Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Alice Krueger rough Justice in restraints theres some pretty rough Justice being meted out in the name of provincial a look at some of the percentage wage increases either or tossed around by the pc ceilings on funding and the resultant increases in fees and fares All Point to a growing Rich and poor in take they thought they were being offered a pittance when the government held out a per cent fee increase during wage talks earlier this their executive scoffed at the offer and appeared to reject it out of it turns out per cent Doest look so bad after compared with what others might so now the doctors Are voting on results of the balloting Are expected later this what they decide remains to be but it be surprising if they vote to accept the after hearing How much less in store for other workers in the Public while they Are offered an increase of almost seven per the very support staff they work with at Victoria Hospital Are supposed to accept a per cent pay Cut or face the Prospect of losing their jobs the doctors should also consider themselves judging from the governments offers to the Manitoba government employees bargaining has been under Way for about five weeks and Mega president Bill Jackson is fast coming to the conclusion that someone in government is looking for a so he the government has made offers to two of the eight components making up the the inspection and regulatory workers have been offered a two per cent the clerical component has been offered in says the government wants to take away existing benefits from the clerical so the proposal actually amounts to a pay the Meas initial contract demands Range Between nine and 20 per what annoys Jackson is that the clerical workers at the lowest end of the pay scale Are offered the thereby widening the even if they got the same percentage increase As the it would still be considerably less in actual Dollar he it should also be noted that the two offers come no where near the four per cent figure tossed out by finance minister Don Craik in his budget address last it is recognized that our Economy is in a sluggish he said in his we in the Public sector cannot afford to see excess Ive wage settlements that exceed our rate of growth in it is imperative that wage settlements not outstrip our Revenue base and end up a ongoing we Are asking that All those involved in Public sector negotiations recognize that provincial reve Nues and thus our ability to pay for increased including wage settlements will Only grow by about four per cent this Craik also indicated it might not be such a bad idea if the four per cent figure were adopted by the private sector As Public sector action alone will not be enough to ensure that Price and wage increases arc kept at reasonable he so How come per cent for the two per cent for some government workers and nothing for others there is no sign that the government plans to increase the provincial minimum it Hast been adjusted in two but the surtax on personal incomes of and Over will be lifted at the end of this on the other Side of the Coin Are some of the recent fee increases As a result of reduced provincial the percentage increases far outstrip any percentage wage these include financial assistance to the City of Winnipeg Frozen for this year and possibly for next year if the task forces recommendation is the City has responded by increasing property taxes by about 10 per cent transit fares by 40 per cent and parking meter fees by 150 per provincial funding for hospitals held to an increase of per with the result that workers at Victoria Hospital Are being asked to take a per cent pay Cut to avoid University funding to increase by no More than about three per student tuition fees at the univer sity of Manitoba to increase by an average 20 per cent at the University of Winnipeg by about 24 per cent and at Brandon Likely by about 14 per fees for nursing Homes to increase by 20 per in they Are to be extended to an additional750 Manitoban awaiting placement in per Sonal care Winnipeg free press april 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless German Shepherd saved three lives Ole will be Absentee hero at dog show v photo by Gerry Cairns Gordon Burns entertains Ole with a game of by Ron Campbell the ramp service is a hero and hell be getting his award monday at the dogs in action show at Polo but the dog and his Gordon Burns of the ramps Hea Dingley wont be in town to take the be on an annual five Day refresher course All week at Innis about 60 Miles North of where All ramp service dogs Are Dies award is for three incidents in which his search work is credited with saving a he found 13yearold Cindy leis who had collapsed from frostbite after seven hours lost in the Bush in 30 degree weather on a Christmas tree Hunting expedition Ole also found fillip who got lost in the Bush 8 while mushroom Paktor had a heart was deaf but didst have a hearing Aid and was exhausted when Ole sniffed him Ole came to the Rescue again 20 last finding Dennis who got lost the previous Day Hunting in the Nuti Mik Lake area of the who Burns said he bought a German at six weeks while stationed