Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday december 11, 1971 Benson picks out flaws in tax Bill tax Ottawa up the government continued to push the revised version of the taxation Bible through the commons Fri Day but finance minister e. J Benson picked out some flaws in his own gospel and said they should be changed next year. Or. Benson gave the House list of sections of the change Bill that he said his department is rethinking. Included were parts dealing with gifts to charitable organizations rollovers and corporate reorganizations foreign invest ment profit sharing plans and taxpayers leaving Canada with capital assets to be taxed. Conservative finance critic Marcel Lambert noting that Al these areas had been criticized by the Senate banking commit tee in its two november reports charged or. Benson with bribing the Senate into giving the Bill Quick passage after leaves the commons. It Honolulu a nine Avoca teen sailors Flora the danish the Senate is expected to get freighter heering Erse were the Bill next Friday after the reported rescued late Friday night by a . Merchant ves government brings in a motion limiting debate on third and final Reading in the commons. That would give the upper chamber less than a. Week. To Deal with the massive Bill if it is to meet the government s Jan. 1 deadline and get Home for Christmas holidays. Some indignant senators suggested earlier this week that they were sick of being treated like an old shoe and that they might just consider the Bill into the new year. But government sources said the Senate was expected to do As it was asked because the government intended to prom ise to Deal with some of the sections senators found most noxious next year after the Bill was safely passed. After or. Lambert heard or. Benson s list he said senators be better advised to bold firm in their protest because the measures promised were Only a cheap the government he said was Only tossing the Senate a few crumbs. Although or. Benson s series did not Deal with All the Senate committee s complaints Nota Bly missing were softer tax deals for mining Petroleum and pulp and paper companies it did Deal with several of them. Or. Benson said he was sym pathetic to complaints about the Bill s treatment of gifts or be quests of property other than Cash to such tax exempt organizations As charities or museums. Under the Bill such donations would be subject to accumulated capital gains tax. He said it was a difficult area because persons had often used charities to abuse the tax sys tem. But he hoped the govern ment could soon find answers to this and other problems. The minister last said his department was carefully review ing the proposed rules on corporate rollovers in which Public companies Are involved in mergers amalgamations take overs and transfers of Stock be tween related companies. There have been arguments that the Bill would not allow a purchasing company enough latitude in deferring tax on Cap ital gains accumulated by the company purchased. The department would exam Ine whether such deferments could be extended. On persons leaving the country the Bill would permit them to defer payments on any capital gains accrued of ctn Sel. Two of the 19 were reported injured the . Coast guard said but their condition was not immediately known. The Rescue of the 19, coupled with the Rescue earlier Friday of 12 other Crew members and passengers accounted for All but five of the 36 persons known to be aboard the danish freighter. The . Merchant vessel Montana found the 19 adrift in a life raft after sighting a flare in the same general area where the other survivors were found 200 Miles North of Midway is land and Miles Northwest of Honolulu. The coast guard said that preliminary information from the latest rescued seamen indicated that the last five Crew members still were aboard the ship when the 19 abandoned the stricken vessel wednesday afternoon in Gale tossed seas. The 12 survivors rescued ear Lier said that the 500-foot, ton heering Kirse took water into its no. 1 hold wednesday and began listing 45 degrees to starboard. They said they could still see the ship s lights at mid night wednesday night eight hours after they abandoned it. The ship owned by Domman dits Elsabet a of Copenhagen left Mexico on nov. 26 bound for Japan with a Load of Maize. De Schreyer said Friday. Dian property until it was sold. But when a person did sell it for rpt 1? he would have to pay Canadian tax on his world wide earnings for the year with deductions for tax paid in his new country of residence allowed. The provision was designed to catch persons who moved to tax havens but wherever they moved they would be required to file two income tax returns. Or. Benson said he hoped his department would be Able to work out a Rule that was less harsh by next year. On passive foreign investment that which does not involve direct business interests in an other country the minister Bowman to quit As counsel members Are Murray s. Pon newly Prost of University col lege University of Manitoba and or. Matched who is a Winnipeg labor lawyer