Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday october 29, 1976 u of m clings to Library sports Complex idea by Esther tic Nyenhouse the University of Manitoba will continue to pursue plans for a million Library Addi Tion sports Complex Centenni Al project despite the Cut in expected provincial support. Kay Mcquade chairman of the University Board of governors said there is still room for changes in the project but they Are unlikely. The matter will go Back to the Centennial committee for discussion he said. A Cund drive will Start soon a. Ted Speers finance chairman for the University Centennial committee and Bead of the alumni s Centen Nial committee said thurs Day. It s still the Centennial project and we re going ahead on he said. For the joint project Are still Good if the municipality and the peo ple of Winnipeg come Forward As i think they will and maybe the government will reconsider As we get into Centennial year he said. The University had asked the province to provide two dollars for every Dollar raised by the University up to million. However Cabi net said it will provide no More than million. Continuing education minister Ben Hanuschak said the University can use the Money for one or both parts of the project. Or. Speers said at this Point the most important ele ment in the project is Stu Dent support which he hoped for despite the University of Manitoba students Union s refusal to approve a pledge wednesday. The students Are the most important. If students Don t go along with it what s the or. Speers said. The student vote wednes Day was 13-7 in favor of funding the Library addition and sports Arena but missed the required two thirds majority by one vote. The Ino Tion was tabled and remains open for consideration. Student critics strongest objection was against fund. Lug the Library addition which they said is a bad precedent for student funding of capital projects instead of government responsibility. This Point May still prove an obstacle to the joint project if Campaign organizers retain As or. Speers says they will the condition that All donations must go into one pot. Thursday Lois Kennedy graduate student representative on the Board of Gover nors suggested students might consider collecting Money through special fund raising events but they Don t want to see student fees used for capital projects. The loan proposed would mean a possible increase in student fees for 23 or. Speers says from students and the uttered by the Alum i association would enable the University to claim the million available from the province. The City of Winnipeg has been asked for million and the Centen Nial committee is still hoping for funding from sports can Ada. Plans to Campaign in the corporate sector a Job to be undertaken by University president Ralph Campbell Are underway he said. Someone might Promise the Moon but it comes to cheese when you get the sports Complex which in its first phase Calls for a million seat ice Arena to be available for Public was initially the University Centennial project but was put aside in favor of a million Library addition to the main Library. Or. Speers kept the sports Complex scheme alive Vir Tully single Anderly until last summer when both the University Grants commission and or. Hanuschak then minister of colleges and universities affairs indicated they would seriously consider sharing funding for a Mil lion double barrelled project. Asked in an interview if any promises made to the University had been broken Board chairman w. R. Ray Mcquade said the min ister s commitment was to recommend these projects to Cabinet. Apparently the Cabi net did t support airline revamp planned com Timues i Vest in hotels and travel operations Powers or. Pratte had Long sought. It was an air Canada at tempt to put into a Montreal travel Agency that eventually led to a Federal in Quiry last year. Air Canada witnesses told the inquiry that some airline officials considered investing in the travel Agency by Chan Nelling Money through a in affiliate As the airline did not live the corporate authority to put Money in travel firms. The inquiry commissioner chief Justice Willard Estey of the supreme court of on Tario said in his report that if air Canada tried to do Busi Ness through affiliates it should do so through its own subsidiaries not in Compa Nies. Or. Justice Esley noted i hat airline management had been pushing for greater authority to invest in new com Mercial ventures. While Ottawa had been promising new legislation for years it had never been introduced in parliament. Or. Lang said that he does not want air Canada to be forced to take any new ser vice that is required in the Public interest. All airlines could bid for the service with the Best one getting it. Me added he Hopes the air line will be attractive to Pri vate investors in two years when the government May consider private ownership of some air Canada shares. He refused to discuss in de Tail what kind of private involvement he is considering in air Canada. Affix to probe farm Revenue continued mrs. Menzies said the Board will exercise Only a Price monitoring role Over the five boards reporting infractions to Federal or provincial authorities supervising the boards. Enforcement of the Board guides will be up to the supervisory body. She said the Board regret led taking so Long to establish the monitoring wage and Price controls have been in effect for one full year and the decision to Monitor some marketing Board prices was made 11 months ago. It is my Hope that both Consumers and Farmers will Benefit from knowing that the pricing decisions of Market ing boards comply with the anti inflation program and that pricing increases Are re lated to Cost she said. Farmers have done poorly in explaining the role of marketing boards to non farm Consumers and justly or not the objectivity of some marketing boards and even their supervisory agencies is often mrs. Menzies said Market ing boards should be Able to stabilize prices without harm ing exports of farm products. They Are often viewed As monopolistic suppliers setting lir ices to serve their own Short term interests she said. Dairy products poultry and eggs constitute 23 per cent of the food component of the consumer Price Index. In the 12 months ended in sep tember the Index Rose three per cent for Dairy products and one per cent for eggs but fell six per cent for poultry. Winnipeg Ger Greg Henkel 31, be came Canada s King of Marvin gardens in winning the National monopoly championships in Toronto thursday. Players Are left to Barry Marchand Kandi o Loughlin Maxine Brady Hen Kel 1975 Champ Susan touch Bourne and photo Lanis Egan the four finalists out manoeuvred More than players across Canada to reach the championship. Rent increases 3.2% above limit poisoned children released Rosenberg rents explained Manitoba s r e n i. Review Juard has allowed landlords to increase rents an average of 22 per cent 33 percent " above the rent control guide lines for the 27 months of the province s two rent control periods. The figures based on an analysis of the first boo applications for higher than a i Lowed rent increases were released thursday by the rent review Agency s executive director Vivian Rosen Berg. In a statement she said lie higher increases were Al Lowed to permit pass through of justified costs. M a x i m u m increases a Lowed under the guidelines from july 1, 1975, to sept. 30, .1976, Werp 10 per cent with a further eight per cent for the phase two control period from out. 1, 1976. 