Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press Ity news Novom soft 1976 of class number 0284 writing skill essential Campbell All firs year University students should be required to write an essay and take a mandatory noncredit course in writing skills if the essay proves to be Ralph the new president of the University of Manitoba said Campbell said it is a cop out universities to blame secondary schools for preparing their students in adequately in the Basic Lan Guage skills without doing something about in a speech for delivery at his installation ceremony the new University president said one thing universities can do is to require each firs year student to write an essay which would have to be assessed for organization and fundamental if he or she if the student would be required to and a noncredit course in writ ing skills before being Gra Campbell recognized an associated problem of i he called on both the University of Manitoba and the universities Grants commis Sion to provide the necessary funds for these noncredit Campbell said at his installation ceremony in the East gym of the University Bison building he believes the Best graduates of secon Dary schools Are probably better equipped the fundamentals than the Best of my he added it is irresponsible for universities to merely complain about students no facility in English with out doing something about some students graduate in some universities without Ever having written an essay or a trustees fail in bid to reverse Aib ruling Manitoba teachers will be getting annual increments plus raises allowed by the Federal ant inflation an attempt by the Mani Toba association of school trustees to convince the Aib not to allow increments As Well As raises has the possibility still exists that the boards ruling will be appealed to Aib administrator Donald Duck Mountain school division has passed a motion saying it will Appeal if necessary to a delegation from the trustees association met with ant inflation Board officials in Ottawa thursday but failed to get the Board to re verse its decision on the increments Ken association president they the Board seemed frustrated by the whole increments prob when asked about the Duck Mountain said court action May be taken against the Aib the Aib originally ruled annual increments for teach ers in the Kamesas Sini Boia school division were subject to the Aib guidelines As after obtaining information from representatives of the Manitoba teachers the Aib reversed its original decision and allowed increments As Well As an an Nual the trustees Hope to meet with the society to seek a Compromise that trustees and teachers can both a he the Board indicated contracts wont be processed until there has been a he the association remains convinced the boards Origi Nal decision was right and still doubts the legality of the Burgess general Secretary of the teachers Sci said thursday the society would be willing to meet with the trustees association but under no circumstances will we Ever Compromise on the society would also like to discuss the associations intervention into arbitrated which dont include increments As part of salary he Mega Appeal in motion hearing Date to be set soon a hearing Date before the supreme court of Canada is expected to be set within Days on a Challenge to the Validity of Manitoba anti inflation agreement with of William president of the Manitoba government employees which has launched the court said thursday Union lawyers Are now preparing to file the Appeal following rejection of the motion by Manitoba court of Queens Bench a spokesman for the us would be police helpers land in Kenora jail a 35foot Blue on its Way to be coming this years Christmas tree on the Centre mall at the Winnipeg civic is lifted on to by Jim Haggarty a trailer after being Cut Down the tree was donated by Helen 437 Riverton surgery without Hospital admission backed by Manfred Jager if the new head of the department of surgery at Boniface Hospital has his there will be a drastic increase in the number of patients sent Home after operations to recover there with proper care from Doc tors and the Norfo admission to Hospital approach to according to James Rod Way not Only makes sense but patients actually like it As Long As they dont have to worry about who will look after them until they get bet Norfo admission surgery has been performed in Winnipeg for a number of and in an interview wednes Day the 49yearold surgeon who came Here from the Royal infirmary in Edin Burgh this said an expansion in the system now is clearly indicated for economic Medicine has become so immensely a 11 Over the in the Indus trial midlands of England with the resources it now takes up to two years to get into Hospital for a Pep tic ulcer unless there Are plans now being prepared by Kirkpatrick would have most varicose hand and foot operations and a number of minor gynaecological procedures such As sterilizations done without admitting the patient to the weve got to look at More new ways of doing Kirkpatrick there Are quite a lot of both investigative and that can be done on a not for admission and which traditionally Call for full ambulatory surgery the patient is taken Home the same Day of the operation is High up on my Agenda said the new chief of who was in charge of a sizable program of this Type before coming to but youve got to have proper support he they must include regular visits from the family according to As Well As sufficient help and through visiting Public health nurses or members of the victorian order of its no Good for the family practitioner to say we dont make House Calls any Ive heard that Al that no Good at said the family practitioner of today must be prepared to go and see his patient in the i think there simply has to be a visit from a Doc Tor the next Day after sur Kirkpatrick was asked How physicians could be motivated to resume House Calls in a medical system which has gotten away from the practice and at a time when doctors complain that their in comes dont allow them time to travel to patients houses during office hours when see ing patients in their offices is More the Money problem is what i said theres always a danger in the financial to even though i like the fee for service system of the Canadian medicare but one should never do More than four or five Ufa operations in a