Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free puss tuesday june a 1976 Public Speaks out today on a sat Ety report forecasts Bright renewable Energy picture i i a Nosir Tii Atud renewable svs Tenis. Los Angeles i a a proposal on today s primary election ballot in California provide the first test of Public reaction in the United states to the question of nuclear Power safety. The out come might have National Impact on atomic Energy As a source for electricity. Proposition 15. The nuclear Power plants initiative is the first of 16 similar proposals pending in the l a. No one is predicting the outcome and at one Point pollster Mervin Field said the Public was incredibly con fused on the crucial Issue of nuclear Energy development versus guaranteed safety from radiation. The most important Issue facing Califon ians in at least said Assem Blyman Charles Warren a Democrat from los Angeles Assembly committee held hearings on the subject last year. Colorado and Oregon have similar initiatives on their november ballots proposition 15 asks voters to say yes 1 or no to a safety plan so stringent it might shut Down the state s three existing nuclear plants by and hamper Progress 011 two plants nov under construction. The proposition would not in itself cause a shutdown or ban nuclear plants. But it would leave in the hands of the legislature a decision by 1979 on whether plants can operate safely and nuclear waste can be stored without risk. If these requirements Are not met. Existing plants would have to reduce output to 6 per cent of licensed capacity a 19s1 and shut Down by 1987 unless the safety verdict changed. Utility companies say tins would Force them to seek Al Ternate sources of electricity increasing expense and Possi ble pollution. The controversial proposal also would remove the Utility companies shield of a s56u million liability limit in the event of a nuclear disaster. Ottawa up a Back ground study prepared for the Federal government estimates sources could provide any where from two to four per cent of the country s total Energy requirements by 1990. The study also says that with the support of a reason Able development the percentage could Rise to 20 per cent of Energy needs by the year 2020. Thai Leport was prepared by Peter Middleton and associates Ltd. Of Toronto for the Federal Energy mines and resources department. It forecasts that a number of renewable As solar Power for space and water heating and wind Gen be technically and commercially competitive before 1990. Other electricity produced f r o in photo cells and methanol Gas from Wood and Wood will increase the renewable Energy share of the Market if costs can be reduced. The report says research and development on renewable sources is proceeding in Canada at a slow puce with minimal funding support and no serious Industrial involve no Central government Agency has been Given Clear responsibility for renewable Energy development adding that such an Agency might provide information to those interested in the subject. If it is agreed that Rene Wable Energy resources can and should Supply a significant percentage of Canada s future needs then certain Steps must be taken As soon As the report said. It adds that decisions made now on design of housing use of lands and forests and in vestments in High Cost fron tier Energy sources May unnecessarily circumscribe this the report also says some changes could be made Al most immediately to accommodate new Energy technologies. An example would b e locating new housing where feasible and designing them to take advantage of solar heating. Some Small scale solar space and water heating is Al ready feasible it says encouraged they could pave the Way fur widespread acceptance of More sophisticated renewable in its recent Energy policy statement the Federal Energy department said the renewable sources will Only make a major contribution to supplies Over the Long term. There would be no major Impact for at least the next 10 to 15 years. Rain cuts element from Northwest Ontario forests Mediterranean Type Arctic mess feared unless cleanup skills found 11 i i a. Tin it n n n n Munich memory hangs Over Israel Tel Aviv Lapi v our years after u of it sports men Imir dered at Mun Ich the israeli olympic com Mittee is planning Israel s largest and strongest olym Pic team the Mon Treal games. Let s just Hope the crazy men with guns stay Home and watch the games on Televik s i o n this olympic team director Shmuel Halkin said monday. Israel will Send a Dele a t i o n of 50 athletes and coaches to the 21st olympic games twice the size of the team decimated by Arab terrorists in 1972. Only two survivors of the terror attack Are scheduled to make to Montreal. Except Lor the Black stripes on their uniforms the new israeli olympians will display no memorials of the siege and shootout at Munich that killed same of Israel s top sports men. Our athletes will be under no special Security restrict Halkin said in an interview. Halkin. Who narrowly escaped the terrorists at Mun Ich says Canada has taken sincere consideration of Israel s Security risks at Mon Treal. But the canadians will not allow israeli guards to accompany the team. Israeli sports officials say. However that Israel has Man aged to arrange