Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Alfh Low Sun Elsm is Moon rises sets details Page 6 t g free press january we res wont ordain women Vatican City a the roman Catholic Church will not ordain women As priests no matter what other churches the Vatican said because Jesus Christ was a Man and his representatives on Earth must Bear a natural a declaration is sued by the Vatican Congre gation for the doctrine of the Faith on the orders of Pope Paul said the Church based its decision on the attitude of who chose Only men for his and on that of the who chose Only men As informed sources said ear Lier this week that the Docu ment might open the Way for women to become a position they could hold in the Early Days of but an official commentary released with the declaration said the congregation has postponed a decision on Womert it is a question that must be approached in a thorough see no Page 4 today Thomas needs All 9 lives prime Farmland v disappearing 16 Steen nominated Page 45 Potash Price Case hampered Page 56 express 99074 series 1 Page 2 wednesday scores Edmonton 3 4 nil 3 2 flin f Ion 11 Winni Pofi 4 Regina 3 Portland 2 Kim oops i details on inside 22 Bridge classified comics crossword 23 finance 4144 focus for people Horoscope jumbo movies sports 3ft 3133 22 ii 28 Taui Futi fat ii edition in 10 Csc with coloured comics it smells like summer to 19 month old Christopher Rustell who came in from the cold wednesday to enjoy the warmth of the conservatory in Assiniboine son of by Bonner and Doug Russell of fort a close look at some or the cyclamen set in the sunken storm stalls Snow no race blizzard like conditions near the Border today caused a four hour delay in the last Lap of the International 500 snowmobile race from Minnesota to race officials said visibility was Zero in the Humboldt Vincent District of min n e s o t a and that if the weather did not Clear by noon the final Lap would be postponed until High winds and a Light snowfall Early today played havoc with Highway school operations and airline schedules in Southern Mani the conditions Are expected to continue throughout the the weather office issued an advisory warning for nost of Southern Manitoba As northerly winds picked up to 40 Kilometres an the provincial highways department advised against leaving Winnipeg because there was a Complete w h i t e o u t on highways around the a spokesman just swamped with Calls from the Public at the spokesman said Early some people were stuck Al a hotel at Oak just Southwest of be cause of Zero visibility on the he n e i t h e r the ramp nor Winnipeg police bad Auy immediate confirmed reports of accidents although an ramp spokesman a t heading Ley said they had been told of some we cant authenticate the reports right now our cars cant find them the the spokes Man a spokesman at Winnipeg International Airport said everything was still two air Canada flights were cancelled a flight into Winnipeg from Montreal and out of Winnipeg to a Tran Sair spokesman said some flights experienced neither up air nor North West Orient flights bad been some Southern school Divi Sions including Garden Rhine Lafeld and mid land cancelled their buses although schools remained opened for students living in the la sonic other i buses we rent operate log on some Case Load doubles in 2 years wait to come to trial in provincial judges court by Scott Edmonds about cases Are now awaiting trial in provincial judges court in the Public safety that Means a five to six month wait before an accused person out on bail goes to if no adjournments Are if even one is granted the delay can be those held in custody gel preferential treatment but still have to wait about two months for a the Case Load has More than doubled in the past two years and in 1976 reached a record George the clerk who compiles the said the backlog has been gradually increasing every this year there Are about 500 cases More than last year stacked up in the not included in those totals the out town cases which go directly to the Law courts building about cases were heard there last year although some were transferred from the Public safety there has been a slow but steady increase in the crime rate police forces have been stepping up enforce ment of drug Laws in recent since the introduction of Legal Aid in 1971 More cases Are being contested in the courts than Ever before and procedures such As the preparation of pre sentence re ports take up More court but no matter what the the result is clogged see Case Page 4 does customs know something we dont was it a joke Quebec May not have made up its mind about but Canada customs in Winnipeg is taking no chances on the Liis letter posted in la on 20 was cleared by customs in Winnipeg on its Way to the Home of Scrapneck in East Kil do the custom officials know something we dont says Clarke re g i o n a 1 administrative manager in Winnipeg for Canada it was just a it might look a Little embarrassing for this to happen at but there is definitely no Cus t o m s Barrier Between Quebec and the rest of the one of the postal Sorters must have made a mistake in putting the let Ter among the foreign or perhaps it was a offered John the which took 708 but 421 m5 five Days to reach East contained Only i n t e office information from his Burroughs wellcome and says did radicals aim to overthrow government letter names 21 suspects in 1971 plot Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau said wednesday that some pretty senior Public servants Are named in a 1971 letter As suspects in a Radical socialist attempt to set up an extra parliamentary opposition and overthrow the govern the letter from Jeanpierre then solicitor general and now Supply is accompanied by a list of 21 mostly Public ser with proper names blanked it was read in the commons by Frank Oberle Loprince George peace who urged that the matter be referred to the House committee on Privi Oberle maintained that Francis Fox misrepresented the letter this week