Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 2, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Smoking a Soi major causes of City fires free press saturday August 2, 1975 Taa 1254 under 22 and going places youth fares 946-2212 Twenty nine people died in Winnipeg fires during 1974, and All but 10 of the fatalities were due to careless smoking or children playing with lighters and matches Winnipeg s fire chief said in his annual report. Fire chief c. N. Shewan said in 1974, the chief said thet Winnipeg fire department an i swered Calls of which were actual fires. Loss was Over 850.000 in 25 of these fires and accounted for j s4.3s3.274 of the total monetary fire loss in 1974. J that nine people died As a result 1 the chief again emphasized i or arson in the Haslemere j that citizens be careful in their apartment Block fire 559 El-1 smoking habits and that evil uce Avenue in january 1974, Uren be prohibited from play and one person died in a with matches inflicted fire death. Work has commenced on a six serving members of the Winnipeg fire department died new fire station at Rothesay i Street and Milvor Avenue in Rani or deluding fire n Kildonan the chief said Captain j. F. Younkin on May in his statement 21, a Veteran of 40 years with the department. He explained that the Loca in his submission of the re Tion of future fire nations a port to civic finance on anticipation of sooner g. R. Evans chief she developments m both resident wan cited the four main cause Tiala ild Indus Nal areas and of fires in 1974 As careless a mowing vandalism and children playing w i t h matches. He said monetary fire loss totalled in Winnipeg in 1974. This was a in crease Over the 1973 loss chief Shewan said. The heaviest major loss fire in the City was one in the Elim Chapel 540 Portage Avenue in october 1974. Cause of the fire was arson and damage was estimated at chief Shewan s statement said. On plans for future transportation routes. The fire department s 1974 Home inspection program was completed june 30. Chief she wan said about 85 per cent of houses in Winnipeg were checked for fire hazards. Various hazards found to exist included rubbish Flam Mable liquids and faulty elec the Slat Emcil program found trial wiring said and the safely conditions satisfactory in Over 30 per cent of the Rosi deuces inspected. Backing sought for 200-mile fishing limit fatalities nearly double average the number of fires in Mani-1 Toba increased last year by 201 per cent Over the previous year with fatalities due to fire nearly twice the annual average for the last decade. Property loss due to fire Rose by 34 per cent in 1974 for a total estimated loss of the statistics Are contained in the 1974 report of the provincial fire commissioner released Friday by labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley. The report says 72 people 28 men 22 women and 22 Chil Dren lost their lives by fire in Manitoba last year. Injured in fires were 177 men women and 55 children. 61 caught in a bit of a squeeze this Young Man s car rests under a Semi trailer Friday on Elgin Avenue Between Arlington and Mcphilips streets. No one was Hurt in the Accident. The number of fires Rose to with losses about million higher than the 1973 figure. While the Dollar loss due to fire is a matter for concern it is the dreadful waste of human Ife that is most or. Paulley said. So Many of those fires need never have happened. Carelessness caused about half the fires in where fires broke out More frequently than in other places. Carelessness including smoking was a major Factor As Well in of the total fires. Mechanical failure caused fires and or 18 per cent of. The. Total in automatic transmissions Thi automatic answer 957 Portage 786-2437 930 Nairn 667.1595 1311 Stphillips 586-8049 u0 Pembina 453-4124 weather report work week Cut oct. 1 Manitoba s Standard work week will be reduced to 40 hours from 44, effective oct. 1. An order in Council w a s passed by Cabinet this week proclaiming amendments t o employment standards act. The amendments providing for the reduction in the work week were approved at the last ses Sion of the Manitoba Legisla Urc. The Start of the Shorter work week will coincide with the recently announced increase in the province s minimum wage. Also effective oct. 1, the mini mum wage for employees 18 and older will Rise to an hour and for employees under 18 to under the shortened week employers will be required to pay time and a half for hours worked in excess of get a Day or 40 a week. However an employer May Stablish a compressed work Eek of 40 hours or less with he approval of the Manitoba Abor Board or under terms of collective agreement. This nay be done for example four 10-hour Days with Era Pilot says safety lacking at St. Andrews water base morning bulletin for Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario rain was falling in Many Manitoba communities this morning As a Complex disturbance Over the province edged toward Hudson Bay. The remainder of the District was for the most part Cloudy and generally Cloudy conditions Are expected to continue Over most regions today. As Well showers or Thunder showers Are expected to develop Over the regions North of Lake Superior Dur ing the afternoon. As the disturbance moves East Ward most regions will Clear overnight and have a mainly sunny Day Tomor Row. Only those regions nearest Hudson. Bay Are expected to continue Cloudy sunday. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today pc Toilo Ion pressure Low cold front front Ilo yees thus putting in a full 0-hour week on regular rates. The Standard hours Legisla Ion does t apply to worker who come under the construe Ion Industry wages act and regulations made under it. A Survey last year by the labor department showed tha the majority of the workers covered by 498 collective agreements worked hours or less each week. In the mining Industry for example workers put in a Standard work week of 40 hours or less As did workers in transportation communications and other utilities. By John Mcmanus free press aviation reporter a Pilot who was at the St. Andrews water base last Satur Day night when two float planes carrying medical patients from Northern Manitoba landed after dark charges that there Aren t enough safety pre cautions at the Dock. The govern cent should pay for improved facilities and lighting at the red River base says the Pilot Diane Chudley of St. Vital. She said she and her Hus band Les were flying in the St. Andrews area when they heard a conversation Between a Manitoba government air division Pilot and the air traffic Tower. She said they became concerned about what seemed o be inadequate arrangements of meet the medevac medical vacation flight so they added and drove to the base n the West Side of the River. Mrs. Chudley said they used heir car headlights to Light the adding area which is without rights. Shortly after another floatplane she believed was chartered by the Federal de part Mentor Indian affairs Telephone interview she was i could see no reason for panic dismayed at the Lack of facilities to make night landings on the River Safe. It was not quite dark when the first a Turbo Beaver landed but it was completely Black when the second came in. There Are no Yard lights be tween the company office and the Dock and none on the Dock which is an unsteady dec k on Oil barrels. I m not being critical of the owner but this is the largest City in Manitoba and every thing seemed so disorganized. The government should help the owner improve the base. I Don t see Why it in t included in the Survey being even though water bases Aren t licensed for night flying. If it is a matter of life and death we Sanction these mrs. Chudley also said a dirt Road leading Down to the base s barely passable. The owner of the water base Horst Makus president of St. Andrews aviation and Marine services ltd., said these Are the first night landings at the base that i can remember in the last five years. I live on the River and i would know if there had been any night landings or. Makus said there is no landed at the water base. The Amateur Pilot who a about 150 hours flying time on single engine aircraft said in 4 boy s body washes ashore temperatures following Are High temperatures recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for the 24 hour period which ended at 6 . Today Vancouver Calgary v o r Winnipeg. Bissil Interlake and red River frequent Cloudy periods today West wind at 15 . High today near 23 Low tonight Between 10 and 52. Jimaly sunny Sun Day with Little temperature change. A two Day search of Lake i Winnipeg near Patricia Beach j ended about . Friday i w Hen the current washed i ashore the body of Grant j Olson. 7. Of 227 Bowling ave i nue. Transcona. An ramp spokesman in Beausejour Man., said officers from the detachment Parks Fici Ais and local residents had a been involved in the search. I a spokesman said earlier Pihis week the boy was Riding in a Small rubber raft. Wednesday j ant was carried away from j Shore by the wind. The raft Patrick d. Ferg a 47-year-old lawyer from flin flon Man., has been appointed a county court judge in the Central Mani Toba judicial District it was announced Friday. Or. Ferg succeeds judge Frank Newman who retires aug. 25. The Survey is the Winnipeg area airports system study a two year project that will con Lude at the end of 1976. An air division spokesman said the floatplane was asked by a medical authority at nor Way House to pick up a patient at Cross Lake and return to Norway House to Transfer the patient to a wheeled aircraft. After the air division Pilot who normally is working on water bombing Forest fires at this time of year had picked up the patient he was told a wheeled aircraft was t immediately available it was decided he would Fly directly to St. Andrews water base. The Pilot considered it Safe to make a water Landing about . And All arrange ments had been made to have an ambulance meet