Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Value of wage Board called in question by Alice Krueger free press legislative reporter Manitoba labor minister a h. Muss Paulley hinted tues Day that the provincial govern ment May be considering Abo Lish i ii g the minimum wage Board the. Body which makes recommendations to the govern ment concerning minimum wage Levels for workers in the province. The usefulness of the mini mum wage Board was called into question late last year when its Winnipeg lawyer Roy a. Gallagher re signed in an apparent dispute with the government As to the Board s purpose. At that time or. Gallagher questioned whether the minimum wage Board was necessary in View of the fact that the Schreyer government had increased the minimum wage even before the Board brought in its recommendation. In a t e 1 e p h o n e interview tuesday. Paulse suggested suggested that or. Gallagher s Resigna Tion left in doubt the Worth of the. Board. He said while rib Irimie Diate plans to abolish the Board we. Are not unmindful As to whether or giving us the data is the labor minister offered the remarks when asked to com ment on a recent Survey by the Manitoba Chambers of com Merce stated that any in the mini wage would result in less e x a n s i o n fewer jobs and higher prices in the Rural areas of Manitoba. An analysis of Over 150 re plies from businesses in Rural Manitoba has been submitted to the minimum wage Boan Chambers. The Board was recently reconstituted under the chairmanship of University o Manitoba professor John ate to look frito a further increase in the minimum wage in the province. According to the Chambers Survey 71 per 13ft businessmen said an increase Wouk s e r i q u plans. Eighty two per cent of those replying said an increase in minimum wage would them increase their leg free Widne Dayi March 8, 1972 the threat of hijacking at tempts has give Rise to for a., be tween the Winnipeg International ail portend the. St. James Assiniboia police department. Miner Dimitui Cince it Fere nit a Meve Pipit for for Infin a nth night Bitew to sir Horn Saskatchewan Manitoba. Cow rank Tatev skies and Pat car precipitate it Sneve in Rasht in the Alberta feet Hilf Way anti thu Nelay. Manitoba Narf Saskatchewan Are expected to to sunny Thune it. Filims on Tho map indicate expected High temperatures today new resort Lodge rising from wendigo s ashes by Barry Mullin free press staff writer a new and More Complete re sort development is rising from the ashes of wendigo Lodge a million resort destroyed by ire last August. Paul Boel owner of the luxury resort located 85 Miles Northeast of Winnipeg near Lac Dubonnet confirmed in an in review tuesday that construct Ion on a new improved Lodge has begun. Plans for the new resort Complex Are being pre pared and the clean up of the fire ravaged old Lodge is in full Progress. And some of the units ready by this july and hopefully Well be opening the full facility plus the Curling rink with four sheets of by of the new Lodge he added will have 100 rooms and will feature an indoor skating rink a Beer Garden and a Whirlpool. We intend to improve ser vice and everything that goes with said or. Boel. He made the comments while he was attending a seminar on package Tours at the Northstar inn. The Day Long seminar the first of its kind dealing with that aspect of tourism was we Hope to have the Pool i sponsored by the provincial government s department o f tourism recreation and cultural affairs. Wendigo Manitoba s largest Winnipeg civic finance com Mittee tuesday backed up a suggestion of its Grants 4ubcom m i 11 e e that the amount of Money the City hands the g r e a fre r Winnipeg. Industrial development Board be Cut and also launched a study into the possibility of bringing the Board directly under City control. The committee passed by a vote of four to two a motion in by Bebchuk Independent St. Johns that the City Grant the1 group this year. The Board got from metro in 1971. The committee s action was a modification of the subcommittee s recommendation which would have had the City give the group at least and no More than depending on the amount of private donations the Board received. The committee appointed the 11 City councillors on the devel o p m e n t Board s 37-member Board of directors to a special committee to study the possibility of making the Board an agent of the City completely under City control. At present most of the Board s operating funds come j from the local government but the City has no control other than through the councillors on the Board of directors. The committee spent about an hour listening to three Board representatives tuesday. The representatives said the organization s fixed costs of salary rent and office equipment Are Tion work if it did not get More Money than that from the City. T. W. Birt development Board chairman told the. Committee he wants to know where the Board the City s Indus trial promotion program. The committee set up the investigating committee after the boar representatives had left. The i recommendation of the Grant amount will go to City Council for approval. The committee also recommended to Council that Grants be handed nut by finance com Mittee within guidelines established by Council instead of being dealt with at the Council Evel. In other business j Moir superintendent of schools was Given permission to allow opportunities for youth pro e f. T s to use the division s schools during the summer for no charge. Bui permission can Only tie Given for use during regular working hours for the schools caretakers and if there will be no extra expense to the Board or. Moir said he had received a number of requests from groups applying for Opportunity for youth Grants who wished to make use of school buildings from May to August. Last year these groups applied to the Winnipeg Parks and recreation department for space in schools the was using but the department does t want to handle it this year he said. Although some of the trustees Felt the Board might incur losses through theft or trustee