Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Govt. Attacked for expected City tax hikes the Prospect of greatly increased municipal taxes in the City of Winnipeg this year prompted two opposition members of the Manitoba legis lature to Rise on Points of per Sonal grievance thursday and place the blame in the Lap of the provincial government. Steve Patrick l Assiniboia and j. Frank Johnston pc Sturgeon both of whom represent areas that Are Likely to be the hardest hit said it was All the fault of the new democratic party government which had imposed the Central City government in place of the governments of metro and 12 municipalities in greater Winni Peg Jan. 1. There was no reason what Soever to shove this City into that kind of a Mill rate in said or. Johnston adding that it was not the fault of the City councillors or commissioners. In his Paea he said the new municipal Structure will result in an increase in taxes this year on a Home assessed at for a Home assessed at he said the increase would be he said the government was warned by the opposition last year during debate on Bill 36 the Bill establishing the new City that taxes would in crease substantially. The Boundary commission report said it and so did Elswood Bole who once was metro s executive director and a former member of the local govern ment boundaries commission but the government disregarded the advice said or. Johnston. He said City taxpayers should not blame civic officials for the increased budget but rather the province. The City he said priest nun Hurt in crash a roman Catholic priest Anc a nun who were injured in a collision thursday night be tween a Winnipeg inner City police Cruiser car and a private car were reported in Good condition Friday in Winnipeg Gen eral Hospital. They Are father Benoit 61 of 89 Eastgate and his Passen Ger sister Helene Dion 54, of 621 Academy Road. A police spokesman said Thi Cruiser was being driven North on fort Street by const Maurice Dufault 25, of 2 Emil Street when it was in collision with a car being driven West on St. Mary Avenue at . A Hospital spokesman Sair. Father Benoit suffered a broken Collarbone and sister Dion a have broken her ribs. Is tied in with your stupid leg or. Patrick said the residents f heading Ley. In particular vere getting a bad Deal be Ause they would be expected o pay the higher taxes without any of the benefits such As Ewers and water and transportation. He asked that the government bring in an Amend ment to the City of Winnipeg act to exempt the residents of heading Ley. As Well or. Patrick said the amount of Money set aside by he government to cover the rans Lional period was not sufficient. He suggested it be. In creased to million or Mil Ion. Killed in fall Olaf Sundstrom. 63, of Lac d Bonnet Man., died thursday night after falling from a ramp into a partially filled railway Ore car. The ramp said the Man hit his head when he fell about . In Lac Dubon net. Clinic probe possible the provincial attorney general s office and the College of physicians and surgeons May become involved in an investigation of health care Deli very services at the mount car Mel clinic health minister Rene Toupin said thursday. However or. Toupin told the Manitoba legislature that before any action is taken he wants to read a copy of a Brief by or. C. C. Merry a Winnipeg Gener Al Hospital pathologist that was. Presented wednesday to the Winnipeg s civic Grants sub committee. The clinic is seeking rom the City. Or merry s Brief called for an investigation of the health care services delivered by the clinic in View of the increased patient caseload. The matter was raised in the legislature by Joe Borowski nip who asked or. Toupin what he intended to do about the charges made by or. Merry. Or. Borowski quit his Post As highways minister in the Schreyer Cabinet in september 1971, because of what he termed the government s Ca sual stand on pornography and because of its policy concerning therapeutic abortions and medi care. He had complained that when therapeutic a b o r t Ion were approved in Manitoba medicare paid for the operations. He had told his depart ment s employees not to give to the United Way because mount Carmel clinic was one of its agencies. He d said the clinic was pimping for abortionists by advising Manitoba women that abortions were readily available in new York state. Thursday or. Borowski wanted to know if future provincial funds would be Cut off in the Light of or. Merry s statements wednesday. Or. Toupin said no action whatever would be taken until he has seen the Brief. Weather report morning bulletin Moil Central and Eastern in com 01 me to t Hou forecast n the infer Lake and red rivet r with a Tow Brief Sho Cri. Clearing kit croon Cloudy periods saturday with a temperatures recorded Yei tiday Low which ended at 6 . Today and which ended .1 6 a. Kinmg. High Tom pc Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Thompson Winnipeg Thunder Bay Kenora Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Phoenix Rome Paris London Berlin Max. Min. Pre 61 51 .01 71 52 65 70 76 72 59 72 71 55 71 68 55 43 49 38 so 38 48 38 32 39 37 52 76 58 53 51 43 .14 -15 to .53 .35 .03 .05 .07 .02 Amsterdam Brussels Madrid Moscow Stockholm Max. Min. .52 43 64 48 75 51 50 32 .57 37 pre. If skiers Cam have w Winnipeg temperature comparisons Winnipeg free press Beaver Canada Usa local ovum is m 786-6081 Friday