him at the Dock. This was a medical Emer gency and we would do the same even if it was three hours the spokesman said. An official of the Indian affairs medical Branch in win Nieng said Friday it could t be immediately determined if the second aircraft that landed at the water base was chartered by his department. The medical official said personnel in the North have authority to charter an aircraft in an emergency and Don t have to Contact Winnipeg be fore ordering a mercy flight. The supervisor of St. An Drews Tower said Friday he could t give any details water landings july 26 be cause our july records Are locked regulation calling for lights on the Dock or River because they Are licensed Only for Daylight. By Robert w1elaard j free press staff writer foreign minister Einar Agustsson of Iceland said Fri Day he would like to see Canada follow his country s exam ple and extend its fishing limits to 200 Miles because at the moment we feel kind of Iceland plans to extend its limits oct. 15, to protect its fishery from foreign fleets. In an interview in the Winnipeg inn or. Agustsson who is accompanying pres ident Kristjan eld Jarn of ice land to the icelandic festival in Gimli said he held informal talks on the subject thursday with external affairs minister Allan Maceachon in Ottawa. However i m not Here to advise the Canadian govern ment i m just asking what Canada s intentions or. Bam. Or. Maceachon told him the Federal government would t make a decision on an Exten Sion of its fishing limits until parliament met again this autumn he said. It is not unlikely Canada May want to wait in making such a decision until the next Law of the sea conference to be held in new York next March. The failure of last year s conference led Iceland to make its unilateral declaration be cause of the condition of our fish in 1972, Iceland caused an uproar by extending its fishing limit to 50 Miles in an Effort to halt Over fishing of the Atlantic Ocean by foreign fleets. Originally we had planned to extend the limit to 200 Miles last year but waited pending the outcome of the 1974 Conier e n c e in our or. Said. Unfortunately this did not happen. It s impossible for us to wait for More conferences because we fear fish Are disappearing completely in our with the exception of major fishing nations such As the so Viet Union Japan and some Eastern european countries 200 nations supported a 200 limit at the 1974 Confer ence. Iceland is planning to Pur Chase More patrol aircraft. But they won t be armed the foreign minister said. Their Mission will be to spot offenders and to let coast guard vessels know where they arc so they can drive them out of our he realized it would be difficult for Iceland which has no armed forces and Only five coastguard vessels to enforce a 200-mile fishing zone if other countries do not respect our regulations. That s Why we re willing to talk to other nations who fish in our Waters to reach a Compromise and hopefully eighty per cent of Iceland s Economy is dependent on fish ing the minister said. 58 of meters Are found defective the most recent Check of the City s parking meters wednesday and thursday night found 58 were defective. Lowell Campbell manager of the civic streets and traffic division said Friday this represents a defective rate of 2.3 per cent. He said the faulty meters would be removed Friday and replaced with ones which operate properly. The prac Tice is to keep three meters in Reserve for every 100 in the Field. It is the second parking meter within a month. The first was july 10 and 11. This followed a Story by free press staff writer Fred Edge july 9 on How some parking meters were ripping off the motoring Public. Or. Campbell said the most common malfunction found in the latest Check was that the defective meters weren t giving any time. This often happens when older worn Silver coins Are used in the meters he said. New Nickels were used in the latest Check by traffic division workers or. Campbell said. Another parking meter Check will Likely be done m a couple of weeks he said and we shall continue the process until we find a better he said a method is needed whereby worn meters can be detected and replaced before they actually fail. Unlike the Motorist the traffic division does t lose a Nickel each time a meter malfunctions. The Nickels Are collected the next time the meters arc emptied. Or. Campbell said the Only Cost to the City is for Over time wages to the people who do the checks. The checks have to be done Between 6 . And 9 ., when the meters Aren t in use. Whiteway supports Lyon by Mary Ann Fitzgerald free press political reporter Dean Whiteway member of parliament for Selkirk has declared his support for Sterling Lyon in the contest for loader ship of Manitoba s progressive conservative party. Or. Whiteway is the third of nine conservative maps from Manitoba to declare support for or. Lyon who has challenged the leadership of Sidney Spivak. Earlier Jake Epp Provencher and Jack Murta