Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 25, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Cloudy Low High 20 Sun rites sets Moon rises sets details Page 5 Winnipeg free press 15 cents 84 97 january 1977 profit restraint soon to be Macdonald hints final edition err or v s x v 5 of vhf 1 f at y n i compiled from dispatches Toronto finance min ister Donald hint ing that Federal ant inflation restraints on profits will soon be loosened to promote in said monday the government will reveal plans in 1977 for the timing and method of removing speaking to the Canadian club of said he is aware that the level of profits is below the Point necessary to attract fresh in vestment me told an appreciative audience of businessmen that investment is needed to improve and Cana Das competitive position in world As Well As to overcome unemployment and avoid future shortages of sup today Union head sees Only foes Page 26 businessmen save downtown parking Page 3 will Turner feast on homers roast Page 45 Manitoban spurn summer jobs Page 1 oddball planning strikes again Page s succession duties dropped in Page i j current events for the schools Page 23 Carter nixes limousines Page 10 inside Bridge classified cd Iuis crossword deaths Fui aute focus for people i muck movies sports 17 3144 12 31 1419 17 us 19 273u is fat ii ply which could Lead to fur ther Macdonald said past debates on profit Levels have not been particularly the More Basic concern right now is surely the of they Are too Low in relation to All the other Macdonald also indicated that investment Uncertain ties arising from the incomes and profit control program will soon be he said he would discuss the timetable for decontrol with business and labor leaders in the next few reiterated his Assurance that controls must be ended by in the commons opposition see controls Page 4 10day embargo on Florida fruit by Evelyn Larson citing reasons of Quality the Florida Citrus has imposed an embargo on All shipments of Citrus fruit As of the embargo is to last for 10 during the 10 the damage from last weeks Florida freeze will be assessed and then a 14day try out period will during which some Citrus May be Eddie produce manager of Codville distributors of win Citrus juice producers Are continuing to withhold prices on their products until dam Ages arc he Jerry of Western grocers produce department said the Citrus will be evaluated in random samples from various Groves by a Bath the fruit sinks it is considered to still be Juicy but fruit that is considered As the inside cells have rup you cant Tell by looking at he there was a tremendous crop of ranges in Florida at the time of the freeze and the damage May not be quite As devastating As was first he in the because of reduced supplies being California Sec 10day Page 4 former prime minister John Diefenbaker relaxes on the Patio of his Barbados cottage monday while writing the final volume photo of his on Holiday during the parliamentary Christmas says Hes in excellent Bellan inquiry opens developers blamed for land costs 50c cup of Coffee not Welcome Here a 50cent cup of Coffee is an unwelcome Prospect be cause it would turn custom ers off the Winni pegs Mickey a hotel keeper and former president of the Canadian restaurant association lie feels restaurateurs will hold to a 40or 45cent limit despite recent wholesale in creases of about a general foods be came the last of the four major Coffee suppliers to reach a a Pound whole Sale level when it raised prices the Price should pro Duce a retail Price of roughly a Pound once present Stock is used because the full effect of the wholesale raise Hast been Felt its not known to what extent shoppers will Cut Vic a Canada Safeway some people May be anticipating the higher prices by stocking up he the 45centacup Price at the Coffee counter represents the Point where customers will begin substituting Coffee for Tea and other Levine every time we we automatically Knock off a certain and the higher the Price the greater the percentage lost the average Price in Winnipeg is now 30 to 35 restaurant operators have already Rattei rated to hold the line by dropping free re Levine see 50c Page 4 policeman fined on driving charges a Winnipeg police officer to pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving and leaving the scene of an Accident was fined in provincial judges court Mon William of 8 e 7 Gabriel was Given one month to pay the Tine imposed in connection with an incident Jully 2 last court was told Pei Der Gast was driving carelessly and hit another slightly injuring the Driver and two passengers As Well us causing More than alter Crown counsel Stuart Whitley and defence counsel Lawrence Greenberg had Fin i s h e d their judge John Enns said they had studiously avoided mentioning that Pender Gast was a police he said counsel should know better than to avoid mention ing that fact and added that he want the Public to think