Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1 attack continued from Page t by the government yesterday 1 it said improper planning bad judgment by Manitoba Hydro coupled with political interference the previous nip had Cost Manitoba hundreds of of f since the report not followed its mandate to promote Economy and efficiency in the Supply of electrical the significant and persistent defects in the government run Utility have resulted in substantial and unnecessary costs being borne by Manitoba Tritschler was appointed shortly after the progressive conservatives came to Power in As a Oneman judicial commission to look into Hydro developments Over the last he spent two four months of extensive Public examining the the commissioner also had harsh words for two former Hydro David Cas Beggs and Len whom he accused of lying to the Public and misrepresenting the course of Hydro Bateman was fired from his position last after he admitted Dur ing testimony before Tritschler that he had made misleading and statements to several legislative while Tritschler said he Esti mate How much Money through Hydro he said it ran into the hundreds of Craik said the report identified in the Range of million to million which were due to poor planning and the minister blamed the administration for much of the ties encountered by he was especially critical of the minister in charge of the which for most of the nip administrations former Premier and general edit becomes very Clear the minister in charge of Hydro was unable or unwilling to Cope with the magnitude of the Craik Walding said the tories Are in no position to criticize the former administration for spending Money with carelessness ranging from reckless to irresponsible since it spent almost million More for the Hydro review than it had the originally expected to Cost completed at a Cost of Walding said there was no doubt the inquiry summation was a political since it didst look Backoo prenup Days in the Craik is massaging his ego in an attempt to justify his statements in the added former nip mines minister Sidney Green called the Oneman commission an inquisition conceived in political an Independent said the Fornier chief justices recon emendations were not supported by Derice atthe opposition Leader Howard Powley to comment he was to hold a press conference Schreyer would not be available for comment at this his press officer chartier 1 former Liberal Premier a former Hydro director said he agrees with findings in the report that Cas Beggs was responsible for Campbell resigned from the Hydro Board in 1971 Over the Schreyer govern decision to proceed Sim Ultan with the Winnipeg Regula Tion and the Churchill River government cant escape responsibility for Bell they were warned personally made two visits to de Schreyer an told him he was being pulled into trouble by the advice of Cass the fact that he general of Canada Doest make a bit of he must still answer for his sins of omission and commission when he was Craik dismissed suggestions that the Tritschler report was a political Docu claiming the onus was on report ers who suggested it to prove that chief Justice Tritschler had undertaken the study with preconceived if this report is regarded As just one More difference Between the pcs and the i think that is missing the said labelled the report a valuable document in the Crown he said it was a serious condemn the too management of condemnation More muted than i would have made it the both Premier Sterling Lyon and Craik denied the government had a political purpose in commissioning the Lyon refused to say which of the 52 recommendations would be adopted by the government its premature after a cursory Reading of this report to say what will the government set out to improve the working relationship Between the government and Hydro by appointing a new chairman of the Board and a new chief executive offi Lyon said he didst agree with the recommendation that civil servants or Las not be allowed to sit on the Board cause worry Don Craik blames former nip administration for costs engineers to study Tritschler report continued from Page 1 who now runs his own private engineering consulting at first refused to comment on the report saying he haunt read he later issued copies of a three Page statement which said the commission of inquiry should have included some one knowledgeable in but since it the review into Complex engineering problems was completed by people who Are not technically qualified for such a an engineering in conjunction with proper and Legal would have Given the Public the answers that were being sought by the opposition and the ratepayers at much less said while the Tritschler report said there had been overbuilding and too rapid a development of generating stations in Bateman defended the utile Tys decisions to Advance the construction dates of certain the first Cost of Lake Winnipeg regulation and the diversion of the Churchill River were with earlier dollars and hence at lower Cost than they would be if built in the said on the other said the development of the Lake Winnipeg regulation project together with the Jen Peg generating station resulted in an unnecessary expense of a number of Hydro employees admitted during the inquiry that some generating projects were advanced purely for Export potential and not to Supply the provinces Bateman defended his performance and the performance of Hydro staff during his and blamed dog fights Between various political groups for Many of the problems Hydro has he that the people who have planned the development of Manitoba Hydro in the past Are the ones to be thanked that we have an adequate source of Low Cost renewable Energy for our collective As for Hydro Bateman said that the initiative shown by the dedicated employees of Manitoba Hydro has been the ingredient that has helped make the Utility one of the most respected in the International Hydro morale problems resurface by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba Hydro needs an absolutely Topnotch who has had nothing to do with past events to restore morale at the a former acting chairman said now Dean of applied sciences at the University of British the two year Tritschler inquiry into Hydro had left some demoralization among staff at the the inquiry report released yes which was critical both of top management and of the former govern is going to reopen a lot of Wedepohl said in Art inter former Dean of Engineer ing at the University of said he want interested in returning to head the he was acting chair Man for nine months after former chairman and chief executive officer Len Bateman was fired a year both Premier Sterling Lyon and finance minister Don Craik said the appointments of a chairman and chief executive officer Are one of the first Steps the government will take As a result of the Lyon said the government wants two really top notch Craik refused to say if further mfr placements be he might feel their positions Unten Able at the report accused the Utility pub Lic relations department of failing to provide the Public with factual the sobering news As Well As the Good the report Hydro users we rent told their rates would have been lower had it not been for some significant blunders by Hydro