Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Chuck s dreams Chuck Liebrock was that most precious of commodities in the Cal a Canadian lineman of Quality. So what happened Page 17 or. Hockey Dies Jimmy Dunn a Long time executive and supporter of Amateur hockey in Canada has died at the age of 81. See Page 42 y y ii a g he s no Dummy Homer donates his organs to Benefit modern science several times each week see Page 6 Cloudy High -20, Low -30 Winnipeg free press tuesday january 9, 1979 15 cents 2kwith coloured comics vol 86 to. 81 reports of Snow plow games Spur productivity probe by Ingeborg Boyens reports of City workers playing Street games with their Snow plows spurred Winnipeg s civic works and operations committee monday into calling a special session to Deal with staff productivity. The committee agreed that squeezing More production out of City staff particularly in View of increased wage demands in 1979, was of prime importance to the City. 1 the City s entire policy for utilization of City staff for operations such As garbage collection Snow removal and construction work May be misguided if reports Are to be believed said committee chairman Gary Filmon. Coun. Harold Piercy told the com Mittee he had been informed that Snow plow operators were frolicking like Little boys with their other councillors said they had received complaints charging that operators seemed to spend More time on Coffee Breaks than on City streets. As Many As 20 per cent of employees working on Snow Clearing operations booked off sick during the Christmas season. Such reports indicate a serious neglect of responsibility and must be investigated said Filmon ice Crescent Filmon said one City official had told him that on a per unit per Man basis City employees Are Only half As productive As contracted employees in certain areas of Winni Peg. However Craig Somerville Gen eral manager of works and operations said that internal assess ments indicated the department s productivity has been increasing Over the past two years. We had better know about our staff s productivity before we go into wage said Fil Mon. The committee will be presented with additional information on the productivity of staff and the comparative costs of using in House employees or contracting work at its All Day policy session slated for Jan. 29. The objective of the meeting will be to encourage Union representatives to be More responsible in negotiating for 1979 wage Settle ments said Filmon. I Hope the employees will real ize that they May have to work harder if they want these salary the councillor told re porters. The Canadian Union of Public employees representing about employees has indicated it will be asking the City for across the Board biweekly in creases plus 9 per cent. The aver age wage of a civic employee is committee councillors outbid each other monday in an attempt to see councillors Page 4 Battle a in iks surfer3 an Ocial with Prince Edward Lisa Schreyer.16 i v Schreyer Jason Schreyer 11 the the Royal estate at Sandringham. They Are left to right Prince Philip 43, will be installed As top level Grain handling meeting under Way fair payment for railways recognized by Debbie Sproat i and Mary Ann Fizgerald by Debbie Sproat and Mary Ann Fitzgerald participants in a top level meeting on Canada s Grain handling and transportation problems appeared to agree monday that the railways must receive adequate compensation for transporting Prairie Grain. However no solutions were reached on the opening Day of the two Day closed meeting which brought together representatives of Western provincial governments the Federal government the two major railways Grain companies and labor. Everyone recognizes the need to make better arrangements on How the railways shr Fuld be compensated for handling Federal trans port minister Otto Lang told report ers. Lang said he was interested in a Saskatchewan proposal to preserve the historic Crow nest pass rate for the transport of Prairie Grain and extend it to cover the movement of processed Grain products through a system of Federal and provincial subsidies. See Lang Page 4 score Board hockey nil Montreal 3 Minnesota 1 Vancouver 5 Toronto 1 sports 41-45 anytime.7 horoscope.21 bridge.19 jumble.31 letters.24 j movies.21 television.20 finance.22-25 weather.5 the los Angeles times Bangkok Thailand despite vietnamese claims that the War in Cambodia has been won heavy fighting continued monday in Many parts of the country and about troops Loyal to the government of prime minister Poi pot held out in a handful of Western provinces. Many of these troops were reportedly guarding and escorting a Large number of chinese technicians and advisers who Are making their Way to the thai Border. About 625 chinese have already arrived in Thailand along with about 50 North koreans and a few other diplomats from Romania Yugoslavia Egypt and Burma. Intelligence estimates of the number of chinese advisers in Cambodia were once As High As some of these have been evacuated by air within the last 10 Days and perhaps a few thousand departed aboard chinese ships leaving the Southern port of Kampong som before it was seized by advancing vietnamese