Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Einfeld wants 83, not 49, policemen Winnipeg free press Seaver Usa local Cvik Siat a Vinc of fret Esti or brochure 786-6081 Friday december 10, 1971 2nd class mail registration number 0286 a i. 11 t v if i i m by Bob Lis Way police chief Chris Einfeld of East Kildonan wants 34 additional men a 70 per cent in crease to polite the East Kil Donan Community committee area after Jan. 1. And fire chief h. G. William son wants 13 More men for his department. The requests were made in written reports presented thursday to the East Kildonan Community committee which will be responsible for supervising local services in the integrated area of East Kildonan and North Kildonan beginning Jan. 1. Parks and recreation and Public works officials asked for three additional men. The committee made up of councillors Norman p. Stappen Stan Dowhan Alfred Penner and Jim Smith decided to meet later to discuss the requests. Coun. Stapon committee chairman said if we gave them everything they wanted our tax Bills would double in one the. Committee at a previous meeting had agreed in Princi ple to the integration of East Kildonan and North Kildonan services. The administrators requests had been prepared in conjunction with reports Outlin ing what would be required to unite existing municipal ser vices. Chief Einfeld said tie police Force should have 83 poli c e men. East Kildonan and North Kildonan now have 49 policemen on two separate forces. The police chief who has been recommended by the Community committee for the Post of police chief of the unified Force said the existing forces which provide a ratio of one policeman per thousand residents should be increased to match the existing City of Winnipeg s Standard of one policeman for every 600 residents. Chief Einfeld also mended establishment of a detective division comprising 10 for the Community com Mittee area. He said a 25 per cent increase in East Kil Donan s crime rate occurred in 1970. Chief Williamson said the integrated fire department should have 49 men instead of the present 36. He said North Kil Donan now has nine volunteers who should be Given preference in hiring full Lime firefighters. The administrators also re Quested additional facilities and equipment t but no Cost estimates were provided. The Community committee decided to hold a conference to e 1 e a residents advisory group near the end of january. About 40 residents attended the Community committee meeting at Miles Macdonell collegiate the second to be held since councillors Wen elected oct. 6. Wants review of mayor s functions Winnipeg Central City coun cil s executive policy committee has decided to investigate the functions and duties of mayor Steve Juba s office. Committee unanimously pasted a motion introduced by councillor Bernie Wolfe of the Transcona Community commit tee at a meeting thursday. The motion called for a re port on the functions of the mayor s office so committee could review and assess them. It did not specify who would prepare the report. The mayor has asked Council for two additional staff members for his office but no action has been taken on his re quest censor Board named nine persons who have been acting members of the Mani Toba censor Board since sept. 1 had their appointments made official wednesday by the provincial Cabinet. All. Of the appoint ments expire dec. 31, when major changes in the censor Board s role Are expected to take place. Tourism minister Larry Desjardins who is responsible for the censor Board said the Short term of the appointments was Felt advisable because changes in the number of Board Rii embers and functions of the Board Are being considered. Chairman of the Board is prof. Fred Heiderich of the germ an. Studies department at the University of Winnipeg. He succeeds m. B. Newton who re tired from the position aug. 31. Other members Are Rollie Barley projectionist with the censor Board. Mike Baron an employee of cae aircraft Ltd., Winnipeg. Jack Begleiter a re searcher in religious studies at the University of Winnipeg. Charles Biesick a retired car employee former editor of Manitoba Commonwealth and a member of the censor Board since 1970. Eileen fiesta House wife and Mother of four living in Dauphin formerly worked in Detroit where she wrote a weekly movie column for the Detroit Herald. Gerry Schmon an implement dealer and former theatre operator at Gilbert Plains. Mrs. Irene Spooner a Winnipeg housewife and Mother of seven former trustee and chairman of East St. Paul school Board. John Solomon jr., a Stu Dent at the University of Manitoba. Weather report f Santa s helpers at the Post office face a deluge As the Christmas flow of parcels accelerates. Here Michael Klowak right and Rich Ard Sturtz Are Busy sorting the gifts most of which will be exchanged under the family Christmas Trees. Sod turned for convention Centre by Douglas Mackay an official Sod turning Cere Mony was held at the site of the downtown convention Centre Friday morning. Metro Council approved the commencement of construction thursday and awarded a excavation contract to a local firm. Councillor Bernie Wolfe chairman of the convention Centre committee said he expects excavation to begin Early next week once the first con tact is signed by All parties. Officiating at the Sod turning were