Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 14, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press saturday october 14, 1978 results months away tested completed on holy shroud Turin Italy a after an unprecedented series of scientific tests the mysterious holy shroud was returned to its closed Silver Cas Ket Friday. A spokesman for the re searchers said he believes the Linen is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ although final results Are months away. The shroud which bears the image of a bearded Man with the wounds said to have been suffered by Christ in the crucifixion was subjected to five Days of photo graphic electromagnetic a Ray and other testing. Kenneth Stevenson an american computer expert acting As a spokes Man for the 50-member scientific team said Friday it will take six to eight months before the outcome of the tests can be announced. Many Laboratory checks and a global consideration of tests must be done before issuing any final judg he said adding "1 was sure before coming to Turin that the holy shroud was the burial garment of Christ. After tests Here i have no reason for changing my the tests were authorized by Turin s archbishop Anastasio Ballestrero in an Effort to put an end to scientific controversy and Specula Tion about the cloth s origin. The tests were made after a 43-Day pub Lic display of the shroud that Drew More than three million persons to the Cathedral. On Friday the shroud was re turned to the crypt where it has been kept for 400 years since being transferred Here from Chambery France by its owners the old ital Ian Royal family the Savoy. The scientists major goals were to try to determine How the image became imprinted on the Linen and to estimate the age of the cloth through samples of dust pollen and thread picked from the shroud. Previous studies have ruled out that the image May have been painted. The roman Catholic Church while encouraging veneration of the relic has avoided taking a formal stand on its authenticity because under Catholic doctrine this is the task of historians and scientists not theologians. Some italian experts among the researchers cautioned against Over optimism about the test results. We made All possible tests on both sides of the said professor Baima Ballone. However we May come to conclusions that Are far from being the examination also included ultraviolet testing Spect Graphy and three dimensional checks. Most of the data will be processed by com Puter. Postal strike contingency plans made continued their cheques delivery arrange ments will be made. A Manitoba Hydro spokesman said arrangements have been made to handle mail by a private distributor. He said All mail is being held by the Utility until monday. If the strike materializes Manitoba Hydro will use a courier for National and inter National service. Winnipeg Hydro and waterworks Bills will be distributed by a private courier and the Bills May be paid at any of the usual agencies. Manitoba Telephone system will also use a private distributor. Local couriers Are also gearing up for a strike by having extra help standing by. Exodus blamed on taxes continued properties North of Portage Avenue have also been overtaxed paying More than businesses at Portage and main said Michener. The property facing the highest property taxes in the inner City is the Kensington building at 275 Portage Avenue. As buildings on the North Side of Portage Are usually one or two storeys High and therefore have lower building taxes their owners particularly feel the effects of the Over taxing on land said Michener. This problem has caused the distortion of real estate development in the downtown. More and More people Are finding it More profitable to move said Michener. The completion of two major regional shopping centres one pro posed for St. Vital and the other for Transcona will Likely Rob the Down town of As much As two million dollars in purchasing Power he added. The investigation carried out by Montreal Trust co. On behalf of the association came in response to numerous complaints of unrealistic land taxes in the downtown area. It is part of a larger study examining the detonation of the area North of por Tage. Michener said the City knows its assessment basis for land is very much out of Date. The last City wide reassessment carried out Between 1958 and 1965, set land assessments at 1958 values. The current on going assessment will be at least six years out of Date if it is completed in 1981. Holo by Dave Johnson Premier Sterling Lyon and Joe Clark wearing a Carnation Stop to Chat with a supporter at a progressive conservative rally Friday night in St. Boniface for candidate Jack Hare. Joe Clark s French cheered the tories trooped the party colors in St. Boniface Friday night during a band blaring placard waving rally for by election candidate Jack Here. St. Boniface Riding assessed see Page 58 packed on a Small make shift stage in the gymnasium of the Beliveau Junior High school were Federal Leader Joe Clark Premier Sterling Lyon five Manitoba conservative maps and three would be Winnipeg tory maps. Clark who will have visited All fifteen Ridings where by elections Are being held by election Day monday delivered a fighting speech and told the crowd of 600 festooned with Jack Hare and Joe Clark buttons to make sure everyone that has been unhappy with the Trudeau government gets out to he warned that if anti tried eau votes were split among a number of candidates it might allow the Liber als to win in St. Boniface. Earlier in his speech Clark Drew a