Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Homes in All districts 1200 Pembina hwy., Winnipeg 19, Man. 24 hour service 452-2132______ Winnipeg free press reaver moving storage local Canada . Overseas picking shipping phone 786-6081 agents Allied Van lines by Carrier 50c per week saturday june 14, 1969 2nd class mail registration number 0286 another View by John Robertson tomorrow is father s Day and regardless of your age if that has become meaningless to you then you might just As Well turn to the comic Section because you Are not going to get much out of today s offering except perhaps a guilty conscience. On second thought i beg you to read on for reasons i will go on to explain. I i Don t care if your father s dead in prison or on the Lam Don t care if he has neglected you rejected you or just Plain overprotected you i Don t care if you have shamed him defamed him or callously disclaimed him if you can. Go through sunday without pausing however briefly to Honor him with one compassionate thought i truly feel sorry for you because you Are not much of a human being. As children we attribute god like qualities to those we love and worship. But As we grow older we Are stunned by the first indications of their human and we often recoil As if they had struck us a physical blow As if each one of their weaknesses were personal insult. And this is because we tend to judge our parents Only by the effects their actions have on us. Instead of taking a personal inventory of our own shortcomings we too often retaliate by withdrawing our love and finding Refuge behind a Barrier of self pity. The discovery that dad does t seem to quite measure up to some of the other dads As a provider a parlor wit or a pillar of the Community often made us As children feel ashamed of his shortcomings. It did t have to be because he could t keep a Job or quarrelled with your Mother. Hit the Jug too much or More Likely his most grievous fault was that he wore a Denim shirt to work and carried a lunch bucket or used improper English or could t afford a decent car or to own a cottage at the Lake. And the tragedy is that some of us never quite get Over these juvenile resentments until we get married have children of our own and feel our hearts feature of sink As we Bend our backs to the Best of our ability Only to first night see the shame in our own children s eyes because now we re not quite measuring up to that impossible dream of what All fathers should be in a child s mind. Most of the time the love admiration and affection we have for each other As fathers and sons overpower the real and imagined failings we attribute to one another. But for some inexplicable reason we suppress any temptation to make an open display of this love possibly because others May think it unmanly for a grown son to put an affectionate around his dad or to Tell him unabashedly that he is the greatest that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to measure up to the impressive Shadow he cast. Some of us waited As i did until it was too late until we tearfully gripped a stiffening death bed hand and emptied our remorseful hearts and told him All the things we had been meaning to Tell him All these years but had never quite found a Way to my dad carried a lunch Basket. He worked More than 4fi years for the local transit company most of them outdoors on the windswept Corner of Portage Avenue and Street with a traffic Book in his hand keeping the buses and streetcars running on time. I can never recall him missing a Day s work or complaining about the cold the heat or the extra Money he always had for us but never for himself. But i can remember his beaming face behind the Bench when he watched me play Ball the comforting hand on my shoulder when i lost at Little boys games the quarters he slipped me with a knowing Wink the Friendly finance companies he sold a piece of his soul to so we could have two weeks at the Beach each summer the Heartbreak in his eyes when his Pride and Joy was turfed out of school in Grade 11 As an athletic bum and much later those simple words i m proud of you son when John the newspaper Man would traipse through town on assignment and we sat and talked of events and happenings and let our eyes say what was really in our hearts. I miss him now and still feel ashamed that i Haven t used so much of what he left me so much of himself. But i have a son who is the spitting image of him even at four years old and each father s Day i look at him and remember and my Chest puffs out and my eyes Well with Pride and i swear i can still feel that hand on my shoulder. Church set drive in services begin Here june 29 there will be some thing a Little different for the Winnipeg area at the Northdale shop Ping Centre this sum Mer a drive in Church. The Church will be sponsored by the River East mennonite Brethren Church. Services will begin at . And last for about an hour. The shopping Centre is at 963 Henderson Highway East Kil Donan. People sitting in their cars will hear the singing and the speakers through a Public address system. Singing will be the main feature of t metro sees City bilking own citizens the the services program