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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1964 Admiral . New Slimline portables fr5e t service Advance to Centre 636 Sargent car radios q50 i warranty or it w car radio repairs 2.50 by Carrier 3sc per week Winnipeg tuesday february 25, 1964 single copy Price we twp car Centre 636 Sargent or. Sher Farozic pm. 786-33 Telephone act change attacked Guttormson labels govt. Bill contempt of legislature Elman Guttormson l St. George charged in the Manitoba legislature monday that if a proposed government Bill to Amend the Manitoba Telephone act is passed it would be contempt of the legislature in a Brazen or. Guttormson speaking Dur ing debate on second Reading of the Bill introduced by utilities minister Maitland Steinkopf said he was shocked at the proposed legislation. P. Hill Otise in Selkirk described it As the most retrogressive Hill introduced in the House during the last 15 years. The amendment would require Ormson charged every time a member of this House directs a question about the utilities a special committee meeting will have to be called to answer him. This just Points out How Ridi Culous the situation would he said. If the Bill is passed or. Guttormson said there would be no useful purpose served by having a minister of utilities because he officers of the publicly owned i Wylld be Utility to appear before a stand his of answering for ing committee to answer questions arising from their opera operation of the Utility to the legislature. Tjon of the Utility. The Corpora a opposition Leader Gildas Mol Tion now 1s Only required Gat said ast week he Rob. Lin make an annual report to the utilities minister who then tables it in the legislature. Served notice or. Hillhouse charged that or. Steinkopf when he introduced the legislation had served notice that henceforth he would not answer questions on matters government was prepared to take responsibility for the utilities when there was a political advantage. Get mandate or. Guttormson said Premier Roblin said in november 1962 that he had called an election to get a mandate from the people which had been delegated to the i for the development of the Nel two boards of directors. Son River project. He made it the effect of this he said was Clear. Then that if was gov to remove completely minis-1 Ern ment which was going ahead trial responsibility for the acts of boards and commissions under this in the main Liberal attack. Or. Guttormson. Quoting experts on constitutional questions lashed at the Bill. I was suspicious when i first saw this Bill. However. 1 was prepared to give the government the Benefit of the doubt until i heard the minister s or. Guttormson said. To say i was shocked is an understatement his or. Stein Kopf s explanation confirmed my worst he said. Or. Guttormson then quoted former prime minister sir Robert l. Borden the minister at the head of every department is held responsible for everything that is done within that depart ment. Minutest details a minister of the Crown is responsible under the system in great Britain for the minutes details of the administration of his department he is politically responsible even if he does not know anything about them. When anything goes wrong in his department he is responsible there fore to pointing in the direction of or. Steinkopf. Or. Guttormson said and Here we have a minister in this House introducing a Bill which would evade this sacred he added that sir Robert Bor Den was not the Only expert who had this View. I defy anyone in this or. Guttormson told the legislature to quote an acknowledged expert on constitutional procedure who would contradict this then he quoted former prime minister Arthur Meighen who said what Are constitutional principles they Are the com Mon Laws of parliament. They Bear something of the same re lation to the charter of a state that common Law bears to statute Law. Binding Force they Are the injunctions taught by experience and matured by practice into authoritative conventions. They grow to a More binding Force a higher Sanction even than or. Meighen was quoted As say ing. Or. Guttormson questioned what members would think of a government in the Light of the statements he had quoted which has the effrontery and Gall to present a Bill of this if we Are to accept the state ment of the or. Gul with this development and not the Hydro electric Board. But last year when i brought to the attention of this or. Guttormson said the waste in connection with the grand rapids project the government members scurried away and attributed All actions to the Mem Bers of the Madam speakers this govern ment wants to have its cake and eat it or. Guttormson charged. The proposed amendments to the Manitoba Telephone act and to the Manitoba Hydro act have been drafted As a