Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Scouts Plant Trees in Park about Trees were planted by some 200 boy scouts during the weekend in phase one of development of the new red River Park. The new 460-acre Park is being planned financed and built by the red River exhibition association and will be a summer and Winter Public Park As Well As the future Home of the association Syd Scott spokesman for the group said. The Park is located on the Weil bide of Assiniboia Downs and will use the race track parking lot. The landscaping of about one third of the Bald piece of Prairie has started with planting about Trees and will be followed by contouring the land and seeding Scott said. The Basic concept of the Park will be similar to Assin Aboin Park and has been allocated for the first phase of the plan. People will be Able to Fly a Kite jog or have a picnic when the Park is finished he added. If funds Are adequate the Park will be ready for Winter recreational use this year Scott Toboggan slides Cross country ski and Snowshoe trails and outdoor skating on artificial Ponds Are features which Are All being incorporated into the Park design. The Trees which have been planted arc expected to be 10 to 12 feet High by 1980 or 1981. The association has planted fast maturing Willows popu Lar and Ash so the Park will begin to look like a Park As quickly As possible he said. Later this year Ever greens slower maturing Trees will be included in the landscaping. The red River exhibition association is primarily an agricultural society so the Park will include an educational Model farm. The farm will have grow ing areas for different types of crops and eventually live Stock will be brought in for exhibition so City dwellers and farm people can see the exotic Breeds of cattle which have come into Mani Toba in the last two or three Scott said. The Park will be a notifier Green spot for recreational educational he said. Know scores hockey sunday won i championship West Germany 1 East Ger Many 1 Finland 3 . 3 nil Philadelphia 3 Boston 1 Boston leads Best of seven 2-1 wha new England 6 Quebec 3 new England wins Semi Tanau i saturday world championship Canada 7 Sweden 5 Czechoslovakia 6 soviet Union 4 nil Montreal 6 Toronto 1 Montreal leads Semi final 3-0 memorial cup Peterborough 7 new West Minster 2 baseball sunday National league Montreal 19-2 Cincinnati 5-4 Philadelphia 8 new York 5, Pittsburgh 6 los Angeles 4 san Francisco 2 Chicago 1 St. Louis 8 san Diego 4 Houston at Atlanta Ppd. American league Seattle 9 Toronto 7 Minnesota 15 Baltimore 9 new York 3 Texas 2 Boston 5 Chicago 0 Kansas City 8 Milwaukee 6 California 16 Cleveland 3 Detroit 4 Oakland 0 details in sports paws 49-u looking for an outboard this want and under boats Marine 35 . Johnson some controls. My. 582-6940, is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section pages 32, 34 48, 57 m no matter what you shop save with press want Adt begin appeals to Sadat begin new York Reuter israeli prime minister Menachim begin appealed to egyptian president Anwar Sadat on Sun Day to renew the spirit of our talks in Jerusalem and resume negotiations fora Middle East peace. The Appeal made in a televised inter View came on the last Day of begin s week Jong tour of the United states Dur ing which he took the Salute at a Mam Moth Parade up nov. York s fifth Avenue to celebrate Israel s 30th anniversary. But although he said there is Hope for a resumption of the talks which began with Sadat s visit to Jerusalem last november he gave no Concrete ideas on How the four month deadlock could be broken. Speaking on Abc s meet the press to program begin reiterated Israel s position against a palestinian state one of the main causes of the present deadlock and also repeated his Strong opposition to the proposed Sale of . Military planes to saudi Arabia. Asked what he would have to offer Sadat if the egyptian Leader was in the Abc studio with him begin replied i would Tell him let us resume the spirit of our see begin Page 4 rocket hits Jerusalem Jerusalem a Yasser Arafat s palestinian guerrillas claimed responsibility sunday for the first rocket attack on Jerusalem since 1976 and said it was timed to coincide with this week s 30th anniversary of israeli Independence. Authorities Here said a woman was injured when a soviet made Katusha rocket exploded. The Palestine liberation organization Flo in Beirut Lebanon said several people were killed or injured in a heavy rocket attack and israeli govern ment buildings were damaged. Independence Day celebrations have been traditional targets for Arab terror ism and israeli police and civilians were placed on Alert against possible attacks. Israeli authorities said the woman was Cut by flying Glass when the rocket exploded in an apartment courtyard Satur Day night smashing windows and packing the Stone Walls of the building. A Plo command spokesman said an underground squad s rocket attack on government buildings resulted in the killing and wounding of several israelis in addition to the destruction and damage to several buildings and see Plo Page 4 Arafat by Andy Blicq lome Reznowski a 49 year old professor of English literature at the