Gloria Mendelson said that was a secondary consideration. We suffer the same risks when the buildings Are used during the regular school she argued and there s no j reason in assume those risks " will be higher because were dealing with University Stu dents. We should be open to re quests for buildings and equip ment from groups such As this when they Are trustee Les Slingsby Board chairman wondered whether it was Wise to allow use of a school without supervision but or. Moir said caretakers would be present whenever an outside group was making use of a school. The matter was finally approved with trustees Vic Piti Den and Michael Baragar opposing the motion. The Board also expressed annoyance with the delay by the department of education hire turning the division s budget for. 1972. The department is consider ing division budget estimates from across the province to de Termine what areas of the Bud get qualify for provincial Grant support although the estimates Are by statute to be returned to the. School boards by the end of february the Winnipeg division Tes not yet received its budget estimates Back in a letter to be sent to Edu cation minister Ben Hanuschak. He Board asks How it properly can consider its budget and end it to the City of Winnipeg y March 15. When it has t been returned from the depart ment yet. I Brandon Man Long Way i to go after transplant i Arthur Cascade the 18-year-, if we want or. Cascade j old from Brandon -Man., flown i said. J to Seattle Washington feb. 25 Raymond Felt a Little tired j to receive treatment for Luke j after the operation but he now i Mia. Is doing As Wajss car be feels Fine or. Cascade said. T up year round resort was destroy-1 about annually and it de in an Early morning fire do no Industrial promo aug. 19. Within hours it was reduced to smouldering ruins. No one was injured in the Blaze. At the time of the fire. Or. Boel was in a Winnipeg Hospi Tal. Wendigo Lodge named after an Indian god. Got a modest Start in 1959 when or. Boel bought acres of land at the Lakeside near Lac Dubonnet. J once a Captain in the belgian j army. Or. Boel came to Cana Alc Hanfler c. 33. Of a in j950 As the belgian Consul i 59 Corydon Avenue was sen in Winnipeg and decided to set ten cd in Winnipeg magistrate s police nip forgery o scheme tie in Manitoba. Court to nine months in jail or. Boel and his wife Anna guilty to charges of forgery and other was destroyed by fire during the Winter of 1964. The following summer the bowls built the re sort exactly As it had been and in 1966 decided to add to it. They began a Addi Tion and completed the new Wing in mid-1967. This new addition included a swim minor forecast for Fri Miaco. Bin eff. He Fitt Tretke Ami red rim remm Clowy today wifi Misof Hmidi. Mamy Char tonight. Win tvs Neitli Eil at is per Trews. Tonight Star 10 below. Marty win if on rhonday. Hill s mar 10 Abon. Of Howins tempera tires Otto did yesterdays Low temperatures ror the 12-Hoojr Perrod which i no did 6 . Today and or capitation for Hie 24-Howr Puiul Wameli and ctr at 6 . Today magistrate Robert Koplein was told Dousan attempted to Cash a forced Cheque March 3 in St. Vital. Before this he had successfully forged and cashed two stolen cheques for s3s6. The court was told 100 Che ques were stolen from a St. James Assiniboia firm at the end of feb Mary and that Dpi an bought of the cheques from another Man. When he was arrested he had three stolen sets of identification and magistrate Kop Stein told Dougan. That Little scheme of yours was a Good scheme if it bad worked. But. These Seldom work for City May ask for time Winnipeg s c i v i c operating and capital budgets May not be ready by the Date the Law re quires them to be completed because of first year bugs in the operation of the Central City government civic finance com Mittee Learned tuesday. The Eom Mizee quickly recommended that City Council ask the provincial government for deadline an amendment to the City of Why should we have to Meel Winnipeg act allowing the Eity deadlines when it seems that no j to Isioro this year Only the i one else cares about j Marrh 31 deadline established trustee Bob Cochrane asked. He the and we have to have time to i r. Mclean civic finance consider what they the Duparl Foni missioner told committee Haven t allowed to see the capital budget will Likely be How necessary those items arc presented of Council for its a i and if we should spend the Provol by the end of the month he said. But we need but the operating estimates will time for that time we re not Likely not be ready by then. Is going to have t i m a t. E s from the City s 12 it just in t fair. We re not former Iowa governments have Selling the proper consider to be correlated into one list. Action from these or. Mclean has said he has he said the letter was not a been working weekends to get request for an Extension of the the estimates ready and the March is deadline but was just four member Board of Coninis a query asking the minister to sinners was to begin meeting inc gust ways by which tuesday afternoon to Jet the Well have time to give it the figures in order for Council. Proper letter Points out. The Board forwarded its estimates to the depart Mcnol about hirer weeks ahead of the Jan. It Van Coover u j t 1_ Al 1 t a n t i i t i ii i i i i i expected father tues a mrs. Cascade said her son Pool a Large dining room Over i Day night. Arthur talks As Little As he can looking the Pool Ami dozens of Joseph Cascade said in a j but he seems in a rela Motel rooms fronting the Telephone interview from seat Lively Good i indoor swimming Pool tie that his son has a Long Way mrs. Cascade said she kept at the time of be August to go but the doctors Are in Contact with her other Chil fire a second s400.000 addition i Dren in Brandon. I try to was in Progress and this in last wednesday doctors phone every i chiding the Curling rink was gave Arthur a Bone marrow or. Cascade said the family not seriously damaged in the transplant to help him build a would remain split up until a fire. Healthy blood Supply. His twin ;