Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Forum clean up your Reader focus kids today still a Good superintendent Downey Fowx pc w a w afraid of Krypton Ite in Cloudy high15 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final15 d 86 1 14 february 1979 Unity plea opens games by Debbie Sproat Brandon prime minister Trudeau challenged canadians to put As much Effort into their coun try As they put into athletic endeavours at the opening ceremonies of the Canada Winter games Here Mon do we want to build this country As you have built the games Trudeau asked a capacity crowd at Brandon Keystone Centre for the spectacular opening ceremonies for the Canada games coverage see pages 54 he compared the need to strengthen Canada to the care taken to protect the Manitoba animal from consider the he that mighty animal which for hundreds of thou Sands of years roamed the Plains North which gave food and cloth ing and shelter to countless and through care it came close to being an extinct Spe cies because we exploited it almost disappeared until we began to take care see How close this mighty seemingly came to extinction Canada is a mighty country and we neglect it he canals not Page 4 guerrilla fighters boast of Downing rhodesian jetliner London Reuter rhodesian nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo has claimed his guerrilla followers shot Down the rhodesian Viscount Airliner that crashed killing All 59 persons on Addis Ababa radio reported the monitored in said Nkomo had told ethiopian journalists our men brought Down the which crashed shortly after Takeoff from the Northern Lake Side resort of military sources in Rhodesia said the Airliner was hit by missiles fired by Black nationalist co Leader of the patriotic front guerrilla said his men were trying to hit a plane carry ing Peter possibly the most powerful Man in Rhodesia now that 90 per cent of the country is under military a Viscount carrying the general followed 15 minutes behind the plane that the generals plane arrived safely in in a recording in which Addis Ababa radio said Nkomo was speak the guerrilla Leader said our men brought Down this i what i must stress Here is that our men were aiming at an important target who is the commander of the Rhodesia who they had assumed was on that same plane that came to Nkomo is Leader of the Zambia based Zimbabwe african Peoples Union Zap claimed responsibility for a missile attack last september which downed another air Rhodesia Viscount in the same that attack resulted in 48 in Lusaka Zap spokesmen declined to comment on the latest at new rate would be ambulance fee faces increase of a trip Bakhtiar reported arrested Tehran a former pre Mier Shahpour Bakhtiar was reported under arrest today As Iran new provisional government appeared to be making headway in its efforts to bring unruly supporters under con Tehran radio announced that who made a Las ditch at tempt to Stem the revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah has been arrested by the people and ordered brought to the Headquarters of the religious the state radio reported Bakhtiar has not been seen in pub Lic since his resignation sunday and was reported monday to be under the Protection of Mehdi an old Friend and the prime minister of Khomeini new provisional govern the broadcast said six generals also have been including the commander of the Maun Cheh fewer gunmen were on Tehran streets today compared with presumably As a result of Khomeini Appeal to his armed supporters to turn in their weapons and refrain from traffic also seemed to be returning to Normal and Many food shops were Tehran radio warned against at tacks on foreigners in the country and destruction of government build the operational staff of the Irani see Bakhtiar Page 4 by Rick Blanchard persons needing the City ambulance service May have to pay More per ride if councillors decide not to meet the services increased costs by raising Mill the civic finance re viewing part of the cites proposed million operating budget on Mon was told the rate increase to would yield about annually and cover expansion the increase has been recommended by the Winnipeg ambulance com and awaits a finance com Mittee ruling although the finance committee wont Rule on the services proposed operating budget until next it appears ready to in crease the rate in the last boost took place april moving a users fee to the current proposed in the ambulance Bud get is for the Cost of eight additional Drivers and the new East Kildonan Transcona the need for a ninth new per training officer would give the service 121 persons but Don Gerrie disputed need for the i find it hard believe they staff need any training beyond their initial Gerrie Riverview the proposal for 12 new mostly and communications equipment totalling 920 could face John manager of the ambulance said the aver age Cost of sending an ambulance on a Call is up from per Call in and unless the user is handed the taxpayers will be pay ing More this year to subsidize the Gerrie said an increase should consider elderly citizens who use the service but who must live on fixed see ambulance Page 4 police propose boost in crime intelligence by Rick Blanchard a civic committee reviewing win Nipges proposed operating budget came face to face with the financial realities of police work hearing of the proposed spending of this year in the War on organized crime and the proposed spending includes for a combined Effort with the ramp to keep closer tabs on criminals moving Back and Forth across the but committee chairman Abe Yanofsky asked for clarification of an item entitled integrated criminal Deputy chief Ray Wilson told councillors the funds will serve to continue our assault against organized he detailed aspects of the cooperative setup with the Federal police to this 15 officers will be working on a joint integrated Crimi Nal intelligence service which tar gets on specific investigations of organized crime and the budget document Deputy chief Wilson noted sized criminals in the Jet age can travel with a great Deal of ease to be pulling off jobs and quickly moving whether we can justify that amount bears taking another Yanofsky said in an interview Yanofsky said he raised the question because it appeared to be a new program with new although the police budget is comparable to last the budget Doest provide for additional eleven other Winnipeg officers will continue with an intelligence pro Gram against organized now in its third most of the funds cover salaries although theres a Cost shown for some additional electronic surveillance items including one transmitter Worth and four decoders totalling finance committee will make its recommendations on the budget proposals next festivals ice Frog croaks somebody didst like the controversial ice sculpture of a Frog waving a Canadian Flag with its foot on a vanquished festival do Voyageur officials said this morning the sculpture on Provencher Boulevard was destroyed when asked whether they knew who was responsible for the Van a festival spokesman said were not sure but we think we a District three police spokesman said were not it happens every the festival spokesman said the Frog and Beaver ice a firs place Winner in the annual ice sculpting was the Only one destroyed photo by Gerry Cairns Snow and the Canadian Flag it All that remains of the sculpture see ice Page 4 Allmand grim warning higher food Price forecast by Ron Campbell food prices can be expected to increase at an annual rate of 12 to 14 per cent in the next few months and wont level off until later in the consumer and corporate affairs minister Warren Allmand said in Winnipeg the governments policy is to allow food prices to reflect Market conditions but at the same time afford assistance to those who Are most affected for the elderly and Low income Allmand was addressing about 50 members of the Manitoba Section of the Consumers association of Canada in a meeting at the University of one evidence of Federal govern ment concern for the economically Allmand is the abandonment of the two Price system on Domestic and foreign wheat sales in favor the child tax which see Allmand Page 4 score Board nil Toronto 5 Chicago 2 Page 5358 35 Bridge 20 business Camink m s 28 to 1 it 8 ;