Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wednesday y s mailbag like everyone else s did t arrive but i did find a delightfully Short subject to occupy my time mini skirts and their Rise or fall. My authority in my study was Laurel Nelson of the Bay who assures me and All other Portage Avenue strolling males that despite fashion trends in London Paris and new York the mini will be around for some time to come in Winnipeg. It May even be of the Rise this summer but not to the same Heights As some seen recently by miss Nelson in new York and Montreal where they be been As High As a foot above the knee very Odd Type in London for some years the trend is just noticeable in the other two cities. Laurel says two to four inches above the knee is comfortable and attractive for younger girls and will Likely stay there locally although some briefer styles have also made their appearance Here this year. And she advises local males not to worry about Maxi skirts the ankle length disguises now being worn occasionally in London. Says Laurel they re just fun things for very occasional Wear the mini is still the thing for the thank you Laurel for the reassurance. And of course the absence of a daily mailbag gives me an Opportunity to answer some of the letters received pre postal strike. Like the one from mrs. Pauline Uskoski o Beausejour who s discovered a difference in her daughter s pints and quarts compared with those mrs. Uskoski was taught at school. The problem arose when mrs Uskoski s daughter Cheryl a Grade 3 student corrected her when she described one pint As consisting of two cups not so says daughter 2y2 cups equals one pint. And sure enough this is the measurement table in the Little girl s math Book. When did it change Well our free press Home economist Norah Cherry had the answer for me it s really just the same As always. The difference is in the american or wine measurement which is two cups equals one pint. The English measurement used in Canada has always been 2y2 cups equals one pint. The Basic difference lies in the american quart measurement of 32 ounces compared to the English or Canadian quart of 40 ounces. Cast changes it won t be Yvette who precedes Jack Jones at the Centennial concert Hall Friday night after All Vicki Knight will be the local girl featured in the opening numbers. While Leon and Harry vacationed from the bandstand at Rae and Jerry s the past couple of weeks Fine piano sounds were supplied by Jack Parkin. Jack has played a lot of piano around Winnipeg but mainly As a member of a group. Alone he turns out to be familiar with All the piano classics appreciated by the quiet listener. Arlene Billinkoff who reviews films for o journal from time to time asked Trie today if i had left out a reference to the third movie production of state fair on purpose the other Day. I did t. Vit s just that i m either too Young or too Arlene was preferring to the movie which starred Pat Boone Ann Margret Bobby Darin and Alice Faye and of course winning hog. Adds Arlene if i left it out on purpose she under stands Why. Apparently it bad. Chi id s Puppy seized As chattel for reasons beyond her understanding Stacy t Groulx 2, bad her Mongrel Puppy tiny taken away monday afternoon. Statements by the three parties involved agree on these Points the Puppy was taken As chattel. Gerald Groulx owes rent Money on his Scotia Street Resi Dence Money had been owed Ronald Stenning the at previous times. The four bedroom House is rented to the three child Groulx family for a month on a yearly lease. I gave the bailiffs per Mission to do what was said or. Stenning in a Telephone interview tues Day. I had no idea they would take the dog. I went to a Bailiff Agency As i thought landlords had some rights. Taking the dog does t seem right. I Don t think the Bailiff wants the dog i said i would try to get it at the Portage Avenue office of associated com Mercial protectors ltd., the bailiffs manager j. P. Devlin said the Puppy was taken to irritate or. Groulx into raising the Money owed. The decision was to take any chattel and seizure of the dog has succeeded in irritating him said or. Devlin. According to or. Devlin this is a repetitive or. Groulx said his res Ponse to having his Daugh Ter s dog seized was to Channel All further dealings with and or. Stenning through his lawyer. Mrs. Groulx said the bailiffs came monday and were r us e d Entrance. After some conversation she allowed one Man to enter the House. On his Way out he picked up the dog and said that was the chattel. As Stacy stood crying unable. To move because of c o r r i v e braces mrs. Groulx asked him to take a set of bar furniture rather than the dog since they would t wait until or. Groulx was Home. She said they gave her a receipt for the Puppy and said it was chattel. Nothing else was taken. According to mrs. Groulx the bailiffs returned tues Day afternoon with a truck to take the children s or. Groulx said he is considering court action. The Puppy has been placed in the Sherbrook Ani Mal Hospital according to or. Devlin. Any costs incurred will be charged to or. Groulx he said. Winnipeg free press and i Don t know if this final bit of philosophy from my friends at the Garry press applies to strikes or not but it seems to make sense for everyone. Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get boy drowns in Sand pit a 12-y e a r of 1 d Beausejour Man., boy drowned in a water filled Sandpit near his Home tuesday after futile at tempts by onlookers to Rescue him. Ramp said the body of Gregory Alan Langher was recovered during dragging operations. An inquest has been ordered. Beausejour is 25 Miles East of Winnipeg. Osborne River 453-3223 Portage 6 Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. Mes Street opposite Polo Park 786-6191 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight thursday centrally sunny skies will prevail across Pat Iris today and thursday with a few scattered showers developing in the late afternoon and isolated Over the Western regions in the Early evening. Temperatures will remain about 10 degrees below seasonal values in All regions today with slightly higher ones expected thursday in Alberta. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today by Carrier soc per week ill v authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Kept. Ottawa and for Paymen of postage in Eash South Dale children play by no swimming sign at Clearwater Lake a South Dale viewpoint Why not Fence the hives if comments from Home owners around Clearwater Lake in South Dale Are an indication any plan to re move the Man made lakes would meet Strong opposition. Monday evening St. Boni face Council voted to investigate the possibility of trading the City owned lakes in the South Dale develop ment in return for land not fronting on water. July 18 a St. Boniface boy drowned i one of the lakes Clearwater and last Winter a youth was rescued by a St. Boniface policeman after the youth fell through the ice. St. Boniface Council Hope s that the land Swap would allow the Developer to. Build Homes and the owners would build fences Between houses and the lakes. Aid. Alexander Mackenzie thinks it would instil a sense of responsibility lacking now by acting As a Check on children playing near the water and p r e v e n t i n g drownings. Other spoke of filling the lakes or fencing the area. But the feelings of Resi dents around Clearwater Lake Are in direct contrast to any suggestions. Said sever Al. We moved out Here for the sole purpose of living on the said mrs. Robert Baert 117 Clearwater Road. I d sure hate to see it like almost All residents questioned she claimed Lack of supervision and children from other areas were to blame for any problems. If we can keep our kids out of the Lake Why can t other people it s been people who Don t live on the Lake that Are the main cause 01 trouble she said. Both the drowning and the near drowning involved persons who did not live around the lakes. Looking at the Lake mrs. Baert said it would be a shame to have it go just because somebody s care most residents questioned explained that they have taken rigid precautions to prevent any tragedies involving their children. Many Are absolutely for Bidden to venture near the water the parents say they constantly keep an Eye open when they know that Chil Dren not necessarily their own Are in or near the Lake. Clearwater Lake is roughly Oval in shape and the Shore at both ends is undeveloped although thare is a playground at the West end. It is to these areas that outsiders gravitate said several Lakeside residents. The no swimming signs Are virtually ignored. Most residents said the Rivers in the greater Winni Peg area Are More danger Ous than the lakes. Why Don t they talk about fencing the Rivers with the greater Width and current they re a lot More said mrs Alex Tourluk 87 Clearwater Road. Mrs. M. A. Mcouat 135 Edgewater drive said that although she does t care for the open Park s at the ends she thinks Row boating and Winter sports on the ice and the slopes surrounding the Lake Are i think the lakes Are marvellous As they she forbids her children from straying too near the water but since they have a backyard swimming Pool the children would t be too interested in swimming in the Lake anyway she explained. The problem of danger is due to Lack of parental supervision she said which is nearly impossible when hordes of children from outside the neighbourhood Pool site shunted again forecast mainly sunny today and Thun Day with Cloudy periods during the afternoon. A Little warmer thursday. Winds Light Tow tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg so. High thursday 75. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at. 6 . Wednesday Max. Min. Pre. 72 St 41 61 Vancouver Calgary Edmonton 68 46 Regina 71 44 Brandon 70 47 the. Pas. 69 49 Winnipeg 50 72 51 Kenora 65 53 .15 to to .08 Max. Min. July 23. 70.4 54.1 year 67.1 54.3 formal 81.s 57.9 .16 mean 62.3 60.7 69.7 Ottawa. Toron o 76 Montreal. 76 73 Chicago so Miami. 88 Angeles 76 Minneapolis. 78 new York 93 Max. Min. Pre. 74 62 62 .23 61 59 .03 70 81 67 65 70 1.05 .10 highest on record 9j.8 in 1903 lowest on record 42.6 in 1953 descend upon the Lake. Another resident to use the argument that the red and Assiniboine Rivers Are More dangerous was Ron Anderson 43 Clearwater drive. He claimed the furore about the South Dale lakes was created just because they happened to be Man made and put there on other co m m e n t s from people living in the Clear water Lake area were personally i like the the lakes Here were a drawing card for every parents and children living Here have a healthy respect for i just and it s much safer than a i would t be living Here if i did t like i like it very much. All my kids Learned to swim Well when they were very the Lake was a o Good reason for us moving Stacy Groulx tiny lower prices on groceries greater Winnipeg shoppers Are experiencing lower food costs because of increased com petition Between grocery Chain stores. Some housewives claim their weekly grocery Bills have dropped As much As because of reduced prices implemented during the past few weeks. Level of red rising recent heavy rams which have More than doubled tee flow rate of the red River Are expected to raise the River level about one. Foot in greater Winnipeg h. C. Tod Manitoba director of the Federal depart ment of Public works said tuesday. To there appears to he no danger of flooding but people with wharves on the River were advised that the Normal River level could be exceeded and that appropriate precautions should be taken. The River eight feet at risen six to Emerson Man., where its been Esti mated at cubic feet a second. Although the red s Normal summer flows Are less than cubic feet a second flooding does t normally occur until the rate reaches cubic feet a second. Or. Tod said the excessive flow has now reached a rate at which the dam at Lockport Man., has Little effect on " the water level in greater Winni Peg v where the flow is now estimated at cubic feet a second. Shallow draught pleasure Craft Are encountering no difficulty at the Lockport locks but a danger of deep vessels running into the lower food costs Are attributed to the entry of a new supermarket Chain in the Winnipeg area. The new firm econ Mart operates with a minimum of overhead costs by having customers do most of the work such As packing their Pur chases. Discounts Are also offered on bulk purchases the first econ Mart was opened in March of this year. Since then three new stores have been established. The econ Mart Chain ignores expensive fixtures and has reduced labor costs by not using carefully designed displays and packers. Iga Safeway Dominion and a p stores have reduced their prices to compete. In existing stores close to the econ Mart outlets prices have been reduced to meet the Competition while in others the change has t been As drastic. The major Chain stores make constant checks of their competitors stores to compare prices to ensure that they i remain competitive. Competition dictates food prices one Chain store official said. But the Best Way a shopper can ensure he is getting the Best value for his food Dollar is to compare the advertisements in wednesday newspapers the store official said. Skiers asked to help manitoba4 skiers have been asked to help clean up Tornado stricken la Riviere the province s oldest ski Centre and a focal Point of club activities. There draught trouble on the rocks of Lister rapids. V we want to help the citizens since april 1, a total of 12.91 of la Riviere who have been inches of rain has fallen in greater Winnipeg compared to a Normal rainfall for the period 8.26 inches. Further heavy Good to us Over the said Currie Mcmillan executive7 member and past president of the Manitoba division of the Rains this week could further j Canadian Amateur ski