Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free Trade zone for City sought by Norrie in Greg banal after Maya Milf it Sest Irdy written pro pedal he Hopes will con Vince Ottawa be establish Canadas first free Trade zone in an ave Date of i tree Trade tone the City for a number of succeeded if getting the executive by to approve the 34page document and Send it to City Council for approval if it passes that Norge he will then seek support for his idea from the labor and Suffler groups before going to according to the concept of a Clear tonight 10 hazy tomorrow 29 Iris United states Ami Many Ether Bot fit in Espoo id the ets Fiest by say ing it would anew to import feign f a materials into Nipes i he said it would also allow tuners to expert finished goods out of the country without having to pay customs and Export it would be a great boost to the Economy of the Nome me said the would attract manufacturers to the City who would in turn create hundreds of new jobs for while admitting Canadian Law does not now permit such a free Trade said he believes Ottawa to wild the he said there Are about 66 similar in operation in the United the 60 american Trade zones in Nome said the free Trade if established in Winnipeg and other Western Canadian would attract International manufacturing interests and help Western provinces develop the Industrial base Long enjoyed Only in Ontario and when asked what he Felt his chances were of Ottawa to Sweider its import and Export duty Norrie said Ottawa should he said the Federal while losing one source of would be replacing it with income tax monies collected front the industries and the workers which would be de by the free Trade he said the Only condition usually imposed on manufacturers who locate in free Trade zones is that they must Export the goods they if manufacturers sell the product on the Domestic Market they Are usually charged the import duties on the imported raw Gas savers legitimate August free final 250 with supplements Home delivery 9s74s50 classified 9562330 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets econ class mail registration number 0286 rail land freed by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Federal government will boost its spending for rehabilitating railway Branch lines on the with a total of million earmarked for the project during the next three transport minister Jeanluc Pepin announced in Winnipeg while in Pepin also signed an agreement with provincial transportation minister Don Orchard to turn Over hectares of abandoned rail line rights Otway to the province to be used by provincial and municipal governments or transferred to Farmers for a nominal fee of about it is part of the hectares of abandoned rail Branch line valued at which the Federal government is turning Over to the three Prairie he estimated that a total of billion twice the original amount designated for Branch line improvement in 1978 will be spent Dur ing the next 10 the move was prompted by inflation and the growing number of lines to be Pepin told a press Confer Orchard said the increased spending on Branch line improvement is a More realistic figure than the million originally in the Federal government announced plans to spend million at the rate of million a year for improvement of the Prairie Branch see abandoned Page 4 Reagan letter seeks meeting with soviets Santa a president accusing the soviet Union of the greatest military buil Dup in the history of said yester Day he has written to soviet president Leonid Brezhnev to suggest a sum Mit meeting on the who spoke to reporters at his 30 Kilometres from Santa bar said the soviets were squealing like there sitting on a Sharp Nail because we now Are showing the will that we Are not going to let them get to the Point of dominance where they can someday Issue to the free world an ultimatum of surrender or he declared that Moscow military buildup cannot be described As being necessary for their it is plainly a buildup that is offensive in a asked what suggestions he has made to Brezhnev about How the soviets could improve relations with the United Reagan said he has written Brezhnev suggesting a Proba Bly dealing with arms to Duce tensions Between the two super i a suggestion at one time in correspondence with Brezhnev that sometimes it seems that the government sometimes gets in the Way of the Reagan i suggested that maybe we might sit Down sometime and see what it was the people really j doubt that the people have Ever stilted a War Sharon Futee press hard act to beat a member of a japanes Canadian drum group holds his drumsticks he pfc Joe beats out tune at Fol Oramas japanese the airman group from Vancouver uses traditional instruments in a dramatic show combining the elements of martial rhythm and inflation rate jumps to 33year High from Canadian press consumer prices were 13 per cent higher in july than they were a year the largest increase in 33 statistics Canada said word of record High inflation follows hews yesterday afternoon that the trendsetting Bank of Canada rate dipped fractionally to per cent from its record if per cent last the lower Bank of Canada credited almost entirely on a strength ended the trendsetting rates three week record while the dip was believed too shallow to have any effect on other interest rates which generally follow moves in the Bank statistics Canada said this morning the National increase in the Cost of living for the month was per compared with the per cent jump in june which put the previous 12month total at per Winnipeg rate lowest Winnipeg recorded one of the smal lest rates of with an average Rise of per cent in for an annual inflation rate of per which is the