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‘under strain

VANCOUVER (CP) — The strain of caring for
Stephen Dawson was so great that his mother injured
him and struck her other son uo the same Cay, a child
‘custody hearing was told Tuesday.

Jerqueline Monger, a social worker with Sunnyhill
Hospital said the strain was apparent when she visited
Sharon Dawson at her home in September, 1979. 4

“She was very upset, especially over feeding him,’
the social worker said. “She said it took a tremendous
amount of time and the only way she could manage was to
lay him on he floor and shovel the food in. Otherwise, it all

just came back out.”
; The boy, now seven, suffers from cerebral palsy, is
blind, deaf and needs continuous care.

Me said Dawson showed the social worker the
boy’s swollen foot, which Dawson said was injured by her
unsuccessful efforts to put the child's shoes on.

SWORE AT CHILD

Monger said the Dawson's other child, Sean, kept
interrupting their conversation.

“She would shout at him, using a tremendous amount
of ing — that was to use-on a

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five-year-old child.”

Monger said Dawson finally struck the boy and he
went to his bedroom crying.

The Dawsons wanted Stephen admitted to Sunnyhill
permanently, Monger said, although the hospital's
philosophy opposed constant residence for a child so

Nurse knew of drug overdose

By GWEN DAMBROFSKY
EDMONTON (CP) — The
nurse who gave 16 milli-
grams of morphine to a sev-
brain-d. d infant

Barbara Howell said when
she came on shift Oct. 8,
Taschuk was gasp-

ing for breath, in convulsions’
and “whi

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day she knew she was giving
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Howell, a registered nurse
suspended in late February
when the infant's death was
discovered during a routine
audit. of hospital records,
stood firm at the witness
stand under questioning by
Bruce Fraser, council for the
Attorney General's Depart-
ment,

When she saw the baby
was in pain, Howell said she
went to Dr. Nachum Gal and
asked him to order more
drugs to relieve the infant's
suffering.

She described how the
dose of morphine was so
large it had to be split into
two parts and shot into each
of the baby's legs.

When asked by Assistant
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amount. She took the docu-
ment to her supervisor.

“The dose was high and I
wanted somebody else to
check it,” she said.

timony Ward said Gal was
sufficiently qualified to work
primarily on his own.

Ward said Gal would. not
have had to-consult him to

young.

child in a foster home.
either, Monger said.
hich is

Howell testified
head nurse Betty Schulze
sought out Gal to discuss the
order, then and told

P for the
child but added Gal should
have contacted him before
16 milligrams.

her “it was okay to go
ahead.”

Asked by Rolf if the fact
she had been at the hospital's
neonatal unit only 2%
months had any bearing on
her actions, she replied:
“Yes, I was checking for unit
policy.”

CUDDLES DYING CHILD

Gal left the country in
February and now lives in
Israel.

Speaking in a clear, strong
voice, Howell described her
duties in the case.

“The baby was dying and I
was to give her tender,
loving care,” she said. “I was

to keep her dry.and. cuddle.

her.”

involved in the case have
testified they believe the in-

' fant’s chance of survival was

extremely slim.

Howell said as the baby’s
heart and respiration drop-
ped, she sat in a rocking chair
and held the infant, “cuddling
her and rocking her.”

When the baby died, the
nurse said she notified both
Gal and his supervisor, Dr.
Thomas Ward. In earlier tes-

Eapevene” Ween peer
Several doctors who ‘were’

Ward also said it was not
routinely required for him to
check the files on the case.
When notified of the baby’s
death he assumed it was a
natural progression of the
child's condition.

Howell's lawyer, Ian
Baker, pointed out that when
the baby’s parents and other
relatives went to the hospital
morgue to see the child,
Howell went along to comfort
them.

Both Jerry and Debbie
Taschuk, of Two Hills, Alta.,
140 kilometres north of Ed-
monton, have testified they
gave permission for their
daughter to be taken off life
support,

ot asked permission for, nor
‘told’of, the administration of
morphine.

Fatality inquiries are held
to determine the time, cause,
place, manner and circum-
stances of death. The judge
may make recommendations
for the prevention of similar
occurences but not findings
of legal ity.

Howell's testimony in the
inquiry, expected to last
about one week, continued
today.

wi
Stephen, asked why.

can’t.”

