Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny Low -18, High -5 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises 8-26 . Seis . Details Page 6 Winnipeg free press vol. 84 no. 93 thursday january 20, 1977 3sc with 6d comics final edition by Iain Hunter staff correspondent Ottawa opposition Leader Joe Clark suggested wednesday that there might be circumstances w h i c h would justify a conservative government in Ottawa using Force to keep Quebec in con federation. He refused at a press con Ference after a meeting of tory maps Here to join prime minister Pierre Trudeau in categorically rejecting the use of Force to prevent que Bec separating under any circumstances. Or. Clark reported that the tory caucus expressed the general feeling at its meeting wednesday that it must face the Challenge to mobilize the Federal forces in or. Clark stressed however that he did t think the use of arms would be productive of the Force of argument failed to keep that province in Canada. The conservative Leader also rejected the idea of a nation wide referendum on the question of Quebec Independence. Or. Trudeau has said that a National referendum is one of several options to be consid ered in settling the separation Issue which Quebec Premier Rene Levesque wants decided by a referendum within his province within four years. Or. Clark told reporters wednesday that he thinks a Quebec referendum would support federalism. We have to persuade que Beers thinking of flirting with Independence that it is in their interest to remain in he declared. The tory Leader said his party has the unlike the liberals who have been the traditional party within Quebec representing the Federal being Able to develop a new approach to the question. Dealing with or. Trudeau s rejection of the use of Force to keep Quebec in Canada the conservative Leader agreed that you Force people to stay somewhere they Don t want to but he added that he did t see the need of offering a hostage to Fortune by reject ing categorically As he re called the prime minister had done the use of Force in any circumstances. Photo by Jack Ablett today mayor Juba also writes Page 3 Joann goes to Washington Page 4 Regency towers tenants bristle Page 9 Howard Hughes a bizarre portrait Page 17 . Inflation at 4-year Low Pace 13 Edmonton greenest of Canadian cities wednesday scores nil dangers 3 Steve tax 3 t Buffalo 2 3 Vancouver 0 is. Louis s 3 wha at Birmingham pod., Snow pm Page inside Bridge classified co Raics 22. 2 3? ij-s6 22 41 x 23 kiss pm Tttus landlord appeals Rollback by Debbie Sproat a landlord whose proposed rent increases were rolled Back by the tent review Board has notified tenants i that the decision will be appealed to the Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. Tenants won t receive the rent rebates ordered by the Board or have their rents Roll Back until the court application is heard Mohammed Khan general manager of r u 11 a n development corporation Ltd. Said wednes Day. Vivian Rosenberg executive director of the rent re View Board said it is illegal for landlords to withhold rent rebates and rollbacks once the Board has issued the orders. She said tenants should personally Roll Back their rents to the level approved by the Board and should apply to the Board for their rebates. If r u 11 a n development does go to court. Mrs. Rosen Berg said it will be the first landlord to Challenge in the courts a decision made by the rent review Board. The company owns a 38 Storey apartment Block tit 55 Nassau Kil Tarton towers at 1710-12 Portage Avenue Fountain House at 2g8 foun Tain Street and Sussex House at 230 Roslyn Road. In letters delivered to ten ants of the four blocks this week. Or. Khan said the rent review Board had issued orders for rent increases below what inc company Felt was necessary o meet expenses. The financial information submitted by our company to the Board clearly indicated hat our company was entitled to the increase in rents applied the loiter said and ave cannot understand How the Hoard reached the conclusions it did. To have carefully re viewed our position in the matter and have decided that we must apply to the see landlord Page 4 George and Ellen Neufeld s car slowly submerges in fort carry underpass couple rescued from car roof water main break floods underpass by Philip Rodgers for about 20 minutes Early today George and Ellen Neufeld crouched on the roof of their car wait ing to be rescued while water from a burst main beneath the car under pass at Pembina Highway and Jubilee Avenue slowly submerged the car. The Neu folds left their Home at 2101 Pembina about 6 to drive mrs. Nufeld to work. We were driving along. It looked funny up ahead and