Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Another View by John Robertson i figured i had already said enough about the current postal strike but i looked in. My. Mail Box wednes Day morning and found a letter from a mailman delivered by hand and after considerable deliberation i thought it Only fair to run his Point of View in today s column. Dear John your views in thursday s column about the postal strike Lead me to believe that your brains Are in your backside. You Are on the wrong Page. You ought to be on the editorial Page with those other comedians. There is Only one thing these clowns hate worse than a labor Man and that is a labor Man who won t vote Liberal. You said that you would bet there is not one postman in this City who would t gladly go Back to work for a 10 per cent pay increase you lose big John. Here is one postman who would not be Happy. And if you would care to Check on the facts you would find about 99 per cent of my Brothers who would t be overjoyed either. How could we be do you realize How much 10 per cent Gross amounts to in net do you realize what has happened in prices in the two years since we had a raise How much would 10 per cent go towards paying the doctors who Are getting 40 per cent More a cup of Coffee that was 10 cents is now 15. Would 10 per cent cover that and your favorite beverage a 10-cent Glass of Beer now retails for 25 cents. Smarten up John ten per cent would barely cover the sales tax on a pair of socks. And As for your debating the unrealistic demands of my salary John How about letting us in on a secret. How much Money do you make so we can kick that around you pay my wages through income tax but i pay yours when i buy your non Union free press. Signed foots logger i guess you told me huh i Don t mind you calling me i highly resent being called Rich. I think my salary is my own business but let s just say i m in a bracket Low enough that i still pay unemployment insurance. And also if you people get the raise you ask for thousands of postal clerks across Canada will be making More Money on their Job than i do on mine. Of yes i did get a raise recently. Five per cent. so Don t preach to me about How Tough it is to manage at today s prices with a family to support. I think that if you la Check this column Over the. Past six months you la discover that i have a pretty Good record of going to Bat for the average Joe the needy and anyone i thought was getting a raw Deal from life. I understand that quite a few postal workers have quit taking the free press because of my comments on the strike which were in a nutshell As now constituted both the Union wage demands and the Treasury Board s coun Ter offer Are unrealistic which is the same stand taken by free press labor columnist Dudley Magnus in his column of july 17. The reaction of some Union types is frankly puzzling. Just because i object to one raise asked by one Union in one strike i am automatically anti Union. Well since i have called the Treasury Board offer equally unrealistic does t that make me anti management too i was always told that unions believed in the Freedom of individual rights not in suppression in the right to speak up and voice your own opinion no matter How unpopular in the right to stand up and be counted on the Side you choose. Do you think that nobody has the right to even question your demands do you think that by stopping the paper you will teach me a lesson never to criticize another strike Are you asking me to believe that your code of ethics is if he s not one of us let s get is this what a labor government would do to any free Man who voiced a contrary opinion i wish we All made enough Money so we d never have to fret about creeping inflation. I wish All employers paid such a fair wage there would never be a need for strikes. I wish that every Man who delivers anything who works with his hands head or feet could get a 25 or 35 per cent raise. But then everything would Cost 25 or 35 per cent More would t it yes postal people you Are entitled to a fair raise and a fair hearing. But i. Me John Robertson am entitled to a few things too. And one of them is the right to my own opinion. And the Day you deny me that All the raises in the world won t make this country a fit place to live in. Osier no for 453-3231 Pok Tagi 6 Simcoe 774-2471 j14 St. James strut opposite Polo Park 716-6891 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight Friday somewhat cooler and showery weather it working southward into Northern inc Toni of the Prairies today. Modifications of this my air Mast will occur to that temperatures Over the Southern Refior will not be greatly if leered either today or Friday. Then will be Shower activity late this afternoon and this evening As Well Friday but rain fall will be spotty and generally Light. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today forecast mainly sunny today with a few isolated showers this evening. Sunny again Friday becoming Cloudy with a few widely scattered showers by evening. Little change in temperature. Light winds. Increasing to South West at 15 . By Friday afternoon. Low tonight for Lmh and Winnipeg 55, High Friday 80. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Thursday Vancouver Calgary Edmonton 72 Regina 77 75 the Pas 75 Winnipeg 74 fort William 76 Kenora. 72 Max. My. Pre. 73 56 69 44 .03 56 49 50 52 54 so 55 .04 .08 Ottawa .05 Montreal 09 Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York 77 80 65. 