Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba A tip wimp two free july group still wants mental health act redrafted my feta mental health we Only pm a Hal Days notice of elation it Fol units i redrafting of the Law amendments committee the it my he Turig Cohen said it Ati though pfc pm Mew flans to Uff frogs last week that the Wolfi the tests Iatter for Flktti Rea Dilg this i Bitto committee to be Arnold Cohen said there Are not Sfeir wheels and balances to a persons Mel to a Tetter to the editor of the free Prmt Cohen accused the government of trying to push the legislation and of giving the Public Little Opportunity to the Manitoba us Reform Sion made 90 recommendations to re form the mental health act in Perm after Jane year it a Bat there is Imie Chadwe there will be other outside those diced by health minister l Bod Sherstan e sp6ftt a year in drafting the act now before the House which was tabled to the legislature june without including most of the commissions recommend the Meta and the Manitoba association for rights and liberties had Al ready requested at Law amendments 88 has Oas Seti Law amendments committee Ana Sherman said it will he brought up in the House for third Reading with the amendments within the next two those include closing the loophole which would have allowed police to hold a native awaiting admission to a treatment facility in custody until a government agreed to pay for the care involved and changing a provision lobby to fight milk pricing Bill a when wrote Nave allowed a review 8b fat Ucell status aft indefinite be yawl Wrath 10 fold a the bin Only tailed lot it hearing Date to be set it Thiol 15 but the change it fifes the fi0fflfflltl06 to hold d heat ing within 30 Days of the the Cufr Efti fi6t rep ties it Neview after 21 dip aft then a new order can be issued for til indefinite amount of Cohen r the Meta is asking for these changes in a new mental health act d criteria for committing someone be changed from mentally disordered to the presence of a mental being dangerous or showing a Lacoc of coff pretence and refusal of n a fight to a Sec id when the unwary request Tor commit Rem is made by a d establishment of a registry of Quail filed healthcare professionals to assess Hents Froff the prov Stefl that allows n during the first year of a Fittry Miclan to sign a commitment a review be made every few order signed by a by Jota Sullivan thirty seven unions and he Terest groups have formed a lobby to protest the provincial governments plan to decontrol milk the led by the citizens health action say retail milk prices will skyrocket if the milk control Board and its Price setting Powers Are it will also mean Windfall profits for milk they Bill the proposed milk prices review is now in second Reading in the Wendy head of citizens health actions milk Price said at a press conference yesterday deregulation will strike to income earners and Remote communities hardest by allow ing retailers to boost prices Indis Cri even with no fixed minimum Price for there is no Competition among she the retailers Haven asked for in creases in the past Treyve accepted what the Board has Given them quite land once there Given free i dont know what will James flee press said agriculture minister Jim Downey has repeatedly ignored the groups requests for a meeting to air their which also include a peal procedures and Price monitoring under the new More Competition Downey has said deregulation will not Send prices through the but could promote increased Competition among retailers giving con Sumers a better he said it will also boost waning supplies by assuring producers of an adequate return on their the milk control which holds hearings before setting the production and retail would be replaced by government appointed milk prices re View commission of five seven Mem Bers under the the commission would continue to set the return to producers based on farm surveys and would Monitor the final retail it could also hear Roll Back prices and set a maximum or minimum Price if it finds Market Price but land said the commissions a peal Powers Are deficient because Only producers will be Able to Challenge the producer leaving Consumers out in the this is an Appeal system that will Only raise prices and never lower she cant examine books Legal Aid lawyer Arne Peltz said that even if consumer groups Appeal the retail or processing portion of the shelf they still wont be Able to exam Ine the books of the big milk retailers to seek evidence of corporate secrecy was built into the last act and remains in this he land said her group will appear before the Legislatures Law Amend ments committee when Bill 86 comes up for detailed and other groups Are being urged to do the the Manitoba milk producers marketing Board has already objected to the continued fixing of their Price by the proposed review the producers want an Independent third party to establish a pricing homogenized milk now costs 63 cents a skimmed milk 57 cents and partly skimmed 61 the producers Board says prices Are at least six cents higher elsewhere in the last Price increase allowed by the milk control Board was one cent a litre on june which went to prices on the retail Price went up five cents a litre with producers getting cents and processors meanwhile in the legislature yester la june Westbury Rouge condemned the Bill As harsh and cruel and called on the govern ment to withdraw it for consultations with consumer Westbury said middlemen will profit by the new legislation and predicted retailers will be Able to ask whatever Price the traffic will hear for milk in areas where there Are few highways minister Don Orchard told the legislature that producers have not been getting Price increases fast enough to keep Pace with their increasing can wait As Long As six months Lor Hoard he adding the existing review mechanism int flexible Orchard last Spring with the drought and High interest yet producer prices Thi producer is paying the Ani Tiff consumer to is getting a free swinging in the Park Ron Paley really gets into the swing of things on keyboard during a session despite continuing threats of 75 people turned up to hear the with the 17 