Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4. Winnipeg free press thursday april 20, 1978 watch for the Birdie. Domestic geese from Chicopee ski Lodge have hidden their nests in a Field across the Street from their usual Pond habitat. To protect the Birds As they trek Back and Forth to their eggs up photo members of the Chicopee maintenance staff have erected a warning to motorists on or. Sims Road. The geese hid their eggs this year because other nests have been ravaged by intruders. Milk Price increases defended Iri the North excluding the Pas was justified by higher transportation costs. He said company requests were backed up by financial statements the Board has been Given confidentially. Part of a Legal argument to be presented by the health action committee inc. Today will Deal with having such statements made Public. Both Silverwood dairies Ltd. And the people s Coop continued Era live Ltd. Said they have been losing Money Silver Wood for seven years and people s for two. They both asked for 2.5 cents a litre As did the Mani Toba Dairy poultry Coop Ergative Ltd. Board questioning concentrated on details of Cost in creases and on the Cost of Panama was ready to sabotage canal if treaty rejected by . Washington a United states stood ready to defend the Panama canal in Tjio hours leading up to sen ate approval of the second canal treaty the while House says. After Panama a s ruler Jen. Omar Torrijos said his regime was ready to Sabo Tage the canal if the treaty rejected White House p Russ Secretary Jody Powell scald t it is Safe for you to As sume we would be prepared 10 defend american interests and the canal As we have the defence department said there was no order placing . Military forces on Alert. The Torrijos statement made minutes after the sen ate s 68-to-32 vote approving the treaty tuesday night was criticized wednesday by senators who voted for and against the pact. Senator Paul Laxalt chief Strate Gist for Senate anti treaty forces said Torrins s state ment foreshadows possible difficulties in .-Panama an relations during the n it 22 years before Panama a Sumes full control of the c Nal. It was a hell of a Way to Start a Shotgun Laxalt said. Torrijos said tuesday night on panamanian television that if the treaty had been rejected we would have started another Strug Gle for he said today the canal was placed within two votes of being destroyed. Tomor Row we would have started our struggle for liberation and possibly tomorrow the canal would not be operating an aide to senator Howard Cannon one of the last senators to announce himself for the trea Cannon told presi Dent Carter by Telephone he was dumbfounded that Rijos would make such a former Fri executives plead not guilty to break in charge Washington a l. Patrick Gray and two other former executives of the Fri pleaded not guilty today to charges that they unlawfully ordered break ins during the Bureau s anti Radical Campaign in the Early 1970s. About 500 agents and former agents massed in a Vigil for the three men outside the courthouse doors. The balding craggy faced Gray stood stolidly with w. Mark Felt and Edward Miller As they loudly declared their innocence be fore . District court judge Charlesri Chey. Otherwise the former Fri officials remained silent As their lawyers argued Over pretrial issues. The three men were sent to the . Marshal s office for fingerprinting and then released on their own recognizance. Gray was acting director of the Fri in the Early 1970s when the break ins were alleged to have occurred. Felt was former acting associate director and Miller assistant director for the Fri s Domestic intelligence division. Each is charged with one count of conspiring to violate citizen rights in connection with the break ins of private Homes in the new York City area while Fri agents were trying to track Down fugitives of the Radical weather underground. Richey filled in for chief judge William Bryant who was delayed on his return from a trip to the West coast. Richey set May 12 As the next court appearance for the defendants. At that time Bryant would open arguments on pretrial motions and possibly 1 set a trial Date. Converting milk processing operations to metric units. As of april 1 the Board allowed a 2.73 cents a litre increase in milk prices to cover the Cost of going met Ric and now they want to ensure they Haven t Given too much. Two retailers asked for in creases. D. C. Tarr owner of Tarr s Solo store in Macgregor Man., asked that the allow Able retail markup on milk be raised from -1.25 per cent to six per cent a litre. He said retailers barely break even with 4.25 per cent. Walter Percy club of Cen trial meat and grocery Ltd. Of flin flon and Lynn Lake supported the retail Price in crease and asked for a Spe Cial 18 cent a litre Price in crease for a Type of milk that can be kept at room temperature up to a year. Called Ultra High tempera Ture milk it is sold to mining Camps where there is no refrigeration. As it is produced Only in Quebec Perepeluk said High transportation costs justify the increase. The hearings continue in Winnipeg today with briefs from Consumers and the Legal argument from the health committee to include swearing in witnesses and Cross examination in milk control Board hearings. They will then adjourn until april 26 at the University of Manitoba for rebuttals to the arguments presented wednesday and today. V firms fined Montreal up two. Montreal area companies have been fined a total of for violating Quebec environmental Laws. City Council notebook at its regular meeting wednesday Winnipeg City Council took the following actions set