Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january Snow forces Road closings cities in Ontario dig out from blizzards continued from Page 1 temperatures hovered Between and with police report ing several minor traffic a heavy snowfall warning was is sued for Nova Scotia and blizzard warnings continued 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 in the United weather re lated deaths including those from traffic accidents on icy expo sure and fires blamed on makeshift Heaters were reported in 15 states since the death toll Rose As two men were found Frozen to death outdoors in two people were found dead in an unheated building on new York cites lower East other deaths reported yesterday included two people dead of hypothermia in the area an elderly couple who died in a fire started by an electric Heater placed too close to their Beds and two people discovered dead of apparent hypothermia in their homeless people sought Refuge from the with hundreds sleep ing on the floor at shelters in Boston and in mayor Wilson Goode ordered police to take any homeless people on the streets past 4 to the freeze forced the cancellation of the traditional inaugural Parade through and reagans provincial funds sought to Aid Elm disease Battle continued from Page 1 Jar but smaller request last 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 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 great 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 inaugural address and repetition of his oath were moved in where it dropped to in the heart of the states Citrus Industry officials said the freeze May have destroyed thou Sands of Trees in the northernmost it looks like the damage will be extensive in both Citrus and vegetal said agriculture commissioner Doyle crops were threatened too in Texas and weve been hit so Many its getting to be said Steve a spokesman for the Texas Citrus and vegetable Assoc a the cold Cut Power to Homes and businesses in the new Orleans area after six generators froze and forced new Orleans Public service and Louisiana Power and Light to resort to a rolling blackout until Power was another customers were briefly without Power in after the overloaded Power sys City upgrade Bill includes million for Tern electric companies throughout the East reported record and scattered Power out Ages also were reported in West Ohio and North of deteriorating roads and City facing a Snow emergency declaration was declared in hardhat Buffalo and several surrounding where authorities reported Zero visibility because of blowing a Snow emergency declaration was declared in hardhat Buffalo and several surrounding where authorities reported Zero visibility because of blowing Only emergency vehicles or cars driven by people in health related jobs were being allowed on the said Jim a dispatcher for but Falos Street and sanitation depart 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 the executive of the Mma and they deserve this value you have to buy an option package to get it that a claim the Competition cant make these Are new generation cars 1985 Dodge Aries and Plymouth reliant the super with Many new styling and engineering acid that Means Are even there Canadas Best Selling the proven Well Over a million sold in North you wont find a More straightforward Deal anywhere automatic transmission on 4door sedans and wagons at no extra Cost take delivery by at participating automatic transmission no extra Cost available All models no extra Cost with Purchase of extra option Tempo go Topaz is available one Model Only Protection plan engine and powertrain 5 pm outer body rust through 5 pm engine and powertrain 2 pm All parts except exhaust system 5 year roominess trunk room Interior room competitive information obtained from published source at we just want to be the Ood Tje Chrysler i Chrysler 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 of Canadian 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 for 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 set up for Early Ernst adding the federation will be pitching for a Large chunk of use these kinds of projects Are in Stant Job creators that offer lasting benefits to the Community and have enormous up toffs in Ernst t attitude to 6anam 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 that 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 Hasas srances Canada will be Consul Ted about any such contingency planning in 1 the defence minister left the com Mons by a Back a Large group of reporters who sought clarification of his wh6 suggested Coates should asked whether be 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 such apparently indicating thei conserva Tive government of changing the nonnuclear weapons 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 we pretty Well have to fold up the Beach Saint once we run out of that initial Money coining to the club will really be up the Creek i unless we can get some other r Dent know what were going to said the effects Are already being the Neepawa Lions club has had to reduce 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 bad 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 after 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 Sci 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 a strip Button of its final Grants for special he said he expects the organization to become extinct March 31 when the fiscal year ;