Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 2, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ice councillors deny approving pay increase package by Douglas Mackay press Urban reporter a report that the Independent citizens. Election committee caucus has approved a package of proposed pay increases for Winnipeg City councillors was denied monday by several ice councillors. The ice is considering pos sible salary increases and has held informal discussions with new democratic party councillors but no specific figures have been recommended they said. Coun. C. John gee. Ice bus shelter proposed civic transit subcommittee decided monday to approach the Bank of Montreal with a proposal that the Bank erect a transit bus shelter in front of its Branch at Portage Avenue and main Street. A request for a shelter at the Southeast Corner of Portage and main had been referred to the subcommittee by the St. Boni face Community committee. H. W. Church general manager of Winnipeg transit told the subcommittee there in t enough Public land at the Corner to permit construction of a conventional shelter. A statue of a first world War Soldier stands on the Square in front of the Bank building. The Only acceptable shelter said or. Church would be a very Large Cape from the sol Dier s councillor Jim Smith said it would look like hell out there on the the subcommittee approved coun. Al Ducharme s motion to ask the Bank if it would consider putting up some sort of shelter. The Corner was termed Low priority for a bus shelter since bus service is frequent but would still be useful. In other business the sub committee voted to undertake a Survey in the fort Richmond area to determine the support a club bus would receive. A club bus is a subscriber Arient cd service for commuters to downtown. Rainbow gets Grant Rainbow stage of Winnipeg is one of 23 performing arts organizations which have recently been a warded Grants from the Canada Council. Summer theatre will receive a Grant of for this Summers two productions of mime and Cinderella. The non eur will go towards Rainbow stage s designers and educational training program products Oil trainees and schol St. Boniface said in an inter View monday that he and coun. W. H. Bill Sasaki ice West Kildonan met with two nip councillors april 24 in the mayor s dining room in the civic Centre. They were follow ing up discussions held april 21 at a meeting of the Manitoba association of Urban municipalities in Portage la Prairie. Salary increases were the subject of the meeting said coun. Gee but no ice Pac Kage of proposed increases was mentioned. It was reported monday that a package of salary increases proposed by the ice at the meeting would give All councillors an extra a year the 24 standing committee members in addition to that and the standing commit tee chairmen yet another coun. Alf Skowron nip St. Johns was reported to have said the ice councillors presented the Complete package at the meeting in the mayor s Din ing room. They told him it had been approved by the ice caucus according to the erroneous report. Coun. Gee denied that any such proposals exist let alone were presented to the nip. Coun. William a Sonquist chairman of the ice caucus said in an interview monday he had never heard of the figures mentioned. He and coun. Gee said the ice caucus is Only in favor of investigating pay increases at this time in accordance with the recommendations of an in dependent committee on salaries which reported last Jan uary. That three Man committee of citizens chaired by former metro councillor j. A. Art Coulter recommended no salary increase for councillors except a a year hike for standing committee chairmen. It suggested a further review in Early summer. Councillors Are now paid a year. Coun. Gee said the ice caucus which with 37 members has a majority on Council has authorized three of its members to investigate pos s i b 1 e salary increases. The three Are coun. Gee coun. A Saki and coun. Roy h. Parkhill ice Assiniboine coun. Gee said he is personally in favor of a Basic Sala r y increase for councillors. Let s not kid ourselves. This is a full time coun Doug stanes ice St. James Assiniboia said salary increases were not discussed at the ice caucus saturday. He chaired the meeting in coun. Hallonquist s absence. He said he thinks Only com Mittee chairmen should receive an increase. Winnipeg free press Sseaver Canada Usa local 0vuscas moving 786-6081 tuesday May 2. 1972 2nd class mail registration number 0286 liberals pcs champing at bit in Wolseley by Egon Frech free press legislative reporter the by election Campaign in Wolseley appears to be going into High gear despite the fact that premiered Schreyer has not yet set the Date that the voters in the Central Winnipeg Riding will pick their new member of the legislature. All three parties Bave opened Campaign offices and Are going around the Riding knocking on doors and feeling out their sup port. Liberal Leader Izzy Asper has three billboards up in the area and the progressive conservatives have published an eight Page Community news paper extolling the Virtues of their candidate Ernest Enns. The new democratic party so far has been somewhat Light on the advertising for its candidate Vic Schroeder although Campaign workers have about completed the first Survey of the Riding and have