Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday june 26.1981 3 Winnipeg Rree Reaa Gaoay june z officials say option on Day off watering Down Canada Day do met Flat Boll Suivski stand Nile _ _ by Maria Bohuslawsky Canada Day has become just another Day off to be taken when convenient says Alex Milton executive director of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce. He said Many employers their workers Are opting to take off either monday june 29, or Friday july 3, rather than wednesday july 1, be cause it gives them a Long weekend. Bob Moggie director of provincial employment standards said the option is available under the employment forced retiring favored by Manfred Jager a Survey by the Manitoba govern ment employees association has revealed most retired civil servants favor mandatory retirement but fewer than half feel there should be mandatory pre retirement counselling. In april the Union mailed questionnaires to provincial civil servants who had retired within the last 10 years. Mega president Gary doer said 945 of them had returned their forms by mid june and the Union decided to Start an interim analysis. That was at the 60-per-cent Mark. We be received another 10 per cent since then and they Don t change any thing in our doer said. The Survey revealed 552 of 945, or 58.4 per cent of retired civil servants who responded in favor of compulsory retirement while 324, or 34.3 per cent oppose the policy. Sixty nine respondents or 7.3 per cent were undecided. Favor retiring at 85 doer said 458 of the 570 pensioners expressing themselves on retirement age said workers should retire at age 65. Only 36 Felt the mandatory retire ment age should be higher. The rest said it would be somewhere Between 59 and 65." sixty nine of 910 retired civil ser vants who answered the question said they hold part time or full time jobs despite being retired. The other 841, 92.4 per cent said they were not work ing at All. Almost 70 per cent of the 922 who dealt with the question 621 former civil servants expressed themselves satisfied with their pension while 216, or. 23.5 per cent said they did not have enough Money. Doer said 85 respondents 9.2 per cent were undecided. Larger Survey asked whether they had participated in pre retirement counselling 237 pensioners 24.7 per cent of respondents said they had while 721, or 75.3 per cent indicated they had not. Doer said the government employees Union is following its Survey up with a larger one involving All Mem Bers. The Mega president said there Are powerful arguments in favor of retain ing mandatory retirement. It spares managers a lot of painful doer said. If mandatory retirement were to go even the most paternalistic Boss would have to rate the performance of older employees much More sternly. Employers would be forced to establish cause for dismiss Al and would no doubt inflict a lot of unnecessary pain in the standards act provided the majority of employees Are in favour. As Well under the retail business Holiday closing act retailers can stay open provided less than four employees Are working. Exceptions include hotels taverns and pharmacies. I think this Waters Down the Sig Elf Lance of this said Mil ton. Canada being so diverse and fragmented we need every unifying Force we can Milton said Canada should follow the example of the United states and tighten regulations. American Independence Day is celebrated july 4 Only. Bill Draper executive director of the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce called the situation a terrible Elsas Ter and said it has taken the Edge off an important National Celebration. Canada won t have the birthday it than celebrating to Gether we re All split he said. Aside from this problem Draper said the week of june 29th will be one of the year s worst in terms of productivity. For two Days this week businesses will be unable to reach All their custom ers suppliers and business he said. This country s productivity will be Hurt very a Winnipeg chamber of Commerce Survey shows that As Many As 42 per of Ebay rett mass cent of construction workers and so per cent of professionals Are taking their Holiday on monday. The study also shows that six per cent of agricultural businesses will be open All five Days next week planning to close on another Day entirely. All major Banks Federal provincial and municipal offices and liquor stores will be closed wednesday. Also closed Are the Bay Batons Sears Zellers k Mart woolco Safeway fall fare Dominion pay far lob Laws econ Mart super Valu and . Stores. There will be no Post office or letter Carrier service. Letter boxes will be cleared at 11 . And 4 . On arterial roads Only and the lock Box lobby in Winnipeg main Post office will be open from 8 . To 6 . Open july 1, but operating on sunday schedules will be most shoppers metro and Neiman drug stores. Most City bars will be open. Striking Nabet picket blocks Csc camera Lens with poster during news conference yesterday. Pickets Black out Csc cameras a number of striking Csc broadcast technicians have decided to try to Black out news reports at the source. The latest incident occurred yester Day during a Bank of Montreal news conference. Several times during the conference a picketing technician raised his strike poster in front of cameraman Gil Savoie preventing him from getting footage. A Csc production cameraman