Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 6, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sports Wimbledon Whiz kid a sixteen year old Martina hinges has become the youngest Wimbledon singles Champion of this century/a8 wonderful putt with a Pickle race a Turtle on Manitoba a fun festival circuit by Brandon hanging up her ladle a a soup lady Janice Cameron is leaving helping hands after almost three years at the Helm la Brandon weather cd mainly sunny. J High 24. Low 13. Details on Page bl2 inside mounties land new pals a 10-year-old boy caught a 21-Pound Catfish at the second annual ramp onside youth program fish Derby yesterday at Selkirk Park. The mounties landed some new pals /a4 Ulster riot feared authorities in Northern Ireland tried yesterday to thwart a clash Over an annual protestant March set for today. Last year the March triggered the most widespread rioting in a generation Between roman catholics and protestants /a3 clash in Cambodia a bloody mortar and rocket Battle erupted in cambodians capital yesterday when one of the country a feuding prime ministers attacked the others forces in an apparent coup /a3 firm under scrutiny a private company chosen to deliver Manitoba a Home oxygen program is under scrutiny after being sued for copyright infringement /a4 Wilcox quits stampedes Gerald Wilcox retired yesterday from the Calgary stampedes but the former Blue bomber says his football Days Aren t Over yet /a8 West backs Plavsic Western governments rallied yesterday behind bosnian serb president Biljana Plavsic who is engaged in a Power struggle with hardliners threatening to derail the peace process/b14 in your City St province a Michele Pujol Benefit featuring Deb Romeyn and Fuyuki Daiko West end cultural Centre 8 . $15 proceeds to Michele a fight against liver cancer. A cinematheque intimate relations 7 30 and 9 30 . $3.50 to $5. A Mesa soccer ital inter is. Sons of Italy 7 30 ., Winnipeg soccer Complex 1 Hellas is. St. Andrews Csc 2. Index local /a4,5 Canada amp world /a3,7, bl4 numbers on w Page Bio classified.b12 comics.b6 deaths.a2.b11 editorials.b2 in memorials births.b12 life Horoscope crossword. Net Reader and Ann landers.b8 movies.b9 sports record.a11,12 to listings.b9 lotto 6/49 2,3,11,14,27,30 Bonus 38 /a2 o 619156 6 a Quot we. A Brandon july 6,1997 # it it a w by of if t to f it f i we ?. A a Quot a Highland gathering draws 5,000 Haggis needs and lots of tartan or Deal in hands of Rural doctors Brandon ads wont accept offer regardless of vote official says cd of a a. Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press Dave Brown does his thing yesterday at the Manitoba Highland gathering. By Nona Pelletier for the free press Selkirk a it was the gathering of the clans and All the boys were there a even professional Caber Tosser big Dave Brown from Oklahoma. Brown a non Scot from Tulsa was the largest of seven professional athletes invited to compete in the heavy games at the 31st annual Manitoba Highland gathering held yesterday at Selkirk Park. A this is my first time in Canada a Brown said in a Lazy Southern twang. The 360-Pound Brown flings a Caber a a Telephone pole to everyone but scots a like he a spitting a toothpick. Tossing the Caber involves hoisting a 5.2-metre Post weighing somewhere in the neighbourhood of 55 kilograms to shoulder height then running with it to gain Momen Tum before throwing it so it flips end Over end. Its one of six events in the heavy games Competition. Brown who came second in last years world championships said he particularly enjoys the weight events in which he has broken a number of records. He said his Best event is the weight for distance which involves throwing a 13-kg weight As far As possible using one hand. Despite Strong winds and Muddy Fields fans sought out the Best Vantage Points hours before the main event. About 5,000 people turned out. Games organizer Jim Wilson said another popular event with the crowd is the Farmers walk in which competitors attempt to carry a 68-kg railway tie in each hand. Continued please see knights /a2 by Andrew Maxwell for the free press Manitoba a Rural doctors will vote on a controversial emergency services Deal this week which has already been unanimously shunned by their Peers at Brandon general Hospital. The future of the offer to family physicians of $70 an hour to work in Rural emergency rooms has been turned Over to Rural members of the Manitoba medical association. Ballots were mailed out on thursday the Mma said yesterday. A a it a up to the members now a Debbie Bride Mma communications coordinator said yesterday. A a it a a vote. We re recommending the agreement be the Deal was thrown out last week by Brandon physicians who say their or in Brandon general Hospital is equivalent in size to those in Winnipeg hospitals and therefore should not be lumped in with eight other smaller ers in the province. Doctors in the City of 40,000 contacted yesterday said they will vote against the Deal but Are unsure How the Overall Rural vote will go. The deadline for mailing in ballots is july 14, Bride said. Brandon general acting executive director Gary Mcintosh said yesterday no matter what happens in Rural Manitoba Brandon physicians will not accept the offer and will Likely continue their week old Job action. The 25 to 30 Brandon family practitioners citing overwork reacted to the comparing emergencies the free press sent two reporters to spend the night at emergency rooms in seven Oaks general Hospital in Winnipeg and Brandon general Hospital to study How Busy doctors were at both centres. We wanted to compare the two ers in Light of the dispute Between the province and Brandon doctors Over funding to hire full time or physicians. Please see stories on Page a5. Offer by refusing to see patients other than their own in an or setting. Patients with non life threatening injuries have been encouraged to go to walk in clinics. Mcintosh said a majority vote by Rural doctors is not binding on Brandon physicians As a review of the situation by health minister Darren Praznik is pending. Mcintosh said the review comparing patient loads at Brandon general to those in other Large hospitals May mean a new funding arrangement that would see Brandon treated the same Way As a Winnipeg Hospital. Continued see it s overwork robot of All systems go on Mars Nasa relieved As repairs Clear Way for Rover to roam Martian landscape by Robert s. Boyd Knight Ridder newspapers Pasadena Calif. A delighted and relieved Nasa engineers announced yesterday that they had restored communications with their roving Martian robot fixing a potentially crippling problem that had threatened to spoil an otherwise picture perfect Landing the Day before. The repair cleared the Way for the Rover called sojourner to leave its a Mars still fires imagination / a7 Mother ship Pathfinder and Roll onto the rugged surface of Mars shortly after Midnight. It was immediately to Start sampling the chemistry of the soil to see if the planet might Ever have been hospitable to living creatures. Pictures confirming that the Rover actually made it safely Down a Metal ramp to the ground were not expected until this afternoon after the next Martian night ends. The communications glitch discovered Friday night had threatened to spoil an otherwise picture perfect Landing by Pathfinder in a Rock strewn ancient River bed. If the Rover had not been Able to relay messages to Earth through the Landing ship Many of the key scientific goals of the $266 million us Mission would have been out of reach. Pathfinder could have continued to Send Back stunning pictures of the Martian landscape but Only the Rover could travel to interesting rocks take close up photos and sniff out chemicals that May reveal whether conditions were suitable for life. That would have been enormously frustrating to space scientists who have already spotted a number of intriguing objects they Are eager to explore. Continued please see �?~amid7a2 in Molson Buks Roll about Bacardi Winnipeg free press the Complete Story for 125 years of favourites of yesterday and today s / Syf it n ;