Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, August 31, 1983

Issue date: Wednesday, August 31, 1983
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 August to enter pc race by Fred Youngs conservative la Gary Tilmon will announce today that he will run for the leadership of the Manitoba progressive conservative Tilmon is expected to make his candidacy official at a press conference sources would become the second candidate in the race to replace de parting conservative Leader Sterling Turtle Mountain la Brian Ransom already has announced his intention to seek the sources said Filmon has been using the current legislative recess to assess his chances and put together his Campaign they said the Tuxedo la expects to pick up support from Urban Dele Gates who might have backed Deputy conservative Leader Bud Sher who has no decided to seek the tory Federal nomination in fort Garry against transportation minister Lloyd one source said Filmon had some concerns about overlapping areas of support Between him and the Only two Urban tory Las expect guards want Evans to hear beefs failure to discipline heading Ley inmates following riot a sore Point by Brian Cole Filmon second candidate de to be on the slate for the 810 leadership convention in source said Sherman move did not affect Hilmons final Filmon has been polling Las and party members during the recess and has found Rural backing for his a source Filmon was first elected to the legis lature in an he served in the Lyon Cabinet As minister for consumer and corporate affairs and and also was responsible for the Manitoba housing and renewal he was reelected in the general election and is currently the opposition critic for a number of including Edu cation and the Union representing guards at heading Ley jail has called for a ing with corrections minister left Evans to resolve staff management at the Gary president of the a government employees Assoc a says he wants five ails to meet face to face with four stewards from the jail to get a feeling from the floor about problems at the the guards Are angry with manage ment for not supporting them and refusing to discipline inmates after a riot earlier this shortly after the a guard was struck by a Metal projectile fired by an inmate with a three guards refused to work in an area inside the jail partly because of the incident and were us the suspensions were subsequently appointments the government appointed two corrections department officials to senior management positions at the jail in an attempt to resolve the but the Union asked the government to appoint former jail superintendent Reg Forrester As interim saying he was better equipped to make decisions regarding discipline of inmates than Al doer said one of the major com plaints against management was the decision not to discipline inmates after the management said at the time it could not determine who instigated the incident and decided All prison efs should not be while doer said he agreed it was prefer Able to find the instigator s of the he maintained that some kind of punishment of the general population was at the very you be tripping Over your feet to replace the tvs a few Days after the he said in reference to the replacement of smashed television sets in the Leisure sections of the doer said he wants the meeting be cause he feels guards will become increasingly frustrated if the situation is left to while he stopped Short of suggesting that frustrated guards May discipline inmates their he its not a healthy situation if the staff is not backed they the guards get the feeling the inmates Are running the doer he noted that some of the staff Charles chairman of the in mates superintendent of the jail guards were angered particularly by a recent management decision to re move some razor wire around an exer Cise Yard guards said last year that because the razor positioned on top of the sports Field was not slanting out inmates could escape there have been i escapes from the which has a daily population of about in the last two with an unspecified number of inmates jumping the prison officials for a oneyear period ending last 31 inmates despite the guards concerns and the number of it want until Ruggles said the wire on the Fence was installed improperly that anything was done about doer police credit citizens help in arrests of nine suspects lottery funds sought for research by Murray Mcneill health minister Larry Desjardins said yesterday he would like to see More lottery revenues channelled to medical research in he said he plans to seek Cabinet approval for the but could offer no guarantees hell making a commitment at this and i cant do i Hope to improve the he 1 Desjardins comment came after the chairman of the Manitoba health re search Council warned that the prov Ince risks losing its Young medical re searchers to other provinces unless it beefs up Public Lyonel israels said Many other provinces spend millions of dollars More each year on medical research than he acknowledged that the province is operating under Tough financial constraints and Only established the health research Council a few years but he said funding must be increased if Manitoba Hopes to retain promising Young researchers in the in the 198182 fiscal Manitoba awarded about in medical re search that same year Quebec awarded Ontario Mil Alberta million and British Columbia israels Desjardins announced yesterday that the through the research has awarded in Grants for the 198384 fiscal the Money will be used to fund 43 research projects in such areas As stress infectious Bone marrow trans heart disease and Desjardins also noted that seven of the research projects will delve into social aspects of health and he said one of the criticisms levelled against the government in the past is that All the funding goes into clinical work and none into social the health minister said although he would love to spend millions each year on the government simply Doest have the Money unless it taps an expanding Revenue source such As a professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and executive director of the Manitoba cancer treatment and research said medical research is vitally important because it provides the underpin Ning for Good medical he said the health research Council received 179 applications for Grants totalling million this citizens have helped in the arrests of nine suspects in three recent crimes two holdups and a vicious assault on a 71yearold Elmwood police the elderly Man remains in Hospital in fair condition after five men forced him to Stop his car Early Friday at main Street and Jarvis then assaulted one of the attackers whipped the Man with a piece of link while others choked and kicked him on the he was left on the Road with cuts and swelling to most of his head and police witnesses followed the five men to an Austin Street House and notified the All Between 21 and were arrested a Short time later and jointly charged with aggravated As the oldest of the suspects also was charged with possessing a weapon dangerous to the Public peace and choking to overcome on a Man with a Nylon stocking mask confronted a clerk at Empire drugs on Selkirk Avenue about while an accomplice armed with a handgun demanded the refused and the thieves grabbed bottles of cough medi Cine from the drug during the the gunman pointed his weapon at a 17yearold female clerk and a customer and ordered them to lie on the witnesses followed the thieves to a Parr Street they called to who arrested three suspects and recovered the stolen two men and a woman were jointly charged with robbery and using a firearm in the commission of an of one Man also was charged with using a later a 51yearold Man standing at Portage Avenue and har grave Street was approached by an other pedestrian who asked him for a when the Man the Man pulled out a Butcher knife and stole four cigarettes and from bystanders followed the suspect to main Street and Alexander Avenue and summoned a 19yearold Man was arrested and charged with robbery 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