Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january tic cold kills 101 in 80 temperature lows recorded in Southeastern states continued from Page 1 Day in at least 10 states from Michigan to president reagans inauguration ceremonies moved indoors yester Day after Reagan said he feared the cold would Hurt people working schools in parts of at least five states from North Carolina to Penn Sylvania were closed today for a second Day in a More than 80 records were set yesterday in the Southeast and East for the coldest temperature for the Twenty of those were also the coldest temperatures Ever including 20 c in and 27 c in the temperature plunged to 30 c Early yesterday in new where it chilled to 10 was just one degree warmer than the 34 c recorded at Mountain Lake was the Al time Low temperature recorded in Virginia any any said climatologist Patrick Michaels of the University of weather related deaths including those from traffic accidents on icy exposure and fires blamed on makeshift reported in 20 states since when the storms the cold was blamed for the crash of two commuter trains in yesterday in Juring 129 none the chicag area trains had been routed onto the same track after freezing temperatures damaged overhead electrical said Richard spokesman for the South Shore police and emergency workers in Kentucky and Alabama patrolled the bringing the homeless to already crowded in new York officials said More than homeless crowded in where it dropped to provincial funds sought to Aid Elm disease Battle continued from Page 1 Lar but smaller request last they were very Well disposed towards the concept last year but they said they just didst have the Mitchelson he said that in the rest of Manito the province is paying half the Cost of battling dutch Elm disease but in it provided Only on third of last years the City spent about million fighting the disease last with of that coming from the provincial the added spending planned by the City would take the budget to million this and the City wants the province to pay of Hreno said the City Hopes to expand a Boulevard spraying pro Gram against the beetles to include cemeteries and the City also wants to step up the pruning of dead and dying limbs from otherwise healthy Hreno said it would help a Deal if private property owners also stepped up the pruning of their own a report says Many of the dying and infected Trees that pose a risk Are located along the red River in the Norbert and vital As Well As along the River in East West old Kil Donan and North it says the infection has shown up in Kildonan Johns vital Park and Labarriere among other around 10 c in the heart of the states Citrus Industry officials said the second freeze in two Winters May have destroyed thou Sands of Trees in the northernmost where hard freeze warnings were posted Early some growers reported their or Anges had Frozen As hard As base balls the death toll since Friday included 13 in 10 in Michi nine in eight each in Texas and seven in six in five each in new Florida and four in North Carolina and South three in Ken Minnesota and West Virgin two in and one each in new Louisiana and missis weather related deaths in the West included three in Washington and one each in Colorado and up to 35 centimetres of Snow fell in Colorado and with More expected the extreme cold was not con fined to the United Ontario was hit by blizzard like conditions with some 30 roads closed and hundreds of motorists in temperatures hovered be tween and with police reporting several minor traffic a a heavy snowfall warning was issued for Nova Scotia and blizzard warnings for Eastern new southwestern Ontario was buried under 60 centimetres of Snow that have isolated cities and closed schools and stranded hundreds of travellers since in where the wind chill Factor dropped to yester police reported that the body of a 55yearold Man was found sunday in front of a where he probably fell and froze to St v a City upgrade Bill includes million for reconstruction of deteriorating roads and City facing Mma urges doctors to support pact continued from Page 1 four Mma executive members urged the doctors to vote in favor of the they noted that in a vote among Mma members last 75 per cent agreed to Trade off their right to extra Bill patients for a form of binding but Many doctors questioned whether they can Trust the govern ment with such an Why Rush into the solution which health minister Larry Desjardins thinks is of and which makes me Robert Kippen Kippen said he wants doctors to retain their right to opt out of medi care and extra Bill patients respect our services and they expect to pay for he i think this is a bad Deal Finan Henry chair Man of District Dirks said in a provincial election doctors should expect a larger increase from the Duncan Kippen said if doctors lock themselves into a Deal with the provincial new democratic govern it could be what happens if we get a real vitriolic Naper As health minister who thinks doctors should be Down on the like they Are in some doctors also expressed a Lack of Faith in the Mma which they claimed negotiated the proposed Deal Ian an Mma executive said the negotiations went on for there were no he in afraid this is a very sad Day for said Jeremy an Mma member and president of the association of Independent physic ians which opposes the there is a great Deal of mistrust in the executive of the Mma and they deserve this continued from Page 1 Winnipeg was one of 98 Canadian communities to respond to the sur vey on the physical condition of Basic municipal Portage la Prairie and Thompson also based on the Survey the Otta abased federation of Canad an municipalities last week issued a report saying billion was needed to bring the Bridges and sewers cities up to Mcrae said civic administrations in Canada have been generally pre occupied with new plants and expanding services since the second world he said it is Only recently that serious attention was paid to the need for ongoing maintenance and were now facing that he and if you put off that routine what would have Cost to maintain now costs or to members of a federation task including Winnipeg Deputy mayor Jim met finance minister Michael Wilson on Satur Day to press Federal but got no commitment from the conservative it was an information a dialogue of Ernst his Wilsons of was that he didst have any Ernst said Wilson