Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 21, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba The greedy Tanchak Kajmo or a fed up with bearded bums Lazy do no thugs it habits. That or Tanchak be might have children and you on wages for the welfare depart. Amp but that was soon stopped he had avoided debate on Wel they a spy and report welfare abuses can t look after them _ a democratic a r is by Bill morr1ss a charge that Manitoban Are sick of supporting the Lazy fam Ilies who Haven t known any other source of income other than government Relief cheques for three sparked one of the hottest debates of the Manitoba legislature s current session monday. John Tanchak a Emerson started a verbal Melee during debate on welfare department spending estimates with you be been in this House for nine years and since i be been welfare minister you Haven t i been to see me i Larry Desjardins a St. Boni i face interjected to ask what s this House for he s not a spy he s not supposed to be a i spy for your now thoroughly aroused or. I Carroll shot Back. There s a Man who talks out of both sides of his Mouth at once. He comes debate on Wel estimates before but now he was on his feet he had an a Lew things to say in regard to ser or. Desjardins stood tootle he then charged that persons so Mand an apology from the my apology Lom Desjardins for Logne a Ittie love dim imn ligation that the Liberal to a child. He has insinuated that i asked for special privileges for my i constituents. I ask him to with j ing. Draw that statement not once did i ask for any special you sleep in the top 01 Bottom of your pyjamas they could adopt a child he Roll was. House and termed the any implication that the Liberal member had asked any special privilege for his constituents. But or. Desjardins was not satisfied. You Don t drunkard can marry a widow with 10 children. Where s the he suggested the government consider going Back to the old system where the municipalities administered welfare instead of this brought new democratic party Leader a. R. Muss Paul Ley in to suggest that the mini Ster reject the latter suggestion completely. Lord forbid that people in need should once More have to come Cap in hand in a municipal Council for welfare. At least now abuse now most of the Money is spent am nauseated by the Lazy and pleads with me Tor some of the bearded bums who won t work who tramp the picket lines and sit ins who prefer communism to capitalism who see no evil in Castro or the Viet Cong but sneer at free Enterprise As a threat to peace and the Liberal member concluded speech by calling on the government to make sure that the welfare Dollar went to the needy and not the the outburst brought groans from new democratic party members and shouted queries about the reference to picket lines. Then welfare minister j. B. Carroll Rose to declare hotly that it s almost unbelievable what you hear in this House some if or. Tanchak knew of any abuses in welfare payments it to me i said a word during this or. Desjardins make up your cont i used or. Carroll there s All i sorts of insinuations coming from i Over i rising in his own defence or. Tanchak declared he was not going to be a Stool Pigeon. I m not asking you to be a Stool Pigeon just respond shouted or. Carroll. J Deputy speaker j. D. Watt pc Arthur tried to restore order but to no Avail. Then Rod Clement Russell Rose to charge that the mayor or Reeve of a town should be asked if a person were Eli Gible for welfare. There was a retired Farmer who came into Russell bought a House drove around in a car and got on re i Lief he said. Free press i local news by Carrier soc per week authorized by 2nd class mail by the . Dept. Ottawa and for payment of postage in japanese designing bus for metro use Mitsubishi Man says tuesday february 21. 1967 insurance scheme will cover Trust loan companies All Trust and loan companies Amend the Manitoba companies operating in Manitoba will be i agreed to under the Federal Ames dment in government s proposed Deposit favor of presenting a separate insurance program provincial Dju Afler opposition Stewart e. Mclean Secretary Siewart metro Aims to buy because it is designing a new bus which will be better adapted to conditions in Winnipeg. I metro councillors and transit director d. I. Macdonald will receive a letter explaining this wednesday the company s Winnipeg representative said Mon Day in an interview. New test for bus mileage by Wade Rowland metro transit is running another mileage lest to deter differ enc m fuel Between its Gen Oral motors and Mitsubishi buses. The corporation s streets and transit director d. I. Macdonald was instructed to carry out the j Tost following Stormy debate m a closed meeting of Metros finance committee Friday an informant said. J earlier that Day Metros streets and transit committee had decided to accept a report on the fairness of earlier tests on the japanese buses which was presented to the com Ratilee by or Macdonald. The finance committee move effectively re versed this decision. Or Macdonald had said in i his report