Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday. June 13, 1974 researchers frustrated want out Only have enough funding for their work but also be Given All the work space and tech Nical facilities they could Ever Hope to find mrs. Blum has formed a lobby group to pressure the provincial government into an immediate decision regarding the expansion of the cancer foundation b u i 1 Al i n g at 700 Bannatyne Avenue. The group Many of its members Are victims of cancer As mrs. Blum is staged a support demonstration for or. Israels cancer research team in front of the Manitoba legislative building wednes Day afternoon. John Campbell personal assistant to progressive conservative Leader Sidney Spivak Anil d. M. Mcgregor pc Virden met with the 50 demonstrators who complained of government irresponsibility in dragging its feet on the cancer Centre and risking an exodus of scientists we need right Here in the demonstrators then spoke to health minister Saul Liller of Manitoba who joined them on the Steps of the legis lature about 25 minutes after their arrival. He spent almost an hour discussing their grievances with them. In an i n t e r v i e w later. Or. Miller said yes 1 heard them out and familiarized my self with their problem. But there is no answer. There was no outcome. Many of these women Are victims of cancer and they naturally want a cure if possible a sure fire and rapid cure which we cannot give them no matter How much Money we spend or. Miller said. He was not Able to assure either the delegation or the Manitoba cancer treatment and re search foundation that expansion plans will go ahead immediately without reference to the Survey and priority study now under the minister said he told the demonstrators that the govern ment is faced with All kinds of High priorities for those who Advance them. The cause of heart disease is High priority too. A children s psychiatric Centre is High priority and so is an improvement in facilities for respiratory disease treat men. They Are All Correct when they say their needs must be met. But How much can Mani Loba take the world the cancer research team of tar. Israels is highly respected or. Miller said. Of would not like to see them leave Manitoba hut at the same time we cannot say the pressure is on let s go ahead with the project and ignore the rest of the health sciences Centre to do that would prejudice the Survey of future priorities for the health sciences Centre which is now in Progress am which is to determine wha magnitude of funding is to be forthcoming after Origina plans for million were so aside for the time being and Only million was immediately approved he said. The minister said he assure the demonstrators that the sur icy team will be in touch wit the cancer research team ii the near future to hear an discuss their concerns. After they aired their com plaints the demonstrator crowded into the Public Gall re to listen to proceedings in the legislature. Questioned b y m r Spiva during the afternoon session o the legislature Premier e Schreyer said he has receive about 650 letters and Telegram asking for provincial Aid i expanding the cancer re scarce facility. The Premier said he did t believe the province was pro ceding any differently this car than in former years in he allocation of medical re Earch Money or that any pro i n c i a 1 gov ornament actions Lave resulted in a smaller mount than Normal being pent on cancer research. He indicated thai there s always a problem in allotting Ovorn mint medical Money with meeting the Cupec Lions and desires of those Vith an interest in the Field. Not Only cancer researchers vant More Money but so do re archers in the muscular Dys r o p h y cystic fibrosis and ther Fields. Or. Schreyer suggested that he most advisable Way to pro ced with the cancer found Ion s pressure for More funds would be a meeting involving or. Miller and the Board of he health sciences Centre. If a request for such a meeting were made he said Lere would be no government attempt to resist it or. Miller also questioned y or. Spivak. Told the Legisla ure that it is not up to the provincial government whether not upgraded cancer re search facilities should be a priority at the health sciences Centre. That is up to the health sciences Centre itself he said and so far the Centre has not h d i c a t e d to the Manitoba i e a 11 h services commission Hal this is a priority Horn. He said the last major study of the advisability of expand no the cancer research facility was done in 1968 and was called the Hamilton and in did not recommend it As a major priority. For the latest study of the matter or. Miller said two highly knowledgeable people Lave been imported to work Wilh health sciences Centre personnel to rationalize and Iri Orize the program Bolh of construction and the services o be rendered in the health minister said the capital Cost of the expansion would be Only a Small part of to ongoing costs and would h cely be exceeded in two years operating costs from such terns As equipment and Man Power. Or. Israels confirmed wednesday the reports that members of the cancer Leam night be moving. The a Ellers Wilh the Job offers Are on our people s desk s right he identified the three major scion lists and principal investigators involved in the offers .0 move elsewhere As himself or. William Hryniuk an Assis ant professor of Medicine at he University of Manitoba and or. Gerald Goldenberg who is also a professor and director of research for the Ancer foundation. The plans to move were cussed As recently As tuesday night and again wednesday morning or. Israels said. The fact that this team is still Inlall now after All these delays in a decision about the future of this Centre is mainly due to the fact thai we All like to slay in Winnipeg have on heritage Here As Well As oui families and i israels said. At the same time it is be coming increasingly difficult i be patient in the face of on expansion freeze Afler another one future planning Surve Afler another and in in face of the uncertainty Abou our future work Here that Goe with major medical centres ii the United slates have Bee after the Winnipeg Talent cancer research for a numb of years. When or. Israels re Civ cd an offer to move to the United states nine years ago at double his Winnipeg salary and turned the offer Down because in preferred to stay with his earn the University in ques on proposed to hire the entire roup at twice their pay. Alter considerable soul searching the dentists still decided not to Lake the move v what would happen if Del israels or. Goldenberg and r. Hryniuk were to leave it would probably Lead to and 11 i o n a i or. Israels said. I think it s fair to say that a nicer treatment and invest gallon activity Here would be it Back by at least 10 mrs. Blum in front of the legislative building said we just not let that happen. The Cople of Manitoba need these doors Here. Those of us who have Nancei need