Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba To catch a spy nine months in the life of a . Navy officer who posed As a traitor to help break a soviet espionage network see Page 37 upper crust cooking merchants Are feasting on the growing appetite of Winni Eggers to Cook International cuisine in their own kitchens and happily digesting the profits. See Page 23 sobering portrayal William Hutt portrays sir John a. Macdonald the first prime minister As a great classical actor and a hopeless drunk. See Page 15 sunny Low -35, High -27 Winnipeg free press final Friday february 2, 1979 5 cents Vic vol 86 no 105 Pardon Mel smiling Patricia Hearst wears her Pardon me1 to shirt following her release from prison thursday. President Carter commuted her seven year sentence for Bank robbery earlier in the week. Starting tomorrow in the free press meet the people whose lives have been touched by the Patty Hearst Saga. Ottawa offers million for expansion of Arena by Andy Blicq the Federal government has promised to provide up to million Over the next five years starting in 1980, for the expansion of the Winnipeg Arena but the City and the province will have to contribute equal amounts and first get an nil fran Chise. The announcement was made at a news conference in Winnipeg today by Federal fitness and Amateur sports minister Lona Campagnolo. Campagnolo said it is intended that Winnipeg Quebec City and Hamilton will each receive up to Mil lion Over the five year period while Edmonton will get million Over the next three years. The Federal contribution to Edmon ton because it was Given million As part of a Grant towards the Cost of the Commonwealth games last summer. While mayor Robert Steen of Winnipeg appeared ecstatic Over the announcement Manitoba s fitness and Amateur sports minister Bob ban Man was non committal Over whether the province will contribute its share of the funding. Before the news conference ban Man said he had no knowledge that Ottawa was about to announce fund ing for the City s expanded Arena. When asked whether the provincial government will contribute funds Banman said he would give it con i just walked in off the Street on this said Banman. Campagnolo later apologized to Banman for not sending him Advance notice of her announcement. Steen who said he Hopes the prov Ince will contributes its share of the funds added that he could not think of a More tangible contribution to National Campagnolo said the announce ment reflects the Federal govern ment s support for projects that con see Ottawa Page 4 Bank of Canada governor called on carpet currency traders fail to halt decline of Canadian Dollar criticisms outdated Lyon and Spivak say by Debbie Sproat criticisms raised in confidential memos that government services Sidney Spivak sent to pre Mier Sterling Lyon last August Are no longer relevant the two men said thursday. Spivak and Lyon said the re organization of the government in october answered Many questions the memos raised about the effectiveness of government restraint and delays in implementing recommendations of the task Force on government efficiency and the Economy. Spivak said memos quoted in news reports thursday were some of dozens he and other ministers have sent the Premier during the Conser score Board hockey wha Birmingham 7 Quebec 5 nil by islander 4 Philadelphia l Atlanta 4 Vancouver 1 Minnesota a Detroit 1 Button i Chicago 1 sports 57 44 natives time in office while Lyon described them As comments by one of 15 people in Cabinet on his View of the restraint program As of that a Progress report on task Force recommendations which said Many specific suggestions for government programs had been implemented but major proposals had been ignored is also outdated Spivak said since it was completed a few Days before government re organization took place in october. The two men said changes in government organization and procedures since the documents were written alleviate problems described and see memos Page 4 Ottawa up Bank of Canada currency traders Drew million out of . Dollar reserves during january in efforts to halt the decline of the Dollar on world markets. Nevertheless the Dollar fell in value by More than half a cent during the month. In Montreal the . Dollar in terms of Canadian funds opened today up 3-100 at while in new York the Canadian Dollar was Down 1-50 at the Dollar closed thursday on world markets at 83.35 cents com pared with its . Counterpart. At the beginning of the month it was Worth 83.96 cents Early in the Day the Dollar dipped to 83.21 . Cents. It later rallied to 83.48 before dropping again. Gerald Bouey who runs the coun try s Money matters As governor of the Bank of Canada has been called before a parliamentary committee to answer growing criticism about the decline. Figures released today by the department of finance show that the government has depleted its . Dollar reserves by billion during the last year. However billion remain in the International reserves mainly be cause the government has borrowed from Banks in the United states Europe and from the Canadian chartered Banks to replenish the account. The government also keeps Gold and other foreign currencies in its foreign reserves but changes in these accounts Are much smaller than monthly fluctuations in . Dollar holdings. Gerald Bouey under fire from opposition since the Dollar has begun to Edge below 85 cents ., Central Bank traders have intervened heavily in the Market. By buying Canadian Dol Lars they make sure there is enough demand for Canada s currency that traders do not lose Confidence. With last month s foreign Reserve figures the finance department re leased a 10-year synopsis of the government s foreign Reserve holdings. At the end of 1968, there were billion in the reserves. By 1972, they hit a 10-year High of billion and have dropped steadily to last year s billion. Throughout