Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Commission Dollar foolish see Page 3 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. 57 Price 10 cents 15 cents Friday december 3, 1971 Sunrise . Moonrise . Sunset . Moonset . Forecast mostly Cloudy 20 and 35 Bill s assured Guillotine chops tax discussion Ottawa up the gov Ern m e n t Guillotine dropped thursday assuring passage of its massive tax Bill by Christ Mas but leaving parliament in an Uncertain mood. The House voted 121 to 80 in favor of a motion to close com Mittee of the whole discussion next wednesday which would Mark 44 Days of scrutiny 32 in item by item committee debate. A similar time limit May be placed on third Reading debate and commons passage of the 707-Page overhaul of the tax Laws May come As Early As dec. 13. Then while the Senate deals with the Bill the commons will debate a further tax Bill to implement income tax cuts introduced oct. 14 by finance minister e. J. Benson. Parliament could be in ses Sion Christmas eve even with the time limitations to pass the Bills that Are designed to come into effect Jan. 1. The new Laws will mean that hundreds of thousands of Low wage earners no longer will pay income tax those in slightly High brackets will pay less the Rich will face a capital gains tax for the first time and businesses and corporations will foreclosure saying All the main Points of the massive Bill have l. _ a Rhi Finuf puff her. Face a blizzard of new tax rules. Prime minister Trudeau was to Cut Short a Toronto visit to be in the House today at 11 . Est for the question period. A spokesman said the. Reason was the situation in the which became unpredictable thursday. External affairs minister Mit Chell Sharp usually the acting prime was to be in Washington today to sign an extradition treaty and prepare for monday s crucial meeting be tween or. Trudeau and . President Richard Nixon. Government h o e Leader Allan Maceachen defended the been debated during eight solid weeks of parliamentary time. Transport minister Don Jamieson said the Snail s Pace of debate so which 191 of the 707 pages have been studied it would have taken another nine months to pass the Bill that is too Long to wait in indecision in this country on such an important conservative Leader Robert Stanfield said tax experts were buffaloes by the Bill even be fore the government brought in please see. Guillotine Page 5 Chi s status same Premier says ring does t further imperil Public s million premiered Schreyer said thursday the bankruptcy of Churchill Forest industries Manitoba Ltd. Is a Mere technical Legal procedure and will in no Way jeopardize the million Public investment in the Complex any More than it is already in the company one of four making up the giant forestry Complex at the Pas was put into bankruptcy thursday by or. Justice Israel Nitikman of the Mani Toba court of Queen s Bench. Or. Justice Nitikman ordered that Sydney John Down a chartered accountant be appointed trustee for the three firms which to put the company into bankruptcy. Please see Chi Page 6 pakistani planes attack v India declares emergency see stories on Page 20 from a Reuter new Delhi Dian prime minister Indira Gandhi said in a broadcast tonight that Pakistan had scale War on India. Earlier the Indian government declared a National emergency following pakistani air raids on four Northwestern Indian air ports. A pakistani broadcast said Pakistan air Force planes struck in retaliation for Indian ground ged any attacks in the Northwest Miles or More from East Pakistan where hostilities broke out last month. Air raid sirens wailed in new Delhi and the Indian capital was blacked out. But there was no sign of an air attack. International airlines in Lon Don said they had banned flying jetliners to West Pakistan and Calcutta and new Delhi in India. Radio Pakistan said the air attacks were carried out against airports at Avanti Pur path Ankot Amritsar and at s r i n a g a r capital of Indian Kashmir a Point of dispute be tween the two countries since 1947. In Nav Delhi president v. V. Giri issued the emergency proclamation on behalf of the Indi an government because of the probe promised death papers false by David Lee provincial court and medical officials will investigate a re port that Many Manitoba Doc tors Are signing death certificates illegally without even seeing a dead person s body. Or. W. L. Parker chief medi Cal examiner for the provincial government promised the investigation thursday after learning that false certification of death is a quite common practice at most Manitoba hospitals. I will take Issue with that. I question the legality of it very said or. Parker. Give me the evidence and something will be done very very quickly. Technically speaking this Means