Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ifor Holiday entertaining Maple Jie if Ham i cooked Jund Winnipeg free press Home made products Are different Price so per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg saturday december 14, 1946 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week civic departments if and be increase for civic employees wage was sent on with a recommendation adoption by the City s its finance committee Friday morning. Strong objections to certain features of the report received from the legislation committee were raised by Aid. C. E. Simonite chairman of the finance commit tee particularly in regard to the clause making the wage increase retroactive to july 1, 1946. A move was made to have the report sent to Council without any recommendation from the committee but when the City clerk pointed out that a two thirds majority vote in Council would be necessary to pass the re port if the recommendation were not made it was decided to in clude if. In the motion. Aid. Simonite pointed out that there was no provision in the 1946 estimates to take care of the costs which would be incurred if the increase were made retroactive estimate Cost for 1946, s200. 000 and annual Cost Therea feet by giving the increase from the first of 1947, i think employees would be fairly used. We must consider the citizens who have to pay for said Aid. Simonite. Flat increase he also opposed the Flat increase of s10 a month. There Are spots in the service that should be in creased while others Are comparatively if the increase is started Jan. 1. I la forego my objections to the Flat increase otherwise i m going to oppose the whole report in the Alderman declared. Aid. V. B. Anderson said that the employees the federation of civic employees which has been negotiating the City would have insisted on their original re quest for a s15 a month increase if the retroactive clause had not been agreed upon. Leon Mitchell bargaining agent for the federation declared that there would be Little the increase for employees earning Over s250 a month. Aid. J. Penner was of the Opin Ion that the City was in a very Strong to Grant the in crease. I predict that Well have a surplus As things stand he said. The finance commissioner says it is impossible now to know whether or not Well have a deficit or countered Aid. Simon Ite. The Sale of 18 parcels of City property for about was approved by the committee including one Sale for on Gomez Street to Leon Brown limited t of the erection of a commercial building and another for to the Betheny regular Baptist Church for the erection of a Church building at Portage Avenue and Ingersoll Street. Possible changes a detailed report from the property committee and the City Surveyor regarding plans for pos sible changes in Street layout and property ownership at the Ellice Colony Balmoral and College place intersections was requested the committee of the Opin Ion that the traffic situation at the intersections would have to be cleared up and that Ellice Avenue would have to be connected directly with College place. The Sale of property at the South West Corner of Portage and Broadway place to the Acme motors company was approved despite the metropolitan town planning commission s plans to have the Vertex for institution. Approval was Given for the continuation in 1947 of work of the Rural rehabilitation commission at a Cost of 54.800, and an additional Grant of s100 made to the Winnipeg and St. Boniface River control Board. Authority for the conversion of a room in the City Hall for use of aldermen at a Cost of was area eventually Coli use As a High school from Sale of tax an estimated total of As the proceeds from the Sale of tax properties in Winnipeg is expected by the end of 1946, according to a report Given the City s finance committee. Friday morning. This is More than had been budgeted for this year. The committee recommended to Council that the surplus be put into the deferred maintenance fund and earmarked for particular repair work such As Bridges pavements sidewalks Etc., in 1947. The report submitted by the City solicitor the City Engineer and the City treasurer however pointed out that the proper application of the property sales surplus would be to Ward the City s Relief debt. The report also pointed out that the assessed value of tax property owned by the City at the beginning of 1946 amounted to and urged that the committee take into account the temporary nature of the receipts from such sales. The enc is definitely in the report said. The receipts not be used for general budget purposes if at All maintenance fund the report strongly recommended that in future the deferred maintenance fund be used solely for the purpose of maintenance and re placement of properties and equip ment. In 1946, the report said fund definitely was not used for such purposes. The expenditure of about in 1947 to put the City s Bridge in Safe condition was urged the Money to come from the deferred. Maintenance fund. If Council wishes to appropriate further amounts to