Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free february 1978 ambulance proposal Sparks strike threat 1978 contract with United if they do Well shut it Down and pull the supervisors out said Jim goo District representative of the International association of machinists and Aero space workers we have a we negotiated that a few weeks if they pull the plug now and try to Cut the pension or come Back and say the proficiency in creases or training clause have to Well close them and what makes them think were going to buy a six per cent increase without the pension its a package Gol Idelson said the training courses allow attendants to upgrade their qualifications to the paramedic level and Are compulsory on both if there dropped it Means people wont have a staff to pick them up and treat we the Union Are in the position of defending a pro Gram so that people wont the attendants might very Well take a strike vote before the pare Down Bud get goes to City Council for approval on Goodison the Union covering All 100 attendants and about eight us expired Mcfarl Ancs prediction of staff cuts and reduced ambulance service was prompted by finance committees fail ure to budget for automatic increases in employee fringe continued benefits and about in proficiency both mandatory under last years Union the committee didst even allow funds to cover about in proficiency in creases actually paid out last year but intended As part of the 1978 Mcfarlane since the Money cant be recovered from the employees and the Union contract makes More pay ments mandatory this the Only option for the City is staff they obviously didst re Alize what they were he not Only Are we not going to get the 16 extra staff we need to provide a five minute response but were going to have to fire about 15 that will Cut response time right across the Mcfarlane also complained that finance commit tee haunt consulted anyone on the ambulance Board be fore chopping the although he and other Board members attended tues Days meeting and offered to explain or defend the Origi Nal but councillor Don a member of both the ambulance Board and finance defended the budget freeze As a necessary interim move until the new ambulance commission is Gerrie overview said councillors we rent prepared to Deal pension additional staff More ambulances until a tremendous amount of investigation is done by the new commission and the cites adm Nistra were not denying them anything that rightfully theirs just postponing Gerrie Mcfarlane fears were echoed Friday by one of the ambulance boards two medical Otoole said he is very upset with the budget cuts and the Prospect of a reduced response time and will consult Manitoba medical association officials wednesday on his pos sible withdrawal from the ambulance Board chair Man Jack Litvack said it was premature to comment on the budget Issue until the Board meets next thursday to reassess we can continue to function under the but he admit Ted finance and policy committees actions have some very serious ramifications for the proposed by finance com Mittee tuesday and endorsed by policy committee the new budget reduces a projected 1978 deficit of million to just this is almost 000 less than last years at the same the com Mittee recommended a increase in ambulance fees to a trip in order to raise an additional in Rev Enue this satellite cleanup Cost shoots up to million Ottawa special the cleanup Cost for Cosmos the soviet satellite that disintegrated Over the Northwest territories at the end of has now climbed to about million for his department defence minister Barney Danson said Fri the figure does not include costs incurred by the Federal department of Energy mines and or the United states at the height of the search for radioactive fragments had 200 men co operating with the Danson said that Between co and 70 size Able chunks and fragments of the nuclear powered satellite have been recovered so and searchers Are now gathering up Many Small particles about the size of a he still is not fully convinced that the 100pound uranium Power pack completely dissipated in the Danson pieces of it radioactive be lurking somewhere in the he said there was no Strong evidence to support theories that the Core dissipated before pieces of the satellite came crashing to although there is a greater likelihood of than of it surviving Hanson unease about the highly danger Ous nuclear package is reinforced by the find made of Cosmos wreckage at wardens Grove on the Thelon the debris consists of tubing and cylindrical parts that Are fairly Dan son by it should have landed far to the near great slave with other lightweight that suggests it was attached to a heavier fragment that either disintegrated on re buried itself deep in the or overflow the wardens Grove the search track for radioactive debris extends from great slave Lake in the West to Baker Lake in the near Hudson it measures some 30 Miles in fragments of the satellite Are being found now at the extreme Eastern end of the search which has been widened there because it is thought some particles May have drifted outside the 30mile Danson said the two largest pieces of de Bris recovered were found by visual sight the debris at wardens Grove was spotted by a land based party trekking Over land during the Winter Danson wants to equip local ramp detach ments in the search area with handheld Geiger so they will be Able to Check suspected fragments that turn up in the for he is urging the Start of an education program for fishermen and trap As Well As for local to Alert them to the dangers of handling strange metallic a question of degrees continued each of tin following Alexander of rameses Gregory of Idi support your evaluation with quotations from each mans making appropriate it is not Neces