Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 12, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free april 1978 sales tax Cut not Mureall for Mobile Home Industry by Jim Haggarty a provincial sales tax reduction on Mobile Homes Likely wont help Manito Bas sagging Mobile Home Hal the owner of Southside re sales said finance minister Don Craik of Mani Toba announced the tax to five per cent on 50 per cent of the Cost of a Mobile unit from five per cent of the total in his budget speech monday the tax Cut May have made a Mobile Home a Little cheaper to buy but in Winnipeg the problem is where to put Enns the closing of Shangrila Village in East Kildonan resulted in the City Pur chasing some of the Mobile Homes because the residents of the trailer Park find anywhere else to place he this year another Mobile Home covered Wagon trailer Park in fort is being closed and the Resi dents there dont know where to the situation is so that some Mobile Home dealers Are spending up front for a lot to make sure that if they do sell a Mobile the new owner will have a place to Enns the Money int he when asked if it was an under the table Enns said lets just Call it a nonrecurring for the past four Enns said he has been trying to build a trailer Park inside the perimeter near Jelly Stone Park off Highway 1 about 10 minutes from downtown win he claims the project has been stopped separate occasions by Winnipeg civic planning City councillors have again asked Enns to submit his plans for the Park in Light of the covered Wagon trailer Park but this time Enns Ive gone that route too Many he All the documents and plans have been sent to councillor Jim chairman of the cites environment part of his project is aimed at elderly persons who May want the privacy of their own but Arent Able to keep a conventional House Manitoba housing and renewal corporation thought it was a Good partly because it might free some Homes in the inner City which has Al most a Zero vacancy for Enns but somehow it want politically the plans Are again being looked at by an subcommittee of the environment and the members should be in touch with private people who want to Ernst the problem with such plans Are the Cost of services Cost of busing children to and from fire and police and recreation pro if there Are enough ultimately they will be demanding transit he two other Mobile Home dealers Felt the provincial sales tax Cut would be a boost in the Arm for the the problem of placing a Mobile Home in Winnipeg has always been a problem and dealers learn to live without that said Jack manager of Excel Mobile with the Selling Price for the Homes at about the tax Cut gives the buyer a real he any increase in sales is expected to come from people buying trailers to live in outside of the another who refused to let his or company name be agreed that the tax Cut would help but disagreed on the space prob Lem in the we have spaces for those who buy from although not As Many As we would he March prices Advance inflation rate to continued higher prices for gasoline and Home heat ing fuel put into effect by increases in the wellhead accounted for another Quarter of the costs of food alone Rose by per while the Rise for All items excluding food was last there were increases in electricity rates in Many Domestic Gas rates were up in Many Western cities and there were higher charges for dental appliance footwear and in Ontario and the Index in March stood at com pared with in february and in the Index was set at 100 in the base that Means Consumers would have had to pay in March for goods and services valued at in in and in prices of food consumed at which has been the main engine of inflation in recent were per cent higher in March than in february and per cent above a year fresh fruit prices in March were per cent higher than a month earlier and per cent above Levels of part of the increase is accounted for by devaluation of the which has made All imported goods More fresh vegetables were up per cent from february and 23 per cent from beef prices were per cent higher in March than in february and up 32v3 per cent from depressed Levels of a year the Cost to Consumers of fuels and utilities Rose by per cent in March from Over he prices in that sector jumped per the figures were released a Day after most provinces dropped their provincial retail sales tax for six or nine months in response to a Federal government plea in mondays Bud the sales tax decrease is expected by Federal authorities to lop a full percentage Point off the consumer Price Index Over the finance minister Jean Chretien said Mon Day he expects the Chi will Rise by about seven per cent in with officials counting on a slowing of inflation toward the end of the doing Best we can9 Economy cant provide jobs for All Chretien Ottawa up finance minister Jean Chretien said tuesday the Economy cannot provide jobs for All those who want to were going the Best that we can he told opposition maps after the