Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break Winnipeg free press Robertson mks. Walter Haigh of 135 Leighton ave., East Kildonan has won the 1968 Spring Robin spotting championship with her sighting of a chirpy Little red breast in a tree in her Garden Early yesterday morning. Minutes later a rare Brand of Stool Pigeon the mealy mouthed spotted leaving the Central police station. Of the week the phenomenon of a world renowned cultural attraction being situated in a medium sized Canadian City constitutes both an incomparable Boon and a very great Challenge to the com said j. Sergei general manager of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. What Joe is trying to say gang is Winnipeg should be so aside to the lady who phoned red Alix yesterday morning to beef about the fact that i used the letter i 37 times in my wednesday column ill keep an i out for you dear John i noted in your column that someone in town is bidding for radio station crw. I sincerely Hope that if the station changes hands they la leave the music policy As it is. Certainly at present it is the Only radio station in the Winnipeg area that has a music policy for sane people. I m afraid the Jungle junk on Krc appeals Only to the Young and foolish and the foolish certainly get a run for their Money on the other City stations that feature those talk shows which seem to Cater to the Ever increasing Lunatic fringe mainly made up of housewives who Don t have anything else to signed t. E. Burgoyne . I scanned Krc s top 40 list and i can t see anything Young and foolish about songs like itch Coo Park. The mighty Quinn Jennifer Juniper or the Unicorn. You re just jealous because you re not Young and foolish any More and you can t sing old standards such As mares eat Oats and does eat Oats and Little lambs eat Ivy. Get with it is asst now if you want a hot tip the Best music show on any station anywhere in i Canada is Gren Marsh s late afternoon Tempo show on a hey did you ca1ch that dreadful Quentin Stur Geon . Show on Channel 6, wednesday night it looked like the Beverly Hillbillies playing Hamlet. Or Chicken Little playing Owlet. Or a Perkins marrying shuffle. Or John and Judy going up the Hill to get a pail of martinis. Or Pepper Young s family having a sneezing fit. Gordon Vinsent has gone a Long Way since he used to trod the boards in local theatre productions. He should go farther. Csc has had the same dreary bodies Over acting in the same dreary plays for the past 10 years. All they do is Exchange Heads for each new production. Unfortunately the camera work is so Excel Lent every flaw shows through. I would like to suggest that the next edition of Quentin Sturgeon . Be shot through a Hudson Bay Blanket. The most durable and delightful Road show in sport the Harlem globetrotters will be Here for a one night stand at the Arena next thursday night. This brings memories of the Days when they used to tangle with the old Winnipeg Paulins. I keep thinking of Nanies like Doug Gresham punchy Stephens Carl Ridd Roy Williams Ralph Watts Jeems Bulloch George Fontaine Ken Reeves Mike and Andy Spack and George oelkers. I know they did t All by Carrier soc per week Friday March 29, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Uniter probe on thought Story funny sex editor a University press investigation into last thursday s controversial edition of the University of Winnipeg s student newspaper was told a key article was intended to be harmless and humor Ous. Most of the staff thought the article was Denis Owens former editor of the uniter told an investigation thursday. It was organized by the Canadian University press. The Story in the year end edition of the student paper said Grade 11 and 12 collegiate students rioted and Hung their Dean lome Tomlinson. The 350 collegiate students organized a protest meeting and a few of them burned 300 copies of the uniter. I honestly did t think that anything would come out of said or. Owens who wrote the Story. Ron Tobiason editor of the uniter who was fired by the student Council said he believed the Story was humorous exam meanwhile the University administration has refused to testify at the investigation. Or. G. Pincock assistant to the University president refused to comment on the investigation. Alan Dud e c k University students Council student said there has been no soldering conflict. Between collegiate and University collegiate students at last thursday s meeting said the article in the uniter was the ast Straw in a series of minor incidents Between the collegiate and the University students. The investigation was headed y John Lynn Ottawa Bureau chief Canadian University other members of the invest gating team Are Fred me quiness vice president of the Brandon Sun Al Birnie associate editor of the Ulyssey he University of British. Colum a s student newspaper. Play for Paulins but they were All part of an Era when the Trotters used to come in Here and be too concerned about winning to even show us All their fabled repertoire of trick plays. Was glad to hear senator David Molson of the Molson canadians finally admit on the hot seat on wednes Day night that . Television does run the National hockey league. Then he said that the reason the nil can t be too sympathetic to our nationals is that 10 of the 12 nil teams Are american. Whose fault is that senator who doled out the franchises who sold out Canada during expansion who. Osborne if River 453-3222 Portage 5imcoe 774-2471 614 St. James Street opposite Polo Park 786-6891 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight saturday temperatures Over the Eastern Prairies will be somewhat cooler today is northwesterly winds spread colder southeastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But the sky will be mainly sunny. In Alberta Northern areas Are expected to be sunny. Cloud cover and the associated showers will move across Southern Manitoba saturday. Figures on the Indi Cate expected High temperatures today. I la raps Board Glen g. Kli Roach of the 17th scout troop in Brandon was one of 100 Manitoba boys who became Queen s scouts thursday. Governor general Roland Michener top picture presents the Brandon boy with his certificate. The same Day a group of school children from the Norwood area of St. Boniface saw the governor general. Here wait with varying degrees of patience for him to appear. If i school children cheer Michener in St. Boniface forecast mostly sunny today and saturday. Continuing mild. Winds Northwest 25 .h., becoming Light this evening. Low tonight for Cioll and Winnipeg 30, High saturday 50. Temperatures for the 24-Houf period which ended at 6 . Friday pre. Max. Man. Pre. .21 Ottawa 48 33 .01 Max. Min. Vancouver 50 41 Calgary 47 17 Edmonton 46 19 Regina 5 26 Brandon 50 30 the Pas 44 29 Winnipeg 56 33 fort William 62 37 Kenora 50 3 .11 or. Max. Ottawa 48 Toronto 66 Montreal 54 Halifax 45 Chicago 73 Miami 76 los Angeles 74 Minneapolis 7i new York 64 32 36 50 70 59 42 42 .06 .05 to. Temperature comparisons March 28 last year Normal Max. 55.5 40.4 33.9 Man. Mean 44.9 13.9 27.2 15.4 24.7 highest on record 66.2 in 1915 lowest on record in 1b87 an attempt by Saul Cherniack nip St. John s to have an emergency debate in the legis lature thursday on the dispute Between the Winnipeg teachers association and the Winnipeg school Board was ruled out c order by speaker James a. Big ton. Or. Bilton ruled or. Cher Nick s emergency Debat motion out of order because h said the matter was the administrative responsibility the two parties involved. Later or. Cherniack exercising his right to speak on an matter prior to debate o spending estimates accused the school Board of refusing negotiate with the teachers on contract items that should be negotiated. Aubrey Asper teachers society president announced wednesday the Winnipeg school Board has been declared in dispute because the Board von l recognize the requests of he Winnipeg teachers Assoria Ion to bargain for certain clauses n the 1968 contract. Or. Asper said the Board refused to negotiate on requests Iron the association for secretarial help for teachers school parking for teachers allowances for teachers who Are department Heads and per manent appointments to fill administrative vacancies. Or. Cherniack said the school Board has the right to say the teachers demands Are unreasonable but it is wrong not to the school Board claims the requests made by the teachers should be handled by administrative personnel and should t be included in a salary contract. The school Board must look at the principle to see if it is wrong or. Cherniack said. The Board s stand is going to do a great Deal of damage in the future. Or. Cherniack in stressing the urgency of the situation pointed out that 25 per cent of the province s students attend classes in the Winnipeg school division. Or. Cherniack also criticized the school Board for making i appear As if the teachers Are for the dispute. The students of both school districts in St. Boniface will Lave a special reason to re member the visit of governor eneral Roland Michener to heir City this week. Or. Michener arrived in Winnipeg on tuesday to pay his first official visit to Manitoba since his appointment last year As the Queen s representative in Lanada. Thursday morning he attended an Assembly in notre Dame Nina sum of students representing the schools St. Boniface. He was greeted by hundreds of cheering school children outside the gymnasium and passed to the stage inside through More ranks of loudly clapping Young people. In response to an address of Welcome by mayor Joseph