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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 3 locations insurance Wilf you wait Suvit 3s4shewook v774-44t7 Auto Glai installation Wist. Mil my Kwh sir vat Winnipeg free press thursday july 19, 1973 ind class registration number 0264 looking for a Plant site Callo site seek 946-2223 welfare Heads named the amalgamation of All Wel fare departments in Winnipeg already behind schedule moved a step closer to reality wednesday night when City Council appointed a director and assistant director of civic welfare services. H. H. C. H o o p c a who had been director of the inner City welfare department was appointed director of the soon to be amalgamated City wide ser vice and his assistant in the inner City r. J. Simmonds was appointed assistant director. The departments were to be amalgamated by july 1, but this target Date was missed when Council failed to make the senior appointments in time. Estimates arc that the amalgamations will now take place in two to three months. Or. Hooper and or. Simmonds will immediately begin organizing the Over All City wide service. Last month Council approved uniform welfare rates for the City which resulted in monthly assistance increases to recipients of up to 11 per cent. Under the amalgamated sys tem welfare services will be administered from offices in each Community under the direction of one Central office. The appointments will mean pay raises for or. Hooper and or. Simmonds. Or. Hooper another portable Park has sprung up in downtown Winnipeg. This one at main Street and Mcdermot Avenue features rough Hen timbers and Gravelled walks. It is the second such Park built by the City of Winnipeg Parks and recreation department to give downtown of fice workers a place to relax in the Sun. The main and Mcdermot Park is built on land owned by a Bank but. Lent to the City for Tempo Rary use. The other portable Park is on Kennedy Street just Sorivi of Portage Avenue. Light duty Rescue units urged technicality postpones decision on overpass the president of a Winnipeg ambulance service has recon who had been in a to i mended to the City s Board a month salary Range As commissioners that some inner City director will now get a salary in a to a month Range. Or. Simmonds will be raised to a to a month Range from a Range of to the appointments arc effective immediately. The Winnipeg area fire depart m e n t s pumper trucks be equipped and utilized As Light duty Rescue units to provide speedier response to Emer gency Calls and perhaps save More lives. John e. W. Wylie president of Wylie ambulance and res eliminate transmission homies pcs a cooler Quick Simp icon meal Portage i tto Nairn 11311 Mcphilips i 430 my in a 7m-24371 i i 453-4124 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces a area centred Over Southeastern Saskatchewan Early this morning will give Fine weather to the Prairies and much of the Northern United states. As this High pressure area drifts slowly eastward toward Northwest Ontario a southerly flow of warm dry air wiil gradually increase across the Prairies. Sunny skies and a return of More seasonable temperatures from the Cool temperatures of the past several Days arc expected. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today Cue service ltd., in a letter to the Board of commissioners outlined what lie considered to be a number of problems re Garding emergency service and suggested utilization of fire trucks As a solution. The idea he wrote would be to designate and equip certain pumper units currently in use As Light duty Rescue units or life the prime function on spending to Calls he said would be to sustain life until either an ambulance or regular Rescue unit arrives. He argued that the response time of the pumper units should average about three minutes or less compared with an ambulance possibly requiring 10 to 15 minutes in some cases considering traffic Pat terns and Road conditions. And he said the designated pumpers would respond automatically to accidents involving serious injury thus Sav ing precious or. Wylie said Only about five of a total of about 32 pumper trucks in All Winnipeg would have to be adapted As Light duty Rescue units. He said the four existing Rescue units would provide the same ser vice As the designated re pumpers and would provide greater availability for fire fighting and major rescues smaller area to by Paul Pizii Cizyn free press Urban reporter using a Legal technicality Winnipeg City Council again deferred decision wednesday on t h e controversial Sherbrook Mcgregor overpass project. Council had been expected to Ive final approval to plans to proceed with a six Lane million Bridge and approach Structure spanning the up rail Yards and connecting Mcgreor and Mckenzie streets on he North with Sherbrook and Furby streets on the South. About 200 