Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ballet goes disco the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Steps out of its usual role next week and invades the disco scene in an bid to raise some extra funds see Page 37 National Champ Manitoba bred Liz s Pride has has been named top two year old filly in Canada for 1978 see Page 63 saving Ontario s private wine stores Are Windfall for wineries but consumer still pays same Price seepage 17 sunny Low-25, High-13 Friday december 1, 1978 15 cents with coloured comics vol. 86 no 53 Al by Jim Haggarty gasoline wholesalers lost about in november during the Gas Price War among retail outlets Shel Don Bowles president of Domo Gas said thursday. Although reluctant to confirm the total Dollar loss Imperial Oil s Man Ager of automotive services Gary Redfern said there were significant figure was not a bad but things May be changing for suppliers meaning higher retail prices. Prices at the pumps during no vember were As Low As about 77 cents a gallon but earlier this week Impe rial Oil changed the prices upwards to about 88 cents. The situation is almost As volatile As the product. Bowles said he was getting almost hourly reports on current prices see gasoline Page 4 electrician sentenced to work for the Church he helped to Rob a 21-year-old electrician s apprentice has been sentenced to work at a Church he helped Rob. Punishment without prison see Page 10 county court judge Daniel Ken Nedy also ordered that the work by James Edgar Rentz 35 Martell Crescent West Kildonan be done at the convenience of the Church. Crown counsel Wayne mesh Kowsky told judge Kennedy a Juve Nile robbed the Transcona Chris Tian Reform Church 6 Kern drive Transcona on oct. 27, 1977. The boy stole the Church s Safe hauled it to a Back Lane and contacted Rentz. Rentz arrived with a car and the two took the Safe to the Birds Hill gravel pit opened it took the Cash and let the cheques Fly away court was told. See electrician Page 4 from among the lowest. To today s average Price motorists Are getting Good deals on Gas. Doctor who was held hostage testifies at trial by Brian Cole Brandon Herbert Archer said he had once undergone psychiatric treatment for severe depression a murder trial jury was told Here thursday. Or. Marcus Scherz testified that Archer told him about his previous psychiatric treatment while Archer was holding him his wife Stephanie and Dave Penny hostage in the Doc Tor s Oak Lake Man., Home. The 96-hour incident ended when Archer surrendered to police after shaking hands and hugging mrs. Scherz and Penny. Or. Scherz was released he Day before the end of the siege because of his heart condition. Despite his psychiatric Back ground. Archer appeared to be ratio Nal during the hostage taking Inci Dent or. Scherz testified. However ramp staff sgt. Gerald Ferguson who also testified thurs Day and had negotiated with Archer during the incident said Archer seemed not to be rational during several Telephone conversations he had with him. The evidence was heard during the 14th Day of testimony at the trial of Herbert Archer 42, and Dorothy a Cher 28, who have pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder charge in connection with the Jan. 23 shoot ing death of ramp const. Dennis Onofrey. Previous testimony in the trial indicated Onofrey had been killed by a single Shotgun blast after he along with three other officers went to a room at the Countryside inn Motel in Virden to investigate a stolen vehicle report. Most of or. Scherz testimony backed up previous testimony by Penny and mrs. Scherz that Archer basically a polite respectful Man who was sorry that an ramp officer had. Died during a gun Battle at the Motel. The hostages testified that Archer had told them he shot a policeman after the officer pointed a gun at his wife and pulled Back the Hammer. He expressed sorrow several times it was More or less an Acci or. Scherz told the court. I killed a Man. I will get life. Even if i did t mean to do it they won t believe Archer said Accord ing to or. Scherz. I might As Well kill myself. I Don t want to Hurt or. Scherz quoted Archer As saying. Ferguson testified that during his conversations with Archer which stretched Over about 30 hours Archer see Archer Page 4 score Board hockey nil Philadelphia 3 is. Louis 0 Boston 4 Buffalo 3 details in spins Page inside n other provinces Ottawa up Polar Gas Ltd. Said today it is considering changing the route of its proposed Northern natural Gas pipeline so it would carry Gas from both the Arctic islands and the Mackenzie River Delta. Company president John moulding Polar has made a preliminary examination of constructing the pipe line through the Western Side of the Northwest territories. Field work on parts of the new route will be carried out next Spring. Polar already has an application before the National Energy Board to build a pipeline from the Arctic islands following a route that skirts the fringes of Hudson Bay. Depending on results of new Stu Dies Houlding told the Board s Gas Supply and demand hearings we May file another application that would supersede our existing apply