Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Another View by John Robertson Well the mail May not be getting throughout the cryptic messages Are coming in loud and fuzzy. How would you like to Start your week with these two or. Robertson this is strictly a message that i was ordered to give you. Or. Asks if you Are familiar with the Monpetit report and if you re not to please study it. And keep your big trap shut or or. Robertson or. Tulop called to Tell of a triple wedding tomorrow. 1 Uncle marrying Mother. 2 son marrying daughter. 3 son marrying someone else. Do you Ever get the feeling that it s just not going to be your week now that you mention it or. I am not familiar with the Monpetit report but i do understand that it deals with postal employees working conditions in 1966. I fully intend to get my hands on a copy to see if its contents Are Worth being threatened Over. For what it s Worth i have nothing against unions or postmen. I just happen to think that the demands being made in the strike As far As wages Are concerned Are unrealistic. Surely i have a right to an opinion on this because it s my postal service too. Because i am not familiar with Post office working conditions i Haven t seen fit to comment on this aspect of the dispute Between the postal employees and the Treasury Board. And if indeed a sorry state of affairs does exist 111 be the first to stand up and say so. But almost everything i be read about the postal strike has centred around the of the wage increase. And As far As i m concerned both the Union and the Treasury Board Are Way off base. I d be glad to sit Down at any time and discuss the postal strike rationally with anyone from either Side but threats Don t work with me. They Are something we have to live with in this business whether we like it or not. It seems there s not a week goes by without some hassle Over welfare. But when i read about those 300 fully employed people collecting welfare to meet their monthly Bills i could t resist getting my two cents Worth in. I be been in enough debt in my lifetime to know the feeling of living from hand to Mouth under the Millstone of easy payments. But in All credit buying i think the onus is on the merchant to thoroughly Check out any person seeking time payments. And if the person does t keep up these payments then the company which extended the credit should have to take the loss. As Long As a Man is making an honest Effort to pay off his debts even if it Only Means a few dollars a payday to a Long list of creditors then he should subject to garnishes or to the humiliation of seeking welfare. Welfare Money was never intended to be used for the purpose of satisfying merchants. If a Man goes broke in business he can usually get his creditors off. His Back by paying so Many cents on the Dollar. Why should this privilege not be extended to people who work for a weekly wage the Gam Ishee is a useless blackmail because Many employers will fire an employee the moment a Dunning letter comes in. So for the Price of a Small debt a Man loses his Job and worse his ability to pay off any other debts he has. It s so easy to criticize these find themselves in financial jackpots. But surely there is a More realistic Way of getting them out of debt than putting them on the welfare Rolls. The City has no right to be in the business of paying off personal debts no matter How worthy the cause. I say the onus is on the merchant to collect whatever he can. If a Man is a bad credit risk the merchant is at fault for Selling him goods on time payments. So should t the merchant also be of the Hook if the debt in t repaid on time under the present system All of us who get behind in our Bills would seem entitled to have City Hall pay off our debts for us. The line forms on the right and quit that pushing there s enough for everybody. Ottone Rivir 453-3332 Portage t Simom 774-2471 14 St. James Street opposite Polo Park 786-6191 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight wednesday mainly Cloudy with widely scattered Clearing this evening. Sunny wednesday with a few Clouds during the afternoon. Little change in temperature. Winds Light. Low tonight for Clell and Winnipeg 50, High wednesday to. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at . Tuesday forecast meekly sunny this afternoon and again wednesday except for a few Cloudy periods and an occasional Shower during the late afternoons. Not Juite As warm. Winds northerly at 20 . High today for Cioll and Winnipeg 70, Law tonight 50. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which at 6 . Tuesday Max. Man. Pro. Vancouver 70 52 Calgary 61 47, .02 Edmonton 65 40 16 Regow 74 so .14 Brandon 71 55 .86 the Pas. A so Winnipeg 77 51 pert William 51 Kenora 76 47 .51 Max. Min. Mean july 22 52.6 64.8 last year. W.4 60.3 72.4 Normal i1.4 . Pre. 88 58 90 49 89 63 .05 Ottawa Montreal Halifax. 