Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 31, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee i by Bill Trebilcox Shen Shan that s really his name had his first experience with Western hospitality Winnipeg style this past week and he a St Iii slightly puzzled. Shen Shan is the press counsellor for the Republic of China Formosa or Taiwan and hot to be confused with the Mainland people s Republic of on his first visit to our area Shen Shan decided to do a Little sightseeing and what better sights to see than go go or exotic dancers in a beverage room. Shen chose what he refers to As the cottage inn in reality the Village inn for his introduction to this particular Winnipeg Art form. Shen describes the scene As a place where you can drink Beer with a loud band and girls dancing. He s a Bright Friendly Young Man who makes friends easily and was Happy to join the fellow at the next table for a couple of a salts. Came closing time his new found Friend invited him Home for a drink and a Sandwich. Shen says he Felt Winnipeg was a very hospitable City and went along with his buddy. When they arrived at. The new acquaintance s Home Shen found out the real reason for the invitation. The proud Winnipeg Ger had the Best excuse for his wife in a Long career of getting Home late from the local pub. He introduced Shen As a representative of the chinese embassy in Ottawa with whom he d been having a business meeting his wife went along with the Story while Shen was there but there s no report on the Battlefield after his departure Western hospitality with an Oriental slant Veen Whalley a St. James dog Trainer had a unique experience involving a hippie girl As he was out on a training walk with Sheba an 18-month-old German Shepherd dog he s training for seeing Eye work. As the Flower child approached Complete with tinkling Bells Sheba backed off and started to growl. Or. Whalley then introduced the society dropout to Sheba by taking the girl by the hand and allowing Sheba to get her scent. It. Turned out however that it was the Young girl s scent that provoked the problem by her own admission she d been in the com Pany of friends who were smoking pot and Sheba was violently objecting to the eau de marijuana about the Young lady. Or. Whalley tells me that any dog capable of being trained for seeing Eye work not Only objects to the odor of drugs but also the fumes of alcohol. Moral if you re hooked on Speed Ltd or booze stay away from German shepherds the rescued children s Mother Audrey Sinclair Happy of Happy today. At the father says Gypsumville radar Tell the people base Hubert Sinclair we thank them the Rescue children s our town Happy to see that the humane society is now advocating its Complete takeover of Pound duties and dog licensing from the various metro municipalities now that the society has adequate facilities. This source of Revenue would solve the organization s perennial financial troubles save the taxpayers Money and place All the responsibility for Domestic pets in the right hands. They also believe it might be feasible to License cats thit legitimately belong to pet lovers thus making it possible to eventually Cut Down on the nuisance of multitudes of strays. It s a squ1rrelly world and i be just discovered that one of my cherished boyhood beliefs about squirrels always laying their eggs in Trees is just a myth. Mrs. Victor Yarenchuk 122 Cunnington Avenue St. Vital tells me that a neighbor of hers discovered a nest of six baby squirrels while cutting his grass. Now unless he s got Grassy Trees the nest must have been on the Lawn proving that my Trees Only belief is for the Birds and not the squirrels. Maybe a trip to Rainbow stage tonight for the opening of music Man will cure the trauma with which this has now marked me. Bill Walker Evelyne Anderson Cliff Macdonald Marilyn Boyle Cliff Gardner and company should provide therapeutic treatment for any problems until aug. 17. Osborne River 453-3232 Portage Simcoe 774-2471 14 St. James Strei . Polo Park 786-6891 Mol Gat urges referendum f v on merger vote would replace costly boundaries commission Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat sensing a possible fall election has started to woo the electorate by calling for a referendum on greater Winnipeg amalgamation to replace the Manitoba boundaries commission. Or. Mol Gat not Only criticizes Winnipeg free press by Carrier 50c per week i Iii Ai authorized As 2nd class mall by the . Wednesday july 31, 1968 Ottawa and for payment 0, postage ca5ti St. Andrew s hit again Church May hire guard weather report synopsis valid until Midnight thursday mainly Clear Cool weather covered the Prairies today. Ranged from the High 30s to mid 40i in Alberta and Saskatchewan