with the ramp the dog will be four in in they went to the Innisfail training Centre for the three and a Hal month Basic training then from april to Ole and Burns went to the area to do vip Security and explosive Detec Tion work for the olympic after they came to Manito where Ole lives in a Kennel at Burns Hes not really treated As a said Hes treated As a work ing a dogs average working life with the Force is five Burns though some have worked As Long As after Oles working Days Are Burns plans to keep him As a family Hes trained in riot control and explosive Burns the attack training is strictly con trolled Burns the dog is trained Only to hold the prisoner secure until resistance if we have a dog that starts to we dont use Hes Fin in addition to his Rescue Ole has also helped track criminal suspects and find criminal such As suspected murder he was instrumental in leading police to the capture of four Stony Mountain Penitentiary escapees two years ago after they had taken guard the convicts cornered at the Rosser because Hes a German Shepherd police dog Doest mean Hes Vij Cious just the Burns he can play with adults Hes just full of since Hes psychologically bonded to his master the one whet plays with and rewards him j Ole would be merely indifferent a stranger pets Ole gets one meal of Ordinary dog food a Day and is exercised f Burns also puts him through Peri Odic simulated training sessions keep him the dogs pastime is in think Hes the Best Frisbee Catcher in the Burns other ramp Doland master teams in Manitoba Are stationed Ajr the Brandon and but strings mean City May never see Money province reaffirms housing pledge by John Sullivan the Manitoba government has reaffirmed a million pledge to get Winnipeg stalled nonprofit housing corporation off the but the City still May never see the the province told the City last week it will continue to budget for a million contribution to the but said the City should seek capital funding from the fed eral government or private sources before the Lyon gov Erna joint actually parts with any it seems to me to be a Complete Dodge of the councillor Bob Bock chairman of the fledgling Winnipeg rehabilitation housing said tues i think there saying that the principle is Fine but there must be other ways to get the Money than from the he were All ready to All we need is some see Money and Treyve sidestepped it in the City corporation was Given a five year mandate by City Council last july to buy and renovate substandard houses in the inner City for rental and resale to Lowin come Federal funding for the rental portion is available through the Central Mort Gage and housing Corpora Tion Chc and the residential rehabilitation Assis Tance but the City has anxiously awaited a provincial decision on funding for the resale Effort since the conservative govern ment took Power in the cites official delegation has repeatedly asked the province to Honor a commit ment by the former new democratic party govern ment last May to provide a million revolving Jund for the project As soon As it was Bockstael ice tache said the City had even appealed for less than a Quarter of this amount just to get the thing off the but in a letter to Winnipeg mayor Robert Steen last Frank minister responsible for the Manitoba housing and re Newal corporation appeared to quash chances that provincial funds will be forthcoming in the near fun Johnston said although the government supports the principle of retaining and up grading older City housing the corporation re quires further study before the province will make a definitive commitment to contribute any in an obscure the minister said he wants his staff to explore the possibility of Chc funding in the Light of changing Chc loan and subsidy support poli cies presumably to ensure that Federal Money int seeking work with City 20 increase Over last year the City of Winnipeg has received an estimated applications for full and Par time employment since the beginning of an increase of 20 per cent Over the same period in even though fewer jobs Are available this in a Telephone interview the cites general manager of person said pro Gram cutbacks and a Blanket freeze on the expansion of the civic service Are forcing departments to reduce hiring in order to meet were expecting to hire fewer peo ple than we did last year since there Are fewer jobs the exact number of which has yet be deter Finnbogason interviews for Between and summer by far the bulk of them in the works and operations and Parks and recreation depart Are with a number of people already on the Job cleaning the streets or raking Finnbogason first dibs on these positions Are offered to what Are called Call backs Par time and casual work ers who have experience and seniority in the civic service with the remainder doled out to an estimated 600 High school and University Stu about the Only full time hiring Tak ing place in the civic outside of additional staff for new or expanded is in the replace ment of employees who have re been released or Finnbogason yet to be considered by councils executive policy committee is a suggested program of selective attrition of civic under study by the civic Board of available