Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news Friday May 21, 1976 2nd class mall registration numb 02m Bishop Barry Valentine of the anglican diocese of Rupert s land top was one of several people and organizations who presented briefs to the Berger inquiry into the Mackenzie Valley pipeline in Winnipeg thurs Day. Or. Justice Thomas Berger of the . Supreme court above listens to the Brief while Abe Okpik Centre right and Jim sit tic hindi two of four native broadcasters Send ing reports to the North in six native languages for Csc take notes. A native demonstration lower photo was held during the inquiry at Bonnycastle Park two blocks from the hotel fort carry where the inquiry was conducted. Qty backs pipeline cites Gas shortage Bonner the City of Winnipeg citing present and future Energy declared Strong support for Early construction of a Macken Zie Valley natural Gas pipeline thursday in a Brief to the Berger com Mission. Councillor Bill Norrie said both Winnipeg and the province have built up a pattern of heavy Reli Ance on natural Gas for residential and Commer Cial needs and have Al ready suffered economically from shortages in the last two years. Insufficient Gas supplies from Alberta beginning in 1974 had caused severe disruptions in Home build ing and had been a sub Stantial detriment to new Industry and growth in the six other briefs from Winnipeg businessmen and firms followed the City s Lead in supporting one or both of the applications by Canadian Arctic Gas pipelines Ltd. And Foothills pipe lines Ltd., to build the pipeline. Austin p. Rathke president of the greater Winnipeg Gas co., told the one Day inquiry in the hotel fort Garry he supported the Arctic Gas plan rather than Foothills All Canadian route be cause it has the greatest probability of being economically and Environ mentally feasible sooner than the both or. Nome and m r. Rathke confirmed that insufficient Gas sup plies from Alberta had forced the greater Winnipeg Gas co. To deny ser vices to new residential customers freeze conver Sions to natural Gas and refuse commercial re quests for additional fuel. Two Manitoba land developers testified that the Gas company s inability to Supply sufficient Quanti ties of Gas had delayed several residential and commercial projects causing Cost increases. Gas Price Rise sought City protest time scant the greater Winnipeg Gas company has applied to the m i t o b a Public utilities Board for an increase in rates charged to More than residential and com Mercial Consumers of natural Gas. A Gas company spokesman said the Board is being asked to review the company s rate of return on its investment but could give no indication of the size of increase that might be approved. He said it would not be a major in crease compared to the est granted in recent years. The Board has scheduled Public hearings june 23 to 25 in Winnipeg to consider the application. Winnipeg s civic executive policy committee which received a notice thursday of the hearings was told the City May not have time to prepare a submission opposing the rate increases. The City May intervene if a Reso Lution of City Council is filed with the Board by june 15. Some members of policy committee wanted the City to oppose any increase in the Gas company s rates but finance commissioner g. R. Evans told committee there s precious Little time to prepare a submission to the utilities Board. Councillor c. John gee in dependent citizens election Boniface asked that the Board of com missioners prepare a report so the committee could de cide whether to make a sub Mission. Increasing Utility rates is an extremely complicated of or. Evans said. There s no reasonable sen sible or meaningful Way we can advise you other than in a cursory manner. The documentation needed for a report is fabulous and fantastic we Don t have the mayor Steve Juba suggested that the Board of commissioners return with a Sugges Tion that the City hire a consultant to advise it on whether u should make a submission. A Gas company spokesman said later the last increase in the company s rate of return was in october 1974, when the utilities Board allowed 9.12 per cent. It s directly involved with the degree of profitability if we fall below a fair return on our investment we Appeal to the Board and it gets a Chance to totally scrutinize our the spokesman said the Board used 1973 As a test year when setting the rate of ictus but wages have in creased drastically since 1973." there have been two con tract agreements since 1973, the last one april 5, when about 230 Gas company employees received a wage in crease of 14.9 per cent Over one year plus 2.5 per cent in fringe benefits. An increase in rates in 1976 was predicted by the Gas company last Winter when it was granted rate increases averaging about a month for residential customers. Those increases were granted to allow the com Pany to recover the higher Price it had to pay for Natu ral Gas supplies. Landlords will get data in six weeks Manitoba landlords will Likely be told within six weeks How much they will be Al Lowed to increase their rents after oct. 1 under the prov Ince s rent control Legisla Tion. Consumer services min ister Ian Turnbull said thursday the provincial rent review Board Hopes to establish by july 1 the Max i m u m allowable rent in crease although it May need More time. Manitoba landlords would need to know by july l what the ceiling will be in order to pass it on to on oct. 1. Under provincial Laws three months notice of a rent increase must be Given tenants. The oct. 1, 1976, Dale rep resents the second period of rent controls in Manitoba. For the first period from july 1, 1375 to sept. 31, 1976, maximum rent increases of 10 per cent were allowed. Or. Turnbull replying in the legislature to questions from Lloyd Axworthy fort said it is certainly the intention of the rent review Board to set the new ceiling As soon As Possi ble. But because of a heavy workload that has followed implementation of the new rent control legislation there is no certain guarantee it will be set by july 1. Or. Turnbull