Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, June 23, 1969

Issue date: Monday, June 23, 1969
Pages available: 49
Previous edition: Saturday, June 21, 1969

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Homes in All districts 1200 Pembina hwy., Winnipeg 19, Man. 24 hour service 452-2132 Winnipeg free press Seaver local Canada . Overseas packing shipping phone 786-6081 agents Allied Van lines by Carrier Sec per week monday june 23, 1969 nun be Coffee Are by Bill Trebilcox Winner and still Champion great Tiger kid Vivek ramblings or maybe it should be Man sphere meanderings after an afternoon of judging the Man sphere Parade i m convinced that most people generally Don t realize the amount of Volunteer work thai Syd Glenesk and his committee put into this year s edition the judges number one girl Shirley Gingell estimates that at least 150 local people worked on the event. Howie Larke chairman of the judges committee Barbara Mcjannet John Harvard and Norm Contant had their work Cut out for them in making selections. John and 1 Drew the pleasant task of rating the bands and majorettes. When Bill Cole executive Secretary of the Winnipeg livestock Exchange first went to work with animals he did t realize it might include Tiger wrestling he did it in front of the judges stand at the stadium sunday afternoon. I yes., there arc thousands of University students who do care about Community enterprises take the Job done by about 40 members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity on their annual service weekend this year they looked after the welfare of some 3.000 american High school Bondsmen last year they cleaned up the Banks of Omand s Creek alongside the exhibition site Square dancing can t be a Sissy pastime i watched the men Riding the Square dance callers float get off and lift the float Over so it could pass an obstruction after judging the bands i m convinced that every boy and girl in Iowa must play a musical instrument if the number of entries from that state is any indication. To Seku la be lots of purple in Evi Dence around Winnipeg july 27 1o 30 As the National convention of the Poe the elks and their ladies the order of the Royal purple takes place Here. Convention chairmen a. J. D. Bridge and Gwen Young expect the spotlight to Centre on the elks purple Cross fund which is devoted to the medical welfare of those 18 and under. Marian Wolynchuk tells me that a recent project of the purple Cross fund is provision of special equipment for detection of hearing defects and their Early treatment. Wonder who won the ladies Nail driving contest at the swedish Midsummer picnic at Vas Alund yesterday i thought it was a misprint and it should have been ladies Nail drying but there s no mistake the swedish girls were using hammers. And just to reverse the usual order of things the swedish males risked life and limb in a Pillow fight of k town wonder if r. J. Rollie Devlin manager of air Canada administrative services Here really feels that it s been 30 years since he joined the airline Rollie is a 30-year-Man this year Nice to see mayor Steve Juba and wife Elva doing the sex with Norm Coston of the travel and convention association for a guide a Complete medical checkup this week will help mayor Juba decide when he can return to office duty meanwhile he s All smiles Over the Multi million Dollar development planned for Graham Avenue with the construction of the Skyway an integral part. Mention of the travel and convention association reminds me that Mel Mcmulien says aug. 1 is the deadline for submitting names for the annual Manitoba Good citizenship awards since they first began in 1960 there have been 97 Manitoban honoured by the Golden boys and anyone can submit nominations. Audrey who s entertaining in the City Centre lounge even has trouble making her own vocals heard Over the Organ and it s too bad because she both plays and sings Well Janet Evans appearing at the town n country towers has lots of stage presence in All the right places but i have the impression she could make the Maple Leaf forever sound like sock it to me Elmo maybe i m being unfair and it was just because 1 was seated right under one of the sound system speakers. By Gokton Arnold really g u r o easily this time. With both front paws planted firmly on my shoulder Blades. Great Tiger began to nuzzle the Back of my head with her Teeth. The match finally ended in a draw of my blood. I got up again. Anybody who thinks a cheetah is the fastest animal in the world should have timed my re treat to the grandstand and if Shadow my line month old Alley cat thinks i m treating her with an unusual amount of Deffer ence these Days it s ail because of one of her big cousins. Legal Aid in civil cases urged by bar by Ron Campbell but he said these lawyers Minaki Lodge ont. Staff should give service for partial the Manitoba bar association asked the provincial government saturday to help Fin Ance an expanded Legal Aid program which would provide payment at present while pro Gressing towards full fee remuneration. Or. Taylor agreed with this View and called for financing of Legal Aid in civil As Well As criminal cases. The request came in the form of a Resolution passed at the j criminal code cases association s annual meeting applicants for Legal Aid should lawyers Legal Aid services in civil and summary conviction cases As Well As in indictable Here held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Law society of Manitoba and the Manitoba Branch of the Canad j an bar association. Be required to contribute As much As possible to financing their cases he said. Or. Taylor also favored Legal Aid recipients choosing their own counsel rather than being the Resolution asks the government in co operation with represented by a lawyer chosen the Law society to expand Legal nip medicare stand deceptive Gardiner members Allied Van lines b . Winnipeg 774-2435 weather report synopsis valid until Midnight tuesday Souife Cool temperature were experienced Over the Prairie last night with the exception of the most southerly portions Cloud cover kept Over night temperatures in the Low 50s. A developing Duff Tinct in Northern Alberta gave Cloud and showers to that Region overnight. It will bring showery weather to the Canadian Prairies today and tuesday. A northerly flow of cooler air in the Wake of the disturbance should maintain generally below Normal temperatures in the three Praise pro Vinces for the beginning of this week. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today Alan Gardiner. Progressive conservative candidate in Elm Wood has hit Back at new democratic party Leader de Schreyer who accused the tory of making the stupidest state ment of the election Campaign j or. Schreyer told a meeting in Ashern Friday night that or. Gardiner had earned the Dis Linclon by suggesting that the nip plan to Cut or abolish medicare premiums would mean a big increase in Provin Cial taxes. In a statement released Mon Day or. Gardiner said or. Sci Reyer s remarks represented either monumental ignorance of the effect of even greater taxes schedules on the present growth potential in Manitoba or a continued attempt to deceive the working Man As to who would actually pay. Anyway we look at it and As or. Schreyer has in effect now admitted taxes will Rise and this he denied in a speech at the party leadership convention june said or. Gardiner. This is the specific claim which was challenged. On this basis i have challenged his political integrity and charge him with i deception aimed at the common Man who i is the one who stands to lose i most if we endanger our present growth and growth opportunities by prohibitive tax increases. It is time someone said out loud what most people know that the pretender has no clothes for his grandiose pro or. G a r d i n c r said or. Sci Reyer s hangup on medicare i As such ignored or avoided concern about the Over All Posi Tion of pensioners the disabled and the single Parent Homes with several children who rep resented an unusually Large number of the people in the Elmwood Morse place constituency. A direct Rollback of of of setting Relief from local provincial and Federal taxes was essential to enable these Homes to remain intact. The present problems in most of these Homes is inflation i but experimentation with taxes j at this time May kill the Goose which provides us with the Hopes for our or. Gardiner said or. Schreyer would not have re sorted to the smear technique if they had not called his Bluff. Sharing breakfast in the Sun Are Pamela Judi and their Friend Doug Joyner. is a student at Ellen Douglass school for handicapped children. Or. Joyner the Clown is a member of the Kinsmen club which sponsored the saturday breakfast at Man sphere for 30 children from the school. A Day in the Sun for handicapped Aid to include civil As Well As criminal matters to be financed by consolidated revenues and administered by the Law the Resolution followed a for them by the Law society s Legal Aid committee. Or. Walsh said the society has already recommended to the provincial government that Legal Aid recipients pay As much As they can i toward the financing of their panel discussion on the topic Legal Aid where do we go file society has also recon from Here mended that Legal Aid be panel members included Ron j available in summary conviction Aid j. Myers part time director cases As Well As in cases where 3 Hurt in Street accidents forecast sunny with Cloudy periods today and tuesday. Becoming mainly Cloudy tuesday evening. Little temperature change. Winds right. Low to night Tor Gimli and 45, High 70. Temperatures for Max. Min. Pre. The 24-hour Vancouver Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pilj Winnipeg fort Williar Kenora 68 65 65 65 a 66 57 60 47 .19 52 .17 52 to .20 .03 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los angelas Minneapolis new York 7 67 7h 62 69 0 7 60 76 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record Lune 71 64.2 47.1 55.7 98.3 in 1900 june 22 65.8 so 58. Lowest on record i Asl year 7.1.3 1.1.8 59.6 35.9 in 1967 Normal 74.2 52.7 is 56 54 51 57 76 60 53 62 .02 .20 .01 .66 .11 .53 .07 driving course to continue the greater Winnipeg safely Council is continuing its defensive driving course during july and August in an attempt to reduce the rising total of traffic accidents. To per cent of which arc preventable it says. In a press release the Council said it is alarmed at the 31 Pel cent increase in the number of traffic accidents for the first three months of 19gu compared to the same period for 19c8 in metro three people were injured in separate accidents during the weekend. In Hospital Are Shirley Ann Jones 24, of 979 Ashburn Street Elsie Brown 58, of 381 Rosedale Avenue and Anne Sci Tarzan. 