Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Excessively High Accident Levels reported at Post office Industrial accidents at the Winnipeg Post office have increased to be Shively High and ments concern about modernization and efficiency is to says the Canadian Union of postal weve got 90 claims so far this year which have gone to the workers pens Atlon Board and we still have four months Winnipeg cup seere Chris Ryan said in an t can see another 20 to 40 cases dotting in before the end of the year at the we Are Ryan said 104 accidents were reported in the Winnipeg local in up from 83 in he said the size of the local was larger in 1981 by about 50 there Are now about of members in the Winnipeg of which about 700 work in the main station on Gra Ham Ryan Mckenzie seeds looking to replace fired executives a search committee has been set up to find replacements for three fired executive officers of the owned Mckenzie Steele Briggs seeds company of George president of the company Board of said the five member committee was set up he said the committee will accept applications for the positions from employees of Mckenzie seeds and will also advertise the position members of the committee include Mckenzie Board vice chairman Bill Kathleen to Hugh Jones and Ian a Deputy minister in the provincial governments department of Crown in Macdowell said he hoped the search which will recommend candidates for the three jobs to the provincial will have a Short list ready for its next monthly meeting in company president Bill comptroller Louis Boisjoli and vice president Charles Mceachern were fired in july after it became known they failed to report holdings in firms which conducted business with the seed Macdowell said no decision has been reached about the company relation ship with Vantage Western data a computer firm at the Centre of the conflict interest the matter is still under he we have to decide whether the computer is adequate for our needs and there is also the Legal Issue we have a lease with Macdowell said Mckenzie seeds will probably Deal with the Issue within the next two he said the company recently hired staff to examine its computer needs and is awaiting a delay in schools study blamed on election Assiniboine South school trustees want a schools reorganization study delayed to avoid election year a member of the resident committee looking at reorganization has but two Board members say Maxine who May trusteeship in this Falls is doing a Little politicking of her Hasselriis said in an interview the school Board voted to postpone the committees june deadline to no vember so trustees could avoid taking positions on reorganization before the 26 As trustees and division administrators have told the committee there is no hurry in finishing the Hasselriis she called this an exact Duplica Tion of trustees discussing conversion of Charleswood collegiate to a Junior High in camera for Many months be fore the last in and then voting to do it at the first postelection French immersion representative on the said this time they trustees will cover their backsides by saying they Are planning a but wont say which schools will be Shirley another com Mittee said saturday that because of what happened in several committee members feel the school Board and administration have decided what they but dont want to Rock the they want us to come up with the right As a delay would keep reorganization from becoming an election and it just seems hard to have an election Issue out she Schellenberg also said she didst believe the june deadline could have been met unless committee Mem Bers gave up jobs or other important and that committee Mem Bers we rent willing to meet during the summer because of As she said both Dieppe and Royal schools will have French immersion As Well As English program students this so immersion Stu dents can be accommodated in the 198384 school but Board chairman Jack Hunt and trustee Dave Morris accused Hasselriis of trying to create an election Issue for i guess you always need an Issue if youre going to run for Morris French immersion needs a can Hunt said the Board has yet to see the committees although it has received updates on the work being it was never intended to be implemented until he theres no deliberate this tee Ted Ewashko said the com Mittee report int needed until Decem Ber because a decision on reorganization for Doest have to be made until Hunt added it might be unwise for trustees to get too involved in the matter because maybe none of us will be on the Board after the fall pharmacy Holdup Sparks three arrests two men and a woman were to appear in court today charged in an armed robbery yesterday at the Empire drugs police said two one carrying a entered the store at 801 Selkirk Avenue about 2 and robbed a female employee of an Undis closed amount of they were aided by a female accomplice who acted As a police ramp have arrested two suspects following a fight Early saturday morning on the Little grand rapids Reserve in which two people were police said the two aged 18 and were in fair condition in Boniface the suspects Are aged 17 and traffic accidents pc ill 3 two Winni Eggers died during the weekend from injuries suffered in traffic accidents last week police said Richard of 115 Hespeler died Early yester Day morning in childrens Hospital of head injuries suffered almost a week the boy was in collision with a car last monday near his he had been on a life support systems until his death at the Childs death follows that of Florence Mildred of Manitoba who died at the health sciences was struck by a car wednesday evening on the trans can Ada Highway about six Kilometres West of ramp said the Accident is still under Patrick was killed saturday evening when his vehicle was struck by a train at a railway crossing near a Lazare was dead at the ramp office spokesman f in Rogers confirmed the unions figures m Saeei but deed management want concerned about i think this is just a tactic the Union is using As a tool for he its really been blown out of the unions contract Pires Rogers added that management Ristics show accidents nationally Are Down for the fiscal year which ended in management is so hellbent in improving productivity and profitability they Are net paying the attention they should to the fact dents Are an the according to labor Canada Accident frequency for postal much higher than for work ers in the general Industrial labor statistics for 198182 showed about 13 workers out of every 100 in the general work Force would expect to be injured on the but 19s81 statistics for postal employees showed almost 2tt of every 100 workers could be injured at Ryan claimed health and safety lures normally Given by management have been neglected for some time despite Union this charge was flatly denied by who cited a seminar Given by labor Canada staff to postal workers in May on proper lifting Neww Tyiee press 230kilometre run Debbie Lofto greets 15 runners saturday from Canadian forces station Gypsy Lille who ran 230 Kilometres to raise Money for the society for crippled children and the 10th annual relay run from the station to Winnipeg City Hall raised More than farm survivalist undaunted by credit unions foreclosure Resto Narea Farmer John Jago has no equipment or but he still has his and he says that with those two sections he will return to the work he has done for More than half his president of