Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january police actions criticized by Maureen Murray a macs convenience store oper Ator says he was reprimanded by police for activating a Security alarm when three Young people caused a disturbance Early yester Day what is the use of having an alarm system if the police Are going to discourage you from using it Bob Wilson said if i feel threatened i should be Able to push the panic who runs the store at Cumberland Avenue and Carlton said he set off the alarm after two teenage girls and an older male began causing a com motion in the store when he tried to Stop one of the girls from shoplift Wilson said she shouted obscenities and pounded his Chest when he locked the front door to prevent her from leaving with a Large bag of potato chips she haunt paid she was with two friends and i was afraid the situation was going to so i pushed the but when the police came they acted As if i were in the wrong and just let the three of them Wilson he said police treated the Situa Tion lightly and didst even ask for his name or the name of a customer who witnessed the Wilson said the police officers spoke briefly to the three outside the store and then released All they said to me is there seems to be a difference of opinion and then they didst even ask if i wanted to press the message the police gave those Young people is that if we convenience store operator can get away with it once we can get away with it Wilson but staff Buchko said police made an agreement with managers of the various convince stores throughout the City that the alarm system would be used Only in a life threatening or extremely dangerous Bob Wilson says police treated situation he said two officers came to his store yesterday afternoon after a representative from the macs Chain called and complained about How the situation was they the officers asked me to write out and explain what Hap including How the officers who were at the scene Buchko said depart ment is conducting a study to determine How Many alarm Calls they receive which turn out to be of a less serious he said the incident is still being Wilson accused the police of attempting to cover their Wilson ores official says bands cheques intended to stay in Community without Bank continued from Page 1 acknowledged yesterday welfare cheques issued to band members total More than the Indian affairs the allotment is approximately a month and we exceed that Moore adding he was unsure of the he said the stores should not Forward the cheques to the bands Bank for they should accept cheques Only up to the limit of their allotment from Indian affairs and turn away other welfare the stores Are not supposed to remit those cheques at he those cheques Arent supposed to leave Norway theres a direct payment paid to the stores from Indian affairs for a certain its up to the stores store wide savings on Winnipeg largest selection of waterbeds and water bedroom furniture All All every every on Sale example the Osborne Tea 6 drawer Pedestal extra we service All waterbed product regardless of where twas Mastercard and Cash gratefully or use a convenient floating ecstasy James Street i the Arena that accept our cheques not to exceed this he refused to speculate on what might happen when those recipients who would be left out found they could not Cash their cheques any where in the which Doest have a Emil operations director for the was unaware the band was issuing rub Ber but he said he would look into the Low said the which has two stores at Norway and a local furniture and appliance Mowat sales also Are owed Money because of psf Bay spokesman George Whitman say How much it is owed while Terry Mowat of Mowat sales discuss the situation for fear of reprisals by the we rent space from the Reserve and i cant really Mowat we dont want to get removed from if we had our own build it would be Oliver who operates a garage at Norway said he Doest accept welfare cheques be cause of the problem of Low said he believes the problem is due to mismanagement by both Indian affairs and the i often feel that Indian affairs dont even know whats going athletes drug use increasing continued from Page 1 Priman ded two City doctors who were found to be prescribing Anabo Lic steroids and growth hormones to the Case was discovered when claims for the drugs were submitted to As a the College told Doc tors they should not prescribe these drugs for athletes because athletic enhancement is not a legitimate medical Wayne director of sports Medicine at Winnipeg Reh fit said the colleges direct Ive has virtually dried up the drugs Legal causing the Black Market to several experts agreed that it is not unusual to see some athletes going around from gym to gym offering these drugs for As use of the drugs has become socially acceptable among they sometimes you can even catch them shooting themselves in the locker one athlete Hildahl said most of the drugs Are brought Here from the United states and an athlete who has been involved in bodybuilding for several years said Many Young athletes Are pres sure into using the drugs in order to compete against especially in f k it v v 9 Manitoba rated too Small for major contract continued from Page 1 keep Hydro rates below annual inflation Filmon said Manitoba is cant be reassured by that if that weans that some of Hydro costs Are going to be off loaded on to some of the tax reve Nues of the then that is still a Burden that has to be borne by Filmon provincial taxpayers already Are propping up Money losing Crown corporations such As flyer Indus tries Mckenzie seeds and Manitoba forestry he Filmon and Enns said they believe the Limestone project is desirable for the future of the province and agree the neb probably will approve the american they said the Board May reject government arguments for advancing the construction Date and