Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press. Tuesday. June 23.1981 estimate puts Western crop yield at by Jack Francis Western production of the six major crops will total tonnes this year 22.6 per cent More than the 1980 total and Well above the 37.4-miliion tonnes average of the last five years United Grain growers says in the first crop production estimate of the sea son. Ample june Rains have brought Strong Willering multiple Stock growth Over to produce numerous Heads on each boosting prospects of bumper yields information director John Clark said in an interview yesterday. The estimates based on Early june surveys across the Prairies predict production will be More than last year for All crops but rapeseed which is seen falling to 90-million bushels from last year s 110.5-million bushels. The biggest crop wheat is broken Down into red Spring used for flour expected to reach 748-Mlllion bushels up 24.9 per cent Over 1980, and durum. Pasta. Up 38 per cent to 97-million bushels. Barley is forecast at 590-Millioh Bush Els up 24 per cent Oats 198-million bushels up 37 per cent Rye 24.7-miilion bushels up 66 per cent flax 19.8-Mil lion bushels up 8.1 per cent Over last year. James free a pass Bill and Lucille Merritt Are determined to keep their Home. Lifestyles changed but two determined to keep their Home continued from Page 1 monthly mortgage Bill is some homeowners unable to meet rising mortgage rates Are being forced to sell their Homes. One example is a Waverley Heights family now considering moving Down. The family has been eyeing smaller and cheaper houses than the three bedroom Bungalow they now Call Home. We had no idea the mortgage pay ments would be going this said the homemaker Mother. Since the family moved into the Home two years ago monthly Mort Gage Bills have risen from to As Well they have to Cope with an annual tax Bill. There is no saying How High the Bill will be when the one year mortgage is renewed again in october she said yet they have already done All they can to make ends meet. The Mother of two has taken in boarders and is baby sitting. Entertainment is limited to Home activities except an occasional movie. We can t Cut Back. We Cut Back last she said. Bill Merritt has come to accept the increase of per cent in his Mort Gage rate. It tacked to his monthly Bills and changed his life style. Monthly charges on the family s mortgage renewed just three weeks ago Are now taxes and services will add about another a month. Merritt business manager for the Winnipeg Folk festival and his wife Lucille an office manager earn about a year. Yet even two comes can t support the four Mem Ber family the lifestyle they Are accustomed to and their Riverview Louse. Merritt is now doing evening stints laying the Bass nightspots Hough he worries about How his i5-hour-a-week work schedule cuts nto family time. It s like waving hello in the Hall he said of time with his Chil Dren. Movies dinners and evenings out Lave dropped to a Bare minimum. Despite it All Merritt said he wants to hang on to his House. I m Adamant that we Don t move because i want the kids later to re member this As their he said. I had no Choice but to Pat and Don Vandale have wanted to Trade their Home of six years for a larger House. But with rising Mort Gage rates they have decided to stay in their two bedroom Arden Avenue Home. When they last renewed their Mort Gage at 16% per cent their monthly payments Rose by to while Pat concedes the Bills Aren t prohibitive the family is not pre pared to Cut out entertainment. I want to she said. Even lenders interviewed said they would t risk buying a House with interest rates As High As they Are. I Don t want a said Shel Ley Sklepowich of Crown Trust. It s too Susan Bauer of guarantee Trust said she can t afford to buy the Home she has been looking for. Brian Decka mortgage manager for Montreal Trust and president of the mortgage loan association said people have come to accept the Stag Gering interest rates. Doug Maughan assistant Branch manager of household realty agreed. Despite spite it All people Are still borrowing he said. They Are afraid of what might happen next Maughan said most shoppers accustomed to paying 24 per cent inter est on department store Bills meekly accept High mortgage rates. They Don t think it s he said. Most of today s business is generated by innovative financing schemes such As Vendor take backs and Blanket mortgages said Decka. The houses everyone wants Are those with lower assumable Mort gages. At least half the weekday papers tout palatable inter est rates. Don Ayre executive director of the Manitoba Home builders association predicted new housing starts will slow Down considerably by fall. Already Many companies Are constructing Homes Only on demand. During the past year builders have arranged special Block financing schemes with lenders in an at tempt to attract buyers. Rates Here have ranged from 11% to 13% per cent in other centres rates Are 13 to 17 per cent. The report also indicates area planted is larger for All crops except Oil seeds. Acreage estimates with 1980 figures in red Spring wheat durum Barley Oats Rye 000 flaxseed rapeseed if yields Are achieved close to the Levels indicated by these Early Condi would reverse a trend to below average output of the last two years Clark noted. Production of the six major grains fell from totals reaching about 40-million tonnes in the mid-1970s to just 32.8 million in 1979 and 34-million tonnes in 1980. Clark said the estimates for 1981 production could be expected to be achieved Given Normal average weather conditions Over the rest of the growing season because crops Are mostly Oft to such a Good Start especially wheat and the hot dry Spring weather that followed seeding last year Over much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba caused plants to produce fewer stocks and Heads than Normal while this Spring s timely Rains brought on the plants after germination into Well Millered growth that will be headed out before the end of he added. 