Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mcgonigal to become next lieutenant governor Winnipeg Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal has been named Manitoba next becomes the prov inces 20th lieutenant governor and the first woman to hold the in an interview this morning from where she is attending a municipal Mcgonigal said she was informed of her appointment yesterday in a Telephone Call from prime minister f naturally i am excited and in but in also a bit App re f dont know any of the details t guess ill find that out when i get she said f Rudeau asked her if she would accept the appointment and she simply replied that she would be very pleased and proud to Lite Deputy mayor said she was Well aware her name has been rumoured for several months As the next but they were Only everybody else seems to have known a great Deal More about this than the one she Mcgonigall appointment was con firmed by the Federal Cabinet yester documents Are to be signed and the formal announcement made later it want known when the appoint ment would take Mcgonigal said she too Doest know and Hast yet been Titt term of Manitoba present Bud Jobin expires at the end of this he has estimated it would take at least a month Between the announcement of an appointment and the actual Swearingin of his Suc meaning a Swearingin about mayor Bill Norrie said yesterday Council will have to pick a new Deputy mayor and executive policy committee chairman in the near Norrie said he Rush into holding a by election to fill the vacant since a number of councillors have expressed interest in running for the legislature and a provincial election May soon be in that the by election to fill Mcgonigall scat could be delayed until further seats need to be Jobin said he haunt been notified of the appointment of his Suc he if Mcgonigal is named it would be a Damn Good who last March asked for and received a six month Extension to his has been trying to find out just when his replacement will be tie was informed by the Media about the pending it would have been a Courtesy to let me know but t Haven heard a bloody decorum dictates that they phone and Tell Jobin a councillor for Jame Assiniboia since became Winnipeg first woman Deputy mayor and executive policy committee chair Man two years born in Mcgonigal was Active in the Liberal organization in Moose jaw and Calgary before she and her husband now general manager of Triec moved to Winnipeg in Mcgonigal Good Clear tonight 6 sunny tomorrow 24 Winnipeg free press sett Ambir 1081 Maun Sun rises sets Moon rises sets am p final 250 classified 9562330 t number Sun rises sets Moon rises sets r 0288 most wont get mortgage assistance a photo by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the vast majority of canadians will not get help to Deal with the effects of sharply higher inter est rates on their mortgages and rents and the Cabinet is still trying to decide How Many Are in dire enough Straits to Merit housing minister Paul cos Grove said some homeowners must renew mortgages before the end of the year and another must renew postage rate to Rise Ottawa up a treaty signed monday in Washington Between Canada and the United states will dramatically change postal policy Between the two countries and could double postage for mail from this country to the a Post office official said yester before the treaty was with no Public announcement from the Cana Dian officials Canadian rates for mail to Points were the same As those for letters and packages to centres within but it Cost More to Send something to other a letter to for could Cost about 35 cents on top of the regular first class rate of 17 the signed after years of negotiations that began in the Early puts the on the same basis As other countries in postal relations with said Post office spokes Man Frances were moving away from the Continental idea of a postal she see Page 4 them in the next 12 Cosgrove but not All of them Are in Trou everybody who is rolling Over a mortgage int in cos Grove that the kind of thing that were were try ing to get the Best kind of information together that we the housing minister was speaking after a meeting of the full Cabinet at secluded Meach a meet ing designed to Nail Down More details on the upcoming Federal Cosgrove said the final word on mortgage Aid would come Down in a few plan expected soon the House does not resume until but finance minister Allan Mac Eachen has said he might announce a mortgage Relief plan in cos Grove said yesterday the plan will come Down either with the budget or before the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said yesterday it will Institute no mortgage foreclosures directly attributable to High interest rates until after the Federal Jim Deputy chairman of Kinross mortgage the mortgage Arm of the says any foreclosures in the past few months have involved mortgages in the 11percent Range which were not up for few anticipated a spokesman for the Toronto Domin Ion Bank said any foreclosures will be referred to its head and a Royal Bank of Canada official said it anticipated less than 100 Cosgrove yesterday refused to Back track on earlier statements that the government has a plan coming Forth despite unenthusiastic confirmation from Maceachen the finance minister confined himself to saying Only that the government will live up to a carefully worded Promise in the april speech from