Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Homes in All districts 1200 Pembina hwy., Winnipeg 19, Man. 24 hour service Winnipeg free press reaver moving storage local Canada . Overseas picking for shipping phone 786-6081 agents Allied Van lines by Carrier soc per week june 13, 1969 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Coffee jr1" by Bill Trebilcox u students push House for spouse drive sister Delia Clermont administrator of St. Boniface Hospital last year has some interesting figures on heart surgery in her annual report for 1968. Naturally they re particularly interesting to me because i am one of those 1968 figures. But they re also generally interesting because they show the growth of heart treatment techniques in Manitoba. There were 136 heart operation in St. Boni face Hospital last year of which 74 were open heart and it takes a team of 11 people for open heart surgery. Sister Clermont is Well justified in her comment that St. Boniface Hospital is proud of its cardiac team and of being Able to provide such a service for the people of the province. A hospitals Are proud of the contribution made by the Junior volunteers mainly High school girls who contribute some hours of their spare time each week to perform tasks in the hospitals that free help for other work. Anyone who s Ever been a patient in Hospital knows the girls i mean they bring you ice water mail Flowers or other articles if you re fortunate enough to have them sent to you and perform another 101 jobs. In St. Boniface they re the marguerites in Winnipeg general they Are Junior members of the White Cross Guild in Grace and Misericordia they re Candy stripers so termed because of the Candy striped aprons they Wear. Pat Holting tells me that the Manitoba rehabilitation Hospital needs some of these same Junior volunteers this summer. They would serve lunch trays assist in the Hospital gift shop and work at the information desk. As mrs. Holting Points out the tasks Are pleasant and the work affords a Good Opportunity to learn a Little about the various careers Lor women in the Hospital Field. So if you re a Young lady interested in performing a worthwhile Volunteer ser vice for a few hours each week during your summer holidays Contact mrs. W. E. Barnard at the Manitoba rehabilitation Hospital. Efforts Are mounting at the University of Manitoba to com Bat the serious shortage of Low Cost housing near the Campus for married students. A housing co operative formed by. Students is now negotiating for the Purchase of land in fort Garry for the construction of a million apartment Complex of More than 200 apartments. At the same time the newly incorporated College housing co operative is negotiating with the Central housing and Mort Gage corporation for a loan at preferred interest rates to enable it to Purchase apartment blocks in the fort Garry municipality. The 40-member. Co operative which was set up by the graduate students association Lias taken the initiative in tackling the housing problem which students say is reaching i the critical stage. Their approach in trying to provide Low Cost apartments As close to Campus As possible has now been backed up by a recently completed report based on a Survey of married students at the University. The report shows that Only 200 of the married students who registered for the 1967 term lived in fort Garry. The remainder had to seek accommodation throughout greater Winnipeg with some having to i live in municipalities As far away As North Kildonan and West Kildonan. But the Survey which was carried out under the students Union housing commission re Veals students Are dissatisfied with the present arrangements. Seventy seven per cent of the random group of 572 students questioned said they would have preferred to live near the Campus if suitable accommodation were available. Walter Mcneill a graduate student in the department of City planning who prepared the report based on the findings of j the Survey team said Friday the housing shortage at the University of Manitoba is easily the worst in Canada. He said figures show the number of married students attending the University was increasing by Between 150 and 300 each year. No Effort was being made to increase the accommodation available for them. Said or. Mcneill if this situation is allowed to continue we Are going to have a crisis on our hands. It is not happening yet but could have a deterrent effect on people show ing interest in the courses Here and Stop some of them coming to this or. Mcneill said it was unsatisfactory for students to have to travel Long distances to Campus. Attending University is not like a factory operation and commuting to it every Day. University is a 24-hour involve 111 vc1 Jtj 13 o. .111 v ment and in order to gain full i this Market were the Benefit from education students must be close to Campus so that they can participate fully in the Range of he said. The needs of the married student body at the University Are spelled out in detail in the report on the student Survey copies of which have been sent to the fort Garry Council metro the University administration the Central mortgage and housing corporation and the Manitoba housing and re Newal corporation. The