Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press Iko september occupation More deadly than mining or construction farming dangers spark inquiry by Susan Winkelaar news service Ottawa farming is More dangerous than either mining or thought to be two of the most injun a plagued occupations in the coun says a Saskatchewan weve All just been through the Westray mine where 26 people but 26 to 28 people die each year just on Saskatchewan farms said James Dos director of the six Earold Centre for agricultural Medicine at the University of lost limbs and mental illness All tend to afflict peo ple in far related jobs More than in other he some health problems Are already fairly Well known the tractor Roll overs that Rob people of their the economic stress that leads to Sui cide and Domestic the machinery whose noise causes a higher incidence of but some find Ings Are even More some studies indicate intensive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers contributes to higher rates of cancer and neurological conditions such As Parkinson disease among chemicals and Grain dust May also be the culprits in Farmers susceptibility to certain types of lung the Centre for agricultural medi Cine the Only one of its kind in researching All kinds of links Between farming and it has also compiled statistics showing that the average annual death rate in agriculture is 55 per compared with about 50 per in mining and 37 per in a similar pattern is seen in the rate of debilitating injuries suffered by workers 58 per in 40 in and 37 per in that kind of information has sparked conservative senator Efstathios staff barootes to he received approval this week for the Senate agriculture and forestry committee to Start a yearlong in Doogie Sticks out in class of teens Hamilton Spectator its probably inevitable that Little Lincoln Mccormick would be nicknamed after the Doogie Howser character of to after Hes the Only 10yearold attending Grade 9 at Brantford collegiate and for the past week and a half have marked the first time Hes Ever been to that what the Rumor people were saying youre the Fivey Earold doing your Grade 13 Lincoln said Mattero factly Between i certainly have developed a lot of friends in the last week and a he his feet dangling from the too Short to touch the theres a couple of people that dont like me much but theres got to be somebody like forget the stereotype of gifted Teny Earold Lincoln Mccormick listens during his Grade 9 English students As eggheads or Lincoln is a mixture of 10yearold innocence and adult like lincolns first appearance in after being taught at Home by his Drew Praise from teachers and amazement from under five feet weighing roughly 50 the Freckl faced kid stands out among the students at this Southern Ontario High classmate Don said he first Felt really stupid when he found himself in the same class As a now he Calls Lincoln a open kid who is students have started to affectionately Call him says Vic principal Jim Clair head of special education at the High says Lincoln scored in the top 99th percentile on achievement tests in everything except Reading comprehension and he scored in the 95th percentile on those Jane Mccormick said she and her suspected there was something different about their son when he stood up at four months Quiry into farm safety the Saskatchewan senator wants the committee to Start calling witnesses soon after parliament re convenes in Many peo ple have identified farming health he but the information int getting to the people who need he wants to see the creation of a National similar to two recently established in the United that would coordinate re organize the findings and distribute it in a Way that ensures better pc winners ranks Cut to just two Canadian press Fred one of Canadas last surviving Victoria Cross has died at the age of his death in a Toronto Hospital wednesday night leaves Only Ernest Smoky Smith and Cec Mer both of the Vancouver As living Canadian holders of the the highest award for military Brav Ery in the British of was a company commander with the Essex scottish regiment when he won the pc for his heroism during the Savage Battles in the Hochwald for est of Germany in March he was wounded three times while leading attacks against enemy despite his he rallied his men against German he repeatedly dashed through heavy fire to bring up fresh supplies of ammunition and hand grenades before finally collapsing from his in both his legs had to be when the award of the pc was an a reporter asked Tilston what Quality was vital for winning the Tilson replied wryly our Mono is we sell for less More often its working Danis meets