Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Blooming symbols it was Back in 1967, when the interloper discovered the incipient foliage Chic. Now 11 years later it is in full Flower. See Page 17 they survived but 15 people survived a plane crash and 10 weeks of incredible physical and psychological hardship on a Snow covered Mountain feet above sea level see Page 54 Guyana massacre when reporter Charles Krause first went to Jonestown it seemed so peaceful. But that tranquil mood soon vanished see Page 58 Clear Low-25, High-18 15 cents 25c with coloured comics tuesday december 5, 1978 vol. 86 no. 56 no transmission repair shop probe planned Here by Andy Blicq consumer affairs minister Warner Jorgenson says there s no reason to investigate Manitoba s automotive transmission repair Busin esses even though 12 such firms in Ontario face charges of defrauding motorists. Why the hell should i act on something in Jorgenson said in an interview monday. I Don t intend to conduct a Witch he said. If you can provide me with evidence of Well look into As a result of a two year Ontario government investigation a total of 66 charges have been Laid against 12 franchise holders of three major automatic transmission repair companies in that province All of which have franchises in Manitoba. Jorgenson said the Manitoba government will not spearhead a Simi Lar investigation Here. But an official in Jorgenson s department said that by today it will have completed a Good look at everything we be got on com plaints from Consumers about re pair shops in Manitoba. We re reviewing files Back to the Middle of he said. He could Only recall one complaint Sim Ilar to those in Ontario. When he read press reports of transmission repair corruption in Ontario things started ringing Bells with he said. The Manitoba attorney general s department has issued a warrant for the arrest of a former manager of a franchised Winnipeg automatic transmission repair clinic. The manager who faces an at tempted fraud charge is reportedly no longer living in the province. According to officials in the Ontario consumer and commercial relations department corruption in the see no Page 4 policies stir up hatred Unity study to conclude photo by Gerry Cairns a sunny Day and a Patch of ice were All these youngsters needed monday to enjoy a Day of outdoor skating in the St. Charles District of Winnipeg. Output reduced to 60 per cent Tehran a a new strike by workers opposed to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Cut Iran s Oil product Ion to 60 per cent of Normal today. Only sporadic gunfire was heard in Tehran after three nights of wide spread violence but an elderly religious Leader and a policeman were reported killed in a gun Battle in Bushehry on the persian Gulf. The second Oil strike in five weeks was called by the exiled religious Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in a new attempt to drive the Shah from his throne by cutting off the country s chief source of Revenue. Informed sources said Wells were closing Down across the vast Kuzes Tan Field in Southwest Iran where a very Large number of the workers were on strike and two of the four offshore Fields in the persian Gulf were shut Down. Production was reported Cut two million barrels monday to 3.8 Mil lion with a further reduction of 000 barrels during the night. The sources predicted the total would drop still More Oil is Iran s chief Industry pouring billion a year into the Treasury and paying for the Shah s vast westernization program now under fire from conservative religious leaders and his huge arms purchases from the United states. A two week political strike by Oil workers last month Cost the Treasury More than billion. Production had still not returned to the Normal daily output of six million barrels when the new strike started. Reliable sources reported that Sheik Abu Ashuri and a policeman were killed in Bushehry monday night when the police tried to arrest the religious Leader because of speeches he had made against the Shah in a mosque. Supporters of Ashuri tried to pre vent the arrest and a gun Battle resulted the sources said. The Sheik was reported shot six times. Beginning Friday night with the Advent of the moslem holy month of Moharram religious leaders sent crowds into the streets from the mosques in Defiance of the 9 . Curfew. Ottawa up family allow ances for mothers will be trimmed by about monthly for each child starting in january same month when All maps begin receiving annual increases of at least Stanley Knowles Winnipeg North Centre said Mon Day night. Family allowances will actually be Cut by about for 3.5 million mothers to per child from a Bill which received third Reading in the com Mons monday. The Bill which goes to the Senate for consideration also provides for a 1973 tax credit of a child for families with annual incomes of or less. 9 the measure first announced in late summer As part of the govern ment economic restraint program has been before the commons for about six weeks Knowles among some catcalls from both liberals and progressive conservatives said he could t understand How maps could take away from the needy and yet accept what he called fancy increases. Maps receive a year plus a tax free allowance of Start ing in january they will get an automatic increase of Knowles said the increase for prime minister Trudeau will be 000 above the he now gets. Conservative Leader Joe Clark pay rises who now gets will get a raise of Cabinet ministers who also receive will get increases of a year. We have gone too said Knowles who donates his increases to Charity. To make his Point Knowles called for a delay in passing the family allowance Bill so the House could consider his suggestion that the allowances be kept at their present level. He was outvoted 47-3. The Only maps supporting him were lome Nystrom and Leonard Jones Lyon lowest paid Premier in Canada by the Canadian press a Bill that has passed first read ing in the Quebec National Assembly would raise members salaries by six per cent and freeze Premier Rene Levesque s annual income at above prime minister Pierre Trudeau s. Manitoba Premier Ster Ling Lyon is at the opposite end