Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news saturday january 22, 1977 2nd class mail registration number 0286 for Comfort convenience and Economy travel inquiry to probe oct. 14 retaliation by employers Manitoba labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley will set up an Industrial inquiries commission t o investigate disciplinary action or threat ened Legal action by several companies against employees who took part in the oct. 14 Day of protest against the Federal Anli inflation pro Gram. Seven or eight companies and up to employees Are under strained relations As a result of this or. Paul Ley told a press conference Friday. He admitted the inquiry process provided for under the labor relations act lacks any Power to prevent Legal or disciplinary action. But he said he hoped it might change attitudes to further harmonious Industrial relations particularly in a year when a number of col bargaining agree ments Are to be negotiated. The commission of inquiry reports to the minister with recommendations or. Paulley said he hoped the commission would be appointed within a week and that it would report before the end of the upcoming ses Sion of the legislature. The terms of reference Are still under consideration but the commission could be asked to consider 9 if the protest was an illegal strike and if action could also be taken against employers for an illegal pc Kout. If legislative action should be taken to give the Manitoba labor Board author Ity to make such a ruling. If citizens have a Basic right to protest government action without impairment to their livelihood. It will have Powers under the Manitoba evidence act to subpoena witnesses and take evidence under oath. The companies named by or. Paulley were International Nickel company of Canada a Manitoba Hydro project management consortium of contractors Canada packers International har v e s t e r Manitoba rolling Mills and Allied farm implements. V or. Paulley said the com Mission of inquiry procedure was decided upon after he had written letters unsuccessfully to the employers to ask them to forgive and for get the employees action in the oct. 14 Day of protest in i t i a t e d by the Canadian labor Congress. Kenora area fishing ban expected soon a sport fishing ban on the Mercury contaminated eng Lish Wabigoon River system near Kenora could come within two weeks chief Isaac Mandamin of Whitedog Indian Reserve said Friday. At a Federal provincial committee meeting in Toron to thursday responsibility for closing the system was left to Ontario s natural re sources ministry he said. A senior Federal official who also attended the meet ing agreed it was now up to Ontario to take the initiative Sibly by the end of january. Chief Mandamin suggested there was a machine to print Money but not to cure Mer Cury poisoning. He pointed out the Ontario government has estimated their Cost to restore Minaki Lodge at million. The government bought the Northwestern on Tario Lodge after its business was hard hit by reports of contaminated fish in 1974. Aut Opac renewals in mail next week these fixtures appliances carpets television sets and stereos valued at about Are part of the items taken Between november and january in a series of break ins in Winnipeg Lorette and Stonewall Man. They Are being held in a sealed warehouse and in the gymnasium of the Public safety building. The items were Dis covered at two addresses in the City. Two men Hydro imports up Over by Paul Sleske have been charged in connection with the Reco very. They Are Grant Sinclair 30, of 273 Douglas Avenue East Kildonan and Roderick George a Milton 22, of no fixed address. A boy who was also charged has been transferred to the Mani Toba youth Centre. Both men Are waiting trial on a series of related charges. The provincial government will begin mailing out aut Opac renewals next week and although the 1977 insurance Rales will not go up Many car owners will have to pay a higher registration fee. Starting this year the provincial government will calculate the fees on the basis of the weight of the vehicle rather than wheel base. As a result some vehicle owners will find enclosed in their a Lopac a letter advising them to take their 1976 insurance and registration card to any aug Upas out let where the new Lee will be calculated and a 1977 card will be issued. This will Only be necessary in cases where aut Opac officials Lack information on certain types of vehicle Peter Burtniak minister responsible for aut Opac said Friday. The new rates become effective feb. 28. From that Date on All vehicles do capt tractors in Manitoba must display the Blue 1977 Valida Tion sticker in the lower right hand Corner of the rear in cd acc plate. Absolute menace gets jail term of five years a 30-year-old Winnipeg Man described by provincial judge Lawrie Mitchell As an absolute menace was sentenced to five years in jail Friday. Ivan William Henry pleaded guilty to three charges of break and enter one charge of attempted rape and one count of assault with intent to rape. The charges arise from three separate incidents last year in the fount Rouge area. Court was told Henry s last occurred while he was released on bail for the previous ones. Henry who has six previous break and enter convictions is married and has tvo Young children. Crown counsel Stuart Whit icy said the first offence occurred june 2 when Henry entered a Young woman s suite through an unlocked door at night and went into the bedroom. He jumped on the woman put his hand Over her Mouth and told her not to move or he d kill her or. Whitley said. Court was told Henry struck the woman giving her a Black Eye and chipped tooth. He attempted to have Intercourse with her but was unsuccessful and began choking her when she re fused his order to perform other indecent acts. Or. W h i 11 c y said the woman placated her attacker by telling him she loved him. He then