Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday March 14, 1975 wings wheels and water by John Mcmanus marketing experts say Grain rally Likely to fizzle t r a n s a i r was quoted wednesday As saying it was keeping an almost nor Mal routine along its sys tem which involves about 50 flights a Day. At mid night tonight a week will have gone by since executives and supervisors started taking Over ticketing baggage handling and the multitude of minor but important things that make an airline go with satisfied customers. This week it seemed As though it was Welcome break from office routine Dan Mcdougall senior vice president was driving a tractor hauling bags and equipment Sandy mor r i s o n executive vice president was handling baggage while All men and women who could be s p a r de from trans air Headquarters were trying to do business As usual. It has been a Long week for the volunteers and it has been for the machinists and ticket agents on strike since company and Union agreed to disagree april 28. Just to qualify i do not cover labor this is ably done by our labor authority Dudley Magnus at the terminal there Are signs that it in t so Jolly handling airline routines usually done by employees Practised at ticketing bag gaming and other regular duties. Even if the Tran Sair brass can keep doing double duty they must have a nagging fear of any thing More than a tire changes on one of their airliners. In addition trans air has for rent commercial Freezer storage Freezer lockers smokehouse 339-7905 Large farm equipment car truck auction for Hardisty motors Ltd. At Hardisty Alberta sat March 22, 11 . 30 tractors incl 1969 vers 145, Deere incl 2 5020, 2 4020, 2 4010, 5010, 730 . 900, 705 g6. Case 1030 930 plus Many others. Most units in very Good condition Field ready. Several tractors end loaders. 2 cats d8 46a Angle Dozer canopy new torque. D7 3t Dozer 4 canopy. Tillage incl. Cultivators Rod weeders by mor Ris . Robin. 1 new Schulte ground drive Rock picker. Several . Disks off set disks incl. Schaffer 17 . 16 More. Harvest equip., 3 to 1 up Swather 5 com Bines . 95. Case 660, . 92. Cockshutt 428, vers. 42 to Quanrud chaff Saver. Vers. Grain Auger haying incl. 2 60a Hesston Stak hands forage harvesters new Bolens Garden tractor 8 x 22 Goose neck trailer. 25 used trucks incl. 1973 Gumc 9500 tandem 318 pm diesel plus 11 farm trucks 1973 Down. 2-3 ton some Box hoist some cab Chassis. 10 pickups from 1974 Chev a ton v8 Auto. 1973 Chev a ton 454 v8 Auto air condition ing Down. Several k tons. 15 used cars incl. 74 Pont. 4 or. Ht., 73 Pool. 4 or. Sedan 73 Vega 2 72 Furenza a others. 3 ski Doos motor Bike. New 14 x 56 Chinook Mobile Home fully furnished. Norseman tent trailer. Good variety new used tires for cars trucks tractors. Numerous combines swathes cars trucks sold for wrecking. Lunch by local 4h club. Sale held indoors if bad weather. Loading available. Subject to additions deletions. Riih. For More information Contact John at 18-3828 or the auctioneers. Lie. Haverland auction ering Ltd. 16610 93 at. 403-484-5164 Edmonton Alberta a variety of air planes from several countries that could involve removing an air plane from service for some Revenue change. Its Fleet includes american British european and Ca Nadian air planes ranging from jets to prop jets and helicopters. Pilots of the calibre at trans air won t Fly too Many hours in a plane that is giving Trou ble. So the air planes and not the people May decide the trans air strike. Members of the Mani Toba. A aviation Council Mac will get a first hand briefing on Canada and its leadership i n developing Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft the speaker at 7 . In the chamber of Commerce club tonight is former Wing commander Paul a. Hartman. If you Aren t impressed that he came out of the air Force As a Winco in 1967, you have to be impressed by what he did be fore and since. He Learned to Fly in 1937 and joined the Caf in 1941. He was with cepe the air forces Central experimental and proving establishment for 15 years. He was much involved in experimental developmental and production flight testing. Or. Hartman has flown 136 different types of single and Multi engined air planes ranging from the Silver Dart to the Cf-104 and the Here. He has supervised programs test flight operations and writ t e n operational require ments. Since retiring from the certification trials of Cana Dair s cl-215 and the test of the Trident Grigull sin g 1 e amphibian he s a graduate of the Empire test Pilot school and Craf staff College. He was recently elected to the aviation Hall of Fame. Or. Hartman is currently work ing As a consultant test Pilot on the National re search Council s transportation aircraft program. Dave Austin information spokesman for the ministry of transport in this Region estimates final figures will show Winnipeg International Airport will show More than two Mil lion passengers used the Airport in 1974 a 20 per