Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break by Bill Trebil Goe if youre anywhere from age 2 to 10 and your Birthplace is but youve never seen a White Christmas then it must be quite an and this Christmas was the first one with Snow for three of the four kiddies of and John South fort Wroniak is a United nations technical assistance adviser who has been on assignment Over the past nine years in and prior to his in assignments Wroniak was with the Manitoba department of his work in All countries included responsibility for organizing schools and departments of social he was decorated by tunisian president Habib Bourguiba with the order of Knight of the Republic of also a Winnipeg returned Home for the births of her younger children and their oldest 14yearold was Only 5 when they left education for the children in the various countries where they were assigned took place at american embassy the Wroniak children Are enjoying a Winnipeg Winter during Home leave while Wroniak awaits another in their parents Arent commenting on the drastic change from their past nine in Winter there Are carnivals and the official opening of the University of Manitoba carnival takes place sunday morning with mayor Stephen Juba doing the honors but indoors at the charter House its indoors for the official opening of the third annual Manitoba Winter carnival in the James civic Centre on with Bowles throwing the first incidentally some ticket Pur Chaser to the James event will win an1 air trip to san Francisco for two and a Chance to get away from it plus expense Money from the James chamber of those confirmed opponents of any mention of below Zero temperatures in Winnipeg tropical Winters the Golden boys now have their Bureau in full fledged operation under the direction of Norm president Mickey levines troops were very much in evidence at the Western this past weekend As they handed out items to boost these included boo matches with the part in boosting the matches Are made in know its probably not possible to get any made by a Manitoba y t Al 1 i a i l j i s Good music and Good company continues j a through Nite on turn on a by Carrier soc per week january 1 968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the p dept Ottawa and far payment of postage in Good music and Good company continues through Nite on turn on Nite owl next time youre up guide Mav be this architects drawing shows the proposed development of Winnipeg present chinese business and residential As part of the cites Urban re Newal scheme for area King Street will become a pedestrian precinct with Strong ethnic food restaurants and Novelty shops Are planned to line King Street Between Logan and William there will be no automobile the final report on the cites renewal scheme was released Mol Gat wants by election j called in Turtle Mountain housing probed air people remark by Don As he spoke to a group of firemen commenting on the Speed with which the Rescue squad responds to Calls some thing Don has had personal experience with just wanted you see i looked up Howard Job production off to Greener Fields in the near an important boost up the ladder for George sky music who moves West to Saskatoon to take on the key program director at local Rock music fans will also remember George As the front Man for the a number of readers have asked for further details about a Lincoln letter described in a recent Coffee in sorry i dont have any further information about the source from which the letter found its Way to auctioneer Carl but it May have come from a local Coin and stamp Jean halloween chairman for tells me the final take from the annual on night Campaign reached mostly in pennies or just about for each Manitoba child who took additional contributions totalled another Elmer Secretary of the Domain legion ladies wants to know if any Agency still collects old spectacles for distribution in other she says that at one time the Banks took used Eye glasses and had them repaired where then sent to needy a student housing Survey is being conducted this week at the universities of Manitoba and Henry a Toronto architect who is heading the nation wide sponsored by the association of universities and colleges of said he hoped to find out just How the Manitoba will Appeal Liberal party As a result the party a recent court decision invalidating the 1966 provincial election in Turtle Mountain unless a by election is called for the Liberal party Leader Gil Mol Gat in an open letter to Premier Walter Weir indicated that an Appeal would be launched if the government does not announce a by election by commenting on Mol gats Premier Walter Weir said particular housing situation of he Nas instructed his advisers each student affects his or her the which includes a sampling of opinions of students who have considered the hous ing will examine study conflicts and other about 20 educational institutions across Canada will be weather report synopsis valid until Midnight thursday cooler Pacific air will sweep across Alberta today followed by the invasion of cold air from the this Arctic air will cover All of Alberta by thursday except for Northern Saskatchewan considerable Sunshine will resulting in temperatures in the cold Arctic air will reach Southern Saskatchewan Early making temperatures More present indications Are that the mild air in Saskatchewan and Western Manitoba will spread farther East thursday As a Low Over Lake Athabasca crosses the Manitoba reaching Northwest Ontario thursday figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures weather delays Start of hearings the Pas first session of the provincial hear Ings on Northern transportation problems scheduled for the Pas tuesday had to be cancelled when the aircraft carrying commissioner Arthur Mauro was forced to return to Winni Peg due fog conditions around the Pas the hearings