Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 8, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break by Bill Trebil Goe the mail goes through and through and did you know it costs anywhere from 63 to s4 it for the average business firm to write envelope and stamp a letter of course some people Don t address their letters take the Case of the Winnipeg office worker who owed someone named Jane she put a Bill six ones and jingling dimes in a company envelope wrote the name Jane across it and left it on her desk on dec 16 the envelope went into the company s outgoing mail four Days postal employee called the employs 250 people to ask who mailed a letter guess who answered the Call naturally the woman who owed Jane the Money. identification she received her envelope and Money Back. No wonder she says Happy new year you honest postal theri there s the letter which Mai got Chester women s editor of the St. James news received from the Vanier Institute of the family in Ottawa one Fine monogrammed envelope inside one Classy Blank Letterhead. And a note for the stamp collectors who have been sending inquiries to Coffee break there s an authority on the subject who writes the weekly column the stamp collector in the free press weekend Leisure Magazine. He f. and letters May be. Sent to him care of the Magazine. H you want a pen pal just Send an order to the liquor control commission that s five cents Short. A Carman resident made that error and now he believes he May even get a Christmas card this year from the commission. The liquor commission Branch store caught the five cent error in the order. They wrote him saying he would hear from head office. Head office then sent him a formal note with a Money order for his original my Rural Friend totalled up the costs of the correspondence 15 cents for the Money order plus the two five cent Stamps All to Correct the five cent error which he says have added to the next order. Then Don t forget it costs anywhere from to to write the average business letter. Our town a Coffee break note. About Over enthusiastic go go girls i be been informed by a. Couple of hotel men that while the girls May be Here to stay their part in the Over All beverage room entertainment scene will not be so noticeable. 5 a Max Shnier and Harvey Kornberg at the Village inn Are making use of unusual lighting effects which play Down the dancer s role. They be used revolving strobes and plan a full psychedelic effect with the use of a projector. They re using Black Light the first time it s been used in a local entertain Niertit spot and referring to the girls that have been around the local stages the roundest of them All 300-Pound tji Umbelina was in a traffic Accident in Nebraska and will be Iri bed for six weeks actors showcase begins a acting directing direct Ligand stagecraft feb 15 in their studios of 622 Mcintyre building. The sessions directed by Roland Montreal who is. Here Courtesy of the Dominion drama festival and the Canada Council. Those interested in attending May write. H. Mcglymont 3-66 Edmonton Street. Pat Mccord 571 Bruce Avenue St James Secretary of the local Beta Sigma Phi chapter would like to locate a recording of Sweet Georgia. Brown whistled by brother Jones and his the sorority can t buy the record they d be Happy to have it taped. Donald Dmytriw 659 Brock Street in t looking for a record he s looking for the watch he brought Back from Europe when his father s enlistment with the Craf was Over a few months ago. Donald believes he left the Avalon wrist watch in a locker at the pan am Pool last week i m afraid that his Waterproof watch was t theft proof. Winnipeg free press program note 8 0cjob sports keeps listeners informed on All the latest happenings in the 1968 olympics from Grenoble France. By Carrier 50c per week february 8 Ted Kurkt a authorized a 2nd Cla mail by the p o dept Ottawa and for payment of postage m can lord Selkirk Park project blasted meeting applauds remarks twelve tenders in Price from s231.670 to were Subrai lated wednesday to metro for construction of a new Coffee shop and Concession build ing at Assi Milidine Park zoo. The old Concession building was damaged by fire last year. Contract for the new building is expected to be awarded at the next meeting of metro Council with work to Start immediately afterwards. Shawn above is an architect s drawing of the proposed building. Gas leak. Fire Stop traffic Garry Street Between Portage Avenue and Graham Avenue gave the Winnipeg fire depart ment so Many p r o d 1 e m s wednesday night that the Street closed to All traffic for three hours. Firemen were first called put to investigate a smell of Gas in the basement of the army Navy and air Force veterans club rooms at 279 Garry. Street which had driven All patrons out of the building. The Gas leak was quickly found arid stopped but As the firemen were about to leave somebody Hibke Coin ing out of a covered in u publications Are profs topic in a University world flooded with academic publications at least one University professor is wondering who reads them. He s prof. Tom Carney a University of Manitoba history professor who will talk about International and the Large number of academic . Tuesday at the i University of Winnipeg. The Middle of a fire was r a g i n g in the cribbing around a steam pipe about six feet underground. A fire department spokesman said welders had been at work there during the Day cutting off a line to the Garrick hotel. 