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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Selling your Home consult a professional. Rely on a realtor Winnipeg free press heed a mortgage see us monday april 30, 1973 2nd clan Mill registration number 02t Inland Trust and savings corporation limited a Tim it Dominion strut fax Pii no Plum 77j.j171 Joseph Cardinal Slipyj 81, of the ukrainian Catholic Church reads a passage of scripture As he celebrates easter according to the Julian Calen Dar sunday in St. Vladimir and Olga Cathedral 115 Mcgregor Street. Ukrainian Catholic look upon the Cardinal at their highest authority next to Pope Paul. A move to have Cardinal Slipyj elevated to the rank of patriarch was set in motion from the time of his release from a soviet prison in Siberia in 1963. Cardinal Slipyj who will be Here until Friday Sayi easter represents not Only the resurrection and passion of Christ but also the resurrection and passion of ukrainians for the Ukraine. Swan River concerns voiced by Bob Lowery free press Northern reporter Swan River Man. The mayor of Swan River or. Lud wig Matthews and the local town councillors spent an hour and a half with Manitoba pre Mier de Schreyer Here Satur Day afternoon discussing their Community concerns. Among their questions was one regarding the government s Success at working out a Dis used car crunching program would greatly assist this Community in its refuse disposal. The Premier said that after considerable delay he had just found a buyer for an unlimited amount of bailed scrap Metal. He said that announcements will be forthcoming on implementation of a program which would involve setting up collection depots in various parts of the province and establishing a crunching Plant in Transcona. He admitted that such an establishment is not always welcomed in a Community but said it is a help to any local econ omy and a distinct service to the province. Another topic of discussion was the feasibility of setting up a regional assessment Date in areas such As the Swan River Valley. The Premier thought there would be possibilities to implement the suggestion but Fiat it would be difficult in areas where municipal school District and health unit Boun Drics were different. The Council told the Premier that financing improvements such As Street lighting and an Airport put a terrific financial Strain on the the Premier said his govern ment was Well aware of this transmission special bind inspection All work guaranteed 930 Nairn ave. 667-1595 Ull Mcphilips 586-8049 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces and it was a major reason for the recent increase of in the per person Grant to communities. He emphasized that new municipal loan programs also make Money available to communities for such projects at the rate of interest paid by the provincial government. H e added that the parts of these Loans used for purely the pay ment on labor Are forgivable. person act is also costing the town about a year the mayor said. Under this act the town has to pay for a drunk citizen s stay in jail overnight and feed him breakfast before releasing him. There is not the Opportunity to assess a Fine which could be used to finance this operation. The Premier thought the Loucil should consider an in crease in or business tax on the government liquor outlet and other private proprietors and make up its losses in this Way. He said he would Check the legality of his suggestions. On the question of land speculation the councillors reported that some individuals have acquired land in areas of the town with High assessment. They have buildings with Low assessment or none at All on their property and the taxes for improvements to streets have to be paid by the other land owners. However when the Specula tors sell their land they Cash in on the improvements that others have paid for. The Swan River councillors wanted to know if a system of skies were Cloudy Over the Grain Belt this morning with rain and Snow falling Over Southern Saskatchewan and the Foothills area. A Ridge of High pressure will build southward across the Prairies spelling the gradual return to sunny skies and Milder temperatures today and tuesday. Temperatures following Are High temperatures recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 .today Max. Min part. Vancouver forecast for Winnipeg Bissett the Interlake and red River re Gions sunny today and tuesday. Low tonight 25 High tuesday in the mid 50s. Edmonton Brandon Thompson the Pas 55 36 37 As 4b 35 54 51 Thunder Takenori Olaiwi 43 Toronto 56 Montreal m Halifax a Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Phoenix Paris London Berlin Amsterdam Brussels Madrid Moscow Stockholm Tokyo 63 55 Al 54 21 31 28 34 3-1 35 35 50 Winnipeg temperature comparisons april 27 april 28 april 29 last year Normal Max. Min. Mean 49 19 34 5 19 34 highest on record 93 in 1952 lowest on record 7 in its collecting a Back tax Over the five previous years pegged to the Sale Price of the land could be worked out. The Premier asked that they