the will include a male chorus from River East Church and a girls group with guitar accompaniment. The speakers will Deal with questions pertinent to today. The services will be held june 29 to aug. 10. A Baptist Church sponsored a similar program several years ago in Winnipeg and there Are similar services in Brandon every summer. . Votes on Centre wednesday East Kildonan ratepayers will vote wednesday on a Money bylaw to provide to construct an indoor recreation Centre. If the vote is favourable the Centre will be built on the present land fill site on Kimberley Avenue. It would provide facilities for hockey Lacrosse figure skating Broomall Wingette Tennis. Volleyball basketball and rallies. It would also House dress ing room facilities for the Centre canteens a recreation office and a staff office. Based on present assess ment this Centre will Cost property owners approximately a year Robert Reid coordinator of Parks and recreation for the City says. The wheel of the former Royal Canadian Navy ship hocs Transcona has been presented to the City of Transcona by the Federal government. The Transcona a Bangor class minesweeper escorted was christened by the wife of for Mer Transcona mayor George Olive and launched in 1941. During the War the ship helped escort convoys and after the War became part of the ramp Marine division. Having been sold to civilian interests she left her Halifax berth for the last time in March 1961. When the wheel of the ship was discovered recently in Halifax the solicitor general arranged to buy it for presentation to Transcona. Here left to right Are former St. Boniface mayor Joseph Quay now my for St. Boniface mayor Harry Fuller of Transcona solicitor general George Mcilraith and or. Olive with the wheel which h to go to the trans Cona museum. Winnipeg City Council s Public works committee was severely criticized by metro councillors thursday for calling for a freeze on metro takeovers of City streets. Councillor b. R. Wolfe metro s vice chairman in leading off the attack on the committee made up of six City aldermen charged the committee was working against its own coun. Wolfe said i can t understand How the City can continue this unjust discrimination against its own metro Council wants to take Over control of 16 streets in Winnipeg most of them in the downtown area because they Are generally used by All greater Winnipeg residents. But the civic committee is recommending to City Council that it oppose any More streets being added to the metro Street system until the local govern ment boundaries report is prepared. Consumer now has place to take his complaints commission saving coun. Wolfe presented Esti mates prepared by metro s research department to show that Winnipeg taxpayers would Brook Avenue from Donald Street to Wellington Crescent and River Avenue from Donald Street to Wellington Crescent. The contentious streets Are fort Street Between Broadway and Portage Avenue Garry Street Between Broadway and Ellice Avenue Hargrave Between Broadway to notre Dame Avenue Carlton Broadway to notre Edmonton Street Broadway to notre Dame Vaughan York Avenue to Ellice Furby Street notre Dame to Williana Avenue St. James Street be tween Ness Avenue and notre Dame and Between Portage and Wolseley Avenue drive Between Hay Street and Maplewood Avenue and Sargent. Avenue Between Edmonton King Edward Street. Approval needed j the takeover of the streets metro requires the approval of the provincial Cabinet. Metro originally had Tion Over the downtown Winni i Peg streets but the turned them Back to the City in 1965. 1 metro s streets and transit committee recommended that downtown streets should save a year if the returned to metro because their i streets were turned Over to prime purpose is to serve the metro. Of the total Winnipeg area and not Only needs of the local establishments. In accepting the streets com Mittee recommendation metro Council decided to ask the area Winnipeg must pay the full estimated at a of maintaining the 16 streets in question if it Mam gains jurisdiction Over them. If the streets were trans Cost year feared to metro the provincial municipalities to approve the government would pay an weather report synopsis Cloud Over much of Southern Manitoba and Northwest Ontario overnight maintained temperatures above , at most Cloud was expected to move out of Manitoba this morning. Sunday though a weak Miami boy 7, injured on King Sway seven year old Donald Mcfadyen of 59 Renfrew Street was reported in condition in Misericordia Hospital after being in collision with a car Friday. He May have a broken hip the Winnipeg police department said. Hie boy was in collision with a car going West on King Sway at Beaver Brook Street. Driver of the car was identified As Jack Rosenberg Iso Niagara Street. Sunday becoming forecast becoming mainly sunny this morning. Sunny Cloudy in the afternoon. Little change in temperature. Winds Light. High today at Winnipeg and Gimli 65, Low tonight 40. Temperature for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Today Max. Min Ottawa so 58 Toronto to. 77 51 Montreal 83 66 Halifax Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora Max. Min. 