Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fogerty songwriter John Fogerty has recaptured the purity and vision of his Peak Days helicopter help West Germany nationwide emergency helicopter service has been credited with saving More than lives a year jets eras Sloppy and Winnipeg jets Are trounced 62 by Louis blues at the Winnipeg Arena Susanne Giesbrecht buries her slain mountie husband at a service attended by hundreds of officers weather sunny today 30 Clear tonight 27 sunny tomorrow 17 Sun rises Moon rises sets Index Ann 31 51 29 61 17 Jumble 65 Jumble 87 7 24 saturday 61 32 69 to 46 the win by Maureen Brosnahan a Winnipeg pharmacist has been found guilty of filling More than 755 phoney prescriptions to 48 fictitious patients which were called in to her by a doctors the pharmacist was negligent in failing to speak directly to the doctor to approve the Stewart registrar of the Manitoba pharmaceutical Assoc a the 755 phoney prescriptions in Ionedi i solved Ait estimated Wil Cox its the first time a Manitoba pharmacist has been charged with such aft said Rick Ney Ous drugs office in Wilcox said the pharmacist was fooled by the receptionist and for five years filled Oral forgeries for tonal Fin an amphetamine that is also used for weight the who used 48 different phoney patient names for the prescriptions and had renewed them by phone was also her Case goes to trial next Wilcox would not name the phar but said she received fines of and after being charged under the Federal food and drug the act requires that pharmacists speak directly to a doctor when refilling prescriptions for controlled drugs such As Lon Amin u he said the offence came to Light last year when a drug inspector noticed the pharmacy was filling a Large number of prescriptions for the which is not commonly Wilcox said further disciplinary action was not taken by the association against the the pharmacist did not do it in a criminal he she was just very this particular Case was very she the pharmacist got caught in a its the first time weve had a Case resulting from this Type of Wilcox said it is Likely that the same method has been used by others to obtain prescription drugs Brown said the Case is unusual because of the Large amount of drugs but the Basic offence has happened this is a very Safe Wilcox it can see incident Page 4 final january Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Winnipeg free press vol 113 no 42t tories to spare family allowances Ottawa up family allow ances and old age Security pensions will not be changed As a result of the Federal governments social policy health minister Jake Epp announced Epp said Cabinet had decided to maintain the two programs As they exist and had specifically rejected the idea of imposing special taxes on Wel Todo police say by Don Retson and David Obrien Winnipeg police have refused to explain How an officer failed to find the bound body of Candace Derksen when he searched an unlocked Lum Ber company Shack on crime Des Depourcq said yesterday there is no question the body of the 13yearold Elmwood girl was in the Shack when the officer searched fatal he said investigators had Gath ered a few things which indicate the body was there at the but Depourcq would not comment on Why the officer see the body in the by metre although he said the lumber property was within the perimeter of the search he also refused to say whether the officer actually went inside or peered in from the doorway of the which was located just 500 metres from the girls Home in a nonresidential area of Elmwood near the Nairn Avenue it appears for several reasons he see police Page 4 at no stage will the benefits be taxed he said in answer to a reporters he also promised that any Money saved from other changes in social policy would not be used to reduce the Federal that Means Sav Ings will have to be slowed Back into new or existing Epps announcement Narrows the Range of possibilities still open to the tories after the social detailed proposals will be made Public in a White paper being pre pared for release actual changes could be unveiled As Early As the budget speech tentatively set for late Epps comments were welcomed by spokesmen for both opposition parties in the Liberal pensions critic Doug Frith said it was obvious that opposition maps had an i think weve won the first he As far Asim concerned this is a Victory for the Liberal nip pensions critic Neil Young said Epps Promise about family allowances and old age pensions will be Good news for parents and pensioners who were worried about the governments they were flying a Kite to see which Way it would he the review was first announced in finance minister Michael Wilsons economic statement Wilson broached the idea of changes that would give More help to the poor and reduce the benefits to the later statements by Wilson in an interview with the Canadian press suggested much More sweeping changes were in the works and set off a series of attacks in the com Mons from the Epp said that Only a limited num Ber of options would be put Forward for discussion in the rewritten ver Sion of the White he would not say How Many options there would see income Page 4 Henry m Rebick at news conference at Corydon Avenue Chi xxi Yurii Avci Luc Ellilu Morgentaler visit to City draws few protesters 1 17 Kan Ai three patriots appointed As arms negotiators Washington a pres ident Reagan has named three Tough minded patriots Short on bargaining experience As negotiators to try to work out agreement with the soviet Union on reducing nuclear the three Are Max a conservative