Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Anytime c million Fords unsafe Dia mania 1323 for 2741 Jumble a profitable ride on giants1 coattails 13 an Irish feast Leisure weekend weather report from Advance Cloudy Low High 2 son rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final 85 137 March 1978 15 cents with coloured comics transit property taxes Likely to soar 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 news that he level if Overall Provin Cial Grants will be at least million less than the City had budgeted for in its revised spending 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 Iran sit an ii per cent reduction in Grants and less Money to As school budget increases Winnipeg school Board has approved a 1978 budget totalling per cent higher than the million estimated for but a surplus brought 1977 revenues to about closing the Gap to provide a 1978 increase of per cuts from the original estimates came to Only but trustees had to add to provide an estimated six per cent pay increases for division May increase Lor trustees proposed see Page 3 property tax Revenue will increase about to million from City of Winnipeg mates now Call for a one Mill tax increase to raise to therefore the school tax increase would Likely be about for an average taxpayer in the with a House assessed at the increase would be about but the greater Winnipeg equalization which gives Revenue from Winnipeg 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 Mil lion in frequent division requests for elimination of this extra tax Haven brought sin Boine Park and in a statement Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier said the cuts Are in accordance with the provinces 1978 fiscal restraint the transit sents 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 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 the City failed to budget for a million reduction in its unconditional de Spile a warning from mar Sec City Page i up photo there have been Many protests against the annual Newfoundland Seal but Friday a group of about 20 Young newfound Landers mostly students from the University of new Brunswick staged a peaceful demonstration in Fredericton against the protesters with a Parade outside the offices of the International fund for animal at the same four Canadian and four norwegian ships were battling to reach a Seal Herd on heavy ice Frozen to the Labrador the opening of the Hunt passed without incident As the Crews of the ships waited for a Chance to get at the newly born Seal members of the Greenpeace foundation of British Columbia were expected to arrive in today for their annual but there was no word on what they although Federal fisheries officers and extra ramp members were standing Cabinet hears gripes complaints about Agricula housing and employment were heard in Winnipeg by Mem Bers of the Federal Liberal Cabinet Friday As hey started their hearings across the Tough decision Macmaster layoffs Sadden minister discuss issues defence Centre 1980 building pledged re Jim c7 cd by Jim 1iaggakty 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 Orcas a construction Industry Federal Revenue minister Joe Guay announced plans for a million air command Headquarters for the but said the re search first proposed during the 1971 election wont be Guay said adequate research facilities Are available without the new construction of the air command head quarters is scheduled to Start la 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 come Greasley the finished plans for the Centre Are sitting on a local architects he the new air command Headquarters will not help the Winnipeg builders through the depression there now experiencing be cause of the delay Between the announce ment and the actual Start of he even if the plans for the research Centre Are Guay said he could not Promise Winnipeg would have but lie said he would Light to have it the new air command Headquarters is to be located on the West Side of the replacing Barracks on the East Side which were built in 1911 and Are now being used As farm Bureau told Federal representatives they were deeply concerned with the abandon ment of direct meetings be tween agricultural groups and the Federal Cabinet and prime and urged the government to readout their former Eugene Joe John Maurice har Quail and Rodger voting standing in for Andre Ouel let and Ron Sena tors Gil Moi at and Douglas Everett were the Federal 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 continued see Cabinet Page 1 by Debbie Sproat Northern affairs minister Ken Macmaster of Manitoba said Friday he thought Long and hard before deciding to Lay off government employees in his own constituency of Thomp already dealt a severe blow by Taco cutbacks last the statistics Macmaster provided showed the City of Thompson was hardest hit by government layoffs announced this a total of people from the departments of renewable resources and transportation ser vices and Northern affairs lost their jobs including 18 permanent 23 term one departmental employee and one contract pm going Back to my constituency to he there is certainly going to be some but i dont believe there will be and More concern in the hearts of i he 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 relation to the March 31 he said he fell remain ing staff Are needed to provide Good ser vice to Northern in the Winnipeg area the number of people Laid off in Northern affairs and renew Able resources and transportation services totalled 29 and included eight permanent nine term employees and 11 de see layoffs Page i woman jailed two years for fatal apartment fire Mary who set a Rooming House afire two years ago because a Friend failed to deliver some and killed two men As a has been sentenced to two years less a Day in jail for causing death by Crimi Nal a 37yearold housekeeper with a serious drinking last september was convicted of two counts of causing death by criminal negligence and two counts of causing bodily harm by criminal negligence As a result of the fire at 610611 Spence evidence introduced at the three Day trial was that who then lived at 598 Spence became angry after a Friend she had been visiting in the Rooming House failed to return after she had Given him for she left the Rooming but on her Way out found a piece of newspaper just out Side the she lit and threw the burning paper Back inside under a Stair it started a fire that caused extensive Interior damage and killed two two others suffered smoke see woman Page 1 Book closed on vote abuses 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 risk 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 Al its bound to reflect on Lyon told reporters the possible violations involved two political parties and 51 candidates in last october provincial they included 3 candidates who failed to file details of their election expenses and donations within to Days of the As prescribed by the All have since been Hough some Are still income the new democratic and conservative which failed to file annual audited financial statements for which should have been turned in by the nip has since filed its but the pcs have 15 including who could conceivably have been in Viola Tion of a provision of the act covering corporate Dona the 15 candidates received More than 40 corporate donations during the election illegal under the Lyon did not mention no see Book Page 1 Ottawa to pay for francophone fight with Manitoba by Robert Wield and Ottawa took its pledge of sup port for French language Cru Sader Georges Forest one step further saying it will pay for part of his Legal fight to have Manitoba official Lan Guage act of 1890 declared Invar the Manitoba court of Queens Bench is expected to set a court Date monday for who says the act which bars French from provincial courts and legislature violates his language rights As a Canad Ottawa announcement made no mention of the amount of Money the government is pre pared to pay into the defence fund that has been set up for the Boniface insurance sales one High ranking Federal offi Cial said you cant put a ceiling of the costs because that de pends on How far the Case will its widely expected till go to the supreme in which Case the Bill will run into thou Sands of Forest said Fri Day he paid his lawyer Alain 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 researchers Are working on the Hogue said his file is already More than a foot and a half thick and that excludes All the material we have on chief Justice Dewar of the Manitoba court of Queens Bench is scheduled to set a Date monday for a court mondays hearing was planned for Friday afternoon but was cancelled because the Federal lawyer was the Federal government stressed its financial help Doest mean its lawyers will no longer intervene in the this decision does not alter the policy that the attorney Gen eral of Canada will intervene in appropriate cases involving the interpretation of language rights under the the announcement the Quebec government is appealing a recent Superior court decision which said part of que becs Bill which bans English from Quebec is in Forest won the first round when a Boniface county court judge ruled in his saying the province had no right in 1890 to make English the official Lan Guage in the courts and Legisla Ture 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 provincial and Federal courts and stipulates legislative records must be printed in both the provincial in response to forests claim the language act is a Constitution has said the legislation was passed in Good Faith and has asked the courts to dismiss his ;