Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba A in Clear mystery Case City police have interviewed a Frei of witnesses Tot ate still Cumbte to deism Miffin what happened is a Peg Man was disappeared monday night while on his Way to several witnesses have come hut we Haven had any hard and fait information were working Des in charge of crimes against said to theres been nothing to put us on the right Paul of Pat Green was last seen monday about ii18 when he left Home to work a Midnight shift at Lavatts Manitoba his ear was found atom two hours later parked neatly behind a Keewatin Street commercial mail located on his Normal route to felled stains found on the Road about two Kilometres North of the match the missing mans blood blood was also discovered on dears fowl play is Depourcq said police Are continuing to search the Keewatin Street area including Ponds and garbage of Inkster Boulevard for a helicopter has been used in the theres nothing definite to say Hes in the depth req but were still concentrating in there until we get something More definite to go police Are seeking the assistance of anyone who May have seen a red 1989 Volkswagen stopped on Keewatin Street a Tew Hundred metres South of Inkster Boulevard about aay August any iwo on 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 Ai disease carry ing Rabid skunks still minister warns 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 teenage boy from the Winnipeg area has the second victim must have con traded 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 260 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 reduced still exists the incidence of the disease among which provides a sound barometer of the threat to is still Sherman 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 said 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 the 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 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 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 Kitchen area Eric Deputy commissioner of confirmed in an interview yesterday that inspections will be car ried out possibly 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 drive 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 remand the Boniface school Board allows Public role in hiring unlike its counterpart in 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 natives meeting to decide what sort of superintendent they he said a committee composed of two trustees representatives of Princi teachers and parents will then be formed to meet and recommend three or four candidates to the with the Board making the final deck trustees in Winnipeg division Are also searching for a chief superintendent to replace Harold who left his position last May by Mutual con sent with the school Board chairman Mira Spivak said yesterday no consideration has been Given to changing the Normal proce Dure by which the Board alone picks a search committee a represent Ive of the Winnipeg teachers association will sit with nine trustees on the search commit 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 Struc Spivak said the Board Hopes to have a new chief superintendent Early in but plans to have one by 1983 at the in Garwood said he expects a new superintendent will be hired Early next former Boniface superintendent George Derenchuk two year contract expired at the end of july and trustees voted not to renew assistant superintendent Roger Millier recently turned to work after a Long but is Only working halftime Wood when Perenchuk was hired in trustees spent on a consulting firm to assist in the search for a replacement for Peter but Garwood said the current search process was proposed by Roy education services director for the Manitoba association of school Trust who works 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 technical Voca tonal Centre to serve three South Winnipeg school Board chairman Bert Bestee yesterday said an application listing pro posed Sites is being considered but said it still Hast been neither he nor other spokesmen would say How Many Sites were pro posed in Assiniboine fort Parry or the three school divisions seeking a Ron Deputy education said if education minister Keith Cosens approves a a construction application with such specifics As funding would also have to be but everyone agrees in principle that the school should be built so it appears Likely it will macintosh Henry fort Garry school Divi Sion yesterday the Centre is expected to accommodate about 800 10 to during the Day and could have More than in night h5 said the most Likely opening Date is the Yaju of students seeking a High school tech Nical or vocational program in Winni Peg can now attend tee Yoc or Russell schools in Winnipeg school i Sturgeon Creek regional secondary school in James Assink Boia division or Kildonan East regional secondary school in River East these schools also have an Acar Demie Izatt said the proposed Centre would have Only a technical program and that students would spend half the school Day in a regular High school to their own so bust of will have to be worked their social and athletic activities will be in their Home so a student woo has selected a vocational course can remain fully integrated in his neighbourhood High Izatt said Hangin around began joined but if they be mortified and Cox he noted the remand eat the same food As who going to Paft it what since the selves eat the food Allen said two of their fast sunday by the other two on i Bobby Ted still Refus ing to eat regular meals although he apparently on for two pieces of 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 2 months Hes been in the Public safety building Johnson is currently on Rema awaiting trial on Host of Crim charges arising out of an june in which three persons posed As police office Sand cot Ineda Winnipeg dance instructor but of a Sarky Appeal Juk verdict the Manitoba labor Board has denied a Job reinstatement application by a for Mer waiter at victors restaurant who says he was in june because of Union organizing v 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 said is that the labor Board gave no explanation for its during an 10 hearing before the of Ashland testified that restaurant owner Heinz Battenfeld had used two shift ment changes he had cleared supervisor to get rid of him because of his involvement with the Industrial service technicians and Allied work ers the Union applied for certification april 18 As bargaining agent for the staff of 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 Union officials said during hear ing that the organizing drive at both restaurants continues and the application for certification will be filed since Willows the Union has occasionally picketed both victors and pantages the Industrial service technicians and Allied workers Union has a Small membership and no said its Linda she said it is affiliated with the revolutionary Trade Union opposition of a Trade Union Central based in progressive party names v Ili Doug As summer Coji Cesys win4 seems to fee trying to look at school from All angles yesterday As she hangs from the Monkey bars at Assiniboine school in Thompson staff the longtime curator of historic Yew Hudson will be the party candidate for the Churchill Riding in the next provincial party Leader Sid Green Mage the announcement yesterday at Public meeting arranged by the chamber of Green noted that George of a former president of the Manitoba registered trappers Asso is tote party nominee the Swan River he said progressive candidates in two other constituencies will be announced in the next two there Are already 20 in the Green expects candidates to be minted soon in the flin flon and Thompson the former new Pemo Craime parly Cabinet minister was making is Ond visit to Thompson this he also addressed the Thompson rotary clubs weekly Law Tiff ;