Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Kerry free press Winnipeg free november 1981 3 alcohol free disinfectants urged by judge firefighters work amid debris scattered around a House destroyed by a fire and explosion at 454 Sydney Gas leak suspected in explosion two women injured As House next door reduced to blackened Hole by Ritchie Gage a natural Gas leak is suspected As the cause of a fire and explosion which injured two women and destroyed a House at 454 Sydney Avenue and scattered debris which damaged seven other Homes yesterday we were sitting in the living room when the whole ceiling fell said Caroline who was at Home with her Rose next door at 458 Sydney when the explosion it was so there was instant fire and i Fried to pull my sister out but it was finally broke in the door and got us weve lost the owner of the wrecked will and a male Dan were not at Home when the explosion the stucco and Brick insured to an assessed value of was reduced to Black ened Hole in the ground surrounded by lumber and the garage was a police inspector at the scene said a Gas Furnace had been installed in the Home the Day before the explosion when the dwelling was converted from Oil to natural Gas the inspector said a Gas leak is suspected As a possible cause of the greater Winnipeg Gas officials at the scene refused to say whether Gas from the new Furnace was involved in the the provincial fire commissioners office is Trithart was taken to Concordia Hospital and then transferred to the Burn unit at the health sciences Centre with firsthand second degree Burns to her thighs and Grimes was treated for bumps and firsthand second degree Burns on her arms at Concordia and Grimes said she tried to pull her sister out of their but the debris and fire stopped my armed Are my ankle is swollen and i have lost i she i dont even have a Marvin who lived next door at 450 said he narrowly escaped death in the 4i was in the bedroom right next to the blast and if i haunt gone to the bathroom on the West Side of the House i would have been he Penny Lipchin said she came from work to find her husband but alive and her House on i guess everything gone and an eaves trough Hung in nearby and the rear windows of unoccupied houses directly behind on Neil Avenue were blown firefighters hosed Down houses on both sides of the Bergen residence in an attempt to halt the spread of the fire officials said the explosion occurred after the fire had spreading flames instantly to the other other houses at 453 457 and 468 Sydney suffered minor damage such As broken windows and damaged cleaning agents such As Lysol disinfectant should be manufactured with out alcohol provincial court judge Howard Collerman said yester judge Collerman made the recommendation at the conclusion of an in quest into the Lysol related deaths in july of two Winnipeg the judge ruled that the two John Harris and Francis died in their landside Street apartment on or about july 20 from alcohol poisoning and the ingestion of which is 68percent pure the judge said there is already scientific data which indicates and other cleansing agents can be made without the use of Alco i plan to pass that information on to the appropriate Federal agencies in judge Collerman adding he would urge the Federal govern ment to conduct research into the development of an alcohol free a spokesman for the Federal health Protection Branch in Ottawa could not be reached for comment judge Collerman said he will also recommend in his formal report to the attorney generals department that police Start cracking Down on store keepers who sell Lysol to custom ers use As an alcoholic the judge noted a Winnipeg police Vic squad officer testified during the the halfday inquest that Between 30 and 35 stores in the cryts Core area sell the officer said Many have an unusually Large Supply on their indicating they May be Selling the product for use As an alcoholic Bever sought to finance heart attack Aid program the Winnipeg ambulance commis Sion has asked civic finance committee to put an extra in next years ambulance budget for a series of courses in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a Public awareness program about heart attack symptoms and emergency the Money also would be used to print and distribute pamphlets dealing with heart attack treatment Jim chairman of the said the courses would be offered free of charge through Community organizations in the City and consist of four hours of Ragsdill said the resuscitation courses Are needed to improve the survival rate of heart attack which now stands at 10 per cent in that a terribly poor rate of sur much poorer than in Many if hot most other major Canadian Ragsdill the commission chairman said the ambulance service has included the in its 1982 which stands at but will not know for some time whether the item has been a Ragsdill said the ambulance service also needs at least one and possibly two additional ambulances and eight More attendants to operate the extra equip ment around the clock seven Days a week in areas of Winnipeg which Are now the problem is particularly acute in Ragsdill because no ambulance is stationed in the general it takes about four to five minutes Trust account irregularities Lead to lawyers suspension to respond to a Call anywhere in the City right he in Charles our average response time is eight minutes because we have to get out there from another part of town and that takes a few More operating the additional ambulance next year would Cost Ragsdill we have staffing problems in both Charleswood and Transcona right he we dont want ambulance response times to exceed five minutes anywhere in the Winnipeg free press by Pamela Fayerman a Winnipeg lawyer has been rarely suspended from his practice by the Law society of Manitoba following an investigation which turned up apparent irregularities in his Trust account Aaron Norman a lawyer since 1974 and now in private practice at 711 Portage was suspended by the Law society on the directions of its discipline committee after the com Mittee lodged a complaint alleging professional the suspension remains in effect until an investigation into the handling of Fine mans Trust records is at which time it could be among complaints against Fineman it is alleged that during the period from to he failed to record All receipts and disbursements of Trust Money in proper order and that he overdraw and withdrew from his clients Trust accounts so that he could not repay All monies held in the complaint also alleges that Fine Man failed to give immediate