chuckle from the audience when he said St. Boniface is not exactly a Safe conservative the Leader official opposition wearing a White Carnation in his Lapel Drew the longest applause after a Short speech in French that he ended by adding in English i for one won t stand for the Liberal government spreading the Rumor that the conservative government is anti French or anti anybody in this coun Lyon introduced Clark to the stand ing room crowd and said it would be an act of patriotism to defeat the Trudeau this government has been around too he said. Clark who was called by Lyon the Man who can Lead us out of this returned the compliment to the tory Premier saying the Lyon government in contrast with Trudeau was a government that has kept its he accused Trudeau of having run away from a general election this fall and said the government through its throne speech and tru Deau s speech in the House this week had revealed no major pro Grams to have justified another ses Sion of this parliament. Secrecy ruling not up to govt., Mcdonald says Ottawa up the Mcdonald commission into ramp wrongdoing set itself on a collision course with the government Friday declaring it alone will decide whether Cabinet documents about the Force should be made Public. At the same time prime minister Trudeau was telling High school students that the Cabinet alone will decide which documents the commis Sion can see the commission firmly rejected that argument. It is for the commission and not for any other authority to or. Justice David Mcdonald of Al Berta said in a hearing called specially to deliver his decision in this dispute with the government. He repeated that the general Prin Ciple guiding the commission will be the desirability of hearing evidence in Trudeau at a question and answer session while campaigning for for Mer Liberal Cabinet minister Bryce Mackasey in Ottawa Centre said i Don t feel that the Public has a right to know he reiterated his government s position that any commission hearings dealing with confidential govern ment papers must be held behind closed doors. That has been our position from the outset and that will remain our the commission is Independent of the government and cannot be directed by a minister or even by the Cabinet Mcdonald said. The Only Way the government could limit the commission s mandate to investigate illegal ramp activities is by issuing a new order in Council specifically prohibiting it from investigating cer Tain areas he said. Government lawyers Joseph Nuss and Michel Robert who argued be fore the commission last week would not say whether the government is considering this Type of action. They refused to discuss what Steps if any the government might take. Spokesmen for Justice minister Otto Lang and solicitor general Jean Jacques Blais said the minis ters will study the judge s decision this weekend before making any com ment. Nuss and Robert argued last week that if the solicitor general says Mak ing certain evidence Public would harm National Security the commis Sion has to accept his word. The commission heard Legal arguments last week in preparation for calling As witnesses senior ramp and Security service officers and cab inet ministers beginning oct. 24. Mcdonald said the arguments of Nuss and Robert took the commission by Surprise because they contradicted statements made by Francis Fox who was solicitor general when the commission was set up. Province May Cut mining Royalty fee by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba s mining Royalty rates will probably be lowered at the Spring session of the legislature. Mines min ister Brian Ransom said Friday. He said an analysis of the Complex Royalty Structure had shown Manitoba s rates to be almost invariably the highest in however he said the province would t make any unilateral move until after the Federal government announces what action it will take. The whole question of taxation of the mining Industry across Canada is now under discussion and officials have prepared a report for the next Federal provincial finance and mines ministers conferences Ransom said. Meanwhile Ransom announced several changes to the mining regulations put in place by the former nip government aimed at confirming the conservative government s earlier announcements to terminate compulsory participation in Mineral exploration ventures with private companies and to try to stimulate mining exploration and development. The major amendment in the regu lations will mean private exploration companies will no longer be required to file detailed information about exploration programs in the province. Under the nip regulations the province could claim up to a 50-per cent interest in any exploration project undertaken in Manitoba. Ransom and Henry Bloy manager and Secretary treasurer of the mining association of Manitoba predicted the removal of mandatory govern ment participation would stimulate mining activity in the province. In practice this removes the compulsory Ransom said. I think the companies will re Spond. I think they will feel it will be easier to explore and be inclined to do Bloy said he believed the removal of mandatory government participation coupled with a change in Royal ties will encourage exploration companies to come Back into the he said companies had been Prity reluctant to spend Money in the province because they were subject to possible government participation of up to 50 per cent. He said the government was using private companies expertise and in effect it meant getting a free opposition Leader de Schreyer