the deferred maintenance Reserve it can be done before the end of 1946, the report said. In this event the budget sur plus for 1946 carried into 194 would be reduced by the Amoun appropriated. The other course open to Council would be to appropriate further amounts in 1947. Thus Leav ing the 1946 budget surplus much be properties go into the deferred maintenance fund be earmarked for the follow ing purposes repairs to fridges repairs to pavements1-, 000 repairs to sidewalks miscellaneous storage space and District Yards buildings greater. The finance committee recommended that part of the surplus which it recommended t City s by Marion Lepkin Winnipeg s civic employees Are holding their breaths at the moment about their Long sought wage in crease. Before they can get it i looks As though there will be a real Battle at the last Mas meeting of the City Council monday night. 6 the very substantial Christ Mas present in the offing for civic employees is a a month boost in wages Retro Active to july 1, 1d4g. Aid. C. E. Simonite and Aid. H. C Morrison have already registered their objections to the retroactive clause. They argue that no Money has been set aside in 1946 to look after the estimated increase expend iture of about the fact still remains however that this amount could be taken care of in the 194 j budget along with the is timoted annual Cost of the id ease. Concessions have been made by the federation of civic employee s instead of i Sisline on the. Ori Airal request for an increase of a month based on the Rife in Cost of living. Leon Mitchell Sentuc to the federation has affry cd on the condition that i in clause remains. Negotiations with the City were Bee in in july this year and the federate in Bei feves that management according to labor practice the a c boost should be applicable to i Date. And is Alt. Simonite Saj Mitch Tell is the Best Salesman in although several of the re ver to worried about i i happen to the poor no indication has As yet been Given that the wage increase would be financed through an in crease in the Mill rate. Beset it the fact that the Eirv s Hamisi Hirr committee is All in favor of More wart Ime housing units the Isif fires Barrier Lias still to be hurdle of the nit Council. And the Jumi in r contests will monday night. A 22-year-old War Veteran and student of architecture of the University of Manitoba Andrew p. Rho Mick. Son of or. And mrs. M Chomick. Of Kenora ont., has been awarded the prize for his de sign in the Prairie Section of the Canadian Small House Competition the Competition was sponsored by the. Central mortgage and housing corporation. Six other students of the u diversity of Mam Coba also Rane Ivec awards. They Are Burton Sto and Harry Leblond awarded Sec Ond prize of Ted Raines third prize of and honorable mention and prize of to c. A. E. Fowler r. W. Siddall r. T. Gordon. G. C Lount of Winnipeg also received honorable mention. In announcing the winners of the Competition the corporation stated the Competition showed an indication that the Canadian mind is developing a National trend and beginning to express itself with its own or. Chomick enlisted from High school to the Royal Canadian Navy june 9. 1941, and lost his right leg while on Active service in the North Atlantic. He enrolled in architecture in 1944 and is now in his third year studying under the veterans rehabilitation scheme. He is at pres ent living at the Zeta Psi fraternity House 329 Wellington Crescent. The drawing was a two level he stated with three bedrooms and combined living room and dining room. One climbs half a flight of stairs to the sleep ing rooms and goes Down half a flight of stairs to the a Large part of Council it seems just does t like the terms on which wartime housing limited has agreed in the past to provide houses. Some hone of t revised con tract from the 1 t Deril company can held out. It s very doubtful Fiat Winnipeg will Appy for 1.000 and Homes. Winnipeg the land. War time housing builds and a few More weary House Hunters have Lomes. As. Easy As that. But the City loses out on tax revenues and aldermen lie Waie nights trying o think How to keep the residents out of Spring time mud. 4 Council wants the Dominion to pay for pavements and Side walks in the wartime housing areas but Federal authorities wonder Why the residents can t pay More rent and indirectly pay for them. It s either Homes and head aches or no Homes and heartaches. W incidentally Council once mor has to struggle through the ques Tion of placing crushed Stone on wartime housing streets. It appears that the work will Cost about instead of the already approved by Council. Just to add to the general Hub bub monday night the Long Cle feed maintenance fund ques is coming up again. The Fin Ance committee wants about 000 in surplus re Yeruc from prop erty sales put into 1he fund for use on repairs to Bridges Etc. There s a Strong feeling among King raids re Frig. Even As you and i he knows what s cooking from coast to coast Amedee Franchi top chef of the Canadian National rail Way hotels who