Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Youth spends 22 hours trapped in Bridge Pylon a 17yearold boy was rescued yesterday after spending about 22 hours in a 12footdeep cavity under the main Street police said Joshua Flett of the Hugh John Mcdonald 161 Mayfair crawled along a steel Structure under the Bridge sat urday then Slid Down the supports and walked along a the youth then fell into an open Hole in the he was unable to get out and Hii cries for help went unheeded until a crossing the Bridge about heard his screams and called the who rescued Lowell civic manager of streets and said he was aware of the but no action would be taken by the City until it Learned full details of How Flett got into the for the Hostel refused to release any fight for Moroz urges ukrainian dissident Valentyn Moroz said yesterday Pope John Paul its historic visit to Poland will encourage dissidents to speak out against communist regimes in Eastern the Pope is shaking the he behaves As if the communists do not speaking in ukrainian to an enthusiastic crowd of More than at the Winnipeg convention the re cent freed dissident predicted great social upheaval in the soviet bloc in the Moroz said the overwhelming recep Tion the Pope received from the Large a Catholic polish people indicated the depth of opposition against soviet re Gimes in Strong dissent is growing in the and it will be your duty to help the Ukraine in deciding its who spent 14 years in prison Camps and psychiatric institutions after he was charged with circulating ant soviet propaganda and agitating against soviet was sent to new York on april 27 in Exchange for two soviet he cautioned the largely ukrainian audience about becoming passive to Ward International he said pressure from Canada can help bring about the Independence of the and the goal of All ukrainians Shook be their homelands Moroz urged the a tence to become Active politically to ensure the survival of ukrainian culture both in Canada and in Eastern we cannot keep our children ukrainian Only with embroidered shirts and easter he the 43yearold dissident was welcomed at the beginning of the evening with the traditional meal of bread and dignitaries from the City and provincial governments As Well As Community and Church leaders praised religious guides and veterans organizations also lauded the ukrainian Moroz had been greeted by a crowd estimated at about on his arrival earlier sunday at the Winnipeg inter National besides meetings with local ukrainian groups and the Media Moroz was to Beho nored by Premier Sterling Lyon during a visit to the Manitoba Winnipeg Deputy mayor Bill Norrie said Moroz was a reminder that free Dom does not exist and the see dissident Page 4 Clear tonight sunny tomorrow Low 10 High 23 Wayne free press june 1979 be no 213 final Sun rises sets Moon rises sets rate freeze not needed Hydro chief a Tough Day to be a bomber fan Winnipeg Blue bomber fans didst get a lot of chances to the Calgary while bomber fans found Little to exercise their vocal chords As the bombers cheer during those rare moments they could offer opened the exhibition season on a Low losing 3513 to their they were Story on Page ports strike end near longshoremen to hold ratification votes by thursday Vancouver up longshore men at seven West coast ports could be Back on the Job late this week follow ing intensive negotiations that ended with a tentative contract settlement Early the whose we Klong strike has halted vital ship ments through major British Columbia Are to hold ratification votes by Union president Bob Peebles said meetings Are to be held tuesday and the Union negotiating committee is recommending acceptance of the set no details of the settlement have been if the worked out under the guidance of Federal mediator Bill is the longshoremen could Start work next said but he added that it was up to the the maritime employ ers to decide when the workers should Peebles said he had no Way of know ing if the members of the International longshoremen and warehousemen would accept the weve recommended acceptance he during previous three tentative agreements were rejected by either Union negotiators or the Mem the last offer was rejected by Only one Europe swings to the right Brussels a Christian democrats and socialists were running neck and neck today in returns that showed a swing to the right in the election of the first european parliament chosen by direct vote of the on the basis of almost final results from six of the members of the euro pan economic Community and com Puter projections for Ireland and the which Complete their tallies the big gainer was in the conservative the socialists had Sharp losses and the communists slight the Christian democrats or the socialists May emerge As the largest single bloc in the new parliament with the conservatives placing a Strong third and the communists no single faction will get a the returns also indicated support for the concept of european followers of the late president Charles de Gaulle in France and the labor party in two groups in which opposition to european unification is suffered Sharp that offer called for increases of 90 cents an hour in each year of a three year the current base pay rate is an Federal Deputy labor was sent Here thursday by labor min ister Lincoln Alexander to resolve the the settlement was reached after a total of 20 hours of talks on Friday and there have been fears that Parlia ment might have to be recalled to Deal with the dispute which has halted Cru Cial shipments of newsprint and the strike has shut Down the ports of Prince new port Nan Aimo and the governments of the four Western who rely heavily on the have called upon prime min ister Clark to take Swift action to end the businessmen and Farmers have also called for whatever Steps Are necessary to end the in the Federal Liberal govern ment forced an end to a strike by the same by Robert Cheshire the chairman of Manitoba Hydro says that Power rates