Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 20 c Jon rises sets . Moon rises . Sets . Details Page 5 Winnipeg free press final edition a Man five Feer 10 inches tall has Trou ble reaching up to life preserver Box on Post. Vol. 83 no. 202 still no Saver on the Bridge by Ray Wyant free press staff writer last summer a 19-year-old Winnipeg Man drowned in the Assiniboine River near the Assiniboine Park foot Bridge while trying to save the life of a 13-year-old girl in danger of drowning her self. The footbridge it was later Learned was t equipped with a life preserver which City officials said was sup posed to be there. There is still no sign of a life preserver on the Bridge. Instead the nearest and Only life preserver can be found about 45 feet away from the Bridge on the South Side of the River inside a White wooden Box mounted on a lamp Post surrounded by see still Page 4 Friday May 21, 1976 25c with coloured comics Ottawa consider Job creation by w4yne Cheve Layoff Globe and mail. Toronto Ottawa the Federal government is considering a new Large scale Job creation program in the face of an unemployment rate of 7.4 per cent the highest in 15 years sources say. Federal spending on direct Job creation was reduced in december when the opportunities for youth program was cancelled and the local initiatives plan budget lowered for 1976. But the manpower depart ment still favors direct Job creation to ease the High in photos by Alan Mackenzie it takes at least a minute and a half to get the life preserver and Cross Bridge again. Allmand defends action by Dan Pottier free press correspondent Ottawa solicitor Gen eral Warren Allmand denies using influence to have the National parole Board lift the suspension on environment minister Jean Marchand s drive Iii licence. Or. Tilmand told the com Mons thursday he had Only asked Board chairman Wil Liam Oular Bridge to Send or. M a r c h a n d the procedural rules Lor applying to have a licence suspension revoked. Or. Marchand who lost his License for a year last aug. 39, had it reinstated last March five and a half months applied dec. 4. He had lost his licence and paid a Fine after pleading guilty of failing to remain at the scene of an Accident. Jim Balfour East asked or. Allmand to table All correspondence on this matter so that Justice will not Only be done but will seen to be or. Allmand later told re porters if my action is called influence it is com plete or. Balfour was making a Mountain out of he added. Or. Allmand said that last year the parole Board had revoked licence suspensions in 262 cases. When asked by reporters if the appearance of the mat Ter was not what counted or. Allmand said if the wrong impression is being Given it is by or. the parole Board had Juris diction in the Case because the charge was covered by the criminal code of Canada. However that jurisdiction ended april 26 when the driving prohibition Powers were removed from the criminal code and left to provincial Highway traffic acts. Province is suing f for missing lathes the Manitoba government is proceeding with Legal action against a Swiss com Pany in an attempt to gain Possession of about in equipment for its forestry Complex at the Pas. The equipment consists of two giant lathes which the government claims were bought and paid for prior to the 1971 receivership of the Complex but which have never been delivered Leilur Hallgrimson chairman o f Manitoba forestry re sources said thursday. Or. Hallgrimson was appearing before the Manitoba legislature s economic devel o p in c n t committee which was meeting to. Consider the 1975 annual report of Mani Toba forestry resources. He said Manitoba has retained lawyers who Are working on the Case on Mani Toba s behalf. The lawsuit is see province Page 4 Good relationships could sour Quebec steel worker doubts general strike support Reisman unseated from cd Post Story writ tra alter an interview at the Lith biennial convention of the Ca Nadian labor Congress to Quebec City is composed from notes taken by an interpreter As the subject of the article spoke limited English and preferred to express himself in his native French by Dudley Magnus free press later reporter so you want a National one Day strike you wish to strike because you Don t like the wage controls set by the Federal government ,1s that it you chaps employed in the big Industrial area of Canada Are Strong As unionists in big Compa Nies and you others Are Strong in the civil service. My name is Theo Ganc. I m area supervisor in Northwestern Quebec for the United steelworkers of America. In the Industrial sector mining that is i m a vice president of the Quebec federation of labor. I look on myself As a Good Trade unionist. But have you thought of the Small companies and the men who work for them we would want a nationwide walk out to be a Success would t we Sec Story Page 5 even if our people can be Tough in wage negotiations there is often a Good relationship Between labor and manage m e n t representatives and Boss and see Quebec