Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba New therapy emotional logjam disappear with clothes at Bernie Gunther s sex to super consciousness seminar see Page 48 every wednesday is value Day free press crowded skies jetliners Small planes vie for air but there s Little agreement on How to prevent another san Diego tragedy see Page 55 sunny High 15, Low 5 Winnipeg free press final vol. 86 no. 10 wednesday october 11, 1978 15 cents 25c with coloured cd amps human error9 blamed in st. Boniface As 300 lose right to vote by Ritchie Gage at least 300 voters and perhaps More were missed by enumerators in st. Boniface and can t vote in the Federal by election oct. 16. This was confirmed tuesday by John m. Denise the returning officer for the Federal constituency of st. Boniface. He blamed the mistake on human All the residents of Enfield cres cent were missed he said. He said voters who were missed can t vote in the oct. 16 election because they weren t enumerated by the oct. 6 voter list revision dead line. The Issue came to Light tuesday when a voter found she was t on the voters list and called the returning officer s Headquarters. Denise said tuesday he investigated the complaint from Annette to land of Enfield Crescent that she was t on the voters list. We could t find the Street on the list. They won t be Able to vote be cause the revising of the list was finalized on Denise said. Mrs. Boland said she called the chief returning officer in Ottawa and was told she would not be Able to vote. She said people on the Street probably just assumed that the Street was going to be i Haven t spoken to anyone she said. Denise was upset at mrs. Boland s concern. She s been bugging everyone All Day Long that said Denise. There were reports that two blocks on Beliveau Street were also missed. Denise said there were More than 600 polls and voters in the constituency. Denise said that voters have a certain responsibility when they know that there s an election in Progress. They have to do something. They can t leave it All to other he said. 7.5% welfare increase proposed by Rick Blanchard Winnipeg s recreation and social services committee tuesday recommended a 7.5-per-cent increase in welfare rates effective nov. 1. Councillor George Provost inde pendent Langevin called the in crease a Compromise Between a six per cent salary increase Given City employees earlier this year and a departmental review advising 8.6 per cent More for welfare. Based on a Cost sharing formula with the province the increase Means the City will pay approximately More a month for Wel fare. For a single person on welfare the present total payment of monthly would go to approximately if the increase is approved by Council. Of this the share for monthly rent would Rise from to about monthly. For a family of four a typical monthly allotment for All costs is now about this includes per month for rent for clothing personal allowance for food and for Hydro. If the new rates Are approved next wednesday by City Council the total for the same family of four would become a month of which the share for rent would be and for food last month the environment com Mittee had temporarily Frozen rates calling for equal assistance rates in All Manitoba municipalities to Stop an alleged influx of welfare cases to the City. But the recreation and social ser vices committee under a new Man Date tuesday opted for More Aid to welfare recipients before the out come of talks with the province. The committee s proposal should be considered by Council next week along with any comments the executive policy committee has thurs Day. If Council approves the 7.5 per cent increase the new rates would still fall below provincial rates to Long term cases As Well As an Esti mated Cost of living increase of 11.5 per cent since the last adjustment according to welfare department head Ron Hooper. Provost who moved the 7.5-per cell increase told reporters later the welfare department Drew those see 7.5% Page 4 score Board baseball world Stilu of Donri 11 a Mimi s do Dewri 1-0 Shortl 77-u inside anytime.7 horoscope.41 bridge.34 jumble.70 crossword.41 movies.45 television.42 finance.44-67 weather.5 Sun rims sets f.47 . Moon sett looking Fob a pet this want and is under Oer Antn Simret turd in Tor tit 6m bargains in classified starting on Page m. Some rents up by 30% week after controls off 1978 79 8 increase uncontrolled 5 6% increase controlled 1977 1978 7% increase 1976 1977 8% increase 1975 1976 10% increase this is How rents have increased since controls began in 1975. By Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba s rent decontrol pro Gram is one week old and the province s rent review Agency re ports increases averaging 19 per cent in some smaller apartment buildings and 30 per cent in some single family Homes or duplexes. Based on applications for decontrol in 28 buildings involving 336 units the Agency said that in nine single dwellings and duplexes the average increase is 30 per cent. In 13 buildings 333 units of the three-to-50-unit size the average in crease on 38 units is 19 per cent. In six buildings of 50 units or More the average increase is about eight per cent. The Agency said most of the units where the increases occurred be came vacant voluntarily. Consumer affairs ministered Mcgill said that while it is too Early to determine if this will be the trend his department will certainly be looking at what happens to units removed from controls oct. 1. It is estimated approximately units in the province Are eligible for removal from controls Mcgill said that any complaints about what tenants feel Are excess Ive increases in rent for units re moved from rent controls will be investigated and if the increase is considered excessive the landlord will be required to justify it. The government has the authority to re apply controls if necessary. However opposition housing critic Wilson Parasiuk found the 19-to-30-per-cent average increases very alarming particularly when the government is talk ing of freezing minimum wages and is trying to hold settlements to six per cent. I Don t know How those people can pay their rent i m stunned irritated and he feared such increases would hit hardest the tenants in single family units in inner Winni Peg where most Small houses Are rented. The. Agency said it has received complaints from tenants in 14 build Ings mainly because of what they consider to be High increases in their rents. These will be investigated they said. Under the decontrol program All units located outside the cities of Winnipeg and Brandon estimated to number Are automatically freed from controls. In the two cities landlords of units eligible for decontrol must apply to the rent review Agency for release from controls. Eligible units in the two cities Are those for which occupancy permits were first issued on or after oct. 1. 