Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press by Gerry Cairns a Happy carry que Rel and his Cheque neglected lottery ticket cashed in far by Paul Moloney Garry thought hed Check the number of the Western express ticket that had been lying on the television set for a few he phoned his girl Friend monday she told him the ticket was Good for so much for those monday morning he then called the Western Canada lottery which said the ticket was Worth because the Block number ill be there in five Garry his had Pur chased tickets for the family on the 29 As she normally does for each this the one with Garry name on it c03 49613 sat innocently on tiie television because que Rel and her husband left 28 for a hawaiian Vaca que Rel usually checks the her son As it turned while Garry was calmly discussing his Windfall at the lottery foundation his parents were already their flight from Hawaii was to arrive in Winnipeg monday of Garry and his older said they would be at the Airport to meet ill probably give 50 thousand to my mom and George Garry at his brother re first of in going to Fly to California and buy a leather suit for snowmobile Garry estimated that would take care of about the rest is staying in the Bank and ill take it out As i need who has no full time is a weekend Snow Mobile running two modified machines capable of 85 or 90 the wind fall will Likely help him get to More Distant american he the family gravel trucking business is currently being moved to Winnipeg from and the family is thinking of building a House George although Garry splits his time Between the two he put the Woodridge address on his Woodridge needs the pub i he although George suggested Garry might consider bring ing his newfound capital into the family Garry was keeping his options other than the racing he had no Concrete plans for the be was Len lottery t i o n said it want uncommon for tickets to be claimed Long after the actual one Winner find a parking space outside the foundation offices and didst come in until a week Zebb the foundation seemed to be in an especially Benevo Lent mood earlier that a Che que was handed to a 67year old Winner from Gabriola is near Van Couver Spivak seeks nod in River Heights former provincial conservative Leader Sidney plans to seek Senomi Natum in his River Heights constituency while leaving open the possibility of running Federal the announcement came at press conference monday at the Law office of Ken Fil president of the River Heights progressive conservative this int my As a matter of fact i didst in tend to be spi Vak said before listening to Filkow read a prepared statement in which the association executive asked unanimously that Spivak be the party Filkow said he knew of no other the nomination meeting is to be held Spivak repeated that he has been asked to run in the next Federal election but he would decide that when the time m Filkow said party Leader Sterling Lyon had been invited to the constituency nomination contacted said he had Only Learned of the meeting sunday and be attending be cause he Hud a previous commitment at a Thompson nomination Lyon said Spivak intention to run provincially came As no Surprise to Lyon also said he is encouraging All sitting conservative members to seek re asked about a possible Cabinet Post in a Lyon government Spivak smiled and said that decision want up to Lyon chuckled at the i Haven announced Cabinet posts that a question you can ask me the Day after the he City news a Neafcy 1977 2nd number in warm ice Hydro Bill increases inevitable whoever wins Power Huband Liberal Leader Charles he band of Manitoba said Mon Day that Manit Baas can expect further and Mote sub Stantial rate increases for Manitoba Hydro regardless of which party wins the next provincial husband said yester Days announced increase was kept to a minimum be cause of an expected Provin Cial election this year and indicated that rates will have to double in coming years to cover Hydro mounting Capi Tal Manitoba Hydro new rate Structure will increase average residential Hydro Bills by up to 20 per cent or More depending on consume Hydro officials said the in crease was made necessary by continued High interest increases in the costs of goods and services and by Low water Levels in the prov inces Rivers and Don a Hydro spokesman said that if these conditions a similar increase is possible next Huband the real reason for the rate increase is that capital costs associated with the construction of Power developments on the Nelson River have gone far beyond what was this will have to be paid for by Sterling Leader of the Manitoba progressive conservative said mis management of Hydro affairs by premiered Schreyer and Lus administration since 1969 is responsible for successive rate Lyon i cant be surprised by the rate in Only concerned about the Impact it will have on the Cost of living in Mani while prices Are begin Ning to stabilize in other Hydro rates keep going Hydro former assistant general Kris Krist who quit Hydro when the Utility decided to regu late Lake Winnipeg in the rate increase is a direct result of the Pepsi cola will face 3 charges Winnipeg bottlers of Pepsi cola will appear in Provin Cial judges court 4 on a charge of allowing unsanitary conditions to exist in food handling the charge refers specific c a 11 y to Glass fragments found on a bottle enforcement officer for the Manitoba Environ ment management said Pepsi cola has also been charged with manufacturing food soft