Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free fsp8d testified out of Crown witness says by Steve Pona a key a Fawn witness in few Drog conspiracy trial 3 Cansey native la Bob Wilson said yesterday one of the reasons he agreed to testify was that he Felt his life was in danger As Long As a co accused remains William Wright was responding to questions by defence counsel Jay who suggested he was testify ing because he had made a Deal to have charges stayed against himself and his family and wanted to save his own Fober suggested found his Only Way out was to come to court and give evidence and Point the Finger at Wright agreed he made a but said his life had once been threatened and Felt he was in questioned by Crown counsel Bruce he said one of the big safety fears end walkout about 40 electronic technicians at Winnipeg International Airport will re port to work today after a three Day Wildcat the members of the International brotherhood of electrical workers local walked off the Job tuesday Over the suspension monday of an Ibex member at Vancouver air the Man was suspended after Refus ing to go to Ontario for Wayne chief administrative officer of the local 2228 said the suspension was the last he said the walkouts in Winnipeg and Vancouver were to emphasize problems Peculiar to each City but parallel in a statement said the workers would return on the 8 shift today because of a concern for the safety of the flying Public sparked by a state ment by a transport Canada official at the Airport that equipment failure could occur within two the technicians work with navigational communications equipment and integrated communications control Airport officials said wednesday the walkout did not disrupt Airport opera new paper maybe in works an announcement will be made this afternoon on the publication of another newspaper in former trib Une advertising Salesman Bill Everitt said he refused yesterday to say what format the new paper would have or who the principals involved Brock owner of Reliance press which publishes several weekly suburban the Down Iii it and it Mia said he want Morrie president and general manager of Canadian publishers said this week local business interests Are considering publishing a newspaper in Winnipeg three times a week beginning next owned by Southam Canadian publishers is owned by Southam which closed the trib Une lust but Ostrow said South am does not play a direct role in deciding what types of printing Ven Tures his firm can he Suid his Plant has the capacity to produce such a newspaper and said there have been discussions with a client interested in acting As publisher for the but no definite plans have been Ostrow name the with nine offset printing machines containing 65 Canadian publish ers is capable of putting out a substantial newspaper on a daily Ostrow but that might involve dropping other which the company int anxious to he said it be much of a problem and necessitate hiring extra staff to put out a newspaper three limes a asst reasons he agreed to testify was i wanted to get Jack Macdonald out of the Way because 1 Felt if he was on the my life was in through with drugs 1 to get this whole thing Over i got out of drugs and 1 wanted to straighten out this hassle and get on with he was charged after bringing Mari Juana Over the Border in the summer of the Crown contends Wright was a figure in a conspiracy to smuggle Mari Juana into Canada from Wright told the 12man jury he bought some on from co accused Ian Jackson Macdonald in fort la for has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to import marijuana and to two charges of conspiracy to if court was told he faces a minimum sentence of seven years in Wright told Protzer he involved his 17yearold son Bob in the he helped me out after my Back was against the Wright said he had just been arrested and figured some body had set me i didst Trust Wright testified his who was arrested with him and another while driving in got into the intrigue of the whole thing and thought hed bring a along and he it was in the Back of the Wright said he didst remember whether he asked his son to bring along some he added i had guns pointed at my head i was in a dangerous he said he had been roughed up in his former Peters Field Prober suggested some of the Mari Juana Wright brought to Canada and sold May have gone to his he told the former Selkirk school teacher i suggest you showed no respect for no Raspet for your no respect for your and you have no respect for the oath you took at the beginning of your jury admonished court of Queens Bench Justice Ben Jamin Hewak had earlier admonished jurors to consider Only the he said some of the defence counsels suggestions presupposed certain facts and they should not be considered Wright told the ramp last summer eight More lives to go firefighter Paul Gyselinck cradles a cat he rescued from a House lire that destroyed a Home at 593 Mulvey Avenue Gordon the owner of the want As and was taken to Hospital with secondhand third degree Burns to his forehead and a pet dog died in the which the fire department said was caused by an overheated Stirns nicotine fit ends in probation v a by Joe Rubin a Man who took two cigarettes from a Lone 16yearold clerk in a women Wear shop after telling her he was called suicide slim was put on three years probation and told to continue seeking psychiatric the 32yearold Man pleaded guilty to a charge of theft under he had originally been charged with but the Crown reduced the charge because of the accused state of mind at the in her statement to a clerk at Tobys casuals in Osborne Village said that at on the Man Niue red the took a cigarette out of an ashtray and hello when she asked if she could help he was quoted As asking for another the clerk told police the Man said he was called suicide slim and started unbuttoning his suggesting he and the Young woman get it the Man then stopped unbuttoning his he put one hand around the clerks neck and squeezed the Young woman told the accused told her he wanted a cigarette or ill Bash your face when police arrested the he told them he just asked the clerk for the officers he was Vecy unstable police said when they took a Staie ment from the the accused kept switching the discussing air cops and Crown counsel Bob Maxwell said the Man was on probation when he committed the current Maxwell recommended a jail term for the noting that the clerk was terrified As a result of the defence counsel David Schwartz said bilingual employees urged for City posts the City should actively seek of bilingual employees 10 fill vacancies created through Guy