Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june 1979 woolco Over phones by Allan Wilson the Manitoba Telephone system and woolco department stores Are battling Over illegal which of s claims Are costing the system Mil lion a year in lost woolco has been advertising Tele phones Lor Sale at Between and the Telephone system customer pays for one what he does with it is his woolco Toronto spokes Man Keith Elliot but its spokesman Glen Schneider said customers should have their equipment inspected by its and Ken rate press should pay the fee for an Extension it costs us you Arent just paying for the phone but for the network behind he when the ads came out its sent woolco a letter saying unauthorized equipment was Wool cos lawyers in Toronto replied saying they did not feel Selling the telephones was illegal under the Mani Toba Schneider our lawyers Are writing Back to we Are in discus Sion with their head the Tariff which its con siders part of its enacting provincial prohibits anyone from at Taching anything which will harm the network or the Schneider said the Telephone system will overhaul old phones at a Cost of to or will inspect phones from other provinces at a Cost of then they will be approved and can be attached to the for the monthly Extension Elliot said were satisfied the qual Ity of the equipment were Selling is not harmful or Schneider said there might be some problems for the network but we dont to is very difficult to Check on illegal Cheeks Are done by running a current through the with resistance shows How Many phones Are but its easily circumvented we dont know what people have plugged in out Schneider considering the Cost of nearly for an Extension he it seems logical people would take the system option of paying the installation charge for an Extension the Issue goes far beyond private Duck and Dodge Ball at the Park Joanne Caron rides a Duck while David Demeyer Cert re and Glen Sawatsky play Dodge Ball in Kildo Nari Park the three were among children from City and area schools at the world neighbourhood picnic Day presented by red Cross the event featured a a magician and lots of ice Cream and reported child abuse cases up sharply in 5year period by Steve Whysall the annual number of known cases of child abuse in Manitoba has More than doubled during the past five there were 188 reported cases last compared with 82 in and there have been 81 Pew cases dealt with so far this experts do not if the Rise Means More children Are being abused or simply that More cases of abuse Are coming to Light because of in creased Public Elaine head of Winnipeg childrens Aid society cd Ltd abuse believes the figures Are Only the tip of the i think its a combination of better identification and reporting of cases and a general increase in the incidence of child but no one really knows just How Many cases Are being one thing is Manitoba in the International year of the child is still wrestling with the prob Lem of child and in the eyes of the province is leading the rest of Canada in its Manitoba was the first to bring to social workers and government together to define and combat the problem of child abuse on a prov inc wide basis in the province has also led the Way by drawing up detailed guidelines to help both doctors and social workers to identify and Deal with child abuse and Manitoba has also passed a soon to be further requiring All suspected child abuse to be Agency expands unit Winnipeg main social Agency Deal ing with cases of child abuse childrens Aid society also expanded its child abuse unit Over the past few it now has a eight member which works closely with smaller teams at both the childrens Hospital and Boniface despite All that has been done so mostly Between the Ages of four and Are still being physically abused by their bruises and Burns Are the most com Mon but 17 cases last year involved children with broken and there were six fatalities in the number of cases of children sexually abused is also with 35 known cases reported Here last nine of which were in it is illegal for parents to use physical punishment to discipline their experts Here do not believe that is necessarily the right attitudes must change if child abuse is to be stamped out says John provincial director of child physical reprimanding is still regarded As socially its not looked on As a serious act when an adult hits a child for we must realize children Are people in their own rather than chattels of their Elaine head of the Cas child abuse says when parents Are using physical they must have inner control and they must know when enough is studies show parents most Likely to abuse their children Are often people who were either physically or emotion ally abused themselves As according to they Are often people who were deprived of the Opportunity of being a child and grew up being a Parent rather than a something we Call role she Many cases of child abuse involve a Parent who has unrealistic expectations of his or her feeling of frustration for the Parent expects the child to perform a certain function and when the child the parents at tack the child out of a feeling of Gelmon in Many the parents Are repeating their own childhood experiences when they were Manitoba doctors play a major part in spotting the abused they for a child is probably being abused if he or she has an unexplained seems to have been left is unusually and has injuries not mentioned in his medical show no feelings of guilt they Are also suspicious of parents who do not Volunteer information about their Childs illness or Are angry with the child for being show no feelings of guilt regarding the Childs Are preoccupied with them never mention any Good Quality in the and do not inquire about the Childs discharge or followup before most parents who abused their children ended up in most cases nowadays Are dealt with through counselling by a social usually from the childrens Aid so Over the past five the society abuse unit has handled More than of which Only 10 were according to but if you want to know if we Are turning abusing parents into concerned that another we can usually prevent further acts of Vio but we cant make people great Extension telephones to the Basic Issue of who has the right to plug what equipment into the Telephone the problem has developed in the last 10 years with the tremendous growth in and availability of electronic the problem with Extension phones Here started in the last few years following an its program to install multiple Telephone jacks in Winnipeg the Telephone companies claim they need Complete control of the telecommunications network to make the prof its necessary to support the