Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba In backs Whittier Park plan firm plans apartment Complex on land metro wants Whittier Park development corporation which has been seeking metro approval on a St. Boniface site has found support from Cana Dian National railways for its claims the land should be developed. Dental Laws coming legislation setting Forth the responsibilities of de naturists and dental mechanics in Manitoba is being prepared health minister c. H. Witney said monday. However the minister failed to say when the legislation recommended by a legislative committee last would be introduced. He made the statement in the legislature in reply to Nelson Shoemaker a Gladstone who asked when the government plan Ned to take action on the com j. A. Pelletier acting for the development firm claimed in a Brief presented monday in metro s Council Chambers the in might want to co operate in the Whittier Park plan. He told the Public hearing into metro s master development plan the firm intended to build an apartment Block on the land. R. A. Park building project coordinator for the in said at the hearing we endorse the Brief but have no present plans for development of the pro or. Pelletier told the hearing it would be unrealistic for the in to deny itself the Opportunity to co operate in redevelop ment of this before or. Park confirmed the end oration. Councillor b. R. Wolfe questioned whether or. Pelletier had said a railway official Brief in writing verbally. Or. Pelletier said he believed there had been written support for the Brief. Winnipeg free press local news by Carrier soc per week tuesday january 31, 1967 backed the As Well As Mittee s recommendations. Save no indication metro wants to expropriate the Whittier Park land to make or. Witney gave no indication for a proposed express what form the legislation would i Complex. Take. He Only said the govern Way Del ment was working on the problem in an Effort to find solution. The special committee which i investigated de naturists for two Vears recommended that Den tourists be allowed to Deal directly with the Public. But it also suggested that de naturists be forbidden to work in patients Mouths. A further recommendation that inspection of Den tourists be carried out by the government instead of by the Manitoba dental association. Pollution ban urged Swailes Winnipeg City Council passed a motion monday urging the provincial departments of health Indus try and Commerce and mines and natural resources to take All necessary Steps to assure that the Waters flowing into Lake Winnipeg Are As free As possible from All forms of pollution. The motion presented by Alderman Donovan Swales and seconded by Aid. Alan c. Wade was approved unanimously. It was t de bated by City Council. Aid. Swailes said that Lake Winnipeg is a catch Basic for Rivers flowing from the United states Ontario and Western can Ada and May suffer from pollution similar to that now affecting Lake Erie which is so polluted it Caa t support Marine life. Vetoing Powers blunted a Bill aimed at curbing the veto Power of the mayor of Portage la Prairie was Given second Reading in the legislature i monday. I the Bill which was recommended by the Manitoba municipal Board amends the por Tage la Prairie charter and. In i effect brings it into line with the terms of the municipal act. It is designed to remedy the situation that has been Preval ent on the Portage la Prairie Council for the past few years in which the mayor exploited the vagueness of the existing charter to bolster his veto Power. The present charter has been interpreted to mean that the mayor s veto May be overruled easing urged of nurse standards the Manitoba association of registered nurses has moved to have education standards for Entrance to nursing courses eased. Should schools agree to the proposal students Tak ing the Graj 12 general course would be accepted with University Entrance course students. The association feels these two categories of students should be con said a spokesman tuesday. The association licenses All registered nurses in the province. Reader probe urged serious problem in University says Mol Gat no Hospital Premium Rise says Witney legislature gets Assurance despite new Peak in spending the provincial government is not contemplating any increase in Manitoba Hospital insurance premiums in 1967 despite a Rise of almost s12 Mil lion this year in the estimates of spending for the Manitoba Hospital commission. Health minister c. H. Gave the Assurance on rates to j medical fund Cut appealed Hast Kuonan Boun Federal a id to education still unknown Johnson the Manitoba legislature wrap Ped up discussion of the Educa Tion department estimates Mon Day evening by approving a program for the coming inadequate or. Mol Gat wanted the to know if the criticism was justified or if the minister was simply getting himself off the or year that is expected to Cost however in spite of persistent questioning from Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat education minister George Johnson could give no breakdown of what the