Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee Bre by Bill Trebilcox my of keenly cardiologist mailed me a Leaf let p.p.s., pre postal and my first reaction was that someone had suddenly come up with the answer to All illnesses because of the title this could save your life. And while that was expecting a Little too much a Little Reading showed me what an important item it really describes for those who suffer from any chronic condition. It was a pamphlet from the Canadian medic Alert foundation not a new Enterprise of which i was ignorant until i read an item about it in the american College of surgeons newsletter. Briefly it s an organization which keeps track of its members chronic ailments those which need immediate identification in Case of emergency. Persons who belong to the non profit organization Wear a Metal disc either on the wrist or around the neck which describes their particular ailment for immediate information in Case of Accident or an attack. Information on the disc outlines such conditions As allergic to taking anti Coagy Etc. And this knowledge is invaluable to a doctor called to an emergency where the strange patient May not be Able to communicate. A file of this information is kept at a Central registry in Toronto and an inter National file in California. In addition the member receives a Wallet card with full information about the medical condition and the 24-hour Central registry has a full copy. A lifetime membership is and that lifetime might be extended because you re a member if you have any chronic condition. There s nothing humorous about the postal strike for the strikers the government or the people of Canada. But there Are very few situations in life where someone can t dig up a justified smile. And mine today comes from the non smokers association which has issued the following tobacco in Cheek warnings it May again be necessary to remind people that smoke signals used to beat the postal strike May be declared hot. All such signals will have to be approved by the non smokers association. However people living in coastal areas of an est Arial River May Send messages by bottle. Vancouver and Victoria Are launching Points for such messages destined for Australia new zealand and malagasy. Churchill May be used As the into the water Points for messages to the British Isles and Europe during the ice free shipping season. Delivery time is estimated to be late 1973. So if your message is urgent try Bongo drum the United states consulate staff is growing accustomed to having the Block letters that identify their building disappear regular epidemics of vandalism in the form of paint Daubins on churches and synagogues Are nothing new but someone had added a new touch. The chancery office of the roman Catholic archdiocese of Winnipeg 50 Stafford Street opposite Kelvin school used to have a Metal shield with the archdiocesan c6at-of-Arrns emblazoned of it. No More some Dull witted prankster made off with the entire week. It had to be an unthinking prankster because the one of a kind shield while expensive to replace has no Market value for a thief it was crafted by h. A. Gagnier of St. Vital who also turns out Coats of arms for the various governments in our country. Colors on the shield Are Gold and Black and it depicts the battlements of old fort Garry. The Junction of the red and Assiniboine is illustrated with a Bishop s Mitre. The police Are looking for it and it will Likely turn up i Hope undamaged but it would be easier to return it anonymously now that the joke is Over. In your family name is Muirhead your clan is holding its annual reunion at Island Park Portage la Prairie at 2 ., sunday. Bring a Basket lunch and your musical instruments. Ever try to play the bagpipes and eat your lunch at the same time Osborne River 453-3323 Portage 6 Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. James Street opposite Polo Park 7g6-6891 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight saturday today s weather is expected to show a Little change from that of the past two Days. Skies will be mainly sunny but there wih be a few after noon or evening showers and thundershowers. A disturbance moving across the Northern states saturday will produce More Cloud showers Over rhe Southern regions for tomorrow. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today forecast sunny with a few Cloudy periods today and saturday Little change in temperature. Winds Light. Low tonight 55, High tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg 80. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended Friday Max. Free. Vancouver .71 60 .03 Ottawa calgary1.___69 49 Toronto Edmonton .75 44 Montreal Regina .-79 of. Halifax Brandon. 78 53 .02 Chicago the pas.73 54 Miami Winnipeg. 76 53 los Angeles fort William 82 57 .02 Minneapolis 76 55 new York temperature comparisons Max. Min. Free. 89 75 90 66 .23 68 74 .13 60 70 76 62 59 76 66 86 87 69 85 91 they were picking meat off the Road for a traffic policeman remarked after this truck and trailer containing pounds of meat did t quite make a turn on to Logan Avenue from main Street. The 45-foot vehicle overturned at photo by David the height of yesterday s Home bound traffic Rush and tied up traffic for almost 3% hours. A Crane righted the vehicle and the truck was finally towed away at Winnipeg press by Carrier 50c per week Epi ital Lull v 1o Loco authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., or guat just in iv68 and payment of postage a Cash Carrier Ken Corrigan relaxes on Telephone duty at postal strikers Headquarters. Agrees with objectives letter Carrier does t Welcome strike by pie tee Vanbennekom no i Don t Welcome says Ken Corrigan a 48 year-old1 letter Carrier who quit making his appointed rounds and went out on strike thursday. There s no Money coming in that s he said. Or. Corrigan has been working for the for 10 years. He