71 57 pre. 64 67 65 63 57 61 64 57 3.1 32 36 38 3x 43 n 45 Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York 77 83 71 65 81 69 63 85 52 49 74 60 46 73 pre. .01 .03 1.44 .02 bus top ads being tested metro transit Friday began testing a new lighted rooftop advertising fixture called a bus top the Bac lighted sign which covers the entire length of a bus has been installed on one bus for test purposes. The installation is the first in Canada although Many hundreds of the signs Are in use in american cities. If the test installation proves successful the signs will be installed on another 19 buses. Metro transit officials said if Only 70 per cent of the advertising space on the illuminated signs is sold transit will receive a return of 33 per cent on its investment in the sign which replaces the regular by Frances Bidewell the consumer who has a complaint about a product or service or is worried about misleading Advertis ing now has a place to take his grievances. That place is the regional office of the department of consumer set up in Winnipeg in april. R. H. Mckay regional manager of the department said in an interview he expects it to be in full operation within two or three weeks. The new Field service unit one of five set up recently by the Federal department of consumer affairs will administer and co ordinate the department s programs in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Offices has been set up in each of the major cities. Other areas Are reached with Mobile equipment. Or. Mckay expects a consumer consultant to be appointed shortly to Deal with consumer complaints. He said that the office will act on behalf of Consumers who have received an injustice at the Market place and who have at tempted to gain compensation with no result. Recently he said his office dealt with the Case of a consumer who had re turned Worth of goods and had not been returned his Money. The office Eon ducts an unbiased invest trying to bring All parties together. Many of the cases Are referred to the Winnipeg office from Ottawa but or. Mckay usually receives four or five Calls a Day from dissatisfied Consumers. The concerns of the department will be More widespread he said if the hazardous product Bill is passed by parliament. We May be deeply involved in glue sniffing and the Sale of he said. The Bill will also prohibit majorette pageant set for june 28 Man sphere 99 s miss major Ette of Manitoba pageant will be held june 28 in Polo Park with the winners being crowned on the free stage at Man sphere. Winners will be crowned in the juvenile up to 10 Junior 11 to and senior 15 to 20 divisions. They will be eligible to compete in the miss majorette of America pageant or regulate the Sale of such tilings As poisonous Beans used in jewelry poisonous paint on toys and Flam Mable children s clothing. The largest proportion of complaints according to a newsletter from the department Are about Trade practices such As mislead ing advertising and Label Ling guarantees and warranties credit and repairs and servicing. In Manitoba 41 per cent of the com plaints Are about food. Three other major serv ices Are directed by the regional offices or. Mckay said. They Are electric and Gas metering service retail store inspection service and weights and measures inspection service. The last is to protect the standards of measure to ensure that a gallon is a gallon and a Pound is a Grant a maintaining the year toward streets while Street additions before necessary application is made to the provincial government a other member metro municipalities would contribute toward the streets maintenance costs according to metro s research department. Winnipeg taxpayers would Only pay instead of the present toward yearly maintenance costs by paying their share of metro s tax Levy. In addition any capital costs involved in the re construction of the streets Are paid entirely j by Winnipeg taxpayers now but i the streets were incorporated in the metro Street system the City s share would be 28 per indians scars measurable Snow first Ever in june indians Here were told Friday r you a once proud people Are cent of the total capital costs i no longer a people you Are a i the research department said. Idiotic by j. H. Judson Arctic air cooled Winnipeg this week and nipped Gar Dens with a killing Frost that is the latest on record. The cold air also bore Snow flurries that sprinkled Winnipeg with the first measurable Snow Ever re corded in june. The week began Ith a warm 80 degrees monday afternoon but cold air was moving in from the North. It lowered the temperature to 38 by tuesday morning. The afternoon High reached 54, transit fare i i reductions must wait greater Winnipeg old age pensioners will have to wait until after the june 25 Provin Cial election and the Start of another session of the Legisla Ture before getting special reduced metro transit fares. Metro Council has accepted reports prepared by d i. Macdonald. Metro s executive director and d. C. Lennox metro solicitor stating that the Only Avenue open to Council to implement reduced fares for elderly persons is to get the legislature to change the metro act. Metro Council had asked