Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cecil top a us 3-7171 Winnipeg free press by Carrier 4qc per week thursday july 14, 1966 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept. Ottawa for payment postage in Cash. Fidelity Trust est. 1911 guaranteed Trust certificates annul -2 year term this special offer expires july Call for a tails metro bans children i ornamental Pool metro Parks and Protection committee wednesday agreed to Clamp Down on a group of St. James children who have been paddling in an ornamental Pool at Portage Avenue and Brad Ford Street. Prompted by a letter from St. James City Council committee authorized the erection of signs forbidding anyone from dunking themselves in the Pool. V Parks director Andrew Currie had advised committee that sine the Pool is neither filtered nor chlorinated the Small child Ren who have been seen wading in the shallow water May be committee chairman Conn endangering their health. R. Wolfe contended it pretty sure the bacteria the responsibility of St. Will not be As pure As that James police to make sure that required for wading no one flouted existing bylaws a letter from St. James by paddling in the Pool if we Council had advised metro that hired policemen for this it children had been using the Pool would t be Loog before we d and had asked the metro Parks j have to police everything we division to provide some form of i supervision there or. Currie said the Parks but committee decided to j department would have to add seek Legal advice on whether several thousand dollars to its metro would be bound to pay budget if it were required to the costs of hiring a commis have its own supervisors for Alt for the area. I its hotel owner tit mfr a tails to get insurance by Raymond Sinclair the owner of hotel in the Gold mining town of Bissett Man. Claims he can t get insurance for his establishment even though local Busi Ness prospects Are brightening. The upswing in the into the town s Recre-1 said that they were not in a action. Hospital education and Iw-1 position to write any insurance upswing in spirit seemed to come after the takeover of the Gold mine june 29 by a five Man business group headed by Raymond d. Skogsberg of Winnipeg. Or. Skogsberg announced that unlike the previous management did t intend to close the mine and promised id pump ing facilities immediately. For me at this Many residents have left but. J one insurance company offi according to hotel owner Robert Cial in Winnipeg said he had Shandruk the mood Here is i orders from higher up to better than it was. There s r e f e comment on Bissett even been a business change a cancellations and to keep the a local Matt has thing not considered Safe Here Coffee break by Gene Telpner at the rate individual citizens Are telephoning me about Petty acts of vandalism in the River Heights area it almost seems like a major problem for that part of the City. Just in the last Day or so i be had Calls about a dozen or More incidents. One family left the top Down on its convertible and next morning found the car f hied with grass Cut Tings from someone s Lawn. Another Householder said parties unknown were in his garage and deliberately broke All Barbecue tools. A Man who telephoned said he does t dare leave his car out again because two wheels have already been re-j4gi stalker Avenue that of moved. These Are just a few of the complaints but a i leaving the scene Acci number of residents say they Are sorry that such a fuss was remains. Raised a few years ago about a liquor store. They Peti negligence o charge dropped the Chai be of causing death by criminal negligence against a North Kildonan Man in connection with a May 4 car pedestrian Accident was drop two votes favor striking two groups of Winnipeg workers voted overwhelmingly wednesday in favor of strike action. No strike dates have been set. The strike votes were held at Anthe a Western ltd., 13so Saskatchewan Avenue by 138 employees and in Tho Union centre., 570 Portage Avenue by 86 employees of Canadian Avia Tion electronics ltd., Western 1 division. 387 Sutherland Avenue. J orders at Anthes j members of local 3239. United Stech workers of America Al Cio. Voted 126 to 4 for striking one ballot was spoiled. Preliminary j years or 1 years. Toned against it but the business that replaced it makes us wish we had a liquor store on that Street declared one Man. Bill Walker the Star of Rainbow stage s my fair lady says his whole family including his Mother in Law from Saskatchewan will be Here for opening night by the Way or. Walker refused to accept complimentary tickets to the show and insisted on paying for the family. There. Must be plenty of Lovely girls Between the Ages of 17 and 22 eligible for the miss Blue bomber where Are they so far the response has been extremely poor for the contest which is really Worth winning. Entry forms Are available at Simpsons Sears mod shop. Names in the news Tom the morning news announcer on cd scr will be heading