Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of health for jail Kitchen by lawyer by Murray Mcneill the Kitchen at the Public safety building lockup has been Given a clean Bill of health in an inspection prompted by an inmate hunger strike last lawyer for two of the four strikers yesterday questioned the impartiality of the inspection and said its unlikely that he and his clients will let the matter the inspection was requested by corrections department officials after four inmates at the Centre refused food for several Days last claiming they and other prisoners fell ill after eating a meal of Winnipeg lawyer Lawrence Allen said thursday that one of his two clients suspected lockup staff had been lacing the inmates food with Saltpetre or some other foreign Salt Peter is believed by some to curb a persons sex he said the Bobby Ted John claimed to have been Given food spiked with Saltpetre several years ago and had experienced the same physical symptoms while in custody at the William Manitoba chief health said yesterday a Provin Cial health inspector examined the kit Chen area at the fourth floor remand Centre on Friday and found it complied with provincial French confirmed that the inspection was limited to checking Sani tary conditions in the the food was not tested for foreign the chief health officer said such inspections normally dont involve checking the and in this Case it would have been pointless since none of the food the prisoners ate on 16 was available to be not satisfied but Allen said he and Johnson Are far from satisfied with the Way the com plaint was Allen questioned the provinces use of one of its own health inspectors to Check the saying City or Feder Al health officials should have been called in to ensure an impartial re if the province wanted to act in Good Faith they should have invited the City to do Allen the City was willing and Able to do and All it would have taken for them to do it was request from the French said Allens suggestion that the inspection results might not have been impartial want worthy of a re Eric Deputy commissioner of said yesterday he is Satis fied with the inspection and As far As he is concerned the Case is Cox said the inspection confirmed his belief that the complaint was simply a by John sort to get transferred out of the pub and into the remand Centre in heading Ley old wives tale last Cox said complaints of food being laced with Saltpetre Are an old wives tale that been circulated in every institution from the Navy to a he said he requested the health inspection Only because of claims that a number of the prisoners had been Doug the cites Assis Tant medical confirmed yester Day that City health inspectors were willing to conduct the but that French said a provincial health official would handle Luckhurst said although the City has jurisdiction to inspect the lockup since it is located in the inner City the City and the province have a sort of gentlemen agreement at the political level that duplication need not occur because they have their own people to do he said it is difficult to say whether it might have looked better from the Public Point of View if the City had conducted the but he noted that the provincial health inspectors Are quite a distance from the corrections people and i think it would be very if they did find anything to cover it Allen said although hell have to discuss the matter further with John its unlikely simply let the matter just where we can go from Here in not Allen he said they might have to resort to smuggling some food out of the lockup and having it tested by an Independent Laboratory to ensure there is nothing the other option is to just let it simmer for a while and see if any thing further he he noted that Johnson is the Only inmate still pursuing the one of the other three was transferred to Hea Dingley late last another was to be released on bail and the third has resumed he school division arrive at tentative Accord negotiators for Winnipeg school Divi Sion and the Winnipeg teachers association have reached tentative agree ment on a new Aubrey outgoing Sta Busi Ness said an arbitration Board hearing scheduled to Start yesterday has been postponed the Sta executive is expected to decide on acceptance of the proposed contract late next he Asper said Sta negotiators Are recommending teachers accept the new offer from the school but he John free press refused to say what the proposed agree ment division teachers Back to school students Asper said plans Call for teachers to be consulted before the Sta executive decides whether to accept the Winnipeg division teachers now make an average of about a the last contract expired Winnipeg division teachers went to arbitration last in search for Clear Winnipeg police have used a hypnotist to obtain information from two wit Nesses that might help them find Paul the Man who mysteriously Dis appeared last week while on his Way to fees depot cd said the hypnotist was Able to extract certain facts from the witnesses subconscious me Mories which will be used to help piece together the pulling in previous police have had mixed results with it was successful from the Point that they had greater Deparcq said in an interview was list seen leaving Home at about l for his Job on the Midnight shift at Labatti Mani cum m t when he didst wife and her bit the Suft looking commercial Plata on a few Hundred metres North of the in blood stains which match dears blood Type were found about two metres North of the police also found traces of blood on the the use of a hypnotist follows several Days m intense investigation into ease a number of have including the placement of fid lift Volkswagen at the site of the blood stains at Kirver police also set up in the Tafet and Jues toned people at an intensive search of the area was lift launched before it was suspended although Deparcq wont say How Many people have been Dometis of people have Given Staten anti to they include some of dears fellow workers As Well As people who say they May have witnessed some thing on Keewatin on the night of the police have still failed to determine whether Clear s Ante was planned or simply the result of a spontaneous once we establish we will have a better idea of where to be porch Deparcq says the department knows much More about the circumstances surrounding the incident than it did last week weve still got a Lont Way to but Ive got a better idea of what happened at the scene than 1 Deparcq a Sittnan police team