write him or the minister of municipal affairs regarding this proposal. The Council also told or. Schreyer that unlike Winnipeg Swan River is anxious to get More Low rental housing. They said that they have been negotiation for the past two years to get 20 units of elderly citizens accommodations. Apparently then request now is being acted on but there Are 40 applicants for the 20 units. Land Assembly and provision of serviced lots is another urgent matter for Swan River. The mayor said this would have to be done on a More organized basis than just leaving it to the private developers. The Premier explained various programs by which the municipalities can get up to 50 per cent of the Cost of develop ing land paid for. The Hospital budget the coun cil said is overspent by an estimated to this year. A Bank loan has been taken out and the Council is considering increasing the rate paid by patients by 50 cents a Day. The present rate is and the Manitoba Midi Cal services provides a Day. There Are Only six people drawing welfare assistance from the town and the Only prob Kim is whether to Issue their food and other vouchers once or twice monthly. By Nick Hunter free press staff writer the University of Manitoba acuity association has opposed the University s official criticism of the provincial task orce report on Post secondary education. At a Board of governors meeting Friday prof. Al Wex for a faculty association representative said the University s criticisms about financing were Hasty and ill the Board of governors approved the University s official stand which is strongly critical if the task Force recommend lations by a vote of 7 to 3. A final report from the task orce is expected to be released n june. Both the University and uni Hersity president or. Ernest Jirl uck have criticized several if the task Force recommendations and Are particularly upset about the task Force s proposal that the present Block Ravits to universities be Discon inked. Block Grants where funds Are allocated according to enrol ment should be replaced by a system where Grants go to Par Council to test feeling on policy faced with rising costs and a Mill rate increase Winnipeg City Council monday night will begin feeling out Public support for its position in fiscal negotiations with the Manitoba government. A special joint meeting of the St. James Assiniboia and Assiniboine Park Community committees will be held in the St. James civic Centre 2055 Ness Avenue at . The meet Ings is the first in a series arranged by the civic executive policy committee which will see the City s financial position put before the people. During the next few weeks similar meetings will be held with All of the 13 Community committees in Winnipeg. The policy committee and civic finance committee chair Man councillor Dick Wanking cyclist injured a Young Man was reported in fair condition monday in Winnipeg general Hospital after a car motorcycle Accident sunday afternoon at Henderson High Way and the perimeter High Way. Rodney Mcdermid 19, of 45 Glencoe Avenue East Kildonan suffered a broken a Bro Ken Pelvis x fractured jaw and broken Teeth when Cle he was operating collided with a car East St. Paul police said. Or. Mcdermid was operating his motorcycle on the perimeter Highway when a car driven by Dorothy Groff of 27 Edel wis Crescent East Kildonan left a Stop sign at Henderson Highway. A police spokesman said Hie motorcycle Coll cd with the Side of the car. He said the woman did not see the motorcycle when she left the intersection. Independent citizens election committee fort Garry Lopes to gain Public support for he City s position that the prov Ince should turn Over part of its Revenue from growth taxes to he City to offset the mounting Cost of municipal government. The formula proposed by the City would see five per cent of the growth tax Revenue turned Over this year rising to 25 per cent in five years. However the provincial government has rejected this for Mula and instead has proposed taking Over services now car ried out by the City and offering Winnipeg specific Grants. The latest provincial offer has been to take Over Assiniboine Park and the administration of health and welfare and to give a Grant of million. Policy commit Lee has gone on record that it will accept the million Only on a no strings attached basis and has re at firmed its stand on the growth tax sharing formula. Coun. Wanking says that the City must find ways other than the property tax base to finance civic administration and that a new municipal provincial fiscal policy is essential. It is expected that he will take this message to the meet ing in St. James Assiniboia. Coun. Wanking believes that if the City can demonstrate thai the citizens of Winnipeg Aupperl the Revenue sharing formula and the need for a new Fisca arrangement its position at the bargaining table with the prov Ince will be strengthened. The meeting follows disclosure last week of the 1973 civic spending estimates that in Dicato an increase of Mil lion in spending this year and a corresponding