Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, November 28, 1978

Issue date: Tuesday, November 28, 1978
Pages available: 117

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba The body Beautiful Reid Shindle of 1st runner up to North 3rd in the universe is a shy see Page 20 after the big one Boxer Terry jesters Garth Doest want any More Hes after those big time fighters seepage 75 gift guide running out of Christmas gift ideas looking for yuletide Safe toys find it All in this special see pages 3m2 Snow Low High Winnipeg free press final november cents 1st with coloured comics 86 so Francisco mourns slain pair lie in state at site of assassination photo Market Street in san Francisco was Well lighted monday As the cites March to City Hall where a memorial service was held for slain City Gay Community led a Parade of More than in a candlelight officials mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey growth target May be missed Ottawa up the country Economy lost some of its steam in the third Quarter of this year and Cabinet and opposition spokesmen alike said monday they do not expect real growth to meet the governments four percent statistics Canada reported monday that output of goods and As measured by the Gross National product grew in real terms by per cent on an annual basis during the months july to this compares with expansion at a rate in the second Quarter and per cent in the first increased personal spending and More investment in business and farm machinery and equipment accounted for much of the but growth was weakened by declines in government operating expend other investment in construction and business the total output of goods and ser vices in annual terms was valued at billion in the third up from billion in the second statistics Canada said the economic growth in the Quarter represented a continuation of the moderate advances begun late in last year the annual growth was 26 per the Federal Agency also said there was a moderation of domestically produced with prices rising at an annual rate of per cent in the third Down from per cent in the second three month Peri the figures were released just after finance minister Jean Chretien told a Federal provincial premiers con Ference on the Economy that real growth this year will be at Best four per at the outset of Chretien had been predicting five percent san Francisco a mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey milk lie in state together today at City Hall where both were assassinated a political foe of both for Mer supervisor Dan is in booked for investigation of the murders which took place moments before Moscone was to announce Whites successor at an news conference who resigned Early this month and then decided he wanted his Job walked into a police station 45 minutes afer the shoot Ings and police psychiatric tests were mayor since liked to say of his Birthplace theres no place like it in the a native of new York said it was where he finally found True the City reacted with an outpouring of a crowd of about people marched to City Hall monday their Tea streaked faces lit by folksinger Joan Baez Sang to the mourners and Dianne president of the Board of super visors and acting mayor addressed weirdos stalk Frisco Page 60 Moscone last Public appearance was sunday night when he wept at a memorial service for members of the san Francisco based Peoples Temple who died in Guyana a week including Leader Jim Jones whom the mayor had once named City housing president Carter expressed out rage and sadness at the senseless a former police officer ana1 fireman and the youngest person to serve As a could be sentenced to death if convicted of the who turned 49 and were each shot three the mayor twice in the Moscone will be buried milk will be cremated Friday Many of the marching thousands were demonstrating in tribute to Moscone and the cites first avowed Gay White was the boards most ardent opponent of homosexual rights and milk is reported to have urged Moscone not to reappoint Archer threatened to take lives if police stormed House ramp by Brian Cole a Man calling himself Archer told an ramp con stable he was sick of fighting and would kill his some hostages and himself if police stormed an Oak doctors House where he had taken his wife for Leonard Gaudet testified monday at a Brandon murder trial the Man telephoned Virden ramp Headquarters with the message last about hours after one officer was killed and two others wounded during a gun Battle at a local Reading from notes made after the Gaudet quoted the Man As saying i know Ive shot two cops and in concerned about 1 have six guns and a number of rounds of dont push my number is Wilma Hatch told a jury of three women and nine men that a Cher had told her he hated cops and had been in jail once for 30 he said they treated people like dogs and he go Hatch told the jury Archer made the remarks while holding her and her Lloyd at gunpoint in their own five Miles West and one mile South of Oak just prior to leaving for the doctors t the evidence was heard during the Lith Day of testimony at the trial of Herbert and Dorothy Aroi a charge of first degree the pair have pleaded not guilty to the charge in connection with the shooting death of ramp Dennis Onofrey last 23 at the Countryside inn in Onofrey was