Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Doctors Call off strikes by Manfred Jager the Manitoba medical association has called off its strike action and will hold a vote on the two year trial arbitration offer it received this week from health minister Larry Desjardins called the proposal his final and said it would have to be accepted soon to give the government time to incorporate in the Manitoba medical act during the cur rent session of the Mma president Ivan Kowalchuk said yesterday his Board of directors will go Back to Desjardins today to clarify details of the he said the associations Mem Bers Likely will not vote on the propos als until Early next there will be no further strike action by he physicians began striking 10 in an Effort to gain binding arbitration to avoid future confrontations with the province Over pay the intermittent strikes ended Kowalchuk acknowledged negative Public reaction to the saying time will Tell whether patients have forgiven their we know that Many members of the Public got very angry with their he we Hope they Are Welcome Back in the we Hope the Public will not show any deep seated reports during the two weeks of strike action indicated doctor participation dropped to about half from an initial 75to 80percent Kowalchuk said he will seek an Assurance from Desjardins that All pro visions for arbitration and related legislative changes will lapse after the two year trial period unless a More permanent agreement is he said the association is also after a clause in the agreement setting up arbitration if collective bargaining fails during the next two he said the offer will be forwarded to the membership without a recommendation for acceptance or doctors who opted out of medicare and extra billed their patients would be allowed to continue extra Billing up to 15 per cent above medicare doctors who have opted out of medi care since 22 would not be Able to extra Bill at and no physician enter ing practice in Manitoba from now on will be Able to if an arbitration award is it would be binding on All physicians who Are in medicare or who Are opted out but do not Wayne Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free december 1982 3 United Way Appeal Falls Al Short of Mark per cent of goal now expected last weeks Las ditch Public Appeal by the United Way raised Between far Short of the goal hoped for from the the Effort put the Campaign at 90 per cent of its fundraising goal for Campaign director Joan blight said the Campaign has All but but blight said she expects that by the end of the per Ceist of its original goal of million can still be the original goal was 12 per cent More than the amount raised last Between 22 and the United Way hoped to close a Gap Between contributions and its Mil lion goal through newspaper and television advertisements and direct appeals to blight said about 30 volunteers Are still canvassing companies that have indicated to us that we could expect a but Haven come Forth with the at its final report to fundraisers on Campaign chairman Gordon Holland said the fund which contrib utes to 64 agencies in Winnipeg attained per cent of its he added that it was lowering its aim to per Nowerth unexpected contributions from some companies hit by the re cession and the bankruptcies of Many other contributors were blamed for the the United Way also announced yesterday that the Manitoba restaurant and food services association and the Winnipeg convention Centre Are Stag ing a 64cent Pancake breakfast to congratulate donors and volunteers in this years local cultural and political personalities will be serving pan cakes at the scheduled for Sun Day 12 Between 10 and 2 at the convention Fate of old school left up in the air High on music while record december temperatures held old Man Winter at University of Winnipeg students Cathy Parnetta top and Bev Botchar climbed a fire escape on Campus yesterday and got High on mortgage firm investors oppose Appeal by Paul Moloney a group of investors in Winnipeg mortgage Exchange who went to court three years ago Over allocation of the bankrupt company assets Are unania Nous by opposed to continuing the a spokesman said Elizabeth Alward said the group of about 67 investors has decided to accept a recent Manitoba court of Appeal ruling that All 965 investors should share the company she said the groups Harvey has been instructed not to Appeal the decision to the supreme court of the which had been allocated sound had originally sought to recover All the Money plus interest from the Date of the company collapse in the thing is were just tired of it Alward we just dont want to carry it on its just not Worth the Case could still go to depending on the decision of Jim an investor who launched a separate action to recover All of his investment with put up life savings were not prepared to make a state ment at this Gauthier said Well make our decision sometime before the end of Jack company has recovered about million of the roughly million owed to investors As of the Date of the Many of them Are senior citizens who had put up their life Alward said investors Are eagerly awaiting receipt of their share of the recovered which have been fro zen since the court Battle Down said he could begin mailing cheques in Early january if there is no under the court each investor would get Back about 75 cents on every Dollar the court said it would be grossly unfair to allow a minority to recover in full while leaving others to shoulder the Alward said that after the 1 ruling she and a few others began contacting group members and almost everyone agreed without hesitation to sign letters opposing an nobody was pressured they signed she they were very Strong about 1 got Calls Day and night constantly from people who just wanted people just Felt they take any she added the few who didst sign immediately did so investors have suffered mental and financial and want to put the court Case behind she our group particularly had no idea that the court process would be so involved and so if i had known anything about the i have got involved in the first weve got one couple in our group who Are Over 70 where the wife has gone Back to there just absolutely Flat Dorothy an investor who has fought strenuously to keep the matter out of estimated about 80 per cent of investors Are pensioners who Are looking Forward to getting Back their All of the investors who Are still alive will