Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 1981 3 i an estimated people set off on a 10kilometre run at vital Park yesterday in one of the 11 events in Winnipeg held to Honor the late Terry Fox and to raise Money for cancer inspired burst of athletic activity in Manitoba honors Terry Fox Jim free press by Sheila bean about Manitoban played soccer and took part in other Terry Fox Day events yesterday As people in 700 communities across can Ada raised Money for cancer research in memory of the on legged Steve a member of the Manitoba committee for the Terry Fox said 34 special events were held across the 11 in weve estimated that altogether 545 people took he Selkirk had 385 people including a on legged kid and a 73yearold that Community raised Over Fitzjohn said a group of people in Sioux Lookout pushed a Toyota All the Way through a in the Bonne Bell 10kilo metre race for women was held at Assiniboine Park in Honor of attracting almost 500 the Winner was Bev a University of Winnipeg who made the run in 36 about people took part in a fundraising run at vital More than 20 members of Fox Fame including three at tended a noon hour ceremony in Assini Boine Park to unveil a plaque donated by the City to designate the new Terry Fox fitness Fox maternal Marion Wark of said she was glad to take part in the ceremony because she is so proud of he sure was a Brave she it was a worrying but he was so Brave that i had to be he didst like to see a gloomy he didst like to see anyone sad be cause it made him from raised school division drops Legal action against province on finance shift the Transcona Springfield school division has dropped plans to take Legal action against the Manitoba govern ment to prevent implementation of its revamped education financing pro school division trustee Mary Andree said the Board initially considered Legal action because the government appeared earlier this year to be implementing the new program without amending the City of Winnipeg but following the boards decision last March to seek a Legal opinion on the the government amended the act and left the Board without any basis for a Legal she until i Felt education minis Ter Keith Cosens was acting Andree said in an the controversial changes eliminate shared tax assessments across the this Means four school divisions vital and River East will pay a larger share of their operational Transcona residents school taxes will increase by a while intercity residents drop on a House assessed at Andree said the old shared assess ment policy was one of the reasons Transcona residents didst oppose amalgamation with the rest of Winni Peg in the Early update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free we didst want to subsidize Portage Avenue and main she we were really milk prices still stable milk prices have remained relatively stable since the Manitoba government did away with controls on the commodity last according to the chair Man of the consumer association of Canadas milk Price review commit Rose Ryan said a Survey of 31 Winni Peg retail outlets revealed prices for one litre of homogenized milk ranged from 68 to 78 prices in Northern Manitoba ran As High As 98 cents a the extra Cost for transportation Ryan the Price for a litre of homogenized milk before controls were lifted last january was 68 the findings appear to contradict predictions made by Art chairman of the milk producers marketing that milk would be sold in larger volume at lower but Ryan said the prices still we rent out of Bureau claims successes the better business bureaus arbitration Board has successfully resolved six disputes Between Consumers and members of the organization during the past Tom manager of the by said the settlements were accepted by both parties As being its been working out quite Durham said in an the Bureau established the arbitration Board last year in an attempt to improve the image of its 850 the procedure is open to All customers who feel they have not received proper treatment from member dry cleaning travel costs and the Quality of paving work were among the six disputes settled during the last Durham the complaint against a paving com Pany was settled before arbitration was Durham said once both sides sat Down to discuss their differ they found it easier to accommodate each other and a final judgment from the arbitrator was not of course that the Best Way of All to resolve a Durham not All complaints will end up in the Bureau can reject a complaint it feels is but this Hast happened so almost million for cancer research As a result of his attempt to run across Canada on his artificial which had Cost him a then spread to his forcing him to Stop last september after covering 480 he died in one month before his 22nd More than Montre Alers took part in an eight Kilometre run saturday on the slopes of mount among them an Anonymous 80yearold woman who turned Over her medications to fir staid workers before she started a concerned organizer offered to drive the woman along the ill walk if it takes All she replied As she set the first run of the Day was in where several thousand including senior citizens and infants in baby thousands in Ottawa turned and Gerald minister in charge of sports and joined the participants in the vital Park run in Winnipeg gave a wide Range of reasons for taking part in the our daughter got us said Donna but in also run Ning because its for the cancer so my Mother died of cancer and the cancer society was very Good to at they were the sea soned runners taking Well paced strides and the rest doing whatever came a tiny girl ran off the starting a father trotted off holding his son by the the athletes hit the finish line in record with Lawrence Elliott the first its kind of an inspiring race to run because its not Elliott everyone really giving All Treyve Gretta and her bar Bara ran the course and collapsed on the grass i think runnings but in pretty said i never thought it would be this said i got a cramp through the thing but i never Richard a member of the National committee for the Terry Fox said participation in events across the country was we Haven heard from everybody but id say wed look at participants and Over million so he the minimum total will be Mil because we already have from and Ontario May be Terry Fox paternal Bertha fights research is needed on ultrasound says British expert by Maureen Brosnahan the use of sound Waves to ease pain and promote