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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 21, 1972
Page
1
Lac du Bonnet will be without a mayor as Lyle Wilcox resigns following a CP Rail shuffle. He learned Friday of a transfer to Winnipeg and will start there by December 8. The resignation becomes effective on Wednesday with no by election date set yet.
CP Rail will remove twenty two station agents in the next weeks affecting Dryden Motson Dominion City Gimli Toulon Vermillion Bay Lac du Bonnet Carey Riverton Arbory Kenora Beausejour Niverville Stony Mountain Winnipeg White mouth Emerson Selkirk Stone wall Paddington Wabigoon Eagle River Raith Ignace and Thunder Bay. A Winnipeg computer age customer service centre will handle CP Rail Air Ships Transport Hotels and Telecoms operations with a toll free line Zenith-7 7500 and five mobile supervisors. No employees will be laid off as staff shift to the centre or mobile roles.
The Pine Falls Recreational Association will unveil a new arena floor on December 1 at 9 00 p m. The event invites all residents to attend and support a successful evening as advertised in this week’s paper.
At about 7 00 p m on November 11 CFS Beausejour crews heard rifle shots from the swamp south of the air field and organized a ground search. A civilian hunting party reported missing man Joseph Chuck Wolanin of Ashton Avenue Beausejour. Snowmobiles and foot teams faced rough swampy terrain as they searched known trails without success by 10 30 p m.
Agriculture Minister Sam As kiw announced seven additional areas eligible for provincially assisted sewer and water development under the Manitoba Water Services Act. Eligible communities include Selkirk Swan River Minnedosa Virden Winnipeg Beach Portage la Prairie and Grunthal. Prior list includes Riverton Birch River Lundar and Dauphin with Lac du Bonnet among those requesting assistance.
The local RCMP have been issuing tickets for Highway Traffic Act violations. Common offences include illegal parking and speeding, with reminders about snowmobile laws. Readers are urged to understand and obey regulations to avoid fines.
The Manitoba winter works committee approved 33 million dollars of labor intensive capital projects under the capital works acceleration program. Premier Ed Schreyer announced that about 5 818 man months of work are expected by June 1. The committee, including Premier Schreyer Public Works Minister Russell Doern and Agriculture Minister Sam Uskiw, will review further departmental submissions and decide which projects proceed.
The Manitoba Clean Environment Commission issued several waste disposal licences. Leonard Friesen gains a hog barn waste discharge licence with limits on waste removal, water protection, barriers, dead-animal disposal, and a cap of 195 animal units. Pinawa district sewage lagoon receives a licence to prevent groundwater contamination, limit odors, meet biochemical oxygen demand and coliform targets, and ban effluent from Nov 1 to May 15.
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