Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba High interest creates deferred Tux Dodge Fly Tom Goldstein and Deborah read Manitoba municipalities could find themselves Ift a financial squeeze when taxpayers discover they can make Money by deferring their with investment interest rates currently hovering near the 20 per cent Mark compared with the maximum 15 per cent penalty Manitoba municipalities can charge on tax some property owners May withhold taxes and still come 6ut Altona mayor Dick Penner said weve had a couple of people come and they figured it out and they say no in keeping it in the said a Brandon Tan department official who wished to remain certainly interest rates Are no Sentive either Bruce a Brandon tax you certainty want to borrow to the deadline for making tax pay ments without penalty Hast yet arrived in most municipalities and officials said it is too Early to Tell whether there will be a significant increase in but there afraid that if payments fall too far municipalities May be forced to borrow Money at High interest fates to make up the deficit in operating municipalities with smaller tax bases Are particularly it Only takes three or four of the larger taxpayers and you feel it said Abe Secretary treasurer for the town of Worden he added that the 1980 collection was very under the Manitoba municipal municipalities cant charge More than 15 per cent a year on overdue the City of operates under separate provincial is allowed to set its own penalty which now stands at 18 per cent a municipal taxpayers can go without paying taxes for three yearn before their property can be forfeited for Back a property owner can then get away with paying a single years taxes without losing his by pay ing Only one years taxes in each succeeding he constantly enjoys a two year tax its actually Only been a problem this since the interest rate went feel its so unfair to the other taxpayers who pay their taxes on then they still have to pay their see higher Page 4 Clear tonight 5 sunny tomorrow 18 september vol 109 no 232 Sun rises sets Moon rises noon sets final 250 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 press As Grain shipments to Thunder Bay grind to a halt due to the strike by Grain handlers at the Farmer Ike Krahn stands surrounded by bushels of wheat harvested in the past but has been forced to dump in an open Field because he has already filled this years quota set by the Canadian wheat who farms Southwest of Winni says it will be two years before he can move All the wheat to an and by then much of it will be pact adds billion to Energy Tab by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Canad Aalberta Oil pact will Cost Manitoba Consumers about billion More for Energy costs Over the next five provincial Energy minister Don Craik estimated the consumer is going to find it painful in the next five years to adjust to the new Craik told a press the Manitoba will continue its pressure to have Ottawa use some of its gains from the new agree ment to Cushion the effects of higher Oil prices particularly for Northern Resi dents and senior Craik said its pretty darn Clear who has the responsibility for cushioning the effects when Bur calculations show a Cash flow out of the province of he an easing of interest the Money will go to the Federal the Alberta government and the Oil under the agree Ottawa share of the revenues will 29 per Albertas 34 per cent and the Industry 37 per by he end of the five year Alberta Ottawa the Price of Home heating Oil will be cents a compared to cents under the old National Energy program and Gas per will Cost compared to cents under the Craik some economists say the agreement will add million to Manitoba Oil Bill this million More in 1982 and million More in each of the remaining years of the Manitoban Gas costs will escalate by million this year and million in each succeeding year of the agree they on the other Side of the the Manitoba government expects to reap million in royalties Over the next five years 50 per cent More than they would receive under the old National Energy Craik he said the government Hast yet calculated the additional returns from its per cent fuel see billion Page 4 russians score with Katia by Scott Taylor Dull Grey Trench fur those Are a few images that North americans have of to Cathy the descriptions be further from the the russians have been very they Are never they Are always Well dressed and they never direct a request without a please and a thank they Are into Lanthier handles Public relations for the Viscount Gort which has become synonymous with professional sport in Winnipeg and most see soviet Page 4 Jim free press Alexander Skvortsov of the visiting soviet hockey team enjoys a soft drink at his Farmers face million daily losses Western Grain Farmers will lose More than million a Day in sales Revenue if the strike of Thunder Bay Grain handlers the Canadian wheat Board the information was contained in a telex yesterday calling for a Quick settlement of the contract the telex went to Frank Gen eral chairman of Grain elevator work ers of the brotherhood of airline and steamship clerks and freight handlers John chair Man of the Lakehead terminal Eleva tors association and senior assistant Deputy minister of labor in charge of mediation and conciliation innocent party it expressed disappointment at the which began yesterday morn and said Western Grain Farmers Are innocent third party in this Money lost in this Way cant be recovered and the loss will create grave economic hardship Given in creased production disruption in Grain deliveries to overseas customers will doubtless affect future the telex the strike has caused up rail to prepare Layoff notices for 130 of its operating and repair staff at Thunder Railroad spokesman George Smel lie said up rail has loaded cars at Thunder Bay with another 450 in route to the which will proceed and go into storage cars a week Smellie said he expects the remain Der of the cars originally destined for Thunder Bay to be left at country elevator Points or intermediate railway the Railroad has averaged about 100 Grain car unloading a week at Thunder Bay so far this crop a Canadian National railways spokesman said that Railroad expects layoffs at Thunder Bay and anticipates the effects could Back up to Yard Crews As far West As Saskatoon and As Well As clerical staff in car Load centres in the Thunder Bay wheat Board has cancelled its snipping program As it pertains to Thunder Bay for week six of the current crop year beginning the car spokesman said in had 481 Grain cars on hand at Thunder Bay Manitoba agriculture minister Jim Downey said yesterday the Federal government should immediately attempt to mediate the dispute and get both sides Back failing Back to work legislation should be consid Downey said there was Little pos Sibil see Farmers Page 4 importing of Grain probed by Jack Francis a number of Grain elevators in West Ern Canada Are involved in an ramp investigation of alleged illegal move ment of imported police and Federal officials confirmed a spokesman for the ramps Cus Toms and excise Section in Winni Peg said a probe has been launched into complaints that Grain imported from the has been transported by rail in Canada at freight rates reserved by Law for Canadia produced Del head of the Canadian Grain said some of the Grain appears to have been disguised As Canadian produce and shipped to the soviet Union to bypass the United states embargo before it was lifted this the ramp spokesman said the num Ber and names of companies under investigation cannot be made Public until they Are either cleared or but he confirmed the ramp is conducting an investigation into com plaints received concerning importation and transportation of Grain under the crows nest pass the police spokesman said it was see ramp Page 4 settlement reached in strike at the Csc the Csc and its striking technicians reached a settlement ending their three month Marcel Vic president of the 200member Winnipeg local of the National association of broadcast employees and said a Tenta Tive settlement was reached at about 4 just said he could not release Many details on the Issue of contracting a key Issue in the he said Union negotiators Are Happy with the com Promise another local spokesman termed the Compromise in Csc spokesman Cec Smith refused to comment on reports of the settlement with the striking saying Only that he expected an announcement to be made later today and that a news blackout was the latest round of negotiations began two weeks ago at an undisclosed location under a news radio station a Job in today quoted Union spokesman Dave Cameron As saying the technicians will vote on the agreement next week and could return to work As Early As next thursday if the terms Are accept the technicians went on strike May 21 after a two week series of walkouts and disruptions by Union Angels above team Canada goaltender Billy Smith says team will need the help of the Angels above1 to win the Canada talk or else president Ronald Reagan says the soviet Union must agree to legitimate verifiable arms reductions or they will be in an arms race which they cant win733 20 to a stagehand convicted of hurling a violinist to her death Down an air Shaft from the roof of new Yorks metropolitan opera House was sentenced yesterday to 20 years to life in Good causes when youre a How do you Cope with the flood of pleas from All those Good Western Index Ann 20 33 7 19 18 40 6 Jumble Millroy on 23 49 sports to i ;