Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Gold medal machine at summer real estate agent swats Fly to pass time Donna Ite Sefc tatted up front behind the of Fife Tesk the front door of the Tot she held a Section of the newspaper in tie left hand tie Resi was spread Over the she want just trying to swat a Fiyo she trying to bring Down the Pesky in Vader May have been one of the lights of Keisers times Are Tough for her and other real estate agents Selling new after a rousing first six months of business Fane with a Keith sep Taf w w m potential saturday in the guaranteed Homes display unit she works out of in Mandalay West it Irma the Maciw one cub pie a Day drops she there Are Tets of but few she said with a slight adding she passes much of her time following up sales earlier this despite the dim Kelsey and her colleagues must sit Back and await possible l May leave Here at and body May come at Quarter to five and May want to buy a so you gotta be Frank Sands seated in his office m Belte Flie Mes display unit iff Garden 1 do a lot of Reading he and in to i switch on the he said he has never seen business so bad in the 11 years ties been take my you never know when you might want to he said to one a lot of them Are Sands said of the visitors to the display but theres buyers out the new Home Industry is being throttled by interest agents a family wanting to buy a Home in the Range with percent Down must pm More than income to qualify for Kelsey Friedel a Ladeo Homes agent in Richmond said she had a client who wanted to Purchase a m he earned a but still want eligible for interest rates Are Gonna Lull Sands agents Are now facing another Neme the summer sales Ive never sold Mere than one or two Homes in said in the cooler we get 40 or so people on a Sands theres always added you gotta keep sunny today 26 Clear tonight 12 August Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final i a Fosso ss62330 secoh6 class mail reqistf5ation number 0286 Anby Affifee press owners must Cut fire risk by Cecil Rosner the Winnipeg building commission is drafting orders which will Force owners of about 85 Winnipeg townhouse buildings to upgrade their structures and eliminate fire commission chairman Jim Hicks said the which Are in 17 townhouse developments across the have been identified As similar in some respects to the Fairlane Meadows gutted by fire last Hicks said the orders will Likely be issued to the owners in civic environment committee has Al ready Given the commission authority to Force the owners to upgrade their the 32unit Fairlane Complex in James was gutted in a few minutes when fire broke out May 20 last All tenants escaped Many of them fleeing Down a wooden Balcony lined with combustible materials which served As the Only exit from their upper Storey the building had no a fire alarm sys and had thin plywood on the storage rooms and door trims As Well As a flammable Balcony car a provincial fire commissioners in Quiry into the Blaze cited building code violations in the Structure and recommended All similar Garden Type town houses in the province be inspected and upgraded if found fire alarm systems Hicks said some of the buildings owners will be forced to install fire alarm while others will be required to cover Wood sidings with Metal or some other appropriate flame retardant the orders wont involve tearing Down Walls or other major structural he the which is acting under authority of the cites existing residential building improvement Hast yet decided How much time owners will be allowed to make the Hicks among the Large townhouse develop ments which were originally included in a provincial government list of buildings similar to Fairlane Are Tyndall Keenleyside the greenhouse and Wes Boine Park co reaction varies Guy president of the Mani Toba Home builders said the reaction of individual townhouse owners to the orders will Likely depend on what they will be asked to up Hobman said his association has taken the position that it would hot comment extensively on the because the matter May end up before the some builders have hinted they May take Legal action if they Are forced to upgrade buildings which were Given the cites approval before they were in his report on the Fairlane commissioner Hugh Macdiarmid was particularly critical of the Balcony de which was used by tenants for storage and barbecues As Well As serv ing As the Only escape route for upper Storey he said the design violated the cites building even though it had been accepted by the City and Canada mortgage and housing Macdiarmid said the Basic design of Fairlane and similar buildings was a hazardous but he said they could be improved by carrying out remedial about 18 other townhouse buildings in other parts of the including six in have also been labelled As similar in design to the Fairlane provincial labor department spokes Man Darlene Meakin said owners of some of the buildings have already agreed to upgrade the Wilfred Butch harder grimaces As dust flies up from Barley being offloaded from a Combine into truck near Lowe bumper Grain crop rescues farm Good Harvest needed to makeup for crippling losses suffered last year by Andy Blicq Winnipeg free press dissenting premiers hint civil disobedience Vancouver up a weekend meeting of premiers opposed to prime minister Trudeau constitutional tia Tive ended with hints that some provinces May practise civil ence if they dont get their seven premiers and one intergovernmental affairs minister conferred Over a hotel breakfast saturday to discuss their course of action if the supreme court of Canada rules that unilateral Federal action to Patriate the British North America act is gang of eight the two supporters of Trudeau Tion who did not attend were Ontario William