Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Terrorist nuclear bomb Short cuts for Spring fashion the Small head look is sunny Low High 0 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets reflections on the so in new York Winnipeg free press March 1979 final 15 86 140 food Bill Rise predicted for 79 Toronto up double digit inflation will hit Canadian grocery Bills again this year but wont the per cent High of last the retail Council of Canada predicts in its latest food prices fore the Council says food prices prob ably will increase by an average of 11 to 13 per cent this up from the nine to 11 per cent it originally predicted for the increase Means a Basket of food Worth in 1971 will Cost Consumers an average of to this the increase in food prices last year forced Consumers to pay for the food Basket in terms of 1971 the Council says 1979s major Cul prits Are in creases in beef Steep in creases in imported food and the lifting 1 of a Federal government subsidy on it says a Hollingback of animals by Farmers eventually will result in lower prices but for now Consumers can expect beef prices to Rise through to the Early the Council predicts Consumers will pay an average of this year for beef they could buy for in 1971 a 2c per cent increase Over the Consumers paid last and while the Council is predict ing a Rise in pork prices As the chairman of the Ontario pork producers marketing Board said wednesday he expects prices to Howard Malcolm told the boards annual meeting Chat Ontario farm ers probably will produce 15 per cent More hogs this year than this should result in an average Price of for less than last Malcolm said pork prices vary too much to allow him to translate the lower hog Price into decreases the consumer can expect to pay for specific City Council travel Cost dips slightly to by Rick Blanchard City councillors spent a total of travelling in slightly less than the spent the previous the travel expenses report Doest come before a civic committee for review nor was it raised last week at City Council when it was distributed to councillors As in addition to Canadian last year councillors visited Tel Miami new Baton and Ana of the30 members of Council including the councillor Ric Nordman Charles trav Elled the submitting expenses of Nordman sometimes re presented the mayor at out town councillor Bill Mcgarva Sargent Park ran up the second highest total in mayor Robert Steen attended meetings in Minne Edmonton and pin at a Cost of six councillors didst submit any travel they were John Angus Frank Johnson Pearl Mcgonigal Ric Nordman biggest spender Harold Piercy Alan Wade Dame and Joe Zuken the most expensive single trip saw councillor Don Gerrie View visit Tel september Gerrie represented Winnipeg at the world meeting on israels twin at a Cost of the amount surpassed in expenses submitted for a single trip during the previous year by the Dep Uty mayor Bernie who had attended the Queens Jubilee in Lon but it fell Short of the spent in 1977 sending the the mayor Steve Juba and councillors John Gerrie and de Kotowich to for eight Days at the world Curling travel expenses submitted by Dep Uty mayor Bill Norrie do Heights last year were Only to attend a municipal Conven Tion in Norries travel needs contrasted sharply with those of his who in 1977 submitted travel costs of representing Winni Peg in such cities As Ottawa and in the report shows traces of a carryover of the previous years Arena missions by the Trio of Jim Ernst see Council Page 4 up photo jubilant Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and his wife Jeanne arrive at Campaign Headquarters after his progressive conservatives scored another landslide election Victory winning 74 of 79 conservatives win 74 of 79 seats Lougheed sweeps Alberta Edmonton up Alberta pre Mier Peter Lougheed was returned for a third term wednesday in a general election that saw his progressive conservative party sweep almost the entire the conservatives took 74 of 79 leaving the social under Leader Bob with four seats As the official opposition and nip Leader Grant Notley his party Only while the opposition gained nothing beyond what they already Lougheed fattened his majority by winning All the new seats created by redistribution which increased legislative membership to 79 seats from the conservatives also posted the Only political taking the drum Alberta party standings 1979 1975 69 4 4 1 1 0 1 75 redistribution in 1977 increased number of seats to 79 from Heller Riding formerly held by inde pendent Gordon Taylor who did not run this in 1975 the conservatives won 69 of 75 constituencies with a record 62 per cent of the popular were at a very key the crossroad of the future of this prov Lougheed told supporters in we take the mandate tonight with a deep sense of added Premier since he denied that his landslide Victory Means As Liberal Leader Nick Taylor suggested earlier Leves que and Lougheed versus the concept of although he said he would use his new mandate to protect the resources of he told a news conference that he remains dedicated to National in a Strong in a see Lougheed Page 4 burial uses i cardboard coffin by Andy Blicq Manitoban May soon have the option of being buried in a card Board Ken a 54yearold Brit ish Columbia funeral tins brought the cat Falque casket cover to Canada and says he plans in the near future to expand his rent casket business to other including in a Telephone interview from his office at Timlick said he has already shipped his first corrugated casket to a Winnipeg funeral Home a few Days he would not release the name of the saying the owner did not want any Timlick provides a cardboard Over which an elaborate exterior casket or cat Falque is at the moment of inter the inner cardboard casket is lowered into the grave and the outer casket moves on to the next funeral this is what we offer out of our he its for a cardboard corrugated slum ber the casket rental and the Timlick pays for each his wife lines the coffin at a Cost of and he Sells each one for More expensive plywood and fibreglass caskets Are Dave sales manager for Macmillan Bloedel building materials in said a Vancouver Branch of the company has been supplying Timlick with the he said the Winnipeg Plant could produce a similar product and said it already provides cardboard caskets used for transporting the re Mains for immediate Timlick said he became disillusioned with the funeral Industry after being commissioned to move Graves for a Corpora he says he discovered most of the some buried Only 20 years had decomposed to i was a dedicated funeral director up to that he after i saw i said this has to be the greatest Ripoff in the Winnipeg funeral Home executives share a dignified disapproval of Tim licks cardboard one funeral Home direct when asked whether hed sell the cat Falque said a see burial Page 4 up photo Ken Timlick with his cardboard coffin Fergie s counter offer if terms of a proposed expansion can be modified to allow world hockey association teams to protect five general manager John Fer Guson believes Winnipeg jets could have a competitive team next season in the National hockey Ferguson says the jets would Ada mantly refuse to agree to the Nils prescribed conditions that would per Mit incoming wha teams to keep Only four players two goaltenders and two Lead a women warned by Bob Lowery flin women employed by the Hudson Bay mining and smelting company Here have been warned of possible danger to unborn children from Lead Roy United steel workers of America area represent said wednesday the company issued the warning at a joint employ Eeman gement health safety meet ing this the company also announced that it wont hire any More women to work in the those currently employed there will be Given the Chance to take alternative the company Manitoba new democrats plan to pressure the provincial government to conduct a full scale see Lead Page 4 Ferguson expects an expansion proposal will be approved next week at a meeting of nil governors in we would spend the next four or five Days negotiating that said under the terms of the Nils expansion proposal revealed wednes the wha teams would be obliged to give up their players to the nil teams who hold their details on Page score Board wha Quebec 4 Winnipeg 2 Nhu Buffalo 4 Toronto 1 j Atlanta 6 by rangers 4 Philadelphia 4 Chicago q Minnesota 4 Montreal 3 Detroit 4 1 Pittsburgh 3 los Angeles 3 plot hk4 v winners 02 14 the 19 inside ;