Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Draft m by Hal Sigurdson Winnipeg free press Montreal Winnipeg jets made Peter Marsh the first player selected in f the National hockey league expansion draft this morning by claiming the big right Winger from the Montreal Cana the jets also reclaimed Bobby Hull from Chicago Black even though Winnipeg general manager John Ferguson knows Hull will not play in Winnipeg Ferguson has been trying to pry a player out of Chicago in return for his Promise not to draft Ferguson wanted Centre Terry the jets most valuable player last but the Hawks refused to give him in the Ferguson offered to take any one of seven Chicago players in Exchange for but the Hawks still refused to the jets Choice of Marsh was hardly a they had introduced the former member of the Cincinnati a 43goal scorer in the world hockey association last at a press con Ference two hours also introduced was Barry another former like Montreal owned his nil How the canadians did not claim the 195pound defence Man after the jets acquired his rights last week in a special dispersal draft of Cincinnati and Birmingham Winnipeg used its second Choice to draft Lindsay a goal tender from the farm system of the new York in 54 games last year he posted a goal against Hull the oilers used their first two choices to acquire right Winger Cam Conner from Montreal and defence Man Lee Fogolin from the whalers first two choices were defence Man Alan re claimed from Montreal and Nick Fotiu from the new York the Nordques selected defence Man Dave Farrish from the new York rangers and Gerry a flin flon from new York the jets used their fourth round Choice to claim defence Man Al Ca Meron from the Detroit red Cameron played nine games last sea son with the red wings and 64 with their Central hockey league farm team in Kansas he collected 33 five of them while picking up 97 minutes in the jets used their fifth Choice to claim rugged Winger Dave Hoyda from the Philadelphia Hoyda scored Only three goals in 76 nil but helped maintain the flyers Tough Guy image with 138 minutes in Winnipeg sixth and seventh round choices were both in the sixth round the jets claimed Jim to a left Winger from the Minnesota North their seventh Choice was lome Stamler from Toronto Maple the Edmonton oilers claimed three More defence men Pat Price of the Colin Campbell of the Pitts Burgh penguins and Larry Brown of the los Angeles Quebec fourth and fifth choices were goaltender Ron Low from Veteran Forward Pierre Plante from rangers and Blair Stewart from the Washington q draft in Page m showers tonight Cloudy tomorrow Low 15 High 25 june Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Pinawa spill report sought by Debbie Sproat the Manitoba government has re Quested a full report on the accidental pumping of radioactive contaminated water into a drainage ditch at the White Shell nuclear research establishment at Pinawa late last the the first at the nuclear testing site since the reactor went into operation in occurred in late april and was discovered during a routine Check of the waste manage area Early in metro a spokesman for atomic Energy of Canada at pin said the spill occurred As a re sult of a sequence of events that began during Spring Runoff when water seeped into one of the underground bunkers where wastes Are tests conducted when the water was pumped out of the Bunker showed it want radioactive so it was put into a drainage ditch within the waste management Dmytriw said the Bunker was pumped a second time when ice that had remained in the Bottom but this water was put into the ditch without testing because the earlier samples haunt been a routine Survey of Vari Ous Sites in the waste management area about a week later showed a Small amount of radioactivity from the water from the Bunker had settled at the Bottom of the drainage the water itself was found be Clear of radioactivity by this Dmytriw said the amount of radio activity found in the ditch was so Small it be detected by an instrument standing on a nearby Road or held at water level in the it was Only detected when a Sample of mud from the Bottom of the ditch was put into a sensitive instrument and measured Over a period of even in the most Active he activity was Only 5 Milli rems an Milli rems is a measure of the intensity of radiation As it affects biological he said a person is exposed to Between 40 and 60 Milli rems in the fraction of a second he or she is exposed to radioactivity during a Chest As another he the natural background radiation per sons living in this part of Manitoba Are subjected to is Between 100 and 120 Milli rems a our concern with it is not the fact it represents a Dmytriw our concern is it be there in the first if you Are careless with the Little you might get care less with the big once the radioactivity in the ditch see report Page 4 Dave free press aged sent to live in squalor Joe sits having his evening using a chair As a by Steve Pona copyright Winnipeg free 1979 Many retarded and mentally ill people in Winnipeg Are living Squal idly in poorly equipped or danger Ous guest Homes and boarding and while hospitals and government agencies identify Many of these Homes As patients Are still referred to them for want of suit Able we run into a problem when we try to enforce said Barbara Home finder for the health sciences who meets monthly with her colleagues to share information on substandard guest we have nothing on paper to fall Back she referring to the Lack of enforcement All social workers identified a need for improvement in the and two seemed to express a common View on the worst Homes when they de scribed them As just a dumping a three week examination of the situation showed that while most Homes were the exceptions were strikingly Hygiene and health care were All below accepted standards in the worst areas of Inadequacy ranged from dangerous dispensation of drugs to fire