Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Paula Martin a judge yesterday likened a fatal i960 fire in the downtown Holiday Truf to a game in which firefighters had to Field the Blaze to Tell staff where it provincial court judge Winston ton said it was a ease of fire Crews entering the hotel and trying to locate a with staff saying if you find let us that where the great delay resulted and the damage which resulted could have been averted earlier if the alarm had been judge nor ton he reserved decision in the in quest into the death of hotel guest Joseph but said he was satisfied the Liberal convention Dele Gate from Portage la Prairie died As a result of the criminal actions of Rudolf Rolf Hagenlocher was convicted on Man Slaughter in the death of and was sentenced to 10 years in Fred the cites supervisor of building said a recent inspection of the hotel showed its fire safety system has been the 17storey Structure complied with building and electrical codes in place when it was constructed in but there were problems that could have been helped by subsequent up such As automatic detection devices in guest he improved system if the hotel were built it would have to comply with much stricter codes dealing with alarm smoke communication sys tems and firefighter a new bylaw will require phasing in of such he for the bylaw will require by that All dwelling units have smoke alarm systems and this will apply to the Holiday inns improvements to its fir safety system include installation of self closing devices on doors heat detectors in guest rooms a fire alarm system connected to a Central monitoring Agency and a firefighters elevator controlled by a he asked if the hotel is required to have All these Nicholson re plied that and improvements yet to be made con smoke control requirements like pressurized or ventilated elevator he it will have to install smoke alarms in rooms by the dead Nicholson but the hotels Given the fact the Structure was built 11 years ago exceeds what is strictly required for he also entered in the proceedings was evidence Given at Hagenlocher trial by defence witness William a Liberal Delegate at the 1980 Conven Tion who was a Friend of so Narusis and a guest at the smoke seen Mcewen testified he and so Nakrsi were in his room chatting at about 3 the Day of the fire while he packed his bags to while they were in the a maid knocked and saying there was a fire and requesting to use the Tele he said in his Mcewen testified he went into the Hall and saw a bit of smoke coming from underneath the door of the next he said he finished packing and left the Spinarski said he was going to stay behind to see if he could be of any Mcewen Mcewen said he was waiting for an elevator when he saw fire hoses being out of their cabinets by hotel he said he yelled to come lets get out of and then left using a he said he was not concerned when Spinarski did not come downstairs because there were Many people Mill ing around and he concluded the Spon a ski had left the need cited for experts in garbage Canada needs More Well rounded garbage says a University of Toronto consultant on Landfill we dont have a pure waste disposal expert in one Man because there is no Multi educational approach to the said Phillip we have specialists in Many but we need a course at Canad an universities to bring bits of All the specialists together in one course in future if we Are to solve the waste problems of the next until the expertise is available to come up with sound waste disposal the Only Short term Solu Tion is burying the he a consultant to the Federal government and the world health or was in Winnipeg for a seminar on waste disposal leading up to a meeting of the governmental refuse collection and disposal the Ideal solution to the problem of toxic waste would be not to produce it to the first Jones it will come to 3 Point where it will be More costly to dust use of society waste than to produce some of the products society i Frank Torchia listens to music yesterday while waiting for Domo Gas bar to resume its Price Battle with Torchia got into lineup at 6 Consumers flex Muscles in Fidel Price War by Tom Goldstein the War among three Boniface service stations ended but not before Consumers flexed their mus cles and one closed outlet fooled the other two into even More Price Cut after prices returned to Normal from mondays about 60 motorists at the Domo service station convinced the firm to give them gasoline at half the Gas which had been closed for about reopened about offering Gas at the Normal several some of whom had waited refused to pay the full they also refused to cars were parked around the but no one would admit owning any of them and Gas station attendants just you cant Start something without finishing one Motorist but its been we played football and Frisbee this Domo officials defused the situation by giving the customers business cards which entitled them to get Gas at As soon As those 60 Are that the end of the Gas War unless pet Ocanada wants to Start Domo president Sheldon Bowles the motorists gladly accepted the Compromise of a maximum 50 litres of Gas each at 23 cents a its More than said Gary whose vehicle had run out of Gas and had to be pushed to the several customers had stayed at the scene for hours the Price slashing which led to one outlet paying customers to take its Gas would in on Lucien Lacosse adding he was prepared to wait indefinitely for prices to plummet Lacosse said he had arrived at the scene about 7 after the three Marion Street stations had temporarily closed to allow police to Clear rus hour traffic which had backed up from East Boniface into he said he and his Brothers had come from after hearing about the free they brought a 300gallon and a 150gallon tank to fill he Pierre Trudel of landmark said he had come directly from arriving about 8 with two 45gallon litre Trudel said he want particular about the Brand of Gas Petro Canada or i just want to get the lowest he overnight a Domo employ group advocates French plan Neil Mcdonald Hopes to de confuse French language a newly formed coalition of Community and business leaders and concerned citizens plans to launch a Public education Campaign to support the provinces proposal to extend French language Neil an education professor at the University of Manitoba and chairman of Manitoba said yester Day the group will begin its Campaign immediately and has set up an office at 205 Alexander Mcdonald and Myron an other executive member of Manitoba denied the group is a Pawn of the provincial government because it sup ports for the governments controversial constitutional but Spolsky said the group is consid ering approaching the provincial government for funds to help their Campaign which is now operating on a shoestring we Are not primarily concerned about the political Mcdonald we think one of the things that is going on now is that people dont understand the Mcdonald said he and the groups executive plan to meet with the conservative and nip Munici pal business and labor Lead ers and ethnic and Community organizations to explain the Complex Issue and promote support for the plan to expand French language hopefully it will be a he Mcdonald said 65 people attended the initial planning meetings and three ethnic groups