Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Potato rebellion the Spud makers want their chips off the junk food blacklist see Page 25 physical fitness Are school gymnasium programs really of any educational value see Page 77 expensive junk million hydrofoil bras d or is headed for the scrap Heap see Page 49 Ance sunny Low 5, High 20 Winnipeg free press final wednesday september 27, 1978 15 cents vol. B5 no. 300 tougher political Battles predicted by Mary Ann Manitoba s politicians foresee tougher Battles in several Rural and Urban Ridings As a result of pro posed new constituency Boun Daries released tuesday. The new constituencies Page 45 the consensus in provincial Polit ical circles is that the political Cli mate will be a key in the next election because of the number of marginal seats which could change hands. That would favor the opposition if any anti government trend developed. If the 1977 election had been fought on the proposed new Boun Daries they say the new democrats would have lost two or three Central Winnipeg seats to the conservatives but picked up two or three from the tories on the West Ern Edge of the province. However it would t have changed the Politi Cal fortunes of the parties much. Among the marginal Urban seats mentioned were the new fort Garry Kiel Wolseley Radisson Osborne and Polo Park. With the Rural areas taken away from bran Don leaving the two City constituencies there Brandon West was seen As a less Safe tory seat. It is now held by consumer affairs min ister de Mcgill while Brandon East is held by new Democrat leu the old Birtle Russell and Roblin constituencies carved up with parts shifted to Virden and Riding Mountain Are seen As vulnerable to change under the proposed redistribution. The proposals released tuesday by the Independent electoral Boun Daries commission Are still Tenta Tive. They face possible revision see tougher Page 4 postmen initial pact mail delivery Normal Ottawa up a tentative settlement has been reached in the Dis Pute Between letter carriers and the Federal government. Mail delivery is Normal today alter More than ii hours of negotiations Between the letter carriers Union of Canada and officials of the Federal Treasury Board. A memorandum of agreement was signed Early today. The talks were conducted with act ing labor minister Andre Ouellet acting As the go Between for the negotiators on either Side of the Dis Pute. Ouellet said details of the Settle ment would be kept secret until All Union members had a Chance to see it. However he said both parties compromised during the course of the talks. As a result we can say a responsible settlement has been achieved in the Best interests of the Cana Dian Union president Robert Mcgarry said the Union s bargaining commit tee was unanimously in favor of the tentative agreement. Mcgarry said the settlement was As Good As we could achieve under tie he thanked Ouellet for getting both sides talking again. He also told reporters that details of the tentative pact would be kept quiet Tinnil they had been communicated to the members. Mcgarry said settlement is far better than threatening the government had been consid ering Back to work legislation this week but this was put aside Mon Day night when Mcgarry contacted Ouellet and asked that re sume. Rotating strikes were held in eight centres Friday and monday but mail delivery was Normal tuesday As the Union called on the Federal labor department to help solve its dispute with the Treasury Board another Brunch of the Federal government and controller of the purse strings. Information embarrassing to minister manpower officials ordered to suppress jobless facts by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa local and regional manpower officials were ordered by Ottawa five months ago to suppress information and Basic data on real unemployment rates both nationally and locally to avoid embarrassing employment minister . Cullen. This was revealed tuesday by new democratic party Leader cd Broad Bent who released confidential Docu ments circulated to the Public ser vice. "1 have been saying for some time thai the real level of unemployment in this country far exceeds the offi Cial figures published each month. If this in t so As the government has always argued then Why is it now necessary to suppress data from officials in the Field Broadbent said. It appears that the government is More interested in hiding the real extent of the problem from the Cana Dian people rather than admitting the mess they have made and doing something about said the nip Leader. He said he will follow up the matter in the commons when it re convenes oct. Id. Cullen acknowledged tuesday that regional officials had been told to Stop figuring out local employment and labor surplus rates because it was causing him embarrassment. He claimed calculations of the numbers of unemployed and employed in the local areas on the basis of occupation or Industry were for internal use by his department not for Public consumption. Cullen made the statements at a news conference in response to the release of the secret documents by Broadbent. While Cullen accused Broadbent of twisting the meaning of a memoranda he basically con see jobless Page -1 hotel men ask lower wage base for employees who receive tips Dollar strengthens Montreal up the Cana Dian Dollar showed new strength in Early trading on International Money markets today continuing a rally that began Only minutes be fore tuesday s closing. The Dollar opened at 85.02 . Cents on the key Toronto inter Bank wholesale Market up from tues Day s closing rate of 8-1.97 cents. In Montreal . Dollar in terms of Canadian funds at noon today was Down 1-50 at si.1767. In new York the Canadian Dollar was up 1-100 at so.8-198. Tuesday s final quote was the first time since the Dollar has closed below the 85-cent level. Score Board baseball american league new York 4 Toronto 1 Baltimore 3 Cleveland 1 Boston 6 Detroit 0 Oakland 10 Chicago 3 Kansas a Ftp 4 Seattle 1 Minnesota 6 Texas 2 California 4 Milwaukee 3 National league Philadelphia 5-0 Montreal 3-3 Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 2 Houston 2 Atlanta 0 new York 3 St. Louis i Cincinnati 6 los anodes 4 san Diego 4 san Francisco 1 sports 77-85 by Ron Campbell there should be a lower minimum wage for workers such As waiters and bartenders who normally receive tips from customers Manitoba hotel association Mha