Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 ban urged on free samples of formula in hospitals by Barbara Robson whatever comes formula has come to be the world the coalition is jul a Mem by Barbara Robson supporters of the Nestle Boycott Are extending their Campaign against infant formula in a bid to have free formula samples banned from Canad an David a Mem Ber of the infant formula action Coli said Boycott coordinator for the United Church of said the same problems of formula in third world countries have surfaced among Northern natives and the Urban poor in Unicof estimates that poor water inadequate sterilization and the High Cost of formula preparations have resulted in a million deaths and nine million cases of severe malnutrition among infants in developing coun he the movement to Boycott All Nestle products Force the Swiss owned company to halt promotion of its for Mula in developing countries began in the in it spread to Canada two years later and has been endorsed by major protestant denominations and the roman Catholic in the third world the mystique of infant formula is so Strong that Cabinet rules City must Cut sewage smell by Ritchie Gage the Manitoba Cabinet has ordered the City of Winnipeg to eliminate the smell from its sewage drying Beds in West Paul by 1985 or find an alternative process for sewage Dis environment minister Gary Filmon announced yesterday he had allowed an Appeal by the West Paul Munici Pality of a Manitoba clean Environ ment commission ruling which Al Lowed the City to continue its West Paul has wanted something done about the smell since the drying Beds system was introduced in the six Man commission had ordered the City to control the smell and land scape the grounds by but Filmon went a step farther and set a Date for the City to solve the problem or change Filmon stench must go we feel that the commission order did not adequately address the con Cerns of the citizens with doors emanating from the sludge Filmon the decision by backed by the provincial will be said a City because a solution to the 16yearold odor problem is not Filmon also directed the City to explore reducing the liquid Content of the sewage and turn it into City councillor John chair Man of the cites works and operations said the works depart meet has sought alternatives to the disposal method for 10 it takes time its not like putting up a Stop or taking it it takes time and will be the prov Ince should be prepared to share the he residents in the have complained about the smell since the Beds were created in the clean environment commission was formed in the City came before the commission in 1977 for permission to carry the commission granted the City permission to continue the process and this was appealed by the the municipal Appeal was rejected by then environment minister Brian this year the Munici Pality was successful in its refined sewage is currently pumped into lagoons at perimeter Highway and Highway winds carry the smell through the especially in the Spring and Filmon said the odor was causing considerable discomfort in wide area of West Paul and jaws of life used to Rescue officer rescuers needed the jaws of life to free an injured policeman yesterday from his mangled Cruiser after it collided with a gravel truck at Pembina Highway and Corydon the Cruiser lights flashing and Siren wailing was responding to an emergency Call when it was in collision with the which was southbound on Constable Bruce Driver of the was admitted to Boniface general Hospital suffering from a broken possible fractured Skull and his Constable Chris was released from Misericordia where he was treated for knee and Arm the truck Driver was the Force of the collision pushed the left front Side of the car Back onto the trapping ambulance Crews and firefighters used mechanical claws to Metal away from the police freeing eyewitness Steve Bjornson de scribed the Accident this Way one big truck hit one Small police was two cars behind the truck when the crash the police car was eastbound on Corydon with his lights and sirens he the car ahead of me heard the sirens and stopped but the police were already right in front of the carrying a full Load of went on through the inter said the two of them met in the Middle of the Bjornson said the Drivers partner got out right but the Driver was trapped inside for 20 to 25 Appeal court rules welfare probe erred the cites social services advisory committee erred in Law when it accepted As evidence at a welfare Appeal a letter criticizing the the Manitoba court of Appeal has Justice Gordon Hall said the in which an unidentified woman alleges the Appellant int broke and sure has a Good time on the welfare should not have been accepted into the letter was tendered by a representative of the social services depart ment Over the strenuous objections of the woman judge speaking for the three member Appeal allowed the woman Appeal and sent the matter Back to the advisory committee for hearing by another the courts judgment said the advisory committee accepted the letter with the name and signature of the writer blocked and would not veal the nature of the writers source of information to the judge Hall said the dated May should not have been tendered by the representative of the director of social services because it did not by As and it should not have been received by the advisory commit by receiving the letter and deleting the authors the appellants representation was seriously the judge mothers think that whatever comes out of a As Long As its is said Hallman who is in Winnipeg to attend the weekend Confer ence of infant a coalition of medical and Educa Tion but the High Cost of formula relative to income Means Many mothers Are stretching a thereto Kourday Supply of formula Over several he in formula use among native mothers and Urban poor is very widespread for the same kinds of Rea