Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Let us be your travel agent1 Highway Winnipeg 19, Man. Winnipeg free press reaver moving storage local Canada . By Carrier soc per week thursday june 12, 1969 packing shipping phone 786-6081 agents Allied Van lines 2nd class mail registration number 0286 another View by John Robertson last week i spent a delightful hour being inter viewed by a Grade 5 class at St. George school St. Vital. But the most pleasant Surprise of All came yesterday morn ing when i received a Brown Manila envelope containing All the Little stories the children had written about me. I wish i could print them All but Here Are some excerpts which really got to me when John Robertson finished school he did t know what he would be. He stumbled onto his newspaper Job by Accident. He did t have any training at All for the business. He stumbled on the radio business quite by Accident too. When he is talking on the radio he can t erase mistakes like he can when he writes a column or. Robertson got into the business when he wanted to be a sports player and could t he was a picture in baseball while he was coaching Little league baseball he used to write four or five sentences about his team. The newspapermen read those sentences and gave him a Job he is the most sports mad person i have Ever seen he says he is 35 but maybe he is not. You no How some people Don t like to Tell their age he is a very Good co Lenest writer. It takes him a while to think what he wants to write about. But when he does it Only takes him an hour to write it he is not sure where his ideas for writing the columns come from still More he says he has a lot of fans and a lot of Well you know haters he sometimes gets 15 to 20 letters a Day and lots of phone Calls. One lady told him to gargle with Cement and let it Harden. If that in t an insult what is on the radio program he tries to help people and gets j complaints about cats howling at night he has tried to write poetry but can t get the words to or. Robertson says people with problems should turn and Tell them there problems. You know something i think i agree with or. Robertson one of or. Robertson s Brothers is married and he has 16 children. I say that is a lot of nobody s really Lucky but this one of his Brothers has 16 children or. Robertson is very happily married to a Beautiful wife and he has two children Patty 6, and Timmy 4 to he also has a Sheperd that is very close to a human being he name is Cindy. The kids throw things at him and hit him and Pinch her ears but she really likes it he said his wife helps him with his Job. We did t believe him until he explained what she does for him wakes up at . And is served breakfast in bed at 15 to six his wife used to work As a Secretary but she does t do anything now _ mrs. Robertson does , but she answers his phone Calls Day and night he is a Lucky person because he has a Beautiful Young wife along with two children who Are Lucky to have such a kind and generous father likes golfing swimming and a few other things his writings grew and grew and he Fin ally became a writer for the free press he is a Nice Young Man but he was Lucky he got this he plays Golf but not very a boy in my class has a Mother and or. Robertson remembers her since he was a he never went to University. He Only has Grade do you remember my Mother that makes two mothers and yes i do she remembers you and she wanted me to ask when he went to High school he had no ambition. But now he wants to be a Newspaperman for the rest of his life when he grows up the careful movers Mamba Allied Van lines . Winnipeg 774-2435 63s-3z53 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight Friday very Cool air covered All of the Prairie last night. Frost was particularly heavy in Alberta and Saskatchewan upper natures dipped to the 20s under Clear skies. In Southern Manitoba Cloud patches kept temperatures near 30 and Trost was rather Light and Patchy. Temperatures today will go to nearly 50, with tha Clear skies spreading to much of Manitoba. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora june 11 last year Normal Max. 71 61 60 58 68 41 71 59 65 min. Pre. 58 30 .23 222 33 35 32 38 32 .03 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis Max. Min. Pre. 80 63 76 80 65 92 90 69 63 new York 78 59 61 52 74 77 61 55 66 food Bank urged to Aid needy world lord Gardiner lord Chancellor of great Britain or. Justice Emmett Hall supreme court of Canada Arthur Goldberg former . Supreme court Justice g. P. R. Tallin Dean emeritus of Manitoba s Law faculty honorary doctorates for four four honorary doctor of Laws degrees will be conferred by the University of Manitoba to Mark the open ing of Bobson Hall on september 15. The Hall on the fort Garry Campus will be the new Home of the University s Law faculty. The names being added to the alumni Rolls include lord Gardiner lord Chancel Lor of great. Britain or. Justice Emmett Hall of the supreme court of Canada Arthur Goldberg formerly of the United states sup reme court and g. P. R. Tallin Dean emeritus of the University of Manitoba s faculty of Law. The new building for