distributed Campaign leaflets. While the progressive conservatives and the liberals Are champing at the bit and Berat ing Premier Schreyer for not setting the Date of the Bielec Tion it is to their advantage to Campaign before the election writs Are issued. The Law limits each party to an expenditure of not More than 40 cents per voter in a by election and Wol voters would qual Ify for about expenditure by each candidate. However expenditures incurred before the election writs Are issued Are not counted As Campaign expenses and the parties therefore can spend considerably More than each on their campaigns. Premier Schreyer indicated last week that he hoped to announce the by election Date this week and that he hoped the by election could be held during the second or third week of june. The seat has been vacant since dec. 3, when progressive conservative Leonard c 1 a y d o n died after a Long illness. In the meantime there is considerable disagreement be tween the liberals and the other two parties about who has the most support in the Riding which was former Premier Duff Roblin s seat before or. Clay Don s election in 1pb3. The conservatives hired an Independent group to conduct a poll in the area and say the re sult shows them Well with the nip a Strong Sec Ond and the liberals., lagging badly in third place. The nip had t done any in dependent Survey but Campaign workers in the Field pretty Well confirmed the progressive conservative claim. We re close to the tories in places but not close enough Over All to claim we re said one source. The liberals have objected violently to stories about their apparent poor showing. Campaign chairman Norm Turner the president of the Liberal party in Manitoba told the party s provincial Council last weekend that More than twice the total number of voters who voted Liberal in the 1969 elec Tion Are already committed to or. Asper. This would give the liberals less than votes probably not enough to swing the election. Or. Turner said the progressive conservative poll is straight baloney and nothing More than a cleverly designed strategy by both other he said the Liberal polls give the party reason for optimism. They show we Are leading As of this Date in a constituency where we started off As the underdog based on previous re he said he expects to hear a lot More of this kind of subterfuge by the other parties be fore election Day because the other parties Are running John Campbell president of the progressive conservative constituency association in Wol Seley said his party believes in the results of its poll and trusts them to be accurate to 10 per cent. Or. Campbell agreed with one of the statements made by or. Turner that people arc turning away from the nip. However while or. Turner claimed they were turning to the liberals or. Campbell says they la vote conservative. All parties May soon have a Chance to put their theories to the test. Premier Schreyer will Likely announce the by election Date at his regular weekly news conference thursday. That would mean voting Day could be any time after june 8. Everett to speak senator Douglas Everett will speak at the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce annual meeting at 7 . May 17 at the Winnipeg inn. He will discuss growth., employment and Price stability. Weather report of a morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces very i Little Cloud reported overnight in Alberta and Manitoba but Southern and Eastern Section of Saskatchewan had a Light general rainfall. The disturbance causing this precipitation will East Ward and Tome Light Shower activity it forecast for Manitoba tonight. Temperatures ahead of this system will be above Normal again today while readings in Saskatchewan and Alberta Are expected to. Be close to values. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today pit Olion h High Rve isun l Low Tow from worm front arson suspected in fire a Winnipeg inner City fire department spokesman said arson is suspected in connection with a fire Early tuesday which destroyed a three Storey Frame House at 806 Victor Street. It was the second fire within a week at the House which was vacant and is scheduled for demolition. A Winnipeg inner City police spokesman at the scene said a fire in the House a s t wednesday resulted in slight damage to a veranda. An alarm was turned in at . But the building was turning out of control before fire department equipment arrived. Witnesses at the scene said the fire had begun shortly after 2 . Firemen had the Glaze under control two hours Ater. An investigation into the cause of the fire is under Way. Big health d conference in May Between and Dele Gates Are expected to attend a major health conference in Winnipeg May 24 to 26, sponsored jointly by the Manitoba and Ca Nadian Hospital associations. The conference the largest Ever held in Manitoba involving the health care delivery Field will be held in the Centennial concert Hall and the Winnipeg inn. About 30 professional groups will hold scientific and business meetings As part of the three Day conference with topics ranging from Hospital per formed abortions to scientific advances in health care. Speakers will include health ministers from several. Prov inces As Well As senior person Nel from the Federal depart ment of health other speakers will include Well known