Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Andy Mellen religion comes to the Centennial concert Hall to night although in a rather unfamiliar form. A 15-member touring East of Jesus Christ superstar will perform the religious Rock opera at and 8 . The Early show was added Friday night after the original show was completely sold out. It just goes to show that there Are people willing to Shell out about a ticket on Short notice if there s something they really want to see. Most shows and concerts need at least two or three weeks of publicity to insure a solid turnout. If the shows sell out and there Are indications that it will it u mean that More than people were attracted on Only six Days publicity. Jesus Christ was the inevitable result of the religion in Rock songs kick emphasized by songs like the Byrds Jesus is just All right. The Rock opera was conceived by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice who together wrote All of the musics and lyrics. Basically it s the Story of Christ s last few Days on Earth before his crucifixion All set to Rock music. Promoter Jerry Shore reports that the show will be a concert version of the entire Rock opera but won t include All of the lavish costumes and sets utilized in the new York costume version. All of this fanfare seems rather absurd when you con Sider How Church attendance is declining because of peo ple who can t be bothered. With religion. People ignore Winnipeg free press Sseaver Canada Usa local of users 786-6081 monday december 6, 1971 Tor free estimate or a Rochuk 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Auric Van Linin Churchill Complex shifted to Weir bibles and churches but almost break their necks running to buy tickets to see a religious stage production. Very strange and perhaps even a Little insightful consider ing the life style Many of us Are leading. Short stuff despite a couple of poor reviews Kitchie Yorke s new Book has been received extremely Well by Canadian music fans. To coincide with the Book a group called sounds of the North has released a 45 entitled appropriately theme from axes chops and hot licks. A television special would be in order. Hard rain ran into some Slippery ice and guess who won the Winnipeg band was heading to Kenora saturday night when its went into a skid on a Patch of ice and rolled Jive times before stopping in the median strip. Fortunately none of the group s members sustained anything More serious than a few cuts and bruises Al though the truck arid the band s . System did t fare As Well. Movies movies movies. Films Are popping up every where this week and a few of them Bear investigating. Amazing Grace visions takes Over Cinema 3 this week presenting the Vampire killers on tuesday husbands on wednesday the learning tree thursday and Friday it s the damned. Showtime Are and nightly except for Friday when it s 7 and admission each evening is at the University of Winnipeg the popular Cinema gallery returns this wednesday and thursday dec. 8 and 9 with a Christmas gallery. The four films this time around really need no introduction and include a boy named Charlie Brown arsenic and old lace Snow White and the seven dwarfs and Bonnie and Clyde. The films will be run simultaneously in four different theatres at 8 . Each night at a Cost of per flick. Advance tickets Are available at the celebrity Box office. Thompson Man., staff Churchill local government administrator Douglas Ritchie confirmed in an Airport inter View Here sunday night that a major change in the Federal provincial government Mil lion Churchill renovation pro Gram is on the planners draw ing boards in Winnipeg. Or. Ritchie said that he was shocked to learn of the drastic relocation plan for some of the major components of the pro Gram while he was in Winnipeg last week attending several conferences. As a result of soil testing in the Churchill Square area where the recreation Centre the medical health ser vices Complex the new High school and Library were to be built the provincial planners have decided to build them on a Sandy Ridge on the Northeast rim of the Tow site overlooking Hudson Bay. Or. Ritchie said that while he was shocked to learn of the changes contemplated the More he studied them the More convinced he became that they would greatly Benefit the whole development. He said that Ron Stromberg co Dina Tor of the program for the Cabi nets planning and priorities committee would come to Churchill within the next few weeks and present the new concept to the Churchill residents. If you can t afford a movie information Canada 393 Portage ave., invited you to Check out its Brown bag Bijou weekdays at . Bring your lunch and see a variety of three National film Board films for free. This week s offerings Are population explosion pathways in the sky and Natanni. I asked my readers what one thing they d wish for if they were stranded on a desert Island for the rest of their lives and received a surprising variety of ideas. Rather than award one entrant a couple of tickets for Jesus Christ superstar i decided to give three co winners one ticket each. Several of the answers i received were Iden tical in which Case the entry with the earliest postmark won out. The winners and their answers Are Ben Labovich 449 Hudson Street i d want Candice Bergen with instructions on How to build a boat written All Over her body in indelible ten Jackson 337 Fearn ave., mpg. R2k 3e8 if i was stranded on a deserted Island i d want to make sure there was an Island with the youth scene column to Lowry Meyette 919-21 Clayton dr., mpg. R2m-1g2 the one thing i would take is the Bible