Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 24, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Deblois hat in i s forged bus passes Lead to 7 arrests Al by Larry Hill a Fash of foged Winnipeg transit bos passes has left Pelee t8 charge at feast Sevet people in the last in weeks with infer inf and Nate with making the false Deit Flem the fake which sell Tor in the Zeij have been Fiade by by Iulg Figl Nassr glueing cardboard onto the duplicates and using cd feed pencils w Shade the cards legit inflate transit the wolof it of design of wifi left Efta fige each a told Lesk like More item ene person Fiese Laid Efty police crime my Policer warned Winnipeg sit officials last month of the Are still investigating the fair genies and expect to charge More said theres always somebody thinking tip new he its obviously a said Bill the transit systems manager of in not aware of a problem like this in the bus who have Fresn alerted to the already have caught Sev eral one operator has picked up three of said Mark Brown was fined in provincial judges court yester Day for using one of the forged of Goulet entered a guilty plea to a charge of he was Daught he bearded a bus at the Corner of Rewey Avenue and Toulet Street and quickly flashed the forged pass from a plastic window in his said Crown Tomey Bob Brown had bought the pass for from somebody near the Corner of Portage Avenue and Edmonton theres been a Fash of this in the last few gosh Nan told judge Sam flurries tonight Cloudy tomorrow 2 March free press Sun Bises Moon sets 250 Home delivery classified 9562330 second class mail registration number Case motor coach cuts 532 face Layoff by Chris Smith motor coach industries plans to Cut its bus production by More than and As Many As 532 employees could be Laid off by june the first round of affecting 95 to 100 will take place tomorrow As the Winnipeg Plant starts trimming its production to 2 buses a Day from the current Union officials said there will Likely be More among nonunion said Bruce president of the International association of machinists and Aero space workers local at the race Board told to pay medical Bill by Mike Ward economic development and tourism minister Muriel Smith said today she instructed the Manitoba horse racing commission to pay More than in Hospital costs billed to newly appointed supervisor of racing Dave in an Smith said the american born whose appointment has caused a storm of con did not have coverage when he went to the health science Centre last fall suffering from applicants rap the who said she discussed the payment with commission chair Man Ron said she did not recall the total amount it Cost the whose funding is supplied by the Manitoba former racing commission executive director Doug Bond said this morning he had been told by be Eiberg to write out a Cheque to the health science Centre for More than and also to give Freeman to Coyer a Down payment to the Bond said he was not sure who paid a doctors Bill amounting to More than the question did come Smith came up and we agreed to pay see race Page 4 the planned layoffs Are for an indefinite period and the company said they Are caused by a reduction in Malcolm the Union represents about of the motor coach but Malcolm was unable to say How Many nonunion staff would be motor Crich general manager Werner Martin was unavailable for comment labor minister Mary Beth Dolin said yesterday she knew motor coach had been threatening layoffs for some but want aware the company planned to carry them out meetings planned the minister said she and economic development minister Muriel Smith will be meeting to discuss ways of addressing the including the possibility of work but she held out no great Hopes for the employees Short of getting contracts for More there int much we can there have been periodic layoffs within different sections of the inter City bus production but nothing like this proposed Plant wide said Union business agent Mike Macl the employees were thrown out of work for about 45 Days in the fall when motor coach workers in went on the bus shells produced Here Are shipped to Pembina for installation of motors and transmissions and the strike prevented orders cancelled Malcolm said orders had been can celled and the company failed to chive other contracts it had motor coach Parent greyhound which normally orders400 buses a is not ordering any this said motor coach is a subsidiary of Grey he and it is competing for orders with a Simitar Plant in new Mexico which finds itself in the same he said the number of people Laid off could be reduced if orders but he was not aware of any new business which might the first Layoff Macisaac said another 30 people Are expected to be Laid off in april and the rest roughly on a weekly basis throughout May and the first week of switch cited in fatal via crash up a switch Likely left open by a up rail work Crew Foreman sent a via rail passenger train careering into a Sulphur car parked on a siding yes killing the Engineer and four passengers and injuring up rail spokesman Earl Olson con firmed that a More sophisticated Sig Nal system would have detected the switch was in the wrong position and flashed a Light along the tracks warn ing the ambulance attendants say they treated the Foreman of a Crew that was working near the it was my fault the believed in his late then was banging his head against a saying it was my How Many people have i killed he was supposed to flick the switch and got Busy doing something said Paul of Mountain View Olson said things certainly could have been different had a signal sys tem similar to one North of red Deer been functioning near the crash on the Southern portion of the someone would have had to know a switch was wrong and radio the information to the he doctors and paramedics worked for three hours tending to the the collisions Impact pushed the trains front Section three metres 10 feet Back into the passenger com ripping Loose seats and trapping bodies in the the Only victim to be