Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg ree press january 1985 Page 3 inmate attempts wife Canadas nato role under local Wayne free press pie eyed actor Donnelly Rhodes is probably thinking of a tart the event featured a Host of Zany antics and a response after being struck in the face with a pie the Holder of program no 953 7 to asked to during the Schmo key night fundraising show Satu Contact Bob Johnson of sky to to claim the prize Ario firm air by Cecil Rosner some Winnipeg maintenance con tractors Are unhappy with air Cana Das decision to hire an Ontario company for the maintenance and service of its new computer the airline announced in a state ment that it had awarded operations of Don Mills the contract to look after its new scheduled to open this the oneyear with options for is Worth where we prefer to use local said Tom mar the airlines property this we had to move out of but a spokesman for the Winnipeg office of a National maintenance service said his firm was not even approached to bid on the Marcel division manager for Black and Mcdonald Hsc to buys the health sciences Centre has received approval to buy a sophisticated xray scanner to replace an older machine which is operating As Many As 18 hours a a request for a second which would help Cope with a backlog of has been put on hold by the Manitoba health services Tom administrator of the general said the new computer costing More than been ordered and will be installed this doctors say it scanners Are an invaluable medical tool which can show the exact size and location of blood brain abnormalities and other Ian head of radio said the Hospital had wanted to buy two scanners to replace the old one and another to handle tests on an increasing number of patients from across the commission agreed to the Purchase of Only one despite a offer from the Lions club of Manitoba and North Western the existing machine is six years old and was designed to work seven hours a five Days a but officials say it at been in constant use except when it broke and that the backlog for tests is now 700 to 800 the average waiting time for a test is four to six weeks and some patients have travelled to the rather than they until last when Boni face general Hospital obtained a the Hsc had the Only one in the a Federal provincial advisory committee on institutional and medical services has recommended that there be one it scan Ner for every Sutherland said persistent prob lems with the Hsc scanner in recent months has prompted some doctors to Send their patients to Boniface to be tested on the newer seven Reserve residents to be tried on mischief charges oath ii said he was disappointed he did not have the Opportunity to try for the adding that his firm could have easily that probably the largest sin Gle maintenance Job around in win he Brissette said his firm looks after about 80 per cent of the major com Puter rooms in the including Pacific Western airlines Centre on ferry he said he had spoken to air Canada about the possibility of maintenance work and expressed interest in doing spokesmen for two other local maintenance contractors also expressed disappointment in not get Ting the but refused fur ther comment because they did not want to criticize the airline spokesman Ted Morris said the Only company based in Winnipeg which the airline Felt could handle the contract was asked to bid but he refused to identify the seven people will be required to provide year round service for the buildings air condition ing and emergency Power eight pegu is Indian Reserve Resi dents will be tried april 1 and 2 for burning a Bridge last chief Louis Stevenson he and seven others were indicted and charged with mischief after a wooden Bridge on the Reserve was burned last Spring during a dispute with the Federal Indian affairs department Over education the Case will be heard in Provin Cial judges court in Fisher Stevenson Stevenson also said provincial and Federal government officials Are working on an agreement to replace the which he expects will Cost about ends photo suit a Winnipeg Man who launched a lawsuit against a publishing company for using his photo of John Diefenbaker five years ago has settled out of court for Bill Cudney launched his 1980 fed eral court of Canada action against Macmillan of Canada after learning the firm used the photo on the cover of a Diefenbaker tribute Book by Carolyn the former prime ministers a former freelance Pho a Federal prisoners claim that he is dying of cancer because he received improper medical care at Stony Mountain Penitentiary has been disputed by corrections Rodney Joseph is to be released this week on full parole from medium Security Matsui institution in after being transferred there from Stony Mountain at the end of Henry wrote to several newspapers saying he was diagnosed 26 As having stomach a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free to Grapher known to Winni Eggers for setting a hot air balloon Altitude took the former prime ministers picture in 1975 in Cudney said he gave Macmillan the photo As a Sample of his work and that they had tried to Contact him before the firm later offered for use of the but he said he wanted they refused and Cudney issued a statement of claim asking for which he said was Mac Millans profit on the he said nothing happened until last when he asked for a court Macmillan responded by offering which he said he Challenge to be heard the Manitoba food and Commer Cial workers Union and antiunion Eaton workers in Brandon will Square off in court next Union president Bernard Chris claim t in the he said he was told by British Columbia doctors 3 he had Only a Short time to during my stay at Stony Moun i reported to health care on several occasions complaining of an upset Henry on three separate i saw doctors who diagnosed my illness As an he said doctors at Stony Mountain put him on a special diet to treat the i dont feel i was treated proper he i have to question the Tope said a certification Challenge from eight of the 88 store workers will be heard 11 in court of Queens Bench in the Manitoba labor Board certified the Union the first such Eaton certification in Western but some employees of Christophe said Eaton has re fused to Start bargaining a contract until the certification Issue is set a refusal which the Union believes is the labor Board will hear the unions complaint Library funds sought some lunar area residents will hold a Public meeting Friday to decide what to do next about their local councils refusal to fund a Public Alfreda president of the coldwell District Library commit said the Rural municipal Council of coldwell voted unanimously 8 not to help the which opened Duffy said Council could have kept it going with a property tax increase of Only or an extra a disputed Diefenbaker photo year for the average she also said 433 half from the town and half from the Rural signed a petition asking Council to spend which would have been matched by the provincial the Library currently has enough