Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 1, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Okies Oli The Please See Page 26 Canadas Leading Rotogravure Magazine OUR JUDGE Supremo Court fudge Becoming A National Hero Page 2 BOB BLAIRS PIPELINE A Reluctant Hero To Canadian Page 6 NDP PRIEST The Only Freshman New Democrat Jn Parliament Page 10 SKI TEAM REPORT This Years Coal A Breakthrough for The Men Page 18 AND IN THE Edition 82 132 15 CENTS We WITH COLORED COMiCS SATURDAY MARCH 1975 am pm BECOMING SUNNY 40 JM I i i is Moonrise Moonset Egypt Feuds BOOST FOR CHEESE Guerrillas Grow With Arab Wheat Board t Requests Music 3 Home Safety 6 Meeting a Need 7 Winnipeg In the 10 London Identity of the 10 Washington Increasing Difference Predicted 11 Disturbing Opinions Voiced 11 Now You See Now You Dont 13 Ottawa A Success Story 14 Choosing a University President 14 Medicine Brochure Disconcerting 15 Boneless 15 REGULAR FEATURES Word 2 Herron 4 4 It Happened 5 5 Collectors 7 Church 9 16 Over the Garden 16 Chickadee Notes 17 Art 17 Now 19 21 22 Environment 22 23 AND ELSEWHERE IN THE PAPER Color Radio Diary Jumble Winners 8 Entry Form 18 Puzzle 49 By JIM HOAGLAND BEIRUT The Palestinian guerrilla lead has moved into open conflict with Egyptian Pres dient Anwar Sadat over United States Secretary of State Henry current Middle East peace and is trying to rally Arab opinion against Reacting angrily to Pales Separate Bridge News Classified 45 to SB Comics Letters 28 Deaths Finance Labor Scene 19 28 to 43 Movies Sports Travel Women 84 8 69 to 75 77 to 80 29 to 32 28 SUBWAY DISASTER Death Toll Rises To 31 LONDON AP Rescue tea m s today found more bringing the death toll in Londons worst subway di saster to But the fire bri gade said the total dead could reach Hopes of finding else alive faded away after all the survivors were out of the crumpled commuter Officials said more persons may have died in the first three coaches of the train than was originally The station exit was at the front coach and officials believed the lead car of the train was likely packed with The front half of that car was literally flattened by the a rescue official Its been squashed into mass of metal only about two or three feet Police said 16 bodies had been recovered from the twist ed metal and that at least 15 still were buried in the subway Asper Says Adieu 50 feet under Moorgate Station in Londons financial A rescue official announced As far as we can tell theres no one left alive in the Eighty injured persons were brought out of the front three About 90 were injured al Please See SUBWAY Page 6 Hinted By PHILIP GEYELIN JERUSALEM Special Yitz hak Rabin has outlined a strat egy for removing the threat ol war in the Middle East that concentrates almost exclusive ly on a separate settlement with Egypt and in al least some of its important the approach of tian President Anwar If there is any real hope to bring about a change towards it depends on what wil je done in the Rabin said in an interview in which he also rejected the idea of a defence pact with the United ruled out an Israeli retreat from the Golan Heights even in the context of a peace treaty with and dismissed the prospect of an early settlement with Jor dan or the Palestinian Libera tion Rabins heavy and ex tended emphasis on prospects for a separate interim settle ment with Egypt offers the most explicit evidence yet of an Israeli approach to the cur rent Middle East peace effort that is most calculated to arouse deep divisions in Arab Please See SEPARATE Page 6 Man suggestions he was being tricked by Kissinger nto making a separate settle nent with Israel that would ig i o r e the Sadat refused Thursday night meet with a del that the Palestine Lib ration Organization PLO proposed to send to The in re alled its two top represent from and a lead ing PLO officials said the present atmosphere is not con to a dialogue with the b r o Mi e r s in Beirut newspapers reported Please See EGYPT Page 6 Concessions On Tariffs TORONTO CP Canada gained major concessions on tariffs for its traditional ex ports of aged cheddar cheese under an agreement signed with the European Common federal Trade Minister Alastair Gillespie said Under the we expect that our traditional trade with the United Kingdom in cheddar cheese will be re Gillespie said in an Me was commenting on Hie agreement announced earlier in the day by Prime Minister Trudeau in The Gillespie gave details of the agreement that on a tour of Common Market discussed only in a general The minister said here that Canada got three things from the tariff agreement negotiated after tough bargaining to com Canadians or o f traditional