Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba Special rates in free press want ads on situations wanted Only he per line per Day or 65c per Lino for a full week Cash weekend edition with comics Loc Winnipeg Friday december a 1953 by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per blowing plan could Cost up to million Hurst by Dick Bower free. Press City Hall reporter an expenditure of Between two and three million dollars by the City May be the Only All out solution to Winnipeg s Snow Clearing problem City engineering officials told the free press Friday. It would take that amount 1o Purchase the necessary equipment provide for its maintenance and housing and pay the Crews and mechanics to operate it. The department is preparing three reports based on All aspects of Snow Clearing costs. One report will Deal with expenditures necessary on lanes. A second will optimal the Cost if the City buys its own equipment for All Snow Clearing m the the Cost for equipment alone is estimated at it does not take into account paying Crews and maintenance men. Compromise third report an estimate of Cost in. A Compromise Snow clearance scheme " something in Between what we Are. Doing now and what would do if we ram province will spend Winter May scrap plans for Road East of Lake won Errick Willis acting Public works minister announced Friday that the government this Winter would be spending on a 675-mile Northern Road Sogom the first step in a five year Road development scheme to be shared by Federal and in Uncial governments. Justice a. M. Judgment thursday in court of Queens Bench awarded in damages against the municipality of fort Garry. Damages went to Wiiliam Ste Ward Arnold Martin of 305 Kelvin Boulevard for wrongful deprivation of Legal right to use his pro Riding Mountain seen As second Only to Banff positive establishment of a ski resort in biding Mountain National Park could come from a series of meetings held this week in Ottawa. Several Manitoba government officials were in Ottawa for the talks with Federal officials of the department of Northern affairs and National resources. The Manitoba delegation included provincial minister of Indus try and Commerce Hon. Gurney Evans his Deputy minister m. J. G. Mcmullen special adviser Rex Grose and will Organ of the Manitoba Bureau of travel and publicity. These officials Are seeking a Speed up of the proposed ski resort first pro used by the Federal government of r More than two years ago. Definite engineering department owned All the equipment aces Cost of this plan is Esti mated at around exclusive of payroll and buildings. A department spokesman said that perhaps the Only solution was for the City to buy its own equip la. 1jt.jever, this would run into millions of dollars. It is not the equipment alone that must be considered which incidentally would lie Idle most of the year but also the payment of the Crews to run present civic policy is to con tract private firms for Snow Clear ing duties. However there is a great shortage of trucks and other equipment in the City at the moment. Us. W. D were based on a scheme closed that the government May save to scrap its plans for a 400 Niile Road up the East Side of Lake Winnipeg because the terrain is impassible. Premier Duff Roblin releasing a statement prepared by the act ing works minister said that if the Eastern Road is not developed another one would be built East West across Northern Manitoba to reach the same area which the Eastern Road was intended to serve. Rood program the minister announced a sex Point program to be undertaken under the Northern development Sisler eel Bruneau 38, Sylvia Hill in and Leonard Zenith. Is of ;