were to resume weather forecast mainly Cloudy today and thursday with a few periods of freezing drizzle or a few winds increasing to northerly at 15 thursday Low tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg High thursday temperatures for the 24hour period which ended at 6 wednesday 23 6 33 5 Vancouver Calgary Edmonton 47 32 35 39 33 Brandon 21 the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 19 8 8 15 0 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis 25 37 34 76 82 18 new York 41 temperature comparisons i 34 10 67 56 i 22 to to 23 last year Normal mean highest on record in 1942 lowest on record in 1935 and 19m didst desire Public ire new attire at least one municipal Pound keeper will get a Winter uni fort Garry municipal Council decided at a regular meeting tuesday to buy him As safety committee chairman Hobson Hes liable to get a fat lip if residents dont recognize the Pound keeper has a summer to recommend a course of a the Premier indicated that the government would reach a decision certainly before As the time for bringing Appeal will expire on this Public commitment will have to be Given by at the said Mol Gat in his letter to the the Liberal Leader was referring to the c o u r t of Queens for a Bench decision which voided the june election of Dow in Turtle considering an Appeal on behalf of prior to taking this action i wish to advise that Dow is prepared to abandon All rights i to Appeal if you As Premier Manitoba will give a Public commitment to Call a by election in Turtle Mountain immediately in order that the constituency will represented in the next session of the wrote the Liberal Leader also suggested that the government Lodge an Appeal in order to Clear the name of the returning of Arthur Gordon i believe this would be a proper action by the govern ment on behalf of this highly respected citizen of said Hanover voting May be judge claims voters in the the court ruled that irregularities on the part of the returning officer in the Riding had invalidated Dows a had Defeated progressive conservative candidate Peter Mcdonald by five votes after the second however Mol Gat told Weir that he was not at All satisfied that the court had the authority to void the election on the basis of its 1 Hope the at your area May Friday not trustees will be go to the knowing if polls the uncertainty stems from a complaint heard tuesday in Boniface county alleging irregularities in the 15 vote which made the Hanover school division a unitary school Divi Sion around judge Leon Benard said he would make his ruling by he has Power to Wash out the 15 vote which registered an eight vote margin and the two Brothers were unsure of it was the first time the Brothers had tried to vote and a witness one of several lobbyists who was outside the polling Booth 15 in Grun testified he told the Brothers he could find the collection tonight i favor of the unitary school division about 100 Steinbach area men of them mennonites who dont usually let women make decisions filled the court room and spilled out into the William a Winni Peg lawyer for the four Farmers who filed the asked judge Benard to out the election because of the alleged he said a Blind Man had not been Given proper Legal rights to two not on the voters didst vote and at least one voter was under 211 years judge Benard ruled out the last complaint on technical however Walter another Winnipeg lawyer who represents the 42 school boards in the Hanover regional school trustees said the two persons to if they disclosed How j they would i i said if i knew How they were voting then i would be More willing to help get vouch said the John Kornelsen of i Vas not going to give help if they were against meanwhile elections of trustees to the new unitary school division Board Are scheduled for the new Board will replace the 42 smaller boards in the Hanover division which now operate on room also to be judge in deferring his said if they want to take a Chance and have their that their Ireland said there were other irregularities in the elec Tion which were not listed in the formal complaint to not on Dove three fort Garry residents protested tuesday against what they pro by fort Garry Muni Cipal they said they Are being charged for the paving of a Street they dont live Ralph Popcorn of 740 Holly Macdonald of 2 Dove Bay and Burron of 1 Dove Bay appeared before Council As a they said they received Bills for to a few weeks ago for the paving of Between Holly and Crescent the three dont live on South drive but their properties Sank we we rent notified that we were going to be assessed and we we rent Given a Chance to petition against it and vote it the spokes that a Nice Christmas present we this Bill All of a sudden for councillor Hobsch said e had some sympathy for the three at his the matter was referred to com Toast to Burns Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin will propose t h e Toast to the memory of Robert Burns at the 61st annual Cele bration of the Winnipeg Burns club at thursday in Blind Man was treated legally i the fort Garry planned Metros Board of zoning adjustment has received an application to construct a 30storey apartment building at the Southeast Corner of Carlton Street and Cumberland a spokesman for the de Central Park towers said details will be announced when the necessary approval is the zoning Board is scheduled to hear the application the apartment building would have limited commercial uses on the main floor and a on the 30th the if would be built on the site of the Parkview across from Central Park and would be capital Loans the second tallest building in wider expropriation Aid urged by Barry came proposals to broaden the areas of compensation in the Manitoba governments draft expropriation Bill were proposed on two fronts tuesday by the appraisal Institute of Canada and Winnipeg lawyer