Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba S i 7 Winnipeg free december 1981 3 777 nip May not have to pay if it replaces chairmen by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the nip government May not have to spend if it decides to replace conservative appointed chairmen of its Telephone and insurance said the chairmanships of Kris Kristjan son with Manitoba John Bui Man with the Manitoba Telephone sys tem Board and Cameron Maclean with the Manitoba Public insurance corporation Pic still have Al most two years to Kristjanson and Ken free press Bulman Are paid while Maclean earns the Cabinet orders appointing the three chairmen each said the appoint ments were for three years from unless he the chairman resigns or is removed from some government sources said yesterday they dont consider the wording implies a financial obligation if the appointments Are legislative counsel Rae Tallin said the question of obligation would depend on the con tract or the both Kristjanson and Maclean said yesterday their appointments rested solely on the Cabinet orders and we rent backed up by further written Bulman was out of the City and be former conservative Deputy pre Mier Don Craik said yesterday there Are no written contracts that in aware he declined to com ment on whether he considered the Cabinet order implies an obligation to pay the chairmen for the full three years even if their appointments Are dolls bring Joy at Christmas Pearl who entered seven dolls in a doll dressing contest at Montreal won four of nine categories including the grand prize for her doll in a wedding after judging the dolls Are donated to the Christmas cheer Board to be distributed to needy manufacturers agree to Cut water Heaters temperature by Joe Rubin manufacturers of electric water Heaters have agreed to turn Down the temperature setting on their products in an attempt to reduce the incidence of tap water Lawrence chairman of a committee on the performance Stan Dards of electric said yester Day hot water tanks leaving the factory will be preset at c f rather than c evidence has shown that hot water at c will cause a third degree Burn in under two Richard Stan a childrens Hospital physician and vocal supporter of reduced tem said setting a Heater at c will increase the third degree Burn safety margin to six it gives you a couple of rings of the Telephone to get someone out of Dan Stanwick an estimated seven children Are hospitalized every year in Manitoba for Ken free press tap water with Many others treated for less severe although manufacturer compliance is currently Baraniuk said the Canadian standards association will Likely make it id be very surprised if it Doest he compliance by year end who is employed at Mani Toba said he Hopes All Canadian manufacturers will comply with the Standard by year although a Heaters temperature set Ting is preset at the an owner May have it turned up in his Stanwick homeowners must be persuaded not to Crank up the tempera a higher setting shortens the life of the he the doctor said he would eventually like to see hot water tanks set at c f to further increase the safety margin to 30 seconds before a third de Gree Burn is the new Standard is the culmination of about two years of discussions be tween the Federal department of consumer and corporate the Consumers association of electric utilities and retail ers All of whom Are represented on the 12member electric Heater performance Baraniuk said doctors and Consumers originally wanted to preset tanks at c f but manufacturers walked at the a Compro Mise was eventually other such As mixing were not acceptable to Consumers Baraniuk committee will now investigate the possibility of placing the temperature adjustment Knob outside the As is done in Gas the Knob is currently located behind a manufacturers May oppose this Sug he because of the Cost of modifying their at a press conference Premier Howard Pawley said he understood there might be contracts involved with the Hydro chairman and in some other Pawley said he has asked the minis ters responsible for the three Crown corporations and other agencies to re port to Cabinet at its Retreat at Hecla Island next wednesday and thursday so that we can determine the number of chairpersons political appoint that have been covered by Way of claiming it would be a dangerous precedent to Back up a Politi Cal appointment with a said Cabinet will decide what to do about the chairmen next week after it has received Legal information on the nature of the Maclean declined to say what he will do until he has met Bill minis Ter responsible for he said if the minister Doest feel in doing a Good or if he is embarrassed by i expect Kristjanson has said he wont Energy minister Wilson responsible for said he will meet Kristjanson sometime next but both he and Kristjanson refused to say when that meeting will take he said he will meet with Laurie chief executive officer of at a later i consider Blachford appointment a technical to ensure the technical correctness of things done by Hydro that is a technical the other is a political downtown Myca membership Down fights for survival against Competition by Ritchie Gage beset by Competition from health spas and Racquet the 100year old downtown Myca has lost 547 members since 1979 and is fighting for and some recreation experts say the is membership has shrunk for the same reason