Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press Friday december 1, 1978 gasoline Price War Cost wholesalers about around the City thursday morn ing and nobody was ready to predict the Price of Gas this weekend. Redfern said they were trying to reduce support costs to the dealers by moving the Price up but the situation is very and they were not willing to leave their Esso dealers High and dry Over the the average wholesale Price in Winnipeg is about 87 cents a gallon and the dealers Are guaranteed a profit margin on the Gas they sell Redfern said. The problem both Gas company officials agreed is that the Winnipeg Market is extremely competitive. Gasoline was being sold All Over the City for less than retail Cost so companies had to support dealers and lower prices in order to maintain their position in the marketplace. Gasoline should be Selling at about 93 cents a gallon Bowles said but the prices will continue to be less than wholesale until or sanity returns. Redfern said a Price difference of one cent Between two dealers located near each other would mean the lower priced dealer could have 10 cars waiting in line and the higher priced station would be without customers. Continued Imperial Oil has taken the step this time to try and reduce support to their dealers but Redfern repeatedly said they would t hold out on Price without support indicated by other companies raising their pump prices. We can t afford to sell for Noth he said. The full service station which has higher overhead and therefore higher prices than the self serve operations must give clients full service in order to get them into the Back rooms where the profit margin is greater Redfern said. Many of the divestment and clo sures have been a result of not giving the Motorist the service and sup port he expects Redfern said. Oil companies Don t control the marketplace about 25 per cent of the business is in the hands of private Redfern said. Their aggressive pricing has been a major Force in the drop of pump prices. Some Are still trying to build volume and Hope they can depend on consumer loyalty to hold vol ume when prices Rise again Redfern said. Bowles agreed the downward trend has been influenced by Small name brands but major Oil companies have also contributed to bringing the Cost to below wholesale. If a Small name Brand wants the difference to be two cents a gallon and a major company wants the difference to be one cent a gallon and each try to implement their Market ing philosophies there is a Price War said Bowles. But Only the major companies can bring prices Back into a reasonable profit line because the smaller brands can t afford to Start raising prices first he said. Bowles did not feel that the Small name brands were always the instigators of Price wars. Sometimes the majors Are wiping each other out so fast we Are left sitting on the a Price of about 93.9 cents cents a gallon would Start to end the he said. Continued said he had previously received medi Cal help. Archer also told him his wife was a great Comfort and Solace to him. Ferguson said Archer told him Dur ing the 50 or 60 conversations they had during the siege that he thought the officer at the door of the Motel room was going to shoot his wife. Archer was said to have instructed his wife to run for cover when the police knocked at the Motel door. He expressed remorse and regret. Had lie not had a weapon he said he would have gone after the officer with a bottle or Ferguson said. Previous a Simony indicated a Cher took the Shotgun into the Motel room because he was afraid it might be stolen from his truck. Or. Scherz testified that Archer had a tremendous feeling for his wife. She was everything to earlier mrs. Scherz testified that one of the major reasons Archer surrendered to police was so that he could Clear his wife of any blame in the shooting incident. All of the hostages said Archer told them that All his wife did at the Motel was run and or. Scherz testified that Archer s feeling for his wife was so great that he wanted to kill himself when he thought his wife had died. After receiving a Telephone Call which assured Archer his wife was alive he told his hostages now i have a reason to court was told. Or. Scherz said that Archer his wife and Penny arrived at his House in the Early morning hours of Jan. 23. He said he examined mrs. Archer and after diagnosing a Bullet wound in her Back he suggested she be taken to Brandon general Hospital for Deli Cate major or. Scherz told the court that after he recommended mrs. Archer be taken to Hospital Archer told him he had been involved in shootout with police and was a wanted Archer then decided to slay in run House and have an ambulance convey his wife to Hospital. He then told police he wanted an air plane to Fly him anywhere but Cuba and 000, court was told. As the