Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 1, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Castro May be pan am visitor cuban Premier Fidel Castro by Michael Harris there is Chance that cuban Premier Fidel Castro May accompany cuban ath letes to Winnipeg s pan american games in july. John Keirstead. Games society Public relations Dir Ector said tuesday that Premier Castro is a Strong baseball Pitcher and it s Likely he will take part in a game Here. Addressing t h e Canada ethnic press club of Winnipeg or. Keirstead said construction of a pan am swimming Pool is ahead of schedule that 700 of the expected athletes will be women and that accommodating games visitors still is a problem. T Tell local news by oct p., wednesday. February i. 1967 on these cold Winter Days quite a few students use Toast r bags to wrap their school books. Sometimes they use the big dry cleaning bags that come on suits or dresses. As a result several people have phoned to say they have seen Young people handling the bags in a dangerous manner. One woman i saw some boys putting a bag around another boy s face. They May not realize it but this could it s True plastic bags should never be put near the face House crisis stalled builders Hail direct Loans announcement by Sheldon Bowles the announcement of direct Home Loans from the Federal government has received a warm Wel come from Winnipeg builders. They claim it is the first step to preventing a housing shortage in the metro area. I myies Robinson of metropolitan Homes and Edward Boldt of Boldt construction said in inter views tuesday that a housing shortage would have developed Here if present conditions had because of the risk of suffocation. Occasionally a Reader recalls cars of bygone Days As the Franklin Essex or Stutz. When Yon Stop to think about it quite a Lew automobile names have disappeared in the years since the end of the second War. _ for instance i can think of Studebaker Packard Kaiser Frazer Edsel Crosley and the Henry j. And How about the Tucker it had a swivelling headlight Luggage tailor made to fit the trunk a rear engine and i think three wheels. But i believe Only two or three prototypes were made. The Model never actually went into production. The most amazing thing i find about cars today is the increased demand for shift but of course sales pitches Are jazzed up by calling them four on the floor. Deak or. Telpner. Just recently i received the monthly bulletin from the Church to which i belonged in continued. Or. Robinson said mortgage Money provided by the Federal government last fall was still providing quite a bit of action and if this comes up in the Spring it should continue the i i the Loans announced monday by Federal labor minister John r. Nicholson will be available Between april 1 and May 31 without a pre Sale requirement. Or. Robinson said the eco nomic Council of Canada had labor act comes under fire undermines bargaining position of employees opposition claims Liberal and new democratic party spokesmen unleashed a joint attack tuesday on the Manitoba labor relations act claiming it undermines the bargaining position of employees during contract negotiations. Driver prevents blast in a Snowbank and jarred the steering wheel out of the called for dwelling starts a year to meet the needs of a growing population with the charges Alta. Firm got Job despite Low Manitoba bid the attack was launched in the Manitoba legislature by a Resolution from Sidney Green nip Inkster calling for a provision in he act that would prohibit employers from altering wage or working conditions during collective bargaining without first obtaining the approval of the employees through their bar dining agent. T. P. Hillhouse a Selvirio strongly endorsed the nip Resolution asserting that pro visions of the existing act destroy the principle of free and untrammelled Industrial relations. Ii axons. However no action was taken a on the Resolution because labor the car an unidentified youth finister obie Baizley adjourned a vote could be debate before Aken. In effect both or a Liberal member of the fictions for the tender or Des Manitoba legislature charged tuesday an Alberta firm won a q Al cause stating if any Corn contract to Supply Camp housing at the Manitoba Hydro s Kettle rapids Power site despite a Winnipeg firm submitting a lower bid. Larry Desjardins a St. B o n i f a c e said the Camp dwellings housing contract had been let to it Cal Lill or t w Chicano it included an old English prayer which i want to Loans Cove Reg than Cinato direct mortgage Money Only covering you could hardly say it was a big boost he said Over the past five years greater Winnipeg had 4 Soo to 5 000 Rveal and roughly 500 Loans Atco industries of Calgary without the pre Sale require ment should be coming to Pearson construction co. Ltd. The Manitoba firm had submit Ted a bid of Pany had an alternative to these specifications the firm could sub All the work done in Calgary asked the government if it was i air to the people of Manitoba. Welfare minister j. B. Carroll had told the House that the Northern Power development it it i would be of advantage to if this had happened the other Manitoba workers and to the companies should have had a Lador Force in the North said some interested in the contract had not been satisfied and had Mit it. Chance to re tender if something new was brought on changed Winnilee rental share with you and your readers give us lord a bit of Sun a bit of work and a bit of fun , resource Anicua give us in All the struggle and sputter our daily bread said when announcing the Loans units rather than single family i or Desjardins made the dwellings will be directed to claim while submitting an order i smaller communities and new resource areas or. Nicholson and a bit of butter give us health our keep to make and a bit to spare for others Sake give us too a bit of song a tale and a Book to help us along give us. Lord a Chance to be our goodly Best Brave Wise and free our goodly Best