release of statistics showing March unemployment remained at More than one million for a second successive the opposition parties continued to attack the govern ments economic manage ment policies and condemned monday nights Bud get measures As political manoeuvres that will prove inadequate in restoring eco nomic statistics Canada said tuesday that per cent of the workforce was jobless in up from per cent in that left More jobless than in Gebru a total of in opposition Leader Joe Clark asked whether the government plans new Job Crea Tion because the budget announcement of temporary reductions in provincial retail sales taxes quits when unemployment becomes most by making the two or three percentage Point reductions apply for Only six months in most the govern ment is simply pushing nor Mal buying demand in the when unemployment normally the in creased taxes will be reap plied and demand will fall Clark he suggested the temporary cuts were specifically designed to help reelect the Federal liberals in a general election expected in but Chretien defended the unprecedented Deal with the provinces As a novel approach to apply Quick stimulus by urging Consumers to spend their Money be he the Federal government could not afford to pay the provinces for Cut Ting their taxes for any longer than six sales tax reductions welcomed by dealers continued but Only time will Tell How some people who planned waiting for the 79 models in the fall May buy the 78s now because of the sales plus the possible re imposition of the sales tax in six could dead in Winter gust Bruce president of Parkside Ford sales said the sales tax reduction is a stimulant to sales but he expressed uncertainty about the effect if the governments decide to reinstate the three per cent in six Ike president of stadium said his company had a Strong first Quad with More sales than in the first three months of the sales tax Cut should have a stimulating effect on he flood on red feared i continued i More blasting of ice choked sections of the red May be necessary later this particularly North of Winni to accommodate rising River were reviewing the entire ice situation along the red from Winnipeg to the Lake Weber near 30 Miles North of Large ice jams Are now covering the red North of the they have caused extensive flooding of the Selkirk Golf course and sent water Levels in the red near East Selkirk up to Road Jack emergency measures organization Emo and officials of the water resources division Are scheduled to be meeting today with the councils of the Rural municipalities of Richot and Morris South of in the Rural municipality of Richot have a prob Lem in particular on Turnbull drive just South of the flood Way Miller we expect flooding at Levels just below those of 1969 when the water covered the Lake Winnipeg e site r3 Manitoba Hydro generating station site selection program preferred site r3 alternative Sites b4 and United states map shows Manitoba Hydro preferred and alternate Sites for a potential nuclear electric generating the preferred identified As is located on the West Bank of the Winnipeg about nine Miles North of Lac do one of the alternative is located about five Miles East of Highway 59 Between Libau and the other alternative is located on the East Shore of Lake South of Black River Indian 27 Miles North of Pine live near top nuclear site a Section of the report on radiation effects notes a nuclear Power station releases Small quantities of radioactivity during Normal it is although extremely that larger amounts of radioactivity could be accidentally released Over a Short period of it says the amount of radiation received from a normally working station depends on How close to it a person present operating experience with existing Canadian nuclear stations indicated that the radiation received from a Plant by an individual living at the station Boundary would be less than of the amount the average person in Manitoba receives from natural occurring background it that cities of radiation released and the area affected could be much larger in an the report lists 11 advantages and four disadvantages in the Lac Dubonnet the pluses include below average continued environmental no disruption of private land highly reliable source of Cooling excellent foundation second highest potential socioeconomic benefits and relative ease of attracting and holding disadvantages arc greater than average population highest terrestrial Impact of All Sites and possible disruption of surface Runoff because of a Cooling the report estimates constructing a nuclear station requires work ers and 200 supervisory and 250 full time staff would be needed to operate the five other considered and rejected by the Are a developing cottage area on the West Shore of Lake Winnipeg Between Hausa and 15 Miles from an unpopulated wilderness area Miles from Pine Falls on the cast Shore of Lake Winnipeg near Manigo a Low Grade Farmland Midway Between Gimli and Winnipeg on the