Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Gregory Peck still symbolizes the gods of a Hollywood Emo past cd t Iii aft f coach receives penalty for punch by Joe it attn a hockey coach who was convicted of Foffi Efing a player in the face for not leaving locket mom was Given a Werdi final an Admonit by judge Tan Dowe Fisk that the a Flat int what it used to Wayne kid coach of the Morse place Community league Juve Nile hockey was found guilty of assault causing bodily during a 6 game at the of afters civic a 17yearold Mem Ber of the team asked Smith Why he had not yet been the coach asked he player to waft until court was told that part Way through the second tote youth still haunt played so he went of the locket torn and changed into Street at the end of the the Morse place team lost Smith and the team went to the locket room and found the of Vearold sitting Oft a his hockey sweater dropped Over a duffle sweaters must Nee hang Smith asked twice who owned the sweater before the player testimony indicated the coach then picked up the garment and threw it at the hitting the player threw the sweater Back at the harsh words were Smith told the youth to leave the locket tie refused twice and the coach then grabbed him with both the coach told Crown prosecutor Don Melnyk he was ready to forcibly eject the youth from the dressing Smith said the player hit him on the shoulder an act the youth court was told Smith then punched the boy in the face twice in the Mouth and near his right Eye Knock ing him to the Smith said he was ready to but the hockey player went to the Hospital where he sunny today 25 Clear tonight 12 received three stitches near acis 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 on one count of assault causing bodily he gave the coach a oneyear conditional the judge said hockey with its emphasis 011 is not the Way the sport should be final 30c with coloured comics for Home Call 9570550 july vol ios no 194 Sun rises sets m00n rises sets liberals waive approve pipeline Ken Focee press 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 Carter saying loan by its probed by Steve Pona the provincial auditor is examining a loan by the Manitoba Tele phone system to a firm supplying technology to the Public owned Utility and the attorney generals department will be asked for a Legal auditor William Ziprick yesterday called the loan to inter Iscom systems unusual and said his staff is having a look at the company is developing the Cable system for an experimental information service in Ziprick said in a Telephone interview he is interested in whether the Compa which has a Winnipeg head obtained the its contract by he also wants to know certain details of their contractual workers quit alarm the auditor said the loan was brought to his attention by a member of his staff a couple of weeks its unusual for a Crown Agency to make a he adding the Money might Only be an Ordinary Progress inter Iscom spokesmen could not be reached for government services minister Harry Enns agreed during question period to request a Legal opinion on the attorney general Gerry Mercier was away from the legislature yesterday attending meetings in Enns said he is having the matter checked and investigated to determine whether the monies advanced truly fall in the capacity As an outright Iuan to a company or whether they Are of a research and development see Page 4 i will take appropriate action directed at meeting the objective of completing the project by the end of unmaking the announcement in the Senate and commons senator Bud 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 Neilsen for failing to obtain the fail Safe Guaran tees he 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 to the 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 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 would boost Gnu the completed they would in itself result in a on percent gain in Canadas Gross National prod creating direct and indirect Man years of to be there Are the two ministers against these risks must be weighed the sub Stantial benefits of Carter said his country Energy requirements and the current unacceptable level of dependence on Oil imports require that the project be completed without there is a Strong feeling within the financial Community that Wash May have to provide Guaran tees for Loans to enable an american consortium to go ahead with the or that the three major Oil companies with prude Bay reserves be permitted equity involvement in the neither is possible under 1977 legislation dealing with the but in his letter Carter promised that he would be prepared at the appropriate time to initiate action before the Congress to remove any impede see Carter Page 4 getting Down to business it looks As if this Cowboy is beginning o get on top of things in the steer wrestling Competition at the Manitoba Stampede in Morris the Rodeo and fair continues until tenants concerns prevail by Ingeborg Boyens Public hearings on a government Bill to 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 m 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 opposition objects 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 hour before the Corn As scheduled after a unhappy with the proposed rent said a bomb would go off at no bomb was find in u search of the building by police and Security yesterdays presentations to the committee described the arbitration procedure Pic scribed by Bill Mav Hoth laughable and see rent Page 1 Bill to lift curtain of secrecy Fox surprises opposition with new Freedom information legislation by Carol Goar up news service Ottawa Secretary of state fran 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 und to examine his or her own personal onus on government in order to information from an the government would be required to prove first to the Satis faction of an Independent information then if to the 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 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 last 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 of formation Bill carefully prevented any possibility of a Messy court confront it i could not get the information he requested from the fed eral his Only recourse was to Appeal ins Case to a Federal Lap i hinted tie Edom of information com who Toukis recommend but not minister to Dis see opposition Page 4 double digit inflation Back 01 Taw a 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 of Only per cent a month the Index was 209 9 in up from 207 it m the a commonly used measure of shows that the same Basket of goods purchased fur in 1971 Cost Consumers in with that the purchasing Power of the Consumers Dollar was unchanged in june at 4h Down from Slot in while the yearly Overall consume i prut Rise now is More than 1u per cent the increase projected for by Lii Unce minister Allan Mac Lac Hen the latest Tigues Tor june that when food is Evi sided from Trie i lies Rose by per Down from 1 2 per cent in the previous on an annual inc Overall Uii Lex excluding food was up by 10 per with the exception of housing which on a yearly basis Rose by eight i tent Ana i per cent All other components in the show increases of mule thai to per with transp orillion Llu highest at per cent higher pikes Cir Tiesh fruit and vegetables smile meal and Puu c us contributed to the 27 Pel Ceil nut ease Iii the at Home Index i june mom ninth meanwhile the Index Tor food away from Home us leaded less sharply at 0 b 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 America 42 open Lead tied groups unite Lee trevo and Tom Watson conquered miserable conditions to share the first round Lead in the British open Golf 51 a lobby has been formed to protest the provincial governments plan to decontrol milk prices3 b c c i v c a j Doug to i ;