Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break by John Robertson Winnipeg free press j program note listen to the open House show each Day and you May win a Poir of Dupont can i am on the fourth Day of clinic Grapefruit diet and i would t say the stuff was sour but my lips Are pursed like the draw string on an old army duffle bag. I know you must be wondering Why i of All people would have to reduce. I have this Little test see. Every week or so i walk into a Wall. If my nose hits before my stomach does things Are Okay. But last week right in the Belt buckle. Furiously i dug out my health Chart and immediately noticed that for my weight a svelte i should be 13 and one half feet tall. I waddled off to the a Check up and he plunked me in a chair and planted a cold Stethoscope Over my heart. Then he banged his ears in disbelief and shouted the British Are coming the British Are coming. After i told him to get serious he suggested we electrocardiograph. Just watch the wiggly he said. I was mesmerized to say the least especially when Bells started to Clang and the Needle began to shakily scrawl repent repent last accounting is at hand How much do you the Good doctor asked. Two packs a i wheezed. How much do you the Odd gulped. How maybe a get much i i said. When i m not trembling or shone a Light into one Eye Shook his Heas and muttered i Tusk should see pm from the inside Doc Knock it he shouted. And i la give it. To you straight there is for your lungs invents throwaway bags you can Swallow once a week Rich drum Solo and i have detected some blood in your alcohol what should i just about he said smoking drinking -.Etc. And food. How Many meals do you eat a v rather Long to three nibbles. Remember How no no. To be no bread no potatoes no desserts no sugar no.4." no ,-way." i have now gone one week without any booze five Days without a cigarette and my Throat has seized up like a cleric wed fist from drinking countless Gallons of uns Weet juice. I May not be Able to a pucker till fall. Am i losing weight How s a Quarter of a Pound off each ear lobe. Of disposition has t changed a bit. Last. Night for example when i opened the front door my three year old Banshee looked up at me and shouted run i. Then Good red la Rich that my wife makes a Quick Entrance from the Kitchen and comes Loving your coat on we re., put of watercress Sac Clarin sour Grapefruit no Cal cola and imitation rum so i stomp Backer Down the sidewalk searching for discarded Butts. I adj Yeso desperate i have tried smelting a pipe. Far it me to Fry my Tongue. Most writers look or think they look very dignified when they Lodge a pipe in their yaps. I just look Green. I am smoking an Cavendish tobacco blended by Theo Dorus Niemeyer rid doubt in some fit of rage. His friends old Saddle Tongue. The package says Niemeyer god to thee a titanic choke in every to q Rete nylons. By Carrier soc per March 27, As 2nd class mail by the . Dept Ottawa and or payment of postage in. . Roland Michener and mrs. Michener Are greeted on arrival by in . Richard s. Bowles at the Winnipeg Canadian forces base. The nor7general is shown inspecting a 100-Man guard of Honor. Manitoba s Progress essential i Craener welfare and Gress Are critical if not Essen tial to Canadian Unity and advancement governor general Roland Michener told the legis lature tuesday. Was greeted by a 100-Man guard f in wishing you Well on behalf i m -----1 adj canadians i express not Only their Friendship but their direct interest in the Prosperity Manitoba and the Content of Honor a 21-gun Royal Salute and a 50-piece band. . Richard s. Bowles and Premier Walter Weir were i at the Airport to Greet the governor Genera land distinguished visitors mrs Michener visited the legis lature As their first official function on their arrival Winnipeg for a three Day stay. The vice regal party was the ment of j a reception for the visitors the vice regal party held tuesday evening at directly from the armed forces i . Bowies residence. The Only trouble is that i am so weak from not eating j welcomed by the speaker that have to put a Mustard plaster on the Back of my neck James h. Bilton. J the governor general said it to draw in the smoke. Was the time he had been honoured by a legislature since becoming the Queen s repro the great thing about losing 30-Odd pounds i be done it Many that people always compliment you saying things John know what you look like what what. What. J Hindenburg after it j ? but that does t bother me because the greatest feeling in will be about a month from now when i carry All my fat suits into the tailor and say. To him Tafee in the pants until the Back pockets touch each you at the juice stand. Tentative in Canada. Arrived at . Duty today will be to open the f the governor general told the new Centennial arts Centre legislature in this vast country j concert Hall tonight. During the it is not always easy to remember that canadians with their diversity and their Disper Sion with Are one collective family common interests and a common purpose among nations. On his arrival at Winnipeg Canadian armed forces we forget at 3 ., the governor general nothing. Day he was scheduled to visit the Winnipeg civic Centre the University of Winnipeg Deer Lodge Hospital and attend an afternoon reception at govern ment House. The vice regal party will that we Are leave Winnipeg Friday morning ri8n 1 for Ottawa. Law 40-hour week plea fails a private member s Resolution that called for a Standard 40 Hom work week in the province was Defeated in the Manitoba legislature tuesday. The Resolution proposed by Peter Fox was Defeated 28-31 with All opposition members supporting it. Or. Fox had charged that the employment standards act was not Clear about employees rights where both men and women Svere employed in the same shop. He said the 40-hour work week is the accepted practice in Industry and that All employees whether male or female should have the same Aigid under the heading Ley phone fee 2 million nursing Home scheduled by firm 4s3-33m Portage Simcoe 774-2471 514 St. Street opposite Polo Park Atlas grip Saft tires All sizes 18.88 preliminary plans been original sentence Given by magistrate Ubienski magistrate Ian Ubienski imposed the four month jail term i on Larry pit Sanuk the spokesman said one floor which was doubled by the made for the construction of a of the building would be devoted Manitoba court of Appeal. Weather report i residential rather than an in was the magistrate who in is estimated at Stith tonal atmosphere he said. Posed the original sentence. Synopsis valid till Midnight thursday a disturbance moving eastward across Southern Manitoba is Loudy skies and a few showers this morning in Southern mania Ort Castern Saskatchewan. Across the remainder of the Prairie re mainly sunny. The area Cloud Over the Eastern Prairies i 3t to move into Northern Ontario today. Some afternoon Elo Ned a Tew isolated showers Are expected to develop across the Oday and thursday. Are expected to remain mild toe thursday. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today-1 ausing and skies forc Dinoss Rairick y and six Storey nursing Home at Hector Avenue and Poseidon i Apoc Glucs Street opposite the pan am the building would Pool the building a spokesman for Central Park Lodge of Canada Ltd. Said tuesday already owns the property. He Sai d the firm Hopes to begin construction of the build ing late this summer providing technical difficulties can be solved. Present plans Call for j the building to by j the summer of 1969. Have a in a Story in tuesday s free press it was incorrectly reported that magistrate Isaac Rice school tax hike hit by Hobson a fort Garry municipal coun established through the depart Ocillor has accused the Manitoba ment of education last year to although the in Kesman said government of permitting one administer costs of education in drawings have been department to spend millions of the preliminary drawings final plans Complete. Province. Are in dollars trying to attract in j mayor Wanking said that the i Dusty into the province while ratio May have to be adjusted he said the building would be another is levying increasingly to 80-20 if the school foundation Boomerang shaped with full n Gher taxes which could drive is to accomplish its purpose of room Tang Silapea Wiki i Ull Olovina Tho Man Mil it out. Would the accusation was made at a j education tenants but it would be geared regular Mee Tieg of Council owner relieving the financial Burden of on the property for the infirm. Care of the sick and tuesday night by councillor g. R. Hobson. Coun. C. H. Mclntosh blamed spiralling teacher salaries As boy held in armed Holdup coun Hobson was speaking the main cause of rapidly rising about the school foundation costs of education. He said the Mill rate increases for .1968. He said the and residential rate had risen nearly 40 per cent from Mills in 1967 to 13.1 this year and the commercial forecast Cloudy with sunny periods Clearing Early this afternoon. Sunny with few Cloudy intervals. Thursday. Not much temperature change. Winds Light. Low tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg 30, High thursday 50. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Wednesday no ice have arrested and Industrial rate 12.4 per cent teachers from 33 to 37.1 Mills on every Dollar of taxable property. The department of Industry and Commerce is spending the taxpayer s Money to bring in problem could Only continue to grow worse As Long As the school boards in the Winnipeg area continued to compete with each other salary Wise to obtain to eye., j urged for House Sidney Green called on the legislature tues Day to allow live television Ano radio coverage of the Legisla Ture s proceedings. Or. Green introduced Resolution asking the govern ment to take the necessary Steps to pave the Way for live broadcasting of the House proceedings. The scientific advances which have been made in the area of nominated citizens says Long distance charge unfair a number of heading Ley citizens Are protest ing what they say is unjust treatment by the Manitoba Telephone system. Chief Compla Irit Ische present and mrs Prefontaine said she i started the protest a couple of weeks ago because the two councillors had been Given the old. Snow Job from the or Public relations men at the Telephone company. About 350 Telephone subscribers and greater Winnipeg says a spokesman for. The irate citizens. The spokesman Rose Marie of main Street Prefontaine