Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba O Tell firm quickly Consumers Bureau advises payment problems starting after Yule spending sprees by Andy Blicq december s Christmas cheer for some Manitoban turns to dread in january. Spokesmen for Manitoba s con Sumers Bureau say january is the traditional month of atonement for Over zealous Christmas shoppers. Consumer services officer de Smith said Manitoban who know or fear they have Over extended them selves in the pre Christmas buying Bonanza in january Call the Bureau and ask what if i Don t pay what can happen what Are my rights what Are the company s Bureau director Paul Cavenagh said they Don t provide debt coun Selling they do provide information on How to handle credit problems. The Cardinal Rule Smith said is As Early As possible get in touch with the company and see if any thing can be warned that if they creditors Are going to extend the account Check the the Cost of extending payments or making other arrangements with creditors May be no advantage compared with scraping together the amount needed to make the payment Smith said. In the Case of credit cards the interest Rale is 20 and 24 per cent he said. Possessing a credit card is not a right its a he said adding that errant account holders Are often asked to return their cards and in extreme cases Mer Chandise can be seized. Above All else if an individual fears he has overloaded his credit Don t wait until the axe Falls. Con tact the company Cavenagh said. First of All investigate All your finances to see if you have a problem. Sort out your priorities. See the companies and work out an agreement but weigh the arrange most companies Are More than agreeable if you have a genuine Smith said. By Early february the Bureau receives a different kind of phone Call. The ones who Haven t made proper arrangement Well be getting the Calls from them in the next month or so when someone comes to the door to make a repos Smith said. Usually at this Point it s too late to negotiate with the for people who have had Mer Chandise repossessed All they have to do is pay the arrears and repossession they have 20 Days in which to do Smith said. People who make promises Over the Telephone to pay creditors but have no intention of doing so May deliver themselves into a worse situation. When they Don t fulfil the promises the company is not As oblige Smith said. He also warned that making pay ments to creditors and ignoring rent and utilities can also Lead to trouble. In the Case of withholding rent the landlord has his rights too. He even has the right of eviction Cavenagh said. With utilities there s a threat of in crisis debt cases individuals May also use the Manitoba govern ment s orderly payment of debts program or even declare personal bankruptcy Smith said. How can Manitoban protect themselves from credit difficulties one thing for any and All of us is to take a Long look at what our commitments Are before we Start contracting for Caven agh said. Its a Good time for people to take Stock of their he added. People have Smith said. How can you Stop people from Over extending them selves it s a National Winnipeg free press thursday january 11, 1979 City news 2nd class mail registration number 01sb it leaves you Barbara Cansino the eclipse part two last saturday afternoon or. Richard Bochonko of the University of Manitoba department of mathematics and astronomy spoke at the Glen Lea astronomical Observatory about the total eclipse of the Sun on the morning of feb. 26. Risk to the eyes if you look directly at a partial eclipse the Sun s rays can seriously damage the eyes. The Point is says Bochonko we never look at the Sun directly. But Sherels really no reason to panic. I hear there Are schools thinking of keeping their kids indoors. I Hope they Don t do Bochonko referred to the controversy raised by the Canadian optometric society. The society has warned that the eclipse should not be viewed with direct devices. Bochonko says the attitude the optometrists Are taking is that of someone going away and hiding the same attitude As persons who won t let their child go swim Ming in Case he drowns. The concern is very valid and Correct. I m object ing to the method of solving the problem. We should educate people on How to observe recommended devices referring to welder s glasses and there is no risk whatever if they Are used properly. Bochonko says the eclipse visors being produced and marketed for 75 cents by the Manitoba planetarium in conjunction with champs food ser vices Are Safe. "1 think they would have been better advised to design them differently. I find them uncomfortable to use and therefore maybe the Chance of misusing them is also they Are not designed for people who. Wear glasses. Construct a pinhole projector. For instructions Send a stamped self addressed envelope to eclipse astronomy University of Manitoba Winnipeg r3t 2m8. Not Safe for viewing the traditional smoked Glass. Polaroid lenses. Photographic Neutral Den sity filters. Color film. Sun glasses 55 pairs in a Don t use a filter at the Eye end of telescopes or binoculars. You must have the filter in front of the Tele scope or binoculars. Don t look through a Telescope or binoculars without any filters except during the total eclipse phase. The optometrists View or. Harry Basman of Beausejour presi Dent of