Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Cutyne is in trains. Big warm Friendly. Thursday october 28, 1976 2nd class a registration number 0296 mining mishaps Down Green flin flon Man. Staff the Accident rate so far this year in the Manitoba mining Industry has been reduced by eight per cent mines minister Sidney Green told 100 management and Union representatives of the Industry at the Start of a two Day safety seminar Here wednesday. The minister said there were nine fatalities last year in the province s total mining operations compared with four so far in 1976. Statically there is an in p r o v e m e n t but we need meetings of this kind to look objectively at Why accidents occur and How they can be avoided. I think last year s seminar did help us accept one another s positions in re lation to he said Industry Union government representatives should look at their own failures not the other parties contributing to avoid Able accidents. This is a principle that works Well in Auto safety programs and i think it could help i will personally be ask ing myself this he said. Other speakers included j. D. Russell director of the Manitoba mining engineering and inspection Branch Barry Davey of the Ontario depart ment of natural resources at Elliot Lake Art Coulter re presenting the Manitoba federation of labor and Steven Harapiak vice president of the Manitoba mining. Association. Teacher group flays trustees on Aib Appeal the Amy Street steam Plant shown As it was in 1952, might be switched to garbage fuel to heat the civic Centre garbage could heat the civic Centre by Debbie Sproat Winnipeg s garbage May be used to heat the civic Centre and other downtown buildings if a study now under Way finds it feasible. The study commissioned jointly by Federal provincial and local governments is an attempt to find a cure for ailments in the Amy Street steam Plant and a use for tons of garbage the City produces annually. It is also part of an Effort to examine District heating As an alternative to individual furnaces in Homes and businesses. Under the District heating system heat is generated in a Central boiler Plant using waste material fuel or nuclear Energy Bypro ducts. George Bowman assistant Deputy minister of economic planning of Manitoba said the study was necessary be cause the steam Plant was old expensive to operate and could t expand because of nearby buildings. If using garbage to Gener ate heat is feasible he said the next consideration will be Amy Street is a Sui table location for the incinerator Plant. Garbage trucks moving in and out of the Plant might cause downtown congestion he said. The first work on the study was done by Grels Berg a swedish consultant who had worked with District heating systems in his own country. Or. Berg was in Winnipeg wednesday to speak to a seminar on District heating sponsored by the swedish Trade commission. They wanted me to make Short study about the possibility of District heating in pr6vincial, student gifts Down u of m project financing drops by Esther Tennenhouse anticipated student and government support for the University of Manitoba s pro posed million sports Centennial pro e c t failed to materialize wednesday and the sports Arena May have to be drop Ped. The project May have to be reassessed after continuing education minister Ben Han Schalf said the province would Supply Only million instead of the million re Quested Ray Mcquade chairman of the University Board of governors said wednesday. Or. Mcquade Learned of the wednesday Cabinet Deci Sion night shortly after the University of Manitoba Stu Swine flu shots in 2 weeks ready mass vaccinations against Swine influenza now Are expected to Start throughout Manitoba within two weeks. Or. John Waters the provincial government s Deputy epidemiologist said today sufficient vaccine should have arrived in the province by mid november to Start immunizing All High risk groups. The province s tech Nical advisory committee on infectious disease control had designated the h i g h r i s k groups earlier this year. The committee is scheduled to meet again in Winnipeg Early next week after the return to the City of or. Emanuel Snell the prov Ince s director of preventive medical services who is in Ottawa this week to meet with the Federal govern ment s National advisory committee o n immunizing agents. The National committee this week recommended a. Go ahead for provincial government plans to protect cer Tain groups against Swine influenza. In Manitoba this Means vaccinations will be available to everyone with heart Dis ease chronic lung conditions chronic kidney diseases Dia betes and other serious metabolic disorders. Elderly Manitoban h o live in institutions such As nursing Homes or hospitals Are also scheduled to receive the vaccinations. Nobody will be forced to take the shot of course. This is entirely for a person s own Protection and by not taking the injection a person does not endanger the rest of the Community in