Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday july 18, 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless Barbara Cansino uneasy last tuesday an item called not so easy considered the subject of Beauty contests. It said the winners of the miss universe miss Canada or miss Manitoba contests Are usually the ones with the Best Teeth and legs even though the girls Are supposed to have brains As Well. The miss Fol Lorama contest however is somewhat More demanding because the girls get More Points for their knowledge of the country and culture they represent than they do for personality poise Charm and appearance. Or. Adrian Ashley of St. Germain Manitoba has written to say article in the tuesday mpg. Free press july entitled not so easy made me feel uneasy first of All the miss Canada winners Etc. Are hardly comparable to the beauties picked in the miss America contest As far As Good looks go. They usually look like they be been picked for brains alone anyway. My biggest beef you seem to think that if a woman is a Good think tank that makes her Beautiful. Some of the smartest women i know have very ugly personalities what about our More unfortunate groups of ladies who. Through poverty or Backwoods location have not had a Chance to broaden their Intel Lect this Ridi Cums idea of a girl with a Good brain being Beautiful now becomes quite ludicrous and makes those girls who Are eligible quite a Small minority of most canadians. It Only gives you a Small upper Middle class group to choose from. What about our native people what about the lower income illiterates Are they ugly because they can t answer a Bunch of ridiculous questions Are they unintelligent because they never had the Opportunity to enter a High school or College i think this idea of brains being Beautiful deserves even less consideration than Good looks. More like about 10 Points or eve i i meanwhile. Means in be. The Winnipeg Blue bomber football club is now looking for girls to enter the miss Blue bomber i97s Conti St. The girls must be aged in to 12 and single and no girl should Ever have been a professional Model says Marlene Donaldson of advertising and Public Ity. U by not because they an Edge on poise. Von get a lot of girls who Are new at being a miss and they Don t have the same just in of asking on what basis Are the gals judge Don a combination of personality intelligence looks and says Dar Litie. Adds "1 think we want More than Jusi a pretty face. Tile men might strictly go on looks and figure. I Don t know but i kind of think a lot of them do. I Don t think they d Ever admit it. But i think that s tin Way it probably is. But we get a couple of women to round it out a Bil. I think be women Arr a Little More so far. The judges Are Don Percy of sky. Vicki Warner from the Academy of self improvement and modelling. Claire Ashmore. List year s chairman of the miss Blue bomber contest and Gene Anonym link. Advertising manager at Sears. May he most Beautiful and smartest girl with the greatest personality win a Beautiful wardrobe from Sears and an All expenses paid trip to take part in the Grey cup pageant Parade and football game. Snapping hint up Andre Laplante. The Quebec pianist who just shared second place honors in the very prestigious Tchai Kowsky Competition in Moscow has already been snapped up for concerts with Canadian orches tras. The first to Nab him was Montreal the second Toronto and the third Winnipeg. Laplante will perform with the Winnipeg symphony orchestra in a special concert. April m in the Centennial concert Hall. Coming co Hoedeman. Who won the hits Academy award for the Best animated film Sand c Astle. Is coming to the University of Manitoba from aug. To 5 to be a resource person fora film course for Art teachers. The course is offered by the u of m education faculty. Hoedeman. A native of Amsterdam has lived in Canada since Litlie. Produced Many films with the National film Board is Active in the association internationale do Cinema d animation. Spent four months in Czechoslovakia Stu dying puppet animation and worked on two films with Eskimo artists in Northern Quebec. He says his inspiration comes much of it anyway from his three children. The Public can see Hoedeman s films and meet Hoede Man too at s . Aug. 3 in the Winnipeg Art Gal Lerv perfect Johnny Rotten. Punk of punks who led the sex pistols Punk Rock group walked out in disgust when the group at its Peak of obnoxious Ness. Did not attract a suitable dose of violence and idiocy during its United states Lour. I mean we re either in the business of being disgusting or we re not. The gesture bore a certain integrity Mick Jagger would never have done it. Never did do it in fact. In fact he s still singing satisfaction a decade after he s had a whole lot of it. But nobody s perfect. Johnny Rotten included As it turns out. He s just gone Back to his Given name of John Lydon and formed a new group. It s called carnivorous buttock flies whatever that portends. Inflation to All architects campers engineers workers technicians tent makers and theatre goers d guess How much the tent Cost at the Manitoba theatre Centre january production of the contractor answer Fusil including labor material and 21 guess How much it was budgeted for answer collectors items overheard in the gallery shop at the Winnipeg Art gallery