Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 4, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba We str you wait Swvick nog if installation ii do Lvery service Winnipeg free press re available in 1 2, 25 and 40 of Friday May 4, 1973 2nd class mail registration number 0266 19 74 civic Grants of for arts urged the City of Winnipeg will i offer financial support totalling almost to performing arts in the City in 1974 if City Council accepts a recommend d a 1, i o n passed thursday by civic executive policy commit tee. The proposed assistance is included in a revised civic policy on financial Grants out action on freeways delayed a recommendation that Winnipeg City Council express its opposition to the concept of High Speed control decl Access freeways has been Laid Over for at least four weeks. Civic executive policy com Mittee voted thursday to delay consideration of the recommendation from environment com Mittee until the policy Coa Imit Ifft has a review of the City s development plans. Councillor George Minakor Independent citizens election committee St. James As who is chairman of works committee commented that the recommended policy would it approved moan that Council is in favor of Low Speed unlimited Access Road other councillors objected to the recommendation because it would mean asking Council to approve a policy without factual information. Another environment commit tee recommendation that coun cil seek immediate removal of the inner City rail Yards to of tar areas was also Laid Over by policy committee. By a subcommittee of. Civic finance committee. Under the proposed Grants formula which is unchanged from assistance offered this year the Royal Winnipeg bal lot the Winnipeg symphony or Chestra the Manitoba theatre Centre and Rainbow stage would receive each. The contemporary dancers and be Cercle Moliere de St. Boniface would each receive a Grant of a Grant of would go to the Winnipeg men s music club and would be set aside for Grants to other performing arts groups and associations. Special Grants of and respectively would be offered to lie festival do Voya cur in St. Boniface and Folk 1 o r a in a the policy recommends that any other festivals held in the City should seek sup port from the local Community committees in which they arc being held. 1 a fund of would be set aside to provide assistance for non profit organizations which operate museums Art galleries or libraries which Are open to he general Public in the City. In audition would be provided in a fund to help finance educational health Wel fare or social development organizations providing such groups Are giving a City wide service. The revised policy also recommends that the City set aside to cover the Cost of civic sponsored luncheons Din ners and receptions in 1974 for conventions held Here of a naj tonal or International scope. The policy this year has i i Mitch civic assistance for such functions to organizations meet ing Here which have some connection with Urban affairs. The recommendations will go before City Council at its May 10 meeting. Committee urges City tax exemption for Art gallery Winnipeg s civic executive a ship might have an Adverse policy committee wants Manitoba government to this Happy Leopard materializes magically with some hocus pocus worked by wizards Irene Giannakis 12, and Diane Zerdin 11, students at Victoria Albert school watching it derm Bonan 12, another of the school s students who helped in Leopard Rama a student show staged thurs Day to help raise Money to buy a new Snow Leop Ard for the one which died in March in the Assiniboine Park zoo. Govt. Computer co. Under fire by Douglas Mackay Pany later confirmed that Rich during the year ended feb. 28, free press legislative reporter Ard Larratt the president of 1973, its first year of opera transmission specie. Sana inspection Allwork guaranteed pm 157 Portage ave. 786-2437 930 Nairn ave. 667-1595 1311 map Hittlet 586-8049 the president of Phoenix the company and a former Dev-1 Tion data ltd., a government owned i clop ment corporation official i the information was con computer services company i left Phoenix data last week. Lain cd in an order for return to incr resigned or was fired last or. Asper also wanted to bled in the legislature by or. Week Liberal Leader Izzy know about the departure of Green after or. Asper s ques Asper said thursday. Joe Wren operations manager j Lions. Phoenix Dala was created by the government in March 1972, after sym bionics systems ltd., lot St. James Assiniboia was or. Asper was unable to de of the company. Or. Green Termini which in Liis question ing in the Manitoba legislative of resources minister Sidney Green who is responsible for Hie Manitoba development corporation. The corporation holds equity is Phoenix data. A spokesman for the Corn would Only say he did not know whether the men had quit or were fired. The company spokesman said i taken Over by the development in in Revenue during the year against operating and Start up expenses of most of the Revenue from government depart and provincial in corporations and a g e n c i the company earned government. Empt the Winnipeg Art gallery