them. The Leople who Don t have cancer vill some Day develop it and Aen they will need All the help and treatment science can and hould provide for them. The Manitoba government is Rigling its responsibility in in Field of health care for the eople by not taking any action n a decision to expand cancer treatment and research facile one woman in the group of demonstrators told or. Mcgregor cancer is the worst killer disease now. One of four Cana lians get it. Two of four who it it die from or. Israels who did not Dis what he refers to As the urgent need for expansion or he threat of resignations from he cancer foundation until after the formation of the Plum lobby said half the Money for urgently needed and i i t i o n a 1 treatment and re Earch space in the Bannatyne Avenue building is already available from private funds we Are talking in terms of 1.5 million. Through donations and special bequests we have in Cash now so that s Money which would not have o come from the people of he said. As for the other half of the Money both or. Israels and everal members of the dem stration group said it is mailable from the Federal gov rement s health resources und which was established by Ottawa several years ago on o n d i t i o n that per capita calculated provincial Alloca ions be matched provincially before they Are released. All the government Here has to do is say to Ottawa Okay you can Send the Cash of. W be got our portion in he mrs. Blum said. Set up by an act of Parlia ment in july of 1966 and de signed to provide capital expenditure funds until 1980, the led Cral health resources fund set aside Lump sums for the Atlantic provinces and of projects of National signify Ance before distributing the rest to the non maritime prov inces. Manitoba s allocation unde the per capita formula came t million. Officials Al the Manitoba health services com Mission say about million of the Money has nol Beer planned for so far. As for the cancer foundation building or. Israels Sai wednesday thai the need is of an immediate expansion h two floors with another thre floors to follow later. The expansion would bring the Cance foundation b u i 1 d i n g to flu floors above ground and to below ground. Eventually the foundation would be a seven Storey building not including two subterranean floors. We be been subject to fund ing freezes twice now and no c Are told that the govern Lent has appointed Early this two experts who Aro to tudy the future plans and u n c 11 o n s of the health sciences Centre of which the Manitoba cancer treatment and research foundation is an most full fledged this new study will take bout another year. Then hey la Tell us what they think and if we get the Green Light it ill take another year for plan ing procedures before con traction or. Israels Aid. If Only the government Ould let us know just where be stand regarding the future. Once we re Lold we will accept 10 decision whatever it right now there Are 12 members in the principal re Earch team of or. Israels. In did tin five graduate Stu ends work Wilh the team As o four senior research t flows ail of them doctors in heir own right. They Are sup arled by a technical Back up earn of 26. Total staff of the foundation lands at 130. The annual Bud Jet for their support is 51.5 Lillion not counting in Grants from Canadian and . Sources. Women injured in fire e Middle Kasl. Egyptians ran alongside the waving and dancing to Reet the two presidents. Dec Atic throngs chanted Long be Sadat hero of the Cross a of die Suez Long be Nuon far Flora the troubles watergate smiled and avid to the thousands in Xandria who crowded on Ilc onies and rooftops to cheer continued everything just blew out up Here on top i be seen a to if demolition explosions am hat sure looked like one another five seconds and i d Lave been under or. Montgomery said thai he was walking by the Imperia 3ank of Commerce located be Side the Adams store and saw All that Glass coming Lown. Then 1 saw those two ladies and i screamed at them t ook out and they ducked the were right under the can Opy of the store bul they stil Bot Hurt from the falling Glas All the people were s stunned. They just stood then looking like they were ii Shock. And then the people started getting curious and hat was really great. Trying to keep them away because 1 thought i might explode the would t the explosion was the Resul of smoke and gases rising t the top of the building a fir department spokesman said. When the blast occurred i sprayed Glass on to the Side walk and across the six Lane of Portage Avenue. It in known whether any cars War damaged by falling Glass. The fire department spokes Man said the fire which a reported about ., a brought under control by the department Weihu us hour. Fire damages was confine to the third floor Alth nug smoke and water damage a spread throughout the store. The spokesman said that the reason the fire did t spread i other floors was because if a really fire resistant building a really Good cause of the Blaze is Bein investigated by the province fire commissioner s office b the fire is believed to hav started in some mattresses o the third floor. Millions cheer Nixon most entirely on a settlement of the palestinian question. There is no other solution on the Road to a durable he said. The egyptian Leader said Nixon s visit signifies a change in the traditional american policy of virtually unqualified support for Israel. We Welcome this change with All its political and psychological h c said. Nixon in his response gave no answer to the bid for sup port of the palestinians. He said i did not come with ready made solutions for these Complex problems some of which go Back Over Many years and which require concentrated and probably lengthy efforts to overcome. However he pledged that the United states will play a positive role in finding a Solu Tion. Nixon saying the throng was Horine deep affection for All mar icons promised to join adat in building an Era of based on Public and private . Aid. Talking with reporters As the special train rolled through the Countryside from Cairo Sadat Aid i want you to Tell the Amer an people that the most Natu Al thing is for us to be Nixon and Sadat sat on the pen end of a Century old Oach once used by Khedive is mail who opened the Suez anal. An american helicopter ruled Over the train and ome egyptian troops Ere deployed along the route primarily to keep the surging Irons off the tracks. Egyptian Security agents predicted As Many As 10 Mil on persons would turn out to be the Flag decked 13-car As it moved through the Ertile Nile Delta to the ancient Ort the greeks founded on the Mediterranean. Nixon and Sadat were re axed and obviously enjoying in Clear weather enthusiastic roads and Happy children running alongside the train. Following their mid afternoon arrival Nixon and Sadat were o talk at the has Al tin pal be. Then president and mrs. 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