Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 winning of tit january Spivak also Steen wins Crescent Wood nomination Warren Steen Defeated Eli Zabeth Willcock by 30 votes wednesday to win the cres cent Wood constituency progressive conservative nomination for the next provincial although Steen would neither confirm or deny his margin of two voting scrutineers said his majority of the 398 votes cast was less than Steen later invited All of Willcock s supporters to join in helping him defeat his opposition in the next Stycn said in an inter View while he Hope to gain All of will Cocks party Unity was important to win Ning an election and expressed the Hope he would pain a majority of her sup a member of the conservative party for 25 said she will do every thing she can to help in a party she although a win for Steen was seen by some senior party officials As the final defeat for supporters of de posed conservative Leader Sidney Steen want sure if the internal feuding would disappear with his i dont 1 sure wish it he said of the ims year feud Between the rival we cant go into the elec Tion a divided m r Spivak unanimously won the progressive conservative nomination in his Riding of Hiver Ken a former Thompson City Alderman and Federal new democratic party candidate in the 1965 election was nominated to represent t h e progressive conservative party in the Thompson constituency i n the next provincial election Here the nominating meeting with 536 registered voters was probably the largest Ever held in this mining party organizers say that Over 900 party memberships have been sold in the last few weeks which is also thought to be a Thompson re Macmaster was opposed by John Clarke a vet eran Northern Bush Pilot employee by Manitoba govern in e n t air Brian former mayor and business Leader and Doreen Fraser a teacher librarian who has lived in this area since 1954 before the Thomp son mine was on the first ballot Macmaster polled 251 Clarke Camp Bell 101 and Fraser on the second ballot Macmaster received 296 to 202 for no women priests in Catholic Church continued w a y without preconceived ideas but with direct study of the commentary deacons can give communion and assist a priest in saying mass but Are barred from saying mass and hearing the two main rites in roman Catholic religious the declaration said priests and Bishops represent Christ in a sacramental sense that goes beyond a natural resemblance i s Ihus it said quoting Thomas when it is necessary to express sacrament ally the role of Christ in the eur this natural resemblance that must exist be tween Christ and his minister would be missing if the role of Christ were not held by a one could hardly Sec the image of Christ in the one who is in Christ himself was and remains a Priesthood should not to discussed As a matter of so Cial advancement or Equality Between the document adding it should not be forgotten that Priesthood is not part of the rights of a per son but depends on the mystery of Christ and the the Vatican said the declaration was issued to dispel doubts at a time when other Christian including the episcopal anglican Church in the United arc opening the door for women to become pastors and this Rule that rests on the example of Christ is followed because it is considered to be in Harmony with the design of god for his the document Trudeau discounts Quebec separation i continued kind of common Market arrangement or economic association with the rest of Levesque is say ins that be Doest want outright in dependence because it would be too Trudeau but the Quebec Premier is misleading himself if he As Sumes that the rest of Canada will automatically embrace the economic Union that Doest he the prime minister said he was sorry if Levesques overtures towards Quebec in dependence made it More difficult for Canada and Quebec to borrow Money on Ameri can markets or if the Canad an Dollar should continue to fall in when it was suggested that canadians Are looking for a ringing response to be the prime minister said i cant ring every earlier m r Trudeau rebuffed a Challenge from opposition maps in the House to state specifically How he plans to overcome Quebec Gretter Leo Johannson Consul general emeritus of greets icelandic ambassador Hans Andersen right and his Asta on their arrival in Winnipeg thurs photo a former is ice lands representative to the and mex he is Here to attend the annual icelandic league of Manitoba Case Load doubles As await hearing in provincial judges court courtrooms and growing steady increase in the crime backlogs of cases which Are taking longer and longer to come to the problem int unique to other major cities in Canada Are experiencing the same difficulties and arc employing their own measures to Cope with the 1 n Vancouver British columbian Deputy at issued an continued order to drop All minor cases outstanding i n provincial courts for More than six despite the fact that Van c o u v e r s Case backlog of is comparable to win attorney general Howard Pawley of Manitoba disagrees strongly with the West coast Steps Are being taken Here to streamline the existing system and make better use of Crown attorneys and there have been meetings Between Legal Aid lawyers and others to do v e 1 o p Pawley said in an he said changes would re sult in a few an attempt must also be Marc reluctant to testify publicly before Bellan land Price inquiry he had adopted thus far was that the inquiry would Only hear publicly those individuals or organizations that expressly desired to be a n y o n c who docs not express the desire will not be required to be Beard Public he we will certainly demand from them whatever information we want from them but that will be done Only volunteers arc appearing at Public i continued Bellan said he Felt the Public interest would still be served notwithstanding the corporations reluctance to express a desire to give open in the Case of the Corpora Tion my anticipation would be that our report will publicize that evidence taken privately