Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fast facts elusive in Clear mystery Case t f u i fifty police have interviewed be erf witnesses but Are to Tell Nabla to wet t0 8 wifflm1 Peg Man who disappeared monday night while Ort his Way to Severn witnesses have Eeme but we Haven had any hard and fait information were working staff inspector Des in charge of crimes against said teen nothing to put us on m Paul of Crescent was fan Wen monday Afiwa when he left Tome to w6f k a Midnight shift at Batts Manitoba his ear was found about two hours later parked neatly behind a Keewatin Street commercial Man located on his Normal route to works blood stains found on the Road about two Kilometres North of the Plaza match the missing mans blood blood wit also discovered on dears Depoti req said police Are continuing to search the Keewatin Street including Ponds and garbage dump South of Inkster Boulevard for a helicopter has been used in the theres nothing definite to say Hes in the Depourcq but were still concentrating in there until we get something More definite to go police Are seeking the assistance of anyone who May seen a red Volkswagen stopped on Keewatin Street a few Hundred metres South of Inkster Boulevard about Winnipeg free August 1981 s Flemr hunger strike Vic pit j t on lockup food close encounters with Etalon a Michael Hayden Light was unveiled at the Winnipeg Art gallery last the in two stainless steel and acrylic sections measuring More than 13 metres in is designed to reflect the gallery shape and the Flat Prairie it utilizes two full spectrum with 18 colors to create an aesthetic condition to which viewers second encephalitis victim rep disease carrying Rabid skunks still minister warns a Middle Ped Man from Eastern a new shipment of Travonn in Neh said there Are no further a threat the Neh str Nelv a Middle aged Man from Eastern Manitoba has become the provinces second human victim of Western Equine but he has fully Reco health minister Bud Sherman reported the first victim a teenage boy from the Winnipeg area also has the second victim must have contracted the disease at the end of Sherman the report came on the 21st Day of the provinces health the disease has been confirmed in eight More horses in the past two bringing to 88 the number of cases in horses this summer per cent More than the number of confirmed cases in horses in the last epidemic year of the province has decided to extend its Bay on spraying program to Nee Pawa and Minnedosa because of the activity of the encephalitis carrying mosquitoes and weather conditions in that said Warner min ister responsible for the emergency measures a new shipment of Bay on enough to Spray four More communities was expected to arrive in Winnipeg last night and spraying of Neepawa and Minnedosa was to proceed either last night or this Jorgenson said there Are no further plans to Spray additional but if close monitoring shows viral Mosquito activity in other population centres warrants the Spray program will be a threat though strongly re exists the incidence of the disease among which provides a sound barometer of the threat to is still Sherman by Murray Mcneill a hunger strike earlier this week by four prisoners at the Public safety building lockup has prompted corrections officials to order an inspection of the food and Kitchen area in the Provin Cial remand the prisoners fasted for several Days earlier this week to protest what they said was the placing of Saltpetre or some other foreign substance in their prisoners ill the lawyer for two of the four prison Lawrence said in an inter View yesterday the four began fasting after they and a number of other prisoners became sick sunday after eating a Allen said the prisoners experienced vomiting and diarrhoea for about a Day but they have since Allen said he brought the inmates complaints to the attention of senior corrections department officials on and yesterday they agreed to have the food and to itches area Eric Deputy commissioner of confirmed in an interview yesterday that inspections will be car ried today or monday but he dismissed the prisoners claims that Saltpetre or anything else is being added to the i cant imagine that Cox he said stories about food being laced with Saltpetre a substance which is supposed to curb a persons sex an old wives tale that been circulated in every institution from the Navy to a but he decided to ask provincial health inspectors to Check the remand father attacked by Rabid Skunk an apparently Rabid Skunk yesterday attacked a Young Winnipeg boy and his father while they were fishing in the Assiniboine River near Chapel Lawn memorial health minister Bud Sherman the boy and his whom Sher Man would not were not bit the Skunk got Sherman said the incident under scores the continuing threat of rabies from infected skunks in the threat in the Winnipeg area appears to be particularly High just West of the perimeter Highway along the Assiniboine Riverbank in the Vicin Ity of the John Blumberg Golf Chapel Lawn memorial gardens and Camp Sherman the minister said the Skunk attacked the was warded then attacked the when two got in their car and drove the Skunk followed it for a Short the child and his father were medi Cally but had no signs of bite so seven cases of rabies have been confirmed in skunks trapped or shot in Winnipeg and 120 More cases have been confirmed in skunks outside of compared with 53 cases last in Between 160 and 170 skunks have been including one in a downtown Sherman Boniface school Board allows Public role in hiring the Boniface school Board plans to involve the Public in the selection of a new Boniface Board chairman Jim Garwood said yesterday the first stage in the planned four month selection process will involve adminis teachers and Parent representatives meeting to decide what sort of superintendent they he said a committee composed of two trustees and representatives of teachers and parents will then