Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press sponsors civic debate garbage men take Pride 53 the four candidates seeking the mayors chair in the 22 civic election will debate the issues during a Winnipeg free press debate next thursday at the Winnipeg convention entitled the free press the two hour debate will offer Winnipeg voters a Chance to listen to candidates views and ask questions on issues that concern the which will begin at 8 16 in the main floor Hall of the convention is being sponsored by the free press in a bid to generate More interest in the civic As debate for the mayoralty Well As stimulate voter admittance will be while the candidates will be appear ing at other events during the Cam the free press debate will be the major face off Between them to which the general Public has been four candidates have been nominated for mayor Bill a lawyer who now holds the Winnipeg businessman Al accountant William Hawryluk and accountant and Par time bartender Chris Roland a professor at the University of Manitoba Law school and a freelance will be mod the candidates will discuss four major issues for the first part of the after which questions from the audience will be the slate of issues to be discussed is now being it will be in on the results of a recent readership Survey which was conducted by the free and now being prior to the the National film Board production the new mayor will he the film profiles the late mayor Robert Steen and the role he played in civic the film exposes the internal mechanics of civic people inter viewed include Norrie and As Well As several City councillors and former mayor Steve the film will be shown Between 7 and 8 allowing voters to take in the film and the debate or turn out just for the Cloudy tonight 7 Clearing tomorrow 19 press final 20c for Home 957o550 or 9422161 october 1980 vol 108 Flo 262 striking Ottawa reach tentative pact Gerry free press by the Canadian press Many Federal government operations were returning to Normal today follow ing the announcement last night of a tentative contract agreement for Federal clerks on strike for the last nine a statement on the settlement would released later a spokesman for the clerks Union Andy president of the Public service Alliance of said tues Day Only Token picket lines would remain at government facilities while the clerks vote on the proposed contract their first in nearly a although Stewart refused to release details of the proposed contract until he discussed it with other Union leaders sources indicated it appeared the clerks would get More Money than they sought but not an automatic Cost of living Ernie a Manitoba Sac staff said some Winni Peg clerks dont plan to return to work until Treyve had a Chance to vote on the proposed collective he said he received instructions from the unions head office at telling him to advise strikers to return to Lawson said he had no estimate on the Nui Riber who planned to remain on voting could Start As Early As today but would take a few Days to he Mounds of paperwork piled up on no clerical staff after the clerks went on no clerical workers were see striking Page 4 northerners face 35 Gas rate increase by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson an application for a 35percent increase in the Price of propane Gas for residential users and a 26percent increase for commercial customers has brought Strong opposition from residents their feelings were vented at a Public utilities Board hearing yester Day on steel Gas utilities application for the increases effective steel Gas has about residential and 200 commercial customers in the increases will also affect its customers in flin flon and Snow re priest facing fraud charges in two provinces by Brian Cole a roman Catholic priest who faces charges in Ontario of having defrauded about 20 persons of has now been charged with an additional count of fraud involving a Brandon Man and a an ramp spokesman said Pius Emanuel who goes on trial in Toronto next has been charged with fraudulently taking two cheques from a Brandon Man in the Ontario offences allegedly occurred Between 1975 and police said Money was collected on the understanding it would be investors were assured of receiving their Money Back in some cases with a Promise of profit with additional profits from the investment going to help lepers and poor people in third world ramp said the latest charge against Finnin was Laid after the Brandon Man approached ramp after Reading in a newspaper about charges Laid against a priest in he was told if you want to help the poor people and the give me your Money and ill invest consta ble Indulis balt Kalns said he never received any Money Back but didst report it to police for seven years because of his Faith in the balt Kalns ramp Are investigating similar in vestment proposals made to people in the spokesman Finnin was charged in Ontario after about 20 people were persuaded to invest in Evelyn explorations and Candy explorations investors were Given postdated Che payable in two or three months for up to triple their they were told the extra profits would help support a Leper Colony in West most investors were Ordinary including several Finnin will Likely be brought to Mani Toba after his Ontario Finnin was once a priest of the Regina archdiocese and served for a term As the Parish priest of the Saskatchewan Community of the increase would add about a month to the average householders heating Bill and a month for most commercial in its steel Gas said the rate increase was justified because of the increased Cost of transport maintenance and labor mayor Don Maclean told the Board that Northern communities such As Thompson Are particularly hard hit be cause the heating units in Homes Are used most months of the Stella a certified property manager whose company is responsible for apartments with 152 a commercial Complex with 24 units and 12 private Homes All heated by said if this trend of 35percent in creases annually we could easily be into the triple digit figures in a couple of she noted that steel Gas was granted a increase in 1979 and an additional a month she said furnaces in their apartments Are in operation All in the heating Bill amounted to she in february it was More that she said the which will add up to about a year for each apart ment will have to be carried Al see35 Page 4 ratings oam1 fuel consumption forecasts suggest 1981 s new cars will require an average of just litres every 100 but the figures released monday by the Federal cant be regarded As a Promise on a stack of Max a former Auto Industry explains rental agent Norman Friesen checks a satellite dish on his East Kildonan apartment provincial government backs its satellite to by John Sullivan the provincial government has backed a decision by Manitoba Tele phone system to Supply a fourth dish Antenna to unlicensed operators pirating satellite to satellite to at Falcon despite protests from Winnipeg Cable companies and possible prosecution from Federal licensing the Utility is considering setting up unlicensed stations in As Many As 50 More Manitoba both its and communications min ister Harry Enns insisted the phone company is doing nothing illegal by installing and maintaining the satellite stations and renting them to unlicensed operators in flin the Thompson As of a week Falcon As Long As the Crown Agency Doest actually aim the dish at the american sitcom 1 satellite and transmit the signal to Manitoba customers in Defi Ance of a the provinces hands Are they the Utility cant be prosecuted by the Canadian and Tele communications commission or the Federal they be cause it Doest operate the mass policy is simply that of a communications said its assistant general manager Gordon ground receiving Sta from our Point of Are communications equipment and we will rent them to any business individual who in a position to lease added its product development manager Mike a san our role in this is strictly As a common Carrier provid ing requested facilities by a business Man in the client is re broadcasting with his own Enns said he is not really concerned with its supplying the unlicensed equipment As Long As the Pri vate operators apply for Federal licences and the Crown Utility Doest i appreciate that it would appear that were condoning an Agency of government to be involved in an Asyet unauthorized the minister but that providing the equip ment is All were were not in the broadcast in these applications Are be fore the crts for and its is making it very Plain to the operators in these areas that any arrangements its enters into Are subject to any final see Cablevision Page 4 red tape hit world businessmen they Are tired of having to Deal with the red tape in Canadas foreign investment review barters Boom Joann Denesiuk bartering firm is fast becoming a booming business As Winni Eggers find they have a lot of skills to Swap for City off fear which once called itself magic is now a City of gripped by a growing murder rate that is forcing residents to flee to safer Florida Lyon looked Federal employment minister Lloyd Axworthy says Premier Sterling Lyon lacks the clout to sit with his heavyweight Index Ann Landers entertainment 57 25 57 56 96 25 66 7 42 56 58 6 57 Jumble 85 sports to 1 ;