Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 15, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 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 the increase will mean an initial charge of for the first on seventh of a mile instead of the first one ten cents will be charged for each additional on seventh instead of the present 10 cents will now be charged for each 90 seconds of waiting up from the present Fate of 10 cents for each 40 uni City taxi manager Ken Chadwell said yesterday he was pleased with the governments but disappointed it had not come we cant make it its no big added Duffy manager Pete right after the election Jack up the Price of Gas and Well be left behind the eight Ball Orchard also said he wants he Mani Toba taxicab Board to study the cab Industry to see How to improve efficiency and reduce As he said he wants the Board to examine Why Winnipeg has Only 400 or about 40 per cent of the number in Calgary and 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 numbers on the ratio of population Are lower than in Calgary and there Are quite a few both Chadwell and Kapusta did not 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 Well be Busy when flights come in to the but what Are we going to do the rest of the time Orchard said the rate increase would set fares at about the same level As most major Cloudy tonight sunny tomorrow Low 24 High 11 february 1980 Sylvia Burka Sheds no tears after falling Short in quest for olympic vol 108 no 65 Jim free press t aft sikh 11k 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 Jet bashing bus Driver will remain Anonymous x the transit Tom Driver who ran into the Wing of Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau jetliner will miss his Chance to be a minor celebrity during an otherwise Boring election bureaucrats have decided the Driver will remain x until the paperwork has shuffled through the bureaucratic the bus was under charter to the Liberal party to move the press corps to the Winnipeg International when it arrived on the South ramp the Driver swung it around the left Wing of the dc9 to get close to the aircraft but he Cut it left air Canada and the City of Winnipeg As Well As insurance investigators with an usual it was not really an aircraft Acci Dent under terms of air the aircraft was not preparing to move for it was not moving and it had not just landed which would bring it under the air Accident investigation air Canada said the Jet would be either flown to rejoin the Trudeau Campaign or election 8o d Campaign Ever its at opposite ends of Canada hint at mondays says Allan cd jambs Richardson has 1 endorsed the p whoever wins on there will be plenty of new laces in the l candidates offer their views on How to Cut the National d Pierre Trudeau Calls for changes in the Auto Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 200 30c with coloured comics for Home Call 9439331 t a s City 2o i Dampens Hopes for Early hostage release from the news services reports of an impending break in the Iran hostage crisis have drawn words of caution from who say May take Days or weeks to gain the release of the american iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr said yesterday the hostages could be freed in a matter of 48 hours if president Carter accepts his con but Carter said he Doest expect the Issue to be resolved before the new Hampshire primary 26 and officials asked Iran to clarify its Condi Edmund Louis a Paris lawyer involved in the hostage told the French news Agency that in Secretary general Kurt Waldheim is about to announce the makeup of a commission to investigate charges against the deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Waldheim had no imme Diate iranian foreign minister Sadegh Gholizadeh also expressed optimism about the formation of the commis commission soon he said he expects it to be set up this week to investigate the regimes charges against the Shah As a step toward freeing the 50 hostages in the embassy in who Are in their Kwh Day in i would say As soon As the process setting up the commission takes place that the problem of the hostages would be Gholizadeh told adding he expects the com Mission will be established within two asked if the in commis Sion would Convene in told report ers they Are waiting for me to make that announcement but i am waiting to see if the will accept our Condi he repeated his three demands on the United states for release of the hos tages acknowledgement of alleged crimes against the iranian people during the Shah reign a pledge not to meddle in iranian affairs agreement not to Block efforts to return the Shah and his wealth to but who this week told the French newspaper be Monde that Aya see Page 4 ads abandon Hope for Tito Belgrade Reuter president Titos doctors have virtually abandoned Hopes of saving his Hospital sources said a medical bulletin issued shortly after midday said there had been some improvement in the Overall condition of the 87yearold communist official sources said the gravely ill after his left leg was amputated nearly four weeks had drifted into a but this was not mentioned in the medical the bulletin issued by a team of eight doctors treating president Tito at Ljubljana in Northern said a certain improvement in the Overall condition of health of president of the Republic Josip Broz Tito is continue intensive medical measures Are being undertaken with the objective of maintaining and stabilizing this Tenden the bulletin sources said the yugoslav Leader was sinking and there was practically no Hope of saving they said the 87yearold communist Leader has drifted into a with his heart gloomy refusing to com ment concede privately that he appears to be Tito reported in coma miners to get arsenic tests 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 limes 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 if the Mayo examinations prove Posi the Union plan to push for an in depth study of All the tests were conducted for arsenic and Lead on 45 other employees by the Ontario occupational health and safely Branch at the request of the two doctors also inspected the Moe Union local said the three men tested were Long time employees of see six 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 do the Pakistan is Worth defending for 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 hts porno ring teachers Burn out an Fri undercover operation based in Miami has cracked a nationwide conspiracy to control the lucrative pornography the initial signs of teacher burnout can Start to appear As Early As the first year in the classroom for and its symptoms can affect Soames gets Tough As Rhodesia White voters cast their ballots in their last segregated British governor lord Soames continued his crackdown on Black nationalist Leader Robert libraries get funds the provincial government gave Rural libraries a shot in the Arm yesterday when it announced an additional in annual grim prediction although world Trade grew by seven per cent last the Outlook for the future is not says the general agreement on tariffs and scores Winter olympics hockey medal standings soviet Union Ai Iliia nether grinds Finland Canada Bulgaria East Germany Czechoslovakia 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