Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free january 1985 Lifesaver lauded for Quick thinking Bruce Jacobs became a Good Samaritan on Good Friday last he would rather not have been a not because of the second degree Burns to his hands and arms he suffered helping save a woman and her son from a crash near Stonewall that killed her husband and the Driver of the other pickup h perhaps if we haunt been things would have been Dif said an electrical Engineer with the Manitoba Telephone maybe the one Driver have passed us on the Jacobs recalled the events of that Good Friday before he and eight other Manitoban were Hon ored by the Royal Canadian humane association for their life saving boy spared he spoke of the Accident that killed Anthony of Rosser and air Canada Pilot Robert of shorts and Young were spared by the actions of his be and others who helped at the Jacobs remembers the Day he and his family were on their Way Home after an afternoon of watching migrating geese at Oak Hammock Marsh East of Stonewall when a pickup passed Jacobs on the shoulder of Highway shortly after the wrong Side the Driver lost control and crossed into the oncoming it was Headon just a tre Jacobs by the time Jacobs was Able to Stop and run Back to the fire had broken out in the pickup truck that had passed the truck was a Wall of Jacobs the who had been thrown from the was surrounded by a grass the intense heat of the flaming wreck burned Jacobs hands and arms As he attempted to pull the Driver away from the unable to help the Jacobs turned his attention to the other vehicle where the Short family was Robert Short died at the wheel but Short was the grass fire was spreading to their the Short vehicle and the Radiant heat from the other vehicle was becoming Jacobs sex the trapped woman said to me in in bum Jacobs sent his wife Back to the car for a Blanket with which to fight the fire while he used a tailgate dislodged in the Accident to shield the woman and her son from the she returned with a piece of carpet which he used to control the grass fire and then to put around the then some i still dont know found water in the ditch and put out the Jacobs Glenn free press Bruce with wife display my wife was the real he i knew that the fuel in the one truck had burned my wife and others were be Lieving that the tank could sex Manitoba Premier Howard Paw Ley presented citations and Bronze medals to Delma Hall and Milka he gave honorary testimonial certificates to Jean Nina James and bar Bara and Lorna Ana Joseph As Well As a recognition of Merit to san dra the group proved heroes can be of any pulled Gordon to safety in 1983 after she heard her neighbors smoke Detector of Clearwater rescued a 14yearold mentally handicapped boy from drowning in the Long River in crawled on to the ice of a manmade Lake in fort Garry to pull a Friend to the Mckinnons saved a truck Driver from drowning in the Souris the Moskaly rescued a Young girl and her father from drowning at Steep Rock in june now saved neigh Bor Ursula Ozarowski from drown ing in a Maples Ozarowski was minding the youngsters when she ventured into the deep end and went can the lady now the Premier asked after presenting the award to Ozarowski said later she Hast Learned to gender wage Gap Narrows in government record prices by Fred Youngs the Manitoba government should Speed up efforts to Bridge the pay Gap Between women and men in the civil the head of the Manitoba advisory Council on the status of women said the average salary for women in the provincial civil service was 73 per cent of that earned by men last according to statistics issued women civil servants earned an average of a while men received this is better than in when the gender pay Gap was at per in 1973 it was per among hourly paid women earned 84 per cent of that paid to the statistics nobody is going to put Down any but this is a very Small advisory Council head Roberta Ellis Ellis said much More Effort is needed if the Gap is to be reduced substantially and women Are to escape Job she cited the Federal governments Strong Effort since the 1960s to in crease the number of bilingual civil if you want to see a similar eradication of systemic discrimination against women then you need the same kind of political determination and political Ellis in women make up 42 per cent of government employees and continue to work in traditional the figures ninety per cent of the govern ments clerical staff Are As 65 per cent of health care pm women come close to parity in just one with 49 per cent of the in higher Job categories and management the percentage of women is 21 per women Are still Ellis theres no getting away from Brian coordinator of the governments affirmative action said the figures under score the need for the joint agree ment signed by the province and the Manitoba government employees association in affirmative action plans and tar gets Are being developed that Dag Dick said he Hopes will help narrow the wage Gap More he said one Way would be Legisla Tion providing for equal pay for work of equal but added that such a Law would not eliminate disparities to do Dagdick programs Are needed to ensure women have the Opportunity to move into less traditional government departments Are developing strategies that will help women Over barriers such As train ing and he the majority of them should be operating by the he Ellis said governments have often cited Tough economic times As a reason to avoid implementing equal pay for