Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free september readers find Public servants Are uncaring the bureaucrats try to keep the Public from finding out what the regulations exactly say their own personal Intel vary resulting in Ottoo Many Laws enough d they have Deal Over the Public servants must change the Public perception in these areas if they Are to improve said himself a former provincial civil the most widely perceived but less deep rooted complaint was the feel record insurance payout continued from Page 1 insurance depending on the extent of the the Federal government contributes 50 per cent of the Premium while the Manitoba government is responsible for the total Cost of administering the insurance program which covers All natural Tolton the payments Are to cover the farm ers costs As closely As but provide no allowance for Tolton it enables them to carry on for another but Farmers say insurance very often Doest cover All their the crop insurance int going to make those loan said Stan a Carman area this particular area Here practically a he we had no germination at the crop insurance is but it just barely covers your Dennis an area Farmer my feeling if your Back was to the Wall before this the drought Hap it would be the final in the Southwest portion of the prov hardest hit by drought business is brisk for agents of the insurance cheques to go out Toronto up an official of the letter carriers Union of Canada says pensioners and others who receive government cheques will not be inconvenienced by the current mail As Long As they get the cheques to the postal be Deli Vic president Jacques Desjar Din said Ivan spokesman for the Federal department of Supply and ser said the unions have always Bent Over backwards to make sure other government cheques Are Deli ing that civil servants Are self High Gillman said the perceived self High thou Ness of civil servants was the most prominent or salient contributor to dissatisfaction with Public servants generally but it want As relevant to people As their feeling of unfair treat the pollsters analysis provided Sev eral reasons Why people feel bureaucrats Are some of the key ones were d civil servants As a group dont live up to the example set by specific employee groups within the Bureau Cracy which Are held in High is James free pbe88 teem Telephone company bus Drivers and Post o bureaucrats Arent witling to give their which creates the impress Ion they dont want to be held account Able for their d they avoid dealing facet face with the the preference for written correspondence is apparently seen by citizens As High handed treatment Duhey use rules and regulations to frustrate rather than help this also showed up As a reason Why people dont feel fairly treated by in their written respondents indicated they feel unfairly treated because they find Public to be the main problem with govern ment is that everything takes too wrote one when you have an you get shunted from one person to the they put you on Are slow to answer let and on the Telephone you get switched from one person to the another major beef was the perception that the bureaucracy is Over staffed 23 of the 124 respondents made written reference to this on their 55 per cent of whom were Between 21 and 49 years old what me worry some people arc reluctant to Trust but this Young Man obviously feels the workmen overhead know what they Are doing and he has Little to fear from falling 33 people missing in air crash from the news services Bahamas a charter plane carrying 33 people crashed into the sea late yesterday As it was making an instrument approach to Freeport Airport in a driving the coast guard no survivors had been the coast guard the wreckage of the Florida com Muter airlines a life raft and 12 bodies were located in the water about 44 nautical Miles East of West Palm said coast guard Petty officer Carlos link letters son killed los Angeles Robert son of entertainer Art died from injuries suffered yesterday news Roundup afternoon in a traffic Accident police Linkletter died of massive internal injuries at los Angeles new Hospital an hour after the car he was driving was hit Headon by another car crossing the Center police Gracie Driver of the car that collided with was being treated in Hijacker overpowered Miami a cuban refugee on an Eastern airlines jetliner was Over powered by fellow passengers and a stewardess yesterday after trying to divert the flight to the plane with 79 passengers and six Crew members aboard landed As scheduled at Miami International Airport yesterday afternoon and Fri agents took Guillermo into authorities said Lima had spent about five months in the United there were no Union hold talks Rome negotiators from the Fiat Auto company and the italian Metal workers Union held crisis talks into the Early hours today in an Effort to defuse conflict Over fits decision to Cut labor minister Franco Foschi called both sides together after lengthy meetings with the two Fiat informed unions on thursday that dismissal letters would be sent to employees after a statutory 25day talks broke Down on its plans to drop of