report says there is a very Large Market for reason ably priced rental accommodation near Campus which has not been catered to in. The past. Limiting factors in satisfying Low income of students and the Short duration of leases required by students. Means of meeting these limitations must be designed into any project Lor students housing. Adequate design criteria could meet the economic rent limitation and increasing attendance at summer school could overcome the Short lease the report says. The co operative is hoping that its apartment Complex of one bedroom and two bedroom units can be completed by the fall of 1970. Rents set in the Complex and in any apartment blocks it is Able to Purchase would be kept As Low As possible by the non profit making co operative. Lowering the Boom High Rise More talented Young people Cor Godri conductor of the Winnipeg concert band and chair Man of the Winnipeg musicians association selection com Mittee for the International music Camp at the peace Garden has named the six High school band musicians who will receive one week s training this summer. They Are Kathy Hornshaw Elmwood High school Drew Duff West Kildonan collegiate Rosemary Borchert Sisler High school Faith Hay Tec voc school Allan Overgaard Grant Park High and Bill Richardson Golden Gate school. Musicians president Oseph Karr says the of the annual program is to give the Youthful players an incentive to continue in music. And their school bands will Benefit by their improved playing next season. Bill Gikling of Imperial travel is doing things backward but Winnipeg will Benefit. He s reversed the usual travel trend of Selling Winni Eggers on visiting eur Ope to invite hockey fans from Holland Germany Austria Switzerland and Belgium to visit Here for the world hockey tournament next year. On a recent trip abroad or. Girling says about 200 fans expressed interest in coming Here next Spring. In addition to world hockey in Winnipeg they la see at least one National hockey league game in Montreal. Mike Williams says the annual St. George s anglican Church country fair in Transcona tomorrow will be a resting spot for Corporal Russ Phillips on fits one Man space Wal Kathon around the perimeter Highway a distance of Over 60 Miles. Corporal Phillips of. The Canadian forces base in St. James Assiniboia is performing his feat to raise funds for youth sports facilities. Metro Council agreed in Prin Ciple thursday to putting a freeze on construction of High Rise apartment buildings in the Osborne Street River Avenue area on the Southwest fringe of downtown Winnipeg. Council gave second Reading to a bylaw to change the zoning in the area bounded by Roslyn Road on the North. Nassau Street on the West River Avenue on the South and the first Lane West of Osborne Street on the East which would allow construction Only of s m a 1.1 walk up apartment buildings. Existing zoning permits the construction of High Rise apart ment buildings. At a Public hearing in property owners in the area proposed for rezoning opposed the measure because they claimed they would incur a Large financial loss. Residents adjacent to the area up for rezoning favored the change which they1 said was Long overdue because of the traffic problems created by existing apartment buildings in the area. In recommending the change to Council metro s planning committee said the rezoning is necessary to preserve the amenities and protect the open space in the area. The rezoning bylaw now will be submitted to the provincial municipal affairs department which could Call further Public hearings on the bylaw if objections continue before final approval is Given. Man killed As trailer Van hit members t Allied Van lines for . of the careful movers weather report synopsis valid until Midnight saturday the Prairies were mainly Clear Early today with temperate ire at or below freezing at Many Little. Change a anticipated for today. Maximum will be in 60s at most Point with Low to mid-30s. Figure on the map ind Kate expected High temperatures today William Perun 54, of 573 Dufferin Avenue was filled thursday when the half ton Van he was driving was in Coe Ision with a 50-foot House trailer at Highway 59 and the perimeter. Highway. J George Joseph Suess 53, of South Fargo North Dakota Wasi treated in St. Boniface Hospital for a heal Cul. And allowed to leave St. Vital police said or. Suess was a passenger in a truck driven by Clarence Melvin Kaiser 53, also of North Dakota who was towing the trailer East on the perimeter Highway. I St. Vital police said the Perun j vehicle was northbound on Highway 59 at the time of the j crash. It took four hours. Reopen the Highway. An inquest was to open at . Today in the St. Boniface Hospital. Union on again Union trials of members of Lodge 741, International association of machinists and Aero space workers Al Cio Are to be reopened As soon As possible a Union official confirmed Friday in an inter View. The members had been on trial by the Lodge for attempt ing to persuade other members to join an Independent Canadian Union the Canadian association of Industrial mechanical and Allied workers but the trials had been dropped after a Lodge meeting May 26. Since then however the International office of the