Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Enforcement of parking ban varies in City Winnipeg free press 786-6081 Friday May 5, 1972 2nd Clau mail registration number 0286 Mike o Shaughnessy free press staff writer Winnipeg May now be one big Ity but enforcement of Over Light parking bylaws still varies greatly from one area to an other although All the by aws state virtually the same thing. The situation came to Light As a result of an announcement by the East Kildonan police department that it will begin strictly enforcing its overnight parking bylaw As of May 15. A Survey of All Winnipeg police departments on the ques Tion of overnight parking showed that the Only consistent Factor was that All bylaws say parking on roadways is restricted to one hour Between 3 . And 6 . In making the announcement East Kildonan joined West Kil Donan St. Boniface and St. Vital police departments in strictly enforcing their bylaws All year round. The inner City bylaw is in effect Only from november to March making All night Park ing Legal during the summer. Former metro streets within the former City of Winnipeg boundaries Are covered by a year round bylaw. However police Don t enforce the bylaw in the summer unless a complaint is received. 100 men sought for mine International Nickel company of Canada is looking for workers to go to Thompson Man., but a spokesman said thursday it is hard to get peo ple who want to work and we won t know for at least a month what the. Real response will in a Telephone interview from Thompson the Inco spokes Man said a series of advertise ments in daily and weekly papers on the Prairies is offer ing hourly rate jobs for 100 men. He said the ads related to a seasonal situation when Many workers left to return to farms and other jobs plus the Normal attrition at the mine site. Some of the people left through retirement and for other reasons were not immediately replaced. Now there is a need for 100 workers. We re hoping to attract per manent people with families. There is lots of housing Avail Abe and Thompson population is a Good place to raise a he said. Thompson was not affected by the layoffs that took effect during the Winter. Inco Laid off 500 at Sudbury and port col Bourne ont. I Transcona police and Charleswood ramp follow similar lines enforcing their bylaws Only in Winter although they Are in Force 12 months of the year. In St James Assiniboia there s a year round bylaw but it is Only enforced on receipt of specific province analyses taxes the Manitoba government re fused to commit itself thursday on the Issue of property tax equalization for Winnipeg say ing the proposed tax increases in most areas must be Analysed before any comment will be made. The Issue was raised by progressive conservative Leader Sidney Spivak who wanted to know when the government would alter the million in its current expenditure estimates for tax equalization. Or. Spluvak s question was based on a commitment in a government White paper that said the province would pay two thirds of any tax increases this year and one third next year in an attempt to soften the blow of property tax increases for out lying the municipalities of greater Winnipeg were unified into one City or. Spivak said preliminary indications show the million allowed in the estimates for this purpose will not be enough. Premiered. Schreyer said or. Spivak appeared to be under a mis impression the City s preliminary budget estimates have no relation to any general Mill rate that May be struck in the City. Preliminary estimates r e leased by the City wednesday indicate spending will be up by about million to million this year. Asked by or. Spivak if the million budgeted by the province for the tax equalization will be enough municipal affairs minister Howard Paw Ley said he could not make any meaningful statement based on a newspaper report he bad barely had a Chance to read. Or. Spivak wanted to know if the government would bring in supplementary estimates when the evaluation was finished but or. Pawley would riot commit himself. Garage Sale set a garage Sale to raise funds for the chief pegu is Junior High school social science project will be held from noon to 4 . Saturday at 233 Edis on Avenue North Kildonan. .5 million in student summer projects approved these boys seem to agree that Riding a bicycle thursday in Assiniboine Park beats an afternoon in the classroom any Day. They were Given a half Day by the Royal school in Charleswood. Free press photo Grapher Cerry Cairns just happened to be at the this result. Friendship centres criticized weather report morning bulletin Fet Prav Bisti Mcteir skin the Nef hmm pin Tai permitted to intr meaning o the Joi. Law Teeth. Few degrees warmer saturday Kut my then mini Tobe we wet Lom Whit Coler. My my Mil ind Lute expected Tutti toder Pra Uura Lew or Vinura cold front worm front for Winnipeg Biu etl forecast the Interlake end red regions Claudy Chance e an evening Thunder Shower. Cloudy a Ince o nou Toner to and Saturdey with intermittent Light rain ending near noon. Windi Northern 15 20 mlle an from saturday. Low tonight in the a saturday i the mid-40. Following Are High temperature High saturday in inc j _ yesterday Low temperature Tei the 12-hour period which ended . Loday we precipitation for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Today min. Max. Free. Madrid u 43 Moscow 68 46 .18 .19 .03 Max. Min. Pre. Stockholm 55 Tokyo 73 41 .07 to .45 .61 .55 to Vancouver. Of 