59 temperature comparisons Max. Man. Mean highest on record july 24 73.6 61.7 95.2 in 1951 last year 79.2 54io 66.6 lowest on record Normal 81.6 .57.8 69.7 40.2 in 1946 Aid offered in dog Case by Lyn Schankerman an Anonymous person has offered to help Gerald Groulx pay off his debts. Bailiffs monday seized the family dog a Mongrel Puppy named tiny As chattel in lieu of rent owed on or. Groulx s 291 Scotia Street House in West Kildonan according to landlord Ronald Stenning or. Groulx is in arrears on rent payments. In taking the dog bailiffs handed mrs. Groulx a receipt setting the debt at the extra to cover the Cost of the bailiffs action. J. P Devlin manager of associated commercial p r o sectors Ltd. Called at the Groulx Bouse at about 9 . Wednes Day with the offer an Anonymous Benefactor will pay a substantial amount which i will not state at this tune on the condition you mrs. Groulx sign a promissory note for the rest of the two reporters were present when the offer was made. Or. Devlin refused to elaborate on the offer. Or. Groulx and or. Devlin agreed that the offer would be discussed by their solicitors thursday. Or. Stenning later invited the reporters to his Scotia Street Home. Or. Devlin was also present or. Stenning said he had received Telephone Calls follow ing newspaper stories identify ing Bun As the Groulx landlord. They be been saying i m a mean Man for taking his dog. All i want is my Money i m carrying three mortgages and need he said. A radio station said thursday that an offer of was made by a Man who was put in Contact with the Bailiff Agency after calling an announcer there. The Man also offered to pay Ken Eling fees if or. Devlin matched the latter amount with a contribution to the society of crippled children and adults of Manitoba. The Man later called the radio station to say or. Devlin had refused the arrangement. Or. Groulx appearing on an open line radio show said he appreciates the efforts on his behalf of the Man who offered to pay the debt or. Groulx said he would pay this debt myself is afternoon or monday or. Devlin had no comment. Accounts of monday s seizure of the dog differ. Or. Devlin said he understood the dog was taken after one was allowed to enter the House and was refused Permis Sion to take any of the furniture. He said that All mrs. Groulx had to do was touch an item and say no and any attempt to take the item could assault. He said his men would have left the dog had mrs. Groulx said Don t take it and been in physical Contact with it at that moment. I have been told she did t make the offer of the bar set i say she stopped him the Bailiff from taking As he understood the Situa Tion the dog had been taken As the Bailiff left the House. According to mrs. Groulx the bar set was offered As. Chattel if the men would leave the. Dog and wait until her husband returned at 3 . The seizure was made about . Monday. Mrs. Groulx said she allowed one Bailiff there were three of hers with him to enter the House. Holding the dog he had itt oked around the living room and refused to take anything from it saying they had decided to take the dog. When asked what she would do if a Bailiff tried to seize something mrs. Groulx said i d Call the would she attempt to Stop the seizure physically no i d Call the she said. Statements by both or. Dev Lin and mrs. Groulx agreed that no attempt was made physically to Stop the seizure and no threats of a personal nature were made by either party. Meanwhile the dog has been placed in the Sherbrook animal Hospital according to or. Dev Lin. Winnipeg free press by Carrier Sec per week thursday july 25, 1968 authorised As 2nd class mall by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of. Postage in Cash. Juba set to sell non lottery Bond to a Friend who will sue by Hubert Beyer i m willing to commit a crime to get a court decision on this savings Bond mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg said angrily in an interview wednesday. Commenting on attorney general Sterling Lynn s opinion that his proposed lottery was illegal and that he would the courts for an opinion on the legality of a hypothetical Case the mayor said he would t let it Cool to mail idea mayor Steve Juba said wednesday that it was unrealistic and impractical to establish temporary Post offices at Winnipeg s fire Halls and have firefighters deliver government mail. This is a real Choo Choo idea and i doubt if City Council will it any the mayor said in an interview. He made the comment follow ing Alderman Leonard h. Clay Don s proposal that Post offices be established in the City s fire balls where Winni Eggers could bring any mail addressed to the provincial government metro or the City of Winnipeg. Firemen could then sort the mail and deliver it to the Vari Ous governments Aid Claydon suggested monday. But mayor Juba fears that there is no Merit in the idea. What s next the firemen will probably wonder if they re going to end up cleaning the streets or paving he said. Furthermore i doubt if it would be Legal. As far As i know the Only body permitted to trans port or deliver mail is the Post or. Juba also was concerned about the effect such action might have on future contract negotiations with the Winnipeg fire fighters association bar gaining agent for the firemen. What do you think the association will say they Are rightly going to demand that extra duties warrant additional firemen were doing work beyond their duty now the mayor said. They repair motors they build fire trucks. If we had them deliver mail now we might do irreparable damage to the relationship Between the City and the bargaining apart from All the complications mayor Juba said the City was no worse off than any other place in Canada and the Only thing the City could Hope for was an Early settlement of the postal strike. Permit granted Midwest aviation Ltd. Of Winnipeg has been granted a renewed flight permit to provide non scheduled service Between Canada and various Points in the United states the . Civil