Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Another View by John Robertson it was Early in the fourth Quarter at Winnipeg stadium a 16-11 Lead had just begun to slither through the moistened fingers of the Winnipeg Blue bombers the july weather report read Don t wait for Winter do it now and it was raining sideways in shivery Little drops which seemed to go in one ear and out the other Riding the dripping coat tails of great exhalations from the North end of the Ball Park. Upstairs in the sky broadcasting Booth protected on three sides by Walls and on the fourth by wet faced grimaces sat Jack Wells de Kotowich Hal Ledyard and a columnist named John whats name who just the Day before had been named one of the 25 most uninteresting males in on the lower lip of the Ball Park punctuating the garbled exhortations of about fans the big Blue bomber band was blaring bubbles from the brass Section and ignoring requests for nearer my god to thee despite the fact that an Orange and Black ii Eberg from the West coast was Drifting slowly and surely toward the prow of the Good ship Zaleski. Everyone in the broadcasting Booth was casting an anxious Eye toward the shuddering skies to the North fretting Over whether a meteorological Miracle would plug the holes the bomber defence was leaving but totally forgetful that somewhere to the North under the same angry thunderhead two terrified children from grand rapids would be cowering behind a log in a Muskeg swamp losing a game called life alone Bug bitten and hungry. But at Winnipeg stadium the band played on and reporters and broadcasters cursed such annoyances As Sodden notes running noses and the fact that their car windows were open. The Lions marched methodically upfield Yard by Yard and Bruise by Bruise realizing that time was running out on their heroic comeback. But just two hours before in lonely swampland North of. Grand rapids Saul Cook and Percy Jensen uncles of missing eight year old Jill Sinclair and her four year old brother Kirby were slogging through the Muskeg puzzling out the confused and wandering path of two youngsters who had been stumbling through the wilderness for five nights and five Days. Could the Blue bombers hold on Long that was the question in Winnipeg stadium. Suddenly lion quarterback Paul Brothers wheeled and threw an end zone pass to flanker Sonny Homer who eluded a sprawling Ernie Pitts to score the winning touchdown. And just As suddenly 25 Miles North of grand rapids the Heads of two exhausted and confused children popped up from behind a log to be embraced by the tearfully ecstatic eyes of Percy Jensen. We re not dead shouted Blue bomber fans As the big Blue took the ensuing Kickoff with less than two minutes to go. Thank god they re murdered or. Jensen As he sprinted toward the shivering children. Sympathetic applause thundered in the ears of the Blue bombers As they trudged wearily from the Field losers this night. But far to the North in that wilderness the Only sounds were sobs of Relief and trembling lipped prayers As two frightened children were reclaimed from the jaws of death. Bomber coach Joe Zaleski stood grim lipped m the dressing room a Good Guy whom Dame Fortune had shafted on the Brink of Victory. But on a mud Trail leading to grand rapids Audrey and Hubert Sinclair met the Rescue party embraced their children and thanked god that time had t run out during those agonizing five Days of waiting and hoping and praying for Jill and Kirby. The rain was still driving in intimidating sheets through Winnipeg stadium when sky s Bui Grogan leaned Over Jack Wells s shoulder and handed him a piece of paper. It said Jill and Kirby Sinclair have been found by searchers alive and Jack Wells took the paper Rea l it and you could his eyes brim As he cleared his Throat and made the announcement. And during the next Lull in the action he turned to the rest of us and said the kids Are Okay who gives a Damn about who wins or loses Here a Happy family reunion in the Gypsumville nursing Sta Tion. From left to right Audrey Jill Kirby and Hubert sin Clair. The two children survived a five Day ordeal when they were lost in dense Bush country North of grand rapids Man. They arrived alive and unharmed at the Small Gypsumville Hospital Early wednesday and have responded Well to treat ment. See Story on Page a Carrier soc per week Osborne River 455-3222 Portage 6 Simcoe 774-2471 14 St. James Street Polo Park 786-6891 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight Friday expected High temperatures today forecast sunny becoming Cloudy Early Friday morning with scattered showers and thundershowers. Cooler. Winds Light becoming Northwest at 20 . Friday morning. Low tonight Tor Gimli and Winnipeg 50. High Friday 70. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Thursday Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora july 31 last year Normal Max. Min. Pre. 79 73 74 74 72 75 7 70 58 48 51 46 47 57 52 45 54 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Max. Min. Pre. 82 59 .74 83 54 .37 82 66 v70 52 80 60 76 65 52 74 91 75 73 81 .58 to temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record 48.6 60.3 98.3 in 1926 71.9 78.7 81.1 54.4 56.7 66.6 66.9 lowest on record 35.5 in 1903 f Winnipeg free press suppliers by mail feel Cash Pinch Many storekeepers depending on citizens to pay in person some Small businesses Are starting to feel the Pinch of the two week postal strike a Winnipeg chamber of Commerce spokesman said wednesday. Worst hit Are some mail order companies whose Supply to customers and Cash intake have almost been halted. Powers merged thursday August 1, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Police interrupt Apt. Meeting the situation is becoming so serious that Many of smaller companies Are faced with arranging additional finance to tide them Over until the dispute has been settled. Many people Are managing quite Well but the strike if beginning to be quite a problem i to the Small businesses who Supply customers through mail said John Carpenter assistant general manager of the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce. Their Only link with their Market has been Cut and they Are just running out of or. Carpenter said Many people had made adequate alternative