Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday october 5, 1973 drunk treatment facilities expand 19 by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter treatment facilities for Alco holies at he health science Centre will reach its full 40-bed capacity within the next two months As an additional dozen intermediate Range Ireat men Beds receive their first patients. The Beds in space now being renovated for them on us Sec Ond floor of the former Winnipeg psychiatric Institute on Emily Street will double the capacity of intermediate Rangi treatment space to 24. Patients will receive three weeks of in Tensive medical psychiatric and social service care am preparation for their release into the Community and into new lives. Officially known As the chemical withdrawal unit of sciences Centre the treatment area also has 16 acute medical detox cation Beds ii the main floor of the building which have been operational since late last Winter. Or. Gordon Lamberd director of clinical psychiatry at the Hospital Sald inter View thursday Only the. Most complicated 10 per cent of acute alcoholics will soon be admitted to the acute unit As the main Street project opens a Logan Avenue 40-bed sub acute drying out Alco Holics. The unit will also be staffed by nurses As the chem ical withdrawal unit is but wit treat patients with few if any medical complications. The acute medical withdraw Al area of the health Centre has admitted patients since it became operational said or. Lamberd. How about half of them have been in the unit More than once is Between 50 and 60 of the patients have had four admissions or total number of admissions to More than How Many Winnipeg alcohol its have actually been dried out for Good since the unit opened we can t say because we Don t have any information on said or. Lambert. " Pat one thing patients whom we Don t see again for a number of months might be admitted to the unit tomorrow for a we however there is Clear Evi Dence that the detox cation program of the health Centre is working for numerous alcoholics or. Lamberd added. A number of unit counsellors themselves rehabilitated alcoholics and former patients formed an alcoholics Anonymous group and named it the Green band group after the plastic identification Brace lets patients at the health sciences Centre receive upon admission. Some of the weekly meetings the a group have attracted As Many As 100 persons said the psychiatrist. As Well a drop in Centre has been arranged in the basement of the Emily Street building to lend additional support to Alco Holics trying to stay away from liquor. It is staffed by counsellors and orderlies from the chemical withdrawal unit during its evening operating pm Recap trucks Oshawa ont. Up Gen eral motors of Canada Ltd. Announced thursday the recall about Chevrolet and Gumc t r u c k s to Correct possible steering defects. The company said severe stress on the 1973 half ton and three Quarter ton four wheel drive trucks May result in a loosening of the steering gear attaching bolts. Owners will receive registered letters notifying them of the recall within the next few Days. General motors corp. Of de troit is recalling about tracks and 850 motor Homes. Hours with most of the attendants donating some of their off duty hours without pay. Or. Lamberd said a group of scientists has applied for a Grant from the medical re search Council to carry out an investigation on the effects of continued alcohol consumption on the blood forming organs of the body. Once approved the project will involve Haematology its and specialists in internal medi Cine or. Lamberd said. Some of the negative effects of liquor particularly on the liver Are already known. What investigators want to learn now has More to do with organ1, fib formalities and How they establish themselves. Or. Lamberd said an evaluation study on the effectiveness of the three week treatment program for the alcoholics admitted to the intermediate care unit is under Way. The study will show How effective the three week treat ment course is in keeping Alco Holics Day. Cases studied will be compared with those of patients who received Only acute treatment in the 16-bed, Short term detox cation Section of the new department. A different Model is Avail Able every tuesday and thurs Day at the Winnipeg sketch club and members appreciate the work of the Model con veners who try for a variety o faces costumes and poses. Thursday sept. 27, found Randy Morrison 14, a Grade 8 student at Earl Grey school posing in his night Hawk boy scout uniform. At least one o his badges must have been Foi proficiency As a free press Carrier for this is one of his Many activities. As the artists worked Randy was impressed by the Render Ings of Ruth Chernick Dorothey Vasey Muriel King and a Delaine Mcguigan. Tuesday oct. 2 was Quick sketch night and members swung into action with Char Coal Pencil or pen As the ath Letic Young Model stepped into the spotlight. He was Danny Meyer Badminton pro at the Winnipeg Canoe club and a re cent arrival from Calgary. The artists worked quickly to catch the form of the serve the Clear the Small and the drop shots which he so ably held ii Stop. Action. His Choice was work by Len Sandeman and Bernice Sutton. Next week a is promised. Vibrant Model . Satellite will link two universities by Jeff Carru tigers free press correspondent Ottawa an experimental communications satellite being built by Canada will bring a new twist to correspondence courses acid education Televik Siori for students at Carleton University Here and Stanford University in California. The communications technology Satel Ite cts will to relay Elevi cd courses offered Ai Stanford University to students at Carleton University and i versa. And the televised mostly advanced courses engineering courses will be interactive hat is two Way so that the students can ask questions and lie professor can answer. With Luck students at each f the universities will even be Able to get course credits for he courses normally Only of ered at the other Campus. Making it All possible will be he advanced cts satellite a Voiht venture of Canada he. . The satellite is scheduled to be launched in ate 1975., the actual satellite College courses would be offered Dur no the 1976-77 academic year. There would be two hours courses per Day five Days a Veek during two terms. One hour of the satellite in traction will be devoted to experimenting with various types if two Way television program Ming to see which ones Are lest an electronic Cpl age with a campus1 stretching Miles across the1 Conti ent. The cts will relay two Way television signals Between mall eight foot dish antennas t each University. . National aeronautics and will be the special equipment to now the two Way television signals to be relayed on less than a full television Type satellite Channel and to be received by the Small dish1 Ahten care without consent