Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, April 22, 1978

Issue date: Saturday, April 22, 1978
Pages available: 256
Previous edition: Friday, April 21, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cansino t issues anybody born in March or april has already received the Green Drivers licence renewal form for this is not the year to ignore the Small on the underneath the part which says is a new place for Check Marks and it concerns the human tissue act chapter h180 the Small print says if you wish to donate your body or part of your body for transplant or other humanitarian purposes after please Complete the form then it says consent under the human tissue act chapter h180 there Are two choices Avail people having attained the age of 18 can consent to the after of my body or the following specified parts of my body and theres a line to name the specified underneath the specified parts line it says for transplant and other therapeutic research strike out purposes not in accordance with your one local Pisces who always meant t6 get around to donating his filled in the thing without then shortly afterwards his of humanity was overcome by his sense of cowardice and Lack of Faith in the infallibility of the ignoramus found out that to be of any Good must be removed after brain not after traditional whats the difference brain death occurs when the brain is irreversibly and the heart can Only be kept alive by artificial with your traditional death the heart has stopped As for Choice of body or bodily what to donate the University of Manitoba department of which uses cadavers for student and which is under the Anatomy act and not the human tissue act has a whole Load of dead our needs Are being a spokesman Bill president of the kidney Manitoba says theres a big need for kid there Are probably close to 100 people on dialysis at the moment and 50 or 60 would be better served with a and each year in Manitoba about 40 or 50 new patients come onto what about the above mentioned Coward you you sort of Pray about those but fortunately if the criteria Are adhered theres no Chance of Irene Bowman of the Eye Bank at crib says eyes Are there Are 55 or More on the waiting list and some have been waiting close to two theres never enough Eye removals Are not in the brain death you have to be completely there removed within six hours of says As Long As theres blood being pumped into the we cannot remove there is also a need for pituitary growth which is extracted from pituitary glands at is needed for growth hormone deficient Chil Virginia Durksen of the University of Manitoba department of physiology says we use about glands a with the growth hormone that produced were treating Over 200 we could certainly use Many people Are extremely dead when the pituitary is Are says has this innovation been popular the department of highways says there have been several phone some people Are confused because they think that its its but not too have phoned to How come the idea of a portion of their body being in somebody else body is repugnant to and if its a religious i dont i have no idea says Garth Public relations director for the department of theres lots of time to think on people can fill in the form whenever they and if they if the whole idea is repugnant to then slash a line across says and you can always change your if they have signed it in Mark it but dont rip the License please dont do Good touches if there was Ever a lottery where everyone went expecting to instead of merely hoping to it was the Winnipeg Art gallery tickets were expensive at but the Odds seemed a shooing at 23 to better than that As it turned because in the end tickets were sold instead of the projected Maxi mum so spirits were High at the lottery night gala wednesday night at the every just was believe it or All walks of life the corporate Fellows who bought one or two and the incorporates who chipped in on a while the prize went to the uninspired sound of Montcalm corporate and one of the two went to Blackwood it was in sparingly appropriate that Winnipeg artist Ivan Eyre won and that Winnipeg artist Bruce head won and the big was not won by great West life but by Lillian Allen and Betty who shared the Cost of the Ron Paley played Loreena Mckennitt people ate mushroom patties and drank red and White american and for the first More people saw More paintings in More Winnipeg Art gallery galleries than Ever Lionel Lemoine the chinese paintings from the Arthur Sackler the Winnipeg perspex the coming and going of the the recent works of Paterson Ewen should always have it so so should the about was department of injustice for years people have been receiving chatelaine Magazine for and for years they have been getting urgent renewal forms in the ignoring and getting the Magazine again whether they want it or this year the special renewal rate for these old friends is 15 issues for an offer mentioned Here april Olmstead of Winnipeg is one of those people who wants a subscription to and is willing to pay for perhaps that his he phoned to say he sent to chatelaine about two months the Cheque has gone through his Bank and that has been no chatelaine in the he has sent them a pertinent to the Point where the Hells my chatelaine