Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg pee february v prices less than Placid at Winter olympiad continued from Page 1 weeks while officiate were preparing for the that meant to business Fot the Motel operators around and it will be closed Down for another week when the games Are Over and that week happens to include George Washington which is usual the busiest time of the year in this while Ives Points out Motel rates have been set by the he admits they would probably be even Jim free press higher if left to the individual opera Ive been offered As much As a night for my he but of course i cant take it because the acc decides who stays Here during the games 1 even get my own father a room and he owns a big chunk of this campsites Are not controlled by the the Guys around Here Are charging a Ives they were going to charge but the corporation talked them into cutting Bear in mind that Only for a piece of you have to Supply your own exorbitant rates for Accortt Flada tons Are Only part of the olympic Golden a highball that Cost last month now costs a dinner that Cost in december will now Cost the unwary purchaser anywhere from to and some places Only give you 45 minutes to eat Ives even Ronald Mcdonald has been caught up in the Golden Ives walk through the Golden Arches in Lake Placid and you wind up paying for a big an order of Coffee arid Apple and you will be expected to finish it in 20 i at the olympic Arena vendors Are charging for a cup of for a hot it seems every visitor is being viewed As a but the warmest pigeons of them All Are the one offers a personal apart from paying 21 Days of rental a room that will Only be used for Only the pipes at left remain at William benjamins work station at the in he died As a result of a blast rail workers question safety in spokesman denies company at rejects fears As groundless continued from Page 1 he said the explosion was so severe investigators cant determine whether it was caused by an individual mistake or inadequate safety measures on the of the we May never know what Hap Buckley one employee said similar incidents have happened four or five people have suffered Burns from Torch flames which have set off Gas leaking from hoses and another said the fatal explosion May have been caused by Leaky acetylene hoses and gauges located at work stations scattered throughout the reclaim ing the stations Are actually oxygen and acetylene pipes rising from the ground and enclosed in a Doghouse like the gauges there never ser the hoses Are All its just a one employee a lot of the torches dont have spark arresters on if a spark shoots Down the Assembly Hose and you dont have a spark arrester it will just go right through and blow the station he doubted the Union could rectify the its Leader is close to Union official de re Chuck refused to comment on the saying management should be contacted in some say Benjamin complained of a leak at his work station the week leading up to his management had been told there were one worker adding two friends shared car Pool shortly before fatal explosion by Brian Cole i watched him go to work for the last he walked past where i was my Coffee and about two minutes later there was a Damn big that All there that How de Barham remembers one of his Dearest William who died in an explosion at ithe in Yards in Transcona earlier this the 64yearold known As was to retire this he leaves his wife a daughter and two the fatal blast occurred shortly after men had made their traditional journey to work at the Canadian National railways Yards in Transcona from like so Many other employees at the two men enjoyed their car Pool be cause it gave them a Chance to talk about everyday issues or share a now instead of Friendly talk or Good natured kidding filling the car on the trip to Barham just has the memories of a Good Friend to Cher ish during his 30mile you get up and go to work with a Guy for five years and then suddenly you drive by his House and youre not picking him up anymore that something you dont get bar who works in a different Section of the said Bill was a hell of a no one could say anything against he said of the 15year in employ i could never say enough about another employee who worked with Benjamin he was a great Guy to work the who wished to remain Barham said Benjamin want the kind of Guy who would complain about workplace he went out and gave a Dayan a half he was the kind of Guy who would do he definitely expected them to make sure everything was ship that there have been complaints in the one worker speculated the Gas leaked out overnight and was retained by the Doghouse like when he opened the a pos Sibly from Static May have ignited the another worker suggested Benjamin May have opened up the valve from the acetylene outlet to Clear it of turning on the it May have in both the enclosure is said to have retained the they were removed from following the explosion at the repeated urgings of the Canada labor investigator Buckley said he believed the removal was done to reduce the chances of another Acci one employee bitterly remarked they were a known safety Why didst they remove them the first time there was a problem one in employee termed the removal of the enclosures As one of the modifications made to the station to ensure that this Doest happen but then who knows what the next thing will he asked suggest ing the War against Industrial accidents is never reclaiming Yard supervisor Martin Geswine earlier denied there were Simi Lar incidents before benjamins yesterday he threatened to Call the in police when a free press photographer and reporter went to the scene of the he said the site was private property and that All visitors must report to the office before walking around the there is the matter of the for you get aft assigned room mate to share the a Pine Wood panelling water stained ceiling tile and no the matter of the Telephone was quickly the usable Valley Telephone com Pany of gladly in stalled in fact it installed two at since neither Jack dul Mage of the Windsor Star nor i knew we would be sharing accommodation before we ticket prices Are also creative As witness yesterdays Canad Holland hockey top Price for preliminary round games has been set at plus state and local that added up to a total of for Holland versus Cana top Price for the Gold medal hockey game will be plus hockey fans Are the Best seats in the House for the final Day of the figure skating Competition will Cost plus of suspensions lifted for constables facing trial by Ron Campbell the Winnipeg police commission has lifted the suspensions of two City police officers facing charges of assault Caus ing bodily constables Keith and Michael Mckenzie were suspended from the Force without pay by chief Norman Stewart 18 after being the constables were charged with beating Ken of Taft cres cent last the suspensions were issued on the chiefs police commission chairman lome Leech ice Seine Valley said the commission will review the two consta Bles status with the Force after their expected in late they will resume their police duties staff inspector Paul Johnston Brisson claimed he was taken to Wildwood