Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Homes in All districts 1200 Pembina hwy., Winnipeg 19, Man. 24 hour service 452-2132 Winnipeg free press by Carrier soc per week wednesday june 18, 1969 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Seaver moving storage local Canada . Overseas packing shipping phone 786-6081 agents Allied Van lines Coffee Are by Bill Trebilcox if 7g trombones leading the big Parade turns you on How about 525 trombones that s the number of sliders that will be playing along the Parade route for the Mani sphere March on sunday and the same number will also be present for american bands Day on saturday As some 35 High school bands with players present their annual massed band performance in the stadium. I love a Parade with the bands and majorettes to me it s one of the biggest items in the annual exhibition and it s free. For the massed band concert on saturday All you need is admission into the grounds. How does the Man sphere Parade stack up with other similar attractions in Canada Well i m Happy to say it has More marching bands than anything in Montreal Toronto Cal Gary Edmonton or Vancouver. A Coffee break comment several weeks ago wondering where Edmonton got All the Money for the variety of big prizes at the City s annual Klondike Days Celebration july brought an interesting reply from Art Harvey promotion manager of the show. Says Art we mint our own and just to prove it i m enclosing a 1969 Klondike Dollar for your the Coin like item is the size of a half Dollar with the Emblem of a Klondike sourdough. Wonder what would happen if i tried spending it in Winnipeg same thing i guess As happened to the Fellows who printed up the Chinchilla Bills and someone even cashed one of those. When another of Manitoba s big summer attractions takes place july 15-19 the Manitoba Stampede at Morris the Chuck Wagon races will rival those that take place at the Calgary Stampede the week previous. They la be running those Cook wagons four abreast for the first time Calgary style for prizes up to and that Means that the Drivers who compete in Calgary will Likely All be in Morris for the sixth annual Manitoba Stam Pede. Now i can safely answer the callers who have been asking me every morning this week where John Robertson had gone. He has t gone anywhere. Geographically yet but he Heads for Montreal and the sports pages of the Star at the end of the month As he himself noted in another View yesterday. And when John takes his big heart to Montreal the end of this month to return to his first love sports the part that belongs to Winnipeg Manitoba and. The West will never shrink. Deano Day the new voice replacing John and Bill Grogan on sky s Early morning show is a native of Fertile Minnesota and so is his wife. There s no connection Between this and the fact that they have four kiddies. Fertile is a productive area in the Vicinity of Crookston and Deano s radio career has taken him to Duluth Fargo Jamestown Kansas City Tampa St. Louis and Dallas. The Happy character can now add fort Richmond to that list for that s the fort Garry area where the Day family will be living by next week. Thanks to Pat Holting for the Nice note about the number of girls who volunteered for summer duty in the Manitoba rehab Hospital following a Coffee break item about High school girls who donate a few hours each week to the various hospitals in our area. Hope some of them decide on Hospital careers for their professions. Nice to see Phil Reimer formerly of cwt Cash ing a winning ticket at Assiniboia Downs on saturday. Phil was in town for a hockey Canada meeting and will be moving his family to Ottawa about mid july. The Reimers have already purchased a Home in the capital City and have sold their Winnipeg Home. Board okays youth Hostel in school by Ken Ingle establishment of a summer youth Hostel in an old Elemen tary school which is scheduled to he closed has been approved by the Winnipeg school Board but on the advice of the Board s solicitor conditions for the use of the building weren t disclose tuesday night the Board approved a Community welfare planning Council request to set up a youth Hostel in Alexandra school at 181 Edmonton Street. Expected Winnipeg financial Aid province s baby social audit says the Manitoba government should provide and administer All financial assistance pro Grams now being operated by municipalities in greater Winnipeg and All Aid programs attitude toward the relationship of Public assistance payments to the incomes of employed per sons and partly it is a matter of the fiscal responsibility of provincial governments to provide under the provincial social Al Large scale increases in welfare Lowance act says the final re-1 payments. Port of greater Winnipeg s soc Ial service audit. Other m a to r recommendations in the financial assistance Section of the audit s final report Are. The Manitoba government urges the Federal government to give top priority to a joint Federal provincial study of can Ada s social Security system with a View to establishing a revised system of social secur Ity which will provide opportunities for All canadians to obtain a similar interpretation members of Allied Van lines . Winnipeg 774-2435 an adequate Standard of living without help. 0.the provincial government "4 Simitar consult with the Federal government on ways of administer ing Ottawa s financial Aid pro Grams. The audit committee thought that the running of these programs could be done through the neighbourhood health and social service centres pro posed on the final report. One of the proposed health and social service centres would be open 24 hours daily to p r o v i d e emergency financial Aid. Very the goal is to prevent the Cycle of poverty and the generation to generation repetition of social problems. It will be very Neces sary As the whole problem of financial assistance and the eradication of poverty in can Ada is tackled by governments at All Levels that there be a program of Public interpretation to help the Man on the Street understand Why assistance must be Given to some people who Are simply not Able to manage program of must be under weather report synopsis valid until Midnight thursday Cool air from the North invaded most of the. Eastern , mainly Cloudy skies and occasional showers in Eastern Manitoba. Lud Toda but considerable Clearing will