Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday july 27, 1968 Fritzle one of the boarders Peers out of his run holdout Happy where he ism. Al the salvation army want Frank Lonardelli to sell Bis House. His wife wants him to sell. But or. Lonardelli says i m quite Happy. Why should or. Lonardelli lives in three Storey House at 170 Arling ton Street right in the path of salvation army Hospital com plex planned for most of the Block bounded by Arlington Westminster Avenue Evanso Street and Preston Avenue. He is the Only residential Ian owner in the Block holding out. And As salvation army it col. Muriel Everett adminis Trator of the army s Grac Hospital said in an interview the Power of the individual is really she said that at present there Are no Means of expo she explained the situation this Way the salvation army s Oli Grace Hospital South Portage Avenue on Arlington Street was temporarily closet last year and the patients transferred to the new Grac Hospital in St James. Ther Are plans for its eventual expansion to 500 Beds. Since then the two Origina wings of the Arlington Stree Hospital bunt m 1906 and 1909 respectively have Bisen de m Oli shed and preparations made to extend the 1947 and 1959 wings. The Winnipeg humane society s new Home strays on Kent Road humane society s new Home for strays for business greater Winnipeg now has a Home for unwanted or injured animals. The Winnipeg humane society s new animal shelter at Kent Road in the Elmwood area was built with society donations from the. Funds and Public. The shelter provides care and Comfort and humane death in some instances for some of the City s animals. It is 9. Sanctuary for animals and a shop window for people to give them Homes. There1 Are t also boarding facilities for. Pets belonging to people leaving. The City on Holiday or business trips. The shelter which has to indoor outdoor for boarding debt. Commo Dation for about 60 Ani Mals will Deal primarily with dogs and cats but has already handled rabbits Birds and a stank. Well take anything in said Robert Bell general manager of the shelter if a animal needs help that s what the shelter s 28 kennels six of which Are for isolation cases have three dog occupants at one s owner is away another was picked up after being hit by a car and the third was left by a family moving to the suites. Normally people bringing stray of injured Are asked to pay for services but these people drove up and said they did t want their dog any More. If we had t been Here the dog would probably be in line for the Gas chamber now so we absolved the people of their there Are special viewing kennels but animals Are not Given to new owners spent at least a week in the shelter to make sure they Are not diseased. The delay gives shelter officials a Chance to decide which applicants would make the most suitable owner. Obviously facilities at Home come into it and we can t Start handing cats and dogs out to children parental per we will go to All lengths to find a new owner. If we can t find one after a week or so we alternative but to put the animal to the six members of staff at the shelter including two women t who Are working with out wages Are receiving Many requests to put cats to sleep. The shelter replaces former society premises on Logan ave. The City Pound is alright for dogs but when other Small animals in trouble or unwanted it s anybody guess what was happening to said or. Bell. But if nobody eke cared the members of this society did and now we Are Able to do something about it the shelter is to be officially Bridge decision favored Winnipeg Alderman Joseph Zuken enthusiastic Over metro s decision to rebuild Arlington Street Bridge said Friday in was the Best news to come out of metro in a Long time. We Are to congratulate metro for its stand and meet with metro Council to accelerate the process of rebuilding. For years now its Beer delay delay delay. At last metro has done something that will be welcomed by the people of the North Arlington Bridge he said was crippled and should be replaced As soon As possible to make Arlington Street a main thoroughfare. The decision to restrict the Bridge to passenger cars would probably cause some traffic tie ups but that could t be helped he said. Buses h a v e n t used the Bridge for quite a while and trucks will have to use another route now. I m sure that the problem can be worked Oul without too much Aid. Leonard h. Claydon also welcomed metro s decision and said it had been time something was done. He did t believe toe i much traffic congestion would be caused by the decision to ban trucks. They can use Salter Bridge or the Mcphillips subway i Don t think this would be too great a hardship on the trucking he said. Jailed 3 months two Quebec men who broke into a firm on notre Dame Avenue were sentenced in Winnipeg magistrate court Fri Day to three months in jail. They Are Andre Maurice Lemieux 22, and Michel Joseph Bourgue 21, both of Magog que. They had pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering. Court was told Winnipeg police were informed by a Motorist that he had seen two men near Wash tropics ltd., 354 notre Dame Avenue. They investigated and caught Lemieux As he tried crawling away from the building toward notre Dame. He had smashed one of the windows in the car washing Plant. Bourgue was found in an office closet. The men had ransacked the desk drawers in the office court was told. However they had stolen nothing. Stolen televisions radios and cameras valued at More than were stolen thursday night after a break in at Mcleod s ltd., 120 Higgins Winnipeg police said someone Hail apparently hidden on the premises then opened an air conditioning unit on the roof to get the goods out of the building. Sewage Loans metro and two Rural Manitoba towns have received Loans total Ling from Central mortgage and housing corporation for sewage treatment projects. Metro s loan totals he Des Chenes received and Ste. Agathe received the Long term Loans by the Federal Agency Are made with Fer entail interest rates. To be called the Winnipeg division of Grace Hospital the enlarged Arlington Street site will have 192 Beds. It will be administered in conjunction with Grace s St. James division with services integrated the Arlington Street Complex will have a psychiatry