Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Saturday january 24, 1970 Schreyer co Timell Ern ment s first major legislative program to be influenced by the prospects of having to fight another election during 1970. At the same time however. Or. Schreyer indicated that economic considerations would have a Strong influence on the Type of programs and policies introduced during the Spring session of the legislature. The key phrase in his speech to an audience of 750 at premiers Ball in holy Cross school had came As he appealed for a continuation of the kind o support which brought the nip to Power in june of last year. Urging party workers to be on the Alert for another election or. Schreyer said and it May be sooner before he could finish tie sentence the Premier s words were drowned by loud applause. Asked afterwards to explain what he was. Hinting at or. Schreyer said he maintained the position that he had always taken there would be no election unless his government was Defeated in the House or it was allowed to run its full four year term. However he said they would not let the kind of legislation they would bring Forward be influenced by the fact that it might Lead to an election. We re getting the signs Al ready that our opposition Are getting ready for the Battle and let me say that we Are More than ready for or. Schreyer said in an interview. The Premier said that while the attitudes of opponents would not influence them the eco nomic situation of the province was a major consideration. He said that at the moment he did not think they could allow themselves to increase their capital borrowings. For Crown corporations such As Manitoba Hydro it is quite alright but As far As other government programs Are concerned it is quite a different matter he said. In a Brief but hard hitting speech or. Said that unlike the last time there had been a change of government in action on drugs pledged continued he also hinted that he will pursue a goal stated by health education and welfare Secre tary Robert Finch and his commission on pesticides modifying the 1958 Delaney amendment that requires a ban on any substance that causes cancer even when Given in massive amounts to mice. Or. Finch banned the by climate sweetness under this Law while criticizing it As too restrictive. Science must be tempered with or. Edwards said. When scientists learn to measure values even More minutely our current concepts of what is acceptable As Safe must this View has already been challenged by some Dana tonal cancer Institute and other scientists who think the Delaney amendment has been1 Over lenient rather than Over strict and that it should be strength ened to protect against birth defects and Gene damage. In general or. Edwards pledged to a c t promptly against harmful foods and and neither to shout alarms unnecessarily or Rush around giving illusions of con Sumer safety de terminations cannot wait months or years for every bit of evidence he said but most sometimes proceed on basis of reasonable he promised Early action Here on three issues applying a single stand Ard to All old and new. The Fra has continued to permit Sale of some 90 widely prescribed Antibiotic combinations though its former com missioner or. Herbert Ley or. So advised by a National Academy of sciences panel called them ineffective Anc . Edwards hoped for Quick Resolution of Legal questions Penalba one such com tons Here the Upjohn co. A sought to Block Fra action against Penalba one such combination. But or. Edwards also prom ised a new plan to avoid such delays while examining and need for new legislation. He pledged to apply equal stand Ards to pre-1938 drugs Nevei examined for safety or effectiveness. Expediting a set of Vitamin and Mineral regulation hearing that have been dragging on for nearly two years in an to tempt to relabel a number of com pounds. Or. Edwards has asked the hearing examiner to report by june 1. Getting on with review of food additives on the gras or generally regarded As Safe list substances like Mon sodium glutamate voluntarily removed by baby food makers after it caused brain damage in mice. Hints at i election i Manitoba his administration had not found a lot of fiscal surpluses. He said that right from the j Start his government had been j under a great Deal of pressure j to exercise strict discipline on j expenditures and programs for the coining year. Despite this however he promised the Manitoba Public a comprehensive program of progressive legislation during the coming session. As an example he said that a number of important changes in labor legislation would be introduced. All would be logical but would mean no great Cost to the Public purse. Or. Schreyer said that he was under no illusions that the coming year was going to be easy. He said there was a powerful establishment at work in Mani Toba trying to bring the Down fall of his government and he realized that there was going to be a lot of hard criticism from certain quarters. But there was also a Large number of people in the lower and Middle income brackets As Well As Many wealthy people who happened to have a social conscience who wanted a Politi Cal party which would act As a counterweight to the establish ment group. We know who these Esta Lish rent people Are and we Are Able to say that we Are not n their pockets one damned said or. Schreyer. The Premier said there was a in difference Between the attitudes of businessmen in the Community. He said that there