Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba W6ather fill in free press 84 nov Mytr final edition canadians 1977 exemptions up Ottawa special Cana Dian taxpayers will be get Ting a break but not in Federal finance minister Donald Macdonald announced today personal exemptions and tax brackets will be increased by per cent for the 1977 tax year the return you file in As a result of the govern ments indexing plan for per Sonal income the personal exemption in creases will mean a tax saving if you earn and Are married with two de a single taxpayer earning the same amount would save on his tax Bill while a taxpayer Over 65 with no dependents and earn ing the same amount would get a tax see tax table Page the new indexing coupled with a rounding pro vision which rounds off exemptions and reductions to the nearest Means Basic personal exemptions will jump to from the rounded level of applicable to the current the married sex e m p t i o n will increase to from a press release issued by the finance department deductions elderly and disabled people will in crease to from As the maximum exemption for children under 16 will Rise to while for children 16 or Over the increase is to the provincial tax from the tables can be calculated by calculating it at the Stan Dard rate of per cent of the Basic Federal Quebec to secede if Levesque wins Montreal up if a parti quebecois government is elected it would move within two years to take Quebec out of Conedera party Leader Rene Levesque said in an interview the first step would to ask Ottawa to hand Over the Powers that would make que Bec a Sovereign the re quest would be followed by a Levesque because there int a snowballs Chance in hell that the Federal government would give us Back full the 54yearold political who quit the Liberal party a decade ago to fight for has played Down the Issue in the current instead he has at tacked the record of the Bourassa government and promised a More efficient he the parti quebecois remains an Independence if it would consider that voters had Given it a mandate to begin negotiations with Ottawa to separate from we have never hidden our Levesque we Are dedicated to que becs that our reason for he added that the party had also made a commitment not to push Quebe cers into in dependence against their the party would function As a Normal provincial govern ment while drafting a Law see parti Page 6 new Aib rules Ottawa up the anti inflation Board today made Public revised rules for allow Able prices and profits under the Federal controls putting into effect the changes announced in sep tember to ease the Burden on among key changes is a provision for a new invest ment no distribution companies that undertake Eli Gible investments will be Al Lowed to deduct 50 per cent of the value of these invest see new Page 6 new president Aims to improve University of Manitoba image by Esther Tennenhouse does the University of Manitoba need a new image Ralph Campbell thinks the new who was to be for Mally installed has definite ideas about what the University needs and also How to set out to woo the Public if he can Wield his influence effective the next five years could be a revitalizing period of change Low keyed but hard hitting like the Man he Doest put it in so Many but he essentially says that the univer sity of Manitoba in these Days of fiscal restraint has to clean up its it needs to improve its image in the Community initiation speech covered on Page 3 it must help the High schools turn out students who can read and hed to see it raise its Entrance requirements it must Stop wasting time on Long Union its professors must work its administrators must earn the Goodwill and the ears of the provincial Powers that be and be prepared to Parry and even concede t skirmish if necessary to get what it needs in the it must tackle some questions of so Cial one is should everyone who passes High school get into the University he Doest really think Campbell talks about the universe Tys problems and prospects in detail on Page Campber Gateway lob Laws casual and United states president elect Jimmy Carter left greets Vic president a photo elect Walter Mondale at Home in thursday better rapport with allies promised Carter begins charting bold course by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent g a j i m m y Carter dangled the Prospect of a big income tax Cut before the american people thurs Day night As he maintained that he had won an Ade quate mandate to be an effective Jimmy Carter profile part 3 on Page 8 at his first news conference since the Carter said his narrow win Over president Gerald Ford had been Broa based and certainly he said his Victory margin slim three per cent of the popular favourably with the mandates won by other recent pres including John Ken Nedy in tie president elect said his administration would res Tore Good relations with tra d i t i o n a 1 t Hose in this Carter reiterated the fre quent theme of his election Campaign that relations with longstanding american friends were neglected in re cent reference to his View that detente with the soviet Union has been Pur sued at the expense of Cana other nato and despite his criticism of the diplomatic record of Ford and Secretary of state Henry Carter said it should be Clear to foreign governments that there will be Large degree of continuity in foreign he noted that his administration will continue Diplo Matic initiatives already in apparent Allu Sion to Kissinger efforts to bring about a peaceful Transi Tion to Black Rule in Carters news scheduled originally to be held in the Plains High was moved outdoors to the towns Railroad depot after television technicians complained about acoustics in the school the temperature was a Chilly 35 the who leaves saturday for a Brief vacation on Simons is land off the Georgia said he will not announce any candidate appointments until sometime in he expressed the Hope he can bring into discussions this month the peo ple who will be named Asse Cret Aries of state and de Carter said his adm Nistra t i o n s diplomacy will be marked by openness with the american questioned about his Cam p a i g n statement that he would not intervene militarily if the soviet Union invaded he said a Deci Sion to use troops would be unlikely