Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday july civic emergency declared in Edmonton after 90mm rainstorm Edmonton up a rain storm which soaked Central North Alberta began moving eastward late tuesday. Environment Canada ended the heavy rain warning for the Edmonton Edson and Western red Deer regions tuesday eve Ning but said the Low pressure area responsible for the storm was moving to Saskatchewan. Meanwhile weather reports and satellite photographs indicated another severe Thunder storm was moving into an area extending 50 Kilometres on either Side of a line extending from Dauphin to the Pas in Western Manitoba. Yorkton in Eastern Saskatchewan was hit by a Brief storm tuesday evening with hailstones damaging some cars. Edmonton meanwhile was re covering from the estimated 90 Millimetres of rain which fell in an 18-hour period amount equal to the average rainfall the City normally gets in the entire month of july. A civic Emer gency was declared in the City of most of the rain fell in a four hour period tuesday morn ing overwhelming the City s storm sewer system and sending Runoff flood Waters into streets basements and condominium apartment units. Scores of roads were closed most of them in Low lying areas As the swirling Waters caused mudslides and Cave ins. As miniature lakes built up around railway underpasses and at Bridge approaches City police stepped in to close off All approaches to the North Saskatchewan River Valley which curves through the Centre of the City in an East West direction. Eight of the nine Bridges across the River were closed to traffic at the height of the flooding although most were reopened As the storm tapered off in the Early afternoon. City firemen rescued about 10 persons from flooded condominiums and private houses some of them from rooftops As they responded to 40 Calls for help. All of the City s water and sanitation Crews were diverted from their Normal duties to help with flood emergencies. An emergency office set up by the City received about 100 Calls an hour in the first three hours of operation. Brief Telephone and Power fail ures were reported and some offices sent employees Home Early. Traffic snarls developed As motorists sought to find routes not affected by flood water. Major sports events were can celled including a Canadian football league game a women s Golf tournament and a horse racing meet. The provincial government gave passing consideration to the possibility of declaring the City a disaster area but the move was rejected after a report from the disaster services Branch. Deputy Premier Hugh Homer said the storm appeared to be More. Apparent inconvenience and possible disaster to Only a few but not disaster to a Large Homer said people sometimes jump to a conclusion too quickly. You would Only declare a disaster area if there in fact was a major disaster. If there s flooding and that kind of thing. While it s an inconvenience and maybe a disaster to some it s not a disaster in two people were rescued from the roof of their House in the Mill Creek Ravine area on the South Side of the River Valley tuesday after they were surrounded by flood water. Police said water reached almost to the roof line of the House and the occupants were rescued by firefighters in a boat. The roof of a warehouse be longing to a department store collapsed. There was no damage estimate available. Cite to was forced to leave the air after the television studio was flooded and some electrical equipment was damaged. Miniature lakes were formed around Bridge approaches tinder railway underpasses and at scores of City intersections when the City s sewer system was unable to Cope with the deluge. Hydro Selling that costly piece of land Manitoba Hydro has put up for Sale a half acre property Iii East St. Paul after paying More for the land than a private appraisal company considered it was Worth. Tenders for the land which includes what a Previ Ous owner Calls a next to nothing close thurs Day july 27. The property was originally owned by Csc Winnipeg producer Marvin perhoch. Hydro bought the property for its High powered transmission line to Minnesota but later decided it was no longer needed. The Public Utility paid for the property As Well As As a disturbance fee and for perhoch s Legal expenses. Perhoch bought the property eighteen months earlier for he said he called in an appraiser from the Royal Trust before discussing a Price with Hydro. Royal Trust came up with a figure of said Ter Hoch. Hydro offered me he said when Hydro changed its mind about buying his property he threatened Legal action. Die fears Rise of dictatorship Calgary up prime minister Trudeau s plans to change the Canadian Constitution were criticized Mon Day by former prime minister John Diefenbaker. The progressive conservative my for Prince Albert told a news conference that Trudeau s proposals to Amend the British North America act amount to a passport for dictatorship and Are More dangerous to the future of Canada than anything else that has taken place since