Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Joe Louis dead at 66 Las vegas Nev. A former heavyweight boxing Champion Joseph Louis Barrow 66, who held the title for 12 years and ranked As one of history s greatest fighters died yesterday at his Home of cardiac he won the hearts of Louis s wife Martha and some immediate family members were with him when he died. Called the Brown bomber for his punch and string of knockout victories Louis was 23 when he won the title by knocking out 31-year-old James Braddock in the eighth round at Chicago in 1937. He had a 35-to-l record including 31 knockouts at the time he first won the heavyweight title. In 17 years As a Boxer he earned about million but had Little to show for it when he was through. He was a Host for Caesar s place in Las vegas at the time of his death. Dues proposal would unionize ads by Joe Rubin the Manitoba medical association is proposing to collect dues from All doctors in the province a move which in effect would turn the voluntary association into a Union. The proposal is contained in a series of six resolutions aimed at strengthening the association s collective bargaining position with the provincial government. Mma members Are expected to de Bate and vote on the resolutions at their annual meeting May 9. In a newsletter to the association s membership the Mma s executive committee says it is proposing the resolutions because it is dissatisfied with the history of collective beg Ging under medicare and the ineffective negotiations which have resulted in severe manpower Short Ages in Many specialities creating a serious decline in the availability of medical care the association s membership will be asked to direct the executive com Mittee to have All doctors in Manitoba recognized under specific Legisla Tion As employees in name Only to facilitate although the Mma is currently the profession s Only bargaining a gent ind negotiates with the Manitoba health services commission the resolutions ask the membership 10 authorize the association s executive to work toward enshrining that position in legislation. As Well the membership will vote on whether to direct the Mma to press the government to enact legis lation providing for binding arbitration in negotiation disputes. The use of binding arbitration to Settle bargaining stalemate was re commended by former supreme court Justice Emmett Hall in his medicare review last year. While most provincial medical associations have rejected binding arbitration the Mma has said it favors the idea. But the Pivotal Resolution Calls for All doctors to contribute to the Cost of negotiations by having the Misc de duct from their fees an amount equivalent to an Mma member ship a year to be forwarded to the association. About 1.300 of the doctors in the province belong to the Mma. Some non members Are not practice ing physicians but have academic or government positions. See dues Page 4 Clear tonight -15 sunny tomorrow 1 monday april free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . F final for Home delivery i 957-0550 or 942-2161 956-2330 one of four cottages and boathouses crushed by wind propelled sheets of Lake Manitoba ice at twin lakes Beach Friday. Cottages crushed by ice from Lake by Joe Rubin Winnipeg free press twin lakes Beach quickly and without warning the ice age re turned to this Interlake result Community Friday. Huge sheets of ice propelled by Strong Westerly winds Rose from Lake Manitoba crushing four cottages and baath uses. On saturday some cottage owners drove the 65 Kilometres from Winni Peg to see if they had been spared or. If nut to determine How Busy their summer weekends would be. My god my said a woman shaking her head As she inspected John Bourbonnais cottage. The ice had torn the dwelling from its foundation leaving a Gap Between the building and its Chimney. The roof above the Carport and Boathouse newly covered and trimmed with Vinyl last year was twisted out of shape. When i finished that roof last summer i said to my next door neigh Bor now 1 won t have any More work to said Bourbonnais smiling. Although the ice shifted the cot Tage and All but collapsed the Buat House. was fatalistic about the whole thing. Of Well c est la he said. Now i can Clear out the stuff i be been shoving underneath the his sister Lorraine Williams also accepted the situation. What can you she asked Bourbonnais. Even if anyone had been Here he could t have stopped it. Now you be got a project for All Spring and an insurance adjuster who visited the Beach saturday said it is unlikely that ice buildup is covered by sea Sonal dwelling insurance. Bourbonnais is confident he can Lalonde Leitch begin talks on new Oil Price agreement by Michael Doyle Federal Energy minister Marc la Londe entered a crucial round of