Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Exclusively in today s weekend Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine the Royal family s finances two to a debate that s been going on for years How to break 100 Jack Nicklaus has some tips for duffers Page 2 Page 12 what to Wear to a wedding somebody else a that is. Page 1, always buy a Doc on Friday James Quig tells How to buy the right kind. Page 23 and in the sure Magazine Romance of Canadian history Page 21 hints for future cottage owners Page 3 it happened Here. Page 4 the sportsman Page 4 the Herron Folk Page 5 the senior citizen Page 6 Over the Garden Wall Page 8 Indian women get Winter work Page the concert hour Ballet on tour pages 12, 13 Church 16, 17 consumer s Corner Page 18 the Rock scene Page 19 Book reviews pages 20, 21 the Sketchbook Page 22 the world of now music Page 23 and elsewhere in the paper color comics o to radio diary Tumble winners 14 entry form 38 Puzzle 42 Bridge news 67 Bryant series 2 classified 39 to 58, 68 to 73 Cynthia wine 38 comics 74, 75 Community Calendar 38 deaths 8 finance 31 to 37 letters.67 movies. 64, 65 night beat 18 sports 6, 8, 59 to 63 travel 15 to 17 youth scene 19 women.23 to 28 Aid formula awaited 3 weeks yet for tax data by Bob Lis Way free press Urban reporter Winnipeg property owners won t know for at least another three weeks what their actual tax Bills will be this year in dollars despite the approval of the 1972 Bud get and tax rates by Winnipeg City Council Friday. City Council approved a civic property tax rate Friday of 38.814 Mills this year compared with an average tax rate of 35.754 Mills last year for the 12 municipalities forming the City of Winnipeg now. The total actual tax rate including provision for school taxes will be lower in the City of East Kildonan the City of Transcona and a Small portion of fort Garry in the Seine River school division. Other areas will have higher tax rates. But the provincial govern ment has agreed to pay part of the costs of the effect of the reorganization of civic govern ment in Winnipeg by making a Grant to be applied to residential property taxes. Because of the confusion Over the provincial Aid to the City the actual direct Cost of civic services to Winnipeg property owners won t be known until a definite Aid formula is established Between the City and the provincial government. Civic officials said late Fri Day that the Cost sharing for Mula is still subject to negotiation. But the officials were preparing to Issue tax Bills be tween june 9 and 12, pending the receipt of the province s Cost sharing formula. The City s tax Bills will show the actual Mill rates plus local improvement costs. Then subtracted from the actual costs will be the province s Grant to Ward the costs of reorganization of civic government plus an additional Grant of up to to Ward education costs. But the province s reorganization Grant and education Grant won t apply to commercial and Industrial properties according to provincial officials. Please see must wait Page 5 looking for a motorcycle this want and under motor cycles 87 Honda 350 . Excel Lent condition. Phone 338-2912. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Business not eligible commercial property tax rate payers in suburban Winnipeg won t be eligible for provincial government assistance to help tide them Over property tax in creases caused by the equalization of Mill rates throughout the City premiered Schreyer said Friday. The Premier said the Provin Cial assistance will be Only for residential property taxpayers in those municipalities which experienced an increase in their Mill rates due to equalization. The provincial government he said checked other prov inces and found that the com Mercial and business Mill rate that will be struck under the. New City Council in t out of line. The exact amount of Provin c i a 1 government assistance has t been determined yet he said but it will Range Between million and million. The Premier said he rejects the City s Contention that the province should pay the entire 7 million increase in this year s municipal budget. A More reasonable figure for the actual amount of increase in suburban areas caused by Mill rate equalization would be million he said. The province had committed itself to paying two thirds of any increases caused b y Mill rate equalization in the first year and one third in the Sec Ond year. Two thirds of million would be just Over million the Tigi ire that has been used unofficially since last week s meeting Between City Council and the provincial Cabi net. Please Sec business Page 5 an american looks please see Page 22 Canada Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. With comics saturday May 20, 1972 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast Clearing 70 and 45 reporters interview Price minister Trudeau after he announces no summer election. Vote decision eases tension maps relax when Trudeau cancels summer election by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa prime minister Pierre Trudeau s announcement that there will be no summer election finally eased the tense atmosphere that has held parliament Hill in a tight grip for two weeks. A vigorous debate has Nixon Hopes for curbs on weapons real Chance of arms agreement at Moscow talks he declares Washington a president Nixon said Fri Day night he is embarking today on a Mission to