Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 25 c Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets details Page 5 Winnipeg free press n final edition vol. S3 no. 217 thursday june 10, 1976 15 cents 25c with coloured comics cure for colds now expected in 2 or 3 years by Manfred Magek free press medical reporter Falcon Lake it will soon be possible to treat and eliminate influenza the com Mon cold and a multitude of upper respiratory infections going with them an eminent British pharmacologist predicted Here wednesday. Or. Janet Dewdney director of the research division of the Beecham pharmaceutical corporation of London England said i an inter View Basic cures for colds and various influenza should be at the clinical trial stage within a year in a number of these cures Are becoming possible because science has finally succeeded in understanding the mechanisms by which we can stimulate Man s own defence against infections by the secret according to or. Dewdney lies in trigger ing the human body to make interferon a chemical sub stance which has been known for some time to be the body s immunity response to viral infections. While it has been possible to develop vaccines which can immunize Man against such viral diseases As polio vaccinations against flu Are difficult because rapid Fri virus mutations require Ever changing vaccines whose development heavily taxed scientific knowhow As Well As Industrial capacity or. Dewdney said. In the Case of the common cold she said vaccination Protection has proven All to a e t h e r impossible because More than 100 types of virus Are involved. But the breakthroughs Are being made and should be on the Market in two or three years or. Dewdney said. She said there Are two schools of scientific thought one of them directed at the development of synthetic in. Ter Feron which would be taken As medication against Broad spectrum viral in Vasion the other a Means of triggering the body into sufficient interferon production to Deal with a cold As soon As it has started. Once in general use what Ever medications Are devel oped probably will take the form of sprays nose drops and Oral medication. Or. Dewdney said after influenza and common colds have become treatable the next step could be toward some chronic viral diseases such As rheumatoid arthritis. She is in Manitoba to take part in a two week scientific conference on molecular and cellular aspects of allergy sponsored by the scientific Bureau of the North Atlantic treaty organization in Brus Sels. The conference which ends june is was organized by or. Alec Sehon head of the immunology department at the University of Mani Toba medical school. Daily interest tally confronts Banks the Federal government will Force Bank and similar institutions to Start calculating in Terest on saving accounts Oil savings accounts on a daily basis a senior official of the consumer affairs department said wednesday. Spokesmen fur the major chartered Banks said they will raise the interest rates they charge Lor Loans or lower the rates they offer on deposits if the government does so. Currently most Banks calculate interest on the mini mum monthly balance in savings accounts. They pay the interest on a monthly quarterly or six month basis. Federal officials feel this unfairly penalizes the depositor who draws out Money for a Short time and so has his balance temporarily reduced. Michael Mccabe assistant Deputy minister of consumer affairs says a new consumer credit Bill to be introduced this fall will require Deposit taking institutions to calculate interest monthly or More then the government will move by regulation to com Pel the institutions to Start calculating interest daily As quickly As in added. Bankers reacted with Hor ror to the idea. Three members of Winnipeg financial institutions agreed thursday the pro Federal government legislation would mean they would have to take a close look at interest rate policies. Robert Morris a District in a n a g e r with the Royal Bank of Canada said daily calculations would add to overhead costs and might in turn depress interest rates. He wondered if the propos Al would mean that much m practical terms for the individual depositor with a Small account. J. F. Clysdale. Supervisor of the Bank of Nova Scotia said daily calculation would favor the customer and could mean Banks would pay More interest. Barney Martin general manager of the co operative credit society of Manitoba Ltd. Said larger credit unions with computer operations would be Able to calculate interest daily but Spe Cial consideration would be needed for Small operations staffed by part time and Volunteer help. He too wondered whether the benefits to depositors would be outweighed by the time and costs of such a sys tem. He also wondered about jurisdiction since credit unions Are controlled by provincial legislation. A financial institution can match its funds deposits investments and see Dellft Page 6 increase in pay of 53% okayed this car was Hung up in a Hole after Section of the Street caved in near 380 Parr Street during wednesday s storm. A befuddled Tow truck Driver does t know where he should begin in an attempt to remove Hie stranded vehicle. Police said water eroded and gave Way. Page 3. Photo by Gerry the pavement s foundation see stories and pictures on by David Lee free press legislative reporter the Manitoba government has approved minimum wage increases of up to 53 per Ceni Over at least two years for thousands of non unionized construction workers. However. Premiered Schreyer says the govern ment is prepared to accept a Rollback if ordered by the Federal anti inflation Board. The wage increases were made Public wednesday but no one seemed certain whether they applied Over two or three years. While