Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather report from sunny Low i Winnipeg free press son rises sets Moon rises 85 april import liquor up 20 in May by Steve Whysall imported wines and spirits will go up about 20 per cent next Louis Manitoba liquor control commission revealed Fri dramatic fall in the value of the Canadian Dol Lar on the foreign Exchange is the main reason for the Veillet although a specific Date has not been fixed to Intro Duce the Veillet said new prices would be made Public on or just after May May will be month of Price increases the increases will be across the we Are preparing a new Price list at the moment and the average increase will be about 20 per he imported liquor suppliers have put up their and freight costs have also he the 20 per cent increase will mean a bottle of French now priced at will Cost about 80 cents a bottle of scotch Whis priced at at the will jump an extra Domestic spirits such As which is the top Selling hard liquor wont be going a big Rush is expected on City liquor stores Dur ing the next two weeks As people race to Stock up with their favorite wines to beat the Many stores were still Busy coping Friday with the Sale of 30 discontinued brands of its been hectic this it makes me shudder to think we have to go through it All one store manager said Fri final edition photo by Paul Deleske the red River continues to threaten major flooding in Southern the River was expected to Crest today at about at water covers Many Fields and residents 50 Kilometres South of the Canadian Border areas South of the Are dikes against the Rivers expected late next Border have been hardest hit by see Story on Page parried Lyon says Western provinces will study electric Power generation system by Debbie Sproat the four West Ern provinces Are embarking on a study which could result in the develop ment of a Western electric Power oration and distribution the establishment of the committee to examine the feasibility of such a system was announced in a comm issued at the end of the sixth annual Western premiers conference held Here this Manitoba Premier Sterling who proposed the said it is a pretty darned important initiative and the kind of thing weve got to do in this he added Energy is a natural area for inter provincial of the four Western Mani Toba and British Columbia Are Rich in renewable resources which can be harnessed to provide hydroelectric Alberta and Saskatchewan have great nonrenewable Fossil fuel wealth but limited Hydro electric under the proposed Energy Grid Manitoba and British Columbia would Export Surpluss Hydro electric Power to Saskatchewan and thus ensuring their Fossil fuel reserves Arent depleted theirs is a nonrenewable resource but it can be Lyon 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 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 who also attended the Confer 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 rate than is possible when its Hydro markets Are the communique said the Western premiers anticipate a Western Power Grid could produce significant economic advantages for the provinces in meeting their future electrical the decision to undertake the study was reached following agreement that see electric Page 1 next move up to Smith Rhodesia guerrilla leaders agree to attend Al party conference Loren charged a actress so phia Loren was charged Fri Day with illegally exporting Art objects Worth More than actress Ava Gardner and Irish actor Richard Harris have also been charged in connection with the Dollar climbs upward Montreal up after hitting a record Low in Early the Canadian Dollar staged a significant recovery on new York Money markets amid rumours that an increase in the Bank of Canadas Bank rate was in in confusing and often Hec tic the Dollar bounced Back from a Low of cents to cents within a matter of hours in the Interbank whole Sale the closing Price was More than a third facet higher than thursdays 45 year Low of foreign Exchange dealers characterized the Days ses Sion As utterly the Dollar had been under heavy downward pressure for most of the plunging through the cent 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 after Victory for Ryan in cards by Peter Hadekel staff correspondent Quebec Claude Ryan appeared to have an insurmountable Delegate Lead going into today voting at the Quebec Liberal leadership despite a late drive by his Only Raymond 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 although Only about of the eligible delegates had registered Friday Ryan stickers and scarves outnumbered Garneau badges and pennants in the Delegate and in a period with delegates in the Ryan also won the applause his organization appeared supremely confident on the eve of the while Garneau workers stepped up their intensive drive to win Over Ryan delegates and in the convention in detail pages Ujj and 12 we will be up All night in the hotels talking Loas Many delegates As we can on a on Toone a Garneau organizer were still because our own polls show us with More than because there were Only two candidates in the three month Long leadership the organizations arrived with committed slates of much of the backroom lobbying and suspense that usually surrounds political leadership conventions is organizers for the former finance minister in the Bourassa were hoping that a couple of mistakes by the front running during the question an answer session might swing More support their but the former be Devoir publisher fielded questions see Ryan Page 1 Quebec wants million Quebec up finance minister Jacques Parizeau says he will insist that Ottawa pay a million sub Sidy for the provinces Selec Tive sales tax this Money belongs to Parizeau told a press conference for once everyone is in agree ment on this Quebec has refused to comply with Ottawa tax plan outlined in mondays Federal instead deciding to Cut taxes on certain goods under Federal finance minister Jean Chretien original Quebec would have received a million subsidy for reducing the sales tax by two or three per but on thursday he said Quebec would Only get a million subsidy for the provincial which eliminates the eight percent sales tax on clothing and furniture for 50 the Ottawa which every province but Quebec has will subsidize the provinces for two thirds of the Cost of reducing the taxes by two or three per Chretien has refused to subsidize the Quebec plan because he contends it favors mainly Quebe based Indus while the other prov inces have accepted across the Board sales tax but Parizeau said Well ordered Charity begins at dares Salaam a rhodesian guerrilla leaders agreed today to attend an Al party conference to negotiate Black majority Rule to the african their acceptance was announced after talks with state Secretary Cyrus Vance and British foreign Secretary David a British spokesman said the Hope was to hold the conference later this month or in May at a site to be the Hamilton nobody is committed to any thing merely by agreeing to Vance met again today with Joshua Nkomo and Robert leaders of the patriotic front guerrilla to push the Anglo american plan which Calls for the stationing of a in Force in Rhodesia during the transition to Black majority Rule and a Resi Dent British 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 two key elements of the they had rejected those proposals at a january meeting in but a spokesman for the British delegation accompanying foreign Secretary David Owen said details of the key issues of the plan had to be resolved before any agreement was he said the functions of the in Force and the High commissioner had not been Owen said the which originally were scheduled to end May be serious negotiations Are under was Vances Only also attending the talks were representatives of the five Black countries support ing the guerrilla Effort to topple the Rhode Sian government Botswana and Nigeria sent its foreign minister As an despite the guerrilla agreement to the Overall 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 Smith and the moderates have moved ahead with their own plan and have Given no assurances they will accept a new Confer Vance wins round parents have no regrets Karen Ann keeps living on a Karen Ann Quintan is still alive almost two years after her parents won a court Battle to disconnect her life support ing Respirator and allow her to 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 we know that we have done everything possible for our daughter everything physically everything spiritually possible and that Why we Are at Julia Quinlan said in an it was three years ago saturday that Karen Ann fell into the coma after mixing alcohol and Tranquilin ers at a during the Legal Battle Over her right to die with doctors testified that her Respirator was the Only thing keeping her but she defied the experts after the Respirator was disconnected in under a ruling by the new Jersey supreme her parents still visit her daily at the Morris View nursing recently they spent her 24th birthday at her she is much More Quinlan it was she said the if faced with the same decision still would ask the respirators there Are no she we try not to be affected by Quinlan but of course when you lose someone you it does change your there is no going Back to what happened three years she said the court ruling has brought her family closer Quinlan is a Par time Secretary at her roman Catholic and she and her a supervisor at a pharmaceutical donated to their diocese the prof its from a Book and television movie about their ;