Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Losing and Loving it Leisure Battle of Britain called a myth pm referendum to be held in 79 10 people before pipelines 12 for fat ladies Only so inside 59 59 1223 fat 2949 58 ill Jumble fit Cloudy Low High is Sun sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press 15 cents with coloured comics final edition 85 291 september Canadian takes beating Montreal up the Canad an Dollar crashed Back below the 86 cent level on International Money markets Friday to break the record Low it had set Only four Days it closed at cents on the inter Bank wholesale Down a mar Ginal 3100 of a cent from Mon Days rate of cents the lowest the Dollar has stood at since traders said the anticipated announcement by the five largest american commercial Banks to in crease their prime lending rates to per cent from per cent Contri buted to the an increase in the rate in effect the interest charged on Loans to top rated business borrowers makes holding Canadian dollars less advantageous and encourages Selling by currency the which had strengthened to cents is expected by some currency dealers to hover within 10 Points of the 86cent Mark for the next few employee theft blamed for High food costs by Ingeborg Boyens dishonesty by supermarket Plo yees is adding More to grocery Bills than say some retail store and while they disagree on the amount involved some say it rep resents 15 per cent of the Cost of Gro Ceries while others say its less the officials dont dispute that employee theft is a huge employee theft is an ugly fact of modern says Paul Bur a Security officer for West fair foods which handles lob econ Mart and Tomboy a Winnipeg official of one major grocery who asked not to be said he argue with reports that As much As 15 per cent of supermarket prices May be going to cover the costs of employee Dishon he was referring to a study in the United states by a store consultant that revealed employee theft is a bigger problem than customer Sho the report suggested the Cost to the consumer was 15 per cent of their grocery the Winnipeg official said employee theft alone causes net losses of about one per cent of a supermarkets total the he has been evident in the grocery retail Trade for at least 20 in the store official Inci dents of employee theft seem to have see employee Page 4 Clark would halt Norair takeover Muhammad All right connects with a right to the head of Leon Spinks on his Way to a 15round unanimous decision Over Spinks in their world heavyweight championship fight Friday night in the new Orleans All became the first Man to win the heavyweight championship three see stories on pages councillors urge rules for municipal officials province to tackle conflict Law by Steve Pona the Manitoba government agreed to consider legislating conflict Fin Terest regulations for municipal government officials across the province at a meeting Friday with Winnipeg City Council attorney general Gerry Mercier said after the meeting that some form of conflict interest regulations would probably be necessary to Clear the air of allegations of some of which could be made Mercier also said regulations would have to carry a penalty to be effective and have a mechanism to recover any Money thai might accrue from the conflict of the government intends to consult with Urban groups such As the association of Urban municipalities and the Union of Manitoba municipalities at conventions in october and no vember before Mercier mayor Robert Steen of Winnipeg said he still expects some form of legislation to be tabled at the next session of the which Mer Cier said would Start around Christ but they still Haven made up their minds on what they the mayor said the government could see the advisability of legis lating conflict of interest regulations for All municipal officials in not Only in Winnipeg they want one set of Standard rules for he but i dont think there prepared to make a decision one Way or the other they want to explore the possibilities and ramifications they want to look at the Legal implications of our the mayor Council voted last year not to take action on the stringent and wide ranging recommendations of the Winnipeg commission on conflict of chaired by former Manitoba chief Justice Rhodes see Mercier Page 4 by John Sullivan air Canadas proposed takeover of Norair would be cancelled under a five Point National air policy unveiled Friday by Federal progressive conservative Leader Joe Clark in Winni Clark said last weeks Canadian transport commission approval of the Sale would be Over turned or rolled Back by a tory government As part of a new air policy stressing greater Competition and expansion of regional carriers such As Montrea based in our this country needs More not among Canadian Clark told a Winnipeg chamber of Commerce Lun Cheon in the hotel fort Norair is a profitable company which can and should remain in Pri vate both the Manitoba and Ontario governments have petitioned the fed eral Cabinet to disallow the Norair fearing a deterioration of regional service and a near monopoly on Eastern Domestic air routes by air Clark told his 350strong audience his party would Likely Grant up airs bid to extend its Eastern service to Halifax As the first step in loosen ing air Canadas hold on major National air routes in order to allow More he also said there is no reason Why up air should be limited to Only 27 per cent of trans Continental vowing that the transport commis Sion would have no mandate at All to stifle Competition by allowing Domestic dominance by National air Clark said third level carriers such As Pacific Western and Norair would also be allowed greater control Over regional routes up to 300 Miles and turnaround