Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Smith top athlete Graham probably the greatest swimmer Canada has Ever is Canadas male athlete of the year see Page 63 pc ski fans world Toppett league formed to tap enthusiasm for growing sport see Page drinking less metric containers and rising costs blamed for milk consumption drop see Page 3 Ranee sunny high5 Jug fre december 1978 final 15 cents with coloured comics 86 65 parents face loss of tax deduction social insurance numbers required a t7 t k 1 Ata about Manitoba parents could lose out on a Tion for each of their children unless the parents acquire a social insurance number which they need to fill out their income tax forms for the 1978 tax the deduction was announced recently by the Federal government after it ordered reductions in monthly family allowance payments to from per child effective the deduction is available to any Parent receiving family allowance usually the regardless of whether they have paid taxes or have a taxable the which is restricted to people earning less than a is for sex if a husband owes it cannot be deducted from his wife child tax parents earning More than a year will receive a gradually diminishing Ben of the Community in come tax said Many family allowance recipients Are housewives who Arent paid for their work and dont file income tax to qualify for the full the Parent must file an income tax return this using the social insurance number As the Federal government plans to notify parents by placing a Deduc Tion application in the january family allowance Berkal says the Community in come tax service Hopes to eliminate much of the paperwork panic by providing information on How to acquire a Berkal said the tax service will answer questions from callers on their special Telephone line at 947 Bateman deplores politics in Hydro by Cecil Rosner Manitoba Hydro chairman Len Bateman said thursday the Utility should be As Remote As possible from the political scene and suggested government conduct its future dealings with Hydro in a More open and forthright in his fourth Day of testimony be fore the Tritschler inquiry into North Ern Bateman said he preferred open written communication from the government on policy matters rather than meetings be tween the chairman and the minister responsible for in any he the Utility relationship with government should be More clearly enacted in provincial Bateman said he strongly disa greed with a comment by former Hydro chairman David Cas Beggs who suggested the chairman Job was equivalent to being a Deputy minister responsible for the Utility who has held his current Post since said that once the government of the Day sets policy for it is the Utility duty to carry out and defend that provided it is not contrary to the Manitoba Hydro Bateman conceded that one of the dangers of defending government pol icy was that it could draw the Utility into political but any one who Doest defend it might just As Well tender his he Hydro lawyer Smellie asked commissioner George Tritschler for an Early adjournment of thursdays hearings so he could prepare questions to be posed to Bateman Smellie said the Hydro chairman was in a severe state of Strain As a result of the gruelling questioning so far by commission lawyer Richard earlier in the when television see Bateman Page 4 score Board hockey wha Quebec 3 Birmingham 2 soviet Union 4 Winnipeg 3 nil by islanders 4 Detroit 1 Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 1 Atlanta 5 Colorado 3 Boston 5 Washington 2 Buffalo 3 Chicago 2 details in Page 617 inside Sun rises 8 Moon rises 426 sets 700 looking for goalie skates this want and is under sports equipment 740 s goalie it is among the of bargains in starting in Page 26 a photo lord Snowdon and his new Lucy leave a London Register office following their wedding As Anthony he married Princess Margaret in 1960 at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony attended by Britain but the marriage became strained and lord the title he had been announced almost three years ago that he and the Princess were Mackasey succeeds Taschereau As chairman air Canada has new chief Ottawa up Veteran Liberal politician Bryce Mackasey will be the new chairman of the Board for the government owned air prime minister Trudeau announced an ardent campaigner for National said in a Telephone interview from Montreal he plans to continue making speeches on his favorite topic but will maintain a Low political in Bryce chairman of the and not Bryce Cabinet said the former postmaster general and labor minis the Irish Rebecer left Federal politics in 1976 to win a seat in the Quebec National he then resigned his seat to contest an 16 Federal by election in Ottawa Centre but lost to the progressive conservative the 57yearold Mackasey replaces Pierre who came to air in 1974 from its sister Ca Nadian National the 58yearold Taschereau will re main a director of the said a statement from Claude i have met Mackasey on Many occasions and i know How pleased he is to be taking on his new Taylor Trudeau announcement of the a made at a news Confer appeared to take All concerned by denied he was getting the Job Only a few minutes before Trudeau news Mackasey is to assume his new duties an air Canada official Bryce Mackasey plans Low political profile Bay amends bid to buy Simpsons by Paul Moloney Hudson Bay of Winnipeg has amended its bid to take Over Simp sons of Toronto and is still in the race for control despite a Federal Cabinet Blessing of a competing plan for a merger of Simpsons and Simp