what is Saleable in our shop is not what a collector is looking a Larry Nho works there to a collector. Useful to know Hen you re shopping around for an of skin sculpture Toronto talks Swift Canadian and meat workers reopen bargaining for the first time since the strike and lockout of meat packing Plant workers across Canada began negotiations Between Swift Canadian co. And the Canadian food and Allied workers Are taking place in Toronto. Ewald Schentag. A Union spokesman in Winnipeg said the talks began Mon Day morning and wednesday Manitoba Union representatives would be meet ing with their counterparts in Toronto for a National policy conference. Schentag said it was hoped the Union would have an offer from Swift to con Sider at that meeting and added it was unlikely any Public statements would be made until thursday. Since settlements Are National All bargaining takes place in Toronto. About 2.000 workers across Canada in Winnipeg alone have been on strike against Swift for about a month and 1.000 employees of Canada packers too in Winnipeg have been locked out of their jobs. Burns and intercontinental Are also part of the National bargaining Al though Only Swift is negotiating at this Point. Schentag said Canada packers has committed itself publicly to the Swift settlement although any settlement must really have de Facto Industry approval before it lakes effect. The Union has demanded Swift extend to Canadian workers sonic of he Bene fits workers in the company s Ameri can plants receive the Union says agreements pro vide for 10 per cent More in pensions and wages of up to my cents More an hour Ako. In the . Employees can retire at i while in Canada they must wait until age workers rejected a i.5 per cent wage increase before striking. Meanwhile talks Are to resume wednesday Between another striking Union and Manitoba employer when Canada Safeway Ltd. Sits Down at the bargaining table with negotiators for retail store employees local Safeway is continuing to open stores and. With 17 open out of 30 Winnipeg outlets is coming Ever closer to fulfilling a prediction made earlier by Union president Bernard Christophe that All stores will be open before the strike ends. However Christophe claims the com Pany is Only Able to continue opening stores because it is hiring the largest part of its staff off the Street. Company spokesmen claim the majority of employees in the open stores Are Union members who have crossed picket lines to return to their jobs. Christophe said monday the store managers Are phoning employees and threatening them with demotions or firings if they Don t return to work which he said demonstrated that they were beginning to get desperate for workers at the open stores. They re opening the stores faster than they have people to Man he said. He said the Calls constitute an unfair labor practice and evidence is now being gathered fora formal complaint to the Manitoba labor Board. Company spokesmen were unavailable for comment. The Union has been staging mass pickets at selected stores and the next one is planned for thursday at the c or dim Avenue and Lanark Street location. Conciliation sought at atomic installation Gary Harrison 30, got More than he bar gained for when he took his new jeep out for a workout sunday afternoon in a Field near the perimeter Highway and Wilkes Avenue. Everything started All right As Harrison drove along a dirt Road at about 60 Kilometres an hour. But about half Way up a Hill his bumper hit an embankment and pivoted Forward thrusting the jeep into the air. Rear end first. He then straightened out in midair tipped Forward and nose dived to a crash Landing. The jeep turned Over 1 2 times and landed on its Side. Photographs of the mishap were taken by Denis Beauvais. A Friend of Harri son s who had gone along with his camera to record Harrison and his jeep in action. Harri son was taken to Grace Hospital where he received about a dozen stitches and was treated for a whiplash and other minor in juries and released later sunday. But the s8.ooo jeep was destroyed. Negotiations Between live unions and atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. In pin Aua. Man. Have broken Down and the parties have requested mediation by a Federal conciliation officer. Lloyd Ratti. Chairman of the unions negotiating committee said in a Tele phone interview he did not know alien a conciliation officer would be appointed but the unions would not be in a Legal position to strike until about a week after the officer had submitted his re port but we feel a conciliation officer might be Able to break some ratio said. The International association of machinists. Canadian Union of Public employees. I United steelworkers of Anu a Cia. And International of firefighters have been without a con tract since May the fifth Union involved the pipe fit ters International Union has been without an agreement since april All contracts expired after the end of the Federal wage control program. After four months of negotiations the unions have rejected a two year agree ment with proposed wage increases each year of six per cent and an additional two per cent in fringe benefits. Instead they have been requesting a one year agreement under the current government restraint program or a Cost of Liv ing clause in a two year agreement. Firefighters have Given