for ourselves and others till All men learn to live As Brothers. Neither the author nor Date was shown. But it has the ring of a practical piety and philosophy As Well i As a kindly Subtle humor. Evidently there is nothing new about the task to the House of commons or. Boldt said the people who Are hollering most Are the project builders. They build mostly on a speculative basis. They will buy up 50 to 100 lots and build on quite a bit of prese Jing and have had a much easier time getting a loan on a pre sold at the end of december for return in the House asking j for details of the tenders for temporary housing at Kettle rapids. He was not suggesting bids j from outside Manitoba not be j entertained on the Nelson project i but said All things being equal i contracts should be Given to specifications. Noting that All of the build brought the matter to Premier Ings had been prefabricated and i Roblin and some of the Cabinet ministers he said. The reply was. We will see j that this does t happen _ again i this is not Good i or. Desjardins said there was nothing illegal in the award. He was complaining about the Chance the government lost to give work to Manitoban. The debate was adjourned by Nelson shoe maker l rocket firings colourful local contractors. Shea of spec. Sue us. E or. Bouti but of keeping body and soul together. With kindest regards j r just beginning to f. Irving 137 Campbell in although we constantly talk about High prices amazing How Many things have dropped in Price since 1946 we started to list some the other night and could think of Telephone Long distance Calls air fares ballpoint pens remember when they were electric blankets fluorescent Light bulbs plastic bags and television sets. Weather report synopsis loosen up again. I or. Boldt said that lending institutions for private Loans usually get their allotment at j the beginning of the year for mortgages but this year lend ing institutions say they will be in a better position towards the end of the he said the direct Loans would help cover the interim although housing completions reached a record in 1966, housing starts were Down nearly 20 per cent in Canada. This plus the warning of a housing shortage by the eco nomic Council prompted the government to boost the Central mortgage and housing Corpora Tion s interest rate by half per cent to 7v4 per cent in novem it was hoped that this would help bring private Money Back into the mortgage Field which had been vacated by private lenders for higher interest rates elsewhere. The move however completely successful and h. W. Hignett the corporation presi Dent has predicted that housing starts will reach Only for 1967 although they will have accelerated to a yearly rate of by the end of the year. Builders said they Hope that changes in the Bank act now before parliament which will allow the Banks to re enter the mortgage Field will help in crease the flow of private Money into the Home mortgage Field by the end of the year. Man set woman on fire Churchill Man. Special a Churchill Man who poured Coal Oil Over his girl Friend and set fire to her. Has been sentenced to three months in jail. The sentence was imposed by Churchill magistrate Les Price on Adam Leer jaw 29, of the Chippe Wayan Indian Reserve. Was convicted on a charge of assault causing bodily the alertness of a Young Driver was credited with pre venting a Gas explosion in downtown Winnipeg Early tues Green and the incident had taken place . 23 a the of Marjorie kith thee 23. Court was told Leer jaw committed the act after a drinking party. When he saw her burning a helped to put the fire out. Miss kith thee is still in fort Churchir general Hospital with second degree Burns to her face. Churchill Man. Special the launching of six sets of two Nike Apache rockets lit up the sky above fort Churchill tuesday night. J when the rockets went into j their second stages they lit the sky with coloured chemical Clouds in the form of an inverted letter g. The first launching an hour later than scheduled at about m., released sodium vapor which glowed in variations of Pink and Orange. The last of the six sets scheduled for launching at 7 ., wednesday were of the same substance. The four sets in Between coloured the skies with Blue Green Clouds. Scientists had predicted that the Clouds might be seen in a but no sight Ings were reported in Winnipeg tuesday night in. Spite. Cloudless skies All the Way from Winnipeg to Churchir. One report of sight Iggi. However came from Frobisher on Baffin some 800 Miles from Churchir. The experiments conducted by the . National aeronautics and space administration Are designed to test atmospheric conditions Between 12 and 124 Miles. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora -5 8 13 3c 25 -16 -33 -14 5 -15 .20 .01 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis 16 31 18 19 35 77 i 35 new York 37 12 26 13 6 23 62 50 2 31 .06 .14 .03 .04 blast fire blamed for boy s death Dauphin Man. Up an exploding Furnace was blamed wednesday for the death of Robert Martin Rudolph 2, who died in his farm Home near Dauphin during fire. The parents or. And mrs. B. Eight other Norrie urges raise for trustees wheelchairs by taxis set for March 1 easy helpful transport for Winnipeg s handicapped will be Only a Telephone Call away March 1. On that Date a new company known As Handi capped services ltd., will go into operation with four vehicles equipped with wheelchairs. Permission was granted this week by the taxicab Board of Manitoba. Drivers will have under gone a special government training program conducted by doctors and will be capable of handling the special transportation prob lems of the handicapped passenger. The service will have its Headquarters at veterans Nash taxicab association ltd., 416 main Street. Each vehicle will Cost and use a Side ramp for easy Access for Passen Ger and wheelchair. Each will carry up to three wheelchairs in addition to the handicapped person and companions. Joe Jans Gen eral manager of veterans