Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rent rebates held Luck Pok Book 23 i Isu cml of Iii tax rebel alleges intimidation the bad aspects of constr Tim Reform 38 Manitoba s dec tunic of Teliak Rosy 51 by Ruex Buret ept f 34 1 1 34 far people. 23-34 tetters.35 movies.32 weather report from Cloudy Low 12, High 22 him 1 Rutm . Milf f Winnipeg free press vol.8s-no.23t wednesday july cents Moth coloured comics final edition food prices push inflation rate to 9. .2 Ottawa higher food prices mainly for beef once again pushed up the inflation rate in june. It now is at its highest level so far this year statistics Canada reported today. The 12-month inflation rate in june was 9.2 per cent up from nine per cent in May. The consumer Price Index the generally accepted measure of inflation Rose by nine tenths of one per cent in june. This follows a 1.4-per-cent increase in May. Supermarket prices for beef cuts were up by 11.1 per cent in the month and now Are 70.3 per cent More expensive than a year ago the government Agency says. Fresh fruit prices increased especially for apples but prices for fresh vegetables were lower because higher potato prices were More than offset by seasonal de Clines for lettuce and tomatoes. Fresh fruit prices Are nearly 39 per cent higher now than a year ago. Pork Cost More last month than in May and in three of the Western. Dairy product prices Rose. Housing costs increased mainly for homeowners accounting for most of the Price increase in items other than food statistics Canada said. Prices for some cars were up As Well As for certain clothing train and inter City bus fares. The consumer Price Index stood at 175.1 in june compared with 173.6 in May and 160.3 in june last year. That Means a Standard Basket of consumer goods and services that Cost in june was valued at in May and a year ago. The Sharp Rise in consumer prices comes As the government is dismantling jts anti inflation pro Gram. The controls imposed in october 1975, were Only partly effective on food prices at any time because they applied Only to processors and distributors. The government now is con ducting an inquiry to determine whether unfair profit margins Are being earned by the processing and distributing part of the food Industry. In 1973, when food prices started rising dramatically the food prices review Board was set up to see inflation Page 4 four escape Quebec jail prisoner guard die in shootout open idea refused the Winnipeg police association has scoffed at the idea of opening Winnipeg police commission disciplinary hearings. But lome Leech Council Lor and commission chair Man said he is optimistic the association which is the negotiating body for the City s policemen will see the Light and eventually decide to allow the secret meet Ings to be held in Public. The objection was made through association lawyer r. A. Gallagher in a letter made Public during a com Mission s meeting tuesday. Gallagher a letter was written in response to state ments made by Leech after a commission meeting last month that the City s Legal department would meet with association representatives to discuss eliminating a clause in the City s contract with the association requiring complaint bearings to be closed. In his letter Gallagher said the association objected to Leech s remarks. The letter burned out cars lie in a parking area of the campsite near Tarragona Sion tuesday. A runaway truck loaded with Industrial Gas exploded in on Spain s Mediterranean coast which was destroyed by an exp the campsite engulfing hundreds of campers in flames. 135 feared dead explosion Flike giant flame thrower9 Tarragona. Spain a it was like a giant flame said a French woman who survived when tank truck loaded with in a Camp killed Between 125 and 135 persons police reported. More than 200 other campers wore were author y to ten Gam associate and that wish u vacationers he the Keg on your Leech b a w of Barce seems to have replaced m from countries. Many of the bodies were burned beyond recognition and identification was difficult. The campsite resembles hell or what we think hell is said one policeman working amid the charred remains of automobiles campers and tents. The permanent campsite is one of a score along the popular com a brava. The lunch hour explosion blackened More than 160 acres and was heard four Kilometres away. Earlier reports put the death toll at near 200. Officials blamed the higher estimate on great Vincente Mirabel the head of a Burn treatment unit at a Valencia Hospital said 40 victims were admit Ted there and most were in critical condition. I Don t think Many will he said. Police at noon put the death toll at 11.9 and said half a dozen persons were missing. Police said the 38-ton single trailer truck was loaded with n cubic metres of Gas when it left the High Way while rounding a curve crashed through a Stone Fence and exploded. Witnesses said the truck was going about 65 Kilometres an hour when the Driver lost control. The blast set off a Chain of explosions As campers bottled cooking Gas blew up. No Trace of the Spanish Montreal up four prisoners escaped from the maximum Security Laval Institute tuesday after a shootout which left two persons dead and another four wounded. Police set up Road blocks around the City in an attempt to Corner Andre Chartrand 23, Jacques Massey 36, Ghislain Gaudet 27, and Pierre Vincent 35, All considered extremely they were still on the Loose late tuesday night. Killed in the shootout were Guy Fournier 29. A guard at the prison and Jean Lachapelle 41, who was serving a 10-year term for armed robbery. Gerald Marineau regional director of operations for the Federal Penitentiary service said Lachapelle was Proba Bly shot by one of the escapees in the heat of Battle. Tuesday s breakout began at . On the second floor of the prison s administration building when five prisoners were being led to the visiting area for a meet ing with their