trading rights when Denmark and Ireland joined the Common He said the Canadians re preferential tariff treat ment in cheddar and Please See TARIFFS Page 6 By KEN POLE OTTAWA CP The Cana dian wheat board is calling for higher and oilseed acreages in the 197576 crop year to meet expected market but at the same time is keeping initial payments re low because of uncer tain economic Otto minister responsi ble for the said Friday that acreages of all but two of the crops should increase substantially this He called on farmers to sow 26 million acres of in million of The total is up 12 per cent over Likely Face Labor Law Change By MARY ANN FITZGERALD Free Press Legislative Reporter Widespread changes in the provinces labor laws may be introduced at the second ses sion of the Manitoba le which opens Proposals stemming from submissions to the government of labor and organizations ast years million hich included three million oii But the initial price for heat remains at a bush the same as the previous wo crop because the resent uncertain world eco lomic outlook makes detailed srice forecasts now more dif than The initial price is the mini mum farmers are guaranteed or crops delivered to elevator agents after the start if the 197576 crop Lang that he initial price may be boost ed by an interim payment ater in the crop as hap in previous years when prospects Then there is a final payment once sales been complet He expects farmers to million acres of up six per cent over The initial price for 2 quality is a Oat plantings should be million up 25 per cent rom the previous and he initial price for 2 West ern barley is a Please See MORE Page 20 The Lamb Comes Marching In iiy a number management lave been summarized in a paper circulated to provincial cabinet It is considered likely the changes widely en by the will be incorporated into pro posed amendments to the Man Labor Relations the Employment Standards Act and the Vacations With Pay Sweeping new powers for the provincial labor board come as It has been suggested these might include the necessity of the boards consent before an conditions during negotiations exclusive jurisdiction in unfair labor and possibly a clause to make rulings of the board final and not subject to review by the Also possible is a require ment for 50 per cent of em ployees to demonstrate their desire instead the present 35 per cent before certifi cation is Amendments to reduce to 40 Please See LABOR Page 6 The switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius temperature readings begins officially April Please see story and conversion chart on March came in like a lamb today in with fairly light winds and temperatures pretty well in line with the balmy days of the past if that proverb which March will gp out like a lion if it comes in like a lamb has any validity at look for some turbulent weather as March fades into This the Winnipeg weather office predicted a pretty fair with cloud expected to clear this after expected to be sunny with little change in Todays temperature was ex to dimb to 15 above from an overnight low of three the low is to be about 10 below and the high tomorrow about 15 above A northwest wind at 15 miles per hour was forecast for Please See LAMB Page 6 Consul Slain Argentina The body of honorary Unit ed States consul John Patrick Egan was found Friday night in a suburban Cordoba residen tial area shot several times through the Argentine newspaper sources A band of guerrilla kidnappers abducted af The sources said the body was found near a flag and standard of the Montonero the group that ab ducted In State Secretary Henry Kissinger called the killing a senseless and despicable crime which shocks the sensibilities of all civilized Kissinger declared in a state ment We are sure those re sponsible be found and brought to Kissinger said this murder should again signal to the com munity of civilized nations the necessity o f concerted and firm action to combat the con menace of Marchand Has Second Thoughts Probe Demands Brushed Aside After fighting victory out oi two election campaigns in Wol Izzy Asper resigned the provincial legislature scat Fri and the party nominated DArcy McCaffrey to try to re lain the seat for the a employer could alter working was the only I candidate nominated by about 75 people attending the meet ing Friday night in Ihc West minster Motor He expressed concern over government penetration i n our and suggested no body would accuse him of op for coming forward LOOKING FOR AN ITALIAN SOFA This want ad under Furni ture 64 ITALIAN 3 white gold is among the hundreds o bargains in todays classi fied No matter what you shop and save in Free Press want