p. Guay of St. Boniface or. Mich ener said he had exercised his prerogative As the Queen s representative to declare a school Holiday to say thank you co operation and Harmony which reign among the different Lan Guage and ethnic he said this gives an encouraging answer to those who ask whether canadians of different origins can work together for their common interest. He continued in St. Boni face bilingualism has become a life and a Friendship and Mutual enrichment. It shows French speaking and English speaking canadians need each other to take hold of what sets them apart As Well As what United them. It shows also the recipe of this Harmony is nothing More than Faith Confidence in Good will and in the Good intentions of both to which can be added for the enthusiastic Welcome he and . Michener had received from the students. He said the Holiday carried the mayor s approval but that he would leave setting of a suitable Date to the discretion by officials of the two school boards. Or. Michener spoke to the Assembly partly in French and partly in English. Speaking in French he said that although St. Boniface might not distinguish itself by size of population in Canada it shines in the first ranks through the Hydro not upping Mote profits such that no boost in sight now Bryden says Winnipeg Hydro has no increase electricity rates d. C. Bryden its general manager said in an interview thursday. Winnipeg Hydro serves Peg proper win Manitoba Hydro which serves lie rest of the province announced tuesday that its rates would be going up As soon As tract Zeable in the fiscal year 968-69 the fiscal year will begin monday. Thursday or. Bryden said Winnipeg Hydro had a million profit last year and we anticipate a profit of slightly Ess than million this year. There is no indication that we will have to increase our although the Cost of labor and material had gone up sharply Winnipeg Hydro was Able to manage a sizable Profil every year was streamlining lion. This mr., Bryden said largely the result of the entire opera in the past years we have installed automatic equipment wherever possible to counteract the rising Cost of labor and the latest of these installations he said Washie Automa Ioa of the slave Falls Power Plant. Winnipeg Hydro a a year Utility has Bee table to charge the same rates for More than 50 years. Our rates today compare very favourably with those of any Ether City in Canada As a matter of fact ours Are among the d. Manitoba Hydro s Tiad told the provincial legislature s standing committee on Public utilities and natural resources tuesday about the impending increase in Manitoba Hydro s rates. But he had t been Able to say precisely by How much or when the rates would go up. He has indicated it will be the individual consumer rather than the Industrial consumer who will Bear the Brunt of the decentralization urged by Tyler show set for thursday students of r. B. Russell vocational High school .364 Dufferin Avenue will hold a dinner fashion show musical and dram Atic presentation for 150 elderly people at 1 . Thursday at the school not monday As reported in thursday s free press. The guests will be representatives of holy family nursing Home Sharon Home and Selkirk Avenue Day Centre. The natural history society of Manitoba will meet at 8 . Monday in the Odd Fellows Hall 293 Kennedy Street. Or. M. H. Levin will talk about managing landscape. A suggestion of tolerance the bitterness then in English or. Miche or said do not be tempted b the Mere numbers of those we speak the same Tongue in nor America to ignore the Richei and potential of the Freric language. France has provided the world with one of its most notable civilizations French Canada today is the scene of the most recent and one of the most dynamic and creative Flower Ings of the French Genius. All Canada can profit from it if we Are ready to appreciate and accept it. A fluent and articulate knowledge of French is a very Good at ., the governor general entered the legislative building to present Queen s scout certificates to 102 scouts j from across Manitoba and from Northwestern Ontario. I or. Michener As governor general is Canada s chief scout and As he passed through the foyer Between ranks o saluting venture Queen s scouts it was the first time a Canadian governor general Hac Ever personally attended presentation of the Queen s scout awards in Manitoba. A luncheon for the Queen s scouts their parents and Lead ers had been held in the for Garry hotel prior to the presentation ceremonies under sponsorship of the Manitoba ant Northwestern Ontario provincial boy scouts Council. A reception for them government House foe owed. Brandon Cdr. E. J. Tyler of Brandon University thursday proposed moving a number of major government is to develop the province of Manitoba one of