said he Felt even if government did t participate in exploration govern ments ought not to be and should not be ignorant of exploration going on in the province. He recalled the incredible seen Erio of the 1970s when the Federal Energy mines and resources department admitted it was simply Tak ing Oil Industry data without Cross checking it with the result that estimates of Canadian resources were going up and Down like a Schreyer said he would object to any return to a simplistic Royalty system. His government s policy had been in effect to require lower Royal ties from mining companies investing a lot of Money in improvements and expansion. The government has also removed requirements for a five year review of company activities on claims and claim blocks another move which Bloy said would encourage mining activity because it would allow companies to carry work Over. Schreyer however was critical. He said his government had introduced the review system to try to prevent mining companies from staking out Large blocks and doing nothing for five ten or 15 preventing other companies who might be interested from taking the claims. The government has also Cut in half the work requirements for the first year companies hold exploration per mits to 50 cents an acre from intensive Contact after birth vital for Mother and baby by Manfred Jager the first 10 minutes of a baby s life Are critical. They could also be his most important ones Ever. And if a Mother goes about it the right Way the moment May turn out to lie the among the most exhilarating she would Ever spend much so in fact that she might not mind stretching it into an hour or two. According to Cleveland Pedi Atri Cian or. John Kennell it s also what comes during the following 15 or 20 years that really matters. Kennell works at Rainbow babies and children s Hospital in Cleveland and is in town this weekend to participate in the fourth annual convention of the Canadian association for Young children at the Winnipeg convention Centre. The meet ing is attended by educators and health professionals and ends Sun Day. Friday afternoon Kennell told delegates about some relatively new and surprising findings scientists had made after comparing mothers and babies who had intensive physical Contact right after birth with others who had less intensive Contact. It s a phenomenon science has known for a number of years As bonding but Kennell does t use that term substituting it with sensory hormonal physiologic immunologic and behavioural Locking mechanism. According to Kennell there could be some kind of emotional build up for the one hour after birth Span Ning the estimated to hours that have gone before in the new Mother s life. Here s what happened groups of new mothers were Given inc Opportunity to spend the first hour or two immediately following Deli very alone with their new babies. They were encouraged to keep skin to skin Contact both Mother and in Fant being without clothes but co Vered with a Blanket to keep warm. The effect was dramatic. Mothers reported feeling enthusiastic and experiencing an exhilaration High which in some cases lasted for several Days. Their youngsters extreme alertness in newborns for the first few hours of life has Long since become a scientific fact snuggled up against their mothers or held Eye Contact a feat they d be unable to repeat for months after wards. One month follow up visits of intensive Contact mothers and their babies revealed that there would be a higher percentage of breast feeding mothers than among control groups without the intensive Contact. As Well doctors observed More of the extra Contact mothers were reluctant to leave their babies for shopping trips reported thinking about their babies when they did go out and displayed different behaviour when with their Young sters. They maintained More Eye Contact kissed fondled and caressed their youngsters More frequently during the visit to their doctor than did mothers who had not had the intensive Contact right after birth. Kennell said further visits one year after birth showed similar behaviour differences Between the two groups of mothers. Follow up after two years revealed that the intensive Contact mothers tended to communicate with their children better Kennell told the convention. The mothers also tended to ask their children More questions and give fewer commands than their nor Mal Contact control counterparts. In a similar research project not related to the Cleveland study Ken Nell said intensive Contact mothers were described More concerned with Eye Contact to their children at three months after birth compared with Normal Contact mothers who were More concerned about cleaning their babies. Someone described it As the extra Contact group being concerned with one end of the baby and the control group concerned with the other Kennell said. In a slightly different vein Kennell told convention delegates of a British female paediatrician who reported suddenly developing an intensive love for her new baby about two weeks after birth feeling she had produced the most Beautiful intelligent Young Ster Ever to come into the world. Kennel said the phenomenon is not uncommon and can be explained by the fact that expectant mothers imag Ine their unborn babies angelic Only to be subconsciously disappointed when the child is bom. About a week or two after delivery the dream image starts merging with the real one and the new Mother experiences the flush of affection she would have Felt had her baby been exactly As she had fantasized it before birth ;