Pawle May be sidestep that Parasiuk and a spokesman for the Manitoba heavy construction association said Manitoba firms will not get the major contract because they do not have the expertise or capability for such a Large we have really come to the conclusion that really nobody in Mani even if we All got could tackle Kitwe just Haven got the expertise and the Bill executive director of the construction said yes Jar Rand said a japanese conglomerate and several firms have looked at the project Parasiuk said Manitoba Content in subcontracts and for supplies will be a Factor in determining the win Ning although no pricing preferences Are to be Given on that Manitoba firms Haven asked for a Price he they have asked for the Opportunity to get in and make their he said the specifications for the tendering Are tailored to give Mani Toba suppliers that As he training pro Grams be put in place to ensure that particularly North Erners and will get a Good share of the direct jobs the project is expected to native groups and Federal Northern affairs department ear Lier expressed concerns that advancing the project would not allow enough time for training programs to produce the required Filmon and Enns also expressed concern that the speedup in construction May shut out northerners and natives from jobs by not allow ing enough time to train them in the required Gervin spokesman for the Winnipeg construction Assoc a said last night the jobs created by the project when it is in full swing and its spinoffs could reduce unemployment among Manitoba construction workers by up to 10 per there Are construction work ers unemployed in the he former guards face trials continued from Page 1 Corley was a guard at Headin Giey at the time of his arrest last april another former heading Ley John resigned two weeks before he was charged in in the same Smiths trial on a charge of trafficking in cocaine also is guard Dennis Ross Lavi Neway was fired 23 after being convicted of assaulting a heading Ley two months another correctional officer was investigated by police in the theft of food from the Vaughan Street Bock said the Crown stayed charges against the officer for unknown reasons and he has stride resigned from the earlier this a heading Ley jail counsellor was suspended for two weeks without pay for allowing an inmate and his wife to have sex in his presence at the last a heading Ley guard was suspended for 14 Days without pay after passing a note to the visiting wife of an inmate Sug Gesting they have Bock con guard Vern Hunt booked off sick one weekend and went to North Dakota on his he was hit by flying gravel from a truck and a civil suit is under Bock Hunt was suspended for two weeks without pay for lying about his Bock the spokesman in the corrections department said efforts Are being made to clean up the there have been a lot of things wrong within the corrections sys he the Garson report on Manito Bas corrections system suggested some things like this were going but there is a new management team in there and the act is being cleaned Arctic Bubble slides slowly Over Atlantic easing conditions continued from Page 1 cleared a state of emergency Yeter Day because of two nights of record Low temperatures that have Des troyed or damaged sugar vegetables and other crops throughout the the governor said he was adjust ing weight restrictions on trucks carrying Citrus and sugarcane so growers can take their crops to processing plants As soon As Possi he said the state will provide whatever assistance we but warmer air moved into the Northern states As the Bubble of Arctic air Slid slowly out Over the in the temperature surged to yesterday morning at Benton Harbor and Oscoda and hit in port Flint had a record Low of just two Days i imagine the people who went to Florida for vacation Are said David a weather service forecaster at Ann snowfall abated to squalls yester Day at after a storm monday that fuelled itself with Mois Ture from Lake Erie and blocked roads with about one metre of Fluffy new York Mario Cuomo declared a state of emergency yester Day in Genesee and Niagara Al lowing for state assistance in Snow emergency a 215kilometre Section of the new York state thruway was closed All Day monday from near Rochester to the Pennsylvania state line and 105 Kilometres remained closed Day from Lackawanna to Testate trucker Elmer slate said he had been stranded since saturday at South of Lackawanna on the Crews resumed work to Clear the runways at buffaloes Airport yester but Airport officials did not know when flights will resume As wind kicked up the one problem is getting the ment out but then once youre out everything is so the trucks be Able to see each said Robert Airfield shelters took in homeless people or those whose Homes we rent heated from Florida to the great generals face trial for murder continued from Page 1 stairway by soldiers who were escorting him off his China airlines plane from Taipei and that both he and Galman were killed in a Mili tary the real work is about to Fernandez said after formal charges were filed before a special court organized by Marcos to try cases against government a former senator and Leader of the Liberal was widely considered the oppositions Best Chance to unseat Marcos in elections scheduled for Marcos has been in Power since Fernandez said he was aware that Many people would like to have seen Marcos accused of plotting the crime because his close association with ver and his Iron grip on the government made it impossible for a plot to have been hatched without his i dont care whether or not the decision is popular As Long As i am Fernandez there was no immediate comment from who cancelled a speech to a local civic sponsors said they were told the who is on leave from his military command was called to the presiden tial Palace a few hours before the charges were ;