Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba City function explained to Midland wards by Duncan Mcmonagle the Midland Community com Mittee of Winnipeg Central City Council monday held the first of two information meetings de signed to acquaint the people in the area s four wards with the functioning of the new local government. About 45 people from the Cen trial Winnipeg wards of West Minster and memorial attended the two hour meeting in Mulvey school. A similar meeting is scheduled for 8 . Tuesday in Polo Park and Sargent Park wards. Three of the four Community committee members who also sit on the Central Council at tended the meeting. Clem Bla Kasalee chairman of the Provin Cial government task Force on Community committees explained the City of Winnipeg act which established the Cen trial City government. The residents formed a steer ing committee to propose the procedure to be followed at a meeting in january of the whole Community committee area which will elect citizen advisory groups for the councillors. About eight people Volun zoning bids outlined the environment committee of Winnipeg Central City Council monday recommended proce dures for applications to the new government zoning changes committee recommended applications for zoning changes be made to the Community com Mittee representing the area where the change would take place. A bylaw would be pre pared and a Public hearing held. Applications for variations within existing zoning rules would go to a Board of adjust ment having jurisdiction Over the whole City area. Applications for conditional uses of buildings and property allowed by existing zoning regu lations would go first to the appropriate Community com Mittee. Council would be the final legislative authority in All cases but applicants could Appeal to the Manitoba municipal Board which is appointed by the provincial government. Application fees would re main the present fee of and would be reviewed at the first environment committee meeting in april. Committee s recommendations made after considering recommendations of metro Zon ing and Legal administrators will go to the. Executive policy committee and then to Council for consideration. Tiered for the steering commit tee. They will meet with a Simi Lar group to be elected tues Day. The three councillors at the meeting were Geoff. Dixon of Polo Park Bill Mcgarva of Sargent Park who is chairman of the Community committee and Robert Steen of West Minster. Bob Wilson of memorial was absent. In his outline of Community committee duties or. Blakes Lee spoke of the possible roles of the citizen advisers. Imagination is really about the Only the three councillors spoke of some of the possible disadvantages of the Central City arrangement. Coun. Mcgarva said property in All of what at present is greater Winnipeg will be assessed for tax purposes at an equal rate but that does not necessarily provide for a lower Mill rate. Coun. Dixon said councillors came away from an information seminar held at Gimli last thursday confused about the roles the Central City legislation sets out for them. Coun. Steen called the system o f operating three standing committees of Council rigid and said it is difficult for All 50 councillors to make their ideas known at a Council meeting. Questions from residents were concerned mainly with administrative details such As How the citizen advisers would be elected and How present local government functions such As property zoning would be carried out after the new government takes office Jan. 1, 1972. Or. Blakeslee and the councillors repeated the provisions of the act and explained the in tended operation of Central City bodies beginning Jan. 1. Hashish gift jails woman a Young woman who tried to smuggle a Gram of hash hidden in a Basket of fruit to her jailed boy Friend was sentenced to three months in jail monday by provincial magistrate Samuel Minuk. Donna Byle 20, of lot 3, nor Man Avenue St vital was convicted of trafficking in a Nar Cotic. Last August the woman brought a Basket of fruit to the Public safety building for her Boyfriend. The Basket contained six bananas along with an assortment of other fruits. However police inspected the fruit and found that a Hole had been drilled in one of the bananas and inside was a plastic wrapped Gram of hashish. Police also discovered a note which read i love weather report morning bulletin frets re lev per tire Cou from worn forecast Winnipeg free press Canada Usa local overseas moving 786-6081 la free estimate or brochure tuesday december 7, 1971 2nd class mail registration number 02s6 Alt it Van lim1 support Kraft Nofu displays spirit concern by Paul off Luchyn a new spirit of concern and agitation was evident at the opening of the second annual convention of the National Farmers Union Here monday. Displays set up on the Mezza nine floor of the Winnipeg inn the scene of the four Day con proclaim such ideas As support the revolution and support the United another Booth displays a Large selection of Manitoba produced cheeses and urges delegates to Boycott All cheese products produced by Kraft foods limited. The Farmers Union Boycott of Kraft began three months ago in Ontario and since then a series of informational pickets have been established across Canada to Tell con Sumers not to buy Kraft. Don Kossick who holds the title National Boycott co Ordina Tor of the National Farmers Union is Manning the Boycott Kraft Booth Here. We Are trying to achieve collective bargaining rights for Ontario