Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free March 1980 Zinc Plant gets first Aid Honor by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press flin flon a team from the Hudson Bay mining and smelting Zinc casting Plant won the company wide i960 first Aid championship Here during the in the final staged at the Hap not collegiate the Zinc Plant Tan House team finished second and the Snow Lake miners during the teams were taken in turns onto a set simulating an Accident involving a family which had just been attacked by a the teams had no previous knowledge of the the Mother had been knocked struck her head on a Rock and suffered a fractured cuts to the Arm and Burns to one the father was in Shock and suffering lacerations to Chest and an infant was asphyxiated and required constant Mouth Mouth another child was lying in a tent unconscious and in a state of severe under the rules of the Competition team captains were allowed to ask the Umpire questions to locate the in the captains had to explain their teams action to the umpires and judges and were Given 25 minutes to solve the Jim company safety superintendent said the casting Plant team was the Only one to discover the unconscious boy in the this was the trick in the Competition and it gave them the the winning team was coached by Larry it included Art Adair de Terry Ber Nard Perry Pugh and Darayl Craik encourages uranium search Norman Stephenson watches first Aid team during mine operations Given three Star safety score flin flon Hudson Bay mining and smelting operations at flin flon and Snow Lake Are the first in the Canadian and possibly North american mining Industry to receive a three Star rating based on International safety James general manager of International mine safety auditing corporation in announced the rating at the firms annual presidents award dinner he said the award is Given after an audit of All the com pants safety programs and More than questions in 21 areas of safety Are the 1980 presidents award for the department with the most improved safety record during the previous 12 months went to the 102 Mem Bers of the electrical president Peter gush said the electricians set a record that will be hard to beat since they went the whole year without a single Acci Dent resulting in an employee missing a Days at a similar dinner a year gush said the company was suffering from bad housekeeping and certain areas of the operation were downright in the last he the operation has improved greatly and is As different As Chalk from cheese in most nuclear terror threat feared Toronto up a Lead ing antinuclear spokesman says Montreal or Toronto could be held for Ransom if radioactive plutonium that expected to be flown into Canada Falls into the hands of Montreal Fred Knel Confounder of Canadas coalition for nuclear Dinar made the comment in a weekend interview in the Wake of a disclosure that nine kilograms of deadly plutonium Are to be flown secretly to either Toronto or Montreal aboard Commer Cial cargo jets this Knelman said terrorists could use documents that have been Public for years to create a crude atomic device from the plutonium spent reactor fuel that could flatten either something As major As this should be a matter of Public Knelman one Millionth of a Gram of plutonium is atomic Energy Canada plans to bring the Pluto extracted from Cana Dian from France and Italy for experiments at its reactor at Chalk the plutonium will be moved from either Toronto or Montreal by truck to Chalk 35 Kilometres North of however he said it was a spotty year for safety in the in an inter View later he referred to the fatality at Centennial mine at flin flon where a Miner was drowned in the Shaft when a retaining Wall gave Way late last gush commended the Snow Lake underground supervisors and miners for their Steve area representative for the United steel workers of criticized the Lack of maintenance on three Over head cranes in the Tan House which lift the Zinc from the he claimed that in the last year cathodes have fallen from the Crane twice due to faulty maintenance and once it came pretty close to resulting in a serious in jury to one of our Mem correction Simpsons ears re Sears 24 Page Good looks great values Section in today due to circumstances beyond our we regret that the following items will not be available Page items body shirts and coordinating Page item full figure Bra in d cups in beige due to shipping the following items have been however orders will be taken Page item quilted Page Mem girls Cotton Drill jeans in slim Page free spirit sport shoes in mens and women we sincerely regret any inconvenience to our by rat cute Gage Manitoba finance minister Donald Craik Doest share fears about uranium mining that have capped the Industry development in British Columbia for the next seven in fact minister responsible for is taking just the opposite were on the Pinch Edge of uranium mining exploration in Manitoba and we encourage any move to develop the re he we have some exploration going ahead in the province and we see no reason at this Point in time to share Craik was commenting on British Colum Bia Premier Bill Bennetts recent freeze on uranium a move which came before completion of an inquiry into the effects of uranium mining on the Environ ment through open pit mining and possible waste Bennett said the disposal of radioactive wastes that result from mining has yet to be controlled in a satisfactory Art a nuclear Engi Neer at the White Shell nuclear experimental said the Public is too often Unin formed about nuclear there Are too Many alarmists around who dont know the strict regulations which students earn extra Cash turn your spare time into Money part time work age no Barrier Ideal for High High school evenings 6 to 9 and saturday mornings apply in person Only to Winnipeg free press 300 Carlton Street room a main floor March control nuclear sum Mach Ive been in nuclear Power for 25 years and its safer than Coal mining or plane trav cracks said he feels the province has a lot to gain through development of Manito Bas potential uranium exploration has been under Way for the last decade with no substantial results but there Are some encouraging signs in work now concentrated in the he both Saskatchewan and Ontario Are heavily involved in uranium with Saskatchewan having approved its development after a oneyear commission of inquiry into the there is also a possibility that a uranium refinery May be built near Saska in Manitoba search for Esso resources of Calgary purchased an option on acres in the Northwest Corner of the province about Kilometres from Winni Peg and expects to spend about million on uranium the option on the property was obtained from mid North uranium of Winnipeg and exploration is under Way on the lands touching Saskatchewan and the Bruce president of mid said Bennetts move was political and a blow to uranium How to reduce flood damage in Winnipeg its everyone 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