Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd potato rebellion the Spud makers want their chips off the junk food blacklist see Page 25 fitness Are school gymnasium programs really of any educational value see Page 77 expensive junk million hydrofoil bras d or is headed for the scrap Heap v see Page 49 Ace sunny High 16, Low 3 Winnipeg free press wednesday september 27, 1978 cents 251 we in col old comics vol. 85 no. 300 marijuana Only Relief for victim of muscular disorder by Brian Cole Jane smiles and sat Back in her wheel chair with both legs Over one hide and her hand against her Fate. But before she can speak the Tele phone rings. She moans. Her twisted pushes against the wheel of her chair and with seemingly Unco or donated movements she moves to Ward the table. As she reaches for the receiver her other begins to shake slightly. It s difficult but she finely picks it up and places it near her ear. All the time she is smiling. As she talks to her sister on the Telephone her arms and legs continue their slight uncontrollable move ments. After a Short conversation she forces her twisted against the wheel and pushes her chair Back to the table where she drops the receiver on the Hook. It s All she says in a slurred voice replying to a ques Tion. The simple exercise of picking up a Telephone is difficult for Jane be cause she can t control her mus cles. Jane not her real name has Dys Tonia muscular is Defor mens a rare genetic disease that attacks Mes sages from the brain making it impossible for her to control any mus Cle in her body. The disease has lifted the tall slender 21-year-old Winnipeg girl from the mainstream of a life that she loved to live and dropped her into a wheelchair. The girl who had All the poise of a Model now can t keep her body from moving. But while the speech is slurred the thought is sound. And although she can t control her movements easily it will could soon be made easier for her by a drug marijuana. Jane s doctor w. J. Davidson an associate professor of pharmacology therapeutics and psychiatry at the University of Manitoba is in the process of getting permission from the Federal government to con duct tests on the effect marijuana s various ingredients have on the girl. Jane has been smoking marijuana illegally for several months and Davidson has conducted tests which proved to him something in the drug helped relax Jane s Muscles giving her improved muscle control. Davidson says he already knows the drug has a beneficial effect on Jane he just wants to find out which ingredient is doing the trick. Jane agrees she can control her self easier after smoking a few joints. For example before taking the drug Jane s written signature is a scrawl. After smoking marijuana she is Able to write her name per fact la. See my Page i Success for Ouellet postmen initial Ottawa up a tentative settlement has been reached in the Dis Pute Between letter carriers Ami Hie Federal government. Mail delivery is Normal today Afler More than 11 hours of negotiations Between the Teller carriers Union of Canada and officials of the Federal Treasury Board. A memorandum of agreement was signed Early today. The talks were conducted with act ing labor minister Andre of Illel acting As the go Between for the negotiators on either Side if the Dis Pute. Ouellet said details of the Settle ment would be kept secret until All Union members had a Chance to see in. However he said both parties compromised during the course of he talks. As a result we can say a responsible settlement has been achieved in the Best interests of the Cana Dian Union president Robert Mcgarry said the Union s bargaining commit tee was unanimously in favor of the tentative agreement. Mcgarry said the settlement was As Good As we could achieve under the lie thanked Ouellet for getting both sides talking again. He also told reporters that details of the tentative pact would be kept quiet unil they had been communicated to the members. Mcgarry said settlement is far better than threatening the government had been consid ering Back to work legislation this week but this was put aside Mon Day night when Mcgarry contacted Ouellet and asked that negotiations re sume. The talks started at 1 . Loot tuesday and Afler several hours Mcgarry called off rotating strikes threatened for today. For the first seven hours Union and Treasury Board negotiators Sal in sep Arate rooms with Ouellet acting As go Between. Later they met face to face to discuss a proposed letter of agreement. Rotating strikes were held in eight centres Friday and monday but mail delivery was Normal tuesday As the Union called on the Federal labor de pc Arment to help solve its dispute continual Sec Postis Page i Apollo o a Pacific Southwest airways Boeing 727 is seen shortly before Impact. Third plane suspect in jetliner disaster tougher votes predict san Diliego. Calif. A a second Small plane May have confused the Pilot of a Pacific Southwest air lines jetliner that collided with a single engined Cessna killing at least Iso persons a . Government safety expert said tuesday. Phillip Hogue. Supervising the National transportation safety Board investigation of the worst air crash in . History said the jetliner and a twin engined Cessna had been cleared for Landing on the same run Way at Lindbergh Field. Hogue said the spa Pilot had acknowledged an air traffic control warning of another plane near the 727 but May not have noticed the single engined Cessna 172 that collided with the crowded jetliner. Listening to the Tower tape rec it s apparent that the twin engine plane was making its a Hogue said. They had made their approach before the sin Gle engine one. The Pilot said. They but we re unsure what plane he was referring to. The spa Pilot probably was Hogue said cockpit and traffic control Tower tape recordings May mean the spa Pilot a 17-year aviation vet eran was aware of the twin engined Cessna but did not see the single engined plane. He said investigators Are trying to find out who is the Pilot of the twin engined plane which appears to have landed safely. It was just another aircraft in the traffic Hogue said. How far ahead it was of the other single engined i can t Hogue said the cockpit and Tower tapes will be Analysed by investigators in Washington. He added that investigators cannot see Pilot Page -1 by Mary Ann Fitzgekald Manitoba s politicians foresaw tougher Battles in several Rural and Urban Ridings us a result of pro posed new constituency boundaries released tuesday. The consensus in provincial Politi Cal circles is that the political climate will be a key in the next election because of the number of marginal seats which could change