said the government had agreed to allow the Board rather than the provincial Cabinet to establish the ceiling because it would have the experience of dealing with controls for several months. On another matter thurs Day or. Turnbull told Bob Wilson he had no idea How much his department was spending on advertisements to spread the word about rent controls. The minister said an advertising Campaign now under Way on radio and Tele vision would last about three weeks and was designed to make the Public aware of the provisions of the rent control legislation. However he added it May be decided to continue the advertisements indefinitely if it is Felt More information about the Prograis is needed u of m reviews policy Over foreign students Early retired inspector Letlon concerns Schreyer loses of pension a former police inspector who says he was Given a raw Deal by being forced to retire from the Winnipeg police Force before age 65 took his complaint thursday to civic executive policy com Mittee. The former inspector Earl g. Sutton told committee he is losing in annual pen Sion benefits by having had to retire at age 62, on june he said he had no proposal to make to the committee but later said there should be some restoration of my committee voted to refer the matter to the civic Board of commissioner for a re port. Or. Sutton conceded his complaint was sparked by City Council s decision to let chief Norman Stewart of the Winnipeg police department remain on the Force until age 65. The chief won a court Bat the with the City Jan. 21 in which he sought to be declared part of the City s new Man killed in Accident m i n a k i ont. Up Charles Clyde Byington 36, of Kenora ont. Was killed thursday afternoon in a sin Gle vehicle Accident .16 Miles South of this resort town. Ontario provincial police said the Driver Gary Wick Man 36, of Keewatin has been charged with Crimi Nal negligence. He is in hos Pital in Kenora in fair Condi Tion with broken ribs. Pension plan which specifies a retirement age of 65. Coun cil decided feb. 18 not to a peal. But or. Sutton told com Mittee thursday that be cause chief Stewart is a senior police officer the March 8, 1973, City pension bylaw amendment requiring retire ment at age 60 for senior officers should have applied to the chief just As it did to him. He told committee he was the first senior officer to re tire under the amendment provision. Later former Dep Uty chief Jack Webster and. Former inspector Harry Van Perveen also retired under the amendment. When or. Sutton was seek ing to avoid retiring in 1973, chief Stewart told him in a letter and also in Conversa Tion that he had to. Or. Sut ton said he also had spoken with chief commissioner d. I. Macdonald on the matter. Though or. Sutton declined to say later whether he would sue the City to claim the pension differential he reminded committee that Ottawa civic employees took a similar Case to the supreme court and won. The pension bylaw Amend ment was passed at the urging of the Winnipeg senior police officers association the senior officers bargain ing unit. The former inspector with 37 years on the Winnipeg Force gets a pension of but believes based on the annual pension formula of two per cent of the pensioner s average earnings Over his last five years of service multiplied by years of service he would have gotten a year had he retired at 65. I was healthy and quite capable of carrying on my he told the commit tee. Councillor Norm Stapon Independent citizens elec Tion committee East Kil Donan said Council realized in 1973 there would be prob lems similar to or. Sutton s. Mayor Steve Juba said these Are starting to haunt us now and we re going to have to face up to premiered Schreyer said thursday he Hopes All prov inces will soon adopt com Mon policies towards tuition fees and admission restrictions for foreign students planning to enter Canadian universities. Replying in the legislature to Harry Enns pc the Premier said he expected the matter of foreign students will be on the Agenda of forthcoming Federal provincial meetings. Or. Enns had asked the Premier if the government would be approaching the University Winnipeg about its proposed restriction on. Foreign students. The univer sity s Senate has recommended to the Board of regents that no More than 100 out of province foreign students be allowed admission next fall. Premier Schreyer said he had Only heard of the univer sity s position earlier in the Day so he had not decided what to do about it. He said he wanted to discuss it in Cabinet. However the Premier said the move by universities in Canada and the United states to impose such quotas As Well As to set inflated tuition fees for such students was untenable. Million Tab for Energy the Federal government s decision to increase the Domestic Price of Oil. And Natu ral Gas will add about million annual to Manitoba s Energy Bill Industry minister Leonard e v a n s of Manitoba said thursday. He said the decision will Cost an average Manitoba family of four an extra a year. At tie present rate of con sumption the increase per barrel of Domestic crude Oil will result in Manitoban paying million More a year for Oil and million More for natural Gas. The new pricing policy is inflationary and will have a serious effect on Manitoba Consumers who have Al ready been faced with steadily increasing Energy prices for the last three or. Evans said in a statement. Since 1973 alone he said higher prices have forced Manitoba s to pay about million More a year for Oil and million More for natural Gas. Evans who is chair Man of the Manitoba Energy Council said the six cent a gallon increase for gasoline will Cost Manitoban about million More during the first year to run their cars. He said Manitoban who heat their Homes with Natu ral Gas can expect an in crease in their annual heat ing Bills of about while those who heat with Oil face increase of about the minister repeated Manitoba s opposition to any increase in crude Oil prices during period of economic restraint. Based on figures supplied by the Federal government an increase of per