Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Cloudy High 27 c Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Details Page 5 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 83 no. 218 Friday june 11, 1976 cents id or Leo 25c with coloured comics 8% limit imposed on fall rent hikes Manitoba landlords will be allowed to increase their rents by Only eight per cent this fall during the second phase of the province s rent controls. Consumer affairs minister Ian Turnbull confirmed thursday that the provincial Cabinet had approved the eight per cent ceiling at a meeting wednesday. The maximum he said was recommended by the provincial rent review Board after very careful study and consideration and it is considered to be quite fair to landlords. The president of the 300 member Manitoba landlords association Sid Silverman said Friday the association is angry and disappointed and has discussed marching on the legislature Over rent controls. We feel that the mini mum increase should be be tween 10 and 12 per cent. The minimum wage for tra Desmen who work on our buildings has gone up. Hydro costs and taxes have also he said. Or. Silverman said at least six landlords says they will sell out or declare bankruptcy. Their buildings Are Small blocks or triplexes in the West and North ends of Winnipeg. Our action committee has discussed marching on. The legislature to show our feel Ings about rent controls. We Haven t finalized anything or. Silverman said. He said landlords Haven t recovered from the 10 per cent maximum allowed for the past 15 months. Although we have the right of Appeal the Appeal Board May not always be in our however. Or. Turnbull said any landlord will still be Able to Appeal to the rent review Board for an increase larger than the ceiling but he will have to prove his costs have jumped More than eight per cent. Or. Turnbull said the prov Ince had decided to make Public the ceiling at this time to allow landlords enough time to give Legal notice of three months to their tenants of a rent increase. The eight per cent maximum he said will apply to the period Between oct. 1, 1976, and sept.30, 1977. To pass on the eight per cent hike on oct. 1. Landlords will have to notify tenants by july 1. The rent control legislation was approved in the Legisla Ture last month allowing for Only a 10 per cent increase Between july 1, 1975, and sept. 30, 1976, unless a successful Appeal was launched. The legislation strongly opposed by landlords during its discussion in the Legisla Ture s Law amendments com Mittee forced landlords to refund any rent increases above 10 per cent charged during the first 18-month period. Price City Man gets 4-year term for assault on policewoman a 19-year-old Winnipeg Man was sentenced to four years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary Friday for assault ing a woman police officer. Criminals should t think it s open season for beating up on female police of judge Kenneth b. Peters of the provincial judges court told Richard Joseph Tycholis of 944 Bur rows Avenue. Tycholis had originally been charged with attempted murder of Constable Selene Scarlett Somers March 30, after he had been detained in connection with a hit and run incident. Tuesday he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of Caus ing bodily harm with intent to wound. A second charge of leaving the scene of an Accident was stayed by the Crown. In handing Down the sen tence Friday in St. Boniface provincial judges court. Judge Peters indicated he questions the use of police women on the front but those opinions arc Kuwait is world s richest country Zurich a Kuwait stood far out in front in a list of the world s 40 richest count pics on the basis of per capita income published thursday by the Union Bank of Switzerland. The United slates was in sixth place behind me i or Sian Gulf Oil Sheik Dom Switzerland and three scandinavian countries. The Union Bank Survey said that based on the Gross National product the kuwaiti per capita income was Well above second place Switzerland s and Sweden s Norway had Denmark and the . 57 020 West Germany was seventh with followed by France Canada and Belgium Japan was in 17th place at followed by saudi Arabia with Britain took 20th place with just ahead of the wealthiest communist countries East Germany and Czechoslovakia Italy Fol Lowed with Brazil ranked last on the list with la fist fights narrowly averted personal nothing i d have to say on the subject would be of the slightest interest to the whether we or Tycholis like it or not women Are being accepted in police forces across tiie country including the ramp regardless of sex they arc police officers. At this stage when females Are still somewhat a Novelty in our system it seems the deterrent aspect of punishment should be Sec Man Page 4 Rollback meeting monday premiered Schreyer of Manitoba has succeeded in arranging for a meeting with finance minister Donald Macdonald and other Federal Cabinet ministers to discuss the anti inflation Board s Roll Back of the wage contract for Thompson Man., steel workers. A spokesman in the pre Mier s office said Friday the meeting is set for monday