routes up to 500 this would enlarge their share of the Market and create a greater de Mand for Canadia made Short take off and Landing Stol he regional airports in centres like the Pas Thomp son and flin flon would stress Stol facilities under the he Winnipeg was the final Stop in a fou City tour by the conservative Leader to Aid party hopefuls in several of the 15 Federal seats where by elections will be held after a television taping session in the late Clark joined Boniface conservative candidate Jack Hare in addressing about 60 party faithful at hares marys Road the Riding be came vacant after former Liberal Revenue minister Joe Guay was appointed to the Senate earlier this earlier in the Clark toured air Canadas maintenance hangar in Winnipeg and used the near empty facility to lash the Trudeau governments broken promises to Manitoba and the the governments Foury Earold Promise to ensure full use of the hangar was simply an exercise in cynical manipulation designed to win Manitoba votes in the 1974 elec Clark told his 350strong chamber Trudeau promised that the see Clark Page 4 trans air employees Given Layoff notices by John Mcmanus trans air of Winnipeg will Lay off 200 to 300 employees 29 if the minister of transport Doest rescind an air transport committee order that cuts off the airlines service to Toronto and transfers the licence to Norair of trans air employees received the bad news in their pay envelopes Fri trans air had wanted to keep its Winnipeg Toronto run until april when it will begin serving Saskatchewan and when trans air and Norair could not agree on a Date to turn the Winni Peg Toronto run to the air transport committee cancelled Tran Sairs licence and awarded it to the Montreal in a letter to trans air said it and its Parent Pacific Western had appealed wednesday to the minister to quash or rescind the order and allow Tran Sair to continue its Eastern service until april a copy of the letter obtained by the free press said trans air had asked the minister to Cut the red set an Appeal period and give it a Quick trans air said it would be impossible to commence Prairie service next month without losing Money and would be unable to provide for an orderly relocation of employees of the bulk of trans airs 735 employees Are represented by the internal see airline Page 4 Ottawa action urged on stalled Chi trials by Mary Ann Fitzgerald attorney general Gerry Mercier of Manitoba is pressing the Federal government to take stronger action to support the province in its attempt to bring principals of the eighty Earold Churchill Forest industries Chi affair to trial in Austria and Switzer in an interview Mercier said he will seek a meeting with Federal external affairs minister Don probably within the next couple of to again ask the assistance of the external affairs department in urging Austria and Swit Zerland to make decisions on whether to proceed with fraud charges against nationals in those two coun tries who allegedly defrauded the Manitoba government of million in a prepaid Loans when the pulp and paper Complex was built in the admittedly Mercier said there has been no decision yet by Austria on whether to proceed with charges against Alexander president of techno pulp of and alleged Mastermind of the Chi nor has there been a decision in Switzerland on whether to allow Manitoba to a peal the Swiss decision not to prose cute three Swiss Oskar Alfred Robert Zingre and see moves Page 4 Impact of Ottawa spending will hit most in january Ottawa up the Impact of the recent roundabout of Federal spending changes will be Felt by most people for the first time four months from it is in january that monthly family allowance cheques to million families will be payments to million needy pensioners will go up and insurance benefits for thousands of the unemployed will be Cut Down assuming parliament approves the changes in the mean now that the dust has settled from a six week Scurry of Cabinet an and officials have filled in some details of promised it is Clear that the reordering of government priorities will be barely noticeable for the Overall effect in the Federal financial year ending next March 31 will be to trim less than one cent off every of spending plans announced last total spending this fiscal year will outpace the current inflation rate of per cent and last years spend ing increase of per rising by per cent to billion from billion last and the government will be million deeper in debt than it planned last with borrowing needs of billion instead of billion this fiscal almost All the spending changes outlined in a five part series of announcements Are concentrated in the next financial year paring existing not new not even enrichment of existing says Robert minister in charge of the even at spending next year will still Rise by nine per cent to the budget paring is a process that takes place every year about this normally in a series of Pri vate meetings inside senior officers of government departments and agencies meet one after the other with Treasury officials to negotiate their budgets for the coming fiscal it is the bargaining is heated As departmental officers argue to preserve or expand their operations against ski Flint Treasury officials under under instructions to hold total spending in the first the Public normally knows about this major annual Fea Ture of government is when the Treasury publishes its Stout Blue Book of spending estimates every february for the coming financial the dry lists of hundreds of spending items give few clues to the Power struggles that produced this for the first the budget bargaining process was con ducted partly in the Public Eye and some totals have been announced see Impact Page 4 ;