Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 3

Thursday, January 17, 1900 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Reeve sets deadline for finding MVA solution doing either the MVA or the ratepayers. Im caught in between and Im not going to stay caught in between." Chappel recently received separate letters from Saskatoon Mayor Cliff Wright and University of Saskatchewan board of governors chairman C. T. Pastershank asking if meetings of their councils might help the Corman Park council in resolving some of its ratepayers' ing in terms of property and planning the concept has to be treated with a great deal of foresight. But Chappell did not know if a meeting or regrouping of the participating bodies would calm residents concerns.

He said it appears the residents will be satisfied with nothing short of repealing the legislation or holding a referendum to determine the municipalitys continued The municipality, the city, the university and the province are all participants in the MVA Pastershank has suggested a meeting between the university board of governors and the municipal councillors because of both the high emotional level surrounding the authority and the importance of any effort at public relations. In light of recent amendments to the MVA Act, she said when think take measures of his own. While he would not outline those steps, he did say he has set a Friday deadline for either the MVA or the municipal solicitor to come up with a solution The MVA board of directors meets Friday, Corman Park ratepayers on Jan. 3 called for the municipalitys withdrawal from the MVA and a referendum on the authoritys continued existance in the RM. The ratepayers have complained they had not been adequately informed about the authority at its inception and that it controls too much power over too much land Chappell said opposition to the MVA in Corman Park is increasing, and he now is receiving hostile calls from people not even living ithin the authoritys boundaries.

They've got to do something and make up their minds what they're By Bill Clevcrley of the Star-Phoenix Rural Muncipality of Corman Park Reeve Charles Chappell says opposition to the Meow asm Valley Authority (MVA) is growing in the RM and he is tired of being in the middle of a debate between the authority and his ratepayers. Chappel said Wednesday that unless the conflict is resolved, he will Coroners jury wants mandatory smoke detectors warning necessary to allow- the two residents to escape. His view was supported by fire Chief Chuck Sebestyen, who said the department has documented four cases where families were saved by smoke alarms and added that a detector in his own home once assisted his family in fleeing during a fire Jones said he believes both men died in an attempt to escape, and noted Seed would have probably made it had he not gone back for his room-mate. Jones said it appeared that Seed had awakened, broken a window which caused a cut on his arm and gone to Scotts room to help him escape, where both were overcome by smoke. He said the fire started in a chair in the main floor living room, near the area where another man had spent the night, and swept upstairs Harold Poore of 416 Ave South, who escaped from the house about 8:30 a.m.

Dec. 15. said he, Scott and Seed had been drinking the night before and were pretty drunk" upon arriving at the Mam Street residence around 10 pm He said they drank a few more $. XT' i A. V.C jf 'f ifC-to I Jr ys; Field House manager A safety arguments refinery hearing By Larry Johnsrude of the Star-Phoenix A coroners jury in Saskatoon has recommended all levels of government pass laws requiring installation of smoke detectors in homes.

The recommendation followed testimony at a coroner's inquest Wednesday that two men who died in a Dec. 15 house fire in Saskatoon would be alive today had smoke detectors been installed in the home. The six-man jury, after one-half hour of deliberation, determined that Daniel Ivan Seed, 22, and Ian Andrew Scott, 21, died at 432 Main St. East from carbon-monoxide poisoning due to smoke inhalation during an ill-fated escape attempt During the inquest, one man said he escaped from the burning house through a back door while another man denied being in the residence prior to the fire despite a police statement to the contrary. Testifying before the inquest, headed by coroner Dr, Sidney Fogel, fire investigator Bruce Jones said he believes smoke detectors would have provided the early Uranium dominate By Les MacPherson of the Star-Phoenix Arguments concerning occupational and public health and safety took up the bulk of the Wednesday session of hearings into a proposed uranium refinery near Warman.

Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. wants to build the $100-milhon facility 20 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon to refine uranium mined in northern Saskatchewan The uranium hexaflouride produced at the refinery would be exported for enrichment and use in European and Japanese reactors. The hearings are being conducted by a federally-appointed panel as part of the environmental assessment process. Many of the views expressed Wednesday, the fifth day of hearings, were diametrically opposed, as has often been the case throughout. According to Eldorado officials, risk presented to refinery workers and people living in the area would be Radiation emanating from the refinery would amount to only a small fraction of natural, background radiation which already exists in this area.

Stan Frost, health physicist for the federal Crown corporation, told the panel persons living on the perimeter of the refinery would receive only as much radiation from the refinery in one year as they might ex S. ivYa 'p wL x- Vo 4: V- A A a Vi. 4 i i i 1 4- "y-'r Xfy a Doug Balsden examines floor there seems no doubt that, for an all-purpose floor they recommend the Regupol material. But almost since it was installed here, the Regupol has been lifting at the seams. The flooring was obtained and installed by the city firm of Antonini and Sons, whose manager, Eric Antonini, was president of the Summer Games.

Bert Wellman. Saskatoon director of planning and development, said Wednesday there is no telling when be done by women in a male prison or vice-versa. The parts of the application the SGEA does agree with are that searching should be done by a member of the same sex and the living areas, where a full view of the prisoner is allowed at all times, should be taken care of by someone of the same sex. However, Sheila Shockey of the national headquarters committee of the Female Pilot Project a project whereby the federal government is testing the use of women in all-male correctional centres says such ideas are antiquated and a professional corrections officer 5 -5 Av 5 7. 'h I S' 4 'f S-P Photo by Peter Wilson seams that are lifting the flooring might now be repaired.

