Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Prairie Hillary substitute buildings for water ration threat faces City by Rick Blanchard Winnipeg residents face possible water rationing this summer Lor the first time in 19 years because of prob lems at one of the cites three Reser the civic works and operations com Mittee was told yesterday the Reservoir problems have raised the possibility of reduced water pressure for outlying areas and water shortages if Winnipeg is hit by a hot civic waterworks director Sandy Penman told the committee the Walls of the Wilkes Avenue Reservoir Are Buck Penman said it is feared if the water in either of the two cells of the Reservoir is reduced More serious heaving of the Concrete slabs that line the Reservoir could the Reservoir backs up water Supply for Only the West Side of the red but any rationing plan would affect the entire he the last time water rationing occurred in Winnipeg was in pen Man when watering of gardens and lawns was limited to one Side of the certain times of the Day and for set lengths of Eldon Ross ice Deer Lodge prodded officials to detail fur ther possible effects of the reservoirs possible closing during Long hot this report int very but what Are the possibilities of water rationing asked Penman said the two remaining reservoirs could maintain an adequate Supply of water but a Long hot spell could mean Low pressure and introduction of restricted water if we have a series of Days with 80degree that when we Wilt probably have a Penman later told a repeat of last Summers conditions result in Penman with Only two reservoirs in Low water pressure would Force Resi dents in fringe areas including Charles Wood and James to put up with trickles from Penman concede following the the com Mittee gave officials until mid july to report Back on estimated costs and extent of repair work needed to bring the facility Back to Normal the Wilkes Avenue Waverley Street Reservoir has had problems since two years after going into officials said signs of movement of the Concrete slabs were first noticed during regular de watering and clean ing last Cloudy tonight showers tomorrow Low 12 High 25 some rail lines saved transport minister Don Mazankowski said yesterday in Winnipeg that the Federal government will suspend the abandonment of some railway Branch lines on the Fielding an array of questions on problems facing Western told a news conference it int his intention to reverse any abandonment decisions already pcs May halt rail Grain flow speedup but he said a review will be made of All lines where Grain companies express a willingness to maintain fact we will continue to Supply services to those Points where companies have adequate existing facilities and Are prepared to maintain or where they have facilities they Are willing to expand to meet future projected see not All Page 4 civic staff authorize strike poll the Union representing some City of Winnipeg employees has been authorized to Call i strike vote unless a better contract proposal is received from the de president of local 5uu of the Canadian Union of Public pm said about Union Mem Bers attended meetings yesterday morning and evening and voted unanimously to have a strike vote called unless they received a settlement Simi Lar to the per cent negotiated by City police earlier this blackmail said no deadline has yet been set for calling a strike if the City wants to use its this gives them some he a provincial conciliator is conducting the Union represents clerical garbage waterworks and construction employ Park Board and Library staff plus the workers at Winnipeg Blackman said workers rejected the cites latest which Calls for a five percent pay raise effective 1 and a further three per cent july the unions latest proposal Calls for six per cent and a week effective 1 plus three per cent and a week effective july the last collective agreement expired in june 1979 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets have press jobless rate dips to Flowers that Bloom in the Spring one of the nicer things about working in Kildonan Park these clays is a stroll in the Park employee Carol Doner poses amid a bed of colourful now in full mayoral dark horses Trail by Joe Rubin the lesser Nowns among Winnipeg dozen mayoralty candidates would do Well to get off their self proclaimed assets and onto the a free press Survey and while 17 of 25 Winni Eggers randomly polled yesterday were hard pressed to name More than two Candi a number asked Why there was a by election at i wonder Why Treyve called an election in the first said Wally if the president of the United states is done away they carry on until the end of his Deputy mayor Bill Norries done a commendable Art Peters just because Hes been acting mayor since Steen passed that no reason to run an expensive Why not let him do the Job until the end of the term and hold the election then City Law dictates that a by election must be held if a Council seat becomes vacant with More than one year remaining in the the next civic election will be held in the fall of the poll of Winni Eggers selected from the phone Book revealed that aside from the two titans in the race Deputy mayor Bill Norrie and Council Lor Joe Zuken people seem to be at a loss to name the remaining 10 Candi name them i even pronounce some of their names if i read said Eric while most people interviewed pro see mayoral Page 4 Ottawa up the first unemployment figures since the new government came to Power were released