preferably an illustrated version of the old testament May pick up their tickets tonight for the show at the con Cert Hall with the presentation of suitable identification. Did Yoa know that we should never go out of our Way to impress people with How Bright we Are it might be a Good thing if we tried to appear less stupid than we really Are. From mrs. Harry Lenton Ridgeville Man. Here and there starting this thursday at 9 ., the University of Winnipeg student radio Ckuj will present metamorphosis a program dealing with local happenings As seen through the eyes of University Stu dents. The program will be aired weekly on crw pm. The Penthouse players of Stony Mountain Penitentiary and the Manitoba speech association win present three one act plays in room 290 of the faculty of Educa Tion building u of a thursday at . No admission will be charged. Laughing boy provides the music for a dance at an Tarnop Headquarters 210 Rita Street so James Assini Boia this Friday starting at 8 . It will Only set you Back one Dollar. U of m movie this week Mississippi Mermaid tues Day at 8 pm. In the Multi purpose room. Admission is 75 cents. At the Plinie Tarhini tonight through Jan. 4, the presentation win be Christmas Star. U of m student Rhodes scholar Robert Coke of Winnipeg has been named the 1972 Rhodes scholar for Manitoba. Or. Coke 22, a graduate Stu Dent in economics at the University of Manitoba was a Joha s Corege Gold Meda fist a is70. Be is Captain of fee Vas Versi to Swira Raing Teara Aad be has Canadian inter coif Giafes records m As Wel As to a svs Aber act tapis is essay eve ass. Or. Cerce Vico is a at of Flea erase 2 charged in store Holdup two men Are scheduled to appear in Winnipeg magistrate s court monday tit face charges of armed robbery following the Holdup Early sunday of a 7 eleven food store 815 Ellice Avenue. A police spokesman said the men were taken into custody several hours after the Holdup. One of the men is 19-years-old and the other is 18 years. A single male clerk was in the store at 4 . When too men walked into the store wearing Nylon masks one carrying a Shotgun. They demanded the Money in the Cash Regis Ter and made off with it police said. Police have recovered the Shotgun be masks and some of the Money. It is not known How much Money was stolen. Three killed in accidents three Manitoban died in three separate traffic accidents during the weekend one in Winnipeg one in Rural Mani Toba and one in Saskatchewan. Dead Are Vladka bade 33, of 554 col lege Avenue. Ethel Martha Speidel 29, of Mollard Road old Kildonan. William Boychuk 78, of Pine River Man. A police spokesman said mrs. Rade was pronounced dead on arrival at the Winnipeg general Hospital after the car driven by her husband Ivan 38 was in collision with a veterans Prince ambulance on its Way to a Call. The Rade vehicle was travel Ling East on Redwood Avenue when it collided with an ambulance being driven North on Arlington Street by James Wood Man 19, of 378 Maryland Street at . Sunday the spokesman said. The rades son Zdanko 14, was reported in serious Condi Tion in Hospital with extensive . He was a Pas Senger in the Back seat of the car his father was driving. Michael Munro 19, of 1139 Fleet Avenue a member of the ambulance Crew was treated in Hospital for forehead cuts and released but was later admitted for observation with a possible concussion. Or. Rade was treated for cuts and bruises and released from Hospital and or. Wood Man was treated for abrasions before being released. The ramp said or. Boy Chuk s truck went off the Road eight Miles North of Ethelbert on Highway 10 about . Saturday. He was struck by a passing car As he tried to Flag Down assistance and was pronounced dead at Dauphin Gen eral Hospital. Mrs. Speidel was killed Satur Day night when her car collided with a truck near Quappelle 34 mile s East of Regina. Token Indian Boycotts dinner Bellr Mger Ron Wilson swings into action As the salvation army s Christmas kettles begin to appear once again on Winnipeg sidewalks. Last year Winnipeg Gers dropped enough Money into the Little red pots to pay for Christmas dinners and hundreds of toys and gifts for the needy. Board answers teachers v Pink list at it. Frances fort Frances ont Spe Cial the Ontario school trustees Council has taken a body recovered from Lake ramp saturday recovered the body of a Man believed to be Robert Ernest Plasch 26, of Minneapolis Minnesota who had been missing on Cross Lake with a companion and presumed drowned since sept 3. Or. Plasch and Michael Engler of Robins Dale minn., had been reported at Cross Lake Man., West of grand rapids. All that was found in the area at the time was a partly submerged Canoe and two life jackets. Moffat to speak Allan g. Moffat past president of the National coun cil of Community planning associations of Canada win speak during the annual meeting of the metro Winnipeg Branch of the Community planning association of Canada dec. 16 at the Westminster motor hotel measure that it Hopes will turn the tables on 84 secondary school teachers who have re signed their positions with the fort Frances Rainy River Board of education. The Council which represents All boards of education in the province has requested trustees councils throughout Canada to advise school boards not to hire teachers who have re signed positions in the fort Frances Rainy River District the teachers whose resignations take effect dec. 31, last week announced they would Pink list the Board of Educa Tion through a memo to All teachers in Canada informing them that the Board has no con tract with teachers and encouraging them not to