Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 9, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 7 Art Seauert Winnipeg artist Bill Lobchuk May be the consummate rickety rails a car official says there Are no plans to repair the rickety rail line to famine in stains Russia was created to Advance remembers a Western journalist who was f All sales filial a downtown landmark for 48 is closing july sunny today 12 few Clouds tonight 3 Cloudy tomorrow 6 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Tia i Ann Landers answers Jumble Puzzle Jumble entry saturday plus to 26 57 27 28 53 58 44 26 58 6 17 33 26 62 79 7 22 57 7 41 57 73 29 57 6 the inquest judge criticizes ads in by Larry Hill a provincial court judge has criticized the actions of two doctors in an inquest report on a 62yearold woman who died after an operation at seven Oaks general Hospital in although judge Howard Collerman said the the woman did not die As a Resul of criminal he noted Atef Nassar and John Michael Szul must take of the blame for the Lack of cooperation and communication that followed the the procedures in the seven Oaks Hospital in some respects were Unac said the Olga Bezpalok died of septic heart and respiratory failure after being admitted earlier that month for an two Days after being admitted Bezpalok was taken by a student nurse to an xray neither the nursing student nor the xray technician had been told Bezpalok was retarded and had Only one said the while in the Bezpa lok whose medical record was Al ready marked by brittleness of the Bones and serious heart troubles was told to stand she tried to do but fell and fractured a she slipped and is it any wonder said the who asked whether the Accident would have taken place if documents Given to the nurse about Bezpalok had included information about her mental and physical one can Only guess but one would think he common sense dictates that it should have been a necessary part of the information communicated on that requisition Given to said he the general physician who had admitted to the mainly so Hor problems of blood in urine and abdominal swelling could be should have been responsible for conveying such information to the student said the after the Bezpalok was made to lie her hip for several hours until her Sisun brought the injury to the Atten Tion of Hospital Crown counsel Bob Gosman told the judge when the inquest began last after a 15 operation o repair the Bezpalok suffered a Mas Sive buildup of fluid in her Kings be cause doctors stopped giving her medi cation shed taken until the Day of the said judge the medication was a which serves Drain excess fluid from the consenting to a request from Bycz Palokas who was concerned the woman found painful to be see confusion Page 4 500 april 1983 mental Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number Winnipeg free press vol 111 no 110 system by Barbara Huck the mental health system in Canada is a nationwide Survey due to be released at the end of april has con the service system for he Chroni Cally ill in Canada is severely Over loaded Community support systems rehabilitation med ical Are All inadequate Community programs Are grossly underfunded training of mental health particularly those who Deal with the chronically mentally Are sadly lacking clearcut lines of responsibility for care of the mentally ill Are often absent and mental illness is still burdened with a social reveals the Survey conducted jointly by Winnipeg psychiatrists Gordon of the health sciences and John who is on leave from the yet even against that Bleak Manitoba situation looks id say we Are As much As 25 years behind provinces like Sas Katche contends Bill executive director of the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian mental health Larry Desjardins developed an excellent policy paper on mental health programs in Manitoba when he was health minister in but we have see Page 4 Cape a challenger headed Lor a Landing in the California desert today at the end of a Maiden flight that certified the shuttle As the second ship in the space with Paul Weitz and Pilot Karol Bobko at the the shuttles engines were to be fired High above the Indian Ocean to tug the reject report Montreal up despite a slim margin of members voting in favor of accepting a conciliation que Bec teachers unions decided yesterday to reject the report and discuss a Possi ble resumption of strike a provincial Council of teachers fed representing the provinces elementary and High school took the decision when it became apparent a majority of local unions had in fact rejected the the teachers were off the Job for nearly a month earlier this year after the Quebec government imposed new contracts on they suspended the strike to allow for the conciliation threatening to walk out again if no agreement was through a Complex system of weighted the report was rejected 117 to 80 by the Council of teachers although per cent of the teachers who voted accepted the conciliators recommend the decision was further complicated by the fact that fewer than one third of All eligible Union members had taken part in the spacecraft out of orbit and Start it on an hour Long descent to a touchdown at Edwards air Force Landing was set for with officials predicting that More than persons would be on hand to Welcome challenger