Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 15, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fares to increase March 1 by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the provincial government has Given the godhead for higher taxi fares in expected to become effective March highways minister Don Orchard said yesterday he has agreed to the in sought by the greater Winnipeg taxicab raising fares for a three mile trip to from uni City taxi manager Ken Chadwell said yesterday he was pleased with the governments but disappointed it had not come Peter Duffy taxi manag was lukewarm to the its no big he right after the election Jack up the Price of Gas and Well be left behind the eightball in approving the Orchard said he wants the Manitoba taxicab Board to study the cab Industry including service at Winnipeg International Airport to see How to improve efficiency and reduce complaints from the general he said he also wants the Board to examine the level of service in the City and determine Why Winnipeg has Only 400 which is about 40 per cent of the number in Calgary and Edmon ton cities of comparable of Winnipeg 400 200 service the in he there Are More than with 300 now in Airport with the number rising to 450 by the its a legitimate question As to Why taxicab numbers on the ratio of Popula Tion Are lower than in Calgary and it he response to Calls is Between five and seven i while Winni Eggers can wait 40 to 50 both Chadwell and Kapusta did not Light Snow today Cloudy tonight High 14 Low 24 february 1980 Welcome an increase in the number of cabs in the More cabs will Force Drivers pay to drop below the minimum Chadwell right he Drivers earn about an hour and cab owners increasing cab numbers will put everyone in Well be Busy when flights come in to the but what Are we going to do with the cars the rest of the time Chadwell Orchard said the rate increase would set fares at about the same level As most major Sylvia Burka falling Short Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 30c with coloured comics for Home Call 9439331 two works Lor outside City 2b Jim free press hot lips de a politicians life on the Campaign Trail int always a grinding As nip Leader de Broadbent found out yesterday when he exchanged a kiss for a Valentines after Broadbent bussed red River Community College student association treasurer Kathy he went on to Hammer the Lyon blaming it for Manitoba population Tito slips into ads fear death near Belgrade Reuter president Titos doctors have virtually abandoned Hope of saving his official yugoslav sources said they said the 87yearold communist Leader has drifted into a with his heart weakened and his kidney functions seriously gloomy refusing to com ment concede privately that he appears to be the doctors have been attempting to halt a steady deterioration in his Gener Al condition following amputation of his left leg nearly four weeks in a bulletin at noon they said his condition was very the most somber description used so far in the six weeks since he entered a Hospital at North Ern suffering from an blocked artery in his plans to Issue a further bulletin last night were abandoned without sex the yugoslav head of state for 35 is suffering from serious complications following the amputation of his his heart and kidney functions have been weakened and his digestive system has been election 80 d Campaign events at ends of Canada hint at mondays says Allan d former Liberal Cabinet minister Richardson has endorsed the j Joe Clark wants his government judged on its not its g candidates offer their views on How to Cut the National c Pierre Trudeau Calls for changes in the Auto says hostage release now up to by Ronald Koven the Washington Post Paris the hostages in Tehran could be freed in 48 hours once the United states accepts Iran Condi iranian Abolhassan Banisadr said yesterday in an inter View with italian state this came As a spokesman in new York for in Secretary general Kurt Waldheim said that the announcement of the composition of a United nations investigating commission on the role of the United states in Iran meeting one of Tehran conditions could come very delicate stage we have reached a very sensitive and very delicate stage of said in spokesman Rudolf Banisadr said that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has approved a package of proposals including release of the the interview also coincided with a european tour by iranian foreign min ister Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh to Athens Rome yesterday and Paris this Mansour the iranian ambassador to the United said in Geneva that Banisadr is handling the negotiations personally in Tehran and that he did not expect anyone else to be brought in until the time comes to work out Ghotb Zadeh said upon arrival in Rome yesterday Attiat the hostages should be freed step by and said Waldheim told him the commis Sion could be formed within the next two former Irish foreign minister Sean frequently mentioned As a possible president of the in commis said the commission itself could take custody of the hostages and per haps even then release them on statement confirmed the 76yearold a Holder of the Nobel and Lenin peace said that Waldheim had asked him whether he would be willing to serve on the commission if Louis former president of the Paris bar association and head of the Swiss based International Catholic jurists confirmed Mac brides statement that he had approached him to be a commission Pettitti stressed he would Only serve on an investigating not on a Macbride said that he personally thinks that the in commission should be limited to five to seven members and perhaps include an american and an iranian human rights he said he had in mind former attorney general Ramsey Clark and a Tehran civil liberties Abdul Karim Macbride said the main concern was to insure that the commission would have enough no european and mos Lem he said that the commission should hold hearings in Tehran but that it should have its seat in a european City or the he said he opposes holding the hear Ings until the hostages Are actually there Are indications that the iranian government has agreed to that a the commission must be formed before the hostages Are re Ghotb Zadeh told a Rome press miners losing stake in Homes along with jobs by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free press most of the Money Glenn Zelinski invested in his House during the last five years has disappeared along with half the jobs in this until two years the real estate Market was healthy in this 230 Kilometres Southeast of but the closing of one Iron Ore mine in january and the imminent closing of another resulting in the loss of an other jobs caused House prices to plunge 30 to 40 per Zelinski said he knows of 12 miners who have turned their House keys Over to the Bank and walked away from their the miners have done he said in an because they cant sell their Homes and their mortgages exceed property i know theres going to be a lot he a three bedroom Home originally priced Between and would now sell providing you could find someone to buy it for Between and said one the House Zelinski bought for is now Worth about see Low Page 4 High arsenic Levels sends six to clinic by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free press six local mine employees will undergo thorough examinations monday at the Mayo clinic after tests revealed three of them have abnormally High arsenic the commissioned by the United steelworkers of showed one of the miners had an arsenic level in his hair 100 times above Normal and times above Normal on his the least affected of the three had an arsenic level 35 times above Normal in his hair and six times above Normal on his exposure to arsenic can cause health problems ranging from rashes and nose bleeds to heart disorders of the nervous kidney Dis ease and skin and lung the six workers Are employed at the caland Ore company which is scheduled to shut Down its operation at the end of the company is paying for the examinations at the clinic in Mineso with three of the workers acting As a control group for the see arsenic Page 4 inside today defending Pakistan checker still twists Chubby checker is in Winnipeg this still twisting 20 year he claims today dances descend from his famous Call to 4o the twist717 Pakistan is Worth defending All its it still has a Chance of weaving its Western and islamic heritages into a viable political system that is vital to the an aging population Manitoba population is getting older statistics show the most rapidly growing group is the Middle aged and that Factor creates a myriad of economic and social Fri hits porno ring an Fri undercover operation based in Miami has cracked a nationwide conspiracy to control the lucrative pornography Soames gets Tough scores Index teachers Burn out the initial signs of teacher burnout can Stan to appear As Early As the first year in the classroom for and its symptoms can affect As Rhodesia White voters cast their ballots in their last segregated British governor lord Soames continued his crackdown on Black nationalist Leader Robert libraries 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