Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Cloudy High Lew 30 son to ftps Moon rises sets details Page 5 Winnipeg free press 84 100 january 1977 15 cents final edition could alter peace talks on verge of Oil find the los Angeles times Ramadan Gulf of Suez Israel May be close to a new Oil discovery in the Gulf of Suez that could alter Hie course of Middle East peace the israelis arc drilling off the Western shores of the occupied Sinai Peninsula in an area geologists say is highly israeli officials say positive signs of Oil have been if the israelis find Oil be fore the proposed Geneva peace talks with their Arab it will give them a new card to play at the talks and perhaps a reason for not wanting to return the Sinai to the today Voyageur Queens 3 booming demand for vegetables Page 2 Danes unwilling to fund welfare Page 6 Lawnmower dangers cited Page 8 extra Federal holidays proposed Page 9 thursday scores nil Pittsburgh 3 by rangers 0 Toronto 2 by islanders i Philadelphia 2 Louis 0 Atlanta 1 Buffalo 1 Washington 4 Detroit 1 Chicago at Vancouver Colorado i Boston 4 wha new England 5 san Diego 3 Birmingham 3 Winnipeg 0 details on Page 60 inside 23 business report 1320 classified 6283 comics 28 crossword 22 be Albi 29 focus 6 for people 2127 Murtof scope 22 Jumble 34 movies sports 33ui television 24 up 3 cents March 2 by Jeff arruthers free press correspondent Ottawa retail gasoline prices across Canada will be going up by 3 to cents a gallon on March Aud Oil companies Are seek ing ant inflation Board approval to tack on another cents a gallon to prices in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec including Ottawa and Montreal on the same the Price of other Petroleum notably Liesel fuel and Home heating will also be going up Compa Rable amounts along with gasoline on March see three Page 4 their Gulf of Suez although Little is a characteristically israeli blend of nerve and sex first the israelis drove other Oil prospectors from the East Side of the Gulf at a 2 incident came close to a shooting then the israelis moved in their own Rig one that once was swamped off then salvaged and re fitted in South named springbok after the South african it is manned 6y canadians and texans working under cover see Israel Page 4 Energy curbs urged Paris a unless Western Industrial countries curb Energy gobbling they risk outstripping Oil sup plies by 1985 and causing higher prices or shortages or an economic study said the issued by the 24country organization for economic cooperation and development Recd said current trends indicate the United states and other non communist Industrial coun tries will need 35 million barrels of imported Oil daily by a nearly 50 per cent hike Over present Recd countries must take concerted action within the next year or so to expand existing Energy take More effective conservation and enlarge Buffer the report 11 estimated All these measures see Western Page 4 gasoline High winds and Drifting Snow cause some visibility problems on the perimeter Highway West of the a spokesman for the department of High ways said today All roads in the prov Ince Are open but heavy ground Drift is affecting visibility in certain areas and he advised Drivers to be especially in open windswept the Winnipeg weather office was by Torry ing winds of 30 to 40 Kilometres an hour with Light and blowing the combination of wind and Low tempera Tures thursday created a wind chill Factor of taxpayers9 Burden is too great9 school financing revamp urged a drastic modification of school financing has been drawn up by the Manitoba association of school trustees and the City of Winnipeg in an attempt to raise More Money from the provincial the City and the trustees Are gearing up for some Tough talking with the Cabi net about a total restructuring of the present financial which they feel puts too great a Burden on properly City councillors and trustees have had to take increasing criticism from taxpayers Over education yet they consider the provincial government is directly responsible for the spiralling Mill an average reduction of 41 per cent could have been the education por Tion of property taxes paid on an average House in Tran Scon Springfield school Divi Sion would have been less in an average property owner in Winnipeg school division could have saved about the trustees estimate the average saving to Winnipeg homeowners would have been about if their plan was accepted in full by the provincial gov which on past performance is highly education costs would still have to be met through provincial tax revenues of one sort or the City and the association it was becoming an increasing theme of municipal government through out not just in Mani that provincial govern ments cannot continue to re Gard property taxpayers As an inexhaustible source of Marc devises new system to bypass land speculators Winnipeg school budget set see Page s trustees association re searchers claim that Large reductions in Mill rates could have been achieved in 1976 if the government had agreed to implement associations re the City and the trustees think the education foundation program should be re Vised to cover 100 per cent of Basic education they want 80 per cent of that Cost to come from provincial government sources of Revenue other than property the other 20 per cent they want drawn from a province wide Mill rate on real prop in the number of authorized teachers should be increased by providing Grants for teachers of Home Industrial music and such Grants should be forwarded automatically to school divisions each All this could have been accomplished last according to a joint statement issued by the association and the City if the provincial government had re directed 75 per cent of the property tax rebate directly to school an additional of Provin Cial funds would have been needed to finance the revised the statement the 1976 Mill rate for Edu cation purposes on farm and residential property could Nave been Cut from Mills to 10 and the average Mill rate for education on commercial property would have dropped from to 65 the association in the its estimated by Mike Ward the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation indicated thursday that Winnipeg land speculators can forget about making Quick windfalls out of the provincial govern ment Agency this year and that its controversial propos Al Call system May be phased the housing in a n advertisement in City invited offers from the Public to sell their no land held by option will be considered was emphasized in heavy Black the advertisement said the corporation wishes to acquire vacant land suitable for residential ranging from individual single family dwelling lots to Small acreages outside the old boundaries of the City of w i n n i p e g it stated that offers will be accepted from owners of record or their acceptable the advertisement will be subject to certification by the land value appraisal commis the provincial govern ments watchdog on land Frank general manager of the said later the ban against buying from people holding options was to avoid Specula tors cashing