incident continued he struck a trusting Friendship with his hos tages who he treated kindly and with respect or. Scherz said. The trial before or. Justice John Hunt of Manitoba court of Queen s Bench continues. Judicial Post for Campbell Ottawa up the Federal government found something special for Alex Campbell on his birthday today a seat on the Prince Edward Island supreme court. The announcement the first Judi Cial appointment by Justice minister Marc Lalonde coincides with the 45th birthday of the Summerside lawyer who resigned As Premier of the prov Ince in september and As Liberal member for fifth Prince Riding wednesday. Campbell seemed almost destined from birth to tread the path of his father. Thane who served As Liberal Premier of the province from 1936 to 1943 and As chief Justice of the provincial supreme court from 1943 until his retirement in 1970. He maintained his Public Law office throughout his 12 years As Premier. Boris Katz holds his year old daughter Jessica on arrival thursday at Boston s Logan International Airport after a lengthy struggle to leave Russia with his family. Jessica was born with a rare condition known As Mal absorption syndrome an infant condition which prevents Normal digestion. It will be treated by doctors in the Boston area. -htj7-7" Ottawa up every Day for the last six weeks maps arriving at the commons have walked past a Lone protester. Bundled up against the cold the Small Middle aged woman paces in front of the commons Entrance wearing Sandwich boards and carrying a sign alleging certain que judges Are corrupt. Tourists reporters and maps occasionally Stop to Chat with her but the Only person she s really interested in talking to is prime minister Trudeau. The woman who refused to give her name to a reporter said thurs Day that she will continue her cold lonely Vigil until Trudeau reveals the truth of her allegations. Having exhausted other avenues of Appeal such As the Canadian judicial Council and the supreme court of Canada she said Trudeau is the Only one who can help her now. So she smiled politely she would t answer a reporter s questions. There was simply no Point. She s Given a number of television interviews but libel and Slan Der Laws prohibit publication of names of the judges she s accusing. And her Paramount concern is to have them identified and removed from the Bench. She s convinced if she remains there Long enough Trudeau will be forced to admit to the commons on National television that she is right. A Trudeau aide said he does not know whether the prime minister plans to speak with the woman. Her confused tale which she reluctantly agreed to discuss began several years ago when she hired a contractor to finish the basement of her Quebec Home somewhere near Ottawa. Something went wrong she sued him and lost. As she was turned Down at successively higher Levels of judicial Appeal she became More and More convinced that All the judges named on her Sandwich corrupt. The refusal of the supreme court of Canada to hear her Case con Vinced her to bring her protest to the highest court in the lament. So on the Crisp fall Day when maps returned to Ottawa oct. 16, she was there to meet them. She has come Back every working Day silently pacing from morning to night even now that snowstorms Are whipping across parliament Hill. When Trudeau moved to the con Ference Centre across the Street this week for the first ministers meeting she followed. She Speaks Only to people who approach her and response from opposition maps has been encouraging she reports. She claimed that conservative maps were going to plead her cause in the commons but two conservative party spokesmen said there were no plans to take up her Case. Soviet chemist permitted Al to leave . 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 West. 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 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 Union. Mrs. Levich countered that she 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. Continued 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. He said Mercier would speak to Tei Ilet before making any decision or statement on the Sale of damaged commission Stock. The spokesman who asked not to be named said there is just not enough damaged Stock to go around to the Public and it would be unsuitable for the meanwhile a Saskatchewan liquor Board spokesman said in an inter View thursday damaged Stock is written off under it s much preferable just to de stroy it or return he said noting the commission discontinued Selling damaged Stock directly to employees some time ago. If we damage it ourselves we pay the an Alberta liquor control Board spokesman said. No we Don t sell damaged Stock to Don t make special deals with employees on for some brands if the Label is damaged we would get new labels and hand inspect