287 Garry Street. The welding work had Likely started the underground Blaze the spokes Man said. The time the Blaze was noticed the fire had progressed in both directions and stretched for almost an entire City Block. The fire was not particularly dangerous but was difficult to extinguish said the spokesman. The Gas leak and the under ground Blaze were not related he said. Man 66, gets 13 months on manslaughter charge Donald Smith 66, of the pegu is District was sentenced wednesday to 15 months in jail when he found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the july 24 shooting of his estranged wife an All male jury returned the verdict after less than three hours deliberation on the third Day of the Spring assizes trial or. Justice . Bastin in passing sentence said he was considering Smith s age health and time he had spent in custody prior to being released on bail Smith Vas charged with now capital murder the charge was. Later reduced to manslaughter following atthe death of his 44 Vear old wife Eleanor the woman died of a 22 calibre Bullet wound in her head. A statement made by Smith to Selkirk Romp officers was read during the trial. Smith had taken a taxi from his Home to Selkirk and had reported the shooting to. Ramp Cpl. Herbert Osmond by the Selkirk ramp detachment said Smith came into the office and sat quietly until asked what he wanted. Smith replied to did it said Cpl. Osmond. When questioned further he said my wife i shot the woman s body was found of the porch of Smith s Home seven Miles North of Selkirk Smith accompanied police to the scene and co operated in giving the statement Cpl Osmond testified in his statement his wife came to the House and threatened to kill him. She was alleged to have door with a stick. To his statement said he told her o go away but she refused til kill Jou before i leave jus House the statement quoted the woman As saying As soon As she broke the door f went and got the Rifle concert Hall opening set the Manitoba Centennial con Cert Hall will be officially opened Maich 27, Centennial corporation chairman Maitland b. Stei Riskopf has announced a preview concert will be held March 25, to Honor workmen who built the Hall. A opening concert March 28 will feature the Royal Winnipeg ballet., the symphony and the Centre. Manitoba theatre and i went Back to the door and i told her look Eleanor go Home Smith said he shot her when she persisted. The Smiths had ated for 16 years. There had been some dispute Over support for two daughters from the marriage Mother of the victim Mary Anderson of St Clements told the court medical evidence revealed mis Smith had a history of mental illness. Or Michael Kovacs medical superintendent of Selkirk mental Hospital said the woman had been in and out of the Institute on nine occasions. She suffered paranoid Schizo Phoenia and was under Medica Tion he said. She was Fust admitted to Hospital in 1952 and the most recent stay was in 1967 the longest period of Hospital nation was for bus Loop needed Council St James City Council agreed tuesday to again petition metro Foi bus service Grace Hospital Alderman to the new Johnston recommended looping regu Lar Portage Avenue bus route around the Hospital he said this route was the most profitable could easily be looped and still remain profitable Council reached its decision following receipt of a letter from metro chairman Jack Willis who said metro s streets and transit committee has recommended the installation of a pedestrian in dec a lord Selkirk Park resident has accused the City of Winnipeg of creating slurp areas. Mrs Jessie Hacay of 378 4 Flora ave told 250 area residents at k. B Russell i vocational school wednesday that the City up Ihms them around the meeting was called so residents would kno v How the fourth stage of the Urban renewal scheme will them i i you put up a Bunch of she told City officials sitting of the stage in the school auditorium. Referring to the Low income housing development in lord Selkirk Park she said the ones you put up look worse than the ones you Tore Down. Is that what you Call Urban renewal come around in two years and see what the place looks like her remarks Drew loud applause from the audience a fourth stage of the scheme the Clearing and redevelopment of 62 acres of land immediately East of the Low income project implementation of this stage will Cost an estimated 7 million ,.j aldermen Lillian Hallonquist t Inez 6. Trueman Donovan Swailes Mark h Danzker and Joseph Zuken were on stage but said nothing during the meeting., Hal Nugent Winnipeg s s Deputy solicitor told residents that expropriation of was an unfortunate but i nevus u Able part of Urban renewal or. Nugent told mrs. Hacay that the Bunch of she called the ing 100 tiniest better than what the Sturgeon Creek instead , service. T regret that we have not found it possible to Supply better bus service Hospital but As you Are aware at the present time we Are extremely Short of buses and it May be that when our Fleet is augmented we will be Able to give further consideration to this said or Willis Aid Johnston said people rather than statistics should be but metro just keeps Refus ing our requests i Don t know where we go from Here wants police use of listening devices okayed weather report synopsis valid until Midnight Friday mild air continued to Coyer most of the but temperatures in Manitoba and part of Eastern Saskatchewan will be slightly cooler. The line Between mild and cooler air expected to remain in Western Manitoba for the next few be expected in Manitoba As Peries of minor systems moves through Vather quickly at about one Day intervals. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today .