Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg from att gust i damaged wheel halts chlorine rail car by Ritchie Gage a potential derailment of a he Tofino Tanker eat was avoided by Canadian National railways last week when a freight train containing tire which had a damaged wheel was ordered to an emergency halt in the port Rouge according to railway the Engineer of the train was warned of a possible defective wheel outside the City limits by a hot wheel detection but the warning was inconclusive and the train was brought into the a car official said the train was ordered to an emergency Stop by the conductor in the port Rouge Yards after a train Crew near Waverley Street saw a lubrication Wick on fire from the Tom special commodities officer with the said the Jim free press fire was insignificant and was doused by a conductor using two fire me Slid Winnipeg Fine department was matted to the Yards to coot Down the wheel because of the dangerous commodity the Tanker car was then removed from the train and put on the Spur the defective wheel was changed the following chlorine is in liquid form when but when exposed to air be comes a Gas which is irritating to the lungs and High concentrations such As part Permillion can cause according to the chlorine the car contained 60 tons of the car Public affairs officer Jack Skull said there was no news release on the incident at the time because there was no danger to the the hot wheel detectors Are located at 32kitometfe intervals along the car according to a Detector out Side the City if Fowier the train Crew of a possible bad but the wheel want hot enough to trigger a definite danger this caused a but not a Stop the wheel worsened after passing the detection but was Between Check a private citizen also sighted the burning lubrication Wick on the Mal functioning wheel near Waverley Street and telephoned the fire a fire department official Yardmaster Don Hawryluk said the wheel had been sighted earlier by a Crew working near Waverley Street he said the trains emergency brakes were used to Stop the train when the Engineer was assistant Deputy fire chief Vince said the department was notified fire in the wheel by a private citizen and the department notified the Hawrylak said this May have Hap but claimed he also notified the fire department to it was just a Small and it looked worse than it lets get it he said the train was travelling at about 48 and a derailment could have happened if the wheel had anything is Possi he said the railways response to the emergency was automatic and natural because such incidents Are trains Are always sight inspected by railway employees As they two trains passing each other will always Check each other asked if the wheel could have gone undetected if there was to Hawry Luk said someone would seen it because All railway employees watch the Mcd Mighall said that the Tanker ear carrying the chlorine was Well protect he said the car is built with Armor plating on the followed by id centimetres of then More steel plating the car also was equipped with special Locking couples to male sure cars on either Side would during an sources said car carried out an internal investigation of the handling of the incident and concluded the company responded Basket catch when 10yearold Francisco Munoz goes out for a he Doest fool Francisco handed off to buddy Fabian and the two went Back to even if it Means diving to get the football after getting to the running patterns and practising their throwing in Central Park civic committee backs helmet Law by Pamela Fayerman the province should make the use of helmets for motorcyclists the civic works and operations commit tee recommended unanimously yester the decision Marks the first time the City has taken an official stand on the it came after the report 1979 traffic collisions was circulated councillors showing a High percentage of fatal accidents in the City involve George owner and opera Tor of Robins motorcycle said last night passage of a compulsory helmet Law is an attempt at legislating safety a Complete i can appreciate the but there relying on statistics which can be while a past president of the Manitoba motorcycle wears a helmet he said it is one which does not restrict hearing or peripheral vision Way most crash helmets on the Market its not a Blacka Edwhite he the wearing of an incorrect Type cuts two helmets Are very Good for rolling collisions on the racing but in the event of a collision at Over four Miles an a motorcyclist could die of a broken Robins added that if legislation is he will be the first one to Stop wearing a the traffic report says that in the fou year period Between 1976 and 1979 More than collisions involving Piercy wants police to use manual dispatch system by Pamela Fayerman Harold Piercy said yesterday that even though the City spent Mil lion to computerize emergency fire and ambulance the police department should revert to a manual Piercy said be has reached the conclusion after interviews with citizens and police officers showed the computer aided dispatch system cad is cold and not As responsive As the manual system used under the old police officers would receive and screen Calls and dispatch under the present system which started fully in the if a policeman receives a he has to refer it to a civilian complaint who classifies and a Orizes the complaint in descending order of the Call then goes to a and on the basis of some solid i can say i am advocating the manual that Doest mean it was a total waste of i am not against using it for technical storage of data and its Good for manage rial but not for receiving co Piercy said that before cad came into officers could probe each complaint and make judgment Calls based on the anxiety of the but complaints Are now handled in a totally technical he said decision making is now too far away for the source of the com he cited a recent incident in which a North Kildonan Man called police from his workplace because of a disturbance there were people on motorcycles drinking Beer and he just didst feel Safe to go three quarters of an hour with no police he called they made an exception to the procedure and went out to the scene because i called