the 10-year period about two thirds of the reserves have been . Dollars and changes in this portion of the holdings have been the chief influence in setting the total value of the Reserve. Gold holdings by contrast have barely changed. They have remained in the neighbourhood of billion. Holdings of foreign currencies other than the . Dollar have in creased steadily but still hold a relatively minor position. There has been a marked strength ening in Canada s Reserve position in the if up to million last month from million a decade ago. The synopsis does not indicate where the Money in the foreign re serves came from or went. This statement affects the sensitive Market in Canadian dollars. So do political moves such As the decision to Call Bouey to an accounting. The last time the head of the Feder Al Bank was the Centre of major political controversy was 1961 when James Coyne quit after a Public argument with the progressive conservative government of John Diefenbaker. Since then the Central Bank s management of the country s currency interest rates and Money Supply must be authorized by the government through the finance minister. The criticism of Bouey by the conservative opposition in the commons thus is aimed at finance minister Jean Chretien and the Liberal government. Schreyer booed in Quebec Quebec up festivities to Mark the opening of the 25th Quebec Winter carnival were marred thurs Day night when . Edward Schreyer was booed because he spoke English. On his first official visit outside Ottawa since he was installed As governor general on Jan. 22, Schreyer was in Quebec City specifically to open the carnival. Addressing a crowd estimated by police at Between and he opened in French referring to the great Success of the carnival and complimented the seven Young women named carnival Duchesse for their Grace and then he switched to Canada s other official language to Welcome All my fellow canadians and americans at tending carnival the reaction from the mostly French speaking audience came in the form of booing and shouts of go not everyone in attendance jeered the governor general but a substantial portion did. . Schreyer was unfazed by the incident and his wife Lily stood by his Side smiling throughout the boo ing which ended when he stopped speaking. Two years ago a Predon intently English speaking audience in Toron to s Maple Leaf gardens booed the French verses of 0 Canada when the Anthem was Sung at the beginning of. A hockey game. Last fall Quebec Liberal Leader Claude Ryan was booed when he began a speech to an Edmonton Audi ence in French. But thursday night was the first time anybody Here could remember a similar reaction to words spoken in English. See Schreyer Page 4 inside anytime.7 horoscope.14 bridge.17 jumble.38 letters.j2 crossword 14 television. Weather.5 Sun . . Moon rises . Sets . Looking for a Playpen this want and is under miscellaneous articles for Sale 559 Playpen Nard to used. 257-5719. It is among the hundreds of bargains in classified starring on Page 31 win Tario winners 37876, Sorum 82 12734, 38 70933, is 99845, 55 88180, swim is Phil has fspoken9, Winter s not broken Punxsutawney a. A Punxsutawney Phil saw his Shadow today and legend has it that Means the United states is in for six More weeks of Snow and cold. The groundhog Day forecast came As no Surprise to several Hundred onlookers who waited to hear the groundhog s verdict in several centimetres of Snow and temperatures of about 10-below celsius. Phil s official guardians the Punxsutawney groundhog club insisted that although skies were Cloudy Here Phil saw a Pale Shadow and predicted six More weeks of mild Winter Phil himself did not emerge voluntarily from his Burrow on gob Bler s Knob but was trundled out on a special sliding drawer and Hung limply in the hands of a club member while the club president delivered the official word. German legend in these parts says the groundhog emerges from hibernation each year and Points his nose into the Winter Breeze. If he sees his Shadow he scampers Back into his Hole and the . Is in for six More weeks of Snow and ice. If he does to Spring is just around the Corner. Elsewhere sayings from around the world link candlemas Day feb. 2 and weather predictions. Charles Hosier a meteorologist at Pennsylvania state University offered these examples from England if it snows on 2nd february Only so much As May be seen on a of then summer will soon but Here it s the groundhog that counts. Local tradition insists Phil is the same Critter that began the annual happening 92 years ago Al though most groundhogs live seven or eight years. The event has put Punxsutawney on the map. Phil spends most of the year in a warm enclosure at the Punxsutawney Library and museum. Thursday night he was taken into the cold and lodged in a heated Burrow on Gobbler s Knob South of town m preparation for his Early morning appearance. A photo there ii be six More weeks of Winter according to Punxsutawney Phil the world famous weather watching groundhog from Pennsylvania. Prison rink plan called great waste by Brian Cole the Federal government is build ing a Curling rink for Stony Moun Tain Penitentiary inmates even though a nearby municipal rink is empty most of the week. Councillor Jerome Vanderkerk Hove of the Rural municipality of Rockwood said construction of the new three Sheet rink expected to Cost at least is a great waste of it would be much More feasible for the prison to rent the municipality s Curling rink which is located in Stony Mountain and is used Only once a week during the Day Vande Kerckhove said. The councillor said he could t see anything wrong with inmates using the municipality s three Sheet rink during the Day As Long As the proper Security precautions were taken. As far As i m concerned we could get some Good Revenue by having them use our facilities and see prison Page 4 ;