Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba W6ather High iwo 9 Sun rests sets Moon Elsm hts details 6 84 39 november 1976 press final edition 25c with comics Marc paying too much builder a Winnipeg builder said today Manitoba housing and renewal corporation was paying too much for Low Cost housing because lbs construction company out bidding rivals serviced Raymond Massey of Ray mond Massey builders lbs could do nothing they could any Price that they desired in Winnipeg and get the Marc they walk Over to Marc and say this is what it its a fair were passing it on to you they have out bidding everybody else by thousands of it has been discs How do you think they got All this land to build on you think the other 20 build is Are just sitting Back and not making an attempt to by uie same land we have tried everything to get a piece of land to try and build a House on but theres no Damn they lbs beat you every the Marc has put up the Cost per unit by accepting every Deal lbs brought no matter what the Price of land Massey said no one really knows if Marc is paying extra costs in architect fees on top of lbs package we just dont know if the Marc is paying architect fees he if they Are then it Means the Cost ser unit is even Winnipeg City councillor Bill who recently called on the Manitoba government to include marcs involvement in proposed Royal commission into soar ing land said the Cost of land paid tombs was just you get a feeling that1 tilings Are not being dealt As openly As they should be and All the facts Are not being Quebec As nation see ii by Levesque v x i j after big to win vex i Bourassa loses Seart Bourassa gracious in asks Calm Montreal cl1 41f Man who served As Premier of Quebec for almost seven years walked out of the Liber Al election committee head quarters monday Crest fallen but with his head Robert Bourassa told about 200 parly at an Eastend meeting Hill that he accepts the vote of the popu lation that elected a parti quebecois this is a Clear Victory Lor the parti quebecois insofar As number of scats is con Bourassa his voice Clear and a waver 1 am asking the economic Milieu to remain Calm and 1 ask this in Thi name of six million the Premier said he will yet in touch with pm Leader Rene Levis que shortly to fill him in on current govern ment Bourassa refused to answer reporters questions on whether lie will step Down As Leader of the provincial Liber saying this is some thing i have to discuss with my colleagues within the next few Bourassa failed to win reelection in a Riding he has held As he was two see Quebec Page 4 by Rob Bull staff correspondent Leves que told thousands of cheer ing supporters monday night in an emotional we Hope in Friendship with our fellow of Canada to give ourselves a country which is his supporters responded with cries of Quebec for the que Beckers and some of them broke into a love song by Gilles list former television Star and now member of the Quebec National Assem Bly for we never hoped for a Victory like she described the pm sweep of nearly 70 seats in the legis lature against liberals As a Point of and Gerald the testy newsman and poet who Defeated Robert Bourassa in the Montreal Riding of Mercier All we want to do is talk Man to brother to brother with the rest of Cana we dont hate now that we Are Freer we will Cali like each other More coverage of Quebec election on pages the car horns honked in the streets of the cites East end and old nationalists like Reg Gie Chartrand said it had been a Long time coming and that Quebec was at the Start of becoming a Giselle one of the provinces Best labor said the Victory showed a positive aspect of the Canadian democratic sys there Are a lot of coun tries where this have see Levesque Page 4 76 pop e 9 b 76 other 100 Levesque leads majority government up photo half of Liberal Cabinet felled Montreal up parti quebecois Leader Rene Levesque made the most of what he called the last Chance election monday leading his pro Independence forces to Power in Quebec Aist general election since at least half of the 22 lib eral Cabinet ministers who entered the including Premier Robert lost their paving the Way for a leadership Conven Tion within the next few the parti quebecois Cap tured about 41 per cent of the popular vote while the liberals won about 34 per the Union wiped out in the 1973 elec made a stunning come Back under Rookie Leader Rodrigue Biron and picked up about 18 per despite the close split in Hie popular vote Between the liberals and the parti que the latter is assured of a Clear majority in the 110seat National about 59 per cent of the voters cast their ballots for federalist parties Union credit St and popular National party apparently confirming re cent opinion showing that a majority of que Cecers Are not prepared to take Quebec but of araonjj1 elected candidates touted is Cabinet material Are six party members who formed the official opposition in the last they a lawyers Robert Jacques Van Morin and Marcandre Bedard teachers Lucien Lessard and Claude Charron and Busi Nessman Marcel Claude constitutional adviser to four Quebec premiers since the Early a leading Light who is credited As the architect of party step step program for and the Man who beat former fed eral Cabinet minister Jean Marchand in the Quebec City area Riding of Louis popular television talk show who Defeated the Liberal member in Montreal s Dorion Camilla a psychiatrist and the party Leader in the Assembly from 1970 to Edu cation minister in the Union National government fro ii i960 to who this year As parti quebecois candidate in Provost stealing the seat from Liber Al member Bernard mayor of Abonit 30 Miles North of while the liberals May be due for a leadership Conven one of the top con tenders for Bourassaw Industry and Commerce minister Guy also went Down to defeat in Chambly other mooted candidates arc finance minister Ray mond reelected in the Quebec City Riding of Jean and Federal Cabi net minister Andre see pm Victory Page 4 Evans denounces report provincial land Cost system surprises Chc official by Mike Ward an executive officer of the Central mortgage and hous ing corporation Chc said monday he had