Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break by Alexander foot Robert the Bruce was a russian and this comes from Andrew Bruce Earl of Elgin and Kincardine a direct descendant of one of history s greatest heroes. Well anyway the Bruce family originally came from Central Russia the Earl was Here to address the 101st annual feed of the St. Andrew s society of Winnipeg on tuesday and proved a charming witty Man. Eve. Or. Tom Saunders introduced the speaker and noted the eighth Earl of Eglin a progressive governor general of Canada was stoned and Rotten egged on the streets of what s so unusual the lord asked later. I be often been stoned in the ear is scottish to the Core noting that in Winnipeg the newspaper was called the Winnipeg free press. That s a lie. Mine Cost me 15 the alleged tight fist Edness of the Scot was reflected during the dinner when prof. A s. R. Tweedie read greetings from societies around the world Lumbar has not this year and after naming a number of societies from English centres noted there were no greetings from god s own country even Aberdeen has he said then added but i hear postal rates have gone and during the dinner a Man from one table sent a Metal Case indicating an expensive Cigar within to a Friend at another table. It was opened and a single cigarette fell out. But it was All Good fun and for one night those of us who usually Aren t scots were. From Boac news Breezy House Organ of the British airline Patricia Palmer s Holiday turned into a Nightmare on the flight from Winnipeg to St. Minn. Her 70 year old husband John suddenly collapsed unconscious As the aircraft touched Down. Instead of r-flie_45rmlriute wait for another aircraft Attiat she had Patricia had to sit through four dreadful Days at the Hospital before her husband was Over the worst. Then came weeks of recovery and at. The end of it All a by for. Or. Palmer had suffered a massive attack of pneumonia with a blood clot forming in his leg and gangrene setting in necessitating amputation of part of his leg. But that enormous Bill is , nagging worry. And one that will be with her. For a Long Long time. The palmers had taken out travel insurance but that s Only a few Hundred now mrs. Palmer Hopes that her experience will Alert others to hazards of travel in countries without health schemes. Murphy s passed on by of Charlie the upwind trapper 1 in any Field of scientific Endeavor anything that can go wrong will go wrong. 2 left to themselves tilings always go from bad to worse. 3 if there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will go wrong is the one that will do the most damage. 4 nature always sides with the hidden flaw. 5 _ of everything seems to be going Well you have obviously overlooked something. Winnipeg free press Usa local Ovid Sias moving for free Esti or brochure 786-6081 Friday december 3, 1971 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Auila Van us would up earnings individuals receiving City of Winnipeg welfare assistance will be Able to earn up to a month without any deduction from their welfare cheques under regulations recommended to City Council thursday by civic health and welfare com Mittee. The earning limit now is a month. Committee voted to recommend the increased limit at the request of welfare director r. H. C. Hopper. Or. Hopper said this would serve As an incentive to people on welfare to go out to earn some Money without the fear of losing welfare benefits. St James Assiniboia already has a earning limit any Money a welfare recipient receives in excess of the monthly limit would be deducted from is welfare benefits. The regulation which would be retroactive to dec. 1, will go before City Council dec. 13. New Winnipeg act called flexible this is some of the steel framework which is going up for the St. Boniface Cathedral. The Cathedral will incorporate the facade of the old Basilica which was destroyed by fire in 1968. The new building is conceived at a religious Temple rising out of the ruins of the old Basilica according to Parish administrators. Archaic. Dollar foolish by Paul Nimchyn the Manitoba health services commission has been archaic in its dispersal of according to Elswood Bole a trustee of the St. Vital Hospital. Speaking to a seminar on financial management at the an Nual Manitoba health Confer ence Here on thursday or. Bole charged that the health services commission has been Penny Wise and Dollar or. Bole executive director of metro told the sem Inar the commission has failed to look at changes in the Field of health services and instead has taken a pure accountant s View i Don t think the provincial government been very however or. Bole added that he has seen a change in the operations of the commission during the past five months since d. H. Crofford took Over As executive director. He also warned the seminar attended mainly by Hospital administrators that health care costs Are growing so rap idly that the taxpayer is soon going to run out of he linked part of the blame for rising costs to the health commission and said that be cause of the commission s method of h a n d i n g out hospitals were often clinical pharmacists need great meet told weather report morning bulletin tin forecast i 6 vwg00w Hospital pharmacists must get out of the dispensary and on to the Hospital floors Jack Blackburn president of the Ca Nadian society of Hospital pharmacists said thursday. There is a great need for Clin ical pharmacists in hospitals he the Manitoba health