Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 06, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1976 lawyers Book says Cut probe political Whitewash continued delays meant the million in Gross sales achieved in 1974 was not available a year he said the waste of time and Money was first by driving off contractors and suppliers by having the Plant completed by strangers in the worst possible by turning Over the operation of the plants to a new management unfamiliar with All the above mentioned losses were charged by the government against k a s s e r even though Kasser in private correspondence with a member of the Cabinet objected to what was going on and indicated the mistakes that were being the attempts of the nip government to Saddle others with responsibility for errors made under their supervision is morally unjustifiable however politically potent it May who was the subject of a separate inquiry conducted by the Manitoba Law society because of charges made against him in the commission of inquiry re disputes each of these backed by the fact the society investigation cleared him of any wrongdoing or of any breach of the code of ethical con newmans Book claims that the most serious misrepresentation by the commis Sion concerning him was the allegation that he had divulged to Kasser plans of Hie government takeover As a Kasser was Able to Transfer Mil lion out of the governments the Law society in Man killed in Accident on Bride one Man is dead and an other is in Hospital with serious injuries following a single vehicle Accident Early this morning on the a police spokesman said the two 21yearold men were travelling South about when the car went out of control and struck the Wall of the the Driver of the car was taken to Misericordia Hospi Tal where he was pronounced dead on the other Man was taken to Boni face the names of the men arc being withheld until next of Kin can be Vest Galion concluded that Newman never had any confidential information to and that the funds i question had been transferred to an account specifically established to pay con he says a second misrepresentation in the inquiry re port that he was employed As a lawyer by both the Mani Toba development Corpora Tion and Churchill Forest industries was contradicted by a statement from the act ing chairman and general manager of the development it said that from july 1970 the Mani Toba development Corpora Tion did not use the services of Newman As a solicitor in any and that Newman had not represented Churchill Forest industries until months and then Only to attempt to persuade the government and others that it had the Power under its agreements to ensure the proper and eco n o m i c completion of the Newman writes it is beyond the scope of this Book to review All of the untrue and unfounded conclusions contained in the commis s i o n s reports respecting other parties that appeared before but there is no reason to believe that they Are any More reliable than those made against Walter Newman that have been Dis cussed Newman claims the government made its most serious errors Al though it attacked the com plex while the economic forecast too by Robert w1elaard premiered Schreyer of Manitoba said the growth rate of the provincial Economy this year and in 1977 will fall below the National average but denied the difference will be As much As two per cent As forecast by the conference Board of can Schreyer said since Manitoba was not As affected by the recent recession As the National the real growth rate for the province has been above the National average in the past few because the economic dip was not As apparent Schreyer told Manitoba real economic growth rate for the remainder of this year and in 1977 will be slightly below the National average As other areas recover from their More pronounced he told a press this is reflected in the report of the conference Board of Canada a 600member nonprofit organization representing Canadian labor and in its report released t h u r s d a y the Board is t i in a t e s Manitoba real growth rate at per compared with a National rate of per while Manitoba is expected to show a growth rate mock air crash loses its value former defence minister James Richardson announces in Victoria Friday that he Likely wont contest his commons seat in the next Federal election at least not As a he made the re Mark after a speech to the Canad photo an in which he urged canadians to become More involved in discussions on Patria Tion of the the Winnipeg my re signed from the Federal Cabinet an official at Winnipeg International Airport said that the disclosure Friday of the site of exercise phantom will make the sunday Simu lation of a dc9 crash just a routine standby because several months of planning is lost and a Lack of Surprise will be a loss to Winnipeg City emergency the exercise devel oped through the provincial emergency measures involving a mock crash near Assiniboia Downs had been looked on As the first real test of emergency services to Airport crash and Emo communications s i n be the Winnipeg flood of the official h was planned As a Realis tic mock disaster that would give the Public a Chance to see How they would react to a major disruption of Normal the real loser is the City of Winnipeg police and ambulance h e they would have had a real test under unusual Cir the Airport emergency services wont suffer because we operate under standby emergency conditions As a daily routine and our Crews Are always in fighting aircraft fires As Well As being called out for standbys