43 Calgary 32 Edmonton 50 36 Regina 61 35 Brandon 60 42 the Pas -17 28 Winnipeg 62 41 Thunder Bay 54 27 57 40 Ottawa 52 39 toronto8 37 Montreal 48 41 Halifax 53 43 Chicago 61 43 Miami 8j 74 los Angeles 67 59 Minneapolis 39 Phoenix 4 6.1 Rome 57 Paris 55 48 London 3 48 Berlin 50 Amsterdam 63 50 Brussels 64 57 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Highest on record m8v 4 62 29 46 80 in 1918 last year 68 33 51 lowest on record Normal 61 36 48 h in 1900 Bubo Blower free press nothern reporter Churchill Man. Indian Metis Friendship centres Are out of the tremendous human development taking place with Manitoba Metis peo ple Angue Spence president of the Manitoba Metis federation thinks. Or. Spence replying to re cent attacks by George Munroe director of the Friendship Centre in Winnipeg said centres grew up in the 1950s, when the in Dian and Metis people came to Gether in conferences stimulated mainly by interested White men. This was Fine at that stage. However the work of the Friendship centres has become a bandaging process when the need is for Radical when the Metis federation proposed its migration program to the provincial gov eminent or. Spence said it tried to Deal with the need of Metis people moving from re Mote communities to larger ones with More employment opportunities. It Aims at giving them train ing counselling and assistance in establishing Homes with their families in new communities he said. Or. Spence did not minimize the role Friendship centres could play in this program if they so chose. The federation proposal Calls for the establish ment of centres where employ ment offices counselling ser vices and recreational and educational programs could be con ducted. The Friendship Centre facilities and staff could have an important role to play in this development he said. In a letter sent to premiered Schreyer earlier this week Munroe although in Basi agreement with the ideas of the migration program said it fail to hold water when subjected to the hard realities of economic and social development. It is highly impertinent o the emf to assume for on moment that a program of such magnitude can be accomplished solely by themselves total ignorance of existing service being offered by other Nativ groups As Well As the govern ment plus the refusal to co operate with the grass Root movement is indicative of to highest or. Munroe urged the Premie to make absolutely certain that matters of such grave con Cern to the native Peoples have adequate representation by All concerned and not just of the few who set up themselves As spokesmen and Are allowed to dominate and determine the destiny of the in reply or. Spence said or. Mure and the other champions of Friendship centres should meet with the native organizations and consider their role so that if they Are to continue they Are no longer kept on the defensive trying to justify their existence. If indeed there is a need for them i am sure responsible organizations would accommodate the role of the Friendship centres has very often been de fended by White civil servants or. Spence said. The Metis federation in its Constitution and practice is democratic and the president and executive arc fully Rispon sible to the people in 72 Mani Toba communities who through their convention delegates elected them he said. Critical of us but has offered no alternative. But he has been conspicuous by his absence in leading with issues of discrimination such As the one that Lared up in Only a movement that is pro or. Munroe has been very i such As the federation can in fluence the political climate and bring about change or. Spence said. He admits making grass roots democracy work is no easy matter. We Are dealing with people who have never had a Chance Vince wide and Well organized to make decisions and it is hard to convince them that they have that Power. We Are up against the passivity of people who have resigned themselves to being powerless. But the truth is that since we live in a democracy grass roots people have the Power and they Are the knowledge is nobody s monopoly consultant says by. Katie Fiu Randolph free press education reporter Man has developed labels and jargon to prove How smart he is and in so doing has lost touch with knowledge or. Shel Don Rappaport of Onancock Virginia told about 800 Dele Gates to the Manitoba association for children with learning disabilities thursday evening. In his keynote address to the association s fourth annual meeting at the University of Manitoba or. Rappaport an educational systems consultant said even professionals argue on the six year old level that my degree is better than your degree and my jargon is bet or than your they have to get away from this and know each other As human beings with the Realiza Tion that knowledge is nobody s monopoly he said. If a Community feels it is important enough the doctors and biochemists and ophthalmologists and educators and others will find the time required to put aside their differences and Pool their resources to help provide a better tomorrow he said. College Sof education Are often too Hung up with their internal Battles for priority be tween different branches of the discipline to agree on the tools needed by teachers in their classrooms so teachers often have to acquire this knowledge through experience and in ser vice sessions he said. Classrooms Are designed with Many problems in them As far As lighting and confusing visual elements Are concerned