increase of As much As 7.38 Mills in the municipal lax rate. Although provincial officials Haven t been invited to attend the meetings with the Community committees it is under stood that any provincial Alivs will be allowed to speak should they attend. U criticism of report Hasty and 111 considered9 traffic mishaps claim 3 three people died in traffic mishaps in Manitoba during the weekend. Dead Are Antoine Mackay 24, of Cross make Man. Wayne or Alec 24, of Lac do sonnet Man. Winnipeg police have not re eased the name of a woman filled in car pedestrian Accident on Inkster Boulevard saturday morning. A police spokesman said the Accident occurred As the woman was walking on Inkster let Ween Keewatin Street and Rosser Road at . She suffered multiple head in juries and was pronounced dead in arrival at Winnipeg general Hospital. Or. Mackay died in Winnipeg general Hospital saturday As a result of injuries received Fri Day in another car pedestrian Accident near Cross Lake Man. Ramp said or. Mackay was n collision with a Van operated by Joe Percy Ross 29, of Cross Ake at . Or. Ross took or. Mackay to 3ross Lake and then to Hospi Al at the Pas Man. He was Ater transferred to Winnipeg general Hospital where he died . Saturday. Or. Ukrainec was killed at . Friday night when Lis car went out of control one half South of Ste. Anne Man. On Highway 12. He was travelling North when Lis car went into the East ditch and rolled Over several times ramp said. He was pronounced dead at he scene. Tailor shop hit by fire the contents of Romolo fran Cassi custom tailors 253 notre Dame Avenue were destroyed by fire Friday night. The fire which broke out about 7 ., is being investigated. There was no estimate of damage firemen said. Titular categories within the universities the task Force said. But prof. Wexler told the governors that although the faculty association has some questions about a system where there is absolutely no Transfer ring of funds from one category to another we strongly sup port the Clear identification of granting by categories would keep to tick of what we perceive to be rapidly escalating costs that often Are subsumed under academic prof. Wexler said. He said expenditure categories Are related to clearly defined functions so the task Force is Able to recommend that formula financing apply Only to True academic prof. Wexler contended that the figures used in the University s report to show that univer sity expenditures Haven t risen As fast As government and Community College spending Are misleading. The figures ignored University construction and equipment purchases when comparing costs with provincial govern ment expenditures prof. Wexler said. The Community College argument ignores the vast improvement and increased scope of instruction in recent years in the Community colleges. The task Force tells us in fact that operating Cost per Community College student is Only one third that of the uni prof. Wexler said the task Force report is not really critical of increasing costs in University education and recognizes that there has been a Large increase in expensive graduate studies and graduate schools. Us main thrust therefore has been toward a rationalized systems approach to accessible Post secondary education. Who can quarrel with such a prof. Wexler said that in Light of the task Force s Broad Analy s i s the aggressive defensiveness of the response of this University seems All the More the University s charge that the creation of a commission on Post secondary education to re place the universities Grants commission will result in Mas Sive bureaucracy cannot be substantiated prof. Wexler said. He said the faculty ass Cia Tion was saddened but not sir prised to see the essence of a speech made by or. Sir Luck included in the official University response to the task Force. -1 citizen groups urged to prosecute polluters citizen groups should be financially encouraged to take pol Luters of the environment to court a United states Law pro Fessor said Here saturday. Joseph sax of the University of Michigan said the citizen groups would t be overriding the authority of elected representatives if they started court actions because most Environ mental decisions Are made by faceless bureaucrats and industrialists. Or. Sax was speaking to Manitoba lawyers scientists and government officials at a conference on the Law and environment at the museum of Man and nature. He suggested that one tenth of one per cent of the capital costs of major projects be used by citizen groups to evaluate the project. The National environmental policy act passed by the . Congress in 1969, forces govern ment agencies to prepare an Impact statement of proposed projects or. Sax explained. Because of Lack of Money and professional expertise Many communities Aren t Able to make any use of the Impact statements even if the state ment actually indicates that the project would be bad for the environment or. Sax said. In communities with Public James Bilton nominated Swan River Man. Up James Bilton progressive conservative