he said the future of the corporations controversial proposal Call system which led to one Winnipeg construction company getting the bulk of government Busi Ness in 1975 and 1976 was see Price Page 4 shrine research fund plan May keep Hospital open Western Canada shrines have come up with a plan they Hope will allow the shrines Hospital for Crip pled children Here to remain in the Western shrines have agreed to take Over research funding at the International shrine head quarters in Chicago had said the Hospital would be closed because it was withdrawing from an agreement with the Manitoba health services commission for research funding at the the new proposal would have Western shrines pro vide a year for re search and the commission would cover the roughly yearly operating costs in a three year agree the shrine temples in win Regina and Calgary will now seek approval from the Chicago Headquarters which controls the 22 shrine hospitals in North health commission chairman Reg Edwards under the the at 933 Wellington Crescent would become a True rehabilitative Hospital for children with congenital disorders children suffer ing Bone and joint neuromuscular disorders and major the Hospital concentrated on orthopaedic a function the com Mission feels is adequately performed b y the health sciences Centre and Boni face Fox backs list Ottawa up solicitor general Francis Fox maintained thursday that a list of 21 persons suspected of involvement in an alleged at tempt to overthrow the government int a some of the 21 the list Are still employed by the Federal government More than five years after the list was drawn Fox h e criticized misleading talk of a he was replying in the commons to Ray Hnatyshyn who observed that Fox had tried to justify the list As Normal government prac Hnatyszyn asked the 1971 sent to other ministers by then solicitor general Jean Pierre was Fox said no such lists have been compiled since be became solicitor general last september but he defended goers a Goyer letter accompany ing the list of names warned that documents were being passed to allegedly Radical socialist the letter said those on the list should be Given a briefing on Security and watched with Moretha Normal when Hnatyshyn asked what this Fox said he would not discuss it because it involved privileged theres another Richard Nixon Over an opposition member shouted As Fox refused a request by Stanley Knowles Nipes North Centre that those named be informed confidentially and Given a Chance to defend Macdonald wants Freddie Prinze in surgery pm ice monitoring after apparent suicide try los Angeles a co median Freddie the 22yearold Star of the hit Tele vision series Chico and the was shot in the head Early today in an apparent suicide police Prinze was undergoing emergency surgery at the University of California at los Angeles medical he was taken to the Hospi Tal shortly after police found the actor at his West los an Geles a spokesman for the los Angeles police department said it was believed to be an apparent suicide try because a gun was found near in the Abc a half hour situation comedy in its third Prinze plays a Young puerto rican who works in a garage with its crusty Ottawa finance min ister Donald Macdonald will urge provincial finance ministers next week to endorse creation of a permanent Board to Monitor profit and wage the minister said thurs Day he has already discussed the proposal with members of the business and will discuss it with or g a a i z e d also next Rene raps pm Quebec up Premier Rene Levesque struck Back at his critics in the business Community accusing a fifth column of eng Lis Canadian businessmen of painting a negative picture of Quebec to United states i in a wide ranging news con Levesque de fended his speech earlier this week to the economic club of new York while also slipping in some jabs at prime min ister Pierre who began three Day tour of the Quebec City area English separatists propose partition see Page 32 the prime said is playing the role of confederations Savior when his real interest is to Shore up his own sagging pop but his sharpest words were reserved for antediluvian Canadian businessmen who View the prov Ince As an inner Colony of great raw resources and cheap labour and have a Basic hostility to any kind of change in and bad Luck would have it that these people Are the closest and most heeded interpreters of even see Levesque Page 4 closure set for tax Bill Ottawa up finance minister Donald Macdonald served notice today the government plans to invoke clo sure a parliamentary de vice to limit Force through tax legislation which would increase by million tax benefits to canadians who buy private retirement Plain and Send their children to Hydro going up Winnipeg Hydro rates Are set to Rise average of per cent on March 17 to bring them into line with recently announced Manitoba Hydro Winnipeg Hydro officials estimate the average monthly Bill will increase for consumption of 400 kilowatt hours of the amount used by an average Winnipeg the 1977 rate proposals were put before civic executive policy committee thurs and Hydro assistant Gen eral manager Max Spigel m an explained the City is bound by the City of Winnipeg act to raise rates to conform with the Manitoba Hydro the rate which need City Council will give the City a per cent increase in Hydro reve Nues this the Utility surplus for the coming year is expected to be about roots author turns Folk hero overnight Var Burton in roots the Washington Post new York suddenly Alexander Palmer Haley is a Folk an estimated 82 million the third largest audience in television watched tuesdays Insul Lieut of the eight part movie based on Haleys Best Selvog family and Ouw be is besieged by Well earlier that before had taken live Steps from a Limo swe out Side City Hall where mayor Abraham like of other officials across the declared roots week a Youngpo lice officer stopped the a his South Carolina Ori gins still keen in his soft officer James Mont Gomery i duped mrs Aleys hand and that a magnificent piece of youve made us All in Haleys Uluao the John a lanky unemployed construction worker from i almost cried watching the in going to buy the Book i think its going to change the Way a lot of people Tirats grips cast requests for everything from Job recommendations to have been pouring into the network that gambled Mulita on the Story in rough Sauey and to double publisher that waited 12 years for Haley to Complete the and to the offices of Haleys his lawyer and his two Brothers who live in Wash at this Point in the roots what has touched him the said have been the Small a few nights ago he was signing books in the basement of Harlem abyssinian Baptist la line was a woman in her upper her face lined with years of hard her suit Wom and her veined clutching a shopping bag with seven copies of As she approached Haley she took seven cramped Bills u discount Price the Book retails for from her Haley looked carefully at the glancing at her which were falling she looked him straight in the Eye and dont in not buying just in buy ing our appears an see boots Page 4 ;