sary to sociology estimate the sociological problems that might accompany the end of the construct an Experiment to test your Theo use charts if political science there is a red Telephone on the desk beside Start the third world report at length on its sociopolitical of if engineering the disassembled parts of a High powered Rifle have been placed on your you also will find an instruction manual printed in in 10 a hungry Bengal Tiger will be admitted to the take whatever action you feel is be prepared to justify your economics develop a realistic plan for refinancing the National Trace the possible effects of your plan in the following areas the Donatis the wave theory of the automobile in outline a method for preventing these criticize this method from All possible Points of Point out the deficiencies in your Point of As demonstrated in your answer to the last physics explain the nature of include in your answer an evaluation of the Impact of the development of mathematics on mathematics if x equals i times a construct a formula showing How Long it would take a fire ant to Drill a Hole through a Dill if the length Girth ratio of the ant to the Pickle were philosophy sketch the development of human estimate its compare with the development of any other kind of general knowledge describe in be objective and abbreviations Are you will be graded for punctuation and reprinted with permission of the chronicle of higher copyright 197x by editorial projects for education a photo an Aerial View shows the devastation at Gas explosion kills six continued fourteen businesses and dwellings burned Down smaller fires erupted As the intense heat ignite Struc Tures up to 300 metres a plume of smoke visible for 50 Kilometres Rose from the a piece of railway car was hurled Over a building and sliced through a water main when it hamper ing firefighting until two pumper trucks Ray Blanton issued a statement saying the state was giving All of the help and Relief it Ive called on the White he and asked for i Aster Relief and my last phone communique was that they have a person on the Way to the site to visit it to see if we can get some Federal disaster the tank cars were among 21 of a Louisville and Nashville Railroad freight train that was derailed wednesday Salvage Crews had righted the Lon propane cars and were preparing to pump the volatile liquid fuel into trucks when it i thought it was the Gas company that went said truck Driver George who had just ordered a Beer at the do drop inn about 300 metres from the 1 was inside and after the Impact it blew me out of the inn and in the Riek an employee of an Industrial he was visiting his wife in an office across the Street from i had my nose stuck up against the watching the traffic go when All of a sudden the Glass started to he i saw a big Ball of fire and i pulled i thought an earthquake or a bomb had come to downtown he said he grabbed his wife by the hand and ran for the Back where they found a screen door we just right through he Axworthy Cal Prairie Liberal vanishing Breed continued the regional workshop was one of six at the Conven the others being presentations of regional priorities and beefs from the Atlantic British and the delegates were requested to attend a presentation by representatives a Region other than their Only 300 or so of the approximately delegates and observers at the three Day convention showed up forthe Prairie and about Halfway through the hour plus presentation it became apparent Western alienation was a subject that alienated Liberal Conven at that Only about 100 people remained in the hotel ballroom where the workshop was the exposition of historical Western grievances was livened when a Toronto Delegate called for the establishment of collective Farmers on the Prai Ron a onetime merchant was with one person in the room Yelling Hes an nip Sonny a Saskatchewan Liberal la and Farmer who was one of the featured retorted that the family owned farm was the most efficient Way known to Man to provide the la noted that under the Russia had been a net exporter of but the collectivization of farms under communism had made the country a net Axworthy said the Western provinces Are unhappy Over the Basic imbalance of political the Prairie provinces do not have the Type of political representation in Ottawa that they one solution would be election of the Senate that would revitalize the moribund originally 1 saved As a Means for the smaller provinces to counterbalance the representation in the commons of the populace Axworthy criticized the new stress on federa Provin Cial conferences As a Way of increasing provincial influence in Ottawa decision he called the conferences a fourth government and another step away from the Jim a Saskatchewan physician and workshop said westerners feel alienated because they arc getting a raw Deal economically and but he said people in the Prairie provinces Are will ing to make accommodations for French speaking canadians and Are willing to pay with their taxes for French language Keable ready for an Appeal flood possibility looms continued North Dakota and Minnesota and High moisture Levels at the Assiniboine River Between and Brandon int expected to flood under Normal precipitation but will be both Snow accumulation and soil moisture Are near Normal upstream of Brandon but above Normal Premier Sterling Lyon called the commit tees report a very preliminary forecast and said a lot depends on precipitation Levels and the Way the melt takes place and the Speed it hits the Lyon said that if flooding does occur the floodlighting operations of government will be mobilized in cooperation with the municipal fighting As the flood forecast ing committee is expected to report again in an official of the emergency measures organization