Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday. May 27. 197g Minaki dreads signal to flee bombing it with water thurs Day morning. The wind blowing from the Southeast is saving the town but is not helping firefighters const. Lamme said. The firefighters Are being brought in from various Northwestern Ontario communities. Men who were fighting a Large Forest fire near Ignace were transferred to the min Aki area As fighters gave up the Battle at the Ignace site. Valora ont., about 140 Miles East of Kenora was evacuated wednesday after noon because of the biggest Northwestern Ontario fire in two years. Fire officials said the min Aki fire which started about 2 . Monday was burning out of control Over about 600 acres with the leading Edge about three Miles West of town. Or. Latiece said the Blaze is the in Northwestern Ontario since about acres were destroyed near Dryden in 1974. Flames reached above 60-foot Trees smoke climbed As High As a mile he said. Once fires get to this size they Are very difficult to put out just with winds Haven t been a prob Lem but Are expected to hit up to 40 Kilometres an hour thursday he said. The big Gest weather problem has been Lack of rain. Winds in the Minaki area reached about .48 . Wednesday. The Valora fire also disrupted operations at three mines on Sturgeon Lake about 30 Miles North of a Lora where a High tension Power line was scorched. Spokesmen for Maktabi mines Ltd., Falconbridge Copper Ltd. And Matagami Lake mines said All but essential services were shut Down. Maktabi and Falconbridge were prepared to switch to emergency Power if the main line failed but Matagami would have to cease operations. M r. Latiece who flew Over the fire wednesday said it has crossed Between poles but has t destroyed any. The Way it s going it does t look too he added. About 200 natural re sources ministry firefighters and support workers from As far away As Parry sound ont., Are battling the Blaze he said. Firebombing aircraft a traffic control Bird dog aircraft two Heli copters carrying men and equipment and two recon Naissance were being used. Campfires Are now forbid Den Between Thunder Bay and the Manitoba Border. Another on Tario fire wednesday was burning out of control Over about acres near m c i n n e s Lake about 260 Miles North of Kenora. A spokesman for the Ken Ora regional fire Centre said aircraft weren t available to fight it because of the Minaki and Valora fires. Only about 35 men were fighting the Mcinnes Lake fire but there Aren t any Resi dents within 40 Miles and it s headed Northeast Over an area burned out in 1961, the spokesman said. Open Oil Price Rise is expected continued argues new rules give Job incentives by Peter Thomson free press correspondent manpower minister Robert Andras said yesterday that tightening of unemployment insurance regulations will provide an incentive for the jobless to find work. He declared in the com Mons that within six weeks of the expiry of jobless benefits 70 percent of the unemployed find work. The implication was that a longer qualifying period and Shorter Benefit period will Spur the unemployed to find jobs More quickly. The minister also disputed opposition suggestions that the million Federal Sav ing through tightening of unemployment insurance regu lations will not simply mean a Transfer of million to municipal welfare costs. Only about two per cent of those who receive unemployment insurance benefits wind up on welfare after benefits expire or. Andras declared. Responding to heated opposition questioning or. Andras stated that All of the s200 million saved by the fed eral government will be used in Job creation programs. He said he would make full statement on the matter when he Speaks in the budget debate probably Early next week. Opposition members spent most of the daily question period attacking of finance minister Donald Macdonald s tuesday budget. Both conservative Leader toe Clark and nip Leader de Broadbent took the position that the budget had not been stimulative enough. M r c1 a r k asserted that even finance department officials had conceded that the budget was less stimulative to the Economy than last year s. M r Macdonald retorted that while the government is Silil running a deficit of several billion the budget can t be regarded As restrictive. Sinclair Stevens York Simcoe took Issue with or. Macdonald s Contention that the unemployment rate will begin to decline late this year. Where will the jobs he asked. Or. Stevens and or. Clark noted that the budget speech had predicted creation of jobs but that the labor Force grew by last year and would grow by this year. The finance minister did not refer to specific numbers but argued that an economic recovery is Well under Way in the United states and several other countries. Canada which exports 50 per cent of All its was bound to Benefit from that recovery and economic activity would gain Momen Tum. Or. Broadbent argued that with the Canadian Economy operating at Only 80 per cent of capacity there was a Good Opportunity to stimulate eco nomic activity without creat ing new inflationary pres sures. Or. Macdonald retorted that consumer spending in Canada has been Strong and Export demand is improving and that no additional stimulation was desirable. Bil Kempling Wentwroth questioned How a reduction in net allowable profits to 85 percent from 95 percent of the average of the past five years would help capital formation. Or. Mac Dorweld replied that several investment incentives were already built into the system. Replying to a question from Jack Homer or. Macdonald said that any additional funds for social Security programs will have to be found in the present Fis Cal or. Horner referred specifically to reports that an additional s350 million is to be provided for social Security programs at the Federal provincial conference of first ministers in mid june. The talks will go or. Macdonald said and any changes will have to be made within the confines of the present budget. Is Only fair and Suharto defended open against the accusation that its Price increases Hurt other developing countries More than the industrialized countries. He said the Oil countries Are part of the big family of developing countries and there fore every measure and Deci Sion to be taken should be regarded As both a beneficial step and an achievement of the entire developing coun tries and not As a disadvantage to Suharto said however that while the Oil countries have contributed to the interests of the third world they should do even More because they Are considered to be More wealthy and after the 20-minute opening session the delegates went into closed session. The heavily guarded con Ference is being held at a walled Seaside resort owned by Indonesia s state Oil com Pany. Ultra leftist guerrillas raided the last open ministerial meeting in Vienna in december abducted most of the ministers to North Africa and then freed them under pressure from the algerian government. The members of open Are Algeria Iran Iraq Nigeria Libya Indonesia Ecuador Venezuela Qatar saudi Ara Bia Gabon Kuwait and the United Arab emirates. They account for about two thirds of the Oil production of the non communist world. Milk prices rising one cent june 1 continued three Young women decide it s too wet in their car so they head for the roof alter a rain Shower in rapid City South Dakota. The storm dumped two inches of rain in a Short time. The women they waited out the storm without mishap and got Only a Little wet. Controls program changes aim at original goal Ottawa up almost eight months after it implemented Price controls the government has changed them to establish the Type of program that was intended in the first Jean Luc Pepin chairman of the anti inflation Board said today. Or. Pepin who called re porters together to re announce provisions in tues Day s budget aimed at tight ening Price controls on some firms and loosening them on others said failure of the pro Gram would have been a great embarrassment to the the new rules would give the anti inflation Board much greater Assurance the program will work. During its first 7v4 months of operation the controls Board discovered its rules restricting company profits Hurt some firms More than others or. Pepin said. Effort to ease restraints for those Hurt most however tended to undermine the entire pro Gram. The changes announced by finance minister Donald Macdonald in his budget would help remove anomalies in the program by subjecting All firms to similar rules. As announced of or. Mac Donald processing Man fac t u r i n g and other non distributing companies will no longer be allowed to raise prices simply because costs have risen. And they won t be Able to avoid restraints by averaging High profits on one product line with lower ones on an other. Under the new regulations to be spelled out in detail in june and implemented some time in july annual company profits will be limited to 85 per cent of those during 1975, or the average of those Dur ing the five years ending last oct., 14, whichever is the most beneficial. Pupils Ponder guns 130 More firms must notify Aib of proposed Price hikes _ _. _ ;