Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 05, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather report from Advance Cloudy Low 8, High 23 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets 9 n . Winnipeg free press vol. 85-no. 208 monday june a 1978 15 cents 25e with coloured comics final edition Here is a list of strikes in Manitoba today Canada Safeway employees. 70 employees of Empress foods the bakery division of Safeway. About 40 Lucerne foods employees who prod q of Avi a fun t o jj1 , cd Lei thl Hie Why 0 their lockout strike. Most major construction Sites in Winnipeg Are still closed As the construction workers strike approaches its sixth week. Labatt s brewery workers went out at Midnight sunday after their contract expired last week and Drivers for associated Beer distributors have been locked out. Health strike averted a threatened strike by operating engineers at the health sciences Centre was averted this morning when the International Union of operating engineers local 827, agreed to a two year contract. The Union represents about Joo operating engineers maintenance workers and occupational therapy technicians at the Hospital who had voted to go on strike 7 . Today if they did t get a new contract. Details of the settlement were not immediately Avail Able. Union business agent John Peterson said earlier in the week he feared the Hospital was intent on forcing work ers into a strike just to apply pressure on the provincial Ovorn Nicot for More fund ing. The Union s last contract with the Hospital expired dec. 31, 1977. Safeway work j b by Jim Hama arts a dog joins striking retail store employees at the River and Osborne Safeway store this morning. By Scott Edmonds about employees of Canada Safeway Ltd. Went on strike at 8 . Today to Back contract demands closing most of the company s Manitoba stores. More than Safeway workers met sunday to officially reject the company s last contract offer and vote by a two thirds majority to strike. A company spokesman said sunday six stores were going to be kept open despite the strike five in Winnipeg and one in Brandon. Victor Pinchin said the stores would be kept open by supervisory personnel and any employees who want to the Winnipeg stores stay ing open include those at the Grant Park shopping Centre fort Richmond Crossroads shopping Centre Leila ave nue and Mcphillips Street River East and Westwood. The Safeway in the Brandon mall will also be kept open. Pickets also went up today at Empress foods Safeway s bakery which employs about 70 workers who Are part of the store employees Union. And the strike at Lucerne foods see strike Page i 7-year-old boy onlookers refuse to help Montreal up about a dozen people watched a seven year old boy drown saturday and refused to jump into the Riviere Des Prairies to save him some saying the water was too polluted. Police said Martin Turgeon of Montreal slipped off a wharf near a spot where untreated sewage is dumped into the River. We re not going in water is much too witnesses quoted one onlooker As saying. Some people even left the scene As the boy s father a non swimmer thrashed about in the water and screamed for help. It makes you wonder about How human people a remarked. The boy probably would have been Savee Prairie Grain probe launched one dead two injured in shootings by Bob Lowery Thicket Portage Man. One Man died and two others were wounded after All three deliberately shot themselves in Sepa rate liquor related incidents Here this week end. It was probably the worst weekend we be Ever had in this mayor Bob Mccla Verty said in an interview. People started to bring liquor into town from Wabowden and Thompson Friday and it kept coming All Day on Friday a Man shot himself to death in the stomach with a 12-gauge Shotgun and on saturday a 20-year-old Man fired a shot into his foot and was flown to Sec one Page 4 sport fishing still Welcome baseball american league sunday results Texas 9 Toronto 5 Detroit 6 Minnesota t Milwaukee 12-9 Cleveland 7--1 Kansas City 13 Chicago j California 4 Boston 2 Oakland 6 new York 4 Baltimore Seattle 1 saturday results Toronto 4 Texas 3 Minnesota 9 Detroit 2 Cleveland 6 Milwaukee 4 Oakland 5 new York i Chicano 9 Kansas City 5 Boston 3 California i Baltimore 2 Seattle i National league sunday results san Francisco 3 Montreal 2 Philadelphia 9 los Anoe ies 4 san Diego 5 new York 2 Chicano 6 Atlanta 4 Pittsburgh 4 Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 4 Houston 2 saturday Kuln Montreal s san Francisco 3 Chicano s Atlanta i Philadelphia s los Anoe ies 1 Cincinnati 4 Pittsburgh 3 new York 3 san Diego 2 Houston 5.7 St. Louis 2-2 de tafts in sports pages Ottawa up Ameri can sport fishermen still Are Welcome in Canada govern ment officials said today expressing concern the so called fish War might Dis courage . Tourism. As far As we re concerned there s been no change in the Laws affecting sport Fisher one official said. It was unlikely Canada would do so. A recently published sur vey that in 1975 More than one million american sport fishermen came to Canada. Many fish under non resident licences Pur chased from provincial governments. They spent More than million in 1975. The Federal tourism office said it is concerned that mis understanding created by the suspension of the 1978 reciprocal fisheries agree ment Between the two coun tries could discourage american tourists. American commercial fishermen have been ordered out of Canadian Waters and any vessels found fishing after noon local time today Are to be arrested. The . Issued the same order to Ca Nadian vessels but their Law does t distinguish Between commercial and recreation Al Craft. So Canadian sport Fisher men found in . Waters can be arrested by the . Coast guard. But a government official said the number of Canadian anglers taking their boats into . Waters is pretty malaria victim disease Back with a vengeance hunger disease increasing in by Robert Willaard the world fights a losing Battle against hunger Dis ease pollution and Energy waste warns a United nations report that Marks world environment Day today. The report of the Nairobi based United nations environment program snep an organization not Given to sensationalism offers a Bleak update