Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba . Psychologists believe children reared at Home no better off than Day care kids see Page 3 meet the jets Winnipeg jets begin their seventh wha season tonight. Meet the team and y Check their prospects for 1978-79 so Pagas 63 and 64 8 years ago Anne Murray hit the . Then she faded. Now she s Back on top and Riding the wave of Success seepage 17 Nee Clearing High 6, Low 0 Winnipeg free press final Friday october 13, 1978 is cents 25c with coloured comics vol. 86 no. 12 postal walkouts under Way a a i _ i _ _ _ _ Lamontagne harsh words for cup Ottawa up As Legal postal walkouts started in some centres today the Federal government seemed poised to end the strikes by legislation. I strongly believe the Canadian Public does not want another strike and this government will not allow another postmaster general Gilles Lamontagne said thursday night in a harsh written statement. Within hours of the Lamontagne statement the Montre Al local of the Canadian Union of postal workers cup walked out joining striking workers at Charlotte town. Back to work legislation has been raised As a possible government action. A special Cabinet committee scheduled a meeting today to discuss problems in dealing with the member Union which was in a Legal strike position thursday. Union leaders have threatened to Call a National strike monday if there is no Progress toward settling its thorny contract dispute with the Post office. Cup has asked the Cabinet to appoint a negotiator with full author Ity to bargain and reach a new con tract settlement. When acting labor minister Andre Ouellet was asked thursday if he would consider intervening he re plied it would be irresponsible in my position not to intervene if i were the Union earlier turned Down a request from Jean pare assistant Deputy postmaster general for an in formal meeting. Cup president Jean Claude Par rot said in a telex message to pare thursday he found it unacceptable that pare had telephoned the Union wednesday just Days away from the threatened National strike to re quest an informal late night the Union Leader said the Post office had plenty of previous opportunities for chatting but now the Union wants serious negotiation. Cup has been without a contract since june 30, 1977. Pare said in a telex message to the Union he had sought the informal meeting to clarify the Type of intervention the Union was requesting from the Cabinet. In response you said you Are Only interested in speaking to the govern ment at the political level and refused to meet with pare said in his telex message. Give us Back our Ottawa by Hope Kamin and Ritchie Gage Twenty police detectives Are scour ing for leads in the bizarre death of Glen Reginald Haits whose body was discovered by a janitor at . Wednesday at the end of a 12-Inch round pipe of a downtown apartment building s garbage compactor. The 10-year-old boy s mangled body would have had to squeeze through a 12-Inch Square Hole to enter the Verti Cal Chute. The Chute empties into a Metal Box about two feet in height and about eight feet Long. The debris is then forced out one end through a pipe and is collected in a bin. Or. William Parker Manitoba s chief medical examiner said thurs Day the boy probably died inside the compactor because of multiple the Federal wants to recoup More than has paid to the the now bankrupt Saunders aircraft firm. Sydney Parsons Manitoba development corporation says in line since Mac has a prior to the tune of million against Saunders. See Page 25." Chretien restraints could Cost More jobs Ottawa up finance minister Jean Chretien told the commons thursday he is aware the govern ment s recently announced restraint program could result in a major loss of jobs. But the minister added the government considers this a reason Able Price to pay for an improved economic climate. Replying to a charge by new democratic party Leader de Broadbent that spending restraints announced in August could Cost jobs Chretien said the budget cuts May Lead to consequences like the minister said he is unaware of any government study to assess the Impact of the cuts on jobs. Info metric ltd., a private Ottawa based economic forecasting firm this week issued an analysis of the government s spending cuts warning that jobs will be lost. It does not say whether these Are All government jobs nor does it give locations. Chretien. Said he and provincial premiers agreed before the spending cuts were announced that the time has come to look for More growth from the private sector. He said the Best Way the govern ment can create the Confidence Nec Essary for this growth is to Demon Strate its ability to restrain its own spending. We Don t believe All jobs have to be created by the Public he refused to reply to Broadbent s forecast that unemployment will re main at about nine per cent for at least the next year. Nor would Chretien answer questions from Sinclair Stevens progressive conservative finance critic on the government s plans