said later he haunt seen the flood forecasting committees predictions but Emo is making routine such As checking supplies and lining up extra people to help and running seminars for municipal a report from the water resources division indicates moderate agricultural flooding on the Souris River from the International Boundary to Hartney and on the Pem Bina can be expected this Spring because Snow accumulations Are about 150 per cent of the report says Peak stages on the Souris River should be similar to 1972 and Peak stages on the Pembina similar to if precipitation is significantly above Normal major flooding on the Souris and Pembina Rivers is Normal precipitation and breakup will re sult in Nearman Fuu flows on the follow ing Rivers Minnedosa and and on dead horse flooding is possible if significant lev above Pilot found dead in plane Ben of the was found dead in the wreckage of his Cessna 150 aircraft Friday after being missing late thursday on a flight to a Canadian forces twin Otter search plane from 110 located the downed plane 60 Miles Southeast of the Pas by Fol lowing a signal from a Emer gency locator transmitter aboard the lost after the sighting a Rescue team was dropped and they reported that the Pilot was Falk had left the Pas at 1 10 thursday and filed a flight plan via Swan River and Dauphin to lie was reported overdue that night and Canadian forces launched a search Early Friday with a a Jet doing a High level scan to search for a signal from the the twin Otter later made a visual sighting of the lost aircraft and dropped the Par Rescue Montreal up the Keable commission released a Legal document Friday which outlines its plans to contest tuesdays Quebec court of Appeal ruling which could limit the Power of All provincial inquiries to subpoena documents from fed eral Cabinet the Appeal court shut the Quebec commission Down for several including that it did not have the right to Issue subpoenas against former solicitor general Francis cables sole Hubert released the 100page document with which commission lawyers will request leave to Appeal the ruling before the supreme court of the lawyers will face a three judge panel of the court March Sacy said he and the com missions two Michel Decary and Jeanpierre had worked 28 hours each in the space of two Days this week in order to deliver the request to lawyers for the Federal Justice minister and ramp by thursday had they not met the dead arguments on the re quest would have been delayed until March 20 because of the High courts rules of he in the the com Mission contends that the appeals court erred in Law by holding that commissioner Jean Keable May have Bro Ken the official secrets act by releasing some ramp documents Over objections from former solicitor Gener Al Fox lawyers did not accept Keables invitation to argue against the production of the the com Mission the appeals ruling was made on the basis of simple apprehensions that Are not based in fact and on pure speculation As to a Vio lation of the Law on official it the request says it is of National importance that the supreme court Rule on the Powers of Federal ministers to escape the authority of provincial in quiries into criminal Active the definition of National Security in article of the Federal court act which Fox used twice to withhold ramp papers from the if leave to Appeal is granted March commission Law yers will then apply to chief Justice Bora Luskin for priority on the Roll of hearings on the basis of the cases urgent Sacy a supreme court official said the chief Justice exercises a wide degree of discretion and could conceivably schedule a hearing before the current term ends on March the next of thrice Early terms runs from april 20 to june 20 while the final one starts 3 and ends in the week before he a who preferred to remain said it is virtually impossible that the Case will be heard in March for procedural the commission would More Likely be shooting for a hearing in april or he added that since the Case has direct implications for the constitutional Powers of All provincial the commission might also be required to advise other provincial attorney general to allow them to become Par this could cause an additional Berkowitz psychiatrists reverse opinion new Day new York two court appoint de psychiatrists have reversed themselves and declared son of Sam suspect David Berkowitz men tally competent to stand Daniel one of the two refused to com ment when asked if he had changed his opinion about Berkowitz ability to Aid in his own but sources close to the Case said that several weeks ago Schwartz had informed new York slate supreme court Justice Joseph District attorney Eugene Good and de Fence lawyers Leon Stern and Ira Mullak of his change of at the original competency hear testified that Ber Kounitz was mentally incompetent because of his paranoid belief that a group of Dennins was ruling his Lite and had pressured him into killing six persons in a series of eight at tacks in Brooklyn and the Bronx Between july 11jttj and july Schwartz and an Richard reportedly changed their position after Ber Koliu informed them that he now As a born again that he is serving Jesus and Hopes to preach the gospel should he be sent to who had concurred in Schwartz finding in also has changed his opinion and feels Berkowitz is competent to stand sources this now puts All the psychiatrists who testified at the competency including one hired by Gold who had said Berkowitz was compe in the defence is now expected to ask for a new competency hearing and bring its own psychiatrist into one of Berkowitz few visitors in recent months at the prison Ward of Kings county Hospital has been a Baptist woman sources at the Hospital the women is said to have become a major influence in current ;