troops Jan. 6. Although vietnamese troops and their insurgent allies of the National front control virtually All major population centres with the exception of a few Western towns there Are significant pockets of resistance remaining in Cambodia. Military analysts said that the intensity of Viet namese air raids had not diminished indicating that significant resistance continued. The strikes were said to be directed at cambodian units that were bypassed by the rapid vietnamese Advance. The deepest vietnamese penetration has evidently slowed near the Southeast tip of the vast Lake known As the tone sap about 75 Miles Northwest of phenom penh. Troops Loyal to pol pot still held the Urban areas of the province of Batta bang along the thai Border and siem reap the site of the Jungle enshrouded Temple Complex of angkor wat. Western military analysts expected these pol pol units to melt into the Jungles when vietnamese regular units appear. The process could be longer than Hanoi appears to expect. See vietnamese Page 4 Heng Samrin named chairman Chea Sim front s vice president former my not notified of fraud charge by ramp members of the National Farmers Union staged protest because conference was closed to the Public. From left Doug Gamey Strathclair Goldwyn Jones Tony Riley Strathclair and Keith proven of Basswood. By Cecil Rosner the ramp have charged former Liberal my Mark Smerchanski with fraud but they have never officially notified him his counsel or the Public of their action. The ramp Laid the fraud charge oct. 24 last year but did not request a warrant for arrest or a summons to apprehend Smerchanski. The charge involves an alleged fraud in 1976. Smerchanski s lawyer Charles he band said monday the charge gives ramp an excuse for holding Docu ments which were seized from his client in january 1978. He said his client wants the Chance to Clear his name but cannot do so because the police refuse to proceed with the Case. All of his business is put under a Cloud and they re not giving him an Opportunity to have that Cloud re Huband said. See Smerchanski Page 4 rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Looking for a cd this want and is under cd radios 618 33 Channel Craig Mcwey Witti 6 Votor ant and coax. Us 3 months Swo. Pm. 88s-5us an. 6 . It is among the hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 28 comedown for canadians yen kicks Sand in Dollar s face by Allan Fotheringham special to the free press Tokyo the cavernous Canad an embassy with its 30-foot ceilings and weak drinks was the scene of a strange spectacle monday night. With the exotic and Well advertised delights of this infamous City awaiting them the male reporters and aides accompanying Joe Clark were wasting away their time with a very decorous and Dull Buffet dinner in the cloistered surroundings of ambassador Bruce Rankin s Resi Dence. It is not that seasoned travellers have shifted their attitude on embassy food. It is merely an Indica Tion of the changed status of the Canadian abroad in the Era of the pre shrunk Dollar a free meal is where you find it. As opposition Leader Clark pays Courtesy Calls on Japan s top politicians and hints at swapping even More resource trinkets with Indus trial leaders what is most apparent is the second class nature of a Canadian in this land where the yen now kicks Sand in the face of the once mighty Dollar. The mysteries of the International Exchange rate and floating Curren cies disappear at the first Coffee shop breakfast consisting of Orange juice a croissant and Tea which comes to six dollars. In this country the arrival of the Check tends to concentrate the mind wonderfully on the glories that were once Cana Dian. When it costs an adult nine nine dollars to get into a movie and a new York newspaper a Man has to get his football fix somewhere is five dollars. It s amazing the taste you can develop for embassy cold cuts. What do you says Mike Gal Braith a red Deer Aita. Native who is Japan manager of the Council of Forest industries of British Colum Bia. Well you Don t eat meat any More. You Don t go out As much As you used to. You find ways for other people to pay for in a nation where business entertainment deductions actually exceed its defense costs the credit card is not Only your Best Friend but your Only guard Ian. One Ottawa Magazine reporter not previously famous for his Syba critic habits did a simple rotting up on his first Day Here and found he had spent ji42 on food on three Ordinary meals. It s Good for the soul one sup poses but As a scribe who spent a month Here some 15 years ago to be see yen Page 4 jobless rate dips slightly Ottawa up the unemployment rate dropped two tenths of one per cent in december from no vember to a seasonally adjusted 8.1 per cent statistics Canada reported today. The number unemployed on a seasonally adjusted basis dropped to in december Down from november. The Federal Agency also reported that the actual number of people working in december was 000, up from in december 1977. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for men aged 15-24 dropped four tenths of one per cent to 14.5 per cent in december while the rate for see jobless Page 4 ;