the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian farm survival lost his equipment and Stock earlier this year when the Virden credit Union foreclosed on he was More than in were Gonna try to work our Way Back into he till take a maybe two or three to get Back to where we married with two Young Chil said he has mixed feelings about the adding he is taking things one Day at a this is something you gotta its going on All Over the he said of the financial problems which have put him out of however colleagues in the farm survival association have provided him with work cleaning out he he Hopes to get a Job for the Jagos located about 12 kilo metres Southwest of was the scene of a Brief blockade by the Casa at the beginning of the blockade was lifted after one Day when the credit Union agreed to let a provincial farm debt review panel come up with ways of solving Jagos financial suit decision imminent passengers of an air Canada Boeing 767 which made an emergency Landing at Gimli last month will probably de cide this week whether to sue the Bryce an administrator with the Alberta department of said he plans to get together with some of his fellow passengers to decide whether action will be if we decide to proceed with Well get a passenger Bell explaining he Hopes to persuade another 10 passengers or so to participate in the proposed lawsuit he Al ready has the backing of about 33 passengers who were aboard flight h3 when it made its emergency Landing july there were a total of 61 update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free passengers on the the bound from Montreal to was forced to land at Gimli drag Way after it ran out of there were 75 litres Gallons of Jet fuel left in the aircraft three tanks when it touched a transport Canada investigator blamed the fuel shortage on human error in converting litres to kilo the shortage of fuel was not detected by the Crew until it was almost too late because the aircraft fuel alarm sys tem had been paralysed when the elec tronic fuel gauges will officially shut the steam Plant will remain open to assist in the final most of the plants 178 workers will be gone by Turner those who have accepted transfers to other Shell primarily in de will be leaving the Boni face Plant during october and no those who chose to retire or leave the company will continue working until the end of he close to 100 people have accepted he Shell Canada announced last february it would be shutting the Boni face refinery due to poor economic the Plant will be converted to an Oil storage employing about six refinery closing soon canoeists put Shell Canadas Boniface refinery will officially close next weekend after 29 years of refinery spokesman Hector Turner said the Plant will be out of crude thursday and processing will be completed by sunday when the operation High school starting times May vary Winnipeg school division Junior High and High school students who Arent sure when classes resume should Contact their local school to find a school division spokesman said while All elementary Stu dents return to classes wednes Junior High and High school principals decide when classes for older students a older students will Start classes wednesday or but some could Start As late As thursday the spokes Man More than a year after returning to Winnipeg after a 23month Canoe trip which took him to Don Starkell says Hes planning to stay put for the foreseeable in Happy to be Here and in not anxious to Starkell Starkell and his paddled about Kilometres Miles through 13 countries on a voyage which took them from Winnipeg through the United along the coasts of mex Ico and Central America and eventually into the Amazon the Starkell have written a Book detailing their never before and never which is in the hands of editor publisher Marvis to Starkell said the if it is pub will be available in about a if its written till be a really Good he adding past chronicles of other expeditions contain none of the problems he and his son he said he is enjoying being at Home after having been Laid off from his Job As health club director at the Central he is playing guitar at a Winnipeg he is also study ing music and trying to produce his own most accidents reported to the have involved muscle strains in shoulders anti wrists of workers on the loading and receiving Ryan he denied any of the claims might be there Hast beef one claim resulting in time loss that Hast been approved by the a spokesman for the web said the Board could not comment on the ceiling on rents decried the provincial governments planned six percent rent ceiling for 1984 will Hurt the tenants it is supposed to two Winnipeg landlords Genowefa who with her Hus band Waclaw owns a 15suite apart ment Block at 247 Balmoral called the ceiling a killer for dwellers because it will discourage investment in rental the government should let people build More blocks and renters could then choose according to their wages and she said in an interview Manitoba housing minister Jerry Storie said Friday the proposed ceiling includes a three percent increase for operating costs and three per cent More for inflation and higher interest but Kuzia said the inflation rate now per cent in Canada and per cent in Winnipeg includes such items As a new which int a Factor in running an apartment rising faster property taxes and Utility which Are Are rising faster than she she said an eight percent rent in crease would be More in Kuzia said that while she and her husband can apply to the provincial rent regulation Bureau to raise rents by that they have no plans to sell the which they have owned since but Harry who for about 20 years has rented rooms in his Arlington Street said the limit May Force him to Stop nobody wants to have a Rooming House he adding no body will build if they cant make a Bibb said he charges monthly per furnished and needs to raise this by about 10 per cent this but he said he didst plan to Appeal to the rent Board because he didst think it would be Worth the subsidize tenants he recalled that after letting a woman pay Only a month rent for five she appealed the month increase he imposed and got Cut from Bibb said if the government really wants to help it should let landlords charge what they want and subsidize tenants to help pay so the rent will be based on the real Cost of running the but the More government the worse it he guards strike ruled out Union spokesmen for guards at Dingley jail said saturday guards will not take illegal strike measures to Back demands for safer working Condu Paul spokesman for the Manitoba government employees As said Union officials met sat urday with 15 guards to gather facts about the administrations alleged fail ure to Back jail As we see it now the rules and regulations Are not being adhered to by the he Williamson said the guards looking for positive we do not want illegal action or negative he its not what is some guards interviewed Friday said they would work to Rule if conditions were not changed three guards walked off the Job wednesday refusing to work in what they considered dangerous conditions when one officer was hit on the head by inmates using the three returned to work Friday night after suspensions were the guards complain shift schedules requiring them to work eight Days straight with four Days or seven Days on and two Days Are a Williamson said the Union would announce possible action by guards later this week ;