carrying an unmarked camera was not interfered with and obtained the foot age Savoie could not film. Other Csc cameramen and news personnel say similar incidents took place this week at other news conferences. But Norman Kolisnyk the president of 200-member Winnipeg local of the National association of broadcast employees and technicians said yester Day the action does t represent official Union policy. It s certainly not Union policy to interfere with cameramen during news he said and i have no knowledge of any of this taking place. What could have happened is that some of the people on the picket line saw a camera Crew leave the Csc building and spontaneously followed along on their own without telling Kolisnyk added. Soliman quits before probe completed by Andy Blicq provincial cultural affairs Liaison officer Jean Soliman has resigned follow ing allegations he used government offices As part of a nude modelling service he operated. Soliman was suspended from his Job May 7 after a free press report quoted a University student As saying he posed nude twice on weekends in the archives building offices after being recruited As a Model by Soliman. Civil service commissioner Paul Hart said yesterday Soliman resigned before an investigation into the matter could be completed. Rene Prefontaine Deputy minister of cultural affairs said Soliman did not give a reason for his resignation i a letter dated june 24. His resignation is retroactive to june 15. Soliman could not be reached for comment yesterday. Investigation continues Hart said the investigation was still in Progress and no recommendation on the matter had been made when Soli Man s resignation was received. The investigation and the resigning were not a cause and Prefontaine said. He did not have to re although cultural affairs minister Norma Price told the free press May 7 that Soliman had been suspended without pay Prefontaine said Soliman went on sick leave May 6, the Day before the Story appeared. He received sick benefits until May 19, although he was under suspension. He had been very Prefontaine said. Even at the time that your paper wrote a Story about him he had been on sick leave and although he was suspended he also had sick leave Sta Tus. Prefontaine said Soliman had been ill with hepatitis or jaundice before the Story broke and had been away quite a meanwhile Prefontaine said it was his understanding Soliman had found a Job elsewhere. We know he has been shopping for a he said. The free press report in May said Soliman told potential models the ser vice could Lead to paid sex Between them and the men and women who hired his models. Soliman said he used his office in the Manitoba archives building on at least two weekends to interview potential male models. The free press began investigating the modelling service in March after receiving a complaint from the student who said Soliman initially offered nude modelling assignments and later pay for sex. Two reporters placed separate ads i the jobs wanted listing of the newspaper s classified advertising Section to Check the student s claim. Soliman telephoned both of them and in several subsequent Telephone Calls offered them work As nude Art models and the Opportunity to have sex for pay with the men and women he could refer them to. Johnson last on disclosure fat Ltd nth next Coon. Frank Johnson rial is the Only member of City Council who has not filed a state ment of financial disclosure with the City clerk s department according to documents on file at City Hall. Councillors Ai Ducharme Phil Rizzuto Guy Savoie and Alf Skowron have All filed statements with the clerk s office since the files were searched in mid May by the free press. Voluntary disclosure guidelines for Winnipeg s mayor and 29 councillors were established last fall by the pre Vious City Council. The statements Are to include any Campaign donations1 of More than any real property other than principal dwellings owned i partnership or alone including trusts and including property owned by spouses leases on properties longer than three years in duration and interests in corporations excluding those listed on the Public Stock partnerships or sole proprietorship which do business with the City or with City boards or commissions. Intends to file Johnson said yesterday he intends to file his disclosure of financial inter ests which he said he has now completed with the clerk s office some time next week. He called his failure to Filean oversight on his part. Ducharme s declaration lists the ownership of a residential property at 165 Enfield Crescent and half owner ship of lot 121 in Block 35 on City plan 386. Ducharme s declaration fists no election contributions of More than Savoie s declaration includes a commercial property at 168 proven Cher Boulevard and an election contribution of from the ice committee. Smith s declaration lists the owner ship of a duplex at 943 Dugas Street and Campaign contributions of from the Winnipeg labor Council and from the Ellice nip association. Skowron s declaration contains election contributions of from a. Benson and from the Winnipeg labor Council. Johnson an apartment vacancy rate declines in City by Glen Mackenzie Winnipeg s apartment vacancy rate has dropped in recent months and will become tighter this according to Canada mortgage and housing corp. But corporation spokesmen realtors and