arrangements t o have Bills delivered and Cash returned but this was an impossibility for some of the smaller businesses. It would Cost them a lot but decide tenants within Law a meeting of 75 dissatisfied tenants of the Nia Kwa Park Laza apartments was inter opted wednesday night by a Isit from St. Boniface police to demanded that the tenants eave the unfinished basement Oom in which they were gathered and allow it to be sucked. The two policemen were called i the Block at 1310 Archibald treet St. Boniface by the build in superintendent Karl Lang to had earlier ordered the roup out of the room on behalf f owner Nathan Rothstein. When it was discovered that Lere was no lock on the door of be room and the policemen had eci died that no Law had been they left the building after talking the name of Joseph 3abir.ear-, tenant association organizer. We out. Giving n to the or. Bineau said when he was told be police were on their Way he tenants agreed and were determined to stay in their meeting place. The gathering was called to discuss collective negotiation of new lease with the Block s management and to hear apart ment Dweller grievances. Or. Babineau said the land Ord had ignored fee tenants invitation to attend the meeting. He kept avoiding us when we asked for a meeting last he said. Both or. Babineau and room mate Dennis Darragh have received eviction orders because j hey refused to sign a new ease. The association is seeking Egal counsel to negotiate the ease problem with the management. Tenants at wednes Day s meeting were asked by organizers to pay their dues and to turn in their leases. Out More Money to have the remittances collected than to arrange additional finance so they Are forgetting about them until the strike he said. One businessman who called me was in quite a state. He a unable to Supply his customer and his salesmen around the country could t get the Mone Back to Headquarters. If the strike was prolonged be reall could be in a Sticky a spokesman for the Man Toba division of the Beta merchants association of cans a which has members in the Transcona Springfield school Board has taken Steps to or rect a problem which almost Rought 200 parents of school be children into open rebellion n june. The parents had stormed nto a june 6 Board meeting demanding to know Why 12 eachers and the principal of Murdoch Mackay collegiate in cast Kildonan had resigned. There was talk of hard feeling Between teachers and the administration and a Lack of Coj ordination of school affairs. Trustee Sam Maslovsky chairman of the school Board now reports that the Transcona Springfield school division changed to a one unit system shortly after the meeting. The division had previously operated with a superintendent of schools who was responsible or education and with a business administrator who was responsible for administration. Under the new system r. A. Bend the superintendent of schools has become responsible or both sections under authorization of the school Board. Trustee Maslovsky said the Board decided to make the this battered truck was carried half a mile on a train engine s cow Catcher following a Colli Sion about . Wednesday in lunar Man. Sam Byron 44, of lunar Driver of the truck was killed As was his dog which was in the cab of the truck. Or. Byron was travel Ling West when he was in collision with the southbound Canadian National railways Rock train. An inquest has been ordered. Of 57 members promised to turn who Over have their leases to the association 38 have done so since the group first met monday night. Or. Babineau said he had been told that the owner s Rev Enue from the building would t cover the mortgage payment if chief says race report May be exaggerated last week s Csc to newscast about discrimination against indians in the Rural municipality of North North Folk seems to have been exaggerated according to the head of the Manitoba Indian brotherhood. Dave Courchene chief of the Indian band at Man., told a wednesday press conference in Winnipeg that the White population of North nor Folk probably in t a great Deal More prejudiced against indians without a permanent roof Over m r Roulette s development Home or. Courchene said or. As Many As 30 suites were a than Many other communities cant. If we have to we re moving he said. Of its kind in Canada. On the other hand or. Sure with lease terms which or. Babineau called anti Many tenants said the management had not lived up to its promises of a swimming Pool Sauna Bath and recreation room. Although a postage stamp size swimming Pool was opened tuesday or. Babineau said it was nothing like the Large heated covered Pool that had been originally promised. And As yet the building has no recreation room or Sauna Bath. Or. Babineau said these conveniences had been promised More than six months ago. The tenants also condemned a proposed rent increase which puts the monthly i if the cheapest apartment Al in Stead of As of today. Or. Rothstein would say Only that he had made no promises to the tenants about the instal in addition to voicing Courchene predicted controversies such As that created by the july 23 newscast which revealed that the North Norfolk Council had blocked the Sale of a piece of residential property to an Indian in Austin Man., will become More common. As Indian people articulate their problems 1, a lot of these things Are going to come out. The time has come the White people have to learn what the indians or. Courchene said the ease involving Alfred Roulette of Macgregor Man., and the Council of North Norfolk in which Macgregor is situated illustrates a breakdown in social communication. Lation of any conveniences. Facilities or their Heads. Or. Roulette claims to have teen living in a car since he moved his Large family from a government housing develop ment for indians built in 1961 on the Northwest outskirts of Macgregor. Reasons for moving were that the 16 by 24 foot one Storey House was t big enough and a series of disputes arose Between the Roulette family and other Indian families in the develop ment. The North Norfolk Council recently persuaded an Austin property owner not to sell a House and lot to or. Roulette. However a week s investigation by the brotherhood revealed the situation is somewhat More