a commit ment that they will Honor any picket line set up by the other unions. The firefighters have been pressing unsuccessfully for binding arbitration for several years at the installation but have not been Able to win management approval. There Are about 221 workers the the Manitoba installation and Ratti said that in the past they have always been virtually forced into accepting whatever contract was negotiated by the much larger research establishment at Chalk River. On. However the workers at Chalk River voted against a memorandum of agreement signed by their negotiators that just happened to come up shortly after the latest cosi of living figures were published. With Cost of living rising at about nine per cent workers Are unwilling to accept six percent wage increases. Although the autonomy of the Mani Toba operation is a Side Issue in the negotiations. Ratti said the decision of the Chalk Kiver workers has made it possible to avoid testing it at this Point. New Aid expected to put St. B Hospital in Black by Manfred Magek Richard c r i d d1e. Vice president of St. Boni face general Hospital said monday the institution would have incurred departmental deficits of to this year without additional allocations to hospitals by the provincial government. Health minister l. R. Cud Sherman announced the allocations last week adding million to the s2.i7.fi million provided for Hospital operations in 197n-79. To meet past expenses and pick up for Many hospitals the additional support will mean their budgets will Rise four to per cent from last year. Earlier this year budget raises of no More than 2.9 per cent were announced. As you know we had announced earlier hat we would find ways of managing under the government s 2.9 per cent Crid rile Sair monday. But then we found liar had a few things contend with which would have caused a budget deficit after All i would say some thing Between ski Mumm and by the end of the current fiscal year next March Criddle said the too bed Hospital budget was about million before last week. Yield from the new Money is estimated about he said. Apart from it radiology technologists with whom wage talks Are continuing no major labor settlements Are outstanding at his Hospital. Criddle said. Negotiations with he a Ray employees arc going Well he said. President Peter swerhon the health sciences Centre sail monday he won t know until later this week if the new Aid will keep the province s largest health institution out of the red we re having an executive meeting on wednesday to discuss the whole Manitoba nurses to stay on strike Union Federal nurses in Manitoba Are determined to remain on strike and support their counterparts in other provinces until an acceptable wage settlement is reached their chief nation Al negotiator said monday. Registered employed at Winnipeg s Leer Lodge Hospital went on strike last week despite Ottawa s contract offer offering them wage parity with their Uncial counter parts the chief National strike Issue Norma Busby said. Is. Busby head of the bargaining learn for federally employed nurses in hospitals and Northern nursing stations. Made the statements at a Winnipeg press conference on the Federal nurses current rotating walkouts. She admitted the offer met the National demand in in Al Case Only reluctantly after being asked How much her Lodge Hospital registered nurses lag behind i hair Ontario nurses and being asked the Winnipeg question twice again is. Busby said the differential Bei Voen d or Lodge and health sciences centres Sirj since Federal nurses in Manitoba earn about median salaries for the rns employed by Ottawa. Is. Bushy said the Federal government s offer Over which nurses Are striking happens to give them parity with provincial nurses. Without a collective agreement for about in months the Federal nurses Are paid about to less than their counterparts employed in provincial Hospital systems asked if there was any likelihood that per cent of the nurses declared essential and nut allowed to strike might walk out anyway. Is Busby said absolutely this would be considered abandoning paid ends. She said and would no be accepted professional behaviour. Four designated nurses under threat of prosecution in Montreal after not reporting for work were ill last week and doctors certificates to prove it a. Busby said she said nurses remaining at quirk Here and in of her institutions Are overworked despite new patients being fused and work loads declining As patients leave the dispute also involves Public health nurses a Vio Northern Anci is Bush he said. The thing is being right now. All 1 know so far is that we had More Money than originally asked what his Hospital s budget was before the additional funding and How much Money is being provided earlier reports up its anticipated 197h-79 budget Al about million at least s2.h million Short of rents swerhon was reluctant to say. The whole thing would be he said. You can t rationalize this be cause we Don t know what you mean when you say orig Inal swerhon said some labor negotiations such As with the Canadian Union of Public employees Are still not concluded. Cupe s 2.000 service workers at the health sciences Centre have been with oui a contract since april 30. Senior executives if other major Winnipeg hospitals ire on action and could not he reached for comment ;