Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Woody do in Toblin by John Robertson the potted Iris Plant looked a Little out of sitting there inside a huge Ash tray in new democratic party Leader Russ pulleys outer but then so did professor Cecil who peered anxiously out behind the foliage like a Man who wore the plants in the nip a press conference in the legislative building had been called and Wood had an announcement to and judging from the Box of Honey donuts 12 for 60 cents perched precariously on a shelf above his left the party would soon be on How should i Start he asked everyone in Why not read your formal a reporter Sugges this formal statement asked holding a White paper said another its mostly said do you want me to read it out loud a radio whose Micro phone had been inching menacingly toward the moving lips of Wood with each indecisive said it would then Wood came right to the i have been urged by Many constituents of Wol Seley to seek the nomination As their new democratic party these were obviously the same constituents who had urged Wood to run in the same provincial Riding in 1966 which he did but not nearly fast enough to catch a Chap Cecil Wood named Duff and a Liberal named Julius who finished a Distant but Wood was ready to go and the fact that sex Premier Roblin still held the had not and that no by election had been did not Dampen Woods in Call me he were All friends and woodys nip Leader was going to take care of Roblins future in just a with a prepared statement he had for the at the present time the Wolseley constituency is to All intents and purposes without representation i n the legis said the present is seeking a constituency where he can run for a Federal at the same by not resigning his seat in the Manitoba lie is denying the voters democratic the problems of Manitoba Are too great to allow for any lame Duck constituencies or i Call upon Roblin to resign immediately and for Premier Weir to Call a but that int Good who conies Bihis title As an assistant professor of economics at Johns didst do too badly at All in his of Wolseley their j first trip to the hustings in right of proper j although his votes fell far Short of Premier Roblins it almost doubled the last nip count in if he does make it past this saturdays nip nomination and if and when a by election is Ever he by election As soon As the Reading process seemed a Little painful to Paulley so he folded his White took a chatty and said in in telling my Little the to get the hell undoubtedly he will be hovering about the May be running against instant Liberal Charles a metro count Cirlor and former president of the Manitoba Young progressive conservative came to the conclusion last that the Liberal parly of Manitoba Best represented his Aims in Case the alarm Bell especially since he was aiming rings and his vote is at Duff Roblins Wolseley seat in the next but even confusion is because the last Liberal to contest the Julius says he might want to run again who had entered the press conference with one Arm resting paternally on Woods took great pains to Point out unlike other floor crosses he knew his hand contained no dripping i Haven crossed the floor since i left the student Liberal party in my school said Wood went on to explain How the Wolseley constituency was in urgent need of social Reform but couched his state ments a Little by saying he didst necessarily mean slum what he really wanted to do was to give the Little Guy a tax we have the highest Cost of living in the Western Provin the lowest average wage this is not Good the at least one of whom was now leering openly at the Box of donuts above prof Woods nodded sym a Manitoba needs a Good economist like Cece said and by the dont forget to mention that the party is real Happy that Winnipeg got a share of those 1970 world hockey Champion the conference Paulley walked Back into his office Duff had any hed resign right Winnipeg free press by Carrier soc per week january 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the p Ottawa and for payment of postage in program note the happiest music in town is on Wake 9 up Winnipeg each morning from j to red Alix is musical housing liberals urge firm action by Bob Lis Way canadians no longer can afford the luxury of a private single family according to a Calgary architect who spoke monday the Western Liberal policy Martin c p h o s opening a workshop discussion on Urban affairs at the convention in the Marlborough said the multifamily simple Row housing or High Rise be recognized As the prime development necessity for the Western in discussing Urban App roved two new resolutions involving housing and reaffirmed three resolutions passed at the first Western Liberal policy con Ference in Saskatoon in the delegates to the Winnipeg conference approved a Resolution demanding that Federal and provincial governments pledge themselves to the Earli est achievement of a goal of decent living accommodation subsidized subsidized interest land rentals or the Western liberals by a narrow margin also decided to urge tile Federal government to seriously consider removing the Federal sales tax on building a the delegates reaffirmed three resolutions passed previously that the Federal ment establish a department of i Urban and regional affairs for planning Aid to Urban development and redevelopment and to establish National policies in this Ity t that the prime Respo Sibil of the new Federal Urban for every Canadian the Type of living accommodation the was left open by in single family or multifamily dwellings and whether by Public it of Manitoba Winter carnival starts sunday University of Manitoba students have scheduled events ranging from pie eating to Pool splashing for their annual Winter which starts Winnipeg mayor Stephen Juba will officially open the carnival sunday morning at the charter department should be to establish with the cooperation of the the priorities of future action in specific Munici pal problems such As waste c u 1 pm Muncai police and local i that the Federal Urban i authority Institute a program to encourage Urban transportation by research and cooperation with provincial and municipal cohos said the housing of Canada or Lack of it stands out As the most pressing and unresolved social Issue facing canadians the Alberta architect said