Dairy products with Kraft he said in an interview. He said the marketing Power in the Dairy Industry lies in the hands of a few Large corporations like Kraft and these companies Are exploiting Dairy producers. For evidence or. Kossick said that of the original 500 in dependent dairies in Ontario there Are now Only 43. He also Felt part of the prob Lem lies with the Ontario milk marketing Board which is controlled by Kraft and other Large he said the Boycott has caused a drop in Sale of 35 per cent at least in one Regina super Market. Another Booth manned by representatives of the United far workers an american farm labor Union urges boy Cotts of certain agricultural products such As California grapes. This Booth Sells for 25 cents buttons bearing the inscription support far workers. In an address to the Conven Tion delegates Farmers Union president Roy Atkinson referred to reports that the Union is infiltrated with this sort of suggestion comes from communist haters who Are trying to get Farmers All upset about some bogey he said. Canada has socialism but it is socialism for the he said that while Farmers. Are now they Are go ing to get a hell of a lot or. Atkinson said in an inter View that he rejected any suggestion of a left Wing influence in the Farmers Union. I Don t like he said. He said he found it interest ing that the Farmers Union opposes the same things usually opposed by left Wing groups Large corporations exploitation of the Little Man and the so called More than were on hand monday for the opening of Hie National Farmers Union convention at the Winnipeg inn. Life Cycle of Birds upset by pesticides meet told death of wild Birds by Chemi Cal poisoning is not As significant a problem As the effect the pesticides can have on the Birds behaviour the Manitoba naturalists society was told monday. Richard Fyfe of the Canadian wildlife services in Edmonton told the society that the sub lethal effects of pesticides upon reproductive cycles of Birds can result in a major catastrophe by destroying the potential of an environment to support the Birds. That is apparently what has happened tothe Peregrine which is virtually extinct in Southern Canada to the dwindling numbers of Prairie Falcon and to the Bald Eagle in Eastern Canada he said. If the Robin were suddenly to be wiped out of the Winnipeg area the situation while on desirable could be corrected by importing Large numbers of the Bird from other areas. But importation is not the answer in an area where the re productive Cycle is affected. Al though insufficient numbers of Young Are being produced to sustain the population the Parent Birds continue to defend their territory and will not allow new Birds to come in said or. Fyfe. It has been found that Birds for and will leave their Young to starve to death for no apparent reason he said. In other cases male and female mating cycles do not Coin councillor quashes resolutions an attempt to organize an interim residents advisory group for the lord Selkirk Community committee was order monday ruled out of by councillor Ken Talanchuk of Mynarski Ward. Coun. Talanchuk chairman of lord Selkirk s first official Community committee meeting said he could t allow any resolutions because the meeting had been advertised simply to pro vide information to the area s residents. About 100 persons attended the meeting at Fara Day school some residents suggested an interim committee should be elected to plan a full scale Community conference to select a residents advisory group to assist the four councillors who represent the area Central City coun with a High level of pesticides in their tissue sometimes suffer a breakdown in parental behave said it foam have been unfair to Resi dents who believed that the meeting had been called to Dis cuss the role of com Tanty committees. Hash in pipe costs Man cide and there is no reproduction he added. Predatory Birds like the Prairie Falcon which prey on smaller Birds Are widely expo s e d to chemically treated seed and Are found to have High concentrations of chemicals in their systems while Falcons which eat mainly ground squirrels have relatively Low amounts of chemicals in their bodies. And All Birds who eat fish Are potentially affected he said. Or. Fyfe said it has been suggested that loons Are not re producing effectively in some areas of Canada. The wildlife service studies predatory Birds by collecting Sample eggs to Check the residual Levels of pesticides banding the Young and keeping data on each nest one of the most disappoint ing things about our work is that you cover the same area year after year and every year you know there win be so Many nests that won t be police seize movie attorney general Al Mackling announced tuesday that City of Winnipeg police morality Divi Sion on instructions from his department seized copies of the film the stewardesses at noon tuesday at the metropolitan theatre in downtown Winnipeg. Opening of the downtown theatre was delayed 15 minutes tuesday afternoon As the management quickly substituted an other movie the Todd killings for the confiscated film. A theatre spokesman estimated that about Winnipeg Gers saw the stewardesses in its four week run. He said the version viewed by local audiences had six minutes of film deleted by the censor Board. Or. Madding said in his statement both the company metropolitan theatre Winnipeg Ltd. And the manager would be charged under the obscenity sections of the criminal code of Canada. The manager and representative of the company Are