Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 10, Low -2 Sun rises . Sets . Mon rises . Sets . Details Page 5 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 84 no. 26 Friday october 29, 1976 a 25c with coloured comics land speculation in Winnipeg area will be probed a slope near la Riviere in the Bina Valley gives Diane Jones 14, a Good View of the town and tayside. With Sunshine autumn coun and temperatures by Dave Bonner of eight to 10 degrees celsius forecast Hopes for an Indian summer Are improved. Seaway change sought More commercial Freedom envisioned air Canada reorganization proposed by Victor Mackli staff correspondent Ottawa transport minister Otto Lang says he Hopes to negotiate changes in the International St. Lawrence Seaway agreement with the United states after the nov. 2 presidential elec Tion. Canada is seeking modifications to the agreement so that it can act alone in Rais ing or adjusting rates on the Welland canal he said. Obviously with such negotiations after the american elections it will take two or three months before we May be Able to reach earlier this year he hoped to raise the tolls on the Wel land canal unilaterally. But before taking such action the government would have consulted with the . Those consultation however were delayed by the american election. In the interval the Canad an Seaway authorities checked with Federal International Legal officers in Exter Nal affairs. Paul Normandeau pres ident of the Seaway authority disclosed last week that the Law officers said Canada could t act unilaterally to raise the Welland canal tolls because it was an International agreement. Ottawa up a year after Yves Pratte bitterly quit air Canada some of the changes he sought Are Blos soming in new legislation which May prepare the Way for private investment in the publicly owned airline. Transport minister Otto Lang introduced in the com Mons thursday a Bill that would reorganize air Canada. The legislation contained a number of items the airline fought for when or. Pratte was chairman. And or. Lang told reporters later that the government May consider in two years whether there should be some private ownership of air can a d a item suggested by the airline when or. Pratte was chairman. The Bill would separate air Canada from Canadian National railways which owns All the airline s shares and would give air Canada greater Freedom to expand into new commercial Ven Tures. The legislation deals with some problems which helped Lead to the air Canada crisis last year and or. Pratte s angry departure. In a parting letter to or. Lang or. Pratte said he was leaving because the mint seemed to have lost Confidence in him. He indicated he Felt the government had not supported him enough against attacks in parliament and in newspapers. He left after a Federal in Quiry into some questionable dealings by air Canada officials. Or. Pratte also had been the target of Strong criticism by employees who were unhappy with the Way he ran the airline. The publicly owned airline lost million in 1974 and million in 1975, the last two years or. Pratte was chairman. Or. Larig told reporters thursday the purpose of the new legislation is to make air Canada commercially efficient and Able to compete economically with privately owned airlines. The Bill would permit the airline greater Freedom to in see airline Page 4 Fox wants abductors charged Dorchester . Up Federal solicitor general Francis Fox wants charges Laid As a result of the 27-hour hostage incident at the Feder Al Penitentiary Here. And lawyer James Lutcher of nearby Moncton one of the negotiators who secured re lease of a prison guard and two other hostages thursday said later that no guarantees were Given their three abductors that charges would not be Laid. Or. Fox said in Vancouver shortly after the release that he was wiring Justice min ister Paul Creaghan of new Brunswick urging that Crim Inal charges be Laid As soon As possible against the hos or. In a Tele phone interview from Mon Treal was unable to indicate immediately what his depart ment would do but said he assumed Justice will take its Normal course. Or. Fox reiterated thurs Day his recent vow to get Tough with prisoners who take hostages wreck cells and initiate other disturbances Simi Lar to those in several penitentiaries across the country this year. He said special super maximum Security units will be set up soon to handle prisoners who Are a threat to other convicts or prison staff. The rash of hostage takings and destruction in prisons has prompted an inquiry by a commons subcommittee which is just beginning work. The latest incident Only the second time prisoners have been known to hold a hostage in the 101-year-old history of the Penitentiary Here threat ened to add new fuel to criticism by some area Law officers of transfers of violent and hard Core criminals from one Region to another. Fox getting Tough one ticket draws Vair of cars by Mary Ann Fitzgekald the Manitoba government has agreed to a Royal com Mission to study the economics of land development with in the City of Winnipeg Urban affairs minister Saul Miller said thursday. He received the formal re quest for a provincial Royal commission on land Specula Tion during a regular meet ing with representatives of City Council earlier thurs Day. Or. Miller said he would like to see the study Proba Bly conducted by a single commissioner completed Aib to probe farm Revenue Elmvale out. Up the anti inflation Board will expand its food Price Monitor ing system by the end of the year to include a variety of farm products whose prices Are controlled by marketing boards Aib vice chairman june Menzies said thursday. Mrs. Menzies told members of the Simcoe country federation of agriculture at Elm Vale go Miles North of Toron to that the Board is working with five Federal and Provin Cial farm marketing boards to establish procedures for judging whether or not their prices fall within restraint guides in the wage and Price control program. She said establishment of the system will make it easier for Farmers to convince often sceptical Consumers that farm prices fall within restraint limits. Unprocessed food at the farm Gale is excluded from Board Price and profit controls but the Board has control Over prices set by marketing agencies and Over food processing distribution and retailing. An Advance text of mrs. Menzies speech released in Ottawa before the meeting said the Aib thinks Market ing boards Are complying with the guides but has no Way of knowing for sure until the monitoring system is set up. Board guides apply to five marketing agencies exercising substantial Price setting Turkey and Industrial milk boards at the Federal government level and broiler Chicken and fluid milk boards under provincial Juris diction. See Aib Page 4 Al today business report painted illusion Gates keep cattle fenced in. Page 18. Focus a retired City teacher challenges u of m s teacher training. Page 38. Sports jets get invitation to play in Russia in december. Page 61. Inside Bridge 28 