Between representatives of the Federal Cabinet or. Schreyer the United steel workers of America local 616 and Inco limited. The anti inflation Board s Rollback of a contract be tween Inco and the steel workers to 14.9 per cent from 18.5 per cent brought the see Rollback Page 4 arguments that almost led to fist fights erupted in the Manitoba legislature thurs Day after agriculture min ister Sam to skin was la belled a lying Little Bas Tard by an opposition la. The session had been expected to end late thursday. However the opposition members dug in their heels after the Exchange with or. Yuskiw and decided not to wind it up until Friday. The committee sat until the ugly confrontation broke out during a debate in the legislature s Law Amend in e n t s committee and it eventually Lead to the la Warner Jorgenson so Las Page 4 today focus former British prime minister in hot water Over honors list. Page 18. Business Keport six new exploration Ven Tures of Manitoba Mineral resources Are to be funded entirely by Manitoba taxpayers. Page 57. Sports Blue bomber hopefuls Start grind at training Camp sunday. Page 73. Bridge inside we save a Horoscope 10 Tumble 2s _ movies. 12-1-1 television it nearly everyone reads the free press total 1m.ms City Ted eau set to meet Ford Washington c p prime to minister Ted eau is to Fly to Washington next wednesday for a meeting with president Ford and presentation of an illustrated Book As Canada s official gift to the . Bicentennial. White House sources said today the visit will be limited to one Clay and will include a Woi King dinner Given by Ford at which the two leaders will discuss matters of Mutual the Book entitled Between friends entre Amis is made up mainly of photographs produced by the National film Board. By Mary Ann Fitzgerald and David Lee free press legislative reporters the Manitoba government May be overstepping its constitutional authority by pro posing legislation to control Market prices two Winnipeg lawyers said thursday. Duncan Jessiman and g. R. Hunter representing major Oil companies and other clients told the Legisla Ture s Law amendments com Mittee the government May find it has intruded in Feder Al responsibility if the legis lation is approved. The legislation Amend ments to the Trade practices inquiry act was subset q u e n 11 y approved by the committee and recommended to the House for third and final Reading expected on Friday. Approval however came after heavy questioning by progressive conservative and Liberal Las who called on government to delay the passage of the legislation. The amendments to the act will allow the provincial cab inet to freeze the prices of any products while a govern ment appointed Board examines the need for a pro posed increase. Price freezes can be implemented for any product that has been increased in Price by More than 10 per cent at the retail level. The Legisla Tion allows provision for a Rollback in prices. Or. Hunter said the pro posed legislation duplicated in Many ways provisions of the Federal combines investigation act and wage and see Price Page 4 altogether now Sittin in the too join Whit we Otter the chorus it a bit weak but these Oriental otters at the Assiniboine Park zoo Are a top act with children on school Tours. Every time photo by Gerry Cairns a Crumb or two is dropped to them the otters squeal for More of the forbidden goodies. A Young student leans Over for a better look at the front line chorus. Bread Price to Rise at least one Winnipeg bakery is increasing wholesale bread prices with the approval of the anti inflation Board. A spokesman for Weston bakeries Ltd. Said thursday the company will increase wholesale Oread prices by two cents for a 24-ounce loaf and 1.25 cents for a 16-ounce loaf effective june 21. He said the increase is a result of increases in wages employee benefits Energy costs and taxes. The Price increase will probably result in a retail Price increase of 2vz cents bit a ?4-ounce loaf and cents on a 16-ounce loaf the spokesman said. A spokesman for Mcgavin toastmaster Ltd. Said his company has also applied to the anti inflation Board for permission to increase the Price of bread but the com Pany will say nothing about a Price increase for at least a week. T h e Weston spokesman predicted most bread Compa n i e s will increase their prices to remain competitive. Weston s wholesale Price for a 24-ounce loaf of its Premium bread is 42.5 cents and for 16-ounce loaf 33 cents. Its suggested retail prices Are 51 cents and 40 cents. Plump re quits Aib Post new vice chairman sought Beryl plump re by Victor Mackie staff correspondent 0 t t a w a Beryl plump re has quit As vice chairman of the anti inflation Board and will formally announce her resignation at a press conference called for this afternoon. Prime minister Pierre tru d e a u confirmed thursday that mrs. Plump re has re signed. He said she had been an effective member of the Board but wanted out and now the government is look ing for someone to take her place. When she was appointed to the Aib last fall mrs. Plump re was chairman of the food prices review Board. That Board was supplanted by the Aib last october. At that time