Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Former arthritis foundation head says health system cannot Cope family of concern9 needed for arthritis victims by Manfred Jager if there is to be Good effective care of the growing number of arthritis victims in the Western world it will have to be based on the family unit says the past presi Dent of the rheumatism and arthritis foundation of Tasmania Australia. David Skegg a 34-year-Otd Mel Bourne businessman was in Winni Peg monday on the Home stretch of a month Long tour that had taken him to arthritis societies in India England Ireland Holland Switzer land and Canada. In an interview he said "85 per cent of All people will be partially or totally disabled by arthritis temporarily or permanently regardless of where they Skegg added that the health system cannot Cope particularly As older people begin to outnumber the Young. And while the family used to take charge of the Day to Day care of sick relatives in the past social evolution and the Pace of modern life have done away with the family unit and the relatives Are no longer available. We have to bring this feature Skegg said. Right now we re bogged Down in the eldest daughter syndrome with eldest daughters having to shoulder the Burden of care for the arthritis victim in the immediate family. That s not fair and spreads unhappiness and frustration among countless women who have wanted to live their own lives and pursue their own the new family unit would not necessarily be related by blood Skegg said but would rather be a family of concern. It s the Only Way we can Hope to Skegg said. He said he undertook his trip to see if i can find any common thought in the directions arthritis research is taking and to find out whether we re in a period of re search for research s Sake or whether what s being done is going to have any practical application to there Are some clues into some of the 97 diseases of the rheumatism and arthritis group of conditions and research is beginning to Zero in on others Skegg said. Some Evi Dence for example suggests that rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a virus and that virus May be the same one that affects people suffer ing from severe joint pain when ill with influenza. Victims of this particular influenza never suffer similar joint pains for the rest of their lives and this suggests they May not have had influenza at All but a very Active acute form of arthritis. Researchers in Many areas of the world Are starting to rethink their entire approach to the group of diseases we refer to As Skegg said there is renewed interest in the role of heavy metals such As Copper and even Gold Salt and their effects on arthritis. There is More emphasis on folkloric treatments of arthritis that have been handed Down through the and then there Are the new treat ments which Are under intensive investigation because unknown Why they work. One such treatment consists of an extract from the gonadal glands of the new zealand Green lipped mus Sel discovered about four years ago by Luck when an australian investigator looking for a new cancer drug was about to cast it away and patients told him it had helped their arthritis. This is one chemical taken in capsules which does not merely mask the symptoms of arthritis but actually interferes with the disease process Skegg said. In one research project no fewer than 258 patients were followed and All showed marked improvement in their conditions. Here s a drug we know works without being toxic except that people allergic to shellfish May get a rash and others May develop excess flatulence. Critics have attributed the successes to the Placebo effect and psychosomatic Medicine Are too Many successes for this to be True and besides the stuff works in dogs As Well. What is not understood so far is Why this extract works How it works and Why it works in one patient and not in Winnipeg free press tuesday october 17, 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 02b6 of Smirnoff it leaves you breathless Barbara Cansino whoppers downtown Winnipeg. It s bad enough that Portage Avenue the Winnipeg strip is getting glitches up by Long Johr Silver and circus circus and All those amusement Dens with All that youth hanging around until late at night so that you can t walk a Block anymore without someone asking for 25 cents. Bad enough you can t drive through Portage and main our own Yonge and blur a in less than 10 minutes because they be been building an underground shop there for a year. Now the City would have people think Winnipeg is something like Churchill. Infested with whales. Lome Leech Mickey Levine Klaus Fuerniss Fred Bogden Bernie Wolfe and de Franchi have come Back from Boston where they attended the american society of association executives conference which was at tended by people from All Over the world. The idea was to sell Winnipeg and the Winnipeg convention Centre As a Good place for conventions. Mis Sion accomplished. City councillor lome Leech reports Success in a nutshell i thought we stole the show. The theme of the promo lion is a whale of a province. A whale of a City. A whale of a convention Centre. And the big punch line was come to Winnipeg for a whale of a time. The City is using the same theme in the Grey cup Parade float. It s a big Beluga whale and Well have a lot of fun on the streets in Toronto. Come to Winnipeg for a whale of a Back to the Boston sell we originally thought of shipping live Beluga whales to the Boston aquarium. But there s a danger you May end up with egg on your face with two dead whales. So we commissioned a local Glass sculptor to make 100 Glass Beluga whales. They re eight to 10 inches did the promotion go Over Well very