Protection for its athletes abroad in pre Vious events. They decline to elaborate. Some countries take a travel risk when they go to the olympics and we take a terror risk but it does no Good to Halkin said. We never considered drop Ping out of olympic Competition alter Munich this is the greatest youth meeting Ever organized. We can t stay Israel has never finished better than eighth place in an olympic event since it began. Competing in 1952. But a painstaking rebuilding pro Gram following the terror at tack has bolstered the chances of at least two ath letes who will be threats at Montreal. By the Canadian Puess Forest fires continue to Burn today on hundreds of thousands of acres in various parts of Canada but More rain was expected in some areas of the Atlantic prov inces and Ontario where a number of fires were brought under control monday with the help of Damp weather. Rain helped firefighters Gam an upper hand monday on Forest fires which had in d a n g e r e d communities in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Sunny warm weather was expected today in Nova Scotia but showers were fore cast for the Newcastle . Area where three fires continued to Burn monday. An official of the Ontario ministry of natural resources said some rain and damage in storage fire a fire in a storage room at 54 Adelaide Street about . Tuesday caused about s5.000 damage to Merchan Dise owned by Cutler distributors Ltd. And the building a Winnipeg fire department spokesman said. Christmas decorations toys and other goods were destroyed in the Blaze which was under investigation by the provincial fire commissioner s office. Weather monday provided re spite in Northwestern Ontario where the fire situation ear Elswood f. Bole will be honoured by St. Boniface Hospital at a testimonial dinner wednesday i the Holiday inn. Or. Bole retired this year from the Hospital where he served As executive assistant and consultant since 1974. Or. Bole has also been mayor of the former City of St. Vital chairman of a. Number of Manitoba government boards and was executive director of the former metropolitan corporation of greater Winnipeg. The dinner is upon to All associates and friends of or. Bole. Lier had been called explosive. Seventy fires were Burn ing m c n d a y in the area where there had been 98 Sun Day. Three new fires started monday compared with 41 new ones sunday the official said. Environment Canada is sued a severe thunderstorm advisory monday for part Northwestern Ontario and said rain was expected today in most of the Northwestern area where fires have consumed about 275.000 acres. About 100.000 acres is the average Lor an entire fire sea Sou from 1 to oct. 31. An Aerial assault which a resources ministry spokes Man said was the largest Ever against Forest fires in Ontario was begun monday. Quebec and Alberta also battling Forest fires of their own helped Supply Ontario with firefighters and equipment. Meanwhile Cool overcast weather and showers helped contain 15 fires which had burned during the weekend in Newfoundland. In the Deer Lake area of Western Newfoundland three water bombers were used to Battle a fire covering an area six Miles Long. Rain helped the fight against two major Forest fires on Cape Breton Island . London. Out. Of an ecological disaster in the arc tic is inevitable unless the Federal government develops a technology to handle Oil spills i the North a scientific conference was told monday. Or. Don Mackay of the University of Toronto presented a paper on Oil and the Arctic to a seminar at the an Nual convention of the Chemi Cal Institute of Canada. Or. Mackay said exploitation of Oil reserves beneath the Beaufort sea will inevitably Lead to Oil spills both ashore and at sea. So far he said no one really knows what effects such a spill would have on the Deli Cate environment of the arc tic nor is there adequate technology to clean up such spills. Based on an estimate that two billion barrels of Oil lie beneath the Beaufort sea he said he. Expects at least 34 spills involving More than ban7 a million barrels of Oil. Or. Mackay said about Arctic pipeline savvy shared Anchorage Alaska f renter a delegation of High level soviet scientists arrived in Anchorage on Mon Day for an 11-Day tour to study construction of Arctic pipelines. The eight Man delegation is part of a United states soviet scientific Exchange program on permafrost pipelines and environmental Protection. The scientists will be briefed by officials of the Alyeska pipeline service co., which is building the 800 mile trans Alaska pipeline and representatives of Federal and state monitoring offices. They will go to Fairbanks on wednesday to study the University of Alaska Arctic program. On thursday the group will tour the naval Arctic research. Laboratory at Point the northernmost place in the United states. Ban Els would be spilled into the Ocean and a further 240.000 would be depo sited along the Mackenzie River Valley. His computations indicated that such spills would cause severe pollution of the Beau fort sea. At Best the sea would become As polluted As the Mediterranean consid ered the world s most polluted sea. No one knows the effect s of Oil on the Arctic he said nor is there any data on what happens to Large quantities