Democrat former Texas senator John a conservative Republican and career foreign service officer Maynard Kampelman will be in charge while also handling so called Star wars and other missile defence Tower will seek reductions in Long Range bomber air missiles and Glit Man will concentrate on nuclear weapons deployed in each one of these men is a Tough minded state Secre tary George Shultz said in announcing their appointment at the White House Tower replaces Edward who handled strategic negotiations until the talks broke Down in Decem Ber while Glitman takes Over for Paul who was in charge of the no suspended eur missile be see Reagan Page 4 by Bob Cox and Beth Mai in i Henry Morgentaler faced Only a few antiabortion protesters during a Stop in Winnipeg yes but he Doest expect his opponents Here to remain the crazy people Are a predict the Montreal doctor told re porters at a news Security was tight around the abortionist As he arrived at the visited his Corydon Avenue clinic and spoke to about 400 Well wishers last Winnipeg is the final Stop on Morgentaler five Day swing through Western Canada designed to win support for abortion clinics across the country and to raise Money for his Legal antiabortion activist Joe Borowski said yesterday Morgentaler was signing his own death certificate by confirming yesterday his Corydon Avenue clinic will reopen for abortions in i was shocked to hear the clinic will Borowski if he does open it then Hes risking his own the clinic has not performed abortions since june 1983 when police twice raided it and Laid since the clinic has provided testing and shortly after yesterdays an Borowski said a Man phoned him offering to any one who would get rid of Morgen Borowski said he didst inform police immediately because he wanted to meet with the Man first to determine if he was who has said Morgen Taler might be harmed if he came to has been warned by at Torney general Roland Penner that he could be charged with a criminal offence if he is linked with any physical attack on the Morgentaler said yesterday Mani Tobas nip government should get off its collective butt and implement party policy calling for govern men funded abortion Morgentaler also called on Penner to drop the abortion related charges against another doctor and a he repeated a request to health minister Larry Desjardins to de Clare his clinic a allowing it to perform abortions according to criminal code Penner said he must fulfil his duty to uphold the regardless of his personal it is not a duty that is assigned by he it is not a duty that is assigned by the province of Manito it is a duty assigned under the criminal code of Canada and the common see antiabortion Page 4 Phil free press firtion protesters picket at site of province raises farm loan rates despite plea us a Vul Joti by Fred Youngs the Manitoba governments farm credit Agency has raised some of its loan rates by two per despite new democratic party threats that private lenders must lower interest charges or face conservative Mia Brian Ransom said yesterday a Farmer in his constituency received a letter from the Manitoba agricultural credit telling him the interest rate on his mortgage was rising to 13 per cent from 11 per Ransom Turtle Mountain said the letter arrived tuesday same Day agriculture minister Bill Uruski warned Banks and other lenders the government would Intro Duce a debt adjustment Law if they didst Cut their rates on existing farm Loans to eight per Uruski also wants the lenders to limit far loan interest rates to the annual level of inflation plus three per political posturing he applied the same demands to the Federal farm credit which also chose tuesday to Cut its lending rates on existing Loans to per an angry Ransom accused the government of the hypocrisy of using Farmers financial problems for political the tory finance critic said the extra two per cent in interest will Cost the Farmer in his Riding another a while he had not seen other let Ransom said he has been told of similar this is just the worst level of hypocrisy we have seen this govern ment sink to he Uruski conceded the timing of his announcement and the arrival of the letters was in not very Happy about Uruski said the upward adjustment of Farmers rates is part of Lon term loan agreements signed by producers five years Ransom said the Farmer in his Riding took out a 30year loan in 1979 from the credit corporation under which the interest rate was to be adjusted every five he added that Many other Farmers who took out Loans in 1979 can expect to get or have already received Simi Lar letters from the the timing of the announcement and the interest increase will under mine the farm Community Confidence in he and pre Mier Howard Pawley should use a planned Cabinet shuffle to re move him from the follow suit the Boissevain area Grain Farmer who received the letter also criticized it does seem a Little said the who did not want to be he should Check his own House i Uruski said the province would be willing to reduce its interest rates on existing Loans if other lenders would agree to follow he said the Agency would be hard pressed to do so on its own because the province is bound by National interest rate As far As i am it has to be a Canad wide move to help save the family he Uruski rejected ransoms charges of saying the former tory government refused nip demands for a reduction in farm loan he noted the nip has already written Down Loans dropping rates to 13 per cent from a High of 17 per that move Cost the prov Ince Between million and million Over the life of the ;