heading Ley said Here tuesday night at a meeting of a citizens protest committee that the Long distance charges Are just not i believe this and nothing is going to Stop present Telephone Flat rates in right because to All intents and j heading Ley Are month purposes heading Ley is not a party Jine ?2 60 for a Rural Village. J private line and extra for an the Village was Urban oriented. Extension at least 75 cent of its subscribers there May get in Winnipeg connections with the its suburbs. Mrs. win Peg sys noted Tern at a Cost of. Nearly she said it does t make sense for installation and a that heading Ley residents must Telephone Long distance for fire police Hospital doctors and stores. The meeting was held at the Home of Garwood a committee member who also lives on main Street. Month Flat rate. The Western Boundary of City Telephone service Nowise two Miles East of the perimeter Highway or 12 Miles East of heading Ley. Mass communication should be used to strengthen Public participation in the democratic Cess the new democratic party member said. Or. Green said he was t suggesting total coverage of the proceedings. The option of what should be covered should be left to the broadcasters lie said. The idea in t revolutionary the opposition member said. There is space available in the legislature s Public gallery for 150 spectators now. Television and radio coverage expand the number of possible spectators. Last fall both Assiniboia and Charleswood unsuccessfully a the committee of six the Manitoba Tele by a gathering of iph0ne system to have Long about 50 heading Ley Telephone i a stance charges dropped subscribers sunday at a local school it is understood the protest committee will present its grievances in a Brief to the Public utilities Board of Manitoba soon. Sex offi Cio committee Mem Bers Are councillor William j. J Kay and coun. M. Tomlinson of Charleswood both of whom have tie e n campaigning against the Tele phone charges on behalf of their respective councils. Heading Ley is partly in Assin i ibo a and partly in the Telephone company recently announced that heading Ley will be converted from Crank Type to dial telephones later this month but that the Long distance charges would re main. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Thursday in the free press building Board room Eaton s Angling club clubroom Manitoba Coin club. Dusty in while the department Max. Vancouver 47 Calgary 55 Edmonton. 54 56 Brandon 56 min. The Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora March 26 last. Year. Normal 52 55 59 54 27 35 26 34 35 42 29 39 prec. .39 Ottawa. Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record 27.3 41.0 .61.3 in. 1946 40.8 18.8 29.8 lowest on record 32.6 t.1 23.4 -23.5 in 1904 to. To. .46 Max. 54 55 53 38 71 72 68 68 50 min. 37 33 prec. .23 .01 .02 .05 a 16-year-old boy in connection with the Ort neck Holdup saturday f.Etc cation is levying higher at Maple Leaf grocery a t i it out coun 282 St. Boniface. Police said they had tint yet Kominowski Back Hobson said. Mayor r. A Wanklin. In Hospital noted John Kominowski the Canadian rapeseed High Quality but too expensive . Experts Canadian grown rapeseed Al i Commerce invited the five men i director of an Oil extraction though Superior to that grown in to a 20-Day study tour of the company in Glasgow said that Europe is too expensive for the Canadian rapeseed Industry. Part of the High Cost of that the commercial Industrial Chine operator who lost his they were guests of the Mill rate for fort Garry this in an Industrial Accident then Federal department of Trade and in incl two youths also involved in the robbery. I the boy was arrested about 2. Year is 90 Mills or 590 tax per had it sewed Back on is Back in i . Monday near Smith Street of property assessment i Hospital today and Graham Avenue. He was be suggested that perhaps it however officials at Winnipeg is time to reassess the Cost Shar Hospital stressed that ing ratio Between the provincial or. Kominowski is in for British to buy according to five experts from the United King Dom who were in Winnipeg a tuesday. Graham Avenue. He was turned Over to juvenile authorities. Police said lie is an Escapee from the Manitoba Home for boys Portage la Prairie Man. And the general and that ties we Rich was set at 65-35 when his visit has nothing to do with the school foundation was troubles in his rejoined limb. Commerce and attended a press conference in the fort Garry hotel. In the past three years British use of this oilseed has increased by 300 per cent. The department of Trade and Canada now grows 1.7 million acres of rapeseed per year compared to Britain s acres. Colin Barrington read Deputy works manager of a company in Essex which buys rapeseed said we would buy Canadian rapeseed every time if it was t for the Price. It is eight to nine per cent dearer than european grown rapeseed although the Quality is or. L k. Evans a technical Canadian grown rapeseed was due to inefficiency of Farmers Canadian Farmers on aver age produce around 800 pounds an acre compared to pounds the european Farmers f. V. K. Young production manager of a refining company noted that europeans were also Able to keep their prices Low because of government subsidies ;