Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rosemary Canadas funniest woman Anne Frank actress Lesley Donaldson feels close to Battle lines drawn on referendum sunny today 5 Cloudy tonight 14 March free Sun rises sets Moon rises sets pcs want control of Deer Lodge by Manfred Jager the Manitoba government will re open negotiations with Ottawa for the provincial takeover of Deer Lodge veterans Hospital to relieve a glut of Lon term patients occupying Beds in other Winnipeg executive director of the Manitoba health services commis said he Hopes to have All remain ing issues settled within the next few months and the Hospital turned Over to the province by the end of the Access to More Beds Edwards said the acquisition of Deer Lodge Hospital would help the province by giving it Access to More than 100 of the 200 to 250 Beds now is the Hospital is rated for 400 to 450 Beds but operates at Only half the most immediate Benefit would be Relief for Winnipeg hospitals where acute care Beds Are occupied by Long term patients waiting placement in nursing Edwards said there is a glut of Lon term patients in Beds urgently needed for the acute medical and surgical last there were 176 Nurs ing Home patients in Active treat ment Hospital Beds throughout Manito most of them in develop program in addition to those on waiting lists there is an undetermined number of Long Range Hospital patients who Haven been cleared for nursing Homes but Are occupying acute care Manitoba now has Active treat ment Hospital of them in Deer Lodge would make it possible for us to really develop our geriatric program in the province to a much better Edwards negotiations with the department of veterans affairs had bogged Down in Over actuarial assessments on pension commitments the province would have to assume for Deer Lodge staff and technicalities involving the licensing of health professionals who came from other Wayne free press final with coloured comics for Call 9570550 people watcher window Washer Val Theriault has a Birds Eye View of the City when he takes time out for a Theriault work on the building on the Northeast Corner of Portage and Smith Street is the windows that dont reflect the Skyline of the City Are the ones he had to go to work on after he finished the cigarette he had while watching the people who were watching bad debt rap hard to beat writer angered by Dunning Bank and collection Agency by Walter Stewart up news service Ottawa the Telephone rang in my Ottawa apartment Early on the morning of and a voice asked if i was Walter then you owe the Royal Bank said the whose owner represented an Ottawa collection Agen i told him he had the wrong custom he wanted to know if 1 had Ever lived in and when i said i had he wanted to know if i worked for a news i and he 1 have information that you Are the Walter Stewart who owes this 1 said then you have the wrong and Hung at seemed but then my wife pointed out that if i had a collection Agency on my Tail my credit might be in so i sat Down and wrote a Stern letter to Rowland president of the Royal Bank in asking How 1 got on his hit on Frazee replied that he appreciated my writing to him ill bet and that 1 would hear from him As soon As i have received a 1 have not yet a few minutes after i put this letter i got another Call from the who identified himself As with financial collection agencies and who wanted me to pay up i told him again that he had the wrong and he asked if i worked for up news 1 he and went on to repeat that he had information that i was the same Walter Stewart who had beaten the Bank out of i raised my voice in he i guess were going to have to Settle this in front of a and i said that suited me just i demanded to see whatever material he had from the Royal but he would say nothing Lalonde sees annual Fidel Rise Ottawa cps Energy minister Marc Lalonde says he expects Gas prices will increase at the pump by 15 or 16 cents a gallon annually for the next four in a Csc television interview taped for broadcast Lalonde said he wants Oil prices to go up by less than the 18 cents a gallon set by the former progressive conservative government in its december tax Rise ruled out Lalonde said there would be no in crease in excise tax this but would not Rule out any increases in following i expect that increases that we will have Over the this year it will be below a barrel and i do expect that Over the next three years it will be below at least As an average and i Hope on a year he Over the next four years the Price for Canadian Consumers will be lower than it would have been under the conservative Lalonde is currently negotiating an Oil pricing agreement with Alberta Premier Peter pcs had agreement the conservatives had worked out an agreement with Alberta that would have meant increases of a bar Rel in 1980 and in following years until the conservatives planned to introduce an excise tax of 25 cents a gallon on All transportation including an 18cent increase on that measure was to be used to stimulate those increases were worked into its december budget which brought about the fall of the government and forced the 18 during the Campaign the liberals said they would keep increases below those planned by the conservatives but gave no indication of what increases they would doubled child pay sought Ottawa up health minister Monique begin wants to double the child tax credit payments to lower income an aide said yester but she still must approach Cabinet for the Money necessary to increase the payments of a child who earned or less in the aide the child tax credit became Law in 1978 under the previous Liberal govern when miss begin was welfare family allowances paid to about million families were Cut last year to from to pay for the new tax credit marking the first attempt by government to provide More Money to the poor than to the rest of the monthly families allowance baby Bonus benefits Are in most provinces and lovers spat leads to bizarre robbery so i wrote Frazee and wrote and wrote my and told them All that i was the victim of a bum and i wanted it cleared advised to sue my lawyer told me that the Only Way i could Clear my name was to that seemed silly this was a simple Case of mistaken identity which could be resolved by a but my lawyer was two weeks when i still haunt heard 1 went Over to the Ottawa credit Bureau there is such a Bureau in every major City to see whether 1 had a Black Mark on my see episode Page 4 a store who slashed her fore head and pocketed almost before reporting a robbery and leaving the pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of theft and Rose a former clerk at a seven Day food store on Sargent was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to make restitution when she appeared before Provin Cial judge Graeme lawyer Sheldon Pinx called the of Fence serious and he said the woman had an argument with her boy Friend he told her she would find her bags packed and outside the door of their Pinx said his client was angry and had nowhere to without think i took the Money and reported a she she had originally claimed two men held her up at knife Point one hit her Over the head with a pop court was told she Cut herself with a piece of broken Glass and received eight stitches in she left the next morning for Vancou but was arrested and returned to Winnipeg on Crown counsel Bruce Mellon said it was the woman first time before the Pinx said she is extremely remorseful and looking for another judge Garson gave her a year to make restitution of solution elusive the hostages in Iran end their 20th week in Captivity and prospects for their release remain jets rip rangers Winnipeg jets mounted a rare third period rally last night and stunned new York rangers women to fight women groups in Canada plan to lobby against a proposed change that could make it easier Tor divorced men to evade Board optimistic the Winnipeg school Board is cautiously optimistic about receiving More 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