Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Consumers rap milk Board at hearings 3 Gary player takes at third straight Golf win 66 doughnuts Lead Way to fitness 12 nurses firing notice rescinded courage glows within i More investor Confidence a buried menorah i needed for survival 25 Page 2 inside anytime.7 Blo Dex horoscope.26 business report.17-24 bridge.39 comics.13 crossword.2s for , jumble.38 television.28 weather.5 weather report from wee sunny Low-1, High 12 Sun rfcs . Sels . Mook rises . Sets . Winnipeg free press vol. 85 1t1 Friday april 21, 1978 15 cents 25twith coloured comics Queen Elizabeth ii holds her first grandchild master Peter Phillips 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 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 est in a demonstration planned for monday at 7 . At the legislative building. Only at the Bottom of the official looking letter 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. It was also sent in association envelopes and dated March 13. 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 Manitoba to investigate the legality of the use of the official Crest and whether it was fraudulent. In the legislature Sidney Green Inkster asked Price in View of her reaction to the fake Pink slip How she Felt about the real thing Pink slip sent to 373 government employees in March. Price said the ques Tion was hypothetical. Written on Pink and bearing the official provincial Crest the letter dated March 13, begins dear government pm see letter Page 4 resort Lodge to be a spa Wagner goes to Senate Ottawa staff Claude Wagner 53 year old progressive conservative my for has resigned his seat in the commons and has been appointed to the Senate. Wagner ran a close second to Joe Clark at the pc leadership convention. During the Winter lie 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. More sunday openings for 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 four employees on duty. The present legislation restricts sunday opening to stores which Don t employ More than a total of three All mrs. Price said the Bill would let stores employing any number of people open sundays provided no More than four of them Are 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 Thunder Bay ont. Up a Winnipeg physic Ian says he believes the on Tario government will accept his bid to buy Minaki Lodge 65 Kilometres North of Ken Ora and turn it into a health spa. Or. Derek Waller said in a Telephone interview that he has formed a consortium of 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 get rid of the property after running into criticism Over its operation. Washington ;