Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Licence to work not Worth the paper. A. a by Paul Moloney Winnipeg free press Gimli Gordon Bailey says be has trouble understanding Why bureaucrats keep renewing his stationary Engineer licence but no one will give him a Job because of his age forced retirement will they Send these renewals to me until i m 100 years old and yet deny me a Bailey asked a one Man provincial commission into compulsory retirement yesterday. Bailey licensed in Manitoba Ontario and Quebec said later he probably could renew the licence Tor the rest of Clear tonight 15 Cloudy tomorrow 26 pollution violations recorded by Ritchie Gage Canada Metal co. Ltd. Has exceeded provincial air Quality guidelines for Lead 19 times in the last three months Larry Strachan provincial director of environmental control programs said yesterday. The provincial Agency has been monitoring the Quality of air in the Vicinity of the Lead sheltering Plant at 1221 St. James Street and found that on one occasion there was nine times More Lead in the air than maximum accept Able Levels under the 24-hour health Hazard limit. The Issue will be dealt with monday when environment minister Gary Fil Mon meets with officials of the Environ mental control Branch. Strachan said Canada Metal was tested 227 times at its property line. A May 15 Reading snowed a ratio of 48.1 micrograms of Lead per cubic metre of air. The provincial air Quality Standard is five micrograms of Lead As a 24-hour average. Weston results refused Strachan refused to make Public re sults of tests on the amount of Lead in soil in the Weston area in the Vicinity of three other Lead smelting plants. He said that information would be submit Ted to the minister. Strachan would not comment when asked about possible health hazards Lead Levels in the air present to students attending lord Nelson school 820 Mcphillips Street and Weston school 1410 Logan Avenue. Canadian Bronze which is closest to two elementary schools and nearby residential area showed no violations in 226 tests. Northwest smelting had six violations in 189 tests. New stamp to Honor Terry Fox by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Federal govern ment has broken tradition and will Issue a stamp honouring Terry Fox s Marathon of Hope. The announcement yesterday by postmaster general Andre Ouellet came As Fox 22, Lay in new West Minster s Royal columbian Hospital in critical condition. Ouellet said Fox who has raised More than million for cancer is a Folk hero and a great Canadian. He said his courageous attempt to run across Canada was a fantastic contribution to Canadian Unity Canad an identity Canadian Pride and the fight against when Fox was told by his Mother of the decision he smiled and said i like and there was a bit of an emotional scene the Hospital s medi Cal director said. The director or. Ladislav Antonik said Fox remains in critical condition but is Able to talk and joke with his family and Hospital staff. Antonik said Fox has a mild fever and occasionally coughs blood. He said he is not demoralized and is showing surprising resilience. My life As Long As i Send in my i he said he retired 14 years ago from a Texaco refinery in East Montreal and worked at Short term jobs before Pur chasing a Small farm at Camp Morton 11 Kilometres North of Here. Since moving to Manitoba a few. Years ago he s been turned Down for jobs at Shilo Portage la Prairie and Alsask sask. He said he could use additional income to fund the education of his daughter 18, the last of seven children. A Short six month contract at Al sask appealed to me but they told me they weren t allowed to hire anyone Over 65.1 deplore the fact they re still crying Jor stationary engineers and yet they turn you Down. It seems o me a lot of companies Are Able to unload personnel at 60 or 55, but rarely Are they willing to keep people past he said. Bailey keeps Active working around his 80-acre Chicken farm which he chose As a retirement Home because land prices and the Cost of living were Low. He said he s seen retired people just Wither away through inactivity and expected his own health would go right downhill if he did t keep Busy. He said his main message to commissioner Marshall Rothstein was that people should have Freedom to choose when to retire. It s a tremendous psychological Impact on a person when they reach 65 and they re out. There should be a right to continue working. If they re capable then lift this compulsory Bailey was the Only person to appear at the Gimli hearing which was Origi Nally scheduled to last six hours but wrapped up after his 30-Mlnute presen tation. It was disappointing there was t More interest in the Issue Bailey said adding Rothstein and assistant Alan Simms have come All the Way out Here on taxpayers Canadian dancers win Friday june free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final with supplements Bome delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 second class mail registration number 02b6 Wayne free press car s Ralph Hansen talks strategy with colleagues after protesters crowd into meeting room. Protest ends As car agrees to rehire 28 native workers by Cecil Rosner Winnipeg free press Clear Lake Canadian National railways has agreed to rehire 28 in Dian and Metis workers for seasonal track jobs ending protests against alleged discrimination and bad working conditions on the railway. Car regional vice president Ralph Hansen said the workers who walked away from an ochre River work gang june 12, would be guaranteed new seasonal jobs somewhere in the prov Ince by monday. They also Are Guaran teed about 10 additional Days on a work gang in the Dauphin area july 15, and Between four and six weeks More work later in the summer. Spokesmen for the workers said yesterday the proposal was acceptable and called off All future protests against car. In the last week rail Yard occupations and track dismantling have taken place 1n Dauphin and Cormorant and a total of 23 people have been ordered to appear in court to face charges of trespassing and damaging car property. Hansen flatly refused another major demand by the protesters that the Foreman of the original work gang be suspended or replaced. He said charges that the Foreman racially abused the men were being investigated and sus pending the Man would prejudge the Case. The agreement came during a negotiating