Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 14, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Valentines Day important to All mining town faces Bleak future by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free press this is a worried families Are being split up for Long periods As husbands work in Distant shopkeepers fear their business future is and town officials fret Over a dwindling Popula their concerns can be traced to local mining they Are concerns shared by Many on Industry towns throughout one mining operation has Al ready been shut Down and another is about to be it will have a devastating effect on says Reeve Jack Pierce said yesterday the closing of the towns main sources of employment has left some workers with no no income and no equity in Homes they cant sell even if they want there is no Way Atikokan is going to disappear off the he but there will be a drop in population and change in Union officials said yesterday Many of the men already Laid off have found employment but its meant leaving their families about 40 mine employees Are being shuttled to the mex Gold mine in Pickle and families left behind Arent Happy about dont feel Mary Byrne what is the town going to be like if All the men keep working Down there Byrne said she and her have been married for 28 years and we Haven been separated since weve been she said she last saw her husband the men Are supposed to work 10 Days on and four Days off with transportation paid by the Byrne said she Doest want to move her 16yearold son to Pickle Lake because there is nothing Down there for a teenager except the Byrnes moved to Atikokan from Newfoundland 13 years ago after an Iron Ore mine closed most workers at the caland mines scheduled to close april said they plan to stay in the slim Hope work will be about 200 employees remain on the Job at the caland processing we dont have any we dont know what were said one Cou ple in a downtown i like it i dont want to move see grim Page 4 Cloudy tonight sunny tomorrow Low 22 High 15 february 1980 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 20c for Home Call 9439331 i to Ijar outbid nearing Accord on hostages by the associated press former foreign minister Sean Mac Bride of Ireland said today the United states and the iranians have agreed to a plan to release the hostages concurrently with the opening of a United nation sponsored inquiry into the Shah who has made several trips to Iran on in said it is his understanding the plan has been approved by Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho Iran revolutionary Bronze for Canada Lake Placid Steve Podborski of Calgary earned Canadas first medal in the Xiii Winter olympic games Here today when he finished third in the mens downhill Alpine ski event to win the Bronze a pair of austrian skiers took the Gold and Silver Podborski third place Lime was just half a second behind the second place austrian Ken also of who had been considered Canadas Best Hope in the downhill fell near the top of the course and was out of the Dave Murray was the second est Ca Nadian with a time of while Dave Irwin had a time of election 8o la Joe Clark is still More than three years away from getting a prime ministerial d Pierre Trudeau eludes the Media because they let him get away with u Clark bounces Back from his midweek bout with the la Manitoba social credit party has decided to sit out this la reporter John Sullivan discusses the issues in this election with former Liberal finance minister Jean president Carter also gave qualified approval to a a condition set Forth by iranian president Abolhassan Macbride said in a Tele phone interview from his Dublin Home that because of the latest develop the hostages possibly could be turned Over to the commission and that he definitely did not foresee the commission holding its inquiries while the hostages were still in deter Carter raises i have always held to the position that it would be impossible to hold an inquiry until they were Macbride the sooner the Situa Tion is defused the in a situation where you have 50 hostages being held by More than 100 students an Accident could happen at any he said the key Factor to the negotiated arrangement was the election 25 of which tended to Cut Down the factional strife that has complicated Iran since Khomeini ouster of Shah Mohammad Reza pah Lavi 13 months Macbride said he Hopes the makeup of the inquiry commission will be completed he said those being considered Are representatives of Alge and other third world he also said the commission probably will include him self and Louis head of the Paris bar Nobel Winner who won the Nobel peace prize for his negotiating of the Namibia said the commission now agreed upon would investigate the extent to which the regime of the Shah May have committed offences under International