Moscow with Hope for Progress in three areas arms curbs. Personal popularity West boosts Stanfield poll shows pc Leader now favorite on Prairies Toronto a marked decline in prime min ister Trudeau s personal popularity in Western Canada was revealed today in a Survey published by the Canadian Institute of Public opinion. Occurred inside the Cabinet and the Liberal caucus on the merits and demerits of a sum Mer election. Led by regional economic expansion minister Jean mar Chand most Quebec liberals and a Small group of govern ment members from other provinces have urged strongly that or. Trudeau Call a sum Mer election. The Quebec bloc had wanted a june election. When the possibility of a june Date vanished they called for a july 17 election. Consumer and corporate affairs minister Robert Andras and several other Cabinet ministers had argued just As Vehe mently against a summer elec Tion. They urged or. Trudeau to postpone the election to october at the earliest. They had favored october 2 but altered that position when advised that holding the elec Tion Early in october posed difficulties for the enumeration of the voters in August. Accordingly they have suggested a later Date in october. A late october Date would bring the Canadian election ahead of the november 4 elec Tion in the United states. There is also a group within the Liberal party who Are Sug Gesting the election might be postponed until the Spring of 1973. The Adverse Public opinion polls that have shown the lib eral party s fortunes in a slump and the progressive conserva Tive party s popularity on the please see vote Page 4 Holiday schedule no paper will be published Victoria Day monday May 22 to enable free press carriers and staff Mem Bers to take advantage of the Long weekend. The main floor office will be open on Sun Day from . To ., to receive classified advertising. He is afraid of an election London ont. Up what started out As a Campaign tour has turned into a Friendly visit for progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield. The Federal Leader of the opposition came to London Friday geared for an announcement by prime minister Trudeau of an election Date sometime during the summer. Instead or. Trudeau announced in Ottawa that he would not Call a summer elec Tion. I can t say i m the pc National Leader said Fri Day when told of the prime minister s announcement in Ottawa. My interpretation of this is that he is afraid of an election now. I m convinced he s not Happy about the current popu Larity of his or. Stanfield who had just opened a tourist information Bureau Here makes two Quick stops in nearby Strathroy and St. Thomas today then returns for a Junior chamber of com Merce luncheon in London be fore departing. However the opposition Leader indicated he still expects that an election will be called this year. When asked by a reporter How he planned to spend his summer or. Stanfield said preparing for an or. Stanfield spent most of the Day answering questions on two local radio shows and a television interview. On Cpl radio s night line program or. Stanfield told a caller that prime minister tru Deau s actions in keeping the country in a turmoil regarding the next election Are unforgivable and said the prime minister should be made to answer for them. Please see he is Page 4 Holiday Outlook sunny 70s no guarantees Are attached but the Outlook for the Victoria Day Holiday monday is for sunny skies and temperatures a Little warmer than sunday s. There s no rain in sight. The Winnipeg weather of fice said sunday s High is expected to be in the Low 70s and sunny. The Normal High for May 21 and 22 is 68. The wind was expected to be blowing at about 15 Miles an hour today but will Likely be lighter sunday and monday the weather Man said. The record High tempera Ture in the Winnipeg area for May 21 is 97, set in 1964, and the record Low 24, set in 1882. The record High for May 22 is 87, set in 1900, and the record Low 20, set in 1882. Believe Story sparked threat phone number 943-9331 All departments for direct line after business hours please consult your Telephone directory new York a the first draft of a Short Story read to a creative writing workshop Here is being studied by police and Federal authorities As Possi ble inspiration for the Anonymous threat to blow up the Queen Elizabeth 2 in the Atlan tic Ocean. Sources quoted today by the new York times said the Short Story was the main Lead in the investigation because its similarities with what the caller told the Cunard line were so striking As to almost Rule out the possibility of a coincidence. The Story written by a Young typist was read to the five Stu dents at tuesday s meeting of the Extension course at Hunter College 21 hours after the please see Story Page 4 forty one per cent of those polled in the West believed regardless of their political feel Ings that progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield would make a better prime minister than would or. Tru Deau. This compares with 33 per cent who favored or. Tru Deau As prime minister. This is in Sharp contrast to the situation before the last fed eral election in june 1968 when 44 per cent of those polled in the West favored or. Trudeau personally compared to 27 per cent who backed or. Stanfield. Immediately before the 1968 election Trudeau mania was so Strong that by a ratio of about two to one voters across Canada apart from