Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fk6e press Friday March 15, 1968 6we three this net mana6k is sows . I Wantor i hair to look i oust like. That la be 25 Donald Duck is Donald s picture no it s right out of squares Ville Micky mouse fort huh fishing or Archie Arch help me carry this Rug f our before i be got it trapped in re awed jump Back when we unroll Blondie i and Lois what Are Yoi Point must throw make room for the Tiffany Jones Pont took so terrified sweetie you re and moment you be been steel Okay watch the red Light we re 70 Roll pm. Beetle Bailey he s sop Osep to Sav cheese Mot with he oust sort of bikes 3-15 but when i say cheese he drools in the legislature report under study now j. He s collecting dust each Issue describes new and interesting hobbies St does a. Your husband collect anything Vou care to subs pubs to Happy Hobby Magazine thank you foe y Tess that kiss is even thins rip. The Best cure for i think you re the slap i 6ot wont Raul. From the late or. Monarch Here they Covle dint take them ions after the got my Recto 11 Premier Walter Weir said thursday the Batten Royal commission report on costs and inflation on the Prairies is being studied now by government departments to see what action should be taken. Or. Weir said the lengthy report released last week required detailed study. The re port called for a Federal investigation under the combines investigation act into retail grocery prices. Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat suggested an immediate meet ing of representatives of the three Prairie provinces should be held to discuss the report. Farmer costs study asked a government Back Bencher Las urged a Royal commission on farming problems because a recent Prairie study on living costs did t touch on agriculture. M. E. Mckellar Lansdowne said thursday Dur ing throne speech debate that he had hoped the Batten commission on consumer prices would mention the Price we get for he also charged Manitoba teachers with expecting too much pay. He criticized them for expecting salary boosts to go with regular increments. Let s look at this from the standpoint of Economy if i went out and asked for a Bushel you know what they d insurance probe hit a special committee set up by the Manitoba legislature last year to investigate automobile insurance operations was criticized thursday by a member of the legislature for not taking any action. But provincial treasurer Gurney Evans said the commit tee would be reconstituted and would continue its work. New democratic party Leader a. A. Russ Paulley a member of the insurance com Mittee said it should have brought in a report. Or. Evans said the govern ment wanted to take advantage of the findings of a Royal commission on automobile insurance set up by the British Columbia government. Mol Gat warns on changes Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat warned the progressive conservative government thurs Day not to attempt to change the Independent nature of the prov Ince s electoral divisions com Mission. Or. Mol Gat was concerned about rumours that the govern ment plans to change the makeup of the three Man com Mission set up in 1957 to study redistribution of electoral Divi Sions. Or. I Mol Gat said no changes Are needed in the electoral divisions act. The government indicated in the throne speech it planned to Amend the act. Or. Mol Gat said the commis Sion was set up to take the question of redistribution of electoral divisions out of politic Al hands. Fort Garry councillor lashes standpipe abuse while fort Garry water rates Rise substantially some Resi dents Are getting water free and residents of other municipalities Are also taking advantage of it. This was claimed at a fort a Arry Council meeting when two open water pumps were discussed. Councillor c. H. Mclntosh finance committee chairman said the situation just in t one of the pipes is being flagrantly coun. Mclntosh charged. He said people assessment committee formed metro Council has set up a three Man committee to look into tax assessment problems in greater Winnipeg. On a motion by councillor j. A. Coulter Council thursday appointed coun. Coulter and councillors lome a. Leech and Jack Mcgurran to prepare report. Coun Coulter in introducing his motion suggested the group examine three specific propos als that assessments be car ried out Only on a municipality wide basis. Reassessments Cov ering Only portions of municipalities have the effect of putting an unduly High taxation Load on the newly assessed properties he said. That in areas undergoing rapid transition from one land use to another More highly taxed land use properties re assessed be taxed under their old assessment until new development on the property actually gets underway. That certain improvements to properties be exempted from taxation. Coun. Counter said that under the present assess ment system homeowners Are actually penalized for improving their property through higher taxes. Rom Tuxedo come to the free on Clarence Avenue n fort Garry with Anks to fill on a