other members of his big band at Centennial Park in East Kildonan free concert in the music in the Park series sponsored by festival Winnipeg Man jailed on sex charges by Joe Rubin a 26yearold former Winnipeg Man was sentenced yesterday in provincial judges court to one year in jail for buggery and Gross indecency involving four juvenile Donald Alexander Mumford was convicted of five counts of buggery and four of Gross he was sentenced to one year concurrent for each Sherman optimistic after talks Manitoba health minister Bud Sherman has returned from talks in Ottawa with his Federal counterpart optimistic that Winnipeg re Institute May find a role in supplying Canadas blood product Sherman and re Institute director Jack Bowman went to Ottawa this week after hearing reports that Federal health minister Monique begin was preparing to make a proposal to the Federal Cabinet favouring an exclusively Eastern Canadian Choice for sup plying the Canadian blood products begin was very receptive to our re port on the technology that has been developed and proven in we received her Assurance that no decision favouring an exclusive Eastern Canadian site is imminent and that Wilt be fully consulted during the process leading up to any Sherman said at the tune Sherman left for he said the Annand f were or laboratories in to red Cross and the Institute in Quebec for new facility to Supply the volume necessary to make Canada product he said they had been invited to meet with but the re Institute haunt received an the Winnipeg Institute is located at the University of Ifan Frugni under a of the buggery and Given six months for the Gross indecency charges to be served concurrently with the buggery the oneyear sentence is to be served concurrently with another jail term Mumford is serving in four months remain in that Crown counsel Marley dash said Mumford committed numerous sexual acts with Winnipeg who ranged in age from 12 to Between and one of the said was on the run at the time and was harboured by noting the persistent course of con duct by the accused Over the the Crown asked judge William Martin to give Mumford a jail sentence consecutive to the one he is currently serving in Calgary on an unrelated already homosexuals the maximum penalty for dash was 14 Gross indecency carries a five year defence counsel Sheldon Pinx asked for a six month sentence consecutive to the four months his client has left to it was Clear from the evidence the juveniles gave at the preliminary inquiry that Mumford did not harm any of the Pinx the youths were already haying decided where their sexual nature would Fol Low at an Early although the youths were of tender they knew what they were the lawyer their Maturi sexually and far exceeded their Pinx said police exerted consider Able pressure on the the Juve Niles did not go to the police to com Plain about the lawyer the police approached and questioned them As part of an invest crescents East Side closed for repairs the East Side of University Crescent Between Pembina Highway and Dysart Road has been closed for a week for Road the Winni Peg works Troi two Way traffic and bus service in one Pinx said a youth was questioned by police for 72 judge Martin said it was difficult to assess who the victim was in this it turns me right off to think of a boy of 12 subjected to the acts we heard described in he he after having seen one of the juveniles in i really do search myself for a judge Martin said he is convinced most of the youths will continue with their homosexual Mumford was one of about 15 men charged with buggery and Gross indecency after a police investigation last the men received sentences ranging from six months to one one Man remains to be sentenced in the professor granted to solve flooding problems a University of Manitoba Engineer ing professor has received a Grant to find a solution to the flooding problems which plague Farmers in an area immediately East of Riding Moun Tain National Ian who teaches civil in said in an interview yesterday the flooding in the area is caused by rain water running off the so called Manitoba escarpment on the Eastern Edge of the National where inclines Rise As much As 366 metres Over six the escarpment is part of the West Ern Shore of Lake a body of water which covered much of present Day Manitoba until the last ice age about years Coulter said the natural sciences and engineering research Council of Canada commissioned his study of the watershed beneath the Escarp the which began four months will take about three rapeseed area it May Lead to recommendations which would urge Farmers in the 48squarekilometre area concerned to Plant crops which Are More water resistant than the wheat and rapeseed now widely grown in the As Coulter the investigation will try and provide information on whether flows in Wilson which normally drains the area into Lake can be increased and what can be done to reduce the volume of shale deposits coming Down from the escarpment during heavy research into the flooding prob lems East of the Manitoba Escarp ment has been conducted since and Coulter says he will draw on the information accumulated in earlier the recommended solutions could Well involve disciplines other than the scientist Piercy unlikely to run in Ward Federal provincial will be on the West Piercy to hid in River East Harold Independent Council Lor for Henderson Ward since said yesterday theres a least a 75 per cent Chance he wont run again in the octo Ber civic two other men have indicated they will seek the Henderson they Are All councillor in the area Between 1971 and and Don a school Board Trust president the progressive conservative party of said he definitely will run As a conservative in the next provincial election in the constituency of River a new Riding created under redistribution which takes in the Northern half of the present Rossmere he said he is leaning towards not running in the municipal elections be if he this would require giving up his Council seat in midterm to enter live provincial Piercy was criticized for vacating Council to run As a pc in Rossmere in last october provincial by elect where he lost by 236 votes to nip candidate Vic l ;