Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1983 3 convicted rapist into 14th Day of fast to Force Case review by Kevin Prokosh convicted rapist John James is into his 14th Day of a hunger strike at heading Ley jail and vows not to eat until the Federal Justice minister launches an investigation into the propriety of the verdict reached by the jury in his in in Here for the former head of the greater Winnipeg Indian Council said in an in starting to fight Back to protest my he this is full slate Forl Cec predicted by Tom Goldstein the Independent citizens election committee Hopes to run a full slate of candidates in this Falls municipal elec Tion and regain control of City says caucus chairman Charles councillor for Pembina said in a weekend interview the Long time municipal coalition of liberals and conservatives Hopes to run Candi dates in All 29 wards As an alternative to the new democratic he said All of the dozen current 1cec councillors plan to seek reelection this although some May change their minds during the next few the ice elected 12 councillors in the 1980 general losing the majority it had held for several it lost another seat 14 months ago when Independent Bob Douglas won a Bye Lection in Stevenson the control of the Allim portent committee chairmanships last fall when nip and Independent councillors teamed up to put their nominees in those a Deal with the independents in the fall of 1981 allowed the ice to retain control of All but one of the committee rumours denied Birt said there have been rumours about an ice plan to but they Are he said the group had been considering various options for the including the possibility of packing it but it was we decided to keep on building a Good he he said the caucus has not selected any Nonice wards As targets to Zero in Birt said it is too Early to Tell How Many seats the caucus might win this but he thinks inroads can be made in the inner City wards currently dominated by the Veteran nip councillor Alan wades near defeat in regaining his party nomination in notre Dame indicates the ice May have a Chance to extend its influence from the suburbs to the downtown he i think its the personality rather than the political Label that he Birt said the ice will Iok for candidates with a broader View of the rather than those who Are concerned solely with their individual he said he thinks the caucus will continue along the More progressive path it has followed during the past few although he would not reject the possibility the ice might choose some traditional righting Candi you need Good but you need Good people who can he my Only recourse to bring attention to James began serving his sentence of two years less a Day March 28 after Manitoba court of Appeal dismissed an Appeal of his since he has refused All consumes Only vitamins prescribed by his doctor and drinks fluids every fourth Ive decided ill Start eating when in out of Here on he said from an interview room at the he has resorted to fasting As a result of his belief that to achieve great Good or overcome a great obstacle a person must give up something for me its he last James was found guilty of raping a Little grand rapids woman in a Motel room after the two members of the Fourman jury told the free press they believed was innocent but Felt pressured by other jurors to go along with the major Ity one of the woman jurors said she was not fully informed of the options and was not aware the jury could bring in a split decision and she could hold a dissenting i know the jury members who spoke out displayed a lot of courage and jeopardized their own lives by saying this Man is said they got me but something went wrong in my theres More to it than what the Public Federal Justice minister Mark Macguigan is being approached to look into the deliberations of the jury by Jamess Stephen if the minister he can intervene James free press hairy experience have Vearold Danielle Unger appears fascinated by Dummy Heads used to train hairstyling students at red River Community the hirsute Heads were among the Many displays set up for the colleges open House which ended lower prices Spur vegetable sales huge onion surpluses wont have to be official says despite facing tight Export Manitoba vegetable growers will not be forced to dump millions of kilo Grams of onions and says Ken head of the Manitoba vegetable producers marketing All the onions and potatoes from last years crop currently in storage will Likely be Mclean massive dumping had been feared because of Large surpluses of the two crops and a Lack of potential but the products have begun to move because growers have accepted lower Mclean As he said Export markets in the East and Alberta Are beginning to open up and locally people have started to eat More a Portage la Prairie grower dumped about kilograms pounds of cooking onions at a Landfill site because the vegetables had begun to but Mclean said the onions were dumped Only because they were fro zen solid when they were stored and had deteriorated so As to be no longer no potatoes have been dumped yet and i doubt any will he Mclean estimated about 900 tonnes tons of last years onion crop update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free remain unsold and in an estimated tonnes tons of potatoes remain in the onions can last in storage until june and the potatoes until the end of Mclean Escaper now in custody a teenager who bolted from his grandfathers funeral last month after being released from the Manitoba youth Centre to attend is Back in but his Joann says she has still received no apology from the Centre or the childrens Aid society Over an incident in which family Mem Bers made unsuccessful attempts to have the boy released from custody to go see his dying we never heard a word from any its Par for the she it would have been Nice if they could have said relatives complained to the press last month that officials failed to move fast enough to have the 15year old released from the youth Centre in time to see his dying Peter Hung on to life during the night in the Misericordia hospitals intensive care Ward after suffering a heart attack and asked to see his relatives called the agencies in an attempt to have the boy but the elderly Man died Early the next after the boy ran from the relatives said he was upset seeing his dead Grandfather in an open casket and not speaking to him before his party still leaderless it May be some time before Manitoba liberals pick a new Leader for the which failed to win a seat in the 1981 provincial party president Diana Ryback says the executive is shoring up the party finances and is not looking for a Leader at the the executive feels that until party finances Are on firmer they cannot ask anyone to take since the party the amount of which Ryback would not has been i party officials have said they need about to pay a Leader salary and another to cover travel and other the party has been without a Leader since Doug Lauchlan resigned in june taxes will pay rockers Public funds will pay a Deposit to the Queen City kids Rock band after school in a controversial Deci cancelled a noon hour concert at a Steinbach High school last the full Cost is borne by the Divi said Hanover school division Secretary treasurer Francis an equal amount of the Money will come from the school and the division Board chairman Albert Loewen has said the concert was cancelled because the bands music promoted drug sex and