Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december 1982 Austin group to try to Stop coops closing Austin and District residents Are try ing to prevent the local Copp hardware and farm Supply Centre from closing at the end of the de president of the Austin chamber of said about 200 people attending a meeting Friday appointed a committee to look into the possibility of keeping the Centre open beyond the Date when the local Branch of Portage la Praise Consumers cooperative will the Heppner in clude having the Coop become inde pendent joining it with Federal economic forecast tempered continued from Page 1 a return to Lon term interest rates is unlikely until such time As the ballooning Federal budget deficit has been brought under effective that i is not even in the forum warned that its muted optimism reflects deep concern Over the future path of fiscal and monetary it also predicted a major decline in with the Trade deficit expected to soar by As much As billion in although recovery seems in the Barry a senior fellow at the Brookings offered a word of despite the trauma of the last three i am surprised about How Little has he we have traded a lower rate of inflation for higher but the Basic conflict Between the two goals de cooperatives or finding a private sector that is a there Are a couple of people he Norm general manager of the Portage said the Austin Branch was being closed because of continuing financial the coops Portage la Prairie Branch will close its family hardware and dry goods departments for the same but no Date will be set for those closings until someone is found to lease the space to be vacated by the affected Harris the operations have been there its just a matter of insufficient he the Austin Branch is expected to lose this about the same amount it lost during the last three years he the losses Are expected to Harris blamed the continuing eco nomic decline for the drop in Busi he forecast continued but said the Coop is not going but he said the like other is trying to reduce costs during hard economic he said the coops centres in Mac Gregor and Oakville and the funeral Home in Portage la Prairie continue to be Twentyfive employees including six in Austin will lose their jobs As a result of the were doing everything in our Power to get them Harris Coop staff and customers Learned of the closings about two weeks a situation which irks Why didst they Tell us in septem ber then we could had a few months to try to do having to close the store for a few months would cause customers to go elsewhere and they May never he the Austin Centre has been affiliated with the Portage Coop for 25 it operated independently for a number of years before if 4 a a s j us bringing the House Down an explosive charge crumples the 73yearold Radisson hotel in downtown Minneapolis yesterday and reduces it to dust and the building was levelled in nine second bout of surgery needed air Sac ruptures swelling receding rapidly continued from Page 1 he is still in serious but stable Condi Dwan said who was Al Lowed to sleep much of the retired for the night around he visited with relatives earlier in the Chase univer sity Vic president for health said Clark spent Many of the Early hours yesterday resting he said Clark was Able to drink water and but was not yet taking solid Peterson said Clark was a Little discouraged about saturday nights sur Gery to Stop swelling in his left Chest and neck caused by air leaks from ruptured air sacs in his the swelling had gone Down and was barely perceptible he the air which were unrelated to the implantation of the mechanical caused some tissue just below the surface of the skin to become almost like puffed Peterson he said a tube placed in Clarks Chest to allow remaining air to escape would remain in place for four Days to a Devries had feared the air May be leaking from the which is powered by compressed or from the tubes that connect it to an air Peterson but that was not the the surgeon saw the lungs bubbling when the Chest was Peterson and he stapled several sacs shut tiny ones to remain be cause the body has the ability to self Seal the problem resulted from Clarks chronic mild unrelated to his earlier heart and a stiff lung because of his Peterson Clark was on a Respirator during and after his heart surgery and his lungs received More air than usual combined with the led to the Peterson Clarks new heart is tethered by two three metre 10foot Long hoses to an air compressor and a Mobile Power medical officials denied reports last night that a key to a Locking device on the compressor was a suicide to be inserted by a patient if he decided living with an artificial heart had be come the officials said the key was to be used to switch to a backup unit from the main Power one official added that a patient could die by turning Back a pulse rate Mulroney ready to Back newspaper says Montreal up la says Brian Mulroney will temporarily