caseworkers. They were armed with makeshift steel rods and Al least one had a pistol which he fired at a guard near the Entrance to the visiting area. The four who made the break forced prison person Nel to take them to the lower floor. A Brief gun Battle ensued in which Fournier and la Chapelle were instantly killed. Wounded were guards Marc Drouin 22, Richard Holland 28, and Gaston Langemier 18. Another prisoner was also wounded said Marineau. But authorities could not provide details. Ail the wounded were listed in satisfactory condition. Following the gun Battle the t our escapees fled through the main Entrance and sprinted across the parking lot outside the Wall. Dodging gunfire from guard towers they seized Jean Vigneault. A resident of Chicoutimi que., a visitor Al the prison and ordered him to Speed away in his Toyota Corolla. Vigneault was later released unharmed near Montreal s downtown District paratroops to stay Danson see explosion Page 4 after the meeting Leech labelled the letter typical adding that he expected As much. He said the City s Legal department has t talked to the association formally yet because some members were on vacation. Leech said it is always difficult to negotiate something out of a contract the move to open the meetings comes after a so Ries of free press articles on Northern communities take illegal to network by Bob Lowery Lynn Lake. Man. Residents Here and in two other Northern Manitoba communities have decided to go ahead with an alternative television network despite the knowledge it s illegal and the probable opposition by the closed meetings. The series Canadian radio television and telc comm documented 12 instances of Nica Tion commission brutality allegations dealt the three communities Lynn Lake. Leaf with secretly by the commis rapids and Gillam until recently Only ser Sion. Vice by Csc. Have joined the Toronto based the police department s Northern Access network which operates 22 internal investigation unit other Community run stations in Ontario processed 143 complaints Saskatchewan and the Northwest Terri against members in in tones. Eluding 43 assaults. Sisty the Manitoba stations managed by local cases were deemed to be committees were set up in Early May Foika 41 not sustained ing a visit and demonstration by the foun and five Are pending. Only Der and manager of Northern Access net one of the assault cases has work David Brough whom some residents been sustained. Described As a super smooth Brough told us frankly that his operation was unlicensed and therefore Ille Gal and that he was in it to make Mel White of the Leaf rapids committee said. Despite the risk White said we decided the time had come for us to go ahead and Stop being second class citizens Leaf rapids town councillor Jim Wilson has some reservations about the opera Tion but like most residents generally favors the Opportunity to have a second television station. It smells. It s illegal and All that. But As a subscriber i know that if crts Ever decides to Lake it off the air without giving us a pretty darned Good alternative they re going to be up against some awfully mad Wilson said. See Norm 4 Ottawa up defence minister Barney Danson moved tuesday to defuse a growing controversy Over the future of the elite Canadian airborne regiment say ing there Are no plans to disband or to relocate the 1.000-Mcmbcr unit. Danson also told a news conference he Hopes recent remarks attributed to col. Jacques Painchaud commander of the Petawawa based paratroop regiment that Danson should resign Are All a mistake. However Danson made it Clear appropriate action will be taken against Painchaud if statements attributed to him Are found to be accurate. Kent to quit As Anchorman Toronto up Peter Kent Anchorman for Csc television s the National says be will leave the ssh a year Job when his con tract expires november 15. I won t be Reading the news after the contract ends although i May stay on in the news department or elsewhere in the he said tuesday. Kent said be has formally resigned from the Job. News director Knowlton Nash said he hoped he could persuade Kent to stay. Artificial heart valve has flaw 47 Toronto patients told Toronto up the Globe and mail says m copyright Story that Toronto Genera Hospital has notified 47 patients that an artificial valve implanted in their hearts has a design flaw that i it Tower out sooner thaw esp led. The 97 patients during open bean sur Gery Between Iso and 1972. The Story does not include com ment from the manufacturer of the valve. The newspaper says that 45 of the s7 Are known to have died irom a Yai piety of causes. The Hospital has notified 47 others of the flaw has been unable to Trace the vhf Namuj Irot. The newspaper says. Or. Morley Cohen near of we Nipes s open heart surgery team at so Boniface general Hospital. Said today m under the care and treatment his team has Ever received the valve. Oto inc Jill a such operations in Manitoba. These Hare around or a Mower of years now juju we Haua Wuh Muncy path so we decided wry Early on not to usent Toronto Hospital officials Are As saying that each of the 47 now has been examined at Feist h77. After tests in with another Model and that All Are Well. Or. Leonard Schwartz a heart surgeon on the Hospital s staff is quoted As saying the 42 remaining May not need surgery because their nit Rauti of use valve May be after. The Globe Ami Mai says Ai aft that three patients died after the follow up began bit that the deaths were due to a combination heart problems. oui de As saying the mortality rate of m per cent m is twice As High As in m an newer new. Twe at Tokumo general As saying that ill inti us fur a hour slay to Undt ten Usuf Tungul we we of Job acc at Toronto general said in merrier be ref cues the cos. Tot Phi Kiwi the valve i longer exists. 1? Mont tit 10 . 30 Winnipeg Semu. Star Conte Mit Joni 7 3 looking an of. 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