and reached the 50s in Manitoba. The fairer weather will continue today. Little warming ii anticipated with maximums expected in the High 60s to the Low 70s. Little change in the lows is expected for tonight. Figures of the map indicate expected temperatures today e. Kildonan girl 15, sought a 15-year-Oid East Kildonan girl whom her family says is in poor physical condition is being sought. She has been missing from her Home since saturday morning. Rosalie Fehr daughter of or. And mrs. Isaac Fehr 290 Greene Avenue East Kildonan both of. Whom Are Blind May have gone to Kamloops or Vernon b.c., police said. The girl left Home at about . Saturday and was last reported seen at 10 . Miss Fehr was described As being five feet seven inches tall weighing 115 pounds fair with Blue eyes and Reddish hair. She was wearing a three Quarter length beige coat Black Loafer shoes and a Light Green Pant dress or a White one with dark Blue trim. Teachers meeting at u of m changes in the Winnipeg teachers 1968 collective agree ment will be discussed at a special meeting thursday at the University of Manitoba. The meeting is open to All teachers and has been called by the Winnipeg teachers association for . In the Fletcher argue building room 100. Special emphasis will be placed on effects of the agree ment s working condition provi Sions. Forecast a mostly sunny today and thursday except for late afternoon cloudiness. A lithic warmer thursday winds northwesterly at 20 . Today becoming Light late this evening and northwesterly at 20 again thursday afternoon Low ton Hgt for Almli and Winnipeg 50, High thursday 75. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Wednesday Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora july 30 a last year Normal Max. Min. .78 57 61 41 m 41 65 65 68 71 74 67 45 48 59 50 free., .07 .10 .13 .98 .31 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Max. Min. Prec. 72 52 72 51 69 56 73 so 68 .01 76 65 61 67 79 89 75 85 .28 1.20 temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record 70.7 61.3 in. 1946 69.8 54.2 62.0 lowest on record 1.3 56.9 69.1 41.4 in 1w5 Ballet group to open season the Royal Winnipeg Ballet will open its 29th season with a series of performances oct. 3 to 5 in the Centennial concert Hall. Five new ballets by four guest choreographers will be introduced. Eliot fold of new York is currently teaching the company his still untitled Ballet. The commission for being out of and unnecessary but says he is seriously concerned about the impartiality of commission chairman Robert Smellie. For the past year or More i have read statements by him favouring the creation of four to six cities in metro Winnipeg instead of total he said in a statement issued tuesday. How can we expect a fair evaluation from him when his mind is closed to total amalgamation before his group even begins its the boundaries commission established in 1966 to study local government boundaries and make recommendations for improvement has yet to begin its study of greater Winnipeg. Or. Mol Gat says it does t have to. To am confident that residents of greater Winnipeg can decide their own future without going through the costly process of a study by the commission. If the voters approve the change we can proceed to work out the mechanics and timing of amalgamation. If the referendum should fail mergers will take place Between a number of municipalities and there will be a reduction in the number of municipalities in any event. Either Way there is no sound reason for perpetuating the boundaries commission which has t even started work on the important greater Winnipeg s future. With a proper education Campaign Between now and the fall the voters could make their own decision without the ineffective and expensive bound Aries or. Mol Gat at the last session of the legislature it was Learned that the commission bad already spent when this figure was released Gordon e. Johnston la Prai Rie moved that a further expenditure for 1968-69 of not be approved. The motion was Defeated by the conservative government aided i by the new democrats. Think of what the Bill will be before it s or. Mol Gat says. It s just not Worth proceeding with the. Commission when a simple referendum will Tell us what the people want claiming the commission is out of tune with what Manitoba the Frankfurt opera Ballet will be Here next week to direct two of Todd Bolender s works. Anna Sokolow will also arrive next week to begin staging her Ballet opus65. Residents referred or. To a report Mol Gat on the Intel Lake Region which produced harsh criticism from local Resi dents enough to Force Corn John Mandia Ballet master of Mission members to withdraw the report and reconsider. Or. Mol Gat who proposed total amalgamation