1973. Those where the rent is Al Lowed to reach a month or More and units voluntarily vacated by the tenant after sept. 30 of this year. So far the Agency has received 200 applications for decontrol of units in the two cities. It is estimated that approximately units including out Side Winnipeg and Brandon Are eligible for decontrol. For the estimated units remaining under control allowable rent increase for the fourth phase of rent controls beginning oct. 1 is six per cent where the landlord pays for both heating and Domestic Power per cent where the ten ant pays for either heating or Power but not both and five per cent where he tenant pays for both. Living Cost actually drops Ottawa up the Cost of living dropped during september for the first time in seven years Statis tics Canada reported today. The 2-month inflation rate fell to 8.6 per cent from the August rate of 9.4 per cent. The Federal Agency attributed the decline to lower prices for fresh fruit and vegetables which dropped by 12.1 per cent and 30.9 per cent respectively from one month earlier. Food prices decreased by 2.4 per cent in september from their August level but prices for All other items included by statistics Canada in its consumer Price Index increased by 0.7 per cent. Higher Home heating costs Gaso line prices shelter costs and clothing prices were mainly responsible for the increase in non food prices. The last time the National Price level measured by the Index de creased was in september 1971. The Over All consumer Price Index which measures a Basket of goods and services the average Canadian is Likely to consume stood at 177.5 in september compared with 177.8 in August. Liis Means that a Standard Basket of goods and services which Cost see Cost Page 4 Federal budget in november by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa finance minister Jean Chretien said tuesday he Hopes to have a budget before the commons by mid november and rejected opposition demands that he bring Down an immediate financial statement. It will be his third financial accounting to parliament since he took office in september 1977. He brought in a mini budget in october 1977 and a full budget in april this year. The opposition were sharply critical of the government s handling of the Economy in this final sitting Day of the third session of the 30th parliament. However the questioning was relatively subdued and in keep ing with the declaration of the official opposition that it intends to con duct itself in a responsible manner to make the institution of parliament function. Those who had been expecting verbal fireworks during the first sit Ting since the commons took its lengthy summer recess were disappointed. Joe Clark Leader of the official opposition opened the question period with a query As to whether a Bud get would be presented to parliament this month. Chretien said his department is working on a new budget at this time. He said after he visited Washington he entered into consultations with the provinces. I have been in Toronto and in Winnipeg so far where i have had discussions with the ministers of finance labor leaders and people from the business Community. I in tend to have a meeting with the ministers of finance at the end of Ali j month and Hope to have a budget before the House by said Chretien. Clark said that apparently the Fin see Chretien Page 4 lives of police Al in peril Ottawa the Ottawa journal says that a missing top secret Security document might be a threat 10 the lives of some undercover ramp offi cers and civilian operatives. The newspaper said today that senior officers of the ramp Security service Are working frantically but so far unsuccessfully to find the person who stole the document from ramp files. Documents made Public by the free press tuesday alleged that a High level Quebec government offi Cial was employed by the ramp since 1971 in a counter espionage operation involving surveillance of French diplomats and provincial civil servants. The documents say the operation was code named Cane Blanche and refer to the government informant As agent Mc-83. The documents purporting to be Vuci ramp cipher reports relayed Between Security service Headquarters in Ottawa and its Montreal g Section Branch were sent to the free press by a Man who Calls himself Maurice Pelletier. In a covering letter to the Docu ments Pelletier listed the names of see missing Page 4 science looking for clues Why do most people die in their sleep by Manfred Jager most people die in their sleep. Yet Medicine is Only now beginning to become interested in the ways in which sleep affects the human con particularly in people who Are ill. In Winnipeg or. Meier Kryger an assistant University of Manitoba professor of Medicine and a director of the medical intensive care unit at st. Boniface general Hospital has become the first investigator to Zero in on sleep related respiratory disorders. Kryger a Friendly scholarly look ing soft spoken Man of 31, said in an interview tuesday his work has made Winnipeg the Only Centre in Canada to concern itself with sleep related respiratory disorders apart from one other researcher in Toron to who specializes in such illness in children Only. Medicine has studied the development and Progress of illness for thousands of years Only in people while they Are Kryger said. We really have no. Clue what illness does to the patient while he or she is sleeping or How sleep affects the pathology a patient suffers once the physiological processes involved in sleep Are fully under stood Kryger says science May find ways of influencing them. For example a Man has suffered from a heart condition for some time. One night his heart stops during sleep. He does not Wake up in a panic there is no struggle no final agony just an ebbing away of life. Why another patient has chronic bronchitis. One morning his wife wakes up beside him to discovered that he has died during the night. Why could it be that a vicious Circle having to do with blood oxygen killed him could in be that his breathing Dur ing sleep particularly with his bronchitis became so inefficient that the brain was starved of oxygen could it be that the control Centre for breathing in the brain starved of oxygen failed to respond to signals from the patient s tiny carotid bodies Rice Grain sized nodules measuring oxygen Content of the blood for the brain that respiratory failure was developing or take sufferers of Pickwick an syndrome also known As the fat boy syndrome. These Are grossly obese people who Are always tired As the messenger boy delivering a letter to the famous fictional club who fell asleep leaning against the door Frame while waiting for a reply. Up until recently it was believed hat Pickwick an syndrome was the result of a Lack of blood oxygen due to inefficient breathing in the obese. Now scientists have determined that this is not so. See Why Page 4 ;