dragged her out of the apartment and into the Yard but fled after the woman began to cry. Henry forced his Way into a second apartment suite june 18. And began choking the Young woman and push ing her head into the Pillow. A struggle ensued and the woman was Able to escape the apartment or. Whitley said. Henry was arrested july 23 and released on two sureties of s3.000 each by judge r. L. Kopstein of provincial judges court. The accused s last offence took place dec. 12 when he forced his Way into a base ment apartment by breaking Down the entire door Frame court was told. The commo Tion brought other people in the apartment to the suite and police were called. Henry was found hiding in a Utility room in the Block and arrested. Manitoba Hydro had to inv port nine times More electricity from Power Compa Nies in the United states to meet demands in december than it did for the same month a year ago. Hydro officials also said 1976 was the first year the Utility has had to import More Power than its exported. They blame an unusually dry summer a cold Winter and Low water Levels for the deficit. Last month. Manitoba Hydro imported 103 million kilowatt hours of electricity compared with 12 million Kil Owatt hours in december 1975. Exports for the same month dropped 178 million kilowatt hours in 1976. Earl Mills director of pub Lic affairs for Hydro said the Utility began cutting Back its commitments to Export electricity in August when the dry spell began to appear serious. He said Hydro has been progressively increasing its imports to meet demand since then. He said that unless water Levels improve drastically imports could exceed exports into the sum Mer. Or. Mills added that Hydro is not worried about producing enough Power to meet demand next Winter since it expects to be producing More by then. Manitoban set a record Manitoban set a record for electrical consumption earlier this month but Mani Toba Hydro officials predict that if temperatures dip to last month s lows consumption could Peak again at an even higher level. Don com Stock Utility spokesman said Manitoban set the record at . January 10 with a demand of 2.345 megawatts. The pre Vious High was set last year when consumption reached 2.253.9 megawatts. Or. Comstock said the cold weather was the single Lar Gest cause of this year s re Cord and said thai consumption could go higher if the what fir gets bad in the next week. He said the completion of the Churchill River diversion project this fall the opening of the Long Spruce generating station next february and the first Block of Genera tors at Jenpeo next april will add substantially to Hydro s capacity. Hydro purchases the bulk of its imported electricity from Northern states Power commission Minnesota Power and Light and Minn Kola. It Sells most of its exported Power to Saskatchewan and Ontario. Manitoba Hydro is associated with the mid Conti nent area Power Pool which encompasses seven Northern states in the . Johnstone quits ambulance Post robbery suspect sought Winnipeg police were Hunting for a Man in his Early 20s who tried to Rob a courier of an undetermined amount of Money about . Friday. A police spokesman said the courier was walking into the Canadian Imperi Al Bank of Commerce at Pembina Highway and so Merset Avenue in fort Garry when he was hit in the face by another Man who took the courier s Money bag. A passing citizen no t i c e d the incident and chased the Man to Point Road where he was Able to get the Money Back. The Man was described As about six feet tall weighing 160 pounds with Reddish Blond hair and moustache. Patrick Johnstone has re signed As general manager of the Winnipeg ambulance service after holding that Post since the inception of the service 1975. His resignation was accepted Friday at an unannounced meeting of the Winnipeg ambulance Board which Over sees the ambulance service. Or. Johnstone with experience in the ambulance Field in Toronto was hired to get the fledgling Winnipeg ambulance service financed with provincial Money on its feet but has since been the target of criticism from both inside and outside the service. Last March councillor Mike Ruta new democratic party East chairman of the now defunct ambulance advisory commit tee called the ambulance service management incompetent and said or. John Stone must go. But other City Hall sources said or. Johnstone did the Best he could in operating the service with employees complaints about inferior equipment on the one hand and budgetary shortages on the other. Then Jan. 7. The ambulance Board appointed Els Wood Bole As troubleshooter for the service giving him six months to suggest solutions to the ambulance ser vice problems and oversee changes needed to upgrade the Standard of service. In accepting or. John Stone s resignation the Board appointed or. Bole As interim general manager and agreed to advertise the Posi Tion shortly. According to a statement from the Board or. John Stone wished them every Success in the operation of the although Ottawa could act unilaterally to close the sys tem if a provincial announce ment a s not forthcoming. The closing would Cost the area s major Industry tourism from million to million in lost Revenue an n u a 11 a according to estimates supplied to the meet ing by the Ontario Industry awl tourism ministry. The Cost of buying1 out Lodge owners forced to close was estimated at million to million. However both chief Man Damin and the Federal spokesman considered the1 Cost of compensation to be a secondary Issue Given threats to human life posed by continuing the sport fish ing Industry. Ontario natural resources minister Leo Bernier was unavailable for comment. Last week he stated Ottawa might Force the closing pos Isaac Mandamin Whitedog chief trans air seeking increased fare rates unsafe Mercury Levels in fish was first recognized in 1970, and commercial fishing was banned. The Mercury was traced