Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january 1985 strings on funds for capital work called wasteful continued from Page 1 the City had hoped for about a three per cent he Ernst said the City had instructed the Board to prepare spending plans which would require tax increases ranging from Zero to four per last the government allowed a increase in but angered City councillors by attach ing some control Over Dolins announcement yesterday again attached conditions to the million designated for capital projects and linked the Money to the controversial Kardash opposes pay raise continued from Page 1 Tion to Kardash called it undemocratic and she said she will not give up trying to Block the raises and will introduce a motion that they not be accepted in the final but Board chairman Mario Santos said he thought the Issue should be this Issue has been debated Santos the Board has other business to Deal Zuken said in his Brief the timing of the proposed increases is Aero the bylaw be consid ered in a but in the context of government Zuken he noted education minister Maureen Hemphill had recently announced that school boards will Only receive a two percent funding increase from the Public officials should not be awarding themselves salary in he and he called for the matter to be put before an inde pendent review he said the review committee could be composed of Busi Ness people and members of the he Santos had to Call a recess during the meeting and Tell people to leave the building when he was informed that police had received a bomb threat the government and the City Are at Odds Over the development with the government wanting to curb Urban sprawl by restricting the Urban limit line a line beyond which sewer and water services will not be Dolin said in a statement the million an increase from million last year will be allocated under terms of a five year Urban capital projects agreement which the government wants to negotiate with the the funding does not include provincial funds committed to Core area or North Portage develop the province wishes to allocate its capital funds to new projects which support the policy objectives of plan Dolin Ernst said he read the move As a further attempt by the province to control what happens in Winni he said he intends to Tell them to keep their hands off during Public hearings by the City of Winnipeg act review it is terribly wasteful of the tax payers Money to have government bureaucrats second guessing our bureaucrats and their politicians Sec Ond guessing under the package of the Urban transit operating Grant will increase by three per cent to under a government arrangement with the City to pick up half the transit systems unconditional operating Grants for current programs will remain Frozen at other Grants included in the pack age Are million under the provincial municipal tax sharing agreement and million in a local government general support both the same As last As the government is again proposing to share the costs of two Community plans which it wants developed before it is pre pared to consider altering the controversial Urban limit line for plan Dolins statement blamed the pos sible reduction in Federal Transfer payments for its restrictions on acting Urban affairs minister Eugene Kostyra held out Little Hope for unless there is a significant change in the revenues to the prov there is really not much room for he ant cruise protesters held a rally yesterday in encore Park As the controversial missile was being test officials pleased with result protest turnout Low As b52 carries controversial missile on run continued from Page 1 finished the Complete said Dave Macnamee of the strategic air they test officials were very Happy with what happened and they Are pressing on to get ready for the live launches later on this win during the live two b52s will each launch an unarmed missile Down the test Corri Dor stretching from the Beaufort through the Mackenzie across Northeast British Columbia and Northern Alberta to the Prim Rose Lake air weapons Dick a Canadian forces said yesterdays test had almost been cancelled due to poor weather fog and icy runways kept the advanced instrumented aircraft carrying and Canadian test Moni tors on the ground in for two hours yesterday poor Low Cloud ceilings and Snow squalls affected some portions of the bombers route across protesters from Cal Gary and parts of Saskatchewan were eyed by military police armed with but there was no confrontation Between the two Larry officer in charge of base said the protesters caused no Al though their request to address the base commander was they were a peaceful Bunch that didst create any disturbance at he they were just registering a protest and that was protest organizer Keith Berdger of the Lakeland coalition for nuclear said he was a Little disappointed we didst get a bigger a Cruis Catcher planned by the Vancouver based Greenpeace didst quite get off the nine helium filled balloons were not enough to keep about 200 metres of fishnet in the air during a test 250 Kilometres North of Dene Indian chiefs meeting in the Mackenzie Valley Community of fort under the bombers flight reaffirmed their opposition to the As the bomber neared cold six sensitive and powerful cameras called photo theodolites tracked its the cameras helped determine just How accurate the guidance sys tem of the United states agm86b air launched missile can Adam said the films of the bomb ers along with electronic data gathered by the cold Lake test control will be sent to the United states for the Canadian government has signed a five year cruise testing agreement with the United states As part of its nato the cruise is a air breathing Jet designed