Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 81 no. 172 11 Prnto 20cwith Uci inia coloured comics Friday april 19, 1974 Sunrise 5.2v . Sunset . Moor Trise . Moonset . Mainly sunny 45 and 60 floods hit roads farms tax credit in 1974 for owner renter Manitoba Home owners and tenants will get an extra this the provincial government to help offset rising Muni Cipal and school Board taxes premiered Schreyer announced Friday. The Premier told the Provin Cial legislature that the government is taking million out of its special Loans and general emergency fund to n crease both the minimum and maximum payments under the property tax credit plan. J this will mean that will be deducted from municipal tax Bills sent out this year rather than the deducted please see extra Page 8 study sessions sit Downs f walkouts continue by the Canadian press Many Canadian centres were without mail delivery today and air travel was disrupted because of labor disputes that Are not officially called strikes. Portage Avenue was covered by several inches of water Friday morning As Sturgeon Creek in St. James Assiniboia jumped its Banks. Flooding spreads in Southern areas Here flood Crews sandbag Portage Avenue near Oak Dean Boulevard while pumps attempt to Lessen the flow of water across the main thoroughfare. Emo braced Post office inside those who sort the off the Job in Montreal Toron to. Vancouver. Winnipeg Edmonton Calgary and most centres in the Atlantic prov inces except Fredericton. In other communities in que Bec Ontario and the Prairie provinces mail service has been disrupted by sit Downs or partial walkouts. Air travel has become a matter of catching Short haul j flights because Transcon-1 Tifental hops have been halted i y Airport firemen leaving their jobs for study sessions in most major centres. Air Canada was managing a firemen await reply big tax Rise City committee urges jump of 8.75 Mills by Paul Pihi Chyn free press Urban reporter Winnipeg civic executive policy committee will re commend to City Council approval of current spend. Ing estimates of More than million and an 8.75 Mill increase in the prop erty tax rate for civic purposes. Policy committee completed a final review of the estimates thursday and they will be please see Story on Page 3 firefighter at Winnipeg in o a me ctr Ter National a port were wednesday night. .11 Iva a r hop scotch service across the Jing for reaction country using 53 dc-9 aircraft usury Boardl to a proposal which by Barry Mullin free press staff writer Southern Manitoba Rivers and creeks continued to swell thursday Over highways and Sid roads knocked out railway Bridges forced scattered fam Ilies to evacuate their Homes and flooded thousands of acres of prime fanning land. Flood Crews in the Carman Morden Lockport Beausejour Gimli Gladstone and Wesl Bourne areas remained on the Alert As Spring Runoff began t build on Waterways. We re watching the Carman area very closely tonight Ivan Mault coordinator of the emergency measures organization s Eastern District sail late thursday. Main St. Almost a River by Barry Mullin free press staff writer Westbourne Man. The Dusty main Street of this Ham let 75 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg was quiet at . Thursday. Two things out of the Ordi nary were taking place on the town s abbreviated version of main Street six men Ocie laughing and joking As they leisurely filled sandbags and the White mud River was dangerously close to busting Loose Over its Banks. Boy you should have seen her Here in recalled Jake Gross who came to the area in the 1930s. The water it was this deep right or. Gross 64, said As he shifted a sandbag from one hand to the other and holding the free hand at know level. Sandbag time hits Prairies ing Reway mum the fiscal package recommended by the policy commit tee includes a property tax j country using Yaj aircraft to a a Man rate 5337 rather than its bigger jets could end the group s seven i purposes compared with 44 62 several foreign airlines a Crew Day Luburn dispute. I Mills in 1973. Barry Ledoux shop Steward when combined with pre s for the Union of Canadian education meanwhile there was the employees said if i divisions in the City the rec threat of a Complete Treasury Board agrees to commended residential property of airports. Air traffic con the proposal Well be right tax my Rale would result in yen i had to open the win Dows of my basement to let the water John Hopkins interjected everyone laughed. A Block away the Muddy and partially ice covered White mud River flowed through town the rate of its flow increasing steadily. A mile North of town on p Vinci Al Road 242 the Highway also serves As Westbourne s main Street widow Mary Din Woodie and her family were Busy evacuating their farm. The White mud is right on our mrs. Dinwoodie said As she did the luncheon dishes. We had to get out there in 1970. It was bad but it s going to be worse mrs. Dinwoodie and her sons had been up All night wednes Day and were working through thursday to move uie family s show horses and 200 head of cattle and calves. Also evacuated in the round the clock operation were the wheat Hay and feed stored within the flood area. Les than 100 Yards from the Dinwoodie s Gate the White mud had overrun provincial Road 242 and was gradually building up in their front Yard. Continued Friday morning the floor situation in