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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday june 13, 1969 j accepts Challenge former Manitoba new demo cratic Leader . Russ Paul Ley nip candidate in trans Cona has accepted a Challenge made by his Liberal opponent Thelma Jean Call to debate a statement he made on a local radio program allegedly supporting the philosophy of Karl Marx. Mrs. Call issued the Challenge to or. Paulley in a letter she released thursday. In it she. Was shocked at or. Paulley s assertion that i am a Follower of Karl in an interview thursday or. Paulley said he has nothing to apologize for and stands by the statement he made on the radio show i m prepared to debate with any person on any matter and at any time on my personal philosophy. I have never skipped out of any discussion of any Issue. I will be contacting election Roundup candidates agree More i study needed on flooding Liberal and new democratic i school party candidates in the fort people. Garry constituency both agreed thursday night that More studies Are needed before the provincial government proceeds with flooding action at Southern Indian Lake. Mayor a a. Wanking of fort Garry Liberal and Grant Cosby nip were speaking at a meeting arranged by the South Indian Lake action com Mittee. Held in Pembina Crest it attracted about 50 l. R. Bud Sherman progressive conservative c a n d i Date was unable to attend. In a letter to the committee he said that previous Campaign commitments prevented his participation in the discussion. Or. Cosby called the Weir governments failure to release reports on the proposed flooding a most serious he said the 600 Manitoban affected three scheduled speeches by Schreyer shrink to one should receive a fair Public hearing. He said one must examine the Cost to human beings such As Independence and Noj Only strictly financial considerations _ he referred to the easter vice roads As follows partial itinerary for Weir what was termed a partial itinerary for Premier Walter Weir s scheduled whirlwind tour of much of the province next week has been announced by his Campaign organizers. A news release issued thurs Day night stated that the Premier would begin Campaign ing saturday in his Home constituency of Minnedosa after returning to Winnipeg Friday evening from the Federal provincial conference in Ottawa. The provisional timetable Bend outlines Liberal stand on taxation by Mac Keillor the Manitoba new democratic party Leader mounted the speaking platform three times thursday and really spoke but once. At one Point he was requested to refrain from campaigning at another he found a Pinch hitter had already a speech under Way and at the other he gave the policy pays off Carroll Fairford Man. Special the provincial government s new policy of paying per capita municipal Grants directly to Indian bands has encouraged self Reliance among the recipients recreation minister j. B. Carroll told a Public meeting Here thursday night. Our system particularly since the Grants were increased to from a person this year is allowing the bands to do things for said or. Carroll who has spent the week campaigning for in the Pas constituency. We Are treating Indian bands just like any other such payments to Indian bands previously were treated As special funds and distributed through a government Agency. The minister said the new municipal granting system was an outgrowth of the govern ment s Community development program. The program generally had met with encouraging responsiveness from Indian people he added. Winnipeg teachers association his ideas on education at an association rally in the civic auditorium. During the afternoon he went to Arborg Man., to attend the opening of a feed Mill scientific feeds ltd., a project of owner Peter Loewen of Arborg which had received assistance from the Federal area Industrial development assistance scheme or. Schreyer had been invited while he was still my for Selkirk which includes the Arborg Community. Although his Federal seat had been officially vacated 24 Lier with the Aid of a one Day memory slip by the estimated 200 people there he was allowed to represent his former Ottawa colleagues at the opening. Among the along with countries might be Worth try ing Here. He explained that in such systems rent never exceeded 20 per cent of net income. If forced a fam ily into a higher priced lodging than the government play. 20 per cent a subsidy came into failure. Or. Cosby said there is no doubt in my mind that relocation would have serious consequences for the people of Southern Indian mayor Wanking said the project is expensive no matter How you look at he questioned the Weir government s failure to publish the reports of various studies and said that Manitoba Hydro should not be allowed to proceed unless they do the Best thing for All people in before the candidates had delivered their views or. A. M. Lansdown head of the civil engineering department at the University of Manitoba had presented the South Indian Lake action committee Brief concern ing the proposed flooding and had suggested studies be made to consider alternatives for producing Manitoba Power platform guests the new nip provincial Leader was health minister George Johnson and in the audience was Elman gut Weir Thatcher want Bill test by Victor Mackie 1 take a Long hard look at the Bill saturday or. Weir will attend Coffee parties in Oak River and Hamiota As Well As do some informal