Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 4, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fidelity Trust est. 1911 m 1 savings accounts phone 947-0211 for the Branch nearest you Winnipeg free press Coffee break 7 by Gene Telpner Bill Nick a former Winnipeg Ger who has appeared in More than 300 films and hundreds of television shows is in town this week for the first time in 20 years. The rugged looking or. Nick who has done just about every dangerous stunt possible in his roles said he can barely recognize our City after All these years. He s recently completed acting assignments in six segments of danger Man with Patrick Mcgoohan and danger seems to be or. Nick s business. Bill doubled for actor Kichard Greene in All the Kobin Hood Riding sequences and also did the stunt Riding in the to series Ivanhoe. Other stars he has portrayed in dangerous scenes Are sir Laurence Taylor Roger Moore the plus the late Alan Ladd and Errol Flynn. Bill has also done a lot of stage work in England and not Long ago bought a night club cabaret there called the embassy club. In Winnipeg he s been visiting his Sisters Ann Nick mrs. George Street and mrs. Marjorie Turner. A brother George Nick is Manitoba s supervisor of physical education. I feel like an absolute foreigner Here. I May not sound it. But i m terribly Bill told me this week. The stars he enjoyed working with the most were David Niven Taylor and sir Laurence they Are All real notes to you Mike Hopkins of sky is Happy these Days because his voice will be used on National commercials woman claims she has used every Means to locate her lost Wallet which contained s110 for rent Money. Her number is Sunset 3-3943 perfect cribbage hand for Joan Hoeschen Carillon towers two 10-year old boys in Grade 4 at Churchill want Winnipeg pen pals. Send your addresses care of Daphne Mcdonald Box 116, Churchill Man. Two Grade 4 girls from a Winnipeg school were in our office this week. They said they had been told by their teacher to come to the free press and get things All about history out of the paper especially that Guy British Columbia or whatever you Call seems they wanted to know about Christopher. Columbus. Collectors stamp club will be having an exhibition and stamp Sale saturday at 11 . At the Elmwood Kildonan Myca 454 Kimberly Avenue East Kildonan Edward Gilbert Manitoba theatre Centre s artistic director will officially open the 10th Winnipeg show saturday afternoon at the Winnipeg Art gallery Phyllis Oiler the comedienne is to visit Viet Nam. Several readers have commented on a suggestion that War hero Tommy Prince participate in opening Cere monies of the pan american games. However one letter suggested that along with or. Prince there should be a descendant of lord Selkirk and a descendant of lag Irno Diere the first White child born in the Winnipeg area. I think there Are members of the lord Selkirk family now living in England. This would give us a combination of Canada s founding races. Complaints have reached me about insufficient supervision of Public ice skating held in the old exhibition Arena. Fathers of children who skate say the Winnipeg Arena offers excellent supervision but at the exhibition skating children get bumped into by reckless skaters. Winnipeg s Bonnie Davis is still Globe trotting. Just received a note from her in Australia and she says i be fallen in love with Australia and its Bonnie is now on a round the world tour speaking of tourists Chris Weigl of a local tourist office drops a note from hotel Krishnaraj Sagar in India. He sent the hotel menu and the food sounds delicious with dishes like Mutton Vindalon Brinjak fritters even Spaghetti Bolo Naise by Carrier soc per week Crown May Appeal Bullion Case sentence under Deputy attorney Gene ral Gordon e. Pilkey said thursday night his depart ment has not decided if it will Appeal sentences imposed tuesday on Kenneth Leishman. The whole matter is under said or. Pilkey thurs Day. We Don t make snap decisions 1 Leishman was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of conspiracy and theft for his part in the March 1 robbery of in Gold Bullion from Winnipeg International Airport. The sentence runs concurrently with the seven year term imposed tuesday on Leishman for two jail escapees. Crown counsel Gil Goodman had asked for the maximum sentence of 10 years on the robbery charge and suggested it be served in addition to the escape terms. Leishman faces 14 years and three months in prison including the six years and three months of a sentence passed in 1959 against him for two Bank robbery charges. He was paroled in 1961. Metro asks economics lecture Winnipeg economist or. Gor Don Blake will be asked to give metro Council a lesson in Friday november 4, 1966 ___., our Cecil says . With Iii flt print Security Torace us 3-7171 acting on motion from metro Council thursday agreed to see if or. Blake would be willing to sit Down with the Council for about an hour and throw some Light on the effect of the corporation s programs. Coun. A what the economic Outlook Calls for in terms of either increased or decreased capital and cur rent spending by metro in 1967. He also thinks the councillors should know How metro s expenditures Are affecting the particularly in this coun. Hub and s original motion which was presented last month called for the hiring of a competent economist or however thursday evening he amended the motion and suggested that or. Blake who is a United College economics professor widely experienced in municipal financing be hired provided a reasonable Finan Cial arrangement can be worked out. Coun. Huband said it would be a particularly opportune moment to consult an economist since metro Council is scheduled metro councillors seek pay probe a month too Low says Huband metro s finance commit tee is flirting with a salary raise for metro councillors. Thursday the committee agreed to set up a three Man subcommittee with the