to the streets and transit committee that his department s earlier report on Thoj japanese buses had been fair and accurate. He said that i j metro Council was t satisfied u should hire someone else to j conduct another series of tests. The informant said that Fin Ance committee had decided. A a a i n s t concerted opposition from at least one councillor that a new test should be run along the lines suggested by the j Mitsubishi company when it appeared before Council last month to contest transit department s findings about the japanese buses. The test he said is being run by putting a Mitsubishi bus and a pm bus on the same route at i the same times for a week. A report is expected to be ready for Council by thursday. In asking for the new mileage Check finance committee was not questioning the Validity of the original report on the buses the informant said. The test was Beins held to demonstrate thai metro was trying to be fair As possible with the Jap anese company. One of Mitsubishi s Mam criticisms of the original tests. Was that mileage checks which the report said showed the japanese buses to be fuel gobblers compared to the buses were not carried out under comparable conditions. For one thing. The company said the tests were not carried out while the buses were on the same routes. Mileage on the pm buses also was checked j Over More than twice the buses i buses being operated by the transit authority would be extended indefinitely. It was due to expire this month. When tenders for metro s new buses were opened Friday it was found that Only general motors had submitted. Even though t h e japanese buses owned by metro Transil had been criticized last month by or. Macdonald As being prone to break Down and fuel hungry compared to pm buses most Council members and transit administrators had expected Mitsubishi to bid on metro s new Purchase. Or. Kobashi said the new bus design his company is preparing will take advantage of experience the company has gained from operating its vehicles in Winnipeg for the last year and will eliminate flaws pointed out in or. Macdonald s report. He said once the bus has been completed metro will be Given a prototype to test on Winnipeg streets for a no Cost to the corporation. Or. Kobashi said he did t know when the prototype bus would be ready but he said that when it was finished it would be comparable in every respect to other buses being operated by metro. The company s decision not to tender did t mean that it accepted or. Macdonald s criticism of its buses As necessarily valid. It was still Felt by Mitsubishi that the mileage tests carried out by metro transit were very he said. An Opportunity to tender on 60 buses in Seattle. Washington had also been passed up by the company this month because of the new design be or. Kobashi said. Added car insurance., time Bills approved the Manitoba legislature placed the final Seal of approval on two government Bills one proposing additional insurance coverage for motorists and the other uniform time in the province. All thai remains is Royal assent before the two Bills become Law throughout the province. The first Bill would cover extra medical payments for personal j injury include uninsured Motorist coverage and personal Accident compensation and extend Protection to employers for employees who use company cars on business. Although certain Fields of medical payment Are already provided by ins Urance companies the Bill brings the payments under the terms of the provincial statues As Well As extending those payments that May he made. Previously medical payments this is an architect s Conception of the new Victoria Hospital to be built adjacent to the University of my Ito. Fort Garry. The million Structure a. Designed by . Miche or and associate., a Winnipeg firm. Tender will be called in about four to live my myths. And the Hospital is expected to be in full operation sometime in 19w. U will have a capacity of 254 Beds but a. Bee. Designed in Well a Way that new parts can be added anytime interrupting existing facilities. Hospital plans make Progress Bill after opposition spokesmen expressed misgivings Over Rushing legislation through the House without giving interested in legislature a Bill j a Chance to make their will be introduced shortly views known before the making it mandatory for Trust Regj stature s Law amendments and loan companies to. Be Commilee. Insured by the Canada Deposit j has amendment asked the insurance corporation if they House to authorize every Trust announced monday he told the legislature a Bill want to do business in the province. The Bill will apply to both provincially chartered firms and to companies chartered outside Manitoba who accept deposits from the Public in the province. Credit unions and those finance companies who some times accept Public deposits Are not covered because no visions has Beeri made for this Type of operation under the terms of the planned Federal statute. However or. Mclean said the provincial g o v e r n m e n t has pointed out the deficiencies of the legislation now House of