and chair Man of the Manitoba j Board. I the can Mission began its j Vestiga Kra into All aspects fee pulp Aad paper Coas plex a a Macks so Friday be was aware suggested that there might be an increase in the exemption allotted under the Bill for such income. On employees profit sharing plans he said he was in Gener Al agreement that employees should not have to pay capital gains tax immediately on shares they received on retire ment. Rather a system might be worked out whereby they could pay when they sold the shares or died. Shipwreck victims rescued two veterans of the fall of Hong Kong to the japanese during the second world War inspect a Young Cadet of the Winnipeg grenadiers Cadet corps Dur ing ceremonies to Mark the event. Ait lousier president of the Winnipeg Branch of the Hong Kong veterans association and Bert Delbridge National past the inspection of the Cadet corps that is by the veterans. The event was held thursday night in mint armory. Thirty years ago the Island fell to the japanese. Of the Canadian soldiers stationed there Only about survive. About 350 Winnipeg and area soldiers lost their lives during the Campaign. Premier sees danger in school Cost spiral Carman staff if rates of taxation reflect Levels of Civi 1 i z a t i o n As Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested then Mani to bans Are in danger of becom ing Premier use of aspirin warned ago inst Baltimore Reuter a University of Maryland doctor has urged caution in the use of aspirin after finding that the common medication can cause heavy bleeding in the intestinal tract based on his findings or. Vernon m. Smith professor of Medicine at the University s medical school said studies should be made to determine whether aspirin plays any role in heart disease and strokes. In an interview at Baltimore s mercy Hospital where he is chief of gastroenterology or. Smith said there is no doubt in his mind that aspirin an be a dangerous there is certainly far More harm in a couple of aspirin than in a couple of he said. No joke for lady you re kidding. Are Yon did i really and what else could you expect from a Yoang fort Garry housewife on being informed she had just won in the free press Jum ble contest mrs. Sherry afeard of 590 Nesbitt Bay said to bet Ter give it to my husband or m blow it a Nice honest answer from the Winner who has been play ing Jumble for just Iris nth awl has never won anything before. And there were five s10 winners also mrs. J. Mar Ray 830 Corydon Avenue suite 17 mrs. Roy Gonn Keh Rood Man. Mrs. P. My Kenya 230 Hogo Street Snite 2 pal fio gae 289 temp Heiob Avie aae site 111, West Kudo ago and mrs. C. X. Bavis 71 Leisure Bay St Natues Assa Boine. The cheques wis be malted oct to fee or. Smith is not the first Doc Tor to warn against the possible harmful effects of aspirin. Or. Rene Menguy professor of sur Gery at the University of Chica go advocated last year that the drug be sold Only by prescription because it has been known to cause internal bleeding and even death. The Federal food and drug administration also has sought special packaging for aspirin to protect children. Aspirin is the most common cause of accidental poisoning in children. Or. Smith agreed that aspirin should be made a prescription commented that the restriction would not do much Good because doctors would prescribe it widely anyway. It has been known for some time that aspirin can cause Ero Sion in the lining of the intes Tine that leads to internal bleed ing. This affects relatively few people. Or. Smith believes aspirin has another Side effect that troubles greater numbers of people. A study he performed at mercy Hospital showed that 94 out of 100 patients admitted for severe intestinal bleeding had taken a preparation containing aspirin within 24 hours of the Onset of the bleed ing. Or. Smith believes that aspirin is acting to inhibit a process to plug bleeding at an Early stage. White cells in the blood Neces sary for coagulation and clot Ting come together to plug bleeding. Or. Smith noted. It is Well documented in humans that aspirin in very the Premier in opening additions to two Carman schools built at a Cost of about Mil lion said that if Manitoban Are really interested in watch ing costs then each Community must be Content with less than deluxe facilities for its schools hospitals and other Public build Ings. In the past 12 years the prov Ince has spent Between million and million on school construction not including universities or. Schreyer said but the time has come when the province can t afford to keep up these increasing expenditures. School construction costs have stayed close to a Square foot Over the past 10 years but even so govern ments must become More Cost conscious particularly As local municipal taxes have become More onerous in recent years he said. Education minister Ben Han Uschak reminded those attend ing the openings that school buildings Are for Community use not just for the students. The addition to car Man s elementary school opened in the afternoon covers 20.400 Square feet with open area classrooms music and science