Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd 51 Mcgonigal favored As joins replace minister flu death is expected to Annous tuft today that Winnipeg to mayor Peart Mcgoy Stigal wit be Manitoba next Federal literal sources would become the provinces 20th lieutenant governor and the first woman to hold the Federal sources said Cabinet approved the appointment with the documents to he signed today when the announcement would be to want known when the appointment would take Mcgonigal is in with a number of other City officials attending a meeting of the american Public works she could not be reached for comment last night or Early this the term of Manitoba present it Bud expires at the end of this he has estimated it would take at month Between the announcement of an appointment and the actual swearing in of his meaning a swearing about mid octo Mcgon gats Gen Era manager of to teen and their 26yearold daughter confirm the appointment last i just dont Mcgonigal there has been talk for several id rather not Kim said she knew absolutely Noth ing about it sure Ive heard but rumours Are who works with a retail company in said she had Only heard radio reports last night of her mothers pending mayor Bill Norrie said yesterday he haunt heard anything about the re Mored but if the rumours turn out to be Council would 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 seat could be delayed until further seats need to be Jobin said yesterday he haunt been notified of the appointment of his Suc he if Mcgonigal is named Jit would be a Damn Good who last March asked for and received a six month Extension to his term to avoid being kicked out of government House in the Middle of has been trying to find out just when his replacement will be he 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 Premier Sterling Lyons press officer Jim Armit said last night it int possible for the Premier to respond to any appointment until it is made pub a councillor for since 10 years later became Winnipeg first woman Deputy mayor and executive policy committee born in Mcgonigal was Active in the Liberal organization in Moose jaw and Calgary before she and her husband moved to Winnipeg in Mcgonigal Good sunny today 22 Clear tonight 6 september free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final25t Home delivery 9674 Clave led w62330 Reagan meeting grand up prime minister Trudeau and president Reagan headed today to a critical meeting in a dispute about nationalist Canadian economic policies and threats of american but there were fresh signs on the eve of the encounter in this Northern Michi Gan City that there Are no painless a top administration official described the differences As some would say two Canadian Cabinet ministers said the Trudeau government will not Back away from Canadia ownership goals in its Energy policy despite Busi Ness and political tense if we let ourselves be pushed around we will Only have ourselves to said Energy minister Marc Lalonde after an Ottawa Cabinet finance minister Allan Maceachen said following a Washington meeting with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan the Canadian goal is to con Tain the dispute so any damage to commercial relations is Canadian officials say privately that Canada can Roll with the limited retaliation promoted in at the same Trudeau and his minis ters Are warning american counter parts that any tougher commercial sanctions would damage the United states As much or More than Trudeau cautioned Reagan at earlier discussion of the dispute in the White House on july 10 that the United states risks More financial loss than Canada from punitive retaliation because there is More at stake for business in its Canadian investments and Trade than vice the canadians any severe american measures might strengthen the nationalist mood in can Ada and Foster the same Points have been made in a see Canadian Page 4 a photo Clearing the Road California sheriffs deputies grapple with demonstrators yesterday during the second Day of confrontations at the front Gate of the Diablo Canyon nuclear Power about 713 persons were arrested in the largely symbolic protest against nuclear Curling group fights tax ruling assessment could spell troubles for other sports bodies across country 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 on 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 spokesperson 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 spokesperson the Mas initial Appeal by Winni Peg laywer Doug Finkbeiner to the department of National Revenue in Ottawa was the next Finkbeiner was to take the Case to the tax Appeal treaty opens Way to hefty mail rate 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 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 increase not decided Harding stressed that while rates for mail to the Likely will no decision on the size of the increase has been announced by the question of rates is something that can Only be decided by our Cabinet and any figure that is Given is Specula Deputy postmaster general Jim Cor Kery signed the treaty on behalf of it also brings changes in other Money orders sent to Canada from the will be in Canadian funds rather than american currency As was the Case with a previous Accord that ended with the new because substantially More mail is sent from the to with the postage going to than from Canada to the Washington has under past agreements paid Canada a yearly reimbursement for the Cost of handling that mail in this she said similar bilateral agree ments exist Between other All members of the Universal postal an organization of about 150 countries that Levels of service and agreements for co operation Between postal the estimates that 30 per cent of mail leaving that country goes to Cana Canadian officials calculate that 60 per cent of mail coming into the coun try originates in the Harding said Canadian officials have generally adopted a ratio of 10 to one when comparing size and statistics controllers win skirmish with Pepin 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 inaction when they refused to Clear rights 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 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 Pepin said punishment could vary one loss of the usual 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 that controllers were genuinely concerned see Ottawa Page 4 of the two countries postal it costs 23 cents to Send 100gram package by surface from a Point within Canada to another Centre within the country or to the for the same package by the Cost is 38 cents to destinations in either for the same package sent from Canada to countries other than the the Cost is 39 cents by surface 66 cents by asked Why Corkery or the Post office did not announce the treaty when it was Harding said officials wanted to make the announcement and had promised it would reach Canad an news Media through news outlets or agencies in Cabinet measures dire Straits 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 Grove said some homeowners must renew mortgages before the end of the year and another must renew them in the next 12 Cosgrove but not Alloi 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 few the House does not resume until but finance minister Allan Mac Eachen has said he might announce a mortgage Relief plan in Grove said yesterday the plan will Down either with the budget or Cosgrove yesterday refused to Back track on earlier statements that the government has a plan coming is Fri despite unenthusiastic confirm Atiim from Maceachen the finance minister confined himself to saying Only that the government up to a carefully worded Promise in the april speech from the that Promise provided far possible Aid to those worst hit by High interest rates but includes number of escape clauses including one that suggests no subsidies Are necessary to aft see pledge Page 4 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 23 54 6 Mclroy on to ;