Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba I win Amie Witt March ban Drunken Drivers for doctor says by Andy Blicq Manit Bahs convicted of Drunken driving should lose their licences for William a Winni Peg psychiatrist said speaking at the the Salva Tion army annual dinner Davidson said the current acceptable blood alcohol level is there is no such thing As a Safe alcohol an ounce of liquor is enough to impair the Law should no permissible blood alcohol and if offenders should lose their licence for he setting a level is Ridick its different All Over the Davidson he cited an incident in Lou where 18 people were killed when a ferry collided with a it was reported the ferry Captain had to be carried on to the boat because he was a lawsuit against the ferry company was lost be cause in Louisiana the allow Able blood alcohol level is the Captain had a level of Davidson in the allowable blood alcohol level is you literally have to be dead drunk to be convicted be cause a is considered to be a fatal blood alcohol he urged canadians to Fol Low Sweden swedish Law sets the allow Able blood alcohol level at a figure he says is the usual Reading in an individual who has not been swedish Law provides for a mandatory penalty of loss of licence for life As Well As an automatic jail sentence of one year for Drunken drive with no Appeal Privi the swedes also provide a service for would be Drivers who have been a Driver May phone the police for an escort two men will be and one will drive the Drinker Home while the other drives his the swedes deter frequent use of this taxi service by allowing Only one trip every five additional trips Cost the Driver the equivalent of Davidson the swedes have seen drinking and driving nearly disappear As a result of these he Manitoban Are faced with the danger of alcoholism be cause it is profitable and socially the provincial government received and the Federal government in taxes from alcohol last Davidson the government Sells they Are the he Davidson said the Revenue from liquor should be used for solving problems caused by in my in Canada people Are assaulted with alcohol problems of Cri Sis Davidson said in an interview after his they the government dont make a profit in the Long run when you consider the Cost of hospitals and so Cial problems caused by Davidson said that in 85 per cent of All automobile at least one of the parties involved has a measurable blood alcohol at least 35 per cent of the people in the hospitals casualty department Are there because alcohol is everyone should phone their member of parliament and say we just wont Toler ate the current Laws regard ing please change these weve got to Tell our Chil Dren we have made mistakes As far As drinking when they say there is Noth ing wrong with we must answer it will not improve our society if we add Davidson called on parents to show their children the right my children know that in Side my House they wont deviate from my he one of the rare very specially priced at an Aust Ulun cts into Depths in f Warren photo by Bob Lowrey Patay Weenusk right How to release Spray from a fire extinguisher at a practice Blaze caused by gasoline during a course at Oxford coaching him is Barry a fire prevention ire prevention course zeroes in on helping 56 Indian reserves by Bob Lowery Thompson the tragic loss of life from fire on Manitoba 56 Indian re serves May be reduced by a Twoy Earold fire prevention program instructing native people in fire fighting and fire prevention statistics show that from 1965 to there were More than fires on Manito Bas reserves and 285 deaths in 1976 there were 16 fire related deaths on the re Only six last year and none so far this Accord ing to Barry regional fire prevention and construction safety officer for the fed eral Indian affairs depart some fire extinguish ers have been distributed for Homes and other Reserve buildings under the fire prevention program and Are gradually being made Avail Able to All reserves in the the provincial govern ment has a similar program serving Remote Manitoba As Well As getting the in Troge charged fire Extin Reserve residents Are also trained to use them on various types of the extinguishers can operate in weather As cold As 65 below f and Spray for a 15 second other stages of the fire prevention and safety pro Gram include installation of smoke detectors and alerting system in Homes and build provision of portable and Mobile fire fire fighting training and the establishment of a Community fire safety the program has a Long Way to but it is says Max former chief of the gods River Narrows band and now responsible for the program on 20 Northern people Are losing their fear and learning what to if we keep at Well save a lot of lives and that what this program is All program officials say there getting a steady Stream of stories from the reserves about Homes a lives saved As a result of the fire safety training and the fire extinguisher Dis Tribu Dewar and Bee were at Thompson recently training and issuing extinguishers to about 150 Oxford House re serve a color film called he comes without shot on Albertas Knock Reserve and featuring chief Dan was portray ing a fire in which a Mother and her Young daughter were the cause of the fire was a hot Iron carelessly left on an ironing two other hot cords