it was being covered Greenberg then Rose and said Pendergast is a police officer and has been Oil Llu Force 28 Whitley said Pender Gas left the scene of the Accident and made minimal efforts to find out what kind of damage he had by Scott Edmonds concentration in the hands of Large developers has helped push land prices in Winnipeg to current High the first submission to the Bellan inquiry on land costs contended one Large Baum industries stands to make million profit on land in the Maples and Margaret Park develop ments Kent head of the City planning department at the University of estimated in his t h e Large corporations now see the land around our cities As the new to be monopolized and Gerecke the provincial govern ment headed by Reuben heard Only the one submission monday and wont reconvene for an other after his Gerecke was questioned by t h e commissions who wanted to know the basis of Many conclusions contained in the Doc the factual basis of your Brief seems to be very Martin Gerecke said he would include the answers to Many of the lawyers questions in a supplementary re port he plans to present later to the besides the scheduled pub Lic Bellau has said he and Winnipeg lawyer Steward the com missions Legal will conduct private i Vestiga in cities such As which Lack Winnipeg corporate concentration in the development land prices Are Gerecke told the he cited a study which indicated four developers in Winnipeg lad co Quilico develop ments and metropolitan properties control acres of when Bellan raised the question of reducing lot the professor said his studies indicated size was a Small Factor relative to profit Tak the problem is certainly not one of How much land we have ready to go on the mar he warning the commission against following a false by using As a Purchase Price for land the average of purchases made Ever several years by the Manitoba hous ing and renewal Corpora Gerecke estimated the land in the hands of developers represents a Poten tial profit of he also cited the role of City Hall in rising land costs Zed included in his submission an analysis of City councils voting record on issues that polarized the interests of the Community and those of from 1974 to the Independent citizens election committee m e m b e r s of City Council voted 84 per cent of the time in favor of pro development interests and independents voted 52 per cent of the time in favor of those he see big Page 4 parents ordered to Send children to French school Montreal up the heated controversy Over que becs language of education continued to boil As one school Board obtained a court order and another promised to do the same in an Al fort to evict immigrant Chil Dren from unofficial English language in a precedent setting Case in 40 Miles North of the Des Manors school commission won an interlocutory injunction or Dering the parents of six Chil Dren to withdraw them from English it marked the first time a school Board had successfully resorted to the courts to enforce the provinces official language but before the Day was Over a second Board was marshalling its Legal Raphael pres ident of the Jerome Leroyer Board in a heavily immigrant Section of Eastend told reporters he had ordered lawyers to seek injunctions against the parents of about 100 his decision met with a Swift rebuke from Angelo spokesman for the italia Canadian education who warned the Leroyer parents would defy any court order served against w e Are Montini we expected they would take an injun we knew what they would so let them do water system proposed Winnipeg City Council should authorize million in new waterworks construction by 1985 and million in new sewage disposal facilities by civic works and operations committee was told to meet the projected sex the user rates would Likely have to double Between now and Nick works and operations but considering the new facilities such an increase is not he George general manager of the cites water waste and disposal i outlined the new requirements As background to the divisions 1977 capital is about million of the million recommended this year is proposed for waterworks and million is for waste committee approved those expenditures As Well As an extra million to be added to the proposed million 1977 storm Relief sewer pro Gram to relieve basement Diakiw told the commit tee the Board of commission ers is also studying a Mil 20year storm drainage program for the to be financed from general City revenues or by local improve ment charges on the proper ties it would waste and Dis p o s a 1 director Alexander Penman told the committee that under recent Amend ments to the Federal National housing a Low interest Federal capital loan is Avail Able to cover two thirds of the Cost of municipal water works and sewer a Quarter of this which comes out to on sixth of the total Doest have to be Penman the main feature of the new waterworks require ments is a 50 mile Long second