for the resale por Tion of the project As if direct support Chc is John Ston the City should Fry to get necessary capital funding from private lend ing the two governments might agree jointly guarantee any such he As the minister he is equally interested in How provincial payments to the revolving fund would be How would be purchased and renovated and How the proper ties would be resold to ensure fund is approved by the City last year after a study of housing alter Nav the housing Corpora Tion was slated to Purchase and renovate about 155 Homes for rental and about 240 for resale during its first five City Council agreed to pay about in administrative costs the first year and Over the five year with All but being recovered from sales and a seven member Board was named to run the hous ing body last year and the organization was incorporate de about two months Prairie researcher makes plans for maritime lobsters by Debbie Lyon de Byard might be Prairie bound by geography but his research interest certainly int it stretches to the Atlantic Ocean and could affect the maritime lobster of the University of Winnipeg biology depart has focused his studies on How crustaceans like lobsters reproduce and Molt activities occur in carefully timed and distinct understanding control mechanisms in these cycles is important for research and Byard the information could be applied commercially in seeking meth ods to artificially raise lobsters and manipulate their seeking to stimulate the maritime have been involved in attempts at or production of lobsters in controlled Byard they also have sought ways to make lobsters which take about six years to mature in the cold Nova Scotia Waters grow More quickly into marketable but changes Arent fishermen Are suspicious of researchers with their shiny they fear aquaculture will threaten their traditional livelihood Al though Many rely on lobsters for Only part of their sold mainly to a luxury Are important earners for the economically feasible Aqua culture could be an important added but its politically sensitive and Byard is pessimistic that it will become much More than a subsistence Industry heavily subsidized by because of climate and Peoples reluctance to take a lobster aquaculture is feasible closely related to have been grown in controlled environments for some time in the Southern United aquaculture has its not least of which is its Labo intensive and costly Byard penning lobsters off in a coastal Bay can be destructive if there overcrowded since these hard shelled Ani Mals Are territorial and will attack each there also finicky without a proper including other their meat will Discolour and they wont be temperature control of the water is important As it will affect growth and lobsters Are subject to kill by a bacterial infection called Gaff Kemia which is hard to control in intense researchers Are working on lobster feed with fish end products and Byard there also looking at substances to inoculate lobsters or to mix into the water to fight Byard advocates developing shrimp sized lobsters to prod uce a cheaper consumer product yet not one that would compete directly with traditional lobster these shrimp sized lobsters would aim toward the super Market Trade they would be like you would just use the if you could get a Large enough you could handle them the Way shrimp Are handled the lobsters would be smaller than the four Pound animals now sold to Consumers and used by or the three Quarter Pound size used in overfishing of lobsters along the Eastern Canadian and american coasts have caused governments have tried to Cut Down on the number of fishermen through licencing restrictions and freezes on new Byard said stocks probably have remained reasonably because of an increase in the numbers caught per hour Are Down in my there Are too Many people fishing for since the lobster Industry is controlled closely by gov research primarily is funnelled through govern ment like Byard was attracted to the Field by a Chance to do applied he worked under a National research Council Grant at the biological station in Saint while a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Ontario in the political overtones involved in the work steered hint Back to More academic his physiological investigations focus mainly on female lobsters and the Little studied relationships Between melting and egg product these which utilize much appear to under hormone he this allows simultaneous growth and and times the Molt to take plate when females Arent carrying eggs Are carried on the females underside for several months before the Young the eggs would be lost in the controlling nervous system appears to be lodged in the animals removal of the eyes talks make a lobster Molt and grow More quickly under some suppress or stimulate egg byards studies use chemical approaches to isolate Hor Mones and he also uses an Electron Microscope which magnifies up to 100 times greater than optical or Light microscopes and enables detailed study of Byard will go to Bermuda later this month to examine spiny in the he will Harvest Manitoba he will try to get them to Molt and reproduce next Winter under controlled conditions at the ;