Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 3 a deductible mortgage interest payments by Chris Smith a National builders association wants the Federal government to give Home owners a tax deduction for mortgage interest the Federal government should allow homeowners to deduct mortgage inter est payments in a manner much like the Way in which they Are now allowed to deduct contributions to a registered retirement savings said housing and Urban development association of Canada Hudac president Klaus free Fless other options recommended in an association Brief to the Federal Cabinet Call for tax deductible Home Down payments and changes to allow a per son to withdraw funds from an resp for a Down payment without a tax other proposed aids to current and potential homeowners would be tax deferral schemes As the rasps Are now in which tax would be collected when the House is Springer said in an interview he described a House As the single largest retirement asset a person and because of current High mortgage rates most people Are unable to take advantage of schemes such As Hudac also asked the government to reconsider subsidising mortgage rates to drop them from their current 20percent Range to 15 or 16 per Springer claims the proposals will add Only minimal costs because they will increase which will increase Federal tax Revenue and lower unemployment Levels and insurance Gordon Bell High school students clockwise Alexander Roger Joey Creighton and Bob and Marion Franczyk polish up their music As they polished off shoes for City students take a Shine to cystic fibrosis Charity drive by Sheila bean nearly High school students polished shoes yesterday to raise Money for cystic fibrosis the National Shoeshine Blitz organized by the Canadian fibrosis had raised last night with five schools to Jolene president of said the number of children participating increased by almost Over last each school divides its students into teams of the teams Are sent to a specified area of the where they Shine shoes in return for a Janice a Grade 11 student at Gordon Bell High said her team polished shoes from 9 to 5 but she didst find the time its she its a worthy teammate Debbie harder said Al though this1 is her fifth year with Shiner still appreciates the instruction Given before the we had a Pep rally on said a lady who has a child with cystic fibrosis told us How to approach George Vic principal of Pauls High said his students taking part in Shine Rama must com plete assignments for monday the same As those who attended participation Cut because Shine Rama takes so much school Dawson said Pauls its we used to Send All the buys this year for the first we just sent out our Grade West Kildonan collegiate Vic Princi pal Guy Decaire said the absence of 86 students from his school presented teaching it he if youre teach ing something you have to go Back Over it the next but he said he is proud of the children in the he said he knows which students Are where they and what there volunteers in cars drive the routes to see that the students Are All right and Haven run out of sup they also collect the Money cans so the kids cant get he Money raised is used for research on cystic a potentially hereditary disease of the of victim has thick mucus in the lungs which makes breathing difficult and harbours lung damage is the main cause of about one in every Canadian children has he said the increased Federal spend ing envisioned in the associations pro Posa swill not contribute to inflation and added that Home ownership is still one of the Basic the association also called for higher allowable contributions to registered Home ownership savings plans and an end to rent a move it claims will Spur rental housing the association Brief was presented to the Cabinet earlier this month for consideration in preparing the Forth coming but Springer told re porters i dont know if we can expect much from the because the government has enough Money prok the housing Industry has had to lower its projection for housing starts across the country this year to a drop of from its prediction in and about lower than the estimated need for the coun Springer said about housing units were needed this year based on population increases and the number of people reaching Home buying there could be a shortfall of As Many As units by he Manitoba saw a 72percent increase in housing starts this said Guy president of the Manitoba Home builders but the provinces housing Market was in a slump the previous year and High inter est rates have already slowed Down construction this Bunn facing life term for murdering women by Steve Pona Dennis Clifford Bunn faces a Manda tory life prison sentence after his conviction on second degree murder charges yesterday in the stabbing and strangulation deaths of two women in a Pritchard Avenue an Assize court jury deliberated a Little More than three hours before returning the guilty verdicts at last Justice Ben Hewak of Mani Toba court of Queens Bench will impose sentence on second degree murder is punishable by a mandatory sentence of life Imp is will not become eligible for parole until he serves be tween 10 and 25 he was convicted of stabbing Ida in the neck and and strangling Phyllis their bodies were found 13 in a three room Bungalow at 625 Prit Chard no emotion his chiselled features exaggerated by the reflected lights of the vaulted stiffened when the verdicts were pronounced by the jury court was told Bunn admitted the slayings to police during an inter View on an unrelated matter in two months after the murder charges were dismissed at a preliminary hear provincial court judge Charles who presided Over the ruled there was not enough evidence to commit the accused to stand in attorney Gener Al Gerry Mercier granted the Crown a direct and the charges were put before a Constable Michael Hatcher testified Bunn admitted the slayings after he was asked about a statement from his Lorna who quoted him As saying he killed two women and she would be the third if she didst shut Hatcher said the accused told i didst Tell her id kill her i probably said i killed two they Bug me about it i Tell everybody i she keeps asking me if i did everyone asks me and i Tell them no because they Bug me about asked if he killed the Bunn was said to have replied sure i but that Crown counsel Brian Kaplan told the jury in his closing submission that bunns motive for the double murder is a none of us will Ever know now Why