bar gaining today with his Alberta counter part Merv Leitch but he won t offer the province a higher Price for its crude Oil according to one of Lalonde s senior advisers. The talks Are being held at the Winnipeg inn. Laroude said he is optimistic and flexible but Leitch said he does t expect much to come of today s talks the first since the oct. 28 Federal budget came Down which was followed by production cuts from Alberta. I m not optimistic. Largely because the spokesmen for Ottawa say the Energy policy must remain the Leitch said. Tinkering by Lalonde would not be Good enough he added. Laroude said unless Leitch is Here with some bargaining room he May be Correct in being pessimistic. Leitch arrived at the meeting this morning saying he has the authority of his Cabinet his caucus and his Premier to make a Deal. We Are Here to negotiate and 1 have authority of my Cabinet and caucus colleagues and Well find out in a Short while if or. Lalonde has the same he said. Well be Able to respond. We will have some matters to put on the Leitch would not be specific about what he would offer and Lalonde re fused to talk to reporters As the pair began their talks Over Perrier water in the hotel s bar. The bar has been closed to the Public. The Federal team decided not to offer Alberta its much desired increase in the Domestic Oil Price because it in tends to listen and find out whether Alberta has leeway to move from its Hartline stance the Federal official said. Price Only part of question Price is Only part of the Complex Energy question but it is the single Issue which carries the most political danger for the Federal liberals. The Domestic Price for crude Oil is a barrel and Alberta wants it closer to the world Price of about but the liberals were elected 14 months ago in part on the Promise of keeping Oil prices Down. Although they could raise them and still live up to the letter of their 1980 election pro Mises they would be betraying the general intent. Should the two Energy ministers reach a tentative agreement Federal officials believe both Leitch and la Londe would have to Clear the results with Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and prime minister Trudeau. There have been sporadic meetings Between Federal and provincial officials since october but no serious at tempts at the ministerial level to get Back to the bargaining table. Both ministers Are being accompanied by a delegation of officials including their Deputy ministers for this see Oil Price Page 4 have his cottage moved and repaired by summer s end. Hell Well have this thing rebuilt by fall. No doubt about he said. There s a Heck of a Good Bunch of Guys Here help me no prob yet Bourbonnais cottage emerged with Mere scratches compared to his next door neighbor Germaine grand Pierre 84, a widow who spends her Summers at twin lakes Beach. According to her neighbors the ice pushed the woman s cottage Back about six metres from its original site. Evidently the cottage did not move willingly. As a result the woman s living room has caved in. Gaping Hole in ceiling climbing on to the roof now level with the one can look through a gaping Hole in the ceiling and see furniture strewn about a Knickknacks Cabinet teetering at a Drunken Angle a vase balanced precariously on a shelf. Split Walls leak insulation. The front of Grandpierre s cottage with windows judiciously boarded to weather the Winter is now at an Angle of about 50 degrees to the ground. A Utility shed which stood in the dwell ing s Way when the ice moved in is tilted at a steeper Angle. This place is a total said one cottage owner snapping a picture of destruction arbitrarily determined by the direction of the wind. Down the lakefront John Andrich his wife Sou and daughter in Law worked at extracting an aluminium boat from a Boathouse which col lapsed under the weight of the ice. We be been Here for 28 said Andrich. It s the first time the ice has come up so High the first time the Boathouse has been Lake ice is beguiling. We were Here last sunday and everything was said Williams. It looked so innocent out there on the hike so space shuttle performing beautifully Cape canaveral Fla. A rocket ship Columbia sailing along like a Champ in its first fight was under going extensive tests today before its pilots begin tomorrow s Glide to Earth concluding a Mission that thrust the United states Back into the space race. The vehicle is performing Jusi beautifully much better than anyone Ever expected on the first John Young the space shuttle commander reported yesterday. It s performing like a said his Crew mate Robert Crippen. In 55 the spacemen relayed their Praise during a four minute telecast beamed to shuttle control in Houston nine hours after Columbia vaulted spectacularly off its launch pad at