All of a sudden we were surrounded by mrs. Neufeld said later. A spokesman for the City s works and opera t i o n s division said the water break was discovered about 6 . Source of the break was still unknown by mid morning. Rod Mcrae director o f operations said there were several drains running beneath the u n d c r p a s s work Crews had managed to shut off several but not All. And although the water flowing into the area had been reduced it was continuing to flow. The spokesman said Al though the flooding was caused by a broken water main pipe beneath the underpass water was bub bling from a vacant lot opposite the Junction of Harrow Street and Bina and flowing in a Tor r e n t i a 1 Rush about 200 Yards to the Low lying underpass. The Neufeldt managed to get out of their car by climbing through the win Dows and onto the roof from which they were rescued by the fire depart ment. We were really mrs. Neufeld said. The water was up to the Driver s after the Neufeldt res Cue the fire department w h i c h had sent a pumper to the scene offered to help Drain the Ever deepening ice covered Pond created in the under pass. City works officials declined the help and were planning once the flow had been fully stopped to Clear the area through the sewage Drain that runs beneath the under pass. By mid morning the flood pumping station on the Bank of the red River at Cockburn Streed had been put into operation and the area was being gradually drained. Or. Mcrae said there had been a third More water main Breaks in 1976 c o a r e d with 1975. There could be an even greater increase this year he said. See couple Page 4 Cairo Calm worst Winter in recent times puts squeeze on . Economy riots end 34 killed Cairo a army Para troopers with machine guns guarded key squares and Bridges and patrolled Cairo s slum districts today after two Days of riots Over Price in creases. The Semi official newspaper Ai ashram reported 34 persons killed and 409 injured in Cairo and Alex Andria and 439 arrested in the capital. A 14-hour curfew Cairo s first since King Farouk was overthrown in 1952. Brought Calm Back to the Metropolis. People were moving about the streets normally. Buses were running. Workers began Clearing away the nibble and broken Glass left by the riot ing. Many shops reopened. Police reported Calm also in Alexandria the port City on the Mediterranean at the Southern end of the Suez canal and towns in the Nile Delta and upper Egypt where disturbances occurred wednesday. The violence was inc worst in Egypt since the revolution nearly 25 years ago. Al ashram said 29 were killed. 267 were injured and 439 were arrested in Cairo. In Alex Andria five persons were re ported killed and 132 injured tuesday. The is Angeles times from new Jersey where workers in Glass and China factories have been Laid off to Norfolk. Va., where shipyard Crews Are huddling around buckets of fire and deep into them Midwest one of the worst Winters in recent times is squeezing the . Economy. Trying to keep the heat up in Homes and apartments Many natural Gas firms Are slashing their supplies to Industrial plants office build Ings and shopping centres. Get the non essential users off the system is the message from Southern Nat ural Gas co., a pipeline firm distributing Gas to cities towns and utilities in Cor g i a Alabama Mississippi and South Carolina a Region suffering particularly bad weather. The non essential custom ers arc schools office build Ings drug stores Laundro Mats movie theatres and a myriad of Small businesses. If they shut Down there should be enough Gas for residential needs the company told its customers wednes Day. Even such spartan Conser vation efforts May be insufficient. In Beckley. West va., the local Gas company chose to shut off the heal going to Homes in order to keep the Gas flowing at Summers county Hospital. Except for the temporary West Virginia shutdown government officials Don t fore see any Homes losing their heat. In the Southeast and in 0 h i u Pennsylvania and parts of Indiana the roaring demand for Gas is outstrip p i n g the Supply system s ability to move the clean burning fuel. It s a weather said s. William Yost director of the natural Gas Bureau of the Federal Power commis Sion. This is a one-in-50 see worst Page 4 and it could squeeze us too Isy Evelyn Larson this week s weather in the major fruit and vegetable growing areas of the United states will strongly affect the supplies and prices of these imported items in the near future. Winnipeg produce buyers say. But no one knows just How much. California i s recovering from drought conditions from late last year Texas is suf Fering unprecedented Rains and temperatures in Florida have dropped