by a two thirds majority of the Federal share of the program seven member Council. In addition mayor Lloyd Henderson has claimed that the charter entitles the mayor to a vote whenever the question of lifting the veto arises. Will be. As the House meeting in committee of Supply finished discussion on the last item in the education estimates or. Mol Gat Rose to ask or. Johnson what proportion of the total Bill will have to be raised by the Ine Liberal Leader also wanted to know How much of last year s education spending of was financed by Federal funds. Or Johnson after several attempts by or. Mol Gat to pry municipal the information from him Agilea that the mayor has no vote on to investigate and notify the House when he had the answers however under the Bill before the House the mayor s veto can be overruled and removed at any regular or special meeting if the majority of the Council is present and a simple majority of the members present vote in favor of removing the veto. The Bill which is exactly the same As Section 338 of the municipal act clearly states or. Johnson replied that he could not give the information because the provincial authorities were still negotiating with to a n government to come exact definition of Ottawa s claim that it will pay 50 per cent of Post secondary education. Quite honestly not know what government will share said. We the still do Federal he Assiniboia voters re elect Turner Assiniboia ratepayers went of motion that a referee Assini Nojd Idle Iida 0 j the polls monday and returned councillor William j. Turner who has promised to seek a pub Lic referendum on amalgamation. His election was interpreted As showing support for Assini Boia s possible amalgamation with St. James. Defeated were John a. Houde who polled 29 votes Alexander Olaf trailed just and Morrison who votes behind weather report synopsis valid until wednesday northwesterly generally sunny weather coven in. Temperatures Down in is across the Eastern Prairies Are holding iit0ba air Over Northern Albert today will b. Over Manitoba to i Western Sas Katche use Neu be Nau tralies just Vuia of noting that or. Johnson had i coun Turner 156 votes roasted the Federal govern Dum be held on the abolition of lie Ward system. He wants councillors elected by the Citi Zens at Large. A Ouatu. Ments proposed school Finan cing formula last week As being 6 . Tuesday Max. Man. Pre Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas 20 Wynn log to fort William 26 Kenora 28 3 -18 -9 2 to .01 .02 .02 .19 .06 21 .02 Ottawa i3 Toronto i Montreal 16 Halifax Chicago 30 Miami los Angeles 36 Minneapolis 34 new York 34 Max. Min. Pre. 13 1 -8 3 27 54 29 23 to .15 Jan. 30 30.1 i lowest on record vote on garage bid lost Winnipeg City Council monday Defeated by a 10 to 7 vote a motion for ratepayer approval of metro s proposed bus garage. The motion presented by aldermen Slaw Bebchuk and Paul Para Shin asked the provincial government to introduce an amendment to the metro act requiring metro to submit a Money bylaw to electors. Metro said earlier they would not proceed with constriction of the Gar age this year even though it was allowed for in capital works estimates Aid. Gordon r. Fines said voters Don t always have the details decide an Issue. You can t depend on people being Aid. Lloyd Stinson said chaos would result if ratepayers had to give priority to metro projects. Aid. Bebchuk said he had Confidence in voters judgement. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Wednesday in. The free press building Are Board room fort Garry Kennel club clubroom British wives association. Or. Houde the Only candidate campaigning on a platform of support for mayor j. H. Belows s proposal to seek City status for Assiniboia said in an interview monday night the majority Are i think for amalgamation. However or. Houde noted that Only ,8.2 per cent of the voters had turned out and questioned if this was a representative sampling of opinion. Or. Morrison said in an interview following his defeat from what i can see right now people Are for amalgamation. The vote shows this quite conclusively that the greatest majority with St. Candidate was for City status and he got Only 29 votes. Crossing details outlined a St. Boniface police con stable who crossed a railway crossing with 10 other motorists while the Protection Gates were Down Friday has explained his action. The Story appeared saturday in the free press with a photograph of a car crossing the1 lines. Because of the Story St. Boniface police chief William Russell sent a copy of a traffic the greatest infraction to the free want amalgamation Ess James. Only one in Vic report Constable r. C. Thompson said he and another Constable arrived at the in or. Turner has the record of voting in Council against the City status study and i expect or. Turner will Call for a Public meeting or ask Council for a referendum on the amalgamation or. Morrison ran his Campaign on an amalgamation with St. James platform. The by election was necessitated by the resignation of coun. Turner to try for a metro seat last autumn. He had