Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Drop in energy growth rate urged 9 O'Hagan diplomacy helps PM O'HAGAN 39 over airfares 42 Soviet 0 destroyer fails 18 Bomber camp opens 71 group faces first obstacle 3 TUESDAY SCORES BASEBALL National Leawie Philadelphia Pittsburgh S Hew York 6 Montreal 2 Cincinnati 5 Atlanta 3 St Louis 6 Chicago 0 Houston 5 Los Angeles 2 San Diego San Francisco 2 American Leatue California 7 Cleveland 6 Boston 5 New York 1 Detroit 5 Oakland 2 Minnesota 8 Baltimore 3 past 77 INSIDE Bridge Comics Crossword Deaths Finance For People Horoscope Jumble Movies 31 62 I i Ov LOOKING FOR A This want ad under Pets Registered salt and per male 9 months old after 4 p.m is among the hundreds ef bargains in today's section pages Mo matter what you need shop save with Free Press WEATHER REPORT FROM Advance Sunny low 8 high 22 Details page 5 Rises Sets p.m Rises p.m Sets Free Press VOL 84 204 WEDNESDAY JUNE 15 CENTS COLORED COMICS Aid to French outside Quebec Federal actions planned Free Press Correspondent OTTAWA Prime Minister Trudeau has agreed to set up a federal body to help the development of francophone groups outside Quebec An committee working out of the Privy Council is to propose a series of actions by this Trudeau told a press conference Tuesday The announcement came after a 1 meeting with officials of the federation of francophones from outside Quebec which speaks for about It has been urging federal action Federation president Donation Gaudet expressed over the plan saying the federal government was committed to his group's demand for a global policy for protection of francophone minority rights He rejected suggestions that there were political overtones in the government's decision to hand over the matter at least See FEDERAL page 4 Wagner attacks Quebec Free Press The latest Conservative Party dispute has escalated with MP Claude Wagner charging that a small Quebec mafia in the party had undertaken a vendetta against him Wagner member for St Tuesday lashed out at the party's Quebec and national presidents for him to explain why he failed to campaign in last week's federal byelections in Quebec The tandem of Lasalle and Meighen gave a show which reminded me of Ab- bott and Wagner exclaimed bitterly to ers Quebec president Roch salle MP for See WAGNER page 4 Not losing sleep Arctic drilling resumes soon OTTAWA CP eral is expected to announce today approval for the resumption of oil and natural gas exploration in the Beaufort Sea Northern Affairs Minister Warren Allmand said many elements of the decision ready have been approved but added there are still some loose ends He said these will be dered by some federal net colleagues and he hoped to to make an an- today Later under questioning in the Commons by T C las the New Democratic Party energy critic Allmand said his announcement will include the conditions that will be placed on northern drilling But the permit requires them to get approval again this spring before drilling could resume The ment has been under sure to reject the company requests until technology is available to better protect the environment A blowout in one well last summer released water and natural gas into the Beau- fort Environmentalists say the waters could have been polluted if the well struck oil instead of natural gas Allmand denied tions from Douglas that proval of drilling would be a desperate attempt to find enough gas to justify the Arctic Gas Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal Earlier this month a report on a study carried out by Mr Justice Thomas Berger of the British Columbia Court recommended that such a pipeline be de- layed for at least 10 years wt photo Jefferson Parish firefighters in New Orleans at a warehouse Tuesday At least six firefighters a lie on the ground gasping for breath after they were were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment but none overcome by heat and smoke from a giant chemical was seriously injured hi the Maze Store bid k fails By DAVID LEE Progressive Conservative failed in a last-ditch attempt Tuesday to convince the Manitoba government that its proposed holiday store closing legislation is unjust and discriminatory Daring a stormy debate in the legislature's law amendments committee the Conservatives made four tries to alter the proposed legislation all of them un- successful As well after tlie tion was approved by the committee and referred to the legislature for third and final reading an attempt to refer it to the Supreme Court of Canada was also defeated The legislation is con- in 18 the Retail Businesses Holiday Closing Act The new act will affect all stores with three or more employees including family members and part-time workers Under die act such stores will be required to close ther Saturday or Sunday with penalties for offenders ranging from a minimum of to The proposed legislation has easily been the most con- of the current Besides at- considerable cism from the tives the has also come under sharp attack by small store owners At Thursday's committee hearing L R Bud man Fort made four attempts to amend the legislation as it received approval from Despite heckling from members which at times led to angry outbursts and insults Sherman said the Tories could live with the act if their proposed ments were accepted The changes advanced by Sherman included reducing the range of fines to a mini- mum of and a maximum of increasing the ex- emption to exclude stores with less than seven ers and exempting any store actually owned by the retailer As well Sherman asked that store owners whose bath falls on Saturday be Concerned Waldheim raps 1 Rhodesia attack UNITED NATIONS Reuter Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim strongly condemned Rhodesia's armed strike into neighboring Mozambique and said Tuesday its troops must be withdrawn immediately without any conditions I am deeply concerned over the gravity and dimension of the latest violation of the territorial integrity of Mozambique by the armed forces of the illegal regime in southern he said in a statement issued a few hours after returning to New York from the North-South economic conference in Paris I strongly condemn this serious provocation which has dangerous consequences for the whole of the region The Salisbury government has said its operation which resulted in the capture of a town more than 40 miles inside Mozambique directed against camps used by black nationalist guerrillas battling for majority rule in Rhodesia Color the Jets blue A major Canadian ery is willing to provide a guarantee for some portion of the funds needed to put the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey sociation into the National Hockey League should NHL governors give the go-ahead for amalgamation of the two leagues Ed Bradley vice-president of marketing for Labatt Breweries of Canada Ltd said this week his company would seriously consider any proposal put forward by the Jets executive that would keep the team owned and still allow it to meet a proposed NHL entry fee estimated at lion Bob Graham Jets man said his organization would not attempt to ment any funding plans until the NHL formally decided to seek amalgamation and until the league clearly mined the price of entry NHL governors will deal with amalgamation at ings June 6 to 8 in Montreal In the meantime Graham said he was making various plans which cannot be dis- closed until an NHL decision comes down However he doubted at this point whether the Jets would need to take up the offer of rity Bradley said his company would be pleased to discuss with the Jets any guarantees needed from corporate See BREWERY page 4 In London to cover Queen Mrs Trudeau clicks with ABC By PAUL WASHINGTON deau has parlayed fe tus as estranged wife prime into an to cover Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee far a ed States network TV show She is in London taking pictures of the festivities and will appear on the ABC program Good Morning America in New York June 8 to a selection of her photos and comment on the event says ABC Tom Mackin We contacted Margaret to pear on the program as a news maker and she told us would be in London taking pictures It was her idea to do a photo journal on the said Mackin reached by tele- phone at his New York office He said the network has no plans to use Mrs Trudeau's journalistic con- on a regular basis As a celebrity she may have a different view of the said Mackin She may also have eatry to events that other journalists don't have In announcing the Trudeau's mari- tal separation Friday the prime office stated Margaret re- all privileges as the wife of the prime minister and wishes to the marriage and pursue an independent career Mrs Trudeau will be paid for her appearance and will pay her own expenses to fly the tic according to Mackin That's the standard union scale News reports of Mrs Trudeau's pending ABC appearance ed the immigration service to contact ABC to explain U.S gration laws but she will ly encounter no problem entering the U.S to do the show Although Mackin conceded that the PM's wife would be appearing to display her work as a he said the network considers that she is merely another celebrity guest for immigration purposes A U.S photo assignment for ple magazine in March prompted U.S immigration officials to inform the prime minister's office that Mrs Trudeau had apparently violated im- migration laws Her visits to the U.S are being closely watched However immigration official liam Henry Cook said in New York that Mrs Trudeau was taking photos in Britain and not in the U.S He said the precise immigration status under which Mrs Trudeau will travel was unclear but that she probably would not be barred from one appearance on Good ing America Despite statement that ABC anticipates regular role for Mrs Trudeau on the program Ann to Good Morning producer Weedy said in a telephone interview that there might be further appearances I would assume that if this don assignment went well she might do other things on the said Albright noting this had been the case with other celebrities Gallup Poll Liberal party popularity climbs another 3 points China buys wheat See STORE page 4 Latest results of a Gallup Poll taken early in May again show a small increase in the share of decided votes going to the Liberals up to 47 per cent from fte 44 per cent obtained in the April study This is the fifth month in a row that the Liberals have inched up while the sive Conservatives have slipped back The Conservatives held a 32 per cent share of decided voters the New Democrats 17 per cent and other parties four per cent Undecided voters dropped back to 31 per cent from the 39 per cent found in April May's results are in sharp contrast to those obtained last August when the PCs with a See LIBERAL page 4 Milk by the litre could cost more finally replaced by the smaller carton consumers could find paving more for the same amount of milk The price of a quart of milk today jumped four cents to 56 cents A litre of the same milk will cost 52 cents which represents a further increase of about cents This additional cents will be swallowed op by the dairies to pay for the cost of metrication Bat once the And when the quart carton is tbe price of milk probably BY STEVE Dairies in Winnipeg will scrap equipment worth thousands of lars next year when they go ric and milk consumers will have to pay for it Thousands of milk cases will be thrown out packaging machines will be modernized or scrapped and even truck boxes might have to be will go up again The dairies say it will cost more to put milk into litre cartons and so they will bly be asking the milk control board for yet another increase The ramifications of tion are a man for Modern Dairies one of the biggest milk processors in peg said Tuesday It's going to cost more to age the same volume of So the price has to go up The ence between a quart Isn't that msch bot ft is gone to take much longer to put the milk into cartons and that's why costs will he said Modern Dairies say they will have to throw between and milk cases which cost more than each because of The cases used for transporting milk to the stores are made to hold cartons and won't do for litre containers Plant such as the machine ther be or scrapped and new equipment brought in Silverwood Dairies officials said they will have to throw away about milk cases come metrication and that'll cost more than 000 as its cases cost apiece Manitoba Dairy and Poultry op estimates that metrication will cost it about The first litre of metric milk should be in Winnipeg stores by next March possibly sooner de- pending on bow quickly tte dairies can convert OTTAWA CP The wheat board an- Tuesday the sale of three million metric tons about 110 million bushels of wheat to China The new contract is in ad- dition to about 1.5 million tons sold to China last uary a statement said The value is estimated at million Shipments are to begin from Pacific Coast ports in the new crop year starting Aug l and continue through July 1978 The contract was negotiated by wheat board officials in Peking Otto Lang minister re- sponsible for the board said in the statement the latest sale ensures Canada's tion as China's main wheat supplier Canada shipped two lion tons of wheat to China during the 1976 calendar year Sates for 1377 have ready surpassed that
