Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, February 07, 1980

Issue date: Thursday, February 7, 1980
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Previous edition: Wednesday, February 6, 1980

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Three women bring fashion alive in sell court tells gasp by Brian a Manitoba court of Queets Bench judge filled yesterday ail am smoking group cannot keep a Caf it put up As a Faffle Bride which nobody Justice Scott Wright ordered the group against smoke so pollution to sell the car Ficklin and do hate the proceeds to another gasp president Raymond Green said yesterday he will Appeal the ruling and ask that his group be Given ownership of the judge Wright handed Down his Deci Sion after a ticket Holder attending the hearing opposed gasps motion for ownership of the after being invited by Justice Wright to comment on the Beverly f a said that As Long As the car want being Given it should be i Felt i had bought the ticket and that if gasp want going to give away the they be Able to keep the decision Caps a Long controversy which began when the valued at about was offered As a prize in a lottery to be held in the lottery turned into a financial Flop when local malls refused to show Case the making it difficult to sell Green because of poor the group postponed the draw until at that time about bearer Type tickets were sold at leaving tickets following the draw no one came Forward to collect the prise and several attempts to locate the Winner a second draw was ruled out because of the first financial failure and gasp decided to keep the car for Green said he was surprised by the judges ruling because gasp had owned the car since it bought Green explained his group Origi tally approached the courts for an order of ownership on the advice of the Manitoba lotteries licensing its position was that gasp keep the car simply because it was said in an interview t thought it getting ownership would be a he adding that he didst expect any opposition to the motion before the after hearing the ticket judge Wright ordered the car sold and asked Greet and a lotteries Board representative to decide which Charity should get the Clear tonight sunny tomorrow Low 20 High 10 february 1980 free Sun rises sets Moon rises sets safety of Home patients worrying staff final 2cw for Home Call 9439331 two weeks Lor City 2 by John Sullivan concerned employees and former staff of the 74yearold Selkirk nursing Home say they Are worried about the safety and health of the Homes elderly and infirm fifteen past and current employees told the free press they had concerns about the Home ranging from fire Haz Ards and staff shortages to bathing care of its 72 Many of whom came from Selkirk mental the Home is also a political Issue at the provincial with the attention of opposition Leader Howard Pawley at the local with the preparation of a confidential fire chiefs report for town two visits by a free press reporter Dave free press and photographer and statements from staff and former employees show the yellow Brick building to be a potential fire rundown but As those contacted said the Home is often Short of regular staff because of a High its just a pity to see those people in those said one its their last they deserve something Frank co owner of the 22room Home on Idel Street near the general dismissed the charges weve been in the nursing Home business for 20 we own or have owned six except for this weve had no the Homes Barbara said there Are a lot of mixed feelings about the but she dismissed most of the you know theres a lot to be de she were waiting for a new but we have a staff worries therefore it cant be that specific allegations and worries of the employees include d Lack of fire drills for at least three As Well As hazards such As jammed or roped fire escape fire extinguishers last inspected in 1977 and Light switches which spark and heat the d deteriorating patient care due to Short staffing and an employee turn Over of nearly 200 per cent in two d routine use of a heavy duty cleaner As Bath a practice they believe is irritating and inflaming the already dry skin of faulty heating d a heating system which broke Down for three Days last forcing staff to Wear snowsuits and wrap residents in layers of d faulty worn tape Down fungi growing in cupboards and broken d shards of a Bare and broken bulb left untouched for five weeks in a room housing four its not said one they should be looked there Keks said the building is inspected twice a year and the owners have a 100percent reputation with the health services he blamed the Union representing non nursing staff for stirring up see health Page 4 Ken free press staff at Selkirk nursing Home have expressed concerns about the safety of elderly release of Iran hostages is reported As imminent firefighters work to free a girl pinned under if ton 17 hit by train is Lucky to be alive9 a 17yearold girl was in fair Condi Tion today after being struck