below freezing with accompanying Snow storms. The produce business is highly dependent on these Esther conditions As they affect the planting growing and harvesting of crops. Harvesting is the biggest problem in Texas right now. At this time of year when supplies of Manitoba grown cabbages and carrots arc Al most depleted the Winnipeg Market relics heavily on Texas for these products. Mark Spencer head of West fair foods produce depart ment explained. In a Tele phone interview. Or. Spencer described photographs h e had of Texas harvests in which Earth movers were trying to pull loaded wagons of cabbages from the Fields while workers watched knee deep in some cases helicopters were called in to remove the wagons from the mire. The result seems to he showing up in the highest cabbage prices in history he said. As All the produce spokes men pointed out when one major area is affected other areas respond with higher prices because of diminished supplies. The Harvest situation is similar in the Honda Chitnis areas where labourers Aren t used to working in Snow. Until the damage from the Snow and cold has been assessed. Florida juice people have withdrawn prices. Buyers Don t know what prices will be in the future. Up until this time there has been a heavy Citrus crop available and prices on oranges and Grapefruit have been reasonable. The Situa Tion May re Eric though or. Spencer said. It s a matter of Supply and the Tomato situation in Florida is very he said and if Frost hits again one grower May lose a s3 2 million crop. In Manitoba buyers Are starting to draw from mexican production but supplies Are limited. There is Good news however for Consumers of head see and Page 4 Carter sworn in As 39th president by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Washington Jimmy Carter sworn in today As 39th president of the United states warned in his inaugural address that the country s future is threatened if Ameri cans despise their own government. Or. Carter whose mood was described by a key aide As one of sober also tempered a Call to main Tain a Strong . Military Force with a pledge to work for a new treaty limiting nuclear weapons in 1977. We Are a proudly idealistic he said in what was undoubtedly one of the shortest inaugural speeches Ever by an american presi than 15 minutes. But let no one confuse our idealism with reiterating a major theme of his election Campaign that americans should once again be Able to Trust their leaders the new president stated that if we despise our own government we have no the key presidential aide briefing reporters before the speech said or. Carter is seriously concerned by the level of Public cynicism about politicians. He said he had no new dream to set Forth today but rather wished to urge a see Carter Page 4 City pledges Arena by Ron Campbell Winnipeg City Council agreed wednesday to guar Antee either a publicly or privately owned Arena in Exchange for an economically viable professional hockey team. Under a civic executive policy committee Resolution adopted by Council if a financially sound team franchised in either the National or world hockey leagues or an amalgamation of the two. Is guaranteed for Winnipeg the City will undertake to provide an Arena to meet the minimum requirements of the franchise. The policy committee re commendation emanated from a study by its subcommittee on redevelopment proposals for Canadian National railways downtown East Yards finance committee had earlier rejected a great West life Assurance co. Leaseback proposal under which the City would pay the company annual rent equal to the debt service charge on the Cost of erecting a million 16.000 scat Arena in the East Yards cast of main Street Between York and St. Mary avenues. In studying that finance committee rejection the sub committee said great West s offer to dedicate land in that area for an Arena should t be rejected and if the City wanted to have a professional hockey team in its future it would soon have to decide on a to seat Arena. Winni Eggers have demonstrated solid for professional hockey and would Sec Arena Page 4 Crook catchers scare felons most says the Scalpel London renter Corn Paters and Selear Power Eli machines Are replacing in detect cues a tace Frost foe of modern Erim a British of Rask Tarsi said wednesday. A Effic sir poor. Fca Omro As tree of Fujs itt Fyk 9 Josh ii is All bad Crews for inc criminal. For sleuthing is heading into an Era when the very air the Crock breath hastily and convict he said. Already today Feere Are a Craod measles he added. Worse still he said a single hair pet in rash a spec is capable of 0rft providing evidence of Karsetn hat else Wras s Cave Swaw left a fee Swise ;