Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 9, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg policemen want 15% More pay by Bob Lis Way Winnipeg policemen want a per cent pay increase nex a first class Constable wit two years service would be a year beginning Jan. 1 if the increase is granted by Winnipeg s Central City coun cil. A first class Constable nov gets a year. The request was presented wednesday to the Central coun cil s finance committee by the Winnipeg police athletic association the bargaining agent for 472 the existing police department. The finance committee re f erred the. Request to the new City s personnel team made up of administrators to begin negotiations with the police association. A civic official said the re quest if granted could cosi Winnipeg taxpayers about next year. In addition the athletic association is ask ing for adjustments to fringe benefits now available to the policemen including a better pension plan and a higher night shift Premium. The Winnipeg police at Letic association is Only one of Fruehauf approximately 25 mechanics and helpers at Fruehauf trailer co. Of Canada ltd., 2095 Logan Avenue St. James Assiniboia went on strike for higher wages wednesday. The strikers belong to the Ca Nadian association o f Industrial mechanical and Allied workers the Union s regional vice president John go Gulyn said the men began to picket the company after a tuesday night strike vote which was overwhelmingly in favor of strike a company spokesman said the supervisory staff the parts department and the office staff were the Only people who re ported to work wednesday morning. Or. Gug Ulyn said wednesday night that there did t appear to be any work going on at. The company. He said the present average wage is an hour and the men want a one Dollar an hour increase Over the next two years. They want some Type of parity with company s workers in Alberta and b.c., he said. The company wants the con tract to cover three years but Well Settle for not More than he added that another com plaint was working conditions eyewitnesses to Accident sought Winnipeg police Are seeking witnesses to an Accident wednesday on Portage Avenue which sent a 70-year-old Man us wife and Mother to Hospital the Man Thomas Davidson of 163 Roseberry Street St James Assiniboia was driving West on Portage at about . When his car struck a amp Standard West of Sherburn treet. Police said or. Davidson suf ered face cuts and a broken Mee. He was reported in Good condition thursday in Winnipeg eneral Hospital. His wife Lois 73, and his which created pretty bad feel Mother Margaret 90, both of he Canadian Institute for the Blind residence were reported Uin Ninci a n fair condition in the win More than 100 men filling the 25 Nipes general. The two women positions last year. Only five of were passengers in his car. The striking employees worked police said the wife suffered for the company before 1969, he possible head injuries and two broken legs in the Accident and Ings among the workers. He said there was a very High turnover at the company with said. The main reason for this High turnover he said was the the Mother received a broken bad working conditions. Leg and jaw. 11 police bargaining agents that Are or will be seeking new con tracts with the Central City Council which will replace the existing greater Winnipeg municipalities Jan. 1. Spokesmen for the other associations have indicated they will be seeking parity with the rates paid Winnipeg policemen. About 268 policemen work. For the municipalities outside Winnipeg proper. Officials have said they traditionally have been paid about 20 per than the Winnipeg rates. Vehicles collide 3 injured four people were taken to Hospital after an Accident wednesday afternoon involving a police emergency vehicle and a private car. Constable Harold Ely 22, of 6727 Beaumont Street Charles Wood was driving the police vehicle West on William Avenue when at the intersection with Isabel Street the vehicle was in collision with a northbound car driven by Michael Soron 60, of Emerson Man. Or. Soron suffered a concus Sion and was reported in Good condition at the Winnipeg Gen eral Hospital. Const. Ely and another police officer who was travelling with him const. Thomas Richard Donaldson 38, of 11 Neptune Bay fort Garry were both admitted to Hospital for Obser vation. The extent of. Then injuries was not released. The police officers were Tran sporting Daniel Duhamel 21, of 93 Inkster Boulevard from the scene of an Industrial Accident at the time of the mis Hap. Or. Duhamel was admit Ted to Hospital with a crushed foot. Leaver i Al Canada Usa local moving Tor free to Matt or brochure 786-6081 thursday december 9, 1971 2nd class mail registration number 0286 a ii 0 Van lim1 weather report morning bulletin the Frt re metro proposes Street program to new City a construction pro Gram involving 39 separate