mrs. Plump re told friends and associates in the prices review Board that she would stay on in the new Job until All outstanding re a ports of the prices review Board had been completed and made Public. Then she said she would review her position and Likely leave the Aib. However she has carried on As vice chairman longer than her friends had expected. But several reasons have been Given for her resignation. She found her duties on the Board cutting heavily into her family life. At 67 years of age she is ready to take it More easily after a hectic period As head of the prices review Board Sec plump re Page 4 tax evasion Racket the biggest Ever Montreal up the Gazette says a tax evasion at tempt involving invoice sell ing which May have reached million is believed to be the most widespread Ever uncovered in the Canadian Busi Ness Community. The operation concerned the Selling of phoney invoices to Montreal Needle Trade manufacturers a n d whole salers the paper says. It says the evasion plan which May have involved More than 200 companies was discovered As the result of a Severance pay dispute Between the Kingpin of the operation and one of his employees. The company which engineered the plan virtually ceased operations Early this year and financed itself mainly through traffic of false papers the Gazette says. The newspaper says the ramp is investigating a publicly owned company which reportedly bought invoices for million. The Gazette also says the Force is looking into an ear Lier bankruptcy by the owner of the unidentified knitting company which engineered the plan. It says he was found guilty of attempting to con ceal assets a decision now under Appeal. The newspaper says some of the involved companies have made voluntary disclosures to the Federal Revenue department which will allow them to pay Only tax Short Ages and interest. The question of whether or not the president of the com Pany which engineered the operation will be prosecuted appears to depend on the Toronto Dominion Bank which had Loans outstanding with the company for about s2-million at the end of april the paper says. It quotes a Bank spokesman As saying financial institutions arc reluctant to Institute criminal actions because if they lose they could face sub Stantial counter suits. Oil flow to . Gets Cut exports to the United states will drop by barrels a Day to barrels on july 1, the National Energy Board said today. The new cuts in the Export level result from the Startup of a new pipeline to carry Domestic Oil into Montreal the Board said. The pipeline s expected to move about barrels of Oil a Day during july the Board said increasing its vol ume gradually to barrels by the end of the year. With the Start of Oil flow from the West into the Mon Treal Market imports from the Middle East and Venezuela Are expected to drop to barrels during the month from current Levels of about barrels. It marked the first of a ser ies of gradual cuts expected to hit the exports into the ., mainly to refineries in the Northern parts of mid West states. Ottawa up Homi cide focus of the fourth parliamentary debate on capital punishment in 10 years is still far less common in Canada than death by smoking drinking or driving. A study of homicide by statistics Canada shows Industrial accidents claim More lives than criminal homicide also known As murder. The study says there Are 12 times As Many deaths from lung cancer Many precipitated by five limes As Many from cirrhosis of the liver generally self induced by excessive consumption of 12 times As Many traffic deaths and five times As Many suicides. It raises unanswered questions about the number of deaths for which Legal responsibility cannot to clearly established unnatural deaths resulting from exposure to Man made hazards such As radiation Mercury or Vinyl a Holoride. These deaths Are not Clas s i f i c d As criminal Homi the study says. It says murder statistics Are illusory because they Are based on police reports. The number of convictions is far fewer than the number of charges. For example suspects were arrested Between 3961 and 1974 in the slayings of people. Of the who actually went to trial on murder charges were convicted of manslaughter 655 of murder punishable by life in prison 74 of murder punishable by death and 121 of lesser offences. Five of those who received the death sentence were under 18 and it was automatically commuted to life. All but two of the other death sentences also were commuted. The homicide study notes a number of common factors among them was drinking in 42 per cent of the slayings. When drugs were involved at All they were usually drugs prescribed by the doctor not illicit Chance s of being killed by a stranger were two in one million. Committed Dur ing a House breaking or Rob Bery Are rising because of a tendency for people to fight Back when intruded upon. Were 185 so called Gangland slayings during the period. But they Are increasing rapidly particular a in Montreal but also in Vancouver. About 80 per cent arc unsolved. About 30 per cent of the murders that occurred in Quebec Between 1968 and .1974 ave unsolved. The figure 17.6 per cent for British co Lumbia ;