Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, February 08, 1980

Issue date: Friday, February 8, 1980
Pages available: 87
Previous edition: Thursday, February 7, 1980

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 8, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Beer bottle blast cuts woman by Noelle Boughton a Winnipeg woman recently suffered cuts to her hand when the Molson beef bottle she had just lifted out of its Case spontaneously exploded in her i pulled it out and it just the pressure was so great 1 was staked from head to said the who refused to be said she was looking up from the Case when the incident occurred and so avoided having her face Cut by flying the Cut in the Palm of her hand was severe enough to require representatives of the Fife webs association of the local Branch of the Federal consumer and corporate affairs product safety the Cor Sumers association of and three local breweries said they had never before heard of a beef bottle exploding there Are about six billion bottles of beef used in Canada each year and this is the firs time 1 have heard anyone a 12ounce beef bottle spontaneously said Kenneth la president of the Brewers association of Canada in Molson president Russ Deeb said he didst knot How the explosion was he said beef bottles Are pasteurized and thus subjected to higher pressures that they would Ever meet in the of natural Lavery said the pasteurized causes the burst Fig of bottles with leaks of weaknesses in the Glass which have not been spotted in previous Lavery said some bottles have been recycled up to 300 times and a few have been itt circulation is face although Ottawa has no restrictions on Beer the Brewers association has strict inspectors look at All Glass shipments before they leaves the bottles Are Given Impact tests As Well As taken from extreme cold to extreme heat and vice and bottlers have to follow pressure Deeb added that bottles Are generally electronically acid defective ones Are removed As they Are although tests have been done on soft drink Black said this work has Mot yet been extended to include beef he said the work might be but Simie there has Only been about three there would be no justification for it at the How 200 with look when expansion Cloudy tonight flurries tomorrow Low 15 High 7 final 200 february 1980 Sun rises sets p Moon rises sets Wayne tree press for Home Call 9439331 i to weeks Foi s k City 2b june Start promised on care Home poster Paula King proudly exhibits the poster that took first place in tute for the blinds White Cane Ron a crib a Canad wide contest marking the Canadian National inst was on hand when Paula picked up her draft dodgers stay away pm by Cecil Rosner prime minister Joe Clark today con firmed that a conservative government would assign the lowest immigration priority to american draft dodgers at tempting to enter speaking at his weekly press Confer ence in Clark Drewa distinction Between conscientious objectors who refused to take part in War on moral or religious grounds and draft dodgers who simply wanted to avoid an obligation to follow the he said Canadian Law has recognized the rights of conscientious objectors but would not create a special status draft dodgers coming from the Macdonald stand by Glen Mackenzie said when asked whether his statement broke with a tradition in Canada to allow in political dissidents from cer Tain i dont really know what the tradition was in the Clark said he would want Canada to co retinue being a Haven for people who Are objectors to Domestic Laws which objectively could be called but the question is a very difficult one As to whether draft legislation in the would be objectively called he Clark said the question Hast been discussed in Cabinet yet and would be one of the first questions to be consid ered after the but he said external affairs minis Ter Flora Macdonald expressed the instincts of most of her colleagues when she first enunciated the policy in response to a hotline program ques the prime minister said he consid despite the polls indicating other that the conservatives would be returned with a majority he said the three top government priorities when reelected would be fiscal Energy Sel Suffi Cliency and taking a More modern approach to constitutional government killed Sale of seed firm says the prime minister said legislation introduced by the former Liberal government made it impossible for Immi Grants to apply for landed immigrant status while inside the this which he said was supported by All would effectively Stop a reoccur Ance of the flood of american draft dodgers As took place during the height of involvement in Viet Canadas history of being a Refuge for dissidents is one which i think we would All have to to see exactly what the tradition Clark a businessman says he was within one Day of buying majority ownership in the Mckenzie seeds but the Lyon government claims it never made a Deal to Al president of Boehme Box said yesterday he arrived in Winnipeg 28 expecting to con elude the agreement for the Brandon operation the next an agreement in principle had certainly been my interpretation of the discussions was that consummation was he said in a Telephone but on Besant said govern ment representative Martin Freedman told him that at this time they the Manitoba government would like to ask for an Extension to rethink Besant said he didst know Why the government asked for the he added that All his negotiations were with provincial he said the agreement provided for him to operate the firm for 10 after which he would have the option to Purchase the