Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, September 22, 1978

Issue date: Friday, September 22, 1978
Pages available: 93

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba John Robertson Man on the run tips on jogging and the body Beautiful see Page 65 free Money Why do one in six Manitoba firms walk away when offered Dree Grants its 15 Tammy Wynette is covered in Gold and she still stands by her men see pass sunny Low High 19 Winnipeg free press september final 15 cents Jyh with coloured comics 85 most Winni Eggers approve Arena Survey shows by Steve Pona and Rick Blanchard reaction to City councils decision this week to expand Winnipeg Arena to a minimum of seats by and to lease it to the Winnipeg jets for the next eight years was generally positive among people interviewed in downtown Winnipeg its Stephen a Salesman who lives at 150 Valley View its fortunate we have people on Council with the intestinal fortitude to take a Chance and risk Money on the he Ted of 270 Queen was a soccer player during the first of his 45 years in Winnipeg we needed it and we need More sport in i suppose when it comes right Down to the dollars and it was a fair Barker the people who bought the jets dont expect to make a million out of the people in they always want everything in everything has to have a written the 10 per cent amusement tax Council agreed to waive until 198 should have been imposed on the Barker 1 cant figure out if it All Falls through who left holding the two City of Winnipeg employees interviewed at work in Central Park were split on the with one of them Richard Johnson of 147 Fusby suite 7 i think Council has its priorities All wrong the Arena Doest warrant top who said he has not recently attended jets games at the expansion is probably necessary i do see the Point of expanding the but i think housing and sewer improve ments Are More Dave of 163 Ste phen and said expansion is Good its the Best thing Council could have in behind them 100 per cent and if you print my ill contribute to Harowitch criticized councillors for being too Stuffy about too Stuffy towards the especially since the owners could have sold the team last year and made a million they made the jets owners feel As if they we rent Welcome everybody knows where is without the that have been Harowitch Mike of 6 Septon called the cites decision a Good move but quickly added theres no Way there going to fill the place while in the world hockey see most Page 4 mail strike in 9 cities hits service in Manitoba by the Canadian press a strike by More than letter carriers that began thursday is expected to Stop most mail service in nine Canadian cities at least until several hours before a strike dead line set by the Union for Midnight thursday carriers set up picket lines in Saint Quebec Edmonton and the on Tario cities of kit Waterloo and it was expected that inside postal members of the Canadian Union of postal will not Cross the picket the support from the inside work who could be in a Legal strike position themselves by would mean a shutdown of All mail sorting in the cities Don business agent for Winnipeg More than 700 letter car could Mot say today when they would join the rotating this weekend could not be ruled he Mowat said the National strike coordinating Centre would give 24 hours notice to As it did to other Mowat also said it was possible letter carriers outside Winnipeg might be affected by a walkout there Are about 150 letter carriers in Portage la bran flin flon and Thomp a Post office spokes Man in Winnipeg said he had received no reports on the flow of mail from affected he said mail that had been sorted in centres hit by such As and which had made it to the Airport before would Likely arrive in if Winnipeg letter carriers walk the spokesman incoming mail Likely would be stuck at the Airport without couriers to pick it while outgoing mail would be held at the Post although plans were prepared for coping with the the spokes Man said alternatives were still being worked both Union and government negotiators said thursday they were expecting a Long strike after a final attempt at reaching a contract agreement no further meetings have been a spokesman for the Toronto Post office says that for each Day of the mail service in the Toronto area will be delayed by two if carriers remain off the Job in any City for More than three or four mail boxes will be sealed to prevent mail buildups seen in earlier he a spokesman for up express said thursday the company expects its see mail Page 4 by John Mcmanus Norair will Honor All reservations held by trans air and All bargain fares that trans air has been offering Between Winnipeg and to trans air spokesman Bob Scott said Norair has agreed to take Over trans airs reservations and Guaran tee All fare Levels the Winnipeg based air Carrier has been offering travel lers to the trans airs licence to serve Winni Thunder Sault Marie and Toronto has been can celled by the air transport commit tee As of the licences have been