Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news in package Tours make Ideal vacation trips 946-2212 saturday March 12, 1977 2nd class mail registration number 0284 not a serious problem a member of the Stony Mountain Penitentiary native croup entertained a group of evil photo Bonner Dren Friday at Wellington school 690 Street with an educational saccharin ban Well just have to Lump it say the sugarless weight shredders officials of weight reduction organizations and the Manitoba association of professional pharmacists saw nothing alarming Friday in the Federal ban on saccharin. But the president of the Winnipeg Branch of the Ca Nadian diabetic association said the ban will Hurt partic u 1 a r 1 y children suffering from diabetes if soft drinks and desserts with artificial sweeteners become unavailable. Jack Kwinter president of counterweight limited said in a Long distance interview from his office in Toronto that this company we do a Busi Ness in Canada annually will have to change the formulation of several of its 23. Products. Our nutritionists Are very Busy people these Days but on an Over All basis this ban won t that much of a Kwinter said. What it Means is that people who want to take off weight will have fewer options. As for us. Well have to make compensations to. Help our customers and clients in the education nationwide a total unavailability of artificial sweeteners could turn out to builders oppose ban on reprisals the commercial construction Industry in Manitoba has announced its Complete opposition to any government move to limit Legal reprisals companies against workers who walked off their jobs on oct. 14 National Day of labor protest. The labor relations Council of the Winnipeg builders Exchange which negotiates labor contracts for the Indus trial and commercial construction Industry made the statement in a Brief to oct. 14 Industrial inquiry commis s i o n e r Murdoch Mackay made Public thursday. The Council said the right of protest should t extended the government to limit or eliminate the liability of the protesters for any damage caused. A doctrine if it were to widely applied would make a shambles of a citizen s right under the Law for recourse for damage whether it results irom wilful or negligence or merely As a consequence of actions whether foreseen or in the Council Brief said. The Industry advised the govern ment to prohibit All types of work stoppages or actions designed to limit production during the life of a collective agreement including third part Boycotts and political it said this Legal Protection works to the advantage of labor As Well As management because enhancing the right to protest could allow politically motivated lockouts As Well As strikes. The Council said it s concerned Over indications government officials that they have accepted the implicit doctrine that unions have the right to inflict grievous harm upon Empi o y e r s while protesting against a third party in this Case Federal anti inflation legislation. These officials made a serious error when they encouraged the oct. 14 walkout instead of pushing for a less damaging Type of protest the Brief said. Detrimental to Good Public health which is jeopardized enough even with the Swee t e n e r s available Kwinter said. Half the people in this country Are not just Over weight they Are obese which Means they carry More than it kilograms above their Ideal weight. If you take the obese and the overweight you end up with 75 per cent of All Canad for those trying to Lone weight and no longer Able to substitute saccharin for sugar in their Coffee the problem could formidable. Kwinter said. If you figure the average Canadian drinking six cups of Coffee a Day with two spoonfuls of sugar apiece the weekly caloric intake in sugar for Coffee alone comes to eateries that s about half a Pound of extra body fat. It can add up to about at pounds of weight gain a year for someone who suddenly uses sugar instead of Kwinter said his office has been inundated with Tele phone Calls from irate people who want us to organize a lobby stage a March on parliament Hill and launch All kinds of other protest moves. But Well abide the Law of course. We re an educational organization and a food company not a political pressure Iris Walsh area manager of weight watchers of Mani Toba ltd., said saccharin and other artificial sweeteners were added to the list of Al 1 o w a 1 e foods for weight watchers Only this january. They never were an Inte Gral part of our program and now they won t after Walsh said. As it turned out Only about half those on weight watchers diets have used artificial sweeteners. There won t an uproar and it m on t the end of the world for Walsh said. Besides no doubt the Industry will come out with something new now that Sac charin will Diane Day do president of the Winnipeg Branch of the Canadian diabetic association said there been Little reaction from patients so far. The ban will restrict diets no question about Day do said. It will Partick 1 a r 1 y affect children and their intake in soft drinks and jams and Jack Davis executive director of the Manitoba As Sci Ationo professional pharmacists said the full effect of the saccharin ban won t known until All regulations of the ban Are issued the Federal health depart ment. The Way i understand it at this Point saccharin will available Over the phar Macy counter. You have to ask for it. And a pharmacist will have to sell it much As in the Case of compounds containing Davis said. You won t see certain Strong yet non prescription pain killers out on Tae shelves. They la Only sold the pharmacist if you ask him for them. Saccharin could turn out to the same Davis said there Are rumours in the pharmaceutical Field that the diet food Industry is organizing a lobby to arrange for exclusion from the ban of diet foods such As jams jellies puddings and other desserts. It s much too Early to say just How this thing will work Davis said. The Only firm indication we have so far is that saccharin will go on the same formula As the pain killers which Means that we can sell it Over the counter upon teaching talks Echo finding of school discipline Survey Scott Edmonds about 40 teachers Stu dents trustees and others concerned with education met at Falcon Lake thurs Day and Friday to examine the discipline situation in Manitoba s schools. The two Day seminar fal lows a Survey released two