he did what he Kaplan called the murders Sav Bunn left his calling card Wallet under a bedroom Dresser and a Trail of nine bloody footprints across the Kitchen he court was told that police also found blood that could have come from kit cheese on bunns shirt and Blue one police officer testified the jeans appeared to have been washed in defence counsel Sheldon Pinx argued the crowns Case was not and too Many crucial questions were left he said the prosecution was asking the jury to rely on guess work and Bunn was remanded in pending poverty could lawyer says growing economic pressures May cause some to workshop told by Manfred Jager some canadians living below the poverty level could starve to death unless economic pressures on the unemployed and poor Are Winni Peg lawyer Arnie Peltz said yester the Standard six week waiting period for unemployment a penalty imposed for a variety of common is soon to be raised to 12 said added to the mandatory two week waiting period and the usual delay in issuing this Means that Many people will be without any income for up to four months after losing a in an interview after speaking at a workshop on native rights in the Peltz said conditions have become desperate for countless canadians without jobs or on while calling for a revival of welfare rights activism in Peltz said if Peoples rights to that very Las ditch support Are further infringed you might see people actually dying because they Are a leg Alaid lawyer and lecturer in poverty Law at the University of Manitoba Law told about 125 social Agency representatives that As the suffering of the nations most underprivileged so will the frequency of Calls for a revival of Wel fare rights jobless Hurt first every time the Federal government Cuis Down on expenditures on social they always seem to Hurt the unemployed Peltz As a More people without jobs Are forced onto the welfare level and Quality of benefits in various programs have decreased alarmingly during the past few Peltz said there Are already some new organizations making themselves he cited the example of people on a group formed in Winni Peg this the lawyer said there is a need for such activism More than be cause in the absence of the poor wont be Able to the situation is already desperate on some of the Indian Peltz but were talking about native rights in the City Here and the City is always seen As giving people that very Basic floor to survive which is cutbacks in social services in Canada and other Western countries relate to general economic Peltz its a crisis in a system which is unequal and oppressive to people with out in a system like when you have a it gets worse for the people on the the unemployed or welfare recipients often dont have the skills to get organized in the Way Middle class homeowners the lawyer in a they dont have the capacity to fight Peltz said nothing has changed in the 10 years since the report of the special Senate committee on poverty in Canada under senator David the lawyer quoted the committee As saying the Canadian welfare system fails in the most vicious and unintelligent ways for the welfare system seems to be built to create and sustain and not to eliminate the machine produces penalizes and treats the poor As stupid and somewhat malicious Chil the report its a Good thing the Senate commit tee said not Peltz 1 the lawyer added that when the report was committee chair Man Croll was accused by research staff employed for the study As trying to cover up the True dimensions and causes of poverty in rights badly eroded More people in Canada Are becom ing Peltz told the distribution of wealth and income is getting More unusual and the effect of inflation is to lower the real purchasing Power of anyone subsisting on a fixed social and economic rights of canadians Are being badly he group discussions during the Day Long workshop also dealt with the rights of the rights of those accused of crimes and tenants pharmacists plot strategy to Cut thefts of drugs by Brian Cole a dramatic increase in the number of drug store breaking has prompted Manitoba pharmacists to develop a new strategy to Ward off would be Stew president of the Manitoba pharmaceutical says members Are considering hiding their narcotics throughout the store in an attempt to frustrate and confuse drug hungry the dispersion method is being considered because it is feared keeping the drugs locked in a Safe would encourage drug seekers to become armed Rob Wilcox said in an interview yes fifty two thefts of drugs from pharmacists have been reported so far this compared with a total of 26 for All of we Are we Are very Wilcox said the increase in drug store breaking and robberies is due to a police crackdown on the illegal drug Trade throughout the ramp Pete Murphy said police have been very successful in arresting several major heroin Traffick ers in recent As Murphy noted there have been massive failures in asias poppy from which hero in is political instability in some of the other heroin exporting countries has also helped reduce the availability of the when you cant be with the one you you love the one youre he explaining that pharmaceuticals Are a Good in an attempt to Clamp Down on drugstore British Columbia pharmacists began installing narcotic safes a few months the strategy frustrated drug seekers began Rob Bing the stores and holdups have tripled during the last few because they have made it so be people Are turning to armed Rob we Are a Little wary of Wilcox deter armed robbers by hiding drugs throughout the Wilcox pharmacists will make it More difficult for thieves to find what they Are looking for and police will have More time to respond to a the ploy would also deter armed Rob Bers who must also move fast to avoid a confrontation with National figures show thefts of Nar Cotic drugs from pharmacies increased to 956 in the last year for which figures Are from 105 in the Federal health departments Bureau of dangerous drugs has started to keep More detailed statistics because of the in there was a National total of 894 burglaries in which narcotics or controlled drugs were As Well As 74 armed robberies and 107 other losses attributed to pilfer Wilcox says the Manitoba association is also warning pharmacists to be on the Lookout for forged Gerry free press survival kit like the peanuts character this Young fellow seems Happy in the knowledge that he is protected by his Security 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