Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final town jame9 Fate Pottss Winnipeg free july 0 Westman Media cooperative of Brandon has signed an interim agree ment with the Manitoba Telephone sys tem to provide Cable television service to Minnedosa and the move leaves 20 of the 28 Rural communities licenced for Cable Televik son in 1977 by the Federal Canad an radio television telecommunications still without the association of Cable operators of with six has been negotiating a master agreement with the Telephone system for extending the Cable network to the communities for More than two in the several Cable firms have signed individual interim con such As the Westman agree with its to provide service to sortie the contract will be immediately Dis continued when the association signs a general agreement with said Terry Westman comp he the negotiations were going slow and we wanted to get these communities connected before the construction season ran revenues from Brandon and car Berry will have to support the three town Westman expansion until a Gener Al contract is two stumbling blocks Are holding up settlement of a general agreement on Rural Cable one is the Cable association members Lack of an agreement to share the its Cost of providing a link to the common Gunnlaugson said this has to be done because the potential Rural sub scribers cant afford the links on their but if the Cost is shared among the total provincial subscribers the network becomes the second Factor is the Price its will charge to provide the Rural net Gunnlaugson said the association has recently completed a Cost study to provide a private network and is using those figures in its negotiations with the first interim contracts were signed with three Cable companies and provided service to Portage la Carberry and Valley Cable has signed another to service Winkler and Altona through although Carman is the Only one connected so Manitoba Power production Sparks new technology Dean by Manfred Jager increasing Power production in Northern Manitoba and expanding Export markets is resulting in the development of an entirely new says the Dean of engineering at the University of Edmund Kuffel was speaking in connection with the Likely development of newer and less trouble prone High voltage insulators for Lon distance Power transmission lines Kuffel in an interview both the University and Pri vate Industry Are Likely to get in on the ground Kuffel said he has reason to be optimistic about the establishment of a Canadian Centre for High voltage do studies at the University of Manitoba this which would also be the first installation of its kind in the Centre would be based partly on the fort Garry Campus and partly at the Dorsey generating station of Mani Toba Hydro according to the would allow us to use the entire Mani Toba Hydro system As a very huge its a fact that the demand for electric Power has been increasing by 10 per cent every year this Means it doubles every even though the demand growth has de creased a Little in the province during the last few Kuffel exports reach million and while Power exports from Mani Toba have reached million a year far More of what is being generated Here could be sold that where the new technology comes in and this school now has the largest High voltage research establishment of any University in the coun Kuffel he said one of the things which will be needed before Long if Power exports Are to continue growing will be insula tors made of materials yet to be developed that would prevent the accumulation of microscopic dust Dur ing prolonged dry in this poses a constant danger of Power flashover and overheating of installations when the dust layer on insulators becomes moist from morning or eve Ning condensation and starts conduct ing electricity instead of insulating the there Are two problems in voltage Kuffel one is reliability and the other is aesthetics the latter particularly in the cities 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apartment Community weekend Beach bums hot weather and weekends usually add up to one thing escape to the with the heat wave expected to and a decidedly Summerise Outlook for weekend Winnipeg Beach will be one of the places to either for just soaking up rays or for Union praises safety program but Calls for cleanup of Plant by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press flin flon United steelworkers of America area representative Roy Simmonds said yesterday he supports the Hudson Bay mining and smelting company new safety but warned against workers being blinded to other he said in the interests of safety the company should undertake a thorough Plant cleanup there Are areas where lunch rooms Are he we would stand behind the company disciplining any of our people who misuse these facilities but we think its time the company hired people to keep them clean on a Day today the with full Union sup yesterday launched a comm Roundt Hemlock safety awareness company general manager Keith Callander said the five year program will include safety awareness in the at at school and at Home through the personal Effort of everyone the safety kits issued All employees were issued safety kits Simmonds said another simple inno vation would be the use of vacuum cleaners in the plants instead of hand brooms which just spread the in Simmonds said the com Pany is faced with modernizing an old Plant which is a very costly Busi he noted that the installation of a new ventilating system in the Zinc tank Plant Cost million in he complained the ventilation sys tem still was Callander said there were some mechanical difficulties with the ventilating system which Are being Simmonds said we dont expect the modernization of the Plant to happen but we would like to have the company give us a timetable of How the updating can take place Over a four or five year Callander said a study is being made into Plant improvement were different we manufacture Over satisfied customers since 1961 medium weight aluminium storm windows installed prices any size up to 36 wide up to 90 United inches deluxe weight aluminium storm windows installed prices any size up to 48 wide up to 120 United inches deluxe weight anodized inside aluminium windows installed prices any size up to 36 wide up to 90 United inches Over 38 wide to 48 wide up to 120 United inches off two Imp twee tuck no sous my Suud month on your Hydro Mil government owners insulation program guilty pleas entered on 7 Gross indecency counts Thomas Wright of pleaded guilty to seven charges of Gross indecency when he appeared before Provin Cial court judge Arnold Conner yesterday in the Law courts Crown counsel Doug Abra entered a stay of proceedings on two additional charges of Gross indecency and one charge of the charges relate to incidents Between and Breen is one of 12 men who were charged with sex related offences following a police judge Conner remanded Breen to 12 for defence counsel Hymie Weinstein told the court he intends to Call character witnesses and Abra added he expects to make a lengthy pre sentence weapon charges Laid after search of House clearance of cottage windows and sealed units West wind aluminium window limit turini 6335551 24 1079 Keewatin Corner of Inkster two City residents were charged thursday with Possession of Nanchuk Sticks found by police in a landside Street residence during an Nanchuk Sticks two wooden Sticks connected by a Chain were used for parroting in said police Ken John charged with Possession of a prohibited weapon Are David Douglas of no fixed and Howard Garnet of landside threats alleged a Man who May be in a position to give testimony in a criminal trial was abducted on one occasion and threatened on another before reporting the police on june police an 18yearold Man who had just observed a car Accident at Watt Street and Tweed Avenue was handcuffed and driven in a station Wagon to a residence where he was held for two hours before being on june the complainant was at Home when a Man visited him and warned him not to give evidence at a trial unrelated either to the Accident or to the alleged police the matter was reported to police july charged with attempting to obstruct jus Tice and forcible confinement is Darrell Norman of Manhattan Blaze believed arson police say they believe a fire that broke out at suite 267 Annes last monday and resulted in damage was deliberately charged with arson is Timothy Wayne of suite 267 Annes ;