today and show officially out of work in May an improvement from the jobless reported during the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also fell slightly to per cent from the per cent in in the rate dropped to per cent from per cent in a new feature of the the monthly statistics measuring the unemployment rate among who flooded onto the Job Market last month when the University year showed per cent did not find this compared with per cent of the returning student population the previous the Economy created new jobs during the bringing the number working up to statistics Canada reported that per cent of the population was either working or actively seeking Canadas unemployment rate is considerably above those in most other Industrial latest figures from the United states put its unemployment rate at slightly less than six per Britain reported per cent of its labor Force out of France six per West Germany per Japan per cent and Australia per last months seasonally adjusted jobless rate of per cent was the lowest since january of the sea Sondall adjusted rate indicates the seriousness of reasons offered government economists offer several reasons Why unemployment even at its current Low rate appears far worse than in most other Western a one is that countries such As with the notably Low unemployment often give workers paid three month vacations during Slack another is that some european coun tries bring in immigrants during Peak periods to then Send them Back to their own countries when jobs Are no longer this makes International comparisons the three maritime provinces re ported improved employment pictures last in Prince Edward the unemployment rate dropped to per cent from per cent in in Nova Scotia the rate dropped to per cent from per cent and in new Brunswick the rate fell to 11 per cent from per faced wors ening unemployment with its rate in creasing to per cent from aprils per Quebec reported its rate fell to per cent from per cent and Ontario Date remained virtually falling to per cent from per cent the previous Saskatchewan unemployment rate jumped to per cent from per cent and Albertas dropped to per cent from per in British Columbia the unemployment rate increased to per cent from per unemployment rates for major cities were per cent for per cent for per cent for per cent for per cent for per cent for per cent for four per cent for per cent the Best metropolitan rate in the country for Edmonton and per cent for John Wayne Dies los Angeles a Veteran Tough Guy actor John who symbolized the Strong american in hundreds of died last night of he was Wayne had been in a coma for 24 hours before his death at Urcla medi Cal said Hospital administrator Bernard Waynes seven a nurse and a doctor were with him when he the Duke is during his last Wayne had periods of the adminis Trator then he would sleep for Long periods of he would look around and ask for his when the pain became rather be he was then and it was really yesterday and today that he never came out of Strohm Wayne had not done Well since his general health de if you since inside today Empire strikes Back even More than most movie just Northwest of looks like an inhabited its streets Are Muddy and cluttered and its buildings old and Well but crowning a slight Rise of land like a dark Castle stands a huge and bran new sound built by George Lucas under an arrangement with which owns for the making of the Empire strikes As Star wars ii is being persons who died in last months crash in Chicago might result in awards totalling As much As trainers face audit Revenue Canada is auditing the books of trainers at Assiniboia Downs race a local horse owner who employs one of the americans said some trainers Are now talking about moving their horses to tracks where they will not be bothered by complaints from local trainers or Canadian tax dc10 controversies games Boycott urged r2d2 c3po encore Langhorne head of the Federal aviation says he cannot pre dict when dc10 jetliners will be allowed to Fly european airlines Are confident about the safety of their dc10 fleets and Are urging european authorities to lift orders grounding the lawyers say lawsuits filed on behalf of the 275 ukrainian nationalist Valentyn Moroz is urging a Boycott of the 1980 olympic games in Moscow unless the soviet Union agrees to a general amnesty for political Moroz told a Winnipeg news conference that because the games Are extremely important to soviet Many concessions could be obtained from the ottos gone fishing where Are the Defeated Liberal Cabinet minis ters Otto former minister of every has gone Lona former sport is looking Over some Job offers in the and Jack Horner will probably go Back to the Bowman to Buffalo Scotty who coached Montreal Cana Diens to five Stanley cup titles in the last eight has signed a multiyear contract As general manager of Buffalo the 45yearold Montreal who will also serve As buffaloes director of hockey opera says one of his to priority items will be to find a coach for the begin blasts critics israeli prime minister Menachem begin says critics of israels Settle ment policy on the occupied West Bank Are following the evil path of the enemies of the jewish scores baseball american league Toronto 2 Seattle 0 California 9 Cleveland 4 Detroit 3 Oakland 1 Baltimore 6 Chicago 0 Boston 4 Kansas City 0 National league Montreal 6 Atlanta 5 Philadelphia 4 Houston 2 new York 3 Cincinnati 2 Louis 9 los Angeles 7 Page 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