Well. Or. Leech said that Winnipeg should have six or seven conventions in 1980 and nine or 10 in 1981 As a result of the whale Sale. We re in demand let s put it that Way. They figured we had the Best Booth in the whole show. We outdid vegas and Reno. We outdid a lot of them. They All came up to our room the Beluga but or. Leech about these whales. Where exactly Are they in the red the Assiniboine they la be at the convention they will yes the Glass but the real ones. They re All up in Chur exactly. We had to convince them that we have them Only a nine Iron shot to the North. It s promotion personified. It s a hell of a theme and i think we told a sure did. Call me Ishmael. Doings they know How to do things at st. Aldan s anglican Church King Sway and Campbell. They posted a giant map of River Heights in the Church Hall invited members to walk a and the result Young people and old people have been walking the blocks of River Heights with brochures about the touch of crafts. What pottery sketching spinning and weaving porcelain bisque dolls miniatures macrame woodcuts leather work wooden toy making plants jewelry paper Art Candle making egg Ury China painting and Corn dollies demonstrated displayed and for Sale. When 10 . To 4 . Saturday oct. 21. Where st. Aidan s Church King Sway and Campbell. Why with the Long cold Winter ahead of us we Hope that some of our crafts being demonstrated will spark a new interest and hence a new Hobby for some of our patrons and help to while away some of those cold Winter says publicity chairman mrs. K. A. Sullivan. And also because it will make a varied selection of unusual gift items available for Early Christmas admission is 50 cents and there will be refresh ments the urge to create can be acted upon at the Quick quilting workshop to be Given by l. Phernambucq of the crafts Guild of Manitoba. Phernambucq will teach methods of machine piecing and quilting from nov. 17 to nov. 19 and from nov. 24 to nov. 26. It costs for members for non members. Deadline is oct. 20. For More information phone b. Willows at 489 2443____ it s like a mid fall night s dream. After last season s dearth of Good productions and Community involvement at Manitoba theatre Centre the theatre has opened its season with a hit and hot on the heels of the opening is following up with another Good move the re institution of the sunday night at the Mac Ware House. The opening hit is shake Speare s a Midsummer night s dream very Clever directed by Mac artistic director Arif Hasnain. And at this sunday night the play will be discussed at the warehouse. Lead ing the discussion is professor her Bert Weil newly appointed head of University of Manitoba English department. On the subject of Good news Weil himself sounds like Good news. A native of new Orleans he has come to Winnipeg from Connecticut where he taught for 16 years. Shakespeare s his specially. He has just presented a paper at the Shakespeare conference in London has seen Many product ions of a Midsummer night s dream the last one Peter Brook s. And he liked the Mac show. Very much. Except for the Brook i thought this was far Superior to ones i be sunday night Weil will Start off with a few words talk to has Nain and some of the actors about How they came upon some of the More unusual interpretations Why certain choices were made. Audi ence members can get in on the discussion and afterwards there will be music by Robert Cohen and Michael Honig who created the music for the show. Admission is free. There will be six sunday evenings like this the next one on the Ware House production forever yours Marie Lou by Michel Tremblay which opens the warehouse season nov. 8. The Cape Dorset annual graphics collection 1978 will be up for grabs at 9 . Sharp saturday oct. 28 at Fleet gallery. Get that up for grabs. This annual event is like an Eaton s Pantie Sale. People show up for breakfast this year at 8 ., and look nonchalant enough Over their croissants and Coffee. Until Zero hour when the nonchalance and the Good table manners turn out to be foils and you find yourself underneath somebody s win Ter boots. There is time to plan strategy for 70stonecuts, lithographs Stone Cut and stencils by 19 artists including Damasie Kanan Gelnak Lucy pit Seolak and Pudlo. Prices Range from to photo by Dave Johnson Defeated Liberal Jack Hare on his candidate Bob Bockstael left dropped in at Nia Kwa trave Lodge East to congratulate pc Victory in monday s is. Boniface Federal by election. Campbell to leave u of m by Debbie Lyon or. Ralph Campbell president of the University of Manitoba for about years has Given notice of his intention to leave the Post by june 30, 1981. Campbell s eight year contract with the University included the option that in the third year either party could give notice that the agreement would terminate at the end of five years. As i have told you and Many of my colleagues from the beginning it has always been my intention to exercise this option and so no one should feel that some event or events since july 1, 1976, have led to a change of Campbell said in a letter to the chairman of the University s Board of governors. The oct. 2 letter is contained in the Agenda for the Board s monthly meeting to be held thursday evening. Campbell was out of town on monday and unavailable for comment. The Board s executive committee said in its report that it received the letter with the University will have to establish a search committee by Early next year to give the members Ade quate time to seek a replacement for Campbell. The president wrote that his future plans Are completely nebulous at present. I Hope that there May be opportunities to do useful work in developing countries As an economic adviser or