with regard to interest rates. Stevens said the government has spent million a month since Chretien became finance minister a year ago to prop up the Canadian Dollar on world currency markets. Trudeau left and Clark leave commons thursday after exchanging insults during debate on throne speech. Pm Clark Exchange insults John Simon Ritchie better known As Bass guitarist Sid vicious of the defunct Punk Rock group the sex pistols is shown with his american Girlfriend Laura Spungen in London in february. Ritchie was arrested thursday in connection with the stabbing death of miss Spungen in new York s Chelsea hotel. Boy probably died in refuse compactor Ottawa up political leaders mauled mimicked and insulted each other in the commons thursday As 15 Federal by election campaigns went into their closing rounds. Prime minister Trudeau mistrust canadians and his own Cabinet declared opposition Leader Joe Clark. Clark is prepared to sacrifice Cana Dian Unity to satisfy provincial de mands for Power said Trudeau. New democratic party Leader de Broadbent condemned both the others but reserved particular condemnation for the prime minister. Trudeau Broadbent said was nothing More than a highly undesirable combination of a philosopher and John comments by the three came Dur ing a nationally televised opening Day debate on the government s fractures and multiple damage to body organs. Glen is son of Tibor and Eleanor Haits of Holiday towers 160 har grave Street suite 1216. The Small door through which the boy s body allegedly made entry to the vertical Chute is 11% inches in Width and 12 inches from top to Bottom. It has a steel guard shield inside which slapped Down across the opening to the Chute to protect the Hole from falling debris. The edges of the Chute door Are Sharp and would have caught his clothing. Tho opening is three feet from the floor and there was nothing for him to stand on. Glen was reported missing by mrs. Haits after he failed to return Home from school tuesday. See dead Page inflation controls costly but Price spiral continues throne speech a document read wednesday to outline government plans for the final session of the 30th parliament. However the leaders appeared to be less interested in government promises of economic restraint and constitutional Reform than in an old fashioned political slap up. At one Point Clark mimicked the prime minister unbuttoning his suit jacket hooking his thumbs in his Vest and throwing out such controversial old Trudeau statements As Why should 1 sell your and those soft see insults Page i Ottawa up three years of anti inflation controls have Cost tax payers More than million but inflation continues to dog the govern ment As a major economic problem even As the program winds Down. Despite the program which prime Trudeau described Asse vere restraint when it was announced three years ago today con Sumer prices Are rising at an annual rate of 8.6 per cent 115 per cent above he original 1978 goal of four per cent. Even the Centre for the study of inflation and productivity the government s new monitoring Agency set up to keep an Eye on the Post controls transition does not declare the pro Gram a Success. The Canadian Economy has not emerged from the controls program in the Way that was says the first report from the Agency. Inflation is too High and economic growth too Low it says. Sue Economy Page 4 score Board hockey nil Philadelphia 3 by rangers 3 by islanders 1 Buffalo ? peace talks make headway anytime 7 1. Bridge but Ineis .35-33 Letton vj3 Crim wed ii starting saturday How a son of Manitoba Rose from a bootlegging business on the Prairies to launch what has become a Baton Empire in 50 years. The first of two excerpts from the Bronfman dynasty a new Book by Peter Newman appears saturday in the free press Washington up the United states reported Good Progress toward an israeli egyptian peace treaty at the end of the first Day of the historic negotiations. A statement issued by the state department late thursday said Good Progress was made in a three Way meeting and in separate sessions be tween state Secretary Cyrus Vance and the Heads of the israeli and egyptian delegations. Speaking after a joint meeting with the two delegation Heads israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan and egyptian defence minister Kamal Hassan All old reporters it was a Good asked if there was any Progress he said i think a reporter asked if it was substantive. Vance replied. The negotiations to end 30 years of hostilities Between the two countries opened Friday morning with a White House ceremony at which president Tarter urged Jordan and other arabs countries to join in the search for peace. The first working session followed immediately at nearby Blair House. A . Official said both Israel and Egypt indicated they would move As quickly As possible in drafting a peace treaty. Everyone there Felt it was a Good said George Sherman a state department spokesman. The Hope is that a treaty can be see peace Page 4 ;