has a wife and two children and is the Only breadwinner in the family. He enjoys Bowling during the Winter and just lounging around during the summer. As such he s probably pretty typical of the postal employees in greater Winnipeg. He agrees with the objectives of the strike which he sees As better working conditions they can t change their minds from one Day to the some changes in the grievances procedure and better pay anything you re going to Garif is Worth fighting or. Corrigan said. But he frankly admits that he s a Little worried about the financial aspects of the vacation without pay his regular holidays Are scheduled for october the wife she does t appreciate the strike too much either. She says i Don t worry about it too but i know she is worried and so am i. The boys one is 15 and the other is 11, their allow ances will have., to be watched. But they re not too demanding that s fortunate in a there s no strike pay for or. Corrigan and the other postal employees in Winnipeg. They get Gas Money and parking expenses from the Union for the few hours a Day that they have duty in the office or on the picket line but that s All. If strike turns out to be a prolonged affair there will definitely be financial hardship in his family or. Corrigan said. _ maybe after we get the shifts straightened out Here in the office the strike Headquarters at 261 fort Street i can go look for a part time Job for a couple of hours a he said he was building a Patio at his Home and there was a lot of painting to do around the House. When he was still working he did t have the time now he does t have the Money or. Corrigan said he will probably Start to miss his daily rounds around my Phillips Street in North Winnipeg after a few Days. Hell probably miss his daily Chat in the drug store. There was a dog on one of his blocks a sort of a mixture a Short legged Cream coloured Little dog with a head like a Beagle that used to follow him around. Hell probably miss him. I have no _ trouble with have a dog of my and there Are. Some Nice people that he d like to see. There Are some that la give you a hot drink on a cold Day or a cold drink on a hot dam it was by Heather Chisvin a industrious beavers that washed out iy2 Miles of the trans Canada Highway with a dam thursday sent two Winnipeg bound buses on a 900-mile Detour rerouted All buses from and to the East for at least four More Days and a sizable Kink in Canadian Pacific railway operations. The beavers unaware of the havoc they were initiating built the dam about seven Miles East of Terrace Bay ont. About 100 Miles East of the Lakehead on the North Shore of Lake Superior. When the dam broke wednesday the Lake it formed washed out the Highway. Two greyhound bus lines buses from Montreal had to make a 900-mile Detour to get on Highway 11 and take a Northern route into the City. The buses were to arrive at 10 Thurs Day. They did t. A the unofficial word from up is that the flooding re sunk a new track in that area one that had just been replaced because it Sank earlier in the week during a rainstorm. Trains Are reported to have been delayed 24 hours in some cases. All other buses from and to the East normally four a Day will have to take the Northern route until the Road is repaired. It s expected to take anywhere up to six Days but a greyhound spokes Man Here said thursday the new route won t mean extra mileage for buses if they Transfer off the trans Canada at designated Points. For buses from the East the Transfer Point is Sudbury ont. Or North Bay ont. For buses to the East the Transfer Point is Nipigon ont. The bus line spokesman said people living Between the two Transfer Points won t get out at All until the Road is repaired. He said he s been told things should be Back to Normal monday but an official of the Ontario highways department has said the stretch of Highway could be out of use until wednesday. It is reported that the water is too High right now to Start repairs. New ambulance May Cut costs in Rural areas m a n i t o b a s department o health took the wraps off a new government designed ambulance thursday a vehicle that hold the Promise of introducing Low Cost ambulance service throughout Rural Manitoba. The ambulance built especially for the health department by a local Auto body firm a unveiled by health minister c h. Witney and the province ambulance officer c. G. Chap Man. Built at less than half the cos of Ordinary ambulances it Wil tie used to demonstrate the feasibility of economical Amu Ance services to municipal voluntary or private Organiza ions throughout the province. A tour has been set up for the vehicle and it will be available or viewing by municipalities or t h e r ambulance operators planning expansion of their existing facilities or setting up services where none Are now available. The ambulance an Ordinary panel truck body crammed full if the latest medical equipment costs instead of the Normal Cost of traditional Canadian Amu ances. Commenting on the prototype it. Chapman said the Low Cost would place it Well within the midget of Many municipalities. Specifications were developed in or. Chapman in response to he growing need for cheap ambulance services in Rural areas largely because of the rapidly increasing rate of High Way traffic accidents. The design incorporates Spe Ial safety and medical equip ment suggested by the Manitoba medical association the Cana Ian medical association and lie St. John ambulance corps. The ambulance has been built without Interior partitions and offers easier Access from 11 four sides than Normal ambulances provide. It can carry two attendants our Stretcher cases and two rated injured or two Stretcher crutches no Barrier to Lakeside fun Max min. Mean july 18 .76.1 53.4 64.8 last year 85.0 55.1 701 Norman 80.8 57.8 69.3 highest on record 94.0 in 1923 lowest on record 42.0 in 1880 Gimli Man. Staff the Lakeside fresh air