Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Committee still suspects Candy payouts Rissini a isms ire 8 weather report from fur Midi or big i standardized tests 200 Farmers prescribed to elderly called detrimental expected to picket today health minister wants fishing banned 2 3 sunny Low High 10 sum rises sets Moon rises sets 9 is Winnipeg free press inside 41 48 4547 for final edition 85 127 february 1978 15 cents with coloured comics Gas Rise okd the Public utilities Board has granted the greater Winnipeg Gas company permission to raise its rates by about per cent effective March i to offset higher natural and propane Gas the Utility asked for a rate increase to pass these costs on to its customers at a on Day Public hearing under the newly approved rate the Price of Gas for an aver age residential customer will go up by about the company said at the hearing the higher Gas prices which were approved last month by the National Energy Board amount to about Mil greater Winnipeg Gas customers will pay More for their Gas Start ing tomorrow despite a slight reduction in the util itys 1977 property last year the Utility paid million in property taxes less than originally Esti mated resulting in a slight overcharge in 1977 the 1978 rates have been adjusted downward accordingly in the new rate Structure which provides for increases of Between and per de pending on the Type of Cus Oil firms seek Rise in prices by Jeff Carrothers free press correspondent Ottawa half a Oil companies have asked he ant inflation Board Aib for permission to boost Gaso line and other Petroleum product prices by an average cents a effective March the if approved by the Aib at a meeting later would cover non crude Oil Cost increases such As salaries and would be in addition to the cents a gallon increase also scheduled for March 2 to cover the 1 Oil in crease of a motorists could face increases at the Gaso line pumps of Between and cents a Start ing thursday at assuming that the Oil retail ers arc Able to pass All of the approved increase to con fish Agency Given vote of Confidence by Bill ii Olden the Board of directors of the Freshwater fish marketing corporation monday confirmed its Confidence in management of the corporation following a special Board meeting called by fed eral fisheries minister Romeo Leblanc called the meet ing to allow Peter chairman of the Board of directors of the to explain alleged mismanagement reported by the free press and to answer a private consultants report critical of the of fms marketing John Board member for said Moss confirmed that pack aging dates were changed and a rabbis initials forged on packing boxes by employees on a very limited it was done inadvertently it has been it appears that instructions to staff were not there Allmand bugging confirmed Hart worked for the ramp by Don braid free press correspondent Ottawa the government has confirmed that an american named Warren Hart served As an ramp informer and that he once surreptitiously tap recorded former solicit to general Warren Harts ramp handlers destroyed the tape when they realized that then head of the had accidentally been solicitor general Jean Jacques Blais said the ramp didst inform Allmand of the Blais he also confirmed that Hart tape recorded nip my John Rodriguez Nickel but did not say what was done with the Blais said Hart was actually assigned to Bug a third party who was present at a meeting with and not the solicitor general he would not identify the third Hart has said that he taped both Allmand and Rodriguez when they were meeting Black activist Rosie who was deported from Canada in 1975 for his role in a 196 riot that destroyed the computer Centre at Montre als sir George Williams Hart also says that the real target of the bugging was not but whom the ramp suspected of being a see Hart Page 1 were not Many instances where it Mcfarlane quoted Moss As telling the Board of Mcfarlane said other accusations made against the Femc were explained satisfactorily to Board Mem but declined to com ment he said the corporation planned to re lease a statement shortly challenging Many allegations made in published a president of the Crown corporation responsible for marketing fish caught in the Prairies and Northwest said the Board dealt with the allegations Point by Point and planned to make Public its responses to the charges within the next Parks would not comment on details of the but said the Board confirmed its Confidence in manage Moss left Winnipeg for Ottawa shortly after the Allday meeting ended at about 1 and could not be reached for Dean Whiteway Icsel Kirk said in the commons monday he wanted an inquiry to look at certain senior executives of the Winnipeg based Crown Leblanc rejected the re quest and said it appeared Whiteway was orchestrating some kind of Campaign against he said that affidavits mentioned by who copies of which were distributed in the parliamentary press should be turned Over to the Manitoba Whiteway in a letter to the minister last month claimed that for several years the see fish Page 1 photo three dinghies carrying members of the Greenpeace foundation huddle around the sealing ship Arctic Endeavor in an attempt to Block it from leaving Halifax Harbor for the annual Seal Hunt in the Gulf of the ship managed to plow through the blockade As did the ship Martin Karlssen on million borrowed from to Back Dollar Ottawa up the government is Bor rowing million from a special billion standby credit it set up with chartered Banks last fall to protect the Dol Lars finance minister Jean Chretien announced monday the move follows an announcement a week ago that the government was going abroad to borrow Money