Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january i i v Lye r if at by Tom Goldstein Winnipeg free press Gladstone a group of farm ers whose properties have been repeatedly flooded by the White mud River is upset at the provinces plan to Appeal court ordered compensation won by one of spokesmen for the group said yesterday they fear a court Victory by the province would discourage it train Sta rankle no by Paul Moloney Churchill residents will continue fighting to preserve their half Cen Turvold train station despite a Cana Dian transport commission decision authorizing its Jack head of the local development said yesterday residents of the Hudson Bay Community wont accept Canadian National railways plan to replace the landmark building with a Pas Senger their so called Energy efficient shelter in my opinion will be an Atco trailer with a Heater in he that is certainly not you should be up Here today with the wind chill in one of their Energy Effi client shelters imagine youd enjoy Appeal decision the Community will Appeal the decision to Federal transport minis ter Don head Ding he is optimistic the car can be persuaded to keep the if the railway gives that station All hell will break Churchill is one of eight Northern Manitoba communities facing loss of their stations As a result of a trans port commission ruling made Public the 12page which Fol lows three Days of Public hearings last also affects stations in Thicket a Cranberry Sherri Don and Lynn blow to tourism the communities Are located along a car line which crosses Manitoba from Churchill to flin and another line which runs from the flin flon area North to Lynn Oconnor said removal of Chur chills which the railway says Cost to staff and oper ate in would be a blow to the towns tourism we depend on tourism he the next thing suggest is we get rid of the Birds and the if it was wed say take it but the building is Well its an old building but its in Good they spent to on it three or four years ago from correcting the conditions that have caused the what they cant get through their Heads is what there flooding is your your Vij an Derson its not the compensation we Hans Andersen we want it corrected so we can make a the belong to the 93member White mud River grass Marsh won a test Case last month when a court of Queens Bench judge ordered the province to a Leonard Bjarnarson for Lood damage to his land in 1976 and ruling the Farmers claimed the White mud floods have become More severe As More land around the River was absorbed into the big grass As they claimed the prov through its drainage author was negligent in not pro Viding sufficient outlet for Runoff water from White mud conservation in his Justice Ben Jamin Hewak ruled that the province had not acted in Good Faith to protect the despite warnings from its employees since 1902 about the obvious potential damage the drainage system might the Farmers had hoped the Deci Sion would end an Lightyear Battle to win they have since Learned the province plans to Appeal the natural resources minister Al Mackling said last night he comment on the Case in detail be cause it is before the courts Mackling said the Deci Sion is being appealed because the government Doest think it is responsible for the wave free press and now they decide to do away with that an awful the which applied in july 1982 for permission to close the eight Manitoba stations and one m Hudson will be required to install heated passenger shelters with washrooms and the commissions decision also authorizes removal station agents in the they would be replaced with representatives hired on contract to handle freight traffic and passenger ticket the commission accepted the car argument that organizational changes since 1970 have made full time station agents the railway said salaries accounted for about 82 per cent of the it Cost to operate the nine stations in we find that removal of the agents will reduce railway overhead costs and permit Amore efficient allocation of resources within the the Threeman panel of commissioners Stan mayor of Lynn viewed the decision As a first step in the eventual removal of train ser vice to the mining As soon As the mine closes Here next in sure that will be the end of the Geddes doomed from Start Gary administrator of the local government District of Gil said the train station there is in poor shape and a full equipped Pas Senger shelter could be an accept Able the town does not want to lose its station he adding he is pessimistic that a con tract worker will be found to get up in the Middle of the night when the train comes the Pas mayor Bruce unfried said it appears the Effort was doomed from the you get the feeling that decisions have been made beforehand and hearings Are held just for Public unfried he added the ruling sounds an ominous note for the future of train service in the we see grandiose statements being made by the transport minis ter about passenger rail improve ments in Western he but theres not a Heck of a lot happening up Turner carries on Liberal Leader John Turner and Winnipeg fort Garry my Lloyd Axworthy carry their Luggage at Winnipeg International Airport after arriving in the City Turner met the Manitoba Liberal party executive and former candidates last night i Oday he was to speak to the Laurier club before leaving for Calgary electrician suffers severe Burns in fire a 31yearold electrician was reported to be in stable condition last night after suffering severe Burns in an electrical Accident at versatile farm 1260 Clarence a police spokesman said Kelvin Hampson of Starbuck was working on an electrical panel inside the Plant when a malfunction in the wiring caused an explosion and Hampson suffered secondhand third degree Burns to the left Side of his the spokesman As he said the work carried out by the government would help the Farmers in the Long Dennis lawyer for the said the province fears the judgment would establish a bad in addition to another 88 claims by the there Are similar claims pending from else where in the he the association Hopes to meet Mackling next week to discuss the governments plans for an soviets discuss port use soviet officials want further discussions with Manitoba about the port of Churchill and a variety of other transport minister John Lohman said Lohman met yesterday with so Viet Trade commissioner Igor Kono Valov and Alexei soviet ambassador to it was an excellent Lohman said from they understand what were try ing to we discussed potential expansion of the soviet unions utilization of the port for Grain and other Lohman said he does not expect the meeting to immediately result in greater use of Manitoba Northern sea but sees it As opening the door to further Treyve expressed an interest in a number of things happening in he he refused to but said they discussed commodities and developments in Mani he said he plans to meet the Trade commissioner next month in Manitoba officials have expressed concern about what appears to be declining use of provincial records show Grain exports to the soviet Union through Churchill fell to tonnes last year from in in the year the soviets shipped no Grain through the but Lohman said the soviet statistics indicated that they shipped substantially higher amounts than Manitoba records he said the difference May be explained by differences in interpretation of who ships under which weather High part lox Prei cold fro worm for City Calendar Winnipeg area forecast bitterly cold today and moderate northerly winds producing very High windchill values and Drifting mainly Clear with a High both Days near Low tonight near probability of precipitation is near 10 per cent tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly Clear sunday through temperatures below rising to near Normal by tues Normal High is Normal Low is Northern Manitoba occasional Cloudy periods mainly Clear monday and temperatures below Normal sunday and near Normal monday and Normal High is Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario occasional Cloudy periods and flurries mainly Clear monday and temperatures below Normal rising to near Normal by Normal High is Normal Low is society for the study of architecture in Canada presents a slide show about Winnipeg architecture at monday in the West committee civic 510 main Street the society for crippled children and adults of Manitoba holds a course on american sign language level ii at 1 p m wednesdays at 285 Pembina fees and text our mistake the Best buys column wednesday said wrongly that Westh ome was Selling Long loins of beef for a in the Price was a win Tario Toronto up twelve winning numbers were chosen yesterday in the win Tario the winning number is three numbers Worth each Are c008337 and two numbers Worth each Are 165596 and other winning numbers scramble 766216 68098 winfall41 mystery Bonus deaths classified death National b 6 8 5 35 6 13 9 22 24 22 29 Thunder 8 26 16 21 17 8 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