that i paid for two months ago note if the computer cannot handle this wait until next dont answer the urgent renewal and youll get a 10year subscription for Winnipeg a fill 1978 2nd class mail registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless employees affected by excessive amounts of Carbon monoxide coach firm quizzed on Gas poisoning by Scott Edmonds the Manitoba workplace safety and health division has written to motor coach industries Over the com pants failure to report an incident of Carbon monoxide poisoning involving several in a group of workers at motor coach began to suffer from after medical it was found they had excess amounts of Carbon monoxide in their the examining doctor told the workers to take the rest of the Day another worker from a different who had been present in the motor coach Plant is reported to have passed apparently from exposure to Carbon Mon Warner motor coach said in an interview he was aware of the problem at the time but did not report it immediately to the workplace safety and health division of the provincial labor a government Industrial Hygiene specialist said it can be difficult to diagnose the cause of a problem when an inspector int on the scene in the motor coach notice took at least four it was Martin said neither motor coach nor govern ment inspectors have yet been Able to pinpoint the source of the although the workplace safety and health division re fused to reveal exact details of the director Vic Tor Rabinovitch confirmed it happened and that a letter had been sent to the bus manufacturer complaining about the delay in reporting the Rabinovitch Only recently tendered his resignation Over what he claims is the failure of the government to provide sufficient funding for the full implementation of the legis including an extensive educational program to familiarize people of their rights and responsibilities under the new Jim a representative of the mens the International association of machinists and aerospace workers said the unions biggest concern is that the workers did not report the incident he also said those told by the doctor not to return to work lost pay for the rest of their Martin refused to confirm or deny this and said Only that Normal company policy was Goodison said he Felt if proper reporting of the Inci Dent had taken a workplace safety and health inspector had been and he in turn had told the men to Stop the men would Likely not have lost their the Union was trying to get the men Martin said the incident want reported immediately to the provincial Agency because the seriousness of the problem want there was nothing really that we thought we had to Martin workplace safety and health act regulations concerning serious accidents require immediate while Martin said he had doubts about the Gravity of the the Industrial Hygiene specialist said can be no doubt of the seriousness of Carbon monoxide which and led to Deputy labor minister Jack King said he Felt the letter motor coach was a sufficient response in this King said some people might be unfamiliar with some of the required procedures because the legislation was on the question of whether the workers were entitled to be paid for the time they didst he assumed this would go through the proper grievance three year old Camille Harrison soaks up some Welcome Sunshine in Johns Park Friday by Dave Bonner new entry Laws could cramp Mac Steve Whysall new Canadian immigration Laws that impose restrictions on the hiring of foreign performers could cause cast ing headaches for the Mani Toba theatre Centre and Force the Winnipeg symphony orchestra to fill four Exi sting vacancies with second rate the new designed to ensure Canadian artists Arent elbowed out by came into effect april 10 and apply to All per forming artists including pro camera men and applied the Laws could spell big trouble for Canadas flourishing entertainment which at present relies heavily on imported in the new regu lations Are expected to hit the theatre Centre and sym phony orchestra the we dont think the Federal government should become an arbiter of artistic Gregory the theatres general said Fri a customs officer should not be an artistic deciding who is a better a he Poggi said he was speak ing not Only As a theatre but As chairman of the professional association of Canadian the theatre Centre hires about 11 or 12 foreign artists each representing be tween eight and 10 per cent of All artists he last British director Richard of the Bris Tol old was brought in to direct the production of Shakespeare she Stoops to Poggi is concerned that the new immigration Laws will prevent similar arrange ments in the this Poggi expects to clash with the new regulations when he begins searching for Talent for the six plays scheduled for the fall we dont use a lot of for eign but we do like to use English and american artists from time to he Winnipeg symphony or Chestra is trying to fill four vacancies principal Sec Ond principal second oboe and applications from local musicians have already been received and auditions Are being if the locals fall plays to include Shakespeare and a Cobourn three of the six plays scheduled for Mani Toba theatre centres fall season were announced Friday by Gregory the the Atres