in separate briefs to the Legislatures statutory regulations the Winnipeg chapter of the appraisal Institute claimed the governments draft Bill left much to be desired in the method of determining compensation to own ers for property the among other called for compensation paid on the basis of Market value of land plus damages attributable to the expropriation in place of the much less definite wording of the draft and Micah urged the committee to recommend the adoption of measures that would see owners of expropriated land paid an allowance of five to 10 per cent of the Market value of the land As compensation for the compulsory both submissions were presented As the legislative committee opened another round of Public hearings on various aspects of the governments citizens remedies six All dealing with the expropriation were submitted tuesday during the Day Long according to the appraisal Institute the wording of the proposed which Ord ers that due compensation should be does not work satisfactorily in the Brief suggested that stipulation of the various factors to be considered in assessing compensation should be actually written into the Law instead of being left to the discretion of the proposed compensation by defining the relevant fac tors to be the Institute the Bill would provide guidelines for negotiations and frequently avoid the necessity of it would also probably eliminate the wide differences of opinion sometimes found by using the value to the owner concept of the Institute proposed Separ assessment of two features of assessing compensation the Market value of the which can be assessed accurate and which should include the costs of Legal mental and other injurious Micah presented a Simi Lar Point of incorporating Many of the proposals recently handed Down by Ontario Law Reform which has been studying compensation for he claimed there was nothing in the Manitoba Bill that enables owners of dislocated businesses to recover losses for time and Money spent in search of a new a percentage allowance to All persons whose property was expropriated should be he and he contended it should not be less than five per cent of the Market although he added that 10 per cent was More both the appraisal Institute and Micah also proposed changes to the scheme to set up a t h r e e m a n compensation Board to handle the Institute urged the committee to recommend increasing the membership of the Board so that it could include experts in the Fields of Engin business real property management and questioning whether a Board or the courts could Best handle expropriation suggested no Board be set up unless it included full time chairman and Vic chairman who would both be prohibited from other a yearly salary for the Security of tenure and special provisions for a minority report so that appeals can be lodged with the the committee resumes pub Lic hearings today by Bob m e s faced with a forecast that million May have to be borrowed the next decided tuesday eve Ning that metro should be Able to borrow at least million a year for capital f construct this was with the understand ing the million figure could be increased to include any unusually Large such As hospitals or sewer and water earlier metro chairman Jack Willis said the million along wit extra borrowing for Large projects would amount to much More than we spent before each year but the guidelines were something we can live Metros program policy com made up of All members of was of the opinion it can Only recommend and cannot commit future metro councils to a Lon term policy on capital that was Why Only guidelines and the five year w e re rather than a fixed amount and the 10year term suggested by Manitoba municipal committee hammered out the guidelines in to the municipal boards decision in december that it would set a Imit on Metros borrowing Powers for the next 10 metro Council is expected to approve guidelines at its meeting thursday and then Forward them to the municipal Board for the Board had said it would have to set the limit because of what was termed an alarming increase in Metros total debt lie past two it had said reductions would have to be made in the capital Metros policy committee said if the municipal Ward Doest accept the guide Ines proposed by a meeting should be held Between the two groups before a counter proposal is at the suggestion f Charles decided to meet with he provincial government to try and establish a system of priorities for All municipal Over ments in greater i Metros exec Ive had recommended he guideline period be fears instead of 10 because an to look ahead with any certainty More than five years becomes he said the rate of increase in Metros debt about million a year has not been the executive director said Metros net debt was its total potential debt is because million in new projects have been authorized but no Money Bor rowed the municipal board1 had said Metros total authorized borrow Ings total More than Mcinnes said the in arriving in a higher figure than the actual didst take into consideration the fact million wont be required because of can celled Mcinnes said metro require authority to Bor Row in the five year period to the end of this in new debt would require 000 in in in 1971 and in the dont include major the five year have to be borrowed for general purposes including streets for for waterworks system projects and for sewage disposal system Mcinnes said the forecast was prepared in consultation with Metros department Willis said the guide lines proposed by Mcinnes Are something we could live with i do not think we can operate for anything less than the million minimum a Huband maintained the boards attempt to establish a limit on Metros borrowing Powers is he said the Board must consider applications for approval of Loans on the merits of the individual project under the terms of the metro ;