suggestion by coun. To Mclntosh Council s Public works Ommittee will look into the matter. The other pipe located on Kilkenny drive was discussed when a delegation appeared before Council protesting its proposed closure. The delegation claimed to represent All even families relying on the jump for water. The delegation produced a Etter written in 1964 by former tire Garry mayor l. A Fennell promising the pipe would not be closed until other provisions vere made i Council was told six of the even families get the water rom the for free but a events pays. A year because t owns horses. On a suggestion by Colin. G. R. Hobson the Kilkenny drive Ripe was referred to Council s Blic works committee. Lord Nelson is Dora Saintman a nutritionist with Winnipeg s health depart ment will speak at a meeting of the lord Nelson Home and school association at . Tuesday in the school auditorium. Rights study slated the Manitoba human rights commission is holding a con Ference on three different areas of human rights at the univer sity of Winnipeg convocation Hall april 26, 27 and 28. The commission has invitee Justice minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to be one of the guest speakers. It has also asked or Dan Hill executive director o the Ontario human rights commission. Proposed topics of discussion Are a human rights commis Sion for Manitoba an ombudsman for Manitoba and Canadian Unity and human rights. Mac shows paintings oils serigraphs and Ink draw Ings by Winnipeg artist Jan boning Are being exhibited in the lobby of the Manitoba theatre Centre during Mac current production a thou Sam clowns which runs until March 23. Or. Boning a native o Amsterdam the Netherlands emigrated to Canada in 1957 his works have found their was into private Art across the country. Collection rheumatism society p. T. Guttormsson has been elected president of the Cana Dian arthritis and rheumatism society Manitoba division other officers Are a. D Campbell and t. C. Drake vice presidents j. D. Benson Honor Ary treasurer and j. K. Knox honorary solicitor. Policeman lauded in arrests two Winnipeg police con stables who apprehended a Man charged with rape and two constables who caught three youths charged with robbery were commended by the Winni Peg police commission wednes Day for Good work. On the morning of feb. 2i constables Ralph Booden and Louis Spado were called to. A school to investigate a com plaint by a 12-year-old girl that she had been abducted from the school in a car taken to the outskirts of the City indecently assaulted and raped. The constables staked out the school area next Day Anc arrested a suspect in the offences. The suspect was charged and is now before the court. Constables Graham Stewart and Harold Barkley caught a 17 year old youth during the investigation of a complaint Aboul three youths tampering with i mail Box feb. 19. Later the constables arrested two other youths aged 14 ant 15, and subsequently All three were charged with theft of two cheques robbing a newsboy rolling a drunk and two House break ins. Construction planned More than 100 Winnipeg architects designers and contractors Are expected to attend a seminar monday on precast or stressed Concrete. E. Levin director of planning , will Spacal on redevelopment plans for downtown Winnipeg. Other guest speakers will include construction expert from Canada and the unite states. Irish dancers at Burns club sights of St Patrick s Day will mingle sounds of the bagpipes saturday at the Annua luncheon meeting of the Winni Peg Burns club at the St. Regis hotel. The St. Patrick s Day them will be introduced after the business session by dancer from the Mary Pickett schoo accompanied by Bagpiper Gart Mccombe. Art exhibition the Manitoba yacht club 9 , West St. Paul will hold an exhibition and Sal of. Paintings and prints by Signhild Wolff Jedamus from to 11 ., March 20-22. Farmer switch urged Canadian Farmers should con Ider switching operations Over o the production of livestock and feed grains a Saskatchewan scientist recommended in Winnipeg thursday. I b. D. Owen of the depart ment of animal science it j n i v e r s it y of Saskatchewan old delegates attending the ninth National farm and. Busi Ness forum that it. Would seem advisable in View relatively firm prospects for expansion of the Canadian live lock Industry to move a much Arger proportion of our eggs nto the Basket of feed Grain a he said Canadian meat production expected to increase by .70 per cent by 1980 and by nearly 300 per cent by the end of this Century. He said Ameri can meat imports amount nearly pounds annually almost half Canada s total production. In 1966, 55 per Cerii of total National farm income wag de Rived from livestock whereas Otal income from All s grains amounted to Only 42 per cent. One can foresee an even Arger percentage of Cash farm income coming from livestock is greater numbers of become conscious of the fact that maximum net returns from heir units can be realized Only through livestock feeding opera. he said damaged Grams lose Little of their feeding value