physicians and technical experts from the health Field. Also on the Agenda for the conference Are addresses by several speakers from the United states who will discuss health care delivery in the . And developments in the health care Field expected in the future forecas1 fir Winnipeg Bissett the interlace and red River regions mostly sunny today. Frequent Cloudy periods tonight. Low tonight near 40. Light Shower earn wednesday Clearing in the afternoon. High wednesday near following Are High temperatures recorded yesterday temperatures Toi the 12-Hom which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for thy 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Today Max. Min. Fre. Min. Max. Free. Vancouver 52 46 Calgary 56 29 Edmonton 58 32 Regina 52 3? Brandon 68 40 the Pas 62 34 Winnipeg 71 36 Thunder Bay 57 39 Kenora 65 41 Ottawa 68 36 Toronto 61 50 Montreal 64 38 Halifax 68 31 Chicago 72 55 Miami 81 70 los Angeles 77 57 Minneapolis 55 44 new York 74 Phoenix .92 59 Rome. 70 41 Paris. 68 51 London 66 52 Berlin 73 52 Amsterdam 59 45 Brussels 68 50 .24 .09 .08 .06 .09 .37 .02 .05 .47 .10 Madrid 55 45 Moscow 59 39 68 48 Tokyo 63 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record 71 43 57 84 in 1968 May 1 Las year 48 29 39 Normal. 58 35 46 lowest on record 12 in 1958 parking problems aired in committee worm be traffickers eth e r e s no Honor among thieves two would be drug traffickers arrested by the ramp drug squad found out. The two appeared in Provin Cial magistrate s court monday but charges of Possession of co Caine for the purpose of tray ticking against them were dropped. Court was told that a drug which had been seized from them was Analysed As Phe Cyc Lizine a tranquil Lizer used in the United states but not cleared for use in Canada. Counsel for the Federal de p a r t m e n t of Justice Hersh court that the drug had. Been bought in Vancouver As cocaine Foi considerable amount of Money. The drug about 13 ounces in powder form was estimated to be Worth about Assiniboia liberals Manitoba Liberal Leader Asper will speak at the annual meeting of the Assiniboia Liber Al association at. 8 . Mon Day at the Village inn Portage Avenue and Westwood drive St. James Assiniboia. An application for permission to rebuild the town and country restaurant has sparked concern about the chronic dearth of parking space in downtown Winnipeg. Although the City s Environ ment committee will recommend that Council approve the application councillor Ken Talanchuk Independent citizens election committee lord Selkirk said monday he Hopes the application will initiate de-1 Bate in Council about downtown parking problems. Plans for rebuilding the restaurant destroyed by fire in january 1971, Calls for a three level building containing seat ing space for 356 people on the original Kennedy Street site of. Former restaurant. It would also include parking space for 54 cars. The development application submitted by Alpha properties Ltd., provides for double the seating space of the former res t a u r a n t along with reduced parking space complained coun. Talanchuk. Although he admitted the City has no basis for negotiating the amount of parking space provided by downtown commercial establishments coun. Galan Chuk voted with coun. Bob Wil son ice in of to still posing approval of the1 application. Existing bylaws regulate parking space for residential buildings but make no such re quire Enthof commercial buildings. Coun. Talanchuk suggested establishment of some sort of agreement which the City would enter into with developers. The City would then be in a. Position to negotiate for a Rea s o n a b 1 e amount of parking space he said. Master Book Market Darrel Kasprick and councillor Robert Steen of Winnipeg look Over some of the books for Sale at the Winnipeg children s Hospital Book Market which started monday in the Polo Park shopping Centre mall. There Are books for Sale and the organizers Hope that will be raised this year for the Hospital. Offered to City for new japanese Garden the Manitoba government the provincial Grant however has offered the City up to toward construction of the japanese gardens proposed for downtown Winnipeg. The offer received monday by civic environment commit tee stipulates that the City match the provincial contribution on a Dollar for Dollar basis. Taken in break ins Winnipeg inner City police Are investigating three break ins in which a total of was taken during the weekend. A police spokesman said thieves forced a basement door at Advance lighting Ltd., 106 Midland Street and escaped with goods and Cash valued at All offices in the build ing were ransacked and two transistor radios a Coin set and Cash from a vending machine were taken police said. Thieves gained entry to nor Lyn Laboratory Margrave Street room 401, by removing a Glass panel in a door. They ransacked the office and took from a Petty Cash Box be fore moving next door to room 400, ransacking office of the Peikoff clinic where an empty Cash Box was forced open police said. Is not to exceed one third of the total Cost of the gardens said a letter from acting Urban affairs minister Saul Cherniack. Earl a. Levin the City s plan Ning director told the commit tee that initial plans for the gardens Are expected to arrive shortly from Japan. The project undertaken jointly by the City and the govern