Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 3, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break Peg free press by Bill Trebil Goe entertainment coming to Winnipeg in the next couple of months includes the Kirby Stone four Homer and Jethro and the Ink spots. Jim Cantor of Winnipeg rotary tells me that the Kirby Storie boys plus Homer and Jethro will appear in the variety shows which Are a feature of the annual Leisure land presentation april 10 to 14 in Winnipeg Arena. The Leisure land show which will feature More than 100 exhibitors of All the necessities for the Good both indoors and out is the Only fund raising activity of the Winnipeg rotarians. What do they do with their Money Well in the past few years they be contributed to the Knowles school to the Middle Church Home and most recently to furnish the new Indian and Metis Friendship Centre. The Ink spots who Haven t faded away during the years though their personnel has changed several times visit town in a couple of weeks. They la be at the corporals club Canadian forces base feb. 20. Friday and saturday feb. 23 and 24, they la be doing their theme if i did t care and other All time hits at the Airliner motor hotel s King Arthur room. I Don t know just How housewives and their part time assistants husbands rate servicemen and delivery people who Call at their Homes but one big item appears to be clean shoes. Most important however is Courtesy according to a recent discussion on the subject. A. A. Macleod a fort Garry says a mixed group recently rated the various types of people who enter Homes in the course of business and highest Marks went to of servicemen. Hydro and Telephone men were rated tops for their consideration and politeness in dealing with residents. Success of the Montessori schools started last fall in River Heights and downtown Winnipeg have prompted a group of North Winnipeg and West Kildonan parents to make plans. For similar operation. The Montessori method which takes children Between the Ages of 3 and 5, now has some 80 children enrolled in the two original schools. Anyone interested in the Northern part of Winnipeg May Call mrs. G. Grosh 56 Smithfield Avenue for further information. 0 program note 2 something for everyone that s what you la find on open House week Days from ,1 til 4. By Carrier soc per week saturday february 3, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the. . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Our town Good Luck stories Winni Eggers were impressed with the Good Fortune of an Edmonton unemployed worker recently who gave his wife his last couple of dollars to go out and play Bingo and had her return with prize Money. A Windsor Park Man won the same amount this week with even less Effort. Louis Montanti 35 Argonne Bay St. Boniface opened a pack of his favorite Brand of cigarettes and pulled out a Coupon Worth and he made his Happy discovery a Day before the company ads even mentioned the presence of the big Money Bonus. Or. And mrs. Montanti Aren t planning a spending spree they plan to Bank the Money spending Only enough of it i mme d a Tely to give their married daughter in Toronto a trip Home. Incidentally 3ir. Montanti has been off work for a couple of months with a broken leg. Sunday activity if you re looking for a family Outing Wendy Bracken tells me the University of Manitoba alumni Are sponsoring a family skating party at the University rink for anyone who cares to go from 1 to 4 . Sunday. It s All part of the Winter carnival and there s Snow building for. The children. Prizes Are offered for the Best building. Interfaith theatre invites Young actors singers and dancers to audition sunday afternoon for parts in calamity Jane which they will stage in May. Lorraine Wright says the auditions will be held at 1 . Sunday at St. Mary s Parish Hall Hargrave Street and St. Mary Avenue. The production will be directed by John Kozak Loreen Loewen 677 Linden Avenue East Kildonan would like to hear Froni other graduates of the St. Paul. Hospital school of nursing Saskatoon who live in this area. She s interested in forming a local chapter of the school s alumnae. More houses by 72 mortgage hike helps builder Canada s present hous ing shortage will end by 1972 providing the fed eral government continues to keep mortgage rates in line with Gen eral interest rates a building association offi Cial said Friday. Nigel w. Puttock executive director of the National House builders association said in an interview at., the fort Garry hotel that As a result of last year s increase in the Nha rate to ,8vs per cent the housing Industry will be Able to fill this year s expected for housing units across Canada. In the past few years he said mortgage rates had been Belt Low resulting in the Genera transferring of investment funds away from the housing Industry to More lucrative Fields. Or. Puttock said that in there were housing starts to unit Short of the total demand. Las year he said Between and housing units Wen required but Only hous Irig starts to meet this demand although this year s Demani for housing is expected to b met or. Puttock said it would take at least four years to Mee the backlog caused by the slowing Down of the flow investment funds into the hous ing Industry during the past be years. He said the increase i mortgage rates could ultimate help in lowering housing Price by enabling More Homes to b built. Asked what he would1 Sugges for Low income families we cannot afford to meet Hig mortgage rates he replied to government should assist i paying off part of their Home mortgage. This he said woul be More sensible than building Public apartments and Chargin a month for an apartment Worth a month. Weather report More Snow the hog saw Shadow by j. H. Judson if the ground hog dug out through the eight Inch Snow cover he