be formed to meet and recommend three or four candidates to the with the Board making the final trustees in Winnipeg division Are also searching for a chief superintendent to replace Harold who left his position last May by Mutual sent with the school Board chairman Mira Spivak said yesterday no consideration has been Given to changing the Normal Dure by which the Board alone picks a search committee a represent Ive of the Nipes teachers association will sit with nine trustees on the search teachers complained last Spring that they we rent involved in the study done by Winnipeg lawyer Steward who recommended major changes in the divisions administrative Spivak said the Board Hopes to have a new chief superintendent Early in but plans to have one by w8 at the in Garwood said he expects a new superintendent will be hired Early next former Boniface superintendent George Derenchuk contract expired at the end of july and trustees voted not to renew assistant per intendant Roger Minier recently turned to work after a Long but is Only working Gar Wood when Perenchuk was hired in trustees spent on a consulting firm to assist in the search for a replacement for Peter Cole but Garwood said the current search process was proposed by Roy education services director for the Manitoba association of school who Worts for free because the division pays dues to site sought for new trades school the Manitoba Public schools finance Board is considering an application for the establishment of a Tiona Centre to serve three South Winnipeg school Board chairman Bert Bestecki yesterday said an application listing pro posed Sites is being considered but said it still Hast been neither he nor other spokesmen say Bow Many Sites were posed in Assiniboine fort Garry or the three school divisions seeking 9 Ron Deputy education said if education minister Keith coleus approves a a construction application with such Specif ies As funding would also have to be but everyone agrees in principle that the school should be built m it appears Likely it will macintosh Henry fort Harry of Hal pm Divi Sion said yesterday the Centre is expected to accommodate about 800 grades 19 to during the Day and could have More than in night lie said in most Lively opening Date is the fall of students seeking a High school tech Nical or vocational program in Winni Peg can attend tech vow or Russell schools to Winnipeg school i Sturgeon Creek regional Mondary school in James Assini Bou division or Kildonan East regional secondary school in River past these schools also have an Aca Demic Latt said the proposed Centre would have Only a technical program and that students would Speed i the school Day in a regular High school in their own so busing will have to be worked their social and athletic activities will be in their Home so a student who has selected a vocational course can remain fully integrated in his neighbourhood High Izatt umm Jap psf sump As summer holidays we we seems to be trying to look it school of Tom All Ogies yesterday m from the Monkey bars at Assi Bowe school in Centre anyway just because the ques Tion has men but if they find anything in Well be mortified and certainly most sur Cox he noted the remand Centre staff eat the same food As the so who going to put it in there arid for what since the staff them selves eat the food alien said two of the inmates began their fast sunday and were joined by the other two on by yester Only one of the Bobby Ted Johnson was still Refus ing to eat regular although he apparently has eaten one or two pieces Allen said Johnson is convinced the food is being laced with Saltpetre be cause he says he was fed Saltpetre previously and has been experiencing the same physical symptoms during the last months Hes been in the Public safety building Johnson is currently on remand awaiting trial on a Host of criminal charges arising out of an incident last june in which three persons allegedly posed As police officers and conned a Winnipeg dance instructor out of nearly waiter will Appeal Job verdict the Manitoba labor Board has denied a Job reinstatement application by a former waiter at victors restaurant who says he was fired in june because of Union organizing the Jim said at a news conference after the boards Deci Sion was announced that he plans to Appeal to the court of Queens the reason for his he is that the labor Board gave no explanation for its Union president Linda Lloyd said it is unlikely the court will Rule in favor of calling the labor Board fas she said Why should they the court be any different there just another faction of the government that supports at an 10 hearing before the of Ashland testified that restaurant owner Heinz Battenfeld had used two shift assign ment changes to get rid of him because of his involvement with the Industrial service technicians and Allied ers the Union has a Small membership and no said she said it is affiliated with the Ary Trade Union opposition of based in the Union applied for certification april 18 As bargaining agent for the staff of but the application was withdrawn when Board officials advised that the anticipated bar gaining unit would have to include the staff of pantages which is under the same ownership As the Union said at the hearing the organizing drive at both restaurants continues and the application for of location will be filed since Willows the Union has occasionally picketed both victors and pantages a victors waitress testifying before the labor Board during the Willows bearing said the pickets have not suited in a decrease of business at Union organizers say it progressive party names candidates plug custodian and curator of historic York factory on Hudson will be the progressive party candidate for the Churchill Riding in the next provincial George Simpson of a for Mer president of the Manitoba registered trappers is the party nominee to Swan River so the progressives have fielded 20 with others expected ;