Carman had be come worse. We re sitting on a powder Keg there right Emer Geney measures coordinator Jack Miller said. Crews Are diking at Carman right now and the Hospital Carman me Morial Hospital is preparing o evacuate. Problems Are expected or Miller said. Or. Mault said flood Waters were reported staying a1 thursday afternoon Levels a Lockport Beausejour girl and Macgregor. There s water in places there has i been water he said. The White mud River continued to climb thursday and was reported maintaining its level. It s not going to come Down there for a few or. Mault said referring to in flooding that has already begun in Gladstone 92 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg and is predicted to hit Westbourne is please Sec flooding Page 4 diversion opened Gates to the red River flood w a y and the Portage la Prairie diversion of the Assiniboine River were opened thursday As Spring Runoff began to build up. Resources minister Sidney Green told the Manitoba legis lature thursday that Runoff in most areas was Well advanced. Local flooding is wide spread often aggravated by ice actions and Snow blocked a flood report issued at the same time indicated forecast peaks on the red River in the province remain unchanged with the Peak expected at Emerson on the United states Jorder next thursday. The red River was reported yesterday at the in foot stage with a Peak of 17 feet expected by next week. Arborg patients Are evacuated about 70 people were evacuated from a Home for the elderly and v from a Hospital at Arborg Man., Early Friday As flood Waters swept More strongly into the Interlake town overnight. It s pretty wet up Cpl. Gordon Ifong of the ramp said in a Telephone interview Friday the evacuation j Sturgeon Creek swollen Saskatchewan Avenue in St. Rames Assiniboia has been closed to traffic because of flooding on Sturgeon Creek and Portage and Ness avenues Lave been diked to hold Back he water As the Creek rises. A St. James Assiniboia works department spokesman said Friday the situation is under control but he warned that if he dikes break on Ness and Portage they will have to be closed. A number of houses Are also eing sandbagged in the area e said. But we Are ahead of it this ear we have it under con the Creek floods annually and this year s situation is considered slightly More serious than usual. By the Canadian press Long predicted Spring flooding on the Prairies after a Winter of exceptionally heavy snowfall arrived with a vengeance thursday leaving Moose jaw bearing uie Brunt of the onslaught. In other centres emergency measures organization Emo officials were bracing for the worst. Thousands of acres of prime Grain producing land in Saskatchewan were saturated and Low lying farmsteads w Ere flooded. In Alberta flooding was isolated with Central areas being hardest hit. Moose jaw residents were facing a flood Crest today after the icy Waters of Thunder Creek and Spring Creek spilled Over cutting the town in half and forcing major evacuations. The Moose jaw River was Ris ing at the rate of a foot per hour shortly after Midnight and mayor Herb Taylor declared a state of emergency. The City s downtown business District was in the Middle of a 25-Bloek area inundated with water three to four feet deep Complete but there Are still a few people moving out of their Cpl. King said ice jams on the icelandic River Are Back ing up water that is spreading through the town about 75 Miles North of Winnipeg. The icelandic Hiver usually 10 feet wide and As much As three feet deep in summer be came a rampaging torrent thursday. I m looking out my office window and All i can see is trailers have voted in favor of strike action if their contract negotiations with the Federal Treasury Board Are not Satis factory. Shipping on the St. Lawrence River also is disrupted by a strike of 136 River pilots who have rejected contract offers that would increase their wa8e offer if the Dura Al salary to an average Tion of the contract could Haj from they Are de j shortened j m Anding parity with West the government has offered. Coast pilots who average 538000. Firefighters a 3c per cent postmaster general Andrei Salal y increase Over 26. I combined Mill rates ranging from a Leigh of 94-4 in Tlle inner City to a Low of 79.58 Back at work.1 or. Ledoux said fighters agreed thursday to Mill s notify their bargaining agent the Public service Alliance of Canada that they would accept the federa school division. Please see 8.75 Page 4 Ouellet told the commons to-1 m o n t h a Day that 95 per cent of social i about s300 welfare cheques have been or i level of Winnipeg will be distributed in Spile of played by tire City. Widespread postal strikes. Leaving the group below the salary rare men pm ii e said that firefighters cuban freeze thaws Cpl. King said adding a places. More than 100 Homes that the River is about 150 were evacuated thursday night Yards wide and has flooded the the Southeast Saskatchewan Centre of Weyburn meanwhile was holding its own but Emo Southwest Section of town. He said about 50 elderly Resi dents of St. Benedict Manor were evacuated to Deer Lodge Hospital in Winnipeg. Twenty patients in Arborg memorial Hospital were taken to the Percy e. Moore Hospital at Hodgson Man. Cpl. King said emergency please see Arborg Page 4 with few exceptions he across Canada would go Back the cheques will be out today j to