Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free december 1982 xray of fingers reveals Lead level by Manfred Jager mass Industrial and Community surveys for Lead poisoning will be possible sometime next says a paediatrician who helped develop a technique for measuring Lead Levels by praying Fischel Coodin said the new technique is an improvement on blood which Only give a precise measure of the Lead Levels currently in the blood Stream of a measuring Lead in a persons Bone on the other allows scientists to determine How much Lead has accumulated in the system throughout a lifetime and allows conclusions on How Long it could take the body to get rid of Coodin said in the hardest Bones of the Lead contamination can last As Long As 30 in the body can rid itself of most of the Lead within harmful to children Coodin said the last 10 years have brought solid evidence that Low Levels of particularly in Chil May cause learning deficits and behavioural designed by Winnipeg physicist Roger false and the new system involves identification of Lead in Bones through Low level xray exposure of a subjects Index testing one individual takes about one Coodin headed a team of Winnipeg scientists which recently used the xray technique to test 220 Cominto smelter workers in Trail for Lead the based at health sciences is known As the Lead research since it was set up about a year ago to find a technique to determine Lead poisoning in Indus trial workers without the taking blood the team has also tested about 100 Winnipeg or Between now and the end of we will Analyse the data we have so we Hope to learn More about the significance of Bone Lead in Industrial Lead expo Coodin we want to know whether Bone technician Connie Shyka tries Finger xray Lead is a Good Monitor for Lead in whether Bone Lead measure ments can replace blood Lead we also want to find a Way of reliably measuring the cumulative effect of exposure to Lead from birth for the time the Bonehead system Only indicates tissue Lead contamination Over 20 parts per Mil according to this is helpful because Legal Safe Levels in most provinces Are below 70 to 80 parts per Manitoba adopted the 70 ppm parameter this Coodin said the Manitoba medical service foundation which has so far funded the except for the Cominto which was paid for by the United steelworkers of has been asked for More Money to Fin tune the system to Indi Cate contamination below the 20 part Permillion if we can to 10 parts per million or he a Good part of the general population can be included in any future j 51 3 f 1 5 a l Ilof if a fewest Sherman urges Complete restructuring of health care Canadas medicare system is bound to change drastically whether the nation likes it or former Manitoba health minister Bud Sherman said change will come because health care costs Are the fastest rising costs in the while provincial health ministers Haven a Chance to get Cabi net approvals for More than the 30per cent slice of the budget pie they now Sherman addressing about 200 members of the rotary club of Winnipeg at their weekly luncheon meet Pat the fort Sherman termed Canad an medicare an endangered Spe in the in the but during the decade we now live v nothing less than a Complete restructuring of the health care system 0 will canadians Are to enjoy by Larry Hill anything resembling the Quality and Security of their current health care system in the years to Sherman told the provinces but also by decisions have so far been he said one of the effects of Federal policies has been a Complete disenchantment with medicare on the part of the medical medicare Sherman said one of the defects of medicare is the fact that All Provin Cial health plans base compensation for physicians on volume Only and do not take experience or professional excellence into physicians and surgeons with inter National who Are the top of their ought to be recognized for the degree of excellence they have Sherman for the time he 18 cents of every Dollar spent 6y a provincial government goes to the operation of that provinces Hospital with another six cents each allocated to general medicare nursing Public health and men Tal health programs and doctors Axworthy praises lobbyists for Garrison funding cutoff and time is of the adding study and review of the current system to produce the future one must not take More than two Sherman had prefaced his remarks by saying he would not comment on the unresolved Battle Between the Pawley administration and the Manitoba medi Cal association Over the Mas de Mand for arbitration in fee Public Security the former minister said both Public Security and the integrity of the Cana Dian medical profession would have to become involved in the necessary re View of health care in Sherman said the nations health care system has been Hurt not Only by decisions made by governments he referred in particular to Ottawa reputed intention to change Federal health policies independently of the Canadian lobbyists can take much of the credit for a