the or. Waters said. The vaccine is bivalent giving Protection against a Victoria Type influenza which was rampant through out North America last year As Well As against a new Jersey Type influenza commonly referred to As Swine flu. The authorities All agree that the main thing is to get a vaccine into those at particular risk that will protect them against or. Waters said. We know a Victoria is around and will hit again but we Haven t had a single confirmed Case of Swine flu since fort Dix new Jersey last d r. Waters said health authorities throughout Canada expect this year to be a late influenza year be cause of the growing Community wide immunity against a Victoria influenza. And while influenza usually does t become apparent until about mid january this Winter it could Middle of february before cases Are confirmed. About 40 per cent of the North american population had a Victoria influenza last Winter or. Walters said. This Means it will take the Sims a longer time to take hold this As Well he said the Cana Dian Prairies Are usually four to six weeks later than any other North american Juris diction in confirming influenza cases. Vaccine Protection against influenza begins about two weeks after injection or. Waters said. Dent Union Council voted against raising a half million Dollar donation for the Cen Tennial project. The Council was told the motion which missed the two thirds approval needed by one vote could be reconsidered at a future meeting. Or. Hanuschak said after a Cabinet meeting that the University would have to de cide whether the Money is to be used towards one or both of the projects. The minister said the government had used a two for Orie Matching formula to de Termine its Grant and this will be the formula followed for Centennial projects re Quested by other universities in the province. The minister said the contributions would be on the understanding that the projects would be vetted by the universities Grants commis Sion. In an interview following the student vote or. Mcquade said he hoped the Stu Dent Union would reconsider the donation which under the University s proposal would have carried with it a million Cost sharing Grant from the province. He said later he had not heard about the Cabinet Deci Sion. I Don t feel i can com ment until i talk to the min he said. But if it s True it would mean we d certainly have to reassess the Centennial project particularly in the Light of the Umsu the student Union i Don t feel we can go and ask the Community and corporate sector to support it if the students Don the motion the students rejected called for approval in principle of a Dona Tion to be raised through Stu Dent fee increases of no More than a year levied on the fort Garry Campus. Council was told Umsu s total donation principal plus interest would be about million Over the next 22 or 23 years. The University Centre is costing a total million for a million 20-year loan currently financed by of the Stu Dent fee charge students criticized the to 1.ion for various reasons stressing two during the three hour discussion. One was that student Union support of the project which includes a Library addition would be a precedent for Stu Dent funding of capital build ing projects properly the responsibility of government. We Don t feel students should have to be taxed to pay for their own Bob go Wenlock said speaking for graduate students. The government allowed it the Library to get into its deplorable condition and they should other students opposed parts of the motion which said the student donation would be made Only if the Complex is planned to pro vide for concert seating Good acoustics a daycare Centre a jogging track and student participation in management. Commerce representatives said the Commerce student Council opposed the motion because the extra facilities were while some students worried about Lack of guarantees that the riders would be Hon ored others wanted to know How expensive the extra facilities would be. To build and maintain and if they would Render the project financially unfeasible. The gut reaction is we do need the project sports a Law students representative said. But per haps we re trying to do too much for too Little perhaps we should postpone Winnipeg on a Large scale with hot water As a medium i found there was great he said. Heat would be produced in bulk at a Central boiler Plant and moved by hot water to individual Homes or Busin esses through underground pipe. The water could be used both to heat the build Ings and for washing. Or. Berg said installing the system on a City wide scale in Winnipeg would Cost about million. It would t Likely break even for five years but would make a profit after 10, he said. Manitoba Industry minister Leonard Evans told these Minar s luncheon that District Healing was not new to Winnipeg. Three District heating plants were phased out in the mid-60 s when Nat ural Gas became competitively priced he said. Now with the Price of conventional