saying it simply advised that those named be briefed on Security responsibilities and that other ministers lied in saying they had never heard of june letter led to the dismissal in 1973 of Walter one of the 21 As a year policy planning director Coyer listed 21 radicals of Central mortgage and housing corp which was singled out in the letter As employer for a Small group of former Campus Revo the Ontario supreme court ruled last summer that Rudnicki was wrongfully Dis missed and him the letter said the new a 1960 movement had devised an extra parliament tary opposition program to Mold the under classes into a revolutionary Force capable of overthrowing the present sociopolitical the just originally legitimate citizens had been infiltrated and used As a stepping Stone into other legitimate welfare agencies such As the Toronto metropolitan social planning Council and the United a the poor Peoples Confer ence of late 1970 had been turned into a sounding Board for the Radical epo pro Gram and revolutionary pro the Goyer letter the Radical group also was alleged to be at work in the Reform causes of the Canad an labor Congress and had received a Federal Grant of through contacts in of More Howe is the presence within cer Tain government departments and particularly see Radical Page 4 Bellan land inquiry Marc evidence Likely to be private by a hike Ward the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation is not expected to give evidence publicly to the provincial Royal commission inquiry on land it was disclosed the a wholly owned Manitoba government Agency set up to buy land and build Low Cost came under fire during the latter part of 1976 concerning its role in spiralling Ruben the sole commissioner conduct ing the said the corporation had not expressed a desire to give evidence at scheduled Public we Haven they know we Are having Public hearings and they a vent volunteered to appear before us to present a he Frank the corporations general said several private meetings had been held with Bel Lan As far Asim Lead to believe we wont be participating in any open we like private de been asked to pro vide them with detailed in formation of our holdings and our files Are open to them of who conducted his first Public hearing Mon said that the principle see Ai Hrc Page 4 Israel tells Syria to withdraw troops Tel Aviv Reuter Israel is seriously concerned Over troop movements in Southern Lebanon and has approached Syria to withdraw its forces from the town of Only 6vu Miles from the Border of the jewish a senior official said Here lie said do reply from Damascus had yet been received to the israeli apparently made through the United syrian army peacekeeping troops in Southern Lebanon arrived sunday at just North of the strategic i Tani if the syrian action is More than local or Tempo carried out merely to test then Israel will have to consider whatever action it considers the official lebanese villagers visiting Israel told reporters on the Border today that the syrian forces were being confined to the they said the syrians have set up Road blocks around Nab Atiyeh and Are controlling traffic in and out of the Quebec to stay pm Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau said wednesday that Quebec is not going to separate from Cana despite Premier Rene Levesques prediction that que Bec Independence is in Evita whats Trudeau the Quebec Premier is wrong to assume that the rest of Canada would go along with the Levesque plan for some of economic Union with an Independent the prime minister Deli Vered his Flat forecast that Quebec separation is not in the cards at a press Confer ence the Day after Premier Levesque told the economic club of new York that in dependence is Only a question of not asked what he would say to the new York businessmen to refute the prime minister said he would Tell the financiers they they should go on investing in que Bec and Canada because separation is not going to Hap Trudeau said be is sure to Deal with the Quebec Issue in a scheduled address to the Congress next month be cause he will be reporting on the state of the Canadian a the prime minister said All not just Quebec must have a say if Leves que is offering Bis province a form of Independence with see Tbs eau Page 4 Prairie maps oppose metric in Grain Trade see so Tow Page 4 Ottawa up Prairie maps objected wednesday to proposed introduction of me tric conversion in the Grain saying it would cause serious inconvenience and added Trust to under regulations scheduled to come into effect next Grain be Mea sures in metric tons instead of bushels and Laud area in j hectares instead of Alvin Hamilton Peu Moose Mountain said changes in land area measurements should be deleted from government plans agriculture minister in the Diefenbaker said some of the changes would require farm ers to make unfamiliar calculations a the Field debate continues today on the government which was first introduced in de Don Milan Jowski Vegreville said the conver Sion to hectares would go against the traditions and Cul Ture of the the switch from bushels would create initial he Farmers would have to make calculations in metric tons when delivering to Grain elevators and figures would have to be converted Back to bushels because rail Way Grain shipping rates Are based of that one hectare equals and one metric ton equals the Bushel equivalent varies according to the Type of As Well As being a switch Frota Imperial to metric the conversion to met Ric tons Means Grain will be measured by weight rather than by Ralph go Dale As parliamentary Secretary for the privy said people develop a Strong attachment to what is familiar to them and Are reluctant to Goodale said metric conversion had received Vir t u a 11 y unanimous support from farm organizations As Well As from a special consultative Council with representatives from a wide array of agricultural and municipal he said the United states has been moving at an accelerated Pace in its metric con version ;