Given to Norair to Start service on that no Dairs service will also include Montreal As the Eastern Norair has also informed the committee it is prepared to accommodate trans airs ferry flights be see Norair Page 4 stewardesses ask court to Block use of inexperienced personnel Montreal up the Union representing air Canada flight attendants and Cabin Crews filed for an interlocutory injunction in Superior court thursday to prevent the airline replacing them with inexperienced personnel if a strike the Canadian air Une flight attendants still tallying the final ballots in a nationwide strike vote has already Given them the margin needed to Call a asked for a court hearing but a provisional order might be sought before that if the attendants do not Settle with the the unions motion claimed the Public will be exposed to irreparable harm if air Canada goes ahead with plans to maintain its flight schedules using 500 company secretaries and managerial staff who have undergone an emergency training Winnipeg United Way kicked off its 14th annual Campaign thursday with a mass painting of its Symbol on Edmonton the ceremony to turn Edmonton Street South of Portage Avenue to United Way featured volunteers and children from the Day Nursery Centre who helped paint photo by Wayne Glowacki three people symbols on the the Symbol represents people helping the United ways official Campaign Campaign chairman Michael Rattray says almost volunteers Hope to raise this years goal of during the six week nip Leader urges score Board baseball spending deficit to Aid Economy baseball new York 7 Toronto 1 Detroit 1 Kansas City Bah Wouk 3 Pittsburgh 3 2 Houston 2 Tulsi Newyork Norair to guarantee trans air flight offers Uyon restraint a disaster by John Sullivan and Ritchie Gage National new democratic party Leader de Broadbent thursday called for a Federal spend ing deficit for 1979 to stimulate the in a fiery speech to about 275 new democrats at a nominating meeting for the 16 by election in Broadbent attacked the Federal governments rollbacks and restraint policies As economic slogans and accused the Trudeau government of misleading the Canadian people in a profound and mysterious i thought those policies of restraint were dead Long before i was the nip Leader Broadbent claimed a larger spend ing As opposed to the budget Cut proposed by the Trudeau would Cre ate about jobs and give the country a surplus in three earlier in the the nip Leader accused the Federal government of stealing its cutback program from the Federal progressive conserva Tives and blasted Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyons indiscriminate re he said adoption of a Lyon restraint program in Canada would mean a Complete economic and social unemployment in Manitoba has risen 23 per cent in the year ending july More than twice the rate of any other prov he Broadbent said jobs could be created nationally by a Cut in in see billion Page 4 san Diego s at rain in8idb anytime 7 Stathi 49 Horoscope m crossword weather Sun Row cooking for a pet this want and under my 2 ral Latura it ii bargain in the classified storting on Page five it fac Jurat Ftp a Whf aft infant mortality causes particular concern deaths in Kenora twice Ontario rate by Manfred Jager the death rate for Kenora area residents with the exception of senior citizens is twice As High As the Ontario a report from the Kenora Rainy River District health Council in All causes of death and in All age statistics show the death rate there to be higher in some instances five times higher than the provincial the report says the worst discrepancy Between the District and the provincial rate is for people under with suicide and respiratory disease the major death causes in this the Kenora Rainy River mortality made available to the free press this is based on comparisons Between death rates in the area Between 1970 and 1974 and total mortality figures for Ontario Between 1971 and the most recent provincial information Avail Bob executive director of the District health said re less extensive information Doest indicate major changes in the he said the Council utilized Thunder Bay District health Council figures for Ontario death Thunder Bay recently re leased statistics showing an elevated incidence of death from respiratory accidents and heart Muir said his Council is particularly concerned about elevated infant especially from pneuma during the study he the pneumonia death rate for Kenora District was 25 for each live and for Rainy River it stood at 18 per live this compares with Only five pneumonia deaths per live births for All of mortality from motor vehicle and other accidents in children aged one to 14 Are also higher for Kenora and Rainy in the Young adult rate from Ages 15 to the main death causes suggest most of the premature deaths Are related to social and lifestyle the report the rates for Kenora and Rainy River Are higher Overall particularly for motor vehicle Acci other accidents and in All death Kenora stands see deaths Page 4 ;