Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free press monday june 7, 1976 dry weather still aggravates ont., . Fires by the Canadian press continuing hot dry weather today was expected to Aggra vate Forest fire conditions in Nova Scotia and Northwestern Ontario As blazes burned out of control forcing evacuation campers permanent Resi dents and cottagers during the weekend. A Forest fire continued to rage out of control in Eastern. Manitoba but was slowed sunday by scattered showers. Western provinces other than Manitoba had no major fires burning during the weekend. High fire danger was re ported in Quebec because of hot dry weather in Central and Eastern Canada. The hot Windy conditions in the Atlantic provinces caused the spread of a fire that levelled at least 15 Homes in a wooded area a roman Catho Lic Church Many businesses cars and fishing boats in main a Dieu . The fire destroyed immaculate Conception Church and swept the Church s Glebe House. The Church had been a landmark for fishermen were Able to see its spire from the sea. Small groups of villagers stood in the streets and wept openly in the Cape Breton Community. At least two firefighters were taken to Hospital suffer ing from smoke inhalation but were not injured seriously. In the Early hours today residents began to return to their Homes after finding temporary Refuge with friends and relatives in nearby Louisbourg. We got it under control late last night but if winds shift it la be be As bad or a fireman for Louis Bourg said in an interview. The Nova Scotia depart ment of lands and forests banned All open fires and can celled burning permits Satur Day. At least three fires besides the main a Dieu Blaze were burning on Cape Breton is land including a major out break at big Ridge near Marion Bridge which was out of control along a 10-mile front. Hundreds of firemen aided by militia units volunteers and provincial workers battled at least 12 separate fires. More than acres of prime Nova Scotia Woodlands have been burned. The Nova Scotia Cabinet will decide today in Halifax whether to ban travel in wooded areas. In Northwestern Ontario about 50 persons in the Small railway Community of Allan water and surrounding area 125 Miles North of Thunder Bay left their Homes Satur Day night As the fire approached the Region. The fire grew to More than acres consuming acres in 24 hours ending Sun Day morning. The ministry of natural re sources reported 45 new fires saturday night and said 29 were put out saturday. Seven teen of the province s 135 fires were burning out of control sunday. John Goodman a ministry official said the ministry estimates More than of Timber including fir Balsam and Jack Pine have burned since april 1. Natural resources minister Leo Bernier said sunday the ministry has shut its Wood related operations in North Ern Ontario where 100 fires started in the last six Days. He said in news release that he wants activities in the Bush to be restricted or Dis continued because right now a Man in the Bush is a Oil billionaire Getty Dies at 83 continued or care about the full extent of his Fortune. He said Dis Cussion of one s wealth is rather besides he said if you can count your Money you Don t have a Bil lion a 1974 a report on his Oil company said Getty held about two thirds of its 20 Mil lion shares. At today s prices that alone would make him Worth nearly billion and he had Many other properties ranging from a Art collection to acres of top real estate in Surrey out English Manor. Getty often said he would rather be a California Beach Comber than a billionaire. Yet with a Seaside mansion wailing for him in Malibu he spent his declining years in his business career so fascinated him that he was still working 10 hours a Day right up to the end. Last wednes Day Bramlett told a reporter Getty was spending full Days in his office determined to Clear up tax problems Over his North sea Oil venture. Eleven countries join to bolster the Pound Washington c p Canada United states and nine other countries have joined with the world Bank to provide emergency credits of billion to bolster the Sag Ging British Pound it was announced today. At Ottawa a Bank of Canada spokesman said Canada will provide up to million As part of the package. The announcement made jointly by the . Federal Reserve system and the trea sury department said the Money will be available in the common interest in the stability and efficient functioning of the International monetary habitat effect on housing in doubt Ron Guarino left and John Matthews won a special notation for endurance and Perse Verance in Charleswood s in motion festival raft race saturday on the Assiniboine River. The men refused to be towed in when Adverse winds held them Miles behind. They said they did t want to be embarrassed by being towed to Shore. Race is an annual affair which attracts an array of floatable Craft in Many different shapes and sizes. The race begins at heading Ley and the rafts float Down the River to the finish line at the perimeter Bridge. Marrow Transfer praised Toronto up the family of a 24-year-old Man suffering from leukaemia who died april 5 after the failure of a Bone marrow transplant says they regard his death not As a failure of science but As an act of god. Arden Elmer Woods of Delta ont., about 20 Miles West of Brockville died at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto More than two months after Bone marrow cells from his younger sister Effie were transplanted into his veins. His family said they believe Ardon got