Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press thursday june 25, 1981 wrong . Do not operate Chicago a patients soon May have their bodies labelled with Indeli ble markers before surgery to prevent an infrequent but tragic problem operations on the wrong body parts. A Sacramento calif., Hospital aide developed the concept of signs such As wrong . Do not operate last fall after Reading a news Story of a surgeon who mistakenly removed the wrong Eye from a boy. It s kind of analogous to the signs you see on the freeway wrong Way do not said or. Harvey Cain who praised the technique in a letter recently published in the journal of the american medical association. The principal idea is not to get the wrong Side operated Cain said. The simple Labelling idea is the brainchild of Janet Peyton a 29-year old surgical and recovery room Assis Tant at Kaiser Permanente medical Centre in Sacramento. Numerous inquiries she and Cain work together at the Hospital. They have received numerous inquiries about the idea from around the u.s., but they Don t know of any Hospital using it yet. Or. Albert Kahane head of the Surgi Cal committee at Kaiser said wednes Day the idea has been proposed to the committee and is being considered. Peyton says patients normally Are showered before surgery shaved if necessary Given an injection to make them drowsy then wheeled to sur Gery. The surgical sign painting could take place after the Shower but before the shot Peyton said. The patient could help. They kind of like to Partick Southam up s hearing deferred Toronto up a hearing yester Day to set a trial Date for William j. Carradine senior vice president of Southam inc., was deferred to dec. 9. Carradine is accused of attempting to destroy and hide documents to impede government combines investigators. Southam and Thomson newspapers Ltd. Are accused of being involved in illegal conspiracies and mergers to Lessen Competition in Montreal Winni Peg Vancouver and Ottawa. Eight charges against the corporations Are to be heard in Toronto on sept. 28. Yvette Tytgat says dam looks like junkyard family s dream soured by junkyard on River continued from Page 1 Village did t inform them of the project nor ask permission. Tytgat said when she asked a Council member Why permission was t sought she was told if i asked you you would t have Given it following Tytgat s complaints to Vil 56s, provincial ainu Federal officials the pile of junk was spread out across the River Early yesterday morning. A Small Clearing has allowed some water through but not the regular flow. Roger Smith mayor of Ste. Anne said the dam has been in the planning stage for three years but the decision to build was not publicized in any Way. However the mayor said it was my understanding that her husband knew a dam would be. Built somewhere in the Smith said the Village had Permis Sion from the provincial department of water resources and the dam was being built for fire Protection. We need a High level of water to draw he said. Last year was a very dry he cited retention of the Banks As another reason. A variation in the water level erodes the Banks but if we keep it at a certain level the pressure of the water retains while agreeing that the current was eroding Tytgat s Side of the River Smith said it s not her property any he said that 23 metres on each Side of the River As Well As the River itself was Public the Tytgat Home is at most nine metres from the River. He also said the path leading to her Home was a Public Road Smith said that rather than being an eyesore the dam is expected to beautify the River for persons living up Stream and allow them to use canoes and Small motor boats on the River. Also he said the dam will increase the value of the Tytgat property be cause the flowing water forms some what of a Tytgat disagreed. That s absolutely she said. Does he think i m a coun. Norman Lavack said the dam was built at the request of residents who lived upstream. These residents would Benefit from a High Smith said the mess was Only the first stage of construction and would be covered with Flat stones. However tit Gat said it would be impossible to place stones on the jagged pile. She also said soil for the Landfill was to be taken from a former sewage Lagoon. That s full of she said. Lavack however said there was nothing wrong with the soil because All the sludge was removed. Meanwhile Tytgat has formally directed her grievances to the Federal government and is awaiting a reply. Indian and Metis groups suspend demonstrations continued from Page 1 charged with trespassing after refusing to Budge from the in track in Dauphin tuesday appeared in court Here yester Day. They were remanded without plea to july 7. Hansen had been invited to come to Dauphin for discussions but he re fused. I have recommended we go to a Neutral town so we Don t have a cheer ing Section there of some two or three Hansen said. Earlier in the Day he said he would agree to a discussion with the native leaders if there was a guarantee that illegal protests Stop and do not Start up again. Hansen said he did t think the 28 workers who walked off the Job june 12 were