can Burn and liquids can were also Fol How to buy a new Home for buy for june in March the Bestland no one knows where the prices of Homes Are but by summer you can bet have gone that Why the Bestland Way is the Best were the Only developers Wholl deliver your Home in London East Kildonan for a firm contract most times in 60 to 90 featuring fenced and fully landscaped front and Back Yards including Trees and paved Concrete drives or parking sliding Glass Patio upgraded carpet ing Cushion flooring in Kitchen and mahogany roughed in plumbing in a completely finished and integrated Community with no thru let us show you a sure thing the Bestland Way to buy a new single residence a limited number left attractively priced from 54305 10 and Little at 5 Down 2 furnished dip Jay at 5557 Hershey off Kimberley in 66m322 show Homes open 19 daily 126 All local i y paid for 2011311 Portage 7745514 Lowed by a humorous Jim Miny Cricket cartoon on a fire prevention Bee gave commentary on the films and other instructions in the Cree outside the band everyone was Given individual instruction and practical training in fire extinguisher the trainees had to put out a fire in a 45gallon drum and a fire in Wood chips against two pieces of plywood set at right angles to simulate the Walls of a Dewar also spent time instructing caretakers and others designated by the band Council How to fill used fire extinguisher As Well As giving instruction at fire prevention officers do a safety Check of each Home on the Reserve with the permission of the chief and hazards such As having gasoline cans and other flammables inside the often too close to a Wood or Oil burning Are pointed Bee and Dewar stress that in Case of first Clear the building then see what can be done to control they advise keeping a fire extinguisher near the main there have been three houses Burn Down at Oxford House in the last two and Many More in previous though the old timers cant remember any loss of Jack father of a Young Oxford House said he liked the training be cause up to we didst know what to do when a fire broke we Haven had about All we could do was watch it the trouble with fires in communities like this is you get very Little a lot of our houses Are old they Are All made of Wood and Burn to the ground in about 20 Small claims could hold key by Allan Wilson people who have been paid less than 95 per cent of their income tax rebate by the two main Street tax discounters have a simple Way of getting the rest of their according to Legal Aid lawyer Vic Savino said for a fee amounts up to can be retrieved by using the provincial Small claims people phone us and ask what they can we Tell them to use the Small claims there Are so Many we could never handle wednesday a free press Story said rays income tax service at 682 main Street offered a reporter posing As a transient per cent of his tax legally he should have been offered 95 per Ross manager of said he was aware of the 95 per cent Rule but no business in the world can go on a five per cent thursday Alvin Tetreault contacted the free press to say he had been offered just Over for his return by Quick return income tax service main his documents show the actual rebate owing was this Means he was offered just Over 50 per cent of his he walked out when they refused to give him any Savino said if enough people follow the Small claims it will keep them the discounters Busy in the Small claims procedure starts by going to the county court phone number on the second floor of the Woodsworth building on Broadway and asking to speak to a clerk about Small the person making the claim should bring his tax Docu if the person did not get the second Sheet of their t4 slip Back from the most employers will give out a photocopy from their files if they Are the clerk will help the person draft a statement of claim on the tax then a court Date is if a claim is filed now the Date will be set in the first week of a clerk said the person will be Given a summons to deliver to the who will then have to appear in court on the Date the clerk in court the proceedings Are very Savino the judge will hear both a lawyer is not but the person can bring or have himself represented by a a paralegal or a a judgement will be made Savino the discounter will probably be ordered to pay up to the Legal 95 per cent games organizers plan to continue Coin sales Commonwealth games organizers in Edmonton will continue Selling special games medallions even though the mint which prod uces and markets them is having financial a statement from the organizers says the Selling pro which Hopes to raise in will continue despite the difficulties experienced by master mint of the games together with Sherritt Gordon mines will continue Selling the single medallion for and the set of five for about Gold Silver coins and an unlimited number of Nickel coins remain to be so the games foundation has raised from the body on Beach jolts canadians on Mexico trip by Robert Willaard for Phil and Lee 19 began like so Many other gloriously Sun soaked vacation Days in a Pacific coast resort 500 Miles Northwest of Mexico a leisurely a stroll on the Beach and the inevitable hint of Peppy mariachi music filled the Mazatlan and the hazy Sierra Madres beyond looked just As the travel brochure had except for the gory body