Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba City works upgrade priced at million by Gaty Hunter the City of Winnipeg needs to spend almost million to bring its water and sewer systems up to according to information Given to a National sur in reply to a Survey undertaken by the federation of Canadian municipalities last Winnipeg Engi neers estimated that to bring the cites services up to an acceptable level will require million to replace kilo metres of deteriorating water lines i million for the reconstruction of Kilometres of roads and lanes million for the replacement of 150 Kilometres of sewer lines i million to upgrade sanitary treatment plants d million to upgrade and repair some of the cites 123 vehicle and 58 pedestrian Bridges and overpasses million for upgrading the cites Shoal Lake Winnipeg water Supply Rod commissioner of works and said yester Day the figures gathered and submitted last april remain a valid reflection of the cites while million is needed for Basic physical Mcrae said allocations in recent years have been for less than 10 per cent of that were definitely losing ground in our water system and roads and were falling to a lesser in our Bridges and sewer he Mcrae said in terms of compari son with other major Canadian Winnipeg in worse off than Southern Ontario and Alberta cities but better off than those in Atlantic in one water Mcrae said Winnipeg system is among the worst in the in 1984 we exceeded water main we were head Ohead with for having the worst breaker Kilometre rec Ord in see City Page 4 draft dodgers at Cloudy today10 Cloudy tonight january 1985 Sun rises sets Moon rises real Home delivery 9670550 classified 9562330 second class Mai registration number oj86 elms face City warns by Patrick Mckinley As Many As of Winnipeg Elm Trees could be Cut Down this year to halt the spread of dutch Elm City officials have a recent Survey has revealed Many More dying Elm Trees than previously John acting director of regional said doctors seek final of of plan by Maureen Brosnahan Winnipeg doctors voted last night not to accept any agreement on binding arbitration and a fee Settle ment with the province unless a final ratification vote is the 65 doctors who attended the District 1 meeting of the Manitoba medical association said if a statement of now being voted on by Manitoba is they want the Opportunity to vote on the final version of the that which is being voted on through a Mailin would see doctors give up their right to extra Bill and opt out of medicare in Exchange for a form of binding arbitration to Settle fee deadline for voting is Many doctors at the meeting said they did not Trust the Mma executive to pull together a final agree ment that will satisfy All some said the statement of intent should not have been put to a vote until All the is Are dotted and the to Are some said while they supported the proposal for binding they objected to the fee increase which the government has offered for the coming As they objected to the word ing of the ballot which does not allow doctors to vote against the fee in crease and support binding arbitration at the same see Mma Page 4 a report says the number of new cases showing up annually has grown from seven in 1975 the first year the disease appeared in Winni Peg to an expected Trees this Hreno said the spread has City officials unless More is done to fight the we Are basically concerned that we wont be Able to halt this he Hreno said officials fear the dying Trees estimated at about will provide a Home for Elm bark he said if that the insects will later spread the infection to healthy there Are some dynamics at work out there that sort of scare Hreno if we want to control the disease in what you could Call an acceptable we have to do a lot More to remove these Hazard funding share the City has been removing about dying but noninfected elms annually to prevent the tree infection from in another elms were removed last year after being found to be City officials now pro pose cutting Down and destroying dying but noninfected elms in 1985 times As Many As last the Trees that Are expected to develop the infection this year will also have to be City officials Hreno said efforts to step up the Battle will depend partly on the provincial governments willingness to increase its share of the City has budgeted an extra to fight the disease this but expects half the added funds to come from the provincial government which has yet to make a Don Mitchelson chairman of the cites recreation and social services commit said City officials will approach the province for the added funds at a meeting in the next few Mitchelson said he is hopeful the province will go along with the re even though it refused a Simi see provincial Page 4 a Phot Lisa left and Amy Clark get taste of icicles near their Home 76 die in freeze by the associated press the death toll blamed on Arctic weather reached 76 As freezing temperatures and icy winds gripped the Eastern half of the United states from Texas to new England again making it the col dest Day on the books in More than 20 in the second rec Ord cold snap in two years has Frozen oranges As hard As baseballs and May have destroyed thousands