Home Tele phone the Home Telephone service Avail Able Here for a for exam would Cost Over if Long distance and other revenues we rent available to support the Home Schneider in for Bell Canada is appealing a court decision which allows a nip telecommunications to use the Telephone system network for its private Schneider said the system is consid ering an advertising Campaign telling people their unpaid for Extension phone is in effect pushing up the general Telephone local news not aware t of firm says by Cecil Rosner Bell foundry waited three Days before reporting an explosion which injured five workers to the labor department because it was unaware of legislation requiring immediate notification of such a company spokesman said Rick general manager of the foundry on Border said the Accident occurred april 27 when an explosion in the Furnace scattered hot fragments of Metal around the one worker was off the Job two weeks with and another required Hospi Tal care and five weeks absence before resuming three others needed fir staid the explosion was considered minor and want reported to the police or fire Bell the Accident occurred about noon on and the company didst report it to the Provin Cial labor department until the follow ing provincial legislation requires All workplace accidents involving serious injury and explosions to be reported to labor inspectors i Media no equipment can be moved or work take place until the labor depart ment sends investigators to the the company spokesman said an afternoon shift worked after the Acci Dent the Furnace involve Din the was not used until inspectors he recommendations outlined labor minister Ken Macmaster said in an interview yesterday his depart ment has prepared a report on the Accident outlining recommendations for improvement of safety he says the report to All parties and will be followed up by inspectors to make sure it is simple the company has been informed that the Accident should have been reported he Macmaster said the incident will make the government readdress the whole Issue of telling companies again about their Bob head of the United steel workers local at the says effective measures Haven yet been taken to prevent future accidents of the same he says an improved train ing program is needed to instruct employees about the dangers of placing certain materials in the As the Furnace operator is exposed to danger in the event of an explosion and should be Given More he the company says a number of Mea sures have been taken to prevent the Accident from and More Plant improvements will be implemented it is believed the Accident occurred after air pressure built up in an enclosed piece of tubing which had been placed in the la Jay Cowan said he is concerned about the labor departments apparent delay in investigating the he says their re port to the firm want Complete until May Well after the explosion of Cowan said he will press the labor minister for More information about the incident in the he says the incident shows there Are Seri Ous accidents taking place which Are either not reported at All or reported too body rub cards irk hotels by Ritchie Gage the distribution of Massage parlor business cards in and around downtown hotels has Winnipeg hoteliers but police say Little can be done about police and hotel spokesmen say the Massage carrying suggestive pictures with phone Are being slipped under room doors and placed under the Windshield wipers of cars parked in hotel the material is being delivered by Young some of whom have been recruited from hous ing projects in the Dario executive Vic Epresi Dent of the Manitoba hotel Assoc a said his group has set up a committee to study the we would like to see a bylaw to restrict such right now theres nothing much that can be done to Stop operators the Dan Jones of the Winnipeg police morality squad said he has met with the association but there is Little the police can catching the Young boys who Are distributing the cards Doest help the Massage parlor operators Are the he one boy who was distributing the cards told the free press he was paid for the he said a car drove up to the Inkster Avenue and main Street housing development where he lives and the Driver asked him and a few friends if they would like to make the boy said the Job was undertaken after dark and was done throughout the hotel operators said the cards Are varied and change one said cards Are slipped under the doors and hotel matches Are removed by Young delivery boys and replaced with Mas Sage parlor in another suggestive pictures were left on an ice dispenser in a special education links urged Smith More staff nee4ed by Pebble Sproat programs for Winnipeg children who have emotional difficulties should be More closely linked and More the provincial government was told in a joint the Winnipeg school Board and Winnipeg teachers association said the Lack of someone to explain a Childs problems and treat ment As he moves from assessment to a special program and Back to regu Lar classes makes the treatment less other problems pointed out in the Brief included a Lack of assessment classes and an insufficient Range of programs to match the wide variety of needs children the two groups suggested the most efficient Way the government could begin to solve the problem would be to provide funds for six new staff members who would help coordinate and link existing Muriel a representative of the teachers said the Cost of providing this additional staff would be roughly to but would be a saving if it prevented children from becoming delinquent or mentally in the longer they would like to see a greater Range of programs to provide opportunities for Long or Short term closed or open in age and six a variety of teaching approaches and residential educational and work afterschool and sum Mer development of a greater variety of programs would allow individual Stu dents the Opportunity to take advantage of programs designed to meet changing and emerging the Brief it also noted that children Are often put on a waiting list for a particular problem which May compound the severity of the problem and eventually create a greater Drain on the program resources when entry does take after presenting the Brief to Educa Tion minister Keith Cosens and Deputy health minister Ron school Board chairwoman Mira Spivak said the meeting had gone she said the government officials had agreed to have their staff meet with representatives of the two groups to study the Issue Smith said simply bringing the departments of education and health together to discuss the problem was important since the child int Bro Ken up into health and they come in i ;