Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 17, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Behold the child in this his year Bogart was just an old Softie read the first of six excerpts from the Book movie real people and hanging in there winning nonfiction Clear High Low 30 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets leg free press february 1979 final 15 86 118 25c with coloured comics striking new Orleans policemen Are kept behind barricades As a Louisiana National guardsman walks his Post outside the main police station Friday after police went on strike mayor Ernest Morial cancelled seven Mardi gras carnival parades which threw a pall Over the annual in More than 120 the festival has been no immediate Gillespie says Gas rationing Bill introduced Ottawa up the government paved the Way Friday for Oil and gasoline rationing Down to the con Sumer level As controversy mounted Between the government and Multi National Oil Energy minister Alastair Gillespie introduced a Bill in the commons that would authorize the Cabinet to impose rationing if it was found that Emer gency allocation of available supplies was not sufficient to overcome any Energy the rationing plan and a quarrel with Imperial Oil a subsidiary of the United state based Exxon centred on the of shortages in import dependent East Ern Gillespie repeated earlier state ments that there no immediate danger of a but he said the government would watch for any at tempt by the Oil companies to use a Supply crunch for the legislation is scheduled for debate monday As opposition party spokesmen indicated willingness to set aside All other commons Busi the approved thursday by is a revised version of one that failed to receive approval during the last session of Previ Ous rationing passed in expired in there were a number of develop ments Friday in a growing struggle Between Ottawa and the Multi nation chinese troops attack Vietnam Tokyo a chinese forces backed by fighter planes and artillery crossed the vietnamese Bor Der before Sunrise today and engaged vietnamese japans Kyodo news Agency said in reports from Hanoi and Kyodo said in a dispatch from peking that the chinese communist party had formally decided to launch an organized attack of self defence against quoting a dispatch from Hanoi by the correspondent of the the official Organ of the japanese communist said chinese forces had penetrated about 10 Kilometres into vietnamese Terri Kyodo said the chinese forces had crossed into Vietnam at various places along the chinese were mounted from Lang near the Gulf of to Lai near Kyodo quoted the Hanoi dispatch As Kyodo said the Hanoi report said a regiment of chinese sup ported by about 30 had invaded Lai Chau it said Vietnam Ese guard Power shops and farms also were attacked by the a chinese regiment consists of about men and a division Kyodo quoting an unnamed Chi Nese government China had not declared War on the Agency said the chinese appeared to have launched an organized attack on the vietnamese but this could not be independently con according to a chinese communist party bulletin issued today said China had decided to Bat the Vietnam to punish the Viet namese for violence against chinese Border Vietnam and China have been involved in escalating Border Skir mishes for the past the fighting started in response to chinese claims that ethnic chinese were being mis treated in Kyodo also said in a separate Dis Patch from peking that Yang commander of the chinese Volunteer forces that fought against troops in the korean had taken Over command of the Kunming units that Are facing Viet namese Border lottery ads undergoing Federal probe photo cancelled just seven times twice because of five times for the teamster affiliated police Union went on strike for the Sec Ond time in a week to Back demands that the City submit contract issues to binding the substitute police Force was to be increased later today to More than guardsmen and state Al Oil firms who should control supplies in the Wake of a shutdown of shipments from strife torn difficulties arising from that Situa Tion were heightened this week when it was revealed that Exxon last month decided to divert shipments of crude Oil from Eastern Canada to other the controversy mounted Friday with these develop ments d a renewed threat by Gillespie that government will not approve imperials requests to Swap its West Ern Canadian crude Oil in return for increased shipments to Quebec and Atlantic d a signal to Imperial that higher subsidy payments will not be Forth coming from Ottawa to cover in creased costs incurred in the scram ble for replacement d a government indication to All Oil firms that the Federal a owned Oil will begin to compete for Oil Supply contracts in the Gillespie denied opposition allegations that he knew of the Exxon plans for several Days before they were made he said he first Learned of the diversion last an Imperial spokesman Here said the government was in formed of the diversion scheme on or about through a Swap application before the National Energy see Gas Page 4 Ottawa up the consumer affairs department is investigating lotteries including its own loto Canada to determine whether their advertising is con Sumer affairs minister Warren All Mand said a department official said the investigation is a response in part to allegations by