opposition members of the legislature suggested they appeared to be for two years Premier Schryer said it was something less than three years but More than two. The province sets a mini m u m wage scale usually slightly below Union Rales for non unionized construction workers. Minimum s for Manitoba workers outside Winnipeg Are slightly lower still. A. E. Stanton. President of the Winnipeg builders Exchange said the rates for the various trades arc basically those contained in two year contracts negotiated last year Between builders and construction workers. The new rates probably won t make much difference to people working on Large commercial projects where some g5 to 70 per cent of the labor Force is unionized. But the effect May differ in the housing Trade where not so Many workers Are unionized he commented thursday. The negotiated unionized rates set the pattern for non unionized workers. In Siose grades where More than 50 per cent of workers Are unionized the government set non unionized. Rates Are usually the same. In trades where less than half the workers Are unionized the non Union rates May be 10 to .15 per cent lower than Union rates he said. Figures released wednes see i a Page g Carter nomination almost in the bag by tin associated press democratic delegates by the dozen Are climbing aboard the Jim my Carter juggernaut virtually ensuring the Georgia Peanut Farmer the democratic presiden tial nominations. See Delegate standing on Page 6 Carter saw his Delegate totals soar wednesday to All but assure his first ballot i Mina Tion and a legion of big name democrats added their endorsements in n show of party Unity. Many of his opponents i t h e popularity contest i consumer Index jolted by May food Price Rise Ottawa Cost of living in May recorded the sharpest jump in six months primarily due to a sudden Rise in food prices including a 12 4 per cent increase in the Cost of beef from april. Statistics Canada reported today that the consumer Price most commonly used measure of inflation was up eight tenths of one per cent in May. The jump in the Over All Index was double the Rise in the previous two months and was the highest since last no vember when it Rose nine tenths of one per cent. The major Factor in the Over All May Rise was a 1.5 per cent jump in food costs. Today finance corp. Power report May prove another blow to business. Page 12. A focus How would die election of Reagan or Carter affect . Foreign policy Page 40. Sports Hawks president ready to Back on Deal regardless of outcome. Page 59. Inside Bridge 23 classified 45-57, 67-75 comics 44 crossword 21 deaths 5 Horoscope 23 Jumble 47 movies 33 television 30 nearly everyone reads the free press fat total City ions a. Food prices had dropped in each of the five previous months which had led to what the Agency said was relatively moderate advances during those months. Other factors in May in eluded higher charge for Home ownership and in creased juices of tobacco and alcoholic products. The latter was attributed to tax in creases imposed by recent provincial budgets. However the Agency said the Over All one month Rise in the Index Between april and May was identical to the see consumer Page g Wallace Henry Jackson Frank Church and Morris proclaimed Carter a certain Winner. The Scuri card Al the democratic National com Mittee showed Carter with delegates nine More than needed for a convention Victory in july. A landslide Victory in the Ohio primary tuesday and second place finishes in new Jersey and California catapulted Carter to the tipping Point and the opposing Field dwindled away. As dozens of i committed delegates pledged support for Carter he came within grasp of hundreds More now officially committed elsewhere or still uncommitted. While the Delegate Roundup continued Carter s tasks be came the so Lector. Of a run Ning mate bolstering party Unity and planning a general election Campaign against either Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan. According to the associated press Survey of publicly committed delegates Carter already can claim a definite with enough to bring him the nomination expected to join the bandwagon in the weeks before the mid july democratic National Conven Tion in new York. Wallace crippled by gun Man while seeking the nomination four years ago and routed in the Early Southern Pri Maries endorsed his former opponent and asked his ifi8 delegates to follow suit. It ended the Alabama Gover nor s fourth and what he said would be his final try for the White House. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota seeker of the presidency since .i960 Ancl see Carter s Page 6 stamp Deal probed Washington a the . Justice department is investigating allegations that postmaster general Ben Jamin Bailar got a Cut rate Deal on rare Stamps in return for awarding million in postal contracts according to an informed department official. The investigation involves charges that Bailar Pur chased rare Stamps at a Frac Tion of their real value from Jack Taub chairman of Scott publishing co., a new York based firm which has sold s7 million Worth of philatelic materials to the postal ser vice. Rail strike verdict expected in week by Cecil Kosney free press labor reporter whether railway workers w i 1 1 a nation wide strike this summer should be known in a week. T h e associated Fiji Hay unions a group of 10 unions representing workers received a mandate to Call a strike wednesday after its members rejected a Federal conciliation report. The settlement proposed by former supreme court jus Tice e m m c 11 Hall was turned Down by a margin of is to 48 per cent. The Aru is scheduled to meet labor minister John Munro next tuesday to Dis cuss the dispute. Robert Douglas a Union spokesman in Montreal