the Piercy said another problem with cad is an increase of 25 per cent in the number of complaints since the system was put into what you dont know from the face of it is that the increase is attributed to the fact districts Are not now Able to Weed out complaints like they used to be Able to Eldon chairman of the works committee and a member of an and hoc committee monitoring said that while mechanical bugs have proven to have been ironed the operational competence of cad still remains to be in City auditor Marks said he found no significant problem with the cites contract with the or other financial details of the master contractor of cad was International a radio of motorcycles resulting in an average of seven deaths a the number of incidents and Acci dents related to motorcycles is Aero said Alf Skowron somebody has the Bull by the horns and make some Strong recommendations to the provincial Harold Piercy president of the Manitoba conservative said that while he realized i will be in conflict with some people in the he too favored the requirement by its All very Well to talk about civil but its like life jackets in or Speed limits on the we must take a Eldon Ross chairman of the works and operations said he believed motorcycles Are accidents going someplace to according to the statistics in the although motorcyclists account for less than one per cent of the total vehicle traffic on Winnipeg about 20 per cent of the fatal collisions can be traced to Motorc a motorcyclist involved in a Collis Ion is five times More Likely to sustain injury and 33 times More Likely to be killed than is an occupant of any other Type of an it the average age of motorcyclists who have died in the collisions is Manitoba is the Only province in Canada without compulsory helmet although in Alberta recently a traffic court judge dismissed a charge against a Man operating a motorcycle without a saying the Law was contrary to the Alberta Bill of the Crown has appealed that in British a judge made a similar ruling this the legislature reintroduced legis lation late last week which would Rule out the possibility of its being struck Down by any court the previous Manitoba nip govern ment tried and failed five times be tween 1970 and 1974 to pass compulsory helmet opponents of the proposed Law argued that helmets were restricted peripheral impaired hearing and did not do what they Are supposed to do reduce a report commissioned by the prov Ince last year showed that helmets would have prevented a third of Man Tobas fatalities Between 1971 and in 60 per cent of the cases a helmet would have made no differ fewer pupils to enrol this fall Manitoba Public schools Wilt have an estimated fewer students when school opens next week than they had a year Ron Deputy education said yesterday projected enrolment is compared with students in average enrolment for the which is used to determine is projected at compared with a year macintosh said the average figure is lower because of High school students who quit during the year and because kindergarten students count As on half for Grant private schools continue to Buck the macintosh said enrolment is projected at this compared with in the projection does not include the fact the provincial government starts directly funding Pri vate schools this year for the first he private school enrolment has in creased by about 200 students a year for the last seven he John Manitoba teachers society said society membership has dropped to from in the number could be reduced by 200 More by the end of the 1981 school he Wiens said the ratio of teachers to students is about one to 17 and has remained that Way the last few but he added that the average class room ratio is one to 20 in High one to 25 in elementary school and one to 27 in Junior some handicapped for in Are in classes with fewer than 10 Wiens said the lower enrolment gives school boards an excellent Opportunity to increase services to students by retaining the same number of teach Norm executive director of the Manitoba association of school said school divisions have always had the option of increasing the number of teachers per but declining enrolment Means school boards lose Grants As the student popu lation drops and it would Cost a lot More Money to keep the teaching staff at the same he Harvey said the provincial govern ment pays about of the average Cost of educating a Manitoba Public school the government also pays a declining enrolment but Only after the drop exceeds one per cent in a single he Harvey said when the student Popula Tion drops by one a division loses in he said the province should pay the extra for every student rather than when the figure reaches one per labor Board vetoes Boycott of doctors the Manitoba labor Board has ruled employees at Winnipeg hospitals must continue to perform necessary Labora tory and xray work for doctors from the strike bound Winnipeg Bob Manitoba paramedical association executive told a press conference two weeks ago that Mpa workers in Winnipeg hospitals would Boycott clinic doctors work starting yesterday if no collective agreement was reached or if serious negotiations were not under four Winnipeg hospitals asked the labor Board for a ruling and a hearing was held in a on sentence order issued yes the Board said Mpa workers at Winnipeg hospitals will continue to carry out All necessary Laboratory and xray procedures required in order to provide the necessary care and treat ment of the patients in each health care Strong told a press conference yesterday he planned to meet with Hospital officials today or tomorrow to discuss what the word necessary in the ruling the Mpa has said it would process Hospital work in Emer gency but Many doctors request nonessential Laboratory be Strong also said he has told members it be prudent of them to Boycott work until after the the Mpa wants to avoid having a worker fired for exercising a right under the hot goods clause of the Manitoba labor relations act and the labor Board upholding the firing on grounds the clause did not Trong he also said the boards ruling indicates clinic not the Are had the labor Board regarded the clinic As the it would simply have granted die Hospi tals Strong ;