portuguese and italian already have offered support for the our belief is that there is a lot of support out there for the Mcdonald Cas to Ponder objectives by Brian Cole the Board of the childrens Aid society of Winnipeg will consider hiring a new manager to take Over administrative duties at the Agency in the next few society president John Sinclair said the move would enable executive director Betty for months the Centre of a controversy Over management problems at More time for policy Sinclair he the Board will heed the advice of a consultant studying Cas Winnipeg and define its own role and objectives As a family service Agen Sinclair said in an interview the consultants suggestion that the Board evaluate itself was the first step in improving the Agency delivery of services and its staff management re once that is completed in a few Sinclair said the Board Likely will begin implementing changes in the management style of the Agency in an attempt to develop a spirit of cooperation Between staff and Man he declined to detail the recommendations in the consultants Progress Given to the Board last saying he wished to share them with the government first at a meeting scheduled for but Sinclair did say poor relations Between manage ment and the Union representing the workers was a concern in the written by the Toronto based consulting he said the Progress report did not Call for the dismissal of in the consultants major criticism of Schwartz was that she got involved in too Many it suggested she Delegate some decision making and become More involved in discussions with the staff at the represented by the Canadian Union of Public Era ploy complained eight months ago that management at Cas Winnipeg disciplined and humiliated workers for what they considered minor differences in Sinclair said it was True that who he described As a solid family service professional lacking in management occasionally had berated employees when it would have been better to constructively critic but that he said in reference to her he said the Board would have to consider splitting Schwartz duties in the next few months when it begins to assess what kinds of changes its wants in the Agency management if the Board did hire a new administrative it still Likely would leave Schwartz with the responsibility of overseeing policy decisions regarding the delivery of family earlier cupe spokesman Sandra Oakley said Cas Winnipeg workers wanted Quick action to resolve concerns surrounding the operation of the staff have been working in an extremely negative environment which we strongly suggest is affecting service she oakely said yesterday there Are fears among staff members that de spite the findings of two the Cas Winnipeg Board will do nothing to alleviate management problems at the be ignited another round of Price slash ing by reducing the Price on the Gas bars even though the station was the Mohawk and pet Ocanada Sta which had reopened at the nor Mal followed Cut Ting prices to As Low As cents a its the craziest Story Ive Ever Bowles said of the two stations slashing prices to compete with his closed there both idiots us and he spokesmen for Mohawk and Petro Canada blamed a sign on domes marquee for touching off the spree which saw prices drop from cents at 11 monday to virtually nothing six hours costing the stations about the sign read off major Brand full Domo decided against posting a Price on its Al though it did put a sign up full motorists continued to flock there in search of cheap partly because of radio reports that claimed the War was still on hours after it Domo officials warned those Poten tial customers that they would have to pay the full some Drivers decided to fill up while others simply Mohawk removed its Price from its sign in the but matched domes Price of cents per litre of pet Ocanada advertised its Price on a Small portable curb Jerry who operates the Petro Canada said he would match domes Price if it were and Domo officials said they would undercut fewer than half land summer jobs by Cecil Rosner fewer than half the Young people who registered for jobs at the Canada employment Centre for students Man aged to get work this Marion a spokesman for the Federal youth employment said students had registered at the main Street office before it shut its doors for the season last of succeeded in getting the Bleak employment picture for Young people is also evident in the most recent statistics Canada which show a jump in student unemployment across the the jobless rate for those Between the Ages of 15 and 24 was per cent in compared with per cent in the rate dropped slightly to 15 per cent in compared with 14 per cent last another feature of this years youth unemployment picture was a tendency among employers to overestimate their worker leavens although jobs were listed with the several Hundred we rent filled because employers later decided they didst need the despite the High unemployment leavens Felt the Centre was More successful this year in finding placements for the total placements were up by 14 per cent Over placements for casual jobs involving five Days work or less but that was More than made up for by longer term employ she it seems More students were Able to get jobs for the whole last year Many students had to take a number of Shorter term leavens attributed the increased number of placements to a vigorous advertising Campaign and a willing Ness by employers to make greater use of the As leavens said the Federal governments summer Canada Job creation program provided employ ment for 970 despite the Lack of Manitoba students still fared better than their counterparts in the rest of statistics Canada says the National unemployment rate among people be tween 15 and 24 was per cent in june and per cent in Lysol Lowers alcoholic percentage the makers of Lysol plan to lower the Boom on abusers of the alcohol based Joe corporate relations offi cer for Sterling drug of said yesterday the company has developed two new formulas which would reduce greatly the products 67percent alcohol Kiefer said the move came after the Federal government and various social agencies expressed concern about tinting abuse by skid Road the abuse problem want our he adding that the company tried adding chemicals to make Lysol but the odor made it useless As a the two new formulas Are in the final stages of but Kiefer said it will be six months before the company knows whether it has an Alco Tolfree John executive director of the main Street which deals with Winnipeg skid Road said the move by Sterling is a Good but it wont Stop use of other non Ever age products As risk of contracting encephalitis health minister warns there is still a moderate risk of contracting Western Equine encephalitis from disease carrying health minister Larry Desjardins warned the minister said that while the number of culex tarsal is mosquitoes has dropped off in southwestern Mani a slight risk of contracting the disease still he urged Mani Toba to take precautions against i bites during humid which increases Mosquito earlier this summer the province declared a health emergency and launched an Aerial spraying Campaign using the chemical malathion to kill the one human Case of encephalitis has bean found so and 16 cases have been confirmed in Desjardins ;