Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press. Wednesday May 26, 1976 budget tightens jobless insurance 100 pounds for the third pounds and for each subsequent 100 Bounds. The full effect of these changes will As of aug. 1, 1979, result in to excise tax of on a car weighing pounds. As a further encourage ment for Energy conservation the present two year fast write off will be expanded to include certain types of equipment which contribute to efficient i x of. Energy re sources. The list includes equipment that permits Industrial waste to be used As a fuel source and equipment which produces fuel from Munini pal waste. The measure will apply to equipment Pur chased Between now and 1980. Or. Lac Donald also announced the removal of the 12-per-cent Federal sales tax from a number of items which contribute to develop ment of Energy sources other than Fossil fuels such As solar furnaces and heating panels wind powered generating equipment and heat pumps. To attract funds from canadians for resource explore 11 o n or. Macdonald announced that taxpayers would continued be permitted to write off immediately 100 per cent of their exploration costs incurred from now until july 1. 1979. To promote the govern ment s user pays principle or. Macdonald announced that the air transportation tax. Now collected from air travellers in Canada would be extended to tickets Pur chased outside the country for travel in Canada. Small businesses received a tax break in the form of in creased Peru issuable earnings which will be taxed at the Low 20-per-cent tax rate. The limit in profits per year Are being increased to from the present and the cumulative total to from the present the minister also Aii to o u n c e d increases in the write off rate for certain equipment computers to 30 per cent a year from the present 20 per cent. The write off rate is also being increased from taxis roads runways and offshore drilling platforms. However the write off rate on aircraft is being reduced to 25 per cent from 40 per cent. Other write off rate reductions Are proposed for radio television and radar equip ment electrical generating equipment. Earth moving equipment and leased Adver Tising signs. The total effect of the tax changes will be to reduce fed eral revenues by an estimated extremely minor adjustment to the government s fiscal position. Or. Macdonald said last year s budget was designed to add stimulus to the Economy. This budget retains that Posi Tion he said. It would not accept a suggestion that it was a Transi Tion budget designed to bold the line until the government develops Post controls strategy. However he stated in the budget address that Public discussion of Post controls policy would Start this fall. Manitoban find bargains in Fargo Price comparisons continued Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh watches a rowing race outside Helsinki Harbor in Finland tuesday. He was looking from a porthole on the finnish coast guard launch Vilma. Independent look at flyer rejected months ago. The report itself remains a secret government document and the recommendation to hire manage ment experts came out tues Day Only after considerable opposition questioning or or. Ziprick before a legislative committee. Later during the daily question period premiered Schreyer revealed that the suggestion had been rejected by the Board of flyer. The Premier gave no reason other than to say that it was Felt not to be a necessary application of he suggested the opposition try to find out thursday when the legislature s eco nomic development commit tee meets to consider the an Nual report of the Manitoba development corporation. Under questioning by act ing progressive conservative Leader Donald w Craik and Sidney pc River or. Ziprick told Public accounts committee of his recommendation. He said he had turned Over a prelim Inary report to the govern ment sometime in january following a special audit of flyer by his office. The auditor said the Spe Cial audit was carried out last december and Early january in co operation with the company s auditors. Or. Ziprick said the audit included a review of the company s 1974 operations its loss that year and the reasons for the financial difficulties. He also thu the committee the company s 1975 financial statement would not be cause of what he described As the horrendous state of the firm s accounting. However he added the company s new management has implemented a number of new accounting proce dures which should help to overcome some of the prob Lem. But there remain some computer difficulties with inventory he said and this is part of the Holdup in putting out a financial statement Tor 1975. Acres the regular Price was once in a while especially when we have a Sale on As we have now marked Down to we get canadians who pay duty and still come out s200 said Les Black a Salesman at the . Sears Roebuck store. What really causes our prices to be so High is the taxes especially that Federal hidden or. Magne said. The consumer ends up paying through the the Canadian government imposes the 12 per cent tax on manufactured goods both Domestic and imported. The color television set is made for Sears by Sanyo Canada of Montreal. The fed eral government s sales tax is applied to the Price at which Sanyo Sells the set to Sears. Neither Sears nor