Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba What can you do about heart attack what Are the symptoms what happens what can be done see Page 17 in Patty s Hadow or. Trygve Opsahl is another of the Many people whose lives were touched by Patty Hearst. His wife was the victim of an Sla shooting in a California Bank. How has he managed to Cope with her death see Page 48 me generation society in decline political scientist claims we have turned selfish in the 70s see Page 5 Winnipeg free press tuesday february final scents vol. Is no. 105 Survey shows losses through illegal phone use Cost it from to annually by Allan Wilson the Manitoba Telephone system is losing Between and 000 in Revenue each year because of illegal use of telephones according to a Survey by the Utility Between april and december last year. The Survey results were presented monday during a rate increase hearing before the Public utilities Board. Its has asked the Board for an increase which would raise the Winnipeg residential rate from to a month. The Issue of illegal use of Tele phones came up during hearings in december and the Board requested a report. Its witnesses in december said the problem had been growing since the program to install Extension jacks in residential Homes began. As a result people Are Able to buy their own telephones and use them while avoiding its fees for an Extension phone. At the hearing monday William Gardner lawyer for the Board asked its lawyer Ken Beatty if charges had been Laid against any one caught using the phones. Beatty replied you re talking in a criminal sense or. Gardner i Don t believe Beatty said before a utilities Board hearing last year that the usual procedure when someone is see illegal Page 4 nation wide vote on Quebec possible compiled from dispatches Ottawa prime minister tru Deau told the constitutional Reform conference today his government could use the referendum legislation now before parliament to ask canadians outside of Quebec if they would favor an economic Union with an Independent Quebec. He was in fact telling Quebec pre Mier Rene Levesque that Ottawa was prepared to hold a nation wide counter referendum to decide future ties Between the province and the rest of the country. The legislation could be also used to put the straight question to the Resi dents of Quebec As to whether they favored separating from Canada in the event the parti quebecois ques Tion provincial referendum was unclear. Trudeau was responding to questions from Manitoba Premier Ster Ling Lyon him at the Start of the second Day of the conference. The conference was open to the Media. Trudeau said his constitutional re form legislation Bill c-60, could be jobless total rises to in Jan. Ottawa up the unemployment picture worsened in the new year with persons reported out of work in january compared with in december. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at its december level of 8.1 per cent statistics Canada said today. Young people were hit hardest by the Lack of available work. The Feder Al Agency said the unemployment rate among those 15 to 19 years old was 17.7 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The actual number of jobless Al ways rises in january following the Christmas flurry of Job activity. The first three months of the year Are traditionally the worst for unemployment. That is Why the num Ber of unemployed Rose last month so dramatically while the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained the same. In spite of worsening unemployment new jobs were created during the month bringing the num Ber of those working to 10.23 million. The Federal Agency said 63.4 per cent of the population now is in the labor Force either working or seeking work. This compares wit1 j Decem Ber participation Rau of 63.0 per cent. Today s figures show the number of jobless last month was the same As the previous january when were also out of work. By March of last Winter the number of jobless exceed one million. Newfoundland As always reported the highest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate 17.6 per cent see jobless Page 4 armed convict feared on the Loose in City by Ritchie Gage a full scale administrative investigation is under Way at Stony Moun Tain Penitentiary today after an in mate commandeered a prison garbage truck at . Monday and forced the Driver at knife Point to take him to Winnipeg. The Escapee has been identified As Allan Stanley plackties 23, serving seven years for four armed robberies and a narcotics conviction. He was still at Large at press time today. Police say plackties left the truck and Driver at Balmoral Street and Portage Avenue at about . The truck Driver was unharmed after the incident and he flagged Down a police Cruiser. His name was not released. Plackties was wearing Dull Industrial Green clothing and a Parka when last seen at Balmoral Street and por Tage Avenue. The prisoner was transferred to Stony from an Alberta prison in sep tember. Used unilaterally by Ottawa to get constitutional changes on matters purely within the responsibility of the Federal government. Trudeau told Lyon said he would prefer to seek Mutual agreement with the provinces on changes to the Constitution rather than act unilaterally. He said he definitely proposes to entrench a charter of human rights and to incorporate language rights within the Constitution. He said Ottawa has that Power and would leave it up to the provinces to adopt the human rights charter in each prov Ince or ammend it As they see fit. Premier Richard Hatfield bridled at the idea of using referendums under our parliamentary system. He wanted to know if Ottawa would use a referendum against new Brunswick. Trudeau objected to the word he said he found it an offensive word. Why do