Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus jobless solutions new approaches needed to unemployment 7 sports blaming the puck canadians blame bad Breaks for loss to who take 32 series Lead Tempo boar and Buffalo Elie country stores big attraction is the meat department free Cloudy tonight 5 sunny tomorrow 20 May 19891 vol117n0172 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets of Tokyo Winnipeg Home com Hwy 9570550 it Anim second cuss Reg twinn numer 028t i looks like loser As troops pull Back from the news services Beijing there were mounting indications this morning of a political resurgence by forces Allied with Zhao the general Secretary of the communist who lost a politburo Battle last week resulting in Premier i Penis declaration of martial for the first time since i imposed martial Law and press censorship who favored negotiating with the student demonstrators for was mentioned in the official Media As general Secretary the party leading which i has occupied de Facto since announcing a military crackdown Friday and for the first time since he ordered martial Law which has been blocked by mass opposition of the cites population i was criticized in the official official news Agency both of those references came in Early morning dispatches from the official Xinhua news which is occupied by 60 soldiers and subject to martial Law censorship by a five person committee headed by i and administered by state Council spokesman Yuan according to Xinhua editors contacted before Dawn on the Edge of the Agency compound the Xinhua editors said they had inserted the two references and one said the fact that the texts had been Able to evade censorship reinforced their conviction that i Peng is and will step and that Zhao Ziyang is and will remain the head of the communist in the Early hours Peoples libera Tion army troops for the most outside City at least troops remain poised for attack around the diplomatic sources and it could not be determined this morning whether the troops had merely made a Brief Retreat or whether they had received orders to abandon the efforts to impose martial in a country where speaking out against the see marchers Page 4 ban on to transmission chinese leaders huddle in local students rally to raise red and Black paint Mars portrait of Mao Tseung in Tiana men tory my pleads guilty to charges the Canadian press Montreal Richard reelected last fall As a tory pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of fraud and breach Trust arising from Kickback scams involving Federal who has not appeared in the House of commons since the ramp raided his Ottawa office four Days after the 21 Federal was sentenced to one Day in placed on three years and fined at the Surprise appearance arranged at his who quit the conservative caucus to serve As an Independent my after charges were Laid in was not available for Grise pronounced Gree Zay pleaded guilty before Quebec court judge Lucien Roy to nine counts of breach Trust and two fraud said Crown prosecutor Marcel the charges were Laid after a seven month ramp investigation into rises activities in his Riding of Southeast of in pleading the 45yearold businessman admitted he demanded Cash payments from firms see opposition Page 4 daycare overhaul sought annual spending Rise minister says by Patrick Mckinley a task Force has urged the province to spend million More per year on Manitoba daycare family services minister Charlotte Ole son said in the task forces report says salaries paid to daycare workers Are citing a Twoy Earold study that found the average worker earned for services Worth a the report urges the government to examine the study conclusions if it finds them should increase salary subsidies Over a three year task Force chairman Linda Macnair said she fears a shortage of daycare workers May develop unless the salary problem is but Oleson said implementing All the reports recommendations would add More than 50 per cent to the annual Cost of the Day care and it would be unrealistic to expect the government to proceed on she said the government is immediately implementing 37 recommendations that can be met within existing and will announce fur ther Steps in its budget june Oleson said she is not at Liberty to say what the budget will but added she Hopes to increase the number of daycare spaces this salaries examined were certainly looking at the salaries be cause it has been mentioned Many she but she gave no indication what the government will do with the bulk of the reports 204 recon and opposition spokesmen were Quick to attack what we would have liked to have seen is a ministerial statement and plan of action As they the government have had this report for 2a nip childcare critic Maureen hem Phill Logan adding the government should move immediately to increase workers a Liberal family services critic Avis Gray Ellice said All the problems identified in the report have been common knowledge for some time and it is time for the government to agreeing with Hemphill that salaries need to be in the Manitoba child care Assoc a which represents daycare said it is concerned that Oleson announced no action yesterday on most of the recommendations in the association chairman Carol Draper said the group expects the budget to contain an immediate response to recommendations for higher a see higher Page 4 Gas utilities seek rate jump plan to add to Bills of residential Consumers by Radha Krishnan Thampi residential Consumers of natural Gas will pay or per cent a year More under a proposed rate sched ule before the Manitoba Public utilities which includes an extra Levy for research and the submitted by ice utilities greater Winnipeg Gas and ice utilities Manitoba also Calls for increases to commercial but would provide a Price break to larger the proposed rate changes Are significantly different than those in a news release in at the the two companies said they would ask the pub to increase residential rates by an average of per ice spokesman Brian Farley said last night that the figure actually referred to the increase in corporate not customer we were not trying to mislead the Farley adding the proposed rate changes were widely advertised in newspapers throughout Manitoba last ice utilities greater Winnipeg Gas recorded million in Gross sales Revenue last reve nue would Rise by about million under the proposed rate firs time Levy the companies Complex rate restructuring if approved by the will result in an average rate increase for residential in crease for commercial users and a a percent Cut for Industrial Farley said average residential consuming 131 thousand cubic feet Kcf of Gas a will pay More than the current the companies have also proposed to collect a Levy for a research the Levy would Start at cents per Kcf this year and Rise to one cent per Kcf after five this would mean the average residential consumer would pay an additional this year and after five the companies will net in the first year and annually after five Farley said the Money will go to the Toronto based Canadian Gas association to fund research into All aspects of natural Gas usage and distribution he said this is the first time the Gas company is proposing a re search Levy on he de fended it saying both customers and the company will Benefit from improved technology and the resulting Farley said the proposed rate in crease reflects the actual Cost of servicing various residential and Large volume customers and is based on a cos allocation study completed Only last Farley said greater Winnipeg Gas whose fiscal year ends knew in March it needed an extra million to cover higher sex see City Page 4 in rail to axe jobs by Janet Mcfarland in rail will Cut permanent jobs across Canada by october be cause of pressures to survive in a deregulated transportation a letter obtained by the provincial nip a rail Union spokesman said 188 of the jobs will be lost in most of them in Small towns and Remote Northern its a very major loss of member Scott federation Gen eral chairman for the Western re Gion of the brotherhood of maintenance of Way see railway Page 4 inquiry delayed for ruling by Kevin Rollason the aboriginal Justice inquiry Spe Cial hearing into the Helen Betty Osborne murder Case has been postponed pending an Appeal court Rul ing on the Legal status of the two Man Winnipeg police association Law yer Al Mcgregor said yesterday he will argue the inquiry is illegal be cause the provincial Cabinet order see native Page 4 second leak confirmed minutes after finance minister Michael Wilson dismissed the report of a second budget leak As Mere allegations the president of a major Canadian insurance company stepped Forward to Tell him the allegation was 20 Index aim Jumble 55 40 42 sports entertainment 38 to listings 34 63 7 63 57 59 33 21 3 6 ;