Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 26, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Battle To Save Please See 74 Winnipeg Free Press Final Edition VOL. 82 NO. 129 15 20c WITH COLORED COMICS FEBRUARY 26, 1975 Sunrise a.m. p.m. Moonrise p.m. a.m. 0 and 25 Union To Remove Pickets Thursday Striking members ol Public Service ance of Canada attempt prevent a truck from leaving the Post Office on Graham nue Wednesday morning Sixteen couriers re- fused to cross the picket Ine but the remaining Clears Stumbling Block Tax Debate Ending By CINNY GALT OTTAWA The massive income tax was expected to move quickly to final parliamentary approval today or Thursday now that Ihe Liberal government has cleared the in a j o r opposition stumbling Defeat Tuesday night of a Progressive Conservative which would have delayed implementation of the contentious resource tax signalled an effective end to debate on the 287-page Remaining stages of Com- mons Senate approval and royal assent were ed to follow Rebates for 1974 income tax returns cannot be mailed until the an amalgam of sures contained in Finance Minister John Turner's Nov. 18 is Thousands of rebate cheques are piled up in the revenue The defeated in- last Friday by Alvin 84 drivers picked up mail as Winnipeg police were on hand to ease the The post office reported mail disruptions at several postal stations in the PLOT STRATEGY Increase Hinted In U.S. Oil Price Arabs Alleged WAi Two influential ish said Tuesday that A oil nations are suring United States tions discriminate against Jews Israel and called on the Ft and Hamilton to ban such JOHN M. GOSHKO The 3 Organization of oleum Exporting Countries hinted Tuesday night that declining value of the U n P d States dollar might caus it change its present p. of calculating oil prices in a way that would mean r costs for consumers in the i inl was given by Moose would have delayed implementation of the federal resource tax until after the energy conference in All tion parties favored the which was ed 107 to 77. Please See TAX Page 4 Bit P Jumps By DAVID LEE Free Press Staff Writer owners in toba must pay as much as 96 per cent more for their lopac insurance this year way it is The League of charged in New York that at least six U.S. cor- p o r a 1 i n s including the Chase Bank and two the Private Investment Corp. and the Army Corps oj have ready to Arab pressure to Jews and the Jewish Mite from various The four of the other live corporations and OPIC all denied the The corporation could not i The A c r i c a n Jewish at a news called for passa -e tion and said a shid Iran's interior minister and chief delegate to following a meeting here of oil ministers from the countries that jointly produce 85 per cent the world's ex- port In one of the cryptic and seemingly contradictory ments that are characteristic of the way in which OPEC does Mr. first said that the price set for crude oil in December one that now has a barrel of crude selling at slightly less than would remain fixed through the first nine months of this in the next Mr. attached a big to that statement by a new subject has come and that is the sharp de- cline in the This is an entirely new and we're going too have to discuss The effect was to leave open the question of whether prices will indeed remain stable through or whether U.S. consumers can expect another jump in the price of such petroleum products as gasoline and heating The price of oil already has more than quadrupled since the war of t o b e r 1973, triggered the world wide energy Nor did Mr. give any real indication of when this question might be an- He going to talk about perhaps tomorrow I Content Rules Not Acceptable Won't Acquire Time Picketing at certain letter carrier depots is holding up delivery of old age security according to Frank H. post office cheques were sent out to the depots in readiness for delivery he now they are lying there awaiting delivery to But they will be Frank alliance said at press was not intended we should delay old age pension We didn't know they were for delivery kets will be lifted Thursday at all stations so that the cheques will be delivered to This was to include the main post Mr. Nokes said the area depots picketed Station Q at Westwood Shopping 3340 Portage where 23 of 26 letter carriers refused cross lic Service Alliance of Canada picket lines Station 50 Willow where one carrier out of 32 refused to cross picket A carrier depot at Pembina Fort where eight of 24 carriers re- fused to cross picket The 20 grain and samplers who are also members of the alliance and Please See PICKETING 4 Cambodian Aid Kissinger Congress Urged To Approve Extra Military Support WASHINGTON President Ford and Secretary Kissinger of State Tuesday the imminent collapse of SCHREYER ADMITS Error Seen In Planning By JEFF CARRUTHERS Free Press Correspondent OTTAWA Canada's largest couriers who newspaper group has any plan of acquiring an interest in issue of Time and perhaps using Time as