Home builders say this won t spark a major increase in housing prices. The biannual Chc Survey found Winnipeg s apartment vacancy rate declined to 4.1 per cent in april from 4.6 per cent in october 1980. Chc officials predict it will drop to Between three and 3.5 per cent by october. The Survey is limited to structures with at least six apartment units. It covered of the City s rental units and found 742 units were with drawn from the Market and were added a net gain of Bill Jolly Chc s Manitoba housing Market analyst estimated about 500 of the withdrawals were conversions to condominiums. Few new apartments Are being built and Jolly said this will mean a drop in the vacancy rate this fall. Currently Winni Eggers Are very fortunate in having a wide Choice in All types of accommodation he said in an inter View. Stable Market Jolly said while reports of people from other Canadian cities buying apartment blocks and houses Here have received considerable publicity those he knows said they did so because they consider Winnipeg a stable real estate Market. He also said the Price of housing will no jump As drastically As in Vancouver or Calgary unless Winnipeg has the same major influx of people those cities did. R. P. Spano president of Kensington Homes ltd., said out of town investors he has talked with Are also looking for a Long term investment rather than Quick profit. An investor looking for stability is looking Here. But a Speculator looking for a Quick profit is Barking up the wrong tree by buying in Winnipeg he said in an interview. People who made Mega profits in such cities As Vancouver Are not interested in another hot Market where those profits could become losses if prices drop he said. Spano said a three to five per cent apartment vacancy rate is Normal and he believes there is no major Impact on House sales unless it is less than one per cent. Realtor optimistic there Are about 150 new unsold houses in Winnipeg compared with about 600 at this time last year he said. Gordon e. Swail Winnipeg real estate Board president said he is optimistic the Winnipeg Market will be Strong this fall because the mortgage interest expected to drop to about 14 per cent. First mortgages now have an interest rate of about per cent which has greatly restricted the current Market. In other words it s the Swail said. Swail said another reason for his optimism is that the desire for a single family House is still very Strong and the Young people of today would still like to own the High rates have cooled demand which Means buyers must pay More interest in the Short run but can obtain a House at a Low Price he said. He also said a tighter rental Market Means higher rents and a greater de sire for single family houses. The Survey found current rents for most units Are in the to a month Range for bachelors to Range for one bedroom to Range for two bedrooms and and up for three bedrooms. Order halts unprocessed milk sales the City s health department has issued a mandatory food order against the Farmer s Market of 894 main Street for Selling unpasteurized Dairy products. The order posted yesterday gives the proprietor of the Market 48 hours to cease Selling the Dairy products. Victor Leshke manager of the mar Ket confirmed yesterday he had been served with the notice. Leshke said the order was directed at several area Farmers who rent stalls from time to time at the Market to sell unpasteurized Cream and milk on weekends. He said he does not sell the products in his stalls on the Market lot. According to the provincial health regulations unpasteurized milk can be sold Only at the premises of the pro Ducer. Leshke said the health department had told him they would speak to the Farmers involved with the Sale of the milk. Pawley claims pcs in trouble Manitoba new democratic party Leader Howard Pawley said yesterday that crowds attending nip nomination meetings signal that the progressive conservative government of Premier Sterling Lyon is in trouble and they know they re in Pawley was featured speaker yester Day at the party s nomination meeting in Winnipeg s provincial constituency of Burrows held at Isaac Newton school. The meeting Drew 646 people. An nip nomination meeting wednesday night in Winnipeg s Radis son constituency Drew 400 and there were More than at the party s nomination meeting in the Border constituency of Emerson Pawley said. The majority of the 446 eligible voters at the Burrows meeting nominated or. Conrado Santos 47, of 596 Townsend Avenue an associate professor of Polit ical science at the University of Mani Toba As the party s candidate in the next provincial election. Santos a native of the Philippines and supported by a Large contingent of his fellow countrymen presented him self As the candidate for new democrats of All ethnic groups in the North end Riding then blasted the Lyon government. Pioneer broadcasting Engineer Hooper 80, Dies in Winnipeg Veteran broadcasting Engineer Bert Hooper 80, died in Winnipeg wednes Day. Hooper a native of British Columbia was known As the Pioneer of broadcast ing. In 1922, he introduced Western Canada s first radio station to the air Waves cock in Regina. Hooper was also responsible for setting up the first play by play professional hockey broadcast. In 1939, Hooper became chief Engi Neer at radio station Krc in Winni Peg a position to held until his retire ment ;