Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Millim Fords unsafe Dia Lamania my 1323 2741 letters 41 sports Jumble winners a unfit Ike Fin in giants Clit Tail g free press Coloreo comics March 1978 weather report from Advance Cloudy Low High 2 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final edition no of defence Centre could Cost 200 local jobs by Jim Haggarty a Federal government announcement Fri Day that it is scrapping plans for a million defence research Centre in Winnipeg will mean at least 200 lost a construction Industry spokes Federal Revenue minister Joe Guay announced plans for a million air com Mand Headquarters for the but said the research first proposed during the 1974 election wont be Guay said adequate research facilities Are available without the new construction of the air command head quarters is scheduled to Start in the sum Mer of but it wont have the same economic Impact As an immediate Start on the research executive Vic president of the Winnipeg construction the announcement was disappointing be cause the Industry is in a and builders were hoping for the contracts to see research Page Joe Guay City Aid Cut by taxes to soar up photo prime minister accompanied by Trade minis visit the sync rude Oil Sands Plant in which Ter Jack arrives at fort Mcmurray Friday to the Federal government has a controlling Cabinet hears Winnipeg beefs complaints about com housing and student employ ment were heard in Winnipeg by Mem Bers of the Federal Liberal Cabinet Fri Day As they started their hearings across the the Manitoba farm Bureau told fed eral representatives they were deeply with the abandonment of direct meetings Between agricultural groups and the Federal Cabinet and prime and urged the govern to readout their former proce Chafik discuss issues see Page 9 Eugene Joe John to Maurice Harquail and Rodger Young standing in for Andre Ouel let and Ron senators Gil Mol Gat acid Douglas Everett were the fed eral representatives in Ouellet arrived in Winnipeg late Friday the continuing decrease in net farm incomes since 1976 seems to be caused by inflation and sharply declining world prices for agricultural said Bert president of the organi and urged an i depth analysis to see How serious the problems of some producers the Bureau also called for an end to see Cabinet Page 4 Sherman upset at proposal to opt out of medicare plan by Manfred Jager health minister Bud Sherman of Manitoba has expressed disappointment at the move by the president of the Manitoba medical association to entice physicians to opt out of medicare As a lever to get higher fees from the in an interview late Sherman reiterated earlier statements that the medical profession will have to pull its weight during financial restraints the entire health Field will labour in a letter to the privately practising physicians of the province earlier this the had asked doctors to Forward letters of resignation from medi care to the association office which could then use them to pressure the government into allowing bigger fee increases than have so far been contract talks Between the doctors and the government started late last the Doc tors now have a proposal for a 688 per cent continued see Sherman Page 4 Erman layoffs called Tough decision by Debbie Sproat Northern affairs minister Ken Mac master of Manitoba said Friday he thought Long and hard before deciding to Lay off government employees in his own constituency of already dealt a severe blow by Inco Cut backs last the statistics mat master provided showed the City of Thompson was har dest hit by government layoffs announced this a total of 43 people from the departments of renewable re sources and transportation services and Northern affairs lost their jobs including 18 permanent employ 23 term one depart mental employee and one contract pm in going Back to my constituency he there is certainly going to be some but i dont believe there will be any More concern in the hearts of the people in my constituency than there is in i dont feel very Good about but i also know there is a Good possibility of 12 to 15 positions posted in the Thompson area in the near and theres some movement from the South to the North in the he said that As of Friday there should be no concern for anyone else in rela Tion to the March 31 he said he Felt remaining staff Are needed to provide Good service to Northern see Macmaster Page 4 by Steve Pona and John Sullivan a dramatic shortfall in provincial government Aid to the City of Winnipeg has virtually guaranteed increased transit fares and even higher than expected property taxes this civic officials were disappointed Friday to learn that the level of Overall Provin Cial Grants will be at least million less than the City had budgeted for in jts revised which Call for a 12 per cent increase in the level of property Taxa the cutback includes a freeze at last years level on the provinces share of the estimated million Tran sit an 11 per cent reduction in unconditional Grants and less Money to Assiniboine Park and in a statement Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier said the cuts arc in accordance with the provinces 1978 fiscal restraint the transit decision represents an effective abandon ment of the previous governments commitment to pay half of the systems an Nual operating the City had counted on a million provincial contribution this in addition to its million Transi Taid Ceil the province has promised another to pay half the costs of experimental transportation projects such As the dash hand transit and suburban feeder ser emerging from a two hour meeting with Mercier in the convention mayor Robert Steen of