been Defeated. Coun. Turner said tuesday he would pursue the amalgamation Issue actively in Council. Something that both parties St. James and Assini Boia should look at very carefully. A Public referendum must be held and both councils must be the will of level crossing on Highway 59 just North of Mission Street. He said his Cruiser was the sixth vehicle in line when the warning lights began flashing. A Short time after coming to a Stop i saw a bulk milk truck which was first in line move to the left and proceed through the crossing. I drove onto the shoulder and proceeded towards the crossing in sin attempt to obtain the licence while the Cruiser car moved to the crossing another car crossed. Constable Thompson crossed to catch up to the car. The police stopped the car on Vanbellegham the people in the Colin. Turner also said that at the next Assiniboia municipal Council meeting he would give Street and a Man was told he would be charged with failing to comply with an audible and discernible railway Constable Thompson said there May have been several automobiles operated through the crossing after we left in Pursuit of this Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat pressed Mon Day Tor a probe into Reading instruction at the elementary school level. He claims there is a serious Reading problem among univer silly of Manitoba students. Speaking in committee debate on education department Esti mates he urged the establish ment of a legislative committee to study the problem for the second time in As Many years. Or. Mol Gat was joined by d. L. Campbelll Lakeside in casting doubt on the effective Ness of the newly adopted Basic Reader in Manitoba elementary schools the Canadian Reading development series. But education minister George Johnson said no other series will be introduced this year on the recommendation of an advisory committee of his department. The committee up of teachers and education experts had recommend ii that the phonetic system should t be used in isolation he said. At the same time he announced that a report from the advisory committee recommending other material to complement the Reader series would be tabled in the Legisla Ture in a few Days. The Canadian Reading development series was officially adopted in the province s elementary schools last september ousting the former Dick and Jane series. It was introduced with the of providing More phonetic Reading instruction and Lessl memory instruction than the former series. But argument has Arisen in education circles As to whether the new series has gone far enough in promoting the new phonetic Reading system. Or. Mol Gat said the situation at the University had come to a head with recent newspaper articles indicating that a num Ber of predominantly Canadian born students had difficulty Reading. Whether this goes Back to the proper Reading in grades 1 and 2, i m not sure. But it is not satisfactory once the University level is the Liberal chief asked what checks the minister was making to ensure the new Basic Reading series was an improvement. Reading from a draft of the advisory committee report or. Johnson outlined a two pronged Basic Reading program designed to incorporate both memory and phonetic methods. It would he said give the teacher More flexibility in the Reading method used and be More suitable for adapting to the children s individual needs. But or. Campbell said the advisory b o a r d s recommendations appeared out of line with the experience of Winnipeg teachers who conducted an Experiment with the phonetics method Over a period of years and in the vast majority came out in favor of the the former Premier said it had taken the advisory com Mittee five years to make the recommendation since the time its formation was urged in the House and now it had taken an Adverse position to that taken by the teachers. He suggested if the legislative committee were set up it should bring in its own experts to examine the report from the advisory committee. The Manitoba legislature Mon i Day in opening debate on the record s83.6 million spending j estimates for his department. 1 he told the House that the 80 hospitals in the province had submitted budgets calling for expenditures about 20 per cent greater than last year s. The hospitals asked for an additional million Over the s50 million spent last year but the commission reduced the budget increases to 10 per cent and the hospitals will Only receive a total of million the minister said. Despite the fact that estimated spending for the Hospital commission has risen to million for the coming year com pared with million spent Winnipeg s major hospitals Are appealing government Bud get cuts that won t allow them to maintain existing individually and through he Manitoba Hospital association administrators attacked the province s 10 ,3 Iii Muu my last year or. Witney said the j per cent ceiling on Hospital Cost actual increase for services i estimates for j.3fi7. Would be minion. I the governed recommend this was due to a change in accounting methods which saw the commission switch to the province s