Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Another View by John Robertson when .1 was Young and in my prime now there s an original i worked at an assortment of jobs ranging from shovelling tinned meat yes shovelling in a local packing House to Selling bibles. For obvious reasons .1 just Don t dig tinned meat anymore and the Only thing i Learned from Selling bibles door to door was that the Meek Only inherit sore feet trying to push the Good Book at a copy. But the toughest Job of All and that includes at least 20 jobs of durations of one hour or More was Selling life insurance. I was Only 21 at the time and my Cash surrender value was like in the Bank so when the Man dangled a a week drawing account in front of my nose Anc asked can you sell life insurance my answer was a forceful you Selling life insurance is Tough enough if you con sort socially with millionaires but at age 31, my contacts so to speak ranged from cab messenger boys who wanted bicycle clip insurance to office boys suffering from postage stamp Tongue. My quota As i recall was in sales per month. The very first Day i rushed into the office screaming i made a Sale i made a Sale. What s his asked supervisor Archie Evanson. John i said proudly. Little did Archie know that both John Robertson and his new insurance policy were to lapse with a resounding thud two months later. For the per i had to make eight personal contacts a Day and then report to Archie the next morning. I think it was at this time that i first discovered my Talent for writing fiction. I made this big Long list of old buddies whom i knew would be just dying bad word to buy life insurance. Ever want to lose a Friend at age 21 phone him and Tell him you want to review his life insurance program then after he says my on Strong with the bit that he could suddenly be hit by a truck or something and even if he want he could Cash in real big in just 44 years at age 65. Worse still once the word gets around that you Are in the life insurance business at 21, try and phone a Friend and convince him that you re not trying to sell him anything that you just want to go out and share a few pints. What Are you doing tonight sorry John i be got All the insurance i can soon i was a social Leper even the Guys with bad breath and High armpits were whispering in Small groups and pointing at me. But Archie my Boss kept after me. Be he d say. Look pm right in the Eye smile As if you meant it and shake hands like you were climbing a rope hand Over he got me so fired up in fact that i headed right Home burst confidently in the almost broke three of my wife s fingers. I won t say just How Many policies i sold exactly but suffice to say i left the business As the Best insured unemployed 21-year-old who Ever missed a Premium payment. I decided that my main failing outside of Stark f s f aldermen to keep control of own salaries Winnipeg City Council made it Clear monday night that it wants to keep firm control of the aldermen s salary schedule. A motion by Alderman Isadore Wolch that the Provin Cial government be asked to appoint an Independent commis Sion to study the pay schedule for elected representatives was Defeated by a 10 to 5 vote. Aid Welch said that on several occasions the provincial government and metro had Given themselves a substantial pay increase. Any such action he said was not and could t be based on impartial judgment our pay conies Public Money and i think the Public is entitled to a study on the Aid. Joseph Zufeh accused Aid. Welch of trying to Intro Duce a pay increase through tile Back metro was wrong when it voted for tile pay increases he councillor s said. With All the blunders they committed they should have gotten a pay Cut Aid Zuken told Council that a study would inevitably suggest a pay increase for City aldermen since they Are tile Only ones who had t received a raise for years. The timing of this motion is Aid. Robert Taft said Council should t s la f f off any responsibilities. Aldermen Tes said Are responsible for the remuneration they get and they should to leave this Job to someone else anyone who in t satisfied with the pay he gets should either have the guts to ask for More or Stop running for Aid. William Mcgarva said that he hoped Aid. Zuken would turn Back any salary increase he might get in the future. You re a Man of principle Aren t Aid. Mcgarva asked. I am and i will refuse a Aid. Zuken shot Back. Aid. Lloyd Stinson who had seconded the motion said Well it was just an idea if it is Defeated so what that s by Carrier soc per week tuesday july 16, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mall by the . Dept Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Acting on Pool safety electrical safeguards recommended laziness was the fact that i could never say the magic word die to a prospective customer. Imagine sitting in somebody s living room Between husband and wife with a couple of Little kiddies playing on the Rug in front of you saying error How. Would you be fixed mrs. Jones if Hubby Harry Over there kicked the bucket in his sleep at this Point Harry would up and ask me How my wife would be fixed if he pitched me off the front porch. I d be lying if i said i left Harry s House empty handed. He was Selling vacuum cleaners you see and Well i could t resist. i j j in u existing pools As Well As new i went in the next morning and quit and old Archie leaned across the desk smiled very sincerely and All but crushed my Knuckles with an enthusiastic handshake. I was so impressed i almost bought another policy. Swimming Pool own ers in greater Winni Peg May soon be required to install fail Safe equipment on underwater electrical fixtures to guard against people being electrocuted. The estimated Cost of the equipment called ground fault circuit interrupters is about according to metro officials. Metro s planning committee decided monday metro s electrical bylaw should be amended to make it mandatory that circuit interrupters be installed on All electrical circuits supplying equipment in direct Contact with swimming Pool water such As underwater lights. The committee s recommendation to metro Council for consideration at its next meeting july 25. The requirement if approved by Council would apply to All i. Had almost forgotten the old life insurance Days until i received a note the other Day from Don Dick a former insurance crony who was such a Good Salesman he used to have people literally clawing at his briefcase out an application form for insurance before he changed his mind. Don said it All in one paragraph your work reflects the fact that you must be enjoying it a great Deal More than your life insurance Days and i am Happy for you if this is the i grinned at the letter looked it squarely in the Eye and Shook hands with my typewriter so forcefully i broke off three keys. R Osborne 6 River 453-3223 Portage Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. James Street opposite Polo Park 786-6891 weather report forecast Cloudy with a few sunny intervals becoming sunny near noon wednesday. A few showers and a risk Thunder Shower today and Over night Little change in temperature. Winds Light becoming North 15 . Wednesday afternoon. Low and High for Gimli 55 and 75 for Winnipeg to and 75. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Tuesday Vancouver Calgary Edmonton 72 Regina. 85 Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora Max. Min. 64 50 70 42 38 60 prec. .04 .01 Max. Mari. Prec. 90 72 89 70 88 73 july 15 last year Normal Ottawa Toronto Montreal 88 73 Halifax 73 .64 77 Chicago. 91 72 71 55 .07 Miami 87 79 73 so los Angeles .73 64 56 1.71 Minneapolis 90 75 78 68 new York 86 75 temperature comparisons Max. Man. Mean highest on record 73.0 56.5 64.8 94.0 in 1930 65.8 60.0 ,72.9 lowest on record 79.9 57.3 68.6 39.2 in 1920 ones. The decision to recommend the equipment came As the result of the recent death of a Man in Toronto who was electrocuted after a Short Cir Cuit in a swimming Pool s electrical equipment. James h. Hicks a planning department Engineer said the electrical circuits in metro s decorative f o u n t a in s have proved to be defective and fail Safe equipment will be in stalled in them. Merger meetings increase St. Boniface and St. Vital train scone others plan talks an increasing number of greater Winnipeg municipalities Are planning to hold informal talks Charlotte Sims miss Minnesota the View from Cloud nine she a Radiant Beauty by Jed Stuart Cloud nine Man. Staff Liis is an awful admission for a recently married reporter but what red corpuscles Canadian male would t still Library plan goes Back to committee a motion to Mark Manitoba s 100th birthday with the building of a new Public Library was referred to Winnipeg s civic Library committee by City Council monday night. The u n e x p e c t e d referral followed an hour s debate Dur ing which most aldermen expressed their enthusiastic sup port for the project. One of the major reasons Council did t approve the project i principle was the stipulation that such a project be integrated with the planning of the Central business District As outlined to Council by his worship the mayor on april 22, 1968." at that time mayor Juba announced his plan to build a Skyway along Graham Avenue. The Skyway the mayor told Council would be the Core of a totally remodelled Down town area in which the temperature would be controlled allowing Winni Eggers to shop in their shirtsleeves in the Winter. The mayor also told Council that the City would have to show its Faith a the downtown area by going ahead with some major project. Private developers he said would then follow suit and Start a million development but Council was t too sure monday that the building of a Library should be linked to redevelopment of that area. Alderman e. A. Brotman said he would like to see the new Library on Portage Avenue. Graham site for the proposed Skyway he said was not the proper location for a Public Library. But he supported the idea of building a Library As a Centen Nial project. Aid. Ernest. A Library committee Mem be r urged approve the project in principle so that definite plans could be made As soon As possible. He pointed out the need for a service of this kind by telling Council that people would read More books if they were Avail compared with other cities Winnipeg s 1 i b r a facilities were nothing Short of deplorable he said. Our sports facilities Are in excellent shape As a. Result of the pan american games last year but we Are sadly behind in our Library Aid. Mark Danzker a rhed Council again that we. Should take a careful look at the financial before any commitments Are made. This was not the time to Introit face such a project he told Council. Wait until budget time and see whether we can afford he said he basically agreed with those promoting such ser vices but he urged Council not to approve anything taxpayers could t afford. Council will Deal with the master after the Library a Jim Mittee gets More details on a possible location of the proposed Library. Be High in the sky after meeting miss Minnesota. No guff this Radiant r e p r e s tentative Tif the Gopher state was the magnetically cute kind of woman you just could t help but go for. And for darn sure Winnipeg s main office of the Royal Bank of Canada never looked better. Monday when in walked 20-year-old Charlotte Sims of Roseville a suburb of St. Paul Minnesota one of the 10 finalists in last s e p t e m b e r s miss America pageant at Atlantic City new Jersey miss Sims was Enro Ute Home from hos Tessing a 17-Day, Minnesota boosting tourist trip to Alaska via the Canadian West. She met newsmen through Viola Mac Doinald a local Royal Bank e m i o y e e who members of the tourist group and who was afraid Winnipeg hospitality might St measure up to kind receptions she received As a visitor to the United states however miss Macdon Ald fears were groundless according to the Bright eyed Brunette Beauty Queen. Of i just love it up Here tire theft jails Man Vaughn Monroe Smith 26, of 834 Grosvenor Avenue suite 4, was sentenced in Winnipeg magistrate s court monday to six months in jail for theft of four tires. He pleaded guilty to the charge before magistrate Isaac Rice court was told Smith was putting a tire into his car trunk at the rear of a Roslyn Road apartment Block at .. Monday. A citizen saw him and called police. Four tires were found in the trunk. Smith had stolen them from a service station at 445 Biver Avenue police said. F in the people seem so the Canadian Rockies appealed to miss Sims a French student at the University of Minnesota whose studies were interrupted for a year when she won the full time Job of miss Minnesota. Highlights of her Alaska tour were a trip in an old rickety train narrow gauge pot bellied stove Gold Rush Days Vintage Between s k a g w a y and Whitehorse n it and panning for Goltl. She is proudly taking Home just a few Little bitty nuggets to her geologist father. Two weeks hence though is the trip she has really been waiting for entertaining . Troops in South Vietnam. A student of controlled acrobatics since she was three miss Sims will per form feats of physical poise As a member of the 1968 miss America United ser vices organization troupe. The entertainers including last year s miss Amer Ica and seven finalists will spend 22 Days visiting army Camps hospitals and other installations in Vietnam. I m very she said with deep feeling. Her 25-year-old Only. Brother is now serving with . Navy intelligence we Don t know miss Sims Hopes to return to. Complete Iier University French course this fall with a View to becoming an interpreter. In addition to acrobatics her hobbies Are dancing horseback r i d i n g water sports and Spectator sports especially changing diapers is in the unforeseen future she said in. Answer to the inevitable question a out possible matrimonial plans have to wait just a Little while i m still on amalgamation. Meetings were arranged Mon Day