session yesterday in which 40 Indian and Metis people marched into the meeting room and announced no one would leave until the matter had been settled. The four car officials present later said they did not consider the action particularly threatening but Felt it was another pressure tactic. Shortly after they arrived the protes ters heeded an Appeal from one of the native negotiators and allowed Hansen and a car lawyer to leave the room and make several Telephone Calls related to the discussions. Within an hour an agreement had been reached. After the protesters arrived unannounced Hansen said he had objections to the presence of the cheering but he later said he did t feel coerced by their presence and under stood their concerns. The meeting ended amicably and immediately afterwards Hansen bought lunch for four nations confederacy grand chief Lyle Long claws and Mani Toba Metis federation president John Morrisseau. Now you know who to phone in the future when you be got problems Hansen told the workers As they filed out of the meeting room. Earlier in the meeting Morrisseau threatened to escalate protests if car did not Budge on the workers two see protest Page 4 inquest judge probes delay of ambulance by Pamela Fayerman a teenager who died after a Home made rocket exploded and Cut his jugular vein was not taken to Hospital for at least 20 minutes because of difficulties locating an ambulance an inquest was told yesterday. The inquest was also told that if the teenager had arrived at Hospital sooner his chances for survival would have been much better. The teenager Timothy Sarna 16 died april 16 after a Coz Shell filled with Gunpowder and match Heads exploded in the backyard of his Cousin s Home at 595 Bannerman Avenue. The inquest was also told the teen Ager was first transported to seven Oaks Hospital but then transferred to health sciences Centre when seven Oaks ran out of his blood Type. The inquest was scheduled to last one Day but because of questions raised by provincial judge Arnold Connor yester Day concerning Winnipeg ambulance service dispatching the inquest is to resume today. John Fai ringtone manager of the doctors approve contract by Maureen Brosnahan Manitoba doctors have overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with the province which gives them an Over All increase of 15.5 per cent in fees Over one year retroactive to april 1. The results announced last night showed 87 per cent of 744 doctors who voted favored the tentative agreement reached last week Between the prov Ince and the Manitoba medical association. Ballots were sent to doctors. As a result of the agreement which provided special increases to certain medical specialities about 20 radiologists who opted out of medicare Early last month will opt Back in wednes Day. The radiologists had opted out to protest Low fees which they said did not offset the rising Cost of a Ray film during the last 18 months. To Stop extra Billing radiologists at the Manitoba a Ray clinic and the radiology consultants of Winnipeg said they will Stop extra Billing patients immediately and will accept the fees recoverable from the Manitoba health services commis Sion As full payment for their ser vices. Mma president and chief negotiator or. Frank Pearson said the increase in radiology fees amounting to 000, was because of the radiologists actions and the number of complaints received by the government from patients about the extra Billing. The Over All 15.5 per cent increase will mean a general increase to All physicians of slightly less than 13 per cent with additional raises for such specialities As radiology psychiatry ophthalmology obstetrics and gynaecology Winnipeg ambulance service refused comment this morning when asked if changes had been made to ambulance procedures since the teenager s death. Farrington was in attendance during yesterday s inquest. The inquiry heard that the first Call received by the 911 dispatcher came from Timothy s Cousin at . But for nine minutes the dispatcher could not find an ambulance available to re Spond to the emergency. Three ambulances normally assigned to the North end were contacted. The first was Busy on Salter Bridge. Reluctant to respond when the dispatcher made a Call to a second ambulance the attendants were reluctant to respond. A transcript of the radio Call Between the dispatcher and the attendants showed they were at Pete s body shop on Pritchard Avenue having the ambulance serviced. The dispatcher called the ambulance twice and got no response. She then telephoned the body shop. Portions of the dialogue included you Guys shut your portable Well we re calling you can you take a you Don t want to do a Well the ambulance is in the Back you can t get it we can but he s in the Middle of doing you can t go at Well we can if we have forget it we got Calls third ambulance at that Point the dispatcher called a third ambulance team on a Call at the children s Hospital. Although it was Only a matter of minutes before that team arrived on the scene Timothy had lost half the blood in his body the inquest was told. Or. Garey Edye Mazowita who treated Timothy at seven Oaks Hospi Tal said that when Timothy arrived the boy had lost a lot of blood and was not breathing. Some people would t even resuscitate a person in that situation. But because of his age i wanted to be very aggressive. With a 16 year old you want to give him the Benefit of the doubt rather than declare him within an hour intravenous lines were connected to veins in the boy s leg and and a heart rhythm was established but the Hospital ran out of blood. The doctor said Only two units of Timothy s blood Type were available. At Timothy was transferred to the health sciences Centre where greater quantities of blood Are on Supply As Well As a vascular surgery team. The inquest was told that the seven Oaks Supply amounted to about half a litre of the blood Type Timothy required. His blood loss was about four times that. The doctor said a greater Supply of blood Likely would t have made a difference in saving Timothy s life be cause by the time he arrived at the Hospital his heart which was profoundly damaged was taking its last or. J. R. Bristow an emergency Ward expert with the health sciences Centre said the blood Supply at seven Oaks Hospital was not great enough to be of a big help to Timothy. 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