though he refused to speculate on any sort of Macbride said he anticipates the commission will open its hearings in Tehran and possibly hold later hearings Carter told news conference last night the United states would agree to a commission appointed by in Secre tar general Kurt Waldheim to go to Iran and investigate the revolutionary regimes charges against the ousted see hostage Page 4 bomb then bus hits plane undaunted by two bomb and then this morning Deau had the final say last night As he addressed a crowd of having a bus crash into his Liberal Leader Pierre tru about at James pages 4 and going up january living Cost climbs elderly seek lower natural Gas rate breweries want Beer Price Rise higher housing and transportation costs pushed con Sumer prices up per cent in january from de the same increase in two consecutive the latest figures moved the inflation rate for the 12 months ending in Jan uary to per Down from per cent in the year ending the conference Board of in a Montreal says the average weekly salary of a Canadian expressed in 1971 constant Dol fell to from Between the fourth Quarter of 1977 and the second Quarter of last this drop of per cent in the average salary represents a loss of purchasing Power of about and the report says it is attributable to inflation and government controls on wages and statistics which measures changes in the Cost of a Basket of commonly purchased goods and ser says higher household operating charges and higher effective prices for 1980 cars were largely responsible for the increase of per cent in the Index see january Page 4 senior citizens should receive preferential treatment when Gas heating rates Are the Manitoba Public utilities Board was told the proposal came in the Wake of greater Winnipeg Gas company re quest for a rate which would bring the firms Price increases to per cent in the past the proposed increase would add about to the average homeowners annual Cameron acting chairman of a Winnipeg society of senior citizens committee on greater Winnipeg said the elderly Are a special kind of customer no different than the inter interrupt Bles Are Large Industrial firms which May suffer Gas Supply reductions because homeowners must receive their Gas the interrupt Bles Are Here at the Board hearing to protect their we Are Here to survive in our Reading a fou Page Jones con ceded that homeowners would have to pay More if it we rent for Large Indus trial but simple economics dictates the see elderly Page 4 acting liquor commission chairman Alexander Tevendale last night disputed reports that Manitoba Brewers Are asking for an increase of 22 cents on the wholesale Cost of a Case of Tevendale and the Manitoba liquor control commission have agreed on a Price increase which they presented to the Public utilities Board the Board will deliberate on the pro posed increase and is expected to hand Down a decision within the next 10 the Board will either agree with the increase or suggest its Tevendale said the retail value of a Case of Beer will be ascertained by lacking on an excise a markup for the and both a Federal and provincial government sales he added that a reported 50cemsacase increase in retail Cost was Molson president and general Man Ager Russell Deeb said last night he Doest expect any Adverse reaction from i dont assume the customers will react any differently to an increase in the Price of he inside today fashion fair scheduled More than 90 companies Are scheduled to take part in the first Canadian outerwear fashion fair to be held March 4 to 6 in the convention regionalism rapped in a speech to the Canadian federation of agriculture annual agriculture minister James Downey said agricultural development is being restrained by regional advice on rape differs philosophies clashed As a group of female sexual assault prevention workers denounced the male author of a Book which tells women How to Deal with rape Canada receives Hearty Welcome at Lake University costs soar the Cost of Leopard frogs was per five years the Price had jumped to a a 120 per cent that one example of How much University costs have Thatcher wants cuts prime minister Margaret Thatcher is continuing her offensive to reduce Britain dec budget but chances of a satisfactory solution Are Ottawa accused of lying the tangled tale of Douglas Browning a Canadian living in Iran has surfaced again with an accusation by Browning himself that the external affairs department in Ottawa is Index scores anytime 37 Birdex 24 Bridge 25 business 67 Cansino 37 classified 38 comics 66 crossword 26 deaths 38 Doug Small 5 focus 7 forum 6 7 Horoscope 24 Jumble Puzzle 42 letters 6 movies relax television weather 2 hockey nil Pittsburgh 4 Toronto 2 Edmonton 5 Minnesota 3 Chicago 3 by rangers 1 Atlanta 2 Detroit 2 winners Western express for 5633907 6219969 5923967 6917773 5185678 other ;