drinks under unsanitary conditions and unlawfully operating a food handling establishment while it want All three charges fall under the Public health t o m b i said the charges arose out of a Rou Tine inspection of the bottling Plant by Bis office 17 but we rent Laid until last earlier this month the same c h a g e s were Laid against pop Shoppe bottlers in mistakes the waste of More than Kristjanson said Lake Winnipeg regulation and the Churchill River diversion project will result in the unnecessary and redundant expenditure of by 1978 and further rate in creases i the Kristjanson said Low water Levels in the province should not affect Hydro Good planning is done to take care of the worst Condi the decision to regulate Lake Winnipeg and to simultaneously divert the Chur chill River was made by Premier Schreyer in 1971 after a study by former Hydro chairman David cast tried getting a Tow lately depending on the service a Tow for your Bro Ken Down car can take any where from one hour to 12 a Survey of five Winnipeg towing companies monday morning turned up a wide Range of estimated waiting the longest estimated 12 came from Mcarthur towing that with five locations in the answers Calls for Many City car and that keeps them a dispatcher in the North end Centre of Mcarth the company has 30 trucks with eight More getting ready to go on the but there were still so Many Calls its really the dispatcher during the when dealers were the estimated Given by Mcarthur was two All towing services contacted said the situation has been bad since the cold weather set i the first of the at Majestic towing ser most of the Calls being received now Are for tows in Stead of Battery there were More boosts at the first of the the Majestic dispatcher but its mostly Tow with six trucks on the was giving a half hour to Ocean Dahal hour estimated delay for towing service monday at Highfield Gulf 209 marys there were four Tow Calls awaiting service monday but the wait was for an indefinite period because requests for Booster service were being answered there was a two hour estimated wait for a Tow truck from Transcona towing ser and for the truck Driver with a stalled there was an estimated on hour delay for a Tow from ways towing 708 Dufferin Day Nursery fears financial squeeze too tight Knox Day Nursery is looking to the provincial government and the United Way to help it out of a financial crisis that could cause the daycare Centre to close if a solution int in a letter to parents and president of the said m o b d a y that insufficient Revenue to maintain a pro Gram of Good Quality is provided from government sources sources of Revenue were explored but the size and regularity of our requirements is such that Only government could logically handle Pjeter we must borrow funds to continue and try even harder to find the necessary if Are it is at Best a Short term if we Are we will have to close our Esther executive director of the said in a Telephone interview the Centre needs operating funds of to More than what is currently budgeted providing it experiences no Cost a two year agreement with its 14 Mezaber represented by the Canadian Union of Public expires March no negotiations have yet taken Korchynski noted staff salaries account for 80 to 90 per Ceat of the centres budget and any salary in crease will further affect its financial the Nursery receives reve nue from daily fees and provincial government la it receives about a Day per but in 1976 it needed a la this coming fiscal year april to it could need be tween and she in the Centre Cost to run while reve n u e s totalled Only about the Centre at 409 Edmon ton Street is open 11 hours a it cannot Cut Back on services or staff and still re main in Good standing with the City of Winnipeg which licenses it to serve 80 Chil Dren aged two to five by it serves Low income new immigrants and others no cart afford to pay More for the Korczynski so toe Centre is looking for both a Short term solution to its immediate financial Trou Bles and a Longi Erm Provin Cial response to problems of daycare funding problems which Are affecting a number of centres a the she the Cost of daycare cant be shouldered by parents and operating at Low in come the province has to realise1 this and bring its financial policy in line with its daycare Korczynski she described the Provin Cial first started in the fall of As placing the centres on fixed the daily fee per child is regulated at while the province also provides direct Grants to centres of a maximum a child a year and special Startup the province also provides full and partial de pending on the results of in come to parents woo use the prior to the Knox Centre had been funded through a different Branch of the health and social devel o p m e n t the method of funding allowed for a varied per diem fee which absorbed past budget deficits and increased Korchynski said no meetings have been planned with provincial officials to discuss the centres financial weve been told Over and Over again not to expect any she Centre officials Howe planning to meet with the United Way to see if that Agency can help in parents Wiljo use toe Nursery Are planning an emergency meeting at thursday at the Nursery fitness expert blasts Lack of prevention by Manfred Jager no matter How govern ments try to go about they wont be Able to Cut the National health Bill As Long As the medical profession continues to practise disease oriented health Kenneth one of the leading physical fitness