Golf course 16 and beaten while he alleged one police officer beat him As the other watched and claimed he suffered a punctured eardrum in the the charges against a 5y2year member of the Force and a two year were Laid after a two month internal police i Vestiga Leech said the commission decided to reinstate the men pending their trial because they Are innocent until proven guilty and also because charges have been Laid against the the he reverses about 50 per cent of the suspension appeals it Brisson and another Man face charges of mischief and assaulting a police asked whether the Public does not have the right to be served by police without the Shadow of criminal charges Over their Leech replied there Are Many extenuating circumstances under this citing the counter charges against until a judge rules on who is i dont think any Man or his family should suffer including a he Leech said the constables probably wont be working in the same area when they return to the chief has discretion asked Why the men we rent simply suspended on full pay pending the out come of the he said the police chief has discretion to suspend with or without pay and always chooses the latter option in such the police commission has the option of upholding or varying the chiefs Leech the officers had representation from the Winnipeg police association and its lawyers when the commission considered their Case it was the first time the Case had come before the which rules on matters of police Moscow olympics to go As Loc proclaims continued from Page 1 said the Ioc is still hopeful that the political acrimony afghanis Tan will resolve though Killain did not mention the invasion of he did Issue a veiled warning to the the Ioc urges the organizing com Mittee in Moscow and the National olympic committee of the to inform the highest authorities of their government of the circumstances which have created these difficulties for so Many National organizing com the Carter Antici Pating a Rebuff from the olympic Lead had already issued a statement saying it will continue to insist on a Boycott of the Moscow olympics if soviet troops remain in if the soviets do not fully withdraw their troops by neither the president nor the american people can support american attendance at the olympics in the White House and state department said in washing Carters Call for a Boycott has found support from about 50 but Only a Small number of National olympic committees have supported their governments Powell said last night the United states is still working with a number of governments on the possibility of holding their own International Carter promised athletes last week that if the Boycotts the summer olympics he will arrange an International Competition with High a Libre magistrates murder to be protested by strike from the news services Rome millions of italian workers Are going on strike to protest the latest murder by red brigades Vittorio a leading ital Ian magistrate and Law professor at Rome was shot on the Campus yesterday As he left a debate Ori the subject of he was shot seven times by a Young woman aged about who escaped with a bearded youth in a waiting the red brigades later telephoned to claim Bachelet was Vic president and effective head of the supreme Council of the italian president Sandro Pertil and leading politicians of All parties spoke out against the Romes communist mayor declared today a Day of civic mourning schools will close or an hour and the Trade Union federations called a two hour general strike across the extended to our hours in Rome mews Roundup russian Malik Dies at 73 Moscow Deputy foreign minis Ter Jacob who served for More than 10 years As soviet ambassador to the United has died at age the official soviet news Agency Tass reported Tass who returned to Moscow from his in Post in died after a serious Malik headed the soviet delegation at the in from 1948 to then became ambassador to and subsequently went Back to the United nations in Blowout resists capping Rainbow a natural Gas Blowout near the Northwestern al Berta Community of Rainbow Lake has resisted two capping attempts and will be allowed to continue burning for the next Lew the president of the company which owns the Well said Blake president of Blake Mineral resources of said More equipment will be brought to the 675 Kilometres Northwest of to remove portions of the drilling Rig from the but Marshall said the Well will be allowed to continue to Burn for at least two or three Oil leaks from pipeline Alaska several Hundred barrels of crude Oil have leaked from the tra Salaska pipeline at the Alaska a Small Drain fitting failed on a 122centimetre valve in the terminal pipeline said Sam spokesman for Alyeska pipeline ser vice Akin said most of the Oil was contained in a sump beneath the and has since been pumped the valve has been but a Light Sheen of Oil has been discovered on the water surface in the port of he said the Quantity of Oil on the water appears to be very Small and cleanup efforts were under disease outbreak feared Nairobi medical authorities in Kenya said yesterday that 10 persons were in isolation and two of eight wards at Nairobi Hospital were under quaran Tine in a suspected outbreak of Green Monkey viral the outbreak has already been blamed for one although those who have been isolated were being treated for the there was no serious threat to pub Lic officials said Green Monkey or marburg virus involves High fever and severe internal Nairobi Doc tors said its origins Are but it is spread through close Contact with an infected Canada warns Spain w fisheries min ister James Mcgrath says Canada will close its ports to Spanish trawlers unless the government in Madrid heeds a diplomatic note delivered Mcgrath said in an interview the note demands that Spain immediately withdraw three pairs of trawlers now fishing for cod on the Tail of the an area of the grand Bank off Newfoundland just outside Canadas fishing limit of 200 nautical the three pairs Are taking cod in an Aera where Canada says stocks Are dangerously Mcgrath said Spain has announced it will take tonnes of pair trawling is a system used Only by the Spanish in which two vessels Tow the same the spaniards throw away everything but including redfish and which Are needed by Newfoundland manslaughter plea okd Montreal three Mohawk Barbara Katy and Sherry de charged with first degree murder in the beating death of a taxi Driver last were allowed yesterday to plead guilty to manslaughter in sessions demand Giroux died in Hospital two weeks after being beaten about the head and face with a heavy object a pathologists report Crown attorney Ronald Schacter told the court he was satisfied with the reduced charges because the three accused were under the heavy influence of drugs and alcohol when the beating Mammoth fossils found Moscow soviet scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a Herd of mammoths that lived years ago in what is now the byelorussian Republic of the soviet the Tass news Agency the soviet news Agency said the fossilized re Mains were found on the Banks of the Western Dina River near the City of about 340 Kilometres West of ;