Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Homes in All districts real state realty co. Ltd 1200 Pembina hwy., Winnipeg 19, Man. ______24 hour service 452-3132 Winnipeg free press local Canada . Coffee Bre meals of wheels sounds like a drive in restaurant Piid in a sense i hat s the service performed by this activity of the i Jomoc welfare association. Except that the meals on wheels go to the people instead of the people going to the meal and in this Case the people Are the aged and infirm who get at least this one hot and nutritious meal at mid Day monday to Friday. The meals Are prepared at the Manitoba rehabilitation Hospital and 12 Volunteer teams leave there at 11.30 . Each Day monday to Friday to deliver the meals. The teams consist of a Driver and a server or navigator. The time involved to Complete the average route can vary from -10 minutes loan hour and 20 minutes. George w. Pearcy. Executive director of the Home welfare association tolls me that 1m volunteers Are needed daily for the delivery routes and More workers Are desperately required due to vacation time and additional demands in the St. James Assiniboia St. Boniface fort Garry East and West Kilton Fin and St. Vila areas. In the City of Winnipeg additional volunteers Are also required for the downtown area the North end River Heights and fort Rouge. Many of the Volunteer teams Are neighbourhood women who get a Chance to visit while performing a necessary and worthwhile service and there Are a few husband and wife teams. In the four years the program has been operating in Winnipeg the volunteers have delivered about meals and it s the largest project of its kind in Canada. The Ionia jul for delivery volunteers will be increasingly urgent if lie meals Are extended to a seven Day a week basis As recommended by the Community welfare planning Council. Volunteers who can assist in the drive out meals program can offer their services on a basis of once a week or Gwirc monthly or As often As they desire. Details Are Vafi Luble from mrs. Vickery or mrs. Moser at 942-2269. Meals on wheels incidentally is one of the areas where your United Way Dollar goes to help. Kep lies Long overdue thanks to Dick Box for calling my attention to a quotation from the Book strange Empire by Joseph Kinsey Howard. The Book is widely quoted on its subject Louis Riel and or. Howard writes that Louis Riel s father was known As the Miller of the Seine and adds his father a Hudson s Bay company trapper and trader was White a French Canadian among whose forebears there had been an irishman who lived in St. Peter s Parish. Limerick in 1700." or. Cox s information followed an item on Riel that Ipp card in Coffee break on july 5 which outlined the claim of a Toronto woman that Riel was a descendant of English nobility 011 his father s Side. If indeed the Irish connection is True i May explain the agin the government part or Riel s life. Among those in the radio and television Industry when discussion of the Best All round on Mike or on camera Man comes up two names Are invariably mentioned among the half dozen or so in this category in Winnipeg. They Are Bill guest of cwt and George Dawes of sky. Both worked together some years ago at Krc and Bill guest has consistently resisted efforts to lure him to Eastern Canada. However George Dawes whose recent Winnipeg years have been spent with Jay to and sky has finally Given in to the Blandishments of the East and Toronto. George. Denise and family leave the end of the month for Hogtown where he will join the staff of curb and rub elbows with such broadcast pioneers As Gordon Sinclair Axi Jil Moit has it that the Best known hockey scout in the West Dennis Ball May be making a move to a larger Centre of operations. If where and when can Only be verified by Deano himself who started a Long and successful hockey scouting career Back on the Snowbank of the neigh boyhood rinks in the West end. By Carrier 50c per week Friday july 18, 1969 and class mail registration number 02s overseas packing a phone 7s6-60s1 agents Allied Van lines reduction in transit service authorized councils protest curtailed operations metro justifies most Oil economic basis authorized route. I i out f for ref a Force to land 1 to be a perfect of 473 Scotia West Kildonan dismantled a merr he received Surprise when he pulled nip naj s water poured from the free enough feet away from the trunk. The 50-year-old Elm tree appears and the source of the water is still a mystery metro Council thursday a reduction in even ing weekend and Holiday transit service in the greater Winnipeg area effective aug. 31. The curtailment in service was protested by the Winnipeg and District labor Council. St. Boniface Kik Lonan a private citizen but metro Council decided the economics 1 of the situation justified the reduction. Metro transit officials Esti mate the reduction in service will result in an annual saving of for the transit division which is facing a million deficit Unis year. Mayor David w. Mckary of North Kildonan. Protested the discontinuing of sunday service on the North Kik Lonan transit Council was told transit officials that the sunday Revenue on the route is about 913 cents an hour while it costs an hour to operate the route. The Winnipeg and District labor Council Brief said in Stead of curtailing service. City