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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 12, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Joe Clark a new Book 49 How much does a family need 16 Fuddle Buck to shirts thrown in rag i 3 government won t fund Union Centre 12 quack cancer cures just cause trouble Hillman has a taste for that bubbly 73 inside anytime.7 Bio Dex horoscope.32 bridge.31 comics.42 crossword.32 deaths.5, 60 finance.55-59 for people.27-41 letters.72 jumble.62 movies.37 television.34 weather.5 weather report from Cloudy Low -3, High 0 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets Winnipeg free press vol. 85 no. 163 wednesday april 12, 1978 15 cents with coloured comics Levesque Calls sales tax cuts shameless rape by Peter Hadekel staff correspondent Quebec the parti quebecois government has culled the formula for provincial sales lax cuts contained in the Federal budget completely unacceptable and is preparing a counter proposal to be announced in a few Days. Ottawa s proposal for a temporary reduction in provincial sales tax has been accepted by the other prov inces. But Premier hone Levesque and finance minister Jacques Parizeau reacted angrily to the plan. Parizeau told the National Assembly tuesday that que Bec is being forced to pay Hie million provincial share of the program or lose the prices increase 1.1% in March Ottawa up consumer prices Rose in March by a substantial 1.1 per cent the largest one month Advance since july statistics Canada reported today. The 12-month inflation rate was 8.8 per cent compared with 8.7 per cent in february. Higher food gasoline and fuel Oil prices led the Way in tile Over All Price hike. The consumer Price Index Chi figures were released two Days before the government is to Star phasing out wage and Price controls imposed oct. 1975, and a Clay after release of statistics showing a record unemployed during March. Food prices including higher costs for fresh fruit and vegetables beef and pork products were largely responsible for the increase. Food accounted for one third of the Over All Rise. See March Page i Canadian Dollar drops to new Low Montreal up the Canadian Dollar dropped to a new -15-year-Low on new York Money markets tues Day As the Market showed a generally negative reaction to finance minister Jean Chretien s budget speech. At the close of a moderate trading session in the inter Bank wholesale Market the Dollar was changing hands at .s7.-m . Cents Down from the previous Day s Price of 87.54 . Cents and its lowest level since May 1933. The . Dollar in terms of Canadian funds Al noon wednesday was up 8-25 at in new York the Canadian Dollar was Down 6-25 at in Early trading the Dollar Slid As Low As 87.30 . Cents. But commercial de Mand for Canadian dollars and profit taking pushed the currency up to the 87.50 . Cents level by noon tuesday. Foreign Exchange dealers expressed dismay that the budget had no Concrete Mea sures to bolster the Dollar. Federal compensation pay ment of million. We find this completely he said. Parizeau said he was in formed of the decision Mon Day afternoon at a time when he was preparing his april 18 budget. The additional million nov being asked of Quebec will upset the narrow spending margin of the government in tile forthcoming budget he said. Premier Levesque s response to Hie Federal budget was More vitriolic. He called it a shameless rape of provincial jurisdiction and said it gives a Clear indication of the re concoct cd federalism thai will be preached by he Trudeau government in the forthcoming election Campaign. If we were to accept this like a lying dog the state of Quebec would be entering the veritable waiting room of he said. Federal finance minister Jean Chretien has offered Quebec the Choice of reducing its eight per cent sales tax by three per cent for six months or by two per cent for nine months. While Quebec ponders its response merchants in towns near the Ontario Bor Der face the Prospect of de Clining business As Quebec Consumers Cross the Border to take advantage of Ontario s sales tax now reduced to four per cent. The Quebec Cabinet met for two hours tuesday morn ing to study the Federal offer but it is still Noi Clear what position finance minister Parizeau will with the loss of million in Federal Money. But Parizeau did indicate he would favor measures having More than a six or nine month duration. Levesque said the Federal government borrowed the sales tax Cut idea from on Tario in a fit of panic Over the Economy adding that on Tario would be the Clear beneficiary of the scheme. Photo by Gorry Cairns workers prepare tuesday to unload a freight Carrier of automobiles St. Boniface. Winnipeg Auto dealers last year sold passenger at a joint Canadian National railways up rail unloading area in cars and pickup trucks about half the total sold in Manitoba. Industry state of the Economy increased Auto sales predicted in Wake of retail sales tax cuts by Ron Campbell Winnipeg Auto dealers welcomed tuesday the provincial sales tax cuts announced in the Federal and provincial budgets monday night. They predicted it would result in in creased car sales which locally have already been generally Strong in the first Quarter. Jim Campbell president of Westport Chrysler Plymouth ltd., said custom ers were already responding tuesday morning to the previous night s announcement of a three percentage Point six month Cut in the provincial five per cent sales lax. Auto sales at his company were quiet in january Good in february and March