Winnipeg said the province will not oppose an increase in transit an option precluded by the former nip govern the cites Board of com missioners has recommended a 10cent fare increase to 35 cents for adults and 15 cents from 10 for but these could go even higher As a result of the government Steen pet Only million because the City failed to budget of a shortfall in provincial for a million reduction in its unconditional de spite a warning from mar Cier in Early january to cd income tax last years Grant totalled to make up this differ Steen said the City will have to increase the rate of Cut expenditures fur ther or find alternative see province Page 4 Board approves higher school budget Winnipeg school Board has approved a 1978 budget totalling per cent higher than the million estimated for but a surplus brought 1977 reve Nues to about closing the Gap to provide a 1978 increase of per pay increase for trustees proposed Page 3 cuts from the original estimates came to Only but trustees had to add 000 to estimated six per cent pay increases for division property tax Revenue will increase about to million from Mil City of Winnipeg estimates now Call for a one Mill tax increase to raise to therefore the school tax increase would Likely be about 1 for an average taxpayer in the with a House assessed at the in crease would be about but the greater Winnipeg equalization which gives Revenue from Winni Peg divisions Industrial tax base to the suburban school is Likely to add an other million or so to the total tax this Levy Cost division taxpayers an extra million in frequent division re quests for elimination of this extra tax Haven brought Lyon denounced for inaction on possible voting violations by David Lee the Manitoba government came under Sharp attack Friday after announcing it will take no action on More than 50 possible violations of the provinces election one of them involving actor Ney general Gerry at his weekly news Confer Premier Sterling Lyon said the government had decided not to act on the Possi ble offences because they fall under ambiguous and Uncertain sections of the election Lyon said the government will ask Manitoba Law Reform commission to recommend changes to the act As soon As possible so that it can be amended in the legislature before the next provincial the decision was immediately criticized by former attorney general Howard Pawley who said the government was deliberately ignoring the fact that several election Laws had been who took no action against numerous violations stemming from the 1973 provincial said he agreed the act needs improvements but its provi Sions should be respected until it is to excuse the offences on the basis that the Law is bad is not said Pawley in an it Doest add any credibility to the pre Mier or the attorney Gener its bound to reflect on see Lyon Page 4 Ottawa to pay for part of francophone 9s fight by Robert Willaard Ottawa took its pledge of support for French language crusader Georges Forest one step further saying it will pay for part of his Legal fight to have Manitoba official language act of 1890 declared the Manitoba court of Queens Bench is expected to set a court Date monday for who says the act which bars Freach from provincial courts and legislature violates his language 1 Ottawa announcement made no mention of the amount of Money the government is prepared to pay into the defence one High ranking Federal official said you cant put a ceiling on the costs because that depends on How far the Case will its widely expected till go to the supreme in which Case the Bill will run into thousands of Dol Forest said Friday he paid his lawyer Alain Hogue this week out of his own pocket to show that this is forests an equal amount has been paid out of the defence which still contains some Forest in addition to about half a dozen people lawyers and re searchers Are working on the Hogue said his file is already More than 1 feet thick and that excludes All the material we have on mondays hearing was planned for Friday afternoon but was can celled because the Federal lawyer was the Federal government stressed its financial help Doest mean its lawyers will no longer Forest won the first round when a Boniface county court judge ruled in Bis saying the prov Ince had no right in 1890 to make English the official language in the courts and legislature because use of both languages Are allowed and in some cases is according to the ban act of the Manitoba act of 1870 allows use of both languages in the Legisla provincial and Federal courts and stipulates legislative records must be printed in both the provincial in response to forests claim the Lan Guage act is has said the legislation was passed in Good Faith and has asked the courts to dismiss his tragedy ends bubbles a a Freedom Loving died after she rolled Down a Hill and suffocated when rangers shot her with Tranquill izing darts in an Effort to capture officials said bubbles had been enjoying her Freedom lately in clucker a 100metrelong Lake about two kilo metres from the 240acre animal Park from which she escaped 20 for the third apparently she wandered out shortly after 10 and the following their Standard operating just tracked said Jerry vice president of lion country when she got out they followed her and when they figured she had gotten far enough to be Tranquilli Zed they shot her with two tranquil Lizer he said the two ton Hippo rolled Down a Hill in this or Ange county Community about 65 Kilometres South of los Angeles and lodged against a tree in the head Down which provide i personally feel terrible about he we All Don the Parks said the animal might have lived had she not fallen in a very bad ;