Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Organization makes Folk festival birthday spirit costs to kindle by Ingeborg Boyens tomorrow s Dominion Day fireworks and frolics across the province will Cost taxpayers about but festivity organizers say the Price is Well Worth the patriotic spirit it will kindle. "1 Hope every Manitoban Cele said Elizabeth Willcock co chairman of Manitoba Canada s birth Day committee. Although the events Promise to be the biggest Ever organizers fear the celebrations in Honor of Canada s 114th birthday could be marred by lethargy. Some canadians have grumbled that july 1 Falls on a wednesday this year. Most of the members of the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce have chosen to work tomorrow so they can be assured of a Long weekend. Almost half the retail outlets in the City have decided to give their employees monday or Friday off rather than the Holiday. Department stores will however be closed. Only 52 per cent of educational institutions and 48 per cent of distributing industries will close for the National Holiday according to chamber calculations. Civic provincial and Federal employees will be off tomorrow. Winnipeg s daily newspapers the free press and the Sun won t pub Lish. Garbage pickup and bus service will operate on a Holiday schedule. Liquor stores will be closed. Willcock said canadians should understand that they have something to celebrate. Last year canadians were infected with enthusiasm because of the May Quebec referendum she said. Larry Fleischer Crescent Heights councillor and the City s Dominion Day representative agreed last year the feeling was More Willcock said it was unlikely the committee would spend its entire federally funded budget. Prime attractions will be the Day Long activities at the legislative grounds beginning at . The provincial government s show will Fea Ture Multi cultural performances an and Craft exhibits a children s singing group and a puppet show. At noon at the sound of the tradition Al 21-gun Salute All residents of Mani Toba Are asked to Stop whatever they Are doing and sing 0 Canada. Speakers will include Henry Enns chairman of the world coalition of persons with disabilities Federal 1m see festivities Page 4 Clear tonight 1 7 sunny tomorrow 28 tuesday june 30, 1981 free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final t Home delivery 957-o550 classified 956-2330 second class mail registration number 0266 service mail grinds to halt across nation James free press the country is without National mail service today after inside postal work ers walked from their jobs to picket lines last night in support of contract demands. The strike by members of the Canadian Union of postal workers started at Midnight after bargaining collapsed Friday. Winnipeg members of the Union walked off their 11 . Shift at . And set up a Brief picket line lasting 25 minutes at the Graham ave nue Central Post office. Winnipeg Union representative Pat Miller said picketing will begin in ear nest today with up to 60 members from the 850-member local Manning two hour shifts. Whether the cup strikers will get support from any other Post office unions was t known last night Al though Don Harrison president of local 7 of the letter carriers Union of Canada has said his members will respect cup s picket line. Cup president Jean Claude Parrot said last night in Ottawa the Federal government left him no Choice but to Call the strike. He said the government refused to discuss a report prepared by an Independent conciliator Ottawa had demanded in the first place. The Union in a tense conclusion to three Days of exchanging memos and Brief Telephone Calls spurned a govern men invitation two hours before the strike deadline to return to the a gaining table. Treasury Board negotiators refused to give in to the Union s insistence that the government accept terms of the conciliation report released last week that were favourable to the Union. Conciliation chairman Pierre Jasmin supported 17 weeks paid maternity leave an extra Holiday in january four weeks vacation after five years work the right of workers to refuse work they considered dangerous and a halt to More televisions for Post office Security. We definitely will not negotiate within the Jasmin a spokes Man at the Union s Ottawa Headquarters said in commenting on the last minute Telephone Call from Bob Casault chief Treasury Board Bargainer to Par rot. Report major Issue the major Issue is acceptance of Jasmin s report and they Are refusing to the Union spokesman said. But a government official insisted the Union is the mule. Treasury Board made continued efforts late monday evening to achieve a resumption of said trea sury Board spokesman Paul Dunn. Dunn said Casault told Parrot the government is willing to negotiate paid maternity leave a switch from trea sury Board president Donald John Ston s position last week and other changes in the government Posi on wages Jasmin supported the government conciliation nominee s proposal for an increase of 70 cents an hour to the current hourly average of As Well As the government position on maintaining current allowances for in see postal Page 4 prison Warden shot in Tehran Tehran Reuter As hundreds of thousands of iranians today mourned the assassination of 72 political leaders including chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti the official pars news Agency reported the Warden of Tehran s Evin prison scene of scores of executions since the 1979 revolution has been shot and killed. Pars quoted the Tehran revolution Ary prosecutor s office As saying the slain Warden Mohammad Kachouh was killed by United states however a prison official said the governor was shot and killed by a dismissed iranian revolutionary guard yesterday with six shots from a .38-Ca Fibre revolver. He died in Hospital the same night of head and neck wounds the official said. He said the former revolutionary guard had been dismissed for having bad he and six other people were arrested some outside the prison after the shooting the prison official said without explaining the alleged role of the other detainees. The prison has been the scene of Many speedy revolutionary trial and firing squad executions since the Revo Lution. The latest wave of executions in the last 10 Days mainly of leftists followed the clashes Over the ousting of presi Dent Abolhassan Bani Sadr. The bodies of the assassinated Lead ers wrapped in shrouds and placed in simple wooden coffins were Laid out in the majlis where at least 20 of the victims of sunday night s massive bomb attack on an islamic Republican party meeting had served As deputies. The mourners Many of them from the poorer sections of Tehran choked the streets