experts in the United until lieutenant colonel in the air where he devel oped his aerobics approach to physical was in Winnipeg monday in his capacity As founder and director of the aerobics Centre in Texas to address a meeting of the Winnipeg dental society at the International More than 300 their clinical staff and dental students paid each to hear Cooper who has published three books on aerobics and is about to pub Lish a we provide too much health care too Cooper in the disease oriented approach to medi Cine there has been a 13fold increase in health costs in our country since total Cost has gone from Bil lion Only 26 years ago to Al most billion in in sure you have the same problem in the interest in both preventive health care and in physical fitness is growing throughout the United states Cooper and because More people keep themselves there has been a 12percent de crease in deaths from heart attacks in the since 1968 the first such develop ment in the history of our Cooper at the same Howe there still was indisputable evidence that in 1975 alone some Ameri cans died As a direct result of their smoking there can be no question about it smoking is one of the tragedies of american life its one of the most serious health hazards of our Cooper Coopers health Centre recommends thorough physical examinations every two years for people under at 18month intervals Between age 30 and 35 and annual checkups after some people say annual checkups after age but we pick up too much disease Between 35 and 4c to let it go More than a year after a person reaches 35 years of the Cost in Dallas the United states has no medi care program is for an that not All that expensive when you look at the end look at people with serious heart the Only alternative we have in this Day and age is coronary bypass surgery a procedure i which blocked arteries feeding the heart muscle Are replaced with vessels trans planted from the patients this kind of operation probably prolongs the life of some people and even that is yet consider that in 1976 we had Over coronary bypass proce dures done in our at a Cost of Over you cant Cut Down the Cost of medical care when you put out that kind of Money in disease care at about for one opera Tion this Cooper said preventive and fitness oriented Medicine is catching on among certain circles in the american med ical profession even though theres no profit in too Many people still wont go to their physician when there Well they go to their physician Only when there at the same physicians Arent trained sufficiently in the area of preventive As i say theres no profit in health that Why so Many physicians dont practise strictly preventive health As for the value of physical fitness and its relationship to Coo per said the latter is now firmly were now documenting without question the value and role that exercise plays in the maintenance of Good in one we looked at if they were in Good physical they had lower Levels of Choles t e r o blood blood had a lower weight and had less body we have research data on our computers and in some major publications in the scientific literature now that you cant in we we we in 1977 we can Tell photo Cooper too much health care too late 1976 sees million in building for Winnipeg rises in a year the value of All construction in the Winnipeg area in 1976 Rose per cent Over the previous according a report of the cites environmental planning depart the report was presented monday to civic environment a total of building permits was issued in for buildings Worth a total of according to the this compared with permits in 1975 for buildings Worth a total of Mil East with permits for buildings Worth a total of was the area of greatest construction activity during the the report the Rural municipality of tache showed the least building a with permits for 11 buildings Worth a total of the years total included single family Sheds and 353 duplex and Semi detached 183 Triplex and Row 114 Public buildings and 99 warehouses and Public 73 inst t u 11 o u a 1 and government 51 factories and manufacturing 34 apartment 14 stores and six there were permits issued for alterations and the report showed the City issued 42 demolition permits during 1975 and 10 building removal City asked to transform area to pedestrian mall a proposal that the City spend transforming the architecturally valuable North Albert Street area into a pedestrian oriented activity Centre was a a report Mon Day to civic environment committee decided to defer examination reveals no evidence of foul play a postmortem Examina Tion of the body of 16year old Dennis Dwight Mann has revealed no evidence of foul play although three or four Days of tests will be required to determine the cause of a police spokesman said the boys Snow covered Frozen body was found Fri Day by Winnipeg police on the South Bank of the Assiniboine immediately West of the Osborne who had been living with Bis sister at 7s5 notre Dame last seen consideration of the report until when a representative of the old Market Square a group of area merchants who helped formulate the propos can make a included in the proposal Are Worth of Side walk and Street improve ments on Albert Between my Dermot and William ave including conversion of Albert Between Bannatyne William into a Pedes Trian a further would go to improving the Trian sulier Park bounded by King and the Federal under us heritage Canada intends to invest up to in live area u Ine City also makes a ii Uncial ;