the wheels in motion for a proposed half billion Dollar development in Canadian National s East Yards site by authorizing the preparation of an amendment to the greater Winnipeg development plan that would ban heavy Industrial uses in favor of approved a recommendation that would close a 255-foot portion of Albert Street near William Avenue for amalgamation this summer with the soon to be redeveloped Market Square Triangle. to keep the Winnipeg economic development Board afloat until at least june 30, to the Winnipeg convention and visitors Bureau for the remainder of 1978 and to the salvation army to assist in the operation of the Harbor Light work and the Linden View residence. Approved a program of selective attrition whereby civic positions that become vacant will be reviewed by the City Board of commissioners for possible deletion from the staff roster. Approved development conditions for a half Mil icon Square foot shopping Centre near Lagimodiere Boulevard and Regent Avenue proposed by metropol Itan properties co. Limited. Voted to negotiate a special pact with the Provin Cial and Federal governments to identify flood prone areas of the City and discourage further development on them. Council also formally approved Aid to residents threatened by hooding a plan which began last week in St. Norbert and fort Garry at a Cost of Between and to the City. Approved a plan of minor skateboard runs in City Parks. Three meals a Day get Okay for personal care residents continued the residents receive a Large Brunch at about 9 . And a substantial evening he said. They also have Access to Small Kitchen where they can make their own snacks Between meals. At the time the plan was introduced he said it was explained to residents and seemed to be acceptable to them. Outside the House he added that if residents Don t like the plan we will certainly change he said he would t find two meals a Day acceptable if it were a Case of just giving two meals a Day As a practice but he sees this As an Experiment aimed at introducing a Little change in Pace a Little variety in Normal Schreyer told reporters he had asked the question because he had received com plaints and wanted to get some facts. He said he s not sure All elderly residents approve of the change in their three meals a Day Rou Tine. Did Crombie get die a ointment continued Lake Centre in three. Although Crombie said last week he had been invited to attend the nomination meeting Diefenbaker himself would t say whether he was the person who extended that invitation. We won t go into who invited him because if it is reported As being my invitation then people will Start asking Why somebody else did t get he said shrugging off a suggestion that Crombie the pc candidate in the Toronto Riding of Rosedale appeared to be his protege. Appearances can be he said and then without any prompting from a reporter added i think David has got great attributes but naturally i Don t want to discuss questions of leadership now. But i think a great Deal of him and that s All i can say at the moment. But Diefenbaker s invitation and the fact Crombie accepted it hints the conservatives still Aren t a cohesive we be burled the Hatchet group. Crombie has virtually ignored party Leader Joseph Clark in his major speeches especially in his March 30 Nomi nation speech. At recent partisan meet Ings he has reversed his Field somewhat and made some positive remarks about Clark but not As often an Many other tory candidates. If Crombie is allying himself with the Diefenbaker faction in the party it could be an attempt to build a base for his own leadership Campaign some time in the future. He has not denied he has Leader ship ambitions and among the Many clues to his ambitions is a speech by Rosedale conservative Hal Jackman at Crombie s nomination when he referred to the mayor As the next prime minis of Canada. Although he won t come right out and soy it Diefenbaker appears to see Crom Bie and not Clark As the Savior of the party. When asked whether he believed Clark could Lead the tories to Victory in the next election and whether in his estimation Clark had become a worthy Leader Diefenbaker said he had nothing to say about As he Lay Back on a bed in a three piece suit Ker related an anecdote about former Louisiana Gover Long to make his Point about Clark s chances. Huey Long was Baptist like me and he said that his Uncle Josh was a poker player of a High degree. Anyway there was a baptismal service in this Creek in Louisiana. As the minister took Uncle Josh into the water out of his hip pocket came the Ace and the King and the Queen and the Jack and the 10 of his wife said Parson bring him Back he s lost but Little Johnny he was five years of age and very precocious boy said he Ain t lost at All. If he can t win with that hand he can t win at All. It was apparent that Diefenbaker was trying to be diplomatic but he was finding it difficult to be so. He seems to want to make the party Over his image or else in the image of someone he chooses. The names Dalton Camp and Robert Stanfield still make his ears ache 11 years after Camp engineered Diefenbaker s re Moval from the party leadership. Camp s name is uttered in snide tones frequently in Diefenbaker conversations and Diefenbaker convincingly mimics. Stanfield As he recounts some of their conversations during the 1974 Campaign a disaster for the tories. We re going to sweep the country with this control of prices and wages he apes Stanfield adding i am imitating his voice the Way it was then maybe it has changed As for prime minister Trudeau Diefenbaker said he has Little use for him. I m deeply