Council. North j metro Council should establish a municipal Council and j program to attract More riders and expand the existing service. Alt Walker president of the labor Council specifically expressed concern about curtailment of service to the pack ing House District of St. Boni face. Council requested transit officials to prepare a report on the possibility of providing alternate service in the area. Alderman g. A. Fan Ell of St. Boniface said his Council also opposed the reduction in transit metro okays sask. Teachers rap to u but. F l we " c c the proposed route French commission thursday the setting up of a service would be 1 transit route Between Polo i Park and of flip new from Polo Park Over the is. James Bridy to Kenaston Boulevard Corydon Aai English language backlash flared thursday at the Canadian teachers federation annual meeting Over the operation of a French language commission. There has been to pattern in i try to woo Quebec teachers u u l1ui1 Jii a delegation from Sas Katche i the French language but cannot wan debated the matter during make any representations to the consideration by the 200 Dele 13 provincial and Terri Torpil a ice Iii a tins. One year it was without giving first priority to the commission is to study services of those who arc and advise the federation on already members of the ctr matters Peculiar to education in Gates of a new Constitution for the federation which represents Canadian teachers. Or. Gerald Nason of Ottawa Secretary treasurer said in an interview later the backlash by Saskatchewan does not Indi Cate any major the federation. Policy split in federation affiliates. Or. Nason said the commis Sion is a step toward attracting Quebec teachers into the federa Tion. Quebec is the Only province with a teacher association that remains outside the National body we Earlich said we would t federation awaits Indian initiative moving and storage the careful movers members Allied Van lines . Winnipeg 774-2435 Brandon 728-4414 Dauphin 633-3253 a year old committee of the Canadian teachers federation set up to look Indian Eskimo education problems is wait ing for action from the National Indian brotherhood. Rod Fredericks of Dartmouth. N.s., committee chairman said in an interview thursday the ctr wants to ensure initiative comes from the indians and not the federation. We have had a bilingual policy for years and the com Mission is an attempt to implement thai policy among our he said it is designed to provide services in the French language for French speaking teachers in Manitoba British Columbia and other areas o Canada other than Quebec. It will give them French i speaking teachers a rallying Point and a Means of com Muni eating with others in at another Point in the debate delegates argued whether an official English and French version of the Constitution should be prepared. It was agreed that a French version should be presented at the next annual meeting but not immediately to facile Atac getting approval of a single version by the Secretary of state department. The University of. Manitoba through River Heights Avenue. Cambridge. Grant ave despite opposition by residents nue. Waverley Street Bison on the route. Drive Matheson Road to the it would Start before univer j University Campus sity classes begin in the autumn. R 4 but final approval of the Olbu can1 la Vith i in close. Spokesmen for the oppose the proceedings of the meet Are translated simultaneous weather report synopsis valid until Midnight saturday Alberta and Western Saskatchewan were mostly Clear overnight but an area of Shower and Thunder Shower crossed Eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Mostly sunny weather expected on the Prairies today and tomorrow. However there will be showers in Southern Manitoba this morning and in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba tonight. Afternoon temperatures be in the mid-70s or Low 80s on the Prairies today on the map indicate expected High temperature. The re sults of those meetings have not yet been made into a report for it is important we do ctr. The Indian brotherhood feels is i the ctr Board because of he solution. It is no Good for us i budget has a to say what they should t h o r i z e d the Indian Eskimo the brother Hooch was holding Lloyl its charter meeting in the hotel m year 19g9-70. Fort Garry where the federation my Fredericks said however is holding its 48th-annual con it lat Arf Liatses will carry on their mention. I w01 k with the provincial Indian groups. The National brotherhood is holding closed meetings that Are expected to continue through saturday. About 35 delegates Indian leaders from across Canada Are attending to work out a Constitution. A spokesman said the Indian act and proposed Federal policy for changes will be topics of Dis Cussion at the closed meetings teacher association is providing counselling to the children and their parents in an Effort to overcome such problems. The ctr has sent a letter to its 13 provincial affiliates asking _ them to set up Liaison with in a a French speaking Delegate Lias Dian groups in their areas to de the floor Lermine what problems were there Are 10 Frenchi Spca Kin most pressing. Delegates at the convention or. Fredericks said the re scheduled to end Friday. Proposed route rests with Winnipeg City Council because the contentious