Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rent rebates held luck 23 MI Tax rebel alleges intimidation The bad aspects ef reform 38 Manitoba's rosy 51 f 34 1 1 34 Far People WEATHER REPORT Cloudy low 12 high 22 Mi Jf f Winnipeg Free rress WEDNESDAY JULY CENTS MOTH COLORED COMICS FINAL EDITION Food prices push inflation rate to 9 2 higher food prices mainly for beef once again pushed up the inflation rate in June It now is at its highest level so far this year Statistics Canada reported today The inflation rate in June was 9.2 per cent up from nine per cent in May The consumer price index the generally accepted measure of in- rose by of one per cent in June This follows a increase in May Supermarket prices for beef cuts were up by 11.1 per cent in the month and now are 70.3 per cent more expensive than a year ago the government agency says Fresh fruit prices increased especially for apples but prices for fresh vegetables were lower because higher potato prices were more than offset by seasonal de- clines for lettuce and tomatoes Fresh fruit prices are nearly 39 per cent higher now than a year ago Pork cost more last month than in May and in three of the western dairy product prices rose Housing costs increased mainly for homeowners accounting for most of the price increase in items other than food Statistics Canada said Prices for some cars were up as well as for certain clothing train and inter-city bus fares The consumer price index stood at 175.1 in June compared with 173.6 in May and 160.3 in June last year That means a standard basket goods and services that cost in June was ued at in May and a year ago The sharp rise in consumer prices comes as the government is gram The controls imposed in October 1975 were only partly effective on food prices at any time because they applied only to processors and distributors The government now is con- ducting an inquiry to determine whether unfair profit margins are being earned by the processing and distributing part of the food industry In 1973 when food prices started rising dramatically the food prices review board was set up to See INFLATION page 4 Four escape Quebec jail Prisoner guard die in shootout Open idea refused The Winnipeg Police has scoffed at the idea of opening Winnipeg lice commission disciplinary hearings But Lome Leech lor and commission man said he is optimistic the association which is the ne- body for the city's policemen will see the light and eventually decide to allow the secret ings to be held in public The objection was made through association lawyer R A Gallagher in a letter made public during a com- meeting Tuesday Gallagher's letter was written in response to ments made by Leech after a commission meeting last month that the city's legal department would meet with association representatives to discuss eliminating a clause in the city's contract with the association ing complaint bearings to be closed In his letter Gallagher said the association objected to Leech's remarks The letter Burned out cars lie in a parking area of the campsite near Tarragona sion Tuesday A runaway truck loaded with industrial gas exploded in on Spain's Mediterranean coast which was destroyed by an the campsite engulfing hundreds of campers in flames 135 feared dead Explosion flike giant flame TARRAGONA Spain AP It was like a giant flame thrower said a French woman who survived when tank truck loaded with in a killed between 125 and 135 persons police reported More than 200 other campers wore were author y to associate and that wish u vacationers hc on your Leechs B va w of seems to have replaced m from countries Many of the bodies were burned beyond recognition and identification was difficult The campsite resembles hell or what we think hell is said one policeman working amid the charred remains of automobiles campers and tents The permanent campsite is one of a score along the popular COM a Brava The explosion blackened more than 160 acres and was heard four kilometres away Earlier reports put the death toll at near 200 Officials blamed the higher estimate on great confusion Vincente Mirabel the head of a burn treatment unit at a Valencia hospital said 40 victims were ted there and most were in critical condition I don't think many will hc said Police at noon put the death toll at 11.9 and said half a dozen persons were missing Police said the truck was loaded with n metres of gas when it left the way while rounding a curve crashed through a stone fence and exploded Witnesses said the truck was going about 65 kilometres an hour when the driver lost control The blast set off a chain of sions as campers bottled cooking gas blew up No trace of the Spanish MONTREAL CP Four prisoners escaped from the Laval Institute Tuesday after a shootout which left two persons dead and another four wounded Police set up road blocks around the city in an attempt to corner Andre Chartrand 23 Jacques Massey 36 Ghislain Gaudet 27 and Pierre Vincent 35 all considered extremely dangerous They were still on the loose late Tuesday night Killed in the shootout were Guy Fournier 29 a guard at the prison and Jean Lachapelle 41 who was serving a term for armed robbery Gerald Marineau regional director of operations for the federal penitentiary service said Lachapelle was bly shot by one of the escapees in the heat of battle Tuesday's breakout began at p.m on the second floor of the administration building when five prisoners were being