Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, July 14, 1973

Issue date: Saturday, July 14, 1973
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba In trains. Big warm Friendly. Winnipeg free press saturday july 14, 1973 Coffee break by Alex Andyk 1 oot Ciot is Iril help Iho United Way because this month Winnipeg Sli Lions tarrying the theme Gas Luys Are living live pledged a percentage of All gasoline sales in the Way s fall Campaign Interior decorator w. G. Burns of in Waterloo is reel is seeking .194s-Vimage photos of the Kirkfield hotel for a new expansion of the hotel now taking place. Contact him or the hotel the Holiday siring quartet will appear in concert Al Birds Hill Park at 2 . Sunday in the first of a series of concerts Al the Park to run to aug. The performances will take place on stage Down the Hill South of the Overlook. Vok you involved Don t forgot today s Oak Bank Centennial celebrations which opened Wiki a pan cake breakfast and continue with sports events and other festivities and thanks to you come from the muscular dystrophy association Manitoba chapter for All who donated at the recent bake Sale a i. Polo Park. Its annual picnic will be held in the Oasis at . July 21 and everyone is Welcome. Fok Meu miss Canada Diane Lancry a win nip Egger who s added a touch of Beauty to Montreal by becoming a resident of that City is Back from the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach with a pocketful of rave reviews for her singing debut in the United states. She s talking contract for an autumn return and thanks to Helen Mackenzie of St. James Assiniboia for this in formation the Winnipeg Hock and Mineral club inc. Will present its fourth International Gem and Miner Al show in the St. James recreation Centre 2055 Ness Avenue july 20 to 22. The non profit club promotes inter est in mineralogy and the lapidary arts As Well As Fossil identification and collecting and the exhibition is Well Worth taking in Ted Greenhalgh of where s Charley Fame Al Rainbow stage Don t miss it it s a panic will continue on for the next production Annie get your gun playing the role of sitting Bull but More of this in another column. Not enough time on your hands Well a i. The museum of Man and nature there Are More than 200 clocks on display. Sounds strange but they re fascinating and in the planetarium concourse there Are clocks for children cuckoo clocks chickens picking up Worms cats with eyes moving and tails swinging and a model1 of Pic clock believed used by Christopher Columbus they re at it again. The third annual slag reunion and dinner of the combined Craf Wii squadrons association will be held in Toronto s Royal York hotel oct. 20. Contact George t. Sutherland 30 Edith drive no. 1201, Toronto 12 St. Boniface Cul Tural a Colre will be the scene for a series of arts and crafts workshops every wednesday throughout the sum Mer. Phone them seven artists arc giving work shops on a number of arts subjects throughout the sum Mer in River Osborne Community Centre and Crescent fort Rouge United Church. These include drawing print making fabric Art painting and photography As Well As dance workshops in and Ballet modern and creative. Contact festival Manitoba 535 main Street room 114 every sunday at . In the warehouse theatre local musicians will be jamming with a scheduled act followed by whatever the audience and the performers dig. It s All free and sounds Cool Scot Tish dance is on the menu in the Winnipeg Art gallery thursday at 8 . Also scheduled for the gallery is a series of sunday afternoon and wednesday noon con cells performed by the summer chamber quartet. And incidentally Tours of the gallery leave the front desk at 2 . Monday to Friday. Nickel Days opened by Mckeag Schreyer Tiomi sox Man. Staff Booths Are offering customers Skirling scottish bagpipes and everything from leases Loox 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Selling your Home consult a professional rely on a realtor Rev. Takamasa Moriki of the Manitoba Buddhist Church holds the stub of a Manitoba Golden sweepstakes lottery ticket that has won for his sister Yasuko in Japan. With or. Moriki who sold the ticket Are his wife and inc month old son. Lottery tickets spread outside North America by Barry Jullin free press staff Wriler Manitoba s Golden sweep Slakes lottery tickets Are be coming internationally known. For the first Lime since the Lolly pics began three years ago three people from outside North America have won Consolation prizes. Friday at the final draw of series j in the Manitoba Golden sweepstakes based on the running sunday of the Alai Loba Derby a too Consolation went to ticket holders from Japan Jamaica and Hawaii. The hawaiian and jamaican i i c k c i holders could t be tracked Down but he japanese Winner was easily traced. The japanese ticket Holder and the Winnipeg seller both bore the same last names. Rcv. Takamasa Moriki the pastor at Pic Manitoba Budd Hist Church 835 Winnipeg ave nue sold ticket and the Lucky Winner was y. Moriki. In an i n be r v i c w Al inc Church or. Moriki said inc Tickel belongs to his youngest sister. Yasuko. ,1 Grade 12 Slu Dent in Oila Ken Japan. Or. Moriki his wife and nine month Oil son went to Japan March 13 to attend the 800th anniversary of inc found ing of their religion. In Japan or. Moriki sold three books of. Golden sweepstakes tickets and his wife one. The agent for the