Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Post flew 01 Iseff ii of tits Flo or Hon Lars like moving Lii but were to the Dow Mill of m be in Zicai Liu fit How Nim 5v Ofifi Middle of sep Meef Well by pretty by or Shim Day stuffed you Mailbox by we Mike Eam Tieg Camel of winning Salt yes Edda Al mall resulting 42day mail strike is As living with apes said third and Tike lowest part fity and re f Camel he said feet Jen one million and Milf Iii pieces of malt Are being inn yes set up from i Normal in he said the problem of new pieces arriving from people anxious to get mail Back into the system has so far been kept under Bonnie asks the Public to remain patient a Little longer when mailing local he said the Normal 24 hour delivery time May be extended to to hours until the system gets Back to Clear tonight 12 sunny tomorrow 28 a Guit Sun rises 6 16 sets Moon rises sets with supplements 9s74sso 9562350 r 0266 kids rate rises 13 by Chris Smith Manitoba bankruptcies were up 13 per cent for the first half of the Federal statistics tylan Toba recorded a total of 524 bankruptcies by the end of com pared with 463 for the same period last in 96 bankruptcies were up 14 per cent from last junes figure of Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president Jack Hignell blamed the int crease on the general economic Mal aise in the fuelled by the almost weekly increases in interest rates during the past few the Federal consumer affairs depart ment superintendent of bankruptcy for Manitoba was unavailable for com ment on the but he had said earlier in the year that Many of those filing bankruptcy had named interest rates As a major Hignell said i cant in All honesty blame the increase on High interest but they have done their expected worse the Economy Hast been doing gangbusters All year he and he would have expected the Mani Toba figures to have been Manitoba has stood up fairly Well in a less than buoyant Hignell but added that the july and August figures will be interesting be cause they May indicate the combined effect of the recently ended postal strike and the High interest the june statistics released by the bankruptcy office Are the most recent the june figures for Manitoba show 75 consumer bankruptcies and 21 Busi Ness the yearly figures to the end of june show 432 consumer bankruptcies and 92 business British Columbia and the Yukon both show decreases in the number of bankruptcies for the first six months of the while the rest of the provinces recorded nationally there were bankruptcies consumer and business in the first six months com pared with for the same period last solid Gold Manitoba Tanya Brothers left hands Baton to teammate Sandy Gilkes yesterday in the women 4xloometre relay at the Canada summer games in Thunder women 100metre helped the team to a new games record of pact for ramp services struck Mercier reluctantly accepts million increase in Cost for Rural policing by Mary Ann Fitzgerald facing a million in crease in its ramp Bill next will probably be a reluctant partner to a new 10year agreement negotiated Between the Federal government and the eight provinces which use the tonal police attorney general Gerry Mercier said the agreement Calls for an increase in provincial and municipal shares of policing costs at the rate of one per cent a year for the first five years and then at a rate of two per cent a year until the 199192 final year of the con tract when the share of policing costs will hit 70 per it will go into effect i replacing the contract which expired March under the expired provinces and municipalities paid 56 per cent of the costs and the Federal government 44 per most other provincial ministers have indicated they Are prepared to recommend acceptance of the Federal if the majority of provinces it May be we have no alternative but to go along with Mercier told a press conference at which he released details see Mercier Page 4 90yearold amputee robbed a Winnipeg Man who punched and kicked a on armed aged while rifling through his pockets for Money was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in Ronald Richard was sentenced by county court judge Irving Keith after he pleaded guilty to a robbery judge Keith said the which left the victim Cut and was counsel Peter rfur4ock the court the elderly Man was re turning from an Alexander Avenue club at about on april 2 when he was confronted by Wheeler in a Lane near the Public safety Wheeler punched the Man in the face and kicked his knocking him to the ground and going through his said the Man was using his remaining Arm to Ward off a Teeter police detectives returning to the lie safety building stepped in and made the court was told Wheeler had been drinking for almost a week before the incident and had an extensive criminal record dating Busek to defence counsel Barry Sinder said his client has an