Mia for Swan River has been nominated to contest the Riding in the next provincial general election. Or. Bilton 65, has been member of the legislature since 1962. He was unopposed at the Friday night nomination meet ing in this we St Central Mani Toba town. Concern and expertise the state ments have lifted a previous veil of secrecy As Well As Igno but or. Sax added so dump on the desk of an and hoc citizens group a nine volume statement is often to do nothing at he said that if the citizens groups received a Small percentage of the capital Cost of the projects they would be Able to evaluate the information properly. Or. Sax said the fund should be managed by an official who would listen to the concern of the citizen groups. With the Money. projects advisers could is hired and action taken against the polluters. I or. Sax who drafted. The environmental Protection act in Michigan in 1969, said act has allowed citizen groups to bring charges against pol Luters. Mine workers of new pact with Sherritt Gordon Lynn Lake Man. Staff by a 70 per cent majority. United steel workers local 5757 membership approved a new contract with the Sherritt Gor Don mines Ltd. Here and at the Ruttan Lake mine Union pres ident Al Plaskett announced Here sunday night. The vote which was taken at shift meetings Here and at the Ruttan mine 80 mines South West of Lynn Lake was completed saturday. Or. Plaskett said about 400 of the local s 900 members voted. The three year contract Fol lows closely one signed by the steelworkers and the internal t i o n a 1 Nickel company in Thompson last february. The Basic wage increases or. Plaskett said will be 50 cents an hour during the first year with an additional 25-cent in each of the remaining two years. The. Latter includes a five cent an hour Cost of living increase. The most popular feature of the new agreement or. Plas Kett said is an increase in the vacation allowance which goes up to a Day for married men Over and above their nor Mal paid vacation. For those taking their holi Days Between oct. 1 and dec. 7 or Jan. 7 and May 31 and extra a Day will be added to the vacation allowance. The Holiday periods Start at two weeks increasing to 23 work Days or almost five weeks holidays after nine years of service. Sherritt Gordon has also in creased its interest free Loans to for employees Purchas ing duplex housing. An interest free loan is available As previously for those purchasing single family Homes. The pay m e n t s run Over a 10-year period. For the Ruttan workers living in the new Tow site of Leaf rapids or Plaskett said the company had agreed not to col Lect payments on the Loans As Long As the employees pay ments for utilities and insurance amounted to More than 21 per cent of his income. The. Union Leader estimated that few workers would be making payments at Leaf rapids during the three year contract. He said that at present inter est rates the company s conces Sion would be Worth about a month to the employees. Another gain or. Plaskett commented on was the improvement in Severance pay which will mean that employees get one week s pay for each year of service with the com Pany. There is a minimum of four weeks pay provided. For Eiji Plo yees of 55 to 60 years of age the amount of Severance pay goes up to two weeks earnings for each year of service. In other benefits optical ser vice is included in the health plan and there Are improve ments to the dental d free drug provisions. After the vote a tentative agreement was signed by or. Plaskett and William Clarke Industrial relations manager Sherritt Gordon. It s a very satisfactory tract it s fair for both sides. It will be a great help to employees and at the same time it gives stability that the company is looking or. Plas Celt said. V it recognizes that you have to pay enough to keep people on tap up Here in the i things change a lot Over 100 years. And the ramp has come a Long Way since the first Days of the Northwest mounted police in 1873. Ramp Constable Dan Webster in an 1874 cavalry detachment uniform shows Bradley Tomiuk 9, and Allan Tomiuk 6, of the Birds Hill area tha ramp Centennial exhibit at tha Bay on saturday. The display on the fifth floor of the Bay is to run until May 5. Dies in j House fire a 17-year-old then Ager died in a fire at his Home in Selkirk Man. Saturday after alerting his roommates. Dead is Wilfred Herbert dear of 307 main Street Sel Kirk. Ramp said the dear youth apparently became trapped in the House after waking Richard and Randy Jehle the other occupants of the House. Or. Dear s roommates both Brothers escaped the fire uninjured. Selkirk fire chief swampy Bjornson said the House Vas an inferno the the fire department was called in it . The fire was under control within 45 minutes. The boy s body was found in a bedroom he said. Air. Bjornson staid he under stood Hie Brothers were awakened by or. Dear but in the shuffle two got out to did the three had been renting the House he said. The fire was believed to the result of smoking in bed police said. The Case is under investigation ;