of a tourist they found washed up on the Beach in front of the Swank Holiday inn that figures in no Holiday recently a rash of news reports have appeared in the press Here and the telling of tourists dying violently and under dubious circumstances in at least seven canadians Are believed to have been murdered in Mexico in the past year an unusually High according to one Canadian embassy official this in the last two months four canadians have been robbed and killed in Guadalajara and 1 dont have any statistics on hand but from the experience of people around the office this is an unusually High Anna the embassy official said in a Telephone interview from Mexico Hughes said Canadian authorities usually get excellent cooperation from mexican police in investigating suspicious deaths of but the Schacter based on their own experience believe they feel Mazatlan police covered up to protect the tourist Trade which is picking up slowly after reports of violent and mysterious deaths in the resort that left most hotels virtually empty last he was a Young husband of free press entertainment critic Lee recalled this week of their macabre encounter on the Beach last he Lay face Halfway on the Beach and Halfway in the and he was bleeding from a four Inch Gash on the right Side of the the blood pouring from the head turned the water a the couple called the police who investigated and said it was an one local paper said the next Day the unfortunate 26yearold tourist had been missing for 24 hours and was found on the Beach in front of the Ole trailer Park instead of the Holiday officials found no signs of violence on the said the daily the Schacter brought the Story was headlined a drowning on seagulls i cant for the life of me imagine How this Man got such a big head the Beach is very sheltered in front of the there Are no rocks and the nearest Island is about a mile Lee Schacter i cant see for the life of me where hed have hit his unless he was hit before he ended up in the she added the victim was apparently from Denver and two friends travelling with him immediately left Mexico after their Friend was she said other hotel guests who saw the two said they were the newspaper report made no mention of robbery and the Schacter dont know of embassy spokesman Hughes said she was unfamiliar with the incident and suggested an erroneous newspaper report could be the work of the paper not necessarily the As tales of mysterious deaths and gunpoint holdups on mexican highways intermittently reach Canadian and so do tourism figures fluctuate in this a record canadians Are expected to visit the country up 20 per cent compared with according to estimates of the mexican department of with this the Canadian embassy cautions canadians to be More careful Hughes said travel by night or off major carrying much Cash or jewelry Arent advisable in As Well she said canadians must realize that while in Mexico there subject to mexican we find that a lot of Young people think if they commit an offence they can always say in a Canadian and the worst that can happen is that ill be sent the chances of the embassy bailing canadians out of trouble Are usually Hughes there Are 10 canadians in mexican most of them on drug charges serving up to six if they wish they could be returning Home later this year when Canada and Mexico Are expected to sign a prisoner Exchange the and Mexico signed such a pact last it has already brought scores of Young americans Home to serve out their time in Hughes said the Canadian embassy has a particular prob Lem keeping an Eye on canadians who travel in far Flung areas of Mexico off the beaten tourist when some thing happens there local authorities often forget to notify the Hughes partly because of it can take weeks or even months for reports of murdered canadians to reach Only this the embassy confirmed that Alan of Vancou ver was robbed of and stabbed to death in january in in that same month a Vancouver couple was found shot and burned on a pig farm near while in february ramp Constable Lonnie Neely was reportedly robbed of before he died after allegedly falling off a Mazatlan hotel six of the suspected murders Are still under investigation by mexican in one Case a suspect is now awaiting Neely death cause escape attempt Toronto up a wit Ness said Friday that ramp Constable Lonnie Neely died in Mexico after jumping from a third floor hotel bal Cony while drunk and trying to escape three Security guards armed with night Garry of Salt Lake said in a Telephone interview that he watched As ran to escape capture by hotel guards with whom he had fought earlier in the hotel ramp k division in Edmonton said Friday that Neelys death was due to which in Legal terms indicates that the death was not the division said in a news release that inquiries by Ca Nadian embassy officials from Mexico ramp officials from Alberta and mexican authorities had con firmed that the 19 death was caused by an accidental from the the release said that an investigation was being con ducted by mexican police into the death of the consta who was stationed in the southwestern Alberta Community of ramp Sheldon Kelly said in a Telephone interview that Neely jumped after a confrontation with hotel Security Kelly said that Neely prob ably thought he was on the second floor when he decided to ;