did see his Shadow and according to the old saying we Are in for another six weeks of Winter weather. This Winter has not been too hard on Winnipeg. January temperatures averaged near Normal at 1 below Zero. A mild spell sent the temperature to a record High of 38 above on Jan. 23 and 25. It Rose from the record Low of 41 below on Jan., 4 and Jan. 6. The Only blizzard hit Winnipeg on Jan. 11, and the month s precipitation amounted to Only .84 inches. It was below the usual 1.03 inches. Winnipeg used More fuel than usual for heating. Degree Days below 65 degrees measure of heating and these added up to 2048, compared to the Norma of 2008. January ended with Norma temperatures. Monday ranged from -16 -3 but Milder air on tuesday raised the tempera Ture to 14 above. Wednesdays temperatures registered from a Low of -13 to 5 above and thursday was -18 to 4 above. Ground hog under sunny skies the temperature Rose from -14 to 4 above. Quentin Bell Chornenki Case to . Doctor charges province can t help 111 youth i by John Freshwater the Case of William Chornenki the -18-year old youth who has pledged to Kiu three people is to go before the lieutenant governor for review. This decision was made by magistrate Harold Gyles in provincial magistrate s court Friday. It was made after evidence from a psychiatrist who contended that for some one like Chornenki Manitoba offers no help. Or. John Mcdonald Dougan said that although in his opinion the youth was suffering from a mental illness the province does not provide the Means for helping him or others like him extensive psychiatric treatment under maximum stars of ice Capanes kicked up their heels Friday at fort Garry Gate. The skaters from left Donald Knight Gerty Desjardins Guy Revell and Janet Runn will appear from tuesday to saturday at the Winnipeg Arena. Ice Capuder Knight Calls suitcase Home by Kevin Boland Valise two gunmetal Grey three initials Gold trimmed to the right of the grip Are All now that is Home to one Donald Knight. It took him at least five years to earn the right and hell wait at least five More before he gives it up. He s a figure skater a professional who earned his stripes competing against the world s Best amateurs since he was 15. Knight 19, is part or the ice Capanes. The troupe made a Brief Stop Here yesterday on Way to St. Paul Minnesota where they re appearing this week. He returns next week with the ice Capanes to Winnipeg Arena for a five Day eight performance Stopover. The suitcases if any thing Are the Only Dis agreeable chapter in the roller coaster existence that is a travelling Road show. You living out of a suitcase. Every Day is suitcase Day. But the life is. Great i m glad All i have to worry about Are the suit. Cases. Not much to others in like proves the rap is travelling a never ending hum of Iron wheels on Iron rails. Knight could t like it More. Maybe it s because it s my first year As a professional. Everything s so new. Maybe it la Pale turning to professional ism and the George Washington Green the role implies May have Cost the Dundas ont native olym Pic Gold., Knight finished among the tog five in the Jast three championships and a respectable eighth he was years old in the 1964 Winter olympics. He was considered a Strong possibility in this olympic renewal until he gave up his Amateur status when he signed with the ice Capanes Early in 1967. The signing followed his sweep of the Canadian Junior men s title third time in a Row and the capping of his Amateur career with the North american championship last Spring. Vit was no easy decision. Who would t want to win a Gold i suppose r wanted to be. A profession Al Morel was a Chance too that the years of monotonous struggle As an Amateur were fueling the forces of change. He d been an Amateur since when arid the faraway pastures looked Greener in More ways than one. Learning is expensive. I would t want to guess How much my people have spent so i could learn. But consider that an hour under a professional Tutor Means out of your pocket. Add that to paying for ice time and any number of other things and the Cost is even a Good pair Are Worth hockey he says is responsible for sending him to the world of figure skating. At 13 he was chosen most promising player in a Peewee tournament during minor hockey league week in Dundas. To improve he enrolled for extra skating lessons at the Dundas rink. That was it. I was pretty Small anyway.-1 Don t think hockey held much of a future for me at my he d rather he said than get swatted. Somehow the reasoning seemed to filter through. Students turning on tuning in with teach variable night mostly Touth at 20 sunday. Low cloudiness becoming overcast with a few Snow flurries to sunny on mild today and colder sunday. Winds and gust today veering to the Northwest at 20 and Gusty tonight and High Sunda 5 below and 30. Temperatures for period ending at 6 . Saturday pre. Max. Min. Pre. S.7 a1 a Ottawa 41 28 speak Here Quentin British artist and Art historian will lecture at . Feb. 12 in the John a. Russell building University of Manitoba. Or. Bell will discuss John Ruskin a 19th Century critic he feels was far ahead of his time. Or. Bell will speak at . The same Day in the Winnipeg Art gallery. Calgary 45 -10 to Toronto 18 Edmonton Regina -1 in it .24 18 Halifax Chicago 32 37 18 the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora -1 to 11 4 20 -3 is los Angeles Minneapolis 62 .66 52 .27 5 48 38 by John w1ldgust closed circuit television has invaded a handful of Manitoba schools. Now the teachers Are facing the problem of what to do with it. There Are to courses professional advisors even text boo is for teachers turned television personalities. But spending often up to three hours preparing for a 20 minute lesson the teachers Are coming through the one eyed boxes in the classrooms