Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 02, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Win Muhi Mil mhs8 Hydro Appeal Manitoba Hydro application to Appeal a of its proposed Fate increase has been called and the application to the Manitoba court of Appeal Justice Monnin heard the application in his Chambers and in his written decision wednes Day noted that the rate Rollback by the Manitoba Public utilities Board from the proposed per cent to per cent was an interim the Appeal court has jurisdiction to Deal Only with final orders of the utilities not interim judge Mon Nin when the rate increase is can launch its application to Appeal and that application could then be Cait with by the Appeal the judge if Hydro wants to Challenge the jurisdiction of the utilities Board to regulate it can do that through action in the court of Queens the judge in imposing the reduced rate the Board wrote that More information would be necessary before any final order were to be issued on rate Bank spending cushions Dollar continued Chretien announced the government was mobilizing additional de fences for the the Dollar closed wednes Day at cents lowest closing level since the government the Bank of Canadas holdings of the main form of International had fallen to million by by con the Central Bank had billion in Dollar re serves at the beginning of last by using Dollar re serves to Purchase Canadian the government through the Bank of Canada reduces the Supply of Cana Dian currency on Exchange markets and slows its fall in Chretien has repeatedly refused to Tell opposition maps the extent of Central Bank intervention in currency markets As the Dollar came under increasing the release of offi Cial reserves statistics once a month is the Only Opportunity for measuring the activity of the Central Bank traders in currency february reduction in official reserves is even larger than opposition members had it comes when currency markets arc nervous and May result in More speculation against Canadas cur some Market analysts weakness in Canadas Dol Lar partly reflects the falling value of the Dollar in world Exchange West German Bankers were in an emergency meet ing today As the Dollar slipped to record lows against the West German spirits prices increase continued wage and Cost increases for Many he said Many operators will increase their prices but the amount will be governed by what the Competition will the new tax collecting rules for Domestic Beer in licensed premises will require operators to Post their liquor prices before tax and indicate How much tax conies atop of or tax in the latter the Licensee must still show the amount of tax their customers Are this new system cuts Down on red tape for the commission which be in in the business of tax said director of retail sales and tax for the department of weve never been Happy with Moshenko till make tax collecting More licensees already collect a 10 per cent sales tax on foreign wine and spirits sold licences will have to remit the tax directly to the department of finance on their monthly or quarterly in a letter to All liquor licensees in the the finance department says no matter How they intend to Post their prices before tax or tax included their sales slips must clearly indicate the amount of each sri extend picket to include flour Mills the number of Farmers withholding Market ready beef shipments increased wednesday and pickets spread to two major flour Mills in Winnipeg As the Ca Mali movement farm pro exact numbers of Farmers participating in the protest Are estimated a spokesman for the pickets said cattle shipments have been Cut to seven per cent of Normal flows at the Union stockyards in major marketing place for beef cattle and hogs in Western and that few Grain deliveries were made wednesday at Oglivie flour Mills and Maple Leaf flour the protest is Over beef and Grain prices and the Low family farm income in thirty five Farmers in the Elm Creek some with cattle nerds of up to 250 cattle ready for agreed to with hold their cattle after a meeting wednesday night with movement coordinator Marguerite Larson told about 35 Farmers at Elm Creek that there is something wrong with the Canadian agricultural Industry when Farmers will go on a picket that not their Ball she the Farmer has been carrying the con Sumer for to Eugene of Rathwell is with holding his Herd of 250 he said the beef Industry operated at a loss for the banners protesting Low prices of beef and other commodities picket at Tow Union past three stockyards in Boniface in an attempt to Stop the How of cattle to lets Start fiddling and watch them Gatil tier Well see what happens when All the shelves Are a cattle Industry official opposing the strike says the move will spark new pressure for a cattle marketing Board a concept despised by Many layoffs loom in the packing houses As a result of Farmers picketing the Union an official of the Canadian food and Allied workers Union said that 600 Winni Peg packing Plant 400 More in Saskatoon and about 75 in Regina have been Given the layoffs could begin As Early As today in Winnipeg and Friday in Saska Toon and were pretty upset about it because a lot of people Are going to be