Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local news by Carrier 50c per week monday March 18, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. C program note 8 tomorrow morning on the John Harvard show hear Alan Clark National director 5 of the company of Young canadians. 2 steel Vorker trial9 reprimands member closed door hearing at Union Centre finds Man guilty of anti Union activities Here by Dudley Magnus a member of local steelworkers of America Al Cion was found anti Union activities at a Union trial under the organization s Constitution a shop Steward said in an interview sunday eve Ning. The hearing saturday after noon was at the Union Centre 570 Portage Avenue. Dave Jar vis the Steward said the Man had been reprimanded. A City. Lawyer Vaughan l. Baird said saturday he was told he was barred from acting for the member whose name has been withheld because the trial was a closed door affair. There had been fears the investigation into charges that the Mem Ber had behaved in a manner detrimental to the local might result in Union expulsion and loss of his Job. H. L. Len Stevens Prairie Region supervisor for the steel workers said saturday there was no Chance of the Man losing his Job As there was no Union shop or closed shop at the Plant where he worked. Under the Union shop system a Man must belong to the Union before he is hired or join it shortly after being the employee is working at Manitoba Bridge and Engineer 453-3332 Portage Simcoe 774-2471 St. James Street i opposite Polo Park f Atlas grip Safe tires All sizes 518.88 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight tuesday an extensive area of High pressure covered All of the Prairie Provine i this morning. Because of the moist Easterly flow associated with it skies Are Cloudy Over the entire District and there is an extensive area of Snow extending from the Rockies to the Western Border area of Saskatchewan. In addition there is afto widespread Snow flurry activity throughout the Eastern Prairies. Little change is foreseen in this weather pattern for the next Day or so until drier air from the far North reaches the Southern parts of the Prairies. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today. I forecast Cloudy with a few Snow flurries today and tuesday. Not quite As mild. Winds North at 20 . And Gusty. Low tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg High tuesday 30. Temperatures for the 48-hour period which ended at 6 . Monday it seems that in Spring a girl s fancy turns to baseball. Here one girl on a team of five boys shows she can swing a Bat with the Best of them. They were playing sunday on the grounds of the Manitoba legislative building. Weekend temperatures were in the Low 50s. Can Spring be far behind j i in Brandy on the Range ing works 845 Logan Avenue Vir. Stevens said. Or. Stevens said that if he vere to be expelled the worst hat could happen was he then would t have to pay asked Why a Man should be subjected to a trial without Egal counsel or. Stevens said no private club or association allows an outsider into an internal matter or. Jarvis said the charge against the member was that he lad falsely implied that in the absence of the local president he vice president had been engaged in graft involving cheques that the member said should t be signed in the president s absence. Another allegation or. Jarvis said had been made against another member of the administration which the judges had found the accused not guilty of but he was found guilty of the graft charge or. Jarvis said there was no foundation to the latter charge. This has been going on for a Long time and we be warned him we can t go on with this indefinitely. He can always leave the Union if he feels he cannot live under the Union s is. Patrick s Tea the men s club of Shaughnessy unite d Church Magnus Avenue at railway Street will hold its annual St. Patrick s Tea in the Church basement 7 . To . Monday. The program includes soloists Irish dancers and a White elephant Sale. By Allen Sackmann Churchill Man. Up the Range has top Billing in the scientific world and Jim Brandy is trying to keep it there. He s the general superintendent of the Churchill re search Range a Multi Mil lion Dollar research Plant that each year attracts hundreds of scientists to the Rocky Shore of Hudson Bay. Or. Brandy 46-y e a r of 1 d Winnipeg native had an impressive base from which to build assuming the Post As chief executive when the National research Council took Over from the United states air Force in 1966. Since then he has added expanded and altered the facilities that were Worth More than two years ago. If you Don t keep updating the facilities Here you re going he says in explaining what happens to the annual budget that is put up jointly by org and the National aeronautics and space administration of the United states. What he did with last year s budget included and consolidating the telemetry facilities for recording data fed Back by rockets and bringing the radar tracking