Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 14, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free seminar i financial i maximize retirement Cash flow sept 7pm charterhouse Register now 4040 Winnipeg free press local 1992 Section Brian Cole 6977232 b1 research riders Marc free press cyclists line up yesterday to raise Money for research and education protected More than riders to take part in the 50kilometre Man life ride Grams of the heart and stroke foundation of organizers Exford heart which kicked of fat the University of controversial cases on desk As Henry takes police reins hot seat awaits new chief police reporter a wardrobe fit for a chief Dale Henry takes Over As police chief and Hes going do it in heres just a partial list of the clothing and equipment it takes to Sone three pairs of 10 shirts five five 1 one pair of h one pair of i one set t i when Dale Henry sits Down today be Hind his shiny new desk at the Public safety hell notice some files stacked somewhere in his one will be labelled Marcel Laurendeau another Kkt a third will say Martin one by the cites new police will get to know each of these files very Well in the coming henrys police commissioner Loren Rey describes the files and the Job that goes with them As tremendous challenges that Are going to have to be dealt sources say the immediate Challenge on henrys list will be the Case involving the abduction of conservative la Marcel the Laurendeau which sources say has been passed around the police department for three months like a political hot will land squarely on the chiefs desk when he reports for work Laurendeau was kidnapped june 9 and taken for a wild ride after being stuffed into the trunk of his he was not robbed or but abandoned in a parking lot where he summoned help with a cel Lular investigators suspected there was More to Laurendeau Story than he was saying and even went so far As to ask him to take a polygraph Lauren Deau never took the so officers continued their investigation without interviewing people around the tory la and electronically enhancing the cellular phone Call in a bid to recreate the but whether Treyve substantiated suspicions about the Las Story and what should be done if they have is a decision that has been left for sources said no one in the department has been willing to face the possible fallout of making that decision henrys options in the Case Are straightforward authorize a consult the Crown or close the but while the options Are politicos say the consequences of that decision could be As the governing tories Are clinging to a razor thin minority with two by elections being held Deputy chief Joe who has been on the hot seat because he happened to be acting chief departments Kkt investigation went up in said Friday that Hes looking Forward to henrys arrival maybe Hes going to change his mind after the events of the past two Gallagher re Ferring to the National furore created when the Crown had to stay charges against three klansmen because a police officer keep her Story straight about How she made her the the second in two years that has Cen tred on the departments not taking has prompted an internal review that is supposed to make recommendations about How the department can change its and then theres the Martin Shaver five police officers still face burglary charges another two have immunity As a result of shavers allegations that police officers cooperated with him in More than 20 Northend break and a preliminary trial into the charges is expected to wrap up meaning a full blown trial com plete with the intense Media spotlight that sure to come with not be far but has to earn gun Dale Henry takes the reins of the Winnipeg police department today but hell have to get his gun the same Way any Rookie Constable receives a hell have to earn hell have to qualify on the Range with everyone were not going to set it up special for Eric Hrycyk said a gun will be waiting for him at the Range and hell have to qualify with officers said last week that Henry will be the first chief in department history to have to qualify for his gun because Hes also the first chief to come from outside the the other chiefs had al ready earned a gun when they took Hrycyk said Henry will be Given a departments sue Smith and Wesson revolver which hell use to f Are 24 rounds into a target from distances of 15 and 25 hell then undergo similar tests with a 12gauge Shotgun and a Rifle before the targets Are added up according to the Point value of each eighty percent accuracy is a passing anything less and the chief will be told to try and again and if because department regulations state that All officers shall and the Only Way they get that gun is to qualify i haunt really thought about police commissioner Loren Reynolds said Friday when asked what hed do if Henry somehow is unable to qualify for his Reynolds said the gun Issue is just one example of the precedent and administrative problems created by bringing a chief in from the for All chiefs take an oath when they take Over the top but the cites lawyers have been trying to figure out whether Henry will also have to take the oath to the which All Rookie officers take when they join the and once such matters Are worked Henry will have to get a