Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, February 13, 1980

Issue date: Wednesday, February 13, 1980
Pages available: 143

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 wifi Peg pfe6 feb Fuffy 1980 Bob Churchill heat proves too much by germans in Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Churchill the Crew of a West German Luftwaffe c160 Ransall air cargo plane left for Home this disappointed in the Churchill weath was too the plane was flown Here from Ger Many to test new engine heating equip ment under Arctic German air Force officer Bruno Mun Ster said temperatures of at least were but the Best Churchill could offer was about the germans were hoping for a healthy which Churchill obligingly supplied when they brought the plane Here in to Check recording equipment under severe Churchill including former Churchill la John Ingebrigt sort and mayor Howard showed a lot of interest in the c160 during its fou Day local residents christened it the Here after a pair of Pacific Western airlines Hercules freighters which Are using the Churchill air Termi Nal As their base for a Roundt Hemlock Airlift of supplies and equipment to mining Sites in the Baker Ingebrigtson is interested in the c 160s potential As a Supply plane from Churchill to the the fact that it can carry More than pounds Over Miles on two engines gives the plane an economic advantage Over air Craft currently in service he Ingebrigtson said the plane has a Range of almost Miles with a can travel 230 Miles at ferrying weight and has a cruising Speed of 282 Mph with a Maxi mum Speed of 364 the c160s entire 484squarefoot cargo area Lowers hydraulically to ground level to facilitate Ingebrigtson Munster said the aircraft was Deve loped in the 1960s and brought into ser vice by the German air Force in the now has 80 c160s in Ingebrigtson is studying the feasibility of using the plane in he said it could easily Fly nonstop with pay loads to Frobisher Bay in the Elf Mere Island and Resolute Bay in the High arid Inuvik and Banks Island in the Western the Cost of the aircraft is about million Ingebrigtson said the fact that it carries such a Load with two Turbo prop engines instead of four Piston engines As in the Case of other Large aircraft gives it a sizable saving in Money and computer e Churchill mayor Howard Brown left and former la John Ingebrigtson stand in front of c160 Ransall air cargo Survey shows by Noelle Boughton More Canadian grocery stores Are turning to computerized checkouts de spite results of a recent consumer Survey showing people want prices left on Mary chairman of the con Sumers association of Canada com Mittee which did the random said the new checkout system is com ing in very quickly and very Garry manager of Domin ions management services in the to Ronto head said there Are about 70 stores in Canada which now have computerized the biggest push for scanning right now is in Western he West fair foods which controls lob has two such stores in and plans to Start a second one in Saskatoon in the next couple of months another one in Regina sometime after company Vic president David King we Are very committed to the sys remarked he said More these stores would Likely be added in although there currently Are no plans to do Potter said Dominion now has two stores in Canada with computerized but these have retained individual the company will probably Start More of these stores next possibly in Manitoba or representatives of Safeway and merchants consolidated which controls family fare were unavailable for Consumers groups Are concerned about the introduction of the computerized checkout system because it May eventually eliminate All pricing on individual Pappert said this would inhibit comparison shopping in the store because prices would be marked on the shelves making it difficult for buyers to remember the Cost of each shoppers also could not Check the prices on items against prices appear ing on their Cash Register tapes because the Price would not appear on their cans and there Are always errors on those tapes inverted Fig forgetting to put the Sale Price in the said the Consumers association has been watching developments in this Field since Steinbergs opened the first computerized checkout system in in in order to quickly gauge Public reaction to the the Consumers association of Canada randomly surveyed 167 people in Winnipeg and several Southern Ontario cities last Nineteen of the responses came from of those responding to the 86 per cent said they wanted prices marked on each item in the another 72 per cent said they wanted a Law passed to ensure stores keep marking prices on every item sold in retail food Pappert said the Consumers association would like the Federal government to pass such a Law for All of the matter is in the hands of the provincial governments and she said it seems most of the provinces Are waiting to see what Hap pens in Ontario before making their own Only Quebec has a Law passed last fall on this but it has not been proclaimed and put into Pappert currently there is Little action on the Manitoba although three Winni Peg stores lob Laws on Charleswood Road and on Mcphillips and the food Box on Pembina Highway have the computerized checkouts and generally no prices on individual no provincial or City Consumers organization is looking at the the Only activity appears to be a Small Community committee of about seven people in Charleswood which formed last week to look at the implications of the new system in the Charleswood lob Laws the group has affiliated with the Consumers association of Canada dispute threatens Rainbow season by Richard Garlick i Rainbow stage May not open this summer and 200 theatrical jobs May be in jeopardy because of a dispute be tween the professional association of Canadian theatres and actors Jack director of Rainbow said Shapira said the about 90 per cent of which Are filled could be lost because which represents actors and stage and representing have reached an impasse in negotiations for a new general theatre talks have bogged Down Over equity salary de which would affect All individual contracts signed by pact theatres and equity Shapira said equity also has demanded a rider be attached to each individual contract rendering it void if a new general agreement is not reached by june when the current three year agreement pact has rejected this with a budget of uses about 15 equity people in each four or five of them Are from the rest of the 200 theatrical employees also come from the including 22 members of the Winnipeg symphony orchestra who provides music for the stage hands who belong to another and nonprofessional chorus members and Shapira said the equity jobs could not be filled by nonprofessional and that Rainbow would be forced to cease operations if equity people withdrew their director of the Interlake which stages three plays at Winnipeg Beach every sum said he disagrees with the equity but he will include it in con tracts if in compelled weather h High l Low cold from worm front City Calendar facing Forward series a new program for the elderly is being offered at the Nymha Community 370 Hargrave for phone Bonnie Griffiths at the Centre Morley Chest specialist with the University of Manitoba medical will give a presentation Phis Mountain climbing adventures at 8 tuesday in the Basic medical sciences Emily Street and Banna Tyne lieutenant governor of Bud will speak on the role and experiences of the lieutenant Goue Noral a dinner meeting of the Canadian Institute of Winnipeg tuesday in the Beausejour univer sity at the University of for phone 4530664 after 6 a red Cross blood donor clinic will open noon to 9 tomorrow at Job and 9 to 4 Friday at the red Cross 226 Osborne deaths classified death 3risk winds Winnipeg area forecast variable cloudiness today and High today near brisk northwesterly winds this afternoon and Low tonight near High on thursday near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba variable cloudiness Friday through sunday with temperatures near Northern Manitoba frequent sunny periods 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