in the province could have remained constant for the next five years without a government initiated Wedepohl made the admission during a meeting saturday of the Legislatures Public utilities committee in response to questions from opposition Hydro rates excluding bulk and contract sales were Frozen for five years last month when the Manitoba government brought Down its 197980 electricity our Oil at the the government said As of april 1 it would absorb additional costs of Manitoba Hydro billion debt caused by the devaluation of the Canadian in an interview earlier Wedepohl had remained noncommittal on whether the Utility would have raised its rates without government despite a Bonanza of Export Power primarily to the United it is probable we would have had to have a rate if the government haunt assumed he speaking later at the legislative com Wedepohl reluctantly acknowledged in a speculative sense the Utility could have operated for the next five years a rate and still been Able to handle its foreign debt payment requirements and have a million Wedepohl said Export last year totalled million from an original million could have wiped out the need for an in this he Export sales Are expected to climb to the Board chairman said a rate in crease would have been required based on the million Export million Reserve even though that figure was greatly Wedepohl said the Utility May have opted for an increase to build up its which could have shrunk to million by he estimated the reserves have now risen to More than million from million due to Export Power sales and the governments move to absorb in creases in the Utility debt caused by the sagging Canadian but Sidney Green and Saul Cherniack using five year projections prepared by Hydro just prior to the provincial Bud said with projected Export sales there was no need for the government to freeze Wedepohl said before the budget an Hydro had decided to set aside million to Cushion foreign currency the action of the government freed up that Money and allowed us to put it into he Wedepohl said another million was put in reserves from a million profit the Utility had at the end of its last fiscal the combination built reserves to million As of March 31 and reserves Are now probably More than he Green said the government did not have to legislate a five year rate freeze in order to protect the integrity of Hydro from fluctuating currency a simple letter from the province Back ing the Utility in the face of fluctuations see freeze Page 4 5 jailed for bid rigging Toronto up five prominent Canadian businessmen were sentenced to jail terms of two to five years today for their roles in defrauding Public agencies of More than million Between 1967 and 1976 by rigging bids on dredging Harold former presi Dent of Mcnamara of Toron to and a former sports writer for Montreal was sentenced to five years and his company was fined Jean a former Vic chair Man of Marine industries of Mon Treal and a member of the family that played a major role in Quebec ship building and construction was sentenced to a three year prison Simard was found guilty on three the acquitted on one was fined on the other Sydney former president of Pitts engineering and construction of Drew a three year prison term for three guilty verdicts he Albert senior Vic president of sceptre dredging of and Frank the Compa nys each received Reforma tory terms of two years less a both men and the company were found guilty on one the company was fined inside today neoconservative Black dynamic capitalist sometimes known As the intellectual have found a spokesman in business magnate Conrad the articulate author and chairman of Argus Black extols the survival of capitalism and individualism in Western air Agency questioned for the second time in five a disastrous crash of a dc10 jetliner is prompting questions about How the United states government monitors the design and construction of commercial critics say the american airlines crash near Chicago has again exposed defects in the Federal aviation administrations certification of new jetliners they did the 1974 crash of a dc10 outside but some Faa engineers privately concede the Agency is Short on must rely often on company supplied must extensively use inspectors on the manufacturers payroll and May have allowed critical design flaws to get not slight Beer the current rage for Light Beer supposedly Low in alcohol and calories has been orchestrated by Clever advertising hype appealing to the die conscious but tests done for Price watch show that if youre worried about getting the so called Light Beers Are neither Low in alcohol nor United unions Union leaders like to differentiate themselves from but As big business grows some labor unions also grow but the character of the trend in labor is different voluntary mergers rather than in voluntary no triple Crown spectacular bids attempt to win the triple Crown ended i gloriously in Belmont Park in new York coastal won the Belmont stakes by lengths because bid did not Dis play a semblance of the form that had earned 12 straight the Gray Colt could not even hold second place from Golden a decisive loser to bid in the Kentucky Derby and cemetery is target the sad sight of fourteen broken headstones and empty Beer bottles greeted the manager of the Boniface Cathedral cemetery Satur Day late vandals had caused an Unest mated amount of damage by knocking Over the headstones in one of the older sections of the cemetery at Archibald Street and Elizabeth scores football Cal exhibition Calgary 35 Winnipeg 13 baseball american sunday Boston 5 Minnesota 0 Baltimore 5 Texas 4 Chicago 13 Milwaukee 3 new York 10 Kansas City 4 Detroit 10 California 7 Oakland 12 Toronto 1 Seattle 5 Cleveland 2 National sunday san Francisco 7 Pittsburgh 4 Atlanta 10 Philadelphia 3 Houston 5 new York 3 Chicago 10 los Angeles 3 Louis 3 san Diego 2 Cincinnati 3 Montreal 2 Index 24 25 32 29 25 32 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