conned among the changes proposed by Trudeau would give the prime minister a Power no one outside a dictatorship would have asked Diefenbaker said. His criticism centred on Trudeau s plan to increase he status and Powers of the governor general a propos Al which Diefenbaker said involves a pretence that can Ada will retain the monarchy but divest the Queen of All authority. The governor general would have All the attributes authority and prestige of the he said. The Queen would no longer have any legislative author Ity and would be replaced by a political appointment chosen by Trudeau he said. If Trudeau gets this with All the smiling facade he adopts Canada has Diefenbaker said. It will give the prime minister the right to say to going to end the monarchy system and anything connected with British heritage " Diefenbaker challenged to Ilcau to publish the text of a speech he made in Quebec City during 1976, so the peo ple of Canada will have the fullest information in this re during that speech to the Federal Branch of the Liberal party in Quebec Trudeau discussed his plans for constitutional Reform. If. One of these Days we abolish the monarchy she the Queen will not be the head of state any More it will be someone else in this Case Jules Leger it will be someone i will Trudeau said. It docs not mean according to the present Constitution that he or she will be better than the Queen but it will be a Republican parliamentary Diefenbaker said Trudeau s constitutional plans arc a product of cuckoo land and show that Trudeau s Patron Saint he called the draft Constitution a smoke screen to cover the shortcomings of his administration which tru Deau could use to set our whole constitutional system the exact wording of draft legislation relating to the head of state is the executive government of and Over Canada shall be vested in the governor general of Canada on behalf and in the name of the steel Mill plan wins support Cox beaut. Ohio a . Steel proposed steel Mill won wide support at a hearing tuesday but environmentalists accused the company of hiding the project s possible harmful effects. About 306 persons attended a . Army corps of Engi neers hearing that was Punk to died by cheers and cat Calls. The session was the first of four designed to draw Public comment on the proposed Mill which would Span the Ohio Pennsylvania Border along Lake Erie. The Mill should . Steel decide to build it would rep resent the largest . Corporate investment i a single Plant and would employ at fati production. Police Are investigating a shooting inc Jent at the free press building at about 4 . Wednesday. Were after a was of Cattoi is a Dow on rhe North East Comer . A spokesman for the paper said he of no a Easum were reported. Photo motorists stranded by flood Waters in downtown Edmonton get to dry land by Canoe divorce unneeded to get Hospital Aid new York a a woman whose husband feared he would have to divorce her so she could qualify for Federal medical Aid will get the Hospital treatment she needs with out having to end the 36-year marriage. Marie Nini. 56, was admitted today to Bird s. Coler Hospital for treat ment of Huntington s disease a debilitating neurological disorder. And the state will begin reassessing her application for medicaid the govern ment program. The move was requested tuesday by gov. Hugh Carey after he read news reports quoting her husband Howard. 63, As saying he must divorce his wife to make her eligible. As a retired truck Driver he said he could not cover the medical Bills any longer. Nini said he was quite relieved to hear the governor s offer of help. I was trying to take care of her myself. It s at a stage where i can t do it any he said he would have to sell his Home bought after almost three dec Ades of saving in order to cover the annual medical Bills of it would also take most of his social Security benefits and a pension total ing a month he said explaining that state Law limits income of medic Aid recipients to a year. I have no grounds for Nini said when told by Carey aides the state was working on the problem. I made it Clear to them that i would pay what i could he said. I m not looking for a free Carey assistant Robert Schiffer said mrs. Nini might be covered by what he called a catastrophic clause under medicaid or by the state s developmental disability program. Tea consumer Price Index thaw graphs tit to Facto of the about Tow alarming in comm in food Price in Canada. Tha Ona at ten a Cona Umar Index Menam to is 75 for mama which in 1971 coat tha graph at right shows Only food anew which incr Aazaad to s211 for tha mama amount of food which could be bought for in 1971. To food prot Mai tha past 12 months has jumped 9.2 per cant inflation rate now 9.2 details revealed of Sokov trial Ottawa the soviet new Agency no Vosti has distributed an article Here purporting to provide details surrounding the recent trial in Moscow of Canadian Citi zen Asia Sokov. Mrs. Sokov 52, a former russian citizen who later re sided in Montreal was sentenced in june to eight