Sanyo would say what that Price was. There s there s no Way we can Dis cuss said a Sears representative from the com Pany s head office in Toron to. No retailer or manufacturer will disclose costs this is a very competitive critics including the con Sumers association of Canada say the Federal sales tax should be imposed at the re Tail level so it would t be i hidden from the consumer. Others say the sales tax should be abolished completely. Meanwhile canadians will ing to travel across the Border can Benefit from the Lack of a Federal . Tax. Alfred and Lona Schultz often leave their farm near Emerson Man., to buy food clothing and appliances in North Dakota. There s really such a Dif mrs. Schultz said. I bought a broiler oven in grand Forks for i saw the same thing in Winnipeg for Canadian car licence plates outnumbered us. Plates by 20 to 1 in the parking lot of the West acres mall and part of the reason May have been an advertisement in the free press last week. Herbst department store gave Cana Dian shoppers 10 per cent off the Price of All merchandise when they presented the Cou Pon from the paper. Canadians also find the Price of relaxing after shop Ping cheaper in the United states. Stopping off at the liquor store it amazes me to find Canadian whiskey cheaper than i can get it at said Gordon Brad Shaw of Winnipeg. Four fifths of a quart of Canadian club Rye whiskey Sells for in Fargo. In Winnipeg its equivalent 25 Sells for Bacardi White rum Sells for i Winnipeg in Fargo. Dewar s scotch is s8.45. In Winnipeg in Fargo. In Winnipeg Smirnoff s Vodka is in Fargo. Beefeater Gin Sells for in Winnipeg. In Fargo. And Southern Comfort. In Winnipeg Sells for in Fargo. Appliances Sears 26-Inch color television top of the line made for Sears by Sanyo Sears eight track stereo with recorder and play Back magnetic Cartridge Sears 10-Inch Black and White portable television general electric self cleaning Iron Spray steam dry with water window Sunbeam today Iron Westinghouse sesame can opener compared to . Equivalent Amana Rad Arange. Touch malic general electric toaster oven Corning Ware 10-cup Percolator clothing Levi s Bell Bottom Jeanj. Not pre washed Buster Brown girls shoes or. So Kwh s exercise san dais red Perry s Tennis shoes jockey shorts printed hip briefs jockey shorts regular Rise briefs Burlington Adler spurt socks Winnipeg Fargo stj99-00 business reaction to budget mixed miscellaneous Galaxy super fan. White base nine inches peanuts sheets by taste maker no Iron twin fit Ted plastic chaise lounge Sun cot Helena Brush on Peel off mask 4 ounce love s Cheek gel right guard Spray Deo Dorant 7-ounce Bee gees main course 1 album 1 some Manitoba business spokesmen expressed con c e r n and some optimism tuesday Over Federal finance minister Donald Mac Donald s budget. Harry Cavanaugh chair Man of the Canadian manufacturers association Mani Toba Branch called the Bud get a House keeping move. He predicted the proposal forcing manufacturing and processing firms to hold profit margins to 85 per cent of previous years would cause a great Deal of uproar and or. Macdonald said allow Able profits would be reduced to 85 from 95 per cent o f those during previous years. Companies could calculate previous profits As an average Over the past five years or use 1975 As the base. Phil Newman president of investors securities manage ment a division of the investors group said the Impact of the 85 per cent figure. In t Clear but i just can t believe it Means keeping profits to 85 per or. Newman termed other budget measures favourable and said they were about what he expected. He awarded or. Mac Donald a modest plus for moving toward financial restraint saying the minister is Riding the Fine Edge be tween inflation and Unzem or. Newman said the proposal allowing corporate dividends to Rise eight per Conlin 1976 is also a plus but doubted it would launch a Boom in Stock Price s. George Akins director of the Winnipeg builders Exchange s labor relations Council said the 50 per cent ceiling increase under which Small Canadian controlled firms would be taxed at reduced rates was the biggest news in the budget. He predicted construction firms would Benefit. Or. Akins labelled the government s announced spend ing restraint double saying i would t Call eliminating programs that Haven t been started he said the projected billion budgetary deficit scares ills hell out of Hugh Delaney first vice president of the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce said it appeared the main reason the budget was introduced was because or. Macdonald said it would be brought Down by the end of May. Basically it s a Stan Pat he told a press con f c r e n c e after he and members of the chamber s Public finance and tax com Mittee discussed it privately for an hour. We tried to see what would be useful rather than what it did t or. D e 1 a n e y said the chamber welcomed the pro posed amalgamation of the unemployment insurance commission with Canada manpower. The chamber has advocated this for four years As an efficiency measure he said. Beirut artillery duels flare Christian candidate wounded rent control Cost a unit continued Beirut aim police said today at least 44 More persons were killed and 77 wounded during another night of lighting in Beirut and cast Ern and Northern Lebanon. There were