t mainly Cloudy skies and occasional showers in Eastern Manitoba. Skies remain Cloudy today but considerable Clearing will take place thursday in Alberta very warm dry weather will continue except in the northeastern regions where a disturbance will give cloudiness and i widespread smoke from Forest fires covers most the proposal that the Provin Cial government run All Finan Cial Aid programs is based on the audit s findings that Muni Cipal government units vary considerably in their interpretation of eligibility for assistance and also in the administration of their assistance programs. The recommendation is in tended to bring about a uniform administration of financial assistance unencumbered by the problems of particular i municipalities or by Philosoph ical differences Between municipalities concerning eligibility noting that the voluntary Agency financial Aid programs were launched primarily be cause of dissatisfaction with municipal assistance practices the committee said the Volun tary Aid programs would no longer be required if its proposals were implemented. The committee endorsed cur rent provincial government re views of special allowance pro visions and urged that financial Aid Levels and procedures be adjusted on a systematic and continuous basis. Income while the committee did t recommend an annual Ade Nuat income 1 figure As its taken to help legislators under stand the goals and function of financial assistance. Altitudes apparently slapping at Public attitudes regarding welfare Aid the committee stresses that these attitudes must be at tacked on All fronts simultaneously. It would be unrealistic to expect that the attitudes of Manitoban concerning welfare assistance could change significantly in isolation from any change in Canadian attitudes in general. It is the belief of the audit committee that Public attitudes on this matter must change and that such change can Only come about As a consequence of joint Effort by the Federal and provincial governments to Edu Cate the Public on the issues involved and on the measures which must be taken to ensure maximum Opportunity for All to be run by the Myca the Hostel would provide sleeping accommodation for transients and other Young men during july and August. However a school division administration report outlining conditions for use of the Struc Ture has not been made Public at the suggestion of new Board solicitor John l. Condra. Or. Condra said he thought the conditions should first be worked out with the Hostel operators. Earlier this year the school Board notified the provincial government that la intended to close the school at the end of june and tear it Down. Built i n 1902, Alexandra school is facing reduced enrol robbed of a 59-year-old Winnipeg cab Driver was at gunpoint at his Home wednesday and robbed of the Winnipeg police depart ment said an emergency Call to 927 Cathedral Avenue was. Received at . Wednesday. Police Driver found that the Kalman Nelken cab had an Accident prone Grain elevator at Maccre Gor Man., has been hit again this time by a train. July 7, the old elevator in Macgregor was destroyed by fire Bottom monday be tween 2 and 3 ., a broken journal caused six railway boxcars loaded with wheat to be derailed spilling wheat Over the area and tearing up 100 Yards of track. The new elevator was built on the site of the one destroyed by fire. Would end Molly coddling been held up and robbed by two Young men. Police said or. Nelken re turned Home from the nordic club 421v4 Selkirk Avenue at . Wednesday and found the two waiting for him. They had forced his 23-year-old son to lie on the bed on his stomach while they Lay in wait. Or. Nelken was ordered to hand Over his Money and then was told to lie on the floor. The two intruders then ripped out the Telephone and made their escape police said. Or. Nelken and his son were later Able to phone the police from a neigh Bor s House. I police said one of the men had a Silver coloured revolver in his Possession. Both Are de scribed As being fairly Young and about five feet eight inches tall. They were wearing Blue ski masks dark trousers arid Brown jackets. Police say the two entered the Nelken Home by removing an outer basement window and then forcing the inner window. Ment in a downtown Maze of parking lots South of Portage Avenue and is in poor structural condition. Use of the third floor has already been limited Bev cause of weakening supports and sagging floors. The report is Bee eved contain an Engineer s Specif Ica tons for adapting the building for sleeping accommodation. Members a which appeared before the Board tuesday night said they Are already aware that the third floor would be sealed off that health authorities have specified showers exist be in a stalled in the basement Wash rooms. But the Leader of the delegation mrs. Yhetta Community welfare planning Council special projects secret tary said they Are to meet whatever stipulated for temporary con a version of the building. I the school Board volunteered a lease provided it would Nurt be responsible for costs of necessary alterations and would be protected from any liability resulting from use of the building As a Hostel. Mrs. Gold told the trustee1? that Canada needs a National Hostel program similar the ones in Riany european countries. But she said that at present no Low priced Hostel exists Between Sault Ste. Ont and British Columbia. Of these Young people Are going to be in our City we would like to think that we could make this facility available to them rather than having difficulties with vagrancy and Young people sleeping under the Osbor Rie Street Bridge Donald Phalen general Secre tary of the Winnipeg Myca said the y operated a Hostel in its own building last year and provided. Nights accommodation to 250 youths. He said the Alexandra Hostel would be open from about 8 . To 9 or . And would be fully supervised. He said the y provides All necessary supervising and counselling that Many of the youths need. No fee was charged last year but a Small fee is being considered for this year. When questioned about the drug situation or. Phalen said i can t guarantee any youth coming to us has used drugs nor would i exclude him if he had used drugs. But he certainly would not use them with my or the Myca s knowledge while in the he said would be a Midnight curfew imposed but that youths could