Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press air Canada continued Dixon Speas wrong says expert Vest Gate into the proposed move of air Canada s Winnipeg overhaul base to Montreal. The commission s Winnipeg hearings were expected to wind up saturday. The commission will then move to Manitoba. Mrs Banks spent six and half hours on the witness stand Friday and his answers to most questions raised by air Canada s counsel Henry Monck backed up his earlier testimony that the Dixon Speas report Over estimated costs in Many areas. The Dixon Speas report com piled for air Canada recommended in 1963 the immediate closing of Winnipeg s overhaul base. Barrage of questions under a barrage of questions or. Banks stood his ground when he maintained that his estimates reducing earlier figures presented by the Dixon Speas report were valid based on reasonable assumptions. Or. Banks said that if new hangars were built in Winnipeg to overhaul dc-9 aircraft Here the Dixon Speas figure which was based on the hangar Cost of dc-8 aircraft should not be considered because the Cost of the dc-9 hangar was much less he said that a dc-9 hangar for two aircraft and other facilities could be built in Winnipeg for an estimated compared to As suggested by the Dixon Speas report. Or. Banks added that there was no question of air Canada bringing the dc-8 overhaul to Winnipeg and the alternative plans suggest Only that the dc-9 Jet overhaul be brought Here. Therefore he said it was wrong to use dc-8 hangar costs and have them included in the report. Or. Banks said that the purpose of the Thompson in Quiry was to assist the Federal government and air Canada to arrive at a meaningful decision based on present Dollar value Levels. Any decision to be made has to be arrived at on present Dollar values and not on any future value level which cannot be determined at the present time he said. Any meaningful decision on whether or not to keep the Winnipeg base open for Viscount Manitoba vacuum service repairs hoses service for All makes of vacuum cleaners and floor polishers. New and used cleaners plus tha All new Hoover washing machine. Spin dry combination available on t easy terms. Free pick up 801 Corydon ave. Or 4-1615 the Winnipeg s unique dining room in the Garry hotel lets you enjoy Good food and hospitality in the authentic atmosphere of. The Early red River fur trading Era. Join your friends for lunch or dinner at the Factor s table the Factor s table is featuring a special St. Valentine s dinner sat feb. 13 sunday feb. 14. S4.75 per fort Garry Winnipeg hotel aircraft or the Here As Well has to be made on present and not any unknown future value or. Banks told the commission. Lower Cost or. Banks also said that if the expected trend of rapid breakthroughs in aviation technology continue for the next 10 or 15 years changes will reduce maintenance Cost and therefore there will be changes in the difference Between the plans left open to air Canada by the Dixon Speas report. He said that if. Electronic devices known As airborne integrated data now being developed Are accepted and installed on air Canada s Fleet a reduction in aircraft maintenance labor costs Are foreseen which would change the difference Between the plans air Canada has at present. Answering or. Monk s questions or. Banks maintained throughout his evidence that one of the major discrepancies he found in the Dixon Speas report involved around labor costs and the formula used in determining certain Cost ratio. Or. Banks said that the Dixon Speas report Vised a High rate in forecasting the maintenance Cost of dc-9 Jet aircraft. It estimated that the maintenance Cost of a dc-9 would be 70 per cent of the dc-8 aircraft. This figure or. Banks said was too High. Using a different method of evaluation or. Banks said a .55 per cent ratio would be a More realistic measure. However or. Banks admitted that his percentage ratio on aircraft maintenance Cost was his own judgment but added that my guess is closer to the Ata formula therefore More precedence should be Given his findings. The formula or. Banks referred to was prepared by the american transport association to estimate the labor costs involved in the maintenance work of an aircraft which has not yet been introduced on the Market Over estimated or. Banks further declared that Burden costs hours paid but not worked had also been Over estimated by the Dixon Speas report. Throughout his evidence or. Dixon Speas said they were trying to be conservative in making we did t attempt to be conservative we attempted to be reason or. Banks told the commission. The expert testified that thought on management were not on concretes -7 and the Dixon Speas conclusions defy com Mon or. Banks said this led the Dixon Speas report to the untenable conclusion that if a base was Large enough it would t need any management person Nel at All. He said the figures supplied by his study of the situation come closer to the average Man s Conception of what occurs that is management needs to increase As a base grows. The Dixon Speas report seems to give an impression that the management figure decreases As a base grows the Dixon Speas r e p o r t s curve to indicate this assumes the introduction of the dc-9 at Winnipeg would require new production personnel and More than 100 management personnel but 800 production employee at Dorval would Only require 12 management person Nel or. Banks said. This would leave a ratio of one manager for every five employees at the Winnipeg base and one for every. At Montreal which is too great a discrepancy to meet the test of common he said. More managers or. Banks agreed1 with or. Monk that the introduction the dc-9 jets at Winnipeg would the province of Manitoba requires teacher for the