projects will be recommended by metro s streets and traffic department to Winnipeg s Cen trial City Council. Following is the detailed list of the metro streets program proposed for 1972 Portage Avenue Sharpe Boulevard to Sturgeon Road St. James Assiniboia Widen exist ing pavement to four lanes eastbound Sturgeon Road to school Road St. James Assiniboia Widen eastbound and westbound pavements to four lanes Edmonton Street Exten health centres just one idea w thu wreckage of a Winnipeg police emergency vehicle which was in collision with a car wednesday. Three people were injured. North main tippers deserve same rights by Brian Mca Nulty people who choose to drink in main Street taverns Are entitled to a much Security and Protection As those in the More expensive liquor a Winnipeg magistrate said wednesday in sentencing a Man to 10 months in jail on a charge of robbery with violence. Adrian Charles Mcquade 22, of 760 Selkirk Avenue pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery before magistrate i. V. Do b i e n s k i in Winnipeg Magis trate s court. The charges arose out of an incident monday evening when a Man was accosted by Mcquade and Gerald Marcel pare 30, of Sudbury ont in the men s washroom of the Bell hotel 662 main Street. The victim s Wallet Worth along with in Cash was taken after he was accosted by two men. Pare who appeared before magistrate Mike Baryluk on tuesday was sentenced to one month in jail for his part in the robbery. Mcquade also appearing with pare on tuesday morning asked that his charges be set son jailed after fight Roy Goodman 31, of 64 Riverton Avenue was sentenced to seven months in jail wednes Day after he pleaded guilty be fore magistrate Lawrie Mitchell in provincial magistrate s court to assault and wilful damage. Crown counsel Stanley nazi Csc told court that Goodman is sep Sencial to the proceedings. Rated from his wife and five father s Home in East Kildonan since wit Vimr. Nozick said Goodman an3endmcnts to the county went to his father s Home and act Jast nov. I. I. _ _ _ _ when he was refused entry got swung shovel and struck him once in the face. Goodman then went into the House and damaged the Kitchen table by hitting it with his fist he then sat White police came to arrest him. Good aside until the afternoon could discuss the matter with a Legal Aid duty counsel. In his tuesday afternoon court appearance Mcquade at first ent wed a plea of not guilty but later when leaving the courtroom asked to be allowed to change his plea to guilty. His request was denied by magistrate who remanded Mcquade in custody until wednesday when he appeared once More in court and was sentenced to 10 months in jail. Crown counsel j. D. Mont Gomery told magistrate do Bienski that the victim and an other person along with two new court setup monday effective monday the county courts of St Boniface and Winnipeg will begin hearing Small claims involving less than under terms of the newly amended county courts act As a result Legal expenses will be noticeably reduced for individuals seeking settlement for Small claims attorney general Al madding said wednesday. Under the amended act Par ties with cases involving less than May have their Case informally adjudicated or Arbi t r a t e d without the Ordinary rules of evidence before county court judge Cark Deputy parties clerk agree a or providing both and a simple written statement of claims is filed. Lawyers will not be is or. Mackling said about 150 finally proclaimed. Ii visit or. Wilck Fulg Jiu guv 1ju children who Are staying at his i arms Flave been filed Iti since the proclamation of when was refused entry Fey a Jerk or into a fight during which he clerk the matter can be swung at his father with a Snow annea1ed to county court appealed to a county court governments Jan. 1. Whose decision would be subject to an Appeal to the court of Appeal on a ques Tion of Law. The new act is applicable Only in the county courts of Man who appeared i Coort win ipg and it Boniface. With a blackened Eye said he had an alcohol problem. Yes and it s up to you to do something about if first before i anyone else can help you. Peo pie have tried with you and you Donl seem to said j magistrate Mitchel. J women had first been in the National hotel at 655 main Street. Mcquade and pare had been seated nearby and one of the men had asked the women to dance and later returned to their own tables. The victim and his friends later went to the Bell hotel where the Man was accosted in the washroom and asked for a Fin said or. Mont Gomery. A scuffle ensued and the Man s Wallet was taken. The robbed Man later accompanied police to the Brunswick hotel where he was Able to identify Mcquade and pare from 131 persons in the tavern that evening said or. Montgomery. Muggings and Robbings were becoming All too fre quent said the Crown counsel although they had not yet reached epidemic proportions. The