Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside by Tex Bridget besi Bess horoscope.20 for people17-28 jumble.35 television23 weather.5 Mere staff urged for Portage school Page be neat with this Iron on Transfer you can get a sundae All Over your to shirt without dripping a drop. Page 30 Ottawa cools to foam insulation pages Cynthia wine 17 anytime a full Page of your questions video recorder Battle shapes up Page 55 weather report from sunny Low 13, High 22 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Winnipeg free press vol. 81 no. 293 Friday september 16, 1977 15 cents 2m with coloured comics Homer Given Industry Quay Revenue minister Chretien gets finance Job in Cabinet by Victor Macknik staff correspondent Ottawa Chretien a 1-year-old native of Shawinigan que., was sworn in today As Canada s first French Canadian minister of finance. St. Boniface my Joe Guay becomes the minister of National Revenue. Prime minister Trudeau announced his Cabinet shuffle today in a move apparently calculated to take the headlines away from the progressive conservative party conference Al Kingston. The shuffle had been originally scheduled for week. Jack 59 year old rancher from Alberta the life Long conservative who turned Liberal in april this year was rewarded with the Post of minister of Industry Trade and Commerce. Thai was the portfolio formerly occupied by Chretien who succeeds Don Macdonald in finance. Moving up to the position of minister of health and welfare is be the former National Revenue minister Moi begin 41. Marc Lalonde 18-year-old former minister of nation til health and welfare moves into a new Cabinet portfolio Sovereign state for natives by Souert will Baku Otto fwd will the first quasi Sovereign Indian nations in Canada within the next five or 10 years Noel Star Blanket president of the National Indian brotherhood predicted thursday. Star Blankco said indians will achieve sovereignty by using the As yet untapped natural resources under lands claimed to be Indian owned As a lever to Force Ottawa to recognize a Mea sure of self determination know the scares baseball american league Kansas cite 7-5 Oakland 6-4 Toronto 9 Baltimore 0 forfeit Boston 7 new York 3 Minnesota 7 Chi Lago 2 Texas 6 California 2 Naimi leave Houston 6 san Francisco 3 Montreal s Oil Coo 4 8 new York 2 Atlanta 8 san Diego 7 Cincinnati 3 los Angeles 2 plus Burgh 4-7 St. Loyis 3-10 details in sports pages 49-7s Wio Torii 8181o in series 44 19519 in sories 10 7747o in series 13 31037 in series 66 77984 in series 11 9 looking for a pi5t? this want and under pets 41 purebred Irish setter for is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section pages 32 a no matter a fat you for Canada s aboriginal peo Ples. In some instances he said the Govor Mienl will outright reject Indian land claims and requests for self determination. Some cases will no doubt end up in court while others will be hammered out Al the negotiating lie added in an interview during Lite brotherhood s eight i annual conference in the Winnipeg convention Centre. Ottawa has t recognized the land claims of until now a handful of Indian Peoples in this country. However in see Sovereign Page t known As the minister of fed eral provincial relations. Len Marchand the for Mer minister of state for Small business becomes minister of the environment. Macdonald resigned from the finance Post last week for personal he is leaving Public life to return to the practice of Law in to Ronto where he can spend More Lime with his family. President of the Juern s privy Council for Canada Ai Maceachen becomes Deputy prime minister As Well As president of Lite privy Council Wirron Allma Iid was named minister of consumer and Cert orate affairs Leav ing his present position of Indian affairs and Northern development. Hugh Faulkner Lias been named minister of Indian affairs and Northern develop ment Buchanan has been named minister of Public works and minister of state for science and technology. Formerly he held Only the Public works portfolio. Len Marchand has been named minister of stale for environment. Anthony Abbott Lias been named minister of state for Small businesses the portfolio previously held by mar Chand. Norman a Afik becomes minister of state for multiculturalism. Chafick a new addition to the Cabinet is from Pickering. Followed by a motor launch the courageous a the Australia vie for the Lead in the America s cup. The likelihood of the 12-metre yacht Australia capturing the America s cup diminished thursday in the Light winds on Rhode Island sound. Neither the Australia nor the courageous crossed the finish line within the Svi hours allowed but the challenger was More than a mile behind the courageous at the end. See Story on Page 71. Campaign progressive conservative Leader Sterling Lyon said thurs Day the Manitoba Cabinet has ordered government institutions to bypass the competitive tendering process and order their canned goo is from the provincially owned Morden Fine foods. Meanwhile premiered Schreyer spent the Day Louring Emerson and Springfield Ridings in Rural Manitoba. Liberal Leader Charles Huband chose a Manitoba housing and renewal corporation construction site in Central Winni Peg to talk about his party s housing platform. The candidates in Birtle Russell Lac Dubonnet and the Pas Ridings Are profiled. See Page 8 for details. Top pcs Confer Kingston out. Up the country s four most pow Erful progressive conserva Tive politicians met privately today with Opp Sillon Leader Joe Clark to Sorl out eco nomic and other policy differences. There Are very few policy Clark insisted As lie opened a Day of talks with premiers Frank Moores of Newfoundland Richard Hatfield of new Brunswick William Davis of Ontario and Peter Lougheed of Alberta the cily Hall Here. The premiers also played Down differences Belicen the iwo parly Levels. I Don l think there Are that Many said Davis whose administration says it wants Federal wage and Price controls to continue despite Clark s opposition to them. Our differences Are not a said Hayfield who had endorsed prime minis Ter Trudeau s latest proposals to entrench in the Constitution guarantees that Chil Dren can be educated in French or English anywhere in Canada. Denomination axed Bond rate Falls 1.07% Ottawa up the new Canada sayings Bonds government this fall will give buyers an average of a year for every invested Down from the average payoff on last year s Bonds. The finance department said the new Bonds interest yield will be. A straight seven per cent the first year and 8.25 per cent in each of the following