Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 18, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 gift Nipes free August Lead level in air tests show cases of Lead poisoning and air borne contamination continue to plague North West smelting and refining almost a year after it promised a government test results obtained by the free press show that As late As june workers in some areas of the Logan Avenue Plant were still being exposed to amounts of airborne contamination More than four times the provincial As blood tests on about 20 of North wests workers showed a num Ber had reached or exceeded the Dan Ger level for Lead poisoning milligrams per 100 Grams of whole provincial guidelines require that employees with readings exceeding this level should be taken off the Job and placed on workers compensation for medical workers compensation Board statistics obtained by the inter National molders and Allied workers Union at North West show this has been done with Only a handful of employ monitoring on june 24 showed air breathed by one blast Furnace employee was contaminated by Milli Grams of Lead per cubic com pared to the provinces maximum level of two other workers were exposed to and Milli Grams during their there were similar readings in mid May with one worker recording an exposure level of milligrams about 26 times the provincial Maxi mum and a similar Reading june another worker was exposed to Lead Levels 33 times above the safety Stan Dard on May North West promised to spend 000 on a new foundry Wing last septem Ber after five workers were put on compensation for Lead the company said the improvements would be made by november and the Plant cleaned up to combat the but seven of 24 blood tests done at the Plant last november were above the maximum Lead level of milligrams per 100 Grams of whole on one two of five employees tested were above the danger there were similar results in Decem but no employee was placed on dance mob frees prisoners continued from Page 1 bystanders rocked the patrol car As it pulled away from the after Locking the suspect Mcleod and the ramp returned to the dance and told the the Cross Lake to close Down the band went off and talked to mayor George whom they said gave them permission to the police then went to see the who had earlier Given them authority to Stop the dance if things got out of while the police were talking to the Mcleod a woman told them 200 people were on their Way to the ramp when with the ramp and four Cross Lake Indian band arrived on the scene a few minutes windows and the door had been the guard had been struck and the four prisoners had been set Mcleod said fuel Oil had been spread along one Side of the during the the subdistrict office at Thompson was notified and three hours later eight More ramp constables arrived by Mcleod said several arrests were made following the disturbance and the investigation is compensation in either month and Only two were off by workers compensation Board statistics obtained by the Union the average Leadin blood count of workers tested in february and March continued above Milli Grams and Rose to More than in the highest readings in each month were and according to Board one or was on compensation in one in March and none in the High Lead Levels continued through May and june before dropping during a two week Plant shutdown in in the latest blood ordered 1 for All North West one worker registered a Lead level of milligrams and three others were above Tipoff to firm alleged continued from Page 1 fair degree of accuracy when the next inspection come if it has been Issue cleanup orders with a Bot employee Gary Mendella said he had been told by a member of manage ment that North West did 48 hours notice of he told us one Day that there was going to be an inspection and we had to clean Mendella i asked him How he knew and he said a Little Bird told that happened two or three everybody would be told to clean up and All of a sudden theres a Steve a probationary blast Furnace said he was Laid off without prior notice july less than two 4eeks after telling a company official that his doctor had found a Lead level of in his Pickard said the official also of his next visit july 16 to Percy Dektor for a second blood test Picard said North West told him the reason for the Layoff was Lack of but he and the International molders and Allied workers Union claim several new workers were hired a week of pm cards a grievance filed by the Union says Pickard was Laid off without just cause and demands his reinstatement without loss of benefits or Haberoth replied in writing 8 that the company had no knowledge of pick Ards Lead level and called the grievance untimely because Pickard was Laid off during his but Pickard said he was definitely Laid off because of his High Lead Pickard said he has been questioned by workplace safety and health officials several times on his where in the Plant he had worked and what protective equipment he another Norman said he was Laid off june one Day after company physician Maurice Dekoven informed the labor department that Bruce had Lead poisoning and would be put on workers at the time of his Bruce said he want aware that he had registered on a july 19 blood test and was to be been placed on Al though Dekoven apparently sent Bruce a the employee said he didst find out until Early july when he was advised by a labor department official to seek in its response to a grievance filed by the Union on bruces the company again said it want aware of his High Lead level and had Laid him off because of insufficient leaning into the turns Marg Teske and Bagabo Rrt lean hard into a turn during the barrel races at the red River exhibitions 23rd annual horse show held at Birds Hill Park during the Teske was one of the busiest participants in the which attracted riders from Western Canada and the United adding the English Riding events to her hard charging ride in the barrel Road projects advanced by Bob Armstrong motorists in Roblin and Oak Bank will be getting improved roads this year As a result of the highways minister Don Orchard has announced a Flo million increase for Road construction this which includes major projects at Roblin and Oak Bank and several smaller the increase is necessary because construction has been moving at a fast Pace this year As a result of the dry he Many projects which were expected to carry Over into next year already have been As a work which was slated to come out of next years budget is coming out of the 1980 the government budgeted for million last with about million coming from the Federal this year the budget has been in creased to about with the Federal contribution Down to Mil the Roblin construction was planned for next but was moved Forward to this he