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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free press Friday March 7, 1975 deadly methane Gas affects Only St. B gee councillor Joe Zuken told Winnipeg City Council thursday that deadly methane Gas could be threatening some areas of the City including a new Transcona Springfield school soon to be occupied. However Conn. C. John gee Independent citizens election Boniface de Nied there is any danger to the school and said traces of Gas have Only been found in St. Boniface. A report by a private con sultaning firm on possible met h a n e emissions coming from former garbage Landfill Sites a compiled but not released. The Harold Hatcher school is going to open in 18 coun. Phil Rizzuto ind Epen Transcona said. Parents Are phoning me to see if it is Safe to Send their children there. If there s anything definite we want to know. If there s nothing to worry about let us coun. Gee said the problem is strictly a local one and St. Boniface was the Only area with a problem. The other communities Aren t even he said. He said reports of Gas Iron i other Landfill Sites would be pure speculation. Coun. Zuken labor election committee com Selkirk demanded to know Why the report put together by Underwood Mclellan has been held up and when it would be made Public. The report was commissioned Public he said. Mayor Steve Juba denied any intent to withhold the re port although he admitted the City did t want to Start push ing the panic Button. Coun. Bill Norrie fort Rouge suggested there Are extenuating Circum stances and if coun. Zuken wanted to see the report on the he should read it in Pri the methane Gas in St. Boni face has already caused one explosion triggered by flames from an arc welder. Versatile manufacturing ltd., where the explosion took place is now being ventilated. Traces of the Gas were also found at neighbouring plants. The St. Boniface Industrial area is built on a Landfill site As is the Transcona school. Building by Laid amended Steinbach Man. Special town Council this week approved planning scheme amendments to restrict the types of materials used in con new buildings in areas and design Only Core renewal planned Miller the Manitoba government has no immediate plans for Urban renewal in Winnipeg other than what was announced earlier this week in the throne speech for the City s Core Urban affairs minister Saul Miller said thursday. H e was replying in the Manitoba legislature to questions from or. Lloyd Axworthy Rouge who asked whether there was any propos als to upgrade or repair older Homes in other parts of Winnipeg besides the Core area. Or Miller said the Provin Cial government is already participating with the Federal govern ment in two neigh a o r h o o d improvement pro in the Core area and one in North Point Doug Las. However the minister added the provincial government was anxiously awaiting details from Ottawa about a recently announced rent supplement pro Gram something Manitoba has been urging for the past two years. The Urban renewal project for the City s Core is expected to involve s40 million to million in provincial funds Al though both premiered Schreyer and or. Miller have declined to confirm the figure. Striction of commercial Nate distances businesses must be Back from the property line. The four Point amendment introduced by councillor George Neufeld contained the following Points that signs and awnings on building remain a minimum of 18 inches from the Light standards. O that no building can be moved into a commercial or designated areas. That buildings in com Mercial areas be of Concrete Brick cinder Block or steel but that steel structures re quire special permission from Council. That buildings must be a minimum of 18 inches Back from the property line and that the doors be set Back a mini mum of 36 inches from the property line. Mayor a. D. Penner pointed out that most of the Points had been discussed in previous meetings and with previous councils but Council had never itemized the Points and set up a bylaw. Govt. Urged to pay the Manitoba water commis Sion has urged the provincial government to pay 90 per cent of flood control works under a prevention program. The recommendation was made in the commission s an Nual report tabled in the legis lature thursday. It suggested the local author Ity pay the remaining 10 per of the Cost. The commission feels that is was better Long term policy to prevent damage from floods than to pay compensation for the report commission also asked flood said. The the government to give the provincial w a t e r resources Branch and the emergency measures organization Finan Cial Means and authority to prepare for an emergency state prior to its this would enable a quicker response to an emergency it said. The commission which re viewed Manitoba s flood fight ing plan after flooding last Spring noted some municipalities were ill prepared to Deal with flood it urged setting up flood fighting equipment and Supply depots throughout the province and a series of seminars