for the dollars but would seek interim financing from the stand by Dollar in terms of Canadian funds at noon tuesday was Down 125 at in new the Canadian Dollar was up 3100 at Mac quits seat Ottawa up former finance minister Donald a Veteran of five Cabinet is resigning his scat in the House of com Mons his office has my for Toron tos Rosedale has Al ready entered private Law practice since leaving the on Erous finance Post last sep the 45yearold who also served As minister of mines and re sources defence and government House was first elected to the commons in Macdonald resignation the Dollar touched a 45year Low of win be effective March a cents on currency markets spokesman his Depar Ture will leave seven seats vacant in the commons and prime minister Trudeau must by Law announce dates by wednesday for Bielec tons in at least two of those resignation surprises Many Jackson quits task Force prepares to tight layoffs by Scott Edmonds Bill Jackson resigned from the provincial government task Force on efficiency and the Economy saying he could better fulfil his role As president of the Manitoba government employees association Mega by readying members to fight Lay offs feared in Soontok released depart mental Jackson surprised Many with the made Only a week after he told a press conference he was withdrawing an earlier threat to resign pending attempts by Educa Tion minister Keith Cosens to place in other jobs Mega members Laid off in the at the press conference he also announced the establishment of a redeployment com which would try to find alternate employment or retrain government workers affected by any future Jackson said in an interview monday he had known from the beginning that he might have to resign from the task Force and it had been coming now for two or three he said he had first Only naturally tried to use a threat to resign to get what Ever concessions he he admitted the Best time for his resignation might have been after a meeting with Premier Ster Ling Lyon who made it Crystal Clear the conservatives would use Means other than attrition to trim the civil but Jackson said he stayed his hand Pri Marily to help the ii Keewatin Community College employees in the Pas and also because the establishment of the redeploy see Jackson Page i but recovered slightly after the government said it planned to seek foreign financing to support its Exchange closing at cents in Montreal Chretien said the standby borrowing is Only the first of a sequence of drawings planned against the special but gave no Indi cation when or How much additional borrow ing is As for the borrowing outside Chretien said details would be revealed in due sue million Page 4 once considered a possible successor to Trudeau at the Helm of the Liberal Macdonald counted himself out last tall and was replaced in the finance portfolio by Jean caution Hippo Xing Coy bubbles flees Hunters hippos Are much faster than people lamented a spokeswoman for lion country a wild animal that came As no news to the tired Park rangers who Are growing exasperated at chasing a two ton fugitive whose escape skill May have sealed her own if they cant catch her the Freedom Loving Hippo May have to be if Only As a traffic bubbles escaped More than a week ago and was still hiding out in a football sized Lake in the Laguna in the the Hippopotamus crossed a heavily travelled startling at least one Midnight motor and causing a hastily organized friends of the River horse society to erect a sign caution Hippo the California Highway patrol was having problems with jammed traffic in the area monday As motorists slowed or stopped to observe police there was talk of shooting bubbles if she be taken any other Way because of danger to her trek from one Lake to unseen by pursuing apparently was first noticed about mid night sunday by a Motorist from farther Down the he stopped a traffic Mark fish Ive had a couple of but youve got to believe me and then you can arrest me i just saw a Hippopotamus Back up the Fisher quoted him As to the mans the officer said he left him with his Mouth hanging and sped up the can continued see Coy Page 4 civic employees Accident prone the safety coordinator for the City of Winnipeg said monday the Accident rate is substantially higher among civic employees than their private Industry counterparts with adequate safety in said Peter Thompson in a Telephone employees of the City Are twice As Likely to suffer an Accident on the Job 18 to 20 per cent compared to about 10 per cent in the private much of the blame lies in the fact the City has until had a rigorous safety training program for its Esti mated full and Par time More than of whom can expect to be injured Thomp son possibly the worst areas for occupational accidents Are water and excavation who must contend with lethal gases and confined and ref use and Landfill who most often suffer Back and muscle strains from lifting More than they cuts from hidden Glass and jagged the safety situation is not Thompson weve got a considerable number of accidents among City almost nothing was done to educate them to occupational hazards up until about two years Thompson after which four safely besides himself As were engaged full time to combat the High incidence of and that still not he see civic Page 4 hockey nil 5 by rangers 3 Cleveland 3 Vancouver 3 Manitoba Junior playoffs Kenora 7 James 6 Kenora leads quarterfinal series 10 details in sports pages 53 57 looking for a typewriter this want and under miscellaneous articles for Sale 559 Remington Standard Good 668154 Between 6 and 4 is among the hundreds of bargains in today classified 18 58 67 to matter what you need save with free press want ;