Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mayoralty dark horses Trail in random poll Prairie Hillary substitute buildings for 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 Zuken tries to pick up 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 see most Page 4 sunny today Cloudy tonight High 28 Low 12 my my e if 1 faces City residents by Rick Blanchard Winnipeg residents face possible water rationing this summer for 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 see water Page 1 ski tgf3 bal to june 1 kiwol86no214 final rises sets Moon rises sets tree press rail lines to get reprieve from pcs transport minister Don Mazankowski said yesterday in 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 Yard 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 who also is minister in charge of the Canadian wheat had lengthy discussions with Board officials one Issue discussed was the Acquini see tories Page 4 civic is authorize strike poll the Union representing some City of Winnipeg employees has been authorized to Call a strike vote unless a better contract proposal is received from the de president of local 500 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 Blackman 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 jobless Ottawa up the first unemployment figures since the new govern ment came to Power were released today and show officially out of work in this was an improvement from the the jobless reported during the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also fell slightly to per cent from the per cent reported 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 resuming 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 finance minister John Crosbie said shortly after his appointment he consid ers regional unemployment the most serious aspect of the country Job most recent figures show the unemployment rate in his Home prov Ince of traditionally the toughest Job Market in the was per employment minister Ron a keys first words to reporters after his Swearingin were that he plans to find jobs and More jobs for canadians who want the group which seems to need them most is Young people they persistently show the highest unemployment last month the unemployment rate among males 15 to 24 was per cent and among females in the same age bracket per 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 could not find France six per West Germany per Japan per cent and Australia per John Wayne loses Battle with cancer Flowers that Bloom in the Spring one of the nicer things about working in Kildonan Park these Days is a stroll in the Park employee Carol Doner poses amid a bed of colourful now in full Clark firm on pledges new York up prime minister Clark says he intends to stick to two controversial Campaign pledges despite the fact they have drawn in the transcript of an interview with Barbara Walters of the Abc television broadcast in part yester Clark said he will sell pet Rocana the governments multimillion Dollar Petroleum to the private sector and move the site of the Canadian embassy in Israel to Jerusa Lem from Tel his comments on pet Ocanada were not carried in the edited both those promises were made Dur ing the Campaign for the 22 Federal election that brought Clark and his progressive conservatives to the pet Ocanada proposal Strong opposition from both the Liber als and the new mean Arab countries have responded angrily to the plan to move the Zembas but Clark told miss Walters that he will go the prime minister said he does not feel that the Petroleum concern should be under government he believes that Canada should have a major Oil but that it should be in Pri vate Well be starting on it later this Clark Well Start by appointing a group of trustees to take a look at the assets of Petr Ocanada and to make recommendations As to the Best Means by which we can change it see arabs Page 4 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 Wayne was taken to Hospital May when he underwent his second cancer operation this year for cancer of the m John Wayne dead at 72 doctors had suggested that he would undergo an experimental treatment program to help explain cancer and How it can be but the full program was never carried inside r2d2 c3po encore i inspire s 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 11 is being 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 Otto s gone nning where Are the Defeated Liberal Cabinet minis ters Otto 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 games Boycott urged 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 dc10 controversies 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 persons who died in last months crash in Chicago might result in awards totalling As much As Bowman to Buffalo Scotty who coached Montreal Cana Diesto 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 o the jewish people scores Index baseball american league Toronto 2 Seattle 0 California 9 Cleveland 4 Detroit 3 Oakland 1 Baltimore 6 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