in emergency flood fighting for municipal and Indian band officials at government expense. It also suggested the prove c i a 1 government pay local authorities up to 80 per cent of the Cost of precautionary Dik ing which was approved by the water resources Branch. Flood forecasting procedures were 85 to 92 be cent accurate in terms of actual volume of flood water on the larger Ter ways. But the. Commission said forecasting procedures for smaller watersheds such As Fisher River or Sturgeon Creek had not been developed. Vote act overhaul planned revenge by Israel ruled out continued government spokesman said. The disclosure Rule is Section 170 which requires All recognized political parties in the province to file with the chief electoral officer an annual audited financial statement showing in detail every item of expenditure and every donation More than the source and amount of every such do nation must be declared any party failing to file a statement could be liable to a Fine of not More than ?25 a Day for each Day filing is delayed according to Section 188 of the act. Technically All three major Manitoba political Par ties Are in contravention of Section 170 and could face fines of Many thousands of Dol Lars. However attorney general Howard Pawley has indicated he would be reluctant to Deal with matter. Or. Pawley was in Halifax attending a convention Friday and could t be reached for comment. Only the new democratic party has made any real Effort to comply with the act but even its audited statements were quite late in being filed. Statements for 1971, 1972 and 1973 were submitted by the party just a few weeks ago. It s Worth More. Much More. Lightness and smoothness you d expect to find Only in Canadian whiskies costing More. Much More. Wipers Spe cml blend. The Liberal party also filed a statement recently but it was for Only a 10-month period of 1973 and was highly Quali fied by the party s auditor who said it was impossible for him to verify the group s receipts. The progressive conserva Tives Haven t filed a single an Nual statement and Are three years in arrears. A n n i s Shaddy executive director of the progressive conservatives said Friday there was Good reason Why the party had t filed. Most of its files were destroyed last year by a fire at the party s 23 Ken Nedy Street Headquarters so it would be impossible to submit statements for those years she said. And they the government and chief electoral officer know that she said. However she said the party s 1974 statement is ready at least for presentation to the party s annual meeting this weekend in Winnipeg. It still has to be formally audited she said but then it will be turned in to Jack Reeves the prov Ince s chief electoral officer. The Manitoba government last year asked the provincial Law Reform commission to do a thorough study of the act and make recommendations for possible changes. But the com Mission did t really Deal with the matters the government had hoped it would a spokes Man said. He said the government might decide to set up a Spe Cial committee of the Legisla Ture to look at the act and recommend changes. Would not be allowed to jeopardize . Secretary of state Henry a. Kissinger s peace Mission in the Middle East. Earlier in the Day the Cabi net met in extraordinary ses Sion and issued a com Munique which said the com Mando raid was timed for a political purpose to foil any Chance of Progress for a Politi Cal settlement through Degoti the Cabinet declared How ever., that terrorist activity would not move the govern ment from its policy of Politi Cal efforts for Progress to wards Jerusalem s political leaders think that an israeli raid now on a terrorist stronghold in an Arab country would almost certainly ruin the Kissinger Mission the official said in an interview. He knew of no direct . Warning but added that it was unnecessary. The impotent position Israel is now in will Likely Hurt or. Rabin s already slipping popu Larity. A Public opinion poll in late february reported that the Premier s popularity had gone Down from 64.8 per cent in september 1974, to 32.2 per cent now. Or. Rabin is strongly supporting the Kissinger approach. On hand during the critical hours of the siege of the Savoy hotel were or. Rabin defence minister Shimon Peres and chief of staff Mordechai Gur. They were calling the a military source said. It was their decision to storm the four Storey Structure Early thursday. However a terrorist inside the building touched off explosives that demolished the third floor of the Structure causing one of the exterior Walls to collapse. Nobody could say definitely Liow Many persons were inside the hotel when the arabs invaded it shortly after Landing wednesday night and shooting their Way from the Beach to the nearby hotel. Military intelligence director Shlomo Gazit estimated that there were 10 hostages taken in the hotel but he hedged or this number because apparently two persons hid in the Hote without being discovered by the arabs. The Battle reduced the Hote to a crumbling Heap of