Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june happen spice tied to cancer York baiter fee sprees of including Are More Likely to cause cancer than food additives or air and water medical experts said yesterday at a joint West German cancer prevention workers employed in such occupations As carpentry or the Asbestos Industry but not necessarily the nuclear Plant Industry May also face health the doctors warned at a news one of the radiologists was strike i stalls exports Vancouver up Western can Adas Export Trade remained stalled yesterday As a top Federal mediator met with striking longshoremen and their employers in an attempt to re solve a contract dispute that shut Down British Columbia ports on Deputy labor minister William Kelly flew from Ottawa on thursday for the emergency a spokesman for the local mediation Andi conciliation office of the Federal labor department said the parties met for about three hours yesterday before adjourning for the Day and would meet again at 9 there was no statement on if Progress had been were taking this one step at a labor minister Lincoln Alex Ander said in an interview from Otta All i know is that in relying on Kelly and the parties to get together before i Start speculating on what is going to happen after pressure has been Howe for a recall of parliament to legis late an end to the which has halted shipments of Prairie Potash lumber and news the former Liberal government re sorted to backs work legislation in 1975 after a longshoremen strike crippled West coast ports for a transport minister Dan Mazankowski minister responsible for the Canad an wheat has said that Grain shipments so far this year already Are Down 10 per cent from 1978 and that the strike cannot be allowed to continue Nuich Mildred wife of wet Many president Walter settee and founder of Deutsche the German cancer research fund which cosponsored the conference with the american health foundation a preventive Medicine sex was cited As a risk Factor in cervical cancer and a painful sore recurring on the genitals and lived linked to according to Ernst Wynder of the he recommended better sexual Hygiene to help prevent the the number of cases of genital herpes has increased so drastically in recent years that it is being classified a Vene real we have talked against drinking and now we will have no friends left at Wynder not just a few drinks daily but heavy alcohol in creased the risk for cancers of the oesophagus and says a study presented by Kenneth Rothman of Harvard univer a major complicating Factor was a generally High smoking level among the study about 90 to 35 per cent of All cancers in men Are related to tobacco the figure is lower for the greatest cancer risk in the work place is caused by says another written by John Higger son of the world health organization in up photo Treasury Board president Sinclair Stevens says Lon term cos cutting strategies Are workers ring Gulf Oil spill Mexico City a engineers Are ringing a huge Oil spill from a runaway offshore Well in the Gulf of Mexico to prevent environmental dam a spokesman for the state Petroleum monopoly said Lemex spokesman Rogelio Cardenas said a flotation Collar made of special plastic material was being Laid Down around the Oval which is about 32 20 Hurt in bus crash up eleven elderly people Are dead and another 20 some of them As a result of an Early morn ing bus Accident on the Tran Canada Highway near about 55 Kilometres East of Quebec provincial police said the chartered carrying 49 members of a Golden age club Home from Slid off the High Way shortly before 3 cd and crashed into a Concrete split Ting in police said the Accident occurred when the Driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle As he attempted to pass a car in a heavy rain one of the injured has been rushed to a Montreal Hospital for the remaining 23 Are being treated at Hon Ore Mercier Hospital in Hya police reported the Driver of the bus was but in a state of the 49 were returning from an eve Ning at a Montreal the Back third of the Drivers Side of the bus appeared to have taken the Brunt of the Impact As the vehicle slammed into the Concrete Centre sup port of the Highway the bus finally came to rest about 25 metres beyond the police believe the bus left the Road at the beginning of a Long curving stretch of Kilometres Long and More than one kilo metre to keep it from spreading while collector boats scoop up part of the Cardenas said Lemex had accepted an offer of help from the norwegian state Petroleum Agency and special equipment and technicians Are on their Way to the spokesman said Well capping specialist red Adair of is in Mexico but Cardenas not immediately confirm whether Lemex has hired him to help bring the Well under the engineers Are working on it and it is being brought under there int very much danger to the in its said Miguel another Lemex spokes the test Well 80 Kilometres off Shore in Campeche one of Mexico richest turned into a Gusher and caught it is spewing out barrels of Light crude Oil and comparable amounts of natural Gas each Tomassini said two collector boats with a capacity of barrels each Are scooping up about barrels of the spilled Oil daily and dumping it in a Tanker anchored the other barrels is either evaporating because of the intense heat or is being allowed to Burn along with the natural Tomassino United states runaway offshore Well Arrow Points to runaway Oil Well in the Gulf of both organizations sponsoring the conference Are particularly keen to make the Public aware of lifestyle and its role in preventing Wynder told reporters that air and water pollution and food additives such As used in or other or packaging materials do not relate significantly to any increase in the human cancer regarding the controversial sugar substitute Wynder said that two extensive bladder cancer Stu Dies Are being conducted in the and the findings will be known later this year about the he added that there Are fascinating con found ants including the subjects and ethnic he said genetics Are also a Factor involved in cancer especially in intestinal and breast doctors have found that it is not uncommon for daughters of mothers who had breast cancer to suffer from the same Dis Ottawa Job freeze first stage continued from Page 1 although it will save taxpayers Stevens the program is not Likely to Cut spending enough to offset rising government he foresaw Little reduction in the billion spending deficit projected by the liberals until major program changes Are Stevens called the temporary freeze a holding measure designed to give his Cabinet colleagues time to examine their Hewill ask each minister within a few weeks to pres ent a cos cutting strategy Stevens did not discuss his plan with leaders of the Public service Alliance of which represents Federal Public the Union Andy issued a news release minutes