for a new Post in Hamilton ont the end of the month. At the same station Jim Paulson is accepting a Good offer in Vancouver and or. Paulson has been with the firm a Long time. In Toronto earlier this week i bumped into Murray Parker who has been doing a summer announcing stint with the Csc ill be coming Back to Winnipeg in a few Days but i m really going to miss Murray told me at the four seasons. Warren Davis is still on crutches but has High Hopes about eventually getting Over his hip ailment. He was to take Over the Zehv ool Glover luncheon Date show this week but Elwood had to delay his holidays because of the . Airline strike Fred Scambati. Who is seen locally on National Csc to shows told me that so far the corporation has t renewed his television contract. I Don t expect anyone to take up any petitions for me and i m not said Fred who is one of the finest people in. The business. Hell still be on radio arid May be doing the Csc football telecasts on a free Lance basis. Curly Morrison probably won t get the National foot Ball league commentary but he s not worried. Along with his car Dealership he has a Csc sports radio contract to read sports news that someone else prepares and i m told his fee is a year Mark Down the name of Don Slade s charming wife Gloria As one of the City s Unsung heroines. She gets up at 5 . Daily to fix Don s breakfast before he leaves for his Early morning radio show Jim Emmonds one of the most Loyal boosters of Beer and skits has Given up the tobacco business to join Park and Tilford the sixth annual Muirhead reunion is set for sunday noon at the Ped in Winnipeg magistrate s court wednesday second Day of hearing. However a second charge against the North Kildonan Man John Bussell Searcy the two charges had been Laid i connexion with the death of Elmer Glaus 43. Of 1019 orchester Avenue found May 4 in a Lane behind the Winnipeg hotel 214 main Street wednesday magistrate Isaac Rice remanded or. Scarily for a week on the second charge. One member declined to vote and six were sick or on vacation. John Kuby Union representative said the local was seeking wage Scales in line with other major agreements with the steelworkers in the Winnipeg area. He said the Union had rejected the latest company offer of an average of 23 cents an hour raise spread Over two years or an alternative of 3t cents Over three years. The during i he Union wanted 33 cents Over two 51 cents Over three the magistrate said none of i Cost of living Bonus. The evidence presented at the the members of this Loca preliminary hearing showed t struck for 32 Days m the fall o criminal negligence by the accused. The Canadian aviation electronics workers voted about 90 per cent for a strike a Union official said. The employees Are members of local 144, United automobile aerospace Ane agricultural implement workers of America Al Cio the official said the members turned Down a company offer o a 13-cent hourly increase plus some adjustments which wout be spread Over two years. They wanted a 40-cent hourly in crease Over two years plus a Over. Over the drugstore. Things arc looking up in ome but or. Shandruk has been trying unsuccessfully to reinsure his san Antonio hotel Ince existing insurance was. Cancelled without reason May. T. He owns the hotel and rents he land from the mine. He had Riboul s600-a a e a r insurance since he bought the hotel four ears., ago. He said in a Telephone interview. Now All .1 have is a or. Shandruk said he does t intend to move unless forced. Into it. Business is holding its own it s extremely Good As a matter of the hotel has 14 rooms and tuesday night there were 10 hotel guests. He is also beet Vendor for the area. When a reporter telephoned Reginald Waltenbury superintendent of agencies for Osier Hammond and Nanton insurance limited one of the two companies that cancelled insurance on the hotel or. Ratten Bury said he had t heard of the Case we have cancelled his insurance and he is naturally wondering As to the reason .1 find it difficult to believe it was not explained to admitting that the Bissett area has had or Rattenbury said he knew of no prevalence of cancellations re and he would like to talk with or. Shin Truk. Or Shandruk later he was told they Osier Hammond and Nanton figured it was a poor risk to write insurance in the Bissett area. He or. R a Tenbury claimed in this part of the province like Lac do b o n n e i and other places Here the risk is quite Greal and that hotels and motels Are poor risks regardless. He said or. Ratten Bury also had told him another company probably would not be writing any More insurance in Bissett unless a Concrete plan for the future of the town Wai presented. Or. Shandruk said he hat contacted several other com panics and they All said they would look into it. Later they metro s planning upsets mothers by Sheldon Bowles mothers in the Ashcroft Point area on the Western limits of St. James Are upset Over metro s plans to move a traffic signal. The signal