Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, October 11, 1978

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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 Ranee sunny High 15, Low 5 every wednesday is value Day crowded skies jetliners Small planes vie for air space but there s Little agreement on How to prevent another san Diego tragedy see Page 55 free press final wednesday october 11, 1978 vol. 86 no. 10 15 cents 25c with coloured comics stands firm on deficit prediction Ien sets Jean up photo Chretien says now Federal budget will be ready in mid november. Ottawa up finance minister Jean Chretien said tuesday he will bring Down a new budget in mid no vember following talks with Provin Cial finance ministers later this month. Revealed his intentions As opposition critics in the House of. Commons peppered government ministers with quest ions about the handling of lie Economy Ami tues Day s statistics Canada figures show ing there were unemployed in september. Progressive conservative Leader Joe Clark opened the by de manding a new Bridget before the end if october. That proposal was rejected by members on the government Side of the omm ins. The session was the first since last june. Today in a speech from the thai ii. The government will Lay out its legislative plans Over the next few months. Chretien s announcement of a Bud get comes with 15 by elections due next monday and a Federal general election in the works next Spring. Chretien told Clark finance officials Are working on a budget now. He had already consulted provincial govern ment officials in Toronto and Winni Peg and talked with some labor leaders and businessmen. A meeting of finance ministers would be held at the end of this month Chretien said. The budget will also Likely follow a planned Feder Al provincial premiers conference of i the Economy probably a week after the finance meeting. Clark s Call for earlier action to Deal with economic problems include Date eel a demand that the government make Public its forecasts of spending and economic growth this year. Chretien has stood firm on his prediction for the government s Cash deficit this year at billion but Clark has suggested the figure May be billion. But he finance minister has hedged recently on earlier forecasts of economic growth this year. He had predicted inflation of 4.5 to five per cent amount higher limn forecast by any private group. De Broadbent the new democratic party Leader argued in the commons that unemployment is so urgent that a budget should be brought in next week. It would be worthwhile to cancel a few Days of the eight Day throne speech debate he said. Although statistics Canada s unemployment figures showed an improvement in the actual number of jobless were in a gust the seasonally adjusted rate which reflects trends remained steady in september at a relatively High 8.5 per cent. Private forecasters and opposition critics have predicted a jobless rate of nine per cent or More next year. That would be the worst since the 1930s depression. Broadbent said a document pre pared in prime minister Trudeau s office says the Federal spending restraint program will mean another jobless next year. The government is to Cut about billion in the 1979-80 fiscal year starting next april 1, from its expected spending. O e session Ottawa up the third session of the Illeth parliament was prorogued tuesday anti r quickly passing legis lation to allow Advance pulls for the oct. In Belc clings to he held on thursday. The fourth session opens today with the speech from the throne outlining legislation the government plans to introduce. All parties in the commons gave unanimous consent to whip through in id minutes the Bill providing for an extra polling Day. The Senate is approval in equally Short time. Although they agreed with the Bill. Opposition maps used the Short debate to criticize the government or Only realizing at such a late Dan thai it. I is a jewish holy Day. The 15 by elections fall on sukkot in the jewish thanksgiving Day. Three Advance polling Days specified in the Canada elections act fell on tin1 thanksgiving jewish . A Onyx a 1.1 the prime minister has so experts who should have uni or. Ins Spring when the Bielec Date was Thul oct. 16 a jewish Holiday he said. Derek Blackburn said h was Neil most incomprehensible Shosid by through legislation Ai tin ment. Progressive conservative House Leader Walter Baker Grenville car Leton said the government Only introduced the Bill because conserva Tive Leader Joe Clark forced it to. Deputy prime minister Allan my Cli Aben acknowledged thai the Bill Lari by followed a draft sen to the prime minister by Clark vim was trying to convince the government to add another Advance polling Day. Arnold Peters ing warned that giving consideration to the holy Day of one religion might Lead to protests from All kinds of Kooky religions which want equal recognition. He also objected to a Section of the Bill which would apply it to All Bye sections held before the dissolution of parliament not just the oct. 16 by Lect inns. There is a growing concern on the pan of my constituents that there Aren t going to be any More elec Peers said. King Trudeau might find technicalities to allow him to continue to hold Power past next july when his mandate expires Peters said. Ottawa up the French embassy reacted angrily tuesday to allegations that French espionage efforts have been promoting Quebec Independence since 1958. There is nothing True about an embassy official said in an interview. We Don t know Why this my has said All said the official who declined to be named. With this kind of informal Ion you can t make Good relations Between France and relations Between the two nations have charted an unsteady course for More than a decade As allegations periodically surface that France is taking too great an interest in Quebec Independence. Former French president Charles de Gaulle openly supported a free Quebec but his successors have followed a policy of non interference in Canadian Domestic affairs. Tom Cossitt progressive conservative member for the Ontario Riding of Leeds claims French espionage activities reached a Peak in the Early 1970s when Phillippe Bey. M French Diplomat in Quebec City headed a so railed operation Ascot. Ivey tried to establish Contact with Quebec Public servants who were separatists Anil help them in furthering support for Independence Cossitt said. The French embassy says boy was a minor official at the Quebec cily consulate who returned 10 Paris in 1971. Charles de Gaulle supported free Quebec he was i Diplomat not a secret the embassy official said. Cossitt said after 