campaigning in other parts of the constituency. Monday Mai Streeting in Lac Dubonnet and Selkirk constituencies. Tuesday campaigning with Portage la Prairie progressive conservative candidate Harvey Carmichael in the morn ing at Portage la Prairie. In the evening or. Weir will visit the Gladstone constituency before returning to Winnipeg. Wednesday will be spent mostly Coffee partying and Mai Streeting on behalf of mines minister Harry j. Enns in Lakeside constituency. Thursday campaigning in Emerson and Pembina constituencies plus the Only formal speech of the week Long tour thursday night at Morden. Friday campaigning in greater Winnipeg. Saturday the Premier will Fly to flin flon and also spend part of the Day in the Swan River constituency. By Derik Hodgson the Manitoba Liberal party says Basic tax Reform must be started in the province immediately. A White paper prepared for the general election notes that Many of our present taxes Are unfair in Manitoba because they do not take into sufficient account the the paper delivered Friday by Liberal Leader r. W. Bobby Bend pledges to re move the costs of education from property and put it on the broader provincial tax base. The White paper proposed a four Point program Basic to bringing about tax Reform redistribute the Burden of taxation with greater Reliance on ability to pay. Negotiate a better Deal for Manitoba in Federal provincial fiscal arrangements. Create new economic development at a faster Pace. Have tile courage to Dis continue provincial programs that Are no longer required. The Liberal Leader called the property tax the most crushing verbal showdown still pending Ottawa staff the offi Cial languages Bill is headed for a test in the courts As to its Validity. Prairie premiers made that Clear Here thursday at the conclusion of the constitutional conference. Premiers Walter Weir of Ormson who held the St. Manitoba and Ross Thatcher of George Riding which includes for the liberals in the last legislature. At the chairman s request politics were left out and nobody did any campaigning. At night or. Schreyer had an appointment at the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre on Princess Street but there had been some doubt As to whether he would be Able to keep it. As it turned out he was Able but when he reached there David Orlikov my North was Well into a speech. Saskatchewan told reporters that a test in the courts was what the future held for that particular controversial piece of legislation. Questioned on the Bill both premiers languages said they failed to understand the Federal government s alarm about a suggested test for the legislation before the courts. In the actual Federal provincial conference Progress was reported by of ministers gauges. Or. On official Weir said Lan that after it has been approved by parliament. He voiced his government s determination to test it in the courts if they learn that a resident of Saskatchewan or residents Are debarred from taking positions in the Federal service or from promotions in the armed forced or Royal Canadian mounted police be cause they Don t know French fluently. Reporters came away from the interview with the Saskatchewan Premier convinced that he is ready to Challenge the legislation. Shortly after the Manitoba and Saskatchewan premiers made their declarations nation Al Revenue minister Jean Pierre Cote did Little to reas sure them in a speech he delivered to the taxation Divi Sion component in Ottawa of the fire claims three St. Fereol que. Up three children of the same fam ily were killed thursday when their House was destroyed by fire following the explosion of an Oil stove. The victims were identified As line Lachance 5, and her Sisters Sylvie 3, and Chantal 1. By Jed Stuart mines minister Harry j. Enns and Manitoba Liberal Leader r. W. Bobby Bend have yet to arrange a time and place for a verbal showdown. The possibility of an Enns Bend confrontation hit the news last Friday when the minister publicly offered to debate or. Bend any time on the Southern Indian Lake question. The lib eral Leader is or. Enns main opponent for the Lakeside seat. Or. Bend monday replied to the Challenge. He said or. Enns was Welcome to Telephone lib eral Headquarters and arrange the details adding that a debate on the Lake question would be pointless unless the two candidates could move on to discuss the whole Gamut of this is not Good enough for Fri Enns the minister said thursday in a Telephone inter from his Woodlands Man., farm Home. Or. Ennis noted that it was he who had issued the Challenge and that the ones was on or. Bend to arrange the details i would think i issued a Challenge i also have committee the minister said that judging from the Liberal Leader s Campaign comments on the subject the pair would have lots to discuss on the Southern Indian Lake question alone without enlarging the terms to include the whole or. Enns said that one of his reasons for issuing the debate Challenge was to show he had no hesitation in publicly defend ing the government s position on the Lake Issue. I m not dodging the Southern Indian Lake Issue i never leave a Hall without leaving 99 per cent of the audience convinced that the government is right on Southern Indian of All on people with Low and fixed incomes. He said the fact that pro Perty is the chief source of financing the education pro Gram was one of the major reasons Why the property tax was skyrocketing. Education is not a. Property