said in an interview wednesday some ballots mailed before the monday deadline might see rail Page 6 Ottawa won t invite Prince the Federal has refused to invite Prince Charles to Winnipeg in sep tember for a reunion sponsored by the wartime pilots and observers association. Jack Johnstone chairman of the Commonwealth group s reunion committee said thursday the group had been informed that Prince Charles could t attend and the group is naturally very see earlier Story Page 7 but he said the group had t been informed about the reason for the Prince s inability to attend. On wednesday a govern ment House spokesman in Ottawa said the Federal government advised governor general Jules lager not to pass on the invitation to Buckingham Palace because it would detract from the importance of the visit of the Queen and Prince Philip to the olympics in Montreal this summer. The spokesman said a let Ter had been sent to the pilots association informing them of the decision. If this is True and if the invitation never reached Prince Charles then our organization is both very concerned and very Digap or. Johnstone said. He said the group had Fol Lowed protocol in inviting the Prince. The invitation had been sent through . Of. L. Bud Jobin of Mani Toba. Hunter resigns Edmonton up Bill Hunter announced today his resignation As coach and Genera manager of Edmon ton of the world hoc key association. From an 11-Page statement at a news Confer ence he said a new general manager and coach have been lined up. He also said he has been seeking new owner partners in the club and hinted he has been successful. At the same time. Hunter emphasized he is not leaving the organization and will re Mains on As a one third owner vice president Secretary and director. Dublin looks for Volunteer to hang police murderers London Router a self styled anarchist couple Jias been sentenced in Dublin to die by hanging for the murder of a policeman but there is no official Hangman in the Irish Republic to carry out the execution. And Britain despite close anti Gueriv Rilla co operation Between the two coun tries will be unable to oblige As it did in the past should Irish authorities ask for the loan of an executioner. There is no longer a Hangman in Britain either. So unless the dealt sentences for Noel and Marie Murray Are commuted to life imprisonment the Irish government has four weeks to find a Volunteer to put the rope around their necks on july 9. Murray 25, and his 27-year-old wife were convicted of killing the policeman last september and of illegal Possession of firearms and explosives the policeman Michael Reynolds was off duty when he spotted a gang robbing Bank. He left his and child in his chased the robbers on foot to Dublin s Phoenix Park where he was shot to death. During the trial the hurray who pleaded not guilty dismissed their coun Sel and said that As anarchists they wished to have nothing More to do with the proceedings. The three judges of a special criminal court set up under emergency legislation to Deal with guerrillas of re publican army passed the death sentences wednesday and set july 9 As the Date for the execution. Ireland is one of the few european countries to retain the death penalty in certain cases such As the killing of police men but there have been no hangings since 1954. The last death sentence was imposed in the Republic in 1964 but was later com muted to life imprisonment. In the Days before capital punishment was abolished in Britain Ireland relied on the services of that country s hang Man. But this Post no longer exists and Britain s last Hangman Albert pier reprint is now running a tavern in the North of England. By Alan Christie free press staff writer a Winnipeg couple Rob and Connie Farquharson have recently adopted a new born baby and they say they re being discriminated against by the unemployment insurance commission be cause of it. Last month the couple adopted a 12-Day-old boy named Guy. Mrs. Farquhar son left her Job eight years to look after the baby. She gave proper notice and was Given forms by her com Pany Johnston terminals to take to the commission. But when or Farquharson took the forms to the commission office on Graham Avenue last week he was told his wife could to receive any benefits. The receptionist told me she did t think tiny wife could or. Farquharson said this week. To heard her ask her super visor. You could head him All Over lie office saying no she mrs. Farquharson has to be available for work or. Farquharson a 28 year old Salesman for Power town on the perimeter High Way thinks his wife should be eligible for at least part of the benefits paid to women who leave the work Force to have a baby. A working woman May collect up to 15 consecutive weeks of maternity benefits a pregnant woman can collect for 15 weeks whether she s married or not whether it s a wanted baby or an unwanted or Farquharson said. Between the two of us we be been paying in to the unemployment insurance scheme for 20 years and we can t collect a Penny be cause we can t have our own m r s Farquharson i could have gone Clown for a Job interview and made a Dummy of herself so she would t get a Job but be eligible for but there s too much of that going on. There s enough people ripping off the or. Farquharson called the regional director of the com Mission Gilles Guimond last week to complain. He told me his hands were tied that there s nothing providing Lor adopting a or. Far . I m not dissatisfied with anything except the Way the Laws Are i think they should be spokesmen for the commis Sion in Winnipeg and Ottawa explained Why mrs. Farquharson can t collect benefits. She definitely can t col said Jack Mcdowell Public relations director of the Winnipeg office. To qua see adoptive Page 6 i i ;