provoked by their Foreman. He said he did not believe the workers were going along with the protests i Dauphin willingly. On monday and tuesday protesters delayed freight trains As they staged three hour demonstrations on the track from 11 . To 2 . Each Day. Only when protesters began dismantling parts of the track following the Demon stration did ramp step in to make any arrests. But yesterday morning about 30 pro testers who marched onto the track in front of Dauphin station were immediately told by ramp they would be arrested and charged if they did t leave within five minutes. A the pro testers then left on the advice of Long claws and Morrisseau and did not re turn for the rest of the Day. Following the agreement to suspend track occupations Indian and Metis protesters held a demonstration in downtown Dauphin yesterday. About 65 people marched up and Down a Section of main Street walking across in track at a level crossing but making no attempt to impede rail traffic. Training program Long claws said he expected the discussions with Hansen would produce Short As Well As Long term solutions to the problem of native employment on provincial soup line study called cop out continued from Page i and none of them were starving. Veshka said the task Force appears to have set out to prove there Are no starving people and there Are no kids dying in Back alleys so they could conclude there is no problem. It s a cop out. We re talking about hunger to per cent of the time or six per cent of the time. I Don t know. But i do know it interferes with learning at Veshka said. He added that if the task Force s conclusion is accepted it indicates a disinterest i the Mira Spivak chairman of Winnipeg school Board said it was her under standing the task Force disbanded with out filing a full report because Public health nurses Are conducting a similar study. The task Force s statement that they could t find specific emergency situations of hunger or starvation does t suggest they have done a full study and they she said. In the absence of an extensive report on inner City hunger "1 Don t know what the extent of it Spivak added the school Board s breakfast program was t meant to alleviate widespread hunger. If such a problem exists the provincial Community services department would be a logical body to provide assistance. The railway. One proposal expected to be discussed is for a program to train native and Metis workers so they will be Able to secure permanent employ ment with the railway. Also to be discussed Are specific complaints lodged by the ochre River workers. Among these Are inadequate Shower and washroom facilities poor and insufficient water supplies harassment on the Job and general discriminatory actions. In a joint statement released yester Day Long claws and Morrisseau said they View the Dauphin incident As the tip of a far larger they said their two organizations will hold a joint tribunal on in hiring practices and personnel attitudes on july 1 at the legislative grounds in Winnipeg. In a statement tuesday Hansen said that the men who had been arrested for dismantling in track during the pro tests would not be considered for jobs with the railway again. But he retreated from that position yesterday and said that human rights legislation dictated that the men could not be Black listed. Hansen said in is doing a second internal investigation into the june 12 walkout. Another probe conducted soon after the walkout concluded there was no discrimination. Meanwhile in Winnipeg yesterday Churchill nip la Jay Cowan threw his support behind the protestors bid for a Federal human rights commission inquiry into alleged racial slurs and discriminatory treatment. The commission has a responsibility to investigate these claims and to Call for corrective action if warrant Cowan said in a statement yester Day. An internal inquiry with no Public release of its findings does Little to Clear the air or to Deal with the Situa Tion in any sort of a substantive Way charges of racism and discrimination must be thoroughly investigated by an impartial body at the earliest possible moment Cowan said. Explosions from derailment television War Sundridge ont. Up fiery explosions like a War movie on to disrupted life in this Northern Ontario Village last night when 10 cars of a Canadian National railways freight train carrying gasoline and other Petro Leum products derailed. About 100 Homes within one Kilometre of the derailment site were evacuated but provincial Poe said no one was injured and Volunteer firefighters in this Community about 60 Kilometres South of North Bay said damage from the fire had been limited to two storage Sheds. Firefighters were gaining on the in Ferno Early today. A senior official at the scene predicted people would be allowed to return to their Homes As soon As the Blaze was brought under control. One nearby resident said the sight was like a War movie on but despite the worst Accident in the Community s 92-year history everyone acted pretty in spokesman Mike Matthews said gasoline was the Only dangerous commodity on the 82-car train northbound to North Bay from Toronto. Cause of