cent gain Over the 1973 Fig ure of which was a 22 per cent Rise Over 1972. It is estimated Pas Senger use growth at the Winnipeg terminal is about double the Canadian average. Means More activity for the information Booth on the second level of the terminal. The Booth is readily identifiable be cause it is marked with a Large i the Symbol used in All International airports who need help locating a Section of the Airport even if it is just the Cabal Leros room. Supervisor of the Centre is Armande Mckenna who has a staff of three and All Are bilingual. They give guid Iid Tours of the term in Al explain operations of the terminal Supply tourist information on the City and province and provide histories of the capital and province As Well As try to find a visitor the Best place to fish. In five years the Security Force at the Airport has multiplied sixfold. Ramp staff sgt. E. G. Ted Varndell has a staff of four corporals 32 ramp Airport police one ramp dog master and a Bright spot in the detachment office a civilian stenographer. British airways which used Winnipeg As a Crew change on flights West from London to los an Geles five Days a week will no longer Stop Over and enjoy Winnipeg hotels and hospitality after april 25. The airline had been using a b-707, and the Winnipeg fuel Stop was a necessity. Leaseback it. Garry Square feet zoned suitable for bunding 7 000 Square feet and up will build to suit tenant. Pres Tige building Square feet also available for client requiring spacious offices and shop for Light manufacturing. 453-8126 however Claude Pothier of the airline s Winnipeg of fice said the British line has leased a wide bodied dc-10 from air new Zea land and will Fly London to los Angeles and return without a fuel Stop at Winnipeg. By Judy Woytiuk a technical rally in Grain markets that has been sustained now for about two weeks in t expected to last much longer say Grain marketing experts in major Winnipeg Compa Nies. In fact the Short lived All out attack tax evaders Are target by i. H. Asper h one thing can be safely forecaster in the operation of the Revenue. Department in the next few years it is an intensified attack on what it considers tax avoidance schemes. The determination to stamp out tax minimization schemes began around the time tax Reform was Berns conceived about eight years ago. Since then a special and Little known unit of the department has been functioning with the objective of identifying widely used tax avoidance or minimization devices studying them and launching a wave of reassessments with a View to discouraging the practice or getting test cases to the courts. Since that reign of terror began the courts have been kept Busy judging Between what is a legitimate tax Les sening activity and what constitutes undue or artificial avoidance. The size and scope of operations of the anti avoidance unit has expanded considerably. Most tax planning consultants across the country grew up under the court ennui rated doctrine that it is perfectly legitimate and will produce no Adverse rulings from the courts nor harassment from tax officials if one organizes his affairs so that the Structure will result in his paying less tax than if he d organized them differently for them these years have been frustrating As the Revenue has moved inexorably from that classic stance to posture to the effect that if the Only reason one embarks on a transaction is to seek a tax advantage then it will regard the entire transaction As a Sham and will seek to Light it. To tax practitioners this attitude not entirely but often supported by the courts is known As the business purpose test. The theory is that if one does something for a definable and reasonable business purpose and chooses to do it in a manner which also minimizes has tax the Revenue will not ordinarily quarrel with it provided that the saving of tax however great is Only incidental to the main business purpose of the transaction. This is not to suggest that the elite tax Cracker group in Revenue is right nor that the courts will Back them up As they test their theories. But it does serve notice that tax planning in Canada has changed and it is no longer sufficient to comply with the letter of the Law but also its spirit As Well. The difficulty is in trying to discover that alleged spirit. When one finds senior tax gathering officials privately confiding that even the letter of the Law is in comprehensible to even them what Chance has anyone else in finding much less understanding elusive what can one say is the spirit of a Law which allows a registered retirement savings plan to invest in Securi ties or stocks of a Bank but not the debentures or Securi ties of another company guaranteed by that same Bank or which says the employees pension plan can invest in the Stock of the competitor company whom you Are try ing to out gun but not in the Stock of the company on whom everyone depends the employer company nevertheless that s