remaining shares owned by the his firm would initially buy about 60 per cent owner ship but profits be divided on see Banman Page 4 election v8o d tories deserve a an d Pierre Trudeau stunned a crowd of liberals yesterday with a Flanne tongued columnist Allan Fotheringham d Liberal Campaign officials were thrown into a Tizzy by their leaders Energy policy d external affairs minister Flora Macdonald was met by howls of derision at the u of m by John Sullivan Manitoba health minister Bud Sher agreeing the province had been pretty Liberal with the owners of the Selkirk nursing yesterday promised a new building will be under construction by interviewed shortly after sending inspectors to the Home in to a free press report on employee com plaints of safety and health Haz Ards Sherman agreed the build ing is crumbly and dilapidated and must be demolished As soon As the minister also promised that his departments 198081 spending to be unveiled during the Legisla Tive will include new of tends to assist private nursing Home operators hit by High interest private or Public As he said the government will build its own publicly run nursing Home in Selkirk this year if the owners of the Selkirk nursing Home fail to there will be construction activity under Way on a new Persona care Home in Selkirk by june of this Sherman it will be either proprietary or no proprietary if the private operator finds the governments insured income Aidun we will revert to a non proprietary Home the Spades will be in the ground this i am not going to tolerate a delay of a new Persona care Home in Selkirk past Sherman also said the residents will be removed without delay if the still secret report on the Home by Sel Kirk fire chief Ted Wozny or this weeks inspections reveal any critical he said he expects an inspection report from the standards division of the Manitoba health services commission by complaints listed complaints from the who agreed to talk provided their names were not the use of a heavy duty cleaner in residents Bath inadequate fire antiquated wiring and and Lack of maintenance at the 74yearold most employees said they were Wor ried about the safety and health of the Homes 72 residents and a number said they Over the conditions i concede that its Sherman i dont condone those last Sherman said tenders would be called on a 108bed Selkirk Home in the near future and the facility would be constructed by this he said it would be built and operated by the current red River nursing Homes so Only some rough design work has been Sherman part of the delay is the governments but said the owners Haven found it possible or practical to proceed be cause of High interest we gave them that approval and in Good expected construction would be underway by he but i think that its hot unreasonable in a volatile interest Market to suggest that people had no doubt month by that interest rates would come we had perhaps been pretty Liberal in permitting them to go through that see nursing Page 4 evader must help disabled a Winnipeg contractor who failed to file income tax returns on income total Ling has been ordered to provide 50 hours of free labor to elderly and handicapped persons for each of the next 24 Angelo of 103 Marbury pleaded guilty to charges before provincial judge the judge fined him to be paid by january and ordered him to provide hours of free labor in the next two years to individuals under the jurisdiction of the Manitoba housing and renewal a Revenue Canada statement said guff i failed to file income tax returns for the years 1972 and court was told guff i has a lengthy record of related including failure to file employee wage returns and failure to remit payroll the statement said the judge told him he must realize that he should contribute something to society and not always take from guff i is liable for More than in taxes and penal the judge placed him on two years of supervised a Revenue Canada official estimated yesterday the value of the Fine and free labor would Side today pension Mountain rises Manitoba top two pension officials warn that the Federal government has to Start to overhaul the system to Short circuit the growing pension Mountain which could collapse the Canadian perseverance wins title Donna Brownridge rink stuck to and the perseverance paid off yesterday when it topped All other rinks and brought the Manitoba Lassie title Home from development urged Index scores the Dps platform for the next provincial unveiled yesterday by Leader Howard Calls for resumption of Manitoba Hydro Northern trouble close to Home while attention in the is focused on problems in Iran and incidents in three Central american countries offer serious and perhaps unexpected challenges to hemispheric peace 7 Banisadr gains Power be Ware the monies City May face Relief Tab Canadian film awards president Banisadr has won official endorsement As head of the revolutionary making him the second most powerful Man in Iran after Ayatollah a Winnipeg couple who fought for a month to get their son out of the clutches of the Moonie cult have to beware of the Cults influence on Young City officials fear a new Federal provincial flood roofing agreement May leave Winnipeg holding the bag for compensation the agreement outlines building film critic Leonard Klady has come up with the nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema presentation will be in Toronto March 33 22 13 33 34 30 31 34 Doug 5 7 24 Jumble 33 hockey nil Vancouver 4 Philadelphia 1 Boston 8 Toronto 6 Montreal 4 Colorado 3 by islanders 4 Angeles t 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