Manitoba Day school for deaf the department of education invites applications from qualified teachers to instruct deaf students in regular academic subjects at the e Day school for the deaf As Wellas in specialized areas As qualifications applicants must hold a valid Manitoba teach ing certificate and preferably with experience training in teaching the deaf. This is a permanent position but applications Wilfae accepted from persons fio Are available for temporary appointment from March 1 june 30, 1965. annul. Full civil service benefits including annual vacation with Liberal sick leave pension and group insurance privileges. Apply on or before february 22, 1965, to Manitoba civil service commission room 334 legislative building Winnipeg 1, Manitoba require a greater percentage of management personnel than a Mere continuation of the vis count service would. But or. Banks added that he was certain the increased de Mand on management would Aper off. He admitted further that the previous experience of management personnel with the dc-8 aircraft would assist them when they dealt with dc-9 medium Range jets. Or. Monk pointed out that personnel familiar with dc-8 jets were at Montreal and. That Only Viscount were in Winnipeg and would t this mean added management requirements Here or. Banks replied perhaps according to or. Banks s study of the situation the same ratio of management people to production employees applied for both the Winnipeg and Dorval bases. Or. Banks again stressed a complaint he made earlier in tie hearings that air Canada failed to Supply him with All the information he had asked for. He said that although r. Dixon Speas associates had All available information he did t seem to use it in a Way which is applicable to real life. Dixon Speas associates used mechanical Means of compute Ioa and came up with what could be termed a Purist s results but not ones which can meet the test of common Quebec drought ending Quebec owned by the Quebec liquor Board strike bound for 10 weeks will probably re open feb. 17. In announcing this to the legislature Friday Premier Jean Lesage said negotiations in the strike were hampered by difficulties that always go with the implementation of new rights. The employees acted under a labor code passed by the legislature last year said or. Lesage. The Board for the first time found itself asked by its employees for a package of working conditions which involved a serious preliminary he added it is not unusual that the application of new Laws giving Cit Zens extra rights should sore Imes involve certain difficult the employees voted thurs Day night to accept a new con tract which provides for wage increases of a week the first year s3 the second year and s7 the third. They originally had asked an Over All increase of ?25. The contract now formally approved by the government also provides that employees affected by automation will be transferred to other government jobs instead of being Laid off. Average salary had been a week said spokesmen for the employees Union an affiliate of the confederation of National Trade unions. Some Points in the contract remain to be settled. They included questions of vacation sick leave and pension rights. Abel plans to protest voting Pittsburgh a i. W. Spoke out for the first time today on the close United steel workers Union election and said plans Are being made to protest voting procedures. Until now there had been Only mutterings from his supporters and the backers of incumbent president David j. Mcdonald. Abel the Union s Secretary treasurer leads Mcdonald by a slim margin in the unofficial associated press vote count. We Are in the process of collecting information on voting irregularities in a number Olabel and we be Lieve that As a result of the pro tests which will be filed the incumbent president will lose Many thousands of additional ,votes." Abel also predicted he eventually will win by votes. But he declined to claim Vic tory outright. Pilot killed Santa Maria Calif. A Robert Alexander 23, wanted t plane of his own so much that he saved for it by Selling his car and Riding a Bike. Friday Alexander a student Pilot with 55 hours flying time when his rented plane Stulck Power lines near an Ai Orci itt and crashed and burned Church overseas the lutheran Church in America has conducted Mission work in Liberia for 104 years and the african affiliate be comes autonomous in 1965. First Call have you anything in French squeeze what next in Asia continued Tion has urged South Viet Nam to establish a stable government in Saigon and the result has been just the opposite. The president sought no wider War and yet this is precisely what he now has. Major problem the acceleration of the crisis forces or. Johnson into a major problem in his relations with the Saigon government. Until the . Air raids the president was faced with a South vietnamese political situation that was crumbling before his eyes. However the attacks prob ably boosted morale in Saigon and this May Well have slowed Down the Politi Cal deterioration. But in a sense the presi Dent is now trapped in the Wake of this escalation. He is against a major expansion of the War. But if he does not maintain the Pace set during the last week he could easily under mine what renewed Confidence Saigon May have gained from a More militant american approach. Thus it is Felt the presi Dent must establish Tion in coming months that will continue to bolster Saigon s Confidence in the a. Commitment without at the same time forcing a major sex parision of the War.1 such an objective is delicate to say the least. On a front the american reprisals May hive bought or. Johnson a i Little time to assess the dangerous implications flooring from . And North vietnamese