Pavis and new Brunswick Richard Hatfield Hatfield said he had heard veiled threats what might happen if the provinces hinting that the dissenting provinces Are considering civil disobedience he said he had been unable to get a straight answer from opposing Rojers on their possible the eight party breakfast meeting broke up with the premiers saying Only if the supreme court is in favor of the Federal government in a decision expected next they will go to London in an attempt to dissuade the British parliament from confirming Trudeau British Columbia Premier Bill Bern chairman of the Miers conference preceding the Couver said three or four other courses of action were discussed he refused to saying Only in Point Tsas in an element of mystery adds Edmund Nova Scotia governmental affairs who sat in saturday for Premier John added that the premiers could not comment on How they May respond to a supreme court decision because the comments May be contempt of said he doubted an Appeal by the provinces to the British parliament would do any Lowe farm the sea of Golden Barley swaying in Ray Godard Field Here May turn out to be part of one of the Best crops he has seen in six years of and that makes him breathe in the Wake of last years below average Godard like most other grappling with soaring costs and record interest rates this the badly need a successful interest rates another year like last year and id be closing the Godard said while taking a break from scathing at his 178hectare 440 acres farm 75 Kilometres Southwest of his which produced a third of a crop last could provide the predicted average to a crop this Manitoba agriculture officials say Farmers Arent out of the Woods they May still have to contend with a wet fall or Early Frost before crops Are in the had More wet Falls than wed like to said Al head of the agriculture departments crop what Farmers need right now is de cent dry he Martin said crops Are maturing rap with Early Fields of Barley being it looks the crops Are actually looking very yields May be lower due to premature As there has been some buckwheat damaged by he Martin predicted a Good crop this but not a bumper across Western Canada crops have been ripening rapidly in the last week under warm weather says a statistics Canada weekly crop statistics Canada said continuing dry weather is allow ing for rapid harvesting the 1981 crop is looking a lot better than last year As Long As the rain stays said Ron Unrau of the Lowe farm drought followed by rain Hurt Many Manitoba Farmers last particularly in the Southwest portion of the Wilfred Butch who farms about hectares acres around Lowe said the crop looks Way better than last Barley would be probably twice As Good As he said As Crews see bumper Page 4 demand for farm Loans exceeds available fund by Andy Blicq demand for Federal farm Loans is estimated to be double the million the farm credit corporation projects it can afford to lend this since its fiscal year began april the farm credit corporation has proved about million in Loans for Manitoba Farmers and has an addition Al million in Loans which will be approved when More funds become available said acc assistant manager Don the demand has exceeded our funds by quite a he last the acc loaned million to Manitoba in other years we have run out of Money Mcruer were trying to spread the Money out Over the see loan Page 4 Manitoba agriculture off ing for rapid harvesting approved when More Tunas become pm open meeting might result in Oil Price Cut Geneva renter open Oil min and such exchanges began last switch from Oil As an Energy source too win wait until prices Are unify Geneva renter open Oil ministers have begun a week of bargaining on a new Oil Price formula with Gates saying privately the result might he a Price reduction by a gathering at a time of a world Oil the ministers representing the 13 members of the organisation of Len exporting countries do not hold formal discussions until open deals Are traditionally forged in hotel room bargaining and such exchanges began last night among several ministers at the intercontinental hotel in Advance of the full saudi arawak Oil minister Sheik Ahmed 2aki Yamani was to preside today at a committee of ministers working on a Price strategy for the the saudi aim is to unify free them to revive demand and then increase prices the saudis fear a fresh Price Jolt might cause Western seas urotes to switch from Oil As an Energy source too fast for the Good of the a open source said yesterday a proposal for a new com Mon based proof about Canadian a barrel is in the m this would mean a Price increase of Fig by saudi by far the biggest and Price cuts of 13 by the Ether 12 open the struggling to moderate Jve refusal to join in Aming production to reduce the Oil glut they will wait until prices Are unified along a common base with differentials added for Yamani said last week be wants the average Price it now is about a barrel compared with about when open announced its first round of increases in most of the other exporters Are Fering in varying degrees As the saudis keep up pie pressure and buyers walk away from higher priced noisy neighbor the head Hilli in Woods provincial Park have a noisy in Trail warn visitor net handle any strange Mill objects they might 1 Juat imagine miss Holly years nude Canada and woman in of years Hae feed spectators yesterday by having Tonti Tomti Wesr swede Success Dan a fest yesterday his third 69 to win the Manitoba open Golf debts can wait the Kremlin Given the polish a restrained vote Genf Dienge Fey it will Poland to Pfefer payment on its growing to the soviet 18 31 19 7 7 14 3 6 Horoscope 18 Jumble paste 36 Kajdy 0 Mccuroy on to 2 Montes people 31 31 47 spots record 56 Ter Opp to Yelden 17 31 31 i i ;