Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba press Friday april 27, 1973 Nixon to tour floods continued i n Washington Nixon declared flood stricken parts of Illinois major disaster areas and moved to make Federal Aid available. The help will consist primarily 01 temporary housing unemployment assistance Low in Lerell Loans debris clearance and repairs to roads Bridges dikes and levees. Nixon was to Fly Over some of the flooded areas in route to a ceremony Al Meridian miss., honouring senator John c. Slyn the Crest or highest flood level of the Mississippi swept past Hannibal mo., during the night but the Salura cd levees upriver Al Quincy 111., remained in serious jeopardy a spokesman for the . Corps of army engineers said. The corps of army engineers m. St. Louis estimated that if the River reaches its expected of 43.5 feel there Satur Day million in damages will have been done in Missouri and Illinois alone. To the South the National weather service re ported no rain expected in Louisiana or Mississippi through sunday but said there is a Chance of show ers monday or tuesday. The Arkansas River continued to fall thursday and the forecast called for fair weather after 12 consecutive Days of rain and flooding. The Long term effects of the flooding depend to a Large extent on future rainfall. The Southern Cotton crop will be dealt a severe blow if the rain does not Stop before the mid May planting season. Cotlon prices Are already rising. The flooding claimed ifs lat est victim thursday when Walter Huber 32, an Indianapolis insurance Man drowned when his boat Sank in the Swol Len Rock River near Rockford 111. Huber was assessing flood damage to Homes along the River. The swollen Missouri which has covered about 40 per cent of St. Charles county North of St. Louis was receding after an Early Crest of 36.1 thursday afternoon. The Arkansas River had dropped to 24.8 feet late thurs Day after cresting earlier at 26.2. That allowed a slight re cession of flood Waters that had backed up into Little Bock and North Little Rock. Gov. Dale bumpers Estima cd Arkansas flood damage Al about million and said he was asking president Nixon to declare five More make a local of discs scr areas. In Louisiana Wilh about four million 12 per cent of the water James Fitzmorris said he expected a Percsi denial de Caralion of emergency Stalus covering 17 parishes sometime today. City declines Grant having in providing services to citizens. As Long As we continue to operate on the real property tax base we Are a Ojiri to face these kinds of increases year after year coun. Wanking said he hoped that an acceptable fiscal formula could have been worked out with the province before the estimates were presented but that this has not been the Case. However he rejected the province s offer to take Over civic services in return for a Grant. We arc nol prepared to Deal off i talc bits and pieces of City assets to the province on a piecemeal and hoc basis and be placed in the position of going to the province every year with rap in hand saying Well sell this this year and that next year soon we won t have any thing left to however if the City does t raise the Mill Rale this year and continues at the level of 1972, it would face a deficit of million. This increase would come do Spile Alle pts by civic administrators to hold the coun. Wanking said. Final estimates forecasting a 7.3-Mill increase in property tax rates were released by the pol icy committee thursday but were Laid Over until May 4 to permit reprise Lalion from Community Commilles. The mayor will not be Able to Call a Council meeting to approve the budget and strike a Mill rate before May 7. The City of Winnipeg act re quires Council to approve ils budget by May 1 and that tax Bills be sent to properly owners by june 1. Acting finance com missioner g. R. Evans warned the policy committee that City staff would be hard pressed to get lax Bills out before fhe Legal deadline. Mayor Sieve Juba who is chairman of policy committee came under heavy criticism for his absence Al the meeting when the budgetary estimates were presented and for his insistence that final approval be delayed. Although the City s Board of commissioners had the revised estimates and projected Mill rate prepared and ready to pres Cal to policy committee april 11, the mayor had apparently asked that they be held Back pending clarification fiscal Rel Anions Between the City and the province. We held Oft the budget at the request the said councillor Norm Stapon in dependent c i t i z e n s election commit Lee East i Don t know Why. H we had to we would t have backed ourselves Inlo a Corner. We thought we d be belter ing our Silva lion but i see now we be worsened our Commilles members were disturbed to learn thursday that their Resolution was delivered verbally to premiered Schreyer by the mayor Insl cad of in the form of a letter. The commit lec passed the re solution again