fuels soaring it s time to look at expanding the District heating system in Winnipeg and establish such systems in other Urban the swedish delegation conducting the seminar is on a five Day sweep through Canada. Its members representing companies making District heating equipment Hope to sell the idea to Cana Dian governments and Indus tries. Delegation chairman Ake von Sydon said the Basic advantage of the system was Energy conservation. You satisfy your requirements in a Community for heat and Power in a More efficient trapping discussion leg hold traps live trap Ping and trapping in general will be discussed during a meeting of Greenpeace Winnipeg at . Nov. 1 in the planetarium auditorium. Prof. Charles Bennett of the University of Manitoba an opponent of trapping will be the main speaker. Or. Ken Doan director of wildlife and fisheries in the Manitoba department of renewable resources will offer the government s View Way compared to the meth ods of heating houses with boilers in each it also benefits the Environ ment he said because it is feasible to provide filters and other anti pollution devices for a Large boiler. In Sweden there s been some remarkable examples of improvement to the envy or. Von Sydon said. District heating also cuts Down on the number of trucks needed for transport ing the fuel he said. Or. Von Sydon said if heat is generated in sufficiently Large quantities Power is produced As a by product. District heating is used on a limited scale in North America with steam rather than water As a courier. There is no doubt however that water is the Superior Means to carry the or. Von Sydon said and in fact the Only one when there is a question of Long in Sweden District heating has been used for about 25 years he said. Three million of Sweden s eight million people either live or work in buildings with District heat ing. In the City of vast eras 97 per cent of the Homes Are heated this Way. District heating is also widely used in other scandinavian countries and in Eastern Europe. By Robert Willaard Manitoba school trustees Are using the Federal anti inflation Board to Cut teacher pay raises even beyond the intent of the anti inflation program a spokesman for the Manitoba teachers society charged wednesday. Ralf Kyritz the society s first vice president said he s shocked at the decision of the provincial school trustees to Appeal a recent anti inflation Board ruling which sex eludes from teacher pay raises the annual increments some teachers get automatically because of increased service. Or. Kyritz said these increments which affect roughly half of Manitoba s Public schools teach ers have been part of the pay system for teachers for More than 25 he added the anti inflation Board recently ruled teachers May get these increments in addition to then pay raises allowed under the anti inflation guidelines. We re shocked that the trustees would now attempt to have that or. Kyritz said in an interview. He made his comments shortly after the Manitoba association of school trustees announced at a press. Conference its intention to Appeal the anti inflation Board s increments ruling. Association president Ken Burgess Aid the ruling Means about half of Manitoba s Public schools teachers will in effect get two pay raises. One he said in increments which can Range from 3.4 to 9.8 per cent annually and the second As the Nego t i a t e d wage increase All teachers get. This would mean some teachers could be looking Forward this year to wage raises totalling nearly 20 per cent he said. Besides or. Burgess said trustees feel the anti inflation act stipulates the increments must be included in the total teacher wage increases. He told reporters if increments Are excluded it would mean a net Cost to Manitoba school divisions this year of about million about half of this in Winnipeg area school divisions alone. Or. Burgess said he will meet sometime next week with representatives of the anti inflation Board to Dis cuss the ruling. Or. Kyritz disputed the trustees claim wednesday that the payment of increments would mean a net Cost increase to school divisions. Because of attrition there has been no increase in the Cost of increments in the past number of according to or. Kyritz who Ken Burgess under attack added the anti inflation Board saw it that Way also. The Board recently decided to exclude increments from teachers wage increases during a review of its Roll Back of the 14.2 per cent wage increase this year for teachers in the St. James Assiniboia school division to 10.9 per cent. Initially the Board had ruled increments were to be included in the 10.9 per cent award a decision the St. James teachers successfully appealed. It is believed the ruling will affect All teachers in1 Manitoba. M r. Kyritz Siirid school trustees have supported the anti inflation program from the Start but now that there s a ruling they Aren t prepared to live with he said trustees Are using the anti inflation Board in an attempt to lower