chairman Jack Willis and coun. Wolfe for metro Aid. Joseph Cropo representing mayor Steve Juba for the City and act ing Public works minister rus sell Doem for the province. The million Centre be completed by mid-1974. The Cost is being shared equally by. The province and metro the new City of Winnipeg after Jan. The Centre will be three storeys High with two Levels of underground parking and Situ ated on the Block bounded by Carton Street York Avenue Edmonton Street and St. Mary Avenue. The main floor will consist of meeting rooms for up to people Public display galleries and kitchens. The second level will contain commercial space for shops and offices More Dis play areas and a 600-seat Cine a. The top level will be devoted almost entirely to an 80.000 Square foot exhibition Hall with a 30-foot-High ceiling. The Hall will be suitable for Trade shows entertainment attractions and indoor sports. It will hold As Many As people according to a brochure prepared by the architects and distributed at the Sod turning. Meeting rooms and lounges will be located around the perimeter of the Hall. Outdoor ramps running Down to Street level will permit trucks to drive up to the Hall to Load and unload equipment behind a stage. The Centre s main Entrance will face South on to York ave nue. Metro Council awarded the excavation contract to Norgate Supply and rental Ltd. A subsidiary of b. F. Klassen construction Ltd. Of Winnipeg. The excavation Cost of is based on the Norgate bid of a cubic Yard with an is St. A a criticized committee role for sales of land councillor Dan Mckenzie of the St James Assiniboia Community committee criticized the City of St. James Assiniboia thursday for some of its past sales of Public and planned and. Morning i Umetin for the Prairie Rev meet an extensive layer covered the Prairies from Saskatchewan to during he a ghz. Wort . A Horta. T. Miles per i Emir Ami hairy def inf and in a front. Will remain Tody wih take m Saskatchewan and tonight. Nero Iweis behind in win a Omar air info Saskatchewan and today and. Under Clear tres. Below Iero overnight temperatures m we Between Lero and five above. If Wei on fhe map indicate Tempe Tatares today addressing a West Winnipeg notary club luncheon at the vis count Gort motor hotel coun. Mckenzie said All sales of pub icly owned land in greater Winnipeg should cease until a irm policy is agreed upon. He indicated that in the past. St. James Assiniboia has sold i properties for less than it should have. I he offered several examples. J most notably the Sale of 128 j j acres near the Comer of Stur i Geon Road and Saskatchewan Avenue to Boeing of Canada i Ltd. In 1969. Boeing required 128 acres. St. James Assiniboia owned 115 acres outright. Boeing paid the City per acre or the City negotiated to buy the remaining 13 acres apparently after they had signed with Boe ing for per said a Handbill coun. Mckenzie distributed. The City bought the remain ing 13 acres from six private owners for a total of s258.000. He said. Thus it realized a profit of coun. Mckenzie said the City s 115 acres were Worth at least an which would have brought in than million. Alderman Peter Moss of St. James Assiniboia was at the luncheon and stood up after Coon. Mckenzie s speech to ask metro s zoning Board of adjustment for an adjournment when Lakeview comes before the Board dec. 20 seeking a zoning variation to permit its planned multiple dwelling hous ing project. If the zoning Board agrees to adjourn the Lakeview application the matter will have to be found confusing by Frances Bidewell coun. Robert Taft replied we Are not Here to advise left for the Community commit tee. The Board s last hearing is dec. 21. And a one Day adjourn ment seems unlikely. The Zon of residents advisory groups ing Board ceases to exist dec. Will be. 31 All zoning matters will be j councillor Morris Kaufman dealt with by the Community j chairman of the Community confusion about the role of you. If we Start advising you inner City Community commit j you will serve no purpose what tees dominated the first meet ing of the fort Rouge Community committee thursday. Of the 150 people who attended the meeting Many asked just what is required of Resi dents of the Community Corn Soever. The Community committee composed of coun. Kaufman timoted cubic Yards of Earth to be moved. The Norgate tender was the Only one of five bids to be below the consultants estimate Cost of or a cubic Yard. The highest tender was from k. Schwartz and sons construction Ltd. At a cubic Yard. Norgate supplied a Bond of metro planning director Earl a. Levin said excavation should be completed six weeks after commencement. In approving the preliminary plans and giving the nod to begin construction Council also decided to waive zoning requirements for setbacks from property lines. Because the Centre will occupy the entire Block these setbacks were deemed unnecessary. By the end of Council s thurs Day meeting it appeared to have also cleared up All mat ters of land acquisition for the Centre. Council was informed that Winnipeg school division owners of the old Alexander school site on Edmonton be tween York and St. Mary would give consideration to bus bylaw passed metro Council gave third and final Reading thursday to a bylaw to raise its 50 per cent share of the Cost of purchasing 25 new 