60. Of St. Malo Man. Miss Jones is reported in Good condition at Winnipeg general Hospital where she was taken following a two car collision at the intersection of Strathcona Street and is. Matthews Avenue. Winnipeg police said she was a passenger in a car driven by Tim Neul old. 18, of 600 Shaftesbury Boulevard Tuxedo. Driver 1 of the second vehicle was identified As John Nowacki 22, of 1100 Strathcona Street police i said. Mrs. Brown is reported in Good condition in the Misericordia Hospital where she was admitted with a broken Pelvis. I police said the vehicle she was j driving was in collision with a j i car driven by Denis Andrew cuperus 28, of 1117 Taylor Avenue. Suite 5, at the inter Sec Tiou of Rosedale and Wentworth Street. Mrs. Zaporzan is reported in Good condition Al Winnipeg general Hospital with a i Rac-1 lured Skull. Police said she was in collision with a truck driven by Germain Gauthier 31, of 263 Speers Road St. Boniface while she was crossing North to South on Portage Avenue. By John nothing was happening at Man sphere 99. But it was . Saturday and what would you expect yes there were ticket takers at the Entrance but no lines hawkers or noisy rides. In the Cool Bright morning there were Only the stirrings of preparation for the afternoon and evening crowds almost. Twenty five or thirty Chil Dren Ages 8 to 12, were smiling As they Sal at two Long tables beside the Kins men food Booth squinting in the sunlight. They were quiet and shy this morning. An astronomer somewhere surely noted the arrival of summer some 35 minutes before but the children in chairs with gleaming steel wheels took greater note pancakes sausages Maple syrup but Ter and milk served them. And perhaps too the Ever present Clown m o v i n g around the tables. This was a parly i or physically handicapped Chil Dren from the Ellen Doug lass school. They and their parents were guests saturday at the fair Courtesy of the Kins men club of Winnipeg local businessmen who founded the society for crippled children and adults of Mani Toba 23 years ago. And three candidates for wednesday s election were present wearing while chef s hats and serving the breakfasts. There were no speeches or handshaking but a few extra plates were passed to waiting parents. The candidates helping out were municipal affairs minister obie Baizley. Rudy Peters and Peter Moss. And nothing almost was happening at Manis phere 99. Of the Law society s Legal Aid program j. F. Reeh Taylor chairman of the society s Legal Aid committee Winnipeg lawyers Harry Walsh and Ken Neth g. Houston and Thomas i p. Gallon of port Arthur ont. Chairman of the Legal Aid i program committee of Ontario s i Law society of upper Canada. Based on Ontario s experience or. Gallon said he fore saw a much More extended Legal Aid plan for Manitoba in civil and criminal cases. He said that people a year Are being served through Legal Aid in Ontario and the provincial government last year appropriated million for the program. Or. Myers noted that in the 1968 fiscal year the Manitoba government apportioned for Legal Aid and this year has set s125.000 aside for the pro Gram. This year 180 lawyers have acted in Legal Aid eases since february and there have been 524 such cases in that period he said. Duty the accused has a previous criminal record. The panel topic during the Friday afternoon session was whether the tort fault system of awarding damages to car Accident victims should be abolished. Man sphere . . . . . . . Monday red River Valley Day . Wild animal show velodrome . Light horse show velodrome Rich Gibson and Rich show free stage special ethnic program free stage wild animal show velodrome Rich. Gibson and Rich free stage world of youth closes Alexander Park exhibits and careers close Arena building attendance draw free stage . Gay seventies and Mani Carlo Arena and parking tuesday agricultural Urban Day noon Gates open . Exhibits and careers open Arena building . Gay seventies inside opens Arena build ing Down . Arena building Down . World of youth opens Alexander Park . Royal american shows Midway . Purebred beef judging velodrome . Wild animal show velodrome . Gay seventies outside opens Arena Park ing counsel to interview applicants for free Legal Aid now sit regularly in Winnipeg and Brandon magistrate s court and in provincial magistrate s court or. Myers said. No longer do accused per sons have to sit in jail for Long periods of the Law society has recently revised the Tariff to be paid lawyers acting in Legal Aid cases so the lawyers won t suffer financially he said. He said the society will also apply to the supreme court to create a senior counsel roster of j lawyers who will act for Indi gent accused Crons in serious criminal cases. Or. Houston argued that the 1 Legal Aid program should be woman suspected of arson an 18-year-old woman has been charged with arson follow ing four fires sunday. The Young woman whose identity is being withheld was to appear monday in Winnipeg magistrate s court but was remanded to tuesday. Winnipeg police said was started parking lot a fire a car in a the Waldorf hotel Keewatin Street Pacific Avenue at about and . The Interior of the car was wrecked but police had no estimate of the damage. Another fire was started in the Brooklands hotel s Kewa Lin at ., when Hie hotel drapes were Sel alight. Later sunday Oil Drums were set afire at the rear of Midwest manufacturing c o Ltd. 10 is i comprehensive providing and compete for civil As Well As criminal cases without distinction. He emphasized that Legal Aid lawyers should expect full i compensation for their services i and that the province should j assume open ended financial responsibility to pay for the j i program. J j a voluntary plan simply will j nol work. Legal Aid is a Public responsibility and should be borne by the or. Walsh said the province s allocation for Legal Aid this year was far Short of the amount needed for adequate Bangor Avenue. Damage estimated at s20.000, police said. The fourth fire occurred when waste paper on the grounds of the legislative building was Sel alight. The Young woman faces four charges of arson and has also been charged on three counts of theft. Police said an 18-year-old youth who was being questions in connection with the incidents has been released. No charges have been Laid against him. Remuneration lawyers. To participating Driver Dies Guand rapids. Up the Lone occupant of a ear was killed Early sunday when the car he was driving Over turned on Highway 17, about 17 Miles South of this Community 235 Miles North of Winnipeg. Police arc withholding the name of the dead Man ;