Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 22, 1968 Tornado rips up area but or. Enns said the Small Emo staff has also been Given the Job of handling the govern ment mail service during the postal strike As a result will need some help. The mini s r s statement monday followed a request from Carolyne Morrison la for Pemba a that la Riviere declared a disaster area. Or. Sons said he does t yet know what Steps the govern ment can take to Channel funds to the stricken area. He had instructed his department to examine what 1 e g i s a a t u r e machinery exists to handle such a situation. La Riviere with a population of about. 250 people 105 Miles Southwest of Winnipeg was hit at about 7 . The funnel estimated to have been about 200 Yards wide travelled at an almost leisurely Pace in a northeasterly direction while it unleashed its destructive Powers before losing its punch near Miami Man in la Riviere the twister ripped the roof off the Manitoba Pool Grain elevator ripped off part of the roof and damaged a Wall of the Holiday Mountain ski resort and heavily damaged a newly constructed Home. Numerous Trees were knocked Down in the town but adjacent houses escaped damage. At least 10 farms in the area were badly damaged. Three unoccupied ski huts owned by Winni Eggers were destroyed. About Manitoba Hydro false Teeth refined at Home Stop using pastes powders and pads. Incr line re lines plates in minutes. Lasts up to six months. Eases sore tender Gums. Caryline is odourless Ond tasteless harmless to Den Tures and is specially designed for use it Home. Plates feel like Caryline is available in or Ond two plate sizes at your drug counter. Customers Weie without Power when the Tornado knocked Down a transmission line Between Manitou and Treherne and a Between Pilot Mound and la Riviere the Power interruption Vafier from 20 minutes in some areas of southwestern Manitoba to several hours in other areas. But a Manitoba Hydro spokes Man said sunday night at known damage had been re paired by 6 . Sunday Manitoba Telephone. System also reported numerous lines Down in the area but Crews were working rapidly to restore service. The twister attracted the attention of Clifford Davies 39, of Brandon who was driving a car on Highway 3, immediately East of la Riviere or. the Tornado looked like a column of smoke it looked like a farm was on so he and two passengers Ann Hills 19, and her brother Jack 14, decided to try to get a closer look. They crossed paths with the twister which flipped and wrecked their car. The three persons suffered multiple cuts and bruises and were taken to Morden general Hospital where or. Davies and miss Hills were listed in Good condition today. The boy was released from Hospital sunday after treatment. The three were the Only persons reported injured by the Tornado. The devastating funnel was created by unstable atmospheric conditions about three Miles Southwest of la Riviere. It struck its first blow at the farm of Asther Matthys about two Miles Southwest of la Riviere. Or. Matthys s barn granary machine Sheds and cattle shelters were destroyed. The Chimney of his House was ripped off As he his wife and two children hid in the base ment. Or. Matthys was forced to ship 24 head of Catle some of to which had Bee n injured Winnipeg for Sale because he had no place to keep them. To and doctors submission of medical reports to the workmen compensation Board during the postal strike the compe sat Tion Board has arranged to reports v Concordia Hospital Grace general Hospital St. Boniface general Hospital Misericordia general Hospital general Hosp Tai Winnipeg general Hospital doctors Are requested to deliver their reports to the site designated in these hospitals. Reports May also be delivered direct to the Woik men s compensation Board offices at 333 Maryland Street Winnipeg 10 damage to or. Matthys s farm was estimated at ironically a few minutes later the Tornado touched Down on the farm of or. Matthys s brother a Roserie about four Miles away where it caused another in damage. Dick Myers operator of the Pool elevator in la Riviere said he could t estimate the dam age to the building yet because a careful examination has t been made. He pointed out that there were cracks in the Wall of the building below the torn out roof which might have structurally damaged the building or. Myers said the elevator contained about Bushel of Grain. If the elevator had been full s the Tornado Woi Ilc have probably lifted it right off its he said there would be quite a big problem if it Rains since the Grain was unprotected now however repair Crews were expected to Start work. Monday the twister federa Grain elevator less than 100 Yards away but scooped up a fertilizer storage bin. Noel. owner of the Holiday Mountain ski resort also declined to give an Esti mate of damage to his building. Repairmen were working on the damaged roof sunday but or later said he May be forced to replace a 100-foot-Long Wal which buckled. Two 28-ton railway cars and a used car Shack converted into ski huts adjacent to the ski resort area were crumpled into pieces of scrap. A fourth hut occupied by mrs. J a. Netter Field and her two children was shifted 10 feet from its foundation but was otherwise undamaged. R. J. Tweedie who had the roof of his new Home ripped Oflas he and his family hid in the basement. Said the Tornado was fascinating to watch but i would t want two a week they re