now at. Harris Boulevard and Portage Avenue was installed by the City of St. James to handle traffic during the racing season at Assiniboia Downs. Metro proposes to place a traffic signal one Block West of Harris Boulevard at Sturgeon Road to handle traffic for the new Grace general Hospital. When the Sturgeon Road Light is installed the Harris Boule Vard Light is to be removed. Residents of the Ashcroft Point area feel a signal should be installed at Ronald Street and Portage Avenue foe the safety of school children. Ronald Street is three blocks East on Portage Avenue from there have been several people struck in the Harris crosswalk mrs. Kedron said two cars had collided in an attempt to miss striking her when she was in Tulve crosswalk. It seems unfortunate but we always seem to have to have an Accident before something is done. It would seem that the races Are More important than the lives of our in a Telephone interview d. I. Macdonald metro s director of streets and transit said St. James had asked that consideration be Given to installing a Light at Ronald Street. So of. Course it will be or. Macdonald said there was no particular connection Between the Light removal at Harris Boulevard and the instal lation at Sturgeon Road. The Sturgeon Boad Light is the current Harris Boulevard being installed to service the older Watermain saves Day it will be two or three Days before a Watermain break at Vilkes Avenue and Edge land Jou Levart in Tuxedo can be repaired a metro spokesman said thursday. The 24-Inch serving Charle Swind. Assiniboia and West St. James burst at about . Wednesday. Water was being supplied to the affected areas through an older 10-Inch main and. This Light. Kids in this area would have to go out of the Way to get to school and when you re going to school you re always in a said one resident. Mrs. Roy Kedron. Of 110 old Mill Road said in a Telephone interview wednesday that the n u m b e r of accidents at t he Ronald Street crosswalk proved the need for a signal. Nobody crosses at Harris it is really useless Light. At is the store the school and the Church it s the Nat ural place to Cross. Hospital and a new development North of Portage Avenue and will serve the same purpose As the Harris Boulevard sight Dur ing the racing season. So the Harris Boulevard to be removed. Asked about the possibility of a signal at Ronald Street and Portage a v e n u e or. Mac Donald said the study of the location should be completed in about one month. I believe a study was done on it a year ago add at that time there was no justification for a War on poverty draws fire from committee meant lower water pressure. Winnipeg s civic heal and Wel i fare committee has criticized metro hoped residents in the the Federal government for the area would use water sparingly Lack of Progress a its Warden until the big a rain was repaired. Poverty program. The i break area surrounding the has been flooded and repairmen must reduce the volume of water lying in the area before work on the main can Start the spokesman said. There is a regular Lake there As far As you can see but there Are to houses in the immediate area of the break. Since it was announced in a speech from the throne in april 1965. But the hard Core of poverty Aid. Stinson said. The Alderman said experts the committee recommended j claim the poverty level for a to City Council the fat City i family of four is a year. Pickpockets strike downtown police issued a warning wed 1 about an outbreak of picking pockets in the last two Days in buses or at bus stops in Dowel town Winnipeg. Police said tuesday three people had Money or wallets clerk be to prime minister Pearson poring the delay in carrying out the proposed Urban poverty study of 500 families a the City of Winnipeg and expressing our concern at the Lack of Progress being made in the program for the utilization of our human resources and the elimination of poverty. Alderman Lloyd Stinson who presented the motion however admitted that the Federal gov according to those figures Winnipeg families Are living in Aid. Stinson presented ids motion after a letter was tabled from Lloyd Lenton Secretary of the Community welfare plan Ning Council who stated he has not yet received the Green Light from Ottawa to proceed with the Urban poverty study. The study will Aid the fed eral government in establishing guidelines for its proposed anti Ern ment has started some work poverty program involving in its War on poverty program families living in cities taken. Monday one person had his Wallet stolen by a pickpocket. In four incidents and s77 were taken. He warned that persons should carry with them Only As Mucke they need for daily purposes. And people should be careful he said if they re jostled in a crowd. Weather synopsis valid uni to radar Midnight air condition tenders called the Federal Public works department has called for tenders for air conditioning the Winnipeg Post office. The Job is expected to be completed