by a in freight train and dragged 75 Yards beneath the 10ton the identified As Sharon was taken to Victoria Hospital for emergency police said she was suffering from multiple fractures and internal in and was originally listed As in critical fire and ambulance Rescue Crews worked feverishly beneath the train for 30 minutes to free the who was pinned by the undercarriage at 10 a spokesman at the fort Garry District police station said the train con Ductor saw the girl on the track and applied the but was unable to Stop in a crowd of bystanders watched quietly from both sides of the tracks West of Pembina Highway at Winder Mere Avenue As police kept traffic Clear for an ambulance which was standing see girl Page 4 election so d Allan Fotheringham says Pierre Trudeau did some strange things in Prince claiming the chief As a Liberal and playing shamelessly on local d the conservative government does not want to Harbor draft dodgers and would put them at the Bottom of the immigration priority says Flora d Jean Chretien says canadians have to expect at least a increase in the Price of Oil if the liberals win the Tehran up iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr and moslem militants occupying the embassy appear today to be headed for show Down As a government minister was released 24 hours after his arrest be cause of allegations that he supplied information to the United a kuwaiti newspaper says the release of the 50 hostages held in the embassy in Tehran is the Al the number of iranians occupying the embassy has been reduced from 400 to 50 and the final arrangements Are being completed for the release of the following Bani Sadr elec Tion As the new iranian Al Hadaf said in Secretary Gener Al Kurt Waldheim is in Contact with Bani Sadr to convince him to pressure the students to leave the embassy and have them replaced by regular iranian it added Bani Sadr has set the settlement of the hostage crisis and the ending of the duality of authority being exercised in Iran As the main objectives at the beginning of his the newspaper give the source of its Bani Sadr took on the militants for the first time attacking them As Lawless dictators after they engineered the arrest of information minister Nasser Minachi As an alleged ally of the Central intelligence militants called dictators prison officials said today who was arrested Early was released on instructions Given by the ruling revolutionary Council late last the militants denounced Minachi in a radio and television broadcast tues presenting documents which they said showed he briefed the Cia during the last months of the Shah but Minachi dismissed the charges As nonsense and vowed he prove the allegations were his family said today he will hold a news Confer ence Bani Sadr had denounced the arrest As unauthorized by the state prosecutor and assailed the state radio television system for giving air time to the Mili Tants without prior government approx he said we have a constitutional Law and we should follow the Legal procedures in these immigration authorities at Mehra bad Airport near Tehran detained a 49member american delegation for four hours wednesday after it arrived at the invitation of the Western reporters quoted Airport sources As saying there was confusion Over the status of the americans entry the visitors were permitted to leave for their hotel in downtown Tehran today but it is whether they would be allowed to stay for 10 Days As Day Strong fertilizer Market despite higher the president of the Western Canada fertilizer association expects demand to climb As Farmers work to meet Lon term crop production City rinks in finals two Winnipeg rinks beat the Odds and six competitors from Rural areas yesterday to end up in the Fuu of the provincial women Curling chills for Norway even in the midst of a frigid norwegian the added chill of cold War can be Felt in the aftermath of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the internal exile of Nobel prize Winner Andrei riot the Public May have been stunned by the brutal killings during saturdays prison riot in new but inmates and experts who Deal with them say it was understandable and even Index scores strike nearing end spy charges absurd students rap closing deportation planned while Quebec teachers demonstrate finance minister Jacques Parizeau said yesterday that an end to the teachers strike is just hours or Days Harold the Canadian military attache just kicked out of the soviet says Moscow allegations hat he is a spy Are students from Argyle Many of them angry and confronted Winnipeg school division trustees about the proposed closing of their police and immigration officials in Toronto carried an asian woman out of her Home on a Stretcher yesterday to begin deportation 35 23 Cansino 35 7 61 23 42 Doug 7 24 Jumble 35 hockey nil Washington 2 Detroit 2 Hartford 7 los Angeles 3 Chicago 3 Quebec 3 Louis 6 Edmonton 3 winners Western express for 2295162 2276916 3676668 2437796 1729816 other t ;