Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba I v Gregory peek still symbolizes the gods of a Hollywood pm now penalty for punch by Joe Rubin a hockey coach who was cow acted of punching a Piatt in the face for hot keying the locket Iota was Given a Adf tonal acid an a Moffi Tift by judge Ian Dibbi Eftoski that the sport int what it used to Wylte Reid coach of the Morse place conf immunity league Juve Nile hockey was found guilty of assault causing bodily during a 6 game at the James civic a 17yearold Mem Ber of the team asked Smith Why he had not yet been the each asked the player to wait until court was ibid that part Way through the tire a fld Liyen so he Wisht tiflis Wicker Tow Fri and changed into Strart at my m tote Fate Mdse place tsim lost Smtth and die team went to the locker town Ait cd tend the 17yearold sitting on a is hockey sweater draped Over a raffle swes firs Thust be hot Fig Smith asked twice who owned the sweater before the player testimony indicated the coach then to reeked ii the Gay Merit arts threw it at the hitting the player threw the sweater Back at the harsh words were Smith told the youth to leave the locker and the grabbed him with both the coach told Crown Poset Mabr Don Melnyk Fie was ready to forcibly eject face Yout i from the dressing Smith said the player hit him on the shoulder an act the youth court was told Smith then punched the boy if the face twice in the Maui and neat his right ing him to the Smith said he was ready to but the hockey play if went to the Hospital where he Clear tonight 12 sunny tomorrow 25 july free pres Sun rises sets Moon of times sets received three stitches near his defence counsel Douglas Young said Smith was in the equivalent position of a Parent or school teacher Accord ing to the criminal is allowed to use a justifiable amount of Force on his As Young said Smith was acting in judge Ubienski rejected both de Fence arguments and convicted Smith on one count of assault causing bodily he gave the coach a oneyear conditional the judge said hockey with its emphasis on is not the Way the sport should be final with coloured comics for Home Call 9570550 Kim liberals waive pipeline by Dan Turner up news service Ottawa the Federal government gave approval in principle yesterday to construction of the Southern Section of an alaskan Gas pipeline despite its acknowledgement that it is taking a calculated risk that the rest of the project wont fall the government failed to get the ironclad Assurance it had earlier demanded that financing of the whole project be but received a Las minute letter from president Jimmy Cartel saying no quits by Cecil Rosner a company which has a contract with Manitoba Telephone system to provide Winnipeg Homes with computerized fire alarm services in septem Ber has been deserted by All its employ who say they we rent being the Tel guard systems has also been evicted by its landlord from its Pembina Highway premises and had its Telephone lines disconnect former employees of the firm Are seeking payment of Back wages and Tel guard is one of five fire alarm firms participating in project an see staff Page 4 i will take appropriate action directed at meeting the objective of completing the project by the end of in making the announcement in the Senate and commons senator Bud Olson responsible for the pipeline and Energy minister Marc Lalonde said they were satisfied that the United states was committed to completing the construction is to begin within a Lalonde ridiculed Lalonde was ridiculed by conserva Tive spokesman Erik for failing to obtain the fail Safe Guaran tees he had said were necessary last december by new democratic party spokesman Ian Waddell who predicted the rest of the pipeline will never be leaving Only the Southern portion to Drain Canadas Energy re serves tothe both condemned the government for not securing a guarantee enabling can Ada to demand replacement of its Early Gas exports once alaskan Gas began to flow through a completed construction of the pipeline in its entirety would mean significantly More jobs for canadians and would eventually give Access to Northern Canadian natural Gas would boost Gnu t Lalonde and Olson said the Southern rebuild Section of the pipeline alone could generate National economic benefits of mostly through the Sale to the of Gas the National Energy Board has declared but also through provision of jobs annually during the next five the completed they would in itself result in a on percent gain in Canadas Gross National prod creating direct and indirect Man years of see liberals Page 4 province cant tax air Canada liquor the supreme court of Canada has ruled that Manitoba has no jurisdiction Over the airspace above the in a decision released the court said the province has no right to apply its sales tax on flights passing Over writing the chief Justice Bora Laskin said the provincial retail sales act is Ultra Vires insofar As it purports to tax air Canada on Over flights of its aircraft through the air space Over Manitoba and in flights which land temporarily in the from outside although the act does impose a tax that can be said to be within the province under Sec of the ban judge Laskin said such sales do not occur within provincial Boun in hearings last november and again earlier this the province claimed ownership of the air space above its territory and the right to tax the air lines for services and see province Page 4 in free