Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october t Winnipeg free Satun new diabetes organization initiates blood test plan v by Joe Rubin a postcard size rectangle of White paper developed in Winnipeg May help Many Manitoba diabetics obtain accurate readings of the sugar level in their the specially treated filter paper contains circles which a patient must fill with a Droplet of his blood before each the blood is left to dry and the card mailed to a lab for analysis when the circles Are the diabetes foundation of Manito a newly formed fundraising Orga unveiled the new method yesterday and described the Pilot project cheating charge dismissed a sideshow attendant at last sum mers red River exhibition was cleared yesterday of charges that he fixed a game to make it tougher for players to Conklin shows employee Newton Hughie had been with cheating at play for allegedly using weights in a game which involved trying to Knock Over about 15 milk bottles with a after hearing the evidence of three police witnesses at yesterdays half Day provincial court judge Theo Lister dismissed the saying there was insufficient evidence to support the crowns allegation that Kimball had fixed the Crown counsel Donald who handled the said in a later inter View he agreed with the judges Deci he said although there was evidence that three of the wooden milk bottles weighed less than the other the difference in weight amounted to less than 227 Grams half a there was a Good explanation for Slough i really dont think there was any dishonesty Kimball had been charged last july after an undercover Winnipeg police vice officer unsuccessfully played the became and had the bottles and balls seized and test nurses which will be used to test foundation president John Moorhouse said diabetics currently have two ways of gauging the amount of sugar in their they May either dip a chemically treated plastic strip into a Sample of urine or More recent innovation test their blood with a special although these methods provide a patient with an immediate Reading of his sugar they have a 20percent margin of said each strip costs about 55 with phar Macare picking up the the foundations card method is far More accurate a two percent error Winnipeg free press plan strike eighteen registered and 14 licensed practical nurses planned to strike today at a 155bed Charleswood nursing the executive director of the Manitoba organization of nurses associations said Irene Giesbrecht said a strike of Monas local 64 comes after 14 months of negotiations with Holiday Haven nursing 5501 Roblin and its Winnipeg lawyer Robert Giesbrecht said the nursing Home increased salaries 18 and now pays registered with at least one years an previous hourly rate was Mona had asked for for charge nurses after one year of with other rates adjusted the length of the contract is one very important Giesbrecht the nursing Home first wanted the contract to run 25 years and gradually came Down to five we want 18 from 1981 to april Hsc votes to expand care unit a backlog in elective surgery cases and the introduction of several new programs have prompted the health sciences Centre to expand its surgical intensive care the hospitals Board voted yesterday to relocate its inpatient dialysis unit in order to add five Beds to the six bed intensive care preliminary costs of the renovations Are pegged at the Manitoba health services commission will be asked for funding support while accurate Cost estimates and tender Docu ments Are Lack of space Hsc president Peter swerhon said patients often stay in the surgical unit two or three in addition to increasing the number of Beds in the the reconstruction is expected to expand the volume of the recovery John vice president of professional said elective surgery is often backlogged because of the Lack of space in the unit and recovery room As the Hsc has been Given increased support for new and expanded services including a neurosurgery program which will require additional according to the hospitals redevelopment a new surgical intensive care unit is not expected to come on Stream until in related the Board was told yesterday that Hospital expenditures Over require approval from the until purchases Over had to be approved by the government funding margin since the analysis is done in a lab where the blood is soaked from the Moorhouse estimates each analysis will Cost from 10 to 15 a figure he says is Likely to drop As More highly automated testing equipment is Intro the foundation will Bear the initial the method will first be tested on the 300 patients who use the health sciences centres diabetes if Suc the card will be distributed to the doctor said the card method will be a Boon to the estimated 85 per cent of patients who dont require immedi ate feedback on their sugar such diabetics usually test their sugar two four times a the card would provide a diabetic with a sugar level profile and enable him to plan his insulin doses Accord its a useful addition to the diabetes although no such method is believed to be in use in a similar card test was tried unsuccessfully in in we dont know Why it seems like a Good idea to he the card testing method is the Dia betes foundations first formed to encourage research and Vroom Broom Helen Sedgwick pulls a starter to see if she can get some Vroom out of her Broom at the Federal income tax Centre on Regent Helen was one of about 200 workers who came to work at the Centre yesterday dressed in halloween promote preventive treatment of the the foundation is also concerned about health care delivery and the proper use of the available tech we believe existing institutions have not taken the matter seriously he although the Canadian diabetes association does wonderful Moorhouse said he feels the association has not been Able to take the life and death aspects foundation Vic president Ronald Yager said Only about 30 per cent of funds donated to the cd by Manito bans is spent in the the foundations announcement was held in conjunction with a diabetes seminar at the Manitoba health organizations annual meeting Noreen a clinical so Cial worker at the Urcla school of medicines diabetes told the seminar that the acute care training health workers receive Doest prepare them for the chronic the treatment of diabetics presents an emotional Drain on the health care Papatheodoru it is therefore important that practitioners use peer support to Deal with frustrating treatment options and prevent Cable firms Greet with caution by Ritchie Gage Manitoba Cable companies were cautious yesterday about a court ruling which removes television Satel Lites from Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission if the decision the satellites would be wide