Union in Washington d.c., has put the Lodge under a trustee. It was this trustee Stanley j. Carter International representative of the Union who con firmed that the trials Are to reopen. The members accused of conduct contrary to the Union s Constitution Are Wayne a. Powazek w. Bert Chatfield and j. William Behrana a former president of the Lodge. If found they face suspension from the Lodge and possibly fines. The 600 members of Lodge 741 Are employees of Bristol aerospace limited St. James Assiniboia. Fined for grabbing four purses an unusual 10 minute old woman on Walker Avenue plea by Crown counsel that an j they took from the purse 18-year-old be sent to prison for i and threw it away again giving his part in four purse snatch Ings was ignored in Winnipeg magistrate s court thursday instead the youth was Given a one year suspended sentence and fined with costs two months prison in default by magistrate Mike Baryluk. The youth a resident of the Selkirk area pleaded guilty to four charges of robbery. Court was told he was the the accused Money for Gas. The four also drove to Luxton Avenue where they robbed a 62 year old woman of her purse which contained ?8. A fourth purse snatching was made in the West Kildonan area arid the accused was arrested 10 . May 14 by West Kildonan police. Court was told altogether. Was stolen and was not Driver of a car containing two recovered. Juveniles and an adult which Crown counsel Hymie Wein came to Winnipeg May 13. The four agreed earlier come Here with the express purpose of snatching purses from women on the Street. The accused waited in the car while the two juveniles jumped out and stole the purse of a Young woman who was walking South on main Street with her Mother at 11 . The purse contained in Cash and this was stolen the purse being thrown away. Stein in a plea to the to magistrate urged that the fact that this offence was the accused s first be ignored and that a term of imprisonment be imposed. All these acts were entirely premeditated and they1 were despicable crimes. It is time the courts look into account the victim of crimes this such As these and not just the later criminal. All those attacked were the women and three of them were Money i elderly. One had her purse Gas. The Day four again drove to Winnipeg Selkirk and the two juveniles snatched with such Force that she fell to the ground. I submit that it is not always Friday the 13th if you re so superstitious about Friday the 13th that you get All of a flutter this is what not to do today that paint s sure to spill that practice bar s sure to collapse. Richard Lane and Adrienne quilt both Ballet students really Haven t flipped their biscuits. You la see Why if you look at a Pic Ture on Page 9. Smellie Given hot foot snatched the purse of a 65-year-. Right that the courts should give i the rubber stamp of a sus Pended sentence or Fine just because the accused is Young or a first offender. I strongly urge that in this Case a period of incarceration would serve far he said. I magistrate Baryluk assured i or. Weinstein he had taken into account his Long submission and suggestions and then ordered the youth be Given a one year suspended sentence on the Rob Bery charge involving i More than he fined the youth with costs on the other three charges of robbery two months on each charge concur rent in i the accused was Given two i months to pay the fines by magistrate Baryluk who Des i cried him As a Brave lad who attacked forecast Clear except for few afternoon Cloudy periods today a Little warmer winds Westerly at 15 . Low Tor Gimli and Winnipeg 32, High saturday 65. Temperature for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Friday min. Pro. Max. Min. Pre. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 70 54 59 51 60 45 56 61 59 27 27 29 25 32 29 32 31 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York 87 8b 87 7b 90 88 68 61 .81 62 63 53 53 76 60 37 70 .01 .15 .13 .37 june 12 last year Normal Max. Min. Mean 55.6 32.7 44.2 75.8 41.9 58.9 71.8 50.0 60.9 highest on record 89.8 in 1893 lowest on record 31.5 in 1875 freeway plan gets Basic Okay metro Council gave second Reading approval in principle to a bylaw thursday to expropriate 46 acres of undeveloped Hind owned by Whittier Park development corporation limited in Northwest St. Boni face for a proposed freeway from downtown Winnipeg to Transcona. Council has earmarked for acquiring the land. Council was told the Provin Cial Cabinet has Given its approval to designating the of the proposed freeway through the area As part j of metro s Street system and Manitoba s transportation min-1 ister Stewart e. Mclean has approved the expropriation. The total estimated Cost of the proposed freeway for the Section Between the red River and pcs neurons Street in St. Boniface is estimated at but construction is not expected to proceed for a number of years. Whittier Park development corporation limited has formally objected to having its land expropriated by metro. In an earlier statement or. Carter said the Lodge was under Only partial trusteeship inasmuch As the Lodge executive remains in office. But no Large meetings May be held without his permission. At the May 26 Lodge meeting the members had voted non