May 12, 1772 inc class mail registration number 0286 some won t get tax rebates residents of Public housing units whose rents Are subsidized by the government and welfare recipients whose rents Are paid for them generally won t be eligible for the Provin Cial government s school tax re Bates a finance department spokesman said thursday. Anita Jariilo 4, and Kelly Smith 4, handle the Garden tools while mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg plants the Flowers of Hope some Marigold seeds to Mark National week for the mentally retarded sunday to May 20. The children attend the pre Sehovi Centre of the association for the mentally retarded in Winnipeg. The week s Campaign Aims to raise tends to support their schools residences and recreation programs. Spending elected is. Appointed by Bob Lis Way free press Urban reporter Winnipeg s civic Board of commissioners faced its first major test of Power thursday when elected representatives from the City s Community committees argued against Many proposed reductions made by the Board in the committees 1972 spending estimates. The Board of commissioners made up of mayor Steve Juba City s four top administrators recommended a net reduction of in the City s budgetary spending estimates of this year. The Board of commissioners is a new form of civic administration in Manitoba set up by the provincial government As Gram for municipal government in Winnipeg. Representatives from All but one of the City s committees asked thursday that Many of the Board of com missioners recommendations calling for some reductions in Community estimates be ignored As the civic executive policy committee began a re View of the City s l972 spending part of i to reorganization pro-1 estimates. Suggested for Pool timer pc Etc High today Winnipeg inner City Redrea t i o n subcommittee thursday recommended spending on electronic timing machinery for pan am Pool after discussing the matter for 25 minutes behind closed doors. The subcommittee recommended accepting the lowest of four quotations for the equip ment from Royal Stewart and co. Included in the timing sys tem which fulfils swim meet timing requirements of one thousandth of a second Are the touch pads to activate the clock and a print out mechanism. Federal and provincial government sales taxes Are included in the Price. The subcommittee recommended paying half the Bill for the equipment on aug. 15 and the remainder Jan. 15, 1973. That would Cost in interest which is in eluded in the Purchase Price. Subcommittee chairman councillor Warren j. Steen in dependent citizens election committee Assiniboine Park said in an interview after the meeting that postponement of payment was discussed in the closed session. He said discussion dealt with several methods of payment for the equipment and ways of As Suring adequate maintenance by the supplier until it is work ing properly. Coun. Steen said the material is to be manufactured by two different companies one in Montreal and one in Denver Colorado. Max. Min. May h to 59 last year 53 u 40 Normal 61 36 49 highest on record in 1687 lowest on record 15 in 1946 mpg. Board still seeking new school the Winnipeg Sci tool Board has appealed to the provincial government to reconsider its refusal to permit the Board to re place the two Machray schools with a new Structure. At a meeting with education minister Ben Hanuschak wednesday morning the Board asked to replace the two build Ings with a new 12-classroom school with two kindergartens gymnasium and Library at a Cost of the Board had an alternate proposal for demolishing one building and renovating and adding to the other at. A Cost of or. Hanuschak s department has approved a Addi Tion but the Board s Brief said this was not satisfactory and particularly is it not satisfactory for this area of the City where there is a dearth of other Community installation costs were not specified. Coun. Steen said he Hopes the equipment will be in stalled by aug. 1, in time for a major International swim meet to be held at the Pool aug. 7. The recommendation will go to City Council. Coun. Steen said in will try to have the Normal intervening Steps skirted be cause of Lack of time. Executive policy committee thursday recommended to Council that be set aside in the capital budget for the timing equipment. 30-month term for trafficking a 22-year-old West Kildonan Man who was convicted of trafficking in marijuana by an Assize court jury has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by or. Justice j. E. Wilson in the Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. Gordon Robert Wagner of 355 Smithfield Avenue had pleaded not guilty to the charge. Counsel for the Federal department of Justice Hersh w o 1 c h told court that an ramp undercover officer made inquiries about buying Mari Juana. He was Given Wagner s Tele phone number and after contacting Wagner was told to come to the residence. The officer went to the House nov. 18 and bought an ounce of Mari Juana from Wagner for court was told that Wagner had 24 criminal convictions prior to the trafficking offence. Mid Canada dog show opening More than dogs will take part in the mid Canada dog show being held Friday to sunday at the Highlander 1871 Ellice Avenue St. James Assiniboia. The show will run from h . To . Friday and from . To . Saturday and sunday. Eleven w i n n i p e g veterinarians working on a Volun tary