vere a lot of businessmen who were not part of the establish ment and who once they realized that the nip was not it to Hurt them were prepared co operate with the govern ment. He said that As a sign of this of operation this government loped to have two or three Industrial plants in operation in Ither 1970 or 1971 which would e set up on a 50-50 relationship tween the government and the private business sector. This is quite possible but i lie meantime we must expect this criticism from the Esta he said. Asked afterwards what Type f industries he was referring to or. Schreyer said he could not speculate at this stage. We would Only be tipping off or he said. Or. Schreyer said that the editorials of one Winnipeg news paper were contributing to the Campaign being conducted against his government. He said that critics were trying to suggest that the nip government was forcing in creased taxes in the province an increase in the interest paid on provincial debentures and was incapable of showing any Goodwill to the businessmen of the province. He also referred to the recent Case where a Winnipeg shirt manufacturing company claimed that a 10 cents an hour increase in the provincial mini mum wage had been a major consideration in deciding to move its operation out of Manitoba. If any company wants to higher rates seen continued i move out of the province because of a minimum wage of 11.35 an hour All i can say to hem is get the he said. Hell out of giant drop in Revenue continued deleted from this year s total capital estimate of Winnipeg Hydro general Man Ager r. T Harland had originally asked for in his utilities budget and for Street and Lane lighting and ornamental Street lighting. As for engineering that is not yet finished. The committee will return that department s estimates to the rack on monday. The engineering figures received a severe mauling with being Cut from the original estimate of for pavement reconstruction with widening. Work anticipated in 1970 for reconstruction without widening was expected to Cost but this was sliced Down to smaller reductions affected construction of Concrete streets lanes and sidewalks. The largest single item approved during the meeting a for overhead line work to Supply new customers Anc compensate for Power Load increases. The largest single item deleted was for provision of Power to take care of an anticipated growth in the Power Load in the area served by no. 14 substation. I it was expected this growth would be occasioned by an j increase in Power requirements by Winnipeg general Hospital. The committee decided to j hold Back the Money until such j time Fiat Hospital authorities j advise a step up in Power will i to required. Stringing along with his Bushy tailed friends Peter Beukelman of fort Dodge Iowa has worked out a rope runway for visiting squirrels. The Back Yard Tightrope leads to hanging Corn cobs which the rodents can easily pull up. Children left in cold outside school doors by Mac Keillor Friday morning of last week he temperatures were in the Ligh 20s below Zero the wind stood at 20 Miles an Nour and he resultant bite in the air in Winnipeg was something like 60 Elow. When a five year old cinder g arten student at Haughnessy Park school came pime at noon that Day he told Lis Mother things had been a bit rough that morning because he Tad had to wait outside until the school doors opened. That same Day parents of a six year old at Beaumont school in Charleswood we re greeted with the same Story. And in this Case the parents were doubly surprised to hear that the child had been sent out of doors Dur ing the morning recess. School door opening hours and recess policies Are matters decided by individual schools and the recent extended deep freeze in Winnipeg has precipitated a degree of question As to judgment used in some cases. In neither the Beaumont nor Shaughnessy p a re incidents was formal complaint made and school Board and Home and school association executives say that although they Haven t been approached directly they Are aware of warm discussion of the cold question on hot line radio shows. But it is not an unfamiliar item around the offices of the Winnipeg school superintendent. It has been brought up in the elementary school says superintendent Carmen f Moir. On the whole most schools have a setup to guard against these eventualities but we know that mix do trustee Olga Fuga chairman of the Winnipeg school Board says children in school before classes begin especially the younger students could either damage property or Hurt them selves without supervision and parents Are encouraged to time departures from Home to Coin cide with opening hours. The parents of the child at Shaughnessy Park said certainly no damage had been done but they had t known about school opening rules. The Stu Dent had been sent from at . And from now on it will be later than that. But Shaughnessy has another problem that most schools in Winnipeg Don t have. Buses coming in from the Rosser direction drop students at 8 20 and again at principal Harry Robertson a Shaughnessy said he had had no complaints and it is ridiculous to suggest that anyone would want to keep children outside when the elements Are Una nov Able. He said Normal time for Liis school to open doors is a and he himself is at the schoo by on cold and Rainy Days he sees to it that the doors a opened earlier and the school so Why let them in Early in they would probably be Farmer in their own Beaumont principal