had indicated their support for or. Lyon. Sterling can articulate the right Wing conservative stand i feel the party ought to or. While Way said Friday in an interview. Sidney is too progressive for me no one has worked harder for the party than or. Spivak the Federal member said cautioning against waging a Nega Tive Campaign based on criticism of the present leadership. With the government of the province at stake there should be concern with the issues and the articulation of them rather than criticism of or. Spivak s leadership or. Whiteway said. I Arn for Lyon and against socialism i am not work ing against Sidney i am work ing for or. White Way said. He made his official Declara Tion at a St. Boniface Federal constituency meeting at the Nia Kwa motor hotel thursday night a meeting to which Media representatives were not invited. L. R. Bud Sherman member of the provincial legis lature for fort Garry and Donald w. Craik la for Kiel known Lyon supporters were also present. The meeting was billed As a meet Sterling Lyon evening. The Federal St. Boniface constituency takes in provincial constituencies o f Transcona Kiel St. Vital St. Boniface and Radisson. Those attending the meeting said approximately 150 out of a possible 600 members in the five provincial constituencies attended the meeting. Man 21, Dies in suite Blaze a 21-year-old Winnipeg Man died Early saturday when fire swept through his apartment in the Wilton apartments. An air regulations official of i Gilbert Rene Northam of 601 the fire which gutted his apart ment and caused smoke and w a t e r damage to several others. Cause of the . Fire is under investigation. Damage transport Canada said he Wilton Street. Suite 325. Died in has been set at scorching july sets records ends amply classifieds in 4lh Section classified advertising in to Day s free press runs from Page 36 to Page 52 in the third Section and front Page 59 to Page 64 in the fourth Section. Technical difficulties experienced today made it impossible to Tell readers in the third Section that the ads continue in the fourth Sec Tion. I later capsized j rough Waters and High j winds thursday hindered at j tempts to find the boy. Four injured in Accident an Accident at Portage ave a inic and St. James Street. St. I .jamc-5-Assinibon Friday night enl four people to Hospital i with Ninor injuries. All have been released. Winnipeg police said two cars collided at . And i one of the aulos crashed into Wall of the con Tempo fabric store. 1600 Portage Avenue. 1 police did no have the names of the victims available. By j. Ii. Junso the hottest weather of the year usually scorches Winnipeg Laic july and the past week has been no exception. Wednesday was the warmest july 30 Ever recorded in most of Southern Manitoba. The air or. Winnipeg reached a temperature Reading of 35.5 degrees celsius. Portage la Prairie was even hotter with a maximum of 37c. But a cold front was moving slowly from the the front rumbled Over win during the closing hours of july and soaked the City 2.cs inches of rain. Total rainfall durin july amounted to Only 2.29 inches nearly one Inch less than the Normal 3.15 inches. July was hotter and sunnier than usual the Sun shone on Winnipeg for 35s hours com pared with the usual 311 hours in july. Temperatures averaged 21.5 normally july temperatures average 19.7c. Extreme temperatures ranged from a Low of seven july 10 to a maximum of 35.5 july 30. Winds were lighter than usual during the month with speeds averaging 9.2 . Hot air blew into Winnipeg during the last week of july a Low pressure system Over Western Manitoba. Ii circulated hot. Ajr the South with gusts up to 33 . Monday. Temperatures Rose to 35.3 afternoon. Winds were lighter tuesday and temperatures ranged from 10.6 to overnight Cooling dropped the minimum to Only 23.3. Wednesday was the hottest Day of the month and the hot test july 30 since records were started in 1s72. Temperature readings Ronche. A of 35.5. And winds blew out of the South at 29. With gusts to 40 . Temperatures thursday reached 2s before a Cokl front moved Over the City. Friday s temperatures were it to 25. Cooler than Normal for au.2. 1. The Outlook for the next few Days indicates that fair weather will return to win Nipon except for scattered afternoon showers. Temperatures will average near Normal. Usually. August begins i t h temperatures averaging from overnight lows of 13 to after noon highs of 27. Holiest aug. 3 was in 1947 with a Inaxi Nijm of 35. In 1972. Tiie minimum a record three de crees. News quiz on Page 64 Vicry Giscard d Esta ing. Helmut Schmidt and dome Mintoff arc some of t h e personalities you la find today in the names in the news Section of your news quiz which appears on Page 64. Turn to the quiz to Sec if you can correctly identify these and other news makers. You la also gel a Chance to answer a Vari Ety of National and inter National news ivc simians. The free press pub Lishes your news quiz each week As a service to area students ;