rooms Library Kinder Garten and gymnasium. The million High school addition opened in the evening covers 81.000 Square feet with open area space classrooms science areas Library gymnasium guidance and nursing offices Industrial arts Home economics and business education areas a language Laboratory seminar and music rooms and new office facilities. Bomb kills shoppers Belfast a Christmas shoppers screamed in terror and agony today As terrorist bombers blew up a. Crowded furniture store on Belfast s 60 killed by Avalanche Skagway Alaska in april 1898, an Avalanche killed More than 60 people climbing the Chilcoot Trail. The Steep Trail used by Gold seekers started at Dyea now a ghost town near Skagway crossed the town near Skagway crossed me outfits coast mountains and endued 35 of Miles away at Lake Lindeman in British Columbia. Fish curb mosquitoes Firebaugh Calif. Stu Dies made at Firebaugh by fed eral entomologists show that Mosquito eating minnows can provide Good non polluting con Yule shopping spurts away from television advertised toys saying it was not drastic but William Breadner manager of gambles in the Grant Park shopping Centre Felt people were looking for to advertised toys at lower prices and were shopping various department stores to find them. He noticed an Early Start in toy sales. For Ron j. Blair manager of the Canadian tire store on notre Dame Avenue toys and Small articles priced around stocking staffers i Are Selling very Well and skat i n g and hockey equipment really took f. H. Cotton manager of Simpsons Sears at Polo Park suggested the assortment of toys available would be a Large reason for changing buying Pat terns while the manager of a downtown five and ten store found people were buying less expensive toys and More expensive decorations. Most stores Are finding a booming business in House and tree decorations wrapping paper cards and other specifically Christmas items. Batons finds its men s Wear department is Selling More sports and casual clothing with the same being True for ladies Wear but to a lesser extent. Part of this would be enlarge ment of the men s department with the introduction of coloured shirts and wider assortments a store spokesman said. A Bay spokesman found women s Wear Selling briskly and suggested that greater certainty in styles was a contributing fac Tor to this. Men s fashions Are doing Well at Zellers country fair too and a Strong demand for women s Long dresses and better Quality lounge Wear resulting in Short supplies or. Loney said. Miss Janet Hope Burke of Unicorn also noticed the demand for Long dresses As Well As a Gen eral increase in Christmas buy ing. Peter Harrison executive director of the Polo Park Mer chants association said fashion stores were doing particularly Well and attributed it to people being ready to spend and to a More settled fashion Market after last year s questions Over Clarke manager of k Mart in the South Dale shopping Centre found women s fashions Selling particularly Well with All textile lines being Strong items but could find no particular Rea son for this. He said men s and boys Wear sales were increased in both Price and Quality. The average sweaters sold co timed this year it is to he said and he attributed this to men becoming More fashion cons Cious. Last year people bought essential socks ties Candy toys and wraps but not fashion Type h e said. Jack Bastable president of the retail merchants association sensed that shoppers were holding Back on purchases. Contrary to the general optimism of others surveyed he predicted sales would be about the same As last year. In his Owa business a food store he noticed Christmas baking ingredients were moving More slowly and suggested people were making fewer Christmas cakes or were buy ing them ready made. Manda Rin oranges Are Selling Well but nuts Are not. Eggnog has been doing Well since the Grey cup weekend and although baking ingredients Are slow or. Bas table was surprised to find peo ple ordering their Christmas poultry about a month earlier than usual. H. A. Steele executive director of the downtown business association was much More optimistic. Department store business is really he said. Sales have been on a concentrated High level since the Start of the Christmas upswing and it has generally been exceptionally Good for All several stores have found televisions particularly color sets and Large appliances going very Well and the Bay has been surprised at the de m a n d for snowblowers. An Batons spokesman said these were things people would delay buying if they were unsure of the future. Several retailers mentioned slow deliveries and attributed these to caution on the part of manufacturers who did not expect the heavier demand and to the West coast Dock strike. A spokesman for the Bay suggested the increased Christ Mas buying was the result of less negative talk about the Economy in the news Media and among people generally. Their psychology seems better. There has always been Money around Bank savings Are Way up but people weren t spending now they he said people were buying More expensive