Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 24, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pepin slated to report on Yards Winnipeg free March s local the Federal Cabinet is scheduled to Discua relocation of the Winnipeg up rail Yards before trans port minister Jeanluc Pepin meets with City Robert Liberal my for Boniface and Pepins parliamentary said in a weekend interview that Pepin will report to Cabinet thurs Day on the railway Pepin is slated to meet with Canadian wheat Board representatives and other officials wednesday in but be cause of a Busy schedule wont meet with mayor Bill Bockstael but he added he expects Pepin would talk to both Norrie and Manitoba government representatives before announcing a Bockstael also said that although rail relocation is on thursdays Cabinet Agenda that Doest mean it will be dealt Norries executive Dave said the ministers of fice told us this morning it is absolutely impossible for him Pepin to meet with the mayor in the next seven will seek meeting Grant said the mayors office would try to arrange a meeting with Pepin when the minister is in its estimated the relocation would Cost us the Sherbrook Mcgregor overpass and up grading other would Cost Norrie and Bockstael both said last week the Cost Factor favors construction of the Manitoba municipal affairs minister Gerry Mercier has said the province supports the overpass and will refuse to fund Bockstael said last week the total Cost of relocation could be 25 per cent less than estimated in the Federal study released last he said the study did not take Hown of sterlings Antiques and Silver of Winnipeg displays a Skull yesterday in Rosh Pina synogogue 123 Matheson the Skull was one of the items in a show and Sale of Antiques and Fine Chown bought the Skull at a Flea Market and has no idea of its origin services take a says mystery Skull Fri t m w t ii i vol log into account savings to up rail through efficiency provided by newer equip druggists deny expertise lower by Bob armstrong1 Manitoba pharmacists Are better trained and More professionally aware today than they were two years says the executive director of the Manitoba society of professional pharmacists Jack Davis was responding to a 1978 report by two University of Manitoba health researchers stating that Winni Peg pharmacists Are less professional than their counterparts in four other Canadian surprised by report said he was surprised by the we thought we were doing a respectable Job in upgrading our phar the report said Winnipeg pharmacists belong to the least number of professional were least inclined to warn customers not to use alcohol with Over the counter drugs and were second lowest on general knowledge the study was con ducted in Van Montreal and with 312 pharmacists emphasis shifted in recent Manitoba pharmacists have been shifting their emphasis from dispensing to educating their Cus Davis mandatory continuing medical education for pharmacists was instituted in the minimum number of hours of study required increase in subsequent the report also recommended development of National standards for phar establishment of drug information centres for pharmacists and doctors and increase continuing Edu cation for one who asked not to be agreed with establishment of National Winnipeg pharmacists ranked second chief officer at flyer Steps Down lowest in the report in having Complete patient files and the report showed that pharmacists in hospitals were More knowledgeable and Felt greater responsibility to inform people about pharmacists in hospitals Are Natu rally going to know More because they Are working with doctors and have More time to fill the pharmacist he Doest have com plete patient but has a locator system which keeps track of custom ers students do Well in exams Many of the reports recommendations might be Good said Robert a pharmacist at boots he doubted that Manitoba pharmacists Are second lowest in Gen eral i dont know about Manitoba students do Well in their pharmacists already have compel Ken free press Sory continuing education and there Are usually two to three lectures a he what is required is compulsory competence rather than compulsory continuing education the report warning labels attached a pharmacist who did not want to be named said he belonged to several pharmaceutical he said it is policy to attach warning labels to bottles and give warnings about any pills that cant be taken with patient files would be he and his store will be getting computer patient files Gordon one of the two researchers who prepared the said it is commendable that some pharmacists Issue warnings about drugs and but it should be required rather than leaving it to the the Manitoba government is working As fast As it can to establish bilingual services in the provincial legislature and the attorney general Gerry Mercier said in an address to the fran co Manitoban Mercier said it wont be easy to implement a recent court ruling that gave English and French the same official status they had when Mani Toba was founded 110 years he said its a giant chore to translate into French the Laws passed since when Manitoba official language act made English the Only official Lan Guage of the legislature and a supreme court of Canada Deci sparked by an English parking ticket contested by Boniface Busi Nessman Georges upheld Mani Tobas 1870 bilingual rights Law Over the 1890 Manitoba has two bilingual jurists on loan from working on French versions of Manitoba a third translator has just arrived and a fourth is expected in