after the freeze was urging the new government to consult the Sac when making such he said the plan is a source of great concern among Union members and could Lead to a breakdown in to other Union spokesmen said government employees will be hesitant to Budge from their jobs in the next two no exact figures on savings accompanying the hiring instructions Are being sent to each department to defer discretionary spend ing and commit itself to no new expenditures unless absolutely Neces the Only exclusions from the freeze Are essential services which include air traffic prison guards and food inspectors summer Mili tary personnel and the Royal Canadian mounted Stevens was reluctant to spell out the savings his program would either in terms of dollars or Man pow but he offered Ballpark based on Public service staff these figures show that an average of government employees leave their jobs every every unfilled vacancy Means a saving of approximately a Stevens repeated his party firm commitment to reducing government employment by jobs in the next three his preliminary investigations have shown there is plenty of room in the Public service for a reduction of this he expects to release details in mid August of his firs year plan to eliminate government Stevens also Hopes to be Able to provide a general outline of the entire three year pro Gram at that the hiring freeze went into effect Friday and lasts until August exceptions will be considered if specifically requested by ministers or depart ment no detailed guides will be Stevens said the policing of such regu lations could turn his ministry into a huge struggling to assess the needs of other the last thing we want to do is create More he responsibility for making the program work has been assigned to top level Public peace move coming continued from Page 1 withholding support for the guerrillas by threatening passage of Panama canal treaty legislation in the House of in his first Public statement on the subject since nicaraguan officials Testi fied before the House last week that Panama had supplied arms to the san Torrijos reportedly told a gathering in the panamanian town of 60 Miles from the that Somoza is a mental he said that on a number of recent occasions Somoza sent emissaries to Tell him to stay out of nicaraguan affairs or Somoza friends in Congress would kill the Torrijos apparently did deny supporting the but he said he did not think the evidence presented to Congress deserved denied recent rebel charges that transport planes carried supplies to the National guard from the Panama canal the has a very Good nose for understanding that it is not convenient to Send Aid to Somoza Torrijos reportedly substantive news of Many specific Battle zones continued to be scarce radio stations Are operating under censorship and Telephone lines to Many areas outside Managua have been la the opposition new spa failed to publish for the second Day yesterday As All but two front Page stories about Pope John Paul ii and the other about the andean pact announcement were Edi tors said they would not attempt to publish again until at least the editors also said that a embassy official went to the Central jail thursday night and talked to Edito rial Board member Edmundo a prominent local economist and opposition political strategist who was arrested thursday they said they had appealed for intervention in the inc Washington pos1 Schmidt warns open on Price Rise dangers k Schmidt Only losers in end new York West German Chan cellar Helmut Schmidt yesterday warned the organization of Petroleum exporting countries that continual in creases in the Price of Oil might damage the world Economy he also called for controls on the eurocurrency warning that the now de controlled Pool of funds has the potential to cause severe disruptions to world the open countries would be Well advised to examine whether an inflation spiral is really in their own Schmidt said in a speech to the american Council on his last major address before leaving the United states he said with the struggle for the distribution of wealth having been aggravated even More in recent months by specs Price i see the great danger in the there will be Only once a Point has been reached where world economic relations will be seriously news Roundup flood forces evacuation Winnipeg Man slain Calgary Richard of Winnipeg died in Hospital thursday after he was stabbed in a Calgary Home Early thursday William Edward has been charged with second degree Mur climbers declared lost Lima two canadians and an austrian have died while trying to climb Alpa Mayo Mountain in Northern officials said Canadian embassy officials said Pierre Cadot of Montreal and William Porrit of Toronto were swept away by an austrian Ulrike who was not part of the Canadian died from Lack of austrian embassy officials Al the rain swollen Walnut River flooded a three Kilometre Section of Al Dorado yester forcing the evacuation of 500 residents and causing up to million in police chief Vic Marshall said there were no reports of deaths or City clerk Paul Mossman said his estimate of damages was based on reports of damage to 350400 he said the flooding was the worst in the cites other Kansas communities downriver were bracing for crests in their helicopter joins search a helicopter joined the search Friday for four Ca Nadian Rodeo cowboys missing since May 22 on a flight from to san about 12 private planes were air borne Friday in the search for Brian of Gary of Calvin of and Lee of the United states civil air patrol withdrew its aircraft from the search thursday and Rodeo competitor Don of is directing the Volunteer prisoners hold hostages Prince two officers at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary were being held hostage by five prisoners last Jim director of the fed eral said negotiations with the prisoners were in no in juries had been names of those involved were not drug recall announced Washington the government announced the recall yester Day of most drugs containing a can cer causing Antihistamine that for years has been the Active ingredient in such nonprescription sleeping pills As excedrin and com the recall Means the products should quickly disappear from pharmacies and other stores that sell Over the counter the voluntary recall involves drugs using which for 25 years has been used in overt count or sleep aids and other Snag stops tourists port Egypt the first yacht to arrive in Egypt from Israel since the two countries announced direct tourism links brought 17 Western passengers to port said on Friday but officials would not let them off be cause an unlisted 20yearold israeli woman was port sources everything was set to receive and accommodate the 17 who hold British and other Western an officer of the tourist Agency Meco said in but we have not been notified about the israeli from the news services ;