rom City taxes while leaving control of the facility with its Hoard of directors. Committee recommended that cily Council urge the province to include the gallery which owes the City in Back axes under the provisions of he Cenlin Nisi Centre Corpora Jon act for Layalion purposes Only. The re commendation is to to considered at a special kneeling of Council tuesday. The province would be asked to bring the gallery under the Centennial corporation act in order to remove it from the City s tax Rolls leaving owner ship and control of the land and buildings with the Art gallery s Board. Policy committee wants to see the gallery removed from the City s lax Rolls Retro Active to Jan. 1, 1969, permit he Rity to write off the Back taxes without penalizing local taxpayers. John a. Macaulay honorary president of the gallery appeared before policy committee thursday to ask that the City Deal with the gallery s Back taxes before the building is put up for tax Sale june 25. He said the gallery executive has been negotiating with the provincial government since 1971 but now has been Given an ultimatum. The province has decided the gallery should come affect on pledges and gifts frown private sources. We could to Ras Sibly Transfer mayor Steve Juba told Macaulay that cily has to think of local property owners in Coil sideling the plight of the Gal Lery. An outright Grant in Licu of taxes would mean that the gallery would remain on the Loward municipal set thai in turn would City s equalized assessment meaning a smaller provincial Grant vices. Mean property owners would face a higher lax rate than they would otherwise pay he said. Councillor Robert Steen in dependent citizens election said the province s attitude was a familiar one. It s called exp Opria lion without he said referring to the govern ment s offer to Lake Over administration and financing of Assiniboine Park. Property value settled of land or. Wren resigned last february to accept another Job. It was revealed thursday that the company lost corporation. The order for Clurn requested by Steve Patrick l acini showed the company look weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces a High pressure Centre in Northern Ontario and a Low in Montana combined to produce an Easterly flow Over the Grain growing areas of the Prairie prov inces Friday morning. Skies were Cloudy Over Southwest Ern Manitoba most of Saskatchewan and most of Al Berta and a few showers accompanied the Cloud. Southern Manitoba is Likely to have a few Cloudy inter Vals and unsettled Sho Wery weather is forecast for Saskatchewan and Al Berta for the next two Days. Figures on the map indicate cd peeled High temperatures today temperatures following Are High temperatures recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Today Max. Vancouver. To Calgary 62 Edmonton 62 Regina 57 Brandon 60 Thompson. 57 the Pas 54 Winnipeg St Thunder Bay 54 Kenora 54 Olla Toronto. 59 Montreal 67 Halifax 46 Chicago 62 Miami 79 forecast for Winnipeg Bissett in Lelake and red River re Gions mainly sunny today and saturday. High today near co Low tonight near 30. Los Angeles Minneapolis new York Phoenix Rome Paris London Berlin Amsterdam Brussels Madrid Moscow Stockholm Tokyo Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Win. Mean May 3 St 31 last year 53 30 42 Normal 51 34 46 highest on record 17 in 1930 lowest on record is in 1891 i my o Al Elj make by delegation of parents and students concerned about a pro an advertising pamphlet currently being circulated in recreation Complex in the Elmwood area were told by the Winnipeg school Board thurs Nipes by a local Massage Par or has been turned Over to logo Home and Sculle their provincial part mint for investigation. The subject of the told the 15 people who appeared before the Board was raised in the Manitoba it agreed in principle with gis lature thursday by idea of Community planning a. Barkman l recreational facilities but using consideration of Community must first agree spending estimates of the department of what it Wauls before the Board can take any action. Recreation and cultural delegation composed of or. Barkman said group of parents who want a leaflet being delivered door Complex built be door in Winnipeg was Elmwood High school and insult hurled at the citizens group which wants a Complex he asked serve the entire St. Johns Ion minister Larry area began arguing o look into Iho the school Board meeting o halt some of the Smul Hal where the Complex should icing passed or. Desjardins said Chmara of 310 Keenley pamphlet in question Street said she represent used by the playmates a group called very interest parlor May be in parents vip which option of the criminal code the proposed site for inc Canada. He said he was Complex near ins it on to the Bridge. General s department for said her group wanted ligation and assured the Complex at Elmwood High Lis department was not where it could be used solved in any cultural Grant Day and night with Quality cd he the school Lias two or. Barkman said he took already and with a caption to the pamphlet Pool and Mulli Pur he said advertises Arena it would serve a girls and brags about the area than the Louise addition to Winnipeg site she said. Davis head of the com what he said. Mittie for the sports parents St. B school parcels in St. Boniface has an increasing division have rejected a while there is a de posed five year plan in enrolment in the in would have reorganized schools. Inlo three groups and trustee Guyot said the present mix of French school Board now will ask English classes in Iho permission to build Sellers were sent to new school to solve the Over this week from school at Lacerte school in chairman Gilles Guyot 1 e a d of using empty that information obtained in existing English a series of meeting held in division in january and also rejected the pro Ary and from delegations that Iho division be rear Pearing Buforo the Board a n i e d to have Middle dictated parents were instead of the present the five year and secondary under the plan schools it is Clear that parents be divided Inlo three a Strong preference for kindergarten to Grade Taining the pc Send system or 5 grades 5 to 8 am educational organization in 9 to 12, division with the least possible disruptions for their Guyot emphasized the decision to build a new school Anc the letter maintain the present Struc one of the proposals in was not final decision unti plan suggested locating approval is of language students in he said the Board in language schools in to keep parents informed first then said planning for the recreational Centre was still at a preliminary stage and that two Silas inc Snow dump near the Louise Bridge and the Elmwood Winter club had been consid ered. Councillor Cartwright a member City Council representing the area said the commit Lee planning the sports Complex must consider live entire area lie said inc Louise Bridge site was under consideration because it was City owned land and Lylial inc committee did not think Elm Wood High school had enough space for an adjacent sports Complex. The school Board agreed to meet again with the Community but no Date was set at thurs Park. The French school la As decisions become final. From about nine Pri Vale clients during the year. The company had 25 employees on a monthly payroll to Talling the order for re turn said. During the year Phoenix data provided computer ser vices to the education depart ment the colleges and universities affairs department the consumer corporate and inter Nal services Dupar Lenl the planning and priorities co Niit inc of Cabinet the Manitoba government computer Centre the m a n i t o 1 a milk control Board Manitoba Hydro the i Manitoba liquor control com. Mission red it incr Community College is. James Assiniboia s c h o o 1 division and about nine private firms. Or. Asper charged later that was injected into the Robert g company somehow or other through the education depart ment. He could not get Educa Tion minister Ben Hanuschak to confirm this in the House How Ever. Phoenix data is one of 10 companies in which the development corporation holds equity. Six of the others lost Money in years ending at various times in 1971 and 1972, the last years for which figures Are available at the Momcil. Commenting o n the com Pany s loss or. Green said it could be considered a loss Only one would regard every cent that the government expends without a direct Revenue producing return As a Only if one regards All gov c r n in Cut expenditures As a j loss could one consider Phoenix data s loss As a loss j the minister said. 1 the company was set up to j provide computer services to the government and sell some services to private Industry As local will he said. If Manitoba were to report inc cd they re talking about Chang ing the name to the Manitoba Art or. Macaulay said funds for construction of the gallery were solicited on the basis that it would be a Winnipeg nil Gal Lery. A change in name or own defence protest planned members of Manitoba 705 of the Union of National do Hydro Fence employees of the Public i lenses of its internal computer service Alliance of Canada resolved thursday to act collectively with All locals of the Union to put pressure on the Federal government to guar Antee Job Security for its de Fence employees. T h e two hour meeting of about 100 National defence employees in the Winnipeg area at the War amps building 272 Sherbrook so real decided that letters would be written to members of parliament asking for assistance to prevent clean ing and catering work from being Contr Aclid out to private companies saying this would inevitably end in Lay offs of de Fence Slaff. Pc scr Masliuk progressive conservative my for Portage la Prairie assured the meeting he would raise the Mailer in the House of commons. Oiler speakers included David Orlikov new democratic party member of parliament for Winnipeg North de Mcgill progressive conservative member of the legislature for Brandon West Winnipeg new democratic parly councillor Alan c. Wade and George Holub a National officer of the Union from Ottawa. Also present was Art e. Wright executive assistant to Manitoba labor minister a. R Russ Paully. Local 705 has 450 members in Winnipeg with another 200 Al Rural Points. Services vis a vis revenues it Widd have shown a loss