Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Morgan Mccammon of Mol sons tells his Side of wha North spend billion to buy Sophia Loren takes new York by Clearing Low High 8 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final 15 March 1979 vol 86 138 Tariff cuts mean lower food prices Ottawa up Consumers can look Forward to Price reductions in a wide Range of imported fruits and vegetables following a government announcement monday that tariffs on these goods will be reduced i Media the move is designed to provide Consumers with Quick Relief from soaring produce at the same the government has promised Farmers that tariffs on fruits and vegetables will be raised significantly in octo this will encourage Consumers to buy Homegrown produce during the Canadian growing the new Tariff arrangements were tabled in the commons by finance minister Jean following months of study by government offi the immediate effect of the pro Gram will be to moderate the Price of fresh produce which increased by per cent in the government has repeatedly identified imported fruits and vegetables As the main culprit in the current outbreak of rising food imported produce is expensive for two foreign suppliers have raised their prices and these Price increases have been aggravated by the Low buying Power of Canadian the government Hopes to offset these in by providing see Tariff Page 4 Carter optimistic Over Mideast pact Cairo a president Carter said today he is confident he has All the main ingredients of a peace treaty Between Egypt and reporting substantial Progress to Ward a treaty before leaving Carter then flew to Cairo and Confer red for More than two hours with Egypt president Anwar after giving Sadat a full report on his meetings in Carter emerged to say the United states made proposals for resolving a num Ber of outstanding president Sadat has now accepted these Carter also said he had presented proposals to both begin and Sadat for resolving the few remain ing he said begin agreed to present these to the israeli Cabinet and Sadat accepted these same Carter said he had informed begin by Telephone from Cairo of Sadat decision to accept the proposals for a Compromise on the last treaty Carter was expected to return to Washington Carter said he and begin had Nar rowed the remaining issues in a breakfast meeting these issues were believed to be israels desire for Sinai Egypt desire for Liaison officials to supervise palestinian self Rule in the Gaza strip and israels desire for a Quick Exchange of ambassadors with Carter gave no either in Israel or in of the shape of the As he left Carter said Good Progress was made toward a treaty and we will not Carter said Progress was made monday night in a meeting of and israeli Cabinet and fur ther Progress was achieved today in a breakfast meeting Between him self and israeli prime minister men Achem also speaking at Ben Gurion said Israel now has gone As far As it can go toward meeting Egypt and now of its the turn of Egypt to proposed bilingual signs cause tempest at City Hall by Rick Blanchard the proposed installation of additional signs in both English and French at civic buildings caused a minor furore monday at City some members of civic works and operations committee were con Vinced National Unity was at while others said their integrity As councillors was in jeopardy because the signs were necessary under a Section of the City of Winnipeg the stage was set for an emotion charged session by a Board of com missioners recommendation for 000 cover costs of bilingual signs at 16 both downtown and in when the matter came to a the committee agreed to spend Only on signs at civic Arenas and Pool facilities in the Boniface and vital areas of the see Page 4 photo by Dave Bonner men moving furniture from the old ramp building to the new one on Portage Avenue found a Quick solution to a difficult problem the old building has no elevators and narrow stairways would have made moving a Sling lifted the truck to a window for the move into new quarters was Lang hints at funding by Ottawa Federal of cites government plans study up rail Yard relocation Lang cautious the Federal government has commissioned an Independent feasibility study to examine relocating Winni pegs up rail marshalling transport minister Otto Lang said in a Telephone press Confer ence from this morning the Federal governments decision to commission a study does not mean it is willing to fund relocation of the Yards should the study show that is the better option than construction of the Sherbrook Mcgregor but he added there is a Strong possibility of significant Federal involvement in rail relocation we in transport Canada Are going to employ consultants to do the Long term costs and benefits of Relo cation of the marshalling Yard As compared to the present location and the various series of overpasses which would otherwise be Lang the consultants have not been they will be required to do the study which will Cost several Hun dred thousand dollars in a Sharp Way and Are to be finished in six the approval of construction of the 22 million Dollar Sherbrook Mcgregor overpass that would require Federal Urban transportation assistance program Utah funds will be he Lang said relocation appeared to be a better option for the City from the View of the real costs of future overpasses in addition to the existing Lang indicated that up rail has agreed to cooperate with the Federal government in conducting the the analysis will begin to indicate what kind of sharing is Lang said the study was commissioned because opposition to the see Ottawa Page 4 jobless figure declines to Ottawa up a slight improve ment in the unemployment situation was recorded in february with 000 out of work compared with in the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the month fell to per cent last month from per cent the previous Manitoba reported a age Point increase for a february rate of per figures released today by Statis tics Canada also show there were More people working in february than in Job vacancies Page 4 it was the first time in More than a year that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has fallen below eight per february was the lowest monthly unemployment rate recorded by statistics Canada since june of when the seasonal Job less rate also stood at per the rate is still Well above that of the United states which re ported a february unemployment rate of per with million out of latest unemployment rates for other industrialized countries were per cent in for West per cent in per cent in per cent in Italy and per cent in the Federal Agency said the Grea test improvement was for women aged 15 to the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for this group dropped by percentage but still remained at a disturbingly High per men 25 years and Over also experienced a better Job picture in in with their unemployment rate falling by percentage Points to per men in the 15to24 age bracket faced a percentage Point increase in their seasonal unemployment which stood at per one relatively unusual characteristic of the february Job picture was that rate of those either working or actively seeking work dropped by percentage Points from january to a seasonally adjusted rate of per schools air travel Cut a storm dumped 12 centimetres of Snow on Southern Manitoba Over causing dozens of closing schools in some areas and forcing cancellation of some flights in and out of Winnipeg International heavy and blowing Snow Over night reduced visibility to near Zero in Southern Manitoba and a weather warning was issued overnight for the entire it was lifted this a weather office official said Early today the system would be on its Way out by 9 see Southern Page 4 score Board nil Detroit 3 Montreal 3 Page 5357 inside 35 35 n 41 focus 44 to 10 City family planning clinic proposed by Steve Whysall a clinic in downtown Winnipeg where abortions and sterilizations would be performed and birth con tool counselling provided is being considered by the Manitoba health services the health sciences Centre has already Given its approval and agreed to contribute and planned parenthood of America has offered k the clinic to be called Manitoba Centre for reproductive health is the brainchild of Boro a City and John head of obstetrics and gynaecology at the health sciences according to their the clinic would be a wholly owned incorporated subsidiary of the health sciences Centre with a a freestanding charter and by Laws governing the activities of the the doctors want the clinic to pro vide the following services d extensive programs in Public health education and birth control d the earliest diagnosis and management of pregnancy As May be chosen by the d reduction in the provincial death rate of mothers and children and deaths associated with poor family d sterilization for and eventually for using contemporary techniques with the appropriate professional d health sciences Centre to provide comprehensive care should any complications arise As a result of treatments performed by the d screening and counselling ser vices on venereal Dis eases and counselling for adolescents who May request such in their 20page outline of the the doctors say women had abortions in Manitoba last another 904 abortions were per formed in North Dakota 700 of the women were from Winnipeg and 204 from Rural the doctors detailed the Story of a 31yearold White female who was forced to go to North Dakota for an her pregnancy had occurred from a failure of an intrauterine see abortion Page 4 ;