Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Quick Mai Ritilia French expansion and learning tax questions answered Jumble in weather report from Advance Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free 85 125 february 1978 15 cents coloured comics final edition Gas blast kills six an earthshaking Flash of flame erupted from a rail Way tank car carrying liquid showering debris and setting fires through the heart of this Small six persons died and about too others were the stale adjutant general initial reports had said 21 people died in the explosion Friday Reuters news Agency said about 10 workmen were re ported in the immediate area at the Lime of the blast and Early reports put the death toll As High As but officials later scaled Down their Fig at a briefing late state adjutant general Carl Wallace said he did not know whether anyone was miss ing Wallace that 51 per sons were taken to Hospital and at least 12 others suffered minor darkness stopped the search for More but safety commissioner Joel Plummer said we think we have found All the dead of we wont be sure until at one it was feared another Tanker would be exploded by the burning Lank but firefighters showered water on the Sec Ond car to keep it Cool while hey put out the see Jas Page 1 gloom prophets bigger threat than Unity Issue pm by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa prime minis Ter in a fiesta pre election performance at the Liberal convention said Friday night that the Grea text threat to Canadas sur Vival is the doom saying of his political the pm stated that the crisis of Confidence created by conservative and nip doomsayers was a More serious National problem than National Unity or the by the threat of Quebec Independence not a whose address Axworthy feels endangered Ottawa staff it was a Chanceton see an endangered that How Liberal la Lloyd Axworthy jokingly summed up the survival prospects of a Liberal in his province at an opening Day session of the National Liberal party convention Axworthy Gallows humor referred to his lonely role As the Only Liberal in Manitoba he could also have been referring to the three Prairie prov which Are represented in Ottawa by Only a six Liberal maps two from three from Saskatchewan and one a but there was no Taik of election optimistic or at the conventions Prairie regional workshop Friday morning As westerners concentrated on giving their views about what is right and wrong with a panel of six including spelled out the Root cases of Prairie alienation a list of traditional grievances ranging from rail freight Rales to tar Iff policies that Hurt Western Farmers and favor Eastern see Axworthy Page i milk producers seek More Manitoba milk producers have served notice on the government want an increase in the Price of milk to recoup higher production Art chairman of the Board of directors of the Manitoba milk producers marketing said Friday the amount of the increase will be discussed at a March f Board producers have until March ii to indicate to the Manitoba milk control Board by How much they want the Price of a Hundred weight 100 pounds of raw milk to if the control Board sees justification for the a Public hearing will be held sometime in Secre tary of the control Board a question of degrees the following spoof is circulating among doctoral candidates at a number of reports the chronicle of higher education which recently printed the author is anyone who has Ever gone through a doctoral or Tor that matter struggled through the cunning directions on essay will agree that the writer deserves at least a Washington a examination for the doctor of philosophy degree history describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present concentrating but not on its religious and philosophical Impact from Africa and the be concise and Public speaking some Rio crazed aborigines Are storming the Calm you May use any ancient language except latin or your performance will be biology create estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 500 million years ear giving special attention to its Proba ble effect on the English parliamentary prove your music write a piano orchestrate and perform it with flute and you will find a piano under your in the interest of you May omit the psychology based on your knowledge of their evaluate the emotional degree of adjustment and of see a Page 4 was televised live by said Canada has the re sources to solve its economic difficulties and the political will to preserve National what was needed is Confidence in Canadas something he maintained the opposition parties were doing their Best to Trudeau conceded that too Many canadians could not find and the inflation Rale has not been ing Down As slowly As the government had thought it hut told convention delegates packed into a hotel ballroom that Canada is not a sick country in a healthy were a healthy country in a difficult lie noted that Between 191j5 and Canada created More jobs than All the Prin Ciple Industrial nation which Are part of Recd Tion