months ago the Manitoba teachers society that indicated discipline in schools was not generally thought to a serious problem. However Friday Kris Breckman the society s professional development officer said the results were perhaps Over generalized. What the Survey was really showing was that the problem of school discipline was t As serious As most people seemed to think it was. It was t Saint there was t a Breckman said. Broken Down Trade Levels the discipline problem in t All that serious in Clem tary schools but increases at the Junior High level and then declines again at the High school level he added. Both the Survey and thute attending the at Falcon Lake agreed on these Points. Breckman said As Well that another Survey con ducted in Portage la Prairie provided similar results. After discussing the prob Lem in general and respond ing to the Survey participants in the seminar got Down to work identifying fac tors that could help or hinder school discipline and preparing recommendations. Turnbull woos parents the Manitoba government plans to make s1m.mo Avail Able to encourage Parent councils at the local school level. Education minister Ian Turnbull said Friday the pro Gram is directed primarily at new organizations rather than established Parent teacher groups. The idea is to get parents working in a positive and constructive Way with school staffs said in an interview. The Grants will based on for each student with a minimum and maximum for each school the minister s statement said. The Money will paid when the school division de u c a t i o n department and Parent councils reach agree ment. Councils must representative of parents whose children attend a school and will responsible to the school Board for ensuring that each Council is representative the statement said. One thing that became Evi Dent is the trend towards less physical forms of discipline Breckman said. Cor p o r a 1 punishment was t mentioned during the seminar. Jack King who Heads the committee which has been studying discipline for the teachers society said that some problems brought up at the seminar had fairly obvious solutions. Kids slipping into the w a s h r p o m to eat their was one problem brought up during a work shop a trustee King said. The question is do you have lunchroom facilities and the answer is no Leav ing a pretty obvious kind of general kinds of mis Beha Vior Over Long periods of time leads to the question of what kinds of programs Are being offered students to occupy that time he added. Elimination of problem causing rules consistent expectations of students combined with rapport and involvement in decision Mak ing were identified As some of the factors that promoted Good discipline. Good discipline is hindered rigidity extremism Idle threats rules that Aren t understood and perception on the part of the student that Home and school Are not working together. King said that perhaps schools were too preoccupied with telling students what they ought not to doing rather than developing social skills. By in Large there should a rejection of the Blind obedience concept of discipline. As much As possible we should moving to wards self discipline and we should moving towards responsible Breckman added. At the end of the session Friday about 27 recommendations were combined to produce four main Points. The group suggested More parental involve ment in establishing school rules and policy perhaps even the inclusion on school boards of parents in some capacity. Placing emphasis on Junior High schools where the discipline problem is most serious. Emphasizing both in the original training of teach ers and in later professional development of employed teachers communications skills and human develop ment training. Finally ensuring better communication so that every division is aware of what is being tried elsewhere in the province. King said that his commit tee should issuing a final report before june based on the Survey results and seminar. Garrison finds Lone Backer at inc Winnipeg hearings the Garrison diversion project found a Lone sup Porter Friday in a former social credit la who told the International joint com Mission the North Dakota project will control flooding in Manitoba. J. M. Rocse. Member of the Manitoba legislature for Rhineland criticized the provincial government and opposition parties for taking an uncompromising stand on the project. He said he wished the government and the opposition parties would As con c e r n e d about our people Farmers As the . Government is about Froese was the Only Dele Gate to appear before the inc at two Days of Public hearings on Garrison who favored the irrigation project which critics say will Cri news quiz on Page 36 Sylvia Burka Diane Jones and John Vorster arc included today in the names in the news quiz which appears on Page 36. 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 intern tonal news questions. The free press pub Lishes your news quiz each week As a service to area students. Tical harm Manitoba s environment once it is fully operational in the mid 1990s. Saying Manitoban need the Friendship of North Dako tans. Froese added. We should working More clo sely with them rather than put up he said tote Garrison project will mean More regular flows on the red Hiver which often has no flow particularly during late fall. Two Day Public hear Ings at the Winnipeg inn saw Many delegations object to the project saying it will harm the environment Here. The delegations consisted of environmentalists poli native organizations and citizens. Many called for a total deletion of the red and Souris Rivers from the project. The million irrigation scheme plans to bring much needed water to acres of Semi arid North Dakota farmlands the majority of which would Drain into the red and Souris Rivers which Ilow into Manitoba. It is feared the project will increase salinity Levels in Manitoba Waters result in additional flooding sharply reducing commercial and recreational fishing and introduce fish species and Dis eases into provincial Waters that Don t exist Here now. Or. Charles und Scy of the department of zoology of the University of Manitoba echoed concerns of other delegations in his testimony Friday when he doubted whether a fish screen would adequately halt Transfer of fish into Manitoba. He said such a screen could never a substitute for a so called closed sys tem Garrison a modified