Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Marc rent increase worries elderly tenants by Brian Cole some pensioners say they May have to trim their food and clothing budgets in order to pay rent in creases being demanded by the provinces housing about 50 pensioners living in the Bluebird 86 Keewatin will be affected by the in up to 50 per cent when they sign new leases this year with the Manitoba hous ing and renewal its a Nasty said one who declined to give his name for fear of being singled out As a i know we have a lot to be thankful but it is still just a struggle to keep he the whose monthly in come is less than will pay a month for a Bachelor the 12foot by 16foot suite has a combination bedroom living a Kitchen and i guess ill just have to be More careful when shopping for Georgina fre Finson said she too will have to Cut but wont complain about i never had much All my in just grateful for what 1 she adding that her children help take cafe of aside of Otto the usual expense said she would probably have to Cut Down on Wool for last she knitted 60 pairs of mittens which she donated to a maybe 1 wont be Able to knit As she explaining she will also have to pay close attention to grocery store the woman said she would also have a tougher time paying for such items As a coat or that where the real Pinch will come she Alex said the creases have left everyone concerned and naturally we expect but hot to this he its fight out of the Marc rents Are hot supposed to be higher than 25 cent of a residents but some Resi dents Are paying slightly one paying if rent fro i monthly is being charged per cent of too another is paying Roffi an income of about of about per cent some pensioners interviewed didst want to discuss their Finan Cial 6ne said she talk about the 1 dont think j have the she Ofie said Marc should take into account increases in the Cost of living and reduce rent Levels to 20 per cent of he said every time he gets a pension grocery prices also youre never ahead of the while fre Finson said she didst Tifik she could find a cheaper she agreed pension in creases probably wont offset rent increases because of Royal wedding july 29 tit Toft a Prince Charles and lady Diana Spencer will be married july 29 in St Pauls Cathedral Buckingham Palace announced Palace spokesman Michael Shea said the Choice of Pauls instead of Westminster traditional site Kcf recent Royal was influenced by the greater size of the which can seat an important consideration in the decision was that there Are Many More places for guests at said Pauls has been the scene of Many great state the most notable being the 1965 funeral of second world War Leader sir Winston and announced their engagement a week Clear tonight 9 sunny tomorrow 0 March 1981 vol 109 no 78 free press Sun rises sets 6 14 Moon rises sets final v for Home 9570550 or 94221 61 9562330 Jamks Haggarty Winnipeg tree Pheb by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Consumers started pay ing an extra half cent a litre on All Petroleum products today to pay for increased Oil imports following Alber tas production in announcing the Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde also warned that two further cutbacks promised this year by Alberta will result in More Gas and heating Oil Alberta began cutting production sunday by barrels a Day As Pae astern refiners for the difference Between the Domestic and world a motion to put the increase into effect was tabled in the commons yesterday afternoon and the Levy took effect at progressive party members Boyce and Hanuschak 3 nip defectors form new political party by Cecil Rosner three former new democratic party Cabinet ministers who have defected from the party announced yesterday they Are forming a new political organization the progressive party of Inkster la Sidney Green said Ben Hanuschak Burrows and Bud Boyce Winnipeg Centre Are joining forces and will now sit in the legislature together under the designation further details about the party platform Are to be made Public Green said afterwards the new organization is holding talks with people of various political persuasions and is eager to swell its we Are talking to Manitoban of progressive of whom we believe there Are a great Green he defined progressives As people who want to better although four members Are required before the legislature Grants official see nip Page 4 it increases the Price for a litre of gasoline or heating Oil by a Hal cent or a gallon by about an average Winnipeg family using about 800 Gallons of heating Oil a year will see their Bill increase about and a Driver who logs Miles a year and gets about 25 Miles to the gallon would pay about the special Levy is 75 cents a barrel on crude Lalonde was immediately condemned by Energy spokesmen for both opposition who said should make Alberta Ari offer to show it is willing to bargain in Good Lalonde said he had made an offer to Start but it has been he said he had to either increase Gas prices or increase the Federal deficit and higher prices were Lalonde said there is no shortage of foreign Oil to buy and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed has promised that whatever canadians will not be forced to suffer there is no reason to fear shortages in the near Lalonde said yes the minister first agreed with the Contention by new democratic party Energy critic Ian Waddell that the move Breaks a election Promise by the see Page i provincial position defended Edmonton up canadians will eventually see through suggestions that Alberta is to blame for what the Federal government Calls Lougheed Alberta Energy minister Merv Leitch said the province is making its Oil Avail Able at fir Sale Leitch said in an adding canadians someday will understand Albertas to said the extra 75 cents a barrel will be collected to pay for imported Oil being purchased at double the Price Alberta is i find it pretty difficult to under stand How Consumers can say this is Albertas Leitch we were prepared to sell it at a couple of dollars a barrel More than the Federal government offered in its double the Cost instead of there now going to to buying replacement barrels at More than double the and i find it a Little difficult to see How they can shift the blame for that to but i think when people understand what has understand the tory of whats gone understand the Alberta be Able to see through any suggestion that this was really Albertas that Albertas the one that ripping them off if you remember that Albertas Selling this at fir Sale Tom executive assistant to said Lalonde move came As no Wood said he is surprised about All the fuss because it has been known since last fall the cuts were ugly duckling Liis designed to haul awkward shaped was at Winnipeg International Airport yesterday to take on an assignment from Cullaton Lake Gold which is developing a mine site in the Northwest Aero Union of will Bill the mining company for flying some of mad Imery to the Al Salvador Aid boosted More advisers to reinforce embattled Junta from the news services the Reagan administration is in creasing its military involvement in Al Salvador despite concerns of congressional liberals that the tiny Central american Republic May become an other Vietnam for the United the state department announced last night it is sending million in new military Aid and 20 More military training experts to Al the increased support is needed to help the embattled Junta put Down marxist rebels who the administration contends Are armed by Cuba and other communist officials salvadoran president Jose Napoleon Duarte said yesterday in san Salvador he is willing to meet with representatives of the socialist inter National to seek a political solution to the bloody conflict in his at the same time in the Secretary general of the socialist inter National said the most important leftist and guerrilla groups in Al Salvador have accepted the groups mediation Bernt Carlsson of Secretary general of the socialist said he would in Washington today with state department officials and offer the mediation services of former West Willy Brandt to begin talks with presi Dent announcement of stepped up Ameri can assistance came just hours after Secretary of state Alexander Haig Dis closed that the would Stop All Aid to Nicaragua unless it took Steps within the next few weeks to Cut off the flow of arms going through Nicaragua to the insurgents in neighbouring Al we told them they would have 30 Days to clean it Haig told a group of it is in their Power to clean it and weve had certain assurances from Bergman quits her film career spanned continents and but now Ingrid Bergman is leaving film fans with a Host of celluloid opening shots French president Valery Giscard Destain wasted no time As he started his reelection Campaign with a hard hitting hammering Al his Gnu up slightly a Overall increase in Canadian economic growth shows the recession May be motion rejected in a Case reminiscent of the historic 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