Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ass 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 Manitoba bred Liz s Pride has has been named top two year old filly in Canada for 1978 see Page 63 sunny High -18, Low -30 Winnipeg free press Friday december 1, 1978 no saving Ontario s private wine stores Are Windfall for wineries but consumer still pays same Price see Page 17 final 15 cents me with coloured coat is vol. 84 to. S3 Church robber to work at crime scene a 21-year-old electrician s apprentice has been sentenced to work at a Church he helped Rob. County court judge Daniel Ken Nedy also ordered that the work by James Edgar Rentz 35 Marteil 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 Christian Reform Church 6 Kern drive Transcona on oct. 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. Punishment without prison see Page 10 Rentz received for his efforts Moshkowsky said. The Juve Nile has been sent to the Manitoba Home for boys he said. Judge Kennedy sentenced Rentz to two years supervised probation and to perform maintenance work for the Church until july 1, 1979. The Community service order said Rentz was to shovel Snow Cut grass and do whatever other chores the minister wants done All of it free of charge. He ordered Rentz to Contact the Church once a week. Judge Kennedy also said no consideration was to be Given to the convenience of Rentz. Sickness his occupation and vacations Are to be secondary he said. Rev. Aubrey Van Hoff the Church s minister said in an inter View he agrees with the judge. Millions lost to governments hideous9 tax loophole used by Banks probe Lap photo Banner waving demonstrators tussle with police in Oxford England thursday As the car carrying former United states president Richard m. Nixon arrives. The sex president went on to speak before the historic Oxford Union debating society at Oxford University where he received a cordial reception. Story on Page 12. Soviets allow Levich and wife to leave 7-year the los Angeles times Moscow Benjamin Levich renowned physical chemist and Long time jewish and his wife Tanya finally were allowed to leave the soviet Union thursday after waiting nearly seven years to emigrate. The lev iches were Given Permis Sion to depart and join their two sons in Israel thanks to a boost from sen. Edward m. Kennedy . Who had championed their cause and that of a number of other jewish families. The Day before another Well known jewish family from whom Kennedy had intervened also left for the they were Boris Katz his wife Natalya and their two infant Daugh ters Jessica and Gabrielle. But behind them they left a Sim Mering dispute among jews Here Over the most effective Way to re solve the larger emigration problem. It is a dispute that has taken on a new dimension in the Wake of a sudden spurt in the number of jews being allowed to leave and in what is reportedly an even larger increase in Benjamin Levich boost from Kennedy helped the number who Are applying to go. Perhaps this split is Best illustrated in a confrontation that the usually mild mannered mrs. Levich had a few Days ago. A woman she ran into complained that she had already been waiting six months for permission to emigrate from the soviet ten Xcvi. Mrs. Levich countered that and her Hus band had been waiting for nearly seven years to leave. Responded the woman knowingly. You must be Levich. It s your fault you be been waiting so Long. You were too you fool Don t you realize that neither you nor anybody else would be going anywhere if it was t for those who the lev iches and katzes Are among jews who have left in the last two months alone. It now looks As though jews will be allowed to leave this year marking the third biggest year even for jewish emigration from the soviet Union and the greatest one year exodus since 1973. The most vocal jewish activists Here Echo Tanya Levich. And they Are increasingly concerned that the . Will Back Down on the human rights and emigration issues to the extent that the soviet authorities will feel free to suffocate the movement. The los Angeles times Cairo Egypt s president Anwar Sadat May Soun seek another Summit meeting with israeli prime minister Menachem begin and president Carter in order to break the stale mate in egyptian israeli peace negotiations according to a leading egyptian official. The official who asked not to be named said the stalled negotiations at Blair House in Washington had gone As far As they could on the ministerial level and it probably would require another to re solve the two remaining major Dis score Board Hocker nil Philst Telphia 3 St. Scutio finite 4 Buffalo 3 details in sports Paar 71-77 inside agreements that stand in the Way of a treaty. Co incidentally Sadat sent a note to begin thursday his first direct communication with the israeli Leader since Camp David. The contents of the note sent via . Diplomatic channels were not revealed but a senior foreign ministry official said that it did not contain an invitation for another meeting. Sadat s private letter to begin was believed to be similar in tone but not As detailed As a letter he sent with his prime minister Mustapha Khalil. To present to Carter when they meet in the White House Friday. An informed source said both let ters give Sadat s general analysis of the current impasse and stress that if we really want peace we must solve the palestinian in addition