Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 07, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba No talks scheduled in food strike 3 ukrainian film upsets quiet of museum 23 jury reverses Eaton robbery conviction 7 Swift retires from Blue bombers 65 new Maverick ready to Saddle up once again 27 Garter s water policy stresses conservation 36 anytime.7 Bio Dex horoscope.2fi bridge.28 comics.41 crossword.-.28 deaths. S.s8 fiaajice.52-55 for people.23-36 58 movies.33 television.31 weather.5 weather report from sunny High 15, Low 4 Sun rises . Sets . Moon sets . Winnipeg free press vol. 85 210 wednesday june 7, 1978 15 cents with coloured comics final edition Ottawa refuses to cede Power Ottawa up Federal ministers declared tuesday that Ottawa will maintain its cultural presence in Quebec including control Over National Parks historic Sites and copyright Law. We have no intention of abandoning our role in Cul Tural state Secre tary John Roberts said hours after the Quebec government announced propos als to assume jurisdiction Over so called cultural prop erty in the province. The Federal government endorsed preserving French culture in Quebec and would continue to play a part in developing it Roberts said. Parks minister Hugh Faulkner said he has no plan to relinquish control Over Federal Parks and historic Sites in Quebec or anywhere. I be never seen a convincing argument for pre Empting the Federal inter he told reporters. All canadians had an inter est in National Parks he said. The Quebec proposals announced in the National As Sembly by cultural affairs minister Camille Laurin say Ottawa must return All the cultural properties it possesses or manages in que Bec As Well As the share of Public funds it devotes to this segment of Quebec that would include the Plains of Abraham a nation Al historic site in Quebec City where Britain won Canada from France in a 1759 Battle. Consumer affairs minister Warren Allmand responsible for copyright said any change in jurisdiction Over copyright or other Laws can t be considered in isolation. If Quebec wanted to take Over copyright authority it would have to give up some thing in Reform of the British North America act which divides Power Between Ottawa and provinces. Quebec argues provincial artists would be better served if the province involved itself More directly in claims of composers actors singers and other artists. Minimum wage is High enough. Price tells my As by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Between and Manitoban earning the province s minimum wage won t get an increase until the Economy gets Back on a sound track labor minister Norma Price said tuesday. She told the legislature s committee of Supply the minimum wage rate which has remained at an hour for 21 months is High enough at the Peter Fox an wanted to know when Cabinet members were going to get off their Butts and raise the wage Frozen shortly after the conserva Tives took office last october. Norma Price no wage increase a photo a memorial mass was held tuesday night at the graveside site of Robert the Arlington cemetery in Washington in the 10th anniversary of his death. Attending the mass were left to right . Vice president Walter Mondale widow Ethel Kennedy brother sen. Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan. Some of the Kennedy children Are seen on the right. More than 250 people attended. See Story on Page 45. City car race May hit skids by Steve Pona a formula Atlantic car race one of 11 being sponsored in North America this year by Labatt s brewery has been proposed for a makeshift course near Winnipeg stadium this summer. But organizers said tues Day the event would be can celled unless a Date can be found in August to Book the stadium and nearby Arena that docs not conflict with Fol Lorama or additional funds Are found to support a september race. The event has been tentatively scheduled for August 20. Race promoter de Powes said in a Telephone inter View that negotiations Are not going Well. To be quite honest i Don t think the race is going to run in Winnipeg it s not going to come while relations with the City and Winnipeg enter Prises corporation have been first class since the idea was raised last. January Powes said Fol Lorama officials have refused to negotiate an accommodation that would permit both events to be held simultaneously. Powes suggested the race be run As part of Fol Lorama festivities and be designed to complement rather than compete with it. But Fol Lorama organizers refused to the August 20 weekend is the Only one during the sum Mer that the stadium and Arena Complex is open to booking he said. Fol Lorama president Henry Lorenc called the suggestion out of the ques Tion and said it s perfectly ludicrous to have one connected with the other we re just not in addition the August Date has not been approved by the Labatt a which also has an indirect financial in Terest in Fol Lorama though discussions with it Are continuing Powes said. See City Page 4 . Sport fishing decision soon minimum wage Board and hear the Board is expected to have its regular yearly meeting in june or july she added. She said she would be pre the former new demo pared to consider an Amend cratic party government had t acted either on a recommendation from the prov Ince s minimum wage Board for an increase received in the summer of 1977. During More than six hours of debate on the labor department s million estimates for the. Year Price gave no indication of when the province might boost the rate while the opposition la belled the government s stand criminal and Jinhu she continued to maintain that the province s minimum wage must be kept competitive with that in other prov inces and bordering states and that an increase now would make Manitoba s rate too Price said the conserva Tive Cabinet which regularly discusses the minimum wage had rejected the mini mum wage Board s proposal that a formula based on 60 per cent of the composite ment to the formula pro posed by the Board in the summer of 1977. She noted her nip predecessor also had rejected the Board s recommendation for an in crease based on the formula. The minister told Howard Pawley that the Federal government and six other provinces had t wages for More than a year. The Federal government Newfoundland British co Lumbia and Ontario had All gone longer than Manitoba without a minimum wage in crease. New Brunswick had t raised its minimum wage for 18 months and Nova Scotia s last increase was 16 see 4 wage should be for regular in base8all american league Chicago 3 Cleveland 0 Milwaukee i Detroit 1 Texas 2 Kansas City 1 Baltimore 8 California 6 Oakland 7 Boston 1 Seattle 4 new York 3 National league cd Coo 9 Houston i Povi Ladelphia 7 san fran 6 4 Atlanta 2 los Angeles 8 new York 2 St. Louis t Cincinnati l san at Vontreal suspended cower failure details in sports pages ;