of Trees in the Northern Section of the states Citrus in new Power was briefly Cut to Homes and businesses when generators and in inaugural celebrations for presi Dent Reagan were forced in doors by the cold for Only the second time in More than 80 records were set in the Southeast and East for the coldest temperature for the Twenty three of those records were the coldest temperatures Ever including in and in the temperature plunged to Early yesterday in Beck in it was and new where it chilled to was just one degree warmer than fair the extreme cold was not confined to the United Ontario was hit by blizzard like conditions with some 30 roads closed and hundreds of motorists in que see Snow Page 4 Over causing grief government control of commissions cuts service clubs say consultation promised on Coates says Ottawa up defence minis Ter Robert Coates said yesterday Canada now has assurances that the government will consult Ottawa about any future plans for Basing nuclear weapons in Canada in the event of International still attempting to play Down the importance of a document made Public in Washington 12 Days which indicated there were Ameri can contingency plans for placing 32 nuclear depth charges in Coates claimed it was an old Docu ment dating Back to at the time it was published by a defence Coates said he knew nothing about it but would try to get some later he said it was a plan conceived by the former Liberal government in 1967 and abandoned in according to William Arkin who Heads nuclear weapons research for the Washington based Institute for policy the classified nuclear weapons deployment plan was signed by presi Dent Reagan and is brought up to Date it indicates plans to ship 32 anti submarine nuclear depth charges to Likely for placement at Ca Nadian forces bases in and during times of International military see Page 4 by Tom Goldstein some charitable organizations and service clubs say the provinces takeover of the lottery business is costing them Revenue and reducing their and while Many say it is too soon to gauge the effects the change will have on projects in their commune some fear the worst is yet to come in funding As we go Down the its going to get said Don Beach of Winnipeg Blind the club was a member of total Community involvement a nonprofit organization representing More than 100 Community groups which sold 25 per cent of All Manitoba lottery the formed in 1976 by the Schreyer was eliminated when the government took direct control of the lottery business last under an agreement with the to member groups Are to receive a guaranteed level of fund ing until the fiscal year ending March the groups also have Access to funds allotted by the provincial Cabi net to eight umbrella groups which the government has designated to distribute Revenue to the Community from casinos and lottery and break open ticket said Garth general manager of the Manitoba lotteries the umbrella groups have received million since april including million from ticket he Don lottery chairman of the Garson Community Centen Nial said he has tried to get extra he said he was told his chances Are poor because the Centre is get Ting a guaranteed level of Bachewicz said the Centre received from Sci in under the guaranteed level of fund it is to receive for the fiscal year ending last March he he and spokesmen for other organizations complained a reduction in commissions from lottery ticket sales is not Only having an effect on see political Page 4 court ponders a officers Appeal Nielsen bloody footprints Ottawa up the supreme court of Canada reserved decision yesterday on a motion by former Winnipeg City police Constable Barry Nielsen to Challenge the foot print evidence that helped convict him in the slaying of his brother in Paul a physical anthropologist testified at Nielsen trial that his footprints matched bloody ones found at the scene where was beaten to death the anthropologist said it was but highly Remote that the footprints belonged to someone evidence at the trial indicated Nielsen liked to go bloody tire prints on the Highway leading to where dears body was buried matched the tire prints on Nielsen station seeking another contends that the footprint evidence not have been admissible against Nielsen was charged with possess Ion of stolen snowmobiles april the same Day Clear was questioned by police about other police said Clear didst mention his brother Laws name during ques but Nielsen was later heard to Call Clear a rat at a family he was last seen alive when he drove to work the Midnight shift at a Winnipeg Nielsen and former Constable Jerry each charged with a series of thefts while on later were convicted of second degree murder in the beating death of bumped out bumping Irethe provincial civil service to make room for a ministers former political aide draws patriotism president Reagan evokes a patriotic vision of a better America in his second inaugural patronage a Rookie my attacks tory patronage appointments As parliament resumes after a months deep secret even the launch time is top secret As the countdown begins for shuttle discovery military Ann 17 28 34 38 14 38 6 31 7 Jumble 47 32 17 17 sports record stocks 35 27 to 17 i f ;