to the Reed paper Ltd. Mill at Dryden ont. The company stopped using Mercury in october of 1975. Sport fishing which pro i Vides about 300 jobs and sup ports a Large Lodge and out fitting Industry was allowed to continue. Subsequent testing has revealed dangerously High Mercury Levels in bloodstream of indians from Whitedog and Grassy Narrows reserves. Chief Mandamin said these two bands would present their estimate of fair com 1 sensation at a Federal Provin Cial meeting feb. 18 in Ottawa when he expected discus Sioris on a settlement to begin. He suggested both govern ment Levels might agree to provide compensation at that time. Government might also require compensation from the Reed paper Mill he said. The Federal official said both the indians and the fed eral government favor the closing to prevent people irom eating Mercury poisoned fish. Indian leaders say their people have continued to cat fish because they see White fishermen consuming their catches. However the tourist s intake is limited whereas some indians eat the fish All year Long. Authority to close the sys tem Springs from the Federal fisheries act the Federal spokesman said. However the province has traditionally implemented the act. For this reason Ottawa is await ing Ontario s next move be fore deciding what action to take he said. Maloney hired for duties he lost trans air limited of Winnipeg has joined air Canada and up air in applying to the Canadian transport com Mission for fare increases averaging seven per cent. If awarded the increase would take effect March 7 raising the Cost of a one Way ticket Winnipeg Toronto on trans air to from s96. In a statement Friday the company said the fare in crease is necessary to offset higher operating and fuel costs despite recent staff reductions and an internal re organization. Although we have made major changes in a great number of areas to reduce overhead we arc continuing to be caught in spiral of rising Tran Sair president h. D. Cope said. Trans air. Or. Cope added is planning to dispose of under utilized assets and marginal route he cited the impending 107 per cent rental fee increase on the company s hangars in Winnipeg As a major contrib Utor to rising expenses. The proposed seven per cent fare increase will Only affect the company s scheduled routes and not its charter operations. Earlier this month both up air and air Canada applied to the Canadian trans port commission to increase their Canadian routes by an average seven per cent. Funds cutoff irks native group local lawyer guilty of breach of Trust a Winnipeg lawyer who was disbarred last october. Pleaded Gss Liy Friday in provincial judges Coon to for swim breach Elf Trust and was ref tasted a Jan. 2s for ses test wig Soomar Pawl Swise ads used a cheese for so just of tvs Fife fees be att Yaja Perew Sai Sasfras a ser ibs us Eberne was to have been used to boy a House on Alex Ander Avenue for a client. Crown counsel George said Tofie cashed fee cheese ask 35 last year and admitted the answer a Vari Ety of National and Aali enal sews tree free press a Sites weft As a Swice area a native organization in Winnipeg has charged the Manitoba government with poor judgment after receiving word that of teds for a family counsellor training program were being cot off. The native family life counselling program sent a Telegram wednesday to pre Mier de Schreyer asking for a meeting to present its Case and requesting a response by 3 . Thursday. Cyril keeper director of the program. Toh reporters Friday at a press conference or. A Breyer bad not yet re used. The pros raw card been seaweed for two years to of com native Ceoffe w newsy soft 13 Safe see staffed Cesse at be Sass my hards. There Are very few if any trained native people i the social service or keeper said. There should be room in the system for trained native this year the proposed budget for the program had been but the Mani Toba Cabinet citing restrictions in spending trimmed that figure to last year or keeper estimated tace program budget had been abort the program is has fed Sre departs ent of and so Verity affairs a said. A fee prewar said a wefts be set Fri Day. Or. So Breyer Feas a soft. T i in Maloney has been hired by the Shamattawa in Dian band As a Community development worker a Little slightly More than a month after he was fired from virtually the same Job by the Federal government or. Maloney said Friday in so after discussions with band officials he has been hired for the three month period to continue the work that was interact cd by his dismissal. The Cree indians of Sha Mattawa have been plagued with problems of alcohol abuse glue and gasoline sniffing and prior to his Dis Missal in december or. A Oncy was employed by the Federal Indian affairs departed c n t to develop projects aimed at reducing these ills. He said Friday that the department has never Given any reason for his dismissal although he is sure it was because of his attitude. I was very critical of the or. Maloney said. He said the band has needs and the government has failed to meet those needs. The government has t yet Given the band members a decent Standard of living David Nicholson operations director for the depart ment of Indian affairs in Winnipeg sctt he co Mii t be specific Abonit the reasons for it. A Mcwey s dismissal but said it was t because the he directed toward Malowey was in wised for or. s iks2ni Ife to Tare Tim Maloney gets new Job or. Maloney was made by the band and he would be paid by the band. It s their or. Nicholson said. The band does receive unconditional Grants and provincial funding Over which the department of Indian affairs has not control or. Nicholson said. However despite or. A Toneys pending return to Sha i. I to department is inking for an official re we Are actively taking for tace director said. The Jeff icel rep Cewell carry on or. Left off at of time iks Dis Faroe Jefe or. Wis be be to a ;