no idea the Manitoba housing and Rene Wal corporation Marc was including development expenses in the certified Cost of serviced land when apply ing for multimillion Dollar Loans to build Low Cost rental Neil regional Man Ager for said his land appraisal staff always arrives at a figure close to the real Market value of land and he assumed Manitoba land acquisition Branch appraisers did he said he had also assumed that this figure was the one shown on loan application forms submitted by the i was not aware that these so called development expenses were part of the figure of the Marc stated it was paying Lor Sneyd made his com ments a Short while after in d us try minister Leonard minister responsible for the called 9 press conference to deny a report Evans denies report that the provincial Low Cost housing land buying Agency had received millions of dollars from Chc after inflating the provincially appraised Price of the which appeared in saturdays free was based on a memorandum sent by a High ranking Marc officer to the corporations general manag e Frank Evanss denunciation of the free press report hinged on the True Price of land shown in applications to the minister agreed that the True Price want the Price arrived at by Provin Cial government land acquisition Branch appraisers and that it in consider ably higher on Chc loan application he that the Marc had made a practice of showing two sets of Fig ures on its own books the figure arrived at by the land acquisition Branch and an other figure revealing the real Cost after development expenses had been Evans said that in All Cas involving serviced residential land the Chc was Given the costs of land plus development Sii Eyd said his Iii Ter pretax had been that the True Price on loan application forms from Marc was the one that arrived at by provincial government a see provincial Page 4 Lang plane flies press to party a syrian Soldier embraces a palestinian guerrilla monday at Beirut Bullet Ridden City a photo syrian troops and tanks from the Arab league peacekeeping Force completed a peace Syria to extend grip on Lebanon Beirut a with Beirut under its undisputed the syrian army pre pared today to extend its peacemaking grip to the rest of the occupied in a Swift and peaceful invasion spent its first night without a single shot or explosion after 19 months of civil an Arab league spokesman said plans were being made for other syrian units of the Arab peacekeeping Force to occupy Tripoli and Lebanon second and third Lar Gest cities and both moslem before the end of the reinforcements were reported to have crossed the Border from Syria within the last 24 to move Intaj 60 Miles North of leftist mos Lem militias there were re ported still exchanging a Ottawa up govern ment records show that transport minister Otto Lang took a group o report ers and Public relations peo ple on a government air plane from Saskatoon to Regina in to attend a party Given by his prominent Saskatchewan lib eral Tony the Regina party was a Side trip to an Ottawa Saska Toon excursion to attend a press new Democrat lome nys trom re Ferring to the trip in the com Mons asked whether the government planned to tighten rules governing the use Cabinet ministers make of publicly owned executive air prime minister Trudeau reiterated that the planes Are Only to be used when the Public duty of a minister is those had been followed for the last 20 government travel records show that the Cost of the 1975 Ottawa to Saskatoon to Regina and Back to the Lang took a number of National press club some in the clubs Saskatoon for a press the group then made a Side trip to Regina to attend merchants brother of langs wife is a candidate in Saskatchewan 5 Liberal leadership langs travels aboard government planes have been the subject of repeated criticism in and out of the com Mons for More than a he has spent More than of Public funds on 133 executive flights in the last three did the minister have cof Tea or milk on Bis be Levei Ornot trip to Saska Toon this weekend Fairweather Lang did not Tillery fire with the neighbor ing Christian town of Zaghar As they have been doing throughout the civil is the Only flashpoint see syrians Page 4 wheat Deal called costly mistake for of drifters today Ottawa up Farmers Wutti pay Dearty for a govern ment Agency decision to let private Grain traders buy a third of the Tot wheat former agriculture minister Alvio hat thou predicted outside the be sate private traders Are rub big their with tee Over a recent Canadian wheat Board to Mon to them a Flut in afflict bushels of delivery until 4f a the were Able to move into the Chicago Grain Exchange through a series of trading make sure they Caa resell the Grain later the but Likely Are paying Ceuta Ushela Junth storage fees of the wheat la the Otto minister responsible for the wheat that a Sigut Kant volume of Groin was sold to private traders but he said tie wheat were competitive and that the Way traders handle their purchases is their own the and the subset move by the traders to Oiler the wheat on the Chica go drove Down and Drew a complaint com the agriculture de the wheat Board made Sale to make sure that or stay to markets where we ought to said the site was not to a de Cut Tad he fears the wheat under langs May trying to sell wheat at fir Sale this years wheat crop is expected to he about 710 Mil Una hut carry Over stocks from last year Are Well below average and there appears Little risk of piling up a Hamilton said soil in the Western wheat Belt has never been drier since the drought of 186l Raisin to the possibility a Harvest next the wheat a Federal marketing Agency based in Winnipeg which markets All Western Barley and Sells about 450 million bushels of wheat a m r Hamilton Perneace has Sao Board should hold at least a years Ramion Exon that the reserves of 450 mate it meets future it should never the situation when panic because it about Rani Flag up emetic it Sells is worried i Large do Dian Cohen says tax Relief needed to avoid a Page focus r health services commission head de feuds Manitoba Page sport were the Blue bombers sidelined on the sidelines Page inside comics it classified Smi Horoscope ;