basis will keep a watchful Eye on the dogs for emergencies that May arise from illness or injury. The Public is invited to bring any questions for the experts but to leave their Cloys at Home. Police seek three j Winnipeg inner City police Are searching for three men who escaped by Canoe after an attempted theft on the . Paddle wheel Queen Early thursday morning. Police said the men were seared off by a watchman after boarding the boat at its red Wood Dock mooring and trying to pry open a Cash Register. The Canoe was later found by police but its occupants have not been apprehended. Police described one of the would be thieves As being six feet one Inch tall of medium build with dark hair end Wear ing a Brown Vest purple shirt and Blue jeans. Another is described As five feet five inches tall of medium build with dark hair. He was wearing the same Type of cloth ing at the time of the incident. No description of the third Man has been obtained. Councillor Doug stanes in dependent citizens election committee St. James Assiniboia was the Only Community committee representative for St. James Assiniboia who said his area would try to live with the estimate reductions proposed by the commissioners. Councillors from the inner air cadets Church service to be outdoors More than 600 cadets and their families will attend an inter denominational c h u r c h Parade for the seven Winnipeg Aid Cadet squadrons starting at . Sunday on the grounds of the legislative building. Assiniboine Park fort Rouge Midland Centennial St. Johns and lord Selkirk plus East Kildonan Transcona St. Vital St. Boniface fort Garry and West the policy committee to put Back various items into the estimates that had been Cut by the Board of commissioners. The policy committee was scheduled to begin Friday a de tailed examination of the estimates and a review of the submissions made by the Community committees. Thursday City councillors complained about reductions in estimates prepared earlier this year by the Community committees for such things As Community club Grants Stree maintenance programs and Fin and police Protection services. The commissioners in a re port to the policy committee said they were attempting to recommend reductions which would keep the 1972 expenditures As close As possible t those in 1971. They eliminated a 11 provision for additional staff except where absolutely necessary. The commissioners said 40.329-Mill residential tax rate compared with an average o 35.754 Mills last year would b required to cover increased expenditures of Thi year. Only East Kildonan and Small part of fort Garry in the Seine River school Divisio would be paying a lower to rate this year than last. An increase in transit fares and parking meter rates to cover part of the increase in expenditures Are proposed by the commissioners. It is expected those recommendations won t be considered finance minister Saul Cher Nick told the provincial Legisla Ture wednesday that residents of subsidized housing projects won t be eligible but he could not provide details. He said there would be ample Opportunity for discussion when the school tax reduction Legisla Tion is introduced in the House. The finance department spokesman said thursday it is the government s intention to provide education property tax Relief for those people who actually pay the tax. Welfare recipients whose rents Are paid for them won t be eligible for the tax rebates at All. I residents of Public housing projects whose rents Are subsidized May be eligible for some rebate the spokesman said but Only according to the amount of education property tax they pay. Residents of Homes for the aged built by the government also won t be eligible despite the fact that they pay rent. Two tax rebate schemes Are in effect this year. One is a plan introduced last year whereby homeowners and renters will get a reduction of 50 per cent of their education property tax up to a maximum of s50. The other which has yet to be passed by the legislature will provide for an income tax rebate Between and adjusted according to the amount of taxable income of the taxpayer and the amount of trial now to be in autumn or. Justice j. E. Wilson of Manitoba court of Queen s Bench thursday changed the Date for hearing a murder Harge to the fall assizes oct. 1 after Winnipeg lawyer Harry Valsh objected to the Case eing hustled on to the Calen a of the summer assizes now in session. Richard Zanewicz. 32, of 586 Efferin Avenue is charged Vith non capital murder in con Lection with the feb. 17 Stab Bing death of his brother Ken Neth 26. Or. Walsh said the preliminary hearing began Are 14 and was not completed until May 8, when the accused was committed for trial. He said or. Zanewicz s name appeared on the trial list for Way 29 before any committal j education property tax he Actu m the charge had been made. Or. Walsh said there was no authority to put his client s name on the Assize Calendar. He further stated that he was legislature. Contemplating action by Way of labels Corpus in this Case applying for a writ commanding he sheriff to bring a person be fore a court to have the com ally paid. The legislation to Amend the income tax act is expected to be introduced next week in the Mittal order quashed. He did not elaborate on what grounds might be cited for such an application. Or. Walsh said the evidence from the preliminary hearing was not available