the Law faculty is to be named after h. A. Robson who was chief Justice of Manitoba in 1944. He is credited As having been the driving Force which caused formal Law education to be under taken in Manitoba in 1914. He served 30 years As chairman of the Law school s Board of trustees and also for a time As Dean. The Law Library is to be named after a More recent chief Justice e. K. Williams. Lord Gardiner was made a life peer in 1963 and appointed lord Chancellor the following year. A Grad uate of Harrow and Oxford the former Gerald Austin Gardiner is co author of a study which is changing Law both in Britain and Canada. His Strong Law Reform commission is serving As a. Model in style and Content for Law Reform commissions in several parts of Canada. Or. Justice Hall is a native of Quebec. In 1961 he headed a Federal Royal commission on health ser vices. The Hall commis Sion report is still guiding canadians in such matters As the projected million development of the univer sity of Manitoba s faculty of Medicine and the teaching hospitals with Federal participation in the financing. Or. Goldberg became known As a spokesman for the United states during the televised Middle East crisis debates at the in in 1967. In addition to his work at the United nations and on the United states supreme court or. Goldberg has also served As general coun Sel for the Congress of i n d u trial organizations Cio and for the United steel workers of America. He has recently resumed practise of Law in new York. George Percy Ray mond Tallin is a 1916 classics graduate of the University of Manitoba. He was Rhodes scholar and began to practise Law in Manitoba in 1921. He be came a lecturer at the Manitoba Law school in 1933 and was appointed Dean in 1945. He served As Dean for 20 years. Or. Tallin continues to lecture in the faculty of Law has been chairman of. The Manitoba labor Board and of the Manitoba civil service Board and a magi Strate. Art show Given people Are constantly told that More than half the world s people go to bed hungry every night yet Canada has More than a billion bushels of wheat in Stor age which it in t Able to sell or. A. C. Brotman a Winnipeg dentist says. This situation is ridiculous says or. Brotman who has taken the matter to the Federal govern ment partly for action and partly to see if prime minister tru Deau s vaunted participatory democracy really exists for the concerned private citizen. In an interview wednesday he discussed his plan for hand Ling Canadian wheat surpluses which would involve a More realistic approach to foreign Aid. He was sceptical of the Federal government s handling of Canada s wheat situation two years ago the Canadian government asked for increased acreages. Now they re telling Farmers to Cut Down. What kind of policy is the Canadian government has stated recently that they will be increasing foreign Aid. What1 do they mean by this when we have a wheat glut in Western depressed with this policy or. Brotman Drew up a three Page Brief to present before the Federal standing committee on agriculture which was in Winnipeg april 9-11. However when he requested permission to appear before the committee he received a reply March 31 from the chairman Bruce Beer saying this was impossible. However or. Beer said your views May however be filed with the committee in writing with 40 copies in English and 20 copies in French if surely said or. Brotman they have Means to make the additional copies. I sen them 10 copies in English he added that such stipulations made it mighty difficult for the average citizen to participate in prime minister Trudeau s participatory demo he also sent copies to five maps receiving a positive reply Only from Stanley Knowles Winnipeg North Centre in his Brief or. Brotman declared that either a new foreign Aid program is devised under the Aegis of the United nations and without political strings or half of humanity faces disaster. Or. Brotman suggested can Ada press fors a food Bank to be established by the United nations to operate under the world food Agency. He said that with handling distribution the in there would be no political strings tied to International assistance pro Grams. A school for Volunteer firemen held Here tuesday and wednesday included instruction in Rescue techniques. Professionals Herbert Treller of the Winnipeg fire department s Rescue team and Frank Spooner of the St. James Assiniboia fire department demonstrate one method of saving lives at a train ing Tower near fire station 16, at 1350 St. Matthews Avenue. Or. Treller holds a Rescue line for Volunteer and or. Spooner observes from the window. The program is sponsored by the Manitoba association of fire chiefs. Best you can buy beef costs less from Farmer Max. Min. Mean 70.8 31.8 51.3 65.7 48.0 56.9 71.5 40.6 highest on record 96.8 in 1949 lowest on record 31.0 in 1947 Man sphere 99 s jury Art show has received a Grant of from the Manitoba arts Council to help further the development of Art. Mary Liz Bayer chairman of the arts Council said in making the Grant the Council was pleased with the jury Art show committee s imaginative Handl ing of the part