direct result of last year s grand rapid s debate when i brought to the Atten Tion of this House that the government had entered into an extravagant contract with Drake Pearson and wasted million of the taxpayers or. Guttormson said. I do not wish to blame the minister. He is relatively new. In office. I can t help but think he has been pressured into introducing this Bill without realizing the full Impact of his or. Guttormson said the pro posed legislation was aimed to prevent a similar debate in the legislature in the future. This would be he said. This government cannot pretend again that it believes in the democratic principles of our parliamentary system if they thrust this legis lation Down our throats. Trampling rights passing of this Bill is a Long step toward trampling on the rights of the members of this House it is a contempt of the legislature in a Brazen or. Guttormson said adding that he will oppose the Bill to the utmost and hoped that every member who believes in the principles of our democratic system will follow Reg Lissaman said the constitutional authorities mentioned by or. Guttormson referred Only to the work of government departments not to Crown corporations. The proposed legislation he added makes the most wonder Ful practical common sense it did not make sense he said to require a minister to answer the questions of members on actions which were the responsibility of the boards of the utilities. It does make sense that they should be referred to a commit or. Lissaman said. De Schreyer nip broken head said the minister would not dare to hide behind any facade and he assumed he still would be responsible. Apartment parking tree branches some six inches in diameter Are being Cut away on Nassau Street so hat a House can be moved from Wellington Crescent to a new location. The House is moved through the cleared Section then stopped while further branches Are Cut so it can be moved again. A Winnipeg Parks Board official said tuesday permission bad been Given to Cut the Trees and said most of the cutting would fall into the Normal pruning category and would not harm the growth. Stop chasing our thieves j police say West Kildonan police have requested House owners to Stop scaring off thieves be fore police can capture them. The plea has been made in the face of a wave of House break ins throughout the greater Winnipeg area. Police cite three examples in recent weeks where House holders returning Home have noticed strangers inside and rushed in to Force Quick exit of the thieves before police could arrive. The police suggest that homeowners finding some thing amiss or suspecting strangers in the House should immediately notify police be fore entering. They suspect the thieves have been knocking on doors of Likely looking houses and saying they have the wrong House if anyone answers. Police request immediate notification if this occurs. They also repeat the old warning to leave at least one Light on when leaving the House unoccupied. 15 . Deaths suspected drug still sold Here . Weather Clear wednesday morning. Cloudy with Snow flurries late wednesday afternoon. Cold. Winds Light tonight Southeast 15 on wednesday. Low to night 20 below High wednesday Zero. Tempera Tures for 24-hour period ending . Tuesday Max. Min. Pre. Vancouver 55 29 Calgary 32 12 to. Edmonton 27 Regina 26 -5 Brandon 10 -13 the 4 -15 Winnipeg 9 i d fort William .16 -1 Kenora 11 -1 to. .05 .03 .02 .03 .13 .03 Max. Min. Pre. Ottawa 28 -3 .02 Toronto 28 5 to. Montreal -5 .01 Halifax .32 25 to. Chicago 29 24 Miami 69 58 loj Angeles Minneapolis 44 10 to. New York 40 22 a drug blamed for 15 deaths in the United states is still on Sale by prescription in Manitoba. The Canadian food and drug directorate is reported planning to halt sales of Trade name but tues Day morning the Manitoba pharmaceutical association had received no specific instructions concerning it. The . Food and drug administration said the drug Usu ally taken to counter mental de pression is not Safe for continued distribution under present Labelling. Increased blood pressure was found in 400 patients who used alone or in combination with other drugs based on world wide reports. Reaction ranged from increased blood pressure and headaches to strokes and. Death the . Agency said. In the . The manufacturer Smith Kline and French laboratories of Philadelphia is removing the drug from the Market although it has advised . Authorities it does not agree with administration conclusions. In Canada the firm has issued a comprehensive five Page Bro Chure outlining possible Side effects from the use of the drug and has mailed these brochures to doctors and pharmacists. The drug is used to elevate the mood in cases of severe depression. Pink cards okayed the legislature monday gave approval in principle to a Bill which will