Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo getting serious a new Bruce Willis is trying to become a serious actor 31 business loan boost Western diversification fund Aid to nine Manitoba firms carries a potential of 106 new jobs 21 Pokey Reddick is looking Forward to a fresh Start As an Oiler after being shipped out by the jets Clear tonight 6 sunny tomorrow 19 second class Beo Straton number oj86 september 1989 Voli 17no 297 free press Sun rises sets 1 Moon rises sets out de Winnipeg weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg out de Winnipeg Home delivery 957o550 claimed 9562330 police chief links Low staff morale to native inquiry by Lisa priest Winnipeg police Force is suffer ing from a morale problem which has intensified since the aboriginal Justice inquiry began delving into the fatal shooting of chief Herb Stephen every member of the depart from the executive Down to the feels Stephen told a news conference perhaps when the commission ers take a break to write their things will get Back to nor Stephen made the comments yesterday at a joint news conference with Winnipeg police association president John who denied earlier statements that he called for the chiefs Stephen said he was confident Campbell would Tell him first if the association president was demand ing his in very confident that he would have come to me he certainly there has been a morale problem and has been since the arbitration hearings began last Stephen acknowledged officers made various mistakes during the shooting of the native but he did not i know that there will be some mistakes that come out and More May and weve corrected some of he native Leader John Joseph Harper was shot dead in a scuffle with a police Constable on a North Winnipeg Street in March 1988 after he was mistaken for a car theft sus in an interview Ste see Stephen Page 4 Happy new year after a Short ceremony by rabbi Henry these 20 their sins in preparation for Rosh the jewish Grade 6 students from Ramah hebrew school threw bread new that begins at Sundown the Holiday crumbs into the Assiniboine River to signify casting away begins the 10 High holy Days that end with yom quadriplegic plans bar ramp after award upheld by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa one of the first things Donald Watkins is going to do with his million is build a wheelchair ramp into a Winnipeg its not a its the final judgment on a 13 year old Van Accident that rendered the 47yearold Winnipeg Ger a qua in a unanimous 90 decision yes the supreme court of Canada upheld a lower court ruling awarding Watkins a Lump sum pay ment of in really Watkins said from its been a Long struggle and now i can get on with my life in a Normal after receiving in a preliminary judgment two years Watkins bought into Corner boys bar on Osborne since he has never been in million sets i own a bar that Doest even have a he its not even it will be even with a Normal life is something Watkins says he can still Only dream it sounds like a lot of Money for the average he but the average Guy Doest have to pay someone a couple of thousand Dol Lars a month to tie his Watkins Robert shrugged off the size of the he said that at first Mil lion looks like a lot of but when the Cost of special equipment and the special needs of a quadriplegic Are factored Over a All the Money will be the nature of the size of the award relates directly to the severity of the he Doyle said the Manitoba govern see court Page 4 frustrated thief gives up England Reuter a frustrated thief Spray painted a Safe with the message i give then dumped it in a Roadside ditch yesterday near the Western English City of he had failed to Dent the on tonne Safe using an electric grinding police have been unable to Trace the they cracked it and found it contained Index Ann 38 32 38 Canada at a 41 28 crossword 6 35 focus Horoscope 39 Jumble 45 gals 27 sports record to us rigs 32 Warhaft in body admits to drug concerns nurses addiction pegged at 17per cent by Alexandra Paul widespread drug abuse among nurses is suspected in but Only a fraction of the cases Are Ever the head of the professions licensing body said Shirley to president of the Manitoba association of registered said 100 nurses have been treated for addiction since 1986 in an Independent recovery program called nurses at were not satisfied that is nearly All the nurses who Are involved in or at risk for Paine she estimates As with As Many As 17 per cent of nurses risk addiction to alcohol or paines comments restricted to nurses who steal drugs from institutions such As she made the statements after a nurse was accused of stealing drugs from Misericordia general Hospital to support a drug habit she shared with her estranged see association Page 4 angry husband sought in drug probe by David Roberts City police Are looking for a Man who accused his estranged wife and other nurses of stealing drugs from a Winnipeg detectives interviewed the nurse wednesday after they were contacted by Misericordia general Hospital Security the Hospital has suspended the nurse without pay pending investigations by police and the on the nurses estranged husband returned six vials of drugs to which officials confirmed belonged to the hos he said his wife stole police Are still looking for the crime division Ron Daw see Story Page 4 nurses in crisis sometimes turn to drugs Hospital repairs slated infants at Hemphill claims by Patrick Mckinley major renovations Are slated for a women Hospital Nursery described As exposing premature and other High risk infants to car exhaust and aesthetic health sciences Centre spokesman Jim Rodger said yesterday the province authorized the Hospital to undertake design work for a renovation of the Nursery two Days Rodger said while he was unfamiliar with specific the Hospital has been aware of problems with the Nursery for several Nursery concerns detailed Maureen Hemphill told the legislature yesterday that urine and blood samples Are kept in a refrigerator that is also used to store mothers the la said medication is prepared on the same table where nurses test contaminated Stool Sam Ples while babies suffering from infections Are kept next to uninfected increasing the risk that infections will be Hemphill also tabled a 6 memo in which a nurse from the hospitals occupational and environmental Medicine department detailed concerns about poor temperature control and ventilation in the which cares for premature infants and others who have higher than Normal health risks but who do not require intensive see nurses Page 4 Aquino refuses Marcos burial in Philippines by Bob Drogin los Angeles times Manila citing National Security presi Dent Corazon Aquino refused yesterday to allow Ferdin and Marcos to be buried in the but Marcos family and political loyalists asked her to reconsider the the philippine army was alerted in Manila As a precaution against violent but rain swept streets in the capital were Calm and empty Early today in the hours after Marcos death in who led the popular movement that toppled Marcos in said that she would not allow Marcos remains to be returned in the interest of the safety of those who will take the death of Marcos in widely and passionately conflicting and for the Tranquility of the state and the order of speaking for the she said in a i can say that he touched the life of every filipino who was his contemporary As no other filipino Leader did before his Rule changed our in what ways he changed i leave for now to others and ultimately to history to citing Aquinas longheld position against permitting Marcos to return dead or said see Page 4 despair overtakes Power Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Rose from being convicted killer to powerful ruler of the but his life ended yesterday on a lower note in where he was exiled with his wife and branded the worlds biggest wanted on various charges of defrauding his former of ;