tick is is inc Manitoba Buddhist Church. I sold them to friends and relatives in Japan and 1 was hoping some of Ahcin would air. Moriki said. Lie said he has iwo Sisters Wilh the initial y. But he wrote in japanese on each ticket so he would be Able to Tell which one had purchased the ticket. Or. Moriki who came to Winnipeg four years ago said he will continue to sell the sweepstakes tick is. The seller s prize will go toward re paying a Bank loan the Church took out last year when it expanded ils facilities. Corners Are bicyclists most dangerous spots statistics have shown inter sections Are the most danger Ous place for bicyclists a statement from the Manitoba department of highways says. Forty nine of the 75 car Bicy Cle accidents occurring be tween March 1 and Juno 30 took place at intersections the department said. Bicycle safely courses now Are being offered through local Community recreational departments throughout the prov Ince. The greatest number of the accidents involved cars turning left in front of cyclists or cyclists turning left into the path of oncoming vehicles. The second most common reason for the intersection accidents was the cyclists going through a Slop sign or red Light without slopping he depart ment said. The department s r e port shows thai half of the accidents involved cyclists be in can 13 and i years of age. Fifty seven of the accidents involved cyclists Between nine and 20 years. Almost without exception a j cyclist sustains some form of injury when there is a car bicycle Accident the report said. The report said most of the accidents could have been avoided if the cyclist had observed safety precautions. The re tort. Said Young cyclists should be encouraged to enrol in bicycle safely courses which would help them identify cycling dangers and How to avoid them. Premier in North discusses jobs and freight rates children s Aid analyses adoptive parents chances prospective adopting parents have a better Chance of receiving a Normal child under six months of age if they live in inc Assiniboia area of Winnipeg ban if they reside in the area of the cily served by inc children s Aid society of Winnipeg. This fact is included in a newsletter released by the society in answer to criticism thai people in Winnipeg stand a bettor Chance to adopt than do people elsewhere in the pro Vince. The fad Sheet also slates i b c s e children were made available by inc Winnipeg society. Instead of transferring the m children to other agencies the children s Aid society of win n i Peg could have satisfied Imore of ils own disappointed i applicants. However the Sci i Ety s director of adoption eur did Milci in says the Transfer ring Means a bettor balance throughout inc province. Because hospitals in Winnipeg arc bigger than in inc j Rusl of the province or. Lucrie i said in an interview the Winnipeg society receives a larger Normal children than there Are 5ir Hync Lull re hundreds of cheering Thomp sonics greeted Olic West Indian and Oriental specialities. Error w. John Mckeag and f r ceremony the premiered Schreyer As they focus moved to inc site of the opened inc Thompson Nickel King Miner s Competition Days festival Here Friday eve where Premier Schreyer con Ning ducted the official opening. The Premier donned a Bright children available for adoption. 5ir Lull re the hard to place child is cd a t Lla Ilsc to difficult to a Lack in an adoption v Ards in the past 25 Home. On a population basis 20 per cent More children arc placed in adoption outside Winnipeg than inside. The Chil years. More and More people Are willing to adopt. Resl Ric Lions were nol As severe. More unmarried mothers Are keeping their children. Married couples Are using the the lieutenant governor do yellow helmet and goggles and c i a r c d inc official opening from the platform of the c. A. Drilled a four foot Hole Inlo Nesbitt Arena which has been Lough i precambrian Rock in transformed Inlo a gala inter-.3 minutes National Boulevard where pc Loran miners agreed it Multi National display and fond was a credible Lime for almost anyone but especially for a Rookie. Some bystanders remarked j thai the Premier s showing overshadowed thai of former j Thompson la Joe Borowski who performed the honors last Drin s Aid society of Winnipeg docs nol serve Charleswood i r j Assiniboia or St. Boniface la of the Winnipeg area. I if you live in the As i progressing Sini Boia area you stand a 52 per cent Chance of adopting a i progressing Well in child under the age of six of Manitoba Wilh icelandic festival the 8 Ullh . Surely one of Manitoba s least pronounceable and hard Cal to spell Folk festivals runs aug. To this year in Gimli Man. The annual icelandic festival features a full program for each of the three Days Wilh dances every evening and other activities ranging from raft races anything that floats in Gimli Harbor to the new Iceland drama society s production of Galedra Lof i. Hum months. If you live inside Winnipeg your chances arc miners contest to cols year. The More than 30 participants in 12 skills used in underground work. There is a prize and a trophy for King Miner As Well As other prizes. The guest Ibal overshadowed All others was the Sun which appeared in a Clear sky Lale on Friday inc 13lh after about 10 Days absence and promised rest of the cereals ranging from the Shol Blade stage to being fully headed the Manitoba department of agriculture said