renounce aspirations for the leadership of the progressive conservative party to support tory Leader Joe quoting unidentified newspaper says in a Story published today that Mulroney is to make the announcement at a news conference Clark is expected to attend the news conference before heading to nearby Laval to address the local Chap Ter of the chamber of the Story Manitoba pcs to resist review continued from Page 1 some of the adversities he deserves a Martin he added the tory caucus has performed Well in parliament and Clark deserves a Good measure of credit for Powazek said his association delegates would vigorously oppose a leadership review at this time because it would be fractious and against the interests of the National Roy president of the Lisgar constituency association and a Clark supporter two years said the party should Stop the internal backstabbing it has been famous i think its done More harm than Good in the Mclaren Provencher constituency association president David Sellen said the party is virtually assured of forming a majority government under Clarks Lead while a new Leader May increase that majority by a few Why risk blowing the whole thing in addition to the constituency support for Clarks continued leadership has recently come from Dorothy past president of Manitoba pc women Mary Jane pc youth federation and Elizabeth candidate for the party National la press says Mulroney declaration of support for the conservative Leader is the result of an incident two weeks ago when Clark aides prevented Mulroney from introducing Clark at a fundraising dinner since that the newspaper Clark has explained to Mulroney that the decision was made without his As a Mulroney has decided to make the declaration of the newspaper also quoted its sources As saying Mulroney is will ing to temporarily Bury the Hatchet because he wants a change of gov has always been a faithful party supporter and does not want to see the tories whose Leader ship is expected to come under close scrutiny at next months tory convention in Defeated Mulroney and Sev eral other candidates for the tory leadership in Clark supported vhf who ran third in the 1976 leadership dropped out of Public life after his loss to become president of Iron Ore of but for Over a year the fluently bilingual businessman has been accepting engagements across the country raising speculation that he is grooming his image for a second run at the Mulroney briefly considered running in an Federal by election in the Quebec Riding of after Many observers said Mulroney Lack of political experience was a major drawback for the aspiring but he decided against being a candidate when the popular Roch decided to run again for the seat he had left briefly to Lead the provincial Union Mulroney has held an elected israeli probe downplays had dads role in massacre Jerusalem a the commission investigating the Beirut massacre has told Israel backed lebanese army renegade Saad Haddad his militiamen have nothing to fear from the i Vestiga effectively Clearing them of suspicion in the lebanese deny claims of a communique yesterday said Haddad and his men were not liable to be harmed by the investigation or its it rejected had dads request to appear with an israeli lawyer to testify a second time and to examine witnesses to dispel accusations of involve ment in the the israeli judicial commission has warned prime minister Menachem begin and eight other top Mili tary and political leaders that they could be harmed by its findings and informed them they have the right to testify again and examine All evidence against the nine have until tomorrow to Tell the commis Sion if and How they intend to defend themselves 4 against the possibility that they May be found to have been negligent in allowing Christian lebanese forces into the palestinian refugee Camps last published reports say defence minister Ariel Sharon May ask to testify again before the Threeman but begin and foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir will Only submit civilian lawyers have been drafted into the army reserves to act As Legal counsel for chief of staff Raphael intelligence chief Yehoshua and Amir com Mander of israeli forces in Cabinet Secretary Dan acting in begins has been studying evidence that led the commission to warn begin that he May be found negligent if he did not appropriately consider the role of the lebanese Christian forces and ignored the danger of acts of revenge and although the commission appeared to exonerate the panel of two supreme court justices and a retired general paid scant attention to had dads role in the Public concentrating on the conduct of israels indy 23482 Firestone stores Winnipeg Mon Fri 7 30am b sat 8 00am 12 noon also for tractor Oil tires service resum 1588 main 3166 Portage 33s 0337 store 4742331 Mon Fri 7 30am 5 sat 8 00am 5 00pm 1600 recent at Mon 7 30am 5 6689171 tue Fri 7 30am 9 sat 8 00am 500pm i f ;