All the benefits of modern Medicine and that the transplant described to them in Advance As a risk was one of the benefits. Or. Woods Learned he had leukaemia in 1974 but was not confined to Hospital until last november. Until then lie made weekly trips to a King Ston ont., Hospital for blood transfusions. By january his life expectancy was Zero or. Daniel Bergsagel Princess mar Garet s chief of staff said. Or. Woods was told about the marrow transplant proce Dure first used in 1939, and he agreed to take the Chance. The risk in marrow trans Plant operations is High. The major difficulty is tissue rejection but in recent years Seattle wash., doctors have made Progress in controlling the rejection by use of Radia Tion and drugs. There were no signs of tis sue rejection but the drugs and radiation therapy reduced or. Woods resistance to infection and he died in april of viral pneumonia. 6 die 135 missing Idaho dam burst alarm cuts toll Idaho Falls Idaho a thousands of persons were warned that a new earthen dam was about to collapse and the Advance notice helped keep the casual toll Low officials say. Those living below the Teton dam scampered to High ground As word of the imminent collapse spread officials said sunday and escaped the Wall of water that left a Muddy wasteland of ruined Homes farms and businesses. Gov. Cecil Andrus who flew Over the Region while workmen on the ground began the cleanup said it would be an absolute Mira Cle if we get by with a Small number of officials said six persons were dead about 120 injured and 135 still missing today f Roni the disaster that caused hundreds of millions of Dol Lars damage in Eastern Idaho on saturday. As the rupture of the 307 foot High dam occurred a warning was being sounded by the sheriff s department and thousands moved to safety on land above the rampaging water. All of a sudden i was paralysed continued then in a second or so i realized something was he dragged or. Wilson and or. Mcdonald who received a burned shoulder out from under the tree then ran for help at the Assoc a t i o clubhouse nearby where participants from a second trial had sought shelter. Another Man ran to the farmhouse to Call help. Or. Howarth a. Winnipeg fireman and a judge at the trial was one of those who worked to revive Frank Schmidt also of Transcona who was later reported in fair condition in Hospital. As the storm moved in we kind of shut the trial we were going to get our rain gear. It did t really look that bad until this happened and the lightning he said in a Telephone inter View. He was about 15 feet away from the tree and Felt some of the Jolt. He suspects his rubber Chest waders saved him. I was standing looking right at it. There was just a blinding Flash what i can remember of it people just crumpled. It was so fast. They just fell right where they he said. One of the dead or. Petrusiak was on the association s executive and pres ident of the Manitoba Labra Dor retriever club. The other dead person Adele Ross 34, of St. James Assiniboia was marshalling the Trail. Bishops split on pipeline Westlock Alta. Up the debate Over the pro posed Mackenzie Valley pipeline has created a serious split Between roman Catholic Bishops of Canada s five northernmost dioceses and Church policy makers Bishop Paul Picoc of Mac Kenzie fort Smith said Here. In an interview he said the rift has become1 so serious Northern Bishops have issued a still secret list of demands concerning a 1975 labor Day message and subsequent statements by the Canadian Catholic Confer ence of Bishops. Bishop Piche was Here on the weekend for the annual convention of the Alberta Council of the Catholic women s league. The 66-year-old Catholic Leader said he and the Bish Ops of the Yukon Hudson Bay James Bay and the Western half of the North West territories have issued a four paragraph critique of the labor Day statement which called on the Catholic Church to re examine its role in the North. He said the Northern Bish Ops were not consulted prior to release of the statement by five leading Bishops and laymen. They realize their mis t a k e and have indicated they la redraft the state said Bishop Piche. He said the Northern Bish Ops do not oppose Calls from the conference of Bishops for just settlement of native land claims but they do oppose the tone of the message and subsequent statements. Vancouver up in Tensive lobbying of official Western delegations by dozens of pressure groups at the United nations habitat conference appears to have had Little effect and there is increasing grumbling that the world conference on human settlements has turned into Little More than circus. Representatives o f non governmental organizations Ngos complain they have been unable to obtain the documents necessary to keep up with rapidly unfolding events at the conference. They say habitat forum the parallel conference of Ngos being held at a converted air base four Miles from the main conference has had Little effect on discus Sions at the main conference. They also say that reluctance of delegations from Industrial nations such As Canada and the United states to discuss Broad economic and political questions that affect human settlements raises doubts about How committed the wealthy nations Are to finding solutions to the prob lems. J. G. Van Putten chairman of the Ngo committee for habitat involved in the organization of habitat forum said in an interview that the Ngos Are not taken seriously by the United nations be cause the word non govern mental has led sometimes to the idea that non