Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee Bre by Bill big City Skyline for Winnipeg the major effects of the postal strike have now been Felt by All canadians but some of the Side effects Are just coming to of these is the Story of the Mani Toba heart foundation the non profit organization which devotes 90 per cent of its income to research has had its Day to Day income Cut off by the strike. A Large part of the funds that finance the operation of the foundation come from donations made by friends and relatives of those whose cause of death was due to heart or some related disease. Those donations normally Are received by mail and cards Are. Sent to the families of the deceased acknowledge the donation in. Memory of the party. This source of income cannot be replaced and the foundation has set up scheme for the duration of those who wish to make this Type of donation May Telephone the Manitoba heart foundation 642 Somerset building. An acknowledgement card will be delivered immediately to the family of the deceased and the donation will be picked up in person. State fair must surely be one of the most durable of musical comedies around. I m not familiar with the number of Broadway and Road show companies and performances but the movie background is not too difficult to recall if you were around in those Days. The first state. Fair film starred the late will Rogers and Janet Gay Abr with a plot that revolved around the fair and the Fate of a prize porker. The second production of the musical featured Haymes Jeanne Grain and the prize hog incidentally that s not a reference to a camera conscious now state fair is making the rounds again this time in one of the capsule musical comedy productions that the internationals do so Well at the hollow Mug. And this time the animal interest switches from the traditional porker a Beautiful pair of prize winning samoyed by comedy Lead Earl Golden who does a couple of entertaining Novelty numbers with his female counterpart Good natured Judy Lowe. Romantic Lead roles go to an effective quartet of singers Miriam Breitman Reg Frederickson Hohm Clift and the Youthful Susan head., Leggy Jennifer Ingram one of the contemporary Dan group effectively performs the role of a carnival exotic dancer and doubles As an acrobatic Clown in costume. State fair runs for the next two weeks at the International inn Here to be followed by songs from Cole Porter. If you missed Harry Belafonte this time around you May get another Opportunity to hear him in the a e n t e n n i a 1 concert Hall but not for another two years. When the crowd pleasing Singer and his troupe left Winnipeg after drawing almost capacity audiences for every performance he said he d like to. Return when he can include Regina and Saskatoon in a Prairie tour. And this will depend Bri completion of Regina s concert Hall. Word is that the next big name artist to appear in the concert Hall Jack Jones this Friday local favorite Syvette in several numbers at the Start of his show. Sept Ember will see the Abbey tavern singers in the concert Hall while the same month will have new Orleans jazz trumpet Star Lahirt take Over the Winnipeg auditorium for a one night stand. This will mean an additional seats available Over the concert Hall capacity and they should go with a Rush. Another top attraction for the concert Hall although it s not due until next april will be sleepy eyed comedienne Imogene coca who co stars with her husband in a production with a title that must crop up in every household i can t hear you because the water is there s a Chance for a Good deed on someone s part who might have an old to set it would represent an entertainment and educational item for a family of six on welfare. Possibly it s not a vital necessity in Many cases but in this particular instance it can be readily justified. The father is housebound because of illness the Mother must stay Home because of her four children Ges 4 to 15. If you can help Call e. Masiowski at the family Bureau of greater Winnipeg. Add to stories that will never be explained during saturday night s big blow there was a Power failure of 20 minutes duration affecting old Kildonan including the North main drive in theatre and there was t a conv plaint from a Patron at the open air movie by Cliff Shnier is Winnipeg going to have a big City Skyline a Check through past news paper articles provides a Leng thy list of what will be built what might be built and what never was built basically if All goes Well 10 buildings totalling 248 storeys will shape the Winnipeg profile in a few years. But this City has a record of grandiose ventures Onieh never materialized and citizens have Learned to wait until excavation begins before believing there will really be a building in a certain place. Right now three projects provide Concrete evidence of change and even if everything else Falls through which is there will still be a few noticeable projections into the Winnipeg sky. Now Halfway there the Lom Bard place office Tower of James Richardson and sons will stand 32 storeys above Street level at Portage Avenue and main Street. In vertical distance Fiat will feet or one third of the height of the world s tallest the Empire state building in new a few blocks West at the Corner of Portage and Smith Street land has been cleared for 20-s t o r e y hotel theatre parking Complex of Western theatres. Demolition of the old buildings began on schedule in May and it is expected the project will be completed in 1970 i another High Rise development Well under Way is the Kil Tarton towers in St. James. I for some time motorists on the St James Bridge had driven by a sign proclaiming the future glory of these twin apartment towers now something is Hap pening the Skeleton of one of the 17 