Cape canaveral the Maiden flight of the world s first reusable spaceship was billed As a test flight and Young and Crippen were to make some of those tests today. Noth ing glamorous like Landing on the Moon. Just dogged checking and re checking of All the systems As they did yesterday after launch. From the moment of the fiery on time liftoff Columbia was almost a flawless machine bothered by Only a few niggling problems. A remarkable recovery for a Craft that Only a few months ago critics were calling such unflattering things As space Turkey and aluminium Columbia had fallen two years behind schedule bedevilled by technical troubles with its main engines and Thermal tiles. The three powerful engines were perfect yesterday. A handful of the sn.922 tiles were shaken off by the stress of launch but officials of the National aeronautics and space administration said the gaps were in nun critical areas and posed no threat to the Crew or the spaceship. Neil Hutchinson. First shift flight director at shuttle control said the i i to 15 tiles that were ripped away or damaged apparently were hit by j Shock wave As the Craft barrelled up through the atmosphere. The tile dam age was discovered when the Astro nauts televised a picture of the Tail Section to the ground. He said the missing tiles designed to protect Columbia from re entry heat. Were on top of the spaceship and would not be affected by thai heat the Are not worried about any other tiles work ing he said. As a precaution. Nasa asked the . Air Force to photograph the space ship s Underbelly with its High Resolution satellite tracking camera s at Cape canaveral and in Hawaii. Tomorrow. Young and Crippen will Fly the 80-Tun Columbia Back to each. With a wheels Down Landing scheduled. See spacecraft see Page race riots devastate District of London London Reiner one thousand police sunday night fought to contain renewed violence in the South London District of Brixton where weekend riots predominantly by Black youths have left scenes of devastation unparalleled since the second world War. Home Secretary William Whitelaw will make a statement to parliament today after a visit sunday to the area Britain s biggest West Indian Community race relations Scotland Yard has begun its own investigation into the cause of the riot ing in which More than 200 policemen have been injured. London police chief sir David Mcneic has said the trouble May have been provoked by outside agitators. Rampaging youths mostly Black but with some Whites among them sunday night attacked shops with gasoline bombs overturned and burned cars and looted shops. Police crouching behind plastic riot Shields faced barrages of gasoline bombs bottles and stones As they at tempted to disperse the youths. More than fill people were arrested and 50 injured of them police and 21 civil ians. But the authorities said the scale of violence was Rait so great As on Satur Day night when almost people including ifi5 police were injured and Hili people arrested. After his tour through the re Ibie strewn streets of Bri Tim. Who thaw said his reaction was extreme and he had seen numerous Bui Dingi burned to the ground shops burned out and looted and dozens of burned and overturned vehicles. Suggestions that the riots were started by agitators were rejected by Community leaders sunday. They Aid the violence was not aimed at while Ami was provoked by police harassment of Blacks. A local Church vicar. Rev. Bob told reporters if the police would out of Here the whole thing would fade tension in Britain s Black and asian immigrant communities has been run Ning High since riots in a Black area in Bristol a year ago. A slogan daubed on a Brixton Wall said Bristol yester Day Brixton Many politicians and leaders blame the latest trouble Oil Britain s worst recession since the 1930s, with its soaring rates of unemployment and resulting frustration fur Young people. Courtenay Laws a Black Leader in Brixton. Told reporters there can be no question of what has gone wrong i was the culmination of issues of frustration unemployment alienation and confrontation with the habs swept out oilers stun their Edmonton fans As Well As Montreal canadians with a three game sweep in the first round of the nil up to scratch the body work Quality of pm s highly touted a cars May not be As High As the company had claimed a pm report hard times As if working mothers Don t have it Tough enough a rising tide of conservative opinion is making it harder on China shift China s ideological winds have shifted toward conservatism after a period of relative Raissez Faire that began after Mao s Index 29 35 30 t 1 38 7 s3 30 2. 38 Tali totals. Letters entertainment Horoscope Jumble Puzzle Molob. Poo Plu. Relax. Sports. Sports record stocks. Tempo. To listings. Zhion. T ;