make the Pink Finan Cial responsibility cards carried by Manitoba motorists acceptable in All other Canadian provinces. The Pink cards must be presented by motorists who Are involved in accidents. If they can not present them their cars can be impounded. Manitoba already has reciprocal agreements with two other provinces but in All others the Manitoba Pink card is not accepted. The new legislation was accepted by the commissioners of insurance of All 10 provinces and will be passed this year by All 10 provincial Legislatures. It will. Premier Duff Roblin said make the Pink cards of each province uniform and valid in All other provinces of the under questioning from opposition members the Premier said he was not sure How Many provinces have adopted the new legislation to Date. He promised to find out and present the information when the Bill goes to the legislature s Law amendments metro taking second look councillors May give Way to objections and keep 75 per cent requirement by Charles Thompson metro councillors appear to be giving Way to the Force of objections against the removal of a Law which now requires apartment builders downtown to provide parking spaces for 75 per cent of their tenants. We gave it a lot of thought and Are tackling it from a new said councillor Jack Wil Lis metro s planning committee chairman monday. The committee held a special meeting to discuss the controversial Issue. The proposal by George Rich _ _ metro s planning director to re Premier Duff Roble s rave All parking requirements an from apartment builders has other tuesday As the been met with both scorn and legislature s Public accounts committee solved a salary Praise by businessmen since it was proposed nearly three months ago. But the planning committee decided that before it could make a recommendation to metro coun cil it would rather look into the possibility of freezing land Down town that would eventually be used for parking Sites. The committee made no Deci Sion monday whether or not these Sites would be developed by private investors or by metro. Metro has the Power to build Public parking facilities. Planning committee asked for a report by staff planners and lawyers into the implications of freezing downtown land. Staff planners and lawyers Are also to prepare a on their views of the possibility of metro adopting a four Point policy that would retain the present 75 per cent Law so that apartment blocks would have to have three Park ing spaces for every four suites. Allow some of the parking spaces to be off the apartment property but within 500 feet of the site. Allow variations to the 75 per cent Law if the apartment Block builder could prove his ten ants would not need so Many parking stalls. Force developers to satisfy metro that any parking spaces off the apartment property would always be available for the ten ants no matter who owned the Block. The report is to be ready for a planning committee meeting next monday. Raise for Mol Gat retroactive new British Trade officer g. J. Husted British Trade commissioner in Melbourne Australia has been appointed com missioner for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Or. Husted will take up his new Post in Winnipeg in september. Roy Fox present British Trade commissioner Here leaves Winnipeg feb. 27 for a new appoint ment in Glasgow Scotland. Karpenko committed for trial William Karpenko 20, of lot 18, Rugby Avenue West Kildonan was committed for trial monday on a charge of Man Slaughter. The trial is expected to take place at. The May was charged in the death of Roger Joseph Garry la Freniere 21, of 22 Hindley ave nue St. Vital. Or. Lafreniere died sept. 2, 1963 after being held and beaten by two youths during a Midnight horror movie show at the North main drive in theatre. Magistrate g. L. Cousley indicated in provincial police court last thursday after a two Day hearing of evidence that he was prepared to commit Karpenko committal was held Over so that Karpenko s Bonds men for two bail sureties iof each could be available to sign new papers. The Manitoba theatre Centre s touring company boarded a bus this week and headed West to Esterhazy sask., to begin eight weeks of one night stands in 30 towns in Saskatchewan Manitoba and Ontario. They will be performing Noel Coward s sophisticated lives for audiences and excerpts from Shakespeare for High school students the Tours were begun four years ago to bring live theatre to towns that normally might never see a play. Tangle involving opposition Leader Gil Mol Gat. The Len member commit tee which meets annually to review the province s Finan Cial affairs spent about Twenty minutes trying to find out Why or. Mol Gat had not received a salary in crease approved at last year s session. The raise plus or. Mol Gat s former Sti Pend of brings the opposition Leader