will continue to work on the compiling mation that May Lead to a Lead cleanup workmen wearing special protective suits manoeuvre a giant vacuum cleaner around to suck up Lead concentrations yesterday on the North Side of Weston school at 1410 Logan the cleanup which will be completed was ordered by Manitoba environment minister Gary Filmon after hazardous Lead Levels were discovered in the groups Hope for More Aid by Ingeborg Boyens Manitoba museum and heritage groups Are keeping their fingers crossed that the recommendations of a government advisory group will be acted heritage spokesmen contacted yesterday said it was about time the provincial government provided in creased funding to their the released last said the province should increase its tons to heritage organizations by 10 per cent each Over and above for the next three the heritage working group found that Manitoba stands eighth among the provinces in per capita funding and in actual Money the report also called on the province to establish a heritage similar to the Manitoba arts Council that would disperse funds and oversee the operations of museums in the prov Hopes for spending increase the Manitoba museum of Man and the Winnipeg Art the provincial archives and about 120 Small Community museums would be governed by the Joann executive director of heritage said she would be delighted if spending were in i thought we were 10th on the she referring to Manitoba Posi Tion in the spending Ernie executive director of the Manitoba arts said experience with the cultural Council has shown that the concept of a separate funding body the companies themselves tended to feel that they wanted support from arms length that was free of a political Stegant he said cultural organizations have Long urged that tax dollars rather than lottery funds be used to finance their Stegant said cultural and heritage organizations should not be subject to the vagaries of a Roger director of the Winnipeg Art gallery and a member of the working said the proposed com Mission would have More responsibility than the Manitoba arts a commission has Teeth and would set standards and evaluate the operations of various heritage he Selby said the Art gallery was appropriately included in the list of organizations to be governed by the proposed heritage the findings of the cultural policy review commission last year recommended the gallery be funded by the Manitoba arts we Are museum like All of the other said we just happen to feature Selby said the proposed heritage commission would Aid Small Community museums by offering them Finan Cial design advice and display could use More Money now if they ask we Are Happy to do what we but if it is More it will be a part of our re said Eugene a director of the mennonite Village museum in Stein said every Community museum could use More Money and Derkson said it is impossible for a museum to keep its budgets balanced by counting on admission but he said he didst think heritage organizations should expect too much from i dont know How much Money a government has he dim Secretary treasurer for the Gimli icelandic said his museum also survive on admission any increased funding would be used to preserve an important cultural Heri he Tom administrative director of the Manitoba museum of Man and said the museum received a Grant from the province in but along with other the museum has been feeling the Pinch of inflation and rising and expansion plans have been put on he Nickle said the establishment of a heritage commission would Likely mean budget submissions could receive More and there would be improved coordination Between Vari Ous organizations in the the commission could be a disadvantage in that there would be another level of bureaucracy Between the museum and the he provincial archivist John Bower said he agreed that a thorough study of the archives in Manitoba should be con he said he under stand Why the report suggested the records of the provincial government should be maintained in holdings Sepa rate from the Manitoba i dont think the archives is ble in that he we really see Public and private records As a Doobie liner flight rental fees Sweet music to Veteran aviator Doobie liner Pilot Sam Stewart left flys Miles on tour with famed Rocka droll by John Mcmanus the Doobie liner roared out of Winnipeg yesterday with Veteran Pilot Sam Stewart continuing his nine year stint As airborne chauffeur for the Rock and Roll band warming up his Martin 404 at Winnipeg International Airport for the next leg of the Doobie Brothers annual Mayto november tour after a show Here sunday said the group has become a fixture of his Monarch aircraft nine years ago he had the air plane parked on a ramp at Long Beach Airport when a Man came by and asked if he was available to Fly a Rocka droll ill Fly anybody on legitimate Busi Ness As Long As they keep paying the tall los Angeles Pilot now one of stewarts three twine gained Martins has the Popsie user inscribed on its Forward fuselage and the groups logo of its stewarts goes along As flight Atten the 44seat Martin has been customized to hold allowing plenty of recreation and sleeping space for the Stewart said the Martin is Ideal for the bands dates in Small centres be cause it can take off and land on Short has its own Teardrop stairway and carries an auxiliary Generator for air conditioning and other comforts when Power is not available at Small skyrocketing prices who has been flying for 23 said the Doobie liner about 200 to 300 hours a this translates into about Miles seven months of touring and costs tie boobies Between and Stewart said the group used to Fly More than they do now but Cut Back when fuel prices they added a couple of which stewarts firm also before hooking up with the Stewart took on a variety of flying including flying cargo to Vietnam when the was locked in to that ill fated even though Hes a Middle aged member of the Rocka droll Stewart prefers to talk about particularly the Stewart began flying the plane during a fou year stint with Pacific airlines after serving the air he liked the Martin so much that he bought u when be left the the Pilot has owned 10 of the twine Piston driven planes since then and now has three in his charter Stewart lays the plane has not been produced since when the last of 105 wits rolled off the Assembly line of the Martin company in Stewart said the plane was flown by such notable airlines As Howard Hughes Twa and Eastern before u was replaced by turboprops and ;