1.o sept. 30, ju77., during the 27-month Span of the two phases taken together the maximum in crease allowed conies to per cent the compounded Factor accounting for the extra .8 per cent. Mrs. Rosenberg said. Of the first 600 applications. Jol were for the first phase of the program which ended sept. 30 77 were for the second phase and 422 w Ere combination applications covering both phases mrs. Rosenberg said. The Board allowed rent in creases above the 10 per cent limit for phase one in 204 523 cases. Rents were held at 10 per cent in the other 319 cases she said. Out of 499 applications under phase two Only higher than eight per cent increases were allowed in 283 cases she said. The Agency has been Deal ing with about landlord applications representing about rental units and has held 298 hearings initiated at the request of tenants mrs. Rosenberg said. Rent review decisions on remaining applications Cov ering the first two phases of the rent restraint program should be handed Down in a matter of mrs. Rosenberg said. On notification of a rent re View decision the landlord May Appeal to the rent stabilization Board within 15 Days. Appeals which have been received now Are being adjudicated by the Board she said. Mrs. Rosenberg said ten ants should continue to pay the rent at the september level if their landlord has applied for Over guideline in creases for both phases. Report Pussies experts bbl says . Seeking billion loan London renter government officials declined to comment today on a report that Britain is seeking a loan to pay foreign holders who want to get rid of some of their British currency. The bbl report caused some confusion in London where financial experts were puzzled by the reference to a loan. Britain has already established that it wants inter National help to rid itself of the liability of the Pound s continuing role As a Reserve currency. Government officials emphasized that moves to buy out the balances of More than billion s3 billion held abroad would have to await International monetary fund if approval of Britain s current application for a billion loan. Treasury officials asked to comment on the bbl report referred reporters to a state ment made to parliament by Chancellor of the exchequer Denis Mealey last monday. Healy said that an if Mission will not arrive in London until next month and it will not form an opinion on appropriate terms for the loan until it is Able to assess the country s economic prospects. The officials also referred reporters to prime minister James Callaghan s suggestion in a television interview ear Lier this week that buying out the Sterling holdings of foreign governments would remove a major threat to the Pound on foreign Exchange markets. Refunding Sterling balances would mean gradually finding a new Home for at least some of tie billion Worth of Sterling balances in the hands of both foreign governments and private holders. For this funding opera Tion to succeed people who now hold claims in pounds must be p e r s u a cd e cd to Transfer them to some other currency or currencies. Financial sources said this might take the form of inter National guarantees for Ster Ling balances backed by currencies like the West German Mark and the japanese yen which would become substitute Reserve currencies. The scheme might be arranged through the if. The sources said. The huge overseas holding pounds has become a Stone around the British govern ment s neck for As soon As a holders of Sterling balances Start to switch to other currencies the repercussions Are quickly Felt throughout the foreign Exchange Market and. The Pound Falls accordingly. Five children from Sha Mattawa have been released from the Winnipeg children s Centre to Foster Homes after completing the first part of their treatment for Lead poisoning caused by gasoline sniffing. Or. Roger Boeckx Assis 1. A n t director of clinical chemistry at the Hospital said thursday the parents of several other Shamattawa children with High Lead Levels have not yet agreed to let them come to Winnipeg for treatment. Or. Boeckx said blood samples recently flown in from the North show there has been no improvement in the Lead Levels found in these children. The five children now in Winnipeg Foster Homes will continue to take drugs which bind the Lead and allow it to be passed out of the system. They will receive regular medical checkups until the Lead in their blood Falls to a Safe level. Shamattawa is an Indian Community of 550, about 230 Miles North of Thompson. Stolen Winnipeg police Are investigating the theft tuesday of four handguns. The guns valued at. About 5950, were stolen tuesday evening from Farmers sup ply co., 795 main Street a police spokesman said thurs Day. The stolen guns Are a .-15 calibre Colt a .22-Ca Libre Colt a .38-calibre Smith and Wesson a .44-calibre mag num Smith and Wesson. Prisoner rights respected More ombudsman by Brian Cole the Penitentiary ombudsman of Canada says the inception of her office in 1973 has forced prison administrators to have greater respect for prisoner s tights. Administrators have had to become More careful about handling internal matters be cause they know the ombudsman can investigate com plaints Inger Hansen said thursday after speaking to the John Howard Elizabeth Fry society. She said an example of a technical infringement o f prisoner s rights occurred when sentences of 200 in mates who refused to work were lengthened after a hearing without formal charges. She said she did t want to divulge names or the place. That kind of thing just in t done. There is a Correct procedure which has to be is. Hansen a former Law yer for the Federal depart ment of Justice said such cases have prompted the fed eral government to set up in formational courses for Pris on administrators. There were com plaints from about prisoners last year. Speaking to about 50 peo ple is. Hansen s stressed that although she is obligated to report to the Federal government annually and has h a ;