sons Sears Secre tary of the said Huband had said thursday that Ottawa had shut the door on the Bays million bid in a move which would Likely give control of Simpsons and Simpsons ears to Roebuck and he said today that the Bays management decided at about 3 to keep its offer on the table to acquire Simpsons Stock at a while the value of the offer remains the the wording has been changed to circumvent a recent change in the Simpsons Simpsons Sears merger plan that was aimed at thwarting a takeover of Simpsons by the on Simpsons manage ment announced a share distribution to Simpsons shareholders of existing Simpsons owned shares in Simpsons starting this a first step towards a was made in order to place Simpsons ears assets owned by Simpsons out of the Bays direct it would also have the effect of reducing the value of the Simpsons because these securities would no longer reflect the company 41 percent ownership of Simpsons the Bay today countered this move by requiring Simpsons shareholders who accept the Bays offer to assign to the Bay those Simpsons ears shares they received from Simpsons As a result of the the Bays revised offer is to expire next instead of bidding Only for the Simpsons the Bay is now bidding for that Stock plus the Simp sons Sears Stock received by the Simpsons in announcing thursday the governments Okay of a Simpsons and Simpsons ears Industry minister Jack Horner said the ruling in no Way interferes with the Bays he said the company was still free to compete against Simpsons Sears in its race to gain control of the roughly 47 million Simpsons shares held by about see Bay Page 4 Quebec planning to take control of Asbestos firm Quebec up the provincial government will introduce legislation to nationalize american controlled Asbestos the provinces second largest producer of finance minister Jacques Parizeau announced Parizeau said the legislation allow ing the society nation ale de a provincial Crown Cor to expropriate Asbestos will not be passed into Law before the National Assembly adjourns for its Christmas recess on he would not specify the terms of the which will be known Only when the Bill is but a report commissioned by the government has estimated the Worth of the company shares at Between and if that Price were used for the it would Cost Quebec taxpayers Between million and if there were doubts about the intention of the after tomorrow morning there will be no More Parizeau he was referring to plans to table the legislation in the Assembly but if the opposition refuses to give its unanimous consent to such a the Bill could be delayed until the parti quebecois government could override an opposition refusal by suspending Assembly but that would Likely provoke a Long procedural Andre finance critic for the opposition said he won dered whether the announcement by Parizeau was not simply a threat a Raynauld said the expropriation would cause negative i both for private investment in the province and for attempts to borrow Money on International a former chairman of the economic Council of Raynauld said the move will not increase the num Ber of jobs but simply Transfer wealth from one group to he added that it would Lead to higher taxes for Parizeau said Quebec had Given two years warning of its since Premier Rene Levesque met with american businessmen in Jan uary of 1977 for a speech at the economic club of new the premiers announcement that Quebec would acquire some kind of an interest in the Asbestos Industry was followed by publication in octo of a policy outline calling for increased processing of Asbestos within the Quebec is the largest producer of raw Asbestos in the Western six machine guns seized by police by Ritchie Gage two Winnipeg men Are expected to be charged with Possession of a Quantity of restricted weapons As a result of a six month police investigation of an International gun smug gling ring in Canada involving thou Sands of police the mens connection with the Large scale operation which Cen tired on the East coast is not seven persons have been charged with Possession of restricted weapons in five in two Manitoba and one each in Alber Nova Scotia and the Northwest the provincial and regional police worked with customs officials and agents to break the ring after a six month investigation of the illegal weapons Trade in the and members of the Winnipeg ramp customs and excise aided by Winnipeg raided three undisclosed locations in the City thursday and found six fully Auto Matic a15 machine of United states army in there were six hand guns As Well As a Quantity of and gun parts which require further examination by police to a police source in Winnipeg said a member of the Ontario provincial police came to Winnipeg to help authorities Here in their search after the Opp was involved in similar raids in Northern Ontario earlier where a substantial amount of machine guns were the majority of the guns seized by police appear to have been Distri buted from the East some of the weapons appear to have been cleared through according to because the automatic Fea Ture of the arms were continued see 6 machine Page 4 two killed in crash of three vehicles two people were killed and three others injured in a collision thursday night involving two pickup trucks and a car on Regent Avenue West in the names of the Accident victims have not been pending notification of two passengers of the vehicles involved in the Accident were reported in critical condition in Hospital this police said the Accident occurred about when a rented truck see two Page 4 v ;