Healing Hast been sup ported by scientific despite 50 years of according to a Brit ish expert on the therapeutic tech if you look in the literature Ultra sound has been used to treat everything from headaches to pains in the big but the problem is that there is no real scientific said Wil a senior lecturer at the University of Man feels Hes entitled to More than discharge bitter exse Viceman seeks disability pension from armed forces for injury Biela seeking compensation by Ritchie Gage in Paul Biela was cadets the year in his Winnipeg air Cadet squad at Hes a bitter exster Viceman on unable to work because of an aggravating Back in id like to go to the Mcgregor armoury where my former Squadron parades and Tell the cadets what Hap it May give them something to think said the former career Biela was medically discharged from the Navy Section of the Canadian forces on a year Short of his five year he said his discharge followed a Back injury he received while on duty Load ing a spinal surgery was per formed by a civilian doctor four months before his discharge in an attempt to remedy a disc but Biela said the fusion surgery failed because he was sent Back to duty too he said the military owes him some thing More than a medical and Hes been pressing his Case for three frustrating five years As a Cadet had Given him Hopes of a successful career in the Canadian forces with officer training and an he won a scholarship to gliding school while a Biela joined up on he spent time on ships and had Tours in the South the fastest swim Mer in his class of 14 for scuba diving and sea it was while loading a ship with supplies destined for Peru that Biela said he injured his Biela said after surgery to Correct the problem he was returned to work too i was Only doing desk work but it meant sitting and it Hurt a he i was on painkillers most of the his application for a disability pen Sion was rejected by the department of veterans affairs in Vancouver in the in a letter to said according to information it obtained from the the injury want sustained or aggravated while on regular attempts by the free press to con tact Bielas former commanding offi cers about his claim were queries to the department of defence about the Case were answered with copies of documents which Are already in Bielas since he left the Biela has tried a number of such As a Gas Salesman and but he said his Back pain wore him Biela said he came Back to his Home in Winnipeg in but was continually using up his medical insurance for chiropractors while attempting to hold Down a sales Job in a jeans Biela is pressing his Case with the help of lawyer Anthony and has applied for Legal Aid for help to cover the Cost of the Palmyn wrote maritime life Assur Ance which holds the Canad an forces insurance but the firm said it would Only reopen Bielas Case if he saw a arranged by the i was said the first time i contacted maritime on my own they sent me to their he tried to suggest the pain was in my but Biela went to the second psychiatric regardless of his i went to the Dane Ive already got a doctors certificate that says the spinal fusion in in what More do they want Williams was in Winnipeg last week to address an International symposium on therapeutic ultrasound at the University of ultrasound is a method in which sound Waves Are injected into the Low level Waves Are commonly used for diagnostic such As Moni Toring fetuses during when larger doses Are heat is produced which appears to have a therapeutic or Healing therapeutic ultrasound is seen As More effective than heat treatments which can Only affect superficial ultrasound like Micro Are powerful enough to Pene trate below the skins a biophysicist who has studied ultrasound for about eight says Many people still look upon its use As a kind of Black although in some cases it May have Only a Placebo Williams said he is convinced it does have therapeutic but he said the amount of True scientific research in the Field is a he warned the group there Are definite dangers in using therapeutic ultrasound without knowing More about in trying to scare the knickers off some of these physiotherapists to try and get rid of their Williams said in a later really were floundering in the he told the 170 physiotherapists from the Britain and Australia who attended the ses youre the people who Are doing it All the youre the people who should be telling Williams said he is attempting to compile a Book on the value of Ultra sound in treating people but most of the present research is of Little progressive party takes centrist Green says by Gregg Shilliday the fledgling Manitoba progressive party staked out a Middleon therond stance at its first economic policy seminar on the party Leader Sid Green the progressives were attempting to offer an in economic policy and to the extremes provided by the conservatives and the Green about 120 people registered for the today event at the ramada inn on Pembina various including economists Dian Cohen and John led seminars which Green said helped to More clearly define his party eco nomic i have travelled around this prov Ince for the last few weeks and i am now convinced that there Are Many voters out there disenchanted with both he there mad at the conservatives and they imag Ine voting for the the former nip Cabinet minister listed several areas where his views differ from traditional socialist eco on labor policy Over which he severed relations with the new demo argued that the Only method of dealing with strike situations is free collective he said there should be no state assistance or intervention at All in Freedom is the Best he contract not being worked out is better than the government forc ing some kind of Green was More equivocal on another key economic govern ment involvement in private the conservatives say Well sell it when its making Money and Well keep it when its losing he the nip will put Money into any where is the economic sense in either Green said he favored Public Indus trial development but Only when it is a Good we cant maintain Industry just to save sometimes a company should go but Public Money should be advanced if the govern ment has guarantees of equity Partick you the government put Money in and there is a profit and the company takes All the but if the company you lose All your Money and you get the Public Industrial development is a he its in All and its not going to go As Long As its done on an economically sound i ;