Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Takeover bid the cac fears reduced Competition if the Bay takeover of Simpsons is a tougher Taw needed see 57 our town Londo trash is a group of artists who examine the Rock and condition and the music Cloudy Low Winnipeg free i guide Ciai Section devoted to skiing Are to go where to get equipment Grything you need to enjoy Winter 9142 final 97b Hospital bed shortage inexcusable my by Gary Hunter a medical doctor says an ongoing shortage of Beds for severely ill per sons i Winnipeg hospitals is Crimi Nal and a former president of the Manitoba medical fired off a letter to health minis Ter Bud Sherman wednesday night after experiencing difficulties in trying to have a patient who was suffering from a subacute Small Bowel obstruction admitted to the Misericordia to his crust said that at 9 wednesday the emergency muting Ward and the holding unit at the Hospital were full and another six patients were lying on stretchers in the emergency department were the above rare events one could possibly accept the situation As an but it happens Weekin and week out with depressing crust said that while seriously ill patients Are being denied More than 60 Active treatment teds at Misericordia Hospital Are occupied by Lon term the time has Long since passed when this government should Autho Rize the Long overdue construction of alternate care facilities for the chronic cases clogging up the acute care Beds of All Winnipeg Hospi executive director of the Misericordia said of crusts but its nothing Bartman said a shortage of acute care Beds has occurred on a regular basis Over the past few agreed that one of the main problems facing his Hospital and other Winnipeg hospitals was the Large number of chronically ill patients who remain in acute care Beds while awaiting placement in nursing he said this problem was most pronounced in the Winter months when Many elderly people who make up the majority of the Chroni Cally ill Are bedridden because of asthmatic conditions and Bro Ken Bones caused by slipping on icy Steps and until a space comes up in a nursing there is really no where else they can he Bartman said Misericordia has 340 Beds excluding maternity and paediatric about 20 per cent of those Are currently occupied by people who would be More suitably placed in other a he said the percentage of Long term patients now occupying Beds at Misericordia is up marginally Over previous president of the 725bed health sciences said the shortage of acute care Beds at that institution was a real frus see Green diversion Page 4 fighter selection reduced Ottawa up the Competition for Canadas fighter plane contract has been reduced to two aircraft the general dynamics f 16 and the Mcdonnell Douglas defence minister Barney Danson said the Cabinet decision Means that four other aircraft three american and a european have been dropped and final contract negotiations will begin with the remaining Danson said in the commons the government also has decided it will select one aircraft rather than Choos ing a mixed Fleet of two the minister indicated the f16 and the f18a were recommended to Cabi net because they came closest to meeting the government demand for 130 to 150 aircraft for the the f16 has had engine trouble but company officials say these Are being the f18a is a Carrier based plane of can be used on Canada has no aircraft see f16 familiar Page 4 auditor general Ottawa should fire Public spendthrift up photo auditor general Macdonell suggests firing of spendthrift commission recommends parts incentives no Call for Auto pact revisions by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa this is not a Good time to attempt to renegotiate the Auto pact with the United the Ca Nadian governments commission of inquiry into the automotive Industry said the commissions recommendation ended speculation that Canada might soon negotiate a larger share of the North american automotive Simon in his 250page report tabled in the commons by Trade and Commerce min score Board Foo Tau inside 9t Popie 15jj ister Jack said there Are several other policy initiatives which do not require an immediate response from the or other trading part Reisman suggested Canadas Best alternative for restructuring its Auto Industry lies in building a competitive Auto parts the commission found the future relatively Bright because of the move towards lighter they will use More aluminium and plastic two Fields in which Canada has an the commission suggests the government Start to encourage existing Auto parts manufacturers and investors from Canada and abroad to invest Large amounts in the develop ment of an Auto parts Industry to serve the expanding Market for Light weight Auto the commission said the govern ment should act to ensure the Neces sary financing is the commission recommends Sev eral Steps the government could make Loans to Auto parts it could set up an innovative Trade arrangement devised by com missioner the government could allow each foreign vehicle producer Volvo or Dat Sun for designate Simon Reisman no time for new Auto pact one vehicle importer in this importer would shop in the Canadian Market for automotive parts for the foreign car reporting All purchases to the govern his purchases would earn him new import privileges As an enticement to buy pans in once he purchased a sufficient num ber of parts his manufacturer would be allowed to import foreign cars duty Ottawa up senior civil ser vants should be fired if they dont spend Public Money efficiently or with proper regard for parliaments auditor Gener Al Macdonell said hours after releasing an annual report that said Public servants have looked atthe Federal Treasury As virtually Macdonell told a news conference that senior bureaucrats should be subject to the same rules As their colleagues in private Many Public servants Are grossly Macdonell those stories surface see pages 6 and 7 with heavy responsibilities should make salaries similar that paid the head of up rail More than a he lets fire them if they dont do a decent Macdonell said he would far rather see a system where top civil servants Are paid the kind of