open to Cana Dian without crts Content control under the broadcast provincial judge Gordon of Corner said in his judg ment this week that receiving a Satel Lite television signal for replay to sub scribers is not this Means the crts has no control Over satellite television reception through licensing under the broadcast acts current lawyer Avram Cohen said the com Mission has no comment on the effect judge Seabright ruling May have on its the judgment had Impact the commission will discuss the judg ment before deciding what it May mean to the satellite Issue in we would also have to make a decision on an Appeal of the ruling because it is from a lower Cohen the commission is scheduled to hear 23 licence applications for 119 communities from Canadian satellite programming companies in Winnipeg next Jack general manager of Winnipeg a major Cable television program said he didst want to comment on what effect the ruling might make on the satellite ruling significant but 1 think the crts would Appeal the its an extremely significant he Leo technical manager of Westman Media Coop of said the judgment will make great fire works at the the decision is Well sit Back and watch what there is a wide Range of american satellite television available and that what the people Westman is using satellites to service isolated and Western his service uses new Atlanta and Chicago superstitions which can provide As Many As 25 special interest channels for a Dave of Sta beam distributes satellite programs via dish to Falcon and the were not licensed and weve never been challenged by the Federal govern the regulations were conceived a Long time before the change in technology and something had to Cortes Nino a spokesman for the Canadian Cable television association representing 321 Canadian Cable opera tors said the association is pleased with the court special Case the Corner Brook Case is a special it is a Case of a company at a cheaper an american Chan Nel offered to the rest of the Cost of bringing the Public broadcast ing service pcs by satellite beam was much less expensive than by the microwave for which they were she Bourque said the court Case May bring pressure on the Federal govern ment to renegotiate the 1972 letters of agreement Between the United states and Canada on sharing satellite Sig this is the real Issue in this area where there is a lot of pirating of american satellites by Canadian dish anyone can do it with a receiving dish in their she a Cable who asked Neft to be claimed some shows beamed by satellite channels in bad he said that without the control by the crts these shows could be a problem if there is wide open satellite the crts licences each Channel that Cable companies bring to Canadian viewers from the United states through but not by dish Bourque said the Corner Brook Case involved pcs and is a special she said pcs Doest mind if its Channel is taken by dish without charge and the Cost of bringing the Channel to Brook by the cart licensed Micro wave is much the loss of the court Case is the second time this month the courts have told the Federal communications licensing body that satellite Sig nals from the United states Are beyond1 its an apartment Block operator in Burnaby won an for receiving but the court ruled receiving a signal from a satellite int broadcasting and fore beyond the Power of the hookers search streets for seagulls teenage prostitutes of Austin Street come out As darkness Falls by Gregg Shilliday the darkness draws them usually sometimes in the teenage prostitutes of Austin Street converge on the rundown Side streets just East of the main Street strip As the City streetlights come on and the night shadows form hidden with the dusk closing they Drift from doorway to doorway along the broke Down Rooming houses of aus tin Street and Higgins merging with the they stand quietly waiting for the strip Slang term for the men who Circle the area in their cars for the routine is always the the merry ground suddenly stops As one of the cars pulls Over and a girl materializes beside his open after a few seconds of negotiation she climbs in and the car speeds she returns in 15 minutes to merge again into the darkness of another the prostitutes who work the strip share several they Are almost All and they unanimously maintain that they hate what they Tough Debbie is she is More attractive than the typical Austin Street Hooker and Well dressed in leather jacket and she says Shes been working the Street for a Little More than a she was drawn into she after being unable to obtain other but i hate most of these Guys Are some of my regulars Are Okay but it still makes me sick most of the so Why become a Hooker Debbie shakes her head i tried other nobody would keep i sure As hell didst want to go on welfare so now i guess you could Call me a working Debbie smiled sardonically and then waved to a passing that old he never wants he just picks up the girls sometimes when its i guess he just likes to Debbie shivered in the night she says that besides police crack the aspect of her work she finds most frustrating is competing with girls even younger than she says she knows of children As Young As 11 years Selling their bodies for Small change and sniff glue there turning tricks for five that Way below our prices which Range from for Oral sex to As High As for do it for sniff or i cant stand Debbie explained that the older girls often Chase the younger ones off the Street or even beat them Val is with her makeup and Streetwise she seems after two years of turning tricks in the Austin Street area she is accepted As a Veteran of the she also hates the younger started pretty Early Val admits that she started pretty Early but she maintains that she always demanded a relatively High Price for her a Winnipeg police juvenile division spokesman agreed in a recent inter View that both boys and Are prostituting themselves at a very Early weve had cases of kids As Young As 10 involved with older he but in some you cant judge them by the same standards As we do in other parts of their Home lives Are disintegrated very some of these children Are incredibly Treyve been exposed to this sort of thing by their parents and friends almost from the but not All the strip hookers Are like Vals Friend look at least 30 years Vickie space is lined and scarred and she is noticeably but while she looks Vickie admits to being Only after six years As a she says nothing can Surprise Vickie said she averages 8 to 10 tricks a mostly in the front seat of her clients car or she says she Doest like her work but insisted that because of her common Law Hus bands heavy she has to freelance for extra the funny thing is that he Doest even if he Ever found hed kill me for ;