this could be organized in such p Way that perhaps you take patients from one District in a so that one member of a practice could go out for one hour in his car and do four or five visits in the of Norfo admission surgery on a larger scale would necessitate readjustments in operating room slates and might require the hiring of one additional anaesthetist at Boniface said t w o men who stopped their car on Highway 17 just East of Early wednesday to ask two police men if they needed any help Are in jail charged with pos session of a stolen car after the officers ran a routine Check on their vehicles licence the incident began at when officers from the Ontario provincial police detachment in Kenora were As sisting a Driver whose car had broken Down on High Way 10 Miles East of a spokesman for the de t a h m e n t said thursday that a passing Motorist told the two officers another vehicle was apparently in trouble about 10 Miles further when they got to that car the officers ran a Check on the vehicles Manitoba licence plates and arrested Raymond and Gary both of no fixed while the officers were checking out the Manitoba a 1972 station Wagon pulled up and its two occupants asked if they needed any the spokesman after the officers ran a routine Check on the station wagons British Columbia they arrested Hugh of no fixed and and Jerome of Toronto and charged them with Possession of a the police spokesman said two of the men arrested will be sent to Winnipeg an the other two to British Colum military equipment stolen from Cumberland apartment about military equipment was stolen late wednesday or Early thurs Day from an apartment at 360 Cumberland among the goods stolen were six a number of four pairs of Binou 40 Silver Canadian Dol and a Flag from a second world War German the thief also took an old pair of if we get Well use them on the spokesman restoration project delay blamed on City Council some Progress has been made toward restoration of the warehouse District of downtown Winnipeg despite what businessman Don Mcgilivray termed City Hall foot dragging the Only drawback we have right now is City Hall he said at a meeting which outlined redevelopment proposals to prospective retail and Commer Cial along with Allan Golden and Fern represents a group of businessmen called the old Market Square association in redevelopment with City the province and heritage Cana group controlling a be Trust fund to finance restoration of historic heritage Canada recently earmarked i8kmw0 to re Atorre historic or Guaran tee mortgages for refurbishing or both in the roughly by ended by main my King and Darnt owners Are committed to restoring the areas historic Appeal and at the same time turning it into a dining and office Centre with in a redevelopment scheme reminiscent of Vancouver Golden said in an this would occur Independent of government finance he v e n after government agreement it could take a year before anythings on the on the other with the present rate of Pri vate Golden said the area would be big Ger than Osborne Street in Osborne Square is a similar concept covering a swatter area than that proposed by the old Market Square Mcgillivray said that although the majority of City councillors Are with redevelopment agree ment for a Farmers Marcet Park area South of tie civic Centre been old up the for a City administration the businessmen Spear r headed a weekend Farmers Market Experiment on the site last which Golden said was Well re the group would Uke to in stall permanent facilities As Well As an ice Albert Street Between Bannatyne and William streets would be cobblestones and closed to All but delivery and Emer gency Mcgilivray he said the environmental planning department was drafting plans and analysing costs of landscaping and streets Caping at the same time As the works and tons department was projecting the costs of construct ing an administration Buie ing on the same planning for the Market Park was Frozen by mayor two or three weeks ago hut the freeze was lifted liter the apr preach so City Hitt on the he fee of blow Type preme court registrar in Ottawa said no application has yet been received but he expected a hearing to be granted quickly because of the constitutional questions in attorney general Howard Pawley of Manitoba said wednesday the province has agreed to an Mega request to bypass the court of a peal and take the action directly to the highest he said the Case would end up at the supreme court anyway and a Quick and final court Resolution to the matter would save time and the Mega began court action several months ago to test the Federal provincial and municipal workers under Federal wage and Price con Justice Israel Nitikman of the Manitoba court of Queens Bench rejected the unions claim that the government wrongfully in n o r e d existing provincial Laws in signing the agree he Manitoba 1970 executive government organization act gave the government sufficient Legal authority to join the Federal Mega lawyers argued the act didst give authority for such extraordinary agree ments As the ant inflation pact which changes existing provincial Laws including the labor relations act under which collective agreements Are Jackson said the Union will pursue these same arguments before the supreme the Mega suit is basically an attempt to have the courts overturn ant inflation Board rollbacks of wage in creases for 400 Manitoba liquor control commission employees and provincial Hospi Tal the Union says the Aib lacked jurisdiction to make the liquor employees Rollback because their 5 contract p by about two the Manitoba Ottawa ant inflation the provincial quid Federal governments both opposed this Contention in the liquor control commission supported the employees in unsuccessful appeals to Aib administrator Donald tans Ley and the Federal the Union is now preparing a final Appeal against the Rollback to the ant inflation explosion charges dropped the part owner of a North Winnipeg car Wash has had three charges against him dropped in connection with a dynamite explosion which damaged his business last charges against Norman Joseph of 777 Dufferin suite were dismissed m provincial judges had Origi Nally been charged with hav ing care and control of an explosive causing an explosion which cow cause serious bodily harm and causing an Espoo Joti which caused serious property ;