstitutional would be a massive embarrassment to the Trudeau government and would throw the entire anti inflation program into ques Tion. The Many wage agree ment rulings made by the anti inflation Board would be come invalid and the govern ment would have to find some Way of saving face and Sal aging the program. The decision of the court could also have grave implications for Ontario the Only province to give Ottawa unqualified support at the hear ing. Earlier this year teachers at Renfrew ont., 70 Miles West of Ottawa decided to Challenge an Ontario Ottawa anti inflation agreement in the lower courts. The agreement put Ontario Public servants under the wage jurisdiction of the anti inflation Board and there was some question whether the agreement was constitutional because it did not receive legislative approval. Justice minister Ron Bas Ford noting that the anti inflation act itself would be see decision Page 6 lightning part of downtown aglow Early today during a . The weather office the cold to 0.5 milling Ftp of precipitation .02 inches Between 6 . And night Friday and More storms with a risk photo by Alan of Hail Art forecast for tonight. The fora cast High during Tecc weekend 30 a 18 c. Strong donates to help Start Earth fund United nations up Maurice of v e t r o plans Friday for the creation of a private International Earth fund and donated his environmental award As seed Money to get the pro Gram started. Described As the no. 1 Friend of the environment in the in Strong accepted the first International Pahlavi environmental prize at a Cere Mony at in Headquarters. The award was Given for his work As Secretary general of the 1972 Stockholm in conference on the Environ ment which set the wheels in motion for several of today s in programs. Strong also was the first executive director of the four year in environment program Strong left the in Post last Jan. 1 to head Petro Canada the Federal government owned Oil company. Prince Abdor Rega Pahlavi chief iranian Delegate who presented the said Strong s name has be come synonymous with world environment. The government provides funds for the annual Pahlavi prize through the in and Strong is its first recipient. Speaking As a private citizen Strong said he might be far More critical of the fail ure of governments in protecting the environment the Way they should be doing. The environmental move ment is confronted with a crisis so grave that it Threa tens All the Progress that it has Strong told in delegates. Our present patterns of growth and development Are destroying and undermining the resource base and biospheric balance on which our future life and Well being de Pend and cannot be sustained for any Long period of time. He said it will require nothing less than a revolution in our attitudes toward the growth of societies. The atmosphere water soil Plant and animal life must be valued As the most important and i vital part of society s t u r a 1 capital. Expenditures to preserve restore or enhance the environment should be regarded not As peripheral or optional costs to be borne if we can afford it the appalling destruction of forests wildlife and fisheries in Africa is evident to even the most casual of external affairs min Isicar Allan Maceachen said Canada will declare a 200-mile offshore fish cries jurisdiction late this year. See Story on Page 5. Man charged with arson following apartment fire councillors denied right to documents a private member s Bill to give civic politicians the right to demand any Munici pal documents was rejected Friday by the legislature s committee on municipal affairs. However municipal affairs minister Howard Pawley promised to discuss the Bill s in tent with municipal officials during the next year and to bring recommendations to the next legislative session. Proposed by Gordon John s t o n la the Bill was Defeated following two supporting submissions and More than two hours of debate. Primarily it would have allowed a municipal councillor to ask for any Docu ments from the clerk or his designate without Council approval. Or. Johnston proposed the Bill following a squabble in Brandon Over the City s pro posed Multi million Dollar downtown redevelopment which an Alderman resigned. Charges have been made that the aldermen were not Given full information about the scheme. Several Las spoke against the Bill Friday Sug Gesting it would give civic politicians More authority than they needed. J. Frank Johnston Sturgeon Creek maintained no decision can be made by any municipal Council with out a majority vote which he said should be sufficient to see that a matter is prop Erly dealt with. An la or. Johnston said must file an order for return to obtain government documents. It can be challenged which leads to a de Bate on its merits he added Why should a councillor see right Page 6 Mark Russell Scott 43, of 445 Partridge Avenue suite 