Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Day with Burton Cummings now Mary Crosby is going her fathers Way and she figures she had better be damned Cloudy High 6 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press March 1979 meet Gloria Steinem final with coloured comics symphony deeply in May have to fold in april by Barbara Cansino the Winnipeg symphony orchestra is facing bankruptcy and will be unable to meet its payroll As next the Board of directors has been told in a confidential Finan Cial and even if the orchestra receives an expected from the City next the report says it will still have to cease operations by april 20 because it is so deeply in the eight Page prepared by symphony operations manager Robert Mcgifford and obtained by the free press says a Revenue shortfall of unsuccessful fundraising efforts and Low Provin Cial government funding have left the orchestra in a financial even if it succeeds in attempts to raise through fundraising efforts now under Way and the re port says that unlikely or Chestra will still have an accumulated deficit of by May it also predicts fundraising will fall at least Short of the leading to a possible deficit of1 a debt that will have to be carried into the 197980 fiscal year starting in a before further fundraising is far beyond our fund raising until the accumulated deficit is substantially eliminate another operating deficit would Force the orchestra into the report among other the report also says d the City has withheld the orches tras operating Grant pending a sub Mission stating How and when it will reduce its accumulated if this Grant is not forthcoming by March the orchestra will cease operations the same d unless the orchestras fundraising Campaign is beefed it will cease see symphony Page 4 leave Hydro rate decision to Tritschler says by Debbie Sproat the inquiry into Manitoba Hydro headed by judge Tritschler has recommended the Public utilities boar review and make recommendations on Hydro but any final decision be a Cabinet the recommendation is contained in a Brief report on rat paying Struc Tures which Tritschler was asked to submit in Advance of his final report so legislation making the changes could be introduced this after releasing the report finance minister Donald Craik said he thought it brings about a pretty logical solution clarifies the differences in the old though he said he speak for the Cabinet because none of his colleagues had read the Craik said its a pretty Good guess the legislation the government will prod uce will be along the lines suggested by the inquiry was asked to add the Ransom faults Pic for hostage incident by Bob Cheshire and Bob Lowery the detainment of four provincial civil servants in thursday was rooted More in prob lems with the unemployment insurance commission Pic system than a pending fishery natural resources minister Brian Ransom said Ransom told reporters that under the tougher unemployment insurance residents of Basterville claim they Are unable to qualify for Pic benefits during the period the fishery is he said his officials Are investigating the situation and will report to him on possible residents of Basterville held four provincial government employees for three hours thursday with the Only Road Access to the Community Block see Pic Page 4 score Board wha new England 5 Birmingham 5 Edmonton 6 Quebec 1 Winnipeg 5 Cincinnati 3 Brian Ransom investigation under Way problem of rat setting Powers and procedures to its terms of reference last year after the Board rolled Back a proposed Hydro rate bring ing to Light the Legal question of whether the pub has jurisdiction Over Hydro in his Tritschler said the pub provides for Public involve makes the Utility More accountable than is possible through review by Cabinet or the Legisla Tures Public utilities committee and assures the Cabinet a Independent body is reviewing the 4 he concluded the pubs role should be review rather than control because d two thirds of Manitoba Public debt is related to Hydro so the cur rent financial position of Manitoba Hydro must be of concern to the provincial it noted More capital spending is expected in the next d the commission Felt the province should assume responsibility for directing Hydro in fiscal matters such As adequate interest coverage suitable relationship Between debt and system equity and scale of amortization of unrealized foreign Exchange translation d the fact Manitoba guarantees All Hydro securities has made it Possi ble for Hydro to maintain an a credit Tritschler noted there is evidence that rating authorities Are beginning to look at the fiscal health of utilities rather than just accept the governments Guaran d theres evidence that control of Hydro rates by an Independent Board could adversely affect the Bond rating and Market acceptance of the see leave Page 4 photo by Dave Johnson the Winnipeg symphony orchestra brass Section was at the International Airport when conductor Piero Gamba returned to Winnipeg Friday after the orchestras stunning performance in new his triumphant return was by the prospects that bankruptcy May Force the orchestra to cease operations Arafat warns of Arab militants threaten War against Mideast peace pact by the associated press Arab militants threatened terror ism and fallout War As a delegation headed to saudi Arabia today to try to win approval for the egyptian israeli peace the Kuwait newspaper Al is Wassah said palestinian guerrillas want to reactivate a Black september strike Force against targets and Arab moderates supporting the Black september claimed responsibility for the 1972 Munich olympics massacre of israeli the newspaper said the move came from hardliners of Yasser Arafat Al regarded As the Parent of Black Black september was formed after King Hussein ousted the guerrillas from Jordan follow ing fierce fighting in september the syrian government newspaper Tishri said signing of the treaty will Force Iraq and Jordan to go to War to prevent its and Arafat himself warned the whole Middle East will explode if Egypt signs the scheduled to talk with King Hussein in made the prediction in a newspaper he also forecast that the Mission to saudi Arabia this weekend will fail when it arrives in Jordan on Arafat Palestine liberation organization Plo is committed to Crea Tion of an Independent palestinian while the egyptian israeli agreement offers Only limited Auton omy to the million palestinians living in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza the delegation was expected to try to head off a move by Arab hardliners for sanctions against see Arab Page 4 Vancouver 4 Colorado 1 8199 inside m to science discovery May offer longer lifespan Washington Reuter chances of dramatically extending the human life Span were raised Friday with the report of a univer sity of Wyoming scientist that she has Learned How to extend cell life by one Joan a pro Fessor of zoology and said she uncovered the life extend ing mechanism in work with a com single celled organism widely used in biology writing in science she reported that by bathing the cells in different doses of ultraviolet Light the damage caused by aging May be or even she described How in her research she had increased damage to the cells by applying a dose of ultraviolet Light that hastened the aging pro that dose was followed by one of so called Black Light ultraviolet radiation of a different wave length to repair the damage by activating the cells own repair Mecha a photo reactive to the Surprise of Smithson Neborn and her the cells so treated showed a greater lifespan and a More Youthful response to further radiation by continuing the rounds of ultraviolet a 50percent increase in cellular longevity was the in its Basic is reported to occur naturally in Sim ple organisms but in an uncontrolled form that can As easily destroy the organism As repair damage to us Dan detox ribonucleic Dan enzymes Are the building blocs of All Smit Sonneborn said she believes that in the Laboratory the de Fence mechanism is set in motion by the first dose of ultraviolet radiation that damages the when the or Healing apply is the mechanism is freed to attack the damage caused by the aging some researchers have suggested that the White corpuscles in human blood contain a similar photo read Tive Smit Sonneborn told an inter viewer her work proves that a de Fence mechanism also exists in the cells of higher life ;