Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today fish ban expected weather sunny High -4, Low -8 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Derails Page 5 in Winnipeg free press i final edition 3 vol. 84 no. 95 saturday january 22, 1977 15 cents Csc with coloured comics where in the world Are we going Page 6 mine safety probe urged Page 8 . Financiers to hear Levesque Canada records Trade surplus Ottawa Impi record 10 defective babies allowed to die Panama a Thorn in Side of . Page 24 the unscientific is. The scientific 35 airlines threaten Calgary Boycott 37 and deletion policy halted 33 i Levels of both exports and imports left the country with a Trade surplus of sl.132 billion in 1976, a rever Sal from the 1975 deficit of million statistics Canada said Friday. Exports on a balance of payments basis Rose by 14 per cent to billion last year while imports moved up by 8.5 per cent to a value of billion the Federal Agency reported. The merchandise Trade Fig ures Are Only a part of the Over All balance of payments which Are expected to show a deficit of Over billion this year. The total balance of payments also includes in vestment flows borrowing abroad travel accounts and changes in foreign reserves for example. Much of the surplus was re corded in the third Quarter of 1976 when the country exported million More Mer Chandise than it imported. Increased exports to the ., which is Canada s major trading partner accounted for 84 per cent of the growth in exports during the year. Statistics Canada said the increased Trade reflected the economic recovery in the . The . Share of Canadian exports was 67.8 per cent last year. About 43 per cent of the in crease to the . Was accounted for by a Rise in the value of motor vehicles and parts shipped by billion. Natural Gas deliveries were valued at million More and Forest products were Worth million More than the Low Levels of 1975. Canadian sales to the euro Pean economic Community countries accounted for 7.3 per cent of the Rise in exports. Japan accounted for 5.5 per cent and Central and South America 3.6 per cent. After the . The largest Export markets in order were Japan. Britain. West Ger Many the soviet Union Italy. Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands and France. Goods bought from the . Which supplied Canada with 08.6 per cent of its imports in Rose in value by 8.9 per cent to n total of s25.g62 billion. Shirley Gore Smith surrounded by plants. House plants Blossom into million business few metric problems Bobby Hull injured Page 39 Page 7i cold forces prices up motor vehicle and parts imported from the . Rose by is billion about 47 per cent of the total Rise in imports. Imports from All main overseas sources except inc european economic Community countries Rose in the loading sources after the . Were Japan. Venezuela. Britain. West Germany. Iran. Saudi Arabia. France Italy and Australia. Venezuela the largest sin Gle supplier of Petroleum to Canada Rose to third place among import sources from fifth in the previous year As it displaced to some extent imports from the Middle East. By Azanger t h e Plant business has blossomed beautifully in Winnipeg since the first specially store opened Here about three years ago. Now. More than 55 City outlets sell plants and Plant supplies. They include 14 shops scaling exclusively with plants and supplies and about 40 to 45 outlets in department stores Chain food stores and variety shops. It s a million Dollar business. The Green revolution has no Only brightened otherwise Winters plants Are. Also be coming an impressive and inexpensive component in Interior design. You can create All kinds of tilings with Larry Waldman owner of Ruby be Gonia said. His shop put Down roots at 165 Lilac Street about 18 months ago. He plants pcs Homes and the occasional office they re a cheap Way to decorate. You can gel a lot of Impact for s300." Shirley Gore Smith. H o started the or and Leaf three years ago agrees. If you want to fill a Corner buy a she said. In addition to her two tree Ana Leaf outlets at. 291 Portage Avenue and 99 of Irne Street she Jias a Plant radio show on Csc and still has enough Energy to plan greenery schemes for Homes office buildings rus i a u r a n t s and shopping centres. See plants Page 9 Pardon for draft evaders brings mixed reaction Here Jumble winners i entry War scrap ifs vhf Magazine week Ted count comics Friday scores nil Toronto 2 Vancouver 1 Boston s Clev Evond 2 Chicary l Winnipeg 6 Circino Aji s Canada Saskatoon 2 1 too 7 Portland s Brandon 5 3 Kamio oos 3 years air prison Friday. Walter car of Winnipeg pleaded guilty to concealing the True value of his assets when applying for a loan of to build a Motel in Transcona Between aug. 12, 1975 and March 3, 1976. The credit Union s Niak a Branch advanced about hah a million dollars in funds for the project before Dis covering car bad no other financing and virtually no col lateral for the loan. County court judge j. W. M. Thompson said the Large amount of Money involved made the offence a severe one even though there May have been mitigating Circum stances. Court was told that car who was left penniless because of his unsuccessful. Business transactions had already spent two months in custody. Crown counsel a. N. Jack Stein said car who worked As a Miner in Bernic Lake Man., for five years began investigating the possibility of building a hotel in Winnipeg in 1974. Car made an unsuccessful attempt to raise Money for one venture and then was told by a contract ing firm that it would Cost about million to build a Motel on prime land on re gent Avenue in Transcona. Or. Jacksteit said car approached various Banks to help him finance the Regent Avenue Motel in each Case misrepresenting his assets and claiming he had equip ment and Stock Worth All his claims of owning extensive mining Stock and hotel