74 Chicago 85 69 Miami 87 76 los Angeles 73 65 Minneapolis 78 .63 new York 87 75 highest on record itt in lowest on record 39.0 in 1887 .30 St. Boniface firemen train a Hose on the Interior of the Basilica in an Effort to save part of the building from the flames. Please see pages 1 and 33 for More pictures and stories of the fire divisions to get Grade 12 results Grade 12 students will receive their examination results directly from local school authorities instead of through the mails because of the postal strike. Boy 16, saves a 16-year-old boy who sunday afternoon saved two people from drowning was himself rescued from the Waters of Lake Winnipeg and had to be restrained from going Back into the water to save his older brother. The boy Robert Kozak of 575 Clifton Street said in a Tele phone interview tuesday that he arid his brother John 24, were about to go swimming at grand Beach near the old pier when someone told them a Man was drowning. We did t think it was True at first said Robert because the Waves weren t very High. But he said he and his brother soon saw a head Bobbing in the water. Robert said he and his brother and a lifeguard went into the water in an attempt to save the Man. They soon discovered Why the Man was having such difficulty there was a very Strong undercurrent. Robert and the lifeguard managed to bring the Man to safety but by that time John was in trouble. A wave might have hit him from behind and knocked him said Robert he started to Drift put away from Jie Beach he said. At this Point said another Man went after John but the undercurrent caught him too. Robert then dived Back into the water and rescued the Man who had tried to save. His brother. When the Man was safely ashore Robert went Back once again this time for John. But said i was. Caught in the current and someone had to save Robert said he wanted to try again to Rescue his brother who was in the water for about an hour but every time he attempted to do so he was restrained by people on the finally he said John was saved by some other men. Robert does t know the names of the men he rescued or those who rescued his brother and himself. John Kozak was reported in Good condition in Winnipeg general Hospital tuesday. He is being treated for a sore Back which had previously Given him trouble and was aggravated by the incident a Robert who will be entering Grade 10 at technical vocational High school in the fill deplored the Lack of lifesaving equipment at grand Beach and said there were no signs to warn swimmers of the dangerous undercurrent that s no Way to save he said. Mark statements from the High school examination Board will be shipped to division boards beginning thursday. Announcing the move tuesday morning education minister George Johnson said it would take two to three Days to ship statements to the divisions and to permit local authorities to arrange for distribution to the students. He said division boards had been requested to make the to students at convenient locations through out each division. Each division is responsible for announcing the Date and place where the Mark statements will be Avail Able. Examination results for adults who attended divisional evening schools will be available at school division offices. Adults who wrote at the departmental Centre at Tuxedo can pick up their results at 1181 Portage Avenue room 408. Applications for re reads and supplemental examinations should be turned i to school division offices or at 1181 Portage Avenue room 408. Or. Johnson said the deadline for submission of Appeal and supplemental examinations normally the. First week in August will be suspended until the postal strike ends. However he also noted there would be no change in the aug. 20 starting Date for supple mental examinations. Private schools and other High schools not under divisional jurisdictions have been asked to pick up their examination results. In metro Winnipeg results will be available at 1181 Portage Avenue. In other areas of the province statements can be picked up at local school division offices. Charleswood gardens judged several gardens had to be withdrawn v from the Charles Wood horticultural society s an Nual Garden contest because of bad weather the night before. Society Secretary mrs. S. S. Goodman said the contest judge mrs. A. W. Lyons did not visit some gardens because of mud and the danger of damaging them further. Here Are the results of the judging done Home ground Over 66 feet or. And f. H. Shackell 355 Royal Road or. And mrs. A. P. Kerr 4931 Robin Boule or. And mrs. Al Hunter 610 Harstone Road. Under 66 feet or. And mrs. Howard a. Clearwater 174 Wexford Street Andrew h. Dykes 100 Wexford. Novice Section or. And mrs. Richard 5615 Roblin mrs. Anna Clarke 110 Wexford. South tale lakes mar go a plan to prevent any More drownings in Man made lakes in St. Boniface s South Dale residential development was Given the go ahead monday night. Approving a motion by Aid. Alexander Mackenzie St. Boni face City Council voted to investigate the possibility of Trad ing the publicly owned lakes and surrounding Park area about four acres with the South Dale Developer for land not bordering water. On july 18 a St. Boniface boy drowned in one of the lakes and last Winter a youth fell through the ice but was pulled out by a policeman. Although Aid. Mackenzie s motion was the first to reach Council officially several Alder Man have been talking about fencing the area off or Fillingin the lakes double As storm sewers and installing a sewer system. Now the land is the City s responsibility Aid. Mac Kenzie said in an interview after the meeting How Many people who see a group of Little children playing close to the water would feel compelled to Call the police if the land were taken Over and Homes built there some people would put up fences. Others would be careful of who was playing in their backyards. It would instil a sense of responsibility lacking when South Dale was built the lakes were the Selling Point. They were promoted for their Beauty