Money in donations to stay open until March Duffy the meeting will be held at 8 Friday in Pundars lutheran Church foreclosures plummet statistics show by Paul Moloney a fou year pattern of High rates of mortgage foreclosures has been according to land titles statistics which show a 70percent drop in foreclosures last the decline is a direct result of lower mortgage rising House prices and a stable Bank ing and housing officials in there were 498 orders for mortgage sales issued against de faulting Down from 846 in said Deputy District registrar of the Winnipeg land titles real estate spokesmen said a Strong Market last year meant peo ple in financial trouble were Able to sell their Homes and pay off the mortgage principal and now that the Market is turning around and properties Are going up in people will either sell or find Means to bring the pay ments up to said Bruce Ca Meron of the Royal if people can sell and still have Money in their pay off the if just walk Bert past president of the Winnipeg real estate said 1984 was the Best sales year on with volume of about million compared to million in Minuk said properties sold on the multiple listing up per cent from sales the year the average Sale Price climbed about five per cent last year to when you have a Market like people in trouble can sell and lose their he its related to a Strong lower interest rates and higher housing Larry of the Canadian Imperial Bank of said the reverse was True a few years ago when a soft sales Market meant that people who meet their mortgage payments also were unable to sell As a the Lender stepped in to repossess the land titles statistics show orders for Sale peaked in 1980 at cases before slipping to 801 in 1981 and turning Back up to hit 969 in while property owners Are Given time following the order for Sale to bring their payments up to about half the owners eventually lose their in a minority of the repossessed properties Are sold by aug but most often the Lender or mortgage insurance company obtains title following a final order of foreclosure and either rents or re Sells the Bank and real estate spokesmen said the drop in orders for Sale is Welcome news for both lenders and in that both sides generally lose Money As a result of foreclosure foreign Access probed by Laura Ranee a group opposed to atomic waste research near Lac Dubonnet will ask its Legal Aid Manitoba lawyer to explore ways of preventing government Money from going toward the a spokesman were going to ask our lawyer to look into the legality of Crown land in Manitoba being used by a foreign government for this Walt Robbins said last the underground owned by atomic Energy of Canada is located on land leased from the provincial it is testing the concept of storing nuclear waste decl announced last week that the government is considering sinking million into the which would allow the Federal Crown corporation to deepen the test Shaft to 440 metres from 240 lease agreement spokesman for the com Mittee of concerned citizens of said he questions whether the Crown land lease agreement with the provincial government allows another country the same Access As were going to ask Legal Aid to approach the provincial government to find that he Robbins said the committee was accepted As a client by Legal aids Public interest department about a year it applied under Access Winfor mation legislation for details on decl but found that the Corpora Tion is he Robbins said last weeks announcement underlines his fear that Manitoba will become a dumping ground for nuclear the Bedrock formations being tested by the Lac Dubonnet facility Are similar to those in and several american he but he said the Federal and governments have chosen Manitoba because Public opposition elsewhere has been too police maternity leave focus of Al male talks competence of the medical staff in i feel a great amount was taken for i also have to question that if i had been diagnosed correctly at the earlier if i might not have had a better Chance at Bev assistant Warden at confirmed Henry is suf Fering from cancer of the Macdonald said Henry did not wish to speak to reporters until after he consults with spiritual leaders and members of his some of whom Are in British Henry has served just Over two years of a fou year sentence for she Stony Mountain spokesman Pat Newton yesterday denied the inmate received an improper Newton said Henry first complained to medical staff of stomach pains in Early his medical records went with him when he was transferred to Newton talks were to begin today ones Tab Lishing a new pregnancy leave policy for Winnipeg the talks follow a Winnipeg police association grievance of the depart ments pregnancy leave the department and association each will be represented by two association lawyer Mcgregor Mcgregor said three women police officers spoke at re cent hearings into the association president Norm Wick Dahl said the department decides when pregnant officers must take up to 17 weeks unpaid he said the department drafted the policy after a dispute involving Barbara Tobin in seven months pregnant at the was told she would have to choose Between starting her mater nity leave or giving up a desk Job to patrol the the department backed but later arbitrarily introduced a policy contrary to the associations collective Wickdahl he said while there was no set policy in the pregnant offi cers had the option of staying on at desk jobs rather than the inmate had undergone some medical tests at the Manitoba clinic once Henry was Stony Mountain medical staff alerted officials in British Columbia that Henry was to undergo More testing the testing was done and that Why he was diagnosed there instead of Newton and was scheduled for More tests until he was Federal parole regulations allow for an inmate to receive an exceptional parole in the Case of a Termi Nal he pregnant officers must begin their unpaid leave if superiors judge them unfit for nor Mal police they be placed in a position that hazardous to their health or that of the unborn Wickdahl he said the association would pre Fer to come to an agreement with the rather than have a binding settlement imposed on Canadian firm fails to meet colleges need a buy Canadian policy at red River Community College is being blamed for setting completion of a computer system Back four College director Gary Polonsky said a new Canadian failed to satisfactorily link up three microcomputer Polonsky said that although All terminals have been fully operation Al since users should have been Able to talk to one another and programs should have been accessible to multiple Mark the colleges manager of computer said the labs were part of a High powered system bought with Federal and provincial Grants of they the company made a valiant but they just we rent As Well developed As they had Polonsky Bishop said the software contract will go instead to a More advanced american company called Polonsky said the owner of dy4 was paid for his Effort when the College broke the software ;