to Fly Low and slow to Distant it can reach speeds of Kilometres an hour and has a Range of up to because it is it can be easily hidden and transport the which can carry nuclear or conventional can be launched by sea or the United states is testing the weapon Over the Canadian North because weather and ground conditions match that of the soviet ant cruise demonstrator upset by groups Banner Stor wide savings on Winnipeg largest selection of waterbeds and water bedroom furniture All All every every on Sale example the Sunrise Reg 299 we service All waterbed product regardless of where it was Mastercard and Cash gratefully or use a convenient floating ecstasy st Street across Arpin the Arena 7743557 an organizer of a demonstration against renewed cruise missile test ing yesterday criticized another peace group for Cole spokesman for the Winnipeg coordinating committee for said a Banner displayed by the Manitoba commit tee of the Peoples front gave passersby the impression that it was responsible for the while front members we rent asked to their presence at the encore Park gathering gives the impression there Are a Bunch of radicals Summers the hastily organized disarmament committee rally Drew about 100 participants and organizer mar tin Zeilig said the Las minute turn out showed defence minister Robert Coates is wrong to say the peace movement is Zeilig said the charge that cruise testing is a dead Issue is also false because if it is a dead Why Are they testing it Summers said he had no objection to participation in the rally by the communist party of a disarmament committee because it didst display a he said he Felt front members were Only there to promote their own but that want True of the communists or new democratic party la Don who spoke and brought greetings from Premier Howard failed to mention the fronts presence when he publicly thanked several groups for showing he said later that he didst know the groups Doug a front spokes Man and marxist Leninist candidate in the 1980 Federal said he found it ironic that Summers would object to a group which opposes the arms lenders cite Low farm Price As major financial problem continued from Page 1 to eight per cent would have some disastrous effects on any financial you would have to doubt whether financial institutions could afford if lenders provided Money at sin Gle digit they be covering their own costs of borrow Wallace and would be subsidizing Mcrorie said the real problem in farm financing is not interest but a combination of factors including Low commodity prices and rising the Bank official added that reducing rates on existing Loans wont help Many financially pressed farm ers because what they need is More which May not be available to a much More responsible approach is to target on farms that Are having he use a Rifle instead of a he said a better proposal would be to have panels that could examine a Farmers financial and in cases where the operation would still be to provide it with the necessary Jack president of the Keystone agricultural said Ruskis proposals were a step in the right but he wanted More consultation with in wondering whether the Fig ures Are realistic he in wondering How the private sector would if these Are Short term then i think they would be detriment conservative agriculture critic Jim Downey roundly condemned Ruskis calling it political grandstanding and an admission that past government policy had if he was really sincere he would have made the announcement that Macc was going to lower its rate to eight per Downey Arthur but Uruski said offering cheap Money at the provincial lending Agency would not be a and Only would create a massive run on the credit offered by Downey said Ruskis proposals were poorly put together and were an attempt to put Manitoba in league with the tory government in Saskatchewan which has introduced debt moratorium my Billing practices for elderly citizens Surprise officials continued from Page 1 Means one or two people Are pulling Down the whole fewer said he was also surprised that senior citizens were being charged an average of 22 per cent More than Misc especially since Many Are on fixed but Gordon said opted out doctors make contracts with patients on their ability to if people Are unable to pay by reason of old poverty or distressed its my experience that the members of our groups Are ready to take that into consideration and lower their our association would never con done a situation where this privilege is being if there Are any Rotten apples in the we think they should be dealt with but we dont think removing Freedom from everybody is the Way he said if especially Spe Are extra Billing this would almost certainly suggest that the fees paid out to the opted in doctors Are much too Gordon said there has been no major outcry from patients about the fees charged them by doctors who Are opted but James registrar of the Manitoba College of physic ians and said he has received several complaints from patients who claim they didst know their doctors would charge them he said he has also received com plaints about one physician who charges patients about 80 per cent More than the recommended he refused to name the the province began gathering statistics on Manitoba doctors who extra Bill patients last summer after the Canada health act took since last Manitoba doctors Are obligated to report to Misc How much they charge patients Over and above the recommended the amount of extra Billing that goes on in Manitoba is then deducted from the monthly Transfer payments from Ottawa to the Desjardins said extra Billing is not a major problem in Manitoba com pared to other but he intends to introduce legislation this year that will ban the ;