Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba X praying moves to Rural areas to will Flieg free August Ujj serious threat the communities of gift Klee and Steinbach were to be sprayed against mosquitoes beginning today As Manito Bas health emergency moves into its 14th the incidence of viral Fife Etiopi among Sentinel Chicken flocks and horses in these areas indicates a continuing threat to govern ment services minister Warner Jor Genson told a press conference spraying with a specially equipped dc6 aircraft was to begin at 6 today in stot Zewalk weather permit then my to Winter and of Deli later m the Steinbach is scheduled for spraying either tomorrow or of fac last Morris received an Aerial Spray with the Bay on spraying of Winnipeg Portage la Prairie and Selkirk was completed yes a decision on spraying in Brandon and Virden is on How with a decision expected Jorgenson the encephalitis commit tee does not recommend spraying in safety flaws detailed on work train by Cecil Rosner the Federal labor has asked Canadian National railways to Correct problems of overcrowding and other health and safety violations found on a work train which was the subject of a protest in Dauphin two months a report from the departments Sas Katoon office lists eight violations of Federal statutes found during an inspection of a rail Chang out gang train in the violations Range from leaking water in the Kitchen which was causing a slipping to an absence of fire extinguishers in some of the a separate health department report found the train to be generally clean and in Good but listed 11 items which could be including providing More sleeping space per the train provided sleeping rooms of about two metres by metres by metres for every two water the train was found to contain High bacteria but there charges stayed against Fuga the has stayed charges against a Winnipeg Man in connection with a stabbing Anthony was charged in april with assault causing bodily harm and possessing a weapon dangerous to the Public a spokesman in the attorney Gen reals department said the charges were stayed because an investigation showed Fuga had been acting in self defence during a dispute outside a Burrows Avenue City judge quashes warrant for Golden a warrant against Al Golden for failing to appear in bylaw court Mori Day was cancelled yesterday after he explained to the judge a mix up in court judge Jane Maurer accepted his explanation and cancelled a warrant is sued Golden will appear in bylaw court next monday to face three charges of breaching City zoning bylaws by holding commercial events at the Transcona recreation was no contamination by faecal matter and it was judged inspectors suggested a chlorination system be installed to improve the water on june 28 Metis and Indian workers walked off the Job when the train was repairing track at ochre River near they complained about bad working conditions and said they were being subjected to discrimination by the work gang manage the workers complained about inadequate and dirty washroom unsuitable drinking water and other bad conditions on the trains where they worked in 15day stretches before get Ting any time car spokesman Leo Quigley said yesterday plans the train units which were judged to have inadequate sleeping space were on the drawing boards before the Canada sanitation regulations were toilets plugged he produced documents showing that the Federal labor department permitted the use of the units in agreeing that they met the intent of the Regula Quigley said the labor departments inspection reflects conditions on the work train As observed in Sas Katche More than two weeks after the original he said an initial inspection in ochre River showed some of the toilets on the train had been plugged and were not in the other violations mentioned in the report Are being addressed by Quigley following the walkout in the work train left ochre River for the workers and their supporters staged a series of demonstrations on the car track at Dauphin to protest the alleged discrimination and bad work ing Twenty three protesters were arrested during the demonstrations and charged with railway act the protects were called off after car agreed to rehire All the workers for seasonal jobs the protesters who Are facing charges have not yet entered pleas and their cases have been remanded to 24 in David acting regional director of the Canadian human rights commission office in said allegations by the workers of discrimination Are still being province to Appeal retirement ruling by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Manitoba government will a peal a court of Queens Bench decision which allows provincial civil servants to go on working after age attorney general Gerry Mercier and labor minister Ken responsible for the civil service superannuation announced yesterday they will Appeal the decision of judge Hamilton that Aubrey former Deputy registrar of the court of did not have to retire at age judge Hamilton found an inconsistency Between the human rights act and the civil service superannuation act and because the human rights act was the most recent of the he said it repealed the mandatory retirement provision of the civil service superannuation the Case stemmed from a complaint to the human rights commission when now was forcibly two years Marshall appointed adjudicator by the commis ruled that the civil service superannuation act calling for compulsory retirement at takes precedent Over the provincial human rights which says no employer shall refuse to employ a person because of Macmaster said yesterday the government is concerned with the fact that the province now has two conflicting decisions on which legislation is Domi in an important Legal matter such As the province wants to be absolutely certain of the Correct interpretation of the legislation and is therefore proceeding to the court of Appeal to have the matter he the court decision could affect As Many As civil the government is also awaiting a report from expected in the on whether legislative changes should be the court of Appeal coupled with Rothstein report will put the in a much Tetter position to determine if legislative changes Are Macmaster said in a after the july decision of judge Newport said he would prob ably ask to be reinstated in his Job As Deputy registrar of the court of but he not so far Newport said were waiting to see what Dauphin where viral activity among the Eilex Tafralis Mosquito does of tit appear to warrant he said no confirmed or acute cases of human Equine encephalitis hive been health minister Bud Sherman me refused to say if there Are any suspected cases in it is very hard to Tell in the Early stages because some of the symptoms Are very similar in a number of it is almost impossible to identify in the initial stages until clinical analysis is carried the medical profession in the province is looking very closely at people showing those kinds of he symptoms include High fever and stiff which can develop into confusion and in some eases shakiness and he warned a serious encephalitis threat to humans continues to by 13 horses had died from encephalitis