con Ference thursday night also he said the training and education of pharmacists at the universities should place an emphasis on practical prob lems while at the same time giving the students intensive clinical experience. Both these suggestions must be sold to physicians nurses governments and other health care services or. Blackburn said. All pharmacists should be in patient care service As much As possible. The general Hospital pharmacist should t wait until a clinical pharmacist is the general Hospital pharmacist should go on to the wards he said. In Many cases the phar the smell but not pot ent an incense that smells like burning marijuana a pot party with the smell but no pot it May be just around the Corner. Delegates attending the Manitoba health conference in the Centennial concert Han were told thursday that a pin has been Deve loped which gives off the sickly Sweet smell of boning marijuana Beu it is ignited. Presumably the Piffl is de signed to help acquaint per sons with the smell of the burning drug so they can identify it if they come across it at present the Piffl is available through fee pro Vitial coordinator of the drug Aad of cobol Edo cation services Brand of the Manitoba department of health Abd social devel Praest. It is one of 3 series of for we is Een filled. Council has assigned several administrators to Start process ing applications for the positions of chief commissioner and commissioners of finance environment and works and opera t i o n s applications closed wednesday. The seminar was the first time a majority of the 50 Cen trial City councillors have had an Opportunity to get together to direct questions at the consultants who helped draft the legislation under which they must work. Winnipeg civic health and welfare committee thursday approved an amendment to the Winnipeg poultry bylaw which would allow students at the St. John s boys school in Selkirk to sell chickens door to door in. The City. The bylaw As it now stands prohibits such sales the recommendation which now goes before City Council would allow the Sale of poultry door to door if it has first been approved by a Feder Al government meat inspector. The chickens which the St. John s students sell Are raised at the school and Are regularly checked by Federal inspectors City medical health officer or. Roper g. Cadham told commit tee. The school along with other individuals and groups has been Selling chickens in the City door to door for some time. However a problem came to Light earlier this week when some chickens sold in the City in this manner were found to be diseased. These diseased chickens were not being sold by the students of St. John s school said or. Cadham. Theirs is a Good he said. He said that even though the school had been acting against the City bylaw no charges have been Laid because the chickens Are government inspected and Are Safe. However Tom Gougeon the school s comptroller said in an interview that Sale of the Chic kens has been suspended until he bylaw is amended. Or. Gougeon appeared before committee in support of his school s position. Scare technique on drugs hit radio station sky has been severely criticized by a local youth worker for its recent air no of a series of canned pre recorded expose Type Broad arts on drug abuse. The criticism was expressed thursday by mrs. Yhetta Gold special project Secretary for the Community welfare planning Council during an address to delegates attending the Mani Oba health conference at the Centennial concert Hall. Mrs. Gold who works Exten sively with youth in the greater Winnipeg area has had consid Erable experience with the Woolems arising from drug abuse by Young people in this Rea. She said thursday that she seriously questioned the Rele Vancy of the series of bread arts to the local scene since it was purchased by the radio Sta Ion in co operation with a local ervice club from a source out Ide this area. So Sepety aft is fee we3sfc jmj during the time that the series was on we spoke con stantly to the radio station and expressed our concern about its relevance to Winnipeg and about the technique that was referring to a scare tech Nique Type of format for the series mrs. Gold said it really frightened a lot of parents locally and led them to expose their kids to some very humiliating but while the broadcasts May have frightened parents it failed to have any real effect on local Young people the youth worker said. The reaction of the local youth Community was to just Tarn it off. The comment of the kids who were lumped into classrooms and told to listen was that it was a great period in which to get your Homework done. The reaction of Yonng people who were considering experimentation was that it was no alternative at mrs. Gold said that if the Best Type of education is the kind that makes it possible for Young people to make choices by looking at a the alternatives then project seventies As a series did not come up to that Standard. My concern is expressed about this Type of program be cause it is Public and receives a Large amount of mosey which i feel maybe could be spent better in this Comyn Writy for drag be said the provincial department of health is at present slowly buying some exc Euest j films on drag abase for docs it anal use in Manitoba bet these if cos Are very expensive and of coarse govera Freais cited of Owen mrs. Gom said a Good Way to Speed Rickey As is trash Fig 5ar Cowk pesos. Are areas to Sre respire a Jot of 3o 31 is Las. I of Etas be ;