without said Bruno business agent for the Union in but Zimmer said the Union bears no ill feelings toward the striking farmers1 who Are picketing packers and livestock auction marts to Stop cattle deliveries and agriculture minister James Downey of Manitoba said the government has no plans to intervene in protest Demontra Downey said he was sympathetic to Ward the but Doest think the strike is the right he said Farmers who belong to the organization Are Only a minority and that most farm people dont agree with the principle of strike Blacks agree in Rhodesia Smith breakthrough Salisbury up prime minis Ter Ian Smith and three Black nation Alist leaders will sign an internal settlement agreement on majority Rule in Rhodesia a govern ment spokesman said the Cabinet Secretary told report ers the Accord would be signed by Bishop Abel Ndabaningi Sithole and chief Jere Miah the conference has reached agreement and they Are meeting in plenary session tomorrow morning at 10 Oclock local time after which they will sign the the Secretary the which began reached agreement on the principle of on vote in a Blackmun Zimbabwe on 15 and followed up with Accord on the composition of the new states armed since Blacks and Whites have been straggling Over the makeup of the transitional government de signed to Lead the country to majority Black Rule on details of the agreement reached today on the transitional government were not immediately on it was that the delegates to the conference had agreed that each of the four leaders would be chair Man of a transitional government in today discussions concerned composition of the govern ment itself and division of Cabinet Smith has proposed that the interim government be half Black and half the nationalists have demanded equal representation for each of the four factions to the Nego meaning the government seats would be divided 25 per cent for Whites and 75 per cent for Joshua Nkomo and Robert my leaders of the patriotic front guerrillas who have been fighting the White government for More than five years from bases in neighbouring Mozambique and have rejected the proposals already agreed upon and say they will step up the fighting until Smith agrees to hand Over Power to the country Mil lion Between Winnipeg and grand Forks prostitution pipeline9 denied by authorities grand Forks police say there int a prostitution pipeline Between Winni Peg and grand the denial follows an associated press report which quoted a United states Border patrol spokesman As saying authorities were concerned about the existence of a prostitution pipeline Between the two the spokesman is reported to have made the comments after two Winnipeg women were arrested for prostitution in grand Forks a member of the grand Forks police department and the coun Tys state attorney both say there is no organized a spokesman for the Winnipeg police departments Vic squad also con firmed there want any organized International jury is still out in the Anderson stabbing Case the five woman jury on the James Olaf Anderson stabbing Case was still out this morning after retiring at 3 wednesday to consider what Crown attorney Wayne Moshkowsky told them was a straightforward has pleaded not guilty in Manitoba court of Queens Bench to two charges causing bodily harm with intent to maim or and pos session of a knife for a Pur pose dangerous to the Public the Crown alleges he stabbed Samuel of 938 autumn Wood Avenue the night of 1976 during a gathering at suite 200 Beliveau but defence counsel in his address to the jury wednesday before it said there Are sever Al key inconsistencies in the testimony of Crown wit including that of Newton the police found no evidence that anything at All had occurred in the suite when they arrived about two hours after the alleged Inci Rural Gas to Rise 10 9 More later the Public utilities Board has allowed intercity Gas utilities to increase rates for its customers in Rural Manitoba up to 10 per cent immediately and another eight per cent the increases result from higher natural Gas prices in Alberta and the Cost of contracting for guaranteed supplies with Tran Canada pipelines at a Public hearing 3 in Portage la Prairie the Utility said these Cost increases amount to for the remainder of 1978 and another in at the hearing the town of Steinbach objected to passing the Cost of contracting for additional Gas on to intercity but the utilities Board ruling commends the company for acting prudently and let it pass these costs customers near Portage la Anne and Pierre will pay 10 per cent More As of an increase of a next 1 they will pay another eight per a intercity customers near min Nedosa and Neepawa will pay per cent or a month next they will pay per cent or a memories were but terror was the same the los Angeles times los Angeles All of the memories were different but the terror was the it was the sudden terror of and if the survivors of wednesdays crash at los an Geles International Airport did not name it in the hours that it was there nonetheless in every word they each met that spectre in his own Way attorney Robert of suburban Manhattan cradled his 16yearold Daugh ters head in his arms and remembered that there was an emergency