Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba City Hall not Mook services rate hike approved the civic executive policy committee yesterday gave Ltd approval to an increase in the local improvement rate for water Mains and Wastewater property owners who Benefit from water Mains Wilt be asked to pay for each foot of frontage or 264 cents for each Square foot of whichever is previous rates were per Root of frontage or 23 cents per Square foot of Wastewater sewer rates will climb to for each foot of frontage up from i or 23 cents per Square foot of land from 15 whichever is the new rates will not become effective until adopted by Council and they will be used for services installed in they Are based on 1980 construction data plus an annual 10percent inflation the executive committee has asked the finance and works and operations committees for their comments before the rates Are submitted to con capital costs of Watermain and sewer systems Are usually subsidized by user a City administration report submit Ted to the executive policy committee noted that rates approved for services installed in 1980 were increased by Only 10 per cent since there was insufficient data available at the time to evaluate the Impact of rates set in 1978 for services installed the following policy committee stalls plans for new fireball the City of Winnipeg has decided to put a temporary halt on plans for a new fireball in the Northeast part of the the decision not to proceed with the new fire station was made yesterday by the civic executive policy about had been approved for the new fire which was planned for the Northeast Corner of reenders drive and reenders the City began acquisition proceed Ings for the land but was unsuccessful in convincing the metropolitan properties to a Provin Call appointed inquiry officer1 Exa mined the cites plans and decided there was a suitable alternate site on panel Road West of Lagimodiere Bou the cites fire department objected to the alternate describing it As poorly located for Easterly Access and in relation to both surround ing fire stations and the area it would officials have always held that the new station must be located East of Lagimodiere and North of Regent ave they said the alternate site would have a serious detrimental Impact on the effective delivery of fire protect according to a report received by policy committee the fire department administration is convinced that locating on Panet Road at the proposed site would be a mistake that would have serious Long Range and there prefer to defer acquisition of a and construction of the proposed new fire the report Mil raps increase in Gas rate the Manitoba federation of labor has demanded the provincial govern ment order the Public utilities Board to review a rate increase granted ear Lier this week to greater Winnipeg Gas a federation release called the pub approval of the increase Art the federations executive was particularly critic of the Board for allowing the Gas company to recoup its loss of incurred during this Winters it is incomprehensible How the Board could allow such a Sham to be perpetrated on the Winnipeg customers of the when the boards Princi ple function is to protect the Public he Coulter said the Mil feels that the Money lost during the strike should come from the Gas company expected profits for the year rather than from its about 70 cents of the increase is to Pover losses during the but Coulter said the company saved million in wages when the workers were on surely the Board must be forced to see the error they have committed in taking the company off the Hook for their related while the same is not done for the he elderly Man Hurt in fire a burned chair sits outside an apartment at 838 Cavalier drive following a fire yesterday that sent an elderly Man to Hospital with smoke a fire department official said damage resulted from the fire which damaged Walls and ceiling in the living room of the suite and the first floor hallway of the cause of the fire is under police deny finding body of Man who disappeared Winnipeg police yesterday denied rumours that they have found the body of Paul the Lavatts brewery worker who mysteriously disappeared last week while on his Way to acting crime staff inspector Don Murdoch said police in recent Days have received numerous Calls from citizens either asking for confirmation that dears body has been found or offering tips on where it is i dont know if its rumours spread ing around the City or but All kinds of people have been calling in saying the body can be found Here or the body can be found Murdoch As for rumours that police have found the body but Are keeping it hushed Murdoch said there would be no Rea son for us to conceal the fact if we found the he said Hes sure that most people who Call in with a tip about where to find the body Are doing it to be and at this stage of the game Well take All the information and Check it out no matter what it Murdoch was last seen leaving Home at about 17 for his Job on the Midnight shift at about two hours later his wife and brother inlaw found his 1969 red Volks Wagen car parked in a commercial Plaza on Keewatin and several hours later blood stains Matching dears blood Type were found on Keewatin about two Kilometres North of the although dears highly publicized disappearance is officially listed As a missing person police believe he met with foul robbed in Park a has been charged with robbery after an elderly Winnipeg Man was accosted in memorial Park wednesday and robbed of his police said yesterday a was sitting on a Bench in the downtown Park at about when he was approached by two one of the men asked him for Money and he took some Bills out of his pocket and handed Over a the second Man then reached out and grabbed the rest of the the elderly Man attempted to hold the Money Tore in half and the assail ant raised his fist to strike the the spokesman before he could do the assailant was scared off by a who then called the officers attended As they were taking the victim to the Public safety the elderly Man spotted a Man on the Street who he claimed was his police arrested the suspect and later charged him with the police spokesman said the Sec Ond Man involved in the incident will not be charged As he took no part in the woman sentenced to jail a provincial court judge was told yesterday How a was dragged into a bedroom and forced to perform an act of Gross indecency on a judge Howard Collerman was told that the incident took place 6 after the Loretta and her former common Law husband had been drinking at a friends Trinity Street the pair went into the bedroom and had sexual the Man then went into the living room and dragged an eighty Earold girl into the bed with him and i once in the bed he removed part of the youngsters