heavy artillery duels Between the Christian and moslem sectors of Beirut. Raymond Edde the unsuccessful leftist backed Chris Tian candidate in the recent presidential election was re covering from a foot wound suffered in an attempt by Christian foes to kill him tuesday. Edde 63-year-old Leader of the moderate National bloc party was attacked by Mili Tiamen who fired More than 100 machine gun bullets into his limousine at a Roadblock near Byblos Eddy s Home town 20 Miles North of Beirut. Edde said his assailants were from Pierre a Ewiel s right Wing Phala Gist party. Gemayel denied the charge and denounced the attackers. Phalanx its and supporters of Edde battled in Byblos monday and at less 18 per sons were killed. Edde and Gemayel held a reconciliation session sponsored by Chris Tian p a t r i a r Antonios Khz Cash earlier tuesday be fore the attack on Edde. A spokesman at the Ameri can University Hospital in Beirut said Edde was in no danger and recovering with out a Bullet fractured his right foot the spokesman said. Manitoba labor leaders disagree terrorist s passport forged about apartments in Manitoba. The government was questioned again tuesday about a rent control regulation ruling out mortgage interest As justification for rent higher than 10 per cent. Owners and managers of apartment buildings pointed out in Public hearings thai interest payments Are As much As 45 per cent of their operating costs premiered Schreyer responding to questions from Sidney Spivak said the govern ment is examining the regu lations. But he added the Rule is similar to those in other provinces and said he be 1 i e v e d in uniformity of treatment across Canada in rent control legislation. M r Spivak s statement that landlords in other prov i n c e s with rent controls did t face Manitoba s Retro activity Drew Little response. During the first period of Manitoba rent controls land lords Are allowed rent in creases of Only 10 per cent. Unless the rent review Board Grants More on Appeal. The legislation was made retroactive to last july 1, and applies to the period ending oct. 1, despite the Premier s response however a Board spokesman said some land lords May be Able to use their mortgage interest rates to obtain higher increases. Vivian Rosenberg the Hoard s newly appointed executive director said in an interview that landlords piously in severe hard ship might be allowed to in clude interest in petitions for higher rents. Only three landlords had applied by tuesday for in creases higher than the legis lation allows mrs. Rosen Berg said bit Many More bad enquired about the procedure. Right now we have Many people picking up the Regula Lions and the application forms to she said. Just holding our breath we Don t know what will Tel Aviv a Security officers said today that the Blond european whose suit Case bomb killed him and a woman Security guard in Israel s International Airport was travelling on a forged dutch passport and they have not been Able to identify him. Security sources said the Man s ticket found in the wreckage left by the explosion tuesday was bought at a Small town in Austria near the hungarian Border. He arrived in Tel Aviv on an Austria is Airliner from Vienna the sources said and apparently planned to leave Bis Booby trapped Luggage at the Airport while he flew on to Tehran. Iran aboard an air France plane. He also has a ticket from Tehran to Athens. A 22-year-old Security woman became suspicious of the Man took him into a search area and ordered him to open the red bag be was carrying. When he did it exploded killing the two and wounding 10 israelis in the arrival Hall of Ben Gurion International Airport. A second suitcase bomb went off half an hour later As were dragging it from the arrival Hall. It caused no damage or casualties. The police blew open a third suit Case with detonators but it contained Only clothes. In Beirut the Radical popu Lar front for the liberation of Palestine pulp claimed it was responsible for the bomb Ings. Yukon seeks 4 native Ridings Denise Pelletier died monday in Mon Treal during open heart surgery. She won nation a i Fame in the 1950s weekly television drama. The Plouffe family. She played the role of Cecile. Her last appearance was As Sarah Bernhardt the famous French actress in a one woman play by Montreal author Jacques Beyder Wellen entitled la divine Sarah. She was 48 on saturday. Diamond learning by William Johnson Globe and mail Toronto Whitehorse the creation of four Ridings in the Yukon territory f Here Only Indian and Metis would have the right to vote is proposed in a confidential document approved by the executive committee of the Yukon territory. The new native Ridings would be in addition to the 12 existing Ridings from which members Are elected to the y u k o n territorial Council. They would be electoral districts superimposed on the present Ridings to guarantee that native people have representation in the Yukon s legislative Assembly. No Indian now sits on the Council and no Indian holds a senior position in the Territo rial government the confidential paper notes. It puts Forward a position meant to win Indian acceptance of the territorial government As the government for indians As Well As White people in the Yukon. It is a proposal for a settlement of the land claims being negotiated Between the indians