disturbed about our close relations with Cuba. After All that Man cuban Premier Fidel Castro in Africa with his troops is bringing Down democratic governments destroying countries and bringing in communism. And he s Trudeau s at 82, Diefenbaker is Well into his Twilight years. Since the death of his wife Olive just before Christmas in 1976 ail he has left now is his political his Friend and aide Max garment puts it. It s just amazing How he loves this country and How he loves garment said out of earshot of Diefenbaker. His fears for Canada Are real. The association with Cuba and the possible breaking up of the provinces torments him at times. While he spoke Gordon Churchill 79, a Man who hold three portfolios in the dle in Baker government entered the room. Diefenbaker s eyes lit up. By god Gordon i m so Happy see you. What a Surprise this is " Churchill who flew from his Home in Victoria to Saskatoon had taken a 90-mile bus ride from there to be at the nomination meeting. We be been close friends for 27 years and i like to see him once in a while. I thought this would be a Good he said. Meanwhile Diefenbaker prepared him self for the evening. He does t have to write a speech it s All inside his head. Surgeons claim in letter three Manitoban died awaiting heart surgery three Manitoban died of heart disease while waiting for open heart surgery at St. Boniface general Hospital heart surgeons at the institution have told the Manitoba health services commission. In a letter dated Jan. 27 and designed to support Nilace Hospital s bid for enlarged open heart surgery facilities enabling More operations per week 10 physicians associated with the Hospital Are reported to have suggested there could have been a link Between the limitations of their department and the deaths. Commenting on the letter one health department source called the claim far fetched thursday saying that open heart surgery patients frequently have such Mas Sive damage to their systems that surgery prolongs life by a year or two but does not save it. As Well the source said the mortality rate during and immediately after heart surgery in Many centres is High enough to have Given Rise to arguments on occasion that people Are operated on who could not have benefited from their surgery in any Case. general Hospital and its car Diac surgery team have for some time advocated expansion of heart surgery activities at the institution. When government announced its health plans for this year and said Hospital budgets could Only be expanded by 2.9 per cent during it agreed with the proposed expansion but said it would have to come out of the 2.9 per cent budget increase. Neither Hospital president . Quaglia nor . Edwards chairman of the health services commission were available for comment on the Jan. 27 letter of the physicians. They had pointed out that 60 patients were waiting for surgery at the time they wrote their letter. The backlog would take four full months to work up unless the capacity of the surgery unit was expanded. The physicians warned they would have to Transfer surgery candidates out of the prov Ince if no solution was found. St. Boniface Hospital sources say no such referrals have been made to Date. Or. Morley Cohen one of the signatories of the Jan. 27 letter to the health commis Sion would not comment on the letter but said the problems encountered by his group Are being worked out. Cohen did not elaborate. Gallery raises the Winnipeg Art gallery raised about wednesday night in a lottery de scribed by a gallery spokesman As an unqualified Success and destined to become an annual event. We sold pickets at a piece and gave away in Cash spokes Man Michael Scholl said. About people attended the draw held at the gallery. Deer Lodge nurses return or. Asa Macdonell director of Deer Lodge Hospital said today about a dozen nurses who reported in sick wednesday apparently to protest against lagging con tract negotiations Between their Union and the Federal government have returned to work. The Hospital director said today s absenteeism was Back to Normal Levels where wednesday s had been higher than usual. Parents fighting to end therapy despite his parents objections Chad must continue going to Massachusetts general Hospital in bos ton for the chemotherapy. The greens contend the Side effects of the treatments turn Chad into a wild with rag ing temper tantrums and other hyperactive behaviour they insist the diet plus other treatment they will not specify will Ward off the disease Chad contracted 10 months ago. The greens plan to Appeal the continued judgment. We re not willing to said mrs. Green whose Hus band is a House Painter and welder. She said they Are taking nutritional advice from a Delaware Ohio biochemist or. John Yia Mou Yiannos who is seeking expert witnesses to testify for Thorn if they win the right to another hearing. Under the order the greens must take Chad Back to the Hospital Fri Day to Complete a series of once weekly spinal injections that were resumed in february under Volterra s temporary order. A Hospital spokesman said that after two More weekly injections. Chad will go into a maintenance phase during which he will receive a Dally Pill at Home and visit the Hospital once a month. He was roughly at the same phase last november when the Dis ease was in remission and his parents halted his treatment at Home. Under the order a nurse paid by the state will give the medi cation at Home. Before his treatment was halted last fall the Hospital claimed he had a 50-per-cent Chance of surviving leukaemia. Now doctors say his chances of recovery Are reduced but still significant ;