Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Biarne m t Council calling it quits to x by Catherine Bainbridge the entire municipal Council in the Small farming and tourist town of Killarney is calling it the mayor and four councillors have declined to run for reelection this each for their own the councillors and mayor of this Small Haven for retired people and motor Home dwellers gave a collective thumbs Down when asked to run again in Killarney municipal elections of col f news said that in a town of where everyone knows every mixing business with politics is not Good when people dont like what youve they come right into my hardware store and Tell he Toews said his three years on Council were but his store loses customers every time he makes a contentious Roy who is finishing his first and last term on said having a son who runs the family construction business is a he said townspeople have whispered about nepotism every time his son received building contracts from the my biggest reason for not getting involved is conflict of Deputy mayor Eileen who followed her father into town politics and has been on Council for nine said she is Over 60 and feels it is time for a younger lady to Bates said who has am served two years As mayor and 21 years As gave the most definite no Way of me loves Hunting and trap she i think he feels its time to go enjoy the things he loves with his one councillor said there might be a change of everybody just said no after a pretty stressful Bill Bryan adding they might have second hand painted designs make clothes works sunny today 20 Clear tonight 10 press Home delivery 9370550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 August 1986 vol114 n0 266 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets ans jump 42 per cent in budget by Patrick Mckinley homeowners could face higher tax increases for at least the next five years because of a Sharp increase in City spending on roads and other construction citing lower interest rates on Money the City borrows to finance the Board of commissioners yesterday proposed launch ing a More ambitious construction program Between 1987 and the Board Felt that with the improvement in the economic Outlook Over the last couple of this was the time we could afford to suggest an increase in our capital chief commissioner Nick Diakiw he unveiled a five year capital budget calling for spending nearly million up 42 per cent from the previous plan approved last it would mean major improve ments for dilapidated particularly in older parts of where some streets have collapsed because of excessive it would also mean higher tax increases to pay for interest charges on the higher mayor Bill Norrie the City has imposed tax in creases of about four per cent in each of the last two if you really want to do these things you Are going to have to accept the principle of a or a five percent increase on an annual Norrie that is something that the City councillors Are going to have to wrestle councillors will be going into a civic election Campaign in less than a said the Public has been pushing for Many of the projects included in the five year and the likelihood of higher taxes would not necessarily harm councillors seeking Diakiw said that for the last few High interest rates have forced the City to focus much of its spending for roads and other con Phil free press traffic stopper a tactical police helicopter is trucked out of the convention Centre yesterday after exhibition in a show associated with the Canadian association of chiefs of police the chiefs yesterday changed their argument favouring capital by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Wilson cleared of con Alicto interest and impropriety allegations by a commission of Inqui will rejoin the Pawley Cabinet tomorrow Days before the Provin Cial auditor delivers his report on the opposition Leader Gary Filmon and Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs say Premier Howard Pawley should have waited for the second Filmon and Carstairs said Al though the prepared by for Mer Manitoba chief Justice Samuel has exonerated Para they would oppose a govern ment move to pick up his Legal costs for the Pawley said earlier yesterday the government is seriously considering paying the Bill in addition to the Cost of the it would appear not to be fair on the basis of this report to stick Parasiuk with the Pawley the report is so but Filmon and Carstairs noted Parasiuk sought the he should pay the costs of his own Legal Carstairs the size of Parasiuk Legal Bill is not yet conservative Leader said the commission had stuck to its narrow terms of reference and not commented on patronage or other mat Carstairs said she was disappointed Freedman had not called for tougher conflict Freedman said the inquiry was concerned with existing legislation and not with proposed amendments to strengthen the conflict Law now before the his 43page report was tabled in the legislature yesterday by attorney general Roland this is no borderline nor a Case in which the either in volume or confronted the commission with a difficulty of Freedman pronoun cing Parasiuk not condemning the Scurry see partnership Page 4 inquiry witnesses uniformly sympathetic by Bob Cox Wilson Parasiuk saw a lot of Friendly faces on the witness stand while sitting through the inquiry into conflict interest allegations