1971 the alleged French agents ceased activities but the French government continued to finance projects furthering que Bec Independence. Some of this Money was laundered through Haiti a French speaking Island in Hie Caribbean Cossitt said. He was unable to say who received this Money or How it was used. Cess ii has complained of French government activities before Nota Bly alleged attempts to promote French Canadian nationalism among acadians in new Bruns Wick. Cossitt also made headlines ear Lier this year by revealing alleged details of russian espionage activities in Canada. The government usually brushes aside accusations by opposition maps that France is supporting the Indri evidence movement. So car it has not reacted to Cossitt s charges. He failed in an attempt to have parliament debate the subject i mesday when the commons re Tom Cossitt complained about activities sued following its summer break. Cossitt maintains the ramp was suspicious of some French Diplo Mats and through a so called operation carte Blanche surveyed some of them. Cossitt wants to in the ramp advised the government of alleged activities and if so what did tilt government do. Ten years ago prime minister Trudeau openly chastised the French government after a senior official visited Franco Manitoban communities without the consent of Ottawa. Phillippe Rossillon. Described by Trudeau As an was trying to encourage Fnu Ico Manitoban to speak More a Renli. Trudeau Lom a ims news Confer ence the French Gwen Mem had acted in an underhanded and surreptitious War in sending Rossillon to most allegations of subversive activities in lie last id years have emanated torn cultural exchanges France and i Rendi Canadian Miri Zumik s. One week after decontrol program ends ent reported my 19 30 by Mary Ann Manitoba s rent decontrol program is one week old and the province s rent review Agency reports increases averaging 19 per cent in some smaller apartment buildings and in per cent in some single family Homes or duplexes. Based on applications for decontrol in 28 buildings involving 336 units the Agency said that o in nine single dwellings and duplexes the average increase is 30 per cent. In a i buildings units of the Threc-to-50-unit size the average m Ercse on 33 units is la per cent. In six buildings of 30 units or More the average increase is about eight per cent. The Agency said most of the units a k it the increases occurred became vacant consumer affairs ministered Mcgill said while it is too Early to re Ermine if this will be the trend. His department will certainly be looking at what happens to units removed from controls oct. I. It is estimated approximately units in the Ottawa up the Cost of living dropped during september for the first time in seven years Statis tics Canada reported today. The 12-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 he 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. This Means that a Standard bask i of goods and services which Cost in August would have Cost s177.50 in september. In september that same Basket would have Cost with the september drop in prices. Canada now has an inflation rate below that of the United states which increased at an annual Rale of 9.5 per cent for the first eight months of the year. The september Price decrease Fol lows a moderate aug is increase of less than one tenth of one per cent. Last month s Brief respite from the inflation which has plagued the Economy this year is not expected to last. Sales tax reductions which have been in effect since last april expire this month in six provinces. Province Are eligible for removal from controls Mcgill said that complaints about what tenants feel Are excessive increases in rent for units removed fron rent controls will be investigated and if the increase is considered excessive the landlord will be re to justify it. The government has the authority to re apply controls if necessary. However opposition housing critic Wilson Parasiuk found the average in cases very alarming particularly when the government is talking of freezing minimum wages and is try ing to hold settlements to six per cent. I Don t know How those people can pay their rent. I m stunned irritated and depressed. We had predicted this right Down the Parasiuk said the figures Are Only averages and could mean that some imams Are paying higher increases. He feared such increases would hit hardest the tenants in single family mils in inner Winnipeg 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. Sec decontrol Page 4 score Board baseball world series dodgers n Yankees s dodgers Load 10 sports 77-83 inside by Manfred Jager most people die in their sleep. Yet Medicine is Only now beginning to become Imere sold in the ways in which sleep affects the human tuition particularly in people who Are ill. In Winnipeg or. Meier Kryger ,111 assistant University of Manitoba pro Fessor of Medicine and a director of the medical intensive care unit Aisi. Boniface general Hospital has become the first investigator 10 Zero non sleep related respiratory disorders. Kryger a Friendly scholarly look ing soft spoken Man of .11, said in an interview tuesday his work has nude. Winnipeg the Only Centre in Canada to concern Gisolf with Slep relat cil respiratory disorders apart from one other researcher in Toronto who specialises in such illness in children Only. Men and Progress of illness for thou Sands of years but Only in people while they Are Kryger said. We really have no Clyo what illness does to the patient he she is sleeping or How sleep affects the pathology a patient suffers once the processes involved in sleep Are fully under stood. Kryger save sri May find ways of influencing them. For example a Man has suffered from a hear condition for some time. One night his heart slops during sleep. He does not Wake up in a panic there is no struggle no final agony just an he Bing Awny of life. Why another Paliema has chronic bronchitis. One morning his wife wakes up beside him to discovered thai he has died during the night. Why could in be that a vicious Circle having to do with blood oxygen killed him could in be thai 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 breath ing in the brain starved of oxygen failed to respond to signals from the patient s Liny 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 he fal boy see sleep Page 4 anytime.7 horoscope.41 bridge.34 jumble.70 comics.84 letters.94 crossword.41 movies.45 television.42 weather.5 Sun Kos . Sen m Moom rises . Sols . Looking Fob a pet this want and under 41 German Shepherd pups or Sale. 110 each. 43j. It is Amon Al hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 68 ;