actions. The problem in recent Days was that developments were moving too fast for the policies already set. If the administration does have time at this juncture in the War the real question is whether Washington will use such a pause wisely. Vision needed this proposition also holds True for Hanoi and indirectly peking and Moscow. The question is whether both sides have enough vision to Back away from the head on confrontation or whether they simply will let daily events control their policies rather than the other Way around. Meanwhile the president must Deal with mounting International pressure for some kind of political accommodation in Southeast Asia. Calls for a negotiated settlement Are now coming in from major capitals throughout the world. The latest such proposal came today from United n actions Secretary general u Thant. He urged restraint and asked that the crisis be taken away from the Field of Battle to the conference Washington is not opposed to the principle of an East West conference on the widening criss in Southeast Asia. It simply refuses to enter into new negotiations before the communists give some Assurance that they will abide agree ments specifically the 1954 and 1962 Geneva agree ments which supposedly and territorial integrity of North and South Viet Nam Laos and Cambodia. The How Ever sees no evidence that Hanoi and peking Are pre pared to Lionor the Geneva agreements. This is precisely Why there is Little or no effective East West dialogue about the Southeast Asia crisis. Washington does not Rule out an eventual settlement in Southeast Asia. It is simply convinced that pre sent communist hostilities Rule out a viable framework for such an accommodation. Quentlyn asked w i t n e s s e s whether ramp English Lan Guage of interviews with them accurately reflected what they had told the police n the French language. Many French speaking witnesses have complained that the ramp reports contained inaccuracies through indifferent translation or through misunderstandings. Paul Jolin new democratic arty counsel raised the Issue again Friday when he asked ramp inspector j. R. R. Carriere whether it was practically impossible for reports to be made in French in the ramp. Or. Mathews said he won dered what or. Jolin was try no to stir up and whether he nip lawyer should t be appearing b e f o r e the Royal commission on bilingualism and Racult Uralise. Chief Justice Frederic Dorion said he May have some com ments to make in his report to he government on the Point raised by or. Jolin. Or. Jolin added that the Dor on commission must find out whether the ramp has the jeans to put questions in French. The judge said if they Don t have the facilities now i can Tell you they will have them before probe ramp outside the inquiry it was Learned that the Royal commis Sion on bilingualism and Sicul Uralise is considering an investigation of bilingual prac ices or Lack of them in the ramp the Dorion inquiry was still learing testimony from Insp. Carriere when it adjourned until tuesday. At that time chief Justice Dorion will announce whether the commission will investigate the connection of Raymond Denis with the immigration Case of american millionaire Harry Stonehill who has been expelled from can Ada. If the commission does go Dorion continued Stonehill Case May be probed affair Denis former executive assistant to Rene Tremblay shifted to the Post office from the immigration portfolio Friday May not be the Only witness. Others May include Stonehill himself Al Williamson a Van Couver Public relations Man and prime minister Pearson s speech writer Hal Dornan. Or. Pearson has said or. Dornan acted with propriety in introducing Denis to Stone Hill and Williamson. The inquiry now is probing the allegation of Montreal Law 200 Kneel in rain for sheriff Selma Ala. A James g. Clark 43, who has become a Symbol of resistance to the negro civil rights drive in the City was in Hospital Friday with Chest pains and nearly 200 negroes Knelt in a heavy rain to Pray for his recovery. Clark was taken to the Hospi Tal for observation and rest. His office said he was worn out after nearly four weeks of demonstrations by negroes pushing for equal voting rights. Following his confinement the negroes marched to the Dallas county courthouse and Knelt in the rain of the sidewalk in front of Clark s office. Some carried signs which said get Well Jim Clark in mind and expect quads Ventura Calif. A after nearly five years of child less marriage the doctor had news for or. And mrs. Gary w. Gwi Ian quadruplets due in May. I was said mrs. Gwillian. Mrs. Gwillian is 28. Her husband is 27. Yer Pierre Lamontagne that he was offered by Denis to agree to Rivard s release on bail. Acting for . Or. Lamontagne is acting for the . Government which is seeking Hilvard s extradition to Laredo Texas to face charges of quarterbacking a huge inter n a t i o n a 1 narcotics smuggling conspiracy for the mafia crime Syndicate. The language problem also sprang to the fore Friday when or. Mathews asked that Insp. Carriere delay replies to questions by other counsel until the translation system relayed the full question to him in English. He said he might want to raise objections. Ross Drouin conservative party counsel offered to switch to English for his questioning and did so. Some other counsel also questioned Insp. Carriere in English while others continued in French. Before the switch or. Mathews said the officer had origin ally decided to testify in eng Lish some reason he s against after 23 Days of sittings Dur ing which 45 witnesses have been heard the inquiry has reached the stage of investigating the ramp s handling of the Case. It still has to hear inspector j. P. 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