Brick and plaster with one entire Corner sheared away. The narrow streets around i were teeming thursday with people from the surrounding neighbourhood w h i c h is the Aviv s tenderloin District cheap hotels cabaret and run Down apartment dwellings. Hundreds of uniformed sol Diers and policemen mingled with a varied assortment of go go girls streetwalker Ped doers tourists and High school youngsters. There was a distinct carnival atmosphere As ice Cream Ven Dors did a thriving business plying their Way among the crowds of onlookers. On the nearby Beach Sun bathers and swimmers enjoyed recreation Only occasionally looking at the ambulances demolition equipment and Bull dozers assembled at the site. At the . Embassy about five blocks to the North men song written about car Woodstock . Up a radio station comptroller who writes and sings his own music has recorded a song about the government assisted Ricklin automobile venture in Brunswick. Charlie Russell comptroller at Jcj radio said he wrote the song earlier this year and recorded it at the Mercey Brothers publishing co. Facile Elmira ont. The recording produced on the Boot Label will be distributed across Canada through London records of Montreal in said. Already orders lad been received. The words of the chorus Sung at the end of each verse in clude of the Bricklin of the Bricklin is it just another Edsel wait and see. Well let the Yankees try St and Hope to god they la buy it. Let it be dear lord let it the copyright is held by Mercey Brothers publishing co. In Elmira. T h e two passenger Gull winged Bricklin Are being produced at a Saint John As Sembly Plant with the Aid of an commitment from the new Brunswick govern ment and a further s3 million from the Federal government in the form of a loan Guaran tee. Strike hits schools phenom penh a a big government Force pushing against the insurgents rocket Belt Northwest of phenom e n h failed to make any to Gross overnight cambodian military sources reported. Intensified shelling of the City and its Airport continued Oday. The sources said 11 artillery rounds and rockets hit the air port but did not interrupt the in itch states Airlift of Ammu continued a week to help with a variety of jobs. Or. Keep also said Volun Teers should consider the ill shelling getting worse nation Rice 13 rounds and fuel. Another during the night raid aimed at Egypt too feeling they will create by crossing the Legal picket line for this the Union believes the strike was caused by the Short sighted attitude of politicians on the school Board or. Keep said. It should be noted that these same trustees a few months ago voted themselves a 150 per cent increase in their the trustees increased their annual honorarium to from when an Amend ment to the Public schools act allowed All trustees to set their own pay rates. In other negotiations meet Ings Between the Winnipeg school division and its custodial and maintenance staff Are continuing. This week the St. Boniface Morwood and St. Vital divisions informed the Union they would t open their three year agreements to renegotiate salary increases. Or. Keep wrote last month to the three divisions request ing regeneration because of the increased Cost of living. The israeli state radio said the ship that brought the eight guerrillas and their two rubber attack boats to a Point off Tel Aviv came from the North presumably meaning from Leban on. However the Only guerrilla who survived told interrogators that the terror squad set Oul from Egypt one of the Landing boats was marked egyptian army seamen. Kissinger s Mission will fail was painted on the other one. The attack was aimed As much against Egypt As it was against defence min ister Shimon Peres said. The israeli Navy captured the 150-ton Mother ship and its eight Crew members off the coast Early thursday. But the military command said it would release no information about the ship until questioning of the Crew was completed. The guerrilla command in Beirut said the raiders were members of Al Fatah the larg est Palestine guerrilla organization. It is headed by Yasir Arafat the chief of the Over All Palestine liberation Organiza Tion the Plo has been close to an open break with Egypt s president Anwar Sadat be cause he would not hold out for an agreement in which Israel recognized the right of the palestinians to take Over the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza strip As a Sepa rate state. Israelis enraged Over the guerrilla raid were demanding their armed forces wreak vengeance on palestinian bases in Lebanon. But there was speculation that the retaliatory raids would be delayed until after Kissinger s visit. Killed a civilian and wounded three others. The Khmer Rouge also fired eight rockets Inlo downtown phenom penh before Dawn kill ing one person and wounding three. The Airlift was suspended wednesday evening alter a dc-8 carrying Rice from Saigon was slightly damaged by shrapnel from an artillery Shell. Flights resumed late thursday morning but initial reports indicated there was Only a slight