administrator but Only time will Tell if that is under his contract Campbell who will turn 60 later this year will receive a six month academic administrative sabbatical at 80 per cent of annual salary when he leaves his Post. This is consistent with University policy for senior administrators. His pension is guaranteed at 50 per cent of his final salary. Funding sources for the pension include his contributions to the u of m fund plus three other funds of which he has been a part during his past 27 years of academic service. Campbell s contract was for an initial five year term with automatic renewal for a further three years if the option to terminate was t exercised. Campbell an economist was Prin Cipal of Scarborough College at the University of Toronto before coming to Winnipeg. He has taught at the universities of Guelph and Toronto in addition to advisory work in Jor Dan and Kenya under the auspices of the Ford foundation. An Ontario native Campbell was a Farmer until he joined the Royal Canadian air Force in 1942. He was awarded the distinguished flying Cross and bar during his service. After discharge he enrolled in Politi Cal Economy at the University of Toronto. He later studied at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. Former policeman denied immunity by Brian Cole attempts to investigate former policeman Norman Brown s allegations of brutality against the City s police Force appear to have died. The latest setback occurred Mon Day when the Manitoba police com Mission recommended against giving Brown immunity from prosecution in Exchange for his knowledge about brutality by Winnipeg policemen including himself. The recommendation to Provin Cial attorney general Gerry Mercier was made after commission representatives met with Brown in Van Couver last month. Last june Brown told the commis Sion he wanted to make a full disclosure about police brutality and How it was encouraged within the depart ment. However at a meeting with com Mission lawyers Brown said he would not reveal any evidence about police brutality unless he was granted immunity from prosecution. Commission chairman Perry shul Man said it was decided not to recommend immunity for Brown because he did t prove he had information justifying immunity or the initiation of an inquiry into alleged police brutality or information concerning complaints of police brutality now be fore the commission. We were willing to listen and he declined to talk about Sluiman said in a Telephone interview. Our file on Norman Brown is Brown could not be contacted for comment monday however he is reported to have said earlier this month he was afraid that giving a statement without immunity would Only result in his being taken to task and the police Force going untouched. He also said he wanted to testify but was not about to become a Worth less sacrifice. A spokesman for the attorney Gen eral s department said monday Mer Cier was not considering taking any other action in the affair. Man found dead in burned out car ramp Are investigating the death of 18-year-old Sanford area Man who was found in a burned out car near Sanford about 15 Miles West of Winnipeg. The victim was identified Chael Brian Parker of Sanford. He was found at . Saturday. On Lake Winnipeg a Man is missing and presumed drowned after his boat caught fire on the Lake near barrens River sunday. Ramp at Lac Dubonnet said Lloyd Charles Batenchuk 8, of big Black River Man., was alone in the boat 10 Miles North and two Miles off Shore from barrens River when the boat caught fire about . Witnesses to the Accident were in the scene quickly but Batenchuk was not found. The search for his remains were hampered by High winds and Choppy Waters. Two Sisters Are in the children s Centre with undetermined injuries after a traffic mishap monday on Corydon Avenue. Winnipeg police said Chiam Cem Barki 8, and her sister Liza Barki 10, both of 427 Beaverbrook Street ran out in front of a half ton truck in an attempt to Cross Corydon Avenue at about . Eaton s space Odyssey a Star studded spectacle More than space fanatics and lovers of science fiction Are expected to visit the space Odyssey exhibition which opened at Eaton s downtown store today. The two week space spectacle took nine months to put together and is part of Eaton s plan to become More Community minded. We want to do More special Community oriented events like this in the says Phil Horch who s responsible for organizing space Odys sey. The Manitoba planetarium worked hand in hand in the joint venture with Eaton s. The exhibition features More than 100 displays dealing with a wide Vari Ety of space related topics. One of the most interesting displays includes a piece of Moon Rock which will be guarded Day and night a spacesuit Glove worn by astronaut Buzz Aldrin the second Man to walk on the Moon and an assortment of lunar equipment including a 000 titanium Box specially developed to carry Rock and soil from the Moon. Special attractions include a talk ing android called Teco a space ship movie House laser Light shows free foam flying saucers for kids a simulator weightlessness space rider and remarkable 3-d images of a Volkswagen and a Farmer s tractor created by Light. Special guests include Nasa astronaut Eugene Cernan commander of Apollo 17, the last manned exploration Mission to the Moon. Vader the sinister charac Ter from the movie Star wars Frank Drake the world s Foremost scientist actively involved in the search for intelligent life in outer space. Jillson world famous astrologer who has appeared on Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin shows. The two week extravaganza will also include a space fashion show and a Moon dance by the contemporary dancers ;