Storey buildings is now place Between Portage and the ass Boine River and can be seen from two Miles South on Kenaston Boulevard. Sir other High risers Are wait ing in the wings some still in the drawing Board stages. Land has been rezone a by metro to allow for Central Park toners at the Southeast Corner of Street and Cumber lard Avenue. The circular apartment building will Rise 20 storeys with a revolving restaurant on top Regency towers now several years old stands at 20 floors across the intersection from this site. In mid june metro planning committee approved plans for a 38-Storey apartment Block on Nassau Street Between River Avenue and Joslyn Road. Its next test is metro and chairman Jack Willis was reported As saying the coun cil would have no right to deny the construction of High Rise apartments in the area under tile present zoning regulations. Both Central Park towers and Thi planned Nassau Street giant have incurred the opposition of a few nearby property owners but their complaints have thus far been Over ruled by metro. However governmental approval is no guarantee of Success five proposed Mam Moth projects have either bitten the dust or Are floundering in it according to clippings from the past. Even the Richardson had to Call off construction of what would have been Western can Jada s tallest building in 1929. With Only the foundations dug at the Portage and main site the roof fell in for this Ana most building projects when the Stock Market crashed on oct. More recently several elaborate and tall buildings never became More than an architect s drawing. One of these to Nave risen on the memorial Boulevard planned site of Winnipeg Art gallery would have climbed 33 storeys. Seven years ago Sato hash Man a Calgary Developer purchased the old St. Paul s College property at Kennedy Street and Elthee Avenue for the Canada Centre Complex. In february 1963, he was reported As saying construction would begin before the year was out. Two years later or. Hashman said it would be started within a month. In january this year while the lot still stood vacant lie said a starting Date project had not been determined the blame for the or i failure of this and other dreams for downtown was summed up by developers with tight barring such circumstances in v the near future Winni Eggers should see the following strut a Tares Rise in the next few years. Portage and Hargrave an office building of the Bank 6f possibly 18 storeys. A in. Hotel about storeys behind the present fort Garry. R a 26 Storey apart gift building As part of the United Church project at Kennedy Street 3roadway. -1 a up hotel 20 storeys part of the Lombard i place development. R Winnipeg free press by Carrier soc per week monday july 22, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept Ottawa and Lor payment of postage in Cash Osborn i Rivir 453-3223 Portage 6 Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. James opposite Polo Park 786-6891 free safety inspection weather report synopsis valid until Midnight tuesday skies Wen sunny Over much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan this morning but some afternoon Shower or Thunder Shower activity will break out in unstable air Over these provinces. Cloudy skies showers and Thunde showers occurring in Southern Alberta in association with a slow moving Pacific disturbance will spread across Southern. Saskatchewan later today and into Southern Manitoba tuesday. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today spectators gather around the wreck of a car tossed 50 about mile East of la Riviere on Highway 3. There were Yards by a Tornado saturday night. The car driven by Clif no serious injuries. The car which landed on its roof in a Ford Davies 39, of Brandon got in the Way of the twister ditch was wrecked 11 dead f in weekend mishaps i victims of one crash named others All Road fatalities too eleven Manitoban died accidentally during the weekend five in a two car collision Early saturday. Jack Hills passenger Clifford Davies Driver of car Escapee gets extra year in jail forecast sunny with a few Cloudy Mariada today Bacom inf mainly Cloudy Noar noon Tim Day. A Law and a Chanel of a handan Bower tilday afternoon and ovo Ninf. Warmer. Wundt Waal Al is m.p.h., coming Light kit Ava Ninf. Low Fon Fht far Almli and wlm Tinag 55, Mph . Tampa Rathen for tha 24-hour Otrio which and cd at c . Monday Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the As. Winnipeg fort William Kenora july 21 last year Normal Max. Win. Pre. 68 u 77 72 7i 71 15 73 51 46 43 03 12 it 53 60 53 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis York Max. Man. 83 81 74 92 87 74 87 68 56 72 75 64 54 71 Max. Min. Mean 77.3 it 3 902 652 777 ii 3 is 0 69 7 highest on record m.3 in 1940 lowest on record 411 a 1w5 one of four men who escaped from heading Ley jail was sentenced in Winnipeg magistrate s court monday to an additional year s imprisonment. Larry Phillip Coleman 25, formerly of Kentville has pleaded guilty before magistrate Isaac Rice to a charge of escaping lawful custody magistrate Rice had sentenced Coleman a week and a half ago to 23 months in jail for stealing july 3 from an icelandic visitor in Winnipeg. Police recaptured Coleman in the apartment of a social worker at 2 monday court was told. The social worker bad called police to say that Coleman was in his suite. Coleman and thres other men Wayne Leslie Everard i9, Arthur James Daignault ,20, and Jack la Riviere 29 escaped from heading Ley jail at priv saturday after sawing through a solid bar with a Hacksaw court was told it took us two or three11 Days to Cut the Little at u a Coleman was reported to have said in his statement to police Everard in the company of a Clergyman surrendered to ramp sunday about 24 hours after the