Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba R free May is Good glasses chipped Well make them smooth rimmed and usable again 5 Days Only May 21st25th take advantage of this special Opportunity and a special Nique and have chipped glasses usable due to the inherent risk in repair ing we cannot be responsible for and please allow 812 weeks for Friiss our Crystal buyer will be at our following stores on the specified dates Imes to advise you on May 21 Urt fatty a Futon Square 930430 May 22 off Dorfi place 930530 May 23 main store Portage a Smith 930530 May 24 is vital Centre 930530 May 25 Polo Park Centre 930530 l Henry Birks sons Call for tax Reform by Brian Cole Western Ca Tadas Tom Nett called for National Reform yesterday to simplify the taxation close loopholes and ease the Burden Oft average the meeting in issued a communique alter the first Day of their conference calling on Ottawa to begin the process of re they agreed to ask their finance ministers to draw up proposals for Reform to be presented at the next first ministers conference in no Premier Howard who is attending the conference in Grande said he was delighted with the he said the Calls main thrust for Reform was to ensure the tax system is he said changes Likely would not include implementation of a Flat tax which he said May not be As progressive As required to maintain an equitable tax Pawley said in an interview he considered the communique a vie workers switched to via Montreal up via rail Canadian National rail ways and shop Craft unions signed an agreement yesterday covering Transfer to via from car of about repair and maintenance pm Jacques via rail Vic Epresi said the agreement takes effect june 2 and involves some 600 employees in Montreal and up to 500 in the transfers Are expected to be completed by the end of via rail has said it Hopes eventually to save million annually by having its own maintenance Force and Transfer of shop Craft workers at other locations across Canada will be negotiated Over the next few Noel with completion expected next under new maintenance of the arc comfortable Fleet of 50 cars and 10 locomotives will be done at a new via rail Centre in due to open at the end of other centres Are planned for Vancouver and Toty lot the position his government took in he said that when he raised the Issue at the last first ministers conference he didst get a response from prime minister Mulroney or the other so in delighted that we As West Ern premiers have released this communique he it Means eliminating those loopholes that make no economic or social he cited the science research tax saying it siphoned off million from Manitoba with no Tan Gible benefits because the research was done outside the As he said the premiers want an end to financing of takeovers that dont preserve or create new companies Are permitted to deduct the interest from Loans used to finance Pawley said when Ottawa does introduce tax it should clearly provide some tangible Bene such As Job the communique said tax re form also should assist in reducing Pawley said the premiers were concerned the current system was not serving Clear they noted the growing Public perception that the tax system was unfair and unnecessarily he said this was partly the result of Federal and hoc tax some of which have questionable economic Pawley said the system has to be simplified so taxpayers could pre pare their returns without requiring lawyers and they lawyers make a tremendous chunk of Pawley if we could get a much simpler tax system we could retire some Law yers and accountants across the which would i the general Public on possible options for Pawley said he was prepared to look at the Flat tax proposed in the Saskatchewan he said Premier Grant Devine want completely Happy with implementation of the Flat on percent tax on incomes Over because it still permits Federal Pawley said he has a number of reservations about the system be cause it int necessarily Progress he said a Flat tax could still permit those earning Over a year to pay much less proportionately than a mid income Sutton Hast decided when hell come Victoria pole Sitter tops world record Victoria up Mark Sutton set a world record for pole sitting yesterday and tried to qualify for another in the Art of understatement when he said its been a Long at precisely Laid claim to the new record and entry into the guinness Book of world records of 441 Days of sitting atop his a contraption consisting of a Blue House perched on top of a 15metre Telephone a Florida Man held the previous record of 440 apparently life at the top is so Sutton int coming Down just i Haven set a Day when ill return to said the native of who moved to Canada in but it will definitely be before the end of the sometimes i think in going his Maureen predicts an earlier de he Doest want to come Down until after journey for lives runner Steve Fonyo is she Fonyo is scheduled to dip his artificial leg into the Pacific Ocean and end his Cros Canada run May to put their achievements in Sutton was finishing his first month atop the pole when Fonyo began his run in at the end of March Milgram and Sutton expressed disappointment at the Small amount of Money donated so far to the Canadian paraplegic association the other important reason for his pole about has been collected with an additional pledged for the association and buttons desire to have it used for spinal Cord he initially was pole sitting to raise Money for the Canadian National Institute for the but grew disenchanted with their perceived Lack of support Yukon grit revels in role r sliced or shaved corned beef upe Valu the real Canadian prices effective till closing May Whitehorse up Yuk it Liberal Leader Roger Coles wet revelling in the role of Kingmaker yesterday after his party won two Mats i the territorial election mod Day to grab the balance of Power and put a cautious Edge m a stunning new democratic party Hie capitalizing on Stagna Tion of the conservative ments support in Rural prised the pundits by catching eight of the 16 seats to oust the tories who lost three of their nine but nip elation at its first Vic the conservatives had been in Power since part style govern ment was adopted in the Yukon in 1978 was tempered with the nation that party Leader Tony Peni a former script will have to Cut deals with the Liber als to stay in who spent the morning in meetings with party said he would have to proceed carefully and planned to meet soon with weve got to make the legislature work and we have to have a government out of this one Way or a lounge manager and the Only elected Liberal Leader West of was ecstatic at the Liber als they had run Only eight candidates after being shut out in he said the minority government will put us squarely in the he also served notice he would be a Tough a coalition is out of the ques said dismissing suggestions he or fellow Liberal Jim Mclachlan might become they nip Are going to have to Bend a Coles National nip should be Able to make enough accommodations to maintain the Only nip government in Canada outside both parties strongly Back native land support the Extension of benefits to Par time government employees and see a policy of local materials and hiring As a Way to help alleviate the Yukon 20per cent with Yuko ners turn out was 78 per nearly identical to tories took 47 per cent of the up one per cent from the last election the nip climbed six Points to 41 per cent and the liberals dropped to eight per cent from 15 per independents got four per tory Leader Willard Phelps had called the election just three weeks after winning the fisheries refuses to probe allegations of patrol corruption up although the Federal department of fisheries is investigating allegations of bribery in its observer it wont investigate fisheries patrol says the director of regulations and Gerry Swanson said yesterday the depart ment determined in 1982 that allegations of smuggling and bootlegging raised by former deckhand Clarence Bemister Are in Bemister first made the allegations in a letter to the fisheries minister Romeo Leblanc several months before he was fired from his fisheries for allegedly attacking his Bemister renewed the claims publicly last week after a former fisheries observer admitted Tak ing bribes for allowing quota violations by foreign since Bemister spoke three other former employees went to the ramp to support his claims of illegalities aboard patrol when asked if the claims we rent three others have come Forward making the same Swanson answered i dont i dont the decision came from the fisheries depart ment one Day after another former employee went to the ramp to support allegations of corruption aboard patrol the Man said that As Lor the Overall illegality of fisheries employees youve got it two ways about he said he was Able to Tell ramp How they could verify reports of drunkenness aboard patrol vessels and that fisheries officers brought bonded liquor from foreign said Swanson depositions were taken from seven different people and on the basis of those management was satisfied that there was nothing of substance to be misters correction notice May 15th outdoor living insert illustrations for items e and f should have been due to shipping delays the following items Are not rain checks will be Rawlings steer hide baseball love each Cooper Black baseball stove Hollywood tripod generic Wood stains spark 0 Matte stereo g manufacturing problems the following items no be 4 corrugated Flat Roll up a purpose one litre each item a reel 1760 Flat Slat Roll up blinds Rose Bush pack we regret any inconvenience to our cwt Omert department ;