apply for a position with the Board. Percy Muir executive director of the Ontario trustees Council Friday informed the Board that practically every provincial Council has been heard from and has agreed to advise boards of education not to hire teachers from the fort Frances Rainy River District trustees councils from across Canada agreed at a re cent convention not to hire teachers from an area where teachers resign then request other teachers not to apply for the vacant positions. The teachers decided to re sign in Masse tuesday after wage negotiations with the Board broke Down. The Board is now faced with the problem of staffing its three High schools after the Christ Mas holidays. The 84 secondary school teachers who resigned Are among 105 employed by the Board. J. M. Steele director of Edu cation for the Board said at that time the Board would look to the trustees Council for guid Ance. The Board had offered teach ers a per cent salary in crease he said but the teachers were seeking an in crease of about eight per cent or. T. G. White president of the school trustees Council said in a Telephone interview from Sault Ste. Marie that the trustees Pink list action is one used commonly by the Council As a counteraction to teachers pin lists. He said it has proved effective in the past and it s Possi ble that it could be even More in a situation where there Are very few or. White added that the trustees action is a purely co operative venture and no school boards Are bound by it Jack Hutton a spokesman for the Ontario secondary school teachers which is representing the Frances teachers said the trustees Council issues a Pink list in Al most All such he said the Only action the. Trustees could take to prove their sincerity would be to re turn to the bargaining or. Steele director of Educa Tion in fort Frances said the Board has not yet accepted the 84 resignations and is ready and willing to continue bargaining any time. Since the resignations have not been accepted the teachers could withdraw them if the Dis Pute is settled before school starts in the new year. Nelson House Man., staff chief Nelson link later said Here saturday that the fact that he had refused the Thompson City Council s invitation to attend a dinner honouring Indian affairs and Northern development minister Jean Chretien thursday had nothing to do with the minister whom he had found to be a Man who Sticks up for the i Don t know How other bands get the 40-year old chief but this is my however he was Adamant that or. Chretien must come Back to Manitoba and visit the reserves. He has got to get to know us As we Are and the problems we Are up he said. He hoped the minister s next visit would be soon. The chief said that his reason for not attending the dinner honouring or. Chretien was that his invitation Xmas obviously an afterthought on the part of the Thompson mayor and Council and that he did not want to be put in the position of being a Token a new Era will begin in Nel son House in april the Chiaf said when the band Council be comes self governing and takes Over its own budgeting. He thought this added importance to the fact that 50 Nelson House students Are studying at the r. D. Parker collegiate in Thomp son and living with local Resi dents. When i talk to these Stu he said i Itell them How much we Are going to need their help in running a Reserve and that if they Don t want work they can come Back now and Cut Wood and haul mrs. Kay Campbell mystery Lake school Board chairman said that As far As she knows the Nelson House students Are doing remarkably Well. The chief s main concern on. The Reserve is to find employ ment for 40 to 50 men. The band Council is waiting to hear the results of various Winter works projects it has proposed to several government branches. The chief who is up for re election in the Spring is also concerned because his one Promise in the previous election was to get jobs for All those Able to work and to reduce the number of those on welfare. Fish Experiment results in crisis a Conoho Polar Start dn-600 fluid Quick engine starts in coldest weather Conoho dn-600 fluid lubricates at -65 dog. F 6. N. Andison equipment limited mapped Thompson Thundu f 74-1828 778-7004 345-5426 weather report morning bulletin Portage la Prairie Man. Special the Experiment of stocking Crescent Lake with fish has run into a major problem. The City s Parks Board is at tempting to get Quick govern Merit action to save the fives of literally thousands of fish which Are floundering in the still open but shallow Waters of Garrioch s Creek. The Parks Board s wildlife committee chairman or. C. I. Thomas said sunday that when the matter was brought to his attention he immediately i contacted the local conservation officer Dennis Reese asking that the fisheries department give permission to have the fish scooped up and transferred to i the nearby Waters of the Assiniboine River. Or. Thomas said the fish tens of thousands of Are moving to the still open Waters of the Lake s drainage system probably instinctively realizing that the Lake s oxygen Supply will be exhausted As the thickness of the ice surface Gra dually becomes greater. The fish he said Are six to eight inches Long and Are 90 per cent Jackush and 10 per cent Trot. They re too Small to eat for the most part or. Tfx Rozs added that Etc parts Board is for of ask action to Salvage few Tim mum Light sunday night. Emf Flawny we pc vhf today. During wit Tato in Northern an Meta tonight told Len Reward from off Cril trait Tori term this fir we to tight wry it ii met cow twit temper. 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