Aqueduct from Natalie Lake in the seven Sisters Falls area of the Winnipeg River to the see new Page 4 Volvo looking Over flyer the giant swedish car and bus manufacturing held discussions today with the Manitoba govern ment about the possibilities of buying flyer industries or becoming equal partners in the provincial owned diesel and trolley bus two representatives of the swedish firm arrived in Winnipeg last week and were joined by a third from Toron they had been invited by the Manitoba government to tour the flyer follow ing talks on swedish involve meet last the Volvo officials met with Sidney minister responsible for flyer Indus and Sydney chairman and general Man Ager of the Manitoba development a Volvo spokesman said this All of the discussions so far there have been two or three have been very but this is the first time that anybody from our company has actually gone to Winnipeg to take a look at the affairs and facilities we from our Side do not wish to make any statements or one Way or the see Volvo Page 4 Cuba trains rhodesian Blacks looking Fob a pet this want and under pets 1041 yellow is among the hundreds of bargains in today Classi fied no matter what you shop and save in free press want Zambia a rhodesian Black nationalist sources said today cuban advisers Are training nationalist guerrillas for the War against Rhodesia White minority re the report came amid talk of an impending racial blood Bath in Rhodesia because of prime minister Ian Smiths rejection monday of British proposals for a peaceful transition to Blac majority Rule South said the proposals would have led to an immedi ate surrender of Power to marxist Iii doctrine Black the sources said the apparently from nearby Are training fighters of the Zimbabwe Peoples the military Armol the patriotic front led by rhodesian Black nationalists Joshua Nkomo and Rob Ert Zimbabwe is the Black nationalists name i a n estimated to cuban troops remained in Angola after helping a marxist oriented nationalist group seize Power there last in recent Rhode is a u government officials have expressed fears that these cuban forces might enter the rho Esiau conflict in some see cubans Page 4 nato Aid Rise hinted Bonn a pres ident Carter is considering in creasing american contributions to nato despite his plans to Cut Pentagon spend Vic president Walter Mondale told officials of the Atlantic Alliance nato policy May affect Caj Iada see Page 24 before flying to Mon Dale explained to top nato o f ii c i a 1 s in Brussels that while the United states is pre pared to make some unilateral additional in creases would be made Only in the context of a cooperative Effort by the other 14 nato member the additional increase would take place if we Are Able to have a cooperative agreement that other nato countries would the Vic president said at a news conference at the Start of his 10day world tour to Confer with major cd problem in Core residents highly promiscuous theres a serious venereal disease problem in the Core area of says the cites Deputy medical health partly because Resi dents there Are a highly promiscuous in a report to Winnipeg civic environment commit the l said monday the Core area has a serious cd problem which is hard to control because its inhabit Tauts trove around a officials Are now develop ing a outreach program in v o 1 v i a g Contact treatment and counselling services in an attempt to Stem the it would be run through the main Street one provincial health official said tuesday the int confined to the Core though that where it is most Luc deut at venereal Dis ease is growing in the j n c e although officials dont know for sure by How Urich because they estimate Only a average 25 per cent of cases Are but there concerned that unless the province gets bet Ter control of the it will be hit with strains of venereal disease which Are resistant to penicillin and two other drugs now commonly used i treatment these strains have been found elsewhere in the world and in we know they will come Here its Only a matter of said the provincial official who didst want to be in part because of the sensitivity of the its estimated about 70 per cent of the provinces gonorrhoea cases Are in Winnipeg although its Uncertain Bow Many Rural cases go utter social and eco nomic factors Combine to make the problem very serious in the downtown said Oue official who feared the statement would be taken the wrong Way by certain cultural the purpose of the experimental project will be to try to reach those groups of people who have venereal disease but will nut seek treatment from traditional such As the health sciences Centre or mount they just dont they just dont want to go to the said John executive director of the main Street the transience of the peo their unwillingness to seek treatment and their refusal to name contacts All make it difficult to control eueral he because they relate to this we think there Sec Venk teat Page 4 ;