officials said tues Day. Association president George Prosl advocated this tip differential con in a speech to delegates at the Mha s 51st annual convention being held in Winnipeg s Holiday inn and convention Centre. Close to Mijoi delegates Are attending the convention representing the of Manitoba s i12h hotels which arc Miia members. Oops that s not the right Arab Oslo a Norway s Oil minis Ter Bjar Lmar Gjerde went to the cily Airport tuesday night Lowel come libyan Oil minister . Al Dean Al Mabrouk. An Arab came out of the plane last and Gjerde gave him the embraces traditional for an Arab Welcome. Then they sped off in a limousine. Soon that some thing was wrong. His guest turned out to be Mohammad Hassan Taher of the saudi arabian islamic development Bank. The libyan Oil minister arrived on a later flight. At a press conference Prost and Mha executive vice president Dario Perl Umo said creating a special lower minimum wages for tipped employees would make these Public ser vice workers More pleasant increase their productivity and thus gain them More actual income in the Long run through increased tips. In the . And in Ontario lips Are already considered part of wages and workers receiving them get a lower than Normal minimum wage Perfumo said. He said the Manitoba hotel Indus try employs about people of them full time generating an an Nual payroll of up to million. As Many As 30 per cent of those workers would be affected by the reduced minimum wage proposal if it were effected. First of All we would like to get the concept he said adding that a Union in a major Winnipeg hotel has accepted the idea in its contract. Manitoba hotels Are not a mini mum wage Industry Perfumo said. Union scale for waiters in Winnipeg is s5 an hour and for bartenders. See hotel men Page 4 inside anytime.7 horoscope.42 jumble.65 bridge.41 letters.19 comics.84 movies.35 television.33 weather.5 Sun rises . Sets . Moon looking for a pet this want and is under pets 41 12 week old borzoi Pup male purebred Renis tiered. 284-7231 or 257-0794. It is among hundreds of bargains in the classified Section starting on Page 63. No matter what you need shop save with free press want ads photo by we inc Glowocki the seventh annual great Rock climb at the University of Winnipeg was off and running tuesday but was halted by afternoon showers. Several teams got a crack at the Boulder which graces the front of the u of a but their efforts were simply practice attempts. The annual climb in which teams try to pull themselves atop the Rock in a race against the clock was to be held this afternoon. Spec by Paul Moloney lid Posen president of Winnipeg based Host rent a car ltd., said tuesday that his company has not received preferential treatment from Otto Lang Federal transport minis Ter although he conceded that Lang s brother in Law ads As a lawyer for the Host franchise in Regina. Posen said the brother Iii Law Tony merchant does t work for the company directly. In any Case Ralh or than receiving favors from Ottawa he maintained his company has been royally shafted by the Federal government. Posen was replying to a Montreal news Story which revealed Host s link to the transport department and added that the company has failed to pay nearly in Back rent to the department for the use of Airport car rental Booths. Posen said his company won t pay the amount claimed because Ottawa breached a contract setting out terms of his company s Booth rental arrangement in Canada s nine major airports. Ilont has however been paying a percentage of its Gross Airport rental Revenue to Ottawa amounting to for the period Between nov. I. And july 15 of this year. In Host successfully bid for the right to rent Airport space along with four Olhorn National rental car firms. The other companies have been paying full rental fees. Posen said that while the Airport Booth rental contract called for his company to receive Access to Good Quality Booth locations by nov. 1, Ottawa failed to live up to this condition. As a result in May 1977 Hosl sued the government for million in damages due to breach of contract. Meanwhile the Federal government has taken Legal action to recoup the rental fees which Host has failed to pay. Ottawa s lawsuit filed in late june in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench alleged that the government did in fact fulfil its contractual obligation to provide Access to the Airport Booth locations. See rent a Cak Page i marijuana relaxes victim of muscular disorder j of by Brian Cole Jane smiles and Sils Back in her wheel chair with both legs Over one Side and her hand against her face. But before she can speak the telc jminni1 rings. She moans. Her twisted rushes against the wheel of her chair and with seemingly Unco or Dina led movements she moves to Ward the table. As she reaches for the receiver her other begins to shake slightly. It s difficult but she finally picks it up and places it neat her ear. All the time she is smiling. As she talks to her sister on the Telephone her arms and legs continue la Weir slight uncontrollable move ments. After a Short conversation she forces her twisted against the wheel and pushes her chair Back to the table where she drops the receiver on the Hook. It s All she says in a slurred voice replying to a ques Tion. The simple exercise of picking up a Telephone is difficult for Jane be cause she can t control her mus cles. Jane not her real name has Dys Lonia muscular is Defor mens a rare genetic disease that attacks Mes sages from the brain making it impossible for her to control any mus Cle in her body. The disease has lifted the tall slender 21-year-old Winnipeg woman from he mainstream of a life thai she loved to live and dropped her into a wheelchair. The woman who had All he poise of a Model now can l keep her body from moving. Hut while the speech is slurred the thought is sound. And although she can t control her movements easily it could soon be made easier for her by a drug marijuana. Jane s doctor w. J. Davidson an associate professor of pharmacology therapeutics and psychiatry at the University of Manitoba is in the process of gelling permission from the Federal government to conduct Icsis on the effect marijuana s Vari Ous ingredients h a v c o n t h e woman. Jane has been smoking marijuana illegally for several months and Davidson has conducted tests which proved to him that something in the see marijuana Page 1 ;