the derailment was not known he said. Eight of the 10 cars that derailed were tankers some carrying gasoline while others contained diesel fuel. The two others that left the track were Flat bed cars. Four of the tankers exploded while the other four were set on fire. Using school buses police and fire officials evacuated Many of the Vil Lage s 750 residents soon after the Acci Dent because Strong winds were blow ing from the Blaze toward town. Fire Crews from the nearby communities of Burks Falls and South River went to the scene to help local officials Battle the Blaze. The heat from the fire was Treen said Eileen Badger one of a group of 33 Toronto senior citizens from the North York senior Centre who were staying at the Only hotel in the Village and were among those evacuated. You could feel it More than half a mile old Survey haunting Farmers continued from Page 1 although they have been aware of the land measurement discrepancy for years it was t until 1968 that Dyck and Hodgson managed to begin farm ing on the North Side of the Road. Dyck and Hodgson forged a gentle Man s agreement with Hutt Erite Colony representatives following a tax assess ment court of revision hearing. After measuring the land they took a strip of the Hutt Erite s land North of the Road and began farming it. But David waldner of the Rose Val Ley Colony said yesterday if the land is now ruled theirs they will allow Dyck and Hodgson to take off the current crop and then we re going to farm this land from now several other Farmers previously affected by the error now own land on the North and the South Side of the Road. Rich yield from land the 11 acres of land Dyck has sown since 1968 on the North Side of the Road is now Worth to an acre and he said it can yield Between and income from it. Hodgson said the 14 acres he farms a year. In 1968 the Tan d was Worth about per acre but now would sell for about per acre. Hodgson said Over the years he has taken his problem with the land Boun Daries to the provincial ombudsman his la and provincial and municipal officials. If the Law says it s their land what s the Good of going to he asked adding he will wait until he gets the verdict on the Survey before deciding what to do next. Dyck who purchased his land in 1965, said he did not want to comment on what his next step will be because it could jeopardize any Legal action he might take. I Call it a convenience line they he said referring to the recent Survey. Farmers on the North and South Side have been assessed equally for taxes on 160 acres he said. The new Survey turns the land he has been tilling on the North Side of the Road into a gift for the Hutte rites. I just want my 160 acres that s Rural municipality of Dufferin officials asked the province to conduct a special Survey into the problem under authority of the the special surveys act. Special surveys Are conducted in order to clarify a. C. Roberts provincial director of surveys said yesterday. In the second Case provincial officials can recall several local Farmers filed complaints about the results of the new Survey and a hearing was held in Carman earlier this month. This hearing in effect was to re View the Surveyor s Roberts said. Ottawa up Bora Laskin chief Justice of the supreme court of Canada has been named As a defendant in a Case to be heard in the lowest court of the land Small claims court. Freelance journalist John p. Mac lean is suing Laskin and three supreme court of Canada employees for because he says he was denied a Public parking space and subsequently Given a parking ticket. Laskin was unavailable for comment. Bernard Hofley registrar of the supreme court and one of defendants in the Case said my god we re going to no information was put Forward to upset this Survey he said. The chairman of the hearing w. A. Finch District registrar for the Dau Phin land titles office will now decide whether to accept ammend or reject the special Survey and will report to the provincial attorney general s depart ment and the affected landowners in about two weeks. The new Survey then takes the place of any others. What they re doing is legalizing a charged Hodgson. If the landowners Don t like the report they can Appeal it to the court of Boutilier said. If the new Survey is accepted tax assessments will be adjusted accordingly with landowners on the North of the Road paying More because they have More land and those on the South paying less he said. Colin Rothwell Secretary treasurer for the municipality said it can Only go Back two years to collect taxes from landowners who have been paying for a Quarter Section while they have owned More. A i m Vaux j ust iut have to have the department of Justice defend us in Small claims Hofley said he could not understand Why Laskin was named because the chief Justice has More important things to worry Maclean has refused to comment or explain Why he named Laskin. A spokesman for the Small claims court said summonses would be served on the defendants within the next few weeks and they would be required to file a dispute if they wished to contest Maclean s claim. 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