Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free december Ken free press the ponchos Tell yesterdays Rainy Story As crossing guard Sonchay Ras Vongsa directs his Mulvey school Rainy weather shatters former Marks a Surprise invasion of Balmy weather yesterday shattered a Multi tude of weather records in including one set More than 100 years an Al time Winnipeg rain record was established Between Midnight wednesday and Midnight yesterday when Millimetres of the wet was dumped on the demolishing the old record of set on environment Canada forecaster de Hoeppner said Early As yesterdays High tempera Ture of c f blasted the old record for of c f set in Hoeppner adding record temperatures were also recorded in Pilot Mound and Island while Gimli tied its previous and do professional weather Tore casters care about record breaking weather of its always kind of an interesting Hoeppner How often do you experience nearly an Inch of rain in Decem Ber similar records were recorded in areas throughout he but on a sour the forecaster warned a cold front bringing freezing temperatures into the province today will create icy patches on Many brisk Northwest winds with Snow flurries should sweep through Winni Peg Early he before taper ing off in the he predicted today High will be around sinking to 12 tomorrows High should be near Israel fought for colonel says israeli colonel says country survival was at stake in War against Plo in Lebanon by Manfred Jager an israeli army colonel says the world still does not realize israels survival was at in the summer War it fought in Lebanon against the Palestine liberation Yehuda who was military in formation officer for israeli defence forces in the Beirut told about of Manitoba students this week that the Plo was planning an fallout assault on Israel within the next Likely involving the Mili tary might of Iraq and at that Levy Israel would have faced More enemy firepower than available to the entire North Atlantic treaty organization in eur Ropey he said about half the prison ers taken by israeli forces during the Lebanon conflict have turned out to be neither Arab nor they Are representatives of terrorist organizations from All Over the including Ger Cuba and various coun tries of South he said israeli forces captured Docu ments stating which israeli civilian settlements had been assigned to Plo artillery units for total destruction on the Day set for the assault on if these were not Good enough Rea sons for Pur forces to take then i dont know what would he said israeli military authorities went to great length to avoid civilian casualties and damage to nonmilitary particularly in population centres in and around Sidon and 1 know of Many israeli pilots who returned their aircraft to their bases without having dropped a single bomb or fired a single rocket because they Felt they could not be absolutely sure they be Able to pinpoint a military target without damage to some nearby school or he who is on a speaking tour through North blamed West pm news Media for giving a very unfair account of the Manfor facing More layoffs by Cecil Rosier periodic layoffs will be the order of the Day at Manitoba forestry re sources in As the pulp and paper Complex Heads into another difficult company chairman Murray Harvey said yesterday a we Klong shutdown around Christmas will be followed by three week layoffs in Spring and again in the company pulp and Sawmill and Woodlands divisions All will be affected by layoffs at one Point or if the Market remains the Way it is right Row and that not very Good the employment situation will stay about the same As it was last Harvey Manfor Laid off 89 lumber division workers indefinitely in and hundreds More were subject to Short term reduced demand the pulp and paper which is the Industrial mainstay of the lost about million in the first seven months of its last fiscal it has along with most other lumber from drastically reduced de Mand for Wood and paper Jim spokesman for the International woodworkers of America local in the said the Crown corporation could create More jobs at the Complex if it Cut the amount of Wood chips it imports from whose Union represents about 400 Manfor said the firm plans to bring in up to tonnes tons of Wood chips this fiscal if the chips were not brought local employees could be hired to satisfy the the woodworkers held an informational picket at the Complex earlier this year to protest the importation of a company spokesman con firmed at the time the practice costs some local but he said the firm saves Money by getting the chips from the neighbouring Manfor officials say collective agreements with its unions allow the company to buy up to 30 per cent of its Wood from Premier Howard Pawley has defended the importation of the saying it saves Manfor Between million and million a Harvey said the importation of chips want a major Factor in the plants and it have much Impact on the employment there Are about 700 workers at the Harvey at one employment