suggested there May be some Money available to the municipalities through the billion the Federal government plans to spend on Job creation in a meeting with employment and immigration minister Flora Mac Donald has Bee set up for Early the federation will be pitching for a Large chunk of the Job creation these kinds of projects Are in Stant Job creators that offer lasting benefits to the Community and have enormous spinoffs in the Ernst attitude to Canada on Basing plan criticized continued from Page 1 Canadian external affairs department officials say contingency military plans Are not a subject for Public discussion and the state department similarly refused any Pauline the nip foreign affairs protested yesterday As parliament resumed after a four week Christmas Holiday 4hat the United states treats Canada As if it has no need or right to know about such contingency plans and acts As if Canada is an Extension of who referred to the published plans Only As a so called leaked said he has assurances Canada will be consulted about any such contingency planning in the defence minister left the com Mons by a Back evading a Large group of reporters who sought clarification of his who suggested Coates should asked whether he in tends to inform the United states that it is longstanding Canadian policy that no nuclear weapons will be based on Canadian Coates replied theres a simple there Are no apparently indicating the conserva Tive government has no intention of changing the nonnuclear weapons at no extra on 1985 k no strings attached value dont have to buy an option package to get that a claim the Competition cant make Are new generation cars 1985 Dodge Aries and Plymouth the super Many new styling and engineering and that Means the Best Are even Canadas Best Selling the proven Well Over a million sold in North wont find a More straightforward Deal anywhere automatic transmission on 4door sedans and wagons at no extra take delivery by at participating automatic no extra extra Cost with Purchase of extra option Tempo go Topaz is available All one Model Protection engine and powertrain 5 and powertrain 2 outer body rust through 5 parts except exhaust system 5 4door advantage trunk room i Interior l 3132 l 2922 competitive inform Union obtained Irani published i political funding suspected clubs complain lottery funding not related continued from Page 1 but also diminishes the incentive to As far As were were getting shortchanged on the Snow Lake Kinsmen club spokesman Stewart Brown Brown said commissions on the Sale of a win Day ticket has been Cut from 25 cents to 15 from 10 cents to seven cents on Western express and from 10 cents to five cents on instant stand in line were still doing the same work but were losing about in he he said he Doest like the idea of having to apply for funding for specific it Means we have to stand in line like everyone he adding he suspects the most politically motivated groups will get the fund we kind of go with the idea that if you make the Effort to sell the it should go Back to the people who sell instead of being distributed through the Brown because the agreement with the lotteries foun Dation still is in its first year of Many former Sci members say they have yet to feel the Impact of the adding any possible ramifications Are Down the no one can give you a tirade against the because we dont know what the end result said Catherine Cuddy of Winnipeg British wives others say the uncertainty translates into if we didst get this wed pretty Well have to fold up the Beach once we run out of that initial Money coming to the club will really be up the unless we can get some other i dont know what were going to said the effects Are already being the Neepawa Lions club has had to reduce its budget to and pare its project funding As a spokesman Cecil Cox when we were in the lotteries our budget was More like Cox he said the club could earn Between and from lottery sales the club is to receive a total of under the agreement with the lotteries he our real crunch will come when that dries up Thompson rotary club spokesman Richard Whidden said the organization earned about 000 in commissions from the wholesale distribution of lottery tickets during the fiscal year ending last june it will receive a total of from guaranteed funding he Whidden said the clubs projects have yet to suffer because it had a surplus last but says the Impact will be Felt Down the if it is Felt at government pay scheme criticized the provinces method of disbursing Guaran teed funds is irritating some former members of total Community involvement the nonprofit which was eliminated when the province took direct control Over lotteries last disbursed funds on a monthly under a closeout agreement Between Sci and the Manitoba lotteries the groups will receive guaranteed funding for a three year period ending March the Are made Quad we were a lot better off the other said Ernie Dean of the James Council of the knights of Dean said this disbursement method enabled groups to make a bit of extra Money by depositing the monthly cheques in daily interest every Dollar helps when youre working for he Don Bachewicz of the Garson Centennial Community Centre said the new method of payment is putting a crimp in the organizations Cash that monthly Cheque is Bachewicz under this method of members received cheques based on the amount of lottery tickets they there was a six month lag Between the ticket sales and the Sci 4fter the first six you automatically got a Cheque each Dean under the agreement with the lotteries found Sci members Are guaranteed funding based on a formula which divides in half the total amount of Grant Money issued to each group during a three year fiscal period ending March each group will receive 100 per cent of the averaged amount in the first in the second and in the million distributed formed in distributed a total of about million a year to its member groups and for special projects by members and no Mem executive director Dave Anton the no special projects funds were distributed to member groups according to the number of lottery tickets they who operates out of a desk in the office of this still is in the process of wrapping up the organizations including the distribution of its final Grants for special he said he expects the organization to become extinct March 31 when the fiscal year ;