Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, February 07, 1977

Issue date: Monday, February 7, 1977
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Previous edition: Saturday, February 5, 1977

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather report prom set my Tew it ugh 6 Styfs mood rift sets details 5 Winnipeg free press final edition 84 108 Fri stuary 1977 2sc with coloured comics today pcs Issue Strong rebuke Page 3 computer to give Odds on weather Page 5 Amy Carter baptized sunday Page 6 heroin lab found in 8 beached whales create frenzy Page 7 Motorman named in Chicago crash Page 9 Biron upstages Clark in Ontario 10 rival agree on Page 15 Africa israels major arms client Page 29 dissidents arrest alarms Sakharov Page 30 Over control of business Page 32 weekend scores saturday nil by islanders 3 Washington 3 Philadelphia 7 Toronto 5 Montreal 3 los Angeles 3 Pittsburgh 3 Detroit 1 Vancouver 5 Minnesota 5 Cleveland 3 Chicago 2 Louis 6 Buffalo 5 wha Indianapolis 5 Birmingham 2 Calgary 4 Phoenix i Cincinnati 8 new England 3 Canada flin flon 6 new Westminster Victoria 6 Portland 2 Brandon 9 Winnipeg 3 Suhay nil by rangers 4 Nyi slanders 0 Boston 5 Washington 2 Colorado i Pittsburgh 2 Detroit 3 Vancouver 2 Minnesota 3 Chicago 0 wha Winnipeg 6 Calgary 4 Edmonton 4 san Diego 2 Quebec 6 Cincinnati 1 new England 5 Indianapolis s wet Taro Canada Medicine hat 4 Lett Bridge 2 Saskatoon b Regina 7 Victoria 4 new Westminster 4 Rin flon 1 Calgary 6 Portland 6 on Page 53 inside Bridge 20 classified 3457 24 Cross wed it Albs 25 of jus 32 for people Horoscope 20 Jumble 27 ologies sports 4753 television 21 Axtt Pkt is priests slain by Blacks Salisbury a Black guerrillas murdered seven White roman Catholic mis four of them in an attack sunday night on Mission 36 Miles North of a Church spokes Man said Archt Stiop Patrick Chaokai Rhodesia first Black Catholic de tuned the saying those responsible make mockery of whatever ideals they claim to a Church spokesman said the guerrillas rounded up eight White members of the mus Ami Mission staff and shot two Jesuit a Jesuit Lay brother and four dominican mini were and a fourth jes Uit was but not the spokesman two of the priests and one of the the other three nuns were Ger mans and the Jesuit brother was Church officials the Mission staff also included another White brother and another White the spokesman said it was not known where they were at the time of the but they were thought to be the attack was the most serious against the missionary during the fou year guerrilla War to end White Rule in Rhode on a Lone guerrilla killed a retired Catholic a priest and a nun after stopping their car in Western Rhodesia and de manding another nun was wounded but escaped by pretending to have been the roman Catholic Church has been a frequent critic of prime minister Ian Smiths White minority government and has accused the Security forces of atrocities against Black guerrillas taken soviets launch 2 into space Moscow Reuter the soviet Union launched a spaceship with two men aboard into orbit the soviet news Agency Tass an Tass referred to the space ship As soyuz 24 and said its purpose was to continue scientific technical studies and experiments with the salyut5 space station already in the inboard systems of soyuz 24 Are functioning nor Mally and the Crew teels the Agency by Dave sooner teammates mob Anders Hedberg while the crowd applauds his 50th goal in 47 51 goals in 47games by Hedberg Anders a native of Sweden playing his third season with Winnipeg jets of the world hoc key sunday night became the first player in professional hockey to score 50 goals in less than 50 injury cant Stop express Page 47 the 25yearold right Winger scored times in a game against Calgary cowboys to hit the 50 goal Mark in 47 games this his 49th was on a Power play in the second period with the record breaker coming on a 20foot wrist shot in the third period that went through the legs of Calgary goal tender Gary he scored a third into an open net with one second remaining in the which the jets won the previous record of 50 goals in 50 games was held jointly by Maurice formerly of Montreal and Bobby Hull of the Hedberg 11 goals in his last three games despite playing with a broken Hedberg injured a knee after scoring his 49th goal last night and could be lost to the jets any where from 10 Days to six City commissioners report better fire safety rules urged for apartments by Paul Stanway Winnipeg civic Board of commissioners wants the City to embark on a Campaign to improve fire safety in apartment their contained in a report to be presented today to civic environment came a week after a fire at the town and country Terrace apartment Block on Preston Avenue took the lives of eight the City has been studying fire safety problems in Multi Pleunik dwellings and recently completed a Survey of More than older apart ment blocks and Rooming Tough new fire safety bylaws Are to come into Force in june to cover older commercial buildings and Rooming but the re port urges that the City extend these to cover multiple unit dwellings not so far in this would include Terrace apartments like the town and which because see fire Page 4 dont Point frosty Finger at Canada pm a in a Tongue in Cheek Exchange of letters with an Orangeburg Resi prime minister Pierre Trudeau has denied that Canada is responsible for the cold wave which has plagued much of the United states in recent dear prime wrote Tea the information i am writing for might be secret and sensitive to the general Public if it i will if it is not sensitive please inform or Why Send All your cold air to the and in so much Quantity we peo ple Down South cannot take it be More economical to Send it to the via Alaska daily the Weatherman reports to us that a cold wave of air is coming Down from Trudeau responded through a Secretary dear Teskey in writing this letter to disavow any responsibility on the part of the Canadian government Lor assaults of Cole air on the state of South i can assure you no malice is its All beyond our control it May help tree spore a know that we in Canada Arena invincible to attacks of lows which originate from the United Energy crunch eases by the associated press hundreds of thousands of Laid off workers and vacationing students headed Back to jobs and classes today As the natural Gas crunch eased a bit in the northeastern United but icy temperatures per threatening still More Energy and much of the East and Midwest was still digging out from heavy temperatures near minus 20 celsius were recorded today in Chica go and and read Ings were Well below