years in a labor Camp for trying to smuggle jewelry out of the country. Officials at Moscow s Sherem Stievo Airport reported find ing jewelry said by soviet authorities to be Worth on mrs. Sokov As she was leaving in january after a month s visit with friends. Canadian embassy spokesmen in Moscow said they were satisfied mrs. Sokov was treated according to soviet Law but expressed Surprise and concern to soviet authorities at the severity of the sentence two years less than the maximum. The no Vosti article contradicts testimony Given by mrs. Sokov during her two Day trial and goes into alleged details of her life in the Ukraine. No Vosti says she retreated with the fascist regime and the Hitler ites to Germany in 1943. The article goes on to admonish Western tourists who try to establish contracts in the soviet Union with people who do not accept that country s attitudes and Way of life. Canadian officials have said they were surprised at the severity of the sentence because mrs. Sokov admit Ted her guilt and co operated during the investigation. Her russian lawyer has entered an Appeal which is expected to be heard this month. North okays alternative to continued Bill Mcdonald chairman of the Leaf rapids committee said Brough has presented submissions to the crts for licences for his 16 Ontario stations but they Haven t made any ruling however the commission has listed seven reasons for rejecting the applications and has called Public hearings in Thunder Bay next october to hear from anyone interested in establishing stations in those communities. The commission has also indicated they d like to see the Manitoba communities applying for licences to operate inc Pendant of the network. The local groups Aren t enthusiastic about the suggestion. They feel there would be Many complications such As the procurement of tapes which Are now supplied by Brough. They would also be responsible for the maintenance and replacement of equipment. They arc amused about the commission s concern with the Quality of reception arid service they re getting from the network. We be been left out in the cold for so Many years at least they should leave us alone now that we be found something that suits us. A committee member said. And they Aren t impressed with the concern about Canad an Content. When you be had nothing but Csc to look at for All these years you be got Canadian Content coming out your John do Bush a part time operator of the Leaf rapids station said. The Brough network owns and maintains transmitters in each Community. Programs Are supplied in 10-hour tapes which include movies cartoon and game shows and series such As Rhoda. Ironside and the Partridge family. Explosion like flame thrower continued continued investigate the causes. It issued several studies but prices kept going up for two More years before moderating in 1176. But since if7f, food prices and government approved increases in Energy prices have combined to push up the inflation rate sharply again. In 1975, when controls were clamped on wage earners and companies the government promised to bring inflation Down to four per cent by 1978. Finance minister Jean Chretien continues to say inflation will moderate to abort seven per cent by year end. But with the Jane inflation rate More Titan doable the target originally set for this time and still rising the goal of significantly lowering the rate of Price Rise seems increasingly difficult. Titi to hit Consumers is the effect of higher fuel Oil and gasoline prices aug. 1, when an extra two to three cents a gallon will be added to Fael Bills because the government is gradually raising Domestic Energy prices to world Levels. The Jane figures follow tuesday s news that the an employment rate i june continued at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1c per cent of the work Force highest since the isms. More than 9m.sm Are jobless. Court won t Block pulling of plug St. Paul. Mian. Cap a Hospital to a Fenew tire Minnesota supreme next a ump ram which had sort refused tuesday to mum oui a in a Tower Thold pc trim Fly doctors As deed Way Krain few children s its Pecaj to in life support Mechta nos mrs tie of chem. Driver was found. I heard an explosion a whoosh and stepped out of my trailer to see flames 150 Yards said a dutch Man who refused to give his name. After seconds i saw people walking out of the fire with their outer skin burned completely off. Many fell Down. Some just sat Down. Others ran into the Antonio Betancurt an officer of Spain s paramilitary Enil guard said Many victims were burned beyond recognition. Identification he said is going to be really difficult even for their own the bodies taken by helicopter to the nearby town of Tortosa until they could be moved to Barcelona. Spanish officials said it was the worst campsite disaster Ever. Cries came out from everywhere in the Camp Sari a municipal policeman who was there when the truck exploded. To never be Able to get rid of these horrible sights no matter How Long i a Madrid propylene transportation ;