the major and most logical advantage offered is the possibility of combining Gas reserves in the Arctic islands with those in the Mackenzie Delta Beaufort sea area in a single transportation he said. Ottawa up government officials for an idea How widespread the vials uncovered a pretty hideous problem had become kind of situation in the chartered Kennett said his investigation Banks last month after a two year showed that the Banks and Corpora investigation of their Security hold tons considered these tax deductible arrangements a Low Cost substitute for Normal business Loans. As someone concerned with the capital markets of this country i became More and More he said he was pleased and relieved when Chretien decided to change the income tax Law in his budget to close off these arrange ments. The Public probably had Little idea of the extent to which Banks used these arrangements because current disclosure rules allow them to go for months without making them known Kenneit said. The government has come under fire from both opposition parties Over the timing of the decision to close the tax loophole. The budget measure which forces Banks to pay income tax on term preferred shares and income debentures came into effect four Days after Petro Canada the government owned Energy corporation took advantage of a preferred share arrangement in its billion Purchase of Pacific Petroleum Ltd. The new budget provision was not retroactive so Petro Canada was Al Lowed to leave its plans in place. Chretien s response to his critics has been that hundreds if not thou Sands of companies besides Petro Canada were using the tax loophole at the time of his budget. Kennett s figures released for the the findings of the inquiry were released thursday by William Ken Nett inspector general of Banks in an appearance before the commons finance committee. Kennert said the investigation helped convince finance minister Jean Chretien to close a controversial tax loophole in his recent Federal budget. Chretien provoked widespread criticism in the business Community two weeks ago by announcing that two highly popular financing arrange ments Between the Banks and Large debentures and term preferred no longer be tax deductible. The government decided to halt the financing arrangements because in come earned by the Banks from them was classed As tax free dividend rather than taxable interest. Federal and provincial treasuries had lost an Esti mated million so far and authorities estimated another million would have been lost to the Federal government in 1979-80. The government inquiry showed the two controversial financing arrangements accounted for 80 per cent of All chartered Bank holdings of securities in Canadian corporations by october 1978. Two years earlier they accounted for just 29 per cent. In Dollar terms these holdings jumped to billion from Mil lion two years a ten fold increase. Kennett released these figures at the request of Sinclair Stevens conservative finance critic. Stevens ear Lier asked finance department offi first time this week appear to Back up the minister showing that chartered Banks now hold billion Worth of income debentures Ana billion Worth of term preferred shares. Starting saturday Guyana massacre in the Jungles of a Little known South american country Charles Krause. The 31-year-old Washington Post correspondent travelling with congressman Leo Ryan became an eyewitness to the unimaginable details of murder suicide and incalculable fear at Jonestown in the death Camp of the Peoples Temple cull. An exclusive four part serialization Tram Krause s just published Guyana massacre detailing those experiences and the tragedy of immense International proportions begins saturday in the free press. Anytime.7 for people 37-4? bridge.48 horoscope.44 business.17-24 Jumble. Comics.69 movies.47 4? crossword.4s television.43 of alas Wattier. S Sun rises . Sets . Moon . Sell cooking Tor studded tires this want and is under Auto part. Accessories 630 2 studded tires it Stu on rims s60. 257 it is among the hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 26 by Andy Bucu Manitoba liquor commission employees have the exclusive privilege of purchasing damaged liquor bargain prices a Survey of other provincial liquor control boards has revealed. Liquor commissions in Ontario Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia do not give employees special purchasing privileges and either destroy damaged bottles or allow the Public to Purchase them at a discount. Lou Veillet chairman of the Mani Toba liquor control commission said earlier this week commission employees Are Given the Opportunity to Purchase damaged Stock at com Mission Cost Little As half the shelf Price. Stock thai in l of he employees is destroyed. A spokesman for attorney general Gerry Mercier. Minister responsible for the commission thursday Esti mated about cases of damaged Stock each year has since about i960 been offered to commission employees. In an interview thursday Veillet said i Don t know 1 Joist Don t know whether liquor will be again be offered to employees. See no Page r we still Youthful at 40 Ottawa ;