be admitted later. He said police had brought Young people to the Hostel last year after Midnight to find them accommodation. Or. Phalen said the group last year had included 175 transients and that y counsel lors had helped 76 find employ ment and 74 find private accommodation. He also said they bad helped reunite three estranged youths with their families. The Owca operates a similar service for girls. Make prisoners pay Libby men who Are convicted of a crime and sent to prison should be charged room and Board the executive director of a National rehabilitation society said Here tuesday. Rev. T. Neil Libby 38, said. Let s charge the prisoners room and Board in father Libby founded the first Halfway House in Canada seven years ago in Windsor is executive director of the St. Leonard s society of Canada. The society has seven houses income maintenance commit Ancl to expand to 20 by forecast mainly Cloudy with a Tew scattered showers today. Cloudy with occasional sunny periods thursday. Cool. Winds northerly at 20 . With gusts this afternoon decreasing to 15 this evening. Low tonight for Gimli and Winnipeg 10, High thursday 55. Temperatures for the. 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Wednesday Max. Min. Pre. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 83 b3 86 73 73 64 62 62 62 61 57 49 45 40 52 45 .04 to. .10 .07 .01 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Marni los Angeles Minneapolis hew York Max. Min. Pre. 73 52 of 75 49 .27 74 57 62 48 90 68 76 79 1.30 63 57 .56 Winnipeg temperature comparisons june 17 last year Normal Wax. 61.8 79.0 73.0 min. 37.4 47.2 51.6 mean 49.6 63.1 62.3 highest of record 97.1 in 1931 lowest on record 33.0 in 1876 tee did last August Gross for a family of it said there Are unrealistic rent allowances inadequate clothing allowances and Long time lags in revising food allowances to keep Pace with rising costs of living.1 financial assistance sche Dules often fail to include provision for items which Are such common items of family expenditure that they should indeed be termed necessaries basically it is the viewpoint of the audit committee that an adequate income May at least prevent the family from getting into further difficulties Ancl May help them overcome their difficulties Ami possibly become Independent of financial assist Ance. The problem is nation wide and is two fold in that it is partly a matter of our society s 1972. Father Libby says it costs the Canadian taxpayer a year to keep a Man in prison of which is the Cost of incarceration and prisons. He said where possible prisoners should be forced to make restitution Tor crimes such As part of a thrust. None of us has Rev. T. Neil. theft and destruction of property. The Cost of imprisonment or rehabilitation treatment should also be paid in Large part. He favors More probation More fines the use of Small Homes As Halfway houses for released prisoners and the use of treatment centres and psychiatric hostels. Father Libby said he believes the practice of supporting Large numbers of prisoners at state expense must and will be ended in the next 10 years. Well probably always retain theft and murder Laws. We re ail the father Libby said that prisons will be opened to allow More visitors. Attempts will be made to associate prisoners with families in the Community. Education possibilities will be cd Planell. To treatment must become individual Ancl As possible in the Community and get As Many Buck into the Community As soon As we father Libby said these Chan Ges can t help but come in the next decade. He estimated that much less than one per cent of the prisoners arc in for murder or sex prisoners Are willing and need to learn to stay out of trouble with the the omnibus criminal code Bill would open the doors to an end of Molly coddling prison ers by permitting them to go out and work for a living support their families and go to the father Libby said the main function of the St. Leonard s society is the provision of Halfway houses offering Resi Dence facilities Job placement and counselling services for recently released prisoners. He said the society s most important function is to offer sex prisoners an opportunities to make More easily the adjust ment from institutional to Community living. The society now operating with a Federal charter also carries on research to find big scheme s still Pillow talk released prisoners need to j alternate forms of imprison conform to accepted Middle ment and after care studies class values and Middle class Pena lion society must be rehabilitated to meet their needs too Community corrections is the cry today. Let s keep As Many and correctional Legisla and acts As a general Liaison Between the Community and the government in this if a few St. James Assiniboia aldermen had a poor sleep last night it May have been because they had top secret invoice no. 9" under their pillows. In any Case the aldermen were keeping the matter under their hats at a City Council meeting last night. Innocently tabled As in voice no. 9 among recommendations from civic Urban renewal committee the matter turned out to be a Bill for a study by Underwood Mclellan associates Ltd. Involving the whole future of the Brook lands area of St. James Assiniboia. The consulting Engineer ing firm has come up with four different Multi Mil lion Dollar redevelopment schemes for Brooklands one of which was recommended to Council by Urban renewal committee. Details of the Underwood Mclellan report Are expected to remain secret until Council has come to some kind decision about its contents which last night were enclosed in a file boldly marked confidential aldermen were warned twice last night not to let the secret report out of their sight lest if fall into the hands of other persons not specified. Council approved payment for the report and then moved into a secret com Mittee session to discuss the recommendations. Public hearings were held last year on the Brooklands situation. A St. James Assiniboia spokesman said today that Council wished to keep r u m o a mongering to a minimum and so will keep the proposals secret until a definite one can be put before the Public. At that time a Public information Campaign would Likely be launched Complete with an information Centre Ali rough which residents could ascertain exactly what if anything would happen to their property ;