aeronautics Board announced recently. Go at that. I la have a savings Bond printed and sell it to a Friend offering him a prize. Then i la have him sue me and see what the court will have to say about mayor Juba said. It seems a shame that you actually have to commit a crime to find out whether something is Legal or not. But it seems that this is the Only Way a court ruling can be under the mayor s proposed scheme the City would sell debentures at no interest in Stead a monthly prize of or would be offered. The tickets would be Good for three years making the bearer eligible for 36 monthly draws. At. The end of the three year period the ticket Holder would get his no Back. Administration costs and prize Money out Over a three year period would amount to 4vi per cent of the City s million target. Present interest rates paid by the City Are nearly eight per cent. Does he still think his lottery May be launched Many times do 1 to Tell you it s not a the mayor snapped Back. Let me Tell you this Lyon does to make the decision. That s up to. The courts. I intend to find out whether they will Rule this scheme illegal or the mayor said that the Only precedent for such a Case. Was set by a Canadian court during construction of the Panama canal. At that time the a French government sold Bonds to help finance the building of the canal and a Canadia court ruling termed the Sale in Canada illegal. But Don t forget that we Are not living in the 19th Century now and that the Case involved a foreign country Selling Bonds in the mayor said. Surely if another Canadian City is allowed to sen millions of dollars Worth of tax slips from coast to Winnipeg tax payers should be allowed to buy City savings Bonds with a handsome prize to he said that he had talked to some lawyers and had been assured that a court ruling would be favourable to his scheme. Heck you get your Money Back and at the same time you have a Chance to participate i the financial affairs of the when will he commit the crime to find out what the 1 court has to say about his savings Bond scheme pretty soon believe you mayor Juba said. Store hits students a Layoff of summer help by Eaton s mail order department caused by the postal May mean some students won t be Able to Back to school this fall. Tom Miller Public relations director for Eaton s said in an interview wednesday about 300 workers have been affected. He said the company had no Choice in the matter. Our. Mail order department obviously de periods on orders being mailed in. With the strike on we Aren t getting them. And we May have to Lay More people off if the strike he said. A lot of these students most of them worked part tune depend on this Money for their University tuition. We can t re employ them until the strike is Over and this May mean some of them won t be Able to go Back to he said a number of regular employees chose to take their vacations now. Some have been relocated in other departments of the store. If business does t come in soon Well have to Lay even More or. Miller said. Typhoid epidemic not expected my there Are no fears of a major typhoid outbreak at a Northern Manitoba Hydro project where three cases of the disease have been confirmed and another is suspect or. Mohan Panikkar director of Northern health services said in a Telephone interview wednesday from the Pas. The stricken men were work ing on a Manitoba Hydro site at Kelsey about 460 Miles North of Winnipeg. Two Are in Hospital in Winni Peg another in Thompson and a fourth is undergoing tests in Winnipeg. But or. There is no cause to be alarmed by the situation. We have taken All the schools because of the postal strike there will be a serve yourself system this year for Grade 12 Winnipeg students if they want their final Marks. Departmental exam results will be available to All students in then own schools on thurs Day Between 2 and . And Friday Between 9 . And . They must be picked up in person or by a person with written permission from the student s parents. Evening school students who wrote exams at the department of education Centre in Tuxedo will be Able to pick up their Marks at the department build ing on Portage Avenue at Wall Street Between 9 and . Friday. Sign agreement Tokyo a communist China and North Vietnam signed an economic and technical Aid agreement in peking on wednesday radio peking said. The chinese language broadcast gave no details. Necessary precautions and if people follow them it should be perfectly he said in an interview. It seems the spread was from person to person but i Don t think there is going to be an operations to Stop the spread of the disease have been directed to the nearby Nelson River which is known to have been contaminated by sewage. Or. Emanuel Snell Manitoba director of preventive Medicine confirmed wednesday that he had grown typhoid germs from Nelson River water in his Laboratory. He said that people in the area had been advised to Stop bathing in the River and boil All water before using it. All drinking water was being treated with three times the usual amount of chlorine. Also under Way is the Mam Moth task of trying to find out if there is an undetected Carrier of typhoid in the area. This is a great big detective operation but i am not planning to Send any additional staff to Kelsey at or. Neu said. There is always an element of expectancy at this stage but we can do nothing More until we see what disposable bottles under fire Urban group to Campaign against containers Juba the Manitoba Urban association will launch a Campaign against disposable bottles at its septem Ber convention mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg said in an interview wednesday. These bottles Are a health Hazard of the first order and we