the put up for tendering 10 Days will involve work on provincial trunk Highway 83 to give the town a Spring truck the Oak Bank reconstruction of provincial Road was scheduled for this but because the other jobs were finished quickly there was no Money left for the Cost of the projects ranges from about to Orchard said last the extra projects should help to alleviate layoffs for several but they wont prevent every Orchard the Manitoba heavy construction association said last week that workers could be Laid off by the end of the and Laid off by september because of Early completion of Many Orchard said he had not seen the associations figures substantiated and thought the number of layoffs could be closer to the association had told the govern ment a to in creases in the Road construction budget was needed to combat the Lougheed disputes Federal and continued from Page 1 t Lougheed said All objective analysts predict a serious shortage by the mid1980s and the1 risk of an ear Lier disruption of Supply from the poli tical volatile persian Gulf area of the Middle Lougheed reminded his audience that Canada now imports on third of its Oil and that conventional mainly in Are depleting he said Canadas Oil import Bill this year is billion and is predicted Rise to billion by Lougheed said he is disappointed in Ottawa perspective of the current Energy Supply situation and said a newspaper placed by the Federal government which says Canada produces More Energy than it is he noted that the International Energy Agency has placed Canada at the Bottom of the list in reducing Energy consumption and that Albertas propos Al to replace imported Oil for Home heating with natural Gas has been rejected by the Federal Albertas proposal to raise the Price of Domestic Oil in stages to 75 per cent of the North american Price rejected last month during pricing talks Between Lougheed and prime minister Pierre the province unilaterally raised prices a effective As for the Lougheed said the Western premiers thought there would be a move toward a new Federal ism following the 18 Federal elec Tion in which no liberals were elected West of he the View from Ottawa now seems to be to Ward abandonment of the Federal sys tem in favor of a unitary state such As was Lougheed said the Federal system is the right system for Canada and rejected Federal arguments that Canada is the most decentralized country in the Lougheed said provincial Powers should be strengthened without weak ening essential Federal Powers and rejected the idea of an elected Canad an Senate for better regional representation because it would conflict with the idea of a parliamentary system of Federal officials were either unavailable or declined comment last night on Lougheed Stu Phi 1 Tott pm is sky marshals on Alert after rash of hijackings continued from Page 1 shortly before her bags were checked aboard a Delta flight to the Virgin islands from Miami on but we decided that the worst thing about a hijacking is that you lose a Day in said her Betsy con Piedmont aviation ticket agent Harry Daniel quoted passengers As joking Well take some Money if it Well go Down to the duty free shop in he warned that jokes might end in the airline people Arent laughing about he Roger a spokesman for the Federal aviation said Federal Many dressed in Plain will Fly on randomly chosen flights in and out of three flights were diverted to Cuba on raising the total for the week to Eastern and Republic flights from Miami and a Delta flight from puerto Rico were hijacked by men apparently carrying gasoline or other flammable two men were arrested in Miami yesterday after Security using a behavioural profile that has not been identified them As potential hijackers attempting to Board an air Florida they were arrested with bottles of gasoline and charged with air arraignment was set today for four cubans arrested in Tampa on saturday after bottles of gasoline were found in their search for titanic called off from the news services new York the Stormy North which served up an iceberg 68 years ago to sink the British luxury liner yesterday ended a expeditions Hopes of finding the ves Sels searchers said they Hope to revive the Effort next year using a scientists aboard the research vessel Fay had sought to lower cameras to metres below the Choppy seas to Check on an object picked up by sonar that is believed to be the titanic we were unable to get the cameras said Mike a document a filmmaker from Fla who Heads the search for the ship in which More than people Harris said the decision to Call off the search and return to Boston was made Early yesterday news Roundup Indian clashes claim 150 new Delhi Indian government and opposition leaders have exchanged accusations after five Days of clashes Between moslem and police that left about Iso persons most of the victims died in the Northern town of Moradabad where violence erupted last Kosygin reported ill Moscow soviet officials have told diplomats Here that Premier Alexei Kosygin is ill and will not be Able to receive Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan who is to visit Moscow later this diplomatic sources said yesterday that the soviet officials gave no details concerning the loess of computer Whiz dead Ohio a 17yearold com Puter Whiz who disappeared for 28 Days last year in what May have been part of a fantasy game died saturday from a self inflicted gunshot authorities James Dallas Egbert who police shot himself in the head last had been kept alive by life support equipment in Hospital in Day troops answer Call port Vanuatu Papua new guinean troops flew into the South Pacific Island of is pint Santo today to put Down a 12week rebellion against the government of newly Independent the government of formerly called the new asked Papua new Guinea to end the rebellion after the Anglo French Force already there failed to move against rebels based outside i sanctions considered Morocco ministers from 14 islamic countries conferred yesterday on measures to be taken against any state that recognizes Jeru Salem As the israeli conference sources said the minis ters discussed proposals that would demand a total break in diplomatic and economic including an embargo on shipments of Oil and other strategic raw with any coun try that formally accepts Jerusalem As the capital of the jewish the Jerusalem committee of the islamic states convened an emergency session following the israeli decision ust month to proclaim All of Jerusa including the Arab sector of East the eternal and indivisible capital of miss Fol Lorama crowned Patrkia miss Fol Lorama crowns Pavilion Canadian Frai Ais Queen Rosemane Fiola the 1980 miss Folk Orama during Dossing ceremonies sunday of the eight Day was also selected by the other Pavilion Queens As miss ;