Levels topped although the Short term Outlook is not Harvey said of Wood fibres Are which makes Manors longer term financial prospects More Job plan beats welfare Thompson staff Job creation programs for about 400 Northern Fisher men Are a Way ahead of going on says the president of the Saskatchewan River Fisherman As Albert Ballantyne said yesterday members of his association will receive about an 40 hours a for the next 15 weeks through pro Grams sponsored by the Federal and provincial governments and the fresh water fish marketing its not a lot of Money but its a Way ahead of going on he More than 120 fishermen and Resi dents of South Indian Moose Lake and the Saskatchewan River fishing area at the Pas will be employed in Job creation projects reconstructing living docks and ice storage houses at outlying ice harvesting As about 300 fishermen will be engaged in ice harvesting for the 1983 summer fishing this program has previously been financed by which represents fishermen in Northwestern the Prairies and the Northwest Rick Femc Northern zone Man Ager at the said the Saskatchewan River and Wabowden fishermen normally Complete their Winter fishing quotas Early and Are left High and dry with nothing to do from january until these projects and the ice fishing program mean that they can be gain fully employed right through the win Ter until the summer season it also gives them the Chance to hold Back on their quotas and fish in March when their prices Are at their most fishermen will still be fishing until the end of december and Are expected to join the work project in humorous account of pregnancy wins prize Dianne Biggs of Scotswood drive was presented last night with the first prize in the 1982 nonfiction contest sponsored by the free press and the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian authors her Julia held a humorous account of was judged Best of 90 entries in the Biggs is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the free she is married to a copy editor at the her Story will be published in the second prize of went to Eleanor Pitchford of regal Avenue for her account of a mans struggle with third prize of went to Stephenson of Charles Donald settee of Stra Brook Avenue won the Lona Weenusk honorable mentions of each went to Phil Mcburney of burning Bush David Connors of Burrows Christian John Cote of Niagara Peter Latimer of Beausejour and Ellen Ross of Wordsworth All entries were submitted under the prizes were presented last night by John editorial Page editor of the free during a dinner at the charter House 2 Days Only weather City Calendar h High l Low premure cold front worm front Winnipeg area forecast Cloudy this morning with occasional Light Snow flurries ending by Early occasional Clear periods developing by late brisk northwesterly winds becoming Light by temperatures steady near Low tonight near mainly Cloudy tomorrow with the risk of freezing rain in the late High tomorrow near probability of precipitation is 70 per cent 20 per cent tonight 40 per cent extended Outlook Southern Manitoba Light Snow flurries mainly sunny temperatures a Little above Normal sunday and below Normal readings of 7 and 17 monday and Northern Manitoba flurries mainly sunny monday and near Normal temperatures of 12 and 21 sunday and below Normal monday and Northwestern Ontario Light Snow flurries Clear ing temperatures a Little above Normal sunday and below Normal readings of 7 and 16 monday and National Thunder International new 5 5 10 8 i 0 10 13 7 17 13 17 3 16 3 5 ii 7 7 5 9 3 h i t 8 5 3 2 13 ii 10 8 3 10 2 1 3 3 Tel resort spots los Clear Las Cloudy fair Cloudy fair fair Clear 18 12 is 28 29 19 25 29 32 79 29 12 6 7 24 22 24 22 24 25 24 24 Winnipeg temperature comparisons m mean 2 last highest on record in 1925 on record in 1893 precipitation total from 1 to 2 Millimetres Normal Grant Park parents association for the physically disabled and students have embarked on a major fund raising project for the month of the Lions telethon has arranged for Paulin Chambers to provide packages of specially marked Peanut butter creams to be sold at a disabled with the help of parents and will sell the cookies in the City and at a Booth at Grant Park mall Friday and an emergency first Aid sponsored by the Canadian red Cross Manitoba will be held Between 9 and 4 saturday at the red Cross 226 Osborne the fee is to Contact Elizabeth Gemmel at the Ernest will give a slide presentation entitled a working at a meeting of the Winnipeg photographers group 8 at 160 Princess second Revenue Canada will sponsor a program to provide assistance in preparing income tax the program will be offered during March and april of volunteers Are needed to staff the program and will be trained in win Tario nine winning numbers were drawn yesterday in the win Tario the winning number was two numbers Worth each were 990690 and other winning numbers scramble 80168 the Rednall number was 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