Sunnyhill Hospital.
{ Sunnyhill Hosp

“We believe that a child that young, no matter how
handicapped, is better off at home.”
A desirable second choice, she said, is placing the

But the Dawsons didn’t want him in a foster home
James Threlfall, representing the Ministry of Human
seeking

Monger replied: “It is hard for some parents to
accept that others can look after their child and they

The Dawsons later went to court to prevent an
operation to repair a shunt that drains fluid from the
boy’s brain, saying they wanted him to die with dignity.

A family court ruled in their favor but the decision
was overturned in B.C. Supreme Court and the surgery
was performed earlier this year. Stephen is now living at

permanent custody of

y,

Nurse

Nelles

returns to work
at Sick Children’s

TORONTO (CP) — Nurse

; Susan, Nelles has returned to,

, Work at the Hospital for Sick
Children for the first time
since she was with
the murders of four babies at
the hospital in 1981.

Nelles, 28, has been on
leave of absence with pay
since she was charged in
March, 1981, Her case was
thrown out of court last year
when the Crown failed to
prove to a judge at a prelim-
inary hearing that the case
should proceed to trial.

The hospital confirmed
that Nelles had returned to

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— Fellowship
— Worship
— Bible Study
Family Bible Hour
9:45 a.m.
Sunday Worship Service
11 a.m., Legion Hall
Bible Study & Prayer
Mon. 7:30 p.m.
at 1201 - Ist Street
Pastor: Tom Mulder
Phone: 365-2281

CAN CHUR
1401 Columbia Ave,

Sunday Services
8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.

Robson
Community Church
2nd & 4th Sundays,

+ 10a.m.
Rev. Charles Balfour
Ph. 365-2271

RCH
1471 Columbia Ave., Trail
17

Regular Saturday Services
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Summer Services: 10 a.m.
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Ph. 365-6317

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9:45 a.m.
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liam.
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hone 365-6762

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2605. Columbia Ave.

y Camp, 7 p.m,
Wed. Bible Study
130 p.m.
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Evening Service
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SS
ST. RITA’S CATHOLIC
Rev. Michael Guinan
Ph, 365-7143

Rev. Harvey Self
Phone 365-3816

Worship Service 10 a.m,
Junior Cong. & Nursery

Se day Night Mass

p.m,
Sunday Masses at
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Bible Study Mon. 7:30 p.m.

Genelle — 12 Noon J

work Monday, but refused to
say what. department it had.
assigned her. Nelles . pre.
viously- worked on the ‘hos-
pital’s cardiac ward where
the mysterious deaths oc
curred.

Ken Rome, assistant ad-
ministrator at the hospital,
said Nelles had asked to come
back to work.

“We're very glad to have
her back,” Rowe said.

Nelles could not be reached
for comment, but her lawyer,
John Sopinka, said he talked
to the nurse after her first
day and “I can tell you that
she is very, very happy.”

“I think it is good for Susan
to be back at work,” Sopinka
said. “It is a great endorse-
ment to her to be back. She
didn't like not being able to
work.”

Last October, Nelles told a
television audience she had
applied for work at several
hospitals. She refused to say
at the time whether she had
been offered a job.

Nelles is suing the Attor-
ney General's office, Toronto
Police Chief Jack Ackroyd
and three police officers for
“malicious prosecution and
arrest.” The amount of dam-
ages being sought in the case
is $854,850,

Meanwhile, nurse Phyllis
Trayner, who has been on
leave of absence since the
Preliminary hearing, has
been invited back to work
but has not told the hospital
of her decision, a hospital
spokesman said.

‘The deaths at the hospital
remain a mystery. Subse-
quent inquiries suggested as
many as 28 babies may have
died in the hospital's cardiac
ward because of overdoses of
the heart drug digoxin,

However, a royal commis-
sion investigating the deaths
is hearing more and more
evidence of the complexities
and conflicts in obtaining a
digoxin reading.