and direct cd that a copy of it be delivered to the pre Mier. When told Laler of the criticism Hal had been directed at him the mayor said Well they policy committee members can just go to he said he was Busy wednes Day and was Abs Cal from thursday s committee meeting on important personal business. It is hoped that the City will have an answer from the prov Ince by May 4, when policy committee will review the estimates with Community com m i 11 e e representatives. The Grant was not included in anticipated City revenues because it was doubtful. But if accepted it would decrease the property tax rate by about 1.8 Mills. A suggestion that Community committees be invited to meet with policy committee tuesday was rejected by the committee because in would not give the Community Commilles time to study the changes that have been made in the original is i males. The City of Winnipeg act re quires thai Community Commil Lees be consulted prior to coun continued cil s final approval of the Bud get. Finance committee chairman councillor Dick Wanking in citizens election Lom Millic fort Garry said 10 did t see How anyone could expect to have a major effect on the estimates. The meeting with Community committees should be held tuesday he said so thai Council could Deal with the estimates at ils meet ing wednesday. Coun. Jim Smith Independent East who was present at the meeting said the delay in preparing the 1973 estimates makes it the Sec Ond year in a Row Hal the is l i m a i e s reached their final Slages too late for meaningful participation b y Community committees and residents. Policy commit lec also repealed the City s desire to reach a new fiscal arranged Cal Wilh the province based on a per a anlage of provincial Revenue from growth faxes. Ing some of the contents of said the statement. I Hunt s was pres Cal but neither Hen nor at any other time did i give or. Gray any request Sugges Tion or instruction regarding what should be done with the summary of expenditures 1973 1972 estimates budget expenditures municipal Central Council general government assessment Board of revision planning housing and Urban renewal Public works and operations Parks and. Recreation Protection debt charges unclassified deferred surplus total Central Council Community committees culture and recreation Public works and operations Protection of persons and property health and social development total Community committees total municipal expenditures l lower City tax possible continued by owner actually paid about in taxes. The same properly this year with the same assessments and with the s100 minimum Provin Cial lax credit would be actually taxed about or less than in 1872. With the possibility of a fur her 1.8 Mill reduction this Bill would drop another the lax saving in the other 11 school divisions could be even greater because the education Mill rates in each arc lower than in the inner City. Other factors including higher assessment and larger tax credits from the province would of Eccl the individual calculations but for the most part the taxes will be at or near last year s level. Advance store wide the anniversary Salje. Greatest Vure on the widest of Home and i Auto product in Winnipeg. Television i i components stereo tape recorders car radio car stereo Auto air conditioning tapes accessories open every avg. Until 9 . Monday thru Friday during hit 20th anniversary event. Advance 1300 Portage Aye. 716-6541 documents reported destroyed or. Gray was told by or. Dean that the contrails were materials not in any Way related to the watergate Brink s charge Laid continued later under a sink in a Toronto apartment. Mrs. Craig was picked up Al t h e apartment and charged Wilh Possession of stolen Money. Barker was Arres cd thurs Day As he walked along a Road at Kingston onl., and police seized from a bus Ter Minal locker in the City. Another Man was arrested by Kingston police when he opened the locker containing the stolen Money. He was released by Toronto police Loday. But the recovery of nearly by police in Toronto and Kingston left Many questions unanswered. Brink s said was missing when the theft was discovered Day. Neither Downs nor Dominey had been seen by their families since saturday night. A selective Here said we re satisfied All the Money belongs to Brink he said the discrepancies i n figures could live been caused by missing Edgers. Mrs. Craig a pretty girl dressed in Slacks and sweater appeared in court for a matter of a few minutes before being remanded until monday. Barker Short and partly Bald stood silently As he was told he would be held in custody for a further appearance Here Day. He wore a Light Blue Jac Ket and jeans. Saint John police arrived Here late thursday and were expected to take Dominey and Downs Back for trial. Brink s had posted a Reward but a police spokesman said no one seemed eligible for police said the two who sur ended first checked into a Lakeshore Motel after