alcohol which played a role in Bis previous involvements with tit premiers fail to Bridge Gap on Ems Vancouver up the 10 Provin Cial premiers wrapped up three Days of talks yesterday with stinging nations of Federal economic and transport but they failed yet again during a Sun drenched cruise through the is lands of Georgia Strait to agree on specific measures to dear with any of the under pressure from conference Host Bill Bennett of British the premiers tried to Patch internal differences and reduce Federal provincial but differences of style and philosophy forced them into Vaguel worded compromises on most of the controversial issues they the premiers called for for urgent Federal provincial meetings on the the need to upgrade Cana Das rail freight handling capacity and Federal moves reduce or eliminate rail passenger service on More 20 regional and National As they unanimously rejected Federal moves to Cut Aid for provincial health and education called for improved pensions and agreed to promote coordination of their individual education but they were generally forced to skirt the issues that have often bitterly divided them and their Federal counterparts for the last year the cons Titu Energy pricing and economic poli and they appeared split on How far to go with what has always been their favorite pastime see premiers Page 4 Mercier alternative by Pamela Fayerman Winnipeg physician Dwight Par who lost his operating and patient admitting privileges at the health sciences Centre when he turned is appealing the ruling of a court of Queens Bench judge who dismissed his application to have the hospitals action declared Parkinson hearing before the Mani Toba court of Appeal is not expected to take place until until june Parkinson was head of the centres neurosurgery he contends his forced retirement was contrary to the human rights since losing the Par Kinson has been assigned to the Honor Ary medical staff of the he now practises Medicine at his office in the medical arts building even though he believes he should be Able to continue at the Hospital so Long As i am physically and mentally Parkinson and Hospital administrator Peter swerhon refused to discuss the James registrar of the College of physicians and said honorary staff members Are still part of the but have no privileges at hospitals unless exceptions Are he said doctors who do not hold admitting and operating privileges must refer their patients to doctors that do if they must enter Justice James Wilson of the Manitoba court of Queens Bench ruled that several grounds for dismissal were available to judge Wilson said Parkinson could have taken his Case to the Manitoba human right commission and the court should hesitate to intrude upon that Parkinson was notified last vember he would be but took no action until june when he filed a motion with the court protesting the Hospital said the it is not for me to question Why six months intervened with nothing being but there it said judge Parkinson lawyer said was Feu a judgment More speedily from Jhaj court than from human rights but because a Parnson did Jet set sooner before turning to the it is difficult for me to give much weight to that said judge he said he realized Parkinson has much in the world of medi i am embarrassed by the fact that i know him personally i have High although it is Only a Layman of his professional judge Wilson said Parkinson helped draft parts of the hospitals that does not prevent him from arguing with said the it suggests that the applicant cannot be heard to say this has All come As a judge Wilson said that while Par Kinson chose to take his Case to the courts he still has the under Hospital to have his status the Hospital bylaws contain Many avenues for Relief for a doctor who feels he has been overlooked or in whose Case the bylaws have been harshly said the nursing shortage eases Manitoba lost 898 nurses from Active duty last but an increasing number returned to the work Force Ana moved Here from other leaving the province with a net in crease of 74 Manitoba now has registered nurses with Active in the a total of 366 nurses returned to work in Manitoba last some after raising their families or retiring from work for a period of Louise executive director of the Manitoba association i registered said the nursing shortage Wytish Manitoba la the is far nurses in 197q and we had a surplus in she we can probably predict Well be Chinatown Winnipeg Chinatown development 1981 has received a boost from the province in the form of approval in principle for a lease on a Block of Waltma vow Teeth wait Leader 0f Poland Independent vowed yesterday serve Nate net overthrew its contradiction while Thiee Hemje Gerneil Canada called for Emp Ettien within airline wants to govern 1t our booted item Peders t out the beet to night with five Jumble jul Rojle Ann 32 39 47 by ;