the basis for a new weekly news magazine with more Canadian content as well as Canadian R. S. president of FP said Tuesday that the government's latest proposals concerning the type of content required for Tima to remain classified as a an publication under the In- come Tax Act has killed any FP interest in the news a dead issue as far as we are Mr. who is also publisher of the Globe and Toronto and chairman of the Winnipeg Free While FP had preliminary discussions with Time officials last year on the there are no such negotiations or dis- cussions now nor are any Mr. Malone said in a Toronto terms just aren't cept a b 1 e The government would be controlling the news content and telling people what they can in the something that wouldn't bode well for the Canadian drive the red post office trucks refused to pick up mail at the main post office on ham Mr. Nokes said the remaining 84 drivers were picking up mail and making Mr. Nokes because the 1G weren't it meant the industrial areas of St. Inkster industrial Fort By BUB is attempting to get Free Press Staff business and Premier Ed Schreyer of Manitoba admitted Tuesday his enterprises established at Fort much of which has been ment had in of its buildings are up tempting to rehabilitate lenders to bo removed Gimli air base and save the site or badly needed jobs for the don't find it easy admit the pre- He referred specifically the government's heavy ourselves trying to cial involvement in the Gimli The Aircraft Corporation in Churchill is different and Misawa Homes of I want to caution you trying to bring in ar- The premier's remarks made to the Churchill Continued development See ERROR Page 4 K 1 H 9 b o i a unless Congress proves an additional Henry A. lion in military aid within the predicted next several IK an apparently ed campaign to mount political pressure on both Mr. Ford and Dr. Kissinger warned that without a continued flow of adequate United States sistance Cambodia will run out of ammunition within a month and subsequently fall to Com- munist Mr. Ford delivered his bleak appraisal of the Cambodian crisis in a letter to House Speaker Carl Albert D v Kissinger immediately reinforced the president's position with an equally gloomy evaluation of the Southeast Asia situation at press Please See CAMBODIAN Page 4 and St. Boniface t receive mail wouldn veries Facilities were arranged for firms to pick up their mail at the nearest postal Please See OIL Page 4 Please See WON'T Page 4 it is will be introduced within the few weeks by friendly of The indicated it has decided what it anything do about the which be explosive either they want to maintain the they had in 1974. Secretai yf State Henry A. to assurances from an- his I o p a c officials that cyclist faced no premium in- crease this a rate chart just given to insurance shows coverage comparable 1974 to be much more For owners of 1970- 74 motorcycles in the 501 to 750 class paid last year for age that included Please Sec PREMIUMS Page 4 the By PAUL WHITELAW Free Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Falling beef prices in Canada have prompted Canadian officials to propose a new meeting with the United States aimed at ending the so-called As prices nearing the lower American the quotas Ottawa imposed last gust to keep cheaper U.S. beef from flooding Canadian kets are no longer estimates that dian prices might plunge below Please Sci Page 6 U.S. level by this summer would make it highly for Canadian farmers if Ottawa's the quotas imposed by ington re- The Canadian proposal for a new meeting to discuss the was confirmed Tuesday by officials here and in They pointed out no date for the talks had been although it is likely a meeting would take place the officials were guarded in talking about what results a meeting might Please See BEEF Page 6 Indian Cancels Visit NEW DELHI Foreign Minister Y. 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Chavan today cancelled a projected visit to the United States to protest Washington's lifting of a 10-year arms embargo on At the same time Prime Minister Indira Gandhi the U.S. of using en arguments to justify its de- cision to resume arms sales to Chavan was to inaugurate with U.S. State Secretary Henry Kissinger on March 13-14 a joint commission de- signed to strengthen U.S. the the present circum- foreign minister will not be able to go to said a foreign Foreign ministry sources said it was that the joint commission will not meet as scheduled in view of the dis- pute over arms to Mrs. Gandhi's decision to keep Chavan away from the projected meeting marks a serious setback to which were just be- ginning to warm up following Please See INDIAN Page 6 Unveiled By KATIE Free Press Staff Writer Confidentiality o f medical exploded as a red records was and Tuesday night by a panel dis- cussion at the Manitoba is no Dr. Michael director of the University of Manitoba computer ment for health fallibility of humans the general public a prime consideration in the reporting