last fall says he is sure a referendum total amalgamation will be overwhelmingly approved. By Dave Davies v Lockport Man. Staff Candy and chocolate bar wrappers. Are the calling cards left by daytime visit ors to the 118-year-old St. Andrew s Church on a Bend of the red River near Here but 16 broken gravestones Are the Mark of the after dark visitors. In the past five years the famous settler built Church has had so Many visits from vandals that it probably will be forced to stretch its limited funds and hire a night watch Man Rector of the Church Rev. . Cawley said in an inter View tuesday. A vestry meeting will be held in the next few Days to discuss the matter which has been brought to a Hea d by the latest damage. A month ago was spent on renovating the Church Yard Wall and mending broken headstones. Because older grave markers Are thinner and More easily pushed Over those of Early settlers some stones More than 100 years old Are the Vandal favorite target. The use of Cement for mending will mean that parts of already faint inscriptions will be lost. Each season it has been getting worse. In the past five years there must have been Between and damage or. Cawley said. Things a bit whence hemp. regular patrols there. But Al though they go about five or six times a night they still can t catch All those responsible. Crimes of this Natty the Are on the increase and in the past five years the location of the Church has become widely known to Large numbers of people. This is one of the problems of popular Ity. _ those who have been apprehended by the police Are. Young and single Between 16 arid 24. Surprisingly enough they often Are hot from deprived Alldack grounds or anything like All the broken markers will not be put up again some will be repaired and left to lie on the ground. Although they will weather More be less danger of further dam age he or. Cawley said St. Andrew s is a landmark to anglicans in the same Way that the St. Boniface Basilica had been to the roman catholics. If the churchyard were destroyed the history of the Early settlers would he destroyed with it. Broken Headstone lies in churchyard Apt. Tenants form Union to negotiate new lease dissatisfied tenants the Nia Kwa Park Plaza apartments in St. Boniface have banded together to negotiate a new lease with the Block s managers through collective bargaining. In a meeting monday night in the basement of the 208-suite Block about m suites became the nucleus of what to be the City s first Block Union to Deal management collectively. V trying a tenant s association we need some sort of said inf Cox a resident of the Block who was present at the meeting. In a Telephone interview tues Day he said that about 120 people had attended the meeting and signatures representing the initial 70 suites were obtained. In further canvassing of residents following the meeting a few More were the Union members each contributed As dues and handed in their unsigned leases. The leases have to be signed by aug. 1, or. Cox said. He said that Joseph Babineau the or Kaiszer of the Union will. Take the tenants grievances to and attempt to negotiate a new lease that would be fair to both sides. J the superintendent of the Block would not comment on the formation of the tenant Assoc Tion except to say that he is aware of its existence. Or. Cox said that eventually a committee May be formed of to to 12 members representing the approximately 500 residents of the Block. Like a committee manage press customer drive in service v during postal strike free wishing to drop off advertising replies or accounts during the postal strike May do so Between 8-. And 6 . Through Friday at the parking lot office Centre Bay on Carlton Street next to free press building. Items should be left with the attendant. It s with a ment would have to act on com plaints since they would be submitted by a group acting for All the tenants rather than by an said. One specific of the e organization is to rid the lease of certain clauses which or. Cox said Are completely Ridi r one such clause states thit the janitor or the owner May walk into an apartment at any time Day or night. Another states that residents must bring in groceries by the rear door he said. Or. Cox mentioned that a number of tenants Are leaving the building rather than sign the lease. Five tenants on tie third floor said they intend to move out when he and in group of tenants canvassed apartments for the Union. J veterans meet i the International War vet Erans Alliance will hold its annual convention Friday saturday and sunday at the International inn. Robert Smellie Manitoba boundaries commission chairman and a third vice presi Dent of Dominion command of the Royal Canadian legion will speak saturday night. L of ;