Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday january 28. 1970 Vancouver losing liar rum Jungle by Ron Sudlow Vancouver up Gas town a waterfront rectangle containing the 14 blocks of Vancouver s Jungle for drunks and junkies is starting to get the Monkey off its Back. Gas town is shedding its Mantle of dust and deterioration. Its bras work is being polished and its Marble floors and brickwork Are being and Sand blasted. And it is starting to reveal the character and history of a Section of the original Vancou ver when Jack Deighton an enterprising f r a s e r River Steamboat Pilot brought his barrel of watered Down Hooch to Start the area s first hotel. Although the area was officially known As Granville it was named Gas town after Gassy Jack Deighton so dubbed by his patrons be cause he was never at a loss for words. And Vancouver fanned out from Gassy Jack s barrel but the waterfront area that bore name went from a Boom to the booze and bums. It be came a skid Road Section four blocks North of the Core. Now the pendulum is Start ing to swing the other More and More merchants Are using the old buildings to re create the flavor and Char Acter of the .1880s and relieve today s hangover. Warehouses and flophouse have become boutiques and discotheques. False fronts Are being ripped off old buildings to reveal striking Stone and masonry work for new restaurants Art galleries and a sunday Only Flea Market. It s not a regrowth yet say the planners but the seeds Are planted. City Council has approved in principle a report that Calls for participation with the merchants in Restor ing the Buji Hildings and preserving much of the area s his tory. It will be up to private in terprise1 to re create the atmosphere but Council is Back ing improvement of the municipal lighting in character sidewalk improvements planting and traffic says City planner Bill Graham. What the owners and ten ants do is probably the most important part of the redevelopment. Many believe there is real Opportunity there. The. Number of applications for development permits is grow or. Graham says the area of squat Stone buildings has great development potential because it adjoins the City s highest pedestrian density and it is an integral part of a new traffic plan. Developers face the Chal Lenge of what to do with old buildings which were constructed for different functions 70 or More years ago in the heyday of Gassy Jack. Architecturally the build Ings Are a mixed bag which or. Graham says he can Only classify by the words Early visually they come in Var ious shapes and sizes. Most Are no taller than three Sto reys and some Are far from Square or rectangular because they Are built on streets that intersect at obtuse angles. There Are other problems such As parking and attract ing customers but none so bad that they can t be Over says or. Graham. There is terrific potential in this area As a Beauty spot and tourist says Frank Low Beer of the Community arts Council which took 600 people on a tour through the area last year to spark its redevelopment. It s simply that now the people themselves want a piece of the Many Are grabbing for the action. They Range from Long time property owners to Young imaginative business men and mature investors. Two English girls recently opened their fashion boutique As 350 of the so called Beautiful people crammed in the building while drunks floating on Bay rum looked on from outside. Brothers Larry and Eugene Killam have purchased seven properties in the of them hotels which they Are turning into Low rental accommodation for Young swingers. They have Laid Down Plush red carpeting i rooms that used to sleep two alcoholics or drug addicts to a bed. Union must pay million Juan Pablo izqu1ekdo who will be guest conductor of the Winnipeg symphony orchestra feb. 7 and 8 in the Centennial concert Hall. Or. Izquierdo who comes from Santiago Chile has been highly praised by critics in the United states. He was assistant conductor of the new York philharmonic orchestra in 1966-67 and was resident conductor in charge of concerts and opera at Indiana University in 1967-68. Day Centre classes still available openings Are still available in the instructional programs for elderly citizens offered three Days a week at the notre Dame Day Centre 590 notre Dame Avenue. Art classes handicrafts and liquid embroidery instruction Are held 10 . To 12 noon monday wednesday and Fri Day. Ottawa up a majority judgment of the supreme court of Canada said tuesday the uni Ted steelworkers of America alone had to Bear All the blame for an illegal strike against Gas be Copper mines Ltd. Of Murdochville que., in 1957. In a 4-to-l decision the High court dismissed a Union Appeal against lower court judgments ordering it to pay to compensate the company for the strike which lasted from March 10 to oct. 5, 1957. The majority judgment writ ten by or. Justice Gerald Fauteux also