Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sol Kanee on the trans air Sale 38 the Pat Coupon Ripoff game 21 Canada a dissatisfied nation 15 depression disease of the 70s Leisure unloved unwanted 13 x lottery spawns new con game 4 ten years in the ring weekend inside anytime.-.7 classified.-.53-88, 95 -101 deaths---------.5, 53 finance--------.38-50 for people.21-34 letters___.35 movies weather.5 sports-------.89-94 Jumble entry------------------.15 winners puzzle.55 weather report from wee sunny Low 0, High 8 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises Winnipeg free press vol. 85 no. 166 saturday april 15, 1978 import liquor up 20% in May by Steve Whysall imported wines and spirits will go up about 20 per cent next month Louis Veillet Manitoba liquor control commission chairman revealed Fri Day. Dramatic full in the value of the Canadian Dol Lar on the foreign Exchange is the main reason for the increases Veillet said. Although a specific Dale has not been fixed to Intro Duce the increases Veillet said new prices would be made Public on or just after May i. May will lie month of increases the increases will be across he Hoard. We Are preparing a new Price list at the moment and the average increase will be about 20 per cent he said. Imported liquor suppliers have put up their prices and freight costs have also risen he added. The 20 per cent increase will mean a bottle of French wine now priced at , will Cost about cents More. A bottle of scotch whisky priced at at the moment will jump an extra Domestic spirits such As Rye which is i Iii top Selling hard liquor Here won t be going up. A big Rush is expected on City liquor stores Dur ing the next two weeks As people race to Stock up Wilh their favorite wines to beat the increases. Many stores were still Busy coping Friday with the Sale of 10 discontinued brands of wine. It s been hectic this week it makes to shudder to think we have to go through it All again one store manager said Fri Dav. By Paul dec Sec Victory for Ryan in cards by Peter Hadekel staff correspondent Quebec Claude Ryan appeared to have an insurmountable Delegate Lead going into today s voting a lie Quebec Liberal leadership convention despite a late drive by his Only opponent Raymond Garneau. An enthusiastic crowd of delegates and observers filled a hockey Arena Here Friday to cheer the two candidates seeking the leadership vacated by Robert Bourassa in november 1976. Although Only about of the eligible delegates had registered Friday night Ryan stickers and scarves out numbered Garneau badges and pennants in the Delegate Section. And in u que lion and answer period with delegates in the afternoon Ryan also won the applause Derby. His organization appeared supremely confident on the eve of the voting while Garneau workers stepped up their intensive drive to win Over Ryan delegates and undecideds. The red River continues to threaten major flooding in Southern Manitoba. At Morris man., water covers Many Fields and residents Are dikes against the River a Crest expected late next week. The River was expected to Crest today at Drayton n.d., about 50 Kilometres South of the Canadian Border. Areas South of the Border have been hardest hit by floodwaters. See Story on Page 4. The convention in detail pages 11 and 12 darned important Lyon says Western provinces will study electric Power generation system by Debbie so roat Yorkton sask. The four West Ern provinces arc embarking on a study which could result in the develop ment of a Western electric Power generation and distribution Grid. Tile establishment of the committee to examine the feasibility of such a system was announced in a communique issued at the end of the sixth annual Western premiers conference held Here this week. Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon who proposed the study said it is a pretty darned important initiative and the kind of tiling we be got to do in this he added Energy is a natural area for inter provincial co operation. Of the four Western provinces Mani Toba and British Columbia Are Rich in renewable resources which can be harnessed to provide Hydro electric Power. Alberta and Saskatchewan have great non renewable Fossil fuel wealth but gift in i Hydro electric potential. Under the proposed Energy Grid Manitoba and British Columbia would Export Surpluss Hydro electric Power to Saskatchewan and Alberta thus ensuring their Fossil fuel reserves Aren t depleted unnecessarily. Theirs is a non renewable resource but it can be Lyon said. We have a resource that if left on tap is going to run unused into Hudson Manitoba has something better than megawatts of undeveloped Power to come on Lyon said. If it is economically viable to pump some of this into Western provinces it would make a lot of sense in terms of Security of Manitoba Energy minister Donald Craik who also attended the Confer ence added that if the study shows the Grid is feasible Manitoba can go ahead with developing its Northern Hydro sys tem at a much steadier Rale than is possible Wien its Hydro markets Are Uncertain. The communique said the Western premiers anticipate a Western Power Grid could produce significant economic advantages for the provinces in meeting their future electrical needs. The decision to undertake the study was reached following agreement that see electric Page 4 next move up to Smith Rhodesia guerrilla leaders agree to attend All party conference Loren charged Rome a actress so phia Loren was charged Fri Day with illegally exporting Arl objects Worth More than million. . Actress Ava Gardner and Irish actor Richard Harris have also been charged in connection Wilh the Case. Dollar climbs upward Montreal up after hitting a record Low in Early trading the Canadian Dollar staged a significant recovery on new York Money markets Friday amid rumours that an increase in the Bank of Canada s Bank rate was imminent. In confusing and often Hec tic trading the Dollar bounced Back from a Low of . Cents to 87.30 . Cents within a matter of hours in the Interbank whole Sale Market. The