you use he asked. Hatfield replied that he found referendums offensive. Ontario s Bill Davis masters the Art of Good timing an analysis by Allan Fotheringham Page 15 As today s open session began the prime minister and the provincial premiers grapples with the elusive questions of constitutional Reform including claiming the country s under lying Law from Britain with a formula for changing it at Home. I am not very sure where we Are Trudeau said As he opened the last of two Days of Federal Provin Cial Power trading talks with a sum Mary of past efforts to rewrite the Basic rules of confederation. As the session opened a number of premiers expressed reservations about an Ontario suggestion introduced in the dying moments of first Day discussions to bring Home the Constitution with no accompanying agreement on an amending formula. Premier Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan said he Felt Ontario made the suggestion because it was concerned constitutional re form process had bogged Down. Agreement on bringing the 1867 Brit see premiers Page 4 photo by a Avn Glowacky Paul Belise who was sweeping Snow off the Steps on the East Side of the legislative building saw no reason monday Why he should t extend the Courtesy to Pierre Gaultier Simeur de la Verendrye. Planes Roar Over Tehran Iran Premier flexes Muscles Bazargan shuns showdown Tehran a the iranian air Force sent planes and helicopters Low Over downtown Tehran today in a show of Force As students demonstrated in support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s nominee to head a provisional revolutionary govern ment. Six f-14 Jet fighters and about 100 Chinook and Huey helicopters were in the flyover in a military show of Force in support of Premier Shahpour Bakhtiar. The planes and choppers passed Over the Heads of about Young demonstrators parading near Tehran University. They turned out in response to a Call from Khomeini for peaceful demonstrations in support of his designation of Mehdi Bazargan As Premier. Khomeini announced at a news conference monday he has appointed Bazargan a longtime foe of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to form a transition government. He said it will hold elections for a constituent As Sembly that will ratify a new Constitution abolishing the monarchy and making Iran an islamic Republic. Both Bazargan and Bakhtiar were avoiding a showdown so far. The Premier told radio Tehran As Long As the new government is a matter of words it s i will have no objection to the announcement of a temporary government provided this government plays the role of a Shadow govern ment or future he said. But if. It comes to action it s a different Bazargan said his government will be a real one not a Shadow Cabi net. But he said he does not intend to try to move his people into the government offices held by Bakhtiar s Cabinet ministers. And he gave no indication what his next moves will be. Optical firm discouraging Price Competition score Board help launch a new Page How would you like to help launch a new Page in the Winni Peg free press9 if you sit Down tonight and write a letter to us. Voicing your opinion on anything you want to get off your Chest you could be among the first readers to appear in forum a new daily Page starting in the free press next monday. February 12. Forum is the name we have Given cur redesigned relocated editorial Page. It will offer not Only our opinions on local National and world events but also new space for your views in setters to the editor we have two other pages Start ing the same Day. One is focus which will take you behind the news with Back ground stones on matters of Spe Cial interest. The other is relax which will help you enjoy yourself whether you want to go out on the town or stay at Home. Combined these three pages will keep you better informed and better entertained As you read the Winnipeg free press. Manitoba s Best newspaper is getting better Imperial too big report says hockey no Eton scheduled in wha or nil sports inside Ottawa up the giant Impe rial optical Ltd. Should be forced to sell some of its retail eyeglass chains and laboratories to increase Competition and lower prices in the Industry says a Federal report released Mon Day. The restrictive Trade practices commission concludes after a study dating Back to 1975 that Imperial s domination of the eyeglass and con tact Lens Industry discourages Price Competition that would Benefit con Sumers. The report tabled in the commons by consumer affairs min ister Warren Allmand also recommends that minimum National Stan Dards for the Industry be established and that it should advertise More on the basis of Price. The commission s inquiry began after Federal investigators reported in 1975 that Competition in the Eye Glass Industry was hampered by the domination of Imperial a major manufacturer and importer of lenses and frames. The Toronto based company subsidiaries and affiliates under a Vari Ety of names operate about 129 wholesale branches or prescription laboratories and 395 dispensing out lets. In dispensing Imperial subsidiaries or affiliates made in excess of 50 per cent of conventional Lens Pur chases in 21 out of 38 population centres throughout the the commission said. The commission said Imperial should sell Hudson optical Ltd. In British Columbia the Only Laboratory capable of competing with Imperial in the province As Well As unspecified important dispensing chains in Western Canada and in Ontario. Anytime.6 horoscope.18 brldoe.18 jumble.38 i comics.54 letters.3z i crossword.18 television i finance.24-2? weather.6 Sun sets . I looking for a Washer and dryer this want and is under appliances s5t Speed Queen dryer. Us-2sk it is among the hundreds of bargains in classified Starling on Page 34 ;