Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winni Eggers will have an even dozen candidates from which to choose when they go to the polls june 20 to elect anew after two of the original hopefuls dropped out of the race buses Wrhen Allan Stern and Percy Brown withdrew before the 2 deadline to support Deputy mayor Bill Norrie in his bid for the cites top elected left on the ballot Are City councillors Joe Alf Don Gerri and Phil Rizzuto a councillors Ray Brunka and Harry Lazarenko musician William Gridzak unemployed bookkeeper Alex Mitchell accountant William Haryluk former liquor com Hugh Allan Winnipeg free 1979 12 May or a its Short chairman prank Softis and Joe founder of the democratic Reform Stem said he Wilt seek election in the Crescent Heights Ward should incumbent councillor Gary Filmon a seat in the provincial legislature m a be announced Stern added he would go after a Council seat in another Ward in the 1980 general election if Filmon was Defeated provincially and sought reelection my the 46yearold truck dealer said he regarded serving on Council As an apprenticeship for the mayors Stern and Brown were the Only mayoralty although a prime contender for the urged other fringe candidates to quit the saying they would Only enhance Norries election Zuken labor election committee Norquay told a news conference yesterday the real contest is Between the Deputy mayor and x Skowron another dismissed those comments As an indication of a Man running Skowron was standing in the Back ground when Zuken made his speech on the City Hall Zuken criticized the 14member inde pendent citizens election the dominant Council caucus of which Norrie is a for refusing to take firm stands on conflict interest and Freedom information the two issues were buc passed to the province to gather he he promised real open govern ment and stricter and better con Alicto interest legislation if elected the Veteran politician also admonished his who attended the federation of Canadian municipalities conference in Quebec City but left before it he said the delinquent councillors should make a Public apology and return their expense Money to the a few Crew we sensitivity awareness carrying on Ralph Harland of Miami Deli at 1595 main Street stands amid a sea of ripped up Concrete and construction main merchants irate the Street needs but businessmen wanted some warning first by Ken Goldstein a second front has been opened in the Battle Between the cites works and operations department and merchants who claim they Are taking a financial thumping due to Road department officials yesterday met with a group of West Kildonan businessmen who were irate Over the Way in which they were informed about a reconstruction and resurfacing project taking place right outside their doors on main the project involves a stretch of main with the East Side to be completely rebuilt and the West Side to be work is expected to be done by the end of a Broadway businessman said yesterday he has begun Legal action to delay Road work the move came two Days after the City and local Mer chants reached an agreement aimed at reducing the economic Impact on area John owner of pirates wharf seafood 578 said he will seek an injunction to Stop work until All area residents agree How the project should main Street merchants in the area Between Mcadam and Perth avenues said they were Given four Days notice before construction began May the notice was received May the Friday before the Long said Ralph owner of the Miami Delicatessen on 1595 Garland and other East Side Mer chants said they were not upset the work was being what in after is the underhanded Way the City does he theres always a Lack of communication when we Are at Pat Porpiglia of Torino tile 1587 one of the primary concerns of the merchants was that parking on main 120 More pages in new phone directory crammed with a cast of thousands no fewer than listings this years phone Book has the makings of a Box office there is Booz and Money silvers and Penny and no Lack of Schmaltz in this years direct there Are gunns and plenty of oozing script a total of copies of the phone Book Are being distributed to Winnipeg Homes about More than last that tons of one directory will be distributed per with the second available at the phone Centre or by calling the Manitoba Telephone systems direct Ory the new edition contains 120 More than last there Are fewer White pages but 850 new listings have been the says Bob Drain of the is accounted for by smaller margins and a differ ent typesetting allowing More names to be squeezed into a Street has been temporarily cutting off customer Lowell manager of the works departments streets and traffic said he would consult with the contractor construction in an Effort to Speed up the he said he would try to have a solution for the businessmen at a meeting next Campbell conceded the merchants should have been consulted about the project a Long time he said the City had Learned a adding it would not happen sales Down 90 he said merchants affected by the final two phases of the three stage project would be consulted Well prior to merchants say they will suffer great Garland said his sales have declined 90 per cent during the past two in a letter to area councillor Mike Oshaughnessy Independent citizens election Porpiglia said his business had dropped 85 per cent because of the Oshaughnessy was invited to yester Days meeting but did not by Mike Hoffman while City Council considers tighten ing the bylaw dealing with Massage Parlours in Light of a recent court decision exempting sensitivity aware Ness studios from its opera tors declare themselves not in the least they the City came Down on Mas Sage so we became sensitivity awareness said one when they come Down on sensitivity awareness Well become some thing the operator of four local sensitivity awareness who insisted on remaining said the bylaw is