Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tory Leader Joe Clark has been told Only the weak fear a pea to Cash Itile by Patuck Mckinley besides hotel the City May go after drinkers and diners out Neft year As it seeks new Revenue sources to cover a projected budgetary shortfall of civic finance committee voted yesterday to ask the province for a Cut of liquor and food taxes if the provincial government refuses to implement a on percent increase in the general sales tax and hand the Money Over to the City Council voted earlier to seek a five percent talc on hotel a commode despite objections from the hotel under proposals approved by the committee the City would ask the province to impose a five per cent City tax on Beer sales at licensed vendors and Manitoba liquor control commission the City would also seek a 10per cent City tax on liquor and wine sales at licensed premises and liquor stores and a five percent tax on restaurant meals costing More than Abe Yatrofsky said that with the hotel the various taxes would raise about the million needed to covet the expected shortfall in the cites 1983 but Yanofsky Independent citizens election added the cites preference should still be sales tax which would raise an estimated million for the the various tax proposals except for the tax must go to City Council for if All of including the hotel would need approval from the Eric Stefanson who voted against the proposals at yesterdays committee meet said he would have to see More information on the particular increases before deciding whether to support he added the City is adopting a Titan miss attitude towards new Revenue adopting various policies without an Overall sunny today Clear tonight 23 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 086 november vol no no 300 sunrises sets Moon rises sets a photo f t so y x Hurricane hammers Hawaii Honolulu police Survey damage after Hurricane Iwa struck 109 two Kauai and were ordered Hawaii yesterday with winds gusting As High As 176 evacuated and thousands took Trudeau avoids disarmament Issue Broadben pleads for pm to reaffirm support for nuclear de escalation by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa prime minister Trudeau yesterday avoided condemning president Ronald Reagan for a speech which some opposition maps condemned As and he avoided a plea by nip Leader de Broadbent that Ottawa reaffirm in the commons Canadas support for nuclear Trudeau said he had made various speeches on the but that he missile first in my plan had told the american and soviet leaders on recent visits that Canada supports the twin track policy of the North Atlantic treaty that policy seeks negotiated nuclear but it also favors a Strong Western deterrent Trudeau in the last year has taken a stronger line against the Point ing out Moscow military might has grown since he proposed a plan of suffocation of new nuclear Reagan monday made Public a billion missile plan which would allow Roberts resignation demanded Over Banff apartment approval Ottawa up a progressive conservative my demanded Environ ment minister John Roberts Resigna Tion yesterday Over alleged patronage in a land Deal involving former Liberal Cabinet minister Judd Roberts denied in the commons that there was any impropriety in the Deci Sion to allow meter developments of which Buchanan is a to build a 76unit apartment project in a Park in the Rocky Mountain resort but Alberta tory Gordon Taylor accused him of telling Only half the Story and said prime minister Trudeau should ask for his the controversy took another twist As Parks Canada official Leon Racine saying the Deal who signed a building permit on 16 giving meteor the final said in a Telephone interview from Banff he has no proof of Patron but1 he said approval for the apart ment which he was shoved through in three weeks instead of the usual three and contrary to usual Robert Lightfoot of Parks Canadas Calgary office telephoned him on 15 and told him to Issue the he Lightfoot has denied doing so and says he Doest even have the right to recommend issuance of building per Racine also said an environmental updating a 1981 was not completed until three Days after the permit was As the development officer said when he the Deal smells to High whose Bow River Riding encompasses told the the ministers words do not make it smell any responsible for Canadas see Touy Page 4 Roberts patronage alleged the to withstand a soviet first strike and still hit he also suggested various methods of easing tension Between the two Power including an improved hotline Between Washington and Mutual Advance notice of major military exercises and Broad exchanges of Basic data about nuclear reagans plan is for a dense pack of Multi warhead my missile silos in Wyoming which would be capable of surviving a nuclear first his program could run into trouble in but the Federal government Here has been under increasing pressure from the new democrats and the antinuclear cruise missile testing among other members Are angry Over the Federal decision to allow testing of unarmed cruise mis in where the landscape and climate resembles parts of the soviet Broadbent said Many legislators agree with his party that there is already rough nuclear parity and any one who wants