closing Price was More than a third of a cent higher than thursday s year Low of 86.93 . Cents. Foreign Exchange dealers characterized the Day s ses Sion As utterly the Dollar had been under heavy downward pressure for most of the morning plunging through the 8g.77 . Cent Mark. But a wave of buying brought on by speculation that a hike in the Bank rate would soon be announced pushed the Dollar Well above 87 . Cents by Early Afler we will be up All night in the hotels talking Loas Many delegates As we can on a one to one a Garneau organizer said. We re still confident because Nur own polls show us with More than because there were Only two candidates in the three month Long leadership Campaign the organizations arrived with committed slates of delegates. Much of the backroom lobbying and suspense that usually surrounds political leadership conventions is absent. Organizers for Garneau the former finance minister in the Bourassa government were hoping that a couple of mistakes by Lite front running Ryan during the question and answer session might swing More support their Way. But the former la Devoir publisher fielded questions see Ryan Page i Quebec wants million Quebec up finance minister Jacques Parizeau says lie will insist that Ottawa pay u million sub Sidy for the province s Selec Tive sales tax cuts. This Money belongs to Parizeau told a press conference Friday for once everyone is in agree ment on this Point. Quebec has refused to comply with Ottawa s lax plan outlined in monday s Federal budget instead deciding to Cut taxes on certain goods Only. Under Federal finance minister Jean Chretien s original proposal Quebec would have received a million subsidy for reducing the sales tax by two or three per cent. But on thursday he said Quebec would Only get a million subsidy for the provincial plan which eliminates the eight per cent sales tax on shoes clothing and furniture for 50 weeks. The Ottawa plan which every province but Quebec Lias acc plod will subsidize the provinces for iwo thirds of the Cost of reducing the taxes by two or three per cent. Chretien has refused to subsidize the Quebec plan because he contends it favors mainly Quebec based Indus tries while the other prov inces have acc plod across the Board sales lax cuts. But Parizeau said Friday Well ordered Charity begins at dares Salaam a rhodesian guerrilla leaders agreed today to attend an All party conference to negotiate bringing Black majority Rule to the african country. Their acceptance was announced after talks with . State Secretary Cyrus Vance and British foreign Secretary David Owen. A British spokesman said the Hope was to hold the conference later this Jno nth or in May at a site to be determined. However the spokesman Hamilton Whyte said nobody is committed to any thing merely by agreeing to Vance met again today with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe leaders of the patriotic front guerrilla Alliance the Anglo american plan which Calls for the stationing of a in Force in Rhodesia during the transition to Black majority Ruie and a Resi Dent British commissioner. . Officials said after the second of two meetings Friday that there had been a shift in the guerrillas position and that Nkomo and Mugabe had Given tentative approval to the iwo key elements of the plan. They had rejected those proposals at a january meeting in Malta. Bui a spokesman for the British delegation accompanying foreign Secretary David Owen said details of the key issues plan had to be resolved before any agreement was formalized. He said the functions of the in Force and the High commissioner had not been settled. Owen said the talks which originally were scheduled to end today May be extended. Serious negotiations Are was Vance s Only comment. Also attending the talks were representatives of the five Black countries support ing the guerrilla Effort to topple the Rhode Sian government Tanzania Mozambique Zambia Botswana and Angola. Nigeria sent its foreign minister As an observer. Despite the guerrilla agreement to the Over All plan there remained the question of rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith and the three moderate Black leaders with whom he signed an agreement March 3 for Black majority Rule by the end of the year. Smith and the moderates have moved ahead with their own plan and have Given no assurances they will accept a new Confer ence. Parents have no regrets Karen Ann keeps living on Newark . A Karen Ann Quinlan is still alive almost two years after her parents won a court Battle to disconnect her life support ing Respirator and allow her to die. Her parents said this week they have no regrets about their decision to ask the courts to end her life or the. Long Legal Battle it brought. We know that we have done everything possible for our daughter every Lhing physically possible everything spiritually possible and Thal s Why we Are at Julia Quinlan said in an interview. It was three years ago saturday thai Karen Ann fell Inlo the coma after mixing alcohol and Tranquilin ers at a party. During the Legal Battle Over her right to die with doctors testified that her Respirator was the Only thing keeping her alive Bui she defied the cup urls after the Respirator was disconnected in May 1976, under a ruling by the new Jersey supreme court. Her parents still visit her daily at the Morris View nursing Home. Recently they spent her 2-Lth birthday Al her bedside. She is much More mrs. Quinlan said. It was she said the family if faced with the same decision now still would ask the Respirator s removal. There Are no regrets she added. We try not to be affected by mrs. Quinlan said. Bui of course when you lose someone you love it does change your life. There is no going Back to what happened three years she said the court ruling has brought her family closer to Gelhar. Mrs. Quinlan is a part time Secretary at her roman Catholic Parish and she and her husband Joseph a supervisor at a pharmaceutical Plant donated to their diocese the prof its from a Book and television movie about their ordeal ;