Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Faulkner o to be do Pool site plan to dispose of radioactive wastes a Surprise by Rock Blanchard the cites plans to dispose of Tador Mattive wastes and Othet Haz ardous solvents in the municipal area of Faulkner came As a sur prise monday both to officials of Faulkner and to the owner of the firm which is supposed to handle the Faulkner areas municipal offi including the adminis Trator and All expressed sur prise when told of a three part plan dealing with the disposal of Hazard Ous and radioactive recommended to City Council on monday by civic works and operations com the wastes Are now partially incinerated in solvent based wastes Are burned at the City because they Are highly inflammable and the new plan will be required once the cites downtown incinerator As recommended by both the City and the provincial clean Viron ment All Hospital wastes and dead Mals will be buried in City landfills under strictly controlled conditions while toxic chemicals and pesticides will be stored until the City builds a new disposal for five years waste solvents and radioactive solvents will be mixed with waste transported by a private firm and incinerated in a Lime Kiln at a tiny Community about 250 pm 150 Miles North of but the owner of the private firm to arrange transport of the solvent based wastes to the Faulkner incan also expressed Complete Surprise when told his firm would handle radioactive and flammable owner of prime motor oils whose firm the City named in a said in an interview he had no idea he was to handle radioactive the committees passed stated that radio Active solvents be mixed with waste Oil and incinerated in the Lime Kiln at Faulkner on an interim basis five years As per attached letter from prime motor oils Honeyman said later monday he was never told he would handle Haz ardous or radioactive wastes when the City incinerator was to i was thinking of paint sol he when he had writ ten his offer to the City to carry the wastes to Faulkner at no Honeyman also said he was sur prised the other Day to watch As some containers from a local educational institution arrived at his some were marked slightly radioactive or something like he he said he immediately called the when the free press inquired what became of the wastes sent him he replied one Jug went Down the while one Jug of about Gallons indicating some radio activity went into Gallons of any potential radioactivity in this mixture would be neither Here nor he Honeyman said he would fur ther Contact the City to verify the terms of his radioactive materials now being burned at the incinerator and being discharged into the cites sewer system Are potentially less Hazard Ous than natural Arthur Holloway of the Manitoba cancer treatment and research foundation told the wastes turned into the sewer sys tem have been stored until their radioactive Levels have been re and with the volume of water handled daily in the remaining traces Are he Holloway said there Are 187 licensed users of radioactive materials in ninety three users handle materials dangerous enough to be contained within sealed environments and 94 use radioactive materials not required to be Holloway told committee that while the atomic Energy control Board has responsibility for radio Active such As Low level ones resulting from Hospital treat ments and there is no Clear responsibility for monitoring the handling of the wastes or How they affect the Winnipeg free press november 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless Barbara Cansino san Froid san Froid Means cold com absence of excitement or usually exercised in the face of its a Quality which some people have and which most people and which always encourages when enc Oun particularly impressive in hostesses and men who Wear toupees and that sort of what do you do when someone Breaks a Ming vase at your party and almost faints with horror As a result you it was and throw the other Ming vase Over your then theres the one about the woman in a posh Paris her gown was Bowcut and one of her breasts fell into her the maitre d rushed Over with a Silver picked up the breast and put it Back in the the maitre did not have he was fired because he didst use a warm there Are dozens of what does a Man do his amour finally she grabs his hair and it comes off his head dont ask but the woman should the Earth Coco Chanel would have known what to More than Chanel had style and Chanel had she worked at the House of Chanel on the Rue Cambon in but slept across the Street at the she had her silk blouses washed and aired in the ironed by pleated by a she put her shoes in a Bath of macassar Oil for one year so they would be she dyed her own hair with a you know the she also always wore a hat shaped like a soup and never concentrated on areas which were not and one Day she forgot her she went to Dine at the Grill at the As was her the Headwater approached and whispered some words in her Chanel did not Bat one took the Scarf from her fashioned it into a turban around her every useless accessory must have a dual Pur were her words at the the Crown of her head was Snow credit cards some time ago a Story called out of this world suggested that Winnipeg is just that because Many key tourist shops and restaurants