commons tax Bill read in House Bill to Levy the govern s proposed five per cent i sales tax on Manitoban was introduced in the legislature j monday. J 1 provincial treasurer Gurney Evans. Moved first Reading of the Bill which was approved by j the House in a voice vote. Although no recorded vote was taken it appeared to be unanimously supported by the i government benches and Una. In Mously opposed by All three opposition parties. Reading was the other Bill would sweep away existing double time standards in the province providing Central Standard time throughout the year except Between the last sunday in april and october when Daylight saving hour in Advance of be in effect. The Bill latest of a number of standardization proposals in the province in the last few years has been opposed to i the wire by a handful of country Las. Mike k a w c h u k nip Al Hilbert who voted against the Bill on third Reading maintained uie Daylight saving hours would impose harsh treatment on school children travelling More than 30. Miles to school. In october he said slide nos would leave Home before the Sun Rose. Leonard a. Barkman l and d. L. Campbell in Voled for the Bill third Reading but still plans for Winnipeg s newest Hospital Are being completed and Victoria general Hospital is expected to be Iii full operation by 1969. The Board of directors of Victoria h o s p i l a 1 announced tuesday that tenders for the construction of the s8.5 million Complex will be called in four or five months. The new Hospital will be built on Pembina Highway Al the Northern Boundary of the i University of Manitoba. The architects Are Libling Michener and associates of Winnipeg. Hart Green vice chairman of or. Green said the Cost of uie new Hospital would be shared according to a formula that has years. Twenty per cent will be put up finance minister Mitchell Sharp. Ife told the House a May be called to see if credit unions and finance companies can be brought Siulin the jurisdiction of the Deposit House to authorize every and loan company in Manitoba to apply for Deposit insurance under the Federal act. It further stipulated that no Trust or loan company whether incorporated within or without the province could accept Public deposits in Manitoba unless it u insured by the Canada Deposit insurance corporation. Members of All three opposition parties said they had no objection to the government s proposals but All spokesmen indicated that a separate Bill would be a More preferable method of handling the Legisla before the to Federal Sidney Green although he indicated that he was in favor of the move said it should be emphasized to the Public that the legislation will to Cut by metro representing insurance corporation level the remain Der is shared on a 50-50 basis by the provincial and the Federal government. Man am aits sentence the proposed legislation is designed to bring us entirely within the ambit of the words of the Federal said or. Mclean. If will cover everything can possibly the Federal legislation provides for the Canada Deposit insurance corporation to insure individual Deposit s up to a James Kenneth Hyde labourer. Maximum of and also 356 Bronx Avenue East periodic Federal up guv. Of not guarantee that they will lose no Money if they Deposit in Trust loan companies. He said if the insurance corporation itself goes broke the depositor still stands to lose his funds. We will be doing a Urcal to investors if we them the idea that they can Deposit with loan and Trust companies without he said. Erivn vice chairman of of 356 Bronx Avenue East sup ivies p e Thel Spla Stoard and chairman Kildonan has been convicted by a Section of the Trust and loan of t he bunding committee said a Winnipeg Assize court jury of books. A mess conference tuesday a charge of attempted rape Fri finally. Or. M e l e a n i that the future need for nov. 11 in Winnipeg. Announced t h e government s a Hyde was remanded to Friday for sentencing. He will be sentenced the same Day for an admitted charge of Auto theft nov. 10 at Winnipeg. Two count arsonist remanded a Man who set. Fire to two hours because he said he wanted to get even with the building company owning them was remanded in provincial magistrate s court monday for a sentence report. Donald Gordon Eisener. Construction worker of 82 Hill Street. St. Boniface pleaded guilty on two counts of Commil tins arson dec. 27. Crown counsel Ray Flett said the Man had Lold police he wanted to get even with the company for laying him off. He had admitted drinking before the incidents. Court heard damage to one House under construction at 55 Mcmasters Road fort Garry was estimated at damage to the other partly completed House Al 75 Minaki Bay. St. Boniface was Eisener was remanded to March i. The houses Are owned by Home development co. Ltd. Committee of the whole House. The Vole on the committee Resolution also introduced by the provincial treasurer passed 28 to 25 with the government in favor and the opposition opposed. Or. Evans replying to opposition questioning said no de i tails of the sales tax would be j forthcoming until the Bill reaches second Reading. I i he failed to respond to questions asking when the House could expect second Reading to occur. Noting that the Bill was a tax measure the Bill would not be not be dealt with by any of the legislature s Public committees. Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat sending the Bill to the committee. He claimed the move was necessary in order to give inheres cd parties a Chance to briefs on the planned tax. Only saving time was More suitable than six months. Nine other Bills also received third Reading by the legislature monday including a Bill amending the Portage la Prairie charter which in effect would curb the veto Power of the mayor. A Bill placing water control and conservation under the provincial highways department. Beaten., robbed the victim of a mugging at the Pas Man., wus flown to Winnipeg for emergency surgery monday. Ramp said Ellis Manucl Swanson. 77. Of the Pas was Bru tally beaten and robbed late saturday the last Day of the traditional trappers festival in the Northern Manitoba com dealt with outside the House. Meel panel the Winnipeg Art gallery will present a lecture series a panel of representatives from local school boards and the Manitoba teacher s society explain the reasons for the career school division Refe at a Public meeting by be held the school auditorium. Be in fairly Good condition in Winnipeg general Hospital Early tuesday. The emergency treat ment required for his Case was not available at St. Anthony s Hospital Al the Pas. He is suf Fering from a broken Skull. Ramp at the Pas said in a Telephone interview that to shortly before noon tuesday they were still investigating the Inci Dent no one has been charged. It was t known How much Money was taken from or. Swanson. Inai me doubling or tripling the 254-bed capacity has been taken into consideration at the planning stage. Additional present. Cost the planning of surgical Laboratory. I a Ray and other services areas. Will permit their expansion to service the larger bed capacity when needed without disrupting the then existing service in the the which will be located on a 20-acre site will be i the first one on this continent to be completely computer con trolled. The main reason for using computer programming in ser Vicin the Hospital is to get the nurse Back to the bedside rather than have her used up in Hospital he said. I or Green said that by using i computers the Hospital was also in a position to save on staff. The usual ratio Between employees and patients he said was Zvi to one. The computer will reduce this ratio to almost one to one. In every Field of Industry today hospitals suffer from an acc la shortage of highly skilled personnel. By using computer programming we will overcome this problem to a Large extent he said. Waterm Iii break floods area a break in a Watermain at the i intersection of Logan Avenue and Lizzie Street flooded some basements and set the streets in the area under three inches of water at some Points Early to Day. The break occurred around Midnight. Traffic had to be re routed Over other streets and Winnipeg Hydro Crews reportedly spent part of the night repairing the damage. Intention to place Manitoba vending machine fees hit weather report synopsis Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora feb. To last year Normal Max 43 46 33 20 10 1 j 17 9 Man. Pre. 33 19 15 ii -21 -7 .19 .02 .0 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Max. 12 33 15 21 34 80 61 i it 11 19 4 m 45 i 36 on record .21 .33 welfare committee is going to review the City s licence fees for i Coin operated vending machines. I. A delegation representing 1 vending machine operators told the committee monday that the City s existing fees Are a form of double taxation. They were discriminatory the delegation claimed. The City charges an annual licence fee of for each cigarette vending machine and is for each cent handled by a single operation of other Mach Ines. The fee for a machine dispensing a 10-cent cup of Coffee would be w l. Palk. Speaking on behalf of uie Manitoba vending operators association which re presents 15 operators said licences for vending machines should be eliminated or the fees reduced to a level comparable to other. Canadian cities. Or. Palk said vending Mach Ine operators not Only Pav realty and business taxes in their Central establishments but the owners of promises whore machines Arr giving service also Pav realty and business taxes. It is quite Clear thai the imposition of a further tax by Way of a licence fee is a form of double the vending machine opera tors spokesman also said the operators pay More in licence 1 fees than would be paid if the same products were provided by other Means than through machines. A restaurant is Able to offer a feast for a gourmet for an annual licence fee of j15. Whereas a Bank of machines vending soup sandwiches and i Coffee to a student is required to pay a licence fee of the health committee refer red the vending machine opera tors submission to j. T. Barric the City s chief licence ins Pector for a report ;