the that Promise provided for possible Aid to those worst hit by High interest rates but includes a number of escape Clearing the Road California sheriffs deputies grapple with demonstrators during the Diablo Canyon nuclear Power about 713 persons yesterdays second Day of confrontations at the front Gate of were arrested in protest against nuclear Curling group fighting tax ruling assessment could affect other sports bodies which collect on investments investigation clears heading Ley guards by Barbara Huck the Manitoba Curling association is challenging a ruling that could spell tax trouble for other sports organizations after it was assessed tax on its interest the provincial Curling the wealthiest Amateur sports body in Manitoba As a result of a series of successful provincial and National was assessed last Spring for failure to file tax the amount involved is about somebody walked into the Mca office last Spring and hit us with Mca president Bob Lloyd he asked us Why we haunt been filing for the last seven under the statute of seven years usually represents a Maxi mum period for reassessment of Delin quent tax were not trying to hide said its simply that we we rent aware that we were As an Amateur sporting to file in come the reassessment was made under a Little used Section of the income tax if could affect sports bodies in Canada which collect interest their invested that one of the Points were Mak said were not alone in being affected by if our Amateur association comes under the jurisdiction of the what will be the position of other like hockey Canada or the Canadian olympic association the part of the act in question is Section a spokesman for reve nue Canada it states that Amateur sports among other charitable Are required to file Only an information they simply Lay Down their Disper sements and file a Trust but they dont pay on the spokesman the Mas initial Appeal by Winni Peg lawyer Doug Finkbeiner to the department of in Ottawa was the next Finkbeiner is to take the Case to the tax Appeal by Brian Cole a corrections department investigation has cleared several heading Ley jail guards of allegations that they physically abused inmates at the inst corrections commissioner Hans Schneider said yesterday the investigation revealed some prisoners were treated for minor injuries following a scuffle Between guards and inmates the incident occurred after guards were called to break up a group of prisoners who were participating in some horseplay at the provincial the inmates were treated for minor scratches and Schneider adding that no serious harm came to any he said the report concluded that the guards did not use excessive the incident is also under investigation by the provincial ombudsman which received six complaints from prisoners that they were abused by assistant ombudsman Reg Webb said Webb said it would be at least a week before the watchdog Agency completes its Schneider ordered the internal corrections department investigation after inmates staged a mass demonstration 4 to protest alleged beatings and harassment by guards the previous four inmates escaped the following Day and one of them telephoned the free press to say he fled the jail to draw attention to conditions at Hea he is still at controllers win fight with Pepin Jerome no Ottawa up the government has lost a court bid to try to discipline Canadian air traffic controllers but transport minister Jeanluc Pepin says the controllers May still be punished for disrupting International flights last Justice James Jerome of the Federal court of Canada yesterday dismissed a Federal request to Rule controllers in contempt of court for defying a nine Montgold no strike in Junction when they refused to Clear flights to and from the United states in More than 100 controllers were in and the maximum penalty for contempt of court is a Fine of or one year in Pepin told reporters after a Cabinet meeting at a government Retreat in the Gatineau Hills North of Ottawa that Jerome rejection of the request will allow the department to take regular disciplinary measures against the con it was not a position to to do it under the he it was just a Choice of the other one to appeared the better under Public service transport department management May use suspensions and dismissals to enforce each penalized controller is entitled to Appeal his penalty through the Union grievance the department has not yet decided who should be disciplined for a trans port spokesman Jerome said evidence showed controllers were genuinely concerned about safety when their the Canadian air traffic control led a today boy Cott against flights into and out of the in the judge said no evidence could be found to support the governments Alle gation that the unions safety concern was a paper thin facade to mask support for controllers fired by the government for launching an illegal strike about a week Overall growth the first in a series of articles examines How Winnipeg garment Industry managed to grow during the hit Man hit sugar Ray Leonard became the undisputed world welterweight Champion last night by putting the hit on Detroit hit counter charge Poland communist party leadership has accused Solidarity of breaking the agreements upon which it was new fears the violent reappearance of the Baader Meinhoff gang stirs new fears in West Western Index Ann 23 41 7 24 54 8 Jumble Milroy on 29 61 sports to listings ;