to show leadership in the world should be trying to Delesca late not the arms Trudeau said he had not heard Rea Gans but he took fire Frem the tories for allowing a High level Federal delegation to begin talks with Moscow Over scientific and Trade such talks were Cut off after the soviet invasion of tory external affairs critic John Crosbie it should be a condition of the talks that the soviets Honor the Helsinki Accord on human permit dissidents to leave the country and withdraw from ads Shelve strike action temporarily by Manfred Jager the Manitoba medical association has suspended strike action and is to meet monday with health minister Larry the decision to temporarily Shelve plans for thrice weekly office closings came yesterday after the Mma was invited to the monday meeting with an Mma official he denied the cancellation was prompted by reports that doctors sup port for strike action had the Mma decision was announced in a Han delivered letter to the minis ters office just before noon yester the Mma had called on its members to close offices three Days this week to support demands for bind ing arbitration in fee disputes with the members of the medical association were being informed of the new turn of events via the Mas Telephone fan out system yesterday a meeting of Mma officials with members of the departments of surgery and anaesthesia of the health sciences set for last eve could not be cancelled and went ahead As aggressive program the association confirmed the meet ing late last saying it was in tended to be part of an aggressive program of encounters to persuade doctors to support their the health sciences Centre had so far been the Only major health institution in the province to conduct elective surgery without other facilities had limited themselves to urgent cancer operations and unavoidable cancer the intermittent physicians strike started throughout Manitoba 10 and 12 and continued 16 and strike participation began falling to an estimated 60 per cent of the Mma membership last week from an original participation of 75 per cent during the first two this news Media surveys indicated Only about half the doctors participated in the reports from doctors offices and responses to continued free press monitoring monday indicated than half the doctors practising in some of the largest clinics in Winni Peg went to work during the first of three strike Days this while about 70 per cent of the doctors in the medical arts building were reported to have opened their with thursday and Friday Origi Nally declared strike Days and a re port confirmed by the medical association late last week next tuesday and wednesday had been tentatively designated As strike the schedule would have meant Manitoban would have been with see ads Page 4 justices to weigh tax Case by Chris Smith a City of Winnipeg refusal to hear 1980 property tax appeals will be challenged before the supreme court of the High court has approved a motion by a group of Portage Avenue property owners to hear the Law yer Michael Mercury a panel of supreme court justices heard the motion 15 and reserved Mercury said he was notified yesterday that the court would hear the but no Date has been set the tax dispute Between the City and property owners started More than four years ago and resulted in Provin Cial legislation to validate and freeze out Date tax assessments in Winni Peg and throughout the the province acted after two property owners asked the courts in to declare void All tax assess ments in downtown Winnipeg because they had not been reassessed in the previous three years As required by the City of Winnipeg the province headed off the Chal Lenge by validating existing assess ments and set up a tax review commit tee headed by former Premier Walter provincial legislation then froze assessments at the 1980 level for 1981 and the property backed by the see assessment Page 4 coup attempt in Ghana crushed by Loyal troops London a troops Loyal to the military government have crushed an attempted coup in the West african country of the bbl reported Ghanas Leader flight Jerry who seized Power for a second time announced the attempted coup in a radio broadcast this morning from the ghanaian Capi the bbl the bbl quoted Rawlings As saying yesterdays revolt was led by mis guided who were still on the he ordered them to surrender at the nearest police Rawlings imposed a curfew and closed Ghanas Borders until further the bbl it gave no further a country of about 11 million is located just North of the Equator on Africa Western it has a primarily agricultural Economy and was once the worlds leading Cocoa in recent Ghana has suffered serious balance of payments problems because of decline see economic Page 4 land curbs municipal delegates have denounced proposed curbs on Huft Erite land ownership As but today vote on the Issue May be red tape after 10 years on the Ben Fisette has lost his Drivers licence and livelihood because of an epileptic inflation the Cost of proposed Deal with by is now pegged at million and its being hailed As a banana for native Tongue for Many Manitoba their Mother Tongue is not their native but a growing number Are finding a new Road to Index Ann 63 46 53 deaths 46 6 28 7 Jumble 50 28 31 sports 62 64 21 to 37 ;