and the Federal government with the territorial government of the Yukon re presented As part of the fed eral delegation. Tie Gina a Toronto ramp office warned Cana Dian be wellers that Western Canada is the target of a growing Diamond promo Tion operation. Sgt. Ken St. Clair. A specialist in jewel smuggling said there is nothing basically illegal about the operation but the diamonds offered Are often of lesser Quality than ones that could be bought for the same Price from local jewellers. Leaders of Manitoba s two major labor groups have Dis agreed on whether the Feder Al budget brought Down tuesday was a step in the right direction or otherwise. Manitoba federation o f labor executive Secretary j. A. Art Coulter said the budget was sick and did t come near solving the prob lems of the country. However Harvey n. Pat Terson president of the Winnipeg labor Council said the government has begun to take labor seriously and is laying Down the groundwork for future negotiations with labor. In a Telephone interview. Or. Coulter said the budget. Was a sad performance and certainly nothing to cheer about. Haven t done any thing for the unemployment situation. They Don t seem to realize that getting the unemployed Back into the econ omy is or. Coulter said the government move to tighten the anti inflation Board will have no effect on the big corporations. There is no indication that the Aib will work now or Ever. The Rich get Richer and the poor gel or. Coulter said the Feder Al government has to take a positive approach in creating jobs. The unemployment rate is much too High. The govern ment has to implement a. Program through investment and concessions to business to get the unemployed work ing again. But the govern ment should make sure that business will use the conces Sions to increase production and lure More he said two of the main things the budget did t do was to restrict High profits or Deal with inflation. M r. Patterson said the budget was politically astute. Liberals Are two years away from an election so they Are acting with he said the budget was a step in the right direction and that the government has recognized a labor can t be taken lightly. We make up a Good part of the population and that Means a Good number of votes that is what he said he was glad to see any Type of tax break such As the doubling of child care tax allowances for single parents and the tax Breaks Given to Small businessmen. Any tax break will help. The Small businessmen Are the heart of the Economy m Canada and or. Patterson said he believed the government would pay More Alt edition to the unemployment situation than in indicated. Any government that is faced with a High unemployment rate has got to do More than just Monitor Dree labels million for treatment the Federal department of regional economic expansion has announced it will con tribute ?2.5 million half As a Grant and the rest a loan to wards construction of a new a t e r treatment Plant in Portage la Prairie Man. The rest of the Cost of the project expected to tre at about four million Gallons of water daily will be financed by the Manitoba government under the terms of the Canada Manitoba Agri cultural services Centre agreement. Design and construction Are to Start this Spring. Is Are ice w0uld be in addition to the 12 Lide Tiai paper _ ases of Only 10 per cent. What Nappen. 1 la Haw admits to personal relationship with Elizabeth Kay t k_7 Al ,.onhm.m pc with other House adn Honan ment investigation of said to i Tommin and the Washington Post Washington a f i c r two Days of denials rep. Wayne l. Hays a Ohio admitted tuesday that he had had a personal relationship with Elizabeth Ray but denied her charge thai he her on the Public payroll to be his mistress Hays made his dramatic confession to a c r o w d c cd House chamber where nearly too members who had born alerted that he would speak listened in silence to his Brief speech and responded with modest applause. Hays. Tol the. House he had denied a sexual relationship with Ray. 53. To pro led his marriage1 of six weeks ago but said i now realize that 1 committed a Nevous error in not present ing All the Ray s Alle gation that Hays put her on the payroll of the House administration committee which he Heads at s14.000 a year first appeared in Sun Clay s editions of the Washington Post. Hays told the House tues Day. I Hope that when the time comes to leave this House which i love Wayne Hays May be remembered As mean arrogant cantan Kerous and Tough Bui 1 Hope Wayne Hays will never be thought of As in an earlier speech to the House tuesday Hay suggested hat the reported Justice department investigation of his activities was a vendetta by assistant attorney general Richard l. Thornburgh who was angry at remarks Hays made about him in a House debate last month. Thorn Burgh could t be reached tuesday and the department said it would t comment. Hays tuesday also asked House ethics i or uni to to investigate Ray s charges. More than two dozen other House members also asked me committee to investigate. It was Learned tuesday thai rav s name was t listed with other House administration committee and sub c o m m i 11 e e employees in monthly reports covering no vember. 1975, to february that Hays As chairman was required to file under House regulations drawn up by Hays s committee ;