that be come routine but always have an Clement of lie Black bean guarantee issued Black Beans a new con tract crop in Manitoba Are being bought from provincial Farmers by the Manitoba agricultural products Market ing commission through a financial guarantee provided by the provincial govern finance minister Saul Miller of Manitoba announced Friday that the Cabinet has authorized a Lin of credit to the marketing com Mission to guarantee the Cost of purchasing and processing Blacic Beans produced in the 1976 crop year under con tracts Between the province and the this is in addition to the guarantee authorized last of which related to the 1975 Black bean crop and the remainder to the Purchase of grass finished this some acres was sown under yielding an average 750 pounds per for a total output of slightly More than metric Premier and his Cabinet did not really believe that thing was seriously wrong that the government never carried once in the investigation it had promised during the election up to a few months before the had never read the agree ments it was using As an sex ruse for allowing the Mas Sive outpouring of close to million Iram August to newmans Book indicates he was convinced that Kassor interviewed of his research intended to Complete the Complex but wanted some Assurance by Premier Schreyer that it would not be nationalized once it was this Assurance was not Cwman be cause the government could not accept the fact that it was financing the Complex 100 per the commission of inquiry reported that Kasser took More than million through manipulations and excess Newman contends that some of the fees charged by companies under passers control w 6 c e but that since these fees were coming Back into the Complex in the form of owners he did not attach As much importance to them As did the Newman makes no Al temp to defend the actions of whom he de scribes As a Man who would lose no Opportunity to enrich but cites in stances Early in the develop ment which proved that the lending Agency did have Ade quate control Over the project and the funds it was advancing for newmans As stated in the is that Kasser had the expertise and ability to operate the and the govern ment had the Powers to control or to remove but chose to do neither at the proper in an new Man said he Felt compelled to provide a firsthand report of the events he considered had been misrepresented both by the government accounts and by the commis Sion of inquiry somewhat below the National average this particular the spread will Likely be considerably less than indicated by the conference Schreyer he added he haunt looked in detail at the boards re port but said his staff had advised him the Board had expressed concern about its own assessment methods of provincial its a new Board the Premier that experiencing teething it has Only made two sets of provincial in the Premier the real growth rate Mani Tobas Economy was per while the nation As a whole experienced a growth rate close to this Manitoba has had a Good crop while the province continues to have one of Canadas lowest unemployment according to in Schreyer told retail sales in the province Are up and the projections for next year Are that be above the National farm implement sales for the first half of 1976 showed a heavy per cent Rise while in the same period the value of manufacturing ship ments increased by per the Premier he added housing starts in the province in the first half year were up 45 per the provincial government will prime the Economy by putting much if not All of the million in capital construction projects to work that have in the past been reserved for this Pur the Premier Bernier disgusted by attacks on Reed paper Deal red top Ontario resources minister Leo Bernier was angered Fri Day by opposition party criticism of an agreement be tween the province and Reed 1apcr concerning a pro posed Mill near this comm Bernier told a Public meeting he was completely disgusted and discouraged by attacks levelled Ilia if a memorandum of agreement signed last week concerning the Mill in the ear Falls red Lake he was speaking to a crowd of 250 persons packed into a local High school gymnasium for the first formal Public hireling on the he said again the agree ment in no Way gave Reed a licence to no ahead with the Kraft pulp Mill which would ii r v 5 i a much ii Iii Iii extensive environmental studies and Public hearings would precede any godhead of the members of both provincial opposition parties have called for Public hearings to a roys Trou Mission invest Kijja lion of the bin incr said environmental assess ment Board planned for next will be tougher in ii in of the project than would a Royal at the three hour representatives of the red Lake and District chamber of Commerce and the red Lake businessmen association said the Mill was necessary to keep the Community from economic Gold formerly the mainstay of the towns econ Are gradually running Dennis chamber of Commerce said the project would be an important part of a Northwestern Ontario development policy first outlined by the William Davis government several years the Reed plans would create at least jobs in the less enthusiastic representatives of the Sandy Lake Indian Reserve located about 200 Miles North of speaking through an in former Sandy Lake chief Tom fiddler demanded that Bernier by the cards the table concern ing he said were secret negotiations Between Reed Ami the Ontario that where we want on the Ber Nier agreement averts Chrysler strike Detroit a after reaching agreement on a new