just spent a couple of Days at the fort Garry on his Way Back East. Home to or. Franchi for the past 34 years has been the chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa. After an apprenticeship in Waldorf and the the Savoy the St. Regis new York he came to Canada in 1912 and started As second Cook at the chateau Laurier. He was King of the Kitchen the Tsa Rist russian army commission visited Ottawa during the first great War to vanish from sight with the revolution. Lloyd George then prime minister of eng land. He remembers ate every but visiting Indian princes especially the vegetarians gave him the most trouble with their special Cooks Curry and spices. He took Imperial conferences japanese and chinese visitors and All kinds of celebrities in his Culin Ary stride. He Speaks of the visit of the King and Queen in 1939 were easy to please said or. Franchi and never left anything. When i left cold meat and cheese in the icebox at night it was All gone by morning. From the Tea first thing in the morning to the cold meat at supper they were Plain a very Plain eater was vis count Montgomery of Alamein when visiting Canada this year. He went for Lamb chops and an ome Lette anything you put in front of him according to the chief chef. Or. Franchi remembers Fiorello la Gardia. Sex mayor of new York because of his preference for Lake Winnipeg Gold Eye. From Charlottetown Prince Edward Island to Vancouver British Columbia or. Franchi travels to guard the palates of the and trains Cooks in every Canadian National hotel Kitchen. Some of the aldermen that the sur plus should go elsewhere and that the fund itself might he used for other purposes. free press files Christmas will Hie considerably brighter this year for some hospitalized War veterans if the plans of the Canadian legion Christina s tree service materialize. A drive to provide at least gifts is under Way with e. Collection depot set up in tins Hudson s Bay company store where shoppers May leave their donations for distribution. In Tho picture Joyce Mcbain 65 Tacho Avenue is shown signing a card before turning Over her gift to Carl Jonsson left a legion representative. John q. Citizen Stelps seventy years 14, 1876. Cannot something be done to compel Drivers of sleighs to have Bells asked a free press local referring to narrow escapes of pedestrians crossing main Street before vehicles in the current blizzard. Weather. X sixty years 14, 1886. The . Was meeting with great difficulty in securing water along the new Boissevain Delor Aine Section especially at Boisse vain the Wells sunk by the rail Road As watering places for the engines had dried up the deep one at Boissevain first the Only full flowing Well left was at Little Pembina seven Miles West of Kil Larney. A fifty years 14, 1896. Lord Aberdeen governor Gen eral with lady Aberdeen arrived in Winnipeg it was announced that on sunday forthcoming they would attend St. Stephen s Church whose minister Rev. C. W. Gor Don Ralph Connor was a personal Friend of and countess. Forty years 14, 1906. Commerce beat Montreal in the season s first hockey game of the Bankers league lineup Cana Dian Bank of Commerce Smith Driscoll v. Gordon Pritchard Paterson g. Gordon strange Bank of Montreal Tuff Barton Harmon Inglis Benjamin Kelly Beecher. Thirty years 14, 1916. Rex Beach s Story the spoil ers had been made into a stirring picture now showing in Winni Peg wit i William Farnum As Roy Glenister Tom Santschi As Glen ister s rival Mcnamara Bessie Eyton As the girl and Kathryn Williams As Cherry Malotte. Twenty years 14, 1926 in a sport summary the year it was regarded that the out standing sporting event had been the championship bout Between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney in Philadelphia before fans who had paid was announced that Pearl Spencer would defend her laurels in the St. James dog Derby on new year s Day. A Liazis councillor claims t St. Vital ignored the St. Vital Council is being kept completely in the dark As far As the Manitoba municipal and Public Utility Board s investigation into the municipality s engineering department and Engin Eer is concerned councillor e. G. Mcgowan told the free press Friday night. Apart from this the St. Vital Public works committee which was specially appointed to investigate the matter now has no authority since the Utility Board has taken Over the he declared. No data supplied or. Mcgowan continued the Reeve has Given the Council no in formation regarding the procedure and has not been present at any meeting since nov. ,25." he revealed that two municipal employees and one contractor had received no pay from that Date. Scot Slater Surveyor and o. Romans municipal Mechanic As Well a gravel hauling contractor. Ted Rietchel. Have not been paid As heir cheques were not returned rom the Utility he said. Or. Mcgowan could give no reason Why the Utility Board was holding up payment. Referring to the St. Vital Muni Cipal Engineer. J. G. Linton who Vas suspended by Reeve h. Ech on nov. Is. For allegedly purchasing a jeers without authority ;