by next sum Mer. When completed the entire metro raided City staff Juba Cloud lying Over the Prairies from through Manitoba it exp Cut to pen it until evening when to Kiev wih Likely Clear. Widely Katt Rcd the wars Are expected regions this afternoon with a few thunderstorm to Nib m Western Saskatchewan. Sunny and warm weather is expected today in peace River Region and Southern Alberta. Northern regions of the Prairie provinces will be sunny and warm today. Post office will be air-condi1 toned. At present Only some mayor Juba said it is one of work areas Are air conditioned j the worst cases staff raiding on a temporary basis. Between two municipal Coc Winnipeg mayor Stephen Juba a More responsible position. I thursday accused metro of understand he will become your metro s Engineer in charge of he wrote and to me this appears to be another example of duplication of serv ice since the City of Winnipeg stealing a City employee by unjustifiably offering him Terrore Money at the expense of the City s taxpayers. I Portage la Prairie agricultural grounds. Bring your lunch musical instruments and friends. The Federal government had j been criticized for not installing air conditioning it the building when it was built in 1957, at that time it was not government policy to air condition Federal buildings. About a year ago government policy was changed and temporary units were installed in some sections of the Post office. When the permanent Job is completed it will be the Only Federal government building in Winnipeg with air conditioning. Money tastes Good Middleton . Ril Phinney of Brooklyn lost Hio Wallet with inside and started looking for it Umid his car. He found a Bill first and then the rest of the Money scattered round the Yard. Fin ally his Collie Pup came around the Corner of the House with a Wallet in his Mouth. Sort of raiding can produce among employers of engineers in this area and especially so in the Case of the City of Winnipeg , in effect the corporation is using our Winni Peg taxpayers dollars or at least 62 cents on every Dollar portions that i have Ever the employee a Winnipeg Hydro Engineer hired two years ago after graduating was receiving a month from the City. The Engineer accepted1 a metro offer of a month the mayor said. The employee will change jobs aug. 12 in a letter to metro Council mayor Juba is asking the elected representatives to establish a poll e y in connection with the hiring employees from other municipal governments within metro. I Don t think metro councillors would subscribe to the policy followed in this the mayor said in an interview it appears As if it was the appointed administrators who undertook to get the mayor said metro officials claim the Engineer will have commissioned to perform your signal spent to entice this employee the mayor said metro made away from us the initial Contact with the forecast Engineer and was told How much Money would you want to leave your present Job and join the Engineer was not Dis satisfied with his Job. It was just a question of being offered much More the mayor said. Several other engineers were approached the mayor said. He noted that every employer in Canada is having difficulty recruiting and retaining engineers. In order for us City to retain the employee which we do not intend to i suppose we could offer him s650 a month and the corporation metro Woald in turn bid for his services at or and thus an impossible irresponsible situation would develop. It could also he said that the corporation has no scruples about the land of situation this the mayor said there should be a Means of communication Between the City s and metro s personnel officers to avoid a similar incident recurring. But he said it would almost appear As if a concerted Effort has bees made to avoid any such Liaison Between the City and the mayor said the City has an agreement with the Provin Cial government which prevents either from staff raiding. The City s salary scale for engineers is in line with that paid by local firms mayor Juba said. City Council at its last meet ing approved a new salary scale for engineers which went into effect july 1, that brings City engineers pay up to the going rate for this under the salary sche Dule the Engineer who is leaving for metro wow have received a month. Cloudy Friday with a few Tunny periods and widely scattered showers. Seasonable temperatures. Winds Light. Lew tonight for Gimli Carman and Winnipeg 55, High Friday 80. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 7 . Thursday Vancouver Calgary 69 Edmonton 74 Regina 70 Brandon 75 the Pas 71 Winnipeg 77 fort William 75 Kenora 75 Max. My. 69 53 50 50 59 57 50 55 54 59 in. My. Pre. Ottawa 87 60 Toronto 91 64 Montreal 85 60 Halifax 68 57 Chuago 87 Miami 74 los annies 72 59 Minneapolis 79 65 .91 new Yolk 99 Al Winnipeg temper atari comparisons Max. Mia. Mean highest in record july 13 11.2 53.9 10j.4 in 1936 ust year 75.3 50. 62.7 tows St in record Normal 79.3 57.0 36.6 in 1950 ;