Page 4 by Jonathan Manthorpe Globe and mail. Toronto Ottawa the govern ment has forced former Deputy finance minister Simon Reisman into withdrawing from the Board of the Canada development corp. The government which holds a majority interest in the Canada development corp., revealed its intention not to vote for Tho re election of or. Reisman a few Days after he made a speech critical of government economic i policy. The government says it was preparing to vote against or. Reisman be cause of recent criticism in the commons of the govern m e n t s relationships with former senior civil servants. But sources with knowledge of the situation say the Mam reason was recent criticism by or. Reisman of Ottawa s economic policy. Continued see Reisman Page 4 More objectors than backers at pipeline hearing in City employment expected for the next few years and the Ca Nadian labor Congress is also pushing for a full employment program. Ottawa sources say that Al though it is unlikely the Cabi net will adopt a big new spending program for some time and next week s budget will contain Little if any new funds for direct Job creation manpower has been Advocat ing a major new initiative along the lines of the one proposed recently by the economic Council of Canada. The Council proposed last month in its labor Market scope of new tax worries business the government allocate a much larger amount perhaps a billion to create new jobs. It noted that the govern ment spent on unemployment insurance last year and this Money could be better spent if some of those collecting benefits were put to work at socially useful jobs. The manpower depart ment which has advocated getting More for the unemployment insurance commis Sion Dollar for some time see Ottawa Page 4 Allmand denies pressing parole Board earlier at a committee hearing or. Allmand said he had Bent Over backwards to avoid giving or. Outerbridge the impression that he wanted a favor done for or. Mar Chand. Was he Normal thing to pass on requests for information on rules and procedures and that he got such requests All the time. The solicitor general said it the parole Board was an in dependent quasi judicial body which decided on cases by it self. He said he meets or. Outerbridge who reports to him As the minister responsible several limes a month. By David Lee free press legislative reporter the provincial government has Given Manitoba business men a Sustik preview of its proposed new corporation capital tax and the information has apparently been met with considerable concern. The new tax expected to yield about million in Rev Enue this year was announced in the provincial budget last month without Many details about How it would be assessed. Basically premiered Schreyer told the legislature in his budget address a Levy of one fifth of one per cent of taxable capital owned by Large corporations was being introduced. The tax similar to one in effect in Ontario Quebec and British Columbia would be a More effective system of tax ing profits earned in Mani Toba by provincial National and International companies he said. Based on million of tax Able capital owned by a Large corporation he said a lax of would be levied. Although the province s taxation Bill has t been introduced yet in the Legisla Ture the Premier has said it will probably come next week the department of finance has already tipped off corporations about probable provisions of the new capital tax legislation. A brochure distributed by the department s information service says among other things 0 charitable organizations credit unions co opera Tives farm corporations and corporations with taxable capital of less than will be exempt from the new Levy. 0tue tax will be payable by All corporations except those exempted with fiscal years ending on july 1, 1976, or later. 0thc tax will be based on the capital of a corporation at the end of its fiscal year. 0 generally corporations will have to pay the tax by aug. 31. The provision that is apparently causing the most concern among businessmen however is the definition the oct scope Page 4 today business report big pay demands in construction May spark open shop trend. Page 25. Focus a shield jaw for the press never never says journalist Michael Valpy. Page 36. Sports tots but Happy with Victory in the first game of wha finals. Page 59. Inside Bridge classified comics if crossword 21 deaths Horoscope 23 Jumble to movies television 16 nearly everyone reads the free press is an err is he total City Lone by John Sullivan free press staff writer Manitoba supporters and opponents of the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural Gas pipeline squared off against each other in six hours of hearings before the Berger commission of inquiry in Winnipeg thursday. About two dozen briefs from business Church environmental and civil liberties groups As Well As from academics native associations and individual citizens were presented before a capacity audience at the inquiry s one Day session in the hotel fort Garry ;