-35 y Sai Takt Cirr f Janosco w up few 1 Omaha san Antonio Nimoh Izaijs f jury can t determine fire origin Killarney Man. Special an jury Here wednesday night d William c. Brown a double amputee from Deloraine Man died from the effects of a fire in his bed at the Shamrock nursing Home nov. 27. The jury presided by Coroner or. George Dow could t say How the fire in i Brown s bed started. The Blaze was confined to one room in the two Storey Home. Charlesh i g h f i d who operated the Home said matches weren t allowed in the rooms. Residents we r e evacuated from the Home to the nearby Killarney Hospital. Police should be allowed to use electronic listening devices to trap suspected criminals 3 e Tec live superintendent Norman Stewart of the winning p olice department said wednesday. Before using the devices the police could get permission lion a judge on the grounds that someone was a suspected criminal det. Supt. Stewart said. He was speaking to about 160 rotarians at a luncheon in r the fort Garry hotel. Though there has been an outcry against police use of these devices he said modern criminal methods make them necessary for certain investigative work listening devices would be useful for instance in forecast sunny today clouding Over Friday morning. Little change in temperature. Winds North at 20 . And Gusty today becoming Light tonight and southerly at 20 . Friday. Low tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg is below High Friday 10 above. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Thursday Vancouver Calgary 44 Edmonton 39 Regina 30 Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora. Max. Min. Pre. 46 28 17 a. 16 11 7 21 32 13 14 12 to to Ottawa 18 Toronto. 30 Montreal 25 Halifax. 29 Chicago 30 Miami. 67 los Angeles 64 Minneapolis 24 new. York 39 Max. Min. Pre. -2 12 2 14 25 51 52 to to 24 temperature comparisons Peb. 7 last year Normal Max. 13.0 5.1 11.1 min. Mean -6.6 -11.5 .-7.6 1.8 highest on record 46.0 in 1b86 lowest on record in 18s4 trapping an apparently legitimate businessman who was receiving stolen goods Foi retailing he said crime is becoming More sophisticated he said and the police need Moie sophisticated methods to combat it. Criminals now had two Way radios tuned to the police frequency they lured electronics experts to Jam Bank alarm systems brought in expert safecracker lock pickers car thieves and counterfeiters. Disrespect for tile Law is shown in the increasing crime rate across the country det. Supt. Stewart said. He said it was important that a child in the formative years be taught respect for the Law through his parents attitudes toward it. Juvenile delinquents criminals were often influenced by a Parent s hostile reaction to policemen or parental boast ing about beating the Law Canadian policemen have an exempt Laid record det supt Stewart said though on Occa Sion they make enors of judgment and do 01 say the wrong thing the Constable on the Street was the Fust person called when trouble arises and the first to be condemned when something goes wrong det supt Stewart noted the current Concemi Foi the rights of accused people and conceded that often the Rich accused gets Stewart said a better courtroom defence than the indigent one. But More important than the rights of the accused was a High priority Basic right the Protection of society from out Laws the rights of accused people should be second to this he said this became especially apparent when one Leah Zed that Moie people ate murdered annually in the us than there Are us. Soldiers killed in Vietnam during a year and twice As Many die in Cai accidents though their is a lot of popular protest about the Viet Nam War there is none about Domestic crime det supt Al Melon strike vote Friday building trades Union Mem Bers employed at the Hudson Bay mining and smelting com Pany ltd., flin flon Man. Will decide to accept company wage proposals or walk out. A strike would be Legal. The workers who bargain separately from miners who have already signed a wage agreement with the company Are also Al Odds with the company Over the proposed length of a new contract a report said. Living there had before he said expropriation procedures would Start those affected a notices m the Mai next week they would have to file a claim with City he said _ to some residents asked whether they would receive fair compensation. Or Nugent said the City would pay fair and adequate compel a Tion and that in most cases would be Able to relocate expo plated House owners and tenants in suitable housing. A g Deputy Urban renewal director said relocation of residents was the sole response bitty of the City Jve Are responsible for ass Ting displaced tenants and Home i owners find suitable quarters s at a reasonable rent he said the Urban renewal department would open information Centre at 436 King Street m March information and advice regarding property. Acquisition and the relocation program will be available or Thomas said the City hoped to have the entire area demolished within. 12 months or Nugent told residents the entire Core of the City would fall into Complete decay unless something was done our aldermen Are very concerned about this it s not Only Winnipeg s problem every City in North America faces the same dilemma the downtown coie decays people move out into the suburbs the businesses follow and before know it there s nothing left provincial treasurer Gurney Evans is shown wednesday addressing the Federal provincial constitutional con Ference in Ottawa. Or Evans spoke pm regional economic Dis parity Premier Walter Weir of Manitoba is it Fennig or. Evans spoke shortly before the close of the three Day con Ference. 4 pcs seek Turtle Man. Nomination v four men Are seeking the progressive conservative nomination to contest the March 4 by election m the provincial Riding of Turtle Mountain Liberal de Dow seat after his 1966 election was ruled void because of election irregularities the four men seeking the x nomination Are Allan Rose of Bun Clody and David Foster of Killarney both Farmers Dave Dueck a native of Boissevain s. And physics teacher at ump of sity of Winnipeg and Bill Harrison a Miller from Holm Field t i pie mini Walter Weir will 5 speak to conservatives at the nomination meeting at 8 Friday in the Boissevain legion Hall x meanwhile liberals will meet at 8 pm thursday for a nomination in tip orc Hall Deloraine ;