Between Transcona City Council and East Kildonan and North Kildonan and Between St. Vital City Council and St. Boniface. St. Vital is also to meet . July 31 with St. Boniface and other interested municipalities Alderman Edward p. Staszenska of Transcona who opposed a motion at a trans Cona City Council meeting that merger discussions be held said we either stay the Way we Are or become one big he was referring to the possibility of amalgamating All the municipalities in greater Winnipeg. Now that we be got a Good tax Revenue from the Large Canadian National railways Complex everybody wants to join us nevertheless Transcona City Council voted 3 to 1 to hold the meeting with East and North Kildonan. No Date was set. Mayor Harry Fuller of trans Cona said the costs of maintain ing a City Rise drastically when the population exceeds in the 1966 census Transcona s population was Given As Aid. Charles j. Perry also expressed reservations about a merger saying the larger you get the More officials you he said this Means greater expense. However the motion simply agreed to the meeting with the two other municipalities and did t commit Transcona in any Way. Regarding another possible merger mayor Jack Hardy of St. Vital said he would also be meeting at 8 . Wednesday with fort Garry aldermen for preliminary discussions. I teachers blacklist withdrawn Winnipeg school division is being taken off the Manitoba teachers society s blacklist. Howard Loewen Public relations officer for the society said tuesday morning that the in dispute Label and the warning to to apply for employment in Winnipeg would be withdrawn during the Day. The City was declared in dispute in late March when negotiations Between the member Winnipeg teachers society and the Winnipeg school Board reached a deadlock. The t e a c h e r s association recommended that the City be blacklisted by the provincial society. Or. Loewen said a prelim Inary opinion Given monday by a. Three Man arbitration Board hearing the teacher school Board dispute has prompted the withdrawal. The preliminary report recommended inclusion in the teachers 196s agreement of four working condition items. The school Board had agreed to one but rejected inclusion of the other three As management prerogatives. Woman killed Brandon up a woman was killed today when a car in which she was the sole occupant collided with a car freight train at a crossing 15 Miles North of Here on Highway 10. Her identity was withheld. Sewer project needs million Claydon Alderman Leonard h. Claydon told Winnipeg City Council Mon Day night that it had better be prepared to sink about Mil lion into the City s storm sewer project Over the next four years. Breaking the news to Council give us a c Consul by Cliff Shnier someone has been stealing letters from the United states consulate at 6 Donald Street South raised metallic letters o n e of o o t High mounted on a Brick Wall which normally read United states consulate but until recently the sign read no sooner was the missing letter a replaced when an unknown person or persons renovated the sign again to state the building houses the Oritsu late eneral of the . It s been going on for said John Mallon the United states Consul. They disappear one or two at a when asked whether he thought the letter lifting might be a form of anti-. Protest the War in Vietnam he he doubted i would t attach much significance to under the inquiries and announcements Section the Council meeting Aid. Claydon said the first million Alloca Ted to the Long Range project would run out next summer. There is about million left in the fund now and unless you continue the Job it will be a Long time before you can Start Aid. Claydon did t give coun cil any details but said that City Engineer w. D. Hurst would submit a report to the utilities and personnel committee some time next week. You had better face it now you re going to have to ask the taxpayers for that million or the storm sewer project will never be one of the problems Aid. Claydon said is to convince taxpayers i n flood protected areas that they have to pay for storm sewers in other areas of tie City. He blamed the free press for giving unfavourable publicity to his attempts to keep tile work on the storm sewers going. If this Falls through you re going to have to take the blame for it. I la Lay it right on your door the storm sewer system will Cost approximately million million has been spent on the project. Manitoba ii Dies in Alberta crash Waskatenau Alta. Up Lac Richard Dombrosky 22, of the Canadian radar station at Gypsum Ville was killed sunday a car truck collision near this Community 50 Miles Northeast of Edmonton ;