Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sol Kanee on the trans air Sale 38 the great Coupon Ripoff game 21 15 depression disease of the 70s Leisure unloved unwanted 13 lottery spawns f new con game 4 j ten years in the ring weekend inside anytime.7 comics.51 classified.53 88, 95 -101 , 53 finance.38-50 for people.21-34 letters.35 movies.32, 33 weather.5 sports.89-94 Jumble entry.15 winners.52 puzzle.55 weather report from sunny High 5, Low -7 son rises . Moon rises sets . Vol. 85 no. 166 saturday april 15, 1978 by Steve Wii Sall imported wines and spirits will go up about 20 per cent a Cal month Louis Tellitt Manitoba liquor control com Mission chairman revealed Friday. The dramatic fall in the value of the Canadian Dollar on the foreign Exchange is the main reason for the in creases Tellitt said. More goods to Cost Mure see Pate .9 although a specific Date has Mil Beon fixed to Intro Duce the increases Tellitt said new prices would he made Public on or just after May i. The increases will be across the Board. We Are preparing a new Price list at the moment and the average increase will be about 20 per cent to 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 80 cents More. A bottle of scotch whisky priced at at the moment will jump an extra Domestic spirits such As Rye which is the top Selling hard liquor Here won t be going up. A big Rush is expected on City liquor stores during the next two weeks As people race to Stock up with their favorite wines to beat the increases. Many stores were still Busy coping Friday with the Sale of 30 discontinued brands of wine. It s been hectic this week. It makes to shudder to i link we have to go through it All again one store manager said Friday. By Debbie Sproat Yorkton sask. The four Western provinces arc embarking on a study which could result in the develop ment of a Western electric Power generation and distribution Grid. The 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 pre Miers 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 thing we be got to do in this he added Energy is a natural area for inner provincial co operation. Of the four Western prov inces Manitoba and British Columbia arc Rich in renew Able resources which can be harnessed to provide Hydro electric Power. Alberta and see West Page i up photo Quebec Liberal leadership candidate Claude Ryan plants a kiss on a Delegate at the leadership convention in Quebec City. By Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa prime minister Trudeau accused opposition parties Friday of supporting Quebec separatism by backing the position of the Parli quebecois that the fed eral government has intruded in provincial affairs through its sales tax Cul proposals. The accusation came during a Stormy commons ques lion period in which the prime minister also accused the four Western premiers who have criticized Ottawa for Lack of consultation about the sales tax cams of play ing politics to help defeat the Federal liberals prime minister Trudeau has charged. Trudeau Lold the commons Friday that his government could t have made a better attempt o co operate wit i the provinces in working out the temporary tax reduction contained in the new Federal budget. They re big boys. They re adults. If they thought it was not a Good proposal they could have said no. But hey stated Trudeau rejecting the premiers joint communique claiming insufficient consultation threatened National Unity. See pm Page i West will study Hydro Grid system Charles Huband. Who stepped Down last week As Leader of the provincial lib eral party was nominated Friday eve Ning As Ilic Liberal candidate in the new Federal Winnipeg Assiniboine Riding. Abonal. Goo people turned out for the nomination meeting in which Huband and University of Manitoba professor Roy Vogt contested for the candidacy. Huband said afterwards the turnout at the meeting was an indication of optimism among Liberal supporters in the province an optimism . We have a real Opportunity of winning he said. The provincial Liberal party was the victim of polarization in the oct. 11 elec Tion he said. In the Federal election Well have the Goodwill of the people in this he suggested that the liberals offer an alternative to the positions taken by conservative Dan Mckenzie. He said it. Would t be easy to erode the massive majority Mckenzie had in the last elec Tion but added the new Riding excluded part of my Kunzic s former seat and now included River Heights which should be up photo Huband gets party nod. To my he also said he d be offering voters a High profile person known to the voters. London up stalled United nations Trade negotiations Between industrialized and developing coun tries May be resumed next summer As a result of Commonwealth discussions concluded Here. In the Light of the discus Sions that have been taking place we can Hope to have a resumption of Unstad be Commonwealth Secretary general Shri Dalh Ramphal told reporters Fri Day. Unstad is the United nations conference on Trade and development which suspended its bargaining last Winter when member coun tries failed to resolve differences on a number of issues including the ingredients for an International fund to help stabilize commodity prices. Ham Phul said the time was passed when we ask whether there will be a now we have to decide whether there should be direct government contribution. By Peter ii Adekk staff correspondent Ryan appeared to have an insurmountable Delegate Lead going into today s voting at the Quebec lib ciral loader ship convention despite a Sale 