Friday in its weekly crop report. Rainfall and moisture Levels per cell. To incl Homes for the handicapped and children of mixed racial origins the it Montreal Netherlands to find prospective enl which need 11101 Homes. In excl racial origins the Sci a pos to has to Roas far afield As i Havo by fun favourable Montreal Virginia and for a Lew areas in West remain for in Lolur the musician by Johann sigm Jonsson Al x . Aug. And demonstrations include Para i chilling Delta Wing ski Kile and Barefoot Wain skiing Arch m cry. And displays of icelandic m7 us been Given a Continua Kline receives Grant arts and crafts. Food ranges from a Pancake breakfast a Barbecue to a Gol supper Tion Grant the Manitoba department of health and social services announced Friday. Food i hero s a Parade monday a said i and fireworks sunday night As Grant would cover opera Well As boor gardens Bingo i Cycle races and formula i concerning Auto racing by Len Winnipeg sports car club ,1 december the Gimli Industrial Park. Said. Facility until dec. 30. Discussions arc under Way assistance beyond i h c department to assess the adoption Pic lure in Winnipeg the society had conducted a Survey of the number of children Plard and the number of people who applied for these children by in can april 1, 1972, and March 31, 1073. During the period 479 of the applicants throughout the province received a baby of under six months. Of this i number ii children were i placed by one of the 11 clop lion agencies in Manitoba within its own jurisdiction. The remaining number were transferred from one jurisdiction to another. I the Winnipeg society transferred i l children to other agencies. Within the society s jurisdiction 21s babies were adopted Mil of a total of 501 applicants for a Rale of 4.1 per cent. In the areas bordering on the society s geographical Region of i in applicants received a child of under six months for a Rale of 52 per cent. Thirty of ram and parts of the Intel Lake where rainfall has been Cices control Pill and As a result Are m Akin g More demands for children to adopt he said. In -110 children were adopted through the society compared with 57 in i Jali and 236 in 19g3. Al the same time applications have increased. Or. Cleric also commented on inc difficulty in placing Chil Dren who arc handicapped or of mixed racial origin. Al the present time the society has 05 children of All Ages listed for adoption. Of these -14 arc of mixed origin. Five of them have been listed for two years five for a period by tween one year Anil iwo years and the remainder for less than one year. If some of these children can t be placed in the Winnipeg area the society approach Hes the other adopting i agencies in Manitoba. If there is no Success then. The information is passed to agencies across Canada and then to i those in inc United Stales. Last year. 21 children were sent to the l a. For adopt i lion because no one in Canada i was willing to take them. 1 the society s statement which dealt Wilh the study com mints thai the first con Cern must be the child nol the applicant. The society sympathizes Wilh disappointed applicants however. The society says ils policy is that children Are made Avail Able to local applicants or to the applicants of other agon pics because we believe that in so doing the needs of the particular child can Best and most rapidly be by Bob Lowery free press Northern reporter Cross Lake Man. Jobs freight rates and transportation were the key elements discussions which Indian band and Community representatives held Friday Here and at Norway House Man., with Manitoba premiered Schreyer on his first Post elec Tion trip to the North. The Premier said the North Ern affairs acl is being re drafted and proposed Legisla Tion will be submitted to the legislature. He also Lold of a new Type of wharf which May mean lower j food prices in the North. At Norway House mayor Wayne of Lull said in was sur prising to have a visit from the Premier and an la Eccl Harvey Bostrom new demo cratic party Rupert land right after an election. In a response to a Mie Stion from the mayor about freight rates the Premier said this would be a major thrust in inc coming conference on Western j economic opportunities with i prime minister Trudeau. As Well he said he has instructed government planners to develop a program to implement his proposal of Selling up a is m p 1 c come Finity to govern Mcnol monitoring sys tem on shipping costs. Road connections to inc rest of m a n i i o b a were another main concern. The Premier said that a Road up the East Side of Lake Winnipeg is Possi ble if the Federal govern i Mcnol agrees to make a Wilder Ness Park Oul of a Large Sec Tion of this Beautiful but difficult terrain. He thought that a connection by Cross Lake or Jan pc would be More feasible. The Premier said that during the first four years of Bis and minis ration. 