he said. Normal children can Cope with the difficulties this presents but children with visual and perceptual problems Are car shears Hydro pole Driver Hurt a 59-year-old Charleswood Man was in Grace Hospital Fri Day with cracked ribs and cuts sustained in a single vehicle ac-1 cadent earlier in the Day. I the Charleswood detachment of the ramp said the Man Joby Llewellyn 59, of lot 4, Downs trailer Park was driving East on Grant Avenue at . When his car struck a curb and went out of control near Roblin Boulevard. The car jumped the curb and sheared off a Hydro pole which remained upright but suspended from its wires. Seminars on taxes advised Manitoba Liberal Leader Izzy Asper told about 100 Manitoba doctors thursday to get Back to school and learn intimately the Federal government s new tax legislation. Or. Asper said the doctors have to learn to live with the new taxation system and warned them to expect even More provincial government taxes in the future. Taxation at both the Federal and provincial Levels will be come even More pervasive he said at the annual meeting of the College of family phys c i a n s of Canada Manitoba the three Day Confer ence ended thursday. Or. Asper suggested the Doc tors through the College hold seminars with taxation experts Well As consulting their own lawyers and accountants. And he outlined several examples of How professionals such As Doc tors can reduce their taxes. Seriously handicapped by it and they Don t have the margin to protect them from failure under these circumstances. Human beings Are the Only animals who demand that their Young suffer in the process of learning How to survive. All other Young animals learn through fun and play he said. Most schools spend anywhere from 50 per cent to 140 per cent More than they need to for Quality education or. Rappaport said and indicated he would be prepared to detail How this Money could be saved to any superintendent who brought Forth his budget for examination. School buildings can be constructed for half what they nor Merly Cost even taking into account inflation and the build Ings will be Superior to what they used to be he said. Studies have shown that As Little As 15 minutes of a school Day Are spent in productive learning by the students. Even fast learners spend less than two hours of the five hour Day in productive work he said largely because Churen Are lined up in rows seated with folded hands and told to listen and learn. By Ron Campbell free press legislative reporter student summer employment programs costing a total of million have been approved by the province s colleges and universities affairs department colleges and universities min i s t e r Saul Miller has announced. Manitoba will spend a total of million under its student employment program step to fund special summer projects inside and outside govern ment. The province will spend an other s2.3 million hiring Stu dents for summer positions within government departments and agencies. About students Are expected to find summer work in the total million summer Job program. Some students Are expected to be employed on the basis of the s1.5 million now approved for step. Approval has been granted 100 youth initiated projects 43 in Rural Manitoba and 47 in Winnipeg. Also approved Are Worth of projects submitted by government depart ments providing summer work for about 800 students. Rural projects employ mainly High school students while in Winnipeg the projects will involve a majority of University and Community College Stu dents. Following Are some of the types of projects approved for 20 students to conduct three two week Day Camps for about 360 children in West Kildonan old Kildonan and West St. Paul. For 14 students at Treherne to demolish condemned waiting rooms at the Community rink and construct new ones. For 10 Post secon Dary students to tape interviews with elderly Manitoban on the province s Pioneer history. For 12 students at grand rapids to reconstruct the Hudson s Bay Post there As a tourist information Centre and handicrafts shop. To University of Manitoba Art school students to paint murals in Winnipeg schools. For la Bro Querie students to establish a theatre ment of Oak Lake Marsh and practical experience for Community College journalism Stu dents on Rural newspapers. Or. Miller said that most of the projects approved for step already have a lot of Community support and in some cases local agencies or organizations have expressed willingness to contribute to the Cost. Grade 8 students to Ottawa a group of 80 Grade 8 children from Hugh John Macdonald school is gearing up for a two week trip to Ottawa Quebec City and Montreal leaving May 28. The trip organized by Orest Fedak and Abe Thiessen social studies teachers at the school is financed by a Grant of More than from the depart ment of the Secretary of state. The group will visit Ottawa first where the three Day stay will include a meeting with their member of parliament Stanley Knowles nip Winnipeg North Atten dance at a session of Parlia ment visits to the Royal Cana Dian mint and museums and a full Day at upper Canada Vil Lage a re creation of an Early Ontario town. The group will also spend three Days in Quebec City and five full Days in Montreal including a visit to the nearby Caughnawaga Indian Reserve. Three teachers from the school and their wives will be accompanying the students on the trip As will a qualified nurse. Five year Olds still sought police Are still