identified is rescuers remove crash victim from wreckage of via Day liner near Dayi Iner Engineer Stewart Eriksdale Hospital forced to Cut service by Andy Blicq acute care and emergency services at the 17bed Eriksdale Hospital have been suspended and the Community has been without a doctor since March Hospital officials said area residents must travel about 40 Kilometres to the nearest Hospital in Ashern while attempts Are made to recruit a physician for the 120 Kilometres North of the hospitals Board expects to have a permanent replacement by july and is trying to find another doctor in the said Board member Ben the Hospital has three Lon term Gibbings said the town was left with out a doctor after local officials disco Vered George Korol did not intend to return from a six month leave of a in the two British doctors brought in As substitutes for Korol have local people dont feel that great about being without a said Ken Secretary treasurer of the Rural municipality of its pretty Gordon associate executive director of the Manitoba health services said the com missions manpower committee has been aware of the Eriksdale shortage for some time and has worked closely with the Hospital and the Community there to get it the Hospital administrator in Ashern has assured officials the two physicians practising there will go to the Eriksdale Hospital twice a week until a new doctor is As the two physicians will visit senior citizens in an Eriksdale nursing Mccaffrey he also said arrangements have been made for a physician who left Manitoba for specialist training after graduating from the University of Manitoba medical school to consider practising in there is also the possibility of attracting another doctor to Eriksdale in Case negotiations with the medical see Eriksdale Page 4 artificial heart patient Dies Barney Clark loses Battle for life after 112 Days Reagan proposes Downing soviet missiles in flight Washington a president Reagan said yesterday the United states will begin work on a futuristic defence system which could destroy soviet missiles in flight and Render these nuclear weapons impotent and the announced in a televised speech from the Oval fore shadows a major departure from three decades of strategy calling for deter ring nuclear warfare with the threat of massive Reagan said it May be the Tum of the Century before the could produce such weapons based on laser and parti Lebeam would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them Reagan j believe there is a better Way that we embark on a program to counter the awesome soviet missile threat with measures that Are defend he said such a system posed a Midale technical task that might not be accomplished before the end of the yet current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it is reasonable for us to begin this Reagan it will take prob ably of Effort on Many reagans proposals came As he re see pawning Page 4 the los Angeles times Salt Lake City Barney Clark died last 112 Days after becom ing the first recipient of a permanently implanted artificial University of Utah medical Centre spokesman John Dwan said death came at Cost due to circulatory collapse secondary to Multi Organ system assessing the news of Clarks death came near the end of a Day in which Chase Vic president for scientific affairs at the delivered increasingly serious reports on the 62yearold retired dentists Clark had been moved from his Pri vate room to the surgical intensive care unit about Cost yester Day and declared in critical condition following a Sharp drop in the amount of blood being pumped by his heart and an increase in blood pressure in his Peterson Sac a at the time that Clark Clark multiple crises had been sedated and was in no but medical bulletins out during the Day had Given the Indi cation that Clarks condition was worst ening at an afternoon news Peterson described Clark As being much sicker than he had been wednesday and he listed the multiple problems then confront ing the patient cd a newly diagnosed Bowel prob Lem had put him in immediate Dan Ger of d an impairment in kidney function that seemed associated with a fever ranging from 101 to 104 which developed last was not in and doctors were then consid ering the possibility that he might require kidney dialysis if his kidney function continued to d the blood pressure in his lungs was rising As a consequence of Resis Tance due to fluids accumulating d Clark had also recently developed signs that he had been infected with a common agent that normally is controlled by the individuals immune Peterson said blood tests revealed that the ability of Clarks immune system to fight infection was the cause of the abrupt changes in heart and vessel functions was in the physician the heart see artificial Page 4 cats to lose View of Yard a James cat fancier has been told her 17 persian cats will have to give up the View from a veranda like cat run that faces her neighbors Pool boy accused of mailing letter bomb to Thatcher London a a 14yearold Lon Don boy accused of mailing a let Ter bomb to prime minister Margaret Thatcher was released in his parents custody by a court the who was arrested at his Home was ordered to appear in court May he was not required to enter a plea during today Brief the boy was not identified because of his he was charged with constructing an explosive device Likely to endanger life and sending it through the mail to 10 Downing Street March the device was intercepted at a Central postal sorting office and safely close Calls Poland Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa says gunmen May have intended to kill him during two trips in an original Winnipeg Burton Clummings last night added a Genie for original song to his catalogue of new denial Bulgaria denied yesterday that a defector who linked its service to the attempt on the Popes life was Diplomat or a secret bitter Pill anger follows the hiring of a horse rasing supervisor for Western Winner 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