Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leisure int powder today living with apes inseam Hofma entertainment him starts Savior m w w v w sum w office tames of humped Camel sunny today 26 Clear tonight 10 by Gregg Shulli idly wifi Dertnig Why that de tags of bound Bills and magazines Hast been stuffed into your Raff emf by fish of Mike Boft Nies the humped Camel the Ream manager of the Winnipeg Post Saif yesterday the huge backlog of mail resulting from the 42day mad strike is being processed As quickly As but he explained it is being moved in free three separate i of town and the Ami fourth like Hitov Ift along but were Sis the downhill slide 6f the first the local and next week Well be Oft the next the Middle of september Well re pretty Well Back Behie said Thi Rovand including periodicals like at e considered fewest priority and therefore will be moved August Sun rises sets Moon rises sets he said Between one million and million pieces of mail Are being pro messed from a Normal in he said the of Belem of new pieces arriving from people anxious to get mail Back into the system has sofa bees 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 48 hours until the system gets Back to final 250 404 with supplements Home delivery 9570550 9562330 second class reoistrat10n number 0286 inmate holding guard by the Canadian press an Ottawa Man who once broke out of an Ontario Penitentiary with is holding a jail guard hostage in Quebec after seizing him last night at knife Point and demanding to be set a suspect is being held on suspicion of murder today after an unidentified Man was found dead in a House following a police siege last in the Hull incident Jean Paul Al is holding 34yearold Roger Rondeau of who is unharmed As far As we know and being held in a cell in the basement of a 10storey building that houses the Hull police there is a team of four negotiators from Montreal and just across the River from communicating with Allarie by there Are no facet face police said Allarie was negotiating calmly with police and was not holding what they think is a homemade knife to the guards a team of 21 Quebec provincial police officers from dressed in Khaki fatigues and carrying armful of arrived four hours after the midday hostage taking and marched into the Concrete Glen Murray of the Quebec to see Hull Page 4 my fights forced retirement 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 neurosurgery Section of the centres department of surgery and head of the University of Manitoba neurosurgery he contends his forced retire ment was contrary to the human rights since losing the Par Kinson has been assigned to the Honor Ary medical staff of the he has been reduced to practising medi Cine at his office in the medical arts building even though he believes he should be Able to continue his former practice for so Long As i am by and mentally Parkinson refused to be interviewed about the Peter the centres said the Case was still before the courts and refused to 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 see doctor Page 4 Ken free premiers to Bridge 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 ramp pact struck Mercier reluctantly accepts million increase in costs by Mary Ann Fitzgerald facing a million 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 National 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 1 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 offer 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 of the proposed new contract ment hammered out in Toronto last take it or leave u he agreed with one reporters suggestion that it became a Flo sons Choice of take the contract or leave it and do without ramp policing services after several threats by eral Robert Kaplan to withdraw ramp personnel during the bitter 10 months of Merciers major concern is with the second phase of the he said he will take those concerns to the provincial Cabinet which must ratify the the Federal government wanted the provinces to pick up 75 per cent of the costs a move which would have Cost million More for a total of million for the complement of ramp in the the province and parities with populations of under pay 56 per municipalities with populations larger than that pay 81 the proposed new agreement would require municipalities of or More Thompson is the Only Mani Toba City of that size pay in creased costs rising at a rate one per cent a year from the current 81 per cent to 90 per cent in the final year of the 10year Thompson mayor Don Maclean said his Council would have to study the see Mercier Page 4 on Vancouver up the 10 Provin Cial premiers wrapped up three Days of talks yesterday with stinging condemnations of Federal economic and transport but they failed yet again during a cruise through the is lands of Georgia Strait to agree on specific measures to Deal with any of the under pressure from conference Host Bill Bennett of British the premiers tried to Patch internal differences and reduce Federal provincial 1 but differences of style and philosophy forced them into Vaguel worded compromises on most of the controversial issues they meetings sought the premiers called for for urgent Federal provincial meetings on the the need to upgrade Cana Das rail freight handling capacity and Federal moves to reduce or eliminate rail passenger service on More than 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 Bennett told a concluding news con Ference on Board the cruise ship Queen of Prince where the premiers spent the final Day of their 22nd annual that the provincial leaders will Send a letter to prime minister Trudeau urging an immediate meet ing on what they called the crushing Burden imposed by record interest rampaging inflation and the weak Canadian but they were unable to Advance beyond a Vaguel worded nine Point economic recovery plan unveiled thurs the premiers agreed a fair and equitable Energy pricing agreement should be reached immediately to signal a fundamental change in the climate for productive investment in the such a move would re Lieve pressure on the anaemic Dollar and soaring interest they Sharp differences but they could not define fair and equitable because while All of them accepted the need for Domestic Oil prices to Rise eventually to 75 per cent of world Sharp differences Maine Over How fast to How to split the resulting increased revenues and How to shield the and the provincial leaders were forced into equally vague wording on foreign investment and Federal moves to nationalize the Petroleum Industry two areas where Saskatchewan pre Mier Allan the Lone new was at oods with his More business oriented the premiers strongly oppose fed eral plans to eliminate without Public hearings two of four transcontinental railway passenger 13 regional runs and reduce service on six Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan told the move is unprecedented in Cana Dian they also found common ground on Federal plans to Cut billion Over the next two fiscal years in Federal Aid to provincial health and education pro the premiers called on Ottawa to reduce its vast annual estimated to be billion for the fiscal year which began april but rejected the Federal argument this would be one Way to trim see splits Page 4 eases Manitoba lost 898 nurses from Active duty last but an increasing number returned to the work Force and moved Here from other leaving the province with a net in crease of 74 the province 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 of registered said the nursing shortage which was so apparent in Manitoba in the last year is slowly levelling we were crying for nurses in 1976 and we had a surplus in she we can probably predict Well be Back to Normal by Tod said the provincial vacancy rate for nursing positions stood at about five per cent As of april in 657 nurses left the province last most of them Manitoba Grade of 260 went to British while 141 chose to Settle in Ontario attracted 89 Manitoba while Saskatchewan took five went to 10 went to work in the Northwest territories and 18 went to the four Atlantic last 72 nurses went to work in the United states compared with 118 in nine nurses left to pursue careers compared with 18 in Manitoba attracted 169 nurses from other parts of up from 146 in seven nurses came to work Here from the United states and 20 came from other Tod Manitoba has always had a chronic shortage of nurses in Rural areas and in specially she said it is encouraged to see More nurses taking refresher courses and returning to the work she said 164 completed the refresher programs last year and she estimated that 231 will do so this we have More people offering re fresher programs and were going out further to try and encourage people to see nursing Page 4 Chinatown Winnipeg Chinatown development 1981 has received a boost from the province in the form of approval in principle for a 99year lease on a Block of Cor Earea Walesa vow Lech Leader of Poland Independent Solidarity Trade vowed yesterday to serve his not overthrow its contradiction while the economic Council of Canada has called for Competition within Canadas airline Ottawa wants to strictly govern out booted Calgary stampedes Hay put the Boot to Winnipeg last night with a career thigh five Field Index Ann 32 39 47 33 35 6 Jumble Jumble 7 39 85 sports to 4 i ;