work if the Treasury Board or. Ouellet could not where the exceptions Are. By Paul w1utelaw free press correspondent Washington in its first or. Ouellet could not say would agree to shorten the con tract to 18 months. Please see mail Page 4 i please see firemen Page 4 gesture of possible Reco cilia j lion with Cuba since diplomatic k j relations were broken 13 years ago the United states abandoned thursday its total opposition to any hemispheric consultations with the government Fidel Castro. I . State Secretary Henry i Kissinger agreed to a mexican proposal for a Survey of ail i governments flu cd attended a two Day meeting Here of latin american and Caribbean postal picketing throughout City striking inside postal workers will extend picketing to postal substations through out the City a Union spokes spokesman Andy Robertson Man said thursday. Said we have a lot of water to the flood Crest there is expected in a couple of Days and 125 men were Busy sandbag Ging in anticipation or. Robertson said. A Bridge in the please see sandbag Page 4 which had been sorted Byj since the 800 inside workers walked off their jobs tuesday afternoon picket lines have of province been set up outside the main mail Between Rural Post office. Pat Miller spokesman Union members who continued i foreign ministers on whether to to work. I invite Cuba to a similar meet mail which would Buenos Aires Date this go through the Mam Post office year or Early isl5i is being delayed and that in the proposal was accepted to bans is still flowing smooth for by though since the Rural pos Ond Day of the conference held Mam i at the stale department. This is the first step toward i ending the isolation of the Canadian Union of postal Tal workers have remained fore minister workers said the picket lines j their jobs. Will be bolstered Friday to dissuade truck Drivers from entering the main Posl office. In addition he said lines will be Sel up the dispute has also forced the unemployment insurance i commission to make alternate ques out to re i picket at 13 131c smaller postal stations in the Wall of i Locasc Sec main Page 4 please see Plo Odway Page 8 today economic Boom leaving Lias 14 7 34 to 44 12, 13 classified comics deaths finance 29 to 33 jumble.37 movies 54, 55 sports 43 to 51 television 52 women to ii nearly everyone reads the free press City Zoni total. Even though the Wall never existed officials said the mysteriously neighbourhoods would still be flooded but More gradually and to a lesser extent. You d never believe the bloody said Jack West coordinator for the Emer Nicase see Moose jaw Page 5 evaporated this morning. Officials said flood Waters Are expected to continue Ris ing with the Peak possible sat urday but they denied wide spread reports of a burst dam and 20 feet of water Rushing on the City. The report was variously attributed to unnamed Environ ment department and natural resources officials. I somebody ought to be one City official said. Meanwhile life went on As usual for most of the residents of the Eity As they strolled about downtown. Relatively few Homes several hit by flood Waters and the major disruption was loss of land connections Between the North and South Hills that make up the City. Several neighbourhoods were City. The substations had not. Up their yet been picketed. Sec postal beyond the decision to late picketing or. Miller snide there were no new develop-1 meals in the situation. I we re still waiting to see what s happening in he said. We Haven t received i too much information about what s going on Down j meanwhile mail service in Hie City has been crippled by Enilio Rabasa. A similar proposal by Colombia on whether Canada will be invited to the next round of talks in the Argentine Winnipeg May was also please see cuban Page 4 Auto firms Havana the three Day dispute. Small mail deliveries were made wednesday and thurs Day consisting of mail which had been sorted before the workers walked off and mail Washington a the big three United states automakers will soon begin Send ing cars and trucks to Cuba from their Argentine subsidiaries under decision an for the big three because we did not want to see the Compa Nies suffer As a result of . heretofore the slate depart ment has been among the bounced by the state depart-1 staunchest supporters of the legislature reports fire prevention proposed for old blocks Page 3 Axworthy urges centralized decision making Page 9 compensation would be increased under Bill Page 9 govt. Not involved in Downs Purchase Page Power View Arena to be rebuilt Page 0 Hanuschak can t help St. Boniface schools Page 9 Axworthy proposes environment Bill of rights Page 9 possible major Mineral discovery discussed Page 9 ment. The stale department announced thursday night approval of Export licences filed by Ford Chrysler and general motors corp., despite hemispheric restrictions on sales to Cuba. Auto Industry sources estimated the transaction will total about million. The Only . Automobiles j left in Cuba Are those of the i Tail Fin Era of the late j b e f o r e .-cuban relations soured. State department officials said they made an exception organization of american please see autos Page 8 looking for a boat this want and under boats 89 12 it. Aluminium boat Ilso 772.0034. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi find Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads ;