Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local news Winnipeg free press s program note i find the answers to your Home Money 9 problems on the John Harvard show morning. By Carrier soc per week monday March 25, 1968 authorized is 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment if postage in Cash. Water Supply plan proposed billion scheme would tap Canadian Rivers to feed dry . Prairies by Wade Rowland will Manitoba one Day Supply water for the Dusty Western Prairies and the skyrocketing population of Southern California a Manitoba born Engineer or. E. Roy Tinney has proposed a plan which would tap the vast water resources of Manitoba . Northern Saskatchewan and the Northwest territories to supple ment dwindling supplies in mid West and Southwest United states. Or. Tinney director of the state of Washington water resources Centre at Washington state University outlined his plan the Central North America water project in a recent edition of bulletin of the atomic scientists. The project would tap the upper Mackenzie Churchill and Nelson Rivers. The three Drain roughly Square Miles the water would be moved South by a system of natural Waterways and Man made canals into Lake Winnipeg Lake Manitoba and across the International Border into the Missouri River in North Dakota. From there the water would be diverted into a Long Aqueduct which would carry it South across Western Nebraska East Ern Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle into the Texas pan handle West to Central new Mexico and into the Rio Grande. Another canal from Lake Winnipeg East to Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior would Supply water to the shrinking great lakes. The plan designed As an alternative to a More Westerly project called the North Ameri can water and Power Alliance would be of immense Benefit to both Canada and the ., according to or. Tinney. It would reclaim Low lying marshy land in North Central Canada and relieve some of the flooding which covers much of the area each Spring. It could maintain the water j in the great lakes at any desired level. Power stations could be set up at three major Points a drop from the Churchill River to Lake Winnipeg a drop from Taraska honoured for service councillor Peter Taraska pres ident of the court of Canadian citizenship in Winnipeg was honoured for distinguished serv ice and contributions to the Multi ethnic society in Mani Tobat a testimonial dinner in his to nip sunday night in the fort Garry hotel. The dinner was sponsored by the Canadian polish Congress Manitoba division. Representatives of leading polish organizations and churches in greater Winnipeg attended. T. R. Leczynski president of the Canadian polish Congress presented a commemorative plaque to coun. Taraska the plaque stated that the polish groups associated with the Congress expressed their congratulations on coun. Taraska s appointment As president of the court of Canadian citizenship. Remanded in slaying Case capt. Reginald Willis Mccann 25, a Canadian forces Pilot charged Friday with non capital murder of his wife Barbara 27, at the Canadian forces base near Rivers Man., was remanded to Friday when he appeared in Brandon s Magis trate s court. No Date has yet been set for the preliminary hearing nor is it known where and by whom the accused will be prosecuted an ramp Brandon spokesman said monday. The officer was taken to Brandon for questioning and subsequently charged after his wife was found dead of a i gunshot wound or wounds Short i by after Midnight thursday in 1 their Home at the military base. Lake Winnipeg to Lake Superior and drops through the great lakes and along the St. Lawrence River. The two canals through the . Would provide irrigation water where it is needed most along the entire Western Side of the great Plains and across the entire southwestern desert. Water would also be fed to Northern Mexico by Way of the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers. Or. Tinney said As an All Canadian scheme the project could deliver water As a Sale Able commodity to the . Border. The scheme does not require any reservoirs As do other proposals but relies entirely on approximately Square Miles of existing lakes so closely spaced that Only a few Hundred Miles of linking canals would be required. The canals would be about the same Width and depth As the greater Winnipeg flood Way. The Cost about billion or roughly a third of last year s . Defence budget or. Tinney estimated. University of Manitoba Hydraulic Engineer prof. Edward Kuiper has been study ing the possibility Canadian water being exported to the . For several years. He has examined closely or. Tilney s proposal. Prof. Kuiper Lias estimated Manitoba water should sell for to per acre foot an acre foot is cubic feet in the Plains states. And if these areas Are to be irrigated on a Large scale prof. Kuiper said there is no obvious alternative to Canadian water. At present the Cost of Mani Toba water is probably too High to make Export economically feasible. But this May not always be the Case he said. As world and North american demand for food grows so will demand for arable land. Within the next two or three decades land May become so scarce or badly needed it will pay to irrigate the . Prairies with Manitoba water he said. Drafting new civic charter Assiniboia St. James holding joint meetings on merger plan the councils of St. James and Assiniboia Are getting Down to the nuts and bolts of drafting a charter for the proposed new City of St. James Assiniboia. Under machinery set up at a joint meeting of the two councils last week All matters 453-3223 Portage Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. James Street opposite Polo Park 786-6391 Atlas Chip Safe tires All sizes John Kominowski learning to write with his left hand severed 7 weeks ago but John ?8 doing Fine weather report synopsis valid until Midnight tuesday skies will be generally sunny Over the Prairies today although a few Cloud patches will be present throughout the Day. Cloud and some ram Are forecast for the northeastern Corner of Alberta and a few showers Are anticipated Over the Central regions of Manitoba. Afternoon temperatures at most locations Are expected to reach 45 or 55 today. A Pacific disturbance is expected to move rapidly East spreading Cloud Over Southern Alberta tonight and Saskatchewan and Western Manitoba tuesday. Little temperature change is foreseen Over the Prairies for the next few Days. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today Brandon fair opens april 1 More than entries including livestock livestock car casses poultry eggs and Grain will be judged at the Manitoba Winter fair in Brandon april 1 to 6. Livestock entries total 942, plus 404 Bull Sali entries. The bulls including herefords. 99 Aberdeen Angus and 45 shorthorn will be auctioned april 4 and 5. Two Large see through coolers have been purchased for display of beef and Swine carcasses in Brandon armory. There has been a record 635 entries in the Light horse division. Fowl entries total 290 individual fowl plus 27 hens. There Are 149 egg entries. Heavy Grain entries Are still being counted. Commercial displays Are expected to reach 45, covering Square feet in the armory. A fashion show will be held april 2-5 in the 4-h building. The evening horse show runs hours nightly starting at 7 . The saturday matinee show will Start at 2 . By Dan Larocque putting on his own pants May not seem much of an achievement for a Man of 38. But if the Man is John Kominowski who had his right torn off and sewed Back on Well it s something that tickles him Pink. Or. Kominowski. A machine operator with Manitoba Bridge and Engineer ing works caught his Ami in a conveyor Belt at the Plant Jan. As he watched helplessly the was whipped around a Pulley and torn off just below the Elbow. When he woke the next morning in Winnipeg Gen eral Hospital fully expect ing to see Only a stump below his right Elbow he was amazed to find out that his entire right was there. Now seven weeks later or. Kominowski is Home at 654 Atlantic Avenue with his wife Helen and girls Tracey 10 months and Jenny Lynn 3. His daily challenges in clude putting on his pants practising left handed Cheque writing and fixing his wife s washing machine. The Little Finger on his right hand is gone he s still undergoing intense physio therapy at the general and he sleeps with his pointed skyward in a Sling. But he s making Progress. Luck nothing but Good he laughed during an interview. That s All i be had since the doctors sewed the Back on. I Don t expect Ever to have full use of the the. Doctors never promised i would have. But it s there and it s coming although it takes him a bit longer than it normally would he can change Tracey s diaper and dress Jenny Lynn. He managed to fix that washing machine and his next project is to paint a table. The time in t Long. In fact there in t enough time. Everything takes me a Little longer. Even when i walk to the store it takes longer. It s icy and i d be in great shape if i slipped and broke the other now would t mrs. Kominowski said her husband has a Good sense humor. He never lets it get him Down. Every Little thing he does he s pleased As or. Kominowski asked what s the Point of sulking when you can spend the time better learning How to do something it will probably be two years before his doctors know for sure what he can expect from the . Every Day he s at the Hospital for his Whirlpool treatment and exercises and at Home he s continually exercising the fingers. He said he feels no pain but there is sensation in the and fingers Sensa Tion he s Happy to put up with. You have to adjust to something like or. Kominowski mused. But then you have to adjust to any problem Don t he has nothing but the highest Prairie for the medi Cal people who be helped it Ever try to con you. But they have to be the Best anywhere. They be done a great Job for Spring in t far off and the will get plenty of exercise gardening Long his