Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 9, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba High 13 c Sun s-20 sets . Moon rises . Sets . Details c Winnipeg free press vol. 83 no. 217 wednesday june 9, 1976 final edition coloured comics Horner expects noose to stay by Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa the govern ment s controversial Bill to abolish the death penalty could be headed for defeat in the commons according to several Liberal and conservative members. The count of 133-128 against the legislation was offered yesterday by Jack Horner there Are expected to be 261 votes cast. There Are currently two vacancies in the 264-member House and the speaker would vote Only to break a tie with the realization it would be a close vote members on both sides of the House have been comparing notes with fellow abolitionists or fellow recent zionists. Of other parties air. Horner said his latest count has All 11 social credit party members Independent Leonard Jones 78 conserva Tives and 43 liberals opposing the legislation. Supporting it will be All 16 nip members 17 conserva Tives and 95 liberals. Several recent zionists who had expected the abolition Bill to pass by a Small margin now admit the vote will be extremely close but they Are not yet prepared to admit de feat. Although it will be a free with members voting a c c o r d i n g to their con sciences rather than along party lines All Cabinet ministers will be expected to sup port the government Legisla Tion. So will All those who want to become Cabinet min quipped one Liberal my. Nevertheless the intensity of feelings on the Issue is be coming apparent. The crossing of party lines to compare notes is one indication of the depth of feel ing on the Issue. Albanie Morin lib. Louis extremely ill and not present in the commons for several months will nevertheless come to vote on the legislation according to one Liberal. Mrs. Morin is a retention St. Simma Holt lib. Van another retention St will probably arrive to vote with her leg in a cast said another. Even solicitor general Warren and has conceded the Bill May be Defeated and was concerned Chat with capital punishment retained there May be problems with some abolitionist provincial governments which won t permit the death penalty to be carried out in their jurisdictions. The Bill has been before the commons off and on for six weeks. While no one is certain when it will come to a vote the guessing is it will be about june 22. Key to the possible defeat of the Bill is die defection of several maps who supported limited capital punishment in 1973, but Avo won t go All the Way now. Ford has slim Lead As primaries finish by Paul staff correspondent Washington the re publican convention that will choose a presidential nominee this summer is shaping up As a shootout at the of Corral Between two bitter political gunslingers president Gerald Ford and Ronald Rea Gan. But it looks like or. Ford has the faster draw. The president swept to Vic tory tuesday night Over or. Reagan in two of three critical primaries the so called super bowl of american poli tics that marked the end of this year s statewide elections for convention delegates. Or. Ford emerged from the primaries in California Ohio and new Jersey with a slim but psychologically important Lead Over his Arch conserva Tive challenger in convention delegates Short of the he needs to secure the Republican nomination but his Campaign mor Confidence he will pick up the support he needs in 10 states that Are still to choose their delegates at local conventions. Or. Ford won primaries in Ohio and new Jersey but lost to or. Reagan in California his challenger s Home state. The former California Gover nor has some 863 delegates while some 135 have expressed no preference. The crucial question Cloud ing the president s political future is whether he will emerge from the Republican convention in Kansas City Missouri this August with the ability to take on Democrat Jimmy Carter in the presidential election this fall. Or. Carter like or. Ford does not have the number of committed Delegate sup porters needed to win his party s nomination on the first convention ballot. But he appears to have the demo cratic nomination tied up. In an impressive display of vote getting Power or. Carter climbed Well above the 1.100 Mark in pledged de Legates at his party s National convention this july i new York where Are needed to win. He led the Delegate race in Ohio but badly trailed an uncommitted slate battling Cali fornia governor Edmund g. Jerry Brown and senator Hubert Humphrey in new Jersey. In California he trailed or. Brown by a Deci Sive three to one margin. The Ohio democratic race was viewed As a make or break contest by Liberal Ari z o n a congressman Morris Udall and senator Frank Church of Idaho who faired poorly at the polls. Both men conceded tues Day night that or. Carter is the Likely democratic nominee although or. Brown insisted his bid for the presidential see Ford Page 4 Ken and Diane Smith of 829 Avenue Metal Detector hobbyists Check the ground near the Assiniboine Park footbridge. Since Tak ing up the unusual pastime last sum Mer they Hare located More than coins including pennies. Photo by Dave Johnson and a 25-cent piece dated 1885, plus several amulets. After a positive Sig Nal is received from the sensor the ground is probed with a Long thin screwdriver and when the piece is found the grass Divot is replaced leaving the Sod As Good As new. Paternity test Appeal family privacy Paramount the Manitoba court of a peal has backed up a lower court judge who decided he had no jurisdiction to order Mother and child blood tests in a paternity suit. The woman had refused to give a Sample of her blood and had also refused on be half of her child. The results of the tests were to be used As evidence on the Issue of paternity and the alleged a t h e r appealed the family court judge s decision. The right of privacy is fundamental to any free society and should not be in fringed upon by any court in the absence of Clear and unequivocal statutory author or. Justice Gordon c. Hall of the Manitoba court of Appeal said in his written judgment. Or. Justice