items and look ing for higher Quality. They Are getting Good value and spending he said. Was More optimism in custom ers minds than in the news people Are making More Money or have decided things Aren t so bad and they might As Well enjoy it he said. Basil Lagopoulos of Desart says sales Are up about 20 per cent with people buying slightly More expensive things than they did a year ago. The manager of a downtown five and ten store suggested the fairly Good increase in sales was the result of a lot More but Ken Kronson president of the Grant Park merchants association said there were fewer unemployment insurance cheques in circulation. Although a couple of people in the Survey Felt prices had in creased up to five per cent from last Christmas most store managers said they were substantially unchanged with some prices actually having dropped. A major Factor in higher costs is that people Are buying better Quality according to Sev eral of the people interviewed. With two weeks left to go it appears to be a Good Christmas season for Winnipeg merchants. 6-for-l change t urged the inner City joint Community committee should be phased out and replaced by six individual committees with Powers comparable to the seven suburban groupings according to a provincial government task Force report. The inner City joint Community committee will be responsible Jan. 1 for supervising the services of the existing City of Winnipeg the town of Tuxedo and the municipality of Charles Wood. The inner City committee a. Cording to the government s three Man task Force should be considered As a temporary stage i the evolution from the old City of Winnipeg town of Tuxedo and municipality of Charleswood. The committees comprising the inner City group must be developed to have stature and responsibility to those of the seven suburban Community committees making up the other greater Winnipeg Munici politics after Jan. 1. Tool of mosquitoes in California Essl pc Ted to go higher. Having lost the Normal j shoppers and pedestrians fag an insignificant amount of clawed at the rabble of the blasted braiding with their Bare bands searching for survivors. Ambulances carried the wound bleeding May become import he noted. Or. Smith said Many have a Small amount of Inesti with faces Nal Btte As a drop i to Hospital of a Day caused j Mec Hankal shovels and foal j by a lesion that is i dozers were called in to search 1 by conc Siobal a Ray analysis j for trapped a Kinas. I it is a cases Bre these where i i aspirin May act to prolong the 1 a feeding and posse by Lecessi tafe cos Petal treat est be said. By Resseg Fere Moosic of fee 109 Paije sife m ins or. Add Sig to a reporter. It was to find jets Joje Psi ofes to we be feel laxity sex Sivit foray. Cafe ski 335 newest ran .1 or. Assisi to sad sat 29 esses the Swa As site Sessal fess. Cases be Tyrod West the Otic Harar Asa pfc try Gaff tee be Swiss. I Tox age we pct. I Knox tiie. Jem. According to Tva shares the River waterway car ried a Recd 25 Suil Soa tons Corato Vercial Frog just in years. Traffic moves 2t2kss Steft a the Ife Swiz be 0fi5c the . Stews say Brandon University evening session and saturday courses for credit the following courses for credit in the faculties of arts science education and school of music Are offered from 7 . To 10 . Or saturday morning from 9 . To noon. Second term january 4 to May 1, 1972 including examination period monday evening geography 38.283 Canada a regional geography geography 38.392 resource conservation 82.160 introduction to psychology 82.161 general psychology 82.162 child psychology 82.261 experimental 82.263 social 82.361 personality abnormal 67.164 materials of 25.565 comparative education 26.563 trends in the teaching of physical education 29.563 practicum in learning disability psychology psychology psychology psychology psychology psychology music education education education tuesday evening botany English mathematics education education education education sociology 14.262 30.265 62.260 25.563 26.561 27.564 90.373 Survey of the Plant kingdom classical literature in translation development of the real number system contemporary statements on philosophy of education workshop in the teaching of creative arts theory and practice of testing practicum in emotional Behaviours ethnography of boreal Canada wednesday evening botany 14.265 political science 78.293 education 26.361 environmental biology contemporary political thought principles of physical education thursday evening botany mathematics education education education 14.262 Survey of the Plant kingdom 62.163 introduction to computer ii 24.361 strategies for teaching Indian Metis children 25.577 seminar in school problems 28.360 principles and technique in supervision of Field experiences saturday morning education 29.560 education of mentally handicapped children the deadline for apply actions is wednesday pecemberj5. Registration will be held the week of january 4, the time and location will be . New and former students who did not take on Shaww be application and registration forms from office. Registrar s 727-5401 335 ;