Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winning Fittl january 197 Ontario urged to up drinking age to 20 from 18 Toronto up on trios decision to lower the drinking age in resulted in the deaths of an additional 28 persons during the following the addiction research foundation said the foundation recommended in a Brief to the select committee of the legislature for Highway safety that the Public drinking age be in creased to 20 Frt frn a sociologist with the told the committee that re searchers have estimated that 28 persons would not have died in automobile crashes Between and had the drink ing age not been lowered to 18 from he said studies done on the lowering of the drinking age in Ontario All come to the conclusion that the decision resulted in an increased number of alcohol related a he said the results of a study he did recently in Lon indicated that at a conservative estimate automobile collisions not have occurred in Ontario Between and had the drinking Fords secret not so Here Detroit a Ford motor is sticking to its so called secret rust warranty in the United even though its Canadian subsidiary has gone above ground with a formal anti rust i believe the record will show we Are doing just As Good a Job of taking care of our customers problems Here As they Are in Ben ton we prefer to do it on an individual basis under a policy first formulated in 1973 and extended in Ford has instructed its dealers to adjust owner claims of severe rust damage on Ford vehicles within 48 months of the Date of although the policy is unofficial and does not appear in the owners warranty agree dealers understand it and have settled under the policy provides for Ford to fix at no Cost rust holes which appear in the first two Ford will pay 75 per cent of the Cost if a car is 24 to 36 Mouths old and 50 per cent if the car is Between 36 and 48 months i would be surprised if most Ford customers Are not aware of this said the policy first came to subsequently under severe attack from consumer groups in Benton said bad publicity Ford received from its rust problems in Canada probably prompted adoption of the three year warranty Ford announced last August two year pro Gram for new manufacturing equipment aimed at producing cars that will be rust proof for five ban sought by Toronto up Ontario will bring in legislation to out Law devices that detect radar impulses from police Speed ing solicitor general John Macbeth said wednes Macbeth said the de marketed under Brand names such As will be banned under Amend ments to the Highway traffic to be introduced in the coming session of the Legisla it appears that the sole purpose of these instruments is to thwart the speedling Tyve minister he said when the devices first it was thought they were Only a but their use is becoming popu when the legislation is drafted it will Baa any device produced to warn Drivers of police Macbeth Howe that citizens band which Are sometimes used by Drivers to warn of Speed will not be age not been foundation data for the Fol lowing years suggest that the Cost in lives is greater in succeeding he Whitehead said alcohol related involving male Drivers 16 and 17 years old during the two years after the age was in creased 162 per cent com pared with the period before the the number increased 339 per cent among those 18 years old after the 346 per cent for those and 156 per cent for those these increases Are in marked contrast to the in crease of Only 20 per cent experienced by he he told the committee that when the figures Are updated to four the percentages Are increased and the prob Lem continues to get not Young people 18 and 19 tend to have poorer driving be cords even without the involvement alcohol when they drive while in they Are 70 times More Likely to die in it motor vehicle collision t h a n the average no impaired the to in crease the drinking age was Only one of several made by the it recommended no change be made in the Structure of drinking driving penalties and that Public education As a solution on their own since their effect Likely is to be i police should conduct More breath Tel Cong through in creased Law including More Roadside testing or throng spot checks Fot vehicle the foundation it said the Public should be shown through education campaigns that the possibility of being caught drinking and driving increase As enforce ment and testing unless people really be Lieve that apprehension is a salient they will continue to drink and other recommendations were not be Given to new educational rehabilitation programs for impaired Drivers unless an important research question is an swered wholesale admission of impaired Drivers to Cura tiv treatment programs rehabilitation programs not be devel oped for problem Drinker impaired Drivers Ayd instead the emphasis be shifted to broader based programs that recognize the need to provide individual treatment foundation be responsible for developing a Small scale study to determine the usefulness of a comp Ehen s i v e alcoholism treatment program Small scale program be developed to study the use of programs used in treatment of Industrial alcoholics province initiate Stu Dies to determine the extent of use of such drugs As minor hallucinogens and amphetamines and their effect on driving skills and Reginald associate research director for the told the com Mittee that a recent study at two Large High schools in on showed 42 per cent of the students reported being drunk at least once during the previous four Hove fashions show Sale great buys on Baycrest by Simmons 1 Baycrest select 39 Continental unit has 2 the Baycrest Otho medic line offers you a 3 Baycrest Premium mattress offer you 1 prebuilt and scroll Sim comfortable nights rest with firm polyester toppers on both sides and foam Mons High Quality now at a Bay Low prebuilt Blue Floral Cord hand Cord vents and t prebuilt ies and As Well As foam and Felt choose today and choose the size 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