Hall ruled that even though blood test re sults May be valuable Evi Dence in paternity proceed Ings the right privacy must prevail. Chief Justice Samuel. Freedman and or. Justice r. J. Matas agreed with or. Justice Hal who delivered the judgment of the court. Deriving his jurisdiction from the child welfare act today for every harmless citizen there s a bureaucrat just waiting to goof him up. Page 25. Finance Canada May learn lesson from Clown under on staying top in world Grain Trade. Page 40. Sports Page 73. Bobby Orr signs with Black Hawks. Inside Bridge -8 classified 61-71, 81-89 comics 60 crossword.26 deaths 5 Horoscope 26 Jumble movies 33 television 31 nearly everyone Cree press total City zone and the provincial judges act judge . Kimmelman of the family division of provincial judges court refusal to Issue an order requiring the tests. Or. Justice Hall said in his there is no provision in either of those statutes which either expressly or by necessary implication authorizes a judge having jurisdiction in Filia Tion proceedings to order that blood tests be he contrasted that with f a i r i y specific authority spelled out in the Queen s Bench act for a judge to order physical examination by a doctor of anyone seek ing damages or compensation for bodily injury. He said it seemed to Sug Gest that without that statutory authority a judge of the court of Queen s Bertch would have no jurisdiction to order such an examination. Or. Justice Hall referred to British Legal authorities and cases which if applied meant no judge no matter what court Hail the authority to order a blood test of an adult without con sent or in the Case of a child without the consent of the Mother. In the present Case the Mother refuses to consent to a blood test for herself and her child and in the absence of statutory authority of the kind mentioned there is no jurisdiction t o order that such test be done and no and verse consequences should result from the refusal of the Mother to give her the Appeal court judge concluded. London crime rising London of Teller Bri Tain s top policeman sir Rob Ert Mark today reported an increase in most types of crime and what he called a disturbing growth of violence in society. Sir Robert police commissioner for London said i his animal report for 1975 that relationships Between police and Black youths Are bad. There is a growing ten Dency seen too frequently during the year under review for groups of Black people to react in violent opposition to police officers carrying out their lawful he said. Nevertheless he said there arc areas where understand ing has replaced mistrust and antagonism. The total of serious crimes in the last year represented a Rise of or nine per 1974. Railway strike delayed Montreal slim majority of railway workers has rejected a conciliation report and chief Union negotiator Dick Smith has requested a meeting with labor minister John Munro to discuss options toward reaching a peaceful Settle or. Smith said today a preliminary count shows that 52 per cent of the workers reject or. Justice Emmet Hall s proposals for an 11 per cent wage increase in the first year and an eight per cent in crease i the second year of a proposed two year contract. The possibility of a country wide strike has been put off at least until Union Heads have met with or. Munro. Who currently is out of the country. Don Secord. President of the Canadian brotherhood of railway transport and Gen eral workers Union cart and go Aid today that his Union had voted 50.5 per cent in favor of the report and 49.5 per cent against it. I m not prepared to Autho Rize a strike on that he said. Or. Secord said he did t have figures for the other unions involved in the vote but he knew they were split Ting pretty much the same favor of the with some votes still to come. The cart and go Union represents about workers or about one fifth of the rail workers grouped n 16 unions voting on the report. The group of unions is called the associated rail Way unions the Union members were voting on a report by Concilia Tion commissioner Emmett Hall who proposed an 11-per cent Wake increase in 1976 crease in total compensation and an eight per cent in in 1977. At a meeting in april the Aru negotiating committee recommended acceptance of the Hall report As the basis for further negotiations with the 11 employers involved. However 150 general chair men of the 16 unions voted at the same meeting to reject the conciliation report be cause they said the proposed wage increase was too Small and they were opposed to a two year agreement. Union spokesmen say the average wage for the non operating employees re presented by the bargaining unit works put to an hour. Company spokesman say that when earnings of All workers involved Are considered they work out to on an hourly basis. Appeal court disallows firing traditionalist teacher backed the Manitoba court of a peal has upheld the decision of a Board of arbitration that a self styled traditionalist teacher could t be dismissed from her Job for what a school division termed her inability to plan and teach a continuous non graded pro Gram. Margaret Jean Lowry was notified by letter May 25, 1975, that effective june 30 that her teaching contract with the Beautiful Plains school division was to be terminated. The division is located be tween Brandon and Winnipeg with school Board offices in Neepawa. When asked for reasons c. C. Cox the superintendent of schools replied the reason for termination of your contract is your inability to plan and teach your course in accordance with the accepted educational philosophy of this mrs. Lowry requested that As provided for in the Public schools act the matter be submitted to a Board of arbitration and the Board ruled in her favor. The Board found that All the evidence presented on behalf of the division indicated that mrs. Lowry either could not or would not implement the continuous program philosophy. There was no evidence in the majority s View which indicated a Lack of ability on Lowry s part to plan and teach her courses. While there May have been a Refus Al on her part to accept the division s philosophy and to implement it this is not evidence of an inability