the Manitoba optometric society says the mos advocates in direct methods of viewing and will not advocate direct methods of View ing. Basman Points out that the National research Council has found the mylar eclipse visors and welder s goggles Safe for viewing and we certainly would not dispute their findings. Our worry is How do you communicate to people the Correct use of them we know they re Safe if used by a qualified professional or under the supervision of a qualified professional. Our worry is that people will misuse them. For example the natural curiosity of the child is going to prompt a child to lift the goggles to see what s going on. And that s a danger. Our stand is better Safe than sorry1." Basman said the mos is opting for promotion of 1 watch ing the eclipse on television and 2 using a simple pinhole projector or Sun scope. The Manitoba medical association s View John Laplume communications officer for the Mma telephoned wednesday the Section of opt apology of the Mma strongly advises that the Only Safe method of viewing the Sun especially an eclipse is to watch it on television. No other Means is completely Reli on television George Einarson of Csc Tele phoned wednesday morning to say that All of the school boards have been alerted that children can watch the eclipse in the safety of the school the television program called solar magic will be aired from 10 . To 11 . Feb. 26. The eclipse will be covered live. Bill guest will have guest scientists on the show. There will be cameras on the roof at Csc a camera on the roof at 55 Nassau and a live camera in bran Don on one of the buildings. As Well Csc will look at an aeroplane with a camera inside and if it can get a microwave signal Back from the plane will televise the Shadow creep ing up on the City. About trivia for people who know things like the name of Sherlock Holmes female interest Irene Adler and the names of Frank Sinatra s five wives and you can t use the new auditions for Csc s trivia series Are feb. 21 and 22 at Csc. People can try out As individuals or create their own teams such As the great West Chick in livers or the uncivil service sort of thing. Among the conditions Audi toners cannot have relatives working at Csc. Manners and old people grumble about the youth of today. Yesterday at lunch time in Eaton s Valley room two oldish ladies Well dressed in furs and Grey knits and Gold chains sat Down at a table with their two lunch loaded trays. There was a dirty dish loaded tray on their table left Over from the last Luncher. One of the old ladies the stuffer looking one picked up the tray carried it to the next table where another lady was eating and dumped it Down on that table. Imagine if a 16-year-old boy did the same thing to her. W k 1 of do Phi Kronson you Are Sanford Street to contribute to the Manitoba heart foundation. He r. Pharmacist Kronson asks businessmen who the funds to his office Wall with the donor s business card Over it the enter the Central buying office of metro drugs Manitoba ltd., 1182 end result is a room full of dollars and a bit of help for your heart. Pupil Basic skills test rates of with most t i tar Tolj if by Noelle Boughton and Sherryl Friesen while some members of Assini Boine South school division want to get rid of the Canadian test of Basic skills other Manitoba school divisions Don t have any complaints about the test. Assiniboine South trustees Noel Pritchard and Dave Morris suggested during a december meeting of the Board that the administration assess the merits of continuing to use cubs in the division. Pritchard said past results of cubs used to test grades 3, 6, and 8 each Spring told us the administration has indicated results Aren t necessarily he said. If it s not reliable let s come up with something assistant superintendent Pat Krecsy said the administration was already looking into the matter. Krecsy said cubs has several flaws its crowded appearance con fuses children students up to Grade 3 have difficulty filling in circles on answer sheets and it takes hours for individual teachers to score the tests and interpret results. He Hopes Mcgraw Hill s California achievement test cat will sup Plant cubs. He said it s less expensive Pritchard said it Cost to administer has More open space so students can Complete it More easily and is less difficult for teachers to Grade. Krecsy said the division should know by March whether it s going to Institute the newer metric cubs this fall or wait for 1981 when cat is canadians Zed altered to fit Canad an curriculum and then tested for Canadian norms. During a Brief Survey the free press found Manitoba school Divi Sions have few complaints about cubs. St. Vital division uses the american Stanford tests for Grade 2 to 6 pupils. But Deputy assistant superintendent for program development John Ilavsky said these have no Canadian norms. So within the next year he d like St. Vital to seriously consider cubs for division wide use. Lakeshore school District based in Eriksdale switched from cubs to metropolitan tests american test with Canadian norms two years ago but not because of discontent with cubs. Superintendent Sigfried Grosse said after using cubs for nine years the division feared teachers might be invalidating the tests by sub consciously teaching for the Boundary division based in do minion City tests Grade 