Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 19, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Pas trappers festival Page 6 was uni cily a mistake ponders research base Page i Clark begins Campaign Page v classified 77 comics i deaths 51 finance Horoscope 2x letters movies sports to scene weekend Leisure pm a Ideiil on French language weather report from Advance Cloudy High Lew 18 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final edition details Page 5 84 119 february 1977 15 cents 2sc with coloured comics just before pms visit halts work on key Section of Garrison by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Washington the United states agreed Friday to a moratorium on construction of a key Section of the Garri son diffusing a major Rore Pointon Canadian american relations Only three before prime minister Trudeau visit a state department official said the moratorium on construction of the Lonetree of the million North Dakota irrigation sys the Only prudent the International joint commission is expected to make recommendations in june on whether the project should proceed or Bow it could be altered to avoid pol Lution in Canada had demanded the construction delay in a Diplo Matic note last Rei diversion stoppage is welcomed Here local reaction to the state department announce ment Friday of a temporary work bait on part of the Gar Rison diversion project was one of Onno chairman of the water commission of the Manitoba environmental said the decision was timely and in keeping with a change in the presidency and a politically palatable move because of pressure from the is Marfisa government and the Kreren there Are Many other features to the project than the Lone tree Reservoir resources minister Sidney Green of Manitoba said the decision was completely in Accord with the commitment the has the minister said the Deci Sion also supports the Mani governments stand thai it could solve the controversy surrounding the multimillion Dollar irrigation and Munici pal water project without taking ii into the Ken former chairman of the Manitoba environmental said the provincial govern men could take no share of the credit for awaking Mani to bans to the possible environmental dangers of the it is a credit to the environmentalists i n Manitoba and to the Federal govern ment but not to the Manitoba he Manitoba Page 4 Premier ponders suing free press premiered Schreyer of Manitoba said Friday he is seriously considering taking Legal action against the Winnipeg free press Over a Story concerning the prov inces double a credit rating with Moodys investors ser vices of new he termed the which said the credit Agency was reexamining the provinces and Manitoba Hydro credit a Cious action on the part of the free which could cause identifiable and quantitative damage to Mani Schreyer denied that the provinces and Hydro credit ratings were in Jeo Pardy after talking with a spokesman from the free press Story by Mike published Fri said the internationally reputed credit Agency wanted to put some hard questions to Manitoba Hydro officials before giving the government Utility a rating on a n expected Spring Bond a slip to a rating from double a rating could Cost the provincially owned Utility on eighth to on Quarter per cent More on its United states finance minister Saul Miller announced the government had negotiated a million Bond Sale in Swit Zerland for Manitoba Hydro construction program at a Sec Schreyer Page 4 judge says code full of silly Laws Toronto up the chairman of the Law Reform commission of Canada said Friday that thousands of Laws in Canada systematically Are being ignored because to prosecute offenders would be to what the criminal Law ought to be Justice Antonio toe said the thou Sands of annual prosecutions for possessing soft chiefly Are it is difficult to find anyone involved in the often including the police and the who feel that they Are dealing with criminals in any rational sense of that very significant the judge he was speaking at a con Ference on the Canadian court system sponsored by Osgoode Hall Law school at York University and the Canadian Institute for the administration of Justice lamer said the existence of Tough Laws that Are not obeyed inhibits the search for More realistic con t r o 1 s he gave gambling among friends As an exam i do not think that most people in this country feel that it is morally wrong for a few friends to occasionally treating its concern that ele ments of the project would seriously pollute Rivers flow ing into the state department in formed the Canadian embassy Here that no contracts for Lonetree construction will be awarded until a report by the International joint com Mission expected next is received and re the us was asked by Ottawa and Washington of to recommend changes in Garrison Tion that would be required to Avert environmental damage in a technical study prepared for the commission and made Public last month indicated that other of Garri in addition would polite the red and Souris Rivers and Lake win but Canada was particularly concerned about the Looe Iree dam because major construction work on that Sec Tion was scheduled to begin this other of the project that cd Usu have direct Impact on Manitoba Waters Are not yet under con As a Wear ing ctr moral of Araimis help usher in Chin Ett new year the year of rite Day in new Yorks referring to Lonetree in Ottawa expressed the fear that advanced or completed construction of such projects naturally forms a powerful argument for their about million has been spent so far on construction of which is about 25 per cent prime minister Trudeau told the commons Friday that be would raise Canadas fears about the project and the moratorium demand during Bis talks Here with president Carter on monday and Garrison is still Likely to be topic of be cause the potential for environmental damage to Mani Toba has merely been delayed not according to the inc tech Nical other changes in addition to Lonetree alterations will be necessary to prevent trans order poll the Price tag for the changes could exceed Mil Carter studies Cia Washington a p Carter Bat begun a major review of United states intelligence amid reports that More than six past and present foreign Lead ers received intr cd pays cats from the King Hussein of Willy Brandt of West Ger Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam Jomo Kenya to of Joseph Mobutu of Zaire and Forbes Burnham of Guyana Are identified in a still secret manuscript As recipients of Cia say sources who have seen the c y p r i o t archbishop Makarios and the tibetan Dalai Lama also have received be c r c t says the Washington the Cia went to