Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday March 19, 1968 second Confidence vote fails the progressive conservative government Defeated a non Confidence motion by a vote of 30 to 24 in the legislature monday night. The motion the second Defeated in this session was proposed by Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat in answer to the throne speech. The government members voted As a group against or. Mol Gat s motion which Drew the sin port of the new democratic party members and j. M. Froese scr. Mol Gat s motion charged the government failed to produce a Long Range program to Deal with the growing problems of Urban areas such As amalgamation in greater Winnipeg and water and air pol Lution control. Failed to alleviate the Cost Price squeeze facing Farmers. Continues to place an unfair share of taxes on businesses and farms. Will Force Manitoba taxpayers to provide medicare services to residents of other provinces by not proceeding with a medi care program. T has failed to follow any sound priorities in its own operations and has failed to eliminate waste and extravagance in its own spending. The throne speech debate is scheduled to be completed tues Day. Larry Desjardins Bon speaking on the throne speech when the session ended monday supported amalgamation of essential services in the metro area but said St. Boniface must remain a separate City. Bill Aims to arrange overdrafts the Manitoba govern Mem needs More ready Cash. The legislature gave first Reading to a Bill to Amend the Treasury act monday that Wil provide if and when it is passed for the arrangement o overdrafts and lines of Credi and for making accountable advances exceeding the Maxi mum aggregate of in speaking to the Bill Provin Cial treasurer Gurney Evan said with the expansion of operations the amount of Money now available for travelling accounts is or. Evans said the Petty Cash in various departments of the government was running Short or. Evan s mention of travel Ling accounts brought new democratic party Leader a. R Russ Paulley to his fee saying that this was bringing Home to Roost what we have been saying All or Paulley made pointed reference to junkets by Cabinet minis ters. Resident demands right to petition a St. Vital resident charged monday night that the City is taking away the democratic right of local taxpayers to petition against the biggest local improvement project in the history of the City. Or. D. E. Allen of 15 Minnetonka Street appeared As a delegation before Council to complain about the City s tactics in efforts to install storm and sanitary sewers in the Southern half of St. Vital. Total Cost of the project is More than million four sevenths of which will be paid by the municipality and three sevenths assessed against the residents. The area includes almost All land South of the Power transmission line. For some residents All they have to do to turn the project Down is to get a petition of a majority of the homeowners on their Street because their streets Aren t essential in the whole project. Others won t be Able to petition at All because their streets Are vital to the whole plan. Still others live in the so called local improvement District no. 1 which includes almost the whole City of St. Vital. If they want to petition against the1 proposed sewers for their streets they would have to get a majority of nearly All St. Vital. In other words it denies you the right to or. Allen said. He suggested that the City should Divide local improvement District no. 1 up in smaller districts to give the residents their democratic right to Peti Tion against the project. His charge that the City had set up the Large local improve ment District just to make sure that the sewer project would t fail was brushed aside by Alderman Florence Pierce. It s been that Way for Aid. Pierce said. New big chairman appointed Ottawa up prime min ister Pearson announced Mon Day the appointment of Pierre Juneau As chairman of the Board of broadcast governors or. Juneau 45, succeeds an Drew Stewart whose resignation As chief of the regulatory Agency became effective Mon Day. The new big chairman Wil become chairman of the Cana Dian radio television commis Sion provided for this year in the government s broadcasting Bill. He has been big vice chairman. Born in Montreal or. Juneau is a graduate of the University of Montreal and is Board chair Man of the International film festival. Wanted parents for Small boys Ages 3, 4 and 5 years. Preferably parents whose children Are in school who still have room in their Home and their hearts for a Little child who wants and needs them now. For children Ages 6-12 years who need the strength Security and backing of a Home As they move into the wider world of school playground and Community. Have you room in your Home for one More if you have Why Don t you act now Telephone 942-0511, and ask about them. In Case the division into smaller local improvement Dis a its was t possible the City should offer the duped residents some form of compensation or. Allen said. Mayor Jack Hardy promised him his comments would be taken under House woe heard a municipal