Confidence in their executive and also voted to drop All charges against the or. Behma had re signed saying he was dissatisfied with the operation of the Lodge under the International Union. He wanted the Lodge to join an Independent Canadian association. Friday or. Carter said a trial committee has been re appointed by the International president p. L. Siemiller in Washington. On the committee Are l. B. Scott chairman. R. Barrow d. C. Bower b. J. Farr and h. Rondeau. In april Lodge 741 had voted 280 to 251 to join the Independent Union. But because Mani Toba requires a majority of employees eligible to vote not merely a majority of those voting to effect Manitoba labor Board certification of a bargaining agent the Independent Union lost the vote. Avery wins j h. C. Avery school West Kildonan. Has been awarded the Best safety patrol trophy for the seven Oaks school division. The trophy and individual trophies to 24 patrol members in Grade 6 were presented thursday at a ceremony in governor Semple school West Kildonan. For 291 transfusions help Regina Man Ronald Klein of Regina a Middle aged father of two children who had 45 blood transfusions in less than a week Here in mid april is Back Home after a total of 291 transfusions. The steel company of Canada office employee name to Winnipeg to be. Cured of a rare disease which p events his blood from clotting. After 291 blood transfusions he left Winnipeg general Hospital last week doing very a local Canadian red Cross official reported thursday in a Telephone conversation. The majority of the transfusions were of the plasma Phe Resis Type a process whereby healthy plasma is substituted for diseased plasma. Or. Klein s blood lacked sufficient Factor a one of 13 identified clotting factors. Or. Lionel g. Israels head of the University of Manitoba medical department Haematology Section treated the Regina Man while the plasma substitution was done at Manitoba red Cross Headquarters 226 Osborne Street. The red Cross official said thursday that or. Klein s Case has established a local record for transfusions in the relatively Short time of two months. Cigarette Stock taken in break in the situation with Manitoba s local government boundaries commission is so ridiculous the provincial government ought to up a commission to study the Aid. Joseph Zuken told Winnipeg s civic finance committee thursday. The commission appointed by the provincial government aug. 17, 1966 under the chairmanship of former provincial municipal affairs minister. Robert g. Smellie still has t made its recommendations to the government. Its Job is to study the 12 municipalities in greater Winnipeg and report on the feasibility of amalgamating some or All of them. At thursday s civic finance committee meeting the Alder men passed a motion to ask Winnipeg City Council to obtain from the commission a Likely Date for the completion of its report. Aid. Robert Taft said various civic committees were constantly having to postpone matters awaiting the boundaries com Mission report. The delay limits negotiations Between municipalities because everyone is waiting to see what Oil Earth s going to happen.1 and Aid. Zuken said. In a few months time we will be celebrating the third anniversary of this commission. It is Council s responsibility to find out what things Are doing or not doing. If the commission can t give us a realistic deadline then the commission should be Dis later in a Telephone inter View or. Smellie said Hope fully we will have a recommendation to place before the Public for consideration later this he said the aldermen prob ably had no idea of the amount of work a study such As the commission is doing requires. Ducks showing increase All the cigarettes in Slock were stolen Friday from Windsor Park Tom boy store 1133 Paterson Street. St. Boniface. St. Boniface police say the front door of the store was opened Between and 5 . Friday and the entire Supply of cigarettes re moved. No other loss or damage was reported. Power Factor Ottawa Canada s Rivers now produce More than 15 million horsepower More per capita than any other country in the world except Norway. Prairie waterfowl habitat conditions and nesting populations Are the Best in a decade. Ducks unlimited Canada re ported thursday. But the conservation organization said the Prairie increase i in Breeding ducks does t rep 1 resent an increase in the Continental waterfowl population As a whole. Rather ducks unlimited said it is a return of Breeding Birds to the Prairies from the More Northern habitat and larger marshes to which they were displaced by the drought of j1968. The Birds now Are nesting in i the environment where they Are i most productive and with Excel 1 Lent weather and water conditions. This is cause for real the report said. Generally there is abundant water to see. The Young ducks safely to the Wing. Evaporation has been Low and although some temporary Ponds Are dry. Most Are holding up Well. The report said pintails Are the species showing the greatest increase in All three Prairie provinces. Mallards Are showing Strong gains in Manitoba but. Still Are below the 1961-65 average. Among less numerous species Canvasback and red Heads both showed modest increases compared with 1988. F ;