students reacted angrily to the Deci Sion last parading Down the main Street of the Southeast Manitoba town Ami around the school boards they then marched on local businesses in search of about 550 tickets at each had been sold for the in the Case and direct a new James said he believes if the minis Ter has any sense of Justice and if the charter of rights Means the authorities will not Dill Dally around before they order a he said he has written his Jake the provinces Only native Elijah and the Manitoba association for rights and liberties in the Hope they would urge the minister to launch a prompt review of his every Day in Here is a lost his six children Are suffering and it he to hear they Are Are being teased at school daddy is a As much As he wants to see his he said he will wait until he is i dont want any of my kids to see me like this in he said he was disappointed and depressed after his Appeal after one Day in the general population he was told by jail officials of a death threat against him which caused him to be moved to protective this has destroyed my he it seems so late in the game to Start fighting review urged of remand jails for women by Glen Mackenzie the provincial Council of women of Manitoba wants a citizens task Force set up to look at the need for More remand centres for in a Brief to be presented today to the Manitoba the Council says women remanded in custody for any period of time Are sent to the Portage correctional leaving family supports and ties Cut off at a time when the woman most needs family reassurance and it also says the distance Between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie could make the crucial client lawyer Contact More and could pro Hibit adequate Legal Long discussed establishment of a new remand Centre for who Are now housed in Winnipeg Public safety building or at Portage la has been discus sed for Pat Community services supervisor with the John Howard and Elizabeth Fry said million of the provinces proposed Job creation fund is intended for a Winnipeg remand Park said in an interview that while this is desirable in one there is a tendency that the bigger you make the More people end up if you have a lot of they gel Jeff a Winnipeg said that ideally a goo Quality remand Centre be built in he said in an interview he knows some women have pleaded guilty to get out of the Portage Centre since remand time is dead time which does not always count As time Gindin said the limited facilities in the Public safety build where women on remand can be also encourages guilty he confirmed that women in the Portage remand Centre have Access problems with saying one is that Legal Aid does not usually pay expenses for a Winnipeg lawyer to make the Noelle Portage correctional Centre said four of the centres 40 places Are reserved for women on although none Are being used by them the Centre has accommodated As Many As six women on re Mand at one she deslauriers said in an interview critics always talk about the distance to ignoring the longer Dis Tances to Dauphin and other cities without remand she said she expects lawyers Tell judges about the hardships a woman faces if sent to Portage la Prairie on so judges know this when deciding whether to Send them deslauriers also said she doubts Giddins statement that some women plead guilty just to end their remand because these women All have some Access to lawyers and talk to them about their Las bankruptcy bid called mockery Brandon West la Henry Carroll has lived extravagantly despite filing for according to Docu ments filed with Manitoba court of Queens according to the pre pared by bankruptcy car Roll has spent Large amounts of Money on clothing and a foreign Holiday while not attempting to make any payments to his As the inspectors say Carroll is spending a month on a new House he is building in an exclusive area on the outskirts of he already owns a House in that court documents show the total Cost of the new House and lot is a Brandon filed for bankruptcy last listing liabilities of and assets of he earns a year As an the documents filed with the court minutes of a february meet ing of bankruptcy inspectors say Carroll appears to be making a mockery of the bankruptcy the inspectors say they oppose car Rolls application for bankruptcy on the grounds it was caused by an unjustifiable extravagance of in an interview Carroll called the allegations in the inspectors reports unfounded and maintained he had not broken any bankruptcy the la said the reports were pre pared by inspectors retained by the two creditors who stand to lose Money on his the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Royal naturally the Banks Are not very Happy with me and these two Young men let their Mouths flow off Carroll said of the the allegations simply cant be supported in a court in front of a will seek Legal advice Carroll said he will seek Legal advice on the reports this he said he considers them to be in an affidavit filed with the Carroll says his Mother and mothering Law were prepared to finance part of the Cost of his new a motion has been filed by bankruptcy trustee Kelleher re questing a court order to apply part of Carrolls salary toward his Kelleher confirmed yesterday the re ports were prepared by ban appointed he also confirmed the Banks might receive nothing because of the preferred status of Carrolls third the Federal taxation depart which has to be satisfied before other creditors get Money owed Carroll says in the affidavit his bankruptcy was caused by bad Busi Ness he says he has been asked by his partners to leave the Law firm of Mullally and he also says the Law society of Manitoba has restricted his ability to prac Tise Law because of his financial prob lems and he will be unable to carry on in his elected in 1981 for the nip in Brandon quit the party after twice being passed Over for a Cabinet and now sits As an a Date for Carrolls bankruptcy hearing has not been minister denies charges health minister Larry Desjardins has denied charges there will be no outside involvement in the provinces examination of mental health ser in an interview in saturdays free Bill Martin of the Canadian mental health associations Manitoba Branch expressed fears govern ment would make major financial and policy decisions affecting mental health without Public he called for information sessions throughout the province to obtain pub Lic Desjardins said the committee he established recently to look at the provinces mental health system includes representation from the mental health the social planning Council of Winnipeg and Manitoba health organizations Desjardins said Martins charges Are he said he expects a report from his committee in about two months while no Public hearings Are anyone who wants to is Welcome to submit Martins comments came in the Wake of a nationwide Survey saying Canadas mental health system is chronically he said Manitoba is about 25 years behind Desjardins said he was not familiar with the details of Saskatchewan sys tem i have enough problems worrying about he said despite having to endure the toughest economic period in the province has approved spending million on additional mental health facilities at Selkirk and Desjardins also said this Money will not be spent unless it is determined this is the Best Way to he said the province Aims to Cut the number of institutionalized patients As much As possible without freeing those who should be kept in i ;