governmental Means anti government this idea persists despite the fact that some 160 Ngos were invited to make presentations at habitat forum by the United nations. These in clude International conserva Tion groups architects plan ners and experts in various humanitarian Fields. About Ngos have registered at habitat forum and during the first week the controversial Issue of nuclear proliferation was the Domi Nant topic. Led by such world figures As economist Barbara Ward and anthropologist Margaret Mead the forum presented a wide ranging document to the plenary session of the main conference that among other things called for a moratorium on the construction of nuclear Power plants and urged official delegates to discuss ways of correcting the economic imbalance in the world. But despite continuous lobbying of delegations from the Western nuclear supplier nations such As Canada the . And Britain the matter was skirted at one of the three working committees at the conference Friday. An attempt by Papua new Guinea which has been seek ing a nuclear free zone in the Pacific to introduce an amendment calling for the limiting of Energy technologies known to be Hazard Ous including nuclear Power was watered Down. The word rationalization was substituted for limiting so that the Resolution now reads rationalization of technologies known to be Hazard Ous to the earlier in the week Jeri c h o the official habitat forum newspaper that is widely distributed throughout the City in an in form official delegates about what is taking place at the forum carried a Banner headline that said. Stop the forum the article accompanying the headline quoted or. Rob Ert Macleod As saying the conference was a series of he is head of the school of architecture at the University of British Colum Bia and a member of an observer team of academics appointed by the Canadian government to comment on the habitat conference. There appears to be a serious attempt to ensure that no real communication takes place Between the forum and downtown at the main con he was quoted As saying. Graham Searle head of the official Ngo lobby which has been monitoring the Confer ence working sessions and Button holing delegates said in an interview that More of the Ngo representatives Are getting to know their Dele Gates and the pressure will be kept on during the Confer ence s last week. There Are enough v really concerned outfits Here that can t be dismissed As nutty and they Are going to be he said. But it remains doubtful that any of the official positions held by the delegations will be changed. At a meeting Between . Ngos and the . Delegation to habitat Friday the Ngos pushed delegation head rus Sel Peterson to alter the . Position on nuclear Power plants. It s not have significant new interventions at this he said. I Don t see any arguments to justify changing our Posi at one of a series of regular meetings Between Canadian Ngos and the Canadian Dele gation earlier in the week the delegation was accused of taking a spineless gutless position with regard to Indi an land claims and for not backing an iraqi sponsored motion condemning politically motivated relocation and expulsion of people from their National Canada has refused to Back it because it is tied to earlier in resolutions condemning zionism As a form of racism and is aimed at the pales Tinian situation. The delegation was told that if Canada refused to take a stand on such issues you re hosting one of the biggest carnivals i be Ever seen a car Van Putten said the Ngow have been trying to make the Industrial nations understand that solutions to the massive problems of Buman Settle ments in the third world will never be solved unless the wealthy nations Are willing to make economic concessions. If you want to consider solving these really underly ing problems you have to Dis cuss these he said. The fact is you can t solve any of these major problems of hunger and and Lack of housing until you give these countries the re Canada has consistently maintained that the habitat conference is to Deal with human settlements not with economic questions. Concrete Graves symbolize . Debate Over nuclear risk the anti nuclear have stressed the fear of atomic Power Plant accidents the dangers of handling wastes that stay thousands of years and the spread of atomic weapons they say is inevitable from the plutonium produced by an increasing number of atomic Power plants. Instead of nuclear Power its critics , wind and geothermal Power. Their favorite future Energy source is the Sun which they say will provide limitless Light and heat without polluting the air or water. The pro nuclear have beyond rebuttals questioning the economics and even the motives of their antagonists. They Point out that californians cannot Burn Coal in certain areas be cause of smog restrictions. They note that Congress has taken away their right to Burn Oil and natural Gas by making these scarce fuels illegal sources of electricity in the future. They argue there is no Hydro Power left be cause there arc no dam Sites left. The pro nuclear say they Are for solar Power too but wonder when the company will be Able to use it economically. Solar heating and Cooling systems Cost Between and per Home and arc still auxiliary to Oil or Gas furnaces. So far no one has demonstrated a workable solar electric Plant or a Bat Tery Large enough to durable enough to store solar electricity at night or on Cloudy Days. One estimate of the Cost of developing the solar equivalent of the electricity generated every Day by 1 million