Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 23 c Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises 4-15 . Sets . Details Winnipeg free press final edition vol. S3 no. 205 wednesday May 26, 1976 o coloured comics Green rejects Independent look at flyer by Alice Krueger free press legislative reporter the Manitoba government has rejected a suggestion by provincial auditor w. K. I prick that it hire manage ment experts to look at the operations of the financially troubled flyer industries limited. We need More manage ment consultants like a Hole in the mines minister Sidney Green said wednes Day in an interview. The minister who is in charge of the Manitoba development corporation which owns 85 per cent of flyer said the government has had several reviews by manage ment consultants which had resulted Only in costs to the taxpayers. We be had management consultants before and their books Are in Good shape but ours Aren or. Ziprick s recommendation follows a special audit flyers operations late last year. He had requested the audit and was Given the go ahead by Premier Schreyer who is finance minister. The corporation has loaned the bus building firm Mil lion. The auditor indicated to the committee that the Spe Cial audit of flyer was Nec Essary because he is required to certify the books of the development corporation. Or. Green conceded there were problems two years ago the period which had concerned or. Ziprick. However. The minister said he thought there a been considerable improvement since 1-hat time. 11 e declined information about the 1975 financial Pic Ture of the company saying flyer would be discussed in t h e legislature s economic development committee thursday. The memo to or. Schreyer following the special audit by or. Ziprick has nothing to do with the main viability of the company As far As i or. Green said. He said it was easy for or. Ziprick the provincial auditor to say what should is done in a company run by its own management. But i Don t think or. I prick is qualified to say How a bus company is t h e minister expressed Confidence in the company s management and Board of directors. Or. Ziprick s recommendation coupled with severe criticism of the bus manufacturing firm s accounting procedures. Was turned Over to the government about four a worker Doug Croff packs the Earth around one of several Trees being planted outside the Winnipeg convention Centre this week. The Trees Are being put in place in the front Plaxa on St. Mary Avenue and along the North Side of the building on Graham Avenue. Get tightens jobless Sec Independent Page 4 failure to Lead attacked by Dan Pottier free press correspondent opposition leaders yesterday panned the new Federal budget saying it failed to provide economic leadership for the Castry at a time of High inflation and unemployment. Conservative Leader Joe Clark and new democratic party Leader de Broadbent both hit on this Issue soon after finance minister Don Ald Macdonald presented his first budget to the commons. I am very or. Clark told reporters because this budget does not give economic leadership to the country. I had Hopes for or. Macdonald but he lost his chances to give Leader More budget in Page 6 the budget is so cautious according to or. Clark that one can wonder Why he bothered to bring it in at or. Broadbent described or. Macdonald s Effort As a smug and uncaring it reads he said in a statement As if it were written in a vacuum without reference to the economic realities of Canada in 176. There arc now More than people without jobs in Canada. The anti inflation program has aggravated the problem and the liberals have failed completely to pro vide economic or. Clark said the budget contained no encouragement to increase Canada s rate of economic such growth is needed he said to create More jobs and develop the kind of climate of Confidence needed to solve the problems Canada faces. There is no direction no stimulus to growth and no examples of How the govern ment will Lead in the restraint he added. He was asked if measures like lightening up Price controls would appease labor or reduce its opposition to the wage and Price controls. I do not know if labor will be he replied but in the Long Range we will have to bring labor into the determination of National eco nomic policies. Control personal taxes left untouched big car excise rate to Rise single Parent s deduction up finance minister Donald Mac Donald left and prime minister Trudeau were All smiles As they entered the House of commons for the budget speech. Both men cd relaxed and confident. By Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa finance min ister Donald Macdonald last night produced a cautious steady As she goes budget with no major tax changes for individuals. He described his first Bud get As realistic and resting within the strict limitations of unemployment and inflation which constrained any abrupt government action. Of would rather be de scribed As unimaginative than explained the nine month finance min ister. Although he left individual taxpayers virtually untouched or. Macdonald did announce measures to encourage Energy development and conservation to tighten up administration of the unemployment insurance com Mission to bring More equity to administration of the anti inflation program to encourage savings and to promote the user pays principle. In the personal income tax Field the allowable child care deduction which May be claimed by working women or single Parent fathers was doubled to per week per child and per year per child with a total maximum annual limit of the tax deductible amount that taxpayers May put into registered pension plans registered retirement savings plans and or deferred profit sharing plans was raised to a year from the present where the individual is not a member of a registered pension plan the tax deductible amount that can be contributed to registered retire ment savings plans or deferred profit sharing plans is increased to from to promote Energy Conser vation or. Macdonald pro posed a specific excise tax of on air conditioners for use in automobiles station wagons vans and smaller trucks. He also announced a Sharp increase in the excise tax on larger automobiles to be phased in Over the next four years and designed to Force Auto manufacturers into production of smaller lighter cars. The threshold weight level for imposition of the tax will be reduced Over the four year period from pounds to for cars and to 3.700 pounds from for station wagons. The annual reductions will be 250 pounds for cars and 356 for station wagons. In addition the applicable rate of excise tax will be in creased. Effective aug. 1, 197g the rate will be for the first 100 pounds for the second Sec budget Page 4 delivery in two years Canada to pay million for 128 w. German tanks Cost by David Lee free press legislative