the provincial government at the last session to introduce a Bill to allow Council to set special fares for elderly persons but no action was taken by the government before it dissolved the legislature for the election. Metro chairman Jack Willis said if the present conservative 17 degrees below Normal for june 10. A slight warm up wednesday raised the tempera Ture from the Early morning Low of 32 degrees to the afternoon High of 71. That was a Normal maximum but another surge of cold air was on the move. It came around a Large High pressure air mass that covered Western Canada and clouded Winnipeg s sky. Snow flurries at the air port measured .1 of an Inch. Only traces of Snow have been observed on three occasions in june Over the past 96 years. Tempe natures ranged from 33 to 56 degrees. The Clouds cleared Fri Day june 13, and tempera Tures dipped to a record Low of 29.4 degrees the coldest Ever Tor this late in the season. The Outlook for the next few Days again indicates fair weather but Cool. Temperatures Are expected to average below Normal. Mid june temperatures usually average from Over night lows of 51 to afternoon highs of 73 degrees. The extreme minimum for june 16 is 34.8, set in 1945, and on that Date in 1929 it heated up to an extreme High of 94 degrees. Scar of the past in a living thing. You Are a walking scar of what the White Man has done metro councillor a n d r e w you and i Robertson said civic Public the speaker was Rev. Ernest works committee has taken an time an anglican priest of idiotic stand in the Light of the Indian ancestry who said he is figures prepared by metro s an Indian first and a research department. I or. Willie is from Newt coun. Wolfe said the commit Westminster dec tee was hedging by recon at an in need of major repairs the councillor said i condemned the Indian the five streets which the people for forgetting who they committee says metro can have Are and what they Are and challenged their past. Are Sherbrook Street Between Ellice and Logan avenues Maryland Street Between Ellice and notre Dame avenues Wel Lington Crescent from Academy Road to Avenue Strad them to learn of keep Union dues in Man. Breckman Verne Breckman Liberal candidate for Rossmere said Manitoba unions should be kept in the hands of Manitoba workers. He was speaking at a Fraser gets new court service Post William Fraser former City solicitor of Winnipeg has been appointed Provin Cial administrator of court services attorney general Sterling r. Lyon has announced in a press state ment. Or. Fraser will be responsible for the supervision of All administrative aspects of court offices and services in Manitoba. His is a newly created position. Graduating from the University of Manitoba with his Bachelor of arts in 1927, or. Fraser earned his Law de Gree in 1931. He was in private practice until 1940 when he joined the City of Winnipeg Legal department becoming Deputy solicitor in 1952 and chief solicitor in 1954. In 1956 he was made a Queen s counsel. We have to be for accepting the condemned lowly and to be held in Mississippi in August. Contestants will be judged on exterior frames. Side Calpe r using twirling posture and strutting Beauty poise and personality. Saia n me present of government is re elected one of meeting of constituency aides. 1 ree fress meetings the first items of business at the next session of the Legisla Ture will be the metro act amendment. But no matter what party is elected to Power the special fares will probably receive top priority the chairman said. Or. Breckman said that As things Are now Manitoba unions j Are run by people who have Little or no knowledge of Mani Loba affairs. He also said Union dues should be kept in Manitoba for Manitoba meetings to be held at s . Monday in the free press building Are Board room ladies auxiliary of the Imperial veterans in Canada clubroom Winnipeg aquarium society. Pathetic position Given to us by the White Man. We have paid for our being. With our language our and everything that we have stood or. Willie said the Church has confused the teachings of christianity with teaching the Western Way of life. Rev. Adam Cut hand of Winnipeg president of the Canadian Metis society charged that churches in general were and still arc a divisive Force among the native people of Northern Manitoba. The churches have been paternalistic and based on with the attitude that they Are going to help the poor ignorant Savages of the North without any consultation of what the native people want he said that priests and teachers who were unsuccessful or were not qualified to teach were sent to the Indian reserves of Northern Canada. This is a place where highly qualified teachers Are needed. If you fail As a teacher you can always teach in an Indian i boarding a third panel speaker Rev. J Ian Mackenzie of the Institute i for Indian studies at Rochdale i College in Toronto said the Basic problem of indians is a question of values. He suggested that the Indian concept of sharing threatens the White Man s life style that has to do with Money and the gathering of material benefits. We might be Able to learn something by sitting at the feet of our native he said ;