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LONDON (CP) — The

London Daily Mirror says
Prime Minister Trudeau has
a new female companion —
38-year-old actress Michelle
Phillips.
* Unknown to the Canadian
media, Phillips, a onetime
singer with the popular mu-
sic group The Mamas and
The Papas, has twice slipped
into Canada from the U.S. to
spend time with Trudeau,
says The Mirror's gossip col-
umn,

The Mirror says Phillips,
thrice married and mother of
two, is starring in a day-time
soap opera after appearing in
the film Bloodline with Aud-
rey Hepburn, and in Ken
Russell's Valentino.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 6, 1983

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Education goes high-tech

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
plan to upgrade high-technol-
ogy methods in schools
means better education for
kids — not an influx of robot

hers in the cl:

The association announced,
Tuesday that it plans to hold
the four-day congress during
the first month of Expo &6
and will invite as many as
10,000 del to attend.

says Joy Leach, president of
the B.C. School Trustees
Association.

An association plan to
stage an international high-
tech congress in Vancouver
in 1986 does not signal a shift
away from the basics of edu-
cation. in...B.C,.,.classrooms,.

“They! are discovering’
the U.S. that in the area of
math and sciences, the public
school system is not pre-
paring students for the fu-
ture,” said Leach in an inter-
view. “We feel it's time to
look at this before we have a
problem.”

Rain

Okanagan cherries

PENTICTON (CP) —
Heavy rains are threatening
the Okanagan cherry crop
and this has created a tem-
porary shortage of pickers as
growers rush to take off the
crop.

Less than a week ago, the
provincial Agriculture Min-
istry said rain damage to the
crop was minimal compared
with last year. In 1982, the
ministry's crop insurance
branch paid out a record 2.3
million dollars to cherry
growers,

But wet weather since
then has damaged the crop
and set farmers racing to get
the fruit off their trees.

Lawrence
testimony

The speaker at this
months Full Gospel Busi-
nessmen’s banquet is Jim
Lawrence, son of local bus-
inessman, Ray Lawrence.

Jim and his wife Sherri
operate a small body shop
in Clearwater. They have
one child, a daughter age
10. Now serving as chapter
president of his local
FGBMFS chapter, Jim
Lawrence's testimony is
one of deliverance from a
life of crime, alcohol and
drugs into a life of victory

. nology, --it - could-.-mean--a-

and joy in Jesus Christ. D,

The congress will cost sev-
eral hundred thousand dol-

“We're not looking at any
suggestion of reducing the
number of teachers and hav-
ing robots in the classroom.”

The congress is tentatively
scheduled for May 20 and 23,
1986. It will involve school

English-speaking world.

trustees and educators from
all B.C., Canada and the

Education Minister Jack
Heinrich said the congress is
extremely timely and has the
full support of his ministry.

lars which will be recovered
through delegate’ registra-
tion fees.

Unless B.C. keeps up with
world developments in com-
puters and advanced tech-
“crisis” in education, ‘she

“We must pay attention to
world developments or we,
and our kids, will be lagging
behind.”

An increase in the use of
computers in classrooms will
not lead to teacher layoffs,
she said.

hits

Penticton farm labor pool
manager Doug Grant said
this has created a shortage of
pickers. ‘
Grant said growers are
looking at the fourth year of
poor cherry crops and the
second year of serious prob-

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Singles can't get on Ark] —

KINGSTON, ONT. (CP) — Society is suffering from
“Noah's ark di ” said Anne A an adult
educator lecturing on living alone recently.

“Society thinks the only people worth saving are the
couples. If you are alone you can’t get on the ark,” she
said.

For those who live alone but have some misgivings
about it Arsenault offered suggestions such as making
use of the telephone to share joys and disasters with
friends, keeping a pet, leaving lights on when you go out
at night, and becoming involved in a network of contacts,

HOW TO COOK
EDMONTON (CP) — An Italian cooking expert says
it is better to rely on experience and common sense in the
kitchen than recipes and measurements,
Marcella Hazan, whose approach to the art of Italian

cooking has made her books and classes as popular in
North America as in Italy, maintains that “rhythm and:
freedom,” along with quality ingredients, are. the
essentials of preparing a delicious dish.

DIRT FASHIONS
EDMONTON (CP) — Sports fashions have become a
part of tennis, jogging and skiing, and now even of dirt
bike riding.
The bicycle motocross clothing, which was originally
safety related — long sleeved shirts, padded long pants »
and helmets — now must be stylish as well. F

Teenagers who take to the dirt, dust, ramps and)’

racing circuits are suiting up to clothing and checkered
shoes that match their bikes and carry exclusive moto-*,
cross brand names that can make the sport an expensive »
proposition for parents.

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