Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba F like go a 13 Winnipeg free press May 1978 City news it leaves you breathless 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Alice Krueger new rules due on farm leases Manitoba pc which has been busily Selling off and acquired businesses since it came to is about to introduce a new farm lending pro Gram designed to ultimately end the provinces Days As the Manitoba agriculture credit corporations land lease program was Frozen shortly after the conserva Tives took office last october As Premier Sterling Lyon the government Doest want to become a landowner of private our intent is to ensure that those who work the land will own rather than be lessees under a government agriculture minister Jim Downey refuses to reveal any details of the program before its officially unveiled a few weeks from but he confirms the new set of rules for the restoring it to the role of will contain possibilities for those Farmers currently holding to Purchase the land under a new we Hope to be Able to have a Freer the agriculture minister the new arrangement is expected to give Farmers the option to convert their leases into Lon term Loans from the with certain enticements such As subsidized interest rates in the initial in that the Farmers payments probably be that much More in aggregate from what he would pay under a Lon term leasing the major of is that the Farmer rather than the province will hold title to the besides being a tidy Way of getting the Lyon govern ment out of a program to which it is philosophically the plan has an added Bonus for the Costco scions pc it probably wont Cost that much it was estimated More than 500 Manitoba Farmers were leasing about acres of land from Macc at the time the freeze was imposed last since the applications to Purchase have begun to trickle so about 40 have exercised their option to says Macc acting property manager Doug Par Parnell says aside from Lyons Public statement last the new administration has done nothing More to actively encourage Farmers with leases to buy their he said changes made by the nip Over a year ago Are in themselves an encouragement to buy rather than continue those changes brought in new terms which allowed a Farmer to Purchase the land any rather than after five years As first Laid Down under the controversial Downey obviously Doest see it As enough enc our and said he want surprised so few Farmers had exercised their option to what is holding them he is that they Are still having to buy Back under the old rules established by the presumably All that will change when the minister brings in his new lending the Manitoba farm an Organiza Tion representing a variety of Rural and agricultural interest groups in the is concerned about what the government May have in mind in the Way of assistance to take the place of the land lease in a Brief presented to the provincial Cabinet earlier this the Bureau issued the following warning at this time we would express some reservations regarding the need for the provincial government to again become involved in providing Long term credit for purchases of farm we express this reservation in Light of a significant expansion by the Federal government of funding through the farm credit corporation and indications from private lending institutions of intention to expand their Lon term lending very our concern is that the provision of Loo Many credit options May tend to cause a further inflation of land values beyond any reasonable expectation of returns from that land to service the debts we would urge your government to consider very carefully the extent of its activity in this mayor says Federal refusal makes project Remote waste conversion plan denied funds the Federal government has re fused to contribute a requested million toward construction of a Plant proposed by Winnipeg City Council to convert solid waste into steam heat for downtown custom in a letter to mayor Robert Steen of Urban affairs minister Andre Ouellet says the Federal government has no pro Grams offering capital funds for District heating and related sys and is unlikely to provide any in the near until a policy on funding the de construction and operation of District heating plants is Deve Only entertain discussions about funding certain no capital related Ouellet these include highly technical studies on alternative incineration whether to use steam heat or hot water More compatible and effective heat medium site and mar Ket commenting on the ministers Steen said in an interview tuesday that the cites chances of launching the to million endorsed in Princi ple by civic executive policy com Mittee last Are becom i More and More re while the provincial government has not been consulted since for Mer Urban affairs minister Saul Miller recommended last septem Ber that Ottawa be asked to con Steen i doubt very much consider it seriously at this a report by the consulting firm of James Maclaren limited last year estimated that a Plant con suming tons of solid waste daily could produce the annual heat equivalent of million Gal Lons of enough to heat 750 Down town businesses three times the number subscribing to the existing steam heating a decision on what to do the Coa fired incinerator that feeds it will have to be taken soon since is it is fast becoming uneconomical and is under order from the clean environment commission to install millions of dollars Worth of pollution control Steen an offer to construct a though smaller scale reclamation proposed by Grumman International one of Many companies bidding to Supply Canada with new Jel fighter is scheduled to be discussed thurs Day at a meeting of civic executive policy Grumman Vic president Fred Raymes says in a letter to the mayor that Grumman would if it wins the More than billion con tract build and operate a Plant to produce steam heat or Power in two or three Canadian though not necessarily in Raymes says the plants would be included in the company commit ment to return to Canada 80 per cent of the contracts value and would utilize local labor and Tal ent during the construction period and during the subsequent years of Plant maintenance and just How Many competitors Winnipeg would have in its bid to get one built Here is