decision by the House of representatives tuesday to suspend million in extra funding for the Garrison diversion employment and immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy said in a congratulatory letter to Manitoba natural resources minister Al Mackling Axworthy said we Are All indebted to Many Canadian groups and individuals who have been fighting this fight with great commitment and vigor for Many Axworthy and Mackling co chaired a bile Vel government delegation to Washington to oppose continued development of the North Dakota irrigation critics say project would pump water from the Missouri River Basin into threatening fisheries and lands in Axworthy also sent a Telegram of thanks to Republican congressman Silvio Conte of who introduced the House motion to strike interim funding for Garrison from an omnibus appropriations but Bruce a spokesman for the Canadian embassy in said american concerns unrelated to the Canadian lobby explained the houses 252152 vote to Cut interim funding for i dont think that vote Means there has been a wholesale conversion of opinion toward he said in a recent there was a sentiment among congressmen against very expensive he the lobby from Ottawa and Manitoba certainly has been important in bringing the Canadian concerns to everyone but on the Canad an concerns were secondary to domes tic Jutzi backed up his Contention by pointing to recent House refusals to fund another Large irrigation project in a nuclear reactor and a proposal by presi Dent Reagan to procure five my mis Siles for a major new weapons sys solar flare May create Northern Light show a powerful explosion on the surface of the Sun yesterday will Likely result in Manitoban being treated to a remark Able display of Northern lights begin Ning sometime says the director of the cites in we could have some very dramatic events that fill the entire sky and these Are natures most Beautiful and dramatic Light Robert Ballantyne said in an interview last the or solar was one of the most powerful to be observed on the suns surface during the last 10 and caused Clouds of Hydrogen plasma from the Sun to Stream into Ballantyne while there is no guarantee anything will happen As a he said itis Likely the Earth will intercept some of these Sun causing Bright displays of Northern lights and serious disruption to radio communications which rely on the ionosphere to Bounce a he it certainly is Worth watching Ballantyne adding Manitoba dark nights and proximity to the Northern magnetic pole make the prov Ince one of the worlds prime locations for viewing the both effects Northern lights and the disruption of radio signals could continue for several he he also said radio communications worldwide could be in considerable disarray because of the solar salvation army pastors to Lead european tour a 15day including the holy Greece and will depart Winnipeg major Keith and Dorothy pastors of salvation army churches for 27 will be the for further information Contact Keith 929 Crestview Park weather h High l Low Prai Iura cold front warm front Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny variable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow and Milder High today near Low tonight near High tomorrow near probability of precipitation today and tonight is 10 per 20 per cent extended Outlook Southern Manitoba Cloudy becoming mainly sunny sunday and temperatures above Normal falling to near Normal readings of 10 and 20 sunday and Northern Manitoba Cloudy saturday and becoming sunny temperatures above Normal below Normal readings of 15 and 24 sunday and Northwestern Ontario Cloudy saturday and sunday with occasion Al mainly sunny monday temperatures above Normal becoming near Normal readings of 10 and 20 sunday and Telgarsky architecture Vogt political theory two Winnipeg students win coveted Rhodes scholarship two Winnipeg students Are among three 1983 Rhodes scholarship winners from the Prairie Paul of 181 Oxford and Jeff of 520 Whittier Avenue were recently awarded the coveted scholar who will study political theory at the University of is currently completing his honors degree in political science at the University of Telgarsky graduated with distinction from the Mcgill University school of where he won leading academic honors and was an editor on a student architectural City Calendar the Canadian red Cross Manitoba will hold blood donor clinics from 9 to 7 next monday to wednesday and to 23 at the 226 Osborne floating ecstasy kid sized waterbed is kid Tough and just 39 inches by 6 feet to fit any kid sized our kid sized waterbed is Santa priced at just a Complete deaths classified death National Thunder International new 9 9 s 5 9 4 20 7 6 9 2 7 5 2 5 3 1 9 9 1 18 2 7 14 6 11 3 6 7 15 14 13 34 12 12 14 16 4 2 5 1 2 2 0 2 3 12 2 10 11 0 7 0 6 i is 10 2 7 Tel 16 7 resort spots los fair 19 9 Las Clear 12 2 fair 17 26 21 fair 22 17 Cloudy 24 21 23 v17 fair 25 19 30 22 33 23 28 21 Winnipeg 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