to do the Board ruled. In his written judgment or. Justice a. M. Monnin of the Manitoba court of a peal said a school Board is not free to give one reason for the termination of a teacher s contract and later at a bearing change to an other reason. Or. Kennedy d. P. Ken Nedy lawyer for the Divi Sion argued before the arbitrators and before us that mrs. Lowry s refusal to adopt and implement the non graded continuous pro Gram was tantamount to in subordination and that such refusal proved her inability to plan and teach the pro he said in his judg ment. It May be that mrs. Lowry gave proof of her in subordination in refusing to teach in accordance with the program in Force in the Divi Sion. But that is not the Rea see court Page 4 wife kills in the Kitchen but husband in the bedroom new York renter housewives Are inclined to whip up murder in the Kitchen while their spouses prefer to commit mayhem in the bedroom. Murder on the Domestic front is Only one aspect of a just published Book on the subject of How and Why americans the most heavily armed population in the kill each other. The Book murder and madness is written by Cali fornia psychiatrist Donald t. Lund. The Stanford University doctor who also teaches advanced Law says America is now experiencing a murder epidemic that is breaking All previous More americans were Mur dered from 1970 through 1974 than died in the Vietnam War he says predicting that this year the rate of murder will Rise to one person for every of population. Only 30 per cent of murders Are committed by strangers Lunde found and nearly All of those cases occurred Dur ing the commission of an other crime such As armed robbery. Lunde based Many of his conclusions on available statistics arid his own role As a psychiatric consultant i n murder cases. Lunde said murder is nearly twice As Likely to occur in cities than in the suburbs or Countryside. As Well murder is statistically less Apt to be carried out by former mental patients than by the general populace. Talking1 about murder in the Good old Lunde cited a study which linked murder to immigration. Re cent arrivals in the country were More Apt to commit murder than second Genera lion immigrations. Another category of murder cited in Lunde s study was the victim precipitated v homicide. In these cases flu cd accounted for a Quarter of the 588 murders in a Philadelphia study the Vic Tim initiated the Chain of events which Lead to his death. An example of this sort of crime he said is the husband who goads his wife into such a fury that she stabs him with a Kitchen knife. Lunde says some victims of this Type of crime May really be indirect suicides. The victim in a up Homi cide not Only receives the ultimate punishment but succeeds in punishing the loved one who subsequently must Bear the guilt of the he writes. Goyer threatened libel lawsuit Ottawa up Larry h. Stopforth the senior Public servant bounced by Supply minister Jean Pierre Goyer from an assignment to help buy a new military patrol plane says he wants the min ister to retract critical com ment about him or he will sue. Or. Stopforth who represented or. Goyer on an inter departmental project group for Purchase of Long Range patrol aircraft for the armed forces was criticized in the commons last week by the minister. Or. Goyer said he had been misinformed by or. Stopforth about financing details of a now aborted plan to buy 18 Lockheed Orion planes. The minister complained in the commons of Gross neg i and said or. Stop Forth had been removed from his Job As Deputy head of the project group. In a formal statement tues Day or. Stopforth called for a retraction by or. Goyer adding that his lawyer has been instructed to launch a libel action if the minister fails to retract. The statement read by mrs. Stopforth on the Tele phone did not specify the re Marks nor say whether the threatened Legal action referred to the words used in parliament. Parliamentary Law clerk Joseph Maingot says it is pos sible to Institute a Legal action about words used in the commons but you would t new York a Ida Hays stole a glance in the Mirror her first since they took the bandages off and laughed for Joy. She had made a pact with herself not to look until the swelling went Down but she could not resist. After All what she beheld was not just a 15-year-old girl with a new face but Ida Hays with a new life. She studied the face i like and contemplated the life now no one will stare at me. I will be Ida Hays is a girl from la Grande ore., who underwent a remarkable operation May 19 to repair a face deformed from birth. Interviewed tues Day for the first time since the surgery she pronounced the operation an unqualified Success. Not just for me but for other she said. A boy at the Hospital has the same problem i had but was afraid of the operation. Now lie s going ahead with it be c a u s o of me. In t that a s problem was that her eyes were separated by twice the Normal Width. In a 10 hour operation a team at new York University Hospi Tal reduced the space from slightly More than two inches to slightly less than one re built Ida s nose and filled the resulting Gap Between her Eye sockets and temples with Bone taken from her hip. It was the most severe Case of Orbital As it is called in the experience of the Hospital s Institute of re constructive plastic surgery. Ida s deformity was not her Only problem but it was the cause of All the others. My first Day at pre Kinder Garten was the first time i realized i was she cried. When we moved from Seattle to la Grande i was in the sixth Grade and went through the same thing. One boy was particularly mean. He ran through the Halls making fun me. Every Day or nearly every Day i would come Home go to my room turn up the record player As loud As it would go lie Down on my bed with my cat Stripey and Block out the whole Ida s parents Jacquie and Bill Hays nodded knowingly at the memory. The Only thing that changed Over the years they said was Ida s Choice of music. Her Melan Choly behaviour lasted from Jack and Jill songs through teen age Rock. Sometimes she Sang along with the mrs. Hays said. Other she Ida s Mother had resolved from the Start thai Ida s life Soe Page 4 i i ;