crash course in the departments computer radio system and Supply and ser vices system All subjects the chiefs before him Learned earlier in their i think its Safe to say Hes got a lot of things that need to be ironed Reynolds More flu shots urged seniors at risk in Hospital by Alexandra Paul medical reporter Manitoba chief medical officer is urging doctors to of Fer flu shots to High risk eld1 Erly patients in Hospital after a study found 300 deaths among Hospital patients from influenza related comply they should consider offering these vaccinations to people before they go John Guilfoyle Guilfoyle said it makes sense for doctors to offer annual flu vaccines to the elderly who Are discharged from Hospital in addition to their of fice a leading infectious diseases expert at the health sciences Centre who recently showed flu shots were Asef festive in Hospital patients As in healthy people applauded the prov inces useful change i can say that a useful change to the strategy of improving immunization Fred Aoki he noted there has been Little Effort in the past to push doctors to offer flu shots to Hospital patients As Well As of fice a Manitoba study concluded that the elderly at highest risk for the flu people who have been hospitalized for serious ailments Are the least Likely to be immunized against the ill an estimated 300 elderly Hospital patients died of flu related Complick according to the study released last it tracked patients through Manitoba hospitals in 1982 the study compared admission rates of patients Over age 65 for stroke and other serious conditions during the fall vaccine season in 1982 with subsequent Hospital stays during the december february flu rates have risen immunization rates in Canada have risen since 1982 from 10 per cent to an estimated 30 per cent since the study was but As Many As 70 per cent of the elderly Are still not getting annual flu study coauthor David fed son said in a University of Virginia medical said the study found vaccine rates for the Hospital patients hovered at eight per cent to nine per cent half the 20percent rate found for other patients Over age 65 who never entered a Hospital that those elderly patients accounted for 45 per cent of All people in the hospitals with respiratory illnesses that season and two thirds of All the people who died in Hospital of Influent Zar elated Fedson in other the elderly with the lower vaccine rates were 10 times As Likely to be hospitalized and 20 times As Likely to die there of flu related Fedson Manitoba space test perfect Manitoba first space Experiment went off without a hitch Over the a local scientist said proudly it was no prob Kedar of the economic innovation and re search said shortly after returning to Winnipeg last night from a Experiment de signed by Manitoba scientists to test the molecular Structure of alloys went smoothly aboard the shuttle he the Experiment included 15 Small All containing a Sample of the results should help the aerospace Industry manufacture lighter and stronger Tandon illegal extra Billing raises fears of Universal health care erosion around town by Alexandra Paul medical reporter at least four psychiatric patients have complained of be ing asked for forbidden standby fees from separate psychic raising concerns that univer Sal health care is being eroded by a form of illegal extra Marcia a general prac said in a letter to the free press last week that she talked to four each with different Psychia who All faced demands for standby it is my Strong commitment to uni Versal health care and my belief that the so called standby fee constitutes a threat to Universal accessibility of psychiatric Fleisher Fleisher said she received the com the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba banned the fees in 1991 after a welfare patient revealed her psychiatrist demanded a month Cash out of her welfare al Lowance for standby at the a College Survey found 14 out of 94 psychiatrists admitted to charging monthly fees ranging from to for crisis related Telephone code of ethics the which is the licensing body for Manitoba is now urging patients to report psychiatrists who charge the banned standby psychiatric Deputy registrar Robert Walker the code of ethics says physicians Are not take emotional or physical advantage of Walker said the fees could also be seen As extra outlawed under the Canada health fear often keeps people from reporting doctors who Levy Cash fees in Advance for after hour Emer gency despite reports about the fees demanded by four City psychiatrists this Walker Walker said the patients Fleisher knows were urged to Lodge official College but none Manitoba health services commis Sion insurance division director Bob Harvey said the penalty for illegal extra Billing is a Fine of up to and financial reimbursement to but like the the commission has received no complaints from patients so there Are no investigations under Harvey whats on candidates forum ii candidates for mayor of Winnipeg will discuss the issues tonight at at the Union 75 wildlife Trade discussed an expert on the of endangered trivia Challenge v Thomas Spence of la Prairie became editor of Louis riels new nation in late March during the previous Winters he had been arrested by riels followers Briet ;