Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tens with Case. W . Com business its a As Hurricane Georges bears Down on a City new Orleans super dome has been turned into the worlds largest storm shelter /b1 Ymir cars a Young win nip Eggers demo Strale soccer at its Best at the City championships /c2 the weather o mainly sunny. High 19. Low 4. Details on Page d6 Winnie free press garbage Day 3 school Day 3 monday september 28,1998mayor blows whistle on a flu by Linda Rosborough and Kevin Rollason staff reporters 05026 mayor Susan Thompson denounced the a Blue flu yesterday As at least 16 More Winnipeg police officers called in sick in an apparent protest Over a fellow officers suspension without pay. It was the third Day of a silent a and increasingly expensive a standoff in inside Kohl kicked out pledging to fight the a plague of joblessness a social democratic challenger Gerhard Schroeder ousted Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Germany selection yesterday and brought the left Back to Power in the country for the first time in 16 years /b1�?~playing games the City is being accused of a playing games by refusing to come up with $100,000 for an International task Force study that could protect it from future disasters in the Wake of the flood of the Century but officials say they just done to have the Money /a3sombre ceremony More than 5,000 peace officers from across North America joined bereaved family and friends on parliament Hill yesterday to honour the 543 Canadian men and women who have been killed while serving their communities /b3riots Ernst in Israel at least 50 residents and 15 police were Hurt yesterday As israeli troops fought with residents of an israeli Arab town yesterday in a land dispute /b4powerful a on the stars a Canadian designed camera so precise it can focus on the tip of a pin almost 200 Kilometres away will be launched into orbit in be Brut airy. The camera will be used in experiments investigating How life evolved identifying chemical shifts in the universe and observing stars burning up /d6today in Yoor City amp province a Myhl hockey Dauphin Kings is. Winnipeg South blues notre Dame Arena 8 . A Jam night hosted by . Lepage amp the Muddy ones times change blues cafe main Street and st. Mary Avenue. A lipstick doom monday with Industrial and gothic Rock die Mas Chine cabaret 108 Osborne st. Index local /a3, 4, 6-9 Canada amp world /b1-4, 6, d6 business.b5 classified .c8 comics. D 2 deaths.a2.c7 editorials.a10 in ,births.c8 1 life Horoscope crossword net a Eacker and Ann Landers .d3 movies.d5 sports record .c4-6.12 to listings.06 Thompson says officers off base with sick Campaign which 70 officers have called in sick in Winnipeg in blocks concentrated in divisions 11,12,13 and 16. A the numbers and the consistency lend some credibility to the rumours a Insp. Blair Mccorrister said. Its believed officers Are protesting the suspension without pay of const. Grant Eakin who faces an assault charge after a 24-year-old South african born Man said he was beaten while he was being led in Handcuffs from a party. Eakin who worked in South Winnipeg was stripped of All duty and pay last thursday. The so called Blue a a hit Friday. A i am Thompson said last night. A this is not appropriate behaviour for disagreeing with a Posi Tion taken. How is the chief supposed to manage with this happening a you just done to do this. There Are proper avenues to take but not chief David Cassels is out of town until tomorrow but Thompson said Shell meet today with the Deputy police chief and chief administrative officer to find a solution. Mccorrister said 16 More police officers called in sick yesterday during the Day shift. Six officers assigned to work the Day shift in District 2 st. James and 10 officers in division 13 called in sick yesterday. About two officers citywide on the evening shift phoned in sick said Insp. Darryl , who speculated the a a flu May be abating. Continued please see �?~this�?T/a2 70 big blasts for big Mac fantastic finale st. Louis cardinals slugger Mark Mcgwire grins from ear to ear As he rounds the bases yesterday after capping his season with a 70th and final Homer at Busch stadium in st. Louis. Please see Story on Page cd. Fishing trip ends in City boys death by Linda Rosborough staff reporter a four year old Winnipeg boy drowned saturday night on a fishing trip with his father near the Manitoba Ontario Border. An ramp officer said the boy a whose name was not released a apparently wandered off at about 8 . While his father was packing up to go Home Afler they had been fishing at Lyons Lake about 60 Kilometres West of Kenora. Unable to find his son the Man ran out to the thans Canada Highway to Flag Down motorists for help but get anyone to Stop said Cpl. Rick Strain of the Falcon Lake ramp detachment. Several Hundred Yards away at the West Hawk Lake weigh scale station he found some truck Drivers a w to called for More help on cd radios a to search the Shore. The boys body was found in the Lake at about 10 . By one of the truck Drivers. He appears to have fallen from a fishing platform about one Kilometre from where he w As last seen. Strain lauded the help the truck Drivers gave. A they w Ere excellent especially the three of them that stayed. They never left until 2 a.m.,�?