Street on the route j is controlled by the City. Metro Council authorized the new bus service after its streets and transit committee reaffirmed its decision to recommend the service. Council last week asked the committee to have another look at the proposed route after a petition signed by about 08 Cambridge Street residents opposing the route was presented to Council. _ residents said the Street s residents would suffer from in creased noise and Road hazards As a result of the new bus route running Down their Street. But the streets committee decided alternate routes were service because of Llic effect it would have on the workers in the packing House District Southeast of Marion and Archi Bald streets. Hours of operation of All transit routes will be reduced on holidays to conform to sunday service hours. The reduction will mean that on must routes i Holiday service will Start one hour later and end one hour earlier than now. Holiday sen ice now starts and ends tit the j regular weekday limes. A reduction in hours of 1 operation on weekday evening. I and weekends along with minor i route changes in some eases i will be implemented on 11 transit routes. They include the Archibald. Aberdeen a u 1 n c a u Berry Logan Cathedral Charleswood collision St. Mary s Road. St. Norbert. Sanatorium and Watt Street lines. J sunday and Holiday service will be withdrawn on the Archibald bus route evening. Sunday and Holiday service will be discontinued on the Crescent route. Sunday service will also be. Discontinued on the North Kil Donan route and he feeder bus service on Logan Avenue be tween Arlington and main streets will not operate sundays and holidays. The St. Anne s route will be eliminated As a separate serv ice evenings. Sundays and holi Days. The St. s Load service to the downtown area will a 1 i e r n a 1. E Between St. Mary s and St. Anne s roads in St. Vital. I unacceptable because the level of service would be reduced or overlap existing service. Or. Foster indicated thurs Day he will Appeal to City Council to turn Down metro s request for permission to use Cambridge for the new service. K Wolfe raps delay on parking study metro councillor b. R. Wolfe l pared by its administrators. Lashed out thursday at metro s Legal department i or delaying Mlo or into English if the Start of a feasibility study for two weeks on recommended parking facilities in the Down town Winnipeg area. Metro Council authorized the corporation s executive director to hire consultants to make an economic study on parking structures after it was told that authorization w a s necessary despite a previous Resolution passed by Council july 3 order ing private consultants studies in his report to the 200 ctr delegates Secretary treasurer or. Gerald Nason of Ottawa said the federation Board approved a committee recommendation calling for deletion from the Indian act of a Section that Indian children absent from school can be declared Delin quent. Or. Nason said Indian affairs minister Jean Chretien a unified voice across Canada. Forecast Cloudy with sunny periods this at croon. Chance of a Thunder Shower ave right. Mainly sunny saturday. Little temperature change. Wind Low to Niehr Tor Gimli and Winnipeg 55, High saturday 75. Temperatures Tor the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Friday Vancouver Calgary a Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora Max. 73 67 69 min. 54 41 40 79 50 76 46 76 53 78 pre. 81 78 56 50 59 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis Mew York Max. 91 93 min. 69 66 s8 65 84 66. 90 73 90 75 6b 69 77 pre. Changes in the act would have f but that the session was mainly to wait until All Indian people i to do our housekeeping.1 had an Opportunity to express he said delegates Hope that their opinion. With a Clear Ter incl ans will have we made a representation in said or. Fredericks but so Many changes in Federal policy Are taking he said the committee with representatives from various teacher organizers across Canada must wait until the brotherhood is Well established As a unified Force. Different voices Are coming from various parts of the coun or. Fredericks said one of the j Tion without funds says Lianag problems faced by indians and director Jack Shapira being studied by the committee but so far the Canada Council is textbooks in the Indian has failed to come across with schools. Any Money for Canada s Only outdoor theatre. Rainbow stage applied for a metro forced to reduce water pressure metro has been forced to reduce water pressure to Consumers in North Kil Donan and the North part of East Kildonan because of repairs being made to an East Kik Lonan sewer line. The water pressure will be Down for about a week but no restrictions on use Are expected according to a metro official. An East Kik Lonan sewer line on Henderson Highway and Munroe Avenue failed thursday. To proceed with repairs the use of adjacent metro water feeder main has to be Cir tales with alternate Mains put into service. The work has been held up for two weeks now and will prob ably take another week to Start because of Small procedural and Ward Points Conn. Wolf said. And Hospital workers get 15% about Sou employees of St. Boniface general Hospital will receive an average wage in crease of 15 per cent spread Over iwo years. The workers members of the institutional