of the scale As the lowest paid Provin Cial Premier. A Survey by the Canadian press shows that incomes and benefits for political leaders and legislative members across the country vary widely. Salaries plus expenses of Provin Cial premiers Range from Leves que s and Ontario Premier William Davis s Down through the premiers of Alberta British Columbia Saskatchewan Newfoundland new Brunswick Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to Manitoba where Lyon makes a year. Salary Scales for provincial government members follow a similar pattern with Quebec again Topping the list at this year plus a tax free allowance. The proposal now before the que Bec Assembly would raise that to in 1979, plus tax free allowance. Levesque will earn com pared with Trudeau s Anchorage Alaska a senator Ted Stevens who once dreamed of dying in a plane crash narrowly escaped death when a chartered plane crashed on Landing while fighting a Cross wind splitting into three pieces. His 49-year-old wife of 26 years Ann Home from Washington d.c., for the Christmas holidays and the planned dec. 30 wedding of their daughter died As did the Pilot and three others. The crash late monday at Anchor age International Airport came As the plane battled a 15-Kilometre-ah-hour Crosswind. Chunks of the aircraft owned by Inlet Marine inc. Were scattered across 100 metres of Snow and ice. Stevens Senate minority whip and Tony Motley a lobbyist for alaskan lands legislation were the Only survivors. Stevens was in Hospital in Seri Ous but stable condition. The International air line pilots association has Given the Airport a red Star rating because it lacks a runway Long enough to handle Large see . Page 4 Ottawa up sources say the task Force on Canadian Unity has decided to come Down hard on prime minister Trudeau s bilingualism poli cies in its Long delayed final report describing them As divisive and a cause of hostility Between French and English. Official bilingualism the Legal right of canadians to Deal with the Federal government and its agencies in either language lies at the heart of Trudeau s prescription for a United country. But the sources say the study group has come to the opposite conclusion despite initial objections from co chairman Jean Luc Pepin a former Trudeau Cabinet minister and sup Porter of the 1969 official languages act. Pepin now is said to have accepted the group s conclusions that Federal efforts to implement bilingualism have not worked and that provinces should be left alone to Deal with French and English language questions affecting their citizens. In an interview monday Pepin re fused to confirm or deny suggestions that his group will condemn bilingualism As a failure when it releases its final report next March. Sources said the study group s other chairman former Ontario pre Mier John Robarts has endorsed the conclusion that Federal bilingualism is divisive. The group s Quebec representative Pepin accepts findings Solange Chaput Rolland has i missed bilingualism As a Complete Trudeau who established the Unity group in july 1977, As part of his government s response to the 1976 election of a separatist government in Quebec could suffer politically from any denunciation of his language policies by the commission. Bilingualism has been Central to his National Unity philosophy throughout his 10-year term As prime minister. Ottawa up unemployment increased slightly in november statistics Canada reported today. The unemployment rate for the month was 8.3 per cent compared with 8.2 per cent for october. The number of jobless increased by during the month to a seasonally adjusted level of As in previous months Young peo ple were hit hardest in last month s unemployment increase. There was an increase of in unemployed men Between 15 and 24 and a increase for women in the same age bracket. The Federal Agency reported that More people were working Dur ing november than in the previous month bringing the seasonally adjusted employment level to the employment level has been in creasing steadily for the last 11 months with about new jobs created since the beginning of 1978. Ontario and British Columbia re ported the largest increases in their unemployed with the other prov inces showing Little change from the previous month. Newfoundland As always had the highest unemployment rate report ing 16.5 per cent of its labor Force out of work the lowest provincial level was Alberta s 4.5 per cent. The unemployment Rale is More than two percentage Points higher than that of the United states which see unemployment Page i score Board san Diego 40 Chicago 7 hockey nil los Angeles 10 Washington 1 do la i it in 5porlir Page 49-s3 by John Sullivan awarding of Winnipeg s controversial Rush hour lowing contract will almost certainly be delayed by civic finance committee today according to a free press Survey of City councillors monday. All five members of the committee have backed a suggestion by finance chairman d. A. Abe Yanofsky that a decision on the contract now held by Mcarthur s towing service should be the subject of a special meeting next week or put off until the committee s next regular session dec. 19. They said the delay would allow All interested councillors and perhaps even the towing firms themselves to comment on last week s recommendation by Winnipeg police chief Norm Stewart that Mcarthur s should receive the contract for a second year. Stewart said Mcarthur s Superior facilities lower fees and promptness in the past year makes it the Best Choice for 1979. Although no City Money changes hands under the contract the successful bidder will get the exclusive right to haul illegally parked vehicles from the City s Rush hour zones. The contractor will be Able to charge motorists a Basic towing fee of or if dollies must be used plus for every 24 hours Stor age. See Survey Page 4 inside anytime.7 horoscope.27 jumble.37 comics.28 letters.32 crossword.2t movies.25 television.23 finance.10-13 weslher.5 Sun . Sets pm. Moon rises looking for skates this want and is utter sports recreational supplies 740 me 7 Bauer idea Xmas sift. Pm. 3b-s72s after 5 . It is among the hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 34 ;