dough they could make in private business As Long As it was Clear the govern ment could Boot them if they fail to in his Macdonell said Public servants dispense millions of dollars each year with Little regard to whether taxpayers Are getting value for their at his news Macdonell said recent government restraint programs have made civil servants More Ive certainly detected a new Atti he two years he reported that parliament and the government had virtually lost effective control Over he the government is approaching a degree of Macdonell said the entire system of government is conducive to Empire adding that civil servants find it difficult to get promoted Sim ply by showing they Are Able to run programs economically and Effi he said he looks Forward to the Day when bureaucrats win favor by show ing they can manage Public funds in the promotions went to those with innovative ideas for new spending he said who said he plans to retire sometime before his term expires on said would be disappointed if future auditor Gen reals reports dont show even More improvement in the Way tax funds Are handled improvement should flow from new accounting which attempt to show whether taxpayers Are get Ting value for their plus the fact that parliament is starting to get some real clout when it comes to examining spending by depart Macdonell suggested that the new accounting method could become Canadas answer to proposition a reference to moves by californians to gain a tight new grip Over Public value Cormoney accounting should be considered Canadas proposition he suggesting it be named after the Date his report was re it is his sixth and the 100th since the office of auditor Gener Al was Macdonell says the government has see spending Page 4 highlights Ottawa up highlights of auditor general Macdonell annual report on government spending tabled thursday in the Public servants see the Federal Treasury As virtually bottomless and spend millions of dollars annually without due regard to econ efficiency or parliaments plans for the Federal spending in the 15 years since the fiscal year 196263 has in creased 487 per cent to billion for the year ended last March Public Money has been wasted needlessly on major construction projects ranging from Indian schools and to air ports and flood financial control and manage ment of Public Money has improved with the appointment of a comptroller general but All civil servants must be Given the clearest possible direction to see that tax funds Are spent Cost of living rises to in october Ottawa up the Cost of living increased slightly during statistics Canada reported the 12month inflation rate Rose to per cent from its september level of per the Federal Agency attributed the Rise primarily to higher food prices and the expiry of the sales tax reductions in last Springs Federal budget in six a revised consumer Price Index was used for the first time in calculating the october Coston living statistics Canada said the revision does not mean a break in its month to month series of changes in the inflation rate because september was used As a link with an Index which would work under either sys the Basic change in this months Index is that the items included in the governments Basket of de signed to represent the expenditure patterns of an average household was modified to give food a less important role and housing greater the Index is still designed to show what a typical consumer spends on health care recreation and education and tobacco and alcohol compared with what he would have spent to maintain the same lifestyle in the consumer Price Index for octo ber stood at compared with its september level of an increase of per this Means a typical Basket of goods and services which would have Cost in last month Cost ail items except food were affected by the end of the retail sales tax reductions in six in most cases this meant a consumer paid three cents More on every Dollar the sales tax reductions had been in effect since another important item in the in creases in nonfood products was an increase in property taxes of an aver age per the increase in the food component of the Index was attributed mainly to higher prices for beef and a jump in the Price of fresh Many of which were no longer Avail Able and higher prices for milk and woman testifies about gunpoint intimidation pm am Ptg water by Brian Cole Dorothy a Cher told a woman she was holding at gunpoint last january she and her husband Herbert had nothing to lose because they had already killed two police the first degree murder trial of the couple was told in a quavering Irene Penny testified Archer made the re Mark shortly after she and her Hus band broke into the Penny farmhouse eight Miles East of Virden on High Way 1 and demanded medical supplies and under Cross examination by Jay counsel for a Penny testified the state ment about killing the two police officers was made As More of a threat than an admission that she took part in any Penny was so shaken by the experience that during her testimony Crown counsel Jack Montgomery paused several times to allow her to regain her the woman evidence was heard during the ninth Day of testimony at the trial of the archers on a joint charge of first degree her Bert and his have pleaded not guilty in connection with the shooting death of ramp Dennis Onofrey outside the country Side inn at Virden last january Onofrey was killed by a single Shotgun blast during a gun Battle outside a Motel room As he and three other ramp officers were investigating a stolen vehicle one of the officers accompanying ramp corp Russell Horn previously testified that Ono Frey had his gun drawn prior to Hornseth knocking on the door three times and identifying himself As a police Garry Harrison has also testified Archer told ramp he shot an officer outside the Motel room door after he saw an officer cock his testimony was that Archer was wounded during the Exchange of Penny told the lineman three woman jury thursday that she and her husband discovered the a each armed with a Rifle and a in their living room seconds after being awakened by dogs do what youre told and you wont see woman Page 4 4 4 ;