Camp four Miles North of Gimli looked and sounded like any Ordinary sum Mer Camp. Counsellors bellowed Good a campers laughed a cookout was held on the Beach there was a scavenger Hunt in Short All the usual Cam time activities and All the usual Cam time fun. But a look at the gently sloped ramps connecting the buildings and at the campers Many with crutches or wheel chairs showed it was t an Ordinary summer Camp. Six weeks every Lakeside becomes a Camp for the handicapped run by the society for children and adults of Manitoba. Vernon l. Gray Camp director told visiting reporters thurs Day we put 3 maximum emphasis on a you can do it As he spoke the 42 children afflicted with some form of crippling illness were eagerly trooping Down to the Beach with several staff supervisors. Many of these children Are nature passive and depend or. Gray and we Are trying to Foster self Assurance and rather than restricting each camper s activities to what is deemed to be his capacity the staff encourages the children to try any available activity they want to. And or. Gray is quite pleased with the results of this philosophy. He anecdote to illustrate this. Campers Are permitted to spend a night roughing it in a tent about 100 Yards from the dormitories where they usually Early one morning while a few children accompanied by a counsellor were sleeping in the a violent thunderstorm broke. Or. They would be terrified rushed to see if the counsellor needed assist Ance. The kids were sound although there is a resident the Camp does not at tempt to provide any form of medical therapy. The major focus of the Camp is to give the kids a Good most programs Are co educational so these kids will develop natural kinds of attitudes to wards the opposite dances Are held frequently. Yes it is possible to dance while seated in or. Gray said Many Chil Dren manage to do it quite Well the age Range of the Camp ers in the july 15 to 26 session is 12 to 15 most attend regular schools in Winnipeg or Rural Manitoba and at school dances they would usually be found lining the or. Gray said. Jar the Friendly atmosphere of the Camp they learn to Deal with such types of there is a whole world which simply is not geared for the handicapped he said. This is a preparation for them to get into a 21-member staff operates the Camp. Many counsellors Are teen agers and a few Are there on a purely voluntary basis. Judging from comments the experience is just As beneficial for them As it is for the campers. What these kids do for you is about 10 times As much As you can do for the director said. Assistant director Brian Zim Mer a physical education teacher at John Henderson Junior High school said working with the children has1 proved very beneficial to him. Three staff members them selves Are handicapped. Clare Mcmorran who has just received her Bachelor of arts degree fron the University of Manitoba appeared to be one of the Camp ers favorite staff members. She has been confined to a wheel chair following a Case of polio in the Early 1950 a or. Gray said. Down at the Beach the daily swimming program was in full swing. Shedding crutches and wheelchairs the campers splashed about within a cordon formed by about 10 counsellors. Those not wanting to swim socialized on the Sand. Just As at any summer Camp the boys cautiously attempted to improvise conversation with girls with the Boyish hesitance typical of that age. As the director said we try to get them doing things any normal1 kids would be this is the fifteenth year the society for crippled children and adults has had use of the Lakeside Camp for a Large por Tion of every summer. In addition to the 12-Day period for Junior. High school age Chil the society sponsors a session for and one for younger children aged 8 to 11. Cases and four seated. One cot one Stretcher on wheels and two Basket stretchers Handy for lifting crash victims or trans Ferring the injured have been incorporated into the truck body. A portable suction unit for resuscitation Independent of the ambulance motor and the traditional built in unit operating on the truck engine Are available. Oxygen splints sterilized bundles prepackaged materials As Well As an ample Supply of blankets sheets towels and water facilities have also been included in the design. Particular attention has been paid to the victims of Automo bile accidents highlighted by a Hydraulic Jack that can be used to pry apart car bodies that have trapped injured Pas sengers. Built by Lawrie Wagon and Carriage co. Pm. Of Winnipeg government officials Hope that municipalities or other inter ested bodies throughout the province will take the hint and Purchase similar vehicles. Police seek attacker Winnipeg police Are looking for a Young Man who tried to rape a 34-year-old married woman Friday morning. The woman was in bed at her lome. She awakened at . To find a Man holding a knife to her Throat. He demanded sexual Intercourse. She convinced him she had to go to the lavatory but he escorted her out of the room holding onto her wrist on the Way. Out she hit his land against the door releasing his grip police said. The woman ran to her Mother s room told her of the incident and both women began screaming. The Man fled and neighbors hearing the screams called police. Police found entry had been joined to the Home by cutting screen on the Back door and releasing the Latch from inside. The inner door had been left Ipen for ventilation. J the wanted Man is described As being 22 to 24 years old with j a slim build five feet eight or j nine inches tall clean shaven with Black hair. J he was reported wearing a rust coloured suede jacket with i marked Brown knitted cuffs and Collar a White shirt no tie and White and Black running shoes. Pipe band concert the Queen s own Cameron ipe band and the fort Garry horse militia will perform to Ether for the. First time at lower fort Garry sunday from 30 to 5 ;