the trend planners must learn to Cope with it. It is Well known that the anti avoidance techniques designed to split income amongst several members of the same family executive pension plan arrangements and offshore investments through companies located in Low tax or tax free jurisdictions Are current favourites of taxpayers and of equal interest to their protagonists in Revenue. A former Inland Revenue commissioner from England once observed in observing Canada s attempt to build an hermetically sealed airtight tax Law that every Good tax system should have a few Loop holes. He was t Advocat ing wholesale tax avoidance but was identifying the obvious people Are not perfect and if they feel crowded and Claustrophobic in a big brother system they will re Spond in an anti social manner. That is True. In the name of equity a political which has nothing whatever to do with fairness the sys tem is philosophically wholly inequitable to begin with. It has nothing whatever to do Vith Justice but everything to do with of plucking the largest handful of feathers from the Goose while producing the and softest squawks. It was always thus because successive generations of government have built up a level of expectation of ser vice from the Public that can Only be met by the imposition of punitive taxes. That can t be undone but what ought to be changed is the attitude of the administrative czars who often without realizing it have developed the attitude that All Revenue belongs to the state and it is by the state s Grace and discretion that one is allowed to keep for himself some portion of the fruits of his labors. That won t work. But until the convulsion occurs which dynamite Revenue bureaucrats away from their egalitarian hysteria the intelligent and sophisticated will continue to tax plan their affairs. But in the Light of current trends they will have to plan much More carefully and they will. Or. Asper is a Winnipeg lawyer. New York upswing is already disappearing from the Chicago and Winnipeg prices. Bulhe rally had to happen in the face of prices that Slid too far and too fast Over two months said one trader. What had to happen has but a Little sooner than sex commented an other. The rally came about at the beginning of the month after Grain Market prices in Winnipeg and Chicago bottomed out some at Levels unheard of for Al most two years. Chicago soybeans at that Point dropped to under from the level in Jan uary their lowest Price in 21 months. Corn futures followed a similar pattern in the nearby futures dropping to from the mid january Price of Over Winnipeg commodity prices followed the pattern being set by Chicago said one company Grain trader the Barley Cash close Price dropped to at the Low Point on feb. 28, from a mid january Price of the Barley Street Price at that time was around the level 15 cents below the initial payment being offered by the Canadian wheat Board. More than one trader feared the do m e s t i c Barley Market might be adversely affected if that Type of Price relationship continued for any length of time. Farmers Are silly if they sell their Barley on the open Market when the Price is actually lower than the initial pay being offered by the said a Richardson s marketing analyst. He feared a switch in delivery patterns which could result in a shortage of Barley to Eastern Canada. However other traders wondered if the slide in Domestic Barley prices and the drop in United states Corn prices May indicate a Low final payment on Cana Dian wheat Board Export Barley. In the last week of february new contract lows were established three times on the Chicago Board of Trade. But on March 1, the up turn began and by March 11, Chicago nearby futures had inched upwards to for wheat for Corn and for soy Beans. This Winnipeg nearby Barley future had risen to Winnipeg traders believe the upturn is Only Tempo Rary expecting it to last Only for a few More Days or a week now at the most. Well reach a Peak and then turn around predicted one Veteran trader with a major Cana Dian company. The firming of the mar Ket is attributed partly to a feeling by the Grain Trade that prices were just Down too said one trader. A marketing Ana Lyst for an International Grain company added Market is super sensitive at this some liquidation by . Farmers in particular contributed to the downturn some traders said and speculators who established fairly healthy Short positions observed one trader began to take some profit by buying Back contributing slightly to the upturn. As Well said the trader there is also some slightly better demand in Europe at these prices and they May be buying some to average out their higher Price Grain with some lower priced he said one Factor sus Taining the temporary mar Ket firm up this week was buying by a Large International company believed by some As being for Possi ble coverage of a Sale to Russia. But then when knows who the Sale is to everyone assumes it s either Russia