driving More than 600 Miles from Saint John. They then moved to a Bathurst so ret apartment in Midtown Toronto. Dolincy s wife Marie appeared on nationwide television from Saint John wednesday night begging her husband to come Home. Within an hour of her tearful Appeal police got a Call from a Man saying he wanted to give himself up. Brink s discovered the Money missing from their single Storey windowless office on downtown Charlolle so ret in Saint John when a time vault malfunctioned apparently because its mechanisms had been tampered Wilh. Warrants were issued immediately for Downs and Dominey. Hopes for my pact before 74 continued Ern ment and feels the Premier s statement in the legislature is another fool dragging Man oeuvre by the adminis Lvalion. Or. Peler Connelly president the medical association said in a statement the Premier s statement will do nothing to slow Down plans to turn the medical association Inlo a More effective bargaining unit. Or. Connelly said it was unfortunate the Premier s letter did t arrive until four weeks after the association had met Wilh him to ask for a formal contract. The Premier s letter also indicated that or. Schreyer in t aware of All the Points of Issue or Connelly said. The association s major com plaints Are that the government and its agencies have adopted a Masler servant Altitude toward doctors pay no attention to doctor s opinions on health poli cies and have stalled any Cost of living adjust meals in medical fees the medical association head said. Explosion kills one Manchester . A an explosion ripped through a pumping Stalion at an Airport tank farm thursday killing one person and injuring four others. The explosion levelled the Small building once part of a second world War fuel storage depot As workers attempted to reactivate its pumps. Dean and Gray could not be reached for comment. Magruder left his a year Job As Commerce depart ment director of policy develop ment without formal notice. His lawyer James ,1. Bierbower was asked Lale thursday night for an explanation. He said there will be Magruder 38, set up the Early Nixon Campaign efforts and slayed As no. 2 Man when attorney general John n. Mit Chell formally quit his Law enforcement duties to run the Campaign. Recent news reports have quoted Magruder As telling fed eral prosecutors that Mitchell and Dean the White House counsel approved and helped plan last summer s wiretapping of democratic offices. Magruder also is report cd to have said the pair Laler arranged payoffs to silence the defend ants in the Case. Dean has said publicly he won t be a Scapegoat and has vowed privately to implicate others. News reports say Magruder broke Down after Dean made accusations of his own to prosecutors. Magruder has declined to speak to reporters since reports of his accusations broke Inlo print. His lawyer has said he advised him not to make Public statements. In other watergate develop ments Washington Post Quot ing reliable sources says that Dean told president Nixon March 20 that to save the presidency Dean and Nixon s two top r. Haldeman and have to Dis close All they knew about watergate and face the possible consequence going to jail. The Post says Dean told Federal prosecutors All he knew april 6 but Haldeman and Ehrlichman apparently walked. Spiro Agnew was quoted As saying he would resign if the watergate scandal makes it impossible for him to continue in Good conscience. He also said he has no intention of resigning and still has Confidence the president has not been involved in any Way that would Shock my conscience. Agnew made his remarks to members of the Harvard re publican club in his office wednesday. His office made continued available a transcript of his statement thursday. The documents reported do. So Royce by Gray were in two folders one eighth Inch thick the newspaper stories say the files included phoney slate do. Apartment documents purporting to show the Lale president Johnr f. Kennedy played a role in the 1963 political assassination of South vietnamese president Ngo Dinh diem and a dossier of senator Edward m. Kennedy and his i960 automobile a i d e n t at mass., in which a female Sec Elary died. Ray kept the documents air his apartment closet for nearly a week before destroying the by learing them up and throw ing the torn remnants in a Burn bag in his Fri the sources said. Burn bags Are destroyed Linely by Security personnel at the Fri. Ehrlichman in his does not know the lure of the up until april 15, i assumed f the Fri director still had Gray was described As being anxious to appear under oath to testify before the watergate grand jury. Do women really wants Equality does the women s movement i Appeal to a Small groups of militants you d better not i believe it a recent Survey women reveals surprising shifts in popular opinion. The overwhelming majority believe that Ore treated As citizens. 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