Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 16, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Year of the Monkey is dawning today entertainment Thomas Hutch is pretty close to Flash Clear tonight sunny tomorrow Low 22 High 13 press 1980 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 200 30t with coloured comics for Home ii 9439331 Lor outside City poll Points to Liberal majority in election Ken Rhee Phass the latest Gallup poll indicates canadians will elect a Liberal majority government in mondays Federal elec the conducted tuesday and wednesday by the Canadian Institute of Public opinion and released shows the liberals maintaining the Lead they have enjoyed Over the progressive conservatives since the Campaign inquest into fatal in blast planned by Brian Cole Manitoba chief medical examiner has called for an inquest into the death of Canadian National railways worker William who died last week following an explosion at a rail Dirks said the inquest will be held to determine whether the fatal Accident could have been no Date has been a 64yearold reclaim Yard died following an explosion at his acetylene oxygen torching station at the in Yard in no witnesses there were no witnesses to the 1 explosion and Canada labor investigators have not determined the cause of the benjamins death prompted an out cry from some of his who earlier this week blamed in for failing to provide adequate safety some who wanted to re main Anonymous to avoid said similar incidents have occurred in the and they feared they could be the next to die on the the torching stations Are actually acetylene and oxygen pipes coming from the ground and Are enclosed in a Doghouse like the stations serve As outlets for torches used in salvaging old Box cars and chunks of one employee speculated the explosion occurred because of Leaky Torch hoses and he said Acety Lene could have leaked overnight and see workers Page 4 Gallup poll the liberals had the support of 48 per cent of decided voters in the Survey of compared with 28 per cent for the conservatives and 23 per cent for the new democratic the Dps gain of three percentage Points is at the expense of the conservatives since a similar Gallup poll 10 Days while the liberals held about 11 per cent of the respondents were Only three other times since the second world War has one party had a 15to 20percentagepoint Lead Over its nearest rival in the final each it won a sweeping its unbelievable its its said Patrick press Secretary to Liberal Leader Pierre such surveys Are accurate to within four percentage Points 19 times out of As the Large margin the party enjoys in Quebec can distort the nation Al picture by up to eight the liberals have held the Lead since before the election Campaign with Only minor this weeks Survey produced results strikingly similar to the final Gallup before the 1968 the first for Trudeau As when the liberals led the conservatives by 47 to 29 per they received 46 per cent of the popular vote in that compared with 31 per cent for the and won 155 compared to 72 for the see poll Page 4 election 8o la a look at the party leaders in the last week of a Bon crushing d two Rural Manitoba newspapers were unaware an interview with tory candidates was written by party la Joe Clark ignored the polls yesterday to claim the pcs will win a d Southern Ontario shows signs of g de Broadbent says the pcs deserve to festival spirit while it May appear that Blake Marclen has found the answer created by Grade 6 pupils at Laura Secord school for the to High gasoline prices in Ordinary tap he really is festival do which begins tonight with the cover putting the finishing touches on a Snow sculpture of a car nors Ball at the Centre culture investigation clears care Home by Mary Ann the controversial Selkirk nursing Home has been Given a virtual clean Bill of health by the Manitoba health services health minister Bud Sherman said Sherman which Fol Lowed an investigation prompted by a series of free press has disappointed Selkirk la nip Leader Howard Pawley to the Point of frustration because it was made be fore a group of former nurses at the Home had the Opportunity to meet with government Pawley has been trying to set up such a meeting on behalf of the dozen nurses he want to discuss their concerns about the Quality of care residents of the facility Are Sherman said he personally wont meet with the but he will expedite any meeting with health services commission he added he is personally writing to but declined to reveal the contents of the letter which the nip Leader should receive Early next i suggest he is a Little late writing this kind of letter he didst see fit to do that before he held his press Sherman he referred to a visit Pawley had made to the nursing Home with a free press reporter and photographer Early this it is strange he didst consider this course of action two weeks but if he had it would have nullified the obvious advantage he obtained in Stag ing a press the minister Hawleys letter to Sherman re questing the meeting was dated Mon Sherman ordered the investigation into the Home after free press articles which said employees were concerned about the health and safety of residents of the 74yearold the who asked that their names not be had concerns about the Home ranging from fire hazards and shortages to bathing care of its see Sherman Page 4 judge has tasted delights of drug by Brian gory a provincial judge said yesterday he considered disqualifying himself from hearing a drug related Case because had experienced the delicious delights of judge Graeme Garson made the comment after hearing evidence that an Ontario Man fraudulently tried to obtain a nine times in Winnipeg and several Small Ive tasted the beguiling delights of Garson its an extra delightful the judge concluded that his involvement with the drug which he later said came during medical disqualify him from judging another Man who became addicted to it Bias me in this perhaps it he commented in in an interview outside Garson said he suffers the pain of kidney stones every two and that demerol every four hours provides the Only under he a person Galluci nates and he fined Dennis a self employed pulp and paper trucker at Vermilion on the nine fraud court was told Westergard suffered Many injuries or illnesses since he was 16 migraine injured Back and each doctors prescribed de he grew so dependent on the evidence that when his Mother was ill at the health sciences Westergard switched a doctors notepad from a desk at the Centre and began see accused Page 4 engineers in demand University engineering graduates Are having Little trouble finding according to the Dean of engineering at the University of Winter on the strip life on Winnipeg mean streets is a Little different this theres no main1 Street project where you can get warm and sleep until youre thirsty Paul Sullivan am better at Home 500 girls marked in plot Index from the Way Hal Sigurdson describes youre better off watching the olympics at at least youll see the which is More than some who bought tickets were Able to do when the bus system broke More than 300 los Angeles girls were marked for death in a sadistic police have charged two men in connection with the which has already claimed the lives of five Young women motor of prices vary smart motorists will shop around before their next Oil a Survey shows a litre can of 10w30 motor Oil can Range in Price from 85 cents to Toronto racy the has an imitator in and while the piling keening news has no Sunshine it does have an advice who deals with topics of a sexual Bank rate rises the Federal Reserve Board increased its discount lending rate one per cent but an immediate move to match it int predicted for packing lots of flour Madie Sayies of Leaf rapids can really pack she won the Manitoba trappers festival contest yesterday when she walked the 15foot course with with 572 pounds of flour strapped to her shoulders and business 43 63 51 43 34 crossword 26 34 Doug 5 19 7 69 scores Winter olympics medal standings Jumble Puzzle 28 38 12 6 30 19 43 2 Soviel Union Netherlands Aubyna fast Germany Finland Canada Bulgaria Czechoslovakia g s b 2 2 1 i 1 1 0 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 hockey nil Edmonton 8 Washington 2 Hartford 5 Winnipeg 4 ;