originality and they also saved St. Boniface the Cost of storm sewers. Recently playground equip ment was installed. Aid. Mackenzie said it s quite Natur Al that children will get bored with swinging and walk Down to toe water. Are no playground supervisors in the Park and we could t have a lifeguard there All the Aid. Mackenzie said. The Cost would be ridiculous. Besides if 20 Chil Dren were playing there and one disappeared the water is so Cloudy he could t be seen in the Aid. Mackenzie said the play ground equipment was originally closer to Homes but residents complained about noise and the Parks Board move the equip ment closer to the Lake area. Winnipeg free press by Carrier soc per week tuesday july 23, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and Tor payment of postage in Cash. Pharmacy entered Winnipeg police said Broad Way pharmacy 618 Broadway was broken into sunday night and watches electric shavers cigarettes and pens stolen. They said entry was gained by breaking a Hole in a Brick Wall of the pharmacy. This Aerial picture of the St. Boniface Basilica on tache Avenue shows Only the Walls standing and the rest of the building a Heap of smouldering ruins. Avenue widening plan hit Sisters want peace and quiet j by Hubert Beyer an angry delegation appeared before Winnipeg s Public works committee monday to protest the proposed widening of Mani Toba Avenue from Huber Street to Walsall Road and a proposed playground in the area. Caroline Merrifield and Amelie Merrifield of 2063 Mani Toba Avenue told the committee they would move out of the District if the City decided to Widen the Street and build the playground. The widening of the Street they said would require the expropriation of eight feet of their frontage which would leave them with a worthless lot. All the Trees and shrubs they said would be lost. They also were opposed to the playground plan. We i would be subjected to continuous harassment of noise and bad manners and trouble at our age All we ask is peace and quiet we Don t want to move but one 6f the Sisters told the committee. Never mind that they do what they want the other interrupted. City Engineer w. D. Told the committee that the Street widening was part of a redevelopment plan of the entire Irea. It was approved by Council and you. Cant just leave one part out person he said. Manitoba Avenue was to become a collector Street and the minimum Width for collector streets was 66 he said. Manitoba Avenue at this parti Cular location was Only 50 feet wide. Alderman Leonard h. Claydon said the Only prope Tyvon the North Side of the Street be longed to the Sisters. It was an old House which would t stand for Many More years he said. On the South Side of the Street there Are All new Bunga lows and you would. Cut into a lot of. Properties if you that he said. Aid. Ernest j. Enns said he. Objected to the delegation s feeling about the proposed play ground what have you got against Chili Fren they have to play miss Merrifield replied Why next to us i Don t want kids that does t go Over with Aid. Enns shot Back. He also warned the committee it would have on hand if expropriated eight feet from the delegation s property. Every one of those Bushes is All of a sudden going to be Worth at least Aid. Claydon said he did t care How close they came to an old House. I m. Not willing to let one piece of property determine the development of an entire he said. The committee finally agreed to recommend to Council that eight feet on the North Side of Manitoba a v e n u e Between Huber Street and Walsall Road be expropriated to allow for the proposed Street widening. Rashkansky s widow to visit v mrs. L o u i Wasli Kansky widow of the world s first heart transplant patient is due in Winnipeg next month to visit relatives Here. Her two week stay will be in the culmination of a correspondence begun six years ago Between mrs. Rashkansky in Cape South Africa and the Winnipeg relatives she has never met. She will be the guest of or. And mrs. Max Margolis of 129 Smithfield Avenue West Kil Donan. Both and mrs. Margolis whose fathers were Brothers Are second cousins of mrs. Rashkansky. Mrs. W As h k a n s k y wrote several years ago that she and her husband hoped to travel to North America to visit her Here but or. Wash illness interfered with their plans. A. Dec. 3, 1967, or. Christian Barnard transplanted the heart of a 25-year-old woman into or. Rashkansky s Chest and started it beating with jolts from electrodes in the first operation of its kind. Or. Rashkansky died in Cape town s groote Schurr Hospital 18 Days later. Mrs Rashkansky wrote to Winnipeg sir weeks ago to say she was going ahead with plans for a trip that will take her to new York Winnipeg and los Angeles to meet relatives she s never seen and finally to Israel to visit her sister she indicated she would arrive in Winnipeg during the first week in August but the postal strike has held up communication of her final plans her relatives said. Clerk gets jail term a payroll clerk who gave himself raises when he made out his company s payroll cheques was sentenced monday in Winnipeg magistrate s court to nine months in jail. Jack Shust 25, of 96 Clare Mont Avenue St. Boniface pleaded guilty before magistrate of Isaac Rice to six charges forgery and uttering. While employed by a Winni Peg firm As an office manager and payroll clerk March i to april a Shust added to his pay Cheque on six occasions and the cheques court ;