difficult task the task of recruiting translators qualified in common Law is a difficult Mercier told a workshop session at the society annual meeting in i Hope everyone will Bear with the government plans to spend 000 during the next 14 months translating regulations and other documents into Mercier announced translation ser vices will be provided in the at and Cost to the Mercier said the supreme court judgment could be applied in a strictly limited but the spirit of the decision does not seem Howe there Are no immediate plans to make the full Range of Manitoba government services available in both Lan Rheal a said French speaking clients want wills and other documents registered in but when he presented papers in French at the land titles office in they were this is part of the Overall prob Mercier instructions have been issued to accept papers in John chief executive offi cer of flyer industries has he is being on an interim by Paul appointed by the provincial government last fall As Vic president and hired away from american motors by the said he is leaving with no ill he said he had taken the with no time limit to look for opportunities for sales and diversification for the controversial government owned bus building and Felt he had achieved when he took Over in flyer had Only million in orders to it now has More than 160 there Happy and in he Bob minister responsible for said yesterday flyers order books have been weve got orders up until said now weve got to get the product he said the newly appointed interim chief and Board of directors will be gearing up for production to fill the Banman also announced the appointment of five directors for with chairman of the Manitoba development As acting chairman of Killinger said flyer has Good Poten tial for gaining bus orders and it is up to the new Board to turn it around and give it proper he said there has been some interest by companies in the Purchase of the bus building firm but certainly there int anyone standing in the wings Riant flyer was taken Over by the Mac in i960 by the former nip which put More than million into the the firm has lost approximately million since it was taken Over by the government and the present government has said it would like to sell former director of sales and service for am in said he had no definite named to the Board of directors of the company Are Deputy economic development minister Rogers John executive assistant to finance minister Don Craik Ralph associate Deputy minister of cooperative development Albert Vic president of engineering for Bris Tol aerospace and former director Allan a painful injury Engette Lewis left attempt to restrain an injured Terry whose leg was Cut by broken there was no cause for alarm As the injuries were Only the Young women were taking part in the fourth annual Royal life saving society of Canada Competition for lifeguards at the swimming Pool in the Frank Kennedy building at the University of but some court officials Haven got the this cant be administered in group there was general agreement that when legally people should insist on receiving services in the French speaking which accounts for about six per cent of Manitoba was criticized for having been timid in the Hospital planning for bed cutback an anticipated nursing shortage at the health sciences centres general Hospital will Force the facility to Cut Back on its Hsc president Peter swerhon said swerhon would not specify the num ber of but said recent Media reports that at least 120 Beds from four to six wards will be shut Down Are he said fewer than 120 Beds will be swerhon said the Hospital is expected to release a statement regarding the situation today or the opening of the seven Oaks Gen eral Hospital in october is expected to intensify the nursing reports indicate that a shortage of 75 nurses at the general Hospital is due by the end of statistics released by the Manitoba association of registered nurses indicate that As of january there were 262 registered nursing vacancies in the As funding arrangements stipulate that a certain number of Hospital Beds Are allotted for the so the opening of seven Oaks Means the closure of Beds in other the Manitoba health services com Mission met last week with executive and nursing directors of Winnipeg hospitals and officials from the Manitoba health organizations to assess the Luggage launched at Airport a Winnipeg woman ended up with bruises on her stomach and legs when suitcases began piling up and falling off the Luggage Carousel at the Winnipeg International Airport last broadcaster Hedi Lewis said crates of pineapple smashed and about 800 pieces of Luggage spilled Over As More than 400 passengers scrambled to col Lect their belongings after arriving Home from a up flight to after waiting for their Luggage for about an the passengers were confronted with Luggage tumbling onto the Carousel so quickly that they reach their belongings before More piled on added to chaos passengers were exhausted after their eight hour she the frustration at not being Able to reach their Luggage on the turning Carousel just made them angry and added to the it was such a it spoiled the whole Lewis said she faulted up air for loading so Many people on a Hight when it arrange for a smooth end to their George Public relations spokesman for up said the airline normally hires two pea staff to unload Luggage from the Carousel when the Hawaii flight comes but there was a breakdown in communications Between up air and pea and help was not Smellie said the problem has been ;