management and it criticized the uti ii Tys Public affairs director Earl Mills for saying the 1979 surplus proved the course of action we Hydro followed was the right one and our building is now paying Mills declined to saying it be proper for us to comment on a government continued from Page 1 tons that some hostages Are Cia american officials have also declined to confirm the identities of the 50 persons according to info were seized in the embassy uncertainty about the number and whereabouts of the hostages deepened yesterday with a statement by auxiliary Bishop Thomas one of the clergymen who conducted the ser at a Stopover at London is Heathrow Airport in route to the United statement issued As we left Tehran this the students issued a statement saying there were 49 hostages inside the but six decided they did not want to attend the Gumble ton the state continued to insist that the Correct number is 50 we Are quite positive that there Are 50 american prisoners being Reston said at a noting that american officials have relied partly on information from 13 former hostages who were released last speculation about the discrepancy in the number of hostages has included the possibilities that some hostages May be May have been moved away from the embassy compound or May have been singled out for harsher treatment by iranian militants because of alleged spying the state department on Christmas labelled Iran refusal to make Clear How Many americans Are being held at the embassy a very cruel num Bers iranian foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh pledged wednes Day to seek an explanation for the differing counts of the number of hos none has been forthcoming so one hostage previously singled out for criticism by iranian militants was robberies keep City police on run Winnipeg police were Given a run for their Money last night As they were called to four robberies in the East Kildonan area in about two the string of three of which Are believed to be began about 7 when a armed with a walked into Chicken de 1121 Henderson and robbed the woman at two one armed with a walked a champs Chick in 679 Henderson and robbed the clerk of a Small amount of at two one armed with a entered Wiebes 300 Edison and robbed the Lone clerk of some an attempted robbery occurred at a armed with a walked into macs convenience 4015 Springfield police say the Man attempted to Rob the but fled after spotting another person in the police said judging by the Ture of the they suspect the robberies were carried put by the same group of no description of the bandits was reported yesterday to have been Al Lowed to attend the Christmas ser a Clergyman confirmed that air Force Thomas the defence attache in was pres ent at the religious admit role in coup continued from Page i who was overthrown by Amin in Tass news Agency carried a lengthy account of a speech by Karmal in which he said he destroyed the bloody dynasty of head of the pro Moscow Parcham Flag Wing of the democratic the instrument of torture of Amin and his Savage usurpers and murderers of tens of thousands of our compatriots has been Moscow radio carried a Brief report on its English language overseas pro Gram quoting a Kabul radio broadcast by Karmal saying that the afghan people remain Loyal to the achieve ments of the revolution of Noor Mohammed Taraski led a staunch pro Moscow administration until he was toppled in mid september by it was later announced i Kabul that he been who was Vic president and Deputy prime minister under Taraski until he was later squeezed added in his speech reported by Tass the people of Afghanistan have suffered under the bloody apparatus of Hafizullah Amin and his these agents of american neither Tass nor Moscow radio car ried any commentary on the events in but Western diplomatic sources in Moscow said it was Clear that Moscow views today events food prices expected to Rise in 1980 from the newts services Toronto retail food prices will increase Between and Pefu cent in the retail Council of Canada said in its annual the Council predicted jumps in the Price of imported produce and processed but said ample supplies of pork and poultry should be available at relatively t sick out causes havoc Kansas Joseph Teasdale declared a state ofe Mergen by yesterday and ordered 500 National guardsmen to help provide fire Protection in Kansas City during a ing sick out by City he spid could net logger guarantee the Public safety and the troops would go on duty late last police have been pressed into duty to bolster a firefighting Force deplete news Roundup sailing vessel sinking fire kills 10 prisoners Foj fighters demand i higher ship hauled off rocks Punta Chile ish cruise ship Lundblad who Chi ran aground Christmas eve in the was pulled from under sea rocks yesterday with the Aid of a soviet the chilean Navy an official said the ship had eight punctures in its double but the flooding was controlled and the ship was in no danger of he said it had partial use of its dote registers in primary i suspensions and sick outs As Republican sen Ator Robert pole squeezed in just be fore yesterdays deadline for entering new Hampshire presidential Prima bringing the Field of candidates who will appear of the ballot to the primary will fee held the John the first sailing cargo ship in four was reported sinking yesterday 240 Kilometres South East of Cape cod in what was its first working the coast guard in new York the nine persons aboard the 23metre vessel were Safe ashore late yesterday after being rescued by if National guard biota break out in India new Delhi rioting broke out in Southern India yesterday As Campaign ing intensified before next weeks Gen eral police used tear Gas to break up a clash Between supporters of the Region Al moslem majlis party and the nation Al janata party in Karvan in Andora Pravesh police said 15 people were three persons have died in recent fire broke out last night on the top floor of the historic Lancaster county killing 10 prisoners and injuring two fire authorities county sheriff Nae Parks said the fire was of undetermined Egypt raps begin stand Cairo Egypt rejected yesterday statements by israeli prime minister Menachem begin that Israel will main Tain control Over the West Bank of the Jordan begins claim was a violation of the Camp David peace an egyptian foreign ministry official French budget discussed Paris French parliament met in emergency session yesterday to resolve a dispute Over the budget for president Valery Giscard de Stang called the session after the constitutional Council ruled that the finance Bill adopted 17 was illegal because revenues were not agreed on separately before utile Hope left for sailors Alaska capsized Ore freighter went aground off the Alaska coast yesterday As winds near Hurricane Force whipped Waves to Little Tope remained for the vessels 30 taiwanese the coast guard the 225metre Lee Wang Zin was in no immediate danger of breaking up and May free itself at High old Man of the goo Philadelphia the worlds oldest captive celebrated his 49th birthday with a special made of Vitamin enriched Grain and meat yesterday at the Philadelphia it is thought that the special diet for 300pound Massa is largely responsible for his Massa oldest Gorilla i ;