390 Miles of Road were built North of the 53rd i parallel. Al least that amount would be constructed in the coining four years he said. Councillor Larry Hauber walled to know when inc Unity councils would be Given authority to manage their own affairs especially in such mat ters As the acquisition of land. The Premier replied that i woman injured in two car people in the communities affected by the proposed North Ern affairs acl changes would have an opportunely to review inc proposed changes. He favored Pic Community councils achieving full Munici pal g o v c r n in c n i Lalus As quickly As possible. The need for employment and the difficulty of obtaining it in any Large scale from con tractors on Manitoba Hydro s nearby Jenpeo site were con Cerns in both communities. As one Norway House councillor Pul it we dont gel Accident victims named Giswold Man. Up police have released the names of the persons a in a two vehicle collision near y ibis South Wealti n Manitoba c o m m unit y Friday Hal claimed the lives of two per sons. Many jobs at Jenpeo because you Prilly nearly have to have Journeyman s status to get at Cross Lake the Premier Lold chief Jonah Mckay and mayor Angus Milvor that Ken d i 1 i c n the nip la elect for Thompson would have to represent them constantly to see thai local northerners occupy every possible Job Avail Able in the North. Besides ibis information about employment or. Schreyer announced a Grant to has been approved to gravel the Cross Lake roads and Airport. A Rock Crusher will be moved in next Winter to Stock pile crushed Rock. Television and a Telephone system will be available Here a Grant of has been Given to Purchase a water sup ply vehicle. Heavy duly loading wharves arc being construct cd dead arc David George fish Here and Al Jenpeo to permit 38, of Edmonton and the use of a Barge capable of John Sheridan 27, of Brandon j carrying loaded Semi trailer he Drivers of the two vehicles j to is Carolyn Joan fish 28, and a could have considerable Impact son Danny about 2, were re on food prices ported in guarded cond Ilioiu these arc nol in Brandon general Hospital. Inc Premier concluded. Her daughter Eliza bulb Ann. We Are Back Here to Tell was reported in satisfactory you that we arc keeping our condition. Promises every 1 automatic etl Minate transmission worries with pos a cooler automatic transmission cooler Quick simple Elconon Vicat is Portage 786-2437 930 Nairn 667-1595 Tell Mcphilips 586-8049 430 Pembina 453-4124 weather report morning bulletin kor Manitoba and Northwest Ontario coalition a w i n n i p c g woman was i taken to Hospital alter a two vehicle Accident Al 1 . Fri Cloud patches and a few Light showers lingered Over parts of Southern Manitoba and Northwest Ontario Dur ing he night but precipitation amounts were Small. A few More Light showers Are expected in he Eastern regions later Loday. After noon readings Loday will Range from the 70s across the South to the 50s near Hudson Bay. Nearly All of the forecast District will sunny skies Tomor r o w the Western and Northern regions will be a few degrees warmer. Figures on he map indicate expected h i g b ice Para Lill is Loday inner cily police said Kath Leen Smith 23, of 1821 main Street suite 2, was reported in g o o d condition in goner a Centre formerly Winnipeg general Hospital with a con-1 Cussion. I she was a passenger in a car driven by Wayne Harold read 26. Of .1723 main Street. Suite 2. Which was in collision Wilh a car driven by Albert George Stevens 18, of g32 Arlington is reel. After inc collision on Ellice Avenue at Upton Street. The read car collided with a House at l Clicc Avenue police said. Ready to talk Union fort Frances out. Pc i c i a i the strike All inc Ontario Minnesota pulp and paper company limited plants in fort Frances and Kenora onl., could be settled with 72 hours if inc company were interested in settling the argument an official of the striking Union said Friday. Jim Goodison. International of the in Lorna tonal association of Mac bin Isle and aerospace workers j said in a statement Here Hie Union is prepared to sit Down and negotiate Wilh the com Pany any Lime the company is prepared to bargain in Good a company spokesman was not immediately available for comment. No Foliations b e i w c c n the company and the Union began april 12. A three year contract expired april 30. The company has brought the dispute on themselves As they did not wish to set a precedent for negotiations As had been the Case in inc 1970 set or. Goodison said. The difference Between the two sides is monetary he said. The Union struck the fort Frances Plant july .1. Company officials closed Down the Plant five Days Laler because of what they called violence associated Wilh continuing the operations during the the Kenora Plain was closed monday after the United 1 a i p c r w o r k c r s International Union local no. J33 and 238 refused to Cross the picket i lines set up by he machinists. I or. Goodison said the Plant was shul Down because of mechanical failures and old paper machines. These were the dominant reasons for the Plant ceasing production during inc i or. Goodison said Union be i collators were Lold by a com Pany representative that a strike would nol Hurt inc Mill because strike insurance would be paid after the walkout had been in effect for five Days Sam Willington an Ontario conciliator i s scheduled to meet tuesday Wilh Union and company officials. Temperatures following Are High tem per Alucs recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended Al j . Today and precipitation for the hour period which ended at 6 .Loday Vancouver Edmonton act Tina Brandon to Winnipeg j Thunder Bay Kenora Oil in Toronto Montreal Chicago los Angeles forecast for Winnipeg Brandon Dauphin red River and i n i c r 1 a k c regions occasional Cloudy periods Loday with North wind Al is Miles per hour. High in the Clear tonight and sunday. Low tonight near Minneapolis ;