Saskatoon up some doctors break the Law daily by treating 16 a n d 17-year-Olds without prior parental consent because they think it is in their patients Best interests says or. Bill Davis president of the Saskatchewan medical association. Physicians tried unsuccessfully to persuade the legis lature to lower the medical age of majority to 16 from 18. Public notice on saturday october 6, 73 bargains leaders in discount clothing offer Al Carleton University the satellite education Experiment is being arranged by the government supported wired City communications facility. Run by the engineering faculty the experimental facility has been testing a number of different techniques of using television and two Way or More Complex systems for communications and education the satellite University Experiment will Only be one of a number of communications experiments being planned for the cts satellite. For example there will be several experimental link ups Between Remote Northern communities and Southern bring medical advice live into the North. Meanwhile the cts pro Gram being managed by Ottawa is running into More prob lems and facing the possibility of further increases in budget. Negotiations o n the final stage of the construction con tract for the satellite have been stalled for months be tween officials of the communications department and the prime contractor Ria Ltd. Of government officials Are now considering stopping All flow of Money-to1 Ria if a contract in t settled by the end of the year. Ria reportedly is asking i or More Money than is in the almost budget. There continue to be minor technical problems including the possibility that the satellite design May be overweight and therefore have to be modified and the fact that there Are problems with dissipating heat from some of the satellite equipment. Seed Harvest rises l Buenos Aires Argen Tina s 1973 Sunflower seed crop is estimated at metric tons up from tons in 1972. U of w publishing Board requested the president of the univer sity of Winnipeg student coun cil Don Lidstone would like to see an Independent publishing Board established at the University. As last year s editor of the u n i t e r a University news paper or. Lidstone said he realized there was potential autocratic executive control outlined in Council s Constitution. A proposal to remove that potential is before Council. Should the proposal be accepted coun cil would no longer have the Power to determine what goes into print. Or. Lidstone said the Poten tial has been used i the past but it has been the policy not to abuse the Power. Controls would be placed in the hands of the Board which would be expected to guide those under its influence towards responsible publications. However the Board would be unable to censor delete or in Sert material. Its influence would arise from monetary allotments and the Power to Ter Minate printing of further irresponsible publications. Another Means of maintaining control would be Given. They would be Able to fire editors. Or. Lidstone said he believed establishment of such a Board would Best serve the Stu dents interests. He said there would be less tendency to exer Cise a biased control for an in dependent Board than a coun cil. Council s Only Contact wit i publications and the Board would come at the beginning of the year when the Board s Bud get would be presented he said. Possible retention of Council controls through failure to Allol sufficient funds for the Board to operate at the beginning of the year would also be dealt with. An additional percentage to supplement the Board s Bud get would be Given to account for unforeseen expenses. Council would once that Money runs out be Able to allot or refuse More funds. Although the uniter would Benefit most in that it would be directly represented on the Board other publications such As photography Vox yearbook and the student Telephone directory would also come under its jurisdiction. The proposed Board would be made up of seven members. Two of six elected members would also serve on Council while the former editor of the uniter would be considered an automatic appointment. The two serving on Council would Bej expected to provide the Liaison Between Council and the Board during the year. Or. Lidstone said he would appoint a substitute from this year s Utiler if the Board is established this year. He wanted Council to be a separate entity from publications and As president it would not be the Case if he took the appoint ment he said. Scientists Bug geese Davis Calif. A University of California scientists Are undertaking a real wild Goose Chase using electronically bugged geese who go beep As Well As honk the idea is to find out what gives these Canada geese their uncanny navigational skills in their annual 600-mile Migra Tion. They always Start from the same spol in South Cen trial Manitoba and Fly to Rochester minn., said or. Dennis Raveling a wildlife biologist at the University s Davis Campus. Two dozen geese have been harnessed with Liny Battery powered radio transmitters. When the geese Lake off for their annual Lale Sunier flight southward radio signals will be traced by graduate students Michael Wege and Robert Mclandress. They la be zipping along the route in a Small truck equipped with an array of antennae. Wage and Mclandress Are in Manitoba now waiting for the geese to take off Raveling said. The broadcasting geese also Wear color coded plastic neck bands which Raveling put on them Between 1968-70. They were trapped to Aid the transmitters. A study of the migration of the banded geese gave re searchers the past history of these Raveling the Moon s orbit around the Earlh moves out into space about one foot every 40 years. Said in an interview this week. What we want to do now is Analyse the course they take in relation to landmarks Star patterns and the position of the Sun to find out what clues they use to find their he said. Raveling1 said the transmit ters have a Range of about three Miles on the ground. Once they re in the air he Hopes the geese will be Able to broadcast for up to 50 Miles because there will be fewer obstructions. The batteries should be Good for 10 to 12 time to repeat the tracking when the Birds leave Minnesota for the Spring flight Back to Canada he said. Boy shot reaching for toy gun Detroit a a toy gun was found on the body of a 14 year old boy who was shot to death thursday by police who said the boy appeared to e reaching for a weapon Asle fled the scene of a purse snatching. Three policemen said they chased Glenn Smith after they saw him strike an elderly Itoman with his fist steal her purse and run. The policemen said they yelled for the youth to halt but be continued running. They said the youth reached for something in his Belt and one of the policemen fired a shot which the boy in the Chest. Gettin tothe Eastern Usa the easy Way. Simple. 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