Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba To at 35 thirty five years ago to was a big Deal in Winnipeg Coin to town Rural residents Are travelling farther to do their with harmful effects on local merchants moving moving from one House to another is a big step 747 wants out Jet defence Man Fredrik Olausson wants to play in Sweden next year weather sunny today 19 Clear tonight 1 Cloudy tomorrow 12 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 7 Index Ann 67 16 53 27 53 22 29 72 Jumble 58 Jumble 58 23 35 news and 67 17 3 the provincial 3147881 doubled bypass list cited in deaths door wait hit Fiji air to off Zairl oof by Nick Martin Manitoba is forcing heart patients to wait until there at deaths door before receiving vital bypass a leading heart surgeon charged both the waiting list and the waiting period for a heart bypass at the health sciences Centre have doubted since May said James head of cardiac sur Gery at people who Are on a waiting list for heart surgery Are at the risk of dying of heart i dont think that Par Rott last we had six people die on the waiting Parrott said the waiting list at the health sciences Centre has doubled in a year to 90 persons from 45 and the average waiting period for surgery to eight months from the surgeons Are available to reduce the waiting list to eight weeks or he but Manitoba lacks sufficient support services such As intensive care nurses and adequate recovery facilities to handle More he estimated it would Cost million a year to Cut the waiting period to eight he the problem int limited to heart bypass virtually every Spe Fialty has unacceptable waiting Liberal health critic Gulzar Cheema Kildonan said yesterday he will pursue the problem in the legislature after receiving Calls from several patients its causing a lot of stress to the patients and their Cheema they need it health minister Don Orchard was unavailable but Deputy minister Franklin Maynard said that waiting lists have to be seen in the patients Are and if they become there its up to the judgment of the doctors in Parrott want buying that its immoral to make that patient wait at deaths door until he gets were reduced to doing emergency and urgent being stable often Means a patient is disa bled by cardiac disease or his mobility is limited by some patients who have been on the waiting list for More than a year cannot work because of their heart Parrott its not a situation unique to see patient Page 4 free press May 1989 final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 free press vol 117 n0175 Wayne free press rhythmic gymnastic students from Assiniboine South school division demonstrate hoop exercises during a display yesterday at the legislative build a ing to kick off National fit week which runs until june More than including three bands took part in the director dwindling loss cited in dismissal by Donald Campbell Manitoba theatre Centre has fired artistic director Rick Mcnair after experiencing the worst season at the Box office since 1972 and losing More than last in a Surprise the Mac Board of directors has named 34yearold Steven schip per to replace Mcnair abandoning the conventional procedure of establishing a search committee and interviewing Mcnair and Schipper were informed of the boards decision we had an interview with Schipper official disheartened by Glen Mackenzie the free press Sunshine funds coordinator is keeping her fingers crossed that an unexpectedly Low number of donations this week resulted from the Victoria Day holi Day and delays in the it was really said Mhairi i dont want to use a lot of negative terms and seem ungrateful to those who we appreciate it very but it was a disheartening Haugh said donations came to Only although they pushed the total Over the hurdle to this is a Long Way from the goal organizers have set in Hopes that every qualified applicant will get a the Money donated thus far has placed 186 Haugh but another 130 Are stranded on the waiting list hoping needed Sunshine fund funds will come through for Haugh said that at this Point in the fundraising Campaign last had come in with 217 children this is the Lith year of the and every one of the qualified children who applied for a camper ship in the first 10 years got Haugh said she Hopes donors will come through As they did every year in the first 10 to make sure no child who wants a camper ship is stuck in the City All she said the value of the program reveals see pupils Page 4 a very Long interview and he conducted himself said Susan pres ident of the Mac at a hastily called news conference there Are Many of us on the Mac Board who have been through two or three searches in the and it was determined that we dont think we have Ever seen an individual who presented himself As Well As Steven Schipper could not be reached for com ment last the the first for Mac in eight creates very serious financial difficulties for the said treasurer Doug Sher we will need a highly focused action Sherwood we will review every facet of the theatres operation to make sure things Are done More efficiently and More Cost effectively at every level