Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Family Law changes 6 creator of Hulk an Ordinary mortal eagles one of these nights 17th Hole takes toll at British open s3 21 shining the Light on tax increases 3 convention Centre strikes out 13 Cloudy High Low 12 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press anytime 28 29 business of final edition 85 241 july 1978 15 cents with coloured comics worse slump predicted for City growth in next decade by Steve Pona economic and population growth in already lagging behind most other major Canadian will slump with the Economy to even lower Levels during the coming dec a report to civic executive policy committee forecast real growth in Manitoba was also predicted to slow considerably during the same period and with the exception of the agricultural Indus will probably lag behind the National the prepared by an inter governmental task Force studying the greater Winnipeg development predicted annual increases in real in come in Manitoba will fall with rapidly rising Energy costs to Between one and three per compared to five per cent since unless ways can be found to limit Energy the report predicted that by the average Winnipeg household will have to spend an additional a year to meet its Energy growth in the employed labor Force in rated the slowest of 10 major cities in will be de pressed by lower National and Provin Cial rates during the next 10 years to Between and per cent a year from per cent the re port total employment for the Man fac communications and utilities sectors in Winnipeg has declined sharply since while tertiary industries have claimed a larger share of the labor particularly the Public administration and defence Winnipeg manufacturing sector is the cites principle Basic Indus is Well diversified in terms of mix of industries and is relatively More important to the regional Economy in comparison with most major Canadian the report labor productivity in manufacturing is comparatively lower for the local sector than in other regions of but this is partly offset by substantially lower wage areas of Canada expected to fare Best in the next 10 years Are the Energy Rich and food producing prov inces of Western Canada much growth will occur in Alberta and Sas and to a lesser extent in British we will continue to experience in creases in economic but not to the same extent As we did generally during the past 30 Winnipeg population is expected to increase by an outside maximum of per cent annually to a 198fi total of significantly lower than the projected in further study into the Winnipeg Economy and its implications for migration account for the it by the populations of continued see report Page 4 lower cattle prices expected to bring Relief for Consumers by Jack Francis Manitoba cattle prices have slipped Buck a Little the past few weeks and this should soon be reflected in lower retail beef pro Ducer spokesmen said retail beef prices should be heading Down Ward by 15 to 20 cents a Pound by the end of Charles manager of the Cana Dian cattlemen it usually takes about three weeks for a farm Gale Price change to filter through to the he and added that it take a time lapse of four to five weeks which seems to be the current Charles a producer at Carberry and president of the Manitoba beef growers said in an interview cattle prices Are Down seven to eight dollars a hundredweight from a few weeks Mayer said the slow response could be a Side effect from labor problems at some major a strike at Swift Canadian and a lockout at Canada the Boot growers associations Price Moni Toring service in Winnipeg reported no significant decline in average retail beef prices july at a time when steer prices were Down 10 to 15 per cent from a month top Grade live weight beef prices to producers in june fell to from a hundredweight seem to have stabilized in that area in prices Are still higher than a year ago before they started to climb to profitable Levels for producers after 30 months of breakeven or losses that resulted in severe reduction of Breeding cow and a slowdown in the cattle flow to average retail beef prices climbed gradually for a few months and then took off in Early jumping to in april and to by mid june from in a Pound of sirloin Steak went to april 1 to May 20 to june ii from March at the associations Price monitors reported a stabilizing but now cattle prices Are Down at across the producer spokesmen said the sooner the lower cattle prices showed at the retail level the better because rapidly rising meat prices the lust few months had slowed retail spokesmen confirmed this and said that lower meat prices would show up first in ground beef because of lower Price imports in some they said that prices would drop As soon As carcasses Cost them unless rising overhead or labor costs prevented fatal trip pointless Challenge Coroner cl3 Lioto Quebec up the expedition from Johns school of in Whiteh 13 people died on Lake Timis Kaming last was headed for disaster sooner or Coroner Stanislas Dory Derys final report said thursday the trip was ill prepared and constituted an exaggerated and pointless to it does not seem presumptuous to assert that from All Points of the Lon term and immediate preparations for this trip were insufficient and invade it does not seem an exaggeration to state that without some unlikely stroke of this expedition would have struck disaster sooner or after a today inquest lust month Dery concluded the drownings at Villa involved no criminal he said in an interview there see Johns Page 1 Coroner Stanislas Dery shows where in Lake Timis Kaming a Johns school trip met jobless Outlook Bleak station Wagon hijacked Wall Street bandits get Ottawa up a gloomy portrait of the econ with improved but still sluggish growth and Worsen ing