for less for example than if sold through Normal channels. He said that although total agricultural production in Japan increased by per cent Between 1950 and livestock production Rose by 287 per cent. In order to meet the estimated demand for feed requirements will increase by Between 40 to 50 per cent by 1980. This will mean the use of an additional 25 to acres. This can be interpreted in turn As meaning the Elimina Tion of All wheat exports by 1980 and the importation of substantial quantities of either feed grains or livestock products by the end of the however if feed crop output per acre can be increased by 50 per cent by 1988, we have the Prospect of doubling livestock output without adding to the actual acreage required for feed crop prof. Owens listed three main ways of achieving improved production efficiency soil productivity animal practices and feed crop Quality. He said that Between 12 and additional acres of be brought into potential feed crop yields could be increased by 30 per cent by improved soil manage ment he said in quoting a report from or. D. A. Rennie of the department of soil science at the University of Sas Katche Winnipeg gallery to get or Huttt the Winnipeg Art gallery is among six Canadian Art galleries named As beneficiaries in the director s Choice program of the Canada was announced in Ottawa Friday. Up to has be he allocated for the program which the directors of the Art galleries to travel make new purchases. The travel Grants Are each and the purchasing Grants Are Between and each. Temple services Temple Sholom services will be held at . March 22 at the Home of or. And mrs. Harry Prosen 1362 Mathers Bay East. Rabbi Jerry Stein Berg will officiate. Swami Siva. Nanda Radha and Swami Tury Anda Are the guest speakers. Expert says wheat Price May fall Canada s Hopes for keeping this could Only put Strong International wheat prices equal downward pressure on North i to average prices since 1962 were based on false Market assumptions says an american political economist. Speaking thursday at american wheat he said. He expected the minimum International Price will be lower the than Canada Hopes for but prices in both Canada and the United states could be increased without affecting Market de Mand. He said that As Long As Canada continues her policy of passing Export prices Back to producers Canadian prices will be tied to american Market conditions therefore american policy ninth National farm and Busi Ness forum Alex f. Mccalla assistant professor of agricultural economics at the univer sity of California said that even if the International grains agreement with its higher minimum prices is ratified by All participants it will have great difficulty main Taining prices at the he said the proposed mini mum reflects an inflated wheat Price As a result of heavy communist sales which May not prof. Mccalla said he doubted the United states would co operate toward maintaining the proposed minimum. He referred to recommendations made by the president s food and Fibre commission to release the total productive potential of american wheat Farmers from production controls. If the commission s suggestions Are he said american wheat output would increase. Not enough food seen in future or. Hugh Keenleyside chair Man of the British Columbia Hydro and Power authority says the world will soon a. Preach a situation where others won t be Able to feed the impoverished nations. Speaking thursday to Dele Gates attending the ninth annual farm and business forum in i i Winnipeg or. Keenleyside said i that if the world s population i continues to increase at its i present rate then methods will Likely be taken to decrease existing populations within the next decade. He said he was speaking about existing populations not those about to be born. He said the percentage of humans living in the underdeveloped countries of the will increase from 67 to 75 per cent during the next decade. There Are More people living in poverty today than there were in 1945. He said 70 per cent of the world s children Are either grossly undernourished or suffering from malnutrition. Although Canada s foreign Aid is impressive he said it trails the scandinavian countries the Netherlands and the United states on a proportional basis. Or. Keenleyside said that since Canada s Prosperity de pends largely upon foreign Trade it is essential for this country that world Prosperity increase. At present vast numbers of people Are subsiding on a diet of Only 200 calories a Day. Among reasons for world poverty he cited religious and social handicaps. As a result of religious convictions the number of cows in India has increased resulting in less food for humans. In other areas people won t Clear swamps because of their belief in evil spirits. He listed administrative and political corruption As chief blocks to Progress within the underdeveloped countries. If the current rate of Popula Tion growth continues there will be in the world by the year 2000 and no crash program in food production will prevent mass starvation he said ;