Phillip Joz Okowsky said lie janitor at Lis school was on duty at 8 . And on cold Days doors Are opened at Normal opening hours Are at Beaumont. Or. Kozok Owsey said class rooms become terribly Stuffy after an hour or to and his school tries to empty the Wilding for an airing out at recess and the weather has to be pretty cold before we keep them he said no periods during the recent cold snap had been thought severe enough to pre vent an outside recess. But a Parent in Charleswood thinks differently. It s not so much that i m raising my kids to be a Bunch of but i can t see the logic in putting six and seven year old children outside at 35 degrees below so that teachers miss out on a 15-minute Coffee break that doubles As a recess period. If the kids do have to go outside at recess hand them a soccer Ball give them some Hing to do. Don t just use them As Guinea pigs to test the fir Ichill mrs. Gerry Diehl vice presi Dent of the Shaughnessy Park Tome and school association said the item had t been discussed at the two meetings held since she took office but she said that anything beyond 30 below was too cold for children crime stoppers planned continued police in the Protection of the Public against the proposal will be put before the next meeting of the chamber of Commerce Board of directors. Police chief George w. Malt by of St. To be Manitoba s first ombudsman is said to have offered his support. A similar plan was proposed by mayor Steve Juba of Winni Peg in 1966 but was criticized As he tag Standard procedure in a police state. Under that plan a select group of citizens would have been issued a special identification card to act As police informers. An alternative for the present plan according to Fred Wood Inai Iager of the chamber of to be outside. Mrs. Betty Boyko president of the Home and school and Parent teacher federation of Manitoba said the Only place she had heard of the question was on hot line programs but that items of this nature Don t usually reach the association at the provincial level. Parents meet with teachers once a month and any problems Are usually ironed out right Winnipeg teachers association president David Robertson says it is understood that the policy is that children will not be outdoors in severe conditions. The humane aspect prevails Here. Repeated reminders Are sent out to All schools and the division Winnipeg school Divi Sion takes very Good care to see that it does t happen. As far As i can see All principals have the greatest consideration and care for the pupils especially the younger the Crux of the whole ques Tion is damage to property inflicted by unsupervised Stu dents. Furnishings and equipment in schools Are a lot different than earlier Days and things Are broken or go missing. It is one of the big factors and the school Board is equally concerned. It s a different generation now youngsters meet a More co to world now and they need a lot of re assuring and help. It s what makes teaching so difficult from or. Moir s office the View of the unsupervised Stu Dent risk is slightly different. As soon As they Are in the school we Are legally responsible for them. We could open at any time provided we Are prepared to look after that so that he said if teachers were to Volunteer to supervise doors could open earlier. And. Says or. Robertson that does happen of yes it does happen. I know in particular at the elementary level teachers Are in there or. Moir says nothing is Laid said or. The Cost of Auta parts has risen 40 per cent a the past five years. Wages Are 30 cent yet the costs of Auto insurance has risen Only 1q Pey cent in the same period of or. Shellenberg said it was difficult to say which segment of Drivers would face the increase until All statistics had been calculated. If socialization of the Auto insurance comes about the amount it will affect us depends on what part of the coverage the government the said. E. M. Brown general Man Ager of the Portage Mutual insurance agreed that All Indi cations Point to t Rise a fates. Said or. Brown the Price of an Auto fender has risen 35 per cent since 1965 and with the frequency o f accidents the losses to insurance Lias also risen. R. D. Blackburn a member of the government committee studying the feasibility of government operated insurance said Friday that government Competition with private Indus try would not be feasible it could be wit i would t see any particular advantage to the government operating on that said a compulsory Basic automobile insurance scheme does have certain advantages in making it possible streamline administrative procedures. In Saskatchewan this is enhanced because the car insurance is Issue eco Vith the vehicle registration so no additional expenses necessary in issuing policies in collect ing or. Blackburn said another advantage of the Saskatchewan plan is they handle All the business in the province so Ott volume alone they Are Able to operate a More economical the Cost of premiums also could be less he said because there would be no desire on the part of the government to hike a profit., he said one disadvantage with a government operated plan is the exclusion of private agents except to provide additional coverage above govern ment plan requirements. Crash kills 4 Swift current sask. Up four people killed and several in three vehicle crash on the to fans can Ada Highway near this South Western Saskatchewan City Fri Day night. Ramp said two cars and a heavy truck were involved. Down by