break. La Riviere was seen in cent ral Park monday morning and was picked up later by Winnipeg police in the Vicinity of Balmoral Street and Sargent Avenue Dali Gnandt is still at Large Everard was serving one year on three charges of breaking and entering with intent Daignault 18 months for break ing entering and theft and la Riviere three months for theft and three months consecutive for a previous escape. To build hog Market Complex a hog marketing Complex with facilities to handle hogs daily will be built by the Manitoba hog marketing commission at the Union Stock Yards in St. Boniface agriculture minister. Hairy announced the commission which mar Kemsf Hogston a voluntary basis has received Cabinet approval for the project and construction to begin in the autumn. Completion is expected n Fate Winter or Early Spring. The new facilities will include a closed Assembly an administrative office building live weight scale equipment and expanded office space which will enable the commission to take Over Complete settlement of transactions on All hogs sold through the. Com Mission s Tele Type system. To be built on property leased from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways at the the project will be financed partly from surplus funds accumulated Over the three years since the commis Sion was up and partly . J the commission has been operating out of the administration building at the stockyards and has been renting a Small Section of the Yards. It also maintains an office and Assembly Yard in Brandon. The commission has been planning for the new Complex for two years during which producers have been surveyed. About producers sell hogs i Manitoba each week i Early i per cent of them using the teletype system offered by the commission. Manitoba hog production in 1967 was valued at More than v dead Are Grant Wallace Sinclair 18, of Stony Mountain Man. Faith Joanne Campbell 17, of Stony Mountain. William Howard co Taro 17, of 1461 Selkirk Avenue. David Willuam Sutton 15, of 773 William Avenue. George James Gamey 53, of 1571 Magnus Avenue. Steven John Foote 3, of Ninga Man. Reginald Thompson 19, of 655 Wellington Avenue. Mary Margaret Dumas 59, of Ste. Rose do Lac Man. Donald Mclean 62, of 359 Oak Street. Michael fan Ranosky it of 30 Victoria Crescent St. Vital. Agnes 74, of Brandon. In addition Kenneth Bidyak 16 of Ponoka Alta was killed in a Road Accident near Robin Man the two car collision which killed five and sent Earl Wil Liam Grantham 14, of 777 Wil Liam Avenue to Hospital occur red at 5 30 on High Way 7, two Miles North of the perimeter Highway. Ramp said the southbound station Wagon in which me five Young people were Riding was in a head on collision with a northbound Sedan driven by or. Gamey. The four dead. In station Wagon were identified As or. Sinclair miss Campbell or Cottam and or. Sutton. The Grantham boy is reported in serious condition in Winnipeg children s Hospital ramp have not determined the cause of the Accident. An inquest was opened at 10 . Sunday ramp said the Foote child died Friday when he was run Over by a farm truck driven by a juvenile. Hemp said the boy had been playing in a farm Lane near Ninga 40 Miles South of Brandon Man or Thompson was killed on Highway 7 near Teuton Man. Fonday night ramp said he was in collision with a car he walked on the Highway near the town about 28 Miles North of Winnipeg. Ramp said mrs Dumas was killed when a Light truck was in collision with a Hue of cars stopped for a train about one mile East of Portage la Prairie her husband Joseph William is reported in fairly Good Condi Tion in St. Boniface Hospital. Joseph Daniel Dumas believed to have been driving the truck was released from Portage District general Hospital or Mclean was killed in a three car Accident saturday at the Junction of Highway 15 and the perimeter Highway ramp said the Mclean car was in collision with another car believed to have been operated by John Goodfellow of 877 pres ton Avenue and then veered in to the path of a third car reportedly driven by William Fecio of Hazel Ridge Man or. Fecio is reported in fairly Ood condition in St. Boniface Hospital. His father Dmitro 66, is also reported in fairly Good condition. Two passengers in the Mclean car were treated and discharged Ontario provincial police in Kenora ont said or ran Osky was killed Early sunday when the car he was driving crashed into a Rock embankment 15 Miles West of Kenora. The car caught but or. Stanosky and his passenger Douglas Martin of 9 Garnet Bay Garry were chilled free by occupants another police said. Mr., Martin was not detained in Hospital. . Leybourne died sunday when the car reportedly driven by her husband Norman 81, went into a ditch front a gravel Road 10 Miles East of Brandon. She died in Brandon Hospital thee hours after the mishap. He husband was not injured y the Bidy boy was tailed and two men were Hurt in a collision Between a trailer belonging to a travelling Fairground show and a half ton track at 10 . Sunday on Highway 83, 22 Miles North of Roblin. The boy was a passenger in the trailer the Man identified As the Denver of the trailer John Tremblay of Spanish ont and David Adams said to have been driving the truck were both reported in Good condition in Robin Hospital. An inquest will be held. William Howard Cottam Faith Campbell George James Gamey future business. Won t use mail i businessmen of the future probably won t even mail let ters let alone have to worry about dollars lost through National scientists predict one Day All business correspondence will Bei done through teletype machines and you won t need a postal a local representative of the teletypewriter Industry said this week id an interview. Will communication problems by not being Able to afford the who stationary he ;