on the the state of the world s human and ecological environment. For instance malaria believed wiped out in the 1960s, is Back killing a million children yearly and striking at a Quarter of All adults in Africa the report says. In India alone i arts malaria cases Rose from see hunger Page 4 Africa Heads Agenda compiled from dispatches four european countries and the United states opened two Days of talks in Paris today on How to bring stability and Security to Zaire and other Western oriented Afri can states. France called the meeting in the Wake of the recent invasion of Zaire s Shaba province by exiled Lunda Tri Besmen opposed to president Mobutu scuse seko. Also attending Are Britain Belgium and West Germany which like France built up huge african colonial empires in the 19th Century and still have extensive economic cultural and political links with their former co Ionics. France rushed 600 foreign legion paratroops to Shaba last month to help drive out the Lunda rebels. On Sun Day the . Air Force began living i.500 moroccan troops to Southern Zaire to replace the French troops. The moroccans Are the nucleus of a pan african peace Force which France is Spon Sec Africa Page 4 by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa transport minister Otto Lang said today the Canadian govern ment will initiate a special immediate investigation into the efficient use of Prairie Grain handling and transportation facilities. The investigation will be undertaken by an Independent analyst with proven experience and expertise in the railway Industry. The government Hopes it will have the Active co operation of the railways the Grain compan ies and the wheat transportation Section of the wheat Board. The objective is to ensure maximum advantage is taken of Canadian Grain sell ing opportunities and that the demurrage costs Are kept at a minimum. The government has come under Strong criticism in the commons recently for the Way the movement of Grain has bogged Down and demurrage costs have risen. A spokesman in the minis Ter s office said today the terms of reference for the inquiry have been completed and the government is now searching for a consultant with expertise in the railway Industry. Ralph Goodale l Assini Boia said in Weyburn sask. Over the weekend we Are already on our Way to a rec Ord or near record Grain Export this crop year. We have been building steadily to Ward a billion Bushel target which is within sight in the next few years. However Farmers in the Prairies Are concerned that we make the very most of every sales Opportunity and that we stay on target with the wheat Board s delivery program to satisfy our customers and avoid demur the suggestions by the opposition for additional hop per cars and a repair pro Gram for existing boxcars is a Good idea which should be he said but warned that is merely a Long term measure. We need immediate Short term measures to As sure that the existing rolling Stock is being used to the Best possible advantage and that we Are getting the very most out of what we got Goodale said. The Assiniboia my said that present Western Grain transportation system is being taxed to its absolute limit because the wheat Board has embarked on a vigorous successful Selling program. Sex policeman ready to testify by Mike Ward former Winnipeg police officer n orman Brown said in a prepared statement today that he is willing to Tell the Manitoba police commission All he knows about police brutality. Brown was identified by the free press last week As the Anonymous policeman who admitted in a newspaper article to assaulting suspects. He said in his statement. I would like to go on record As saying that i am More than willing and prepared to make a full disclosure of the problem of the use of excess Ive Force brutality within the Winnipeg police depart he said the focus had been taken away from the prob Lem and centred on his own incidents. I have no intention of setting myself up As a scape see former Page 4 looking for a motorcycle this want and under motorcycles 735 family fears spread of mystery Force As cat Budgie die is among the of bargains in today s classified Section pages 32 35. 38 51. 64 no matter what Yea need save win free press wan Central Butte. Sask. Up a farm family fleeing the effects of a mystery Force they be Lieve killed the family cat and Budgie has moved to 5 Skoboe Home near this town about s3 kilo metres North of Moose jaw. This thing has got to be stopped before it spreads far Sake Bradford i am 3 rational Man and of dollars on a trailer like this unless i though it was he said. But i think the thing is spreading daily. Yob can smell it. It is i clothes in vehicles even if it can kill on Budgie and or cat How do we know we Are said Alice Bradford s s7-year-Oid wife. The Fawny moved to the Home after Tucey. And officials could find no explanation for bouts of nausea dizziness. Headaches burning of the lips and a tightening feeling in the Chest. Mrs. Bradford said she was the first to experience the strange phenomenon. It was last fail it just gripped me tight. I had no idea what was later her husband. And their is. Cecil and Mel. Reported Sim Ilar experiences. The water reported a minor Earth tremor or Shock wave on their property mysteriously broken Trees and other Trees apparently burned and dying. Birds which normally flocked to the Spruce and scotch Pine Trees on the farm were reported to be avoiding the area. I spent about checking for everything i thought might be said the Farmer. I had All kids of appliances stripped anti checked and then i called in the authorities. They Tell me their investigations have Cost about the provincial emergency measures organization Provin a departments of environment labor and Heath and the Saskatchewan Power corp. Are com Peteh baffled by the events. They have checked for Gas a arcs. Radia pesticides her and have Taien Sercl. Water and air samples. Bradford said he has used no insecticide on the farm for about one year. I be never experienced any thing like this since i be been director of the said Jim Eaton an emergency measures organization official. David Tate. Commander of Canadian forces base Moose jaw. Said there have been no re of unidentified flying objects in the area ;