ments of Japan and Tokyo is to adorn the ground level of an underground parking lot scheduled for construction on a site bounded by St. Mary and York avenues Hargrave and Carlton streets. Lakeview development Ltd., which plans to begin construction of the lot june 1, had asked the City for details of the japanese gardens before it begins construction. City coun cil had accordingly written to Vir. Cherniack requesting de tails of provincial participation. Or. Chorni acc s reply said he that the City will own the gardens and maintain them. That the City will arrange the design in consultation with cultural affairs minister Larry Desjardins. That the governments of Japan and Tokyo will make contributions to the project. Or Levin said the contributions of Japan and the City of Tokyo will be in the form Tinics services and materials. Although they Are not expected to put any Cash into the project those contributions Likely will be the equal of others he said. The committee voted to arrange a meeting with local officials of the japanese govern ment to discuss plans for the gardens. Although work has t yet been started on the project the official Sod turning on the site j was held last August. I the gardens the to be called Hayashi gardens after former japanese Consul general Tomo Hiko Hayashi. Disease the number of tuberculosis cases diagnosed in Manitoba during 1971 was 298, a decrease of six from 1970, according to a statement from the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba. This represents a Case rate of 30 per population which indicates that tuberculosis is still a common disease and health problem in the statement said. In addition Only 13 people died from the disease during 1971 the lowest number re corded in the province s history. Of the cases reported last year 32 were due to reactivation of the disease with the time from initial diagnosis to reactivation ranging from one to 20 years. This shows that tuberculosis May remain dormant for Many years and suggests that continued surveillance of people with inactive disease should be mandatory the statement indicated. S. Price Rattray has been elected chairman of the Board. R. S. Allison was elected vice chairman. Mossop honoured by society Harold Mossop a. Respected local ornithologist and author of Chickadee notes for More than 15 years in the Winnipeg free press was awarded a commemorative plaque monday night by the Manitoba naturalists society. Illness prevented or. Mossop from attending the meeting at the hotel fort Garry As it has kept him from writing his column for several months. Lome Wallace president of the Manitoba naturalists in praising or. Mossop s work said he is perhaps most highly regarded for his great perceptiveness in the Field and for his great gift of faultlessly imitating Bird Calls. He not Only knows the vocalizations of virtually All the Spe cies occurring in this area of Canada but he can imitate them with a degree of Fidelity that regularly fools the Best of experts the Birds or. Mossop was Active in the natural history society of Man j Ito a. The forerunner of the Manitoba naturalists society and served As president from 11944 to 1946, Secretary from 1946 to 1948, auditor in 1949. Treasurer from 1950 to 1961, and again As auditor from 1963 to 1971. Employees walk out i about 150 employees of Coop implements Ltd. Fiol Bowman i Avenue East Kildonan Lefi their jobs at noon monday to a four hour walkout to protest n a i n s t what were termed delays in negotiating a now wage agreement. T. Don Ponsiek representative of the United so coworkers of America Al Cio said tuesday morning the men were Back at Normal shift times in the evening and tues Day morning. Tic company would not comment on the Issue. Park buses to begin june 17 the summer bus service to Birds Hill Park will begin june 17. Civic transit subcommittee approved the schedule monday. The buses will run every two hours on weekdays in july and August and Only on weekends i in june and Early september. I first bus will leave Down town Winnipeg at noon and the last return bus will leave the Park at 9 . On weekends in july and a gust the first bus will leave at 10 . The cd o w n t o w n departure Point is Portage Avenue at Garry Street. Started by metro last year the service is by into run in co operation with the Manitoba department of tourism and recreation. Three Hurt As cars collide three people were injured none seriously in a two car head on collision about . Monday on Mcphillips Street near Murray Avenue in West Kildonan. West Kildonan police identified the injured As Demetro Mischuk of 4332 main Street Wiliam Cook of 660 Nassau Street and John Tod of 270 Morley Avenue. Police said the Accident happened when the left rear wheel came off one of the cars Caus ing the Driver to lose control. Riverview ambulance t o o k the two Drivers or. Mischuk and or. Cook to Winnipeg Gen eral Hospital while or Tod and an unidentified person who was uninjured were taken to Hospi Tal in police Cruiser. Or. Mischuk or. Cook and or. Tod required Hospital treat ment police said. Church fair to be Friday and saturday St. Alban s an Vilican Church will hold its annual May fair from i . To 10 . Friday and from 10 . To 10 . Saturday in the Church Hall Ralh Gar Avenue. Binges food stands sales stalls and Square dancing exhibitions will he featured ;