Campbell said with the com pact Volar and horizon being the hot Sellers. The Auto Industry reflects the general slate of the Economy Campbell said strengthening As the Economy strength ens. Terry Balkan president of Terry Balkan Chevrolet Oldsmobile lid., said the lax Cut will really stimulate Auto As it did in Ontario when Hie sales tax there went Down. He said the tax Cut is a great break for Manitoban who already have Given his company a very Strong first Quarter in both profits and sales. Sherrold Haddad president of holi Day Chevrolet Oldsmobile ltd., said the sales lax Cut was a positive move which should provide a Good buyer stimulus. Acknowledging that car sales nation ally have generally been off this year due to Price and other factors Haddad said his own company has performed Well in the first Quarter. Nova size compacts have been Selling Best he said. List Price there is about and the sales tax reduction Means customers will pay less. Used car sales in the first Quarter have been extremely Strong the strongest i be seen in some sales on the full size Chevrolet have been pretty but in the inter mediate size Market very Wishy the reason is the reduction in size and increase in Price Haddad said and people just Don t want to make the in vestment. They think they re getting less car for More Hans gust general manager of Auto Haus fort Garry ltd., said for the last year and a half he has t been Able to Supply enough Volkswagen to meet de Mand. 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No strike mail Bill advances Ottawa up after less than four hours of de Bate the commons gave approval in principle tuesday night to a special Bill to ban a postal strike during a Federal election Campaign. The vote was 152 to 16, with the new democratic party five social credit members and two Independent maps voting against the measure which Stanley Knowles North Centre predicted would guarantee a Wildcat during the Brief debate a number of opposition maps said they expect the election Call any Day prime minister Trudeau opposition Leader Joe Clark and nip Leader de Broad Bent were in the commons for the late evening recorded vote forced by the nip. Near record Levels reported red River menacing despite one foot drop photo by Gerry Cairns workmen prepare to blast the ice at the Gates of the red River blood Way. By Kobert Wield and the red River dropped almost one foot in Winnipeg tuesday because of the red River flood Way which is 10 years old this month but everywhere else the River continued to climb to near record Levels. In the area of grand Forks n.d., the red neared its highest level in 81 years reaching 47.5 17.5 feet above flood stage and is expected to Crest thursday at 16 feet. This is one foot lower than earlier anticipated. Governor Rudy Perpich of Minnesota who flew Over water stricken areas near East grand Forks minn., said later hell ask president Carter of the United states to declare the Northwest Corner of his state a disaster area. In Manitoba the red Rose about 18 inches at pm jets Between Emerson and the red River flood Way according to the provincial government s latest flood conditions report. 9 the Only exception was the City of Winnipeg itself where the red dropped to 15.9 feet above Normal Winter level from Mon Day s High of 16.6 feet. Sturgeon Creek also dropped about a foot after the City monday. Although the flood Way is providing flood Relief for the City a Large ice Jam at the Inlet hampered the flow of the water tuesday from the River into the bypass which runs East of Winnipeg. A provincial work Crew succeeded Only partially tuesday morning in blasting the Jam apart Tom Weber senior Assis Tant Deputy minister of water resources said. The blast split the ice he added but a Large chunk remained lodged at the in trance to the bypass. This month Marks the 10th anniversary of the completion of the flood Way built at a Cost of million in an attempt to prevent floods such As the one that ravaged Winnipeg in 1950. Weber said the ice interferes with the diversion of the and warned see flood Page 4 near nuclear site by Steve we Tysall eight thousand people live in the danger zone of a site nine Miles North of Lac Dubonnet that Manitoba Hydro named tuesday As the Best in lie province to build a nuclear Power station. An accidental release of radioactivity at the station could contaminate everyone living within a 25-mile Radi us according to Hydro s third nuclear study report made Public tuesday. The 153-Page report considered seven other Sites in addition to the Lac Dubon net location. The effects of an accidental release of radioactivity were taken into account in the site selection process even though the chances of such an occurrence Are extremely the report says. The indicator used was the total population cur Renty living within a 40-kilo metre radius of each weather and land forms must be considered in calculating the total radiation exposure the report stresses. It does not specify possible effects to residents of a radiation Accident. Lac Dubonnet residents however Don t appear to be too worried the town Council recently petitioned Manitoba Hydro for a nuclear Power station nearby. The report also names two alternative Sites for Manitoba s first nuclear station costing about billion one live Miles East of High Way 59 Between Selkirk and Libau the other on the cast Shore of Lake Winnipeg South of the Black River in Dian Reserve 27 Miles North opine Falls. A total of people live in the two alter native Sites danger zones the report says. Sec Page 4 ;