or the trader said. Basically despite the up turn the Trade is still he said. All prospects appear to Point to Good supplies High Plant ing Levels and a continued Rush in world demand for some time. The Only Factor going the other Way is the possibility of lower acreage As farm input costs apparently continue to Rise i hear fertilizer is still going up and lower Grain prices will cause Farmers to re evaluate their acreage plans this pipeline ski concern was costs Yellowknife . Up a Federal government report says Canadian Arctic Gas pipelines Ltd. Was More concerned with cutting costs than with avoiding areas of environmental problems when it chose its proposed path for a Mackenzie Valley pipeline. The charge is made in a list of 26 concerns and recommendations compiled by seven department of the environment scientists who evaluated the Arctic Gas project. The list is an outline of a report the task Force will submit to or. Jus Tice Thomas Berger of the British Columbia supreme court federally appointed com missioner of an conducted into inquiry being the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Steve Zoltai head of the task Force said in a Telephone inter View from his Edmonton office wednesday that the report de fines several serious Environ mental snags that still face the project. But he added none of the problems were in surmountable. The charge that Canadian Arctic Gas was More concerned with Money than environmental problems in Choos ing its primary route for the proposed pipeline is contained in a Point about the problems involved with groundwater Dis charge areas and difficult Stream Crossings. The applicant selected the pipeline route to minimize construction Cost and has chosen to apply engineering solutions to environmental problems encountered rather than avoid the problems by re routing the the report also says that while Arctic Gas proposed to Clear a 120-foot-wide. Right of Way for pipeline construction nowhere is the necessity for the Width justified. The task Force said 120 feet is an excessive Width and recommends it be reduced to 90 feet on Sensi Tive permafrost areas. Other concerns and recommendations listed by the scientists include the pipeline should be placed on elevated supports at certain locations because the proposed chilled buried line will freeze previously Unfrozen terrain the planting of grass alone on the right of Way will not prevent erosion and that Arctic Gas should Experiment with other Means of insulation aircraft flyways on the right of Way must be established to minimize disturbance to wildlife and the Fly ways should be subject to Ca Nadian wildlife service approval produce Arctic Gas must pro vide information on the containment and clean up equip ment available in the event of fuel and Oil spills at stockpiling and major fuel Transfer Points Arctic Gas May be responsible if a pipeline is built for contributing to the deterioration of fish life and thus should join the govern ment in a program of water resource conservation nitric oxide emissions of the natural Gas fuelled com p r e s s o r. Stations along the route of the pipeline must be reduced to Safe Levels under a atmospheric conditions. The 41-year-old Justice from the supreme court of British Columbia also was concerned with the timing of the Arctic As decision to Cross the Delta. In its original plans the company had not even consid ered entering the Delta for environmental reasons. But it informed the commis Sion last week it planned to use the Delta As an alternate route for some 36 Miles. Ii would save the company about million. Even in the world of Arctic Gas that is not an i consid e r a b 1 e amount of Money commented judge Berger. Pierre Genest lawyer for Arctic Gas said it had been assumed that a pipeline could not intrude on the Delta. But Crescini fruit co. Ltd. Friday March 14, 1975 vegetables cabbage Texas Premium 50 ibs. 5.10 Green onions caller. 1 Doz peppers cat. Green 5 tos 2.75 radishes 1 Doz 1.50 tomatoes 6x7 30 ibs 7.00 potatoes washed reds 75 ibs 3.00 commission House prices butter Richardson securities Ltd. Friday March 14, 1975 or. Cd. Allied chem 35% 36 Amerada Hess 18% Amer motors 63a 6% Amer airlines 8% 9% Amer tit in 51% Aramco 27% 27% at Rich Avon Bausch lomb 23% 24 seat ads beneficial corp 17% 17% Boise Cascade 17 Bristol Myers 62 62v8 Burlington nth 36 36% Burroughs 89% Campbell soup 30vt 31 is Caterpillar 63% to Champion into 16vj Chase Manhattan 33 a 33% Chrysler 11% 11% coca cola 77vt cons Edison 11% Crown Zeller 31% 31va Dart Indus 23% Deere co 38% 3? Disney 44% Dow chem Eastman Kodak a 9p Elpaso Nat g 13% Exxon corp 75% 76 Ford motor 37% Gamble Skogmo 24% 24v? Gen elec Gen ads 25 a Gen motors 42% 43 a Geo Pacific 40% 40 Gillette 31% 31% Goodrich 15% 15% Goody tire 17% Gulf Oil corp 20 Honeywell household finance ism int l Harv 2i% int l minerals 35 int l . T 19% Johns mans 22% Johns a Johns 93vi Kimberly cd 3ovi Kresge 24% Toyds elec 23a Mcdonnell