led to the visiting area for a ing with their caseworkers They were armed with makeshift steel rods and al least one had a pistol which he fired at a guard near the entrance to the visiting area The four who made the break forced prison nel to take them to the lower floor A brief gun battle ensued in which Fournier and chapelle were instantly killed Wounded were guards Marc Drouin 22 Richard Holland 28 and Gaston 18 Another prisoner was also wounded said Marineau but authorities could not provide details Ail the wounded were listed in satisfactory condition Following the gun battle the escapees fled through the main entrance and sprinted across the parking lot outside the wall Dodging gunfire from guard towers they seized Jean a resident of Chicoutimi Que a visitor al the prison and ordered him to speed away in his Toyota Corolla was later released unharmed near Montreal's downtown Paratroops to Danson See EXPLOSION page 4 After the meeting Leech labelled the letter typical Gallagher adding that hc expected as much He said the city's legal department hasn't talked to the tion formally yet because some members were on cation Leech said it is always to negotiate something out of a contract The move to the meetings comes after a ries of Free Press articles on Northern communities take illegal TV network By BOB LOWERY LYNN LAKE Man Residents here and in two other Northern Manitoba communities have decided to go ahead with an alternative television network despite the knowledge it's illegal and the probable opposition by the closed meetings The Canadian and documented 12 instances of Commission brutality allegations dealt The three communities Lynn Lake Leaf with secretly by the Rapids and Gillam until recently only sion viced by CBC have joined the The police department's Northern Access Network which operates 22 internal investigation unit other stations in Ontario processed 143 complaints Saskatchewan and the Northwest against members in in- tones eluding 43 assaults Sisty The Manitoba stations managed by local cases were deemed to be committees were set up in early May 41 not sustained ing a visit and demonstration by the and five are pending Only dcr and manager of Northern Access one of the assault cases has work David Brough whom some residents been sustained described as a super smooth salesman Brough told us frankly that his operation was unlicensed and therefore gal and that he was in it to make Mel White of the Leaf Rapids committee said Despite the risk White said we decided the time had come for us to go ahead and stop being second-class citizens Leaf Rapids town councillor Jim Wilson has some reservations about the tion but like most residents generally favors the opportunity to have a second television station It smells It's illegal and all that But as a subscriber I know that if CRTC ever de- to lake it off the air without giving us a pretty darned good alternative they're going to be up against some awfully mad people Wilson said See 4 OTTAWA CP Defence Minister Barney Danson moved Tuesday to defuse a growing controversy over the future of the elite Canadian Airborne Regiment ing there are no plans to disband or to relocate the unit Danson also told a news conference hc hopes recent remarks attributed to Col Jacques commander of the paratroop regiment that Danson should resign are all a mistake However Danson made it clear appropriate action will be taken against if statements ed to him are found to be accurate Kent to quit as anchorman TORONTO CP Peter Kent anchorman for CBC The National says be will leave the job when his con- tract expires November 15 I won't be reading the news contract ends although I may stay on in the news department or elsewhere in the hc said Tuesday Kent said be has formally resigned from the job News director Knowlton Nash said he hoped he could persuade Kent to stay Artificial heart valve has flaw 47 Toronto patients told TORONTO CP The Globe and Mail says m copyright story that Toronto Hospital has notified 47 patients that an cial valve implanted in their hearts has a design flaw that i it out sooner thaw The 97 patients during gery between ISO and 1972 The story does not include com- ment from the manufacturer of the valve The newspaper says that 45 of the are known to have died Irom a Yai'iety of causes The hospital has notified 47 others of the flaw has been unable to trace the the newspaper says Dr Morley Cohen neac wf open heart surgery team at SL Boniface General Hospital said today m under the care and treatment his team has ever received the valve otv aH such operations in Manitoba These hare around Mr a of years we haua so we decided wry early on not to Toronto Hospital officials are as saying that each of the 47 now has been examined at feist after tests en with another model and that all are well Dr Leonard Schwartz a heart surgeon on the hospital's staff is quoted as saying the 42 remaining may not need surgery because their of valve may be The Globe ami Mai says ai aft that three patients died after the follow-up began bit that the deaths were due to a combination heart problems as saying the mortality rate of per cent m is twice as high as in M an Twe at General as saying that ud fur a hour slay to wp we of at Toronto General said in be the CJS tot the valve MI longer exists 10 B.C 30 Winnipeg 7 3 LOOKING POM AN OK Tin's want ad Articles for safe Off is among tbe hundreds of bargains in today's section pages