reporter the Manitoba government will spend at least in the next 11 months to enforce its new rent control Legisla Tion about for every apartment unit in the prov Ince. In an interview tuesday consumer affairs minister Ian Turnbull said a special Cabinet warrant has allotted to the new rent re. View Board but More funds will be needed. The Board will need an additional and possibly More than to continue operating to the end of the government s fiscal year March 31, he said. There Are see rent Page 4 Ottawa up the government apparently is going into its latest armed forces modernization Tion of the Leopard tank from West con Cerns about financing. Government officials said tuesday that the 128 tanks plus support systems which Canada will buy will Cost million that deliveries will Start in january 1978, and payments will come progressively out of defence department budgets. Government plans to spend billion on 18 Lockheed Orion patrol aircraft died last week when the company was unable to raise financing from Canadian Banks. Decision of the government to buy the Leopard was announced in Europe this week end by travelling external affairs minister Allan Mac Eachen. It came As the min ister was telling his nato allies of the failure of the Orion program. Questioned about the announcement in the commons defence minister James Richardson said negotiations on the Sale Are not yet Complete although they Are proceeding satisfactorily. Inco Union brass urges june 1 strike he told Dan Mckenzie pc South Centre that there arc a number of matters to be concluded yet. Or. Mckenzie said he Hopes that the bungling of the Orion Deal will not be repeated and that there will be closer Liaison this time be tween or. Richardson and Jean Pierre g o y e r Supply minister who will have to sign a Leopard contract. This was a reference to opposition charges that the de Fence and Supply departments did not know what each was doing during negotiations with Lockheed. Aussie to swim for canadians Stephen Badger gets games nod Ottawa Stephen Badger has been granted final approval by the inter National olympic committee to swim for Canada at the Montreal olympic games. The . Approval was granted under a Rule which permits interchange under special circumstances be tween citizens of common wealth countries. Earlier the australian olympic federa Tion and australian swim Ming Union had granted their approval. Julian Carroll Canadian Amateur swimming association executive director said All that remains is for him to qualify for a place on the olympic the olympic swim trials will be held at Etobicoke out. On june 1 5 and Badger is expected to qualify in the 400 meter and 1509 meter events. Thompson Man. Staff the executive of the United steel workers of America local 6166, voted Here tues Day to recommend a strike june 1 against the Federal anti inflation Board s wage Rollback in its agreement with Inco limited. A leaflet to be distributed to the hourly paid Inco employees wednesday says the executive recommends a Legal strike on june 1 to protest and fight for our right to a fair and decent Standard of living reached through free collective bar a strike vote will be taken at mass meetings Friday. Union president Blake Mcgrath said the executive was w it i the Board s failure to give the Union a decision on its a peal of the Rollback or any indication when a decision will be made. It s incredible the Board can Deal with the residents of Thompson and the people of the North and Western Canada in such a callous the Board s original Deci Sion reduced the wage and benefits increase to 12.9 from 18.5 per cent. The Union executive stressed that it is against an illegal strike which would put us in a compromising position and would allow the anti inflation Board a free hand in determining our final contract the Union s contract with Inco expires May 31 and a Legal strike is possible june 1. Or. Mcgrath said we got no word out of Ottawa tues Day either Here or at our National office in Toronto. It puts us in a helluva Tough situation because our con tract runs out May 31." an Inco spokesman said wednesday the company has heard absolutely mayor Tom Farrell said he was unable to get any information from the Board s offices in Winnipeg or Ottawa tuesday. Finally we got our member of parliament s assistant in Ottawa to go to the Aib office. He was told the Thompson Appeal was Dis cussed last week and would be on the Agenda again this Brooke Sim in editor of local 6166 publication steel Gauntlet said there is a Strong element in the local pressing for an immediate Wildcat strike. By Alan Christie free press staff writer Fargo North Dakota thousands of Manit buns shop Cash week with one purpose in mind Sav ing Money on lower prime United states merchandise by lie Canadian Federal government s hidden taxes incl sales taxes thai make Canadian goods move expensive. In Diviny eases the savings Are . Even if the Thrifty Canadian shopper pays duty on the bulk of lie items to has bought in the United states. A free press reporter after checking prices in Winnipeg drove 220 Miles to Kai go. As did. It seems thou Sands of Winnipeg Gers. Many never reached Down town but stayed hotels off interstate Highway 20. Where they had easy Access to two major shop pins centres and to bar gains ranging from a few cents to hundreds of dollars. In the Holiday inn across from the West acres shop Ping mall All but 25 of the 651 registered guests last saturday morning were Ca Nadian according to the hotel s management. Rating a four per cent state sales tax instead of a five per cent provincial sales lax and no Federal tax at All Manitoban often spend at least 48 hours in North Dakota allowing each to bring Back Worth of merchandise without paying application of some realizing the savings arc so Large buy major appliances pay the duty when they re shipped Home and still save a couple of Hundred dollars. A Salesman at the Bay department store in Winnipeg showed a reporter an am an a r a d a r a n g e Selling for you la find it s or Down lie said. At. De Lendric pics a Large department store in the West acres mall the Price of the Range was Norb Crl magic a sales Man at the Sears store in Winnipeg s Polo i Ark shop i n g Centre often visits Farjo to compare prices. Top of the line 26-Inch color television which Sells for up Here would to less Down or. Magne was right. At Sears Roebuck in West see Manitoban Page to today for people Manitoba safety Council initiates safety training course for motorcycles. Page 25. Finance master charge a late starter is hot on the heels of its rival charge. Page 38. Sports u1i Nilsson got a hat trick to move the jets within one win of the wha title. Page 69. Inside Bridge in classified 5g-g7, 76-81 comics crossword Ocallis Horoscope. Jumble movies television it 5 31 5ft 37 32 nearly everyone reads the free press total City 13m4s ;