the organization was started in 1844 As a rejection of they say the y int the pleasure experience of other recreational com with their liquor and coddling country club Myca officials say Treyve lost Only 184 members during the past but statistics obtained by the free press show a loss of 547 members since there were members in 1979 with As of no when asked for 1979 and comparison statistics from five years y membership director Des Hill saying the figures we rent a True picture of the is it All comes Down to we could do everything if we had the Money interviews with current and past residents and recreation experts suggest the is popular Ity problem stems from Competition in the recreational a business residential population drop downtown and poor economic the fact that the y does not own property near its Vaughan Street Loca could be used for Park ing and the cites annual tax Clamp of Are More says George assistant general Man it All comes Down to we could do everything if we had the he were the Only y in a major Canadian City to pay City said Hal coordinator of the we give to the City of Winnipeg could be spent on five branches the Myca of Winnipeg includes five branches with a combined membership of and receives United Way funds this year the y will receive for youth pro but not and Mil lion from a fund drive will be used for expansion at three suburban family downtown y members complain of poor supervision of the no ventilation in the weight room and women locker and a general rundown appearance of the Interior of the executive director Al Burpee said the work could have been done in the weight but had to be spent to repair the Asbestos ceiling at the request of the provincial govern gaining Access to the is locker room is but studholme says the y int a jail and wants supervision at a minimum for As for the Allen says it would be available at higher member ship he said fee raises have been vetoed by the 21member Board of years of Low membership fees have kept the y he George who started the y As a Bible study group in London to repel the materialism of the Industrial age of would be Happy at but Don director of the University of Manitoba recreation said the downtown y Hast kept up with the competitions and the expectations of the recreation minded mirrors and music and pleas ant surroundings can lure he the y probably has better peo ple and but these new places have yet Burpee says the y has kept up with new such As the racquetball but critics say the y is trying to offer too that it should focus on fewer the is mandate healthy spirit and body seem like an old fashioned ethic compared to the thick carpeted offerings of the supreme Racquet courts near the y on Portage fee at y offers free a restaurant and but has no Pool or its yearly membership fee is and prime court time costs a a membership at the five european health spas is a year for steam Bath and Sauna Chuck spokesman for eur Pean health says the organization has about members at six local annual fees Are or for five the is annual membership is for adults Over age for adults and for the exclusive health fees include jogging a weight a swimming and Payas Youlay Racquet the fit which has two Loca charges a for two years with a renewal fee for the next three the Central theme of the operation is the specialized Nautilus but it also has Racquet and Squash who were allowed to join the Myca in make up the Lar Gest percentage of the organizations membership there were 175 women in but now there Are just some former women members said they have no gripes about the but Sonia has joined a Racquet i joined because it was new and has nicer Joan said she haunt renewed her membership because of an i like the i didst feel like an intruder in a male two Young Guys got into our locker but it was one woman quit after a youth was found showering behind her in the women locker Ross a current said a lot of men left when women helping hand philosophy i remember a meeting where a lot of Guys said they pay More to keep the women that opinion want popu Ken a former weightlifting has been y member for 15 i like the and i dont think the women have Hurt some members blame the is transient residence for driving away Mem but its part of the is helping hand former director theres a lot of ruffians and Over the y int supervised Well Robert a former direct said the residence was like a third rate hotel and should be separated from the its an undesirable theres a lot of ruffians and Over the y int supervised a Check of the which is operated like a showed Resi dents included a handful of business executives who had lived in the tiny rooms for periods up to 15 there was a an and a department store two Are bachelors and one is i they rented rooms for a few weeks and they said the y had its share of unsavoury but that was True of every apartment id like to take one of the critics out socially and see How they stand said there were a number of like Wayne from Saska studying computer program Paul from taking Pilot training and 19 year old Ray from who is looking for All wanted inexpensive at a the y provides dry run with the distinct Lack of Jim Carrabre finds that running up and Down a Hill is the next Best thing for practising his Cross country a member of the provincial Cross country ski was doing his dryland training yesterday at the Springhill ski area on the flood Way near Lagimodiere ;