Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Consumers rap milk Board at hearings Page player j takes straight 4 Golf win Page Lead Way to fitness Page firing notice Horoscope 26 report 17-24 Bridge 36 comics 13 26 glows within a buried menorah Page investor Confidence needed for survival Page 5, m for people 25-33 36 11 38 32 33 28 5 weather report from sunny Low -1, High 12 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Winnipeg free press vol. 85 171 Friday april 21, 1978 15 cents with coloured comics a Prioto Queen Elizabeth ii holds her first grandchild master Peter Phillips in this official photograph made at Windsor Castle on april 5. Master Phillips son of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips was born nov. The photograph was taken by lord Snowdon estranged husband of Princess Margaret. Fake Layoff notices Price seeking probe by Mary Ann Fitzgerald labor minister Norma Price of Manitoba has called for a Legal investigation into letters distributed by the Manitoba govern ment employees association to about civil servants saying they Are being Laid off. Bill Jackson president of the employees association admitted thursday the association mailed and distributed letters copies of one received by an employee at the time of the mass Layoff of regular and term employees in mid March to stir up inter esl in a demons ration planned for monday Al 7 . Al the legislative building. Only at the Bollom of the official looking Leller is there indication that it in t the real thing. There in Large Black Type it says will you be and adds a typed notice about the demonstration. Ii was also sent in association envelopes and dated March 18. Price said the letter was a scare tactic and caused considerable anguish to some civil servants to the Point where one woman fainted when she read it. She has asked attorney general Gerry Mercier of Manilo a to investigate the legality of the use of the official Crest and whether it was fraud Lenl. In the legislature Sidney Green Inkster asked Price in View of her reaction to the fake Pink slip How she fell about the real thing Pink slip sent to 373 government employees in March. Price said the ques Tion was hypothetical. Written on Pink paper and bearing the official provincial Crest the letter dated March 13, begins dear government eni see letter Page 4 Wagner goes to Senate Ottawa staff Claude Wagner 53 year old progressive conservative my for has resigned his Seal in the commons and has been appointed to the Senate. Wagner ran a close second to Joe Clark Al the pc leadership convention. During the Winter he was hospitalized with a prolonged severe illness which friends said was a form of leukaemia. Wagner was elected to the Quebec As Sembly in a by election in 1964 As a Liberal and served As attorney general until 1966. He sought the leadership of the Quebec Liberal party losing out to Robert Bourassa. Angry Over that defeat which he attributed to machinations behind the scenes by Pierre Trudeau Wagner quit the Liberal party. He later joined the pcs and was elected to the commons in 1972 and re elected in 1974. Prior to joining the conservatives he was reappointed a judge of the Quebec court of sessions in March 1970. He had been a judge of the same court when he resigned to enter the Quebec Assembly. Resort Lodge to be a spa Thunder Bay out. Up a Winnipeg physic Ian says lie believes the on Lario government will accept his bid to buy Minaki Lodge 65 Kilometres North of Ken Ora and Lurn in into a health spa or. Derek Waller said in a Telephone interview thai he has formed a consortium or investors mostly insurance firms to convert the Lodge into a spa to treat business executives with heart and stomach disorders. Waller said plans Call for renovations and a new 486 room Structure to House patients. The proposal would Cost slightly More than million including the Cost of equip ment. I m not sure when the government will make a final decision on said Waller. The provincial govern ment acquired the Lodge in 1974 and has expressed a de sire to gel rid of the properly Afler running Inlo criticism Over its operation. More sunday stores would be allowed under new Bill labor minister Norma Price introduced a Bill in the legislature thursday to let More Manitoba stores operate sundays. Outside the House mrs. Price told re porters the amendments to the retail business Holiday closing act would let stores open sundays As Long As they did t have More than foil employees on duty. The present legislation restricts sunday opening to stores which Don t employ More than a total of three people at All times. Mrs. Price said the Bill would let stores employing any number of people open sundays provided no More than four of them arc on duty. She said she could t estimate the num Ber of stores which might be affected but added it would allow Momma and Poppa Type stores to remain open seven Days a week. The Small food stores such As this pro tested last year when the present Legisla Tion was passed. The progressive conservatives promised during last fall s election Campaign to help smaller businesses including these stores. Price fulfils election Promise two passengers dead in forced Landing soviet jets fire on plane from s. Korea Washington up Soviel Jet fighters fired at an Alaska bound South korean jetliner and forced it to land after the passenger plane flew Over Soviel Ler Tilory a . Official said Loday. Two of the plane s Passen Gers were dead and two others injured inc official said. Similar reports came from japanese sources in Moscow and Tokyo. The . Official who asked nol to be identified said he did nol know the cause of death or the nationalities of the victims. But japanese sources said one of the dead was a japanese Citi zen y. Sugano 45. Fifty one of the 110 persons aboard the plane were reported to be . Sources in Moscow said . Officials were in formed by the russians thai Hie Boeing 707, which landed on a Frozen Lake suffered some the plane had been bound from Paris to Seoul Wilh a refuelling Slop in Anchorage Alaska. Japanese sources said so Viet Premier Alexe Kosygin the official news Agency. Tass reported inc news of inc Landing breaking a 12-hour Soviel silence on the Inci but neither Tass nor Kosygin shed any Light on Why the plane hundreds of Kilometres off course on lured Soviel airspace. Tass said in flew Over inc Soviel Kola Peninsula a highly sensitive area where Luss Ian naval and rocket forces arc located in heavy concentrations and then continued southward. Korean