because they alter a Public body they have no Bellan said that the same principle regarding Public evidence would be applied to two Winnipeg businessmen who figured prominently in land stories last we will not oblige this is our present Intel anyhow to appear in Well oblige them to appear privately but not necessarily at a Public hear he Snow hinders traffic temperatures today were to hover in the 20 to 22 c Mark and drop to about 30 to 32 c which were from the North at about 44 Kilometres an hour earlier this were expected to drop to about 25 to 30 11 was predicted winds would remain at that level through to Friday contributing to c o n t i 11 u c d cold the poor weather proved a Bonus for at least some peo ple those who were to appear in provincial judges i court in they got a reprieve when judge Mike Baryluk car was reported to have been stuck in a his cases mud to be to another another severe Arctic blast hit the United states Midwest and some Southern regions today As already Crit ical natural Gas shortages forced More closings of continued schools and the entire school system of Pennsylvania was shut Down by Milton Shapp so that natural Gas could be shifted to state officials said the states million Public and parochial students May be out for longer than the three Days already sche temperatures plunged else where in the Midwest and East coast freeze Belt As winds gusting up to 96 kilo metres an hoi pushed the frigid air mass into the the National weather ser vice reported wednesday no Lon term warming trend was in the service forecast lower than Normal tempera Tures Over much of the East for it least the next two parents plan protest parents of children in Day care threatened with closings because of financial Are scheduled to March on the new demo cratic party annual Conven Tion at 2 the announcement was made wednesday night at a meeting of 200 parents who met at Montcalm 120 Tecumseh to hear the financial problems of the health sciences Day care parents from the Knox Day Nursery located in Knox United 400 Edmon ton Are organizing the made to reduce the number o f unnecessary remands which consume valuable court the attorney general one proceed Urc being con and already in use in Calls for pretrial disclosure Deputy attorney general Gordon Pilkey said the hear Ings Are voluntary but allow facts to be agreed issues tested and Annec Cussary wit Nesses to be excused before a Case goes to others suggest streamlining the existing system just int Good Stan until recently the provinces senior Crown attorney and now a defence i think theres a definite need for More More More Crown attorneys and More support Nozick he rejected the concept of disclosure hearings saying they might be needed else where because of difficulties in getting the Crown to re veal its Nozick said the concept int practical in Mani Toba and he want prepared to agree to any of the crowns facts until he had a Chance to test them at a preliminary he did that there was need for better communication Between de Fence lawyers and prosecutors outside of the All of us probably have to sit Down a Little earlier and talk about these he if a plea bargain was going to be made then it could be made at the begin Ning of a not at the last minute leaving an empty courtroom and a judge with nothing to a new provincial judges court building is planned for Winnipeg but wont be ready for several Paw Ley he agreed with Nozick that it would help lighten the Load on present court facilities and said Money is currently being spent to add to the existing but he rejected Calls for More staff saying restraints on government spending made that impossible in the near Well just have to make Pawley Goyer cites destructive new left Ottawa up follow ing is a text of a june letter by Jeanpierre then As read in the commons wednesday by Frank Oberle pc Prince George peace some names were edited from the letter by Oberle and an accompanying list of names was not read by him my dear colleague i have recently received a report containing information which the Security service has accumulated about the concept of extra parliament tary opposition epo As interpreted by advocates of the new left in the report also draws attention to the activities of various per sons and some of them employees of the Feder Al who support the epo concept and who appear to have As their aim the destruction of the existing political and social Structure in the epo in the context of the new does not mean legitimate pressure group activity but rather the creation of counter or parallel institutions within society but opposed to it and to the elec toral through such institutions the new left seeks to organize and radicalize the under classes of society and Mould them into a revolt t i o n a r y Force capable of overthrowing the present sociopolitical according to an article which appeared in the no vember december 1967 Issue people will not move against institutions of Power until the legitimizing authority has been stripped the Radical epo pro Gram of the left in a movement strategy predicated on a total and unequivocal rejection of representative its destruction and the creation of Radical Al an integral part of this strategy sin Toron which is under the control of two editorial members of and a certain in they Are attempt through a program of workers and Community con and in conjunction with organizations such As in Montreal to implement the Radical epo for penetrated and gained control of the just originally a legitimate citizens and is utilizing this Organiza Tion As a Radical izing agent among the poor As Well As a stepping Stone into other legitimate welfare agencies such As the Toronto metropol Itan social planning Council and the United through the just society the recent poor Peoples con was Able to turn this conference into a sounding Board for its Radical epo program and revolutionary has also been Active in the sphere of Industrial such As the Reform caucus of the Ca Nadian labor in 1 Deavo ring to establish