residents of my Enzie Street turned up at the Winnipeg civic Centre to try and convince councillors not to approve the plan. The Resi dents fear the Structure a destroy the residential Urc of their streets. But no decision was made and the proposal was sent Back to the civic executive policy committee. It will appear on the Agenda for the committee s next meeting july 26. Councillor Ken Talanchuk Independent citizens election Selkirk clued Council in on the Legal loophole that would allow act Force the Issue Back to he policy committee. Coun. Talanchuk cited a Sec Tion of the City of Winnipeg act which requires the policy committee to provide Council with a full report on the environmental consequences of any pure oxygen and on baby re j major development project resuscitator. Among the problems he mentioned were there Are Only four fire department Rescue units to cover All of Winnipeg about "225 Square ambulances in some cases considering Road Pat terns and conditions possibly could take 10 to 15 minutes to reach emergency Falls at present. 0 you would have to Dou ble or triple the present quota lives would definitely be of Rescue squads to do the Job designated pumpers could do without and he equipment Cost would be minor. The pumpers said or. Wylie would carry minimum equipment including blankets bandages crowbars Power jacks and automatic resuscitator capable of administering six District civic estimates get of temperatures following arc Hiigli Tom Peru turns recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at g . Today and precipitation for the 21 hour period which ended at g . Today forecast f o r Winnipeg Bissett incr Lake and itch River regions mainly sunny today and Friday. Low to night in he mid 50s High Friday near 80. Max. Win. Pc. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton begins Brandon Thompson the Pas Winnipeg Thunder Bay Kenora Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Mia los Angeles Minneapolis new York Phoenix Rome Paris London Berlin Amsterdam Brussels Madrid Moscow Stockholm Tokyo Mexico 104 90 72 57 5-1 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean july 18 66 .19 59 last year Normal 75 7e to 55 67 highest on record 94 in 1923 Winnipeg s 1974 works and operations estimates will be compiled on the basis of the six districts into which the City has been divided for Engineer ing purposes City Council decided wednesday. However in order to main Tain the citizen participation provided for in the budgetary process by the City of Winnipeg act the estimates will be set up so that each of the 13 Community committees can identify their portion of the Otal works estimates. Under the new system recommended by the City s Board commissioners the initial estimates will be prepared by Community committees in con Sacre Coeur gets Grant t h c Manitoba government a n n o u n c e d a Grant wednesday to the Winnipeg school division for the opera lion of Sacre occur school. Education minister Ben Man Uschak said the Grant will pro vide for print and non print materials. For furniture and supplies and for rent. The rental Grant will be made annually during the three year agreement with the school division. The minister said the agree ment will run for a period of three years and May be terminated by either party lie said it was possible that space could be available in on or More of the division s regular schools during this period to House students attending Sacre Coeur. Slide nos at the school will be eligible for All regular Grants under the foundation program. The school which is located o n Mcdermot Avenue has been run As a parochial school in the past. The school Board asked the Winnipeg division to take Over the school this fall because of financial problems. The Winnipeg school division hns agreed to rent the building and provide instruction in All subjects except English in the French language. Ten teachers i will provide instruction from kindergarten to Grade 12 to about 200 slip deals. Siltation with District Engi neers. Following this stage the works estimates will be consolidated on a District basis at joint meetings of the Community committees which make up each District. Last May City Council authorized implementation of a reorganization of the City s Public works departments in the form of six districts which Cut across Community commit l e e boundaries. The reorganization is to take effect this fall. Several councillors have objected to the change in Budge tary procedures out of a fear that Community committee participation will be lost. City solicitor Duncan Lennox said in a report that any reduction in Community commit tee participation in the Budge tary process would be a breach of the City of Winnipeg act. However councillor .1. Paul. Marion Independent citizens election committee St. Boniface told Council wednesday that he had