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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Argos sign Terry Metcalf 43 City police budget for ripoffs Hustler publisher outside courthouse 1978 water rate freeze proposed 9 Manitoba music festival and results 10 weather report from Advance sunny Low-15, High -5 5un rises . . Moon rises . Sets . Speck admits 7 of 8 Chicago nurse murders inside anytime.7 Bio Dix horoscope.16 bridge.16 21 finance.22-25 for people.15-20 letters.46 jumble.31 television.19 weather.7 Winnipeg free press vol. 85 no. 133 tuesday March 15 cents with coloured comics photo by wave Gowacki stalactites take temporary Root As a Workman prepares the demolition of the Steeple of the immaculate Conception Church at 181 Austin Street in the Wake of sunday s fire which caused damage estimated at the Blaze which is under investigation by the fire commissioner s office destroyed the Church and resulted in heavy water and smoke damage to the administration Centre and a Church school in the Complex the Church was built in 1891 and is the second oldest roman Catholic Church in the City. Tax cuts urged Ottawa up conservatives reiterated demands for tax cuts monday in the Wake of a report they said shows there were Lay offs in Canada last month mostly in Ontario. Opposition Leader Joe Clark and Sinclair Stevens conservative financial critic said the report from employment centres shows the government s economic poli cies Are failing. Clark said the tax Cut of the last two months failed to stimulate the Economy enough and reiterated Calls for cuts in income and Feder Al sales taxation. Finance minister Jean Chretien responded by say ing the Oft repeated conservative Call for a billion Cut in taxation and a freeze on Public service hiring will not work. He said conservative proposals will Cost jobs in Ottawa alone. He said he had tried and failed to convince provinces see pcs Page 4 pre budget Brief chamber Calls for cuts in retail sales taxes Ottawa up the Canadian Cham Ber of Commerce called monday for a three per cent reduction in retail sales taxes in areas of High unemployment and a two per cent reduction of sales taxes in the Resl of he country. This was the chamber s major proposal for stimulating the Economy. 11 was in a pre budget Brief to the government. Under its plan sales taxes in the Allan lie provinces Quebec and British Colum Bia would be reduced by three per cent. Two thirds of the Cost would be absorbed by the Federal government the remaining third by the government of each province. In Ontario and the Prairie provinces where unemployment is lower than the National average a two per cent reduction would be shared equally by the Feder Al and provincial governments. Estimated Cost of the plan was million. The chamber said the reductions would get the Economy moving and reduce the see chamber Page 4 . Coal strike gang guards non Union trucks Norton a. Up shades Mohe wild West haunt the rugged Mountain roads of Virginia where As mean a Bunch of Pistoles As Ever stalked the streets of Tombstone now ride Shotgun on the non Union Coal trucks of millionaire Jim Brown. Brown whose non Union Coal shipments have suffered sporadic attacks from angry ump miners new group of hired hands half a dozen members of a motorcycle gang called the fug Ucros. Toting rifles clubs and pistols they now ride Herd on Coal trucks from Brown s firm the Paramount mining corp. If they shoot at us Well shoot at David Martin 24, said As he loaded his Shotgun and saddled up monday for an other Coal run. Nah i Ain t said Martin dressed in boots dungarees a Black leather jacket and a motorcycle Chain Bell. See gang Page 1 ramp considers laying charge against Cossitt by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa Federal government officials and offi cers of the ramp Security service were considering today whether to Lay a charge against Tom cos Sill progressive conserva Tive Leeds under the official secrets act. The Security service offi cers Over the weekend and again monday interviewed several members of the parliamentary press gallery. As a result they Are convinced that if Cossitt did t at one Lime have in his Possession the specific document they want he did have excerpts from it. They believe that co Silt when he first raised questions in the commons Deal ing with soviet spy Active vites had a Page with a Chart on it that was a part of the specific document they want returned. The speculation Here is that Cossitt when he Rose commons Mon Day had turned that Page Over to someone else who after Cossitt finished Reading his statement destroyed the Page or pages. Technically therefore Cossitt was accurate when he said he did t have the specific document in his pos session when he made the statement in the House. The Assumption Here among re porters who interviewed him is that he never had the com plete document just excerpts from it. Whether authorities can make a charge stick remains to be seen. Solicitor general . Blais apparently goofed by asking for the specific document by name in his for Mal letter. Blais said outside the House that even if Cossitt did t have the specific Docu ment he was confident the my did at one time have some Security documents in his Possession. The next move is up to Blais. Outside the commons he declined to speculate on what action the government would take in face of cos Sill s denial. With Cossitt s declaration that he had no such Docu ment the tense drama that had built up in the commons since last thursday was deflated. There was an audible gasp from crowds filling the galleries in the House and stand ing at the Back of the seats above the Heads of the Mem Bers of parliament. There was some muffled laughter. They had come to the com Mons to Wilness the next Al in the drama perhaps even the arrest of Cossitt. There was Chagrin and Dis belief on the faces of the Cabinet. Prime minister tru