employees Union ratified the agreement with a vote of 17-1 to 9s. The new monthly Rales Lor this and next year with the previous Rales in brackets Are As follows maids s2c1, Jan. 1, and s27y, Jan. 1, nurses assistants s2gs clerks the councillor said he was t going to allow the delay to pass without taking further action. He said he plans to get outside Legal on the interpretation of the original Resolution by Council to see if its terms of reference would have allowed a study of parking structures which were on the entire downtown plan the Klajn Conn. Wolfe claimed the july j town. Plan. 3 Resolution was Broad enough in intent to allow for a study on parking structures without fur ther authorization. Maybe it s time we got other Legal opinion on our responsibilities and the councillor said in questioning the Legal department s suggestion that clarification was needed on the original Resolution. Council wants to make a decision soon on the construct lion of the first of a series of parking facilities in the Down town area because a private Developer is ready to Start a major project if metro commits itself to implementing the Down town redevelopment plan pre of Malc cleaners get s40s, Jan. 1. 1969 s413. July 1. 1969, and s4-12 Jan. 1. 1u70 s3781 orderlies s428 and s458 painters s-197. S5u2 and s537 carpenters s521, and plumbers s583. And sg29. The employer will pay half the medicare Premium Cost and there is an improvement for paid vacation. The agree ment expires dec. 31, 1970. Pay raise Given metro s 250 non Union employees including administrators and professional staff were Given a general salary increase by metro Council thursday. Employees earning less than s13.000 a year will receive a six per cent increase retroactive to March 23, 1969, and an additional six per cent effective March 29. 1970. Employees earning More than a year will also receive Shapira hits Council s failure to give Grant to Rainbow stage the six per cent increases on Llic first of their salaries but Only three per cent on the balance of their salary Over Council also agreed to pay 75 per cent of medicare costs from april 1. Instead of the 50 per cent paid previously. This year the increases will Cost an estimated and next year. Councillor John p. Sulymko. Chairman of metro s personnel committee. Said the salary by Janice keys Rainbow stage cannot fun some have referred to indians As he said and have not brought out the proper role indians played in the Early history of the country. Indian women Are referred j to in a derogatory these things expressions like As wild As an in asked whether weather is unfavourable a Good turnout is never assured. We re promoting Canadian he said the calibre of fore Rainbow stage deserves a Grant. He said people from the Canada Council have been in Talent was very Good and there-1 cited several times to attend Winnipeg temperature comparisons july 17 last year Normal Max. Min. Mean 77.s 53.3 65.6 s7.7 67.3 80.5 57.6 69.1 highest on record 94.6 in 1936 lowest on record 36.0 in 1924 Grant of towards its operating costs for the 1969 season but was turned Down. The Council s letter stated it Felt the modern tried and True musical can in most instances draw substantial audiences and it has therefore tended to cation offered indians to that Iven others he said of there certainly he said in Nova Scotia symphony Ballet theatre get Public yes or. Shapira said in an interview however that since the crowds stay away when the the Canada Council announced thursday it has awarded Grants to three per forming arts groups in Winni Peg. The groups Are the Manitoba theatre Centre which will receive the Winnipeg symphony orchestra. S145.000 and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet l the Ballet had originally requested and the coun cil had originally planned award it the National Ballet of Canada based in Toronto received performance in the Hope that the Council would see that a Grant would be worthwhile. So far to one has come. The promoters of Rainbow stage Are determined to make the theatre Well known across Canada. Or. Shapira said. David Haber of the National arts Centre in Ottawa is to see the Friday performance of the King and i or. Shapira said. It is possible Rainbow stage production May travel to of increases awarded thursday to the corporation s administrators professional and supervisory i staff will allow their salaries to keep Pace with the salaries of j Union members which were awarded similar increases in a new contract negotiated be i to Een the Canadian Union of Public employees and metro j last month. I but previously the full cupe award was applied to the first of a non Union employee s salary and Only one half on the balance whereas the award made thursday applies the cupe increase to the first s13.000 of a non Union employee s salary. Tol Tawa to appear in the Centre. Next year. 000. Twenty six performing arts the Monkey tree yields s315 a thief or thieves who hid in Monkey tree Ltd. Book groups in Canada received i country Grants totalling 7t 1. He Hopes this indication of the Slon 389 Portac Avenue Nam t r wednesday night escaped with prompt the Canada Council to 5315 in Cash Winnipeg police thursday said the the intruders probably hid in the make a Grant. No arts groups can make he said. In without store around 10 . Closing then rifled the Safe ;