Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Gravel pit trash dump p., Tui spy. I nuart 1967 local news study wanted of transporting garbage out by metro railway by Kevin Wilson greater Winnipeg s daily garbage May soon be dumped in Southern Manitoba gravel pits at a profit to metro if a metro councillor s idea proves feasible. Councillor lome a. Leech will ask metro Council thursday to order a study into the possible use of the greater. Winnipeg water District railway by metro 4o transport the rubbish out of the City area. The Cost to metro of disposing of the rubbish would be charged against municipalities and Pri vate firms. If adopted the scheme would ensure the metro owned railway kept operating at a coun. Leech said in a Telephone interview monday. He said Alexander Penman metro s waste disposal director had warned that gravel pits along the single track line to Shoal Lake May soon be worked out. Gravel transport metro makes a year More than the annual Cost of the Railroad by trans there Are provisions for Addi porting gravel from the pits for tons on two sides of the a St. Boniface building Supply building and future expansion value of million Date set to Start building construction of air Canada s s2 air cargo Complex at Winnipeg International Airport will begin this summer. Completion of the Sotuare foot building is scheduled within 12 months of the beginning of work says a press statement from air Canada. It will incorporate the latest de sign and most modern materials handling equipment for Jet aircraft. Second Lap of race begins Charleswood Man second _ Cash to Man Euvi the firm. And the railway is needed to the carry repair Crews could place the company says. Valv for metro s water because of air cargo traffic s j from Shoal Lake growth in recent months the company revised its specifications for the building adding a half million dollars to its orig Inal proposed Cost. The original dimensions of the building were enlarged and and mater viaduct u More cargo handling equipment _ including nose loading docks a mechanized system of unloading and an automatic stack ing system has been added. The department of transport is expected to open Access roads to the building site this Spring. Scheme will also do away with the need for Muni Cipal garbage dumps in greater Winnipeg and Stop complaints from people who live near coun. Leech said. Or. Penman said monday a i consultant Engineer s Survey into greater Winnipeg garbage disposal four years ago had looked into using the railway for transporting garbage out on the railway and had found it was t. Feasible. One reason was the sign plan attacked More than two thirds of greater Winnipeg s Sig writers will be out of work if metro bans projecting Street signs a Union official said monday. Abraham r us e a business representative for local 1565, brotherhood of painters and decorators cafe Cio Csc made the allegation at a Public hearing into the master develop ment ment plan in the metro Council Chambers. He said the proposal to allow no More of the signs after the plan is passed and to outlaw them five years later was to his Union. Said or. Ruben Sig writers will probably have to accept employment elsewhere at a lower pay rate. This scheme is anything but progressive. I have been to towns where these signs have been taken away and they look absolutely other criticism the proposal came from sign manufacturer Einar Arnason 762 Gar Field Street. He said a ban on overhanging Street signs could turn profits of Small businesses into losses. But he admitted makeshift signs and store name signs mainly used to advertise National pro ducts create an undesirable or. Arnason urged that metro abolish Only the National product Type signs and control appearance of the others. Al Michener vice president Manitoba association of architects presented an association Brief on the development plan urging that metro bring greater closer to the process of planning. As part of some City planning programs citizens had been assigned to working committees charged with evolving a part of the general planning study. We frankly feel Steps of this nature will prove essential implementation of the develop ment plan is to become z he said. Such moves could result in plan proposals More Likely to be expressive of True Community a labor election committee submission asked that Impie mentation of the plan be stayed until metro and municipality have agreed on How the plan proposals should be financed. Presenting the Brief do Currie Secretary of the com Mittee said a renewal of the downtown area As envisaged b the plan should be born mainly by big businesses we will Benefit Jcj. Estimated Cost of putting sides on the railway s Flatcar to contain the rubbish. May be different but or. Penman said there May now be certain advantages to transporting the rubbish out by the railway. Conditions May be entirely different in 1967." he said that even if the railway stops carrying gravel it May not operate at a loss for years. We have a 10-year agree ment with the building Supply company whereby they pay us a year until 1971 for shipping gravel whether we ship any or not. If it becomes necessary the Council May have to decide whether the corporation should stick to the the company has told metro officials that the gravel pits May be worked out by the end of this year he said. More gravel was obtainable nearby but it might not be of suitable Quality. Or. Penman is preparing a report on the matter for metro s waste disposal com Mittee. Coun. Leech wants metro to think about using the railway to Ransport garbage whether or of the gravel operation