too or. Green told the House. Boniface county court judge Leon ii. Benard. The property owned by Whit tier Park development corporation c. D. Financial development corporation ltd., corporate direction International ltd., was expropriated by metro june the matter came to court to determine the value the property in relation to ils use As a residential area. The land was expropriated for use As a traffic thorough fare. Judge Benard said he arrived i Al his decision on the basis of i the highest and Best use of the land. J it was calculated by Market demand studies that about 300 details of Grants pledged cultural affairs minister Larry Desjardins of Manitoba pro Misc thursday he would Ive a detailed written account .0 the House of every Damn cent that Ever went out to the Franco Manitoba cultural Centre in St. Boniface. The minister gave the com m i t m c n t following renewed ensure from Arthur t. Moug on How much provincial Money went into construction of the Centre or. Moug repeated thursday that provincial Grants appeared a Little too heavy to the Cen tre and demanded to know the exact amount that was Given by the provincial government. Or. Desjardins said there were two separate Grants of each for a total of about 1.3 million although he conceded there May have been other Grant As Well. But he said he said he was at a loss to _ know where or. Moug got of mail scripts rare books figure of million m Provm-1 editions is on the Centre. Display until May 11 at the uni the minister promised to give of Manitoba school of a detailed written account explain the province s con Ribu c of Tion. Suites of planned apartment Block could be rented out. Judge Benard said that appraisers said that suites at a year could be calculated for the entire property. He said that this made the property Worth million. He said that he was deducting for estimated Cost which would have been spent to service a Hillier Park. Dysart collection Auto pm the Dysart memorial Colucc the legislature in committee of the whole House gave approval to the department s estimates of prior to moving on to the Cost Imalis of the Dupar Lenl of health. April temperatures Between 10 and 70 by j. H. Judson drought conditions in Central Saskatchewan were relieved during april. Regina reported a record precipitation of 2.29 inches but Southeastern Mani Toba stayed dry. April precipitation at Winnipeg totalled Only .83 compared with the Normal amount of 1.47 inches. Precipitation in april was heavy in a band from South Western Saskatchewan to North Ern Manitoba. Swift current had a Welcome 3.2 inches and the Pas reported 3.99 inches but rainfall missed districts along the red River. Winnipeg temperatures i n april averaged 30 degrees which is two degrees below nor Mal. Extremes varied from a Low of 10 april 9 to a maximum of 70 april 19. Sunshine amounted to 221. Hours compared Wilh inc usual 209 hours in april. Winds averaged 12.5 Mies an hour which is lighter than usual but Gusty conditions were observed on 28 Days during april. The month ended monday with temperatures r a n g i n from 28 to 50 degrees which is seven degrees cooler than usual. Cool dry air was flowing Over Manitoba from a High pressure area in the North. May opened with sunny Cool weather and temperatures ranging from 25 to 54 degrees. Wednesday was near Normal at 26 to 50 degrees. Thursday morning was a Cool 18 degrees but sunny skies warmed Winnipeg to 54 in the afternoon. Outlook for the next few Days indicates a weak weather sys tem moving from the West will bring a few showers into Mani Toba. Temperatures arc expected to average near Normal. Normally in Early May win n i p c g temperatures average from overnight lows of 36 loaf Ter noon highs of 01 degrees. Warmest May 6 occurred in j953 with a maximum of 88, but in 1931 it was Cool 10 degrees. There is a 37 per cent probability thai some rain will fall and the Willest May 6 was in. 1965 when ,g4 of an Inch was measured. Scripts and go books covering a too year period the collection was Given to Hie. University at the official opening of the Eliza Beth Dafoe Library in 1953 in Honor of the Lale or. Justice Andrew Knox Dysart the University s fourth Chancellor. Among inc illuminated Manu scripts arc two Antiphons an Early psalter a 15th-Century edition of Caeser s commentaries and two official Docu a cols issued by Phillip ii of Spain. There Are 16 incunabula per laps the largest concentration of Early printed books in West Ern Canada. Within the group Are examples of some of the work of such printers As Peter Schoeffer Nicholas Jenson Aldus Mantius and Antonko bar Ger. Two thirds of uie collection Date from the 15lh and Lola Cen lyrics. There Are examples of the Best designs of printers from Elzevir to William Morris and notable books from each Conlu by such As Gerard s Mahrous herbal Prin cd in 1633, an Early e d i i i o n of Gulliver s travel 1726 and iwo late 19th Century Kelms Colt press imprints arts a rare edition of co Ilcau draw Ings published in 1923. Pensioners to meet the old age pension society of Manitoba will hold a rum Mage Sale from 10 . To ii on saturday in Trinity Hall Smith Stricland Graham Avenue ;