Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 a mpg August suicide rate High among youth continued Noffel 1 in june the classmate Learned from the tote that his Friend had been dead for More than six when Feins divorced parents Learned their son had committed suicide in they didst know where the City was or whether they could Fly the next Day the deceased Mother a prominent lawyer in new arrived Here and identified their fein had asked his Friend not to open the letter until june so that his Mother could Complete her masters program at he didst want to interfere with her school in his suicide fein said he was disillusioned and could find no purpose to he added he meet the expectations his family put on it appeared fein had everything to live for Money and a Bright but he didst think the suicide problem has struck every part of Canada but no harder than among Manitoba Young second highest rate this province possesses the second highest rate of adolescent suicides in after the Northwest Ter next to automobile it is the biggest killer of males aged 15 to 24 they kill themselves by diving in front of walking into Rivers and drowning and by overdosing on the most recent apparent suicide drowning i Winnipeg occurred Satur Day morning near the Osborne Street a described As in his late climbed onto the rail of the Bridge with other people walking nearby and traffic streaming suddenly made a spawling leap into the Accord ing to a another who was on the Riverbank below the said he saw the Man surface from the water twice before disappearing it looked like he didst want to come Back up at police recovered the Young mans body about five hours 36 shot themselves the suicide toll in 1981 also includes 36 Manitoban who shot themselves to last either 122 or 158 people committed suicide in de pending on whose statistics Are Quot in canadians died by their own according to statistics Cana although More recent figures Are not All experts agree the number is increasing each the suicide prevention line by counsellors at clinic in Winnipeg answered Calls from people pressing suicidal thoughts last about 500 were Calls from men and women who said they were in the process of committing statistics Are unavailable for Winni pegs other suicide manned by the salvation the stigma attached to suicide is responsible for Many of them going in a professor in the University of Manitoba Psychia try department and an authority on said the official suicide rate should be boosted 25 per cent to get a More accurate publicity dangerous despite its suicide is a topic few want to one said is that any publicity about it tends to increase suicidal he said any Media reports on suicide usually result in others killing them in the same publicity about the suicides of Public figures often trigger a rash of imitation Sui Brown Harold director of psychiatric services for children in the said today youth Lack causes in which they can vent their when they try to get sympathy or empathy from someone they tend to get laughed Sigmundson so instead they bottle up these often a person commits suicide to Hurt people close to them such As lovers and these Are people to whom they cant express anger and so they turn it he this is the reason Why Sigmundson refers to suicide As murder in the 180th cd Ken y fail Union silent on plans Thunder Bay up Union officials made themselves unavailable for comment yesterday on a possible strike by Grain handlers following a breakdown in contract negotiations Early saturday the members of the Canad an Lakehead Grain elevator workers handle More than half Canadas Grain they have been in a position to strike legally since cd local Union chairman Frank Mazur said saturday the Union had no immedi ate plans to walk off the we Are assessing the situation and taking into account the effect of any walkout on the Canadian Economy and the Canadian he i cant Tell right now when any walkout will our decision will be made Federal mediator Bill who met last week with officials of the Union and the Lakehead terminal elevators left Thunder Bay saturday afternoon after talks broke Kelly said a resumption of talks had not been he retains a reservation at the Thunder Bay hotel where talks took place last when you have an there is Only so far you can go in attempting to continue said the elevator owners association said saturday it was prepared to accept several recommendations in a report on the dispute by Federal conciliator Jack Chapman As a basis for among them was a proposal that a Federal Industrial commission examine a plan to extend hours of operation at the Lake Superior port to 24 hours seven Days a Alberta on ver stage in Oil Cut of 3rd Jack fire damages apartment firefighters break through the roof of a House at 479 Maryland Street where a fire yesterday resulted in about in damages to the Walls and ceiling of a second floor fire officials said the cause of the Blaze is under there were no continued from Page 1 the two Oil Sands projects could meet 10 per cent of Canadas Oil demand in the late each Days delay Means Canada will have to an additional import of barrels of a major Issue in the bilateral dispute that led up to Albertas production cutback is How much the province should get for its the province now gets Canad an a barrel and the Federal government promised in its National Energy pro Gram last fall that Alberta could get increases of a barrel a year for the next two or three Alberta wants to move to the world Price of another major Point of Contention involves the snaring of Oil the Federal government levies a tax on each barrel of Alberta Oil and the two sides must decide who will get what percentage of the the Energy program gave Ottawa a bigger share of Oil taxes than it had in the past and Alberta has argued that it should get More because Oil is an exhaustible Ottawa maintains it must have the bigger share of revenues to help less affluent More tax Revenue for Alberta would also throw the National Economy out of the Federal government the two sides must also decide on the amount of a new Federal Levy on sales of natural police probing beating death Winnipeg police say one Man is in custody and May soon be charged in connection with the beating death yesterday of a police were called to a House in the 300 Block on Alexander Avenue about 11 yesterday where they found the a spokesman said the apparently been beaten and had fatal head the Man was found by people who were visiting the Home the spokesman the investigation into the incident is continuing and police had still not Laid any charges As of this the spokesman food workers boo Union president Over wage increase continued from Page 1 Christophe replied to the criticism by calling the new contract one of the Best agreements we have Ever Nego while conceding that the wage package was not greatly improved Over initial he pointed to additional benefits such As a on hour Shorter work week beginning in 1983 As Benefi Cial to the but Christophe and other members of the Union negotiating team later admit Ted that the contract was not As Good As it could have and they blamed the workers themselves for not backing their leaders he said the unions position was Christopher have to have Faith weakened when Many employees agreed to Cross picket lines if a strike Safeway had announced it would keep All stores open despite a sixty six per cent of Safeway workers voted on july 26 to strike while 73 per cent of Dominion staff also approved a the vote followed an Over whelming rejection of the companies last had you Given me a 94percent strike vote and meant you probably would have got a lot More than you got Christophe you have to have Faith and not run like rabbits just before the Battle has major issues lost in an interview after the Christophe conceded the Union had failed in its bid to win some of what it considered to be major including equal pay for female sick pay for Par time workers and elimination of student wage but he said the which increases wages Between 34 and 57 per cent in some categories Over two is an excellent also improved Are night shift company contributions to the dental sick pay disability benefits and Nurser Ous other he although equal pay was not achieved for female Christophe said the wage Gap has been narrowed to 48 cents from 51 the Union also won Extension of seniority benefits during maternity Lou Industrial relations spokesman for refused com ment on the settlement vote last Hail damage Sale great Plains Honda has settled with their insurance a company on their Hail damaged for these two Days r we Are passing on the appraised damage amounts in the 4 form of huge Cash discounts off regular prices on All hondas bought As is with Hail f t hurry Only 18 Hail hondas in this Sale Sale on for 2 Days Only 9 31 1 Little dimples in our cars dents in prices full 12 month pm warranty on All new vehicles car marked with discount financing 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