their own Politi Cal feelings Felt that or. Tru Deau would make a better prime minister than or. Stan Field. At that time a spread of 22 percentage Points separated the two leaders with or. Tru Deau selected by 46 per cent and or. Stanfield by 24 per cent. Today that spread has been halved to an 11 Point separation Between or. Trudeau 39 per cent and or. Stanfield 28 per or. Trudeau has dropped As preferred Leader seven Points nationally 4 Points in Quebec seven Points in Ontario and 11 Points in the West. It is his popularity in the West which has upped or. Stanfield s level for in Quebec and Ontario he remains at about the same level of Selec Tion while he has increased in popularity in the West by 14 please see West Page 4 the president speaking informally to reporters at a White House reception said he sees a real possibility of agreement at the Moscow Summit on arms limitations Trade relations and co operation in space exploration. I would not raise Hopes too High because there Are some knotty problems to be he said adding that he received a personal message from communist party chairman Leonid Brezhnev that indicated a positive although Nixon said he met Brezhnev Only once and briefly in 1959, he believes he and the russian understand where their differences lie and at the sum Mit will come quickly to the Nixon said that apart from arms limitations Trade and space co operation both the . And the soviet Union have submitted other items for the Agenda. He said these would include Vietnam and other areas of the world where the United states and the soviet Union do sometimes have conflicting in Nixon described the Summit As having been perhaps Over three years in the planning. He said the single event that made it possible was the Suc Cess of the understandings on Berlin an agreement ratified just thursday by the upper House of the West German parliament. Please see Nixon Page 4 old age Bonus assured Ottawa up about 1.8 million canadians aged 65 and Over will get the hard Cash re sults in about six weeks of legislation hustled through Parlia ment this week to raise pen Sions retroactively to january. The monthly old age pension cheques scheduled to be delivered in the mail june 28 will be bigger by amounts of up to than the ones due to be delivered late this month. Federal Public servants Are at work now on what one official called a massive clerical operation making changes in individual pension calculations. The Book keeping for old age Security pensions and Guaran teed income supplements is not computerized. The welfare department has to calculate what s owing and the Supply and services department must print new cheques. It was the time needed to make All those clerical adjust please see old age Page 9 woman fire victim in Montreal hotel Montreal up a woman died Early today and a Man was injured when a three alarm fire forced evacuation of guests from the Down town Sheraton mount Royal hotel. Police said mrs. Gertrude Doyle 85, originally from Ottawa but a permanent resident of the hotel for was found dead in her bed on the Hird floor. A police spokesman said 652 and evacuated within 10 minutes. He said 22 persons were Aken to Hospital but most were released within hours after be Ament for smoke inhalation. One Man suffered a broken leg and cuts after he jumped from the fourth floor to a fire escape at the second floor level. I Don t know Why the Man commented a1 b e it Lariviere assistant fire chief. He did t need the police spokesman said hat what caused the fire has not yet been determined. Legislature reports commercial ratepayers won t get equalization ii la Page l business climate everyone s concern Cherniack Page 2 Asper wants Independent look at Chi finances Page 2 sees no action against Transcona Board Page 3 City had to buy from flyer to get Page 3 no increase in Manitoba Hydro rates foreseen Page 7 tax rebate Bill introduced for second Reading Page 12 Hospital financing legislation introduced Page 12 japanese Trade Mission visits Page 12 estimates debate past half Way Point Page 12 Toi Ipin executive assistant appointed Page 12 government purchases to april 14 published Page 12 help asked in Elk study Page 12 ukrainian language Camp to be held Page 12 Community groups should run welfare Asper Page 30 the third floor where the Blaze started at . Was completely destroyed and damages will run into the thou Sands he said. A hotel spokesman said 613 please see woman Page 5 seizure illegal court by Ritchie Gage free press courts reporter or. Justice r. J. Matas of the Manitoba court of Queen s Bench ruled Friday that Busi Ness files of Bio science laboratories Ltd. Were seized Ille Gally. Or. Justice Matas said five search warrants issued april 7 were invalid on three grounds. He said the warrants did not state any specific offence had been committed that the descriptions of the search War rants were too vague and that the magistrate who signed the warrants did not exercise Judi Cial discretion. Or. Justice Matas deferred his decision on two other mat ters to May 24. The first matter is a motion by the Crown asking that an order under the criminal code of Canada be granted protect ing the magistrate and police officers from any civil damage action arising from action taken under the warrants. The second matter to be ruled on is whether the Docu ments seized arc now the pos session of Bio science or the please Sec seizure Pace ;