bylaw May pre vent two Farmers from building houses both on two acre lots at Macdonald Man. R. Dutka and l. Bossuyt approached the metro adjustment Board monday for permission to construct the houses. A bylaw passed by Macdonald municipal Council states a mini mum of 40 acres is required be fore a House can be constructed. The Board was told the bylaw was passed because Counce wanted the municipality to re main a Rural area. Alec Worster metro zoning officer objected to the application because he said it contravened the bylaw and also because the two men could sell their two acre lots thereby providing a precedent for the breaking Down of the municipality s pro Perty subdivisions. Or. Worster said there would be no Legal problem if the two men listed their proposed Homes As domiciles to the main dwell ing of an adjoining farm. He de fined a domicile As a House for hired he said if this were done the two acre lots could not be sold separately from the main farm. Both Farmers said we want our own or. Dutka said the municipal Council has no objection to the applications. E. H. Crawford Board chair Man told the men i think your Case would be strengthened enor Mously if you brought in a let Ter from the municipal Council stating they have no the Case was adjourned one week. Savings interest paid every six months on the minimum monthly balance. No chequing privileges but withdrawals can be made any time. Deposits May be made by mail postage paid both ways longer business hours guaranty Trust company of Canada federally incorporated and supervised. Capital and Reserve deposits in excess of 430 Portage Avenue phone 942-2586 fund policy revamped continued in a Stormy 40-minute speech interrupted by the opposition raising Points of order and question of privilege or. Spivak announced the fund will provide the lieutenant governor in Council a confidential list of names 1 and amounts of Loans each months. A quarterly financial state ment will go to the lieutenant governor in Council and will be published in the Manitoba Gaz Ette. A quarterly statement Wil be prepared by fund solicitors confirming business activities have been conducted in Stria accordance with the act. I queries by legislature Mem Bers on specific Loans will b covered by confidential reports or. Spivak said the fund was requested to provide the lieu tenant governor in Counci details of every loan of the Funi which has been questioned in this House. The Cabinet has examined in depth every one o these he said the government while recognizing it has a responsibility to scrutinize operations of the fund will never requisition in formation for the purpose o disclosing it to the the minister charged critic with Petty politicking an said the government and the people have been too patient with those Short sighted critics who for their own obscure political reasons jeopardize the economic advancement of Thi province and its a charge by or. Spivak tha some members of the opposition Wei e suggesting the fund was i trying to hide a nefarious prac Tice was withdrawn. Leaders of the new democratic party and the Liberal party inter called the announcement a rnai or reversal of policy. Nip Leader a. R. Russ Paulley says he would like to see an Independent committee investigate the Loans made under the fund. I want to be satisfied that All Loans have been made under the principles of the act and i m not satisfied the Way it is he said he is not convinced the Basic principle that borrow ers cannot Money elsewhere is fulfilled in every Case. Liberal Leader Gil Mol sat said he is not satisfied the cab inet investigates Only Loans queried by the opposition. He said opposition members had no Way of finding which companies receive Loans. Tax weight uneven Johnston taxation policies of the Man Oba government Are placing an. Ndue Burden on the Industrial and commercial sections of the conomy Gordon e. Johnston Portage la Prairie told the legislature monday. These businesses he said Loulyn t be required to carry a easier tax Burden than the est of the Economy. The Manitoba Industrial base not that Strong or that healthy lat we can place an undue Load n it. The Small business spec ally considers the yearly Cost meeting its taxes a prime or. Johnston speaking during he throne speech debate was criticizing the Mill rate differ tial introduced in Manitoba ast year. It provides a nine Mill rate on an equalized assess ment for private Homes and armers and a 33-mdl rate for commercial and Industrial pro erty. He said one Winnipeg business Man reported his tax Bill climbed to from in our years and or. Johnston Aid the continuing spiral has o Stop. We Are driving people out of justness. This 33-Mill rate is oing a bit too taxes have become a prime Ssue among the residents of the province or. Johnston said in urging the government to review s taxation policy. 