favorite Hobby he has promised his wife. People have been great to me. When you Start feeling a bit sorry for yourself you find you run into somebody like the cabbie who drive me to the Hospital the other Day. He kept looking at me and All of a sudden he turned around and said hey Ain t you the nut that stuck his in the conveyor or. Kominowski laughed and Bent his Knuckles Grin Ning even More broadly when he Felt them Tingle. Affecting the amalgamation of the two municipalities will be decided by 75 per cent affirmative votes at joint meetings. These joint meetings will be held at regular intervals and three quarters majority Deci Sions so reached will then be submitted for approval to the regular separate meetings of the councils. Pending the approval of the present session of the provincial legislature the two areas plan to amalgamate effective Janu Ary 1969. Lawyers Are now at work consolidating the present by Laws of St. James and Assini Boia. Lawyer g. Campbell Maclean has been retained by the two help get the Amalga mation legislation through the legislature. Or. Maclean is chairman of the Manitoba minimum wage Board and president of the Mani Toba progressive conservative association among the motions passed at last week s joint meeting and soon to come before regular separate meetings of the councils were to compare their draft 1968 budgets with a View to More than smaller ones. Tomask present department Heads to consult their counter parts in each municipality and to make recommendations re Garding personnel equipment and accommodation under the proposed merger. Eliminating Pend iture. Duplication of sex to adopt under amalgamation the present St. James i system of taxing big businesses two car collision injures 5 five people were injured in a two car collision in St. Vital saturday St. Vital police said the Accident happened at . At the intersection of Dunkirk drive and St. Mary s Road. The. Drivers of the two cars were identified. As Robert Bor Schel of 226 Eugenie Street St. Boniface and Dave Deronck Here of 131 Des neurons Street St. Boniface. The five injured were taken to St. Boniface general Hospital for treatment where or. Bor sch Al and his wife Shirley were later reported in fair condition. One of three juveniles in the Dejonckheere vehicle was also detained in Hospital. He was listed in Good condition. The Deronck Here another juvenile were released after treatment for minor injuries. Breathalyzer tests asked by Liberal caucus 7 held after store Holdup car Cash thefts four juveniles were in Cus Tody monday in St. Boniface and three juveniles and an adult were in custody in Winnipeg after a series or arrests in St. Boniface. The first group of arrests was made thursday afternoon after a St. Boniface police Cruiser joined a Cruiser from Transcona in a 90 . Chase of a stolen Auto along Highway 59 in St. Boniface. Three juveniles and an adult ditched the car in the Windsor the Liberal party caucus is alcohol was a Factor in than 50 per cent of Highway accidents. He calling for the establishment of breathalyzer tests for Manitoba Drivers. Steve Patrick a Assiniboia Park area and ran. Three people were arrested soon afterwards. A fourth was picked up a Little later wander ing around a Field just off Plessis Road. The four were turned Over to More the custody of Winnipeg author fatal finally St. Boniface authorities were holding two juveniles in connection with the theft of about Early sunday from vending machines in the Bert Rand Avenue Arena. Two constables cruising Down Bertrand at about . Sunday noticed two Young people on the Street. When the pair bolted the policemen chased and caught them. The police later discovered the Arena door had been pried open and that Money was missing from several vending machines inside. Has Given a private member s Resolution on behalf of the m caucus to the clerk of the House delay at the Manitoba legislature and j it should make its first appearance in the House orders i tuesday. J a party release today said the decision was made after damned the government for failing to on the matter after three years of study. Cities. The next arrests came Satur Day evening after St. Boniface police investigated the Holdup Friday night of the Maple Leaf we cannot afford further grocery store 282 tache a considering the results in other areas where breathalyzer were used. The caucus agreed Manitoba should proceed without delay. Manitoba continued Slaughter on our or. Patrick said cannot afford the baritone Schuir receives award More than 600 people attended the concert recital of baritone Jaroslav sunday night at the ukrainian National federa Tion Hall main Street and heartily applauded the Singer. During the intermission Aid. Slaw Bebchuk presented the City of Winnipeg service award to the Singer for his leadership he said statistics indicated i in the Community. Juveniles Ages 14 and 15 were turned Over to St. Boniface juvenile court authorities. A third juvenile was still being sought monday. The robbery