of the the theatre has suffered from dwindling season ticket sales for the last five general manager Zaz Bajon last year the theatre Drew subscribers to the Down from 198788 and from the theatres record year in 1983 were not saying that All of the problems Are Mcnairs said skin who acknowledged the Board of directors approved All the plays selected by Mcnair for macs two the artistic director is responsible for see Mac Page 4 grip on siege thousands quit protest in Beijing from the news services Beijing thousands of students had All but abandoned Tiana men Square by late last leaving the Central Plaza looking its empties in 13 some students voted earlier to continue their protest in the but with Only a few thou Sand it appeared the Tiana men siege had lost much of its senior chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping advanced his Campaign yesterday to isolate his while More troops deployed around Beijing and the student pro democracy move ment that sparked an unprecedented citizens uprising appeared to split and martial Law remains in although most of the City has returned to near More than soldiers from across China surround far More than Deng needs to Cope with the student according to chinese and Western it is believed that some of the More recently arrived troops were brought in because Deng feels they will neutralize the army units that he suspects were disloyal and opposed the imposition of martial Law last saturday amid a Power struggle in chivas communist party chief Zhao Ziyang was said by diplomats to be under mounting pressure from the politburo to resign his stripped of his Powers after he opposed mar tial has been reported to be under House arrest in Beijing Northern out skirts for the last eight Deng is believed to be building a Case against that the party chief was conspiring to overthrow the government and pursued policies opposed to socialism and the communist but diplomats said Deng and his ally pre Mier i Peng Are reluctant to brutally purge Zhao or formally announce his removal from Power for fear that it might result in new similar to ones in which More than 1 million people marched through the streets of Beijing to Call for democracy and to Block the movement of troops sent in to see revolutionaries Page 4 condom tossing kills election bid by Allison Bray a pair of Kelvin High school students say their political careers Are washed up after being ousted from student Council elections for throwing condoms into a crowd during their Campaign speech promoting Safe Nat running for student Council said teachers pulled the Micro phones on him and running mate Mike Thies sen thursday after the pair Flung a handful of condoms into the Grade 12 crowd to dramatize see students Page 4 jilted Developer resorts to fowl plan by Janet Mcfarland Developer Wally Arndt gave an Ultima Tum to the residents of a West Paul subdivision support his plans to build a 40home housing project next or get baby geese As their new Arndt says he didst get a single response to the april 7 letter he sent to residents of so his Goose farm is expecting goslings to arrive next the Issue has blown into a feud in which Arndt is taking on the Paul provincial politicians and area we dont want our Community to be All screwed up with stink and property owner John Adam you dont want to be blackmailed into something or forced into resident Vince Burr All it did was antagonize the All he did was make it worse than it was before the barns for the geese Are being built just across a private Road about the Width of an Alley the Back Yards of Homes on Horham Arndt said he spent four years trying to get approval for a housing development on the thin stretch of land Between main Street and the red offering the Council five different solutions and spending for a requested engineering Only to have its findings he finally gave up and committed himself to a farm and says its too late to Back they called me a but i didst blackmail he i had to made a commitment by april 13 for the now they have to live with Ive got the Money tied Reeve Linda Mcdonald said Arndt first came to Council 18 months ago with a proposal for Cit Type lots with no provision for sewer or it was rejected because it did not comply with several municipal Arndt drafted a second plan with the help of an Engineer a requirement for anyone pro posing a development but has never presented it to Mcdonald Arndt has circulated it to area Mcdonald said she has seen it and it still does not comply with for the municipality wants lots to be or about half an acre while amt is proposing on fifth to on third acre the municipality wants roads to be 99 feet wide to accommodate not the 50 to 66 feet proposed by Arndt said the same rules were not enforced in the municipality newest Lis ter which has 66foot roads and smaller Mcdonald said the lots Are still much larger than those proposed by Arndt and the Council wants wider roads because of the numerous problems it has had with the narrow ones in Lister one Day he came into the municipal office and suggested he was going to go into a Goose Mcdonald see officials Page 4 ;