but that he would have to Reserve Jud he stated that a soviet in Vasion of the Eastern Europe an nation word be a serious threat to world but that an attack was unlike British labor loses 2 of 3 by elections London Reuter the governing labor party has been Defeated in two out of three by elections in areas normally regarded As labor with polls show ing a big swing towards the the announced in Early Cut the parliamentary majority of labor and its allies to one from the government will con but its morale has taken a dejected labor who had launched a Desper ate Campaign after reports of apathy and disillusionment among their called for Unity in the whose left Wing has bitterly opposed austerity measures taken in Britain economic Margaret Leader of the conservative who has called for a Cru Sade against socialism in watched her sup porters cheering on her Tele vision set at her Home in Lon dons wealthy Chelsea i am she told re the Peoples rejection of the government has been the biggest Victory for the conservatives was in the English midlands District of Walsall the area for Merly held by John Stone a onetime labor government minister jailed for seven years last August for the conservatives received per cent of the vote in the 1974 general but they got per cent in thursdays by election com pared with labors per but the turnout was with Only half the electorate the extreme righting a Lang spends tax Money in government flights since 1973 tonal front which has been campaigning against Black won per a pro test against Walsall High immigrant labor is identified As the party most sympathetic to Blackim a More representative Bye Lection took place in the Northern Industrial area of where three quarters of the about the same number As in a general cast bal there was a swing of per cent to the conserva Tives who gained per cent of the labor was close with per the seat had been held by former agriculture minister Fred who has been appointed to the House of to open sunday Canada Safeway and lob Laws have decided to open for sunday from noon to 6 begin Ning this following a Dominion stores move to sunday shopping two weeks Tom lob Laws Divi Sion said his com Pany will open five of its six stores this sunday from noon to 6 Fraser had no com ment on the decision except to say the company had been forced into opening and that it was not done he suggest whether the decision was the Only store which wont open is the Polo Park he Victor Safeway re Tail sales said we dont believe in sunday open but i think its quite obvious what prompted the company weve sat Back and wailed for government but there is no indication that legislation prohibiting sunday operation is Forth i think the minister labor minister Russ Paul Ley is i think the labor Council is but so far Treyve met with Little support for prohibitive he see Safeway Page 6 heres How land Cost forced up five months after the provincial government showed an interest in buying a Par cel of Winnipeg raw land the asking Price shot up Mil when the Manitoba hous ing and renewal corporation was first the asking Price for the 704acre parcel was an acre an increase of an acre Over a nearby piece of property that had been sold 12 months As negotiations proceeded Between the corporation and agents acting for the Ven the Price of the land jumped from million to million million million Mil lion and finally to Mil the corporation said it was Only prepared to pay a top figure of million an acre and subsequently bought nearby property that was being offered at the same Market value created by the free press business re port examines the events that concluded with the corporation being offered the property for million an acre the same bar Given to Winnipeg City Council by its appraisers during secret expropriation see Page 17 Ottawa up trans port minister Otto a forceful advocate of the user p a y concept to eliminate travel has spent More than Worth of tax Money pm government flights since Many of the flights on transport department air planes were to ids Home rid ing of Saskatoon Humboldt in Saskatchewan in a written commons reply to conservative Tom Cossitt langs parliamentary Secretary Marcel Roy said thursday that All the ministers flights were for official govern ment tits said or Cossitt in a press the flights to Saskatoon were not Oft government he de the minister should have taken a regular commercial airline to Saskatoon which would Bave saved thousands and thousands of though Lang first started using government air planes when be joined the Cabinet in Morroy there Are no records of Lang flights up to april family viewing hour court rules los Ang taxes a the three commercial net works the National Asso of broadcasters violated the first family viewing policy for pro Grams aired during Early eve Ding a Federal judge ruled lbs and aft said they Appeal District Wesea b major Victory for Hollywood artists who began fighting the policy in court a month alter it went into effect in Abc and the broadcasters association declined immedi ate Ferguson also held that Federal communications acc violated the first by issuing threats of government a adopt the equivalent la acc chair Man Bichard Wiley said Bis Agency is consulting Witto the Justice department about whether an Appeal will he filed by the he said he and his fellow acted the family viewing policy or Siby in expressing concern a Flint violence on to and Urfe ing of voluntary Lut he at no time were any threats expressed or and i reject any suggestion to the Norw creator of the series All in the of Luj Nanju Pflug a Hosp who took the family viewing policy to said that As result of Ferguson Ameri cans everywhere won a Victory first Amend was upheld the family viewing adopted As a result of Public protest about violence and sexually explicit material in programs which might be viewed by does not say what May or May Apt be the Nab says the family viewing provision of its code applies to toe three Commer Cial networks and 462 television most of them network affiliates today report record sales forecast As Auto makers shift pages 17 to focus historian assesses Rhodesia Black Power Page spores can jets afford to compete in More of stay nil inside Bridge business Lej Wrt comics classified 5765 crossword 49 Horoscope Jumble 43 ;