reduction in the amounts delivered. They have been totalling about tons a Day. Northwest of the City a government Force trying to drive the insurgents artillery and rocket launchers out of Range of the Airport and the City ran into Strong Resis Ance during the night Mili tary sources said. The three prong operation began late wednesday against an estimated Khmer Rouge in pockets about five Miles Northwest of the Airfield. The government Force was sup ported by 70 armoured person Nel carriers. But the sources said insurgent gunners were blocking the Advance with heavy fire. The government abandoned its last position on the Mekong River South of Neak Luong conceding the permanent loss of the River Supply route from Vietnam. Military sources said Navy gunboats evacuated several Hundred men from lion Sierra two the Posi 40 Miles Southeast of phenom penh and eight Miles below Neak Luong where they had been landed several weeks ago in an Abor t i v e attempt to Clear the Khmer Rouge from the Banks of the River. 1 n Washington president Ford said time is running out in Cambodia and pres ident Lon nol s regime can survive Only if Congress approves his gency Aid weeks. Prince Norodom Sihanouk titular head of the exiled Cam Bodian rebel regime said his Side will win by the end of the year and the americans should base their diplomacy on this in South Vietnam heavy North vietnamese attacks continued in the Central Highlands and the Saigon command said the communists were trying to get an offensive request for Emer in the next two strikes settlement supported the Manitoba farm Bureau executive endorsed wednesday the Canadian wheat Board advisory committee s Call for an immediate settlement through cd isolation i f necessary o strikes that have halted ship ments of Prairie grains. The executive in a news re lease said it sent telegrams to Otto Lang minister responsible for the wheat Board agriculture minister Eugene Whelan and acting prime minister Mit Chell Sharp supporting the Board s stand. Striking members of the Public service Alliance of can Ada have interrupted Grain shipments since feb. 17. West coast shipments have been at a Complete standstill since last weekend when longshoremen walked out. The Manitoba executive said the interruption of Export ship m e n t s has already forced major Long term customers to Purchase emergency supplies from other countries. And these customers could begin to take serious looks at Purchas ing Grain elsewhere if strikes make Canada shipper. An unreliable teens can vote Rome renter the Ita Lian parliament passed a Law thursday lowering voting age to 18 from 21. Rummage sales Hall of Canadian order of foresters 635 Sargent Avenue 9 . Saturday sponsored by chapter f of peo sisterhood. Manitoba designers workshop marketing design services is the topic for the last of two programs developed to give designers a perspective of effective business practices. Or. Morley Wilson who is a marketing consultant to Industry will discuss problem areas such As identifying potential jobs motivating clients and design promotion. This program is sponsored by the Manitoba design Institute department of Industry and Commerce. The workshop will be held tuesday March 11th at . At the Winnipeg Art gallery. For information Contact Manitoba design Institute 210-185 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba r3c 3j1 Telephone 944-2029 the Manitoba department of Industry and Commerce honourable Leonard s. Evans minister l. Remis Deputy minister. Sprite 400 13 6 fully equipped Alpine a 16 fully equipped musketeer d 18 fully equipped musketeer 18 equipped trailer City 269-5505 2627 Pembina Hwy. With binoculars were on the roof intently watching the activity. The crowd surged in panic briefly about noon when the hidden terrorists fired a few rounds. The israeli Navy thursday detained a 150-ton sailing ves Sel suspected of being Hie vehicle that transported the two outboard Dingis and eight terrorists close enough to the Tel Aviv coastline to shove off. Information from the surviving commando captured in the ruins of the Savoy nearly seven hours after his comrades had been killed will fill in their origin and planning said Many of the gaps in what authorities know about the raiders intelligence chief Gazit. At a press conference. Gen. Gazit had no apologies for the government s policy of refusing i to negotiate with terrorists no matter How Many hostages they hold. There has dialogue with them but not really negotiation. We did offer them Only one tiling and that was unconditional said the general. We have a policy that we Don t believe in negotiating on that kind of blackmail basis with terrorists. If you release 10 prisoners now the next time they will say please get out of Tel he said. Echoes of watergate Washington a John Mitchell former United states attorney general and Robert Mardian former assistant at Torney general have been sus Pended from practising Law in the . District court for the d i s t r i c t of Columbia. 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