for decades now we have perpetuated and enhanced the great Canadian dream the dream that each family should look to the Day when they can own a modest Home on a plot of the so called average Home becoming Only a dream for the majority of families with moderate comics heres the condition of part of Furby Street a Street the City of Winnipeg looks using fire per cent Salt and 95 per cent cars Hare a bumpy ride on the buildup on the other its reported that metro keeps the streets under its jurisdiction in better shape by using 100 per cent Salt under certain House Hargrave Street and York j because of increasing events listed on the University the private dwelling a la Calendar include an event at the fort Garry Campus Pool a pie eating contest monday a tug of Suburbia has become the cad of living the widening Gap Between War and a concert with Folk j what people can pay and the singers Ian and Sylvia wednes Cost of housing is continuing to weather report synopsis valid until Midnight wednesday very mild air crossed the Rockies and entered Southern Saskatchewan overnight with temperatures rising in All a series of vigorous weather disturbances crossing Northern Saskatchewan Wilt maintain the mild weather there and bring a decided moderating trend to melt or this moderation will be Felt in Northwestern Ontario today and in the Thunder Bay Region the moderation it expected to reach the regions along the Western shores of Hudson Bay practically All of Southern Alberta will Nave temperatures i figures on the map indicate expected High tempera Tures Iii Muon forecast mainly Cloudy today and a few becoming intermittent Snow with a risk of freezing rain this evening and changing to a Faw flurries wednesday winds becoming southerly at 20 this evening and Light temperatures at Gimli and Winnipeg rising slowly to near 20 by Dawn and to a High of 30 by wednesday afternoon 53 46 54 Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 52 last year Normal 16 34 25 15 Ottawa Toronto 36 32 Montreal 28 20 Halifax 31 13 27 4 Chicago 39 29 4 Miami 75 60 14 los Angeles 71 53 11 Minneapolis 37 10 28 15 new York 43 36 temperature comparisons mean i highest on record i in 1942 i lowest on record i in 1886 course control meet set the University of Winnipeg Senate will meet with students to decide on a proposed system of partial student control of University said in an interview monday that faculty representatives would meet with students to sound out demands for a student voice in Campus wide the arts faculty Council meets tuesday to decide whether history students can officially take part in Currick to Salt or not is again question whether to use Salt on i Alderman Ernest Enns said Winnipeg streets has again during the meeting he thought Winnipeg streets we rent in become a problem for tue Winnipeg civic Public works committee monday asked the cites traffic commission to prepare a detailed technical report on the advisability of using Salt to Battle ice on City very bad the situation is we should take note of com ments made by citizens but in jul not prepared to admit that the their Union and the hotel Union settles c the 200 employees involved i wage negotiations with the fort Garry hotel management tues Day morning ratified pay in creases agreed to monday by situation is a spokesman for the Cana Joseph Zuke told com1 brotherhood of citizens complaint that the j familiar with icy majority of Winnipeg streets is nothing new its part were in a deplorable Normal life Here in Winnipeg Maurice of 1062 and we s h o u 1 d n t be too Inkster told com transport and general this local said tuesday the two of year collective bargaining agreement includes an eight cents an hour increase Retro Active to and another Sincen Isanhour in Lum revision in the history Mittee most streets were unsafe he said the City should look crease and the ctr should Lake More into the possibility of updating history drastic Steps to rid streets its policy on this matter but apartment has an1 be depart from its Basic department bounced that two students would City Engineer Hurst be allowed to sit with faculty on j said his the but the official decision on the history depart ment move will be made at the arts faculty maintain department the streets partying Man condition unless deicing Chemi cals were j but this is a matter of policy metro uses Salt and we i Uon in policy of using a Small amount of Salt mixed with in Good we might even consider increasing this amount under very strenuous and Adverse conditions but then he he i Lloyd Stimson said he after the would Welcome a report from he said Many of the employees would also receive wage adjustments which would in crease their pay Over and above the 14cent the hourly base wage rate for chambermaid and waiters under the old which expired july was mechanics on the old agreement were paid from to an sentenced for car theft i Hurst said Metros i policy was that the additional Saleby derived from the use of amount of i Salt justifies the corrosion on a Roan who went to a party he said metro uses 100 and later admitted stealing the cent Salt Only when per the car of a Man at the same party temperature is 15 degrees above was sentenced in Winnipeg Zero or cold Lor he there magistrates court monday to anything below that is too six months in Melvin Terry Lawrence of 710 Aberdeen suite pleaded guilty before magistrate Dubien the traffic negotiations Between the Ca the City should change its policy on the use of he Brotman said he would favor the use of 100 per cent Salt proved safety if it could would be be Nadian National railways hotel and the which have been going on since ended in hearings before a federally set conciliation recommendations that we rent accepted by the Union failure to use Salt on and negotiations have streets results in reducing 1 want a review of is no moisture in the Snow and he the Salt fails to break up the j resulted in the the present agree Union spokesman the City uses a mixture of five per cent 95 per cent court was told that during the j that to moist of Salt is party on Magnus Avenue 19 a Man fell asleep in tile when he awoke Early his car keys were missing from his pocket and his outside the was he later complained to when Spence he denied taking the car but court was told spences sister had already admitted he had