to the letter Khalil also will give Carter detailed new egyptian proposals for resolving the two main Points of disagreement that have blocked egyptian acceptance of the draft treaty that the israeli Cabinet endorsed last week. The main disagreement centres on the israeli rejection of an egyptian american proposal to link the bilateral Egypt Israel treaty to Steps toward an Overall Middle East peace by agreeing to a specific timetable for granting autonomy to palestinians of the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza strip. Ottawa up government officials uncovered a pretty hideous kind of situation in the chartered Banks last month after a two year investigation of their Security hold Ings. The findings of the inquiry were released thursday by William Ken Nett inspector general of Banks in an appearance before the commons finance committee. Kennett 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 corporations income debentures and term preferred shares will 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 Feder Al 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 ear Lier they accounted for just 29 per cent. In Dollar terms these holdings jumped to billion from Mil lion two years earlier almost a tenfold increase. Kennett released these figures at the request of Sinclair Stevens conservative finance critic. Stevens ear Lier asked finance department officials for an idea How widespread the problem had become. Kennett said his investigation showed that the Banks and corporations considered these tax deductible arrangements a Low Cost substitute for Normal business Loans. 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 Kennett 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. No booze by Andy Blicq Manitoba liquor commission employees have the exclusive privilege of purchasing damaged liquor at 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 that in t sold to the 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 about 1960 been offered to commission employees. In an interview thursday Veillet said i Don t know i just Don t know whether liquor will be again be offered to employees. The Ball is in his Mercier s Park he added. The attorney general s spokesman said he is preparing a report for Mercier on the situation. See bargain Page 4 Archer told hostage of mental treatment starting saturday Guyana massacre in the Jungles of a Little known South american country. Charles Krause. He 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 people Temple cult. An exclusive four part serialization from Kraus s just published Guyana massacre detailing those experiences and the tragedy of immense National proportions begins saturday in the free press. 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 the 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 see my Page 4 bridge.45 business.17-24 comics.69 crossword.48 deaths.5, 24 for people .37-49 horoscope.44 jumble.29 movies.47 49 television.43 weather. 5 Royal Winnipeg Ballet still looks Young at 40 Sun rises Moo i a looking for studded to rfcs this want and is under Auto parts accessories 630 1 fires in . Rims. 257 3x7. It is among the hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 26 by James Nelson Ottawa up How to keep Young at -10? the Royal Winnipeg Ballet has an answer. Dance dance. The widely travelled troupe Canada s oldest Ballet company Drew a near capacity audience to the nation Al arts Centre thursday night for its 40th season celebratory tour. The three one act works on the program filled with Energy and Youthful exuberance were All based on themes of dance. Sir Frederic Ashton s Les Patin eurs is really a Ballet interpretation of skaters on the ice. But since it s done in Ballet on a dance floor it s dance indeed. Pas d action a Ballet by Brian Macdonald of Montreal to the mock martial music of Franz von Suppe is a spoof on socialist revolution in some stately court of Europe. Not really very stately but lots of vigorous dance. And the program s closing work was Agnes de Mille s the bitter weird a Highland tale set to themes from the Broadway show Brigadoon in special concert arrangement. Highland dancing with drama and classical flare. Miss de Mille is a . Legend of International standing the woman who brought Ballet to the Broadway stage with her dances for Carousel gentlemen prefer blondes paint your Wagon and Brigadoon. Sheri Cook and Marina Eglevsky were the starring ballerinas of the i Royal Winnipeg s opening night of its three Day stay in the capital. Miss Cook gave a puckish and mock serious portrayal of Princess Narissa a socialist worried about her oppressed subjects. There s a tangle of suitors and courtiers vying for her attention but she dissemble. There must have been something Mackenzie King ish in her political prowess succeeds by appearing to appear to do nothing. The revolution prevails. The Only serious note in the evening of exuberant pirouettes and leaps i the final death struggle Between the two kilted suitors for the scottish Maiden in the bitter weird. Bill Lark danced the Good Guy and Joost Pelt the bad Guy who is left prostrate with grief at the Beir 0 the Good Guy covered with his plaid. Well covered with his plaid but not for Long. The Maiden takes it from his body and substitutes her own and then dances off into the wings Widi Youthful vim and vigor. No 40-year-Olds, these ;