the Consumers association of Canada cac that lot particularly loto Are deceiving the Public into thinking most of the ticket Money is support ing Amateur loto Canada identified itself with Amateur sport when in fact Only or five per of million in net revenues in 19771978 was used for that the cac in postal authorities say they Are overwhelmed by complaints about aggressive Market ing tactics by Canadian lottery sales men that violate the Post Al service is publishing a blacklist of Canadian mail from within the United states bound for these addresses is being re turned to the along with a warning that it is an offence to Send lottery material through the an inspector with the Post offices special investigation says All the addresses Are taken from unsolicited letters sent from Canada to residents trying to convince them to buy Canadian lottery officials of lot Ocanada say they Are cracking Down on some of their 108 wholesalers and retailers across All have been warned to Stop soliciting sales by mail in the United or risk losing their were slapping Down on every a lot Ocanada official said in a Telephone interview from lot Ocanada Security personnel and the ramp Are concentrating on sales operations in Toronto and Vancouver because most of the complaints Are about their Secretary of state John Roberts announced Friday More than or 30 per of loto Canadas net revenues will be used to support Amateur sport and recreation beginning in a Bill tabled in the commons Fri Day earmarked another 30 per cent for support of the arts and he said in a the remaining 40 per cent will go to research in the Fields of Art and Grants to the provinces and other unspecified worthy Allmand said his department is also studying the returns lotteries give Consumers on their Money and the negative Impact lotteries Are said to be having on charitable agencies in the private the spokesman said later the department referred the cacs allegations Friday to the director of investigations and research for possible Legal action under the combines investigation the act provides for fines for those convicted of misleading advertising or deceptive marketing the cac says lotteries return to Consumers Only 40 per cent of the Money they take that compared with 82 per cent in horse racing and 95 per cent in Las vegas Ottawa considering housing tax credit Ottawa up the Federal government is considering a shelter tax credit for both renters and homeowners to offset the progressive conservative election Promise of tax deductions for mortgage government sources said the sources said the idea would be unveiled monday by Andre minister of Urban in a speech at the annual meeting of the housing and Urban development association of Canada the in the works for several could form an important Plank in a Spring election the sources although the liberals including prime minister and finance minister Jean Chretien have strongly attacked the mortgage inter est plan of the Liberal strategists think it has tremendous the liberals have said the plan unveiled by progressive conserva Tive Leader Joe Clark last fall would Cost billions in lost tax would Benefit most those with the highest incomes and would not give any benefits to Clarks fatal flaw is that he Hast offered anything to said a government the Liberal tax credit plan would offer something to renters and it would also provide the biggest Benefit for those with the lowest As incomes the amount of the tax credit would be see Ottawa Page 4 help for working women the Boss got you Down is the office Playboy beginning to get on your nerves Sam Ion has the answer in a new weekly column starting monday on the relax Page of the free a working Mother Sam offers sensible advice Tor women in the workaday youll find her sensible and sometimes Provo a watch for her the working heritage Day Holiday in Union contract workers get Winter break Board by Jack Francis employees at the Moore business forms Are getting a heritage Day Holiday this week and they May be the Only canadians enjoying the midwinter National the Middle of february Day off was negotiated contract with the printers Union at a time when there was a lot of talk about heritage Plant manager Donald Jack son said the government stalled on it so it never became but we Call it our heritage Day Holiday Moores regional sales manager Gordon Wainwright said that while the Plant at 711 Erin Street would be closed the company regional and sales offices would remain open because customers remained sales and office staff also received the heritage Day Holiday by half taking Friday off and the other half Wainwright said other parts of the country would Likely do the same thing sooner or the question of a midwinter Long weekend there Are no National holi Days in Canada now from the 1 Holiday to easter arose in 1975 when a House of commons committee agreed to set aside the third monday in february for a Holiday to be known As National heritage a Bill to establish the Holiday was stalled in the House and has never the Federal government failed to proceed with the Bill in 1977 and when the Bill failed to pass last year 000 Union workers closed Down construction Sites throughout that very few countries in the world have a Long weekend in Canada Winter medals 0 8 b o s b 5 3 02 2 1 4 0 000 1 1 1 1 0 0 q 1 0 1 0 13 0 a 6 0 0 q wha Birmingham 2 Winnipeg 1 ;