responsibility of reviewing councillors a o n t h stipend. The move was Spear headed by councillor . Huband who complained that the present remuneration was not Ade quate for the Job metro noting that there had been no review of Council lors salaries since the corporation s inception in 1960, he said a review once in six years is. In my opinion not too often. I suggest we establish a com Mittee matter. Coun. Agreed. To look into the j. A. Coulter i had to give up a permanent Job to fulfil my duties Here and take a part time Job. And uie salary from my part time Job plus the remuneration from metro is less than i made when i was working added coun. Coulter who is executive Secretary of the Winnipeg and District labor Council. Coun. Thomas b. Findlay claimed that although there had been a Hullabaloo last year when City of Winnipeg aldermen tried unsuccessfully to raise their stipends a number of other municipalities had quietly upped their own. When i was mayor of St. James the salary was s4.000 a year and Alderman received s1.800" he said. Today the mayor gets and the aldermen s2.400." the action was taken after finance committee had agreed there should be no change in the wages of the metro chairman and vice chairman. At present the chair Man s salary isl a year of which is tax exempt. The v i c e a h a i r Man s stipend is s500 a month of which is tax free. Other councillors receive s300 a month. Of which is tax exempt. Humane society close Likely stray pets May be forced out the Winnipeg humane sultans from animal Wei society after 30 years of unsuccessful appeals for Public funds and private donations will Likely close its doors dec. 31 to the thousands of stray and injured animals it cares for each year. The decision to close the animal shelter at 1059 Logan Avenue was taken thursday night by the society s Board of directors following an inspection carried out by two con fare foundation of Canada. Tom Hughes and George Hulme both of Toronto spent 24 hours examining the administration and facilities of the society. Then at a press conference Friday in the International inn which included charges of Gross mismanagement of Trust and described the Shel Ter facilities As unbelievably filthy and court petitioned for new election a petition seeking the cancel lation of the june. 23 provincial election of Edward i. To ill f . Huband seat for Turtle Mountain has been received by the court of Queen s Bench in Winnipeg. The petitioners Charles Mcmechan Farmer of Deloraine and Arthur Bense agent of it huh Al li1ul spending Killarney filed a joint affidavit Ugra ius. With the petition saying they coun. Huband wants to know believe the returning officer for the election Arthur Gordon Mcknight or his agents Are guilty of corrupt practices ser ious enough for the election to be voided the petition which comes inc aug under the controverted election Over All Economy and in parti result of the Cular the inflationary or Della election As tonary effect of that spending Dow a Lead Over his nearest opponent Peter j. Mcdonald. The vote was give in the petition As ballots to were two other less than 700 votes each. The petition shows a recount was held and results certified by the Manitoba court of Appeal gave the seat to or. Dow by five votes to the petition claims that after the closing of the court of revision or. Mcknight knowingly inserted names of 21 persons on the voters list in poll 22 none Mulc 1vlcl1u a ill to begin budget discussions next i entitled to Nave week added to the Lisl of whom were their names the two petitioners say 17 of the 21 persons voted. They say an additional total of 45 Voles were cast in the electoral division by people not properly vouched for. Or. Mcmechan and or. Sense claim these votes affected the result of the election and substantially exceeded or. Dow s five vote margin. The petitioners Are asking the court to determine that or. Dow was not duly elected or returned and that the election was void. Or. Mcknight in a Tele phone interview that the 21 people who voted in poll 22 should have been on the voter s list and had been left off through a mix up he Felt. He said the 21 All live on farms two sections wide and six sections Long. Or. Mcknight said he understood these people had been left off the list by mistake because they voted in different towns in Federal and provincial elections. It was a mistake and when some of these people approached me i checked each one and found they were entitled to vote. The mistake was t discovered until just before the some of the people had lived ail their lives on the farms he said. Or. Mcknight said he knew nothing about the other 45 referred to in the petition. The same findings prompted the humane society Board of directors to Call a general meeting of society members for nov. 24 to recommend that the society s present animal shelter be closed. Chairman of the Board mrs. Elizabeth Moorehouse said Fri Day membership approval of the Board s recommendation was almost at the same meeting plans will be discussed for establish ing a building fund to raise for building a shelter on a new site. Mrs. Moorehouse said the society will resume its shelter operation Only when the new facilities Are available. Meanwhile the animals nor Mally cared for by the humane society will be forced to roam the streets. Emergency Veteri nary facilities will no longer be available to Winnipeg pets since the society is now the Only Agency providing such services in greater Winnipeg. Winnipeg loses summer games bid to Halifax the Canadian Amateur sports federation officially notified the City of Winnipeg thursday that its bid for the 1969 Canadian summer games has been turned Down. After careful review of All bids received it was the the civic finance committee. When Winnipeg City Council approved submission of a bid and drove us a i for games it was understood a 1 authority sapped says metro Man appointed body undermines elected authority