Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Board spending exceeds budget times Square life at its by Glen Mackenzie Winnipeg school division expects to exceed its 1981 budget by of Timofe than pushing total spending past the Mark for the first an administration report made pub Lic yesterday showed spending this year is expected to reach or More than the budgeted for the Board underestimated by the Cost of two studies of the divisions administration conducted by Winnipeg lawyer Steward Martin charged for the two studies while the trustees had budget Ted for the salary settlements with the Winnipeg teachers association and Winnipeg association of employees added to the total while higher interest charges Cost the Divi Sion an extra the figures also included for Wes the divisions Par time chief and for Dave his full time executive they replaced former superintendent Harold who left his Post in also included was for Stu dents Winnipeg transit which Rose to 25 cents from cents last Secretary treasurer Brian Scott said the division had deficits of last year and in but Board chairman mifa Spivak said in an interview the latest figures do not necessarily forecast a deficit be cause the division May end up spending less than the amount budgeted in other areas this final spending figures for 1981 wont be available until next so it wont be known until then whether there is a she another administration report yesterday said Winnipeg division spent about on the summer enrich ment program this summer which had an average daily attendance of Only per the report said that while enrolment totalled average daily attendance was Only the 1980 enrolment was Stu dents with average daily attendance of per compared with 1979 figures of enrolment and daily attendance per Bill elementary schools us said attendance in the program is voluntary and it faces com petition from Community Centre Sand other summer Holiday Clear tonight 4 sunny tomorrow 1 9 Winnipeg free press Sonto Monr 1fi 1fcfl1 109 no sumo rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 september vol 109 no 242 up photo Homeowner will get protest told ramp officers Block demonstrators from entering parliament building yesterday during protest against High interest Thompson Inco workers strike Union refused to meet in final negotiating company official claims by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson about Inco metals company employees went on strike this despite a final negotiating Effort last the members of local 6166 of the United steelworkers of voted 70 per cent in favor of the walkout the striking workers set up picket lines just after blocking entrances to the smelter and refinery in As Well As Access routes to the pipe Lake open pit Bob free press 40 Kilometres South of hours before the strike Inco asked workers to meet to explore the possibility of reshaping the Terry incas chief Neotia said the Union refused to discuss the shape of the package and simply demanded that the company pay the entire three year wage offer Over a period of a oneyear Inco offered a wage increase of an hour in the first year and 15 cents in each of the remaining two Lineker the big Money maker in the contract was the Rollin of costo living adjustments to the base rate from which incentive bonuses and other benefits Are he said drillers pay about mid Point in the wage scale would increase to annually in the final year of the the current an Nual earnings for a Driller is Union local president Blake Mcgrath did not dispute the but said might look pretty Good when youve got a he Adful of 1981 but it could look a lot different in the Impact of the strike on life in Thompson has already become Molly executive director of Inco workers in Thompson discuss Las minute strategy yesterday prior to striking at the says the annual Wal Kathon scheduled for sunday has been can the event earned last she said the move was necessary because Many of the sponsors Are miners who could not be asked to fulfil pledges under the Circum the Thompson chamber of Commerce decided to donate As Token assistance to strikers who May face financial businessman Grant Wright said he was against the chamber taking sides in the dispute but he Felt the business Community should Register concern for the Well being of its customers who Are on steelworkers were con fronted with a picket line at the in trance to the pub adjoining the Union bar cleared twelve upset beverage room Wai tresses cleared the locked the door and picketed to protest their own stalled contract talks with their pm the the waitresses walkout was the result of a decision by beverage room which includes senior Union to suspend two Wai tresses for refusing to serve customers in an incident monday the strike ended last night when Mcgrath lifted the suspensions and said the contract would be dealt with As soon As his Union settled with according to an Mcgrath was carried shoulder High into the pub by jubilant workers follow ing the strike vote but the waitresses lined up behind the refusing to work while Mcgrath was Paddy one of those suspend said the members of Manitoba food and commercial work ers local have been unable to Settle a contract dispute with the steel workers since last by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa suffering homeowners will definitely get some kind of Mort Gage help in the next budget and both Bankers and those facing foreclosure should try to freeze the process for one month until details of the new budget become housing minister Paul Cosgrove said the housing minister was speaking after a demonstration on parliament Hill by a meeting with protest representatives that at one Point almost saw Cosgrove dragged out of the committee room to face the Liberal maps gather the protesters converged on Parlia ment Hill As the liberals gathered for a caucus meeting in which Rankan file maps told their Cabinet ministers that the mood in the constituencies is angry and something must be in saying that to those people who say that they cannot meet mortgage payments that if they Are going to if they Are going to be that they should await the governments budget in the fall to see what the governments position will be visa is Cosgrove asked specifically if there will be he said there will be assistance finance minister Allan Maceachen was much less definite than no decision made he said no decision has been made on a particular program and that anything in the budget would help Only those worst hit by the ravages of High inter the government will live up to the commitment in its april speech from the that commit ment reads in my government recognizes the need to protect those canadians most affected by unacceptably High interest my government will act to assist those unable to Bear the Burden of renegotiating their Home mortgages in the present abnormal situation so that the spectre of foreclosure will be avoid my ministers Are convinced that this objective can be achieved without the government embarking on a major subsidy Cosgrove tried to Tell representatives of about 500 protesters in Ottawa yesterday that the government would not allow people to lose their but he was shouted Down with cries of its already he was treated to a Litany of tales in which Ordinary chiefly from see help Page 4 pm agrees to meet premiers Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau has agreed to a Federal pro Vinci Al first ministers meeting on the Economy to be held in the next few his office said but he has made it Clear the meeting will not be held until the Federal government presents its budget and its proposals for dealing with the country troubled Economy to parliament in the latter part of he will meet Premier Bill Bennett of British Columbia the Day before he leaves for a trip to to discuss the he also proposes that finance minis ters meet some time in october to Dis cuss the budget before it is the prime minister made his propos als in a letter to chairman of the 10member premiers earlier this the letter was re leased after Bennett revealed in Kim that Trudeau had agreed to a provinces to fight Ottawa sport Pool by Ingeborg Boyens provincial lottery ministers will con Fer within two Days to plot strategy against Ottawa proposed sports wagering Manitoba sports and fit Ness minister Bob Banman said yester either a conference phone Call or a facet face meeting will be arranged to Aid the ministers in their fight against the Federal ban Man said in an both Quebec and Ontario have suggested they May withhold lottery pay ments due Ottawa or May seek a court injunction halting the they Are opposed to the proposal announced monday by Federal sports minister Gerald which they say would violate the spirit of a 1979 agree ment transferring responsibility for lot teries to local if the plan comes to Banman provincial lotteries will suffer from new a new Bureau including Cros Canada Dis Tribu will have to be established to run the sports betting he Regan maintained monday that the proposed Pool will not infringe on provincial he insisted the pro posed sports Pool is nothing like a lottery because contestants will have to prove their skill in guessing the Correct score of a hockey or baseball proceeds from the which could total million in the first year of would be passed on to Amateur sports the arts and medical see provinces Page 4 Money Shower tonight fight Between welterweight champions sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns promises to Shower Money on everyone Back for More undaunted by the arrests of More than 500 of their antinuclear protesters Are reinforcing their blockade of a California atomic Power benched two of the top players at the British end of the Canadian constitutional debate have been shuffled out of their places in Cabinet Pope Speaks Pope John Paul ii sides with labor unions and condemns both rigid capitalism and the collectivist system in his most comprehensive statement on social Index Ann 20 39 24 52 64 25 52 26 8 23 Jumble 65 7 39 57 sports 47 19 to 6 a ;