Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, April 14, 1978

Issue date: Friday, April 14, 1978
Pages available: 87
Previous edition: Thursday, April 13, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 14, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free april 1978 prices effective until closing april 1978 Only we Reserve the right to limit All sales in retail quantities whole pork loins 10 to 1 4 in average Orange flavor crystals Tang 27 pkg Iii i each unit 3 per customer old dutch potato assorted flavors 79 01 pay i Iii each unit 2 per customer delicious apples James Ami in Unm Nairn Boulevard Upkeep Issue lives on by John Sullivan the rancorous Issue of intercity Boulevard maintenance by the City is not dead despite approval of the program during City councils budget debate last the Issue was revived by suburban opponents thursday at a meeting of Winnipeg executive policy the committee voted 4to3 to query the administration on the advisability of passing a citywide bylaw on Boule Vard maintenance and asked the cites Legal department to see if any existing bylaws now compel suburban homeowners to mow their urging the councillor Abe Yanofsky said the former suburban districts had bylaws re Quiring owners maintenance but that these were repealed with Yanofsky Independent citizens election commit tee Jefferson said if the requirement want carried Over in a citywide bylaw after 1 see no reason Why suburban residents Arent entitled to the same Cit provided service As intercity works committee chair Man Gary Filmon Crescent Heights dismissed the administration study As a waste of saying opponents of the Cor Earea program were trying to add fuel to the fire of their argument after losing in coun in other policy committee approved a controversial District plan allowing Only Low and medium Den sity residential development in South vital beyond the perimeter lome Leech ice Seine Valley made an in Las ditch bid for accelerated development which would allow Large landowners in some areas to subdivide their properties into one and two acre Leech charged the plan was discriminatory and gives the people nothing despite its approval by civic environment committee and the administration after three years of agonizing and exhaustive Public hear deferred approval of a works committee recommendation not to close math Eson Avenue Between Powers and Copp Filmon requested the delay pending an administration report on the possibility of closing the Street temporarily and monitoring the the closing was requested by the Winnipeg hebrew school As a safety measure to protect its 600 students from heavy traffic on Mathe the move was strenuously opposed by area Resi reaffirmed an unsuccessful 1972 freeze on hiring of new City employees and backed a new policy of Attri Tion As a financial restraint staff vacancies would re main unfilled except with the express approval of the appropriate Council would receive quarterly reports on the number of vacancies asked the province to close the liquor outlet at main Street and Market and to enforce liquor control act prohibitions against serving main Street hotel patrons who Are already into i backed a program of minor skateboard runs in City leaving major facilities to the private granted a further 250 to fund the Winnipeg convention and visitors Bureau this bringing its total 1978 Grant to granted the Winnipeg economic development Board an interim to finance it operations until june plus a special promotional Grant of voted to give the Salva Tion army this the same As in vital will decide on moving students by Ingeborg Boyens the vital school Board will decide april 27 whether to move More than 80 children enrolled in its French language immersion course at Ecol 505 Annes to another school because of Over about 50 concerned parents jammed the vital school Board offices thursday night to hear the boards the school has two Complete one in English and the other in the immersion program is to teach English speaking students French so they May enter the Frenchman Guage the District school superintendent has recommended that More than 80 kindergarten and Grade 2 students in the program be moved to Varennes 22 Varennes when school starts again in Ecol unlike Many schools in is superintendent Gordon Newton said 530 pupils arc enrolled even though the school Only has facilities for the French immersion program is expected to grow by about 40 students each at this rate 10 More classrooms May be required in Newton a special school Board meeting recommended that the French immersion program be maintained but moved to Varennes school until a new school can be parents were less Happy with the Sugges Tion to move their marketing changes proposed the Saskatchewan government has proposed several changes in the National feed Grain marketing system which they feel will encourage livestock production on the a policy was presented to the Western premiers con Ference Here thursday by Saskatchewan Premier Allan the premiers reaction will be made available in a communique to be issued but indications Are they have suggested the proposal be studied in a position paper made available to the the Saskatchewan government said that local users of feed Grain Are treated As Cus timers of last resort be cause most producers prefer to sell to the Canadian wheat the paper says Farmers chose the wheat Board Over local users because they anticipate higher the Board gives similar treat ment to All producers through quotas and Price pooling and there is an expectation of a final once sold to the wheat the Grain moves out to other parts of the country and users who have difficulty obtaining enough Grain for their livestock must then pay significant Premium to meet their the paper says this inhibits specialization in Saskatchewan suggests that a properly functioning feed Grain Market should Al locate feed supplies across Price variations across Canada should reflect the Cost of transferring Grain from surplus to deficit re the Price at a Prairie a surplus should be below a deficit by an amount which equals the Cost of transferring that Grain from that Prairie Point to Montre Freer Trade backed the premiers of the four Western provinces have once again stated their support for Freer International in a communique issued thursday at the annual West Ern premiers the four