sons it is used in the third infant formula has come to be viewed As the modern methodic using it mothers Are trying to Symbol ize their escape from the poverty j while poor water supplies Are not As Likely to be a problem in Urban formula preparations demand that users follow sterilization and Quantity mix that Doest always happen because Many mothers cant read the Hallman to combat formula abuse and strengthen their Campaign against Nestle chief supplier of infant formula in the third world coalition is now asking governments to endorse a recent world health organization code on formula that code would ban promotion of formula through Media free samples to mothers of direct Contact Between Industry personnel and new and gifts to doctors or to Only Quebec has banned distribution of free although Ottawa has also come out strongly in favor of the Hallman he said Otto a Federal government has also been at with some to eliminate the free Sample distribution on Northern Norma executive director of Manitoba Community task Force on maternal and child said breast feeding is on the Rise in the a recent study showed 70 per cent of infants were being breastfed when they left Manitoba hospitals in compared with Only 56 per cent in among the same per cent were still being breastfed after two compared with 40 per cent in she free press Charlene Mcelroy and son stand by her it is equipped with a burglar alarm that police say is a Auto alarm and then some by David Obrien Charlene Mcelroy installed a Bur Glar alarm in her car a month ago to scare away thieves but discovered it attracted police attention was charged thursday with operating a car equipped with a an offence under the Highway traffic she said police came to her Mathe son Avenue Home and told her they received complaints about the burglar but they say who was complaining or what it was All a police spokesman said he comment on the incident because the matter was before the Mcelroy said police also warned her about the car she drives a 1973 former ramp vehicle stripped of its crests but still painted in official ramp Mcelroy said her husband traded his motorcycle for the car last be she said police told her the car had to be painted so it wont resemble a police she said police accused her of using the Siren to Stop other motorists who mistook the car for a police but that a Damn in not 16 years she i do anything like that and i she said the alarm sounds like a Siren and can be turned on while the car is being the alarm also activates automatically 10 seconds after someone opens the car unless they know where the turnoff switch is Mcelroy says she coaches baseball and admitted turning the alarm on after some but it was always in an open in sure no one was said the car has been vandalized and the alarm was installed to scare away thieves and not to play investors Rush to buy savings Bonds 3 my 2 Torolf Faro to in Uruu by Chris Smith hundreds of investors rushed out yesterday to buy Canada savings Bonds and Cash in on an apparent government miscalculation of interest rate Bank spokesmen said they had steady savings Bond sales yesterday and earlier in the and while actual figures were not sales ranged from double to quadruple the level in previous this Bond Issue was a popular in vestment because the first year in Dave free press Terest rate is roughly per cent higher than savings eager Public response forced the government to Cut off sales at the close of business the first Day they could legally do but the bulk of applications for payroll plans will be accepted until the Canadian government Bonds pay 19y2 per cent in the first com pared with savings account rates now at 16 per those rates Are Likely to drop still lower on monday when chartered Banks reduce their prime rate by on half per but when the now lucrative per cent was set in savings accounts were sitting at 19 per securities department staff at the main Banks had a hectic Day yesterday As Many people left their Bond Pur chases to the last people keep pouring and sales were steady All a Royal Bank employee and while it was too Early to estimate sales he predicted it would be four to five times that of previous at 19y2 per its the Best place ramp staff Tessier with heroin found in Winnipeg mans Home to put your the spokesman a Toronto Dominion Bank spokes Man said sales were about double last years Many at least those with daily interest savings were Able to earn double interest on their Money because the Bonds pay interest from 1 whether bought after that Date or the maximum Purchase allowed was reduced to from because of Strong heroin seizure record by Sheila bean ramp have arrested a City Man in a heroin thought by police to be the biggest drug bust in Manitoba Garry Allen Wesley is to appear in provincial judges court Mon Day charged with Possession of heroin for the purpose of ramp staff Tessier told a news conference that simultaneous searches were conducted Between 11 and noon yesterday at two Resi Dences in West Winnipeg and the Riding Mountain National Park eleven ounces of heroin were found in the Winnipeg he Tessier said the seizure was the culmination of a investigation which began in two policemen had been working on the Case since and eight officers were involved in the with the help of the us drug enforcement the Winni Peg drug squad traced the heroin from Southeast Asia where it could have been purchased for about to said the heroin was found in the hollow lining of a Sony a Small Home video the heroin was poured through a Hole drilled in the top of the plastic and the Hole was sealed up said Tes the drug was probably destined Vancouver or he the exact strength of the heroin will be determined by the Federal testing Laboratory in Tessier est mated it would be possible to produce almost each Worth about on the Tessier said the drug was found by the investigating policemen without the help of a police ;