service and the greater proportion if not All its Cost must be transferred from the property tax to the broader provincial said or. Bend. He proposes to remove the five per cent sales tax from children s clothing used cloth ing shoe repairs certain school supplies and soaps. Or. Bend also says the Utility tax on electricity must be removed and a positive policy on the Federal estate tax should be brought in As soon As this tax was announced by o 11 a w a we should have joined the other Western provinces in rebating the provincial he vital said such a rebate to the province to was help attract new and retain existing development capital. The Liberal Leader also promised a medicare plan based on ability to pay. Scorpion plague Cernava Mexico Reu ters Twenty persons have been taken to hospitals Here suf Fering from scorpion stings after one of the worst scorpion plagues in years health authorities said thu Rivay. A heat wave has driven scorpions from their nests. Farrell campaigns on North policy Jim Farrell Independent candidate for Sturgeon Creek in the june 25 provincial election said the Issue of the election and of his Campaign is develop ment policy in the North. Outlining the Public hearing concerning Southern Indian Lake at a meeting of Campaign workers or. Farrell said the whole procedure was a he said no reasonable consideration had been Given to the environment of the area. Or. Farrell said politicians have Given no evidence of genuine concern about Northern Manitoba. Or. Orlikov had offered to fill committee will continue to meet Liberal membership up 20% membership in the Liberal party in Manitoba has i n creased by nearly 20 per cent since mid March and now is higher than it has Ever been according to Jack Mckeag co chairman of the party s Campaign committee. He said that membership has climbed from to Between the time the Liberal leadership Campaign began and the end of last week. During the same period Only eight memberships were reported cancelled. Or. Mckeag attributed the growth to. The sincere and energetic leadership of Bobby Bend and the calibre of Candi dates in the Bend at. Least seven Liberal Candi dates who were either independents or sympathetic to the conservatives until now have been attracted by or. Bend s leadership he said. In if or. Schreyer had been absent. Or. Schreyer told a Small group of listeners at the Centre that he agreed with or. Orlikov in that part of the latter s talk he had heard the Gist of which was a Call for Equality of men and that the Indian problem we uld never be solved until the was a Call for Equality of Man matter As White Man the Federal govern ment and the provincial governments recognized that the major decisions concerning indians had to be made by indians. Or. Schreyer touched on schooling among Indian and Metis children and gave his Blessing to the trend of the last few years in which More and More children were attending integrated schools. In my own View this is very desirable but if the provincial j education department is going i to teach Indian and Metis children we shall have to pay More attention to what the curriculum provides. Every society i Don t care what the origin likes to know that in the and will report again to a later conference. Prime minister Trudeau and the premiers agreed to meet again in working sessions before the end of this year. Manitoba s Premier Weir said his position on the languages legislation has not changed. His government thinks that on a debatable As the languages Bill it should be referred to the supreme court of Canada. Such a court test was Essen tial to ascertain its constitutionality before the legislation implemented he said. This would Clear the he explained. Premier Thatcher told report ers he and his government will Alliance of not mince Public service Anada. Fie did words. He told the civil servants listening to him that if they happened to be one of those employees who is unilingual and aspired to promotion within the National capital area or any other defined bilingual District they d better quickly learn French. Let me assure you right now that if you Are unilingual and want to Rise to be a senior officer in the executive or administrative and foreign ser vices category you had better think of enrolling in a language he said. Japan theatres there Are about movie theatres in Japan. Clip this advertisement and Corri pare. Apartment rents rapped mrs. Jane Heffelfinger lib eral candidate in fort Rouge constituency has sharply criticized the upward spiral of rents charged by apartment Block owners. Speaking to supporters thurs Day night mrs. Heffelfinger asked Why Are these rates going up automatically the apartments do not seem to be providing any fantastic services for the people who live there. Few have common rooms swimming pools playgrounds or service centres. None of the owners seem to be making any Effort to make these tenants feel a part of a Community or so much is now known about planning for living today that is it almost criminal such know one third ledge is not being used in the Small of fort Rouge area she said. Corn. Schools their children learn something about the history the culture and the values of their he said he realized there could be problems As to who could advise the department on such matters but indians and Metis representatives in this Case should be invited to sit in on curriculum setting sessions. 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