lowest rate of any City food and transportation costs were blamed for the higher mortgage payments and rents pushed the housing Index up per while the food prices Index in creased per compared with per cent in the transportation Index was up per cent in but there was one Bright the clothing Index declined per cent because of summer the Overall Index for the month stood at compared with in june and a year the increase Means that a Standard Basket of goods and services which Cost in 1971 now costs comparisons difficult the Rise in the Index is still below the 12month increase of per cent set in and Well below the per cent rate set in the 12 months ended comparisons Are difficult because of changes in the composition of the the largest monthly increases in the cities surveyed were in Calgary and where the Index jumped per cent in the smallest was per cent in Quebec statistics Canada said the major Rea for the variation was the difference in food which increased Only per cent in Halifax but per cent in the largest City increase in the month Index was the per cent jump d premiers come up with nine Point plan for economic d Manitoba finance department cashes in on soaring interest in Charlottetown and month month changes for All cities surveyed with increases from in brackets were Charlotte Saint Thunder Winni Sas in the Wake of High Bank of Canada the Banks own prime the lowest Short term rate generally offered top corporate has been at an unprecedented per consumer loan rates but Are pegged several Points higher than mortgage which Are longer Are slightly lower than prime and now Range Between 21 per cent and per for the rates Are almost As Bank savings deposits Are yield ing 19 per cent and 90day term depos its 20 per there Are a variety of reasons for High interest but the latest spiral has been blamed on a weak the Dollar has rallied this week and closed up 150 at cents yesterday after a Light Day of trading which saw it fall to before recon it opened Down 11100 at this the Dollar closed Down 225 yester Day to on the Chicago futures Market for september an indication investors do not feel its value will Rise higher than that next currently enduring its worst slump since the great the Dollar closed wednesday at and opened yesterday up High interest rates Are credited with pushing the Dollar the generally accepted logic is that if rates in Canada Are higher than in the every thing else being equal they will at tract Money yet the Uncertain political and eco nomic climate in Canada seen by Many experts has led to a relatively wide spread Between interest rates in the two inflation rate in july per cent Washington a Foo Price inflation accelerated in the United states in but declines in gasoline and other Energy prices held the Over All inflation at the wholesale level to an annual rate of per the govern ment reported the labor department said its Mea sure of wholesale producer Price Index for finished goods Rose per cent in tying May for the lowest monthly increase this if inflation increased at july rate for 12 straight the rate for that year would be per labor department officials they had reported a an Nual rate for indicating that that months Rise was probably rounded slightly upward to per cent while july was rounded the department releases Only the rounded monthly whatever the exact monthly num they have been coming in far below last when the Index for the entire year Rose per the new inflation report said Al though consumer food Price increases accelerated from per cent in june to per cent in prices for other finished goods edged up Only per far less than in any month since last in the prices of All finished Energy goods fell one per cent after rising slightly in it the july decline included Toper cent drops in the prices of gasoline add fuel although the Price of natural Gas Rose per it was the third consecutive monthly decline for while inflation May be bottoming out after months of it might surge again in the last half of the economists husband files suit after losing wife a Winnipeg Man whose wife left him to move in with a local executive has filed suit in Manitoba court of Queens claiming the executive enticed his wife away from him and destroyed their 16year mar in a statement of the Hus band is asking for unspecified dam Ages for the loss of his wife affect he is also seeking damages for criminal or sex Ual Intercourse with another mans the statement claims the plaintiff suffered a severe blow to his Honor and great injury to his feelings owing to the successful attack by the defendent upon his exclusive right to Intercourse with his a who asked not to be said criminal conversation is considered a sexual offence in although it has been abolished in most other Canadian prov a Queens Bench Rule says the court May entertain an action for the which is based on the old concept that your wife is your property and you Are entitled to exclusive use of including sex he so if someone else uses your prop he has to pay for the husband claims the other Man committed adultery with his thereby destroying his Home and marriage and causing the plaintiff to lose the enjoyment of her Comfort Anco a statement of defence has not yet been filed and no Date has been set for a court suspect ramp in say a suspect Felting held in connection with one of three recent child killings in the Gold modal shrugging off a Peter Nemeth of Winnipeg travelled 39 metres through the air to win a Gold medal in water ski jumping the summer out of business after 48 years in Steinwachs Pewen blaming High interest has declared couple bitter Michael and Anna up Lypchak claim the americans dragged their san Ann 15 Jumble 31 23 is 7 sports 32 6 i ;