either the superintendent s office or by the school Board As to when doors shall be opened. It is strictly an individual school decision. Or. Robertson said the code of rules is one thing but starting hours for most teachers is an outlier. Two injured As car hits a Lamppost two men were taken to Winnipeg general Hospital As a result of an Accident on Osborne Street Between Broadway and Mostyn place at . Saturday. The Are Kenneth Ezeard i 384 Ellice Avenue suite 303, and Paul Lotain of 932 Dorchester Avenue. Act As screening agent for Winnipeg police said the applicants who wished to be by or. Ezeard was informers and police could j going South on Ash orc Street i Issue each a code number to when i was in collision with a Sivc when calling in inform i steel Lamppost. J ton or. Ezeard suffered around the Halls . This code could be used in injuries. He was reported in fair i factors along with the Amoun Lamerce Wou d be to have a of clothing each child is secret code wearing dictate decision As null hrs whether the student body will the chamber could be sent outside at recess. As an example to said recesses were spent indoors on two occasions this week. But As a general Rule you can t have children running and special Tele for informers j possibly i los Angeles an elect Ronic fuel gauge for the . Air Force measures in pounds rather than Gallons. Pop firm attacks Oil curbs move was of significance to the Industry and that problems involved with the Oil Content could be resolved satisfactorily. Samuel Charles executive director of the Canadian soft drink association said manufacturers should have no prob Lem meeting the new require ment. He said the oils which add to the appearance of the drinks could be replaced by other sub stances. He did not name the alternatives. Earlier d. T. Armour vice president and general manager of crush beverages Ltd. Of to Ronto said his company s products already meet the limits set of the Federal group. Communist parties quarrel nature of and the fact that it was called suddenly. It was the first time since 1957 that the yugoslavs participated in such a meeting. Or. Belovsky said the Yugo slavs supported the idea of a european people s Congress of communist socialist and Bourgeois democratic and Christian progressive groups. Observers Felt that that could either help pressure reluctant Western governments to participate in a european Security conference or bet As a substitute for such a conference if the reluctance proved impossible to overcome. Or. Belovsky also indicated a yugoslav Hope of negating the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty for socialist coun tries which was devised to justify the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. That read to analysts Here like a refusal to allow soviet dictation to a people s Congress or a Security conference. Neut ral nations and Western communist parties that Are thinking this Way might give Western governments reason to show More interest in a Security conference than they have found so far some observers said. Ojukwu granted Asylum Point noted Ojukwu s whereabouts had been a mystery since he fled Biafra on Jan. 10 in a plane that flew him to the portuguese is land of Sao Tome off West Afri Ca. He had been reported in por Tugal which had been sympathetic to his secession but portuguese officials denied he was there. From his hiding place on Jan. 15, the Day Biafra gave up the fight Ojukwu issued a state ment through an Agency in Geneva saying that while Ojukwu lives Biafra lives. He called for a Neutral Force to Block what he called nigerian plans for genocide in Biafra. Hou Houet Bovigny s office said in the communique announcing Ojukwu s Asylum that the president had said recently the Ivory coast will never give Asylum to a government in exile. The Ivory coast will never serve As a base for sub version to no matter whom against no matter then the communique added it is by virtue of this solemn principle that we accorded the right of Asylum to Gen. Ojukwu when he arrived in the Ivory coast. It is by virtue of this sol emn principle that Gen Ojukwu although entirely free in his movements will have no political activity i the Ivory the communique asked re porters to respect Ojukwu s re referring to Ojukwu s state men on Jan. 15, the communique said Gen. Ejukwa recently made a statement which was widely carried by All the press agencies. Henceforth be will abstain from taking any position while in the Ivory the Ivory coast was one of four african countries that had extended diplomatic recognition to Biafra. The presidential statement did not indicate when or Hove Ojukwu arrived. Nor was anything said about where Ojukwu is living. Ojukwu left Biafra under the command of . Philip Effiong who formally surren dered to the nigerians in Lagos a week ago. The Lagos government announced it had granted amnesty to former biafran but said there was some question about those who like Ojukwu had fled. Longest eclipse the maximum possible Dura Tion of an eclipse of the Sun is seven minutes 58 seconds. Pro Telec Ltd. 947-1644 Home burglar alarm As Low As installed free estimate no obligation most of the teachers Are Here at but they Don t on duty until and most of the children live very close to the court and he informer would i condition. Or. Lotain the Only not to make an appear or testify himself he passenger received leg injuries. He was reported in Good condition. 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