prohibitively passed two years the bylaw was not enforced until a lengthy court Bat mounted against it by Massage parlor failed last licensing depends on compliance with the terms of the of the 18 establishments listed in the yellow pages under Only one is licensed by the said an opera one or two others Are awaiting word on their the harshest stipulation contained in the bylaw is an 11 closing the operators interviewed another major clause says masseuses must be clothed from neck to the masseuses themselves must obtain a City licence before a licenced parlor can hire an applicant for a Massage licence must Supply a Char Acter reference from lawyer Hersh who Success fully defended Robert Canada of the unlicensed Eves sensitivity aware Ness studio against charges of bylaw said the differences Between Massage Parlours and his clients opera Tion Are More than merely involving a kneading of joints arid is an almost therapeutic he sensitivity awareness is just its a kind of theres nothing therapeutic about and the people who do it dont pretend Canada said he refuses to comment on the Case because the free press refuses to accept his Canadian scientists discover vaccine to fight calf scours by Brian Cole a team of Canadian scientists has discovered a vaccine to combat calf a disease that kills millions of calves every year in its a godsend says the president of the Manitoba cattle scours causes diarrhoea in Newborn calves and can Lead to dehydration and the vaccine is expected to save the worlds cattle Industry hundreds of millions of savings in Canada Are estimated at the vaccine was developed after nearly three years of intensive re search by a team of scientists headed by Chris Bigland at the veterinary infectious disease organization Vido in Bigland said that in experiments and Field the vaccine proved 90 per cent the discovery is expected to increase beef and milk production Bigland said wednesday in that will mean savings for both pro Ducer and president of the 000member Manitoba cattle Assoc a was ecstatic Over the calf scours is the biggest cause of cattle loss Hen Seth in Manitoba about calves Are infected by scours causing an estimated million in v the vaccine is designed to attack scours caused by enter pathogenic Coli bacteria which attack calves a few Days the attach themselves to the Wall of the intestine of the calf Admul producing poisons which reverse the Normal function of the intestine so that fluids Arent the result is dehydration and frequently the vaccine is administered to cows in two six and three weeks before giving the Newborn calves protective antibodies through the cows the antibodies protect the calf for he critical first few Days of its life when the disease most often it is expected to be approved by the Federal government and be ready for distribution in Canada by Connaught laboratories of Toronto by by 1981 it should be available through out the Vido is also working on a vaccine to fight a similar disease in the veterinary infectious disease organization was established in 18 years after the Alberta veterinary medical of which Bigland was a passed a Resolution that Canada should have such a la but Bigland and his colleagues find financing until 1973 when the devonian group of charitable do nations offered within a year funds also came from the Alberta and Saskatchewan As Well As the University of which houses the both the Manitoba and Federal governments had refused the organization in disappointed that our own government Hast supported Hen Seth Sparks flying Over temporary electrical Hookup by Rick Blanchard several North Kildonan homeowners Are upset with a temporary electrical Cable running along the ground in their townhouse the which stretches from a Manitoba Hydro transformer across a sidewalk and front is a pos sible Hazard to homeowners the Cable was installed last Friday after six homeowners of the Molson Street townhouses experienced electrical brownouts when an underground line shorted out at its evidently because of shifting its a makeshift a any kid could open it very easily and be said Bob of 1312b the cites chief electrical Arnold denied there is a Irving the homeowners further is a problem getting someone to restore the underground service and secure a Hydro spokesman said the Utility repair the line because of a contract with the engineered Homes the contract requires Hydro to Supply Power Only to its trans former and not to the Homes them selves a feature commonly found with rental Murray Molson said residents were shocked when Hydro refused to get involved after six units were Cut Back to half although engineered Homes had a contractor restore Power late Friday by Means of the surface Zebrun said yesterday residents were still trying to get someone to own up to responsibility for the Central mortgage and housing corporation which arranged Low Cost Sale of the Homes through a Federal the Hydro and engineered Homes All want nothing to do with Zebrun Dennis Mccormack of engineered Homes said yesterday the firm was checking its if were responsible we will rectify it Mccormack adding a decision would be made by this but Zebrun maintains residents have been told they must pay installation of a permanent because they own the he said that the underground Cable servicing the Homes had not been in stalled correctly and was Only one of Many faults in the townhouse com quoted a estimate for the Zebrun said he have the re pairs done himself even if he had the the Cable runs across City property have to get a its owners of the 28 electrically heated units in the townhouse development still question whether Hydro can refuse to Supply Power to Homes which have been purchased individually As single Hydro would provide emergency Power in said Hydro spokesman Dave tree press Lawrence customer advisory j0dd remole Rishert and Kevin Mathewson play near Cable residents say poses a Ripe Arment r a ;