was unveiled thursday by the con Ference Board in a major private forecasting the which predicted below potential real expansion in the econ omy of four per cent this year and per cent in brought a cull from a conservative critic for either he resignation of finance min ister Jean Chretien or a new the which representatives of government and said unemployment will increase in an average per cent from per cell this year while the inflation rate will not show improvement until next if unemployment is per cent next it will be another the jobless rate in june was per see Rise Page 1 new York a two bandits hijacked an unmarked station Wagon currying Bonds in the Wall Street financial District thursday and got million in negotiable police Edward head of the Manhattan robbery said the stolen securities Are bearer readily negotiable by the its like cashing a Bill or a he Bui with word out that the Bonds were in might be More Oconnor said the serial numbers will be Fred a Lell the Sta Tion Wagon and went into the Bradford securities processing for which he und his Driver de Collins there he picked up the million in Bonds in two Brief to go to an unspecified Oconnor said a Man opened the Drivers indicated he had a ordered the Driver to move Over and took the a Man got in with the Mes putting a gun against the bandits drove about 10 Stop Ping beneath the Williamsburg Bridge to got out and just know the scores football Cal Western conference Edmonton Ujj Ca Loamy 17 baseball american league i Imago s now Yolk i 1 Cacis i Boston Bdl minor e 6 Minnesota 6 i Ali Furnida 5 Loponto 0 Oakland 7 i Ivy Eldrid j Seattle 5 delimit National league Bun Diego b it Chicago 2 Bill fran 4 0 Mantic do 6 Houston 0 new York 4 i Inci Tinati by Loob 6 Loi ally Colci i details in sports pages 53 looking for a bicycle this want and under bicycles buy b 10 Trike 222 Vilo is among the hundreds of bargains in today classified pages 29 35 w 63 no matter what Yoi need save free press want Mccarthy to return to Canada dutch Vancouver up irishman Patrick Vincent deported from Here earlier this is being held in a police station in Amsterdam and will be returned to Canada Mccarthy lawyer said John who accompanied Mccarthy to said in a Telephone interview that dutch officials decided Mccarthy could not remain in Holland but he could not be sent on to Ireland Taylor said the change in Mccarthy fortunes came when three escorting immigration officers attempted to keep him in while at continual see Mccarthy Page i Young clarifies remark on political prisoners Geneva a Andrew controversial ambassador to the i nixed said thursday he did not mean people in the soviet Union Are Freer than those in the United states when he spoke of political prisoners in the Young made the latest clarification of his Stormy diplomatic career alter the House of in Washington killed on a 293lok2 vote a Resolution from representative Mcdonald calling for Youngs stale Secretary Cyrus Here for arms limitation talks with soviet for eign minister Andrei summoned Young to a private lunch after chastising him for telling a French news paper thai the has per haps thousands of political a Black rhodesian official challenged Youngs also in the puris see Youngs Page 1 trial verdict tragic farce9 a photo ambassador Andrew Young in Switzer with his wife Jean and son Andrew Young Moscow a Alexander a Veteran of the soviet dissident was sentenced thursday to eight years at hard labor for ii Ugia Tion and ending one of the twin trials that have drawn world alien lion and frayed Ginzburg who was barred from the last iwo of the irial in Kalu 1gu Kilometres South of said of the sentence a tragic farce they Spil on the West so openly and ignore Public at the other major of jewish activist Anatoly Shch Aransky for the prosecutor told a Moscow court the see Page 1 brewery talks slated Union hopeful brewery workers Are to meet w Ith Industry representatives today in an attempt to Settle a Mouth old strike and ten president of United brewery and soft drink workers local confirmed thursday that the meeting had been the Union had tried Loar Range a meeting for thurs Day and Industry representatives could not be contacted to Cui Meiu on Why the the meeting was not earlier this John the unions Busi Ness sounded More hopeful that if a meeting could be the Dis Pute Over Industry wide ratification might nut Block a while Slub Indian didst say the Union had Given up its subject com to Industry wide ratification he indicated that acceptable would be the meeting today was to be Between the Union and representatives of All a limited amount of imported Beer is expected to appear in All Manitoba liquor control commission stores this after noon with More expected to arrive at the stores Aaron manager of distribution and customer vices for the said thursday King said with More Beer becoming the Beer shortage situation is better than it was a few weeks the commission received 12 of Schlitz Beer this and three brands of Beer will be available in liquor stores he no increases in liquor prices Are expected in Mani King since a May Iti Price hike already look into account rising Kent Foster replacement appointed for fired commander Ottawa up Kent Foster of Calgary has been appointed commander of the Canadian airborne regiment in the elite unit which lost its previous commander after More than a week of the 10yearold Foster replaces Jacques Painchaud of Quebec who was removed from command wednesday by Admiral Hubert Falls because of Public criticism by the outspoken commander of defence minister Barney Admiral Falls announced the appointment Alung with a statement that has been assigned to National defence Headquarters col a former commander of the Princess up Tricia Canadian Light infantry in has been see Foster Page i ;