Freez ing in new Washington a n d Philadel new York state negotiated a couple of deals to bring natural Gas in from Canada and then announced that More than shut when sup plies were might bring in their employees was Man dead before being hit Levesque involved Montreal up an autopsy will be performed today to determine if a Man was dead before being struck and dragged 140 feet Early sunday by a car driven by Quebec Premier Rene Leves but a police spokesman said police do not expect to Lay charges against the 54 year old Premier because there is no reason to suspect Coroner Maurice l a n i e 1 said he would examine police reports to determine if there will be an in Quebec province the question of criminal charges in a death is usually determined by a coroners police said Edgar was lying in the Middle of Cote Des Neiges a winding at est sunday when Levesque and his personal Secretary Corinne Cote were returning Home after visiting Larry in charge of Public relations for Montreal Island said the Premier told police he was travelling about 25 in a southbound direction when he spotted a Man on the Street waving his Levesque told police he turned away to avoid the later identified As George Only to see the inert body on the Street in front of Levis said the pre Mier slammed on his brakes but could not Stop in he said it was not unusual the mans body was dragged 140 feet by a car travelling 25 because the vehicle was going downhill on icy police said who had spotted the body seconds before the had turned on his Hazard lights and was walking to Ward the body when the pre Miers car investigators have no idea How Trottier came to be lying on the he car ried no the police spokesman said Levesque was not asked to submit to a breath Analy a breathalyzer test is Given Only when we think a person May be under the in fluence of Levis miss Cote and Wilson were taken to a nearby police station Fol lowing the Accident and were released after he the car driven by the pre a 1973 Ford is owned by miss his personal Secre tary for the last five they were returning from a social evening at the Home of Yves former Edi Tor of the defunct daily be separated from his wife for several Levesque has often escorted miss Cote to social Post curb method of restraint needed see Energy Page 4 compiled from dispatches Ottawa finance min ister Macdonald said sunday the Federal Antii Fla Tion program May end Dur ing 1977 if an agreement on pos control restraints can be reached with and the Macdonald also said that salaries paid to Public servants in the future should take into consideration the advantages and Job Security these employees enjoy Over those in the private the minister said he recognized that this would not be a popular but said it was the kind of adjustment that would have to be made in a pos controls its really not difficult at All to take controls off the really critical question is can you Jake controls off in such a Way that you wont find youre Back in the same economic and psychological situation you were in be he the minister was speaking on the ctr program ques Tion Macdonald declined to be specific about the ending of the but said if agreement on pos control restraints could de then it is entirely conceivable that the controls would come off sometime during the course of on the other such an agreement was not Possi then were going to have to phase move into a process of phasing out controls and that is going to take a longer that certainly would run into Macdonald said the meetings he had in the last week with the provincial finance ministers and the Ca Nadian labor Congress Csc were generally he said Csc president Joe Morris has indicated that he sees a possible future role for labor is conjunction with business and provincial governments in discussing major economic and social ques after the controls have been lifted the minister said the governments will resist the situation developing where those in the Public Sec with their wage strengthen inflationary pres he has talked to the provinces about the notion that Public sector settlements should always follow Compa Rable groups in the private resisting such High wage demands from Public ser vants would Call for More willpower not Only from the governments but from the people using the Public ser finding a comparable group of workers in the Pri vate sector and telling the Public servants they will not get any More pay May mean some strikes and some see Post curb page4 Queen 9s has lot key Start London a toe Queens Silver Jubilee has opened with a Royal memorial service for her press tributes to her 25year reign and a newspaper tempest in Teapot Over the words of the official Jubilee it was a Cowkey Start Sun Day for a yearlong Celebration that will reach its Peak in traditionally the month for Royal celebrations since the English weather is usually at its Best there will be a nationwide Chain of Bon a thanksgiving service at Pauls a Royal Progress on the thames and a Parade in the Queen and Prince Phi lip leave wednesday few the South beg Ropog Jubi Lee visits to the members of the she also Wii Uisu almost every county in Britain during the the Royal family spent a quiet Day at to door Castle and attended a memorial ser vice in the Chapel there for King George whose death of brought Bis elder daughter to the during the shifting Sands and the changing times of the last 25 the Royal fam ily has advanced aug i pied to a and the debt we owe to Queen and Prince Philip is Harbutte w the sunday times Elizabeth has become one of the Wisest As Well As tree Best most painstaking and most Dutiful of recent and audience of to thu applauded the Jubilee hymn at its premiere at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall there was of comment Tan the music bar Malcolm Wal master of the Ftp peas big a number of professional and Amateur critics opened lire out the words by Britain toy Earrold poet sir John bet who is Britain Best seuingpoit4 a Nice Valentines card said Laurie an other Nursery rhyme Gibber said a official w the National poetry Elaine the most ninth rate piece of Childs said Nicholas a conservative member of the House of who gave Tow papers his own 18line text for the in a total of 82 be used Queen 17 Roy a poet who was passed Over when bet Jeuial was named poet laureate in said both Betjeman and Fairba irus offerings were by Teays standards people expect More sophistication of idea and not the old victorian simple rhyming Fairba irus poem begins Sovereign quiver my Silver glint of Bri woman bet Juniaus ends from that look of Dedica Tion la those eyes profoundly Blue we know her Coronation As a awl ;