plan whereby return flows would not enter Manitoba. He doubted a fish screen would Stop Transfer of fish or diseases and pointed out a single accidental spill of unscreened water would permanently nullify the Pur pose of the Jesse Richcr a socioeconomic development worker with natives told the inc the project will injure the water rights of natives in this province and urged com missioners to consider the project carefully. He said Canadian natives arc at a greater disadvantage than their counterparts in the . Who have broader rights to resources. . Courts have recognized these rights setting Legal Prece dents. In fact. Richer said the . Justice department sup ports new England natives who claim that half the state of Maine is theirs. Canada is catching up in this respect he added say ing that once land and water rights Are better defined Garrison will an after the fast damage. The inc will continue its Public hearings monday in Portage la Prairie and tues Day in grand Forks . Later this year the com Mission is expected to re commend to Washington if Garrison will violate the 1909 Boundary Waters treaty which stipulates neither country shall pollute Boundary Waters to the injury of health and property of the Buffer zone mooted to halt spread of dutch Elm disease the City of Winnipeg May have to establish a Buffer zone five or 10 Miles wide around the City to prevent the further spread of dutch Elm disease from Rural areas Martin Benum civic director of Parks and recreation said Friday. We re in a precarious sit he told delegates to the annual conference of the Manitoba Parks and recreation association in the Winnipeg convention Centre. We re going to in Trou ble whatever we do. We re not simply trying to save elms in perpetuity. We want to lose the least he said. The Battle to control the disease would give the City time to Plant new Trees of different species to re place the elms he said. There arc about american Elm Trees in win n i p e g Benum said. We can t save them Oll Well Kave to Fredericton n b., has problems similar to Winnipeg s but on a smaller state David a. Urquhart supervisor of Parks and Trees in that City told delegates. Tie disease was first Dis covered in the City in 1961 but we re holding our he said. Fredericton has what is regarded As one of the Best control programs in North America Benum said. Urquhart repeatedly stresses the importance of an efficient and consistent sanitation program in control. As soon As Trees Are identified As having the Dis ease they Are marked and treated or destroyed As soon afterwards As possible he said. The control program in Fredericton began in nine years before the first diseased tree was discovered. At that time the sity Council set up a tree com Mission empowered to take Steps to identify diseased Trees and to remove them from private and municipal property. He said without the author Ity to go onto private property any sanitation program would in trouble As Bas happened in Ottawa. Manitoba also set up am advisory committee before the disease reached Winnipeg in 1965 10 years before the first Trees were reported Gary Platford Plant Pattoli Gary Platford Plant Pashoto agriculture said. There is also legislation in Manitoba giving authorities the right to enter private property said. In the past 14 years Fredericton has lost yearly a average of less than one per cent of its elms in a designated control area a total loss of 7.8 per cent Over the whole period Urquhart said. In 1973 Fredericton amalgamated with surrounding communities w h e r a there had been no sanitation pro Grams and where there were heavy infestations of the Dis ease. This area is now being treated As a Buffer Urquhe Hart said. The major prob lems Are two Rivers and one Stream within the Buffer area where there Are bund reds of diseased Trees. The beetles which Cany the dutch Elm disease fungus can Fly up to three Miles Urquhart said. In May 1975, Freder ton experimented with Spray ing using Methoxychlor in a 12 per cent solution. Urquhart said the results were not what they d hoped. They also had an additional prob Lem when the solution started burning paint off cars. Spraying was repeated in 1976 this time in late sum Mer when the beetles Start travelling Down the Trees to Winter in the lower areas. Only the Bottom 12 feet of Trees were sprayed with a one Oer cent solution of Durban. This chemical used for Mosquito control has also been tried in Winnipeg but is not yet registered for dutch Elm disease. Special permits Are needed for its use. During the Winter the sprayed Trees were checked for Over wintering beetles and none were found. Trees adjacent to the sprayed ones were also checked and beetles were found in them. Spraying is not a substitute for sanitation Urquhart said. It s a useful addition especially for combating beetles from out if he said Root flare injections were not being used in Fredericton. They re still in the experimental he said. Tests show that they Only give per cent cover age said. That s not Good enough for the one Delegate disagreed and said results Mot flare injections Ian Catlett Saroct Keg like a 90 per cent Protection. Urquhart said he was also concerned that repeated injections might cause damage Over the years. But he said no one method works. You have to try several Tom e. Sterner of the Ca Nadian forestry services in new Brunswick reiterated Early observations that the people fighting the disease had to Able to get into All areas where the disease was including private property. Without that there s no he said. He also said that if a control program was stopped temporarily for political or financial reasons it s pretty Well or. Sterner also emphasized the importance of Sani tation. In Liverpool Nova Scotia two diseased Trees were Dis covered i 1989, said. The Trees were removed and de s t r o y e d. The source was found to a pile of firewood someone had brought from new Brunswick. This was also destroyed. Benum also spoke of an outbreak of the disease in tote Crescent wow area started a pile of firewood brought into the area from Selkirk where the disease is extensive. Martin i Mim. Director of win s Parks and recreation eve a map of provincial dutch do disease concentration to Davif a. Ureva cart of Parks and aim Centre or vw4 or me forestry services in new inc wok at Hie annul conference of the Manitoba Parks and recreation association Friday in Winnipeg ;