took place about . Friday when the 70 year old father in Law of Abra Ham love the store s proprietor was tending the store alone. Three people one holding a Reddish coloured toy gun and students end Boycott University of Winnipeg s 350 collegiate students were Back in classes this morning in an apparent end of demonstrations Over news thursday and Friday articles in the student paper. The students walked out thursday when the year end edition of the paper the launched a satirical attack on the collegiate Dean lome Tom Linson. Dean Tomlisson Dis missed Friday afternoon classes when University students apparently circulated underground editions of the Story. The uniter editor was fired by the students one whose face was masked Tomlin sons with a Nylon stocking grabbed about s70 in Bills from the Cash Register and ran. Council and Dean resignation was averted by statement of Confidence from the University administration. 1 i sunny with afternoon Cloudy periods today and tuesday. Not much temperature change. Winds Light except Westerly at 15 , during the afternoon. Low tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg 25, High tuesday temperatures for the which ended at Vancouver Calgary the Pas Winnipeg Angeles fort William Kenora York temperature March 24 last year Normal baby boy born in Lane reported Well Erickson Man. Hospital j authorities Here say a baby boy born wednesday in a Back Lane is doing Well. The child s Mother Nora Hunting Hawk 27, of the rolling River Indian Reserve died after she and her child were taken to Hospital. Temperature at the time was about 20 degrees above Zero. Liberation front urges free byelorussian free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Tuesday in Hie free press building Are Board room executive committee sons of Scotland Camp cock of the North clubroom free press Bridge club. By Bill Leader on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the byelorussian Independent Republic Walter Hucko spoke sadly of his country he May never see again. J he was interviewed sunday at his Ingersoll Street Home. J since 1s56, or. Hucko has j been chief of the Winnipeg Branch of the byelorussian liberation front. He clings to the Hope that one Day Belo Russia which Only enjoyed its Independence for two years will be liberated. Two years after the tiny country had proclaimed its Independence the russian bolsheviks created the byelorussian soviet socialist Republic. The Square Miles of lakes Pine forests and Flat scrub land were taken Over by the soviet Union. Bui. There was worse to come. In 1939, the German army overran the country. When the germans were finally Defeated the country was split in two half for Poland half for Russia. It was t Long before Russia had both halves. When the germans occupied byelorussian or. Hucko then a boy of 16, was taken from his Home about 100 Miles from Minsk where his parents had a farm and sent to Dachau a German concentration Camp. There he was forced to work at the task of locating unexploded american bombs. In 1944, he joined the polish army and fought the italians. At the end of the War or. Hucko decided to make for i England. There he married and emigrated to Canada in 1953. Or. Hucko who qualified As an Engineer after arriving in Canada said Don t think i m complaining. I like it Here. But i d still like to go Back to my own but his nine year old son Victor i m Canadian. This is my country of or. Hucko recalled Lepta a game similar to he played As a boy and the Dubrowka wild Bison that roamed the scrub land. J he pointed out a Long shred of grass in the bottle of Vodka on the Side is put in All bottles Oil Vodka that come from our country. It adds flavor and is also the favorite food of the but if or. Hucko were to return things could be awkward and White Flag of Independence for him because of his stand pinned to them attended. Against the soviet Union. Michael Radchenko the Tenor who won the opera class in the they d open the Gates to let Mia music festival me in. When the Gate Feer f fire closed he looked gloomy Alec i he and his friends constantly 15.year.0id Pupu of St. Johns Send letters Home to friends and . Relatives in byelorussian telling Dion Ken Novicki i them of conditions m Canada. Poems he was dressed a the this is the Best propaganda National costume White belted we have. The russians would embroidered around tie gladly have us Back just to shut neck and White trousers. Us but even if he never returns from dying in but How does or. Hucko Hope to attain his ambition of or. Hucko said he would do his liberating his people his Only utmost to prevent the culture of answer is a third world War. We Don t like War. We know the meaning of it. But if there was a third world War it would be Between the East and the West and the byelorussian people would join the West 100 his country Canada. The anniversary was celebrated sunday with a reception at the Lincoln motor inn on Mcphillips Street. More than 100 guests each with the red per cent i m sure of ;