airlines in Paris said the passengers aboard the flight included 51 japanese and 33 koreans. Others aboard included three French nationals one briton and one West German. Nationalities of the Oiler Pas sengers were not known. Soviet fighter planes sent up to in Lercell in signalled the Boeing s Pilot to follow them and land Al an Airfield Tass said but lie did not respond and came Down on a Lake near Kern in Karelia due Easl of Leningrad. Tile Agency said the cause of the violation of the coun try s air space was being in Vesliga cd while the Passen Gers and Crew were taken to inc nearest town where arrangements were being made for them to leave the soviet Union. An official at the Airport near Murmansk a major so vice. City in the North of the Kola Peninsula said the plane had been due to land Uherc but eventually had come Down on the Frozen Lake far to inc South and smashed a Wing. . Military sources in Washington said they have no evidence that Soviel jews used hostile action to Force the jetliner to land. Or of police commission the Winnipeg police commission should be abolished and its duties absorbed by a new standing committee of City Council mayor Robert Stern of Winnipeg recommended thursday. Police commission members cannot can not objectively carry out their major duty of sitting in judgment on discipline matters when Only a few hours earlier they were w was keeping visiting Japa inv Olvid in administering the police depart Nese agriculture minister Ichiro Nakagawa informed on the incident. The iwo passengers were killed when the Boeing 707 made a hard Landing on a Frozen Lake in the North pole after in was ordered to land by Soviel fighter planes for violating russian airspace soviet officials said. Men Steen said. Plans to revamp re Ciurca capped Page 4 the mayor formerly a chairman of inc police commission suggested during a meet ing of civic executive policy Comiller that a new standing committee of Council should be Manitoba Industry to receive million shot in the a scaled to hear discipline cases and charges against police officers As Parl of ils duties. Tile commission s other duties should be apportioned among inc four standing com Millers and responsibility for the police de Parl men As Well As fire and ambulance services should be invested in a single City commissioner the mayor said. Coun. Alf Skowron new democratic parly also a former member of the police commission echoed the mayor s criticisms and called for the creation of an Independent three member tribunal. Members of policy committee did nol con cur Wilh either Skowron s or the mayor s recommendations. The slightly revised Council Structure they recommended for adoption would leave commissioners with exactly the same duties they have now. Manitoba is going to get a million Indus trial development shot in the . The Manitoba government is pulling up 40 per cell of the funding with Ottawa making up the rest. A joint announcement was made this morning by Bob Banman the province s Minster of Industry and Commerce and Joe Guay Federal minister of National Revenue. The Federal provincial agreement will pro vide a Range of Industrial development pro Grams Over the next five years. Winnipeg Brandon and Portage la Prairie have been identified As three areas where most of the Money will be spent. Grants Are also Likely to be made to Small businesses in Rural communities. But to be eligible a sinaly business must either expand modernize or establish itself in secondary centres outside of Winnipeg and have annual sales of less than sixteen million dollars will go towards in the province with emphasis on the Manitoba government food products Centre at Portage la Prairie. Liberal strength declining private poll shows compiled from dispatches Ottawa Csc to says a Pri vate poll commissioned by the fed eral Liberal party shows the party s strength diminishing in some areas of the country. Csc says the Joll taken by Martin Goldfarb of Toronto shows that Liberal party strength has dropped in Ontario and British Columbia. The poll showed the liberals strength was reduced in metropol Itan Toronto where they hold 18 of 21 Ridings. The election seems to have faded on parliament Hill and maps arc concluded thai voting Day will be july 10, the Date favored by the Liberal backroom. Prime minister Trudeau told his weekly press conference thurs Day Thorn Are some important items of business still to go before the House of commons. He cited the proposed constitutional pack age and entering a sales tax arrangement with Quebec. I have set no Date for the he took Strong exception to suggestions earlier this week in the commons that he should indicate in Advance when he intends to seek dissolution and Call an elec Tion. This did not conform with the Canadian Constitution he said. The Constitution does not provide for a fixed Date for the election being announced in Advance. He was asked to comment on the suggestion of Clearing the air and thereby providing for More Deco rum in parliament by indicating if an election was imminent. Speaker James Jerome told maps after a Stormy question period monday thai the Strain of uncertainty under which they were operating had brought out the Tes tines apparent in the exchanges. Jerome made the comment after Trudeau had stalked out of the chamber saying he might go and gel dissolution from the Gover nor general. All this was contrib used to considerably by the tension which invariably arises in the Uncertain circumstances in which we find Jerome told the House. The House would be More or Derly it was suggested if tru Deau would Clear up whether an election was imminent or whether maps had More time to get Down to work. The prime minister said the press could ask when the election would be but in would nol gel an answer. In inc Liberal caucus thursday Trudeau gave his members the message to be ready it s com ing know the scores hockey exhibition Canada 4 Sweden 0 wha Quebec 5 Houston i Quebec leads Best of seven Quarter final 2-1 Western Canada Billings 7 new West j Billings 1-0 in double round Robin set final new Westminster 1-1 baseball National league san Diego 2 Atlanta 0 los Angeles 5 Houston 1 american league Boston 10 Milwaukee 4 details in sports pages looking for a motor Home this want and under motor Homes 1975 21 win Nebaon motor Home Miles sleeps a on Dodge e 440 condition. Phone i 1-736-2949. Is among the hundreds of j bargains in today s classified Section pages 34, 35, 38 -10, 69 71 no matter what Voul need shop save free press want ads ;