Southwest Shore of Lake marginal Farmland five Miles from Lake East of Oak a treed nine Miles from on the East Bank of the Winnipeg River near the White Shell nuclear research Hydro million nuclear Power study began in but was halted after the third report was made pub Lic because of a sudden drop in demand for electricity last two other reports environmental Impact and site evaluation that were to follow have been it is apparent that hydroelectricity will meet Manitoba needs until at least the a Hydro spokesman Hydro intends to continue studying other possible Energy sources such As wind and Bio More Canadian troops to Southern Lebanon Ottawa up defence minister Barney Danson said today Canada will contribute More troops to the United nations peacekeeping Force in Southern Lebanon if cer Tain conditions Are Danson said Canada will agree to Supply up to 80 troops to serve until the United nations has asked for 110 to 150 service men for the interim peace keeping external affairs minister Don Jamieson is discussing the matter with in officials in new York the government said in March that Canadian Servi Cemen would be sent into Southern Lebanon for Only two to four time enough for the in to find replacements from other Canada now has 35 Logis tics troops in the mainly the United nations interim Force in Lebanon uni Fil was set up after Israel invaded Lebanon in mid March to destroy palestinian guerrilla the Force is to stay in the Region until israeli troops Are with drawn and peace is Graves record Fate of convoys Murmansk Reuter on a Bleak russian Arctic memo rials to 27 merchant seamen and soldiers of the soviet unions Western record the Fate of the second world War Murmansk con Grey Granite stones two feet High Mark the Graves of 13 seven moslem three three poles and one Canadian who were among the hundreds of Allied Crew members killed on the Northern Supply lines to a beleaguered a Metal plaque says in russian these Graves were Laid in memory of the fighters of the British Commonwealth and the United states who died bringing Aid to the soviet Union during the fatherland War in the Centre of Murmansk with a population of almost the worlds Only major Metropolis North of the Arctic Circle a Large Globe shaped Monument outside the sea mens club recalls the common fight of the countries of the anti Hitler in the City four photo graphs show Allied ships in 1942 unloading diesel engines and other supplies part of the Deli veries which Western historians argue played a major role in helping the under equipped soviet Union army turn the tide of the these reminders of the Alliance and the convoys from Britain and Iceland around German occupied Norway through submarine infested Waters to Murmansk year round ice free port appear part of an Effort by local authorities to straighten the historical until foreign visitors to the City had found Little Public recognition of the Western allies wartime role in maintaining Supply runs which turned Murmansk into a sym Bol of the joint struggle against nazi but a recent textbook for local schools does record briefly that from Allied convoys including dozens of transport vessels from the Canada and Britain brought military equip ment and food to a Book just issued by the Mur Mansk state publishing House on the past and present of the Region de votes four pages to the handling of the convoys in the port stress ing the bravery of the russian dockers who worked on during nazi air the Book records that soviet Union dockworkers saved a bombed Brit ish vessel after its Crew had Given it up for lost and fled to it also quoted a observer As marvelling at russian endurance and will to sur the Book Speaks bitterly of the British admiralty decision in the summer of 1942 to order the naval escort to leave the pm 17 Convoy going from Iceland to Murmansk sister port of a local who helped write the also spoke angrily of the decision say British naval to enable the escorts to engage a German Force believed to be planning to attack the Convoy but which never there May have been compelling but How could they leave the Convoy completely defenceless asked the whose Book re lates the heroism of the Crew of one soviet Union ship in the ensuing flight from nazi submarines and alongside the line of Allied Graves in the Hillside cemetery Are those of thousands of soviet Union soldiers and seamen who in the Allied a roman Catholic prayer can be read on the Tomb of a 20yearold British radio officer alongside the arabic inscriptions Over those of the seven East asians All killed in on Board the steamship Lancaster further along the on a Stone topped by the Eagle of the Mer chant hebrew and English lettering Marks the grave of Messman Maurice who died in two British soldiers from the Royal artillery maritime regiment Are next Connelly and aged 27 and who died 3n april by them is Auger of a fireman and the youngest member of a Convoy 16year old Steward lies beside both killed on the steam ship in Duna in ;