barrels of Oil is the toughest critics of California s proposition 15 have been its neighbors. Washington state s Bonneville Power administration has advised its custom ers to expect an Energy shortage in five years warning California that it cannot look to receiving any help if it slows or stops nuclear growth. Arizona Utah new Mexico Nevada and Colorado have All implied an unwillingness to Burn Coal inside their Borders and ship electricity to califor Nia. I be told Federal Energy administrator Frank g. Zarb said recently that if it stops nuclear Energy it needs somewhere Between seven and 15 new Kaipa Rowitser in the next 20 years to keep the lights turned Kirp rowits was the proposed three million kilowatt electric Plant to be fired by Western Coal and built in Utah to transmit electric Power to California that was abandoned by its builders be cause of environmental opposition ear Lier this year. Zarb says he thinks most nuclear critics arc proponents of Zero economic continued growth but mask those beliefs behind concerns for ecology. Unionists and Black leaders whose concern is economic growth have also questioned the anti nuclear movement s motives. Civil rights Leader Bayard Rustin of new York has asked How the nuclear critics propose to fuel economic growth and provide jobs for Blacks. The first Issue about nuclear Power is the question of its safety which gets Back to the Accident in 1961 in which Byrnes Legg and Mckinley died. Mckinley was a Navy technician and Byrnes and Legg army technicians working on an experimental test reactor at Idaho Falls Idaho. Two of them were on top of the stainless steel reactor vessel reassembling a control Rod when the third mistakenly removed the Rod which acts to slow the Chain reaction and keep the atomic missions at a lower rate. No longer kept in Check the Chain reaction took off in what an atomic Energy commission dec safety Board later described As a nuclear Mexcur the temperature inside the reactor vessel skyrocketed tons of water around the nuclear Core flashed instantly to super heated steam and pressures inside the vessel soared to As much As pounds per Square Inch. The 200-ton reactor vessel was torn off the floor hammering the two men on top of the vessel into the Concrete ceiling and killing them instantly. Steam at temperatures of More than degrees exploded into the room bearing huge chunks of radioactive fuel with it. The third Man lived for two hours then died of what the dec said were head injuries. The dec never spelled out these Quence of death because the third Man could t be removed from the reactor room for six Days. His body was so badly burned and decomposed by Radia Tion that the dec did t want relatives to know which of the three he was. For the same reason the Energy re search and development administration still refuses to say which Man was re moved last. Nuclear critics still talk of the Accident because of the horror associated with it. They imply the spectre of a mushroom Cloud behind it even though there was none and could be none in any nuclear Power Plant Accident. The pro no clears use the Idaho Falls Accident in behalf of the Way nuclear lately is Practised today. They Point out that Only the three men working on the reactor died that the Concrete used to enclose the reactor confined the re leased radioactivity to a Small area. They also say the Accident taught the nuclear profession a lesson. Automatic alarms Are built into reactors today to counter the mishandling of control rods. Duplicate devices prevent control Rod mistakes from doing damage. There have been other nuclear Power Plant accidents none fatal. The debate Over safety has often been hypothetical a what if kind of argument that May never end. The Cali fornia debate has made the safety Issue More intense especially since the Resig nations last year of three engineers who had worked for general electric com Pany the second biggest builder of nuclear Power plants in the world. A11 three had joined the quasi religious creative initiative foundation a decision they took secretly a year be fore they announced their fears Over nuclear safety. Much More Public concern has been voiced Over the handling of radioactive wastes an Issue the Federal government has allowed to grow because it keeps postponing its decision on How where and when to dispose of the waste. The uranium fuel first loaded into a nuclear Power Plant produces 500 curies of radiation not enough to kill anyone. By the time it missions for one year it contains five billion curies or enough to kill half the residents of a City the size of Washington. The spent fuel produced by the world s atomic Power plants is stored in pools of water next to the plants where it can stay safely forever. Because it can be stored there indefinitely a Deci Sion on finding a permanent and Remote storage site has been postponed by the government four times in the last 10 i year s. In the first Public test on nuclear safety a yes vote tuesday on califor Nia s proposition 15 might kill nuclear Power in the state and delay it for years in 30 other states where 85 nuclear plants now Are being built at a Cost of almost s75 billion. Even a close no vote could put a crimp in nuclear plans because Banks would be reluctant to loan Money or nuclear construction if other states Fol Low California s example. Oregon Washington and Colorado nuclear initiatives on the bal lot for november and Michigan Ohio Oklahoma and North Dakota arc considering such a move. The eyes of those Stales will be on California tuesday ;