comics 14 classified 34-36, 39-51, 53-60 crossword 28 deaths 5, 34 Horoscope 27 jul Niblic 36 movies 31-33 sports.61-71 television 29 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone. Total tar n two Selkirk Law partners have proved a half plus a half equals two. W. Douglas Kitchen and Daniel f. Williams defied the Laws of probability when they shared a ticket on a kiwanis club s draw and won two grand prizes with it Brand new cars. There were six draws for prizes and winning tickets were returned to the drum after each draw. The partners won on the second draw and their number came up again on the fourth. Although Fate provided a harmonious solution to divid ing the spoils for the partners kiwanis club trea surer was t As Happy with the Over All outcome. This Type of draw was the first attempted by the club and Ralph Walterson said it will probably be the last. There were too Many head he said the group printed tickets but Only sold 648, at each. He1 said the ticket Price was prohibitive for the average person. Profits were to go to various kiwanis projects. Looking for a motorcycle this want and under motorcycles 735 1975 Honda 360 in Excel Lent condition. Used Only 4 months. 774-4605. 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. Within 90 Days. The commission would look at the Cost of raw and serviced land and the eventual Price paid by the consumer or. Miller said in an inter View. Although the makeup of the commission to be set up under the provincial Evi Dence act has t been deter mined or. Miller said he would prefer a one person commission that could Zero in and get information Quick the commission would be empowered to require Evi Dence under oath and to hold hearings he said. The minister said he hoped the provincial study could get under Way quickly but decisions still had to be made on commission membership and terms of refer ence. Winnipeg City Council passed a Resolution several weeks ago asking for a provincial inquiry and or. Miller received a copy of that Resolution Early this month. The Resolution was prompted by reports in the free press of conflicts of interest within the City s planning department and renewed pres see land Page 4 inflated land deals Cost firm million seven land transactions involving Quilico developments Ltd. Cost the company More than Mil lion by buying property second third and fourth hand. Quilico president David Friesen said this week that there was no other alternative because of the nature of the Market place. We would like to buy land first he said. It would be in the company s Best interest and by the Way the Consumers interest but some How things Don t happen that Way. See Page 17. Post office silent about its Security Ottawa the Post of fice department does not want to discuss its Security precautions in Public a spokesman for the Post office said Here Friday. He was asked to comment on a report that there Are no adequate Security or screen ing measures in operation at the Winnipeg Post office. A bomb destined for Hong Kong was mailed from Winnipeg and intercepted Mon Day at the Winnipeg Post of fice. The bomb was discovered when a Post office employee dropped a parcel and it broke open. The opened parcel revealed an explosive device which could have exploded if Sha Ken or dropped violently Winnipeg police said. Our Security system de. Pends on checks and coun Ter checks. Obviously we have certain Security precautions at different across the country. They take effect at various centres to screen the said a spokesman Here. To outline what they Are would nullify the entire sys he said. The fact the bomb was intercepted appeared to in he suggested that it had worked in he added that during the olympics at Montreal the International postal authorities described the Canadian Security system As one of the Best in the Bill Derrick member of the Winnipeg Post office s investigation unit said wednes Day Winnipeg does t have a Security system to screen for mail bombs although mail to Winnipeg from other coun tries is checked in Montreal Toronto or Vancouver. Outgoing mail is checked by customs officials. But there is no system for Check ing parcels mailed in the province or. Derrick said. Blacks seeking one sided vote Geneva a Black rhodesian leaders called today for elections that would effectively freeze Whites out of a two year interim govern ment designed to pave the Way to Black Rule. While rhodesian sources said prime minister Ian Smith reiterated his position that the conference s sole purpose was to ratify a plan under which Whites would Lead the interim govern ment s governing Council and head the police and army ministries. The plan was presented to Smith and Black leaders last month by . State score tary Henry Kissinger. Bui Kissinger and Britain say the plan was a basis for discus Sion not an agreement to which the Blacks were committed. Today s session recessed after 80 minutes for what its British chairman called a period of informal Consulta Public injury insurance scheme touted by John Sullivan Manitoba could save at least million a year by re placing its present system of workers compensation and private Accident insurance with a Universal govern ment run plan according to an expert on compensation Law. Sir a. Owen Woodhouse a new zealand appeals court Justice and architect of that country s unprecedented no fault Accident legislation made the comment in an interview thursday before addressing a conference on workers compensation i n Winnipeg saturday. The conference is sponsored by the injured workers association of Manitoba a voluntary organization devoted to reforming workers compensation Laws. Judge Woodhouse stressed he not Here to Tell Manitoba what it should do or to launch a crusade arid look for but on a Back of the envelope he said Manitoba could Cut at least million from the absolute minimum of million it now costs employers and individual taxpayers to support workers compensation and personal a Lopac coverage. In new zealand where the program has been in effect for years judge Wood House said his Cost projections have proven too High despite warnings by economists and employers that it would Cost four times As much. The new zealand planes senti ally provides compensation payments to All persons workers or non workers men women and children who suffer any injury. It applies 24 hours a Day and pro Vides the same benefits Tor accidents at Home or any where else in the country As for injuries on the Job. The program is financed by a tax on gasoline or motor vehicle licence foes employer contributions a Levy on self employed per sons and from general in come tax Revenue. A similar program de singed by judge Woodhouse i n 1973-74 is now under serious consideration by that government offering Cost and Benefit figures More Rel Evant to Canadian income Levels he said. There injured persons would receive 85 per cent of their earnings up to a maximum income level of a year. They would receive a portion of this amount if Only partly disabled. Under recent amendments Sec Public Page 4 ;