of communicable he The problem with central does not permit fed system of any maintaining Dr. Saunders said there is an automatic con- between making computer information and keeping it The rights of the community may individual con- for the benefit of data is The tion may be and that could damage the individual or the information might fall into the hands of someone who deliberately uses it to cause Dr. Fred chairman of the medical staff at the Health Sciences said tiality doesn't exist within the health Once an vidual is admitted to right to privacy is given up His medical charts and mation are available to anyone Please See MEDICAL Page 4 Abortion Split Hinted OTTAWA president of the dian Medical says she hopes a letter from prime minister Trudeau saying tal abortion committees have latitude in deciding when abortions arc in order sents slap on the to Justice Minister Otto Dr. called a news conference Tuesday to release correspondence she exchanged with the prime minister last fall and this She has had a running feud with Mr. Lang who takes a strict view of Canada's tion He ordered hospitals in the Yukon and the Please See Earlier Story on Page 21 By VICTOR Free Press Staff Correspondent OTTAWA Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Finance Minister John Turner rose to the defence of cabinet col- league Labor Minister John Munro when he came under sharp questioning during a Derailed Train Looted THUNDER BAY The says a CNR freight tra was looted of fruit clothing be- FOR This want A ad under Pets 3 ORPHAN PHONE 253-OJ04. is among the hundreds of bargains in today's fied No matter what you shop and save in Free Press want to hi million worth nearly which nine-day period with the 200 persons a day were making participation of their way through the bush to No cause has raid the been determined for the it went off the were coming from occurred early a i over j Tracks 150 cast of here two weeks x In a the The eastbound train left cd as a The newspaper says the CNR is investigating i never seen reports of j M Root fe t. post are I turning over 24 cars con- newspaper joy numerous bags i tracks 17 miles east of Mr. Root guarded the of mail also in centres hav nd postmasters i h e r n Ontario empty mail bags miles from the derailed The says the goods were cs ried off over a t a i n i n g dressed dry two horses and The newspaper quotes CNR special agent George Root as saying that after word spread of the as many as cars for nine days and found bound for Ot- been Gilbert CNR master at is quoted as saying he was threatened Please See DERAILED Page 4 TODAY Letters 3S, 39 You And The Law 25 Tax Tips 30 Classified 72, 73 Deaths 6 Finance 67 to 71 Jumble 48 Movies 35 Sports 61 to 66 Television 34 Women 21 to 24 NEARLY EVERYONE READS the FREE PRESS Cily Total west Territories last October not to take social or economic factors into account in deciding when abortions are The law says committees of physicians in hospitals may abortion when nancy endangers the life or health of a Prime Minister Trudeau's Dec. 16 letter says he does not favor a strict definition of the word health because wants to leave latitude for hospital abortion committees to make just decisions in the in a n y borderline or unique cases which inevitably will arise in the course of a com- The seems at variance with Mr. Lang's stormy exchange in the stephenson was mons Opposition members probed into what references if any had been made to Mr. Munro ing the lengthy preliminary hearing of the Hamilton bor fraud and conspiracy Allan Lawrence asked if the labor minister h a d any indication as to whether he might be called as a witness in the criminal trial that will eventually take Please See MUNRO Page 4 Under Fire By BOB DOUGLAS OTTAWA Three are on the political firing line because of i n g scandals about marine dredging contracts in the St. Lawrence River near City and the harbor at j I The issue provoked a of tense exchanges Tuesday for I the second day running in the Labor Minister John official in lhc MP for Hamilton camel revealed Testifies MONTREAL Andre a former senior views it as a for Please See ABORTION Page 0 asked if she on the under close opposition Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tried to cut off t i o n i n g and defended Mr. In Premier Robert Please See GOVT. Page 4 little Tuesday about the in- dustry and his personal fortune when he testified at a ment 44, the former union official described by pre- vious witnesses as the Please Sec BUILDING Page 6 Food Money Wasted OTTAWA The cery bills for most families are up to a third higher than yet many ly the Food Prices Review Board said In a 41-page report on the cost of nutritious the board said a ly can buy enough food for a basically sound diet for about a year but now is ing about The the 20th since it was set up in to oversee rising food said that despite sharply rising people can have better diets for bss It proposed eight dations for government and Please See FOOD Page 4
