Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High Low 30 sunt rises uti Moon a Lett Tittl 5 similar to Amtrak Winnipeg free press 84 88 Crow run passenger trains soon Ottawa up establishment of a Crown corporation to operate passenger trains is Only months transport minister Otto Lang said the government is working to set up a special railway passenger corporation to Market trains and plan ser vices to run along the lines of the different railway Compa Lang said in an interview on the Csc television program the Watson All operating losses would be covered by the govern and there be incentives for Good the corporation would today 24hour pet clinic planned Page 3 Saskatchewan to buckle up 11 Canada backs Geneva Parley 6 Quebec defied on language act flurry of Laws from Victoria 10 profits time says hmm melt Tim thursday scores nil Buffalo 7 by rangers 5 Colorado 4 Detroit 2 Boston 4 los Angeles 3 wha Indianapolis 4 new England 1 Cincinnati 7 san Diego 2 Western Brandon 12 3 details on Post inside Bridge 24 business report 2534 classified comics 13 crossword 24 a eats 37 focus 36 few 1724 Horoscope 24 Jumble 39 movies sports 5867 television 19 passenger equipment such As dining cars and and would pay the existing railway companies to haul the trains and to staff Lang the arrangement would be similar to the National railway passenger he the minister said a Start has already been made in integrating the passenger ser vices of Canadian National railways and up rail with the publication of a joint timetable in the purpose of the new Crown corporation would be to provide full integration of services and to run trains along the most sensible regardless of who owns the he said it would be in existence and operation some time in but he did not say what time of the government has been laying the groundwork for a Long the idea of integration was broached with the two major railway companies a year and at this stage we Are not far from putting the new corporation into exis Lang some services which Are scarcely used May be Eli min he where buses and trains Are running Side by Side and hardly any one is taking the it May make sense to drop the rail expensive sleeping car service May be Cut on some and passengers will have to be Happy with reclining seats in a Day liner on see Crown Page 4 Parsons sees no conflict Sydney chairman and general manager of the Manitoba development Cor said he saw no conflict in retaining shares in a private company that receives considerable govern ment his Huggard equipment is a major Winnipeg distributor of Industrial the latest Public figures available show that Between 1973 and 1975 the company successfully bid on govern ment contracts Worth asked to comment on new conflict of interest regulations involving civil i am not a civil but it affect me i am not working at hug Gard and Haven for at least four but it is still my company and i Haven Given up my shareholdings or pre there is 09 conflict of in i have any part of Parsons said be didst regard himself As a civil ser vant because he was appointed each year by the lieu tenant governor he said his Only Active Contact with the company was to attend annual a see Parsons Page 4 january final edition Dennis l growth squeeze coming by Ron cl1ngen free press correspondent Ottawa the toughest Public service growth squeeze since the depression is sex peeled to hit by projected 197879 fiscal year forecast now before Cabi net for discussion pegs growth at Zero and actually suggests a per cent reduction in Man year from Peak average yearly expansion of 10 per cent Dur ing the figures have been pared sharply Over the past five years to per cent for the fiscal year ending March next years to be announced in february when estimates Are will fall Well below one per Sibly to per if Cabinet endorses the no growth plan for the crunch will hit Ottawa about the same time As the Impact of government decentralize t i o n the decentralization program will move at least permanent and temporary jobs out of the the halt to All expansion will probably be announced either by the prime minister or by Treasury Board pres ident Robert see civil Page 4 forces expansion to Cabinet Ottawa up defence minister Barney Danson will soon present to Cabinet a re quest for Between and More men needed so the armed forces can meet com m i t m e n t s at Home and abroad without working personnel so hard they will news of the pending re quest was Given at the annual meeting of the conference of defence associations by chief of de Fence he later told re porters the increase will increase the us Feuce budget by about million or million a Are ser vice photo by Jim Hagg Amy Oyd holds firefighters helmet which melted into ridges from heat in a fire this Union wants safety items in contract budget Battle flares Over fire injuries by Pat Zanger a n ongoing Battle Over Money Between the Winnipeg fire department and City Council has been partly blamed for injuries to 13 fire fighters during two fires this every time theres a Bud Siul that what goes the the ladder Dennis pres i cd c n t of the nearly 900 member United firefighters of Winnipeg and a firefighter for 17 said about 80 per cent of the fire departments is wages and things locked into your work Lloyd other such As protective clothing and Are determined by City the others can be Lloyd and the Council to avoid the fire fighters Union is trying to in clude clothing and equipment provisions in its with the he but that might take too City Council approved the lire departments 1976 agreement Only a few weeks the contract still has to Clear the Federal Antii Fla Tion were talking two or three months before we Start negotiating our 77 contract because we dont know what we got in Lloyd we just Haven kept up with Lloyd our shop is just Over whelmed with i guess Guys Are getting fed criticism within the department of outdated cloth i n g and poor equipment erupted publicly after a fire sunday night at the Hilton 812 main when nine firefighters were taken to five of the men were trapped by flames i n the buildings burning basement and received first an d second degree the injuries Are being investigated by the fire depart ment and the workers compensation fire she Washington a an opposition israeli political party today described As disgusting nonsense a re port that extremists within its ranks conspired to Nate state Secretary the new York daily news says that a clique of israeli right wingers has put out a s 15 0 0 0 0 contract on Kis singers officials declined to confirm or deny the daily Ujj e w s they said threats have been against vice president Nelson Bocke Feiler and Treasury Secretary Vail Liam Simon but the officials declined to give details about those the daily news says the Money to hire one or More foreign hit men was reportedly paid in crediting the information to High state department the news quotes an unnamed Kissinger aide As say big the was provided by a Radical splinter faction within israels liked