3 to 8 Stii dents with cubs each Spring for remedial work and student places ment. Seven Oaks school division gets division wide averages to compare with Canadian norms by testing grades 4, 6, and 8 with cubs each Spring. Superintendent Harold Pollock a i d Winnipeg school division uses cubs and he figures it s the Best Canadian test we can get at the East St. Paul Library Deal under Way City officials Are discussing a new contract with the Rural municipality of East St. Paul so residents there can use City libraries without a non resident membership fee. City Council amalgamated six sub Urban Library boards into Winni Peg s Central network Jan. 2. Thus an agreement Between the Henderson regional Library system and East St. Paul was threatened because the municipality is outside Winnipeg. The agreement provided Library services for the few thousand East St. Paul residents without membership fees. Payments towards Library costs came through municipal taxes. Henderson regional librarian Dorothy Crosby said the Rural municipality is appealing in a letter to mayor Robert Steen to continue the previous rates to East St. Paul set on a per capita basis. The old Henderson regional Library system s two facilities Are both with in City limits but the system s Juris diction has included East St. Pill since 1962. In addition to the Henderson regional Library system other boards amalgamated into the City s system Are West Kildonan St. Vital fort Garry St. James and Transcona. Under the new arrangement each Community committee will be asked to name two citizen representatives who with City Council s approval will join two councillors and the City librarian on a Centra Library Board. For heart patients it s free for the healthy it s by Manfred Jager Winnipeg s Reh fit Centre built to rehabilitate heart attack survivors opens next month but if you re healthy and want to get fit to prevent heart troubles it will Cost you. Considered one of Western Canada s most Modem Public sports facilities the Centre is expected to charge about a year to those trying to avoid heart problems. On the other hand if you veal ready suffered a heart attack and spent weeks in Hospital costing thousands of dollars you re consid ered a Reh fit patient and care and treatment Are free. St. Boniface general Hospital cardiologist or. David my min who started tie Reh fit it stands for rehabilitation and fitness program for recovering heart attack victims As a supervised jogging and run Ning scheme six years ago admit Ted the apparent inequity wednes Day. However my min said the eco nomic facts of life for Reh fit Don t allow everyone to use the facility for nothing. Well have to pay for such things As utilities parking lot maintenance and Snow removal and when the Centre opens next month Well still be facing a mortgage of the athletic Centre will Cost about million and the provincial government is funding of this. The Kinsmen club of Winnipeg Don ated toward building costs the Winnipeg foundation gave 000 and cardiac patients involved in the rehabilitation work raised an other about 200 people Are enrolled in the Reh fit program s current make shift facilities at the univer sity of Manitoba now my min said. Once the Reh fit Centre located at 1000 Taylor Avenue opens the pro Gram will be Able to accommodate the 50 to 60 recovering heart disease patients who should be in physical rehabilitation but for whom there now is no room. As Well Reh fit will launch a promotion Campaign to attract men and women who want to jog and run to do what they can to prevent ill health in the future. That s the program which will be known As my min said. We re in the process of working out our fee Structure right now and should know details in about a week or so. That s important because people want to know what it s going to Cost them. All i can say right now is that for Reh fit patients the Cost will be close to per annul. This is to meet our costs for parking utilities and other out of pocket expenses. The Centre will make no profit at All but it will have to pay its medical coverage of cardiac re habilitation care is borne by the Manitoba health services commis Sion As part of the province s health care system. My min Saivii pre fit clients will be charged an economic rather than merely a nominal fee some where in the neighbourhood of per about the Only straight health service for which there would be no coverage even for recovering car Diac patients would be physiotherapy which is Only covered by Mani Toba medicare if the patient either is in a Hospital or goes to a Hospital to receive treatment. Of course the health services commission also is not paying for the water the Hydro for Snow Clearing for heat and for the maintenance staff we employ. So if you want to Park Shower use lock ers somebody has to pay for the Centre now is receiving its finishing touches and when it opens it will be the Best indoor athletic facility anywhere in the province this Means that if you re interested in fitness we will not Only give you a place to carry out your fitness program we will also undertake testing counselling and program guidance All included in your air Nual my min said. A staff of six will be employed. They will share the services of or. Wayne Hildahl the Winnipeg sports physician now in charge of the sports injury clinic at the pan am Pool ;