Bor rowed it was later found behind a Young Street youths Wield flee with a gazettes just enough to keep the Sand from freezing into said i he predicted inhibitors would j two youths held the proprie1 inches with Brown hair and one Day be invented that would Stop the corrosive effects of de Hurst said Tor of Central Park grocery and 381 c a r 11 o n at knife Point saturday experiments j evening but fled with Only two a gazettes stolen thieves stole Worth of cigarettes and Cash from stuarts self service meats 730 Sargent sunday Winnipeg police said entry was gained by forcing a front police j were now being conducted in packages of m i n n e s o i a to they Nad tried unsuccessfully evaluate the exact extent of corrosion caused by for the first time experiments of this kind involve the use of a number of he a motor company had donated five cars which were being tested on salted every component of the car wearing a Black jacket and Black the other is described As 20 years five feet six inches with dark hair and wearing a dark jacket and dark 2way wheat policy urged by liberals policy reversal sparked by Saskatchewan elements Western liberals monday adopted a two Price policy for wheat a direct reversal of their think ing 24 hours the which came in a Resolution passed at the final session of the Western Liberal policy conference at the Marlborough was sparked by two vocal Saskatchewan elements of the party senator Hazen argue and Saskatoon mayor the Resolution asks the fed eral government to introduce compensatory Transfer pay ments to provide Farmers with adequate it also Calls i for a floor Price for wheat i and a two Price system for j a two Price system Means one j Price will be paid to producers for Grain sold for Domestic human consumption and another for Export current floor Price for wheat is specific mechanics of the two Price system where not mayor Buckwold sunday had criticized the agriculture it tee for not getting at the basis of Western farming he won a motion to have the committee meet further and consider questions he said were argue had agreed in part with mayor Buckwold and cited the defeat in committee of his earlier bid for a two Price policy As being to the detriment of Western in an interview argue termed the reversal of thinking As a Complete it was very in very we finally emerged the Resolution passed nearly it was debated heatedly in the work shop argue said mechanics j to get Money from the Cash j Register and the j police said the pair walked i into the store at after j a customer had left and pulled1 has will been weighed be weighed before after and the Experiment is they will be Able to determine extent of corrosion the the exact caused by the knife on Malick and his wife give me your one youth i dont want to Hurt they searched the till and Steeles Wallet but found no India Day one youth is described As University of Manitoba students from India will Mark India Republic Day saturday with a variety show co sponsored by Fili Pino and Trinidad students the eighth annual show is scheduled for 8 in being 20 years five feet lol tache Hall can be left to the but he did suggest that the policy if adopted by govern ment would Likely result in a subsidy of about is a Bushel for domestically consumed at present about bushels Are used for human consumption annually in this he believes the subsidy could possibly be paid on a unit quota argue said the policy is sound and should win Liberal support in the a Resolution opposing Many of the recommendations of the Carter commission insofar As they relate to agriculture was also adopted by the plenary recommendations contained in the report Call for changes in tax Structure if could mean Farmers would be paying income tax on stored Grain they Are unable to Farmers now pay income tax on a Cash another aspect of the report unpalatable to Western Farmers is the capital gains recommendations which could mean Taxa Tion on farm estates passed from one member of a family to who said he is much in favor of certain aspects of capital gains believed quite confidently that facets of the report detrimental to Farmers would not be the convention also passed a Resolution in Hopes to slow the longtime prickly Prairie prob Lem of rail line it read a plan of live methods of transportation on the Prairies should be pre pared before wholesale rail line j abandonment is allowed to other resolutions agreed upon included constitutional revisions enabling the Federal government to impose wage and Price guidelines As Well As Powers to enforce the guidelines in Emer gency a proposal that the Federal government seriously consider the removal of the 12 per cent tax on building rejection of the capital gains tax recommended by the Carter Royal commission on Endor Patjon of a plan to implement freight equalization rates on transportation Between Southern Canada and the far North on the same basis that East West equalization rates acting on a motion by i Toba Liberal Leader Gil the today policy meeting threw its support behind Manitoba Call for a reexamination of the impending Transfer of air can Adas Winnipeg overhaul the conference went a step further and almost unanimously endorsed a Resolution calling on the Federal government to re quire that annual reports of All Crown corporations be referred to a House committee with a View to re appraising the role of Croin agencies in supporting regional the main action monday revolved around a Daylong string of workshops and panel discussions that thrashed out what delegates Hope will be the Means of spurring a resurgence of Liberal parliamentary sensation from the Jack member of parti Ament for suggested t h e constitutional amendment that would give Ottawa control of Price and wage he told the convention that the proposed controls should Only be used in an emergency when special interest groups act to put their own affairs ahead of the Good of the revisions to the Are necessary because the who now have the Ary Are reluctant take another Resolution passed indicates that future Western icy conferences will be every year instead of every two moved by University of Manitoba the Resolution suggests the next conference Early in 1969 but no site was Coin club meet the Riverview Coin club will meet at wednesday in the clubroom of Riverview Community Ashland ave nue and ;