1 Erry Fox not doing too i doctors say Young Marathon runner in increasing pain new Westminster . Up Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox is in increasing pain and under heavy sedation today As he continues his Battle against cancer in Royal Colum Bian Hospital. Doctors say the Young runner who raised millions of dollars for cancer research is not doing too and his condition has deteriorated since being readmitted to Hospital Friday. Objectively he would appear to be Fox s personal physician or. R. M. Heffelfinger said in an inter View from his nearby port Coquitlam office. Fox 22, was readmitted to Hospital Friday morning for treatment of a bronchitis like Chest infection and re evaluation of his condition. It s bronchitis quite common at this time of year with the rain we be Heffelfinger said he s More susceptible because of his lowered resistance due to his condition and the medication he s searchers fail to find climbers Longmire Wash. A after More than two hours of digging and probing with Long Metal rods search ers failed to locate the bodies of 11 climbers in an icy grave on mount Rainier. Twelve experienced Mountain rescuers probed the Frozen rubble last night More than 36 hours after tons of ice roared across Ingraham Glacier As a climbing party rested in route to the Mountain s Summit. They found nothing. Absolutely said Rick Kirschner a National Park service Ranger. The ice blocks were still there and Snow had drifted in up to two to three no one held Hopes that any of the missing were still alive. It was the worst climbing Accident in . History said Howard Stansbury business manager for the mountaineers a Seattle based outdoors club. In another climbing Accident sunday five members of the Mazama a port land group were killed in a fall while descending mount Hood in Northern Oregon. The former head of the Maze Mas said yesterday he had cancelled plans to Lead beginning climbers up the Moun Tain sunday because of bad weather. On mount Rainier Snow High winds and frigid temperatures hampered efforts to reach the disaster site. Search Crews ventured from the Mountain s level last night during a break in the storm Clouds passing Over Camp Muir. Conditions worsened after searchers spent 2% hours at the place where As much As 21 metres of ice chunks swept the victims from sight. 2 Metis facing charges continued from Page 1 one Small girl carried a placard Reading my dad is not a pig or a a reference to the racial abuse which the car Foreman had allegedly directed at the w6rkers. Louis Malcolm spokesman for the Western regional tribal Council of the four nations confederacy said that chiefs and representatives of nine area Indian bands have supported the pro test and May join in the demonstration today. Spokesmen for the demonstrators said the dismantling of track May take place at other locations in the prov Ince. Manitoba Metis federation president John Morrisseau said the demonstrations May escalate unless car re sponds to the demands. He said the protesters Are willing to negotiate on some of the demands but they will continue the demonstrations at least until the Foreman of the extra gang is fired and the workers Are reinstated. He said he questioned Why car officials needed a written list of complaints now since they refused to come to a meeting last Friday where workers presented their grievances. But he said he will immediately Send the list by Telegram to car vice pres ident Ralph Hansen. Heffelfinger said Fox was treated for the Chest infection at his parents port Coquitlam Home for about a month before developing a reaction to the antibiotics a persistent cough and in creasing shortness of breath. Fox resumed treatment with the experimental anti cancer agent interferon yesterday and will receive daily injections for the next two weeks. Fox stopped taking interferon june 7 to allow his body time to rest. We re just going to have to see How he Heffelfinger said. The doctor said interferon appears to have slowed the spread of Fox s tutors. He Hopes the second course of interferon will be parents at his bedside Fox parents remain at his bedside pretty Well around the Heffel Finger said and Are very support Fox spends most of his time sleeping in his fourth floor private room partly because of the sedation. Terry has been fighting his cancer of course right up to the present Heffelfinger said. With his sedation he s not As with shall we Heffelfinger could not say How Long Fox will remain in Hospital this May be a temporary we know there has been metastasis spread of cancer the possibility of them increasing is our concern hence he s getting further Heffelfinger said the Young runner has not been this sick since he under went emergency heart surgery feb. 20 to Drain fluid from the Sac surrounding his heart. He was in critical condition for two Days. Doctors began treating Fox with interferon in january when it was disco Vered that cancer had spread from his lungs into the Lymph glands in his Abdomen. They said at the time Only a Miracle could save his life. Fox who will be 23 on july 28, has raised about million for cancer research and inspired the country with his courage and determination. He Cut Short his Cross Canada Mara Thon of Hope sept. 2 in Thunder Bay Ontario when doctors discovered that the rare form of Bone cancer which forced amputation of his right leg above the knee had spread to his lungs. He began his Marathon april in St. Johns nfld., and planned to be Home by late september or Early octo Ber by running about 50 Kilometres a Day. He originally hoped to raise Mil lion for the Canadian cancer society but when he saw that goal was within his reach he revised it upwards to from every Canadian roughly Mil lion. Fox condition deteriorating report notes Post office Union too Busy fighting Ottawa up the Post office and the Union representing its inside workers put More Effort into con fronting each other than they do in negotiating a new labor contract says a conciliator s report released yester Day. Pierre Jasmin chairman of a three member conciliation Board said that confrontation had Long since replaced negotiation when the Board was appointed in March. Release of the report Means the Canadian Union of postal workers can legally go on strike next monday. Re sults of a nationwide strike vote Are expected to be announced tomorrow a Union spokesman said. The Union May also comment on the report today. Treasury Board president Donald Johnston said he Hopes to discuss the report with Cabinet colleagues today. He said he did not see any need to become personally involved in the negotiations because his officials were quite Able to handle the Issue. Jasmin said he and fellow Concilia tors Jacques Desmarais representing the Union and Francois Gregoire rep resenting the government found no real negotiations had taken place. But Desmarais and Gregoire filed separate reports backing claims and demands of their sides. The Union had merely outlined its main demands without going into de Tail while the employer had responded to these demands in part and formulated some of its Jasmin s report said. The last time the inside workers members of the Canadian Union of postal workers went on strike was in 1978 and they had to ordered Back to work by parliament. Last year the Post office and the Union negotiated contract without a strike. New Benson St Hedges 100s lights because the pleasure lasts longer. Warning health and welfare Canada advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked avoid inhaling. Average per cigarette tar 12mg. Nic 1.1 my ;