contract with Chrysler before a strike deadline United Auto workers is turning to general a three year pact covering and Canadian production workers at Chrysler was announced just minutes before the 6 est strike deadline u a w president Leonard Woodcock then announced that Union officials will decide Early next week on a strike deadline for general the contract with pm will affect bar gainers were unable to Settle on a separate pact Cov e r i n g White Collar Chrysler but they were reported very close to an and they extended that contract Indef one Union official said the production workers agree ment also contains numerous Loose we get every thing wrapped up in he talks on those mat ters were scheduled for this Wiley employees must wait for pay about 60 employees of the bankrupt Wiley Mercury sales will have to wait a Little Whilt longer before they can pick up their last pay about 35 employees of the which was placed in receivership under Price waterhouse and about three weeks went to the head office of the former Ford Dealership at 555 Empress Avenue late Friday afternoon expecting their final Robert a spokesman for Price a Jagger said it was explained to them Why they pick up their which is expected to to and they i expect they will gel Jagger there Are a lot of Legal complications which i dont care to go into with you right there were Good Rea Jagger said the pay cheques were for just a Short time but they included holi Day a police dog who had his leg crushed in a car Accident a year now is the proud father of nine healthy alsatian he retired from Active duty after the the to photo Mance was arranged last May at the Pacific National exhibition police he saw his off Spring for the first time this week at the Homo of Constable Tom Carroll in Trudeau out to boost party morale Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau has launched a quiet drive to re build Liberal party strength a n y resurgence of the party popularity has yet to be reflected in Public opinion but party insiders say chinese Diplomat applauds soviet speech Moscow Reuter Foo Dor a possible even Tual successor to soviet communist party chief Leonid said Friday it is unjustifiable and unnatural that Friendly relations be tween the soviet Union and China have been disrupted for almost 15 a member of the party political spoke at an annual rally marking the anniversary of the 917 bolshevik revolution Brezhnev and most other senior soviet leaders sat beside Kulakov during the for what is believed to the first time in 10 chinese diplomats attending the annual rally did not walk out during the keynote which contained no direct attack on chinese charge affaires Wang Chinching stayed in his seat and even clapped briefly at the end of Kula Kovs the soviet continuing Moscow current policy of toning Down differences with said the disruption of Good relations has occurred through no fault of our in the the key speaker at the anniversary rally had routinely condemned be Kings policies Aid chinese representatives had left the observers said Kula Kovs remarks Friday wore so mild that they precluded a since the death of chinese Leader Mao the so Viet Media have suspended most criticism of but the new peking leadership has maintained polemics against Moscow and rejected two Kremlin efforts to reestablish inter party Kulakov accused what he called cold War advocates in the West using anti soviet hostile pro brainwashing and slander in a bid to wreck East West in a passing reference to the election of Jimmy Carter As americas next he said recent voting in the United West Germany and Italy have shown the peo ple of these countries support of a realistic foreign poli Kulakov accused the United states and nato of stepping no the arms race which he said is holding Back the de clop Mentor liberals arc again Ruying around the Man who has led them through the last three elections and eight years in outside the tru Deau has concentrated his political efforts on the business assuring them that his government has adopted a Middle Road approach that will allow Compa Nies a major share of the country economic he has moved to boost morale by spending More of his time listening to parts telling them he needs help to overcome his governments Sharp drop in and readily admitting that he has made his share of even Saskatchewan Liberal Leader Dave known As an Quick Tori Ticie member of the now is saying Trudeau is one of the Best prime ministers the country has who will be re placed As provincial Leader at a december leadership con joked Friday As he and other Liberal leaders gathered for a Day of private meetings with that the session was a Chance for the Pope to Call the Bish Ops by the end of the there appeared to be Little doubt that provincial liberals still regard the prime minister As the party chief chinese deny radicals face trial by Ross Munro the Globe am mail peking an official chinese spokesman Friday denied reports that chinese officials told visiting foreign ers earlier this week that the widow of Tseung and three other radicals will be put on trial for plotting a Wall posters had previously revealed that an official investigation commission has been launched to probe the activities of the four purged news re ports thursday quoted members of a finnish delegation As saying they had been told by chinese officials that the investigation will be Fol Lowed by a trial of the responding to queries at the the spokesmen declared yesterday that no Cne said they will be put on he would not go fur ther and categorically ruled out a ;