for economic cooperation and Only in the last year Hud one the United surpassed Canada in Job when the pm referred to one Delegate shouted Joe Trudeau quipped who the room erupted in laugh Ter at Trudeau reference to the Clarks initial identity problems after capturing the conservative leadership As a relative unknown two years in another caustic refer ence to the pm asked How he could handle govern ment finances when he cant even count the Dele Gates in Bow a bitter dispute Over the official tory nomination in Bow a new Alberta centres around charges that the number of votes cast exceeded the num of eligible party Mem on the Unity tru Deau told a questioner that aspects of the parti Quebe especially its Law Mak ing the Only official Are righting and Lorraine a librarian at Johns displays three of puppets an envelope one and in the background a Box puppet the University of Winnipeg today language arts symposium which ends Lorraine taught herself the Art of puppet making from Reading was director to quit if cuts okd ambulance men threaten strike by John Sullivan a proposed Cut in the Winnipeg ambulance service budget has prompted a strike threat from the ambulance attendants Union and the planned resignation of at least one was John the ambulance boards finance said Friday his resignation is automatic following a decision by the cites finance and executive policy committees to recommend an Cut in the 1978 ambulance the recommendation was made pending termination of the cites management agreement with United health services corporation flood possibility looms Manitoba flood forecasting committee has predicted above Normal precipitation from now to Spring Runoff could result in major flooding on the red and Assini Boine in its first report this the commit tee said major flooding is possible on the red River Between Emerson and Winnipeg and on the Assiniboine Between Lazare and even if precipitation is the report the red River will overflow its Banks Between Emerson and Winnipeg because of above Normal Snow accumulations in Mani see flood Page 4 and establishment of an a municipal com Mission to run the Mcfarlane said the com Mittee proposal to freeze All ambulance spending at 1977 Levels except for a six per cent wage boost Means the Board will have to renege on a tentative pension agree ment with its unionized attendants and a plan to expand the five minute ambulance response time to All areas of the City must be shelved and 15 staffers May actually be Laid he the Concordia Hospital area and still Lack the five minute considered by the boards medical advisors to be Essen they Cut everything out of h and in pretty damned upset about Mcfarlane the whole thing is completely you cant run an ambulance service like service is obviously going to deteriorate because of i dont have any Choice but to resign because i backed that budget 100 per cent and Treyve just said go to the pension loss and fears of staff cutbacks also earned a Quick response from the drive attendants which had been awaiting confirmation of the budget before finalizing its Tenta see ambulance Page 4 Lyon to Back drinking age of 19 Premier Sterling Lyon said Friday he will support a private members Bill to raise Manitoba minimum drinking age to to be introduced next month at the Spring session of the provincial Lyon said at a regularly scheduled press conference he has heard that at least one or two conservative Las want to introduce such a free vote which would allow All legislators to vote on it according to their while he declined to speculate on whether it would gain support from the conservative the pre Mier said it is Well known that the present minimum age of 18 causes serious problems in some High i think it has had a bad Impact on some school he i know this from having heard it from teachers and some a private members Bill was introduced at the 1977 session by Bob Banman Pula Verendrye and was narrowly Defeated in a free vote 27 to among its supporters were Lyon and the Premier de while Sidney Spivak pc River Heights was the Only conservative since conservatives now hold the majority of seats in the provincial it appears almost cer Tain that such a Bill will be approved if introduced Lyon told reporters Friday he favors an increase in the minimum age because he believes Young peo ple Are now introduced to liquor too Early in their when the age was he said older teenagers tried but now much younger teen agers Are As now you see children 11 or 12 years old experimenting with Alco hol and i dont think anybody would accept that As being in the social or Public he we All learn in the Light of experience whether or not this is the right May be we lowered it too Lyon said other provinces have raised the minimum age to with the Ontario government proposing such action in its speech from the throne this on another Lyon indicated he does not expect legislation order ing compulsory use of seat belts in Manitoba to gain much support if it is brought to the conservative caucus by highways minister Harry i i 1 i ;