dismissed Union arguments that the company acted in bad Faith and should be assessed 25 per cent of the dam Ages. Agreeing with or. Justice Fauteux were or. Justices Douglas Abbott Roland Mart land and Wilfred Judson. In his dissenting judgment or. Justice Emmett Hall said the company s firing of one of the Union members was a contributing cause to the strike. For that reason he would have ordered the company responsible for 25 per cent of the damages. Violence flared at intervals during the strike of More than workers and Quebec provincial police were called in. The strike arose Over efforts of the United steelworkers to become bargaining agent for workers at Gaspe Copper. The company opposed the move. The struggle for Union recognition which eventually led to the strike worsened with time fanned As it was by the in citations and statements of experienced members of the Appellant made to the members of the or. Justice Fauteux said. The Layoff of local president Theo Gagne and rumours that Luud reds More would be fired led to a Union meeting which decided to take strike action. Or. Justice Fauteux said that at this meeting Union representatives did not let the member malaysian parliament inactive Kuala Bumpur a prime minister Turku Abdul Rahman told the first session of the National consultative coun cil tuesday that parliamentary democracy cannot be restored in Malaysia soon because there is still tension in the country and verbal Battle in Parlia ment might touch off More fighting Between the malays and the chinese. The government requires a Little time to study the situation and when it is agreed that the danger of any trouble is re moved then i can assure you parliament will be he said. Parliament was dissolved after toe race riots last May in which an estimated per sons were killed. The Consulta Tive Council was formed last fall to advise the government and its 66 members represent Politi Cal parties professions religious groups the press Trade unions and other groups. Ship know that or. Gagne s Lay off was temporary. Thus through both silence and misrepresentations it was meant to subtly shape and arouse opinion and ensure that the workers would be led to be Lieve that by dismissing indefinitely the president of the Union and making ready to dismiss also the most Active Union members the company wanted to destroy the Appellant s Union so that in a reaction of revolt the meeting would approve an immediate or. Justice Fauteux also noted that the Union did not Dis Pute findings that once the strike had started it did direct and finance it and that its representatives were directly or indirectly involved in some of the illegal acts which the judge said he could not agree with the Union Contention that the Layoff of or. Gagne was so important As to result in the calling of the strike. The Layoff was not final since or Gage was to have seen management about another position within a few Days the judge noted. Or. Justice Fauteux concluded our Law does not and cannot admit without destroying itself and making Way for anarchy recourse to intimidation obstruction sabotage dynamite no or other acts of violence in Short recourse to Force Asle Giti mate moans to ensure recognition of a right which a person May claim manifestly Well founded As the claim May or. Justice Hall s judgment said be agreed that any fault on the part of the company did not justify the unlawful acts to which the Union was a but the unlawful dismissal Gagne was a contributing fac Tor to the strike and he would have directed that the company be held responsible for 25 per cent of the damages. At least 55 perish in Blaze Jakarta a fifty five persons were killed and another 41 badly burned in the Central Java port town of semarang when fire roared through a crowd collecting gasoline from a leaking pipeline police reported tuesday. They said most of the injured were expected to die. More than 100 persons were packed around the leaking pipe when the gasoline suddenly erupted into flame. Nineteen men women and children died in the first searing blast of flame. A sea Breeze fanned the fire and it spread quickly across the gasoline soaked ground As the frantic crowd tried to escape. Gasoline spilled from their buckets and caught fire turning nearly everyone into blazing screaming human torches. The flames spurted upwards As High As a Coconut said one witness. People were run Ning and shrieking and trying to beat out the flames with their Bare the police said 55 persons have been buried. Getting together with a Commerce manager just earned David c. Ramsay want to get together Commerce term deposits Are just one of the High interest no risk ways we can put your Money to work. They re washable anytime at any Commerce Branch. The Commerce pays on term deposits when the amount is or More and it is for fixed period greater than two years. 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