opposition which opposed the labor governments surrender of Cap tured Arab territory in the interim agreements with Egypt and tomorrow John a former Premier of writes about the Lack of leadership and direction in Canada today in the first of a series of articles by eight distinguished the to appear on successive will discuss the social and economic problems that have our wan said thursday that equipment had nothing to do with the injuries at the Hil ton but firefighters contend that newer protective cloth ing might have Raymond a 20 year Burnt both my coat Doest have storm the flame Musleve come up my coat Zillman said from his general Centre hos Pital Vern Martins protective coat burst into flames As he ran out of the his helmet melted into Ridge and m who helped see firefighter Page 4 tax rebates hit Snag Anthony Eden Dies peacefully London Reuter former British prime min ister sir Anthony the Earl of died today at his Southern England his doctor lord Avon was took no Active part in Public lord Avon died at his Home near in the South Ern English his doctors said his death was see obituary 011 Page 9 lord Avon was British prime minister at the time of Anglo French attack on the Suez canal in 1956 which followed egyptian president Gainal Abdal Nasser nationalization of the the condemned by the United states and the so v i e t wrecked his health and he resigned in 1957 after less than two years As prime in he was Given the title of lord Avon by Queen but Al though he used the House of lords from time to time As a Oriyu to air his he Eden exam was 79 Ottawa up income tax rebates will be held Back from Many people until maps pass proposed legislation in creasing deductions for child care and registered retire ment savings Taxon facials said they said the department plans to stockpile All tax re turns from citizens who Are making claims for deductions under new provisions included in a Bill that maps did not pass before their Christmas we simply would not Issue a refund until the Bill is a Tux spokesman the millions of tax forms already mailed out in clude the new provisions but those returned from people claiming exemptions under them Wall have to be put aside stockpiled until the Bill is the government withdrew the Bill from debate in the commons after new demo cratic maps vowed to stall its they a vent changed Well stall it As loud As we Max Saltsman Waterloo Cambridge said in an if it Means a delay in rebates that is something which is very re see Lack Page 4 Cable to ruled Federal matter Quebec up the que Bec of appeals has ruled unconstitutional Quebec provincial legislation Fegula ing Cable television in a unanimous the three judge court upheld the Appeal of a Rimouski Ca ble television operator and said that Only Federal authorities had jurisdiction in the the judges ruled that the Law giving the Quebec Public utilities Board Juris diction Over Cable distribution was the constitutional Powers of the the Case has been the focal Point of a bitter Battle be tween the Quebec and Federal governments Over jurisdiction in the Field of Cable Dis Tribu the Case in question deals with permits to operate Cable systems in the lower Lawrence Region of Cable operator Marcel Dionne was granted a permit from the Canadian radio television commission in 1974 to serve several communities in the he subsequently applied to the Quebec Public utilities Board to operate in the same area but the Board divided the cart allotted territory in Dionne was Given Matane and the Matapedia Valley while businessman Raymond Dauteuil was granted a permit for Rimouski and Mont when the Case went to the Federal and Provin Cial government each backed one of the operators in the the appeals court upheld Dionne Contention that Cable distribution is the exclusive jurisdiction of the fed eral government and Over turned the Quebec Public ser vice Board in his majority chief Justice Lucien Trembo rejected arguments that the receiving equipment for Cable firms under Federal Law while the distribution equipment to Homes comes under provincial the same in terms of paragraph 10 of Arti Cle 92 of the British North America cannot be at the same time a local business and a business spreading beyond the limits of a prov airlines discuss flight cuts Vancouver up the presidents of up air and air Canada met Here thursday to coordinate Money saying efforts that May include elimination of some flights and reduced inflight Claude president of air said in an inter View after his meeting with Ian Gray that the country two International carriers want to move in step As they eliminate firs class accommodation on some Domestic increase plane seating capacity and look to reductions in service it would be frustrating for one airline to make cd gauges and have the other stand Pat in the Hopes of achieving some Taylor see Page 4 code r an Ciji hotpoint c e of ethics which would bind win Nipges employees to High moral conduct and secrecy i their duties was approved in principle thursday b y civic executive policy committee sent the devised by the civic Board of to the City Law department for a Blu ribbon civilian Coin of five appointed by Council 17 to draw up an ethics code for both civic administration and its six months work will Cost an estimated according to the Bud get it submitted to which Council approved the code would forbid civic servants to use thaw posit in far per Sonal to Grant Spiciati Twat eat to in the performance of their it directs that they should disclose to their superiors any commercial or financial merest which could conceivably create a conflict and keep such re ports up to Date during their employment with the the code would prohibit ulc employees from engaging in aay business or trans or having a direct or indirect interest incompatible with the proper discharge of their this prohibition would extend to the employees family or marriage rela civic employees disclose confided trial Una on government or City affairs without use to Bene Ujj themselves they would prohibited from from anyone directly or indirectly interested in business Deal Ings with the if such a Gilt might tend to influence the employees the code would forbid employees from appearing on Thebau private interests before an Agency of the or from represent log inter ests in litigation which the City was it would also forbid them using City for i s t s personal convenience or prof councillor All planer in citizens election Kuonan wanted to know what Chan Nels an employee would go through to get proper authorization before disclosing to a councillor scandalous of Tion that had come to is at chief commissioner Macdonald said the employee would to go through his immediate Superior Lor such but mayor Steve Juba said employees come to him ail time with confidential info Gerry by e r e i e r Garry said be didst disagree with toe but thought it should have been established by a political committee of City Council the adm Stratios formulate rules go verning its own be i ;