explanations to the Law society auditor Crown out of Luck on Bingo charges court of Queens Bench Justice Scott Wright yesterday denied a re quest by the provincial attorney Gen reals department to indict a Bingo Supply company and three men on charges of conspiracy to commit Layall president Clayton George general manager John Balderstone and Richard Lewis were charged in but the charges were dismissed in january after a preliminary the charges alleged the accused conspired to defraud the Kinsmen club of Winnipeg in the Sale of to cards and to corruptly Reward a club All during a five year beginning in Gebru Keith the clubs former Bingo committee was sentenced to two years in prison in december after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the Kinsmen of the attorney generals department had asked judge Wright to prefer a direct indictment against the other arguing the evidence heard at the preliminary hearing should be put before a but in a written judgment released judge Wright said actor Ney general Gerry Mercier has the authority to bring the indictment him self and to resolve the Issue if he so if he believes that the proper administration of Justice Calls for a direct indictment then he should initiate that indictment without calling upon the court to participate in the he Crown counsel Phil Schachter said in an interview that Mercier had instructed the department to get a court ruling on the the attorney general Felt that be cause the Case was so Complex and there was so much evidence to it would be fairer if the court reviewed it instead of him at an administrative Schachter no decision has been made on whether to Appeal the judges he Mercier still has the option of preferring the indictment inspector on matters pertaining to the Trust Graeme society chief executive said yesterday that while a number of lawyer suspensions have come to Light there Hast been a rash of these things and the Public need not be concerned about the strength of the Legal profession in d last an Appeal court judge held the oneyear suspension of for Mer Winnipeg lawyer Robert James Crump in abeyance pending an Appeal to the Manitoba court of d in lawyer William Abrams was suspended and then reinstated shortly after an d in the society disbarred Law yer Lawrence who was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing in Trust funds from disbarment upheld d Winnipeg Jack Bass was disbarred in on charges of misappropriating of a Trust last the Manitoba court of Appeal upheld his Dis bar Garson said the Law society is not cracking Down on although in the we Haven moved for As Many custodial custodial orders Are sought from the Manitoba court of Queens Bench in cases such As where a lawyer is in sole once the lawyer is the society gains control of his practice until an investigation is Garson pointed out that Only suspensions of lawyers in sole practice Are available to the Public through the suspended lawyers working in association with Law partners Are dealt with on a confidential basis because the partners take Over his practice and a custodial order int its not an but it might be an advantage to practice in association with other lawyers for that Garson i strike at Boeing plants marked by daily mass the Arnold Okocha said although the Manitoba liquor control act prohibits the Sale of disinfectants for such police find it difficult to enforce the Law because merchants say they have no Way of knowing a customer is buying the product to judge Collerman said one possible solution would be to launch a Public education program for so they could better exercise their discretion when Selling the judge said he will also be asking the alcoholism foundation of Manitoba to consider including information on the dangers of drinking Lysol in the foundations alcohol and drug Educa Tion program for High school he that although Wolocatiuk testified that its mostly derelicts who drink the problem has begun spreading from the Core area to other parts of the City in the last few cant sensationalize the foundations assistant executive Ross said in an interview after the court that when focusing on problems such As the use of Lysol As an alcoholic educators must be careful their efforts dont you cant sensationalize you cant make it Ramsey or you May end up encouraging More people to try he that he agreed with judge Collerman recommendation that alcohol free cleaning agents should be in announcing his judge Collerman said he could find no culpa ble negligence on the part of anyone in the death of who is believed to have been in his 50s or or of who was in his it would in they died As a result of their own addiction to the judge he said the exact cause and time of death was difficult to pinpoint because Bot bodies were badly decomposed when found july 28 in suite 284 landside police testified during the inquest that five empty cans of Lysol Spray disinfectant were found in a garbage can in the each can had holes in the indicating its contents had been police drinking contain ers also were found with a dried pinkish residue in Boeing mediation launched a provincial labor department conciliation officer has begun efforts to Settle a monthlong strike of 440 Boeing of Canada Hemi International representative of the United automobile work ers of confirmed yesterday that mediation attempts Are under but said know at what Point the Union would resume direct negotiations with for the time the conciliation officer assigned to this is meeting with us and the company Mitic we met for almost three hours the first the which started involves 400 workers at beings Plant at 99 Murray Park Road and 40 work ers at a smaller Plant at 255 mulching the Law strike is Over an initial contract the Union has been seeking since it was certified As bargain ing agent for the workers in pay increase at the Start of the current outstanding issues included a Union demand for costo living adjustments to wage rates and an initial pay in crease of 13 per they bring firs year Union demands to Between 15 per cent and 20 per cent Over Restrike Union officials Boeing has offered 11 per cent in the first contract and 10 per cent in each of two subsequent the strike has been marked by Al most daily mass particularly at beings Murray Park location drawing As Many As 20 Winnipeg police officers to the the company has brought in non Union workers in a school bus with covered windows since the beginning of the strike and there have been several arrests of pickets for attempts to obstruct the no serious incidents have been re ported on the picket ;