those bottles be fore placing them on the shelf at regular prices the spokesman said. In Saskatchewan some bottles Are also returned to the supplier for re Labelling. In British Columbia the liquor control Board spokesman said we offer no damaged goods to employees. If a Label has been damaged it is she said. We have a Large Supply of labels Here. In terms of broken seals we de stroy it the she added. The . Spokesman said one management person told her that when on a visit to Manitoba he discovered commission employees could Pur Chase the damaged Stock he was surprised it was allowed. In Ontario some damaged Stock is placed in commission stores for Sale a Public relations consultant for the liquor control Board of Ontario said. If the contents of the bottle Are Okay we put it in the system and sell it at a reduced Price he said. But he said there is no Breaks for All commission spokesmen including Tei Ilet agreed the amount of damaged Stock commissions must pay for is Small. Most losses Are the responsibility of the supplier or ship per. All commissions also have a policy of passing on de listed discontinued lines or poor Selling liquor to the Public at a discount. Several commis Sion spokesmen said employees often get first grab at this Stock because they know when and where it will be made available. Electrician must work for Church he robbed continued Rentz received for his efforts Moshkowsky said. The juvenile has been sent to the Mani Toba 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, i979. The Corm Unity 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 interview he agrees with the judge. Only one liquor store Al still closed to Public All City and Rural liquor stores except the Portage Avenue and Ains lie Street store will be open for business today a liquor commission spokesman said thursday. The Portage and Ainslie store was scheduled to be moved and will probably be closed permanently commission chairman Louis Tei Ilet said. On Friday and saturday All City outlets and those in Dauphin por Tage la Prairie Selkirk Brandon flin flon the Pas and Thompson will be open from noon until six . All other Rural stores will be open their Normal hours. On Friday occasional permit applications and orders will be processed in All stores and vendors in the same manner As they were before the the strike. Sadat won t attend Nobel prize function Cairo a egyptian president Anwar Sadat has decided not to at tend the Nobel peace prize ceremony in Norway on dec. 10 because he is Busy following the developments in the deadlocked peace treaty Nego Tui tons with Israel a top aide said today. The aide say cd Marei said the decision is irreversible but should not be interpreted As a gesture of protest aimed at Israel. The Nobel committee of the norwegian parliament awarded the prize to Sadat and israeli prime minister Menachem begin for their efforts toward establishing peace in the mid dle East. Begin has confirmed he will attend the ceremony in Oslo and israeli planners had even left time for the two leaders to meet while they were in the norwegian capital to discuss a solution to the current impasse Over the Issue of palestinian self Rule on israeli occupied Arab land. Maroi said in a Telephone interview that Sadat has chosen him to receive the in Sadat s name. Winnipeg Ballet remains Young at 40 indeed. But it survived and continues to draw audiences around the world with its lean and novel pro Gram. Designed not to be larger than a group of dancers 26 who can travel conveniently in a tour bus the Royal Winnipeg has caught rising Young choreographers to work for it when they were on their Way up to International stardom. It now counts Oscar Araiz John Neumeier and Norbert wesak among its regular choreographers. Sir Frederic Ashton of Britain s Royal Ballet set Les Patin eurs on the Winnipeg company As Long ago As 1966, and Only this year let it be done by the National Ballet in to Ronto. Miss de Mille is . Legend of International standing the woman who brought Ballet to the Broadway stage with her dances for Oklah Carousel gentlemen prefer continued blondes paint your Wagon and Brigadoon. Sheri Cook and Marina Eglevsky were the starring ballerinas of the 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 who according to Macdon Ald s program note is 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 because she succeeds by managing to appear to appear to do nothing. The revolution prevails. The Only serious note in the eve Ning of exuberant pirouettes and leaps is the final death struggle be tween the two kilted suitors for the scottish Maiden in the bitter weird. Bill Lark danced the Good Guy and Toosi Pelt the bad Guy who is left prostrate with grief at the Beir of 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 with Youthful vim and vigor. No 40-year-Olds, these ;