stops. He thinks the garbage could be jumped into gravel pits already worked out. Phillips to Lead civic employees de Phillips has been elected resident of local 500, Canadian Union of Public employees Jim keep has been elected first vice president and Efer Goral second vice resident. Others elected were Tom Clark treasurer Franz to Secretary and Neil Mcgregor Warden. Local 00 represents the More than employees of the City 01 Winnipeg and metro Winnipeg. By Hubert Beyer Crookston. Minn. Staff _ at the end of the first Lap of the 486-mile Winnipeg St. Paul snowmobile. Race Ray Beck of Charleswood is holding Down second place. His brother Norm is 10th in the dwindling Field. The two Brothers roared across the finish line Here considerably changing the Luck of Manitoban Over last year when not one managed to place in the top 10. Leading the pack in the first 176-mile Lap from Winnipeg to Crookston is Randy kites of Roseau Minnesota. It was rough going All the Way. The temperature was in the 20-Clegree above Zero Range and most of the Drivers complained about the unbearable or. Beck of 242 Lynbrook . Sets safety record six years ago monday a six year old boy and his seven year old playmate were knocked Down by a transport truck on Watt Street at Washington Avenue in East Kildonan. There were on their Way Home from school. The older boy was sent to Hospital with serious injuries but Little Ronald Anderson had been killed. He is the last person to have died in a traffic Accident in the City. Today East Kildonan is in what it Hopes will be its seventh fatality free year. It is the Only City of its size in North America to have gone As Many Days without a traffic death. The achievement will be noted at a ceremony saturday on Henderson Highway at Montrose Avenue the City s Southern Boundary. A sign at the site displays the City s Accident free record and today it reads Days. Before a fatal Accident on Highway 58 six weeks before Ronald Anderson was killed there had t been a traffic death in the City for Days. East Kildonan police Are noted for their strict patrolling of school and playground zones. Police chief Chris Einfeld says the vigilance and school patrols own much of the credit for the City s unique record. Now that the 15 m.h. Limit has been removed from play ground and school areas motor tiling if will i easier drive Charleswood said he was sweating like a bulldog All the Way. Not Only is it too warm for the Drivers but the machines also function better when the temperature is he said he was Happy to place second at least it shows that we canadians Aren t another reason Why the race is More demanding than last year s is that Drivers Aren t allowed to travel on Road shoulders. They have to stick to the ditches except where that would be impossible. Or. Kites said he could have made much better time if conditions had t been so bad. His time was four hours 21 min. And 55 Sec. Or. Beck made it in four hours 43 min. 15 Sec. Both averaged Over 40 m.h. Trouble started Only a few Miles North of the starting Point at Roblin Boulevard and the perimeter Highway. Two snowmobiles broke Down and it took quite a while to repair them. After another 10 Miles the Road was blocked by several Snow Clearing machines try ing to pull a bus out of the ditch. On Board were Mem Bers of the news Media from Minneapolis. Of the 110 Drivers starting out from Winnipeg 78 finished the first Lap. The others either fell by the Wayside or failed to reach Crookston by the 5 m. Deadline. Third in the first Lap was Bob Eastman of Roseau Minn. Gerald Reese also of Roseau came in fourth. While it May look fairly easy to manoeuvre a Snow Mobile through open Fields it is a difficult task. At times the Drivers Are five or six feet in the air soaring As far As 10 or 16 feet. Or. Kites was More off the ground than on it one race official said. Two girls Are determined to show their masculine counterparts How a race is won. Not that either of them is among the first 10, but Nancy Kimbel of Minneapolis and Rosora Anderson of Cen ter City Minn., weren t at All willing to give up the fight after the first Lap. Today s run will take the Drivers to Fergus Falls 108 Miles from Crookston. The laps Are smaller on succeed ing Days to give Drivers a better Chance to rest and recuperate. One of the two woman entrants provincial Cut May hit metro streets lower Road building Grants Likely to Roll Back projects metro May have to Cut its million Street works program for this year because the province is planning to pay less in Road construction Grants. But what projects May be Cut Back or postponed no one can say. Metro finance committee 1 chairman councillor Peter tar Aska said in an interview monday we will have to act on the advice of our streets and hoping that province will i am pretty sure this decision will result a a reduction in the amount Given to metro. We usually hand out our contracts a the Spring so transit the director d. I. Macdonald is out of town this week. But his Deputy Harry f. Burns said this will have to by then the have made a decision about How much they will allow the provincial estimates also show an increase to _ its might think it will be easier to avoid tickets chief Einfeld says. But the no passing Rule still Gildas Mol Gat Mani Toba s Liberal party Leader watches hungarian costumed mrs. Andrew haraszty operate a spin Ning wheel at Eaton s treasures of Many lands display. With him Are his wife and children Anne and Paul. New theatre group to hold course a 12-week drama course Bui me Uu-yaoo.i-6 sponsored by the new theatre stands under the new Highway i group begins at m. Traffic act and it will be or in enforced More strictly to keep motorists aware of the danger to children a the area. Two break ins police report two break ins in Winnipeg sunday night. Broadway Esso service 570 Broadway Avenue was broken into and taken. Thieves broke a pane in the front door. At the Green steel industries Ltd. 975 Logan Avenue was taken from the office. The Coffee and drink machines were rifled. The rear door had been forced. Friday at Krc studios second floor of the free press building. The classes will be directed by professional actor Paul ver Den and. Will include individual and group movement co ordination and general stage technique and character establishment. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 wednesday in the free press building Are Board room Manitoba master Barbers association club room mental patients Wel fare association. Expo flight matches Bush Pilot exploits estimates show that Money for construction of provincial trunk highways provincial roads and established metro streets drop almost s1.5 million year to million. Coun. Taraska said expected the province to the Small plane touched Down and eased itself into one of the hangars at Winnipeg International Airport. On its Side were the expo 67 Crest and the title expo 67, Polar ambassadors expedition. Pilot Raymond Munro and co Pilot Ivan c. Christopher were making the first and last official Stop of a Northern trek to bring Centennial news to the North. They were met by the Man who will take or. Christopher s place for the. Rest of the trip Murray Watts or or. Arctic to miners and pilots. The talk was of Clear weather plans and places they would visit flin flon Inuvik Yellowknife. Their trip is a tribute to the prospectors mining men and Bush pilots who opened the North and found the Mineral wealth of Canada. They will visit 38 towns and provincial government throughout the province and in greater Winnipeg. But this increase is unlikely to be reflected in Grants to metro will i coun. Taraska feels. The prov Liis Ince usually gives us about per Lane Niile for Highway pay new fire pacts taking a tip from Winnipeg St. James has set out to renegotiate fire Protection agreements with neighbouring municipalities. The thrust of the program will be aimed at Assiniboia. Unlike Winnipeg St. James is interested in trading for Cash for a reciprocal agreement for Cash. An agreement dated 1963. Binds. St. St James Assiniboia for an hour for each vehicle manned by three men Plu per hour for the chief and Deputy chief said St. James Alderman g. C. Ketch. What to like them to do is go into the fire Protection business for even when their yearly to they Are getting cheap Protection but their insurance rates Al to Tittl More they should have better Protection and they should be aware that the Protection now is not so he said St. James was not out to up their fire fighting rates but rather to shed obligations they Felt they had trouble carrying. St. James has two fire Halls and is starting to build its third. The Hall covering Assiniboia is tanned by three men and equipped with three trucks said Alderman Ketch. We get a fire in St. James and one in Ini Boia at the same time we re in the population of St. James is now about Farid Assiniboia about when the protect agreement was negotiated the population of considerably said Iaia Ferman Ketch the Protection in they Are getting if lived out there i d be a bit scared cities in Northern Canada As Well As 20 Royal Canadian mounted police outposts. At a reception later or. Munro claimed the trip is paid for by the three men involved. There Are no commercial overtones. He said he would be person ally investing in the plane alone. The men claimed they will reconstruct the conditions of the original flights of Canadian Bush pilots. But since Canada s North has already been opened up they have chosen a smaller aircraft with half the Power of the Bush Pilot planes and have planned the trip in the least favourable time of year. Otherwise anyone could do said or. Munro. This is our birthday present to can they left Montreal wednesday and flew to Toronto Parry sound Sudbury the Lakehead red Lake Chapleau and on to Winnipeg. They leave tomorrow at noon for flin flon where or. Munro says schools will be closed and the bands will play at an official gathering. The plane then leaves for posts along the Arctic Ocean and the Mackenzie River on a trip that will last about a month. About million this year it May be toward widening and Extension spending More of metro streets. Highways.1 maintenance. This amounts to about they will be on their own i weather report j synopsis l valid until wednesday n of disturbance. Freight cars i derailed a derailment along the can Adian Pacific railway s main line near Beausejour tied up car rail traffic overnight. Ramp said one of the rails broke around 10 m. Monday night just As a westbound freight train was passing Over it. Fifteen cars left the tracks. Car. Spokesmen said half of the double track main line would be cleared by noon tuesday and the other half Likely would be in service later afternoon or evening. Traffic was being re routed in the meantime. Forecast 6 . Tuesday Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora Max. Min. Pre. -05 44 -10 -11 6 1 7 11 37 21 32 -19 -18 -12 -22 -11 0 -11 .06 .01 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new Yorkes 26 31 60 79 61 20 27 39 69 49 19 .75 .34 .02 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Jan. 23 last year Normal Max. 10.8 -23.7 1.2 min. -10.8 9.7 mean highest on record 0.0 5.5 -31 a Lowett on record 0.8 -43.2 in ims and 1936 ;