Cau was not in the House. Deputy prime minister Allan Mac Leachen was in charge and tried to make the Best of whal appeared to be a bad situation from the govern men s Point of View. Co Silt left the commons still a free Man. Outside the House the my said he had never had such a document but refused to comment on whether he had excerpts from in. thursday Blais accompanied by he Kemp director of Security Michael dare interviewed cos Sill in his office in the parliament buildings and demanded he turn Over the document. They threatened cos Sill with ble arrest and Willi search of his office and Home if he did nol return the Docu ment by i . Est last thursday. Liaising the matter on a question of privilege Cossitt protested ibis interference with his rights and privilege Sasa member of parliament. A fierce debate developed see Kemp Page i anti terrorist tactics revealed to ramp probe Ottawa up two memos setting out the ramp so curly service s anti terrorist program in Quebec were placed before a Royal commission into ramp wrongdoing monday. A memo dated feb. 12 set out disruptive tactics coercion and Compromise As the Best Way of slopping he error isl front do liberation do Quebec. One dated june 11 focused on source development As a lop priority for the newly created g Section aimed at breaking up terrorist groups. Signed by supt. Joseph ferraris Ihen a sub inspector ii Sci out As disruptive Lac lies to harm terrorist groups or recruit informers a. Selective interview of activists ibis Mullind was used during expo and did see anti Teru oust Paffie i Keable probe lawyers want Quick reopening of hearings Ottawa up lawyers for the Keable commission filed a special request with the supreme court of Canada monday to obtain Permis Sion to reopen Public hear Ings As soon As possible a commission spokesman said. The Surprise move came shortly after a three judge panel of the High court granted the commission leave to Appeal a Quebec court of Appeal ruling which has blocked the provincial inquiry Inlo police wrongdoing for the past two weeks. The of the request is to partially suspend execution of the lower court s feb. 21 ruling until the supreme court hands Down a final decision in the three month court Ballac. This Legal tactic opens the possibility that the inquiry headed by Quebec City labor lawyer Jean Keable could go ahead while awaiting the High court s ruling a pro Cess hat could take months. Most observers had concluded that the appeals order for a Complete halt to All proceedings would shut Down the commission Inlo the Spring or summer months even if Quebec wins ils Case in supreme court. Hear hear Fenby s hearing began to fade 20 years ago and the Hospital fitted him with an Aid. It did l seem to work and Fenby was resigned to live in an almost silent world for two decades. Now he knows Why. The Hospital filled the hearing Aid in the wrong ear. The error was discovered Only a couple of weeks ago when Fenby 74, a churned to the Hospital for stomach surgery. A routine checkup established that his right ear was hard of hearing. The Hospital had made the Aid for his left which had almost Normal hearing. Now it s been set right and Fenby says he s not bitter. When the truth was discovered i just could l Slop he said. It s the most hilarious thing in my civic committee Butts out no smoking Law by Steve Pona a draft City bylaw to regulate smoking in Public places was rejected As unnecessary and unenforceable by members of Winnipeg s civic environment committee Mon Day. Committee recommended coun cil scrap the proposed bylaw which won approval in principle last september urging it instead to combat the problem with a Well planned education program on the hazards of tobacco smoking. A report from Deputy medical health officer d. L. Gen Mill says such a program would encourage voluntary compliance to no smok ing strictures adding smokers in general in Winnipeg Are already commencing to conform to or recognize the non smokers rights. Councillors said a bylaw is not needed in Winnipeg to prevent pub Lic puffing and As examples cited a number of downtown companies that have encountered no prob Lem enforcing their no smoking regulations without it. Councillors also expressed con Cern about the Cost of enforcing such a bylaw especially since most complaints would be registered in the evenings and on weekends resulting in overtime and other costs to the City s inspection forces. The regulation proposes to pro Hibit smoking in elevators transit vehicles and in up to 100 per cent of floor space in any enclosed in door area including theatres con Cert Halls and skating rinks being used As a place of Public no smoking areas could also be designated in restaurants and re Tail stores with the onus of enforce ment left up to the individual proprietor. Contravention of the proposed bylaw would carry upon conviction a maximum Fine six months in jail for an individual and a Fine for a corporation. Committee appeared evenly split during debate on the motion be tween councillors advocating tighter restrictions on smoking and those arguing against any. Committee chairman coun. Jim Ernst Independent citizens elec Tion Mill added it s ridiculous and i think it s a waste of time to try to legislate cordoned no smoking areas in restaurants and retail stores. Know the scores hockey nil Buffalo 2 Montreal 1 Central senior Brandon 6 St. Boniface 2 Curling Brier standings after 3 rounds Alberta Nova Scotia British Columbia Manitoba Ontario territories Northern Ontario new Brunswick Quebec Saskatchewan Newfoundland Prince Edward Island details in sports pages 41-44, 47, 50 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 3 .0 3 looking for a fridge stove this want and under appliances fridge s50, stove Good shape. Phone is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section pages 28 3ft, 45 47 no matter what you need shop save with free press want ads ;