indecently assaulted her and forced her to perform an act of Gross indecency on judge Collerman was French pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of contributing to juvenile Delin Quency and was sentenced to four months in French Norm told the court his client was neither an Active nor a willing participant in the Cuddy said the former common Law husband pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges of Gross indecency and indecent assault As a result of the and is awaiting sentencing on the judge Collerman said although he accepts that French was perhaps not As culpable As her former common Law she really took no As far As i am to dissuade him from committing the court was told the girl was one of eight Young children who had been left unattended in the House by their Par and that French and the Man had gone there to the judge told French her conduct that night was disgusting and the court had a duty to make it Clear to others that this Lack of concern and negligent attitude towards Young people just will not be French also pleaded guilty to two additional counts of fraud and failing to appear in court and was sentenced to two months in jail on the fraud charge and seven Days for failing to Winnipeg Rural officials unenthusiastic about smelter by Ingeborg Boyens after two months of Manitoba municipalities Are still treating advances by Alcan for a pro posed smelter with Rural officials from some of the 39 jurisdictions contacted by the alumni num company decided they afford to give up time working their meet with the company rep Well Call you when it Alan Reeve of the Rural municipal Ity of Rosser told the Alcan officials Harvest season the pm of Macdonald Council can celled a meeting scheduled for this saying later would be better perhaps after the Harvest they Are serious about locating Here they can Call a municipal official Macdonald Reeve Carl Pitura said he didst know if there was any Point to going through with the the municipality is within the area under consideration by but it Doest have much water or a Large labor he added that the land is All top qual Ity Farmland precious to be sacrificed for a i guess they want to be fair to All said last Alcan representatives met with the Interlake development corporation in Grosse one of the last in a series of informational meet Ings requested by Alcan As part of its million study into the feasibility of establishing a smelter in representatives of the Interlake municipalities responded cautiously to Al cans video show on the age of we really dont need a Plant in our area to create said his comment elicited a chorus from the municipal representatives of you take it and you take other municipal spokesmen wanted to know whether Sulphur dioxide emis Sions from the smelter would create an acid rain most Rural representatives convinced Alcan has already drawn up a shortlist of the Sites it is interested close to Winnipeg municipalities located As far As 80 Kilometres from Winnipeg were contacted although Alcan has stated it Hopes to develop a site within 40 Kilometres of the the company has said it needs a close to Winnipeg labor Force and on land that is not subject to prime agricultural land is not to be the smelter would require Good a Cess to the rail natural Gas and an adequate water its partially True that we Are going around As a Public relations kind of said Don manager of the site selection people Here dont know James free press traffic stopper Ken Renaud seems to be attracting a few and glares As he moves this garage along Street to his fathers farm in a City i Morris said the company has Benefit Ted meetings by learning More about Winnipeg hinterland and the attitudes of its while Alcan has conducted some technical it needs to know whether a Community is willing to live Side beside with a everybody who says we would like to have you has some Morris the company Hopes to have a site selected by the first week in september so consultants can proceed with the necessary the final agreement is to be signed by a second round of meetings has been scheduled with some of the More Likely representatives from Teulon have already met with the Alcan people three times and the Andrews municipal Council met them privately for the second time Reeve Peter Ducheck of Andrews said the located just North of has a Good Supply of water and is close to the Power line from the Nelson River do Check said he is sure residents of the area would Welcome the smelter since they Are already familiar with heavy industries such As the Manitoba rolling executive director of the Selkirk development said his town also meets All of the criteria set out by the As he said Selkirk boasts a Public transportation system and Good Road Access to but Davisson said the town would not jump at it the environmental implications of an aluminium smelter have to be assessed before the Community would be ready to offer Alcan a the Manitoba municipal act prohibits municipalities from offering tax write offs or direct financial incentives to the company in return for a Promise of the proposed with capacity to produce tonnes of ingots a would create about 700 Perma nent jobs and 500 indirect jobs in related Union considers discipline the Canadian Union of postal work ers is considering various disciplinary actions against an estimated 40 Mani Toba members who refused to join this Summers postal Union representative Pat postal workers in Portage la Winkler and Steinbach gave various reasons for staying out of the 42day which ended he said workers in Portage la Prai Rie claimed they could not afford to stay off the while those in the other Manitoba where the mennonite Faith is used religion As an their rationale indicated religion was the main reason Why they didst strike against their he but i find it very hard to believe since in the past they have struck against their Miller said the unions Western Region will recommend at its National executive meeting in Ottawa next month that the workers who failed to join the walkout should be thrown out of the not closet shop because the Union does not have a close shop provision in its expulsion of the members will not affect their continued employment at the Post Miller but it have More effect on their con Miller said All nine or 10 members in Portage la Prairie reported to so the Union May consider eliminating the Portage local or merging it with Chris spokesman for the Winnipeg local of the postal workers said yesterday the handful of employees who crossed picket lines will be dealt with by the unions disciplinary he said the local will Likely decide what action to take at a membership meeting in Early Ryan said about 14 postal Union members in Morden and Winkler were temporarily suspended three years ago for reporting to work during the i ;