of the Grant will be used to improve the area in which the show is Hung during Mani sphere 99. Judging the Canadian Section the show began monday with Sam Black of Vancouver As juror. Frank Mikuska of Winnipeg judged the american Section last week in grand Forks North Dakota. For that show Mary Wiemer of Minneapolis won top prize with a painting entitled Adam and eve Flag. It will be Hung with other works in the lower concourse o the Winnipeg Arena. Or. Mikuska said of miss Wiemer s work this is Good painting pure in Content pure i in color and because of the j treatment the subject it has a relevant message which Gratis fies the transcendental nature of Man and the beginning. It is a Well executed by John Heath Winn Pegge is wishing to slice their meat budgets by one third to one half without buying less or poorer qua Lity meat. May find it worthwhile to Contact Mani Toba s Farmers direct. According to a Vetina Rian who asked not to be named he Pur chased the Best beef you can including sirloin roasts at 68 cents a Pound dressed meat 20 cents less by his estimate than hamburger meat purchased at a supermarket. Recently he and five other couples visited a farm North of Winnipeg and purchased three steers weighing a total of pounds at 37v4 cents a Pound live weight. They then had the Farmer ship the steers to custom Abattoir ltd., 500 Dawson Road St. Boniface free of charge. The veterinarian said Farmers do not charge to ship their meat to the cite since it is a Cost they normally Bear themselves. The steers were slaughtered and Hung for eight Days for they were then taken to a local Butcher who Cut and wrapped for five cents a Pound. The pounds of live weight were finally reduced to 690 pounds of dressed meat a total Cost of 68 cents a Pound for the dressed meat alone. I m sure All that meat being shipped out to lob Laws Safeway and All those other supermarkets Only costs 68 cents a Pound. What other costs Are commenting on the Pur Chase he said As far As i m concerned it s the Best Way to buy at an average super Market Price of one Dollar a Pound this would mean saving 32 cents per Pound. At s1.20 a Pound this would amount to 52 cents a Pound. 48 Meti to lose jobs about 48 employees of carting and o Keefe s breweries in Winnipeg Are losing their jobs through consolidation operations by Canadian breweries limited at Carlig s Redwood Avenue main Street Plant. In a news release wednesday Canadian breweries said h hourly employees being released will receive payment under the guaranteed wage plan which provides for continuance of up to 65 per cent of Normal earnings for the majority of employees up to a maximum of 78 weeks. The company said payments to the majority of employees would be close to to not counting unemployment insurance benefits. There would also be a separation payment of one week salary for each completed year of service and a reimbursement of the unused weeks of the guaranteed wage a spokesman said. The brewing company also said it would work with govern ment agencies to help released employees find other jobs. Commenting on the Consolida Tion of local plants a company spokesman said it was consistent with policy announced earlier by the chairman of the Board. Taft opposes plaque Alderman Robert Taft of Winnipeg says he is against placing a plaque in the civic Centre commemorating Winnipeg s 1919 general strike. The Bronze plaque was presented to the City by the United steel workers of America. City Engineer w. D. Hurst has been assigned the task of hiding some suitable places for the plaque. The final decision will be made by Council. At the time of the strike Aid. Taft was a boy of 15 serving with the Royal Winnipeg rifles. He lied about Bis age to join it is a sort of Black Page in Winnipeg s history and. Ought not to be commemorated in the City Hall. It was the closest to insurrection that has been seen in this he said. Aid. Lloyd Stinson disagreed. Aid. Stinson who was at Treherne Man., about 80 Miles West of Winnipeg during the strike said it is time people forgot this bitter feeling. It is 50 years ago now. It was really the High Point in the development of organized labor and the beginning of successful collective bargaining in this he said. The strike started May 2 with Metal workers at Vulcan Iron works Manitoba Iron works and Dominion Bridge who wanted recognition As a Union for bargaining purposes. The companies refused to recognize this and the Metal workers were More and More tradesmen until an estimated were on strike. The population of Winnipeg at that time was trains collide Andernacht Reuters two persons were killed and 29 were injured when two local trains collided head on near this West German town wednesday a railway spokesman said. The Engineer of one of the trains and his assistant were killed he said. A car and the body of a 45-year-old West Kildonan Man were recovered wednesday by West Kil Donan police 600 feet from the place the car is thought to have gone Over a 20-foot embankment into the red River. The search for the car came after mrs. Robert Anderson of 455 Scotia Street saw the ear with a Man inside floating Down the River ;