By PETER THOMSON Free Press Correspondent OTTAWA Transport Minis ter Jean Marchand Friday brushed off opposition demands Sch in the Liberal The party holds only three seals in the leader of the Lib eral party in Manitoba until last first captured Wolseley from the Progressive Conservatives in a and retained it by an ex tremely narrow margin over the New Democratic Party in the 1973 provincial general In a farewell to the ency he outlined Please See ASPER Page 20 reyer Hits Plea For Oil Price Hike Premier Ed Schreyer of Manitoba said in Fri day he isnt convinced that Canada needs another increase in the price of crude and that he sees no reason for an other increase to come from the April first ministers meet ing on oil He said he went along with an increase to from a barrel last year but he said he probably wont support an other such increase this Premier Peter Lougheed of Alberta has said he will ask the conference for another price and although he has declined to specify the amount of the increase it is as he will seek a rise to the world price level of a He will probably accept a price of about a barrel if other ministers balk as expect I know all the said who is in Calgary on a This time I feel that a case has to be made as to why Please See SCHREYER Page 6 Munro In Hospital OTTAWA CP Labor Minister John Munro was ad milled lo the National Defence Medical Centre hospital here Thursday and will spend the weekend in a spokes man Cor his office said Friday Munro is suffering from and the spokesman The labor under heavy fire in House of Commons recently because of allegations in connection with a Hamilton harbor dredging was described by fellow Please Sec MUNRO Page 6 for a nation wide public into dredging contracts award ed by the federal government He also had second about which he said had launched the inquiry into Hamilton harbour and Lawrence dredging Marchand stated on Thurs day he would table the let Ht had told the Com during heated question that I am the one in January two years ordered the RCMP to inquire into alleged Hamilton ir The same is true for the Quebec part oC Ihc I can produce the al any Please See DEMANDS Page 6 Airline Executive Resigns Following An Investigation was quoted as saying he has not yet made a mortgage payment on the Ar Debt Revealed MONTREAL CP A former top aide to Premier Robert Bourassa told a MONTREAL The Gazette says Yves Menard resigned Friday night as o f marketing for personal reasons follow ing an investigation by the newspaper into several trans actions he made with a Bar bados holiday The newspaper says Menard purchased a villa in Barbados in and signed a million airline ren tal contract with the holiday resort where the villa is locat ed 1 months The Gazelle quotes inquiry Friday he was ard as saying in a recent inter view the signing of the agree ment was not connected with the purchase of the My buying properly in the Barbados has nothing to do with the other the news paper quotes him as asked to lake responsibility for a political campaign debt owed by Pierre the Quebec labor minister slain by terrorists in the 1970 Oc tober Please See 20 villa and as saying he is surprised the owners are not pressing my The newspaper says Sunset Crest the owners of the have records showing an down payment was made on the home May 19 No subsequent mortgage payments are indicated on the the Gazette Two months an Air Canada subsidiary negotiated the first of three leases for apartment and villa elation at the the news paper It quoted Mcnard as say ing he is willing to pay Hit back mortgage and interest When I get Ill get one Continued Please See AIRLINE Page 20 Unlikely By ALICE KRUEGER Free Press Legislative Reporter A special legislative commit tee after holding eight hear i n g s and considering more than 50 briefs has failed lo come up with any conclusive recommendations regarding foreign ownership of farm land in The met Friday lo draft the report it will make lo the Manitoba legislature this session while it agreed on five none deals specifically with foreign As Min ister Samuel nothing new will happen as a result of the committees re The to reach any real conclusions on the subject would virtually rule out any possibility of tion this session dealing with foreign The major recommendation was that the committee be al lowed to continue its The others were That the government con sider the need for land use leg The government consider Ihc effect of taxation on farm land and how it relates to farm The government change the system of land lilies regis tration lo provide more accu rate and complete information See OWNERSHIP 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