the jobs in the car division because of a world slump in Auto violence sweeps Manila Manila Urban guerrillas set off a string of bombings in Manila yester killing a woman and wound ing 30 other police it was the worst outbreak of violence to sweep the capital in eight years of police identified the dead woman As Annie wife of a Manila based business executive from the bombings followed warnings that president Ferdinand Marcos must step Down and Call free elections or face Urban with 29 per cent 50 years of age or also made numerous written complaints that they find Public ser vants unproductive or Lazy and that de livery of government services is waste Ful and comments indicating satisfaction were almost totally lacking in the ques Gill ans analysis showed the big Gest single thing the bureaucracy in general has going for it was the Satis faction Felt with specific employee groups within the Public people expressed satisfaction with the following in order Hydro bus teach Telephone company Gar employee groups which Are a source of dissatisfaction were Street maintenance Crews or their Post office income tax aut Opac personnel and dog Pound offi two respondents indicated the free press pollster also would have found dissatisfaction with the Quality of ser vice provided in the private sector had this question been for this Type of Survey should be done on How people like dealing with department stores and other wrote one of the in Many people in Industry can rank As badly As in Public Ive said the Bennett blamed for failure continued from Page 1 we Are now apparently divided on a number of key it is apparent now we hold different views of what Canada is now and what it should a visibly disappointed Davis Davis was the first of the premiers to speak after Public sessions of the week Long first ministers conference resumed at 9 cd Quebec Premier Rene Levesque told the conference the premiers had tried to reach an but it just didst it has been a total fail Levesque blamed Trudeau for being inflexible in the following Las ditch bargaining yes some sources said other prov inces were blaming Newfoundland pre Mier Brian Peckford and British Columbia Premier Bill Bennetts unyielding stance on control of resources for dashing any Hope of agreement on major despite attempts by Trudeau and other premiers to make Bennett Back he refused to negotiate any item unless he got ownership of natural resources and threatened to walk out several sources the provinces Are really said an Peckford held out for joint control of offshore resources with the Federal government and made it Clear he was firm on a member of one pre Miers staff other sources said Trudeau put a wrench in the works As he tried to play his Tough Guy act and it just didst the third held at Trudeau residence was to have been the final try at modernizing the Many pre Miers hoped that when the 11 govern ments moved out of Public View after four Days of televised there might be agreement on revisions to the British North America but it was apparent within 15 minutes that if two provinces there was no Deal to be an aide oppose Patria Tion As Well As their stand on the re sources Bennett and Peckford joined Quebec Premier Rene Levesque in refusing to allow Trudeau to Patriate the Constitution to Canada from great Britain until there is a redistribution of Federal and provincial Powers More acceptable to the the other seven the sources Are ready to endorse actions by Trudeau to Patriate the Constitution As it now Only two prov inces gave Trudeau the Green Light to do so in the four Days of Public constitutional bargaining that preceded yesterdays private there were reports that possibly All 10 premiers agreed to continue seeking a new formula to Amend the Constitution once it is brought to Trudeau has said that despite the outcome of this weeks he May Patriate the Constitution on his own this year and insert a charter of human and linguistic rights opposed by a majority of while the premiers present canadians with a new Constitution at the end of the we Klong Many of them seemed nine of the 10 premiers met yester Day morning in the hotel suite of Mani Toba Premier Sterling Lyon and then drove to Trudeau some sources said the talks almost collapsed after Only a few minutes because of a feud Over natural some premiers aides said Trudeau presented a few new proposals to the provincial leaders which were immediately iranians revise demands continued from Page 1 since islamic militants seized the embassy in Tehran on 4 and All attempts by the As Well As other countries and the United nations have failed to win their during earlier attempts to negotiate the americans Iran demanded the return of former Shah Moham mad Reza Pahlavi to stand trial on charges of Pahlavi died in exile in Cairo on july 27 after a seven year struggle against return of the Fortune the Shah is alleged to have taken out of Iran was also a condition at that As were the demands for no intervention guarantees and return of Frozen pres ident Carter froze iranian funds in Thi after the embassy brokerage firms Stock Deal probed continued from Page 1 