courts should be heard loud and to show this increasing Type of offence is not to be tolerated within Manitoba said or. Montgomery. Mcquade with a record dating to 1966, was not the most righteous he said. Irrespective of what people feel about the North main Street Parlours and what goes on said the magistrate the people who go there have the same rights As the people who go to the drummer boy a provincial health official said wednesday that the Mani Toba government s plans to establish Community health centres Are Only one of Many proposals being studied to Stem the rising costs of the health care. Or. Ted Tulchinsky associate Deputy health minister and the province s chief architect of the proposed Community clinics told about 200 members of the Winnipeg rotary club that the centres themselves would t be a cure All. Although he declined to specify what other alternatives Are being studied he said these Are the kinds of things that must be looked at if the prov Ince is to Cope with health costs that threaten to double in six or seven years. Or. Tulchinsky said at no time has the provincial govern ment suggested that the pro posed health and social develop ment centres will be a pan Acea a solution. Nonetheless they Are one of the proposals to look for new. Ways., to deliver health care and try to reduce the pres s u r e s that canadians have placed by relying on acute hos x in recent months the associate Deputy minister said the provincial government and representatives of the Manitoba medical association have come to agreement on forecaster health Cost increases and some of the however he said the agree ment with the Mma ends at this Point and we have our differences to reach the solutions. Or. Tulchinsky said recent statements attributed to John Munro National health min lounge in the hotel fort Garry and other such lounges. Whole act proclaimed All sections of Manitoba s City of Winnipeg act which established Winnipeg s Central City government have been of ister dealing with future Cost sharing agreements with the provinces indicate that the provinces will have to make new moves or face paying a greater portion of health costs. Under the reported statement by the National health minister or. Tulchinsky said it s going to mean less Money for the province the provinces will face a increasing portion of an increasingly sys on the matter of health and social development centres he said the province would establish a number of Demon stration projects and would later evaluate their effect on standards and costs of. Health care. He suggested that the prov Ince s proposal would be studied in depth at future meetings of provincial and Federal health officials and one. Day the plan will be adopted in Many areas of Canada the action announced in the Manitoba Gazette of dec. 4., is the last Legal step in formation of the new government which win replace metro and the. 12 greater Winnipeg municipal several portions of the act dealing with political and administrative organization and elections were proclaimed july 30 so that preliminary Steps could be taken to establish tit Central City government skating in Parks shortly skating goods at ill metro operated Parks will be open by the end of this week Parks officials said thursday. Skating behind pegu is Pavil Ion in Kildonan Park has Al ready begun and the Duck Pond in Assiniboine Park is expected to be flooded and Frozen Fri Day weather permitting. The rink at the artificial Lake in St vital Park is also expected to be open by Friday night a Parks spokesman said. The Ponds and shelters will be open from 10 . To 9 . Monday to thursday and from 10 . To 10 . Friday sat urday and sunday. Food and beverages Are available on weekends. Toboggan slides in six metro operated Parks will have the same hours As the skating Ponds. Slides Are in Kildonan Assiniboine and St vital Parks Crescent drive Park in fort Garry Fraser s Grove Park in East Kildonan and Westview Park at Saskatchewan Avenue and Midland Street More than 223.000 people made use of the skating Ponds and Toboggan slides last whiter. Sion Between Cumberland and notre Dame avenues realign ment and construction of pave ment property acquisition Only in 1972, total project Cost Century Street Between Ness and Ellice avenues St. James Assiniboia Widen exist ing pavement to three lanes northbound i n s t a 11 left turn storage Lane South of Ness Isabel Street notre Dame to Pacific Avenue reconstruction of existing pavement Pacific to Logan Avenue realign m e n t of existing pavement property acquisition Only in 1972, estimated total Cost Academy Between Campbell and Harrow streets reconstruction of curb lanes and Complete resurfacing har Row to Stafford streets com plete resurfacing Hespeler Avenue Redwood Bridge to Henderson Highway reconstruct curb lanes and re surface with Asphalt Ellice Avenue Between Spence and Sherbrook streets reconstruct