general they Are death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller a Midsummer nights dream by William and How the other half love by Alan the other three plays will be announced next Poggi Kurt who directed night of the iguana at the will direct death of a and Arif the centres artistic will direct a Midsummer nights a director for the a Cobourn play has not been found Poggi Arent up to the or Chestra management intends to advertise if they still cant find satisfactory Canadian they Hope to attract some for eign that unless the immigration department forces them to take second we dont think that is Likely to the Immi Gration people have always been fair with they have never questioned our judg ment Bob Mcgrif the symphony act ing general we have to maintain a High Standard and some times it is necessary to go out of the country to find artists up to that he if foreign performers Are brought in to fill the four the government intends to Issue them with a work permit and visitors visa which will restrict their contracts to one after the orchestra could be ordered to search again for a suitable cabbies ignoring safety Shields Winnipeg taxi Drivers api patently Are not taking advantage of a Manitoba taxi cab Board regulation allow ing them to install protective devices in their acting Board chairman Mackling said Friday he want aware of any application for inspection of such As the regulation Rei this was later con firmed by a Board the recent regulation allows taxi owners to in stall an appropriate safety shield Between front and rear a hidden Micro phone and a floor vault in the cab As Protection against All such installations must be inspected by taxicab Board inspectors to ensure specifications for such de vices Are 41 when the regulation was published recently in tie Manitoba which periodically publishes All such Legal announcements in the Winnipeg tax owner Ken Gener Al manager of uni City said such equipment could Cost up to to install and predicted Many would be Mackling said Friday it May be sonic time before the Board gets its first application to inspect such unless there is a rash of cab robberies in the mothers welfare Appeal rejected an immigrant Mother whose Winnipeg son says he earns annually and who sponsored her to Canada has lost her last Appeal for the Kurshid Unni a had appealed a provincial depart ment of social development decision denying her social authorities told her that her Khaja an had assumed responsibility for her when he sponsored her i Migra she was born in India but came to Canada from Paki after reviewing the Appeal of the woman to the Manitoba court of jus Tice Monnin wrote that he would not allow the Appeal to the highest court because there was no basis in Law for he wrote that welfare should be paid Only to a person who would Likely Lack the Basic necessities of Nizamuddin was not in that position because she lives with her son who sup ports her and is Well Able to do Justice Monnin the woman Appeal had earlier been turned Down by an Appeal Board of the social service advisory in a letter to the Board in the woman had writ ten that to turn Down her Appeal would in be to treat her As a second class Canadian citizen and that such discrimination Between Canadian citizens based on color or place of origin Are sic totally unacceptable to both myself and my son who also happens to be a Canadian citizen As but the social services a peal Board said that when the woman son sponsored her admission to he sponsored her As a depend making him responsible for her care and maintenance for an indefinite period of Driver charged after High Speed Chase a High Speed Chase by police started in Boniface Friday night and ended in downtown Winnipeg with speeds reaching 128 Kilometres an hour Over a police spokesman the Chase started when an unmarked police car avoided a head on collision and was forced off the Road by a car travelling in the opposite direction on traverse Avenue about police during the the vehicle ran five Stop signs and two red and travelled the wrong Way on a one Way the spokesman at one Point in the the police car had forced the vehicle to Stop on the median of marys when the police car pulled up the Driver of the stopped car rammed the police car and drove off at High the Chase was finally ended on the end of Kennedy Street in the downtown two passengers in the vehicle had climbed into the Back seat of the vehicle for Refuge when they realized the Driver want going to said the Paul Louis of 70 Villen Euve was charged with impaired refusing to dangerous leaving the scene of an and breach of the liquor control who is this Man Canadas agriculture minister recently announced government plans to provide greater Tariff Protection for Cana Dian fruits and vegetal can you name him which Canadian province has no sales tax in which weight division does Guererro Chavez hold the Canadian boxing title avid news readers might know the others might want to All Are invited to take the quiz on Page 50 of today free the quiz is published each week As part of the free press school news it allows Stu dents and other interested readers a Chance to see How much they know about current read the free press to keep up with Canadian and world and try the quiz ;