Savoie told executive policy committee Savoie said French speaking residents in Boniface have had difficulty taking advantage of ser vices because of a Lack of bilingual he said the City should ensure swim recreation and other programs in Boni Faup Are available in French committee agreed to set to consider Savours exec his client was on a two week alcohol Binge at the time of the he didst realize the complainant was so Young and All he wanted was a couple of Schwartz the lawyer said jail would do nothing for his client other than interrupt a program of psychiatric treatment the accused is currently noting that even a bolder individual would have been frightened by the mans provincial court judge Sid Cohan said he was nevertheless convinced the accused had taken Steps to rehabilitate i he judge sentenced him to a three year term of supervised to run concurrently with the term imposed on a previous As he is required to take whatever group therapy prescribed and refrain from entering Tobys casuals that Macdonald said bobs people could look after a smuggled drug ship ment in while he told the court this week the name Junior was Fober Junior is Wilsons Wright said he used the names interchangeably and to it makes no there the same he said he overheard Macdonald use one of the names in a Telephone conversation about a proposed drug ship Wright testified he carried about 000 into Wilsons Home at 2 Middle Gate in to pay for part of a 260pound marijuana he said he brought the Money in a supermarket shopping Wilson and two children left him alone with Macdonald during the first part of the he Wright said Wilson had offered to return during a of spew Over Fri alleged shortfall of bin Prater noted that Wright told the ramp it was a Man named Bob Harris who made the Wright called it a slip it the Fober questioned Wright atom is use of and Wright said he once purchased five Grams of cocaine at Otto a Gram during a Deal in he and another Man used two Grams on their Way Back to he maintained he Only used cocaine on three of Tow occasions and added he afford Wright was convicted of Possession of marijuana in Prober concluded his crossed Afima Tion of but Crown counsel Macfarlane said he will be recalled to testify later in the 24hour release possible for new babies s by Manfred Jager some of the new mothers who will Start having their babies in Victoria general hospitals new birthing unit under Homelike conditions As of 1 could find themselves and their babies discharged Home within 24 hours of Victor medical director of the 253bed said yester Day the new Early maternal and infant discharge Emid program will first be introduced As part of the inauguration of the hospitals alternate birthing a one bed unit doubling As labor and Case room for the next est thing to Home Only expectant mothers under 35 who have never had complicated maternity admissions before and Are judged unlikely to run into complication during their confinement will be admitted to the birthing Rosenfield women Over age 35 will Only qualify if they have had earlier uncomplicated women with heart trouble will note if labor and delivery proceed uneventful and Mother and child Are Well the Day after the medical director the Hospital will discharge them four Days earlier than usual and provide followup Home care through visiting the birthing room concept Practised in european and hospitals for a number of years was first introduced al Victoria Hospital Early last year As a Pilot an evaluation committee of administrators and former patients ruled after a 10month trial and 50 maternity cases that Light the Type of Hospital bed used at the amount of space available in the room and the Type of emergency standby equipment in Case of complications during delivery All were inadequate to convert the program to regular financed through a donation from the Victoria general Hospital the Hospital renovated and equipped a special room adjacent to the maternity Case room suite earlier this year for use As the regular birthing Rosenfield said Victorias new Early discharge program was developed Pri Marily to support the alternate birthing Centre and May Well be expanded to the hospitals other 20 maternity the idea is to meet the wishes of those women who want More Independence in the care of their special conditions Rosenfield stressed that both Mother and child must fulfil rigid medical criteria to qualify for Early As both attending obstetrician and paediatrician must agree before Mother and child can go Home after Only one Day in he said the new birthing room will probably be used for about 100 Deli veries there have been be tween and births at Victoria Hospital since the Hospital opened in routine maternity confinement still stands at four to five Days for most women giving birth in City police computer system under fire by Paul Moloney the City is dragging its heels on making needed improvements to the computer aided dispatch cad system for police Harold Piercy said Piercy said police chief Norm Stewart and a City Council subcommittee set up to Monitor cad Are blindly following consultants advice not to tamper with the Piercy said that allowing District police to handle local nuisance Calls would relieve burdens on the Central dispatchers and would improve response times for More important Stewart agrees with report under the new which began this District police must relay All Calls into cad for Eldon head of the sub said the City should wait for bugs to be ironed out before making he said More manpower is needed to Lake care of Low priority Calls and theres no Point giving District police the Power to dispatch Calls of this nature until they have the what Are we supposed to do in the meantime Piercy Are we sup posed to accept a lower Grade dispatch ing system he said the District superintendents Are unhappy with cad and the Ross subcommittee has been remiss in not acting on these Ross said the District superintendents have been asked to submit their on cad in writing to the Subco Millet and subsequent interviews May be he said maintaining the present sys tem is essential in d report to executive policy com Milieu Ross said time must be allowed to ensure dispatchers have been Given the proper train ing at least six months to one year is required in order for any inadequacies or shortcomings to be recognized and overcome Stewart told the committee his department agrees with a recent report by consultants p s Ross and partners that the centralized system should be Tully supported executive policy after hearing and approved a list o recommendations on police de Pam Ihm that were made by the consultants ;