But he said neither the material or the installation procedures used are at fault. He said the problem could be in the glue used. Wellman said the German firm that makes Regupol has been testing the glue since December and probably will be reporting its findings to council this month The company has agreed to absorb any costs involved in repairing the flooring, he said. will be able to deal with seeing the other sex in the nude. She said women are needed male centres because if there are no women around, men will not know how to deal with women when they get out.

Also, they try to be better groomed and dont use such crude language around women, she said Carole Geller, SHRC director, said members of the opposite sex should be allowed to do all jobs except body searches. She recommended the branch could hire people of both sexes but in some cases limit some of the" duties which are performed. beer and he passed out about midnight on the couch in the living room. He denied smoking marijuana in the residence but "had a couple of tokes downtown earlier. He said he was awakened by the heat and saw the fire around him.

He escaped through a back door and called the fire department from a neighbors house. Another visitor, Ken Lawson, also escaped from the living room, but he could not be contacted to be subpoenaed as a witness, Jones said outside the inquest. John Stead of 202-212 10th St. East said he was called to a residence beside the Main Street home about 8 30 a m. and denied attending the party the night before.

Under questioning from inquest counsel Dennis Quon, Stead denied telling a police officer he left the party about 3 a m. or that the occupants were drinking and smoking marijuana. You have me mistaken for someone else, he said. He said he had been talking to a policeman and the fire chief but only concerning the identity of the two deceased persons. or occupational health and safety as were Eldorado officials Carol Pardoe, representing the board of directors of the Saskatoon Community Clinic and the clinics 15,000 members, said not only would the environment be threatened by the refinery, but fear of the refinery could disturb the mental health of people living in the area Dr.

Phillip Loftus, representing the 16 physicians at the clinic, said Saskatchewan residents should not be subjected to unknown risks associated with radiation Saskatchewan residents have a higher than average incidence of asthma and allergies, and people with these conditions are more subject to radiation-induced cancer, Loftus said. Should the refinery proceed, Loftus called for extensive medical research so any health effects could be ascertained. Sociologist Jim Harding of Regina said all nuclear development should be halted until questions surrounding the issue are sorted out. Harding, brought in to speak by the War-man and District Concerned Citizens Group opposed to the development, said Eldorado officials should consider themselves partially responsible should a nuclear war ever take place A number of clergymen and nuns also spoke out Wednesday against the ethical implications of all aspects of the nuclear industry. The hearings continue today at the Sheraton-Cavalier.

Jail cells are not enclosed and only have bars in front of them and guards walking by see prisoners in various states of undress. Members of the opposite sex should not have access to prisoners in the state of undress, they explained. Also, when prisoners are searched, stripped or bathing, the officers should be of the same sex as the prisoners. The branch is not seeking exemptions for community training residences, the control rooms or for the normal living units, but are seeking them for secure-semi-secure units and remand units because there is less privacy in these cells and pris Highly-recommended floor gives Field House problems pect to receive in a flight from Toronto to Vancouver Both the public and refinery workers would be subjected to radiation well under maximum limits established by regulatory agencies. The maximum radiation to which refinery workers can be subjected in a year has been calculated to represent about the same danger as smoking 7'2 cigarettes or travelling 402 kilometres by car, Frost explained Julias Metrakos, a McGill Unner-sity genetics professor brought in to testily on Eldorado's behalf, told the panel risk to workers and the public from radiation would be "minimal." He cited a number of scientific studies supporting his statement, although he admitted potential ge- netic damage from radiation is a controversial topic.

There are no simple answers to what are safe or unsafe doses (of radiation), he said. Ron Mattey, a spokesman for Labor Canada, told panel members he wished people were as concerned about conventional industrial safety as they appeared to be about longterm effects of low-level radiation. If a heavy object falls on your head, you are likely to die immediately, he said. He said his department would have authority to shut down the refinery if unsafe conditions existed A number of briefs were not as optimistic about prospects for public and training, and by Dick Till, director of institutional operations. They requested the right to exclude women from employment in correctional officer positions in all custody, recreation and admitting areas in male correctional centres at Prince Albert, Regina and North Battleford, and from positions in recreation, admitting, escort and remand units of male centres in Prince Albert, Saskatoon and northern Saskatchewan.

They are also seeking exclusion of men from employment in positions in the living and admitting areas of Pine Grove Correctional Centre for women in Prince Albert. Ruling delayed on human rights exemption for jails The $250,000 special, resilient flooring that was noped to be in the Saskatoon Field House for last Augusts Western Canada Summer Games and wasnt, still is not ready for professional use. The special flooring, called Regu-pol, came highly recommended to city council last April. A report presented to council at that time said members of the universitys college of physical education and an engineer visited other sports facilities in Canada and the United States and oners must be watched more closely. Ron Monk, representative for the Saskatchewan Government Employees Association (SGEA), stated the SGEA has no argument with the fact that privacy should be afforded prisoners, but said that under the branchs proposal, some positions would not be offered members of the opposite sex and those jobs could be done by them.

For example, escort positions would mean escorting offenders to medical, psychiatric, dental and other appointments in the institution or community and these could By Donna Sherman of the Star-Phoenix The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has deferred decision on whether the corrections branch of the department of social services should be allowed exemptions under the new Human Rights Code. After four hours of discussion on the matter Wednesday, chief commissioner Ken Norman said a decision will not be made until at least next month. The corrections branch was represented at the hearing by Rod Brandvold. director of personnel.