equipment were fraudulent since these were assets he never owned and never made any a Range Enesto buy or. Jacksteit said. Car finally approached the credit Union and said the see Man Page 4 by Jim Ragga try envoy gets Kidnap threat the Hague Reuter members of the Baader Meinhoff terrorist group in West Germany have threat ened to Kidnap the Canadian ambassador Saul Rae in an attempt to free their comrades in custody in West Germany the dutch Broad casting company Norv re ported Friday. The radio broadcast said ambassador Rae 62, has been Given a special police bodyguard. Extra police guards have been posted at the Canadian embassy Here. Norv said without giving any sources that the Baader minho of group or the West German role Armee red army faction planned to hold the ambassador in Exchange for the release of members of these groups in detention in Vest Germany. Dutch police and the Cana Diati embassy declined to comment on the report. At Ottawa the external affairs department said it received unconfirmed reports that Rae is inc target of kidnappers. Three alleged leaders of the Baader minho of group have been on trial in Stuttgart since May. 1975, on charges of bomb Ami shooting attacks and Bank robberies in the Early 1970s. Reference to the Baader minho of gang also came up in Brunswick. West Germany where police Hunting the stranglers of a Batik director his wife and their three Chil Dren said they had found a note at the scene purporting to be from supporters of the guerrilla group. The note threatened More actions of liberation second resignation Rutherford quits Winnipeg Ballet by Barbara Cansino the associate director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet has quit his second senior Ballet official s Resig nation to become Public in the past four Days. Richard Rutherford associate director and production coordinator of the bal let has resigned after a 19 year career with the com Pany. The resignation of the bal let s general manager Jim Cameron w a announced tuesday. To an interview from la Fayette Louisiana where the Winnipeg company had been on tour or. Rut Narford said his resignation is effective april 18 when the season ends. I be been with the com Pany a great Many years. Things have changed in my time and i feel i d like to do some other kind of or. Rutherford expects to move to Ottawa where he and a partner plan to set up a Plant sitting service he said. Or. Rutherford replied that he had no comment on the Way things have been going in the past two years when asked whether he had been fairly treated by or. Car Meron. I have of course my own personal opinions they d make Good Reading but it s not Worth it. I would Racher go out like i came in. Which was very quietly. I just want to Start a new career. I really Don t think it would have made any difference who was in that p o s i t i p n or. Ca my decision would be the same. Or. Cameron might have made it easier but it would still have been the or. Rutherford s entire Ca reer has been spent with the Ballet. He joined the com Pany in 1957, one year before artistic director Arnold see Rutherford Page 4 landlord faces Fine if rebates withheld looking for an accordion this want and under Sis Sical instruments 585 Button accordion. Ask my phone is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what Yon need shop and save in free press want ads. By Debbie Sproat Ruttan development has been advised it is liable for fines ranging from to a Day for each suite if it does t pay tenants rent rebates ordered by the rent in View Board. The fines apply even if Ruttan decides to Appeal the rent rollbacks to the Mani Toba court of Queen s Bench Vivian Rosenberg executive director of the rent review Board said in a letter Deli Vered to the company and its earlier this week. Mohammed Khan general Man Ager for Ruttan. Notified ten ants the company was going to Appeal the rollbacks or dered by the rent review Board because they Felt higher rents were necessary to meet expense. Or. Khan told tenants they would t receive the rent rebates or dered by the Board or have their rents rolled Back until the court application is heard. Mrs. Rosenberg said Fri Day she wrote or. Khan after numerous tenants complained they d been told to continue paying the rent written in their leases. Tic tenants affected live in four blocks a 38-Storey apartment at 55 Nassau Kilter Ion towers at 1710-12 por Tage Avenue. Fountain House a i 300 Roslyn Road and sus sex House at 230 Roslyn Road. The blocks have a total of 780 tenants. In her letter to or. Khan which was also delivered to tenants mrs. Rosenberg said it was the company s demo cratic right to Appeal the rent review Board s decision. However it is not within your jurisdiction to instruct tenants to pay the amount of rent that is written in their her letter said. That rent is no longer frugal. The full amount of the re Bate must be made within t pc c next rental payment period to All those in nests affected by the decision and All rents must be rolled Back to the amount arrived at in the if the company does not Sec landlord Page 4 bring Home Constitution fast or face Wrangle pm by Iain it Ustek free press Ottawa prime min Der Pierre Trode a has to urged the provinces to bring he by i or Bew Sater is latest proposals for Patria relayed to the 10 pc m i e r s earlier this Creek. Be weep ate to provinces. Assure Fey or. Trades to foil to f e Bis major Jet drives As Twe parti tiie Benois government m Quebec nov. 15 Haa Little if any effect on or. Trad eatts proposals. Ibex Ackrey pledged that the Unwe Rawiszer a room not go Irsle Patria Tian witfa5st r o Premier rec . Tree Priewe is water Ward agree that provincial consensus on Oon Stith tonal changes wanted by the Jet it i a Jjck Isicc bring the Cors titration to can Ada for later or. 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