Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Teacher al Hall has Job Hopes for Bee gees Are making recording Winnipeg never gets enough of sunny High low13 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets March 1979 final 25c with coloured comics 86 up photo despite the revival attempts of a Thunder Bay boy died thursday afternoon in a House dead is Ronnie his twin and Mother were the Fivey Earold boy was found unconscious behind the bar in the where a chair caught cites executive committee votes to keep bus fare for elderly recommending a 1979 operating City councils executive policy committee thursday voted to excuse elderly citizens from a proposed five cent increase in bus the proposed budget Council will debate next wednesday afternoon Calls for increased property taxes of about or More for a Home assessed at not including school recommended to become effective May 1 Are new bus fares of 40 cents for 15 cents for students and elderly citizens would continue to pay 10 Young people would still have the option of purchasing 10 tickets for All Mon Lily passes would Cost up by executive committee backed the civic Board of commissioners by not approving annual bus passes for Sale at various rates to elderly citizens and endorsing a final draft of the 1979 executive committee rejected another Call by Jim Ragsdill to hire eight new ambulance service Ragsdill Heights said the added staff were vitally needed and would help improve a heart attack recovery rate of less than seven per cent of the cases handled in Yanofsky said the requested hiring should wait until after current wage Pearl Mcgonigal urged delay until the province answers if it will assume responsibility for ambulance ser committee threw cold water on two financing schemes Ragsdill suggested in order to pay for the it in earlier recommendations for three new ambulances to serve As those in need of an ambulance would pay per trip by the increase of 50 per cent Over the present charge is proposed in two on april 1 and Joe Zuken told committee he was horrified by the vow ing to fight it at Council next it wont Hurt people around this Zuken know of literally thou Sands in Winnipeg on Low incomes this will be an impossible Burden Ragsdill said Blue Cross will cover All ambulance trips for an annual per with special family included this year is spending of million for fire and million As payment towards the cites million to the Public works and million for Parks and four hostages held Over an India Metis Community 400 Kilometres Northeast of Winnipeg frustrated by the looming closure of its Only remaining Industry Cei Ved the full attention of govern ment thursday when residents held four civil servants hostage for three hours before releasing them in closure the four government employees Bill Northern regional director of mines and natural two conservation officers and a Biolo Gist were released from the Community Hall in at about after natural re sources minister Brian Ransom indicated he would meet with Community representatives to discuss their eco nomic the Community of 800 has been trying to get the government to extend the commercial fishing season on nearby Cedar Lake for another see All Page 4 mainly because of the meat Ottawa up the rate of increase in the Cost of living quickened in february to per up from per cent in mainly because of higher prices for statistics Canada reported today that the consumer Price Index Rose nine tenths of one per cent in february with higher food prices responsible for about half the the Federal Agency said that the Price of a Basket of food was per cent More in february than a year statistics Canada said beef cuts were up an average per cent in Early february and there were also higher prices for fresh fruits and Dairy products and for most Cereal and bakery there was a slight decline in Chicken and sugar the consumer Price which measures the Cost of a constant Basket of consumer goods and services each also showed there were higher prices for new Auto insurance and ship ruptures in Cabot Strait Ter rescues Man from Tanker Halifax up a helicopter plucked the last remaining Crew member off the Stern of the ruptured British Tanker Kurdistan Early today at a Point Midway across the Cabot a spokesman for the Rescue coordination Centre said the Man was picked up at Cost and was being flown to his condition was not immediately a helicopter which tried to lower a Basket to the Man became Short of fuel and its refuelling was delayed because the necessary Crews were not available in Rescue attempts were complicated by a rolling sea and the violent Rock ing action of the ships the Canadian coast guard vessel sir William Alexander rescued the Kurdistan other 40 Crew member from two rubber life rafts thursday the 192metre Tanker was carrying tons of Bunker c Oil and was about 46 nautical Miles Northeast of Sydney in the Cabot Strait when she broke up in heavy seas and ice thursday darkness and High seas prevented any assessment of How much Oil had leaked from the broken said que Sydney std Obucino toy Tanker in trouble Amon Lic Ocean Jim ship safety officer for the he said Oil must be spilled because the ship is Cut in but How much is really a matter of conjecture at the we dont know How much is being Bunker c is a Black Oil that conceals in cold it is More difficult than crude Oil to clean up and it decomposes More one in three in construction Industry in province is says association by Glen Mackenzie on third of Manitoba construction workers Are out of figures released thursday by the Winnipeg construction association a total of per in the Industry Are compared with or per cent the figures the association said in a statement the figures dont include those who have left the entered Industrial employment or started their own there is Little or no work on the drawing boards which would Lead to future construction activity for con tractors and the state ment figures also show unemployment in the professional and supervisory category increased about 15 per cent during the six week to 479 from association spokesmen be reached for comment thursday after Leo president of the building trades represent ing construction said primary blame rests with the provincial governments restraint which is leading the Way for private enter prise about 60 per cent of construction is normally done by gov he Manitoba usually has no unemployed construction workers in sum see Trade Page 4 dirt was no but leads effect on fetus is women in smelter fear for their unborn by Bob Lowery fl1n the dirt in the smelter at the Hudson Bay min ing and smelting Here never bothered Debbie the an hour made up for she says but like Many of the other women employees in the Shes worried that Lead contamination May affect her unborn Chil a report released by the company earlier this week at an employee management health and safety said research being con ducted in the United states indicates exposure to Lead contamination May affect the company has said no More women will be hired to work in the the eight women currently employed there can remain at their own or Transfer to other areas of the hiring policy possibly illegal see Page 11 last Borley said her Lead count was milligrams per 100 and the acceptable level is Milli Grams per 100 Grams of whole a local doctor told the 3vjyear mine Veteran she could go through a pregnancy without but last year she had a miscarriage and wondered if it was caused by my right id do a lot of investigating before id decide to have a id say a Good two thirds of the people who should be taking dont show up and nothings done about Borley she is being transferred to another position because she has had nose surgery and is unable to Wear a Treyve checked our blood every four months and gone on telling us there was nothing to worry said Marie a Light equipment operator for four but then All of a its a women Are frustrated Over delays in obtaining test she and then when we get were still in the if i Felt working in the smelter would in any Way affect any future id quit right she but she plans to work there another year before having a family Cathy Overby has spent 15 months working in the bag where workers have to Wear respirators throughout their she said women Are Only supposed to work in the bag House for three month Peri she is still awaiting the results of tests taken in and an other taken this in her Lead level count was the company gives special treat Mem and a change of Job to anyone registering a company official said that Over the last five three cases exceeding company standards have been All have recovered we Felt we were making a re super cautious approach in warning the women in the smelter about a possible said Keith assistant general manager of the we dont feel they have been in any amount of but we wanted to take this precaution Well in Advance of any harm to their ;