work of value Legisla but she said this is just an easy excuse to avoid the the time has never seemed to be Ellis our position has to if not when by Doug Speirs the prices Manitoba Commer Cial fishermen receive for Whitefish and Lake Trout will hit Al time highs 27 in an attempt to lure More fishermen on to the the Freshwater fish marketing has Alex the Federal Agency Field operations said the move is a bid to boost adding increased production is needed to meet a skyrocketing Winter demand for Freshwater the Market demand for fresh fish is very High in the during the Drobot adding improved economic conditions have intensified consumer the demand is High in As and the Prairie provinces Are the principal producers of fresh fish from january to double catch the great lakes shut Down once the cold weather sets in so were trying to get the fishermen to move into their production a Little earlier and in the future wed like them to fish More in the he said about of Manitoba estimated licensed commercial fishermen work the Winter the Winter fishing season begins after the first november freeze up and continues until March in South Ern parts of the and to april in Northern in raising prices to record Drobot said the corporation Hopes to entice enough new fishermen on to the ice to double the in terms of were look ing at increasing our weekly catch up to about one million pounds 453 600 he the Price Manitoba fishermen receive for medium Export for will jump kilogram on 27 from As the Price fishermen get for Pickerel will Rise to a kilogram from and Lake Trout prices will increase to a kilo Gram from the Agency Transcona Plant usually handles Between and kilograms of fish a it has monopoly rights to buy catches of commercial fishermen in Northwestern Ontario and the North West a spokesman for the North sea fish Market on Grant Avenue said the increased payments May Benefit but will Hurt Consumers and when i heard they were doubling the Price to the fishermen it Means double them for Mary Maguire said its bad for everyone because the More expensive it the less you the fishermen should get but the marketing boards margin should be she said retailers wont know How much More they will have to pay for the three types of fish until they place orders after daytime headlights considered the Federal government is looking at ordering Drivers to use their headlights whenever they get behind the Chris trans port Canadas traffic safety direct said transport which studied european countries where daytime lights Are has estimated it would save 200 injuries and million Wilson said a discussion paper next month will present arguments favouring the without openly endorsing he in an interview from the proposal could be imposed through Federal vehicle standards provincial traffic Laws or a voluntary the department will seek Public Wilson hours for headlight use Are now set by each Dan Manitoba motor vehicles said motorists Here must put their lights on half an hour before Sunset and leave lights on for half an hour after Wilson said constant headlight use would Cost motorists about per Ken uni City taxi general said 24hour head Light use sounds like baloney to me if it is Nice and Clear i dont see what difference it would a car is big enough to it is not a Chadwell said the average Winni Peg taxi who logs about 000 Kilometres a would have to pay about this would be unnecessary because Drivers use common sense and put lights on when visibility is he Denys Manitoba safety Council executive said motorcycle operators already must use lights during the Day while they May not be that the Pur pose is not to see where you Are it is to be City Calendar ukrainian students University of Manito screens the film Harvest of a documentary on the 193233 manmade famine in at 10 tomorrow at University the women in Manitoba history conference will be held tomorrow and Friday at Johns University of weather h High l Low cold from worm front Winnipeg area forecast increasing cloudiness Chance of flurries in the after High near Clearing and a Little colder extended Outlook 1 mainly sunny Friday Snow saturday near Hittle above Normal temperatures High is Normal Low is Northern Manitoba mainly sunny with near Normal tempera Normal High is Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario mainly sunny with near Normal tem Normal High is Normal Low is Manitoba Indian appeals Kansas murder sentence the lawyer for Cameron Kerley appealed to the Kansas supreme court yesterday to have the former Manitoba Sioux Indian re sentenced in a lower Monte vines said in an interview from last night that he argued that a District court of Kansas judge erred while hearing an Appeal of the second degree murder faces a prison sentence of 15yearstolife after he pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the slaying of his adoptive who was found beaten to death in sep tember efforts Are under Way for him to be moved to a Canadian vines said he argued before the seven supreme court judges yesterday that the judge who heard an earlier Appeal of the sentence erred when he said he considered Kelleys actions to be first degree even though his sentence was within the guidelines for second degree basically its just a technical vines he said the judge May not have Given enough weight to the mitigating factors in the Kerley maintained later he had been sexually abused by his vines said it will be six to eight weeks before a decision is 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