Assoc a increase the River flow or. Tod Tion said. Stolen Honey orders plague City lumbermen Winnipeg s Parks and recreation committee recommended to Council tuesday that a new Ward 3 swimming Pool be built on the old exhibition grounds at Dufferin Avenue and Sinclair Street. The recommendation reverses an earlier Council decision to build the Pool next to the r. B. Russell vocational school 364 Dufferin Avenue. It s about time something is Alderman Joseph Zuken said in an interview following the meeting. The h. B. Russell school site a Well have to pay dearly for the More strategic location. Now the committee has changed its mind again and has recommended the original site. In the meantime construction costs Are soaring and St. Boniface swim meet set the St. Boniface swim and a Meeyung water safety association will we be been trying since its 150th meet at the Windsor Park Pool october to get the Pool built and up to now we be Only come up against a Maze of Legal Obsta construction of the Pool was approved i the 1967 civic elections when taxpayers voted in favor bylaw. Of a Money at first the old exhibition site was favored by Council because the City owns the land the site was abandoned later in favor of at . Thursday. Preliminary meets have been held at St. Boniface pools with each Pool entering in this final event. Winners will become members of the St. Boniface 150th. Swim team and will go on to compete in the metro recreation swim meet in the pan am Pool aug. 22, and in an earlier meet in Transcona aug. 15. Nine month Aid. Zuken said. The exhibition ground site he said offered better parking facilities and most important construction could begin at an earlier Date. As far As the a. A. Russell site is concerned Aid. Zuken said that the City solicitor had doubts about the legality of an agreement Between the City and the school Board. The land belongs to the lumber merchants in the City Are warning each other about a teen age boy who collects change for a or Money order. The Money orders Are stolen. A spokesman for the Post office investigation Branch said the Money stolen dec. 23 in a burglary at a Winnipeg pastal sub station. Information about the Payee Remitter amount and paying office Are stamped on the. Stolen Money orders with. A printing set. This information is hand written on a legally made out order. The stolen orders list Regina As the paying office and Are made out in or amounts province which would have to the Post office spokesman said. Turn it Over to the school Board and it is doubtful whether the City is even allowed to enter into a Legal agreement with the school in addition to the Legal obstacles dissension among school Board members Over the Pool s location at the r. B. Russell site. I think that we should forget about the school site and get this thing said. One of the stolen Winnipeg Money orders has turned up in Ottawa the spokesman a Bunch of them-., were presented to lumber dealers on he said but it has been going on for the last 10 in the. Spring the illegal Money orders were being cashed at local hotels he said. The spokesman said he could not estimate the total loss to free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Thursday in the free press building Are v Board i businessmen Here about 10 room Eaton s Angling club lumber dealers have been victimized so far he said. He described the procedure. A woman telephones asking for or lumber to be delivered to an address in the City and says she win Send her son Down to pay the lumber company. The boy arrives with the order endorsed with the forged signature of the resident of the address the woman has Given and gets Cash change for it. Different addresses Are used in these frauds the Post office spokesman said. But one Winnipeg resident had three lots of lumber which he had never ordered delivered to his Home. Who cashes the Money orders is described As 15 to 16 years old five feet seven or eight inches tall of average dark Brown Nair and. A dark complexion. In conjunction with the Winnipeg ski club division executives Are asking skiers and their friends to go to la Riviere saturday sunday and be prepared to work. Those who own or can borrow Power saws buc saws or axes Are asked to bring them along with picnic lunches. Noel later owner of Holiday Mountain ski resort offered to act As Foreman and organize the volunteers into work Crews. The Tornado last saturday night severely damaged the la Riviere area about 70 Miles Southwest of Winnipeg in Addi Tion to the ski slopes and Cabins the town Park and other areas Are littered with fallen Trees and debris. It practice but after that it ;