� Strain said. The boy was pronounced dead at Ste. Anne Hospital. The body was transferred to the health sciences Centre where an autopsy will be performed. Ken a Lugo free press Dutka holds a photo of her Sou Gerald Long who a been missing since 1994.missing son leaves momus life in limb four year old disappearance remains an unsolved mystery by Mike Mcintyre police reporter Louise Dutka has been waiting four years for a phone Call. Or a letter. Or even a dreaded visit to her door by Winnipeg police officers. Anything that gives her some answers about her missing son. Gerald Long a 25th birthday is next month. Dutka wonders if the Young Man whom she Hasni to seen since four years ago today is even alive to celebrate. A if i get a late phone Call at night i still jump and get uptight. I wonder if its the police calling to Tell me they found his body a Dutka said in a recent interview. Dutka is living a real life unsolved mystery desperate for a solution but resigned to the fact one might never come. A a it a been really difficult at , especially since this past Christmas. I really thought i w As going to lose it and had to be put on anti depressants a she said. A it just got to a Point where i realized i May never find out w hat in a City w Here dozens of people go m, every year a usually teens w to run away Only to be found Days later a Gerald Long Scase is one of a handful that stand out to Winnipeg police missing persons investigators. The athletic Young Man was last heard from on the night of sept. 28,1994. He told Dutka he w As going to go work out at a nearby 24-hour gym then left their Mcphillips Street Home. When he did no to come Home that night Dutka began to worry. Her songs motorcycle was still parked in the garage and Calls to his friends turned up no sightings. Dutka called the police. Long was set to testify in a trial against a Friend who had been charged with stabbing a w Oman repeatedly while in a looked on. He had disappeared once before Only to be found in Alberta and police figured head run away again to avoid testifying in the attempted murder Case. Abii fined please see banica2 familiar red Cross gives Way to new blood Sfa Fri up a s of today Canadas blood pro Gram is under new management. At clinics All Over the country the sturdy red Cross so familiar to blood donors will vanish replaced by the Canadian blood services logo a Maple Leaf inset in a. Drop of blood. The launch of the Agency that will assume control of the blood program Marks not Only a fresh Start but also a sad ending. Ordered by Ottawa to get out of the blood program it created and managed for More than half a Century the red Cross now on the Brink of insolvency As a result of Law suits arising from the tainted blood tragedy of the 1980s, will close the Book on what has been a major reason for its existence. Title to everything of value in the red Cross blood program from buildings and vehicles Dow n to test tubes and lab jackets will be signed Over to Canadian blood services. And most former red Cross blood program employees 3,230 full and part time workers w do assume jobs at the new Agency. Similarities Between the red Cross and Canadian blood services have prompted questions about w Hether the new blood program will be much More than a repackaged version of the old. But Kenneth Fyke chairman of the Canadian blood services Board of directors said major changes have been made at the management level. A new operational Structure w ill enable Canadian blood services to respond More swiftly than the old program if blood borne threats should emerge Fyke said. A in the Short and the Long term we will have a culture focused entirely on blood and blood products and entirely on a Safe blood system a said Fyke who is chairman and chief executive officer of victorians capital health Region and will head the blood Agency a Board As a Volunteer. A we will be operating Only one product line so to speak w whereas the red Cross had Many Many other responsibilities besides continued please see new/a2 Canada s blood pm Ogram has a new look. Gone is fam Hiar red Cross logo. J ;