Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news see Canada the Way saturday october 30, 1976 2nd class mail registration number 0236 some set in 1930s fee schedules Are reviewed for 300 government services the Manitoba government is reviewing its near 300 fee schedules to ensure the charges for government ser vices Are in line with the costs finance minister Saul Miller said Friday. In the past month approximately a dozen schedules ranging from the costs for copies of maps and charts to registrations of births deaths and marriages have been in creased by Cabinet order. We decided about a year ago to comb through All the various schedules of fees to try to relate them More clo sely to the or. Miller said in an interview. Some of the fees were set Back in the 50s and the costs have gone up he said. The minister could t estimate the amount of Money involved but he said it would be extremely Small. Government officials who estimated there Are approx m a t e 1 y 300 different fee schedules said some could be revised without Cabinet orders because the authority is granted under legislation setting up the departments responsible for them. Others require Cabinet order they said. Sometime ago Cabinet had decided to abolish the and hoc Type of adjustments for remuneration to members of the government s 269 boards commissions and agencies. It now Grants omnibus in creases in remuneration in line with increases granted to government employees officials said. Last month increases of eight per cent up to a ceiling of were approved retroactively t o March officials said. Grade 8 student Brian Mills got so carried away with the faces in uni City mall s great pumpkin face contest that he decided to outdo two of the 450 entries an other interesting entry was the pumpkin eater s pumpkin Bottom Complete with curtains window Box and the wife he could t keep. Reh fit patients plan Marathon for funds the great pumpkin makes its debut by Paul Moloney the great pumpkin must be proud. For underneath the skylight at uni City Fash Ion Centre there s a pumpkin Patch with about 450 of his cohorts. There Are scary Happy Folksy and Homey pumpkins. They Are grinning bespectacled painted Toupee and hatted. One even totes six guns. They represent the fantasy frivolity and fun inspired imagination of Winnipeg children who entered the great pumpkin face contest. Although the age Span of the competitors was Large from two years All the Way to one 33-year-old entrant the Range in creativity and kid style imagination was even wider. I Don t think the actual winners Are that important. What matters is the participation the Community spirit that was said Peter Mitchell contest Mastermind. We were basically looking for something to provide fun for kids and involvement for the whole family in an entertaining and or. Mitchell found that in Spades he said. Of More than 600 pumpkins that were Given away last saturday about 450 came Back trans formed into enough facial expressions to stymie the most discriminating judge. The display will stay until saturday when the respective artists can pick up their creations an time for halloween duty at Home Hospital deficit peanuts i compared with year ago this year s budget deficit of the health sciences Centre now stands at so far and May go to As much As by year s end but to Centre vice president Harry Heaton it s peanuts in the operation of a Hospital. Delivering his monthly i n a n c i a 1 statement to the Board of directors during the open portion of their monthly meeting Friday or. Heaton found the Board rather pleased with the outcome of his activities so far this year. Or. Heaton is vice president in charge of finance for the health Centre one of. The Board members went so far As to suggest that or. Heaton who faced a deficit of million at this time last year ought to be congratulated now. And while May be a lot of Money for the average family Man and breadwinner it s Small change for someone operating on an annual budget of million which is what the health sciences Centre expects to spend during 1976. As the Board went into closed session or. Heaton was. Interviewed about iks financial statement and asked Why deficits were necessary at All during an austerity year. Deficit of is dead on line or. Hea ton said after being told that o ther City Hospital boards had decreed not to go into the red at All this year and were sticking to their Deci Sion. This is peanuts. That s on line operation As far As i am concerned. Because you can blink your eyes and goes out the win delivering his statement to the Board earlier or. Hea t o n said the one per cent budget reduction for All hos p i t a 1 s announced by the Manitoba health services commission effective oct. 1 had been anticipated by the health sciences Centre. Adjustments to the reduction announced in line with provincial government spend ing restraints would be relatively painless said the vice president. Baby care Green lighted it health sciences Centre about 50 people recovering from heart attacks and associated with the Lech fit program of St. Boniface hos Pital will walk jog or run a total of Miles before nov. 27 to raise Money for the program s Headquarters building. The runners All patients of the Hospital s cardiology do part enl Hope to raise about through Indus i rial and business sponsorship of their run an official of the program said Friday. A Force of 125 Volunteer campaigners now Are seek ing support from a number of corporations said Aubrey Boulter chairman of the k i n s m e n Reh fit project. The service club has pledged toward the building. Thirty five Hundred firms Are to be approached for sup port. Or. Boulter Hopes most of the target can be raised through the cardiac 2000 Marathon run As the november project has been named. We must have the new building under construction by next february or the Kinsmen s club is free to withdraw its pledge. Besides we expect construction costs to Rise about for every month we delay the the building tentatively planned either for near the old Concordia Hospital or near the Taylor Avenue Waverley Street intersection will Cost about million. Or. Boulter said the Mani Toba government has t approved any Money for the facility but health minister Larry Dusja Rolins Lias been approached. The cardiac rehabilitation program is already funded by the Manitoba health ser vices commission but for operating expenses Only. The program now operates from the basement of the physical education building of the University of Manitoba and is limited to 200 patients at a time. Reh fit meaning rehabilitation fitness officials at St. Boniface Hospital say the eventual would be to involve patients approximately the number of Soulli fire in Grain elevators can Manitoban and win nip Eggers who could Benefit from the rehabilitation approach Over several years in the City alone about people 80 per cent of them men suffer heart attacks each year. Involve ment with the Reh fit pro Gram can last As Long As three years. Kinsman spokesman said donations to the Marathon run project May be sent in care of the Hospital s cardiology department. Sewer fall a 22-year-old City of Winnipeg