curb lanes and re surfacing Selkirk Avenue Salter Street to Arlington Street re construction of curbs and Side Watts and Complete resurfacing Disraeli overpass up rail mainline deck reconstruction main Street to overpass Struc Ture resurfacing Midtown Bridge deck re construction Provencher Bridge reconstruction of twin Leaf Bascule Span Arlington Bridge repairs major resurfacing Salter Street Dufferin Avenue to Selkirk Avenue Maryland Street Between Portage and Wolseley avenues Kenaston Boulevard Tux Edo Avenue to Lane South of Corydon Avenue Pembina Highway East Side Between Mcgilivray Bou 1 e v a r d and Jubilee Avenue fort Garry Pembina West Side be tween Mcgillivray and wider Mere Avenue Academy Road Campbell Street to Kenaston Boulevard Provencher Avenue pro Bencher Bridge to each of Des neurons Street St. Boniface h i g g i n s Avenue my f a r 1 a n e Avenue to Louise Bridge River Avenue main Street to West of Harkness Street Mayfair Avenue Harkness Street main Street to River Avenue intersection improvements Portage Avenue left turn storage lanes Queen Street to Sharpe Boulevard St Janies Assiniboia e m b i n a Highway and Bison drive northbound left hand storage Lane Mary s Road and Dun Kirk drive St vital left tuns storage lanes Inkster Boulevard and my Phillips Street eastbound left turn storage Lane i n o r traffic improve ments Street lighting _ Between Tuxedo earlier and Academy Tuxedo Avenue Kenaston the cab in which he was a Pas Senger was in collision with a private car. The Man identified by police As the Driver of the cab nor Man l. Hansley 43, of 627 due roads St Boniface Ferin Avenue was still in fairly Good condition thurs Road to Inkster Boulevard Day with injuries suffered the Accident George Zelasney 4s, of 374 Waverley Flora Avenue said to have been Driver of the other car and his wife Lena were also stadium discussion Friday Winnipeg Central City Council finance committee has scheduled a special meeting for . Friday to discuss proposed million seat Addi Tion and renovation to Winnipeg stadium. Addition of seats and a canopy on the West Side of the stadium and improvements to washroom and Concession facilities have been approved by the Winnipeg enterprises Corpora Tion which operates the Struc Ture. Six of the corporation s 11 directors Are present Winnipeg aldermen. The renovations must be discussed by the new City Council because the City usually issues debentures for construction. Committee has invited All Central City councillors to the meeting at w h i c h corporation representatives will explain their plans. Injuries prove fatal a 42-year-old Winnipeg Man died late wednesday afternoon at the Winnipeg general Hospi Tal of injuries received in two car collision wednesday. Donald Collins of 87 Dagmar to Edge land Boulevard Street suffered a broken neck Mary s Road Marion Early wednesday morning when Street to Kenny Street. Ness Avenue St James Street to Moor Gate Street St James Assiniboia Archibald Street Between Cottonwood and Elizabeth metro route 90, Rosser in w it e s Avenue Between and Kenaston listed fairly Good condition thursday. Won t Compromise on tires by information today the Ontario government has i tamed Down a plea by the beads of 10 Northern municipal litres Ideal to Abow some Type of r that of would Tention of compromising on its absolute ban of studded tires. Kenora mayor Ernest l. Carter said i a Telephone inter View that apparently they Don t want to the 10 Northwestern Immiti however the Ontario govern j _ miscellaneous special projects Mcgregor Sherbrook Over Structure at up rail Yards property acquisition Only j i 19 7 2total project Cost j j Street St Mary j Avenue to Mcmillan avenge i Bridge replacement and Road i pavement property acquisition pal Heads in a letter to pre went official revealed that no j Cost Lave a Deal he admitted j Efee ill Udud jul w 41. Jut t a inner William Davis had asked special regulations Are planned j freeway Hamilton for a change in the Law because j against out of province Drivers Avenue to Wellington Avenue in our opinion the safety i entering the province and that with temporary connections to aspect far outweighs highways i police would ase a Type of spot i else avenge and Sargent Aye Check to guard against the use b u a refit binary engineering t v of studded tires i design Only in 1972, total is group of red Lake rests mayor Carter the timoted Cost an Mona Tion action fair sponsored by the a stress Uherc along with mayor Carter we steering Corois tee for Lebsa maj group do but obey the dents has deed the govern la austal leaders of erg renewal area is big s enl gov Osier Coanes Ziac have Rie swi he foe earlier 3os at i Wmk to 36 . Today Street _ were mayor Eira a Esse despise fort Frances mayor Street to prove Weber Bajc Vani so Bews face at l. Sos Loofe Oft Kary s averse to a agates c. A. _. 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