contacts who might be receptive to its concept of workers con there Are indications that through contacts in was Able to ensure that it received a recent Federal Grant of of More is the presence within certain government departments and particularly Chc Central mortgage and hous ing of a Small group of former Campus revolt this group was led until recently by of the Canadian Union of Stu the Short term political objectives of group include the organizing and a Dic Klizing of sympathetic civil servants and getting them to support its Lon term political program of socialist revolt these people Are also involved in the dissemination of government information to other Radical groups across the for we have information to show that a member of the task Force on youth has passed on information from the task Force to a new who was a representative Ofat the recent poor Peoples Confer through a number of s group within the Public service is probably not in excess of the picture presented is Sug Gesting As it docs a conscious attempt by various persons to use the knowledge and the in fluence gained by their employment with the Federal government to further their own for this i have attached a list of those we suspect of being engaged in or sympathetic to epo activity in one Way or with the recommendations that Steps be taken to ensure that these people have been fully briefed As to their responsibilities for ensuring the Security of government information and that their activities be watched with More than Normal i have sent this same let Ter to our colleagues Pel and i will be discussing this matter with the prime minister in due Oberle said his text was addressed to Robert now Treasury Board and signed by Radical suspects named in letter continued of a Small group of former Campus revolt the Goyer letter this group was led until recently by of the Canadian Union of the Short term objectives of s group include the organizing and Radical izing of sympathetic civil servants and getting them to support its Lon term political pro Gram of socialist the letter said the number of sympathizers in govern ment jobs was probably Small but worrying because it suggested a conscious attempt by various persons to use the knowledge and influence gained by their employment within the Federal govern ment to further their own for this Goyer i have attached a list of those we suspect of being engaged in or sympathetic to epo activity in one Way or with t h e recommendation that to taken to ensure that these people have been fully briefed As to their responsibilities fur ensuring these purity of government information and that their activities be watched with More than Normal Broadbent feels Quebec Independence not inevitable by the Canadian press an air of political and eco nomic uncertainty still remained wednesday following Quebec Premier Rene Leves ques speech to business Lead ers and financiers tuesday in new while the Canadian Busi Ness Community reacted with a mixture of Praise and Dis politicians generally agreed that although Levesques speech Hon Estly stated Bis references to the inevitability of Quebec separation Laisiu formed prime minister under a Barage of questions in the House of said his government will continue to fight to keep this country he refused opposition requests to state specifically How he plans to Over come the threat of Quebec be he declined to comment on Premier Leves ques Stock of the Jotin Manville the worlds largest Asbestos pro dropped More than 50 a share to just below on sales of More than shares on the new York Stock reaction to Levesque having singled out the Asbestos Industry As a possible Prospect for nationalization in de Federal new democratic party said americans were Misia when Levesque said his government was elected because most que Beers favored Independence is not Nevi he Broadbent sharply criticized the Quebec Premier for making outside of Canada the first important speech on Independence since the parti quebecois was elected to Jeanpierre Federal Supply and services also rejected Levesques Contention that separatism is us Xiii a radio debate Fol lowing the Goyer challenged the parti Quebe Cois government to hold the referendum on the Issue As soon As Goyer noted that the pm played Down Independence during the election Campaign and won Only 41 per cent of the popular based on he Levesque got carried away when he said Independence is Only a matter of Ontario treasurer Darcy said he did not know How the speech May affect the viability of Quebec Security issues offered on the new York but if que Bec has to pay a Premium of one percentage Point in inter est on a billion Dollar that would mean an additional million a year in in Gerard parliamentary Leader of the opposition liberals in the que Bec National said he deplored the Lack of sufficient explanations on the main economic and social orientation of the gov he said reaction of investors to the speech would Best be seen when the government negotiates its next Newfoundland Premier Frank Moores said Levesque is sincere in his Pur pose to separate Quebec from but added i think Hes going u have some Dill cuties in obtaining finance Moores said any delay by Levesque in holding a separatism referendum would extend the uncertainty and Hurt other when the Quebec interest rate goes so does the rate Lor the Moores Premier Alex Campbell of Prince Edward Island said he will discuss establishing a committee of the Council of maritime premiers to study the Impact of separation on Atlantic when the premiers Council meets m Campbell said Bis major concern the piece and Domino effect on other provinces such As Al Berta and British without Canadas Rich Nat ural As a base for there is Little Hope and there is Little Prospect of Ontario and the Prairies As suming the financial Burden of the Federal government to wards the Atlantic prov Campbell Roy Deputy pre Mier of said canadians should not Over react to but should look for ways to accommodate Quebec Aims and avoid a situation of con ;