dont accept the dont leave Home without it american express credit Char Gex which doubles As Banka Merica in the United states and bar Claynard in great Britain and master charge Are the big thing in the Story sparked a few some in others those in agreement said american express is the the credit card for the serious trav the others said they have never had any trouble anywhere paying with charge or and they travel a a Handy Little publication called the m rest hotels in the subtitled the most idiosyncratic hotel guide in the brought into the world by harpers has just been it includes hotels from Afghanistan to and provides details like swimming room distance to distance from air and credit cards the credit card countdown 1 american express comes first with 244 hotels which accept it fur there Are 20 hotels which accept Only american in Case youre planning a the 20 hotels Are in Bou Saada Herbemont British Virgin Virgin la Les Baux de Paul Kerala Goa cer Nobbio Manyuki new and hot 2 diners club comes second with 205 one in the accepts Only the diners club 3 Banka Dericard three hotels accept Only they Are in Agrigento por Tofino Italy and 4 euro card 5 master 6 carte Blanche 7 Access 8 Barclay card 9 charge 10 Trust House Forte 11 pan am 12 carte Blue 13 Interbank in addition there Are about 25 other cards which one or two hotels for the Banco de Bilbao card or the Sotto mayor it should also be noted that Barcla card and charge All look the same with the White and Gold and Are now in the collective visa Howe the Book lists them there Are 40 hotels listed which accept no credit cards at imag they Are in Beaulieu sur Saint Jean Cap East Grinstead makes Bella Castellina in Chianti Ven Tarou Dant male Maldive Stelle Bosch South Bagur a Colorado Point Clear Ala Tucson and sea geor anyone planning a trip to those places should make sure where there staying and maybe have Cash in the canadians Laverne and Happy Charlies Starsky and that the and that the because that the Way its perceived on Canadian and that because television is truth to hey in the states they hire girls As private detectives but they have to Wear wet shirts and run All the and what Are they going to think of Canada and canadians the malay sians will think the average family is that married couples live with their and that everyone yells when talking will the Irish will think people live in boats and spend their whole lives in some holy grail Pursuit of sea shells and Drift Wood and doubloons on the beaches and earn their living from Selling this and heaven knows what every body else will the cd ctr Export sales have just announced their overseas among the Pur chases Malaysia has bought 44 episodes of King of Ireland has bought 13 episodes of the Beach the biggest sell of Brit Ain has bought 26 episodes for York 26 episodes for Tyne 26 for 13 for Harlech 39 for 26 for 39 for 13 for and Luxem Bourg has bought 13 episodes of the French version of some other buys Australia has bought toe Finland has bought Funk Island and Henry Fords irelnd has also bought holy week in sweat tears and Roger Whitaker All my Wales has bought converging lines the United states has bought the Many faces of love and four Sweden has bought Johnny Belinda and photo by Gerry Cairns frosty temperatures monday produced Clouds of car exhaust on Edmonton Street near Portage near blizzard conditions were expected today with a snowfall of eight centimetres heating Cost Rise to average 15 Hydro steam boost okd by Ingeborg Boyens civic works and operations com Mittee gave its approval monday to Winnipeg Hydro steam heat rate increases of an average of 15 per cent effective should City Council ratify the recommendation of its the steam heat Bills of about 235 customers will be raised by about 64 cents for pounds of the rate increases will be applied against the Utility persistent deficits in its steam heat production sys in its annual report released last the 1977 loss was marked at increased fuel and distribution costs have indicated 1978 costs will be Over the projected deficit of the 15 per cent increase certainly wont cover All but May reduce the 1979 deficit to said Hydro acting general to cover total expenditures of the rates would have to be raised by 133 per Hallson told the such a hike would be prohibitive and would Likely encourage custom ers to convert to other methods of mayor Robert Steen noted that about 40 per cent of the civic Utility customers were government we Are actually subsidizing the heating Bills of two other Levels of said urging councillors to consider increasing rates to cover if the City does decide to construct an Energy recovery facility which would Burn refuse to produce steam As recommended by consultants in the civic Utility would want to retain its present customers for Hook up to the new cautioned Gary Filmon while the committee limited its recommendation to rate increases of 15 per it did say it could consider additional raises within six rates were last increased by 21 per it costs the City close to million each year to keep the Amy Street steam heating Plant said councillors and administrators have already urged that the High Cost Plant be demolished and replaced with a million Energy recovery while the steam Plant idea was approved in principle in the