system together under one roof e n t i n g two new air Jet Ranger helicopter and a Centennial 100 fixed Wing plans to Purchase. He says the Range now has everything the scientist needs in his quest. For knowledge about the Aurora boreal is but Only by working like hell can we keep it that working with the defence research Board he was stationed Here in 1952 to study problems related to Arctic warfare. Quite incidentally the stint introduced him to the Puzzle of the Aurora boreal is. Four years later he was transferred to Ottawa where he worked As a dry professional a period of his career that remains a closed Book. Churchill called again in called it Home Ever since Hen or. Brandy became office a charge of the dry Northern Laboratory a Post he held for six the same time he advanced his personal re search into the Aurora be cause the Opportunity was there and in the government service opportunities Don t come too that was the same reaction the Stocky dark haired scientist had when he was offered the Job As Range superintend presented an Opportunity. It also presented challenges one being the frustrating necessity to plan Only 12 months ahead because he in t sure How big a budget hell have in the future. You get squeezed with a fixed budget you can t get enough Money to take on big and while the budget re Mains the same the work vol ume increases. We had about 50 major rocket shots Here last year and we expect about 75 this he says adding that As the sounding rockets become More sophisticated the sup port equipment must also be come More sophisticated. He s renting a computer this year for example to take Over the mathematical calculations that so far have been done manually. University libraries pitiful in Manitoba speakers make pleas for More Money plus policy and organization yer haul Manitoba s University libraries Are in a pitiful state members of the Manitoba Library association were told saturday. At a meeting in the charter House hotel members of More than 50 the association were told that the Public in Manitoba As in other provinces borrowed fewer books last year and that the province s three universities Brandon Winnipeg and Manitoba spent Ess Money on books per student Han almost every other prov Ince. The meeting heard a panel of four speakers miss Eileen Mcfadden librarian at Brandon University h. H. Easton chief of Winnipeg s Public libraries John Russell head of the St. James Public Library and George Noble of the Extension Library University of Manitoba. Miss Mcfadden said the University of Winnipeg was 60th in a list of 63 universities which support libraries. The univer sity of Manitoba is Little better taking 42nd place in the list and Brandon slightly better at 35th." Dalhousie University spent teachers Here to get raises Asper claims Aubrey Asper Manitoba teachers society president says the province s teachers will receive noticeable Sal Ary increases this year although they won t be the 12 to 15 increases of last year. He said a report published saturday in the free press incorrectly quoted him As saying teachers were unlikely to receive any notice Able increase in salary this year. 350 per student on books each ear but the University of Ham Toba spends less than half this she blamed the situation in Manitoba on 1. A Lack of understanding about the exact role libraries should be playing. 2. The absence of wide policy to help bring libraries into True meet the needs of the people they serve. 3. An appalling Lack of financial help made worse by a policy of giving larger Grants to smaller libraries. 4. The Lack of Good leaders. We require professional people and they could Only be brought in by giving full Cost Grants to librarian she said there was a great need for a Library school at the University of Manitoba. Looking to the future miss Mcfadden said she would like to see the removal of the one Mill limit on Library budgets which is Down in Manitoba s Public libraries act. She also would like to see a completely revised Public Library advisory Board. Or. Easton also said the limit on Library budgets should be scrapped. The Library system should be compared with other social services such As health Anc Highway service and receive comparable help. He suggested that larger units of Library service libraries such As were in the process of being created Foi school administration in Mani Toba might be a Forward step. He said that although Winni leg s Library system is fair the ervice in the rest of Manitoba Bulan t even be called that. In ural districts the number of available to the Public is pitifully or. Easton Aid. Speaking in favor of scrapping tie one Mill budget limit or. Russell said he believes i Obrar is suffer because the. Same ritual budget is haying to Cope with increased annual costs. In no other realm does such a stupid situation or Russell said he would like o see libraries returning to their main and most important use instead of being a meeting lace for the elderly for film societies1 and the like. While i Lave nothing against these other yes we must realize that it is not a Community club we Are running or. Noble suggested that Progress within the service although Winnipeg libraries do n my opinion perform a worthwhile function can Only come when More space and Money Are today s youth called passionate critics9 Max. Min. Pre. Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago 55 77 62 Vancouver 51 35 .02 Calgary 31 21 .02 Edmonton 29 20 to Regina 48 23 Brandon 32 23 the Pas 20 10 .02 Winnipeg 50 33 fort William 54 37 Kenora 50 30 new York 48 44 temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record March 17 49.9 20.9 35.4 55.4 in 1938 last year 10.9 -19.7 -4.4 lowest on record Normal 27.0 18.0 -23.7 in 1875 Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Max. Min. Pre. 40 29 41 24 44 29 46 38 .11 50 64 50 .46 68 .18 1.51 by Lesley Foster we have created a generation of passionate critics who Call for a return to the ideals of revolution which began the new world i predict it will grow and become More obnoxious and less tolerable with or. William b. Boyd vice Chancellor of student affairs at the University of California s Berkeley Campus was speaking to 300 delegates saturday at the Lith annual alumni conference at the University of Manitoba. Or. Boyd described himself As an emissary from the capital of the love culture to Canada an Asylum for some of its he said the non conforming youth of the United states does indeed Sec Canada As its Good neighbor. The subject of the one Day conference Here was the phenomenon of non conforming youth in an affluent society. About half the Canadian population is under 25, leaving almost half Over 35, the threshold of non the present economic Power and influence of the Young is unprecedented and has been called the dictatorship of the underaged. Or. Boyd said a teen age depression might solve Many of the problems resulting indirectly from affluence. Of the is per cent of. American youth whose Public manner is upsetting and Abras Ive to said that Many of them Are the chief beneficiaries of the highest Standard of living Ever known. Seen by some As a bizarre Side show and by others As knights in dirty these Young people Are often the products of War wives and of Well educated women isolated from intellectual activity who have passed on a sense of High ideals constantly frustrated. The tragedy of Young Polit ical activists involved in civil rights and foreign policy issues is that they have seen that Laws can be immoral and that it is moral behaviour to break or. Boyd said the non conformists have never been so Many and so noisy. Only about four per cent Are severely alienated truly estranged from family and social values. They Are usually products of parental permissiveness and neglect and their use of drugs is intended at once to offend and help relate to the rest of he said the spirit of dissent among the Young signifies real concern and healthy Hope for the future. He did t share the gloom of Many experts. Douglas Ward 29, past pres ident of the Canadian Union of students said Young people no longer have a solid vision of life. He said that when survival is secure life becomes a problem the real Issue for the individual being one of integration with the rest of the world. While Lack of Money United the generation of the depression and abundance of it has not done the same for the new generation. Prof. John Moriarity of the University of Manitoba s eng Lish department said tha youth s loss has been the Comfort of this he said causes Many to wonder whether the whole of human Endeavor is a mistake. When Only one part o human nature is recognized and skilled the human being i fragmented. The specialist is a monster in an ugly Simma Holt of the Vancouver Sun and author of the recently published sex and the teen at revolution argued that the Structure of youth has changed. The Only thing new is tha the mass Media have forced o youth a terrible world of stress a world that is pessimistic ill out of proportion because Witt in it normalcy is not wort meeting today on teacher conciliation representatives of Winnipeg s teachers and school Board were to meet today i the legislative building with a group of officials on the provincial level to decide whether a conciliation officer will step into this year s contract negotiations. The provincial group was to consist of two members of the Manitoba association of school trustees two members of the Manitoba teachers society and the Deputy education minister or w. C. Lorimer. The school Board has requested a conciliation officer to help Settle contract terms with teachers but the teachers have protested against the request. Studded tires illegal after april 30 Manitoba motorists have until april 30 to remove studded Snow tires from their autom bees. The tires May be used legally from oct. 1. Wrong spelling Roy Roshko won the Aikins memorial trop Liy in the Mani Toba music Competition festival Friday. Or. Roshko s name was inadvertently misspelled in sat urday s free Preis ;