depart ment. The Long Range combined capacity of the two division Grace Hospital is expected to be about 700 Beds compared with the 450-bed Misericordia Hospi Tal the 800-bed St. Boniface Hospital and the Winnipeg general. Estimated Cost of the Arling ton Street project is million to million with Federal and Down for their Normal 80 per cent of the Tab. The rest win be paid by the salvation army and metro. It was to have been opened Early in 1969, but we Are now running about two years behind our original col Everett said. The salvation army has obtained the Manitoba Hospital commission s approval in Prin Ciple for the project but sche Matic plans which set out proposed apportionment of floor space has t yet been approved by the commission. Once the schematic plans have satisfied the commission local architects Green Blank four new ones by end of four major Hospital projects Are expected to be completed in the greater Winnipeg before the end of 1970. A fifth a Hospital in the Northern Section of the metropolitan area is slated for the More Distant according to a spokesman for the Manitoba Hospital commission. Of four prerl971 projects plans for a new Victoria Hospital in fort Garry Are the most advanced and will also be the costliest. Tenders have been called for the 256-bed version of the old Victoria Hospital which is on. River Avenue near Osborne Street the new one is expected to Cost about million. Another project is the million to million restoration and expansion of the old Grace hos Pital on Arlington Street which will provide 192 Beds. _ now in the Active planning stage and approved by the Hospital commission Are f a new 200-bed Concordia Hospital in past Kildonan. F a new Winnipeg municipal Hospital to make a total of four on Morley Avenue. Authorities say it takes a couple of years to really plan a Hospital religious influence termed important it. Col. Muriel Everett of the salvation army administrator of Grace Hospital says there certainly should be a difference Between Christian and non sectarian hospitals. If your Christian life does t mean a thing to you Why do we try to encourage she asked in an interview. Grace has a Chapel which plays an important part in the life of the Hospital the said. Every morning staff and Stu dents participate in a prayer service which is piped through the wards. Nightly the Hospital chaplain holds vespers which Are Broad cast to the patients and All patients Are welcomed to Sun Day morning Chapel services. Nursing students at Grace Don t have to be christians but we Are sure there is a Little leaven that gets around to col. Everett said. It seems Many a number of mennonites for instance choose to train at Grace be cause of the Christian in one of three general hospitals operated by the salvation army in Canada the million Grace Hospital continues a tradition of physical Healing begun in. A 30-bed, Hospital the army built near City Hall about the turn of the Century. Plans now Are Well under Way for the restoration and expansion of the former Grace Hospital a Block mirth of Portage Avenue on Arl Triton Street. It was temporarily closed last year when the new Grace was opened. Later on the St. James and Arlington divisions will be operated As a single adminis native unit with the adminis Trator s office in St. James the larger of the two. One Early landmark of the army s practical christianity in Winnipeg included a Home for unwed mothers founded in 1890. The organization continues to care for local women in unfortunate circumstances at the Bethany Home 205 Arlington Street. Stein and Russell associates will be free to proceed wife submission of sketch plane and ultimately working drawings. Col. Everett said that until this process is furthers and it a but be a Little Early to release for publication an artist s Conception of the new Complex. For one thing she said the design for the Arlington it vision is still being revised owing to land acquisition troubles. Several years ago the Salva Tion army had relatively no trouble buying most of the residential properties South from the East West land South of Preston Avenue Between Arling ton and Evanson to the East West Lane in the same Block immediately North of Westminster Avenue. The intention had been to acquire commercial property consisting of. A handful of Small shops on the North Side of Westminster Between Arlington and Evanson but this proved too col. Everett said. It could t be confirmed that the salvation army has offered or. Lonardelli As much As for what civic officials describe As his average. Nothing lavish Home on a lot about 30 feet by 80. The building and land Are assessed in the bracket neither or. Lonardelli nor the army would comment on the Rumor that the army had offered to finance the University education of or. Lonar Delu s. Three Young girls if he would sell. Or. Lonardelli who came Here from Italy about 20 years ago now reacts this Way to suggestion he part with the property he bought in 1959 no no 1 won t discuss it .1 Don t want to sell the reason for the pressure on or. Lonardelli is simple. Col. Everett said the Hospital has been forced to plan building around or. Lonar Delu s House. We have had to change our plans because of our inability to Purchase one of the Homes. At present there Are no Means of As for mrs. Lonardelli she said in an interview that her husband is a poor businessman. He does t charge enough rent for the two top storeys of their Home she said. She would gladly move to Morrow morning from the neighbourhood which in t quiet and where bad people forever make trouble often involving the police. Man denied permission to Settle Page o Pago a the new zealand government has denied Richard Ault a former Akron Ohio radio announcer permission to Settle on the South Pacific Island of Suva Rovy 600 Miles East of this american samoan Island. Ault his wife Lois and their four year old daughter Tracy have been trying to find a deserted Island to live get away from it the family arrived at Pago Pago aboard the italian Freigh Ter Graziella Zeta Only to be in former that permission to Settle on Uvarov for a year was rejected. One thing is said Ault 30, we will not give part of the temporarily closed Arlington Street buildings be renovated m my Winnipeg division of salvation army general Hospital ;