Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sol Kanee on the trans air Sale Page 38 tic great Coupon Ripoff game Page 21 Canada dissatisfied 15 depression disease of the 70s Leisure unloved unwanted 13 lottery spawns c0n 4 ten years in the ring weekend inside anytime.7 comics.51 classified.53 88, 95-101 38-50 for people.21-34 letters.35 movies.32, 33 sports.89-94 Jumble entry.i.15 puzzle.55 weather report from sunny High 5, Low -7 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises sets . Vol. 85 166 saturday april 15, 1978 some by Steve Whysall imported wines and spirits will go up about 20 per cent next month Louis Tellitt Manitoba liquor control com Mission chairman revealed Friday. The dramatic fall in the value of the Canadian Dollar on Llic foreign Exchange is the main reason for the in creases Tellitt said. More goods Locos More see Page 9 although a specific Dale has not been fixed to Intro Duce the increases Tellitt said new prices would be made Public on or just after Mayl. The. Increases will be across the Board. We Are preparing a list at the moment and the average. Increase will be about 20 per 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 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 lop 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 Wilh the Sale of 30 discontinued brands of wine. It s been hectic this week. It makes me shudder to think we have to go through it All again one store manager said Friday. Out by Debbie Sproat Yorkton sask. The four Western provinces Are embarking on a study which could result in the develop ment of 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 Al he end of the sixth annual Western pre Miers conference held Here this week. Manitoba Premier Sterling 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 at opposition by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa prime minister tried eau accused opposition parties Friday of supporting Quebec separatism by backing the position of the parti quebecois thai the fed eral government has intruded in provincial affairs through its sales tax Cut 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 cuts of play ing politics to help defeat the Federal liberals prime minister Trudeau has charged. Tai Ilcau told the commons Friday that his government could t have made a better attempt to co operate with the provinces in working out the temporary tax reduction contained in Federal budget. They re big boys. They re adults. If they thought in was hot a Good proposal they could have said no. But they Trudeau rejecting the premiers joint communique claiming insufficient consultation threatened National Unity. See pm Page -1 West will Stady Hydro Grid system Lyon who proposed the study said in is a pretty darned important initiative and the kind of thing we be got to do in this he added a natural area for inner provincial co operation. Up photo Quebec Liberal leadership candidate Claude Ryan plants a kiss on a Delegate at the leadership convention in Quebec City. Charles Ulhand who stepped Down last week As Leader of the provincial lib eral party wins nominated Friday eve Ning As the Liberal candidate in the1 new Federal Winnipeg Assiniboine tiding. About 600 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 a shares. We have a real Opportunity of winning he said. The provincial Liberal parly 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 tie massive majority Mckenzie had in the last elec Tion but added the new Riding excluded part of Mckenzie s former seat and now included Riv or 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. Trade talks May resume. London up stalled United nations Trade Nego Lillions Between industrialized and developing coun tries May be resumed next summer As a result of Commonwealth discussions concluded Here. In the Light of he discus Sions that have been taking place we can Hope to have a resumption be common wealth Secretary general Shri Dath Ramphal told reporters Fri Day. A the United nations of conference on Trade and development which suspended is bargaining last Winter when member coun. Tries failed to resolve differ in pcs on a no Filber of issues including the ingredients for an International fund to help stabilize commodity prices. Ramphal said the time was passed when we ask whether there will be a now we have to decide should be direct government contribution. Winner by Peter Hadekel staff correspondent Ryan appeared to have an insurmountable Delegate Lead going into today s voting at the Quebec Liberal Leader ship 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 Liou Rassa in november although Only about of the eligible delegates had registered Friday night Ryan slickers mid scarves outnumbered Garneau badges and Penna its in the Delegate Section. And in a ii Estios and answer Perl Fri with delegates in the afternoon Ryan also won the applause Derby. His organization appeared supremely con fid no on the eve of the voting while Gar Neau workers stepped up their intensive drive to win Over Ryan delegates and undecideds. We will be up All night in the hotels talking to As Many delegates As we can on a one to one n Garneau organizer said we re still confident because our own polls show us Wilh More than Dele because there were Only two candidates in the three month Long leadership Campaign. The organizations arrived Wilh committed slates of delegates. Much of Llic backroom lobbying and sus Pense that usually surrounds political Leader 1 ship conventions is absent. Organizers for Garneau the former finance minister in the Bourassa government were hoping that a couple of mistakes by the fron running Ryan during the que Salon acid answer session might swing More support their Way. More coverage of Quebec Ulieru convention see pages and 12 Bui the former be Devoir publisher fielded questions impressively in the scholarly style he has displayed throughout Llic Campaign lie sores cd Hie need for major constitutional reforms which would give More autonomy to Quebec. He elicited the biggest response from Llic audience when he told a questioner that it is possible to be a Quebec nationalist and a federalist at lie same time. When nationalism becomes exclusive and jealous and rejects All other Allcorn Alivs then it must be lie timid. But what see Ryan Page i this Money belongs to is Quebec up finance minister Jacques Parizeau says he will insist that Ottawa pay a million sub Sidy for the province s Schlec live sales lax 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 tax 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 a by iwo 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 cell 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 it favors mainly Quebec based Indus tries while the other prov inces have accepted across the Board sales tax cuts. But Parizeau said Friday 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 Quebe cers and the institutions which represent them to show their support for the Steps taken by Llic 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 tax off pleasure coma 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 tranquil Lizars at a party. During the Legal Batlle Over her right to n 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 supreme court. Her parents still visit her daily at the Morris View nursing Home. Recently they spent her 24th birthday at her bedside. She is much More mrs. Quinlan said. It was Beauty she said the family if faced the now still would ask the Al. 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 together. Mrs. Quintan is a part time Secretary at her Koman Catholic Parish and she and her husband Joseph a supervisor at a pharma Ccu Lical Plant donated to their diocese the profits from a Book and television movie about their ordeal. Karen Ann Quinlan Canadian Dollar bounces Back 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 Init min enl. In confusing and Fleri hectic trading the Dollar bounced Back from a Low of 86.63 . Cells to 87.30 . Cents within a matter of hours in he Interbank wholesale Market. The closing Price was More than a third of a cent higher than thursday s 15-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 86.77 . 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 . Cells by Early afternoon. Some traders reported rumours that Ottawa May also be planning to impose foreign Exchange controls to pro decl the altered 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 the wider the 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 ;