and there were 59 confirmed cases in the province 25 More eases than were reported for ail of the last epidemic year of another 2o eases of the disease Are suspected in seminal Chicken particularly in the Southern and Eastern Manitoba areas to be show a Strong in Indi Cating they have been infected with the Sherman the first phase of the which Cost included Portage Morris and Jorgenson the government is claiming a cent kill rate of John provincial epidemic said a new hatching of in areas which have been sprayed will not pose a a Mosquito Mast bite a la its eggs aft then bite f human or horse to carry the there int time Winnipeg can rest easy this he North Dakota and Minnesota Are not showing the same problem As Manitoba he Manitoba most serious outbreak of encephalitis occurred in 1941 when 19 people died and 521 cases were Volunteer visitor Doris Loewen feeds King George Hospital resident Mary Sawatsky at reunion at the Hospital Post polio patients family reunited some were but 22 victims of 1950s epidemic remain at Hospital by Deborah read the Little Guy in the Safeway shop Ping cart had probably never seen anything like Trudy paralysed almost 30 years ago by was operating her electric wheelchair Down the super Market her head supported by a and her Mouth gulping air in the Frog breathing used by patients with paralysed the kid had Only one Are you a robot he Morrow laughed yesterday As she told the Story on the sunny lawns of King George his Mother looked As if she wished the floor would Swallow she but Morrow is used to the forthright curiosity of one of the 22 Post polio patients still at King George Hospital from the polio epidemic of 1952 and she values the Freedom of her electric i travel around the District and see whats going she a Little at first it was a Little scary youve been paralysed for so Many not Able to and suddenly you get into a chair that has a lot of the Hospital hosted a re Union of Post polio patients and staff that worked at King George during the until the incidence of polio in Canada had fluctuated be tween 10 and 20 cases per but in 1953 it suddenly Rose to some regions had More than their Manitoba bore the Brunt of the epidemic with More than an incidence of 300 per peo Les administrator of Sioux Lookout general was 28 when he contracted polio in he had been slightly ill and finally one morning when i got off the i just fell Flat on my face and that was enjoying the picnic yesterday with his wife and his Metal Sharon free press Peggy in Iron crutches on the grass beside he pointed out familiar faces in the crowd of about i remember them All this has been a real nostalgia he its just great to see these with the Freedom they have Johnston spent six weeks in an Iron lung and six weeks on a rocking bed which seesaws up and forcing air into the he was discharged 19 18 and 13 hours to be quite i never doubted i would get not watches television via he Ive been pretty Fortu Peggy Korman has she was the fourth person in the province to get in and has been in the Hospital Ever three years complications forced her return to an Iron lung in which she lives 24 hours a said Korman in very comfortable and Well taken care 1 know theres a lot worse you cant cry for 29 you have to pick up whats left and do the Best you can and that what Ive As with Many of the other Post polio her marriage ended a Long time ago and her two grown children now live in i would like them but if there that what i in her years at King kor Man has sold More than copies of her although she typed them herself at one using a Metal Rod attached to a head she now dictates them to a and she is not the Only author in the Betty Banister had her published in a lot of people encouraged me to do she they thought telling about the experience of having polio would be interesting to the that it should be written keep on her was six when his Mother became it takes a Long time to mature enough to accept he said i didst really get to know my Mother until i was when Banister was admitted to King George in the Hospital was full of polio there were five Iron lungs in one with a steam Kettle going and windows and doors shut tight in the Middle of nurses worked double it took a Long time to accept her you keep on she it probably took about 10 years before you could say this is Banister has been on a a Batter operated Respirator on the Back of her electric attached via a tube to a tracheotomy in her since the 22 Post polio patients at King George Are like a family interested in the welfare of each they have their share of squabbles that the Way people said the staff really care about said that the whole Atmo sphere Here people school division reduces bus service by Glen Mackenzie Winnipeg school division will eliminate its Doort door school bus service next month for kindergarten to Grade 2 French immersion Board chairman Mira Spivak said yesterday a policy decision made last Spring will be implemented next reducing the number of bus stops to 64 from about children attending immersion classes will be picked up and dropped at the school nearest their she said in an Raymond a Grosvenor ave nue contacted the free press about the reduced service yesterday after learning of it by calling the Divi Sion office in expectation of door Tor door Currie said the plan will inconvenience his family because he intended to have his kindergarten cow picked up at the University of Winnipeg daycare Centre and returned rather than a school about seven blocks from u of he said the divisions planned change also May Force families with Little Money to Send their children to school on Winnipeg transit As Currie an official at the division office told him letters advising parents of the change will not be sent out until next giving parents Only a couple of weeks notice before school Spivak said she would have thought parents would have been told of the policy change at the time it was but it want possible to provide de tailed information about new routes then because enrolment forecasts would Lack she said Spivak said All children affected live within walking distance of a school where the school bus will As using schools As drop off Points Means children will not have to spend up to two hours a Day on the she flyer gets Boston contract flyer industries of Winnipeg has received a contract to build 163 diesel buses for the City of the company tendered the Low bid for the vehicles in Competition against All major North american transit bus flyer president Doug Las Mckay said in making the an the bid was accepted at the tender opening last delivery of the buses is scheduled to begin in and Mckay said the contract now fills the company order Book for that flyer has about million Worth of orders for diesel and trolley buses scheduled for delivery by the end of next Mckay said the company is consider ing increasing production capabilities because of the Large volume of business in recent in the provincially owned bus manufacturer doubled sales to million from million in 1979 and As a result of this and Cost reduction programs recorded a profit of after several years of flyer employs almost 600 people at its three locations in ;