barrel could cause the consumer Price Index to Rise one per cent. Therefore we can expect our Chi to increase by at least 1.75 per cent As a re sult of this he said. Or. Evans said Manitoba would continue to o p p o s e across the Board increases until there is evidence that the additional revenues being received by the companies and the governments involved would result in a new Supply of Domestic Oil. The minister also predicted there would be Price in creases on All products re Quiring use of Oil including building materials plastics and All other products manufactured by Energy intensive industries. By Esther Tennenhouse free press half Ershiel reporter the University of Manitoba is considering tightening Aca Demic requirements for visa students from a number of countries including Hong Kong and others with a Tish Type school system. On wednesday the univer sity of Manitoba Senate voted to restrict the number of foreign students from outside the province next fall. The quota subject to the approval of the University Board of regents limits out of provice foreign applications to 100. University of m a n i t o b a president or. Ernest sir Luck told a Board of governors meeting thursday recommendations on admissions requirements will be made to the Senate in the next month or two. He was responding to a question about the University s views on admission of foreign students. Foreign Stu dents have recently been fac ing tuition fee increases in Ontario and Alberta and Are no longer admitted to under graduate programs in u.. The president said that Al though its professional faculties and schools rarely admit foreign students the univer sity As a whole has no quotas and its Senate will not con Sider differential fees until the end of june or later. There is however a problem about appropriate Levels of preparation for University he told the Board. In an interview thursday or. R. I. Hudson chairman of Senate s admissions com Mittee said Senate will be asked to approve a recommendation which would re quire an additional year of secondary school from fresh men visa students trained under a British system of education. As a result Grade 12 Gra d u a t e s of Manitoba High schools if they Are visa students could be refused admission to the University he said. Another proposed recommendation could restrict admission of foreign students to child drowns at Deer Boine Stanley James Hofer 5, of the Deer Boine Hutt Erite co Lony in the Brandon area drowned wednesday evening when he apparently fell out of a homemade boat while playing with other children Winnipeg ramp said Friday. Courses unavailable in their own countries. We recommend that peo ple Complete As much Educa Tion As is practicable in their own he said. Or. Hudson said the com Mittee began studying requirements for visa students after faculty made some complaints about poorly pre pared students particularly overseas students. What the committee is now recommending is that the University not admit Over seas students unless they meet Entrance requirements of their own countries universities which often re quire an extra year of second Dary school he correction total enrolment in the French immersion program at Sacre Coeur school 597 Mcdermot Avenue is 477. It was incorrectly reported in wednesday s free press 900 students attend the school. Currently Many visa Stu dents come to Canada from Hong Kong Africa and Asia with the equivalent of Grade 11 and take their final year of High school Herd before entering University or. Hud son explained. If they stayed Home for University Many would have to take two years of secondary school beyond the Grade 11 level he Suid. The University of Manitoba already has a policy that Stu dents from other provinces must be acceptable to the major University in their own provinces he said. We think we should try to make a realistic application of this to students applying from or. Hudson said the com Mittee s recommendations must be submitted to the executive committee of Senate which could request changes before they go to Senate it self. This is a dynamite Riluar Tion and i Don t think you can Rush into he said. Approval expected for Art disclaimer legislation demanded by the soviet Union before a million Leningrad Art exhibit can be shown in Winnipeg appeared thursday to be headed for approval by the Manitoba legislature. The indication came when acting progressive conserva Tive Leader Donald w. Craik told the legislature he is pre pared to support the Bill although a number of his col leagues might t do so. Conservatives had been the strongest critics of the legis lation which would prevent anyone claiming the1 paint Ings by famous masters while they Are on display in the Winnipeg Art gallery. Conservative sources said it appears at present less than half the 23 caucus members will vote in favor in the free vote announced wednesday by attorney general Howard Pawley. However nip caucus sources said Only one or two of their members appeared to be opposed and two of the three Liberal Las have said hey support the Legisla Tion. Speaking thursday on second Reading of the Bill in the or. Craik indicated he did t completely agree with Harry Enns pc Whf said earlier he could t support the Bill because he suspected much of the work was acquire d by Leningrad s Heri Tage museum by question Able Means. Or. Enns said he would t want to deprive families who might have lost such valuable Art works of the right to claim them. Or. Craik said he thought All Art galleries whether in the soviet Union France England or the United states probably had some which at some Point had been stolen. He said that while he would prefer Federal govern ment action to protect the exhibit he believed it would t come to Winnipeg unless the Manitoba Legisla Ture approved the Bill. Gordon e. Johnston Portage la Prairie adjourned debate. He has indicated outside the Legisla Ture he supports the Mea sure. Theatre robbed two men a r m a d with handguns escaped with an undisclosed sum of Money following a robbery at the Colony Cinema 45if Portage Avenue about . Thursday ;