intend to do something about it so far we have received no satisfaction from the provincial governor sent with the exception of a suggestion that the City buy a bottle Crusher. That Means or. John tax payer is going to get stuck with the Cost and i won t have any part of the mayor said the Manitoba Urban association mayor Juba is chairman intends to launch the Campaign with Large posters that will be displayed at stores and Munici pal offices. The posters Point out the hazards of non returnable bottles. Eventually i Hope the Provin Cial government will pass Strong legislation Banning the disposable bottles because the hazards Are something awful but until now they have done Roadside Parks and beaches the mayor said were already littered with the bottles and no body picks them up. Kids and even adults used to be great bottle collectors but there is anymore with the disposable bottles ? he said that the general pub Lic was being misled by the manufacturers. A lot of stores had made it mandatory to buy the disposable Type of bottles. That s not the mayor said. Alderman Leonard h. Claydon suggested wednesday that manufacturers pay the City for the Cost of disposing of the non returnable bottles. Enough bottles Are bought in keep one garbage truck Busy All Day at an approximate Cost of Aid. Claydon said that the companies should pay a charge for the eventual disposal of the non returnable bottles. The City he said was paying for the companies savings. Takes new Post Singapore Reuters Milton b. Blackwood a former Craf Pilot has arrived Here to take up his appointment As Ca Nadian acting High commissioner. Blackwood is also Canada s representative to Thailand and Indonesia. Federal Aid sought mayor Steve Juba still entertains Hopes that the Federal government May pick up the Tab for the pan american games. I be advised the Federal government that i m available on two hours notice and i think that we still May be Able to get Ottawa to pay part of the remaining the mayor said in an interview wednesday. All Levels of government have stood by their commitments and have paid then Bills to the pan american games society except the City of Winnipeg. The outstanding amount of is presently financed by a Short term Bank loan and in Terest charges amount to More than a Day but that figure is according to the mayor. There has been a lot of talk about this interest charge but we would have to pay that anyway. Even if we paid up now we d have to borrow the Money we Haven t got that kind of Cash around City the worst that could happen he said was that the City might have to pay the amount after All. But i Hope that we can get the Federal government to pay it at least get them to pay he said. Flower show the St. James horticulture society will hold its annual Flower show aug. 13 and 14 in the St. James civic Centre Ness Avenue and Woodlawn Street. Entries must be placed Between 7 . And 10 . On aug. 12, the society has announced. Power Plant to be fixed the Power Plant at the blood vein Indian Reserve will be operational by the weekend a spokesman for the Indian affairs Branch in Winnipeg said thursday. The 317 members of the Cree band which includes 150 children have been living on a diet of canned foods since the Power was shut off july. 9. The deep freeze the Community used to store freshly killed meat had become useless because the Indian affairs Branch had decided to overhaul the plants during the summer. Stan Knapp a member of the Indian affairs Branch staff in Winnipeg said in a Telephone interview thursday that two mechanics hired by the department to overhaul the remaining Genera Tor on the Reserve were at work and should have it operating by the weekend. The Community s other Generator is being overhauled in Winnipeg. The Only possible delay of the weekend dead line would be caused by having to Fly in parts from he said. Edward Daggit superintendent of the Clande Boye Indian Agency which supervises the blood vein Reserve said the mechanics would Decarbo the inactive Generator and make a Complete Check. Masked bandits sough t a police search was continuing thursday for two masked gunmen who forced then Way into the Home of a Winnipeg businessman tuesday and Rob bed him of a. Allyn Rossen 56, of 945 Wellington Crescent suffered a heart attack when he tried to Chase the bandits. He is reported in fair condition in St. Boniface Hospital. Or. Rossen president of Rossen lumber and Supply Ltd., was alone in the House when two masked gunmen came to his door forced their Way in and demanded he open a basement Safe. The gunmen tried to push him v Down the stairs when he re fused. Or. Rossen then dashed for the door but one of the men stopped him holding a gun to his head. The other took from or. Rosser s pocket and the two ran off police said. Or. Rossen tried to give Chase but collapsed. Police assume he returned to his House and dialled 999, the City s emergency number. Police have released tons of the gunmen. One is 19 to 22 years fold five feet 9ft inches tall weight Iso pounds Light coloured hair. He a Nylon stocking Over his and carried a Black revolver. The other is 17 to 19 five feet six inches 132 to 135 pounds Reddish hair. He carried a Silver plated gun and wore a mask. A. Relative of or. Rossen s said although he was in Good health generally he suffered a heart attack a few years ago and has a heart condition. The relative said or. Rossen wore a to Diamond ring which May have indicated to the bandits that he May have kept Large amounts of Cash on him or at Home. Or. Rossen is chairman of the Board of trustees at Victoria Hospital. He was taken there after the Holdup but tags i feared to an intensive care in St. Boniface Hospital because a bed was t available Victoria Hospital ;