court several years ago to Block former intelligence officials Victor mar Betti and John Marks from revealing the of to fiks have received secret pay ments in their 1974 Book the Cia and the cult of intelligence Agency lawyers said publication of the names would result in grave and irreparable injury to the interests of the United see intelligence Avo repayment of Manitoba airline tax invalid my Robert a Kilaru Maniwa had no right to collect nearly million in retail tax on liquor and meals air Canada served on aircraft flying in airspace above the province Between july 1971 and june a Manitoba court of Queens Bench judge has Justice Peter said in a lengthy written Jud gement Friday airline was not liable to the taxation levied on aircraft re pairs As the province Doest own the airspace above its he slopped Short of ordering the province u repay any of the tax monies it collected from the Public a owned airline in the three the ruling touches upon the constituting Issue of who owns the airspace above Canada Ottawa or the prov and the final jul May very Well come from the supreme court of Jii mice Morse ruled Manitoba never acquired ownership to the airspace above the provinces but he recognized the prov Ince limited with respect to space it May want to use for or such Sec provincial pane 4 Canadian drops to Montreal up the Canadian Dollar hit its lowest level since last i on new York Money markets at the close of trading fall ing to in terms of United states Brian a spokes Man for the Royal Bank attributed the drop to Antici pation by dealers that the Bank of Canada would reduce interest see Story Page weve seen two cuts in the interest rate since the Quebec Griffiths i think the Central Bank is pleased that the Dollar has remained lower than the Dollar because it helps sex last the Canadian Dollar fell to in terms of United states foreign Secretary Dies London a British foreign Secretary Anthony who was working on a solution to the Rhodesia crisis when he collapsed with a stroke last died Early today at the age of the foreign office announced that who had been in a coma since died peacefully at Oxford Radcliffe Crosland was with him at the bedside when he the announcement her family is with foreign Secretary since last had been in based in the most vital work of his political career just be fore his he was coordinating efforts to obtain Black majority Rule in the rebel British co Lony of Rhodesia he was negotiating the fishing limits of Europe offshore and he was chairman of the com Mon Market ministers meet Ings in Crosland had Sone out for a walk last sunday before re turning to his Oxford country Home to Settle Down to work on papers on has Hap he told his he was rushed to the Hospi Tal where his condition worsened in what doctors called a progressive he had been listed As dangerously ill since family sources said he suf rent control to go soon senior provincial govern ment Otti vials said Friday the Days of rent controls in Manitoba Are but they cannot agree on what should take their premiered Schreyer said a rent Moni Toring Agency May be needed after the controls Are set consumer affairs min ister Kene Toupin said it would Likely be finance minister Saul Mill said controls Ray still be needed for some time if the Low vacancy rate in the Manitoba rental hous ing Market the Premier and the two Cabinet ministers were com me tint in interviews on the future of rent controls after Lite matter was raised in the provincial legislature b y Loyd Axworthy in response to a the Premier made it Clear that rent controls in Manitoba Are certain to live no longer than other forms of ant inflation the Premier said that when rent control Teg feta Tion was introduced last it was made Clear it was a part of National Antii Fla Tion package affecting prices and he it be expected that when the Overall plan is disengaged a move expected this year and possibly As soon As this Spring rent controls will also Premier Schreyer has said in the past that he favors some form of rent Monitor ing after ant inflation guide lines he said a monitoring Agency would Likely have Little or no the Premier said a Moni Toring concept implies Noth ing More than a statistics and data gathering which could use Only moral suasion to promote re m r Toupin said the contracts of about 35 people now employed in the provinces rent control pro Gram will expire March 31 and wont be a longtime opponent to rent and other con said the contract employees realize their jobs see Anthony Page 4 see rent Page 4 see judge Page 4 world shrinks to Hospital room innocent play career ends Scott affray tragic Accident by Dave sup eve the Day started like most other Days for Scott it ended like no other Day in it was and the night before Scott and his teammates were on top the having just won a jul v e n i 1 e hockey tournament held in conjunction with minor hockey a night later Scott was barely clinging to the Edge of the he had gone from Ponder ing his University worrying about finding a Job and other such problems that plague most to wondering if hed Ever walk his so expansive just Days earlier had shrunk to a Hospital Scott Lay prone there in a not his head held Down by 2fl Pound Jeffreys hockey Tareco had ended with a sickening thud against the the result was a severed spinal it s e e m e d an innocent Scott was controlling the puck along the boards in his own with the opposition bearing Down on lining him up for a stiff Check against the Scott got rid of the sending it along the but the a member of the North end still got a piece of the of balance sending him crash ing into the head unlike hundreds of times before when Scott crashed Otto the want Able to get to mishap was accidental but his teammates and everyone connected with him have no hard feelings to wards As they it was just one of those George Secretary manager of the Manitoba Amateur hockey the Accident is one of those very unfortunate you have to wonder How More necks Arent broken when players hit the Allard i know there was no malice intended by any players and that this is purely a so it was that but was it preventable probably according of Don vice president of the greater Winnipeg minor hockey Assoc a theres Only so much you can said Macken he shunned the horse Collar worn by Many foot Ball players to prevent neck and spine we cant put the boys in he if he went into the boards hard enough to sever the spi Nal Cord its possible the Hel a act saved his weve warded off a lot of injuries with the helmet if someone has a Solu Tion to prevent this sort of thing from i wish he would come Forward with for Days after the Scott Lay entirely straining to move a toe or see innocent Page 4 ;