Nash and one of four applicants who Are starting the new company said More vehicles would be added when it became practicable. Or. Hillhouse were urging the Gas government to repeal a 1957 ground amendment to the 1954 labor re lations act. Or. Green said the original act had stipulated that an employer could not alter wages and working conditions during con tract negotiations without the approval of the employees. However he said the 1957 amendment had added that an employer could not alter wages or conditions for the purpose of impairing the bargaining position of a certified bargain ing this had resulted in allowing the employer to bargain individually with employees Over the head of the certified agent and while not detrimental in itself similar advantages had not been granted employees. Thus employees were prevented from striking if the employer undermines the Union s propos als by bargaining individually. In addition no employer will Ever admit that wages or working conditions had been altered for the purpose of impairing the bargaining position of the bargaining agent and it wan impossible for employees to prove otherwise or. Green said. Quoting from Public state ments by or. Justice Samuel Freedman of the Manitoba court of Appeal or. Green warned the government that it was a dangerous adventure to allow employers to bargain individually with employees. And he was supported by or. Hillhouse who said he would have preferred to see or. Green s proposal in the form of an amendment to the labor relations act. Or. Hillhouse told the House that if the minister failed to act on or. Green s Resolution he hoped someone in the Legisla Ture would bring in a Bill amending the act. Was driving went into a skid in a Lane just North of Portage ave nue Between Kennedy and Edmonton streets and hit a service sticking out of the his car went through one of the two foot High steel bars protecting the Gas outlet. Police said the Accident happened just after 1 He shut off his motor and phoned police. Officials of the greater Winnipeg Gas co. Shut the Gas main within minutes to prevent an explosion. A fire department spokesman said if the youth had driven away a serious explosion and fire could have been triggered. The spokesman said that was exactly what happened in St. Boniface fire that destroyed four businesses and two two weeks ago. Winnipeg Timp Raturi comparisons . Man. He shelf on . 31 250 m in trustee William Norrie chairman of the Winnipeg school Board said tuesday night future trustees salaries should be raised by 60 per cent. At a school Board meeting trustee suggested the Board ask the provincial Legisla Ture to change salary regulations in the Public schools act. A notice of motion to this effect is expected from trustee mar an overnight i Saret Trott trustee Norrie foresaw the h. Rudolph and children escaped jury. Without in Dauphin is 180 Miles Northeast of Regina. Possibility of the government s refusing to change the act but making a veiled reference to recent increases in provincial Cabinet ministers salaries said i would a Apoc they Art in u awkward position to refuse he suggested the trustees present salary of a year or a month be raised by 60 per cent to with compar Able increases in the salaries of the chairman who now gets a year and the vice chairman who now gets of the a year trustees receive is tax exempt. Discounts Given Charleswood resident who pre pay taxes during the first nine months of the year will be a _ Given discounts ranging from trustee Norrie noted that if 4v4 per cent to one half per the Board voted in favor of a cent. Salary increase for trustees and i residents who paid during if the Public schools act were i january received value changed any increases would t for every during february apply to present trustees. This they will receive for is for future he said it s important that trustees not be restricted by other demands they should be reasonably compensated for out of polut every paid according to a press release. The discount allowed drops by one Hall of per cent each month until it phased out at of october. Or. Peter Warner who has been appointed director of health services for the Manitoba health department. He is Mer director of the Winni Peg general Hospital s bacteriology department and in editor to the Manitoba medical review a monthly publication of the Manitoba medical association. Maltby to speak police chief George Maltby of St. James will speak at meet ing of the retail protective association of greater Winnipeg at noon thursday in the Bay dining room. Chief Maltby will discuss Porron of mailman killed a Canadian Pacific railway worker was killed when a freight train derailed tuesday morning near Napinka. 30 Miles Southwest of Souris. Dead is w 1 1 ii Cecil Mcdonald 52, of Souris. Ramp at Melita said the Accident occurred at When the train went off heavily Snow packed tracks. Or. Mcdonald was Riding the Tail end of one Box car and was crushed against another car. Or. W. S. Knight Coroner at Souris has ordered an inquest. Easier going predicted Winnipeg Drivers and pedestrians who have been pushing through Snow piled up on the streets since last weekend s storm May find the going a bit easier by the end of the week. G. C. Dennis in charge of the c i t y s Snow Clearing operations said Snow re Moval Crews went on the Job in All six areas of the cil wednesday morning. Lie estimated the Job of removing the Snow from the would be completed by . End of the week. Metro Crews have already removed most of the Snow from the City s main thoroughfares. Line Short backs up traffic traffic was backed up for More than a mile wednesday morning when a broken Utility pole shorted metro transit s trolley lines Over Osborne Bridge. A transit department spokes Man said the Shore was reported at about 6 And traffic was not moving freely again until about electric bases were pushed Over Osborne Bridge while repairs were made to the line the spokesman said. He Aid there was not much delay to us bus service ;