press get Tibig Down to business it looks As if this Cowboy is beginning to get on top of things in the steer wrestling Competition at the Manitoba Stampede in moms the Rodeo and fair continues until rent briefs Cut off by Ingeborg Boyens Public hearings on a government Bill o abolish rent controls ended Early this even though another 54 people had signed up to address a legislative committee on the of 30 presentations made to the com Only four praised the govern ment for doing away with rent which have been in effect since government Las forced an end to the hearings although another 54 people had notified the clerks office they wanted to address the Warner acting govern ment House Leader and the minister responsible for rent said each of the 84 names on the committees list had been called three times during the two Days of because Only three delegates were present yesterday the government adjourned the committee nearly two hours we cant carry the process on inde said opposition Las protested that Many people wishing to address the committee attend the after noon sessions because they worked and similarly stay up All night hoping their names would be tenants and landlords were left standing outside the legislative build ing doors for one hour before the com Mittee convened As scheduled after a female phone unhappy with the proposed rent said a bomb would go off at no bomb was found in a search of the building by police and Security yesterdays presentations to the committee described the arbitration procedure prescribed by Bill 83 As both laughable and see rent Page 4 Bill to lift curtain of secrecy Fox surprises opposition with new of information legislation by Carol Goar r up news service Ottawa Secretary of state Cis Fox won the surprised Praise of even his critics yesterday by offering canadians a new Tion Bill which goes farther than anyone expected in lifting the Blanket of secrecy from once the legislation is every citizen will have a Legal right to look at most government documents and to examine his or her own personal onus on government in order to withhold information from an the government would be required to prove first to Satis faction of an Independent information then if to he Federal court that it had reason Able grounds for its under the proposed canadians would get their first look at such Long secret information As salary Levels for Federal product testing internal government Cabinet discussion papers and program the new Bill is the third attempt by the government to enshrine Access to Federal information As a Basic Legal Fox Bill goes slightly further than the legis lation introduced Law october by the conservatives and much further than the first Freedom of information presented by the Secretary of state John Roberts in the big Surprise in Fox Bill is it allows a citizen seeking information and the Cabinet minister who refuses to give it to to fight it out in should the minister lose such a it could prove embarrassing both to him and to the government As a the previous Liberal Freedom Fin formation Bill carefully prevented any possibility of Messy court confront if a citizen could not gel tin informal Ion he requested from the Feii dial his Only recourse a to Appeal his Case to a Federal Yap pointed Freedom of information com who could recommend but not compel the minister to Dis close the desired facts and double digit inflation Back Ottawa up the consumer Price Index increased per cent in june from a month causing a Sharp Rise in the yearly average to per statistics Canada reported the yearly average is the worst since just after Price and incomes controls were brought in to combat double digit higher housing and transportation costs were the major factors in pushing up the june with food prices up per cent compared with an increase of Only per cent a month the Index was in up from in the a commonly used measure of shows that the same Basket of goods purchased for in 1971 Cost Consumers in with that the purchasing Power of the Consumers Dollar was unchanged in june at 48 Down from in while the yearly Overall consumer Price Rise now is More than 10 per cent the increase projected for 1980 by finance minister Allan Maceachen the latest figures for june show thut when food is excluded from the prices Roseby per Down from per cent in the previous month on an annual the live Rall Index excluding food was up in per with the exception of housing and which on a yearly Rose by eight per cent and per cent All Uther components in he Index show increases of More than 10 per cent with transportation the highest at per higher prices for fresh fruit and some meat and poultry cuts contributed to the per Ceni increase in the of taxi a Home Index in june from a month mean whip the Index for food away from Home i leased less sharply at u 6 per Bank rate Falls the Bank of Canada rate dropped again prompting seven chartered Banks to lower their prime lending prayer for the Republican party closed its convention last night with presidential candidate Ronald Reagan leading a silent prayer for open Lead tied Lee Trevino and Tom Watson conquered miserable conditions to share the first round Lead in the British open Golf championship 61 groups unite a lobby has been formed to protest the provincial government s plan to decontrol milk Index Al business Cli Orley comics Doug entertainment Foi us 1 f ruin 24 24 hoi of stint 1 3 j until Puzzle 1 movies 7 4i sports 2 t to t i 4 ;