the obvious necessities would be the development of major population suggesting that the imbalance could a series of Estali departments boards and set fide missions out of Means of developing he suggested in an address to the annual Manitoba Chambers Merce that the department of agriculture and the of Manitoba s faculty Are could be moved. While the department of mines and natural resources could be moved to Dauphin. Or. Tyler said if the decision wish Ilion centres outs Ile Winnipeg or. Tyler said this would be consistent with Whit is evid in provinces seem be developing More effective Lar and More rapidly than Mani Steinkopf praised Premier Walter Weir Liberal Leader git Mol Gat and new democratic party Leader . Russ Paulley joined together in the legislature thursday to commend Maitland b. Stein Kopf Manitoba Centennial com Mission chairman for his work on the Centennial concert Hall. Or. Paulley said some Mes Sage of thanks should be Given or. Steinkopf from the Legisla Ture for a Job Well free press meetings to be held Mori Day in the free press building Are at 2 . Board room South Centre Liberal association at 8 . Board room Cutty Sark club Winnipeg watch clubroom no. 2 Branch sons of Ireland. The new concert Hall was officially o p wednesday night. Or. Steinkopf headed the committee which planned the new Complex. He has done a tremendous Job on behalf of or. Paulley said. N Weir said lie has expressed appreciation to or. Steinkopf. Privately and is considering asking the legislature to pay a further tribute later on. But the Premier pointed out that the work has t been completed. The c e n t e n n i a l planetarium is scheduled to open in May and1 construction has started on a museum adjacent to the concert Hall. Or. Mol Gat said he was amazed at the amount of Energy or. Steinkopf has put into his Job As chairman of the Centen Nial commission. Now it s sing along with symphony time by Dan Larocque the Man who made sing along with Mitch a House hold phrase arrived in Winnipeg thursday to test his Baton and an innovation with the Winnipeg sym phony orchestra. Mitch Miller the bearded Baron o f the television screen for years told newsmen at an Airport press conference lie was returning to his first love classical music in his current series of conducting engagements. And Here in Winnipeg for the first time Miller will hold a sing along with full symphony arrangements. He s never tried it before despite the phenomenal Suc Cess of his s i n g a 1 o n g records and television show but if it works out Here he could include it in his future conducting engagements. Fat Havana jutting from his Beard or. Miller fielded questions for an hour after his arrival Here. He attended the symphony and Ballet program at the new concert Hall thursday night the first Chaucer he s had to watch tie Winnipeg sym phony in action. Hell begin rehearsals to Day he figures on at least Mitch Miller six hours with his new charges in preparation for concerts saturday night and sunday afternoon., _. His amazing Success with sing along he said came out of an original idea to Cut some second world War Muy sic. He disagreed with the theory but polled friends for their favorite oldies but goodies and eventually put his 25-Man chorus to work on the first of his series. The name for the first album and later the television show came after the up was Cut from a quip made by a Friend who was listening to the first pres sings. Or. Miller liked the sound of sing along with Mitch and it stuck. As musical director of Columbia records or. Mil Ler has watched the Rise of Many of today s Young singing stars. Bob Dylan for example had recorded with Columbia for two years before running into any Type of Success. Some of these youngsters have musical the master conceded but i d like to see them and lib melancholy baby before calling them modesty does t interfere with his answers. I guess i play the oboe As wee As anyone who has Ever played he an swered when he was asked about his use ment outside its classic Field. R he takes some Issue with new i techniques that erase errors in a number. Music is played by flesh and blood and flesh and blood makes mistakes. The music does t Comey Friia a letter perfect machine the Way it sounds or. Miller moved out of the classical Field in the Early 1950s with stogies such As the yellow Rose of Texas and the River kwai March. His old friends took e x c e p t i o h to my financial he says but occasional a night concerts Don t pay for bread and his program with the Winnipeg symphony is not yet completed but Wie be decided today. More than 19 minion sing along up records Cut by or. Miller and his chorus have been sold Over the years and it s possible More will come. Ai Erica s favorite sing along song it varies depends on How drunk the Singer ;