not though Well probably have to wait in Steen Grumman has undertaken similar projects with Success in a number of Ger Man he a third Energy reclamation scheme involving 10 local including former Winnipeg mayor Steve Juba and former Manitoba premiered has also been proposed to convert solid waste into about the Only people at City Hall keeping the original steam heating proposal alive arc chief civic missioner who most recently recommended it considered for accelerated strut lion in Early and Nick commissioner of civic works and Steen most councillors and civic administrators now consider it to be prohibitively expensive for the City to undertake Steen staff photos Winnipeg jets right Winger Anders Hedberg above shakes hands with Perez the jubilation As fans knew the stars Are going to the new York a fans lining memorial Boulevard while Lin mate Centre Ulf Nilsson signs Auto Happy Bobby Hull Bottom left accepts Victory Flowers before a civic luncheon for graphs during tuesdays Parade for the Avo cup wistfulness Temche jets and goalie Joe Daley sums it up with the number one hazardous signs ordered replaced fifty electrically Hazard Ous Street name signs in the Valley gardens area of East Kildonan were ordered re placed by City Crews As quickly As possible during a meeting of civic works and operations committee tues the internally illuminated Street name erected by a Developer almost 10 years have grounding and deterioration problems that constitute a definite electrical Hazard to the pub said Nick com missioner of civic works and the Cost of replacing the decorative signs with a Stan Dard reflector Zed variety is estimated at Diakiw the work is expected to be completed within a Oneto today no internally illuminated Street name signs have been approved by the cites electrical inspection Branch nor by Manitoba though the latter is suspected of having authorized the Valley Garden civic administrators councillors warned against replacing the signs with a similar Esti mated to Cost or a saying everybody is going to want equal treat ment since they Are aesthetically committee approves Sale of bus tickets by John Sullivan the Sale of transit tickets was hastily endorsed by civic works and operations committee but Winni Eggers probably wont see them until designed As a convenience for adult riders wishing to avoid the 35cent Cash fare introduced May the tickets would be available from at least 13 City outlets in of 20 for or 10 for tickets for special user children and the elder would Cost for 20 or 10 for the reintroduction of tickets after four years of exact fare bus rides was approved by executive policy committee in late april but referred to works committee by Council May 3 after several works members objected to the Lack of because of the Council a is now at least two weeks although several councillors said the Public Doest want maintaining that the cites monthly pass is the logical route for regular works committee chairman Gary Filmon called the plan an obvious Why do we what to make transit unattractive in any asked Filmon ice Crescent most citizen Calls had complained about Council holding Oft on the he John anus varsity questioned the tial promotional Campaign pro posed by transit officials to boost the but commissioner Nick Diakiw said he costs would be covered by the departments exist ing publicity several councillors also worried about the Cost of printing and sell ing the tickets until Diakiw they would Cost Only for a three year Supply and involve no increase in City Twenty eight commercial outlets which now sell bus passes will be asked to Stock the he some alleging police brutality deserve Leech c7 c7 the Dis Ciulini committee cleared Dealin by Mike Ward councillor lome chair Man of the Winnipeg police com says some people who complain about police brutality deserve a hell of a lot commenting tuesday on a recent series of free press articles on close door commis Sion stressed that this was his personal his official reaction a com Mission chairman As far As flagrantly assaulting a then i think that definitely be invest Leech said lie had mixed feel Ings regarding the 12 documented cases of alleged police brutality published in he lie said being a policemen is not the life he would like to Lead with some of the Sutt they have to Deal who became chairman o the commission last said the articles gave the impression thai the commission simply rub be stamped decisions by the police departments disciplinary i think Well be All i think from now i Well probably More involved with the cases As they come in going to bring it up at the next this getting Leech said there be any More inca Mcra hearings to discuss issues that should be in the Public he promised a full report on recent allegations of police drinking on duty and said the commission would disc Tiss tin there will be More open meetings and More names former police commission chairman William said the articles raised a Good Point about the need of some discussions being held in Cam now a t citizen member of the de fended this practice on the grounds that it was not easy to control what came up at incan Iera sometimes things Start off in camera Ana then go into Public hearings and then sometimes things Start off in the open and into he Hallonquist rejected a Sugges Tion thai the commission had rubber stamped police disciplinary committees findings on to Lue brutality he said some were discussed by the com some were accepted without asked if he was surprised that Ilie discipline committee cleared the officers concerned in All 12 documented cases of alleged Bru Hallonquist said police men were disciplined in some in he admitted that these were for lesser asked about changes in the police commission Hallonquist said City Council had this Opportunity four years ago when the City police forces were he said the City voted against two separate police commission no dealing with the other disc asked in the time is now Ripe Lor Council to review he the time has been Ripe All along and there int one Mem Berol the police commission who would say they Are opposed opposed to two separate Hallonquist said current fiscal restraint measures would Possi Bly make it difficult to adopt two boards because of the funding required to set them 1 ;