councillor metro s planning authority has been emasculated by the Manitoba municipal Board councillor b. R. Wolfe charged thursday at a metro Council meeting. The Ralph Nader safety crusader Safe cars crusader to speak Ralph Nader who runs a one Man crusade for safer cars and Robert Malkin a . Business Man who s been fighting for stiffer traffic Laws will address a one Day traffic seminar in the fort Garry hotel nov. 18. Tickets to the seminar sponsored by the greater Winnipeg safety Council Are Sto each or for three. Council officials anticipate 400 people but 600 could be accommodated. Air. Nader earned Fame in the . Last year through his controversial Book unsafe at any Speed. Or. Malkin has been waging a National Battle for stiffer traffic Laws since his son was killed by a drunk Driver about three years ago. Howard Loewen executive director of the Council says he Hopes the seminar will spark interest in forming a provincial Highway safety Council. He is a for businessmen and the director s of the sports residents to proclaimed shortly. The seminar opens . With registration. At or. It would be a standby offer. Weather synopsis valid until saturday Midnight overnight temperatures in Central Alberta and Eastern Saskatchewan fell to the 10 to 15 degree Range under Clear skies last night. Over the remainder of the Prairies overnight temperatures were in the mid to High-20s As Cloud cover inhibited Cooling. Clearing will occur on the Eastern Prairie late tonight but Cloud is expected to spread Over Alberta and Saskatchewan Early saturday As a new disturbance moves South Ward along the Foothills. Pre. Forecast mostly Cloudy with widely scattered Snow flurries and Light winds today. Clear tonight. Sunny with winds saturday. Low tonight for Gimli. Carman and Winnipeg 10, High saturday 30. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Friday Ottawa 62 Toronto 52 Montreal 65 Halifax 56 Chicago 36 Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Vancouver Calgary Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora Max 50 40 49 42 37 min. 33 16 9 19 25 31 22 26 25 12 17 to. To. .02 to. 65 70 32 67 30 27 35 50 24 50 62 26 34 .29 .04 .56 .03 he said the action of Board in quashing a metro rezoning bylaw cast doubt on the principles that affect the function of this Council and the planning members of the. Municipal Board Are appointed by the provincial government the bylaw would have allowed construction of a High apart ment Block at Academy Road and Wellington Crescent despite objections from the Crescent Wood Homeowner s association. The planning committee will have to take a Good hard look at their very existence if a non elective body like the municipal Board can nullify their coun. Wolfe said. Now All the work of the planning department the plan Ning committee and this Council has gone Down the Drain because of the actions of a three Man Board answerable to no one. Elected people i thought the elected people were supposed to be the ones responsible for planning Deci wednesday the municipal Board had vetoed metro s bylaw on the grounds that the pro posed rezoning would not improve the welfare and amenity of greater Winnipeg it said the rezoning would have led to further encroachments in the area resulting in loss of the District s character As a neigh boyhood of single family houses. The bylaw had constituted metro s second attempt to re zone the site. The first also aimed at allowing the building of the apartment Block had been rejected by the supreme court of Canada last year on a technicality after the municipal Board had granted its a pro v a 1 the homeowners had fought it to the supreme court Over a four year period. Coun. Wolfe s attack on the municipal Board thursday was supported by coun. Peter Taraska. To say the least i was surprised at the Board s Deci he told Council. This Thrift has been fought since 1962 and the appeals have never been upheld by the Board before. What possessed them to reverse their stand ibis year i la never asked for an opinion on the matter metro s solicitor 0. C. Lennox replied legally there is nothing that i can say. There is no Appeal. The decision of the Board is final and but or. Lennox prefaced his reply with this Issue has had a Long and bitter history. To say that i am disappointed is putting it Huband approves coun. Charles r. Huband who had originally voted against passing the rezoning bylaw was the Only member of Council who supported the Board s decision. He said the homeowners objections were upheld because the Community had turned out and told the Board they were unwilling to have this apart ment. I was going to move that we Send the Board a letter of commendation but i won t press the he said. Top Liberal visiting in Manitoba i Allan o Brien National director of the Liberal federation of Canada is in Manitoba this week visiting various constituency organizations. Or. O Brien who succeeded Keith Davey. Attended meetings of the associations ill Winnipeg South wednesday night and Winnipeg South Centre thurs Day night. He is to attend a similar meeting ill Brandon today. Lie is attempting to review constituency reorganization Fol lowing the recent change in the boundaries of electoral Divi Sions. Members of the greater Winnipeg housewives protest committee Are shown thursday afternoon on their Way into City Hall and a meeting with mayor slept in Juba to seek advice on How to approach the provincial government for support Taftt off of t in their fight against High food prices. The women decided to present a Resolution to the provincial government asking it to urge the Federal government to take some action on the High Cost of jiving. Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record nov 3 19.0 25.1 65.0 in 1903 54.4 22.1 38.3 lowest on record 25.7 33.2 -11.3 in 1893 30 Jumble Dale Early because of. The nov. 11 Holiday Jumble entries numbered 3189 to 3104 must reach the free press office by noon thursday nov. 10 ;