s annual Sal Ary to speaking on or. Mol Gat s behalf was Douglas Campbelll Lakeside who said the opposition Leader should have been paid the approved in crease at the end of last year s session. In reply pre Mier Duff Roblin said the payment was not made be cause the opposition Leader s salary is calculated on a fiscal year basis instead of a session Al basis As used for All parties agreed How Ever that or. Mol Gat is entitled to for his in Deavors last year therefore the committee decided to pass a supplementary estimate so that or. Mol Gat will get his increase for last year plus the approved in the current and succeeding years. Or. Mol Gat himself found the discussion frankly pm he had not asked for a raise he had merely asked for secretarial help so he could be More effective in his work he said. Downtown parking no final solution after metro talks no final solution was found monday when metro and por Tage Avenue merchants discussed their differences Over the remo Val of parking from certain Down town streets. He stated that there is no shortage of parking and that shoppers know it. Or. Macdonald said metro re moved 67 on Street parking spaces last year but added that Pri said they did not know whether the removal of parking was justified. The talks were prompted when metro removed 23 parking me ters from the South Side of por Tage Avenue this Winter. Or. Gutkin said the constant removal of parking harms businessmen because shoppers be Lieve metro is making Portage Avenue into an expressway. The psychological result of this could be disastrous to Busi Nesses on the Portage he said. Or. Gutkin with Harry Ste wart had been appointed by the retail merchants association As a delegation to meet metro after the association presented a Brief last week objecting to the re Moval of parking. Or. Stewart asked metro to hold Oft any further parking bans until a Campaign could be started to satisfy shoppers that there Are parking spaces Down town and not just traffic congestion. D. I. Macdonald metro s streets and traffic director told the merchants they Are placing too much importance on 23 Park ing meters. By eliminating them metro solved traffic congestion for Dri vers turning South of Portage Avenue to get to their parking areas. Councillor a. E. Bennett me j Vale investors had created 670 Tro s transit chairman said it j off Street parking spaces in Down cleared the air. We Haven t solv own Winnipeg de the problem. There will be or. Macdonald also said that More 1 one third of the surface area in Dan Gutkin. Spokesman for the ithe City business area is retail merchants association All Eady used for parking and provides about 1r.ooo spaces. Hanging death is Accident a girl told an inquest jury Mon Day her younger brother hanged himself two Days after watching an older boy pretend to do the same thing. Karen Lynn Hourie 11, testified she and her brother and some other children watched the Faks hanging performed by Joseph Lloyd Contois 15. She said Contois put a rope around his neck and pretended to hang himself from a tree in his backyard the jury ruled that Randall Reid Hourie 10, of 362 Alexander Avenue died accidentally of asphyxia due to strangulation contributed to by aspiration o stomach contents into the no blame was attached to any one. Testimony showed that the boy had been playing with a length of rope which had been knotted into an eight Inch noose in the basement of the adjoining duplex at 364 Alexander Avenue on the afternoon of Jan. 25. The boy had crawled through a Small Hole in the basement to play with Joseph Contois. The Contois boy had tied a rope to a beam six feel six inches from the floor. The noose was three feet from the floor. The Accident occurred while tha Contois boy was talking through the Hole to Karen Lynn who was in the basement of the other building. Testimony showed that the rope and beam were located on the opposite Side of the base ment from the Hole in the Wall and that a Large Furnace stood directly in the path of the two Loea to ions the boy was found with his neck entangled in the noose his Knees almost touching the floor and his feet resting on a piece of Wood that was covering a cesspool almost directly under the beam. The Hourie boy was taken to children s Hospital at ., and arrived unconscious. This boy was pronounced dead at Virden Man Dies of injuries Virden Man. Special James Stone 21. Of Virden died in Virden Hospital monday of in juries suffered in a car truck head on collision about 3vs Miles North of Virden Friday night. Still in Hospital Are Gordon Whitford John Hutton and Les Rosneau. Treated for minor lacerations it not detained was Cam Man free press meetings meetings to be held at s Wednesday in the free press building include Board room no. 2. Manitoba master club room mental Wel fare association. In ;