University of Manitoba was elected Leader of the National social credit party sunday. Reznowski swept 356 of the Voles at the party s National leadership convention at the Winnipeg convention Centre Downing Martin hat ice sly a in year old Edmonton lawyer and past National president of the party. A third contender Phil Gaglardi a former British Columbia minister of High ways dropped out of the leadership race before the weekend convention. Gaglardi a controversial is year old evangelist abandoned the race after his sup porters failed to meet his demands for a million Campaign fund and use of a private air plane during the Federal election. He said he dropped out of the contest because he does t have the tempera men to sit in the House of commons As an opposition my. In a fiery Victory speech Reznowski promised to pro vide canadians with a Union of French Canada English Canada and ethnic Canada and to drive the Bankers out of government and let Hie Canadian people plan their own we re going to set this country on fire for social lie said. He said the social credit party would deliver govern ment from the Golden chains of canadians Are living in misery because of an idiotic financial he said. The weekend convention Drew 583 delegates from across the country including photo by Paul Del Csc Reznowski smiles As leadership vote is announced. 279 from Quebec. Delegates cheered both candidates during their speeches and most said they Felt either would make a Good party Leader. Both Hycz Nowski and Hattersley con ducted similar campaigns sticking closely to traditional party philosophy. The social credit party currently holds eight Federal scats All in Quebec and no so Rcd outside Quebec has been elected since 1965. Sacred party officials say Reznowski who Speaks six languages has the approval of the powerful Quebec Wing of the party. Reznowski said he entered see u of m Page i open stays with . Oil Price Rise unlikely taif saudi Arabia up open Oil ministers ended a two Day informal Confer ence sunday by agreeing to keep the . Dollar As their pricing currency and to set up a special commission to map Long term strategy. Meanwhile saudia Ara Bia s Oil minister said world Oil prices were unlikely to Rise in 1978 and indicated they might remain unchanged until into the Early sheikh Ahmed Zakiya Mani told a news conference that some open members will seek an increase when the organization s Oil minis ters meet formally at Geneva in june but this will not change the reality of the Situ Yamani did not refer directly to reports that saudi Arabia had told the closed door conference that Market conditions might not make a Price increase possible until 1981 or 1982. However he said there will be a glut of Oil on the Market until the end of 1979 and this would be followed by a Peri of balance Between Supply and demand. The fight to replace the . Currency As the basis for Oil transactions because of its decline in value in re cent months had been led by Iraq. However Iraq failed to convince the other 12 Mem Bers of open that the action was necessary. Many of the ministers de fended the Dollar and expressed satisfaction with what they called its grow ing strength in the last month. The Dollar is a Strong cur Rency based on a Strong indonesian Oil minister Subroto told the associated press. Qatar minister Abdul Aziz bin Khalifa Al Thani said he believes the Dollar will re cover to last year s Levels by the time of the next open Price setting meeting scheduled june 17 in Geneva Switzerland. But Iraq s Oil minister Tayeh Abdul Karim said lie see open Page i Winnipeg still prey to deadly diseases by Steve Why Saix Long forgotten horror Dis eases such As leprosy typhoid cholera and. Diphtheria Are still cropping up from time to time Here in Winnipeg. The Days of the Black death May Well have disappeared and maybe nobody in Winnipeg today has to worry too much about being wiped out by some deadly plague but City doctors still keep finding people with one of those terrible exotic Dis eases. Earlier this year there was the Case of a 19-year-old immigrant from Asia who was found to have leprosy after having lived Here for More than four years. As it turned out there was no danger to the Public since prolonged and intimate con tact with the infected person is necessary for the disease to be passed on. All immigrants to Canada Are required to have a de tailed medical examination but sometimes disease such As leprosy which has a lengthy incubation period is not spotted immediately. The average doctor in Winnipeg would t think of leprosy when he sees some one with what looks like a simple or. Emanuel Snell the province s director of preventive medical ser vices says. It can take a Long Lime before the disease is properly diagnosed. Fortunately in the Case of leprosy there is Little danger to the general typhoid fever was a big problem Here at the turn of the Century with the arrival of hundreds of immigrants carrying the disease from Eastern Europe but it has not posed a serious threat for years now. One Case turned up in Winnipeg last year two the year before and three cases were Sec City Page 4
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