fiscal year from april 1 to March 31. Previously its budget was set on the Calendar year and this Meaut that million of the increase will cover expenditures this year up to March 31. Aliens have trimmed million from the extra million sought this year. Hospitals have been offered a total of s5.1 million. H. A. Crewson executive director of uie Manitoba Hospi Tal association said tuesday hospitals would have difficulty j maintaining existing service ear up la Maidi of. I the remaining s7 million will let alone implementing any increased services from improvements or expanded Sor april 1 to March 31, 19r8. Or. Witney said that studios were being conducted to see what could be done in a number of areas to control Hospital costs. He said that in 19g5 the hospitals had provided 1.8 Mil Hospital in moves following the Esli mates announcement 200 doctors met last wednesday to protest Buppel cuts and resolved to support the position of the Winnipeg general to Sot Money of patient care in the maintain uie High calibre province. In i960 this decreased j care expected by . And provision was being made j All hospitals appealed in 1967 to once again provide 1.8 i o the Manitoba Hospital Coin million Days of patient care. During 19gg the staff Manitoba hospitals had risen by mands. 300 persons and it was Estimo the ated in 1967 that the staff Sci nation said none of uie increases would be Over Mission for restoration of of amounts pared from their de persons and it was Testim j the Monitoba Hospital As Sci nation said none of uie planned programs of services submitted by hospitals would be without an increase in the number of Days of patient care. Larry Desjardins a St. Boniface was the first opposition 1 critic to Rise on the health i estimates. He said that the problem appeared to be a shortage of nurses doctors and other hos Pital personnel. Pointing to the Cut in proposed Hospital budget creases he added we might also say there is a shortage the Liberal member congratulated the minister How honoured. Over on a report on the nursing problem recently issued by the department. He urged that one of the recommendations that the Manitoba association of registered nurses be empowered to act As bargaining agent for the nurses of the province be implemented immediately. He also approved of plans for a proposed two year diploma course for nurses. This is not a policy for or. Crewson said. It is a policy of barely mooting the existing costs of existing services. In fact or now know that the 1967 preliminary rates for i hospitals As set by the Manitoba the Hospital commission Are not in St. Boniface general Hospital administrator Ron White had his budget slashed by from a will not permit us to carry Nelson Cost hike denied Public utilities minister Stew Art e. Mclean denied monday a Trade journal report that claimed Cost estimates for the Nelson River Power project have spiral led to s200 million million More than previously estimated. Or. Mclean answering a question from Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat said he was not aware of any increase in the estimates for the far North Hydro development. Or. Mol Gat quoting from the newspaper electrical business said the estimates for the Kettle rapids generating station will on the level of services provided in 19gg. The Hospital had also been Given approval for equipment in a now special procedures room but needed highly trained personnel and Money to operate the room. Winnipeg general has lost si.700.000 ill uie Cost paring and has registered Surprise and i or. L. 0. Bradley director said Fiat increases in Canada and the . Were 15 to 20 per cent while Manitoba faced an arbitrary ten per cent at the meeting of 200 doctors or. Bradley said they had expressed their deep concern that budget cuts would make it most difficult to promote educational activities of the medical College. This is a major Trainin i Centre for All categories of personnel and must be kept at its present High Henry Posyniak assistant administrator at Misericordia general Hospital said cuts would prevent any expansion plans. We Are hopeful uie commission will meet our Likely be million. Labelling the report alar Ming if True he said the government had originally claimed the first estimate of that phase the 111 is estimate Mui. Of the project had been Mil come a real requirements. We have a j. E. Robinson administrator of children s Hospital asked and was offered we be been marking time to expand for a number of years he said tuesday. Unless the Hospital receives the amount it asked a four bed intensive care until costing would probably not to lion. However or. Mclean said he had no knowledge of the report in the publication and suggested or. Mol Gat put his questions to officials of Manitoba Hydro when they appear before a legislative committee later in uie session. And while the current nursing staff would t be affected fur ther hiring would not be Likely. I m perfectly Happy to operate the Hospital on the rate the government he said if the government is prepared to accept uie criticism it is Likely to get from uie ;