the tax benefits of the Deal were largest to people in Lowe income brackets and it was these people who were attracted into the at least some of them might not have participated if Pitfield had required them to pay All or at least half of the Purchase Price up noted Bob Vandewater of the idas Manitoba the Toronto Stock Exchange re quires that investors put up at least 50 per cent of the Stock Price within five business Days of the Howe according to another it appears Pitfield was using All its own Money to buy the which it would get Back in the Sale to Home the transactions would provide sales commission Revenue to Pitfield while giving the buyers significant tax Sav the amalgamation of Scurry Rainbow with Home Oil at a share didst go through on 26 because the Alberta court of Queens Bench deferred until next May 4 a decision on the companies Applina As a the Price of Scurry dropped to about on 28 and bottomed out at about on it is now trading on the Stock exchanges at about after the courts Pitfield sent a letter to its clients who Pur chased Scurry shares advising them they must decide by 15 on one of three options pay for the shares in authorize Pitfield to sell the shares at a or pay half the Cost investors Are facing losses because of the drop in Scurry share Price Between the time Pitfield bought them on their behalf and the the investor who has lost said he authorized Pitfield in Early August to buy 40 shares of Scurry on the american Stock Exchange for last concerned with the turn of he told Pitfield to sell at the Market Price at that he now must pay the loss caused by the Price plus about in commissions All with out Ever having paid fur the shares in the first both Vandewater of the Ida and Cameron a securities com Mission said they Are examining this aspect of the Deal in their the investigation will cover any potential irregularity and this is one of Vandewater John assistant director of Market operations at the said the Exchange is aware of the investigation Here and will decide what should be done once we know the details of what is neither Vandewater nor Walker would discuss preliminary findings of the which began soon after the 26 court its unclear How Many people bought Scurry from Pitfield without paying at least half the or How Many peo ple would have backed out of the Deal if they had been required to put up half or All of the most of the purchases were in lots of 20 to 40 costing to an investor who bought Scurry shares 5 said he understood pit Fielo had worked out an arrangement with the Toronto Stock Exchange Al lowing the no Cash Kolosky said to not aware of anyone at the tse going approval for in he said the Exchange sent out a bulletin 20 reminding brokers that the usual requirements regard ing payment for shares were in effect for the Scurry Home Oil the bulletin was prompted by news paper publicity about the which quoted a Toronto brokerage firms observations on the the tax Sav Ings available to lower income the firm said the tax Benefit amounted to More than a share for people with taxable income less than Kolosky said the bulletin was also intended to warn brokers to use a conservative approach in Selling the Deal to which would include advising them fully of the risk the amalgamation go through in aug this is a major Issue being examined in the investigation were investors fully briefed on the ask i dont think they were Ever told it was a sure thing but in not so sure they were told All the said Tom a lawyer with the securities Secretary of Scurry rain said his firm made it Clear to brokers the merger with Home Oil May not go through 26 because one Scurry Margaret Ste Vens of opposed i spoke to several brokers and in no instance did i Ever omit mentioning the Hoar said Stevens had attempted to Block an 7 shareholders meeting called to approve the but this Effort failed and shareholders approved the final step was to get Alberta court of Queens Bench but Stevens again raised her objections at the 26 and the court deferred the entire matter to May he Hoar said Home Oil already owns per cent of the Scurry and the company wanted to buy the rest from the minority shareholders in order to be Able to amalgamate the two after the aug t shareholders vote but before the aug 26 court trading in Scurry shares was hectic As people scrambled to buy in order to qualify for the tax benefits promised by the eventual he the share Price on the Stock Market Rose to a Peak of on or More than Home Oil had announced it would pay after winning court approval the next Day Hoar said people were willing to pay More than the Stock was going to be Worth to ensure they got in on the lucrative tax from the Date of the shareholders meeting to about shares had changed he adding this is considered very heavy trading activity because there Are Only about Scurry shares in the hands of the Public with the rest Al ready owned by Home Oil i think is Why it trading took because brokers Felt n was a rub Ber stamp coun approval Scurry feels very badly about shareholders who Are facing he but there is nothing the company do but wait for the court decision next Mav ;