teacher salary increases beyond the intent of the anti inflation programs. Wage increments Are a fixed contract item he said agreed to by both trustees and teachers which affect about half of the Public schools teachers in the prov Ince who have not yet received the maximum salary level within their classification. Or. Kyritz also questioned what right the provincial trustees organization has to get involved with collective bargaining process that is supposed to occur at the local he said if school trustees Are successful in their a peal education in this prov i n c e May lose a great number of teachers who will seek employment in other provinces where they la be better paid. The Manitoba teachers society says already teach ers Here Are in danger of being the lowest paid in can Ada. Injured workers payment limit to Rise Paulley announces Manitoba workers injured on the Job will be entitled to the highest maximum compensation in Canada begin Ning Jan. A labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley announced wednesday. Or. Paulley said that be ginning with the new year maximum payments to an injured worker will Rise to a month from the present last year about workers received either full or partial compensation for some period a workers compensation Board spokes m a n said. He said the number might be lower this year because of fewer accidents reported so far. The monthly compensation is calculated at a rate of 75 per cent of lost earnings up to a specified maximum which will Rise to from Jan. 1. Or. Paulley said this makes Manitoba s Basic earning ceiling for workers compensation the highest in Canada. According to the latest Fig ures Ontario is the next High est with a ceiling Fol Lowed by Alberta at Saskatchewan at 1 4 0 0 0 British Columbia at and Quebec at the Levels in the other four prov inces Are or less or. Paulley said. The maximum in Manitoba was raised last year to from the level established in 1974. The minister said the w o r k e r s compensation Board under legislation or dered the new increase Fol lowing the annual review of average earnings of workers who were compensated for injuries in the year preceding oct. A 1976. The Board reported that in More than 10 per cent of the average earning of injured workers who received compensation exceeded the present maximum or. Paulley said. Cut court Power Over juveniles lawyer by Glen treatment of juvenile off Enders should be decided by experts on treatment rather than juvenile courts and Law yers Winnipeg lawyer mar tin Tadman said wednesday. When a juvenile admits his guilt or is convicted the court should get out of it and let a panel including psychiatrists and workers determine what will happen he told a juvenile Justice conference sponsored by the Canadian Council of christians and jews Mani or. Tadman made his re Marks during a panel discus Sion before about 40 people in the hotel fort Garry. He also advocated that no Juve Nile be interrogated by police unless an adult either Law yer or Parent is there. M r Tadman painted a grim picture of the treat ment of suspected delinquents by the criminal jus Tice system. Their first con tact is with policemen who have shown a Gross disregard for boys and their rights because their aim is to get a conviction he charged. If the offence is serious the suspect is sent to the Mani Toba youth Centre. Anything said to a Centre official can be used in court against the suspect or. Tadman said. He also said youths Are warned of this the suspect often does t get a lawyer for his juvenile court appearance but most lawyers Don t know any thing about juveniles and juveniles can t properly instruct a lawyer once their rights have been explained to them he said. The next step is juvenile court where Crown counsel arc assigned to hone their some Crown counsel have gone As far As scream ing at children or. Tadman said. Judges there Are by and Largo in Middle he re lated the Story of a judge who told a boy he should t shoot marijuana into his veins. A Federal Crown coun Sel later told the judge Mari j u a n a in t injected like heroin. Another fault of the Juve Nile court system is the threat of transferring Chil Dren to adult court a great lever to get children to plead guilty to the defence lawyer s Job is trying to get the juvenile off by Hook or by Crook i have to do whatever the boy would do for himself if he knew How to. Naturally if he could get Back on the Street with a technicality he would do or. Tadman said. Much of the discussion dealt with rehabilitation. Wayne Moshkowski a Crown counsel said people at All Levels in the criminal Justice system Are concerned with rehabilitation but my experience has told me there in t a pot of Gold at the end of every Rainbow. Some kids can t be Justice in t served by focusing solely on the individual delinquent he said. Citing an absurd he said putting a 15-year-old boy o n probation for murder might be Good for the boy but it would offend the com Mon Man and the value ;