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 k meet Gloria Steinem sunny High Low 4 Sun rises a m sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final March 1979 with coloured comics 86 142 symphony on Brink of going bankrupt by Barbara Cansino the Winnipeg symphony orchestra is facing bankruptcy and will be unable to meet its payroll As Early 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 Chestr Awill still have an accumulate Tritschler urges Cabinet overview of Hydro decisions by Debbie Sproat the inquiry into Manitoba Hydro headed by judge Tritschler has recommended the Public utilities Board 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 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 he concluded the pubs role should be review rather than control because two thirds of Manitoba Public debt is related to Hydro so the cur see Tritschler Page 4 Bazargani plea stills Iran firing squads Tehran a Iran firing squads were stilled today after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gave in to Premier Mechli Bazargan and began working out new guidelines for the revolutions Khomeini suspended All secret tribunals and executions giving temporary reprieve to former pre Mier Amir Abbas who was on trial for his the announcement came after a who has threatened to resign Over the secret met Kho Meini thursday night to protest to Weidus Khomeini said the proceedings will be halted until new Legal guidelines Are draw up for the which have sent 62 men before firing squads since the monarchy was toppled the precise nature of the guidelines were not give by shiite moslem Leader of the yearlong revolt that drove the Shah from Khomeini read Over Tehran complained of the Speed of the trials and exec Many of which came Only an hour or so after the tribunals reached their Khomeini said the sentences or dered by revolutionary courts around the country will have to be reviewed by Tehran Central which will not resume its trials until the guide lines Are drawn the Central court began trying Hoveida Early thursday on a variety of charges against the state and the prosecution asked the court to impose the death de deficit of by May it also predicts fundraising will fall at least Short of the leading to a possible deficit of 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 the accumulated deficit is substantially eliminate another operating deficit would Force the orchestra into the report among other the report also says i the City has withheld the orches tras operating Grant pending a sub Mission stating How and when it will reduce its accumulated 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 operations on april As a result of defaulting on the payroll due that d when compared to sex has dropped from a budgeted level of 49 per cent to 36 per g single and season ticket expected to yield about have fallen Short of expectations by 214 la the orchestra should be very apprehensive about its plans for 197980 particularly when there Are so Many empty seats at our subscription concerts which belong to season ticket g expenses must be maintained at Levels lower than the Normal increase due to a in the current projected level of expenses might be achieved by not filling some orches tra vacancies which May arise and using casual musicians in their Stead Only when absolutely d donations from major corporations to the orchestra have so far brought in Only while was private donations have yielded Only 20 per cent of the the report says the immediate Cri Sis will be solved next wednesday if the City approves its annual with requested this approval of the it will see drop Page 4 score Board wha new England Birmingham 5 Edmonton 6 Quebec 1 Winnipeg 5 Cincinnati 3 nil Vancouver 4 Colorado 1 Page 816 photo by Dave Johnson the so 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 Arab militants threatening War to Block Mideast peace treaty inside 56 55 1 crossword 35 deaths m5 forum 6 focus 7 Horoscope 34 Jumble Puzzle 48 jumbo winners 16 Jumble entry 16 utters 6 movies relax 55 to Listi ims 55 5 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 arid 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 Egypt denied a syrian report that saudi Arabia threatened president Anwar Sadat with eco nomic reprisals if the treaty is a senior egyptian official dismissed the report As syrian hum the who asked not to be predicted the Oil Rich saudis will continue to straddle the doling out Money to both Egypt and the palestinian Gerril mechanism extends cell life by one half scientists discovery May Lead to longer lifespan in rating is the mechanism is research will stimulate other s 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 Ion levity 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 its 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 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 whether the nature of this de Fence mechanism is different in humans or my Hope is that this research will stimulate other Stu leading to Extension of the human life she added she believes that once she fully understands the mechanism of the cell repair there May be a Way to stimulate cells without the use of ultraviolet since so Many different types of cells Are found in it would be necessary to determine which Are weak links that determined the aging ;