that these people Are not dead when they Are buried. A person is not dead until he has been pronounced dead medical examiner. Practice during a question and answer session following an please see death Page 24 Schreyer defends Choice by Ron Campbell House lit by Vernal sparklers my wit spices tax pudding Stanfield Ottawa what does prime minister tru Deau s memory lapse about his age have to do with the government applying the Guil Lotine Rule to end the tax Bill debate or Robert Stanfield s alleged modesty or John Diefenbaker s place in history nothing really. But they were among the bits of levity that brightened up a two hour commons debate thursday on the government s move to slap a four Day time limit on further detailed study of its big tax Bill. And with a string of the Best House speakers in action and a 10-minute limit on the speeches the verbal digs about personal and political spiced up with plenty of heckling kept the debate on a Rowdy and rollicking level rather than a serious and sombre one. The afternoon did t Start out that Way. A conservative Point of privilege that liberals had been allowed to Scurry into the commons wednesday after a snap vote had been called brought a counter charge from Florian Cote l that some opposition members had sneaked in too. You re a disgraceful j. Patrick Nowlan Napolis Valley shouted at or. Cote. The go for the jugular mood was still apparent when Allan Maceachen government House Leader Rose to put the motion for the debate limit. For More than a minute opposition maps kept up a steady howl of jibes and wisecracks. Or. Maceachen said the motion was seconded by Don Ald Macdonald minister of National defence. Call out the one conservative yelled above the Din. Or. it All in Good humor and commented there was consider Able Competition among liberals for the privilege of Sec onding this particular to it was an apparent turning Point in the House mood As the heckling turned to laugh top. Conservative Leader Stan Field followed or. Mac please see House Page 4 Trudeau Glendale okays Sale by Elman Guttormson members of the Glendale country club thursday voted to accept an offer of million for its 140-acre Golf course Situ a aled Between Portage Avenue and the Assiniboine River just or. Parker Learned of the inside the perimeter Highway. Harvey Kay club president said the offer was subject to certain terms and conditions which he did t disclose. The offer was made by St. Maurice properties limited of w i n n i p e g on behalf of St Maurice capital corporation of Montreal and William Teron and associates of Ottawa. The meeting which was at tended by approximately 300 j members also approved an of i Tion to buy 300 acres along the j Assiniboine River seven Miles West of the present club subject to the discretion of the i directors. A two thirds majority was required to sell the property and a simple majority to buy new property. Or. Kay indicated that it Trudeau concedes Job shortcoming Toronto up prime minister Trudeau conceded thursday night that his govern ment has fallen significantly Short of the Mark in creating jobs for canadians entering the labor Force then hit Back at critics who insist the nation is in a terrible economic Brish army Corporal irian Lawrence from London and his new Bride from Londonderry Boj Side an armoured personnel Carrier As a bridal Camsie after wedding thursday in Ballykelly Northern Ireland. Brian is a pro Testant and his Bride a Catholic. The new mrs Lawrence whose first name is Marie would not reveal her Maiden name because she explained i Don t want my family i Glendale Page 4 j premiered Schreyer of. Would be two to three years be recreation minister Larry Des Tardios. Since the new democratic party government took office years ago it has brought 300 a fils before Tufi Manitoba the go Slature and tie Premier said that to his knowledge or. Des Jandras has voted for Al of hero Ine Prewer had bees to greater difficulty get Ting a losses ass Flora or. Des of proposed helped Board past the prime minister cited unemployment As one of two eco nomic indicators in which Canada lagged behind the United states this fall in a significant the other was in the Field of merchandise exports. Or. Trudeau said in a speech to the Canadian italian Busi Ness and professional men s association of Toronto that unemployment in Canada during sep Timber averaged 6.7 per cent of the labor Force compared with 5.8 per cent in the . In merchandise exports can Ada nevertheless did Well in i experiencing a 7.7-per-cent in i crease from september of last year to september 1971. He did t quote . Figures. Canadian government eco nomic policy has been turned to the needs of Canada and has been implemented to the extent i that Canadian jurisdiction per or. Trudeau told the a ;