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. Although Only about of the eligible i ill delegates had registered Friday night Ryan stickers and scarves red i Imean badges and pennants in the Delegate sic lion. In a i Ieslin and answer period with i Legates in tin afternoon Ryan also won the applause Derby. His organization appeared supremely confident on the voc of the voting while Gar Neau workers stepped up their intensive drive to win Over Ryan delegates and tin dec idols. We will be up All night in Hie hotels talking to As Many delegates As we can on a Onilo Otic a Gan eau organizer said. Al c re still confident because our own pulls show us with More than Dele 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 sus Pense that usually surrounds political Leader ship conventions is absent. Organizers for Garneau the former finance minister in the Bourassa government were hoping that a couple of mistakes by the Iron running Ryan during the question and answer session might swing More support their was. More coverage of Quebec Liberal convention see but the former be Devoir publisher fielded questions impressively in the scholarly style he has displayed throughout the Campaign lie stressed the need for major constitutional reforms which would give More autonomy to Quebec. Lie elicited the biggest response from the audience when lie told a questioner that ii is possible to be a Quebec nationalist and a federalist at the same Lime. When nationalism becomes exclusive and jealous and rejects All other alternatives then it must be he said. But what see Ivan Page i this Money belongs to wants Quebec up minister Jacques Parizeau says lie will insist that Ottawa pay a million sub Sidy fur lie province s Selec Tive sales lax cuts. This Money belongs to Parizeau told a press conference Friday. For mice everyone is in agree ment on Elvis 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 s220 million subsidy for reducing the sales lax 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 has accepted will subsidize the provinces for two 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 h favors mainly Quebec based Indus tries while the other prov accepted acrus the boart sales lax cuts. But Parizeau said Friday Well ordered Charity begins at he said he would see what happens be fore taking up with Ottawa the Means of recuperating that which is coming to in the interval i ask All and the institutions which represent them to show their support for the Steps taken by the Quebec government. Partisanship has no place Here. It s Neces sary to support Good Parizeau said he was pleased to have received support for his position from such associations As the que Bec chamber of commerce., and the Quebec federation of labor. He added that his govern ment was taking taxes off articles which poor people buy. We re not after All taking the lax off pleasure Newark . A Karen Ann Quinlan is still two years after her parents won a court Battle to disconnect her life supporting Respirator and allow her to die. Her parents said this week they have no regrets about their Deci Sion to ask the courts to end her life or the Long Legal Battle it brought. We know thai we have done everything possible for our Daugh Ter everything physically Possi ble everything spiritually Possi ble and that s Why we Are at Julia Quinlan said in an interview. It was three years ago sat urday that Karen Ann fell into the coma after mixing alcohol and Tranquili Zers at a parly. During the Legal Battle Over her right to % die with Doc tors testified that her Respirator was the Only thing keeping her alive. But she defied the experts after the Respirator was disconnected in May 1976, under a Rul ing by the new Jersey supremo court. Her parents still visit her daily at the Morris View nursing Home. Recently they spent her 2.1th birthday at her bedside. She is much More mrs. Quinlan said. It was Beauty she said the family if faced Wilh he now still would ask the respirators Romov 1 ill. There arc no regrets she added. We try not to be affected by mrs. Quinlan said. But of course when you lose someone you love it docs change your life. There is no going Back to what happened three years she said the court ruling has brought her family closer together. 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 profits from a Book and television movie about their ordeal. Karen Ann Quinlan 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 Rale was imminent. In confusing and often hectic trading the Dollar bounced Back from a Low of 80.63 . Cents to 87.30 . Cents within a matter of hours in the Interbank wholesale Market. The closing Price was More than a third of a cent higher than thursday s -15-year Low of 80.93 . 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 . Cent Mark which was the Low for May 1933. 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 afternoon. Some traders reported rumours that Ottawa May also be planning to impose foreign Exchange controls to protect the battered Dollar. It was All has been noted a Bank of Montreal trader. The Bank of Canada raised its Bank rate half a Point on March 9 and then again on april 3 when pressure on the Dollar continued unabated. The increases were designed to Widen the interest spread Between Canada and the . And attract foreign investment into the country. An inflow of capital into Canada would increase demand for Canadian dollars. Meanwhile prime minister Trudeau told the commons Friday that his government will continue to let sup ply and demand determine the value of the Canadian Dollar ;