complicated than suggested by the Csc to newscast or. Cour Chene said wednesday. In an Effort to keep or. Roulette in the development Home the department of Wel fare threatened to Cut off Wel fare payments the family s Only source of income other than seasonal work such As Saska Toon picking and Seneca Root digging. When this failed and or. Roulette moved out in april the welfare people attempted to Force him to move to Austin which was against Roulette denies having smashed the windows and generally leaving the place Topsy Turvy. This was the work of some other party or parties he said. The North Norfolk Council perhaps erred in not being More sympathetic to the Indian s plight he added. Somebody has to work with these the provincial Indian organization will continue to keep a brotherly Eye on the situation. If Alfred is sincere then Well go to any extremes non violent to articulate the Situa Tion and see what can be but it won t be easy. The retail and service Trade throughout the province said the strike continued Augu was clearly going to be a month of late and unpaid Bills. The bigger firms to managing All right but some o the smaller companies a starting to have a bit of Troub getting Money in. Some have got private firm to look after things Tut n everyone can afford tha otherwise Many storekeeper Are just depending on the customers to Call in to pay the the big business House and Public utilities a r keeping their mail flowing o steadily but they Are also expecting some delays in Bill payments. A spokesman for Manitoba Hydro said in both the Urban and Rural our own staff and vehicles Are getting our mail out quite Well although we to have problems in the Remote inaccessible areas. As usual Many payments Are being made to local collect ors in both the City and the country but we do expect to miss a number of mail returns. Under the circumstances we can Only be Liberal on our discount rates if the original payment Date is missed and Vait for those who normally pay by mail until the strike is the m a n i t o b a Telephone system is employing the firm of Winnipeg advertising distributors ltd., 838 notre Dame Avenue to deliver Telephone Bills throughout greater Winni Peg. Change before appointing a new business administrator to re place Don Wood who resigned at the end of june. Tved Solonchuk now has been named the. New administrator. He is responsible to the superintendent who in answers to the nine member school Board. Once you be been typed in the Bottom the White Community the i or. Courchene said. Provincial department of Wel fare and or. Roulette All must Bear some responsibility for the situation which leaves or. Rou Lette his wife and nine children aged eight months to 15 years they the Roulette family sincerely believe they were born in Macgregor and by Golly nobody s going to move them out of As for the damage Idone to stereo part o society it s going to take a hell of a lot to get you Back to a position where people will Trusi or. Courchene said the Root of or. Roulette s problem like that of most other Canadian indians was his failure to keep Pace with Progress. He has been left behind gone Are the Days when the Roulette had a reputation o being excellent Thresher men Anc stokers when they found i easier to make the ends of a tramline meet. Unfortunately most canadians i c aware what the Hel has happened to Indian he said. If Canadian society a Large sincerely tries to at Tael the mid-20th Century prob lems of the nation s natives something can and will b according to a Manitoba Telephone system spokesman the Bills Are payable to the collection agencies chiefly drug stores listed on Page 19 of the Telephone directory or May be paid at the Manitoba Telephone offices at either 166 Portage Avenue East or 489 Empress Street immediately East of the Polo Park shopping Centre. An official of the advertising firm said they Are employing 16 students 12 to Denver the Bills and four to sort out orders in the firm s office. At present we Are having no trouble and our emergency measures seem to be quite a spokesman said. We have also engaged a firm to pick up our payments at the Large number of collection agencies in the City and Many people Are using this system As they usually but if a Bill was not paid on time because of the postal strike would the customer be held responsible it is still up to people to let us have their the spokesman said. We Are not surpassing the service provided by Trie postal workers. Under Normal circumstances your mailman does t Call Back at your door for your payment. The customer still has to walk to a Post office or mail Box or As it is in most cases a collection potato plan okayed a new compulsory marketing plan for potatoes has been approved by the Manitoba government. The plan announced late last week retains the Manitoba vegetable marketing commis Sion As the controlling Agency but with a number of important changes including wide options for Small producers and a bigger say by commercial major differences Between the vegetable commission operation and the new plan Are the commission now five men will be increased to seven four of whom will be producers. The two additional members will be named shortly. There will be an advisory committee of not less than seven potato growers elected at an annual meeting. The commission will hold open annual meetings. Exempt from potatoes grown the for plan Are the producers own use those grown for Sale on Roadside stalls those grown under contract for manufacturing purposes and potatoes grown in the Swan River and the Pas areas. Small producers growing four acres or less Are also exempt providing they obtain exemption tags from the commission. These Small producers May also sell to the commission at any time without quota restrictions. Agriculture minister Harry j. Enns said the intends to regulations strictly government enforce the new buildings now at 20th level the Structure of the Richarch son building has been completed to the 2cth level Makine it the tallest building in Winni Peg. A work Force of 286 Meu started operations for the instal lation of exterior Granite Facine two weeks ago. The been placed at the Southwest Corner up level seven Anh installation will then continue around the building in to fourth level ;