against in his report released former Manitoba chief Justice Samuel the Oneman inquiry said he heard mainly from one kind of witness people sympathetic to Freedman said the phenomenon of a on sided presentation became discernible Early in the the witnesses and their counsel All seemed to be on the same the Side of he this was a Public with Public notice that the commission would receive Oral or written sub missions that were relevant to the but no ant Parasiuk wit Ness made an Freedman said this May have been due to a genuine absence of evidence against but that the other Side still had to be he said he was confronted with the Prospect of hearing Only one Side of the and he credited commis Sion lawyer Ray Flett with partly balancing the when Parasiuk took the wit Ness Flett assumed he role of opposing counsel and subjected Parasiuk to a Cross examination that was searching and Freedman Parasiuk May have been taken by Surprise by the turn of but the commission is see witnesses Page 4 Striction on intercity the proposed five year plan still channels Money to the Core but will allow construction of Bridges and other transportation projects in the suburbs which the City has had to put off for he to do borrowing would shoot up to million next year from million this year and As see City Page 4 Federal spending Down up prime minister Mulroney says he cannot Rule out an increase in Federal in come taxes before the next general i cannot give you that guar Mulroney told reporters yesterday after an optimistic ment by finance minister Michael Wilson earlier in the Day about government spending Wilson released preliminary Finan Cial statements which show the government expects a deficit of billion for the 198586 fiscal less than million Over its the finance minister revealed that the governments excluding interest costs on borrowed is Down million 198586 which he said is the first such spending drop since the second world he attributed the years performance to Good management and a disciplined approach to pm lobbied for after releasing the Wilson said the government plans no Gen eral tax increases in the period leading to the next which could be two years he said Ottawa plan for fiscal launched in cannot be interrupted by changes in the Gen eral nature of but asked later if he could guarantee there will be no income tax increase before the elec replied in the the two were speaking on the second Day of a three Day session of Mulroney inner they have pressed Here by Newfoundland Premier Brian Peck Ford to increase Federal spending in an Effort to boost the the jobless rate in the province is 20 per twice the National and although Mulroney said on his arrival in Johns that the Federal government must do More to help see Mulroney Page 4 Manitoba woman stable after hear lung Transfer by Catherine Bainbridge a Manitoba woman who Recei Ved a hear lung transplant at the University of Chicago medical Centre was in serious but stable condition last Hospital staff Marlene of Snowflake was flown to Chicago from the health sciences Centre last week and had the emergency operation she is conscious and breathing on her Nancy a medical Centre she was very close to so this is very exciting Wayne a Salesman for a Brandon flew to Chicago with his their three and Are stay ing with their aunt in were All very Alvin a we heard she was up and around in a wheelchair he said Funk was admitted to see heart Page 4 Funk up and Deans joins Federal payroll nip House Leader continues to have difficulty with tories Ottawa up Ian the Florid faced nip House Leader who five months ago found it hard to stomach the conservative gov signed on to the govern ment payroll yesterday for a year As chairman of the Public service staff relations i have had and continue to have difficulty with the Way this govern ment is the Silver haired told reporters after prime minister Mulroney announced the appointment in but As chairperson of this Board i neither answer for nor to the govern it is a quasi judicial it is a dispute settlement the appointment was announced the same Day As Kay a former tory women was Given a civil service Job in the office of the status of it also followed by two Days the appointment of former conservative president Dalton Camp As a civil service adviser to Mulroney and his a move roundly criticized by both opposition parties As politicizing the Public but the normally talkative Deans refused to speculate on whether he and other new democrats appointed to government posts Stephen Lewis As ambassador to the United Dennis Mcdermott As ambassador to Ireland will be used in the next election Campaign to Blunt opposition attacks on tory patronage i suppose Well see when the time wont we the scottish born former fireman will resign his seat effective Deans had already announced in March that after six in the commons and 13 in the Ontario see Deans Page 4 budget cuts Winnipeg school Board approves million in budget but some trustees say its a meaningless Market Hunt Graham Walker of the Canadian wheat Board uses weather charts to find markets for this years record Grain Libya move Libya has moved its military command Centre away from the Western diplomats lottery Western express 2894642 lotto West winning numbers 52 Bonus number 45 lotto winning numbers 40 Bonus number 32 Index Ann 21 28 43 24 43 6 39 7 Jumble 47 21 21 sports record 61 29 33 to 21 ;