around the modern majlis building As speaker Hashemi Rassan Jani said people had sought Compro Mise with counter revolutionaries but added after this dreadful crime who can ask us to let them carry out their activities the nation has recognized its Domestic and foreign Many in the crowd which included several Hundred air Force and army conscripts and veiled women carrying babies bore Black flags Flowers and portraits of the 52-year-old Beheshti and the other dead. Four Cabinet ministers six Deputy ministers and 20 parliamentary deputies also were killed by the bomb but political leaders appeared to be taking a business As usual approach to the loss. John Friesen vice president of Winnipeg cup local and an unidentified picket Chat with police officers last night. Millions in retirement fund unclaimed senior citizens Short changed by ignorance of government Benefit plans by Gregg Shilliday millions of dollars in unemployment insurance payments Are left unclaimed each year by canadians who retire at age 65 without realizing they Are entitled to a u1c retirement Cheque. The unclaimed Pic benefits along with unclaimed guaranteed annual in come supplements and death benefits result in Many senior citizens being seriously Short changed because of their ignorance about these govern ment benefits social workers say. While Federal officials Are unable to estimate exactly How Many elderly Are affected or How much Money is involved statistics Canada ran a special computer analysis for the free press which showed canadians retired at age 65 from the labor Force in 1980, making them eligible for the Pic Bene fits which amount to about three weeks salary. An examination of available Statis tics showed persons applied for the Pic benefits last year with payouts amounting to about million. Million unclaimed with eligible persons not applying roughly million in Pic retirement funds were left unclaimed last year alone. Pic s Jack Mcdowell said in an interview his department has no Fig ures on How Many people Are eligible to apply for the retirement benefits each year. He said even if a relatively Large number of elderly suddenly applied for the benefits he was sure his department could handle the increased payouts. But he said persons who retired More than a couple of years ago would Proba no paper the free press will not publish on Dominion Day. The classified advertising office will be open from 6 . Until . Tomorrow. The classified phone number is 9sfi-2330. Bly be out of Luck when it came to retroactive payments. He added that he did t think it should be up to Pic to inform people reaching retirement age that they Are eligible for benefits. "1 really Don t think so. I Don t see How we can be expected to get in touch with people who Are retiring at 65. We Don t have those kinds of Mcdowell said the Pic attempts to inform All employers of the program and expects them to Tell their employees. He said he assumed employers follow through. As far As those employees who Are not informed or who move from Job to Job Mcdowell conceded that a lot of people May fall into the cracks but that happens in any he said a person would have to work for 20 weeks Between the Ages of 64 and 65 to be eligible for the benefits which generally amount to three weeks pay. Mcdowell explained that the Benefit was originally intended to be an interim payment to tide people Over until they got their first pension he said the concept has changed recently to allow people to receive the Benefit even if they continue working past 65. It is now More like a Bonus for making it to age he said. Age and Opportunity Centre director Tom Macleod said unclaimed benefits Are More common than the Federal government is willing to admit. See unclaimed Page 4 Oil Sands projects in doubt after pricing talks fail again Toronto up the future of two costly Oil Sands projects planned for Northern Alberta is less Clear today after talks aimed at resolving a lengthy dispute Over Energy pricing ended yesterday with both sides saying major disagreements remain. We were hoping for More tangible signs of a spokesman for the Al Sands group planning a Oil Sands project in fort Mcmurray said late yesterday. Energy minister Marc Lalonde and his Alberta counterpart Merv Leitch surfaced from yesterday s negotiations cautioning that a comprehensive agreement is not imminent although new Federal proposals on pricing and taxation Are on the table and Progress continues to be made. Both said they Are still far apart on what they referred to As fundamental principles or Points. They refused to elaborate. They also said they could provide no particular assurances about an agree ment to the anxious sponsors of the proposed Oil Sands projects. Neither Lalonde nor Leitch was predicting that an agreement on the con Leitch no predictions Dentious issues of Energy pricing and Revenue sharing could be reached at the next meeting scheduled for the latter part of next month. A spokesman for the heavy Oil Plant at cold Lake planned by Esso resources Canada Ltd., said there would be no immediate reaction to yesterday s meeting. Esso is a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial Oil Ltd. And officials for both companies have said the project could be shelved if the Federal provincial deadlock Over Energy was not broken by tomorrow. Imperial president Jim Livingstone said As recently As last week the com Pany Hopes it will never be faced with the decision of whether to abandon the project which has already Cost million. Key issues in dispute include the wellhead Price of Domestic Oil now less than half the world Price natural Gas and Oil Sands pricing and new Federal taxes on Gas sales and Gas and Oil revenues. The Way in which revenues from increased Petroleum prices Are to be shared among Ottawa the producing provinces and Industry is one of the touch Iest issues. In addition Alberta has made Clear it considers the new Federal taxes on Oil and Gas a Clear invasion of provincial jurisdiction. Rain soaked heavy Rains the last two weeks is hurting the chances of a bumper crop in Manitoba Farmers and agricultural representatives into limelight after 40 years in the Shadow of chinese strongman Deng Xiaoping he Yanbang is taking in his Honor the death of Terry Fox has brought a renewed flow of cancer research funds and 250 government scholarships set up in his Down to size Blue bombers dropped three veterans to pare the team Down to Canadian football league roster specifications of 34 Index Ann Landers. 24 answers. 37 Billinkoff. 7 Bridge. 26 business.64 classified.34 comics. 16 crossword. 24 editorials. 6 entertainment. Horoscope. Jumble Puzzle Klady. Letters. Movies. People. Relax. Sports. 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