eight years the Bonds pay 8w per cent in the first year and 9.25 percent in each subsequent year to 1985. In recent years the government Lias borrowed about billion annually in its Canada savings Bonds campaigns. Total value of All such Bonds outstanding is almost billion. The promised yield on the new series of savings Bonds to go on Sale for Cash or by instalment savings in the next few weeks compares with prevailing yields of about 8.50 per cent in Bond markets. Bui the savings Bonds annually at tract millions of savors because they can be turned in at any time for ready Cash plus accumulated interest to Date. As in Hie past two types of savings Bonds will be issued both dated nov. A 1977, and running to nov. C1980. Sue savings Page i to pay More for Gas Gas rate increases affecting inter City Gas customers in Rural Manitoba it re granted thursday by the province s Public utilities Board. It is estimated thai a residential customer in the Gas company s. Central division using cubic feet a year will have added to his monthly Bill in 1977 and in since Dauphin gels its Gas from Saskatchewan where the Cost is less the corresponding increases would be and into Chy Gas serves 30 towns including major centres such As Portage la i Ririe and area Dauphin Sec Inadi and Minnedosa. At a Public hearing on tiie Rale increase application held before Ihu Public utilities Board aug. Corporate accounting Mana Jar Bruce Mclean said government or dered increases in Gas from trim Schnuda pipelines Ltd. Would Cost the company an extra annually using volumes or a Winniei sue Page i Blind Man ignored on Bench 15 hours Delhay Beach Fla. A a 70-year-old Blind Man who mistakenly Gol off a bus in inc wrong City waited 15 hours on a Bench while passersby ignored his Picas for help police said. I be been sitting Here in the hoi Sun All Day without food or drink and nobody will help Easlyn Vickers told police who came to his Aid about . Wednes Day. Fifteen people passed by me and i said 1 was Blind and needed help but they just ignored he said. When he discovered he was in the wrong City he fell around for a Bench and sat Down about five blocks from the bus the main part of town. Tia tempera Ture reached close to 32 degrees celsius. I cried for people to Call police bul nobody listened. I did t know where i was so i prayed and hoped help would officers said he told them. Kickers had Ai while Cane was Well dressed and clean shaven police said Maria Callas world famous opera Singer died today. She was 53. See Story Page 4. Energy Alert coming Ottawa up Energy minister alas air Gillespic says he has to sell canadians on the fear thai nil shortages May occur in Highl years. Only if Consumers arc con Vinced they face serious Energy problems will they accept Federal measures to Cut Down demand and increase Supply he feels. The government intends to continue with such politic ally unpopular moves As higher prices for Consumers and tax cuts for multinational Oil companies. Gillespie said in an inter View that Western Industrial nations face a serious sup ply situation that conies to a head in the mid-1980s." he will be chairman of a meeting in Paris in Early october of the International Energy Agency an Organiza Tion of 19 Western Industrial countries. The meeting will see Gillespie Page 1 try looking for your Haven in this Haystack statistical report bulging with unsavoury snippets Ottawa up searching for a Haven that will provide the finest Quality of life in the country a new statistical sum Mary from statistics Canada might have some answers for you. The document entitled perspectives Canada ii can Tell you which cities Are the worst polluted where you Are most Likely to find a dentist who or what is most Likely to do you harm and where the heaviest drinkers Are. Few of the statistics Are new or startling being Pise where but the editors say the publication is aimed at the Gener Al Public those canadians who wish to. Inform themselves of the texture of our social the edition is the second. An earlier version was issued in 1974 with a largely different set of Fig ures. The volume includes sections on crime and Justice the changing family older canadians con sumption Urban profiles on Mon Treal Toronto and Vancouver environment and native Peoples. Prom its pages you can discover that Fulfur dioxide pollution in was wont in Montreal of u major cities but that Between we and 1974 Windsor ont., had made the least Progress in combating the presence of the Gas. There s a reassuring graph which shows that radioactive fall out in milk has dropped markedly since the mid-1960s but less Happy figures revealing that if you Are murdered it is most often by a close member of the family. For Teeto taller the volume shows that Yuko ners Are the Hea Viest drinkers in the country Fol Lowed by residents of the North West territories. Yukon residents consume an average Gallons of tafe alcohol a year nearly three times More than the relatively sober new life expectancy figures show males can now Hope to live to 70, while the average woman sur Vives to slightly More than 77. Declining birth rates and greater longevity have increased the pro portion of die those Over years of age to eight per. Cent double that of the1870s. For canadians As a whole the major causes of death Are heart disease for males and cancer for women. But the figures show that for indians and limit the most common cause of death is Acci Dent sofa Nimg or violence. If need a dentist Don t go Nelfo Mohmd. The report shows it is nearly twice hard to find a dentist there than in any other province. In 1974, there was Only one dentist in Newfoundland for every persons. To the despair perhaps of physical fitness advocates television watching is the single most dominant Leisure and All Perva Sive activity with m per cent of the population participating. The amount of time spent in. Front of television declines with higher incomes persons in the higher brackets can afford other activities. And if television watching family strife Ike most daa Gerovas period Fer divorce u after Between five and nine years of marriage when 28 per cent of divorces occur. The figures show that in the 11-year period from 1964-74 inclusive crime rates have risen Stead ily in some cases doubling or tripling. The rate of increase of violent crime was 26.2 per cent a year Between 1966 and 1968, hut declined to 14 per cent be tween and 1974. Among countries Canada had the fourth highest proportion of persons in prison with out of every behind bars. But this far better Unm the . Where we Fife has of every citizens in jail ;