miners Union Byk Mmcleod Canadian press 2 Only v2 Miner pickup air automatic r4 Only your Choice 9995 with air captains chairs Choice 3 Only your Choice 92 explorer 4x4 loaded 92festiva 3 Hatchback with a 92f150 automatic overdrive 3 Only one Price 6995 8 Only one Price a 4 loaded 2 Only one Price 92 grand Marquis a 1 4 with air automatic 4only one Price 91 Tempo Liomati 92 Cougar is loaded r3 Only one Price 92 Lincoln town car loaded 86 firebird As is special Fruk Delta u 3995 Royale 4 loaded 8000 u 4 with air 5995 90 Tempo l 4 door with air conditioning 6995 89 Topaz 4 with air automatic 5995 82 Crown vk1 2 loaded like new 3995 89 Ford i Alt loaded 88 firebird s Saab showroom of fwd Edmonton Federal labor minister Marcel Danis met yester Day with mine Union officials in an Effort to end a violent strike in Yellowknife that reached a tragic Peak last Friday when nine men were killed in an after meeting with Union representatives were reluctant to discuss what happened at the they did say they had renewed their Call for an inquiry into the strike against the giant Yellowknife Gold lets let the minister have his Opportunity to do what Hes Here to said Harold David of the Canadian association of smelter and Allied workers local the miners were killed in an underground blast at the police say the explosion was deliberately set and they Are treating the Case As a multiple there have been no six former strikers who crossed the picket line and three replace ment workers were killed in the whose department is responsible for labor in the Northwest David reluctant to talk has been asked several times to intervene in the four Mont hold the which represents 240 walked off the Job at the giant Yellowknife mine in Royal Oak and the Union have not held direct talks since july Peggy president of Vancou ver based Royal Oak mines which owns refused to com ment on what the company hoped to achieve at a separate meeting with n n Mcphillips Lincoln Mercury 2420 Mcphillips 3399251 Snake Sitters up photo while the Cage is being enlarged at a Medicine pet a 60kilogram burmese Python is walked by former owner Jerrid and store employees Gwen and Terri Canada at a glance in mail for old Canadian Ottawa the Federal old age Security pension will Rise to per month for the final Quarter of the year to reflect the health and welfare department announced is an increase of per month Over the previous the maximum guaranteed income supplement will in crease to from for a single person or a mar ried person whose spouse Doest receive the old age pension or a spouses allow for a married person whose spouse receives an old age Penison and a married person whose spouse receives a spouses the Maxi Umu will increase to from per six raped Toronto six women were raped in the Toronto area in a 36hour police said there is no accounting for the rash of rapes in such a Short said Bruce Smollet of the Toronto police sexual assault Plant blasted two workers were seriously injured and residents in nearby Homes removed yesterday when an explosion ripped through an Industrial waste recycling fire officials the blast shortly before levelled the Brick build ing that housed Republic environmental systems in the South end of this City of inquest ordered Montreal an inquest has been ordered into the death last week of a baby girl in a private Eastend dental Melanie 22 months died of heart fail ure after she received an an aesthetic for a tooth baby flies South Sault Twomoon Thold Kaitlyn Hill has taken her fight for life to a California Hospital renowned for its paediatric heart trans doctors didst expect Kait Lyn to survive More than a Day after she was born july 24 in a Hospital with an irreparable heart but Shes held on and when the Ontario government agreed wednesday to pay for a she was flown to the Loma Linda University medical Centre in Southern digital radio Toronto the Federal government has set up a task Force to help Canadian Broad casters develop digital one of the biggest advances in audio digital radio is the wave of the future and Canada is a world communications minister Perrin Beatty said yesterday in announcing the task made up of representatives of the Federal government and Cana Das broadcast Escaper nabbed an inmate who escaped from the Peterborough jail has been caught in Saskatchewan and sentenced to four months in jail there for stealing a Leslie Lafont was apprehended by ramp officers from the Moose jaw detach ment in a vehicle stolen from the Peterborough said Peterborough police Gord Lafont pleaded guilty in court to Possession of a stolen vehicle the same he must serve his four month sentence there before Hes sent Back to ;