Back from Weill said yesterday Hes looking Forward to the Homecoming and asked Mission control in Houston about the weather at told the fore cast called for Sunshine and Light he remarked that within hours after Bobko and Mission specialists Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson were to Fly Back to their training base in hous ton to begin briefing National aeronautics and space administration specialists on their five Day inaugural this flight is the proof of the pud Ding that this second and the shuttle is a Good said Gary one of the flight this machine acts like it is supposed to in amazed that weve had so few problems on this first challenger cleaner asked to compare challenger with the first ship in the Coen said i think challenger is much cleaner he attributed that to the experience gained through five flights of the first Harold the Lead flight hailed the Crews performance As just Treyve done All weve asked of the Mission recorded a major Suc Cess in thursdays 47mi Nute space walk by Musgrave and it was marred Only by prob lems with the tracking and data relay which failed to climb to its see Page 4 Ken free press we t collectors items a bewildering assortment of machine parts and other Odds and ends piled two metres High creates a min Canyon beside a recluses Alexander Avenue so authorities have been unable to curb the mans acquisitive soviets attack Pentagon Moscow Reuter the soviet Union launched a new offensive yester Day in its propaganda War wit Wash sharply criticizing the Penta Gons new Book on soviet military strength and introducing a Booklet of its As the communist party newspaper Prauda published an article attacking the Pentagon soviet military Kremlin officials called a news conference to introduce a Booklet entitled How to Avirt i hi1 the Tut id Western diplomats said the moves of propaganda War a Al Vij signalled a redoubled soviet propaganda drive to undermine support for natos plans to station new nuclear missiles in Europe if the current arms control talks in Switzer fail to produce an stung by Public opposition in Western Europe to the proposed new have launched a similar Public relations Campaign to explain the Western alliances pravda described the pentagons up dated published last As a dirty concoction full of deliberate the article said the pentagons Esti mate of soviet military spending is absurd and that new soviet weapon systems such As Long Range cruise mis heavy bombers and missile car trying submarines have been developed Only in response to equivalent it said the american in calculating the relative strengths of the and soviet leaves out the National guard and reservists while including equivalent forces on the soviet see soviet Page 4 Voclo Sherritt Gordon pins Hopes on Agassiz Gold to extend towns life past 1986 by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Lynn Lake news that the Fox Lake economic Backbone of this on Industry will close within three years has stunned Many mine local businessmen and their Garry general manager for Sherritt Gordon mines Manitoba told Lynn Lake business men at a chamber of Commerce meet ing this week the mine will definitely close Between and he indicated the company would pre Fer the earlier which would avoid operating the mine Mill and concentrator at the Fox site during the Winter he said the Coppe Zinc Ore body at Fox about 45 Kilometres West of Lynn has been thoroughly explored and there is no Chance of any More economically worthwhile Ore being found in the Gordon financial Secretary of United steelworkers of local said there Are 214 hourly paid employees at the Fox mine who will be affected by the Hughes said the company Hopes to maintain a presence in Lynn Lake after 1985 by developing the Agassiz Gold Deposit about 10 Kilometres East of the but he said the poor condition of the world rental Market has made it impossible for the company to finance the development on its an application for cos sharing on the project has been presented by the company to the Federal and provincial governments under the new employ ment expansion and development need Sherritt would pay 25 per cent of the proposed mine with the Federal and provincial govern ments sharing the remaining 75 per the Agassiz Gold Deposit is the Only potential mine in the Hughes further exploration in 1983 could Lead to a production decision in time to ensure continuity of mining operations and the life of Lynn a positive decision could provide about 125 new jobs directly and at least an equal number of indirect Hughes it would inject new life into Lynn Lake for about 10 Hughes said the submit has had a favourable response from the Federal government and a less than favourable response from the he said part of the provinces reaction Likely came from an official in the mining Branch who Felt a stable Price for Gold was needed to make he Hughes said As a result of the pro posed drilling better grades of Ore would Likely be discovered which would mean the mine could operate profitably at a lower he said he hoped the province would reach a decision this work must begin otherwise the probability of bringing Agassiz into production a current prices would be greatly Dimin town Dave Roberts if the governments go ahead with the funding for the need it will give Lynn Lake a without there is no see ghost Page 4 i ;