employee was reported to be in fairly Good condition in St. Boniface Hospital after falling 30 feet and Landing on the floor of a sewer Friday. He suffered a concussion. A Winnipeg police spokes Man said Thomas Knox 22, of 190 Smith Street was climbing up out of a sewer he was working on at Arbuthnot Street and Warsaw Avenue when he blacked out and fell backwards Landing on his Back and hitting1 his head. The health sciences Centre has been Given the Green Light to employ a specialist in no Natal Medicine 10 additional registered nurses for its intensive care Nursery and additional office help to improve the care of Newborn babies with health problems. The approval by the Mani Toba health services commis Sion was announced by Peter swerhon president of the health sciences Centre Friday. The Centre s perinatal pro Gram is a joint project with the St. Boniface general Hospital which had the ser vices of an obstetric Anas the a biologist approved by the commission this fall. Increased intensive care Nursery coverage by registered nurses at the health sciences Centre will facilitate continuous surveillance on All shifts and boost the ratio of nurses to infants to one to three. Round the clock nursing in the resuscitation of Newborn infants in the delivery room will also become possible through the additional staff at the health sciences Centre. Or. Swerhon said urgent priority has also been Given to the development and Structure of a transportation system for expectant Moth ers with High risk pregnancies who must be treated in Winnipeg if their chances at having healthy babies arc to be improved. The neonatologist funded by the pro Gram will devote a major portion of his time to this said the Centre president. The health ser vices commission will give High priority to the implementation of a transportation system when an acceptable proposal is while expressing appreciation for the government s go ahead on perinatal care Board member or. Jack Bowman criticized the health commission for not coming through previously with the estimated now approved. He termed the approval a bits and pieces approach which leaves gaping holes in the level of service for mothers and their Newborn and child patients at the health science s Centre and St. Boniface Hospital. Nursing Home tenders called for expansion photo holy family nursing Home has called tenders for the second phase of its expansion program which was authorized by the Manitoba health services commission earlier this fall. The nursing Home at 165 Aberdeen Avenue now has 250 Beds and will have a total of 2s4 after completion of the new plans Call for the eventual demolition of the old win n i p e g children s Hospital building on Aberdeen which was the beginning of the nursing Home after the Hospi Tal relocated on Bannatyne Avenue in 1957. However 160 new Beds arc to be built to replace the older Structure. They will be in a five Storey building with resident activity space on the main floor serving the entire Complex with physio and occupational therapy arts and crafts Large group functions and other facilities. A spokesman for the Nurs ing Home said it s expected contracts will be settled by the end of november construction started by february and the building in operation about 18 months later. Causes damage residents and about 20 firefighters put in a Long night in Swan River Man., Friday after fire broke out in two Grain elevators in the Centre of town Deputy fire chief lome Hall Lay said. The fire which destroyed the elevators containing about bushels of Grain caused an estimated damage. Or. Hall Lay said three residential streets were exposed to flying embers and Resi dents were scurrying to protect their Homes. He said there was great concern about containing the fire because everything s so there was some minor damage to House roofs. As Well three boxcars full of Grain were lost he said. The fire started about 4 . And burned out of control for three hours. Or. Hal 1 i d a y could t suggest a c a u s c but said the fire seemed to have started in the common loading area for Hie two elevators. The elevators were owned by Manitoba Pool elevators and were the Only facilities the company had in Swan River he said. News quiz on Page 54 Gerald Regan Jean Pigott and Indira Gandhi arc Sorrye of the. Personalities you la find today in the names in the news quiz which appears on Page 54. Turn to the quiz to see if you correctly identify these and other news makers. You la also get a Chance to answer a Vari Ety of National and inter National news questions. The free press pub Lishes your news quiz each week As a service to area Slud cols. De Posen president of Host a new addition to Canada s airports rent a car firm wins Airport bid two courts Indian Reserve Host rent a car an inter National company founded in Winnipeg in 1968, will Start serving Winnipeg International Airport and eight other m a j o r Canadian airports nov. 1 its president Edward Posen said in an interview Friday that approval by transport Canada of a bid submitted by the company Chi males its three year Bat the to get a share of the lucrative Airport car rental business. In Canada it s estimated to be Worth Mil lion annually and increasing at a Rale of 13 per cent a year. Car rental Revenue at the City Airport in 1976 million shared by Bud Tilden Hertz and Avis. Or. Posen said his com Pany previously could not qualify under a Federal transport policy that required rental companies to have a National system Capa ble of serving at least 50 per cent of Canada s airports Al ready supplied by a car Ren Tal service. The transport department s new policy this year enables Host to bid successfully for Airport service. The new pol icy says car rental Access to airports is to be awarded by Public Lender subject to a minimum base bid. Or. Posen said Access to airports will create 200 jobs immediately in Host s Cana Dian system. The company now has a payroll of More than but could not estimate the number employed through its franchises and agreements. The company president said Host was the forerunner in getting the policy changed so that Canadian car rental companies could get into air ports. It has cars under its Emblem and or. Posen forecasts a Fleet of 10 000 by .1980. Are moving City offices the co u r t of Queen s Bench in Winnipeg has moved its office from the Law courts building to room 224 of the adjacent Wool Worth building 405 Broadway Avenue. All business will be handled in the new location starting monday although a cashier will remain in room 101 of the Law courts build ing for payment of fees a statement from the court of fice said. The Federal court of Canada office has moved to the same new location. School opened the million George Knott school on the was Aga Mack Indian Reserve 330 Miles North East of Winnipeg has been opened. The school funded by the Federal department of Public works will replace Tempo Rary classrooms built during the last decade for the 225 students from kindergarten to Grade 10, a statement from the Federal department of Indian affairs said. The school has 10 classrooms including an arts room Home economics area and medical dispensary ;