hands. That would favor the opposition if any anti government trend Deve loped. If the 1977 election had been fought on the proposed new boundaries they say the new democrats would have lost two or three Central Winnipeg seats to the conservatives but picked up two or three from the tories on the Western Edge of the province. However it would t have changed the political fortunes of the parties much. Among the marginal Urban seats mentioned were the new fort Garry. Riel. Wolseley Radisson Osborne and Polo Park. With the Rural areas taken away from Brandon Leav ing the two City constituencies there. Brandon West was seen As a less Safe tory seat. It is now held by consumer affairs ministered Mcgill. While Brandon East is held by new demo crat Len the old Birtle Russell and Hoblin constituencies carved up with parts shifted to Virden and Riding Moun Tain Are seen As vulnerable to change under the proposed redistribution. The proposals released tuesday by the Independent electoral boundaries commission Are still tentative. They face possible revision after a series of Public hearings oct. In to before they go to Cabinet and then to the legislature for approval. The new boundaries the first to be drawn in 10 years would not go into effect until the next election in Kiwi or the boundaries commission. Made up of chief Justice Samuel Freedman of the Manitoba court of Appeal. University of Manitoba president Ralph Campbell and the province s chief electoral officer. Jack Reeves. See provincial Page i score Board baseball american league Nev York 4 Toronto 1 Baltimore 3 Cleveland 1 Boston i Detroit 0 Oakland 10 Chicago 3 Kansas City 4 Seattle 1 Minnesota a Texas 1 California 4 Milwaukee 3 National league Philadelphia 5-0 Montreal 3-3 Pittsburgh 5 Choc too 2 Houston 2 Atlanta 0 hew York 3 St. Louis i Cincinnati 6 los san Decoo 4 san Francisco 1 77 inside anytime.7 finance.58-62 horoscope.42 jumble.65 bridge.41 letters.19 movies.35 crossword.21 television.33 deaths.5, 63 weather.5 Sun rises . Sets 7 in . Moon rims . Looking for a pet this want and is under pets 41 12 week old borzoi Pup. Male purebred registered. 284-7231 or 2s7-c794. It is among hundreds of bargains in the classified Section starting on Page 63. No it stir Ahtl not of i mop Woltti fret path want rent a car firm denies f connection by Paul Moloney de Posen president of Winnipeg based Host ltd., said tuesday that his company has not received preferential treatment from Otto Lang Federal transport minis Ter although he conceded that Lang s broiler in Law acts As a lawyer for the Host franchise in Regina. Posen said the brother in Law. Tony merchant does t work for the company directly. In any Case rather than receiving favors from Ottawa he maintained his company has been royally shafted by the Federal government. Posen was replying to a Montreal news Story which revealed Host s link to the transport department and added that the company has failed to pay nearly in Back rent to the department for the use of Airport car rental Booths. Posen said his company won t pay the amount claimed because Ottawa breached a contract setting out terms Sec rent a car Page 4 conflicting figures embarrassing Cullen up plk.10 nip Leader de Broadbent says manpower officials have been ordered to suppress unemployment figures locally and nationally. Ottawa up employment minister Bud Cullen said tuesday that regional officials have been told to Stop figuring out local unemployment and labor surplus rates because it causes him embarrassment. And he said calculations of the numbers of unemployed and employed in local areas on the basis of occupation or Industry Are for inter Nal use by the department not for Public consumption. Cullen made the statements at a news conference called in response to release earlier in the Day of Docu ments by de Broadbent new demo cratic party Leader who said officials have been ordered to suppress information on real unemployment rates to hide higher figures and eliminate embarrassment to Cullen. While Cullen accused Broadbent of twisting the meaning of the memo Randum containing orders to regional employment department directors to keep the information confidential or not produce it at All he basically confirmed the nip Leader s state ments. Cullen said the embarrassment is caused when local calculations differ from figures produced by statistics Canada in its monthly labor Force Survey. He said the local calculations Are sometimes inaccurate or Are a combination of statistics Canada figures the number of unemployment insurance claimants in a Region and the number of persons registered for jobs at manpower centres. Cullen said he is faced with the Job of explaining the difference Between the two unemployment estimates and that s the embarrassment the conflict that i however Callen denied lie wants to make unemployment look severe see Page i Grain Export floor Price proposed Washington up Canada and the three other major wheat exporters might gain billion from co operative action to Sel minimum Export prices for wheat a Canadian senator fold his . Counterparts today. Senator Hazen argue Kat Chewan told members of the . Senate agricultural committee that half of that gain would accrue to the United states with the other half being split among Canada. Australia and Argentina if wheat exporters co operated at the level of the current . Target Price of a Bushel. Argue and four other members of the Canadian Senate s agriculture committee Are visiting the . Capital to promote the idea of can Ada-. Action to set minimum wheat Export prices of a Bushel . At the farm Gate. In his prepared statement to a hearing sponsored by the . Com Mittee argue said he has Assur ances from the Canadian govern ment that it will co operate in such action if the . Government agrees. The United states provides slightly More than two fifths of wheat traded Between countries and Canada provides slightly More than one fifth. Argue added that the two coun tries will rain More than just Large economic benefits if they co oper ate to push wheat prices above production costs. He said most important of All in our opinion would be the benefits reaped by the Rural Economy and those that produce in and for it. Wheat farming would be Able to attract the skilled Young people which it requires in this highly technological and manage really advanced age. Benefits of equal or even greater importance would accrue to the Domestic Economy from the greater stability of wheat prices to Consumers and to other agricultural producers. The disruptions to livestock production and meat con sumption which resulted from the drastic Price increases of five years ago Are still being Felt ;