hazards created by faulty one instance of the Sale of a mentally ill patient was but caseworkers alluded to several in an examination of living standards at 18 guest Homes visited by two free Lack smoke detectors or fire Only four of 12 had fire escapes on a third level and another had Only one accessible the examination also found d poor or nonexistent facilities for food preparation or d broken and Loose electrical fixtures with wiring dangerously d a Lack of closet space and common room d inadequate toilet social workers at six hospitals said they refer an average of one to patients a month to the Homes from lists compiled by Hospital Home most social workers refused to identify Homes used by the but said the health sciences Centre has a list of 89 and others have even the longest list 225 is maintained by Grace general guest Homes and boarding houses on Hospital lists Are not licensed and do not have to meet any minimum although social workers said they try to match Homes with the personal care needs of their plans have been made by the prov Ince to License residences for mentally ill but Homes for old people Able to function without the additional care offered by nursing facilities would require additional Legisla health minister Bud Sher Man has said his department has been preparing a list of guest Homes for old and the government will deter mine whether we should get involved in press seven were found to no licensing Page 4 trip to Camp nearly fund saved Day for 12 students by Laurie Streich twelve Winnipeg schoolgirls will go to Camp next week on a trip they thought they would have to cancel for Lack of the group of 12and 13yearolds Are among the first of 33 children to Benefit from the free press Sunshine which is rapidly approaching the Mark through Reader not being Able to get the Money would have been a real disappointment for the so i decided to Call the Sunshine an organizer for the group Luck was with the fund was set up just Over two weeks ago to help Send kids to Camp who otherwise afford More Sunshine fund than 70 kids have so far been assured of a summer Camp Holiday this year be cause of the 12 student Learned yesterday their application had been approved and they began final preparations for their trip to Riding Mountain National Park next the group had staged bake noon hour collected garbage and even washed and waxed planes in to raise on their they were still Short and had run out of time to raise the accompanied by two will be camping at Riding Mountain for four Days next although they wont be attending an accredited Manitoba camping association they were approved As a special Case by association Vic president Terry Lynn who handles Calls on the special Sunshine fund Telephone said yesterday More than 33 other applications have also been like the group of the names of All those who receive a subsidy will remain and a three Mem Ber screening set up by the is ensuring applicants pay As much As possible toward the see 70 kids Page 4 Allen pedalled furiously hang glider skims across Channel London a 26yearold californian bicycle racer and hang glider yesterday became the first Man to Fly a human powered air plane across the English Channel by pedalling the polyester bodied Gossamer Albatross from Folkestone to pedalling furiously inside his trans Parent cockpit under the 96foot Wing Span of the 60pound Bryan Allen kept the plastic propeller behind him turning fast enough to skim 10 to 30 feet above the Calm Channel Waters at about eight Miles per the Cross ing took just under three a Little see Page 4 inside today the beat goes on Mcconnell 30 years tapping Winnipeg has had its fair share of dance schools to provide a showcase for these and the school established by Sam Mcconnell in 1948 was one of the since thousands of munchkins have ear Nestly tapped and twirled on the stage of the playhouse theatre under the Stern gaze of the plaster masks on the the watchful one of Mcconnell and the fond ones of parents and much at Steak during these times of especially High beef prices with no Relief in sight in the near Many Consumers Are looking for any Way possible to Cut Corners on their meat Many will choose to order beef in Large Quantity from a local Butcher shop or theres a risk of Flora a competitor Flora Canadas new external affairs holds the most senior Job Ever held by a woman in Canadian Macdonald she is known More often simply As Flora to colleagues and strangers alike is used to competing in the male world of and if Shes a its mainly by example rather than through getting the Lead out recent tests show children at Weston and lord Nelson schools have much lower Leadin blood Levels than children tested at the same schools three years Manitoba labor min ister Ken Macmaster said Jin Brezhnev Swansong scores Index the Vienna which begins May be the last Hurrah for soviet president Leonid Brezhnev and an unlikely successor is emerging in a Kremlin Power Berezh on his last legs physically and could be dumped by his Kremlin associates soon after the Salt ii treaty is signed and the struggle for the succession is already tear ing apart the politburo in the first of two children and lawyers Manitoba senior family court judge says he is leaning More and More toward the idea of children having their own judge Kimelman has requested a list from the Law society of Manitoba of lawyers who would act on behalf of children if called upon by the family football cup exhibition Montreal 36 Ottawa 20 32 Edmonton 27 baseball american league Seattle 5 Toronto 1 Cleveland 11 California 10 Detroit 9 Oakland 2 Chicago 12 Baltimore 4 new York 4 Minnesota 1 Texas 7 Milwaukee 6 Kansas City 7 Boston 6 National league Philadelphia 4 Houston 0 new York 12 Cincinnati 6 san Diego 6 Pittsburgh 3 los Angeles 9 Louis 3 san Francisco 7 Chicago 2 Page 8996 25 39 46 40 26 46 29 food 6 28 Jumble 53 7 to 39
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