of crude Oil spilled into Chilly Northern seas or on the ice. He said experiments in the Mackenzie v a 1.1 e y indicate spills on land in the Arctic have Little effect outside the immediate areas and Al though they Are unsightly they eventually disappear leaving Little permanent dam age. He said the sea is another matter and the Federal government should immediately begin work on developing technology to clean up Oil Slicks in Northern areas. Weather report a or the Prairie provinces no major changes in Prairies weather is foreseen in the next few Days. Patches of moist unstable air will persist Over Alberta giving scattered Shower activity. Saskatchewan and Manitoba generally will be sunny today with some afternoon and evening showers across Southern areas. Cloud and show ers across Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan will increase tomorrow due to a weak disturbance moving northwestward from the Central United Stales. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today . James Charles. M. Of 9ss Erin Street husband of go Rakling Behan. King Ham. Orval Leslie. 7ij, h u s b a n d of Dougald Bingham. Bland. John in in Hus band of Rhoda Bland. Cartwright. Sarah Jane 89, widow of Sain Cartwright. Dubowsky Walter. 3s, of Kisher Branch. Man. For. Lloyd Lames. 53, of Vita Man., husband of i via Foy. Franks. Allan 49. Formerly heading Ley Man., lists and of Lillian Franks. H a r t w i g Delia go or Emerson. Man., wife of a thur Hatwig. Heath. Reginald Walter of 126 Lindsay Street. Ile Idaul. Sign 89, formerly of Stonewall. Man., widow of Nels Heidahl. H 0 s e a George of Winnipeg formerly of Prague. Czechoslovakia husband of Ellena Urosek. Lanyo a Robert Samuel. 52. Of Moray Street. St. James husband of june Lanyon. Loel i by Cornelius. J8, of 373 Alba n y Street. Is. Lames husband of Marie Loeppky. L v s Ujj n g Corporal Daryl deaths Edward of British Colum Bia husband of Beverly Sens. J. Koss. Of -ios1 Ruby Avenue. Vancouver husband of Margaret Jjck Gavin. Maaichi k. Anne. St. Of Staple ton Street East Kil d o n a n wife of Ulickas Mamchur. Mcdonald. Annie of Cen trial Park Lodye 70 Poseidon Bay. Mcdowell. Johns. In 31 Dunkirk place. St. Vital. No Uklin. Edith a. X. Of 8tt Battershill Street. Oci Litwa. I Atricia Ann 34, of a a k Winnipeg Avenue wife of Michael chits a. Olink1n, Mary Ann go. Of 5 2 rave Stone Avenue t i a c o n a widow of Walter Martin Linkin. Rabnett Alice of 53 Carl ton struck. Suite 12, widow of Alfred Rabnett. Kamsay. Charles Donald. 725 landside Street. K1ley. Elizabeth Jane 89, of 575 Renfrew Street widow of Joseph Riley. Ross Adele 34, of 801 Park Dale Street. Kirkland Park wife of Victor Ross. Re Twig. Anna 77, .103-777 Sargent Avenue widow of Rudolph Zullig. Schwab John 1m, 691 Aberdeen Avenue. S1gukdsox, Skafti. 76, of Lakeland. Man., husband us Gudrun Sigurdson. Sup eve. Johann. A of 157 Avalo drive wife of Ajic Licul sup Csc. I 1 o r further information see classified to Catli indices. By the Canadian press Chatham 1 Bobby Hackett. 61, Well known trumpet player and band Leader of a heart at tack. Tattooing tattooing became a High society fad in this country in the and 1890 a after european Royalty started sporting tattoos. Women i wore them like jewelry in the form of necklaces and bracelets or butterflies permanently poised in the neck and shoulder areas i but if your taste runs to other types of obits d Art be sure to Check the Antiques for Sale in today s free press classified forecast for Winnipeg. Bissett Interlake and red River regions occasional Cloudy periods later this afternoon and evening with a Chance of a Shower or Thunder Shower. Occasional Cloudy periods wednesday with a few showers. Low tonight near 12 a High wednesday near 25 c. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba near Normal temperatures with a Good Chance of rain thursday. Northern Manitoba near Normal temperatures with rain Likely in the Vicinity of Manitoba lakes thursday. Northwest Ontario near Normal temperatures with a Good Chance of rain thursday and Friday. Temperatures following Are High temperatures re Corck a yesterday Low Tempe nites Tor inc 12-hour period which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Today limited time Only Danci min. Kong 28 Calgary Edmonton 5 18 8 Kiev 23 v. Lisbon 23 Regina Brandon 26 i the Pas City 2- 16 Thunder Bay 27 Kenora Ottawa Toronto 23 30 16 to ?-8 16 Rome 23 u Sao Paulo 26 is Seoul 21 Montreal Chicago 28 32 23 Stockholm 15 Miami los 32 m Tehran 35 Aviv 26 new York 26 Boston Phoenix min. 7 22.8 Athens year 22.3 21.7 Beirut Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Copenhagen Frankfurt Geneva 11 in in i Iti on record 32.8 in 1972 lowest on record -1.7 in 1901 precipitation total for april 1 to june 8 Limeres Norn Iol 113.s win a dance course you la win a dance course you can unscramble these puzzles t. He omm Ctm til in yer it wort i m Tut ill i to the tango my g limited to fit 50 pit sent students not Ali Gilt this program is sponsored Tor the purpose of acquiring a list of people who May be interested in receiving _ information about dancing and relat 1 de arts of available through our dance club. World of dance Fred Astaire studios i Portage ave. 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