leaders said that Trade liberalization is essential to open up new markets for Western producers and to lower costs to Western con they suggested Canadas negotiator at multilateral Trade talks now under Way in Geneva should emphasize that exceptions to Trade Barrier reductions be kept at a both in Canada and that there be greater than 40 per cent Tariff reductions for resource based products to encourage further processing in Western that the Low Tariff rates facing a Large proportion of Canadian Industrial exports be eliminated or substantially advisory health planning Board advocated by Manfred Jager Herman executive director of Manitoba health told the groups annual meeting thursday Manitoban need a health care map a master plan health institutions can use to provide the Best possible service despite funding speaking to about 300 Hospital and nursing Home and department Heads and Board members in the Winnipeg Crewson said the provincial govern ment should establish a Manitoba health planning advisory Board As soon As the association recently advanced the idea of the planning body to consult with the government As part of a position paper on health service streamlining and said when the proposal was revealed that the Board would fulfil the role formerly played by the Board of the Manitoba health services that Board has been inactive since last fall but Nomi Nally still Crewson told delegates crying towels will do them no Good As they attempt to meet conditions of the Provin Cial governments restraint health facilities cant meet their responsibility to the Community with that kind of Crewson administrators will have to reduce expenses or generate other sources of in other delegates thursday passed resolutions calling on the government to eliminate required approval for health institution purchases of equipment or suddenly necessary repairs costing More than urging government to Stop paying property tax credits to nursing Home residents and requesting Relief from provincial sales tax As Well As from Federal sales one Resolution calling for room and Board charges for All patients using hospitals was Defeated almost unania one Resolution expressed the deep concern of health facilities with the governments Cost restraint pro Gram for this year and was carried with almost unanimous another calling on the Provin Cial government not to change status and role of the Manitoba health services was referred Back to the organizations Board for further resolutions advocating the raising of a Onece Tan ounce of liquor tax for alcoholism treatment and an other calling for a 10centsapackage tax on also for health were Defeated almost with out the delegates reelected Roy the adminis Trator of flin flan general Hospital As chairman of the organizations Board of Harold administrator of Grace Hospi is and Jake executive director of Lions is Vic chairman of the delegates elected three new Board All of them trustees of health they Are Ernie Ellis of Wendy Macdonald of and Rose Reid of where do you go Tosee Saab standing still the Saab int just one of the Best engineered cars in the its also one of the Best performing cars in the and no one knows that better than Saab who love to drive their who front wheel a 2litre Bosch fuel injected radial tires and 4 wheel Power assisted disc brakes add up to the difference Between driving and just so if youd like a Chance to View the Saab close up see your local Saab Hes a part of our extensive sales and service network stretch ing from once you were sure youll be con Vinced that theres Only one View better the one from behind the the surprising see it atthe dealer nearest motor sales 235 main Street Winnipeg Telephone 9433461 jump Imbt Selkirk Comart pc unit Wum Omi Siumui smut Mem ii insurance connection denied by conservatives former nip Cabinet min ister Bill Uruski Drew angry demands for proof or re traction when he accused the conservative govern ment of being in the hip pockets of the insurance Industry in the Manitoba legislature former minister responsible for the Manitoba Public insurance Corpora brought an angry minis Ter without portfolio Frank Johnston to his i want proof or retract Johnston sparking off an angry Exchange during which speaker Harry Graham also asked the nip member to either prove his statement or re tract it began when Uruski noted during the election Campaign the now Premier Sterling Lyon had said Auto Pac would but sub sequently announced he was removing from aut Opac revenues the two cent a gallon Gas tax and was talking of removing the Drivers licence fee which goes to Auto he noted the conserva Tives task Force on govern ment operations and the Economy had a sizeable num Ber of members from the insurance Industry working of Johnston called on him to prove backroom deals were actually made and not made in his who paid the then Leader of the opposition Lyon 000 a month Uruski ques Johnston again demanded get it wit Quality part Norco High performance paints available at better paint hardware and Home decorating consult your yellow Norco is on Sale at selected dealers til april another Quality product by Man a retraction and speaker Harry Graham also asked for a retraction or Uruski began cataloguing members of the task Force who were connected with the insurance including Hugh Benham of Ca Nadian Premier life Assur Ance Harold president of the Monarch life Assurance company and Roderick Vic president of the great West life Assurance at this Graham again asked Uruski to prove his the Exchange Only halted when the dinner hour arrived and the House picking up his charges in the Uruski produced a memo on great West life dated april 1977 from William research coordinator of the insurance company and later task Force Secretary to Sterling further to conversations i have had with yourself and the memo we Are considering putting to Gether a group of individuals to review the economic environment and the economic Impact of our it went on to name 10 peo ple suggested for such a including Mac pres ident of United Grain grow Richard vice president of Canadian securities who had later been named to the task Uruski noted on the Bottom of the memo a with some which he suggested might be Lyons say ing go might want to add Mccallum from the u of also Mcfear Mccallum of the University of Manitoba administrative studies was a task Force ;