7 Interlake hearings set education minister George Johnson told the Manitoba legis nature monday that seven Public hearings have been scheduled y the boundaries commission o discuss its report on Consoli lating school facilities in the Interlake area. Or. Johnson replying to a question by Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat said there is no limit on the number of hearings that can e held and the commission is prepared to give additional information. The report was released by he commission March 8 and r. Johnson said hearings can not begin until 30 Days after release of the information. The report if accepted May become blueprint for revision of the boundaries in the rest of the province. It recommends extensive revisions of school boundaries. Chicago museum gives in continued sex Winnipeg Ger Abe Bronfman Dies at 85 Montreal up Abe Bronfman business executive and the eldest of the Well known Bronfman Brothers died in safety Harbor fla., during the weekend. He was 85. Born in Winnipeg or. Bronfman came to Montreal at Early age and quickly be came Active in Many phases of Community welfare. He was president of mount Sinai Sanatorium for seven years and a former president of the federation of jewish Community services. Bus plunge kills 27 new Delhi a Twenty seven persons were killed and Many injured monday when a bus ran off a Road near ram Pur 200 Miles Northeast o Delhi and plunged into the Jhelum River. Navy had a huge exhibit for Many years and the air Force has had one. Last week the army in stalled its own occupying More than Square feet of the museum floor and featuring a Large armoured personnel Carrier and a Large helicopter. There also were movies a variety of real army rifles which could be tested by visitors and a big anti tank gun. The exhibit was opened Only last thursday by army undersecretary David e. Mcgiffert who said at the time that the exhibit was a Good example of what science and the nation s Industry had done to enable the United states to deter aggression and preserve most of the visitors to the exhibit in its first few Days were children. They could climb around the armoured personnel Carrier fire the army rifles and get inside the helicopter. Once inside the aircraft the visitors looked out on a simulated painted and constructed scene which included Bridges an ammunition dump Rice paddies and Bamboo Type huts. The set Ting was unmistakable. Also the visitors inside the copter could use its machine guns to fire at the various targets in the simulated diorama including the huts and a hit was indicated by flashing lights. Friday morning the peace groups led by several local veterans organizations be Gan the picketing. Most of them carried the Ordinary anti War picket signs but some of the signs had bitter legends such As take part in the army s War game and come now be the first kid in your neighbourhood to shoot a vietnamese vill age. By saturday there were numerous pushing and shoving incidents outside the jammed museum and around the display. But museum officials saturday insisted the display was a permanent one and museum guards continued to demonstrate to children How to use the big machine gun on the copter. Sunday shortly after noon a Large. Troop of beaded and belled Flower children turned up in the museum while the veterans clergy groups neighbourhood organizations and several South Side politicians from neighbourhoods near the museum picketed outside. Within minutes the Flower children had seized control of the Huey helicopter More than 70 of them managed to Jam themselves inside where they went Limp and refused to move. Others crawled Over the other weapons displays cramming Flowers inside the muzzles of rifles and can Nons. The entire Wing of the museum housing the display came to a standstill. Then the police moved in arid oppose new name Eastview ont. A petition with More than names will be sent to the Ontario government by residents o this National capital area City t prevent passage of a Bill tha would change the name to Van Ier City. Eastview Council Las year passed a recommendation from the St. Jean Baptiste son Ety to make the name change the proposal has been approve by a committee of the Ontario legislature and a private Bill has passed first Reading. Removed the Flower Chil Dren. Meanwhile an enor Mous Public debate went on outside Between Antiwar pickets and citizens who favored leaving the display in and operative. Monday afternoon the m u s e u m d e escalated sealing off the helicopter entirely and one museum spokesman said we Are considering removing the huts from the display entirely. We talked to some clergymen involved in the protests and they said they might not continue to object to the display if there were no huts. Most of the protesters had zeroed in on the huts in the display saying children who fired the simulated bullets from the machine guns were taught to kill peasants they could not see inside the huts. Draft decision new York apr. Conor cruise o Brien former Irish Diplomat who now is a humanities professor at new York University has been acquitted of disorderly conduct charges resulting from an anti draft demonstration last december. Judge Walter Goldwin said monday there was a reasonable doubt in his mind that o Brien had in fact broken the Law. Also d r o p p e d were similar charges against o Brien s wife Maria. 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