efforts to get Federal sharing of the capital costs have so far been Hunsuc Hallson indicated that closing the Plant would reduce City revenues by about in steam 000 in property and in service fees from other City depart traffic enforcement questioned thirty seven pages of statistics did not convince the civic works and operations committee monday that Winnipeg police department has been enforcing traffic regulations the report compiled by the police recapping its 1978 Bud prompted an angry response from who said that enforcement in the suburbs has declined since the area police forces amalgamated in statistics can show what they said Alf Lead ing the attack on chief of Norm while the number of men and cars May have the number of Man hours has decreased through Job benefits such As holidays and said Skowron it is ludicrous to say enforce ment has improved but 197 More police officers Are required for next said the there is no Way that enforcement has increased since and he knows that is Why he is asking for More said committee Gary said he was sympathetic with his fellow its All we say traffic enforcement has decreased since 1974 and Hes got his statistics to prove that that not said Filmon Independent citizens election com 1 thought we would get some where with Filmon the works and operations commit tee had asked the civic executive policy committee in october to coordinate an investigation into the deployment of police personnel and the degree of traffic enforcement in the outlying areas of the chief of Norm armed with a Battery of police offi cers and responded to allegations of poor police coverage in suburban areas at a meeting of the executive committee the police department report was distributed to All councillors for their in other business at mondays works and operations meeting delayed a decision on whether to change the appearance of the cites pedestrian this time on the Assurance that the administrative report would be Avail Able at the committees next meet voted to continue using the present Salt mixture on City streets As a committee put off discus Sion of whether to give Community committees responsibility Over the placement of traffic signs on residential streets until its next meeting councillors agreed to adopt the five Day garbage collection system that has undergone a trial run since the a request by the the civic administration will study the implications of extending the Corydon bus route past Kenaston Boulevard during the Winter months private liquor committee disbanded the private committee which coordinated deliveries of liquor and wine to Winnipeg hotels and restau rants during the 48day liquor strike has disbanded and the orders it has in hand Are being returned to the Licens Manitoba liquor control commis Sion chairman Lou Veillet said Mon Day the hotels and restaurants concerned May now resubmit the orders directly to the liquor during the which ended sunday with contract ratification by Manitoba liquor commission work the private committee would take an order from a hotel or restau rant in the City and submit along with a Cheque from the to the liquor commission office for a since the commission supervisory Busy working in the didst have time to rewrite the orders in accordance with what liquor was available or to break up the orders into the committee performed both and had the liquor and wine orders delivered out of its own hired warehouse at a secret location in the though the private committee has Manitoba hotel association executive director Dano Perfumo said it will Likely take the liquor Short commission All of this week to Supply the hotels and restaurants with their Normal Stock of he and association president Alex Malkoske confirmed the associations 300 hotels experienced a big drop in business because of the liquor work ers in sure some of them did suffer fairly heavily because nobody expected the strike to last six Malkoske David president of the Manitoba restaurant and Foud ser vices said restaurants where wine stocks were depleted or where there were shortages in popu Lar liquor brands Felt the drop in Busi within a week to 10 Days supplies should be Back to depending on what the liquor commission it self has warehoused orders sent to the commission prior to the strike will be filled first and after on a first served Wilson As for what the strike Cost the commission in terms of lost Revenue and the final wage and benefits settlement with the 390 striking work that has not been tabulated yet the contract ratified by the work ers sunday is a 27month pact provid ing a six per cent pay raise for five per cent Jan and a further eight per cent for three classifications comprising at least 50 per cent of the membership july 1 on that Date the remaining 56 classifications will receive a six per cent a spokesman for attorney general Gerry Merciers said the investigation the attorney general announced last wednesday into incidents of wilful damage and intimidation during the strike will whether charges will be Laid under the criminal code will be up to the Crown the spokesman said if the Crown feels that charges Are be Laid the liquor commission Hopes to have All its stores open toward the end of this week As stocktaking and the delivery of needed liquor supplier Are completed ;