to what one provincial education official described As possibly the most critical audience in the closed circuit television teacher in the school broadcasts Only to classrooms in the school is relatively new in Manitoba. Equipment like video tape re corders they record the picture and sound have been used for Only about four months. At Isaac Brock school one o two Winnipeg schools with closed circuit equipment the studio is a converted1 store room. Now. Most of the programming is beamed at history and social studies. In history models of Battle Cenes Are used and students Lay the roles of opposing generals discussing the in an interview. The graphics come from textbooks magazines and occasionally the Art tables of the school. Usually students at the the Grade 7, 8 and 9 groups get about two hours of school produced television each supplemented by programs from the provincial school broadcast department. Gertrude Mccance director of the provincial broadcast department however says she is worried about How the gives false address Thomas Johnson 24, who a sentenced to one year in a thursday for breaking into Winnipeg grocery store had n fixed address prior to i imprisonment. Johnson had originally Tol police his address was 37 Edmonton Street suite 9. The Landlady of that Rooming House mrs. N. A. Moffat said late Johnson had never lived there. Programming is used in the classroom. Special courses for teacher planned by the provincial de paiement Are still up in the m i s s Mccance said there s a very great need of Gertrude Mccance director t the provincial broadcast Depar however says she is to ried about How the program in is used in the classroom special courses for teacher planned by the provincial Depar ment Are still air miss Mccance said. There s very great need for and for the teachers telex Sion still Means pre show Jitter or. Dougan had earlier Testi de that he had examined the caused twice and found him to e suffering from a personality disorder. He said the youth had expressed a desire to kill three eople. I think he has every attention of carrying them r. Dougan had testified., under a Section in the Cri Ninal code a convicted person offering from a mental illness an be removed from jail lieutenant governor and place n an Institute for an indefinite period. Hymie Weinstein defence counsel urged that sentence hould be imposed by the Cour because this term must still be served if the accused is re moved by the governor. Or. Weinstein a he total absence of any form o treatment for someone ii Chornenki s position. We Are treating it like w did sift counsel we Are putting him nto a cell throwing away the key and then hoping that in years time he will come out setter than he went or. Weinstein said society could t be blamed for the likes of Chornenki but it can be blamed for not providing suit Able places for treating the likes of this Chornenki of 304 Brooklyn Street James came to court of face two charges of assault by and Possession of inoffensive weapon Dagger in connection with assault of two people in a House in 1. Magistrate Gyles convicted the youth on All charges. Chornenki pleaded guilty to. A fourth charge of stealing a car. The doctor accused was suffering from a personal Ity disorder which could be. Classed As a mental illness. He said the youth is a is unable to feel emotion in the same Way As others do Chornenki had told Sinuhe in tended to escape custody Coli Lect arms and ammunition and. After carrying out his intended killings Hole up at a House and shoot it out with. Police in the Hope that he will be killed asked what should be the main concern of the court when passing sentence the doctor said he thought it must be to protect the Public. T remanding the Case for one week the magistrate said it was a.1 duty owed to society to present the matter. To the lieutenant governor and his government executives it w magistrate sets bail., murder suspect freed a 22-Ye a old Man facing a charge of murdering his father has been released on bail. Bail was set by or. Justice f. W. Bastin in court of Queen s Bench Friday after an application brought by Harry Walsh counsel for Keith Joseph Zimmerman the accused1. Or. Justice Bastin ordered that Zimmerman charged with killing his father Jan. 15 at Shern Man. Should be freed from custody bail. This said the judge would be made up of two sureties one co Ming from the accused s Mother. The application or Justice Basting said bail 41 was reasonable to believe the v accused will appear in court when required and there was no danger to the Public. He said he Felt that keeping accused in custody was serving As form of punishment himself and1 his family no Date has been set for trial. Fire alarm Law urged Winnipeg Alderman Isa Dore Wolch said Friday he will re introduce a Resolution to City Council calling for the compulsory Stalla Tion of fire alarm systems with smoke and heat Detec tors in the City s Rooming houses and apartment build Ings i Aid Wolch said i m convinced an alarm would have been sounded much earlier in a Logan Avenue apartment fire that claimed the life of a three year old boy wednesday if the build ing had been equipped with smoke detectors Frida y Aid. Wolch accused several of his Fel Low aldermen of being in. Some Way responsible for the death. Two years ago aldermen Defeated Otin to require the installation of file in room ing houses and apartment buildings., v x lost Chud Home Richard Gate blvd who j was reported missing from 3. Home Friday has returned Home of his Mother Sald Satur Clay morn. In the closed circuit television studio at Isaac Brock school two student cameramen Harold Mcpetrie left and Fred sky har move in on two teachers. W. J. Caughlin left and d. I. Dilay. The camera on the left focuses on the teachers. The one on the right shows a detailed map in a Magazine ;