510, West Kildonan has been charged with arson in connection with the fire Early Friday at which a fireman died. Acting Captain Leo j. Dusablon 50, of the Winnipeg fire department collapsed in the Partridge Avenue apart ment building shortly after the fire had been brought under control. It caused about damage and started in several places in suite 510, a Winnipeg police department spokesman said Friday. An had been used to Start the fires he said. The alarm was sounded about . Fifth floor suites sustained smoke and water damage and suites below had Exten Sive water damage a fire department spokesman said. Or. Scott and a two week old boy Brett Macdougall of suite 503, were taken to the health sciences Centre suffering from smoke inhalation. Both were later re leased. Or. Dusablon who joined the department in 1949, was on1 the fifth floor when he collapsed. He took his mask off and suddenly clutched Chest and collapsed the fire department spokesman said. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the health sciences Centre. The cause of death has t been con firmed but is believed to have been t heart attack. Or. Scott remanded to moday in custody after appearing Friday in provincial judges court in Public safety building. London St. Valentine St. Nicholas and a Host of other saints May soon be drummed off the official Church of England Calendar to make room for such Christian heroes As Florence Nightingale. The proposal by a special Ecclesias tical commission could stir an unholy Row in the Church if traditionalists Cham Pion the cause of saints who for Cen Turies have been commemorated in an Nual festivals and services. A May there Are thousands of saints and other eminently worthy christians whose work and memory May be celebrated. But we cannot fit them All into our Calen said the very Rev. R. C. D. Jasper Dean of York and the commis Sion s chairman. The Church of England commission has recommended to the general Synod 170 saints be dropped from the crowded Calendar of saints Days. Tie commis Sion singled out saints with Little significance in English religious history. The commission noted with what some theologians will probably consider near heresy there is doubt about the existence of some of the saints. We have to be certain the saints being commemorated Jasper said. Nobody seems to know if St. Ceci Lia for example St. Cecilia according to Church teach Ings was a third Century Martyr who be came the Patron Saint of music especially Church music. Among other saints who May be elbowed aside arc Nicholas one of the most popular Christian figures who was a fourth Cen Tury Bishop in Asia minor and whose existence is certain. He is recognized As a protector of children along with virgins to Nieves and seafarers. His feast Day is dec. 6. Valentine a third Century Bishop and Martyr and Patron Saint of lovers. He is commemorated feb. 14, the Day on which according to medieval belief Birds woo and select their mates. Catherine a fourth Century mar Tyr tortured on a spiked wheel before being beheaded. Gallup poll pcs maintain Hig Lead on liberals after almost a decade of Liberal dominance the progressive conservative party gained its first Lead in a Gallup poll conducted shortly after its National convention. This current study completed during the first week of May shows the pcs have maintained that Lead. With 43 per cent of the popular vote currently the conservatives Are Well ahead of their 1974 election standing of 35 per cent. The new democratic party currently at 21 per cent is also above its 1974 vote level while the Liberal party with 31 per cent support currently is substantially below the 43 per cent obtained in the 1974 election. The conservatives Lead the liberals in the Atlantic provinces Ontario and the West. In Quebec where the level of undecided voters reaches almost one half of the electorate the liberals currently Lead the conserva Tives by a two to one margin. Voters make up 37 per cent of the electorate Well above the 29 per cent found in Early March. These studies Are based on personal in Home inter views conducted by the Canadian Institute of Public opinion with approximately adults 18 years of age and Over. This Sample size is accurate within a margin of four percentage Points 19 in 20 times the Institute says. The Standard question was if a Federal election were held today which party s candidate do you think you would the table below shows the share of popular support gained by each party in the july 1974, election along with selected Gallup polls conducted since then. Those who Are undecided have been eliminated from the table. Liberal pet. 197-1 election Gallup studies sept., 1974 Jan., 1975 july nov. Jan., 1976 feb. March april May pc 35 pet. Nip 16 pet. Other 6 pet. 48 16 39 38 39 38 34 3.1. 31 28 31 36 32 37 37 43 43 16 .1.7 1.7 22 .17 19 1.7 17 21 8 6 8 8 7 r 6 b world copyright reserved ;