too expensive and too hard on the or. Tweedie s. 16-foot boat ended up As scrap in the Trees on the opposite Bank of the Pembina River. The twister disintegrated the buildings on Harold aral s Miles North of Manitou and about 10 Miles Northeast of la Riviere or. Arnt estimated his damage at s or. Arnt also pointed out that numerous shelter belts. Long lines to protect farms against wind erosion had been destroyed by the Tornado. It takes years of growing to replace the Trees which Are so important to he said. The farm House roof was blown off and several other farm buildings were heavily damaged on the property of Bert Woods four Miles of Miami. The nearby farm buildings of Allan wih ement were also heavily damaged. Total damage to the two farms was estimated at about by the Tornado petered out after destroying the buildings on the Willemett and Woods farms and climaxed1, a Day of general thunderstorm activity in the Southern part of Manitoba which kept Manitoba Hydro Crews Busy throughout the weekend. About 700 Hydro users in the Dominion City Vita and Eljer son areas were without Power for up to 25 minutes. Saturday afternoon because of. Storm interruptions about customers in the Macdonald Poplar Point areas were without Power from eight to 27 minutes sunday afternoon lightning damage. And a 20-minute Power failure in old Kildonan North of Winnipeg blacked out several homeowners All the Money you need investigate Avo Delta s new second mortgage loan service now you can get up to at Low real estate loan rates through our new second mortgage loan service. 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Formed by an act of Parlia ment to receive the remainder of the Manitoba flood Relief fund after the 1950 flood the Canadian fund now has 000. The area hit by the Tornado is part of the Rural municipality of Pembina but so far the Munici pal Council has planned no action to help the owners of damaged property. Bert Durham Secretary of the municipality said in a Telephone interview monday no one has approached the Council for Aid and there Are no plans to Call a special meeting. I Haven t heard of any appeals to the provincial government for mayor George Henderson of the town of Manitou which was bypassed by the Tornado said the damage is very bad. The crops weren t really too badly it but the farm buildings Are a mess. I know a of towns people were offering shelter and Aid to the involved but they All had relatives and friends near have formed Moscow summons spurned continued in Moscow the main Comro nist party newspaper pravda asked rhetorically in an unsigned editorial is it reall necessary to wait until the counter revolutionary Force have taken control of the Situa Tion in Czechoslovakia before struggle is begun again the brusquely worded edit them. Neighbors work Crews and Are still Clearing up the Layoff Early end unlikely for postal tie up the postal strike now to its fifth Day has. Caused the Layoff about 90 Drivers of two pickup and delivery contractors and there in t much work for them elsewhere. The parties in the. Mail dispute were still talking today through a mediator but there were no indications of an Early end to the tie up. An insurance commission monday the Laid off men were rial has All the signs of a Docu ment issued by the soviet part ruling 11-Man politburo. But it gave no indication what the Kremlin s next Ste would be if Prague ignored its latest proposal for a top Leve show Down meeting today o tuesday on soviet soil. Radio Prague reported tha soviet troops which took part i Warsaw pact exercises i Czechoslovakia last m o n t began crossing Back into rus 13. The radio said the first Sovie unit a communications detach ment of 120 vehicles Crosse the Border from Ecke in Eastern Lysne nem Slovakia Uzi Rod sunday night and mor expected to return to czechoslovak lived unlikely to set a Date of discussions with Moscow unt the last russian soldiers ,5av for unemployment. In benefits if temporary eligible Durance employment elsewhere could not be found. He said however this is not a Good year for casual work. With All j these students around looking for jobs there Are 58 Drivers pm a Pees of Jessiman Bros. Cart age Ltd and about 30 pm i Byees who drive for Ryan trucking and terminals both of St. James. 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Representatives of the government s Treasury Board and he Council of postal unions talked for eight hours sunday including time out to eat then quit at 10.30ip.rn. Cd to announce plans for fur ther meetings. Still got a lot of work Douglas Loye of treas Ury Board reporters. The Council s Romeo Mathieu put it this Way we re trying to build a Road before travelling mediator judge Rene Lope termed the sunday talks useful and said some Progress was made. Monetary and non Mone tary matters were discussed. He would not be More specific. The mediation talks had adjourned wednesday night to allow the parties time to re As sess their positions. The strike began at . Thursday. The negotiations leading to the strike began More than six months ago. Today or. Mathieu and or love were to hold meetings with organizations to re port on sunday s talks then the two men were to move Back into judge Lippe s room for More mediation. Exact times of the meetings was Uncertain. The strike and talks to end it Are being conducted in the awareness that prime minister Trudeau May decide to recall parliament to end the walkout. Gone. The decision not to Bow t Moscow s demand for a Meetin on soviet soil was announced an editorial comment broadcast Over Prague radio which charged that our soviet Friend Are making it a Point o prestige that the meeting be tween the party leaders Tak place on soviet soil but this1 Wil not take any discussion about Czechoslovakia s internal affairs mus be held on czechoslovak the commentator Jiri Duist Bie said. And he added that the leadership Here considered it a violation of Friendly relation that the soviet Union Poland East Germany Bulgaria and Hungary had met in Warsaw last week to discuss this coun try s affairs without Czechoslovakia being represented. Troops must go or. Dubcek has also informed the Kremlin while he will Welcome the Opportunity to meet with them and to try to reassure them that his Over throw of the old stalinist police state was no threat to the communist world he will not do so until All soviet troops which came Here last month for Warsaw pact manoeuvres have left the country. Several thousand soviet troops still remain on czechoslovak soil and Are according to official reports withdrawing in nighttime convoys under Black out conditions. Eyewitnesses re port from several seeing the convoys moving toward the soviet Border in the East although czechoslovak defence officials had been assured thai the last of the troops would be gone by it is e estimated by military experts that it May still take several More Days for All of them to get out at the Pace they Are now go ing. Nevertheless the czechoslovak officials clearly do. Not the soviet Union will resort to Force at this stage of the dispute. And this feeling is reflected in a considerable lessening of tension Over the weekend. Or. Dubcek and the 10 top men around him in the communist party s made their decision late Friday night not to Bow to Moscow s demand for a meeting in the soviet Union. Then the party chief advised his comrades All to take the weekend off and rest up away from the Public Eye for the Tough struggle that promises to continue through the rest of and perhaps beyond. Czech Interior minister Josef Pavel denied reports published in soviet and bulgarian newspapers of new arms caches found in Czechoslovakia near the pol ish Borders he said in a statement Broad cast by Prague radio there was in 140 years the . Senate has sat As a court of impeach ment Only 12 tunes and. Has removed four men from holding Federal offices. New Bridge named for la a Bridge on the Thompson Highway will be named after the late d r. Boxy Hamilton next wednesday in recognition of the former la s Strong of Northern develop ment of Manitoba. Or. Hamilton., who represented Rupert land in the provincial legislature for the liberals from 1941 to 1953, was one of Manitoba s most outspoken Bat tiers for roads and Bridges to develop the Northland his efforts will be commemorated wednesday with the naming of the Roxy Hamilton Bridge Over the Sang new rapids near Wabowden. Premier Walter Weir mrs. Hamilton acting highways minister Harry j. Enns and Gordon Beard la for Chur chill win participate in tie ceremony. Dedication is one of a series of functions Premier Weir will be carrying out next week in Northern Manitoba during visits to Thompson the Pas Snow Lake and Wabowden. Preferred . Of the1 first governors of Curacao in the Netherlands an Tilles was Peter Stuyvesant who later became governor of new Amsterdam now new York. General belief a1 Cache diced tiered earlier War Ger Man Border was put there by someone trying to Embarrass the hew leadership. Many czechs believe the arms found near a soviet troop Camp were planted by the rus sians. Pravda reported the Dis covery before czechoslovak officials announced it. Supports regime although the press in Czecho Slovakia no longer is subject to censorship it has past week of crisis Solidarity behind the Dubcek Reg Nef it has carefully avoided returning in kind the vitriolic propaganda Campaign that is being waged against or. Dubcek s communist reformers by Moscow and its supporters. Instead it has confined itself almost entirely to pained re ports of what is Reinfe written about Czechoslovakia in mos cow East Berlin Budapest and Sofia with Low keyed comments that this demonstrates a Gross Lack of understanding of affairs Here and that the five soviet bloc countries Are thus threatening to split the whole world communist movement wide open. Czechoslovakia is not Iso said the radio commentator. We Are not alone. We have the full support of our communist friends in Yugo Slavia and Romania and among most of the parties in Western Europe and ing Over Prague s Short wave English language broadcast said that Czechoslovakia s Liberal program is opposed Only by the five who met in Warsaw and certain other smal parties he added that it was unfortunate however that one of these was the most powerful Lom mums nation with which Czechoslovakia wants Only the Best and closest relations. It is Clear that the czechoslovak leaders consider they have the critical crossroad in heir relations with their Power Ful neighbor but that they Are determined to forge straight ahead without being diverted to Eft or right by the heavy pressures being applied by Moscow and its four most obedient allies. Huge Blunder the soviet include presence of red army troops Las proved it would seem to Lave been a huge tactical Blunder. 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