and he would not have sufficient time to pre pare a defence. Or. Justice Wilson in Grant ing the change of Date said he wondered Why there could not have been a speedier preliminary hearing of the charge in View of the fact that the alleged offence occurred feb. 16. Car hits building magistrate dismisses charges the impartiality of the Law was demonstrated in Winnipeg magistrate s court thursday by magistrate Wallace m. Dari Chuk. The magistrate was to hear two charges against each of i two men under the Federal sex j Cise tax act to which the men i had earlier pleaded not guilty i in provincial magistrate s court. When the time came for the an 18 y e a r o 1 d St. Vital j trial Only one of the accused woman who was taken Union appeared in court s c i o u s to Winnipeg general Hospital after a car Accident downtown was reported in Good condition Friday. The woman. Doris Guillou of there was no evidence that the other Man had been summonsed to appear and the coun Sel for the Federal department of Justice who was to have handled the prosecution was 15 Kingston Row was one of seven women passengers in a car police said was driven by not in court. Yvette Bernuy 38. Of la after recessing court for five Man. The car went out of con minutes to wait for the Federal tool and struck a building at counsel. Magistrate Danchuk main Street and Pioneer ave i said the Law applies equally nue at 2 . Friday. J to both the accused and the a spokesman for Winnipeg s j inner City police department said the Bernuy car was going West on Pioneer turning on to he then dismissed the charges against the accused in attendance and remanded the main when it went out of con Case against the second accused tool. For one week. By the policy committee until the Church service will be next week at 11 . On the legislature j coun. Dick Wanking ice fort Garry said the policy committee would like to take a final Mill rate to City Council for consideration at its next meeting wednesday. Grounds or if the weather is bad. At hocs Chippawa. Lieutenant governor w. John Mckeag will accept Salute on the March past of the cadets. Parks Board accepts club resignations recreational programs a t i Boniface Parks Board thurs least will continue at the nor Day night agreed to allow a Wood Community club despite steering committee of five vol the resignation of the club s sex u n t e e r s from the area to ecu Tive monday. In a letter the executive gave As its reasons a Lack of janitor service and frequent vandalism. After accepting the keys to the club with the St. Latest Spring Frost june 20 but the formal Date is May 24 3y ,1. H. Judson mid May is the time when gardeners begin to phone the weather office about Frost conditions. Tempera Tures stayed above freezing after monday morning of t h i s week and Farmers started working the land. Normal Date for the Start of wheat seeding is about May 11, but risk of Frost continues to about May 24. Last year Frost touched the City on May to with an overnight Low of 30.7 de Grees. Normal Date for Hist Spring Frost is about May 2-1 but there has been a wide variation in Dales. The ear Liest Date for last Frost of Spring is april which occurred in 1922. The latest Spring Frost was june 20, 1940. A Cool High pressure air mass settled Over Manitoba during this past weekend to chill Winnipeg with a Luw temperature of 25 degrees. S u n cd a y warmed slightly Lender sunny skies to a maximum of 5s. The Cool weather moved into Ontario monday and temperatures Rose from 26 to m degrees. It was nor Mal for May s with warmer w o a i h c r moving toward Winnipeg. Tuesday Sunshine warmed the City for 14 hours and temperatures Rose from a Low of 37 to the afternoon of 70. Cool air came from the North but it stalled Over the North end of Lake Winnipeg. Wednesday s temperatures ranged from 43 up to a High of 73. Overnight temperatures cooled Down to 45 thursday morning and the afternoon High readied 70 degrees As Clouds thickened Over Winnipeg and rain approached from the Southwest. Outlook for the next few clays indicates periods of wet unsettled weather. Temperatures arc expected to average near Normal. Normally temperatures for mid May average from overnight lows of 38 degrees to afternoon of in degrees but have gone above to. On May 12, 1958, a heat wave sent the temperature up to 91 but on this Date in 1918 it dipped to a Cool 11 degrees. Operate the club. We did this mainly to keep the baseball and other Redrea t i o n a 1 programs said councillor John gee in dependent citizens election committee did t think it was fail to deprive the children of these the steering committee will run the club until a general meeting of club members is held to elect a new executive. The committee will be hold ing its first meeting sunday to determine which club activities will be continued under its guidance As Well As to set the i Date for a general meeting. After the meeting thursday coun. Gee said he Felt confident that the problems out lined by the resigning executive can be dealt with Satis fac he said there is a proposed increase in Grants to Parks boards included in the Central City budget and if. Those Grants arc approved the Parks boards May pass on the increase to Community clubs. The Parks Board of course can spend its capital As it sees he said. It will determine the Best Way to spend it but 1 some of the increase May go to the clubs and they could hire ;