exit just ahead of his in a private he sex and Ive never before been in a bad but i want to live and i want my to so i always try to get a seat near the so Row 15 has worked out pretty Well for us both after the Lyon he made for that keeping tight hold of Leslie there were a lot of people afraid to slide Down the escape he i had to kick kick one woman Down ahead of in usually More of a gentleman than but i wanted Leslie out of there now when she was safely he turned Back into the my he i was due in Honolulu thursday for a the All the papers i go with out then i saw the when i saw it was a Good thing i already had the stuff id have gone without i think fire is the worst thing in the on the with hours Between them and the Mem Ory of that Lyons said he and Leslie were going on to Hawaii anyway and by got to he you cant drive Genie Drakes of near by West Covina said she but that was a frightened she said not at All like the one she heard her 15yearold voice when the first bump was Shes a real Christian said i heard her in the name of Jesus Christ i rebuke from this then the fire began and i lets get out of Here my Mother has a heart con said she was sex but something must have you know were Drakes Ruth of Flag too a bit earlier than i thank the she that i prayed this morning be fore we i think i did when it but in not Slayton was travelling to Hawaii with her Nellie both women were but officials at Tor Ranee memorial where they were examined after the said their injuries were ill probably Fly Home with Nellie Slayton and Well both just before we the Sisters were part of a tour group arranged by the american association of retired persons and the National re tired teachers association As were 77 others on Board Continental airlines flight we were going on a Hon said Ross retired personnel director of United press whose was reported in critical condition with Burns on 80 percent of her we were married just a year ago just a and wed postponed the honeymoon the downings were in the midsection of the xc10 jumbo Jet and were separated in the general confusion after we were close to an exit on the right Downing i looked for Inez and god i find her and 1 tried to hold Back but somebody pushed me off into the Chute and i hit the Wing of the Lane and Slid i ran Down there on the looking for my when i found she had been burned i could see it was someone had carried her away from the plane and then the ambulance came he a he just mar ried a More fortunate was Ken Mars Den of Toronto who had been looking Forward to a hawaiian vacation with his after we he someone on the intercom said release your Lap Belt and move out As fast As so both of us i want letting go of my wife hand for anyone went to the closest but when they opened the it was All flames Down so i go and i let my wife i we Hung Back and moved to the other Side and went Down the Chute just As fast we could and were All the the Leona Bennet of finished the thought for the ones who were there on the at the they into the two die in crash after Jet blows tires later in the Day in Honolu another Continental dc10 did not take off after several tires blew out As it taxied for a night to there were no Airport officials Continental said Gene Herschel 6pth birthday is Fri the Pilot said it was his first Accident in 37 years of Fly As flight 603 approached take off from los Angeles International Airport at two tires blew out and a Landing gear Continental spokesman Robert Sterling Hersche quickly reversed engines and veered to the left and the plane tipped Over and caught Sterling witnesses said pulling the plane to the left avoided hit Ting buildings on the the aircraft was taking off from West to a direction used Only during storms be cause of wind Southern California was lashed with heavy rain tuesday passenger Deborah of said she Felt a big bump As the plane Little pieces of the ceiling panel started coming i heard the stewardess fas ten your seat belts put your head Down and grab your just she the Pilot told everyone to get i could see flames through the windows on the left she i Slid Down the Chute and i saw that one Chute had you could see a Trail of flames behind the plane about 200 feet it looked like a can of gasoline had been spilled and lit with a then i saw smoke pouring under the the plane stopped on its left the fuselage singed a deep Brown and one Wing Iso metres Busy Sepulveda exit they went just jumped flames it was the most awful thing i Ever they jumped into she hell was the word Lillian Wiedman of Pomona she it was like hell the one they preached when i was a it was just a big bump we and the air plane and then we went Down this ramp thing and i i lost my and i lost All my Money and i lost my travellers and i prob ably lost All my baggage that was so what i didst lose my in Lucky Carol and Dimo of lost their we were going to Honolulu said three a real vacation there and we had a thousand or so in Cana Dian Money and maybe twice that in travellers checks not to mention our passports and re turn my there Back in the so what does it All add up now nothing he a bit nothing at All nothing like a close look at death to sort out toe world and make you see Bow things really Are and what ;