51-passenger buses. The province has agreed to pay the other half of the Cost. Council had been awaiting the Manitoba municipal Board s necessary approval before pass ing the bylaw to authorize a debenture Issue. It is understood no tenders will be called for the new metro transit buses. Rather the buses will be purchased from flyer coach industries limited for Merly Western flyer coach Ltd. Of Winnipeg. The province through the Manitoba develop ment corporation owns a majority interest in the company. Council also gave final read ing to a bylaw to raise its share of an increase in the Grant to the St. Boniface Hospi Tal. Metro originally agreed to pay 20 per cent of a million Grant to pay for a Hospital Addi Tion. The Manitoba health ser vices commission is paying the rest. When the total Grant was increased by metro was approached for 20 per cent of the increase. In other business Council awarded a contract for about Gallons of no. 2 gasoline at 17.09 cents a gallon to Texaco Canada Ltd. The Gas Oline is for the transportation division. Agreed to pay compensation to the Kraft construction company Ltd. In connection with the expropriation of property on Pembina High Way near University Crescent. The company had appealed a lower court award to the supreme court of Canada and won. Robert Johannson and coun. June Westbury will hold another meeting Jan. 13. A 20 committees. Mittee area and what the role i member interim residents advisory group of volunteers from the audience was formed to j begin planning a Community j conference for election of a residents advisory group. J gifts precede extinction metro Counci Dors gave them selves a Little going away present thursday. Three Gouig away presents each in fact at the second to 1 a s t metro Council meeting thursday the councillors voted to take their chairs with them and give each other suitably engraved Silver mags bearing the metro Crest before leaving the metro i i finally i committee told the meeting that while suburban Community i committees Are charged with supervision of local services the inner City joint Community committee will handle that role for areas in the present City of j Winnipeg after Central City i government takes effect in greater Winnipeg Jan. 1. The suburbs have a big Edge in survival prospects Over the inner City Community commit he said telling residents they will have to decide upon their own role. The Community committee s role is a key problem said damaged car sales detailed that he was sorry mayor Juba could not be present. J your guess is As Good As i mine where he he said. I later. Coun. Said the j mayor had hoped to attend the ceremony but was unable to come. Vehicles written off because coun. Willis described the of damage will be sold to the convention Centre As a dream Public and Salvage people by i that is finally taking a solid Public tender in units of he said it would be the municipal affairs minister j mainspring of downtown devel Howard Pawley who is respond j Ozment sible for aut Opac Manitoba s i premiered Schreyer was to Man 57, threatened with knife the 57-year-old proprietor of the i and f discount store 372 Salter Street was threatened with a knife wednesday night when his store was robbed of an estimated by a Young Man and a juvenile companion. The proprietor was alone with his wife in the store when the two robbers entered about . A pocket knife was placed to the Throat of the proprietor after he was ordered by the older of the two intruders to lie on the floor. The Man s wife was struck on the face by the juvenile when she attempted to run outside to summon help. The Man involved in the Rob Bery was described As being 25 to 28 years of age six feet tall Ith dirty Blond hair and Wear outright. Council approved the Purchase at that Price. Council agreed to compensate the owners of 361 York and 375 York in the sums of and respectively. The buildings were occupied by j. H. Hecht and son furrier and Brock and Wyrzykowski Barris ters. Aid. Cropo told a breakfast ing a three Quarter length coat. I police said the juvenile was 15 or 16 years of age. About five feet two inches tall and Wear ing a Blue Balaclava covering his face. After taking the Money the pair fled on foot North on Salter Street coun Sill Felt Autonio Ilc insurance plan an have attended the ceremony right from the beginning there ounces thursday. But did not show up. No exp la is a very real redundancy in the City of Winnipeg act there is very Little we can Spe first official City Council meeting Jan. 5 rebut his argument. Forecast tar greater Twett. Tace interlace and red Kyper Reg Iowa Oover today a Swity periods. West winds at 20 Mrtka per Lew Tomm Zero to a food and Sot Day a few shelf Tarrius. West winds at 20 me a. Saturday rear Mem nil Are recorded yesterday Tew for 72-Traw period a Wei ended at 6 today and for a 24-fmr Wick ended at 6 . May he said he would Deal Only with the charges about the Boe ing Deal because All the rest of it is sour he said the City had sold the land reasonably and had immediately employed 80 the pro v i n c i a i government was involved in the Deal and a major Ity of Council approved he added. Conn. Mckenzie also criticized a planned Safe of land to Lakeview development Ltd. For a fils son Boesing develop at Sofce Northwest Confer of Ness sad Moray Street the has an Etc Sci ;