to appear in Winnipeg Magis trate s court at 10 . Friday. Two charges will be Laid exposing to Public View obscene matter. Having in Possession for purpose of exposing to Public View obscene matter to wit the motion picture film the stewardesses. The attorney general said officers of the morality division armed with a search warrant seized the film when the theatre opened at noon tues Day. He said the decision to seize the film and Lay charges was made on the basis of a report sent to his department by the morality division. The report was carefully studied said or. Mackling before was taken. The decision in an interview tuesday Fred Heiderich chairman the Ney general Al Mackling about the Issue tuesday afternoon. The movie was passed and classified As restricted by the censor Board earlier this year. Pensioners to meet the old age pensioners society of Manitoba will bold a business meeting at 2 . Thursday at holy Trinity Church Hall Smith Street and Graham Avenue. Don Kossick National Boycott coordinator of the National Farmers Union explains what the boy Cott of Kraft foods limited is All juvenile jailed for 7% years in armed thefts a male juvenile was sentenced to Ivi years in Penitentiary when he pleaded guilty to eight charges including four of armed robbery monday in Winnipeg magistrate s court. Raymond William Zenuik 17, of 419 Andrews Street was first raised to adult court in july 1970, when at 16, he received 30 months on a robbery conviction. Zenuik was released on parole in july of this year his term was to expire near the time of his 19th birthday in january of 1973. In the four armed robberies Zenuik combined efforts with a Man who is now serving a four year Penitentiary term. Crown counsel Chrys Iwan Chuck told the court that Zenuik was involved in the armed Rob Bery of the Andrews grocery 532 Redwood Avenue on june Heidesch chairman of the when was Stoien by a Manitoba censor Board said he m a n no was carrying a would be conferring with actor Shotgun. Al Amir Zenuik also admitted his part in the july 28 armed robbery when was taken at re Volver Point from three persons working at the a and w drive in 1520 Portage Avenue. He also pleaded guilty to armed robbery charges involving a Perth s dry cleaners Branch 97 Osborne Street on aug. 12, when was stolen at gunpoint and the aug. 13 Rob Bery of the econ drive in store 1007 Mcphillips Street Star of Bethlehem rises again the mystery of the Star of Bethlehem will be the subject of the annual Christmas show which runs to Jan. 9 in the Cen Tennial planetarium. The show. Appointment in Petra presents a re creation of the night sky As it was at the first Christmas 20 centuries ago. The mystery of the Star it self Wib be discussed in this an i Vioal Hoar Long product too. Four shows will be run daily on similar Holiday boors dec. And Jan 1. There will be two shows Only at and 8 . Dec. 28 and 31. The planetarium will be dosed Christmas Day. Motion chaffing of the j was it a meteor a Comet an audience to protest a Central exploding Star or an Astrologi decks in to delay action 1 Carly interesting _ we _ or i _ Coesse for the Federal with be feel be fete ass scary to elect a advisory Wolfgang half son 29, of s9s Crescent was Shch monday after pleading of the proposed up rail Over i a the sky some astronomers Gratty before magistrate Law i pass was also rated Ost of order fed that viewing it As a Saira Rie Mitcheo in provincial mag for the same reason. Cie yet Rea aaa the most Istrate s court to posses own of tree members of tree Consa j valid . Five grains of has Eish. Raty or Taitte said a beets so i was writes by director of fee fed front Gas Agacer St Mai sew so Cej Kest Acx fee Voss Jose fess j. R. R. A Muse set Cost Kchop rafted at a Wjite Aey Sofce a we rest Tescue for patients were s 3ft when the Young night attendant was struck Over the head and was stolen. Zenuik was arrested aug. 19 in the City s North end but escaped sept. 13 from heading Ley jail where he was being held. After stealing a car Zenuik drove toward Winnipeg abandoned it and after eluding his pursuers walked into the City the next Day. He then stole a 1961 Automo bile from the rear of the 700 Block on Portage Avenue. Zenuik and a juvenile com Panion were startled by police on sept 15 As they attempted to break into a Poison Avenue residence but escaped. Zenuik was arrested near his Home three Days later. Magistrate Anthony j. Pilutik sentenced Zenuik to four con current terms of six years each on the four charges of armed robbery. An additional consecutive 18 month sentence was imposed after Zenuik pleaded guilty to escaping lawful custody. Concurrent two year sentences were imposed on two charges of Auto theft and one charge of break and entry. Police find hash in his car Man fined s275 Ralph Alan Deacon 23, of 19 St Michael s Road St vital was fined monday by magistrate Lawrie Mitchell in provincial magistrate s court when he pleaded guilty to pos session of a Small Quantity of i hashish. J counsel for the Federal de 1 apartment of Justice Hersh Wolch told court that Deacon s car was checked by Ponce when be was parked in front of the thunderbird restaurant in the Dakota shopping Centre at . Nov. 30. Deacon was searched and 1.2 Grams of hashish were found in his pants pocket he had do prior convictions. Asked for Snow Job Winnipeg civic Public works decided Moi Day to ask for an additional approx of to dear Snow Flora City streets ass til Ibe end of fee year. 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