be breathing a sigh of she there Are at least 17 people who will never know How it came out because Treyve Logan debate taking toll in ambivalence i dont care says resident faced with move by Doug Speirs the Fate of Robert Smith school in River Heights wont be decided until a structural study determines How far the building has the chairman of the Winnipeg school Board said last but Brian Dixon said in an interview he is not optimistic the school will be the Board closed the school yesterday after an engineers report indicated cracking of school Walls had Dixon estimated a minimum of 000 Worth of repair work would be necessary before it would be feasible to reopen the which was built in 1919 and expanded in about 280 area parents whose Chil Dren attend the school descended on a Public meeting last night to hear the divisions explanation for the abrupt closing and to learn which area schools their youngsters will be shunted the schools 229 kindergarten to Grade 6 students were on Holiday yesterday and were to miss classes today As Robert Smith principal Dale Scott told the meeting the school building had deteriorated to the Point where it became a safety Hazard and had to be we realized we were facing a Situa Tion where we had to question the safety of children in the Scott drawing applause from the assembled Andy free press by Larry Hill Winnipeg mayor Bill Norries Deci Sion to include about 70 houses in the proposed Logan Avenue Industrial Park has left some current and former area residents while a residents group fighting the House expropriations has voiced its sheer disgust at City councils Deci Sion not to vote on Norries proposal other people have grown weary of the 18monthold i dont care said mar Vin Gin of 399 Logan who has lived in the House since said hell leave the neighbourhood As soon As the province pays him enough for the dont care if they give me in said the 54yearold who lives in the House with his wife and a Daugh Ive been living Here so Long i dont want to say i dont like he but in every proposed Industrial Park my House has got to be torn that Why i dont As Long As i get the in Norries plan would make room for houses by changing the terms of a Industrial development agreement reached in by the provincial government and the the Industrial Park proposal was part of the Core area Logan area residents have opposed the full Industrial Park from the and both senior partners in the pro Gram have already agreed to a housing the City which Council referred to executive policy committee for discussion next reduce the size of the Park to hectares eight acres from hectares 23 Manuel who left the Logan area in May with his wife and four said he likes his new location on valour they pay me to i he criminologist has contract a University of Manitoba criminologist has been appointed by the Federal government to evaluate the cites Vic Tim witness assistance Steven Brickey said the which began a month ago and ends in was Given to him be cause of work he has done for the department of Justice analysing the needs of victims in the criminal Justice the year old program helps crime victims get through the Justice among other the program keeps them up to Date on the status of their cases and advises on social services available to Deal with emotional said he moved into the three bedroom Bungalow after the province paid him for the expo the bricklayer said he would have stayed in his Logan area where he had lived for 12 if he had been Given the i got this one it dont Helen Schultes of the Logan Community committee leads the fight against about 120 families in the area received expropriation notices after the 1981 agreement was said adding 53 families re main residents want about 83 houses left in the abominable i think its absolutely abominable that this could not have been settled Long said and while she said she wants to see some former residents allowed to move Back into the Logan Schultes said it was Ridic Ulous that people have had their whole lives in upheaval just to find out that they could have stayed Here All her Margaret used to live in the area but now lives on Mountain Avenue with her husband and 13monthold if we get the Chance to move Back Well do it for no questions said you get to know the people and i can walk around the streets in the but theres no Way i can do that in the North Margaret Focht says she wants to move Back to Logan Dixon saying he visited the school after reviewing the engineers report and found it in an intolerable in not a structural but i could see that almost every Wall of the school had severe damage and i made up my mind that if my child was going to that school i would want to know about it and 1 would want some thing done about Dixon school division officials assured the parents that classes will be kept intact with the same teachers and that no staff reductions would result from the Well liked most parents who spoke last night praised the boards decision to shut the but Many expressed concerns the closing would become Parent Doug who has two children attending the i would not want to see a Community school that is so Well liked and so Well supported finding that this is its final parents were told their children will be Able to begin classes in excess space at other area schools kindergarten children will shift to Rockwood grades 1 to 3 move to Queenston grades 4 to 6 Transfer to Grosvenor school and two special education classes will move to carpathia City Hall notebook City approves line of credit City Council has voted to pass a bylaw under the City of Winnipeg act allowing the City to borrow up to million from chartered Banks and other corporations or persons in a similar 1981 bylaw authorized the same credit lines in water rates going up an increase in water rates 1 will result in homeowners being billed per cubic metres 100 cubic feet of an increase from the current City Council decided wednes the six percent increase in water rates will also boost rates for larger users such As businesses and Indus top civic posts filled the City has wooed a senior civil servant from the provincial govern ment and named him to one of two top City posts that were filled by City Council Mai formerly Deputy min ister of Crown investments in the provincial was appointed City finance stepping into one of the top four jobs in the civic Council also promoted Rod director of works and to the Job of commissioner of works and i i ;