killed by a single see Archer Page 4 1abarrel Oil Price Rise postponed until Ottawa up Premier Peter Lougheed of Alberta confirmed today that his province and Ottawa have agreed on a plan to skip a 1 Oil Price increase of about three cents a gallon for gasoline and Home heating in the province will get a barrel three cents a gallon in creases next july 1 and again in january of Lougheed said in an interview just before the economic Summit of the country government leaders Lougheed said the agreement gives Alberta two solid increases rather than having to renegotiate the entire Oil Price Deal next and for the consuming it gives them a seven month break from the steady Rise towards world in Ottawa has agreed to press on with its plan to ship More Alberta Gas into markets in Quebec and the maritime the two governments want the negotiated last ratified by the other but there appeared to be few hurdles in the Way of Premier Sterling Lyon of Manitoba said that it appeared Alberta and the Federal government had reached a reasonable if Alberta is that both he and Premier Richard hat Field of new Brunswick said they dont like Price but added sooner or later the Domestic Price had to reach world the elements of an agreement on the Touchy Oil Price Issue came at a private meeting in Toronto last thursday Between Federal Energy minister Alastair Gillespie and Al Berta Energy minister Don the Surprise turn of events came late in the first Day of a three Day Federal provincial economic Confer ence when Trudeau urged them to be ready to discuss the pricing Compro Mise when the talk turned to Energy near blizzard expected today when you put the cat out make sure he has his ear muffs the Winnipeg weather office issued a weather advisory this morning for much of Southern including near blizzard conditions Are starting Early this evening As a Low pressure system moves in from forecaster Gerry Machnee said the system is moving very rapidly South eastwards across Saskatchewan into Manitoba and is intensifying and should be just South on Manitoba this evening and will move into North Western Ontario by tomorr9w morn up to eight centimetres of Snow is with a High today near the Low will be near Lougheed works out Deal he hoped they could Waltz to an agreement during a dinner dance at the governor generals Home Mon Day but most premiers said following the Days session they had no idea what the suggested Compromise would be although it May have been communicated to provincial Energy the Deal follows by two weeks the failure of Ottawa in a federa Provin Cial Energy ministers meeting to gain support for its proposals to skip a 1 Oil Price the position of the provinces at that Point was that an agreement provid ing for the increase was signed with a Deal was a Deal and it should go but if a Deal has been reached privately with it would allow the major consuming provinces to go see Alberta Page 4 score Board poot1all not Pluti Burli a 7 Mihaiu m my to inside Crasi Werd to division j4 this went id is under Pietu Wui Silt it is fat non the of bargains in starting in Page m 30 vietnamese refugees expected to Settle in Manitoba by Pebbie Sproat Manitoba will Likely become Home for about 30 of the 604 vietnamese refugees expected to arrive in Canada after six weeks aboard a ship off the malaysian Manitoba immigration minister Ken Macmaster said Macmaster said he has sent a telex to Federal immigration minis Ter Bud Cullen telling him Manitoba is prepared to cooperate with the settlement o the who began arriving in Montreal Satur a second flight will arrive in Mon Treal and two More Are expected in following the remainder of the refugees aboard the freighter Hai Hong will Fly to seven other Western including United France and Glen chief of immigrant settlement for the Federal govern ment is said he Wulkow in a few Days How Many Refu gees will be coming to they will arrive at the very ear Liest towards the end of the Smith said the number 30 Corre sponds with the percentage of a group of refugees that usually comes to but said Hes sure the government would be prepared to make the number flexible if More refugees have relatives or other contacts in those who do he will Likely be he noted that who comes and How Many depends on How Many have contacts in Manito what skills they have that might help them find employment Here and the general response of the he said manpower employment offices across the province have Al ready received a fair number of Calls offering a com clothing and interpretive Ted manager of the can Ada immigration Centre in Winni said some of the Calls have come from people who themselves immigrated to Canada and remember the hard time they the refugees will be met at the Airport by government provided with temporary hotel Maccomo offered language training if needed and Given help to find jobs and permanent Smith said the government has Only limited funds to help the Refu gees and has therefore been request ing Public assistance in supplying needs such As clothing and household Fleming said one of the most use Ful types of assistance an immigrant can receive is from someone who Speaks their own language in this Case cantonese and can Tell them something about what its like to live in when immigrants first come Over its bad he when they come Over As there even More ;