searching for two five year old boys who have been missing from their Homes since april 6. The boys Are Dennis Shaver of 45 Evanson Street and Ger Ald Reuther of 19 Evanson. They were missed Early in the afternoon and it is thought they May have wondered on to the ice on the Assiniboine River. Group to tour the surrounding area. For eight Winnipeg High school students to clean eave troughs for pensioners East of the red River. _ for Post secondary students to prepare and present a punch and Judy show for children visiting Assiniboine Park and in City schools. Other projects include the establishment of a consumer clinic in West end Winnipeg production of a film on the need to preserve the natural Environ Volunteer workers needed the Volunteer Bureau of the Community welfare planning Council says it requires the Fol lowing volunteers a woman Over 16 years old who can work Early Friday evenings and saturday mornings with Young Hospital patients. Someone to drive an elderly Man in East Kildonan weekly to the St. Vital Hospital. People Over 16 years old to help supervise children waiting for medical appointments. Two ukrainian speaking people one Man and one woman who can each visit a lonely elderly person on a regu Lar basis. Theft of jacket jails Man 24 a 24-year-old Man who has been travelling across Canada living by his wits for the past four years found a permanent Home for the next two years after appearing in Winnipeg magistrate s court thursday. Michael p. Legault of no fixed address was sentenced to two years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to a charge of theft Over s50 before magistrate Anthony j. Pilutik. He received concurrent sentences of six months for each of three charges of theft under and a year also to be served circus Parade at tonight the shrine circus Parade will begin at . Friday at the intersection of Portage ave nue and notre Dame. It will proceed West on Portage Avenue to memorial Boulevard and then South to the legislative building. This year the Parade will in clude about 40 units of bands majorettes marchers floats clowns and circus animals. The circus will perform sat urday to May 13 in the Winnipeg Arena. April drier and Calmer Here this Yea than usual by j. H. Judson May came to Winnipeg with fair warm weather that began with above nor Mal temperatures Cooling to below Normal during the week. April ended with a warm maximum of 73 de Grees on saturday and 70 on sunday. Temperatures and Sun Shine were near Normal during april but the month was drier and less Windy than usual. Wind speeds averaged 8.6 m.p.h., which is the lightest average april wind on record. Moisture during the month totalled .51 of an Inch compared to the nor Mal amount of 1.47 inches. Rainfall measured a3 inches and snowfall .9 of an Inch compared to the usual 4.7 inches of Snow for april. It was the driest april since 1956 when precipitation amounted to .25 Inch. Winter Snow pack disappeared from Winnipeg on april 3 this Days earlier than usual. May came in with a warm 71 degrees at Winnipeg but Cool air was flowing southward into Al Berta where temperatures we Down below freezing. The Cool air reached Winnipeg Early tuesday and temperatures dropped to 36 which is Normal for the May 2 overnight Low. Cooling continued w c d n c s d a y and Clouds brought the first May Shower that amounted to .01 of an Inch. Temperatures ranged from 30 to 53 de Grees but Frost touched Winnipeg thursday morn ing. Temperatures dropped to 29 and Rose to near 60 by 3 . The Outlook for the next few Days indicates an arc tic High pressure area will Settle Over Saskatchewan to give Winnipeg a Cool week end. Temperatures arc expected to average from six to eight degrees below nor Mal. Normally i n the first week of May temperatures average from overnight lows of 37 to afternoon highs of 61 degrees. The warmest May 0 was in 1953 with a maximum of 88 but on that Date in 1931 the minimum dipped to an All time Low of Ali degrees. Concurrently on a charge of failing to comply with an appearance notice. Crown counsel George Dan Gerfield told court an Eaton s Security officer saw Legault trying on a jacket in the com p a n y s mail order building Graham Avenue at Donald Street at . April 14. Legault tucked the Price tag of the jacket into a sleeve and then left the store wearing the jacket Crown counsel said. Testimony was he then walked to a main Street Gro Cery store where he bought some groceries and stole others valued at he then had walked Back to the mail order building and then to a second grocery store where he d stolen groceries valued at 34 cents. On leaving the store he was arrested and the jacket and a Vest he wore under the jacket also stolen from Eaton s were recovered court was told. Total value of the items was m r. Dangerfield said the fourth theft charge and the fail ure to comply with an appear Ance notice charge arose out of an incident april 3, when Legault shoplifted a Wallet valued at s8 from the Bay store. Legall was arrested on Leav ing the store and failed to appear to face a theft charge april 7. A pre sentence report pre pared on the latter two charges indicated probation would do Legault no Good and recommended a Long sentence with a Long parole period to follow. Magistrate ii Luik concurred with the recommendations say ing probation would be of no help because Legault had been in and out of jail a number of times in the last three years and had t profited from any probationary assistance ;