Doug 11% Minnesota mining Mobil Oil 41 National Reg 23% Newmont 20% Northrop 26% Northwest air 19% outboard Marine 19 pan am air tax Penney Penn life co Philip Morris 44% Phillips p 41 is Polaroid Proctor Gamble 95 Ria corp Royal dutch 36% Safeway 42 Schenley ind 2va Scott papers 17 Sears Roebuck Shell Oil stand oils. 24% Texaco inc Texas Gulf 26 Union Carbide 53w Union Pac corp 9% uniroyal Winnebago 4% Woolworth 13% Xerox corp 77% 31 15% 217% 36vj 20% 22% 31% 25 27a 11% 51% 41 23% 21v8 26% 19% 4% 56% 1 a 47 41% 24 96 37 42% 2vsb 17% 26% 25% 26 53% 70% 8% 5% 13% 77% eggs minimum prices to producers for ungraded eggs . Winnipeg As re ported by the Manitoba egg marketing Board effective feb. 28, 1975. Grade a extra Large 53 Grade a Large 50 Grade a medium 47 Grade a Small Grade b 28 All poultry prices live no. 1 to producers delivering Winnipeg except Chicken Chicken Chicken broilers 33 Chicken 33 Chicken Towl Over 5% --18 fowl under 03 a-.04 fowl 4va-5% .03w-.04 turkeys Turkey broilers 0 Turkev Toms Turkey hens metals London a thursday closing metals in pounds Ster Ling per metric ton Silver in Pence per Troy ounce spot settlement Copper wire bars 547.5-548 tin 3020-3025 Lead 224.75-225 Zinc 328.75-329.25 Silver 187.8-188 futures Copper wire bars 566.5-567 tins 3040-3044 Lead 217.75-218 Zinc 327.25-327.50 Silver 3 months 193.1-193.3 environmental studies had Sha Ken that Assumption he said. Judge Berger said a wanted to know what came environmental studies showing that the Delta could be crossed or the discovery that Mil Don could be saved by that route. After All that is what this inquiry is All he said. Arctic Gas witnesses replied they believed the studies came first. But company policy wit Nesses Are to appear later for a definite answer. Russell Anthony lawyer for Canadian Arctic resources committee tried without Suc Cess to get some information on any tie in Between the pipe line and the Highway to the Arctic announced More than five years ago by prime min ister Trudeau. Or. Dau said he Only knew what he read in the news papers about the Road to the Arctic. But witnesses said that the Highway had come to a standstill awaiting Environ mental studies. 8 the mint your full service motor inn excellent facilities available for weddings socials luncheons business meetings wind Call the catering specialist Helen Turner at 453-8247 notice Canadian Superior Oil Ltd. Canadian Superior Oil Ltd. Hereby announces that its an Nual and a special general meeting of shareholders will take place on april 16th, 1975 and the record Date for All shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting is april 1st, 1975. . Jonas vice Prail Dent and general counsel Okanagan opportunities 1 92 acre Lakeshore development property near Kelowna. It. Excellent frontage on Okanagan Lake. Top holding property for future subdivision or youth Camp or Mobile Home Park or combination. New paved Highway being built to replace present gravel Road. On completion of Road value should double. Asking Good terms. Mls. 2. Wheels wheels Well established motor Cycle and snowmobile shop. Volume in excess of with net and Good lease with room for expansion. Yamaha and Harley franchises plus All office and shop equipment. Asking plus Stock parts and accessories at approx. Half Cash required. Mls. For details write or phone Jess Coffey Melton real estate . Ltd. 243 Bernard ave., Kelowna 762-4919 or res. 769-5126. Macdonald Cockburn Mcleod Mcfeeters architects and engineers a. S. Lorimer b. Arch. A. Barman b. Arch. W. Krenz Macdonald Cockburn Mcleod Mcfeeters wish to announce the addition to the firm of or. A. S. Lorimer b. Arch., and or. A. Berman b. Arch., and the appointment of or. W. Krenz As production manager of the Winnipeg office. Or. A. S. Lorimer b. Arch., . M.r.a.i.c., has been involved in the practice of architecture in the province of Manitoba for the past 15 years. For the last 10 years he has specialized in the planning and design of health care facilities and most recently held the position of assistant director of planning for the Manitoba health sciences Center. Or. A. Berman b. Arch., ., o.a.a., m.r.a.i.c., has been involved in the practice of architecture in the province of Manitoba for the past 25 years. His experience has included All Fields of architectural practice while most recently specializing in educational and institutional facility planning. Or. W. Krenz has been involved in All aspects in the Field of architectural production and delivery for the last 19 years his experience includes involvement in planning for health care recreational educational and institutional facilities of All sizes and complexity. He is a member of the architectural drafting advisory committee of red River Community College. Macdonald Cockburn Mcleod Mcfeeters is involved in All Fields of architectural practice and facility planning while specializing in health care educational and institutional design and development ;