withdrawn his objection to the six District budgetary concept because the mechanics will not Ding additional pumpers to the present the first few minutes three to 10 of a heart attack or serious Accident arc critical especially if oxygen resuscitation Haemorrhage or Clear ing of air passages arc involved most emergencies would be classified As Light duty res Cue runs but present response is heavy duty an eight ton apparatus and four present disorganized ambulance service. Amalgamated or con trolled ambulance service would still have slower response compared to designated or present stationed in a written statement re Garding his proposal to the Board of commissioners or. Wylie said from a personal or Busi Ness Point of View i or any other ambulance operator have nothing to gain from this plan. It is a fire department service to the Community that fills the important Gap in time until an ambulance police or private present or future controlled arrives on the scene. As an ambulance operator t want to use All my resources Effort and experience to sell the need for this Type of ser vice in Winnipeg. 1 have seen lives lost even when ambulances arrive within 10 minutes which is regarded As Good running time because no such system exists Here. Of the procedures hinder Community committee involvement. Coun. Joe Zukin labor election committee communist lord Selkirk termed Camp Camp Ames fete fore it can be approved. Since no such report has yet been prepared by the commit tee the entire Issue was referred Back and won t come before Council again until the environmental consequences arc known. Before coun. Talanchuk s revelation a spokesman for the Mckenzie Street residents Nad an Opportunity to detail to Council what their objections to the overpass were. Jack Ostrov 584 Inkster Bou Levard told Council that if the overpass approach were built along Mckenzie Street traffic flows would be increased tremendously and this would Lead to the deterioration of the Rea. Plans Call for Mckenzie to become a one Way Street South bound connecting with scr Brook on the South Side of the rail Yards. We believe that the pro posed Bridge and thoroughfare plan which you arc consider Centre pickets restricted Bart construction limited of St. Boniface contractors for the Winnipeg convention Centre has been granted a ing tonight would if passed cause irreparable damage to a Large traditionally residential North end or. Ostrov said. He suggested that a simple Bridge connecting Sherbrook and Mcgregor streets would be sufficient to Cope with traffic flows. If necessary a replace ment for the aging Arlington Bridge could also be built he said. Or. Would Ostrov said Council be unwise to commit several million dollars to the overpass when the possibility that the rail Yards May be re located still exists. He also presented a petition signed by area residents opposing the proposed Over pass. However. Coun. George min Aker James As chairman of the civic works and operations commit tee told Council that the Over pass would be required even if the rail lines where to be re moved eventually. He said the time left for Arlington Bridge is Only about five to 10 years and that rail relocation would not realistically take place before then. So this overpass is coun. Minaker said if the rail lines arc removed it would be possible to connect Arlington Street at Grade level and then Widen Mcphillips Street but even so we would still need the connection be tween Mcgregor and Sher Brook involving Furby and Mckenzie. He said that if the rail lines remain a new Arlington Bridge will have to be built the Mcphillips underpass will have to be widened and the Sherbrook Mcgregor overpass will be needed just to Cope with projected traffic flows or. Ostrov s group plans to make further representation to the policy committee when it reconsiders the plan and pre pares its environmental report for Council. Penner to seek advice from party coun. Alt Penner. The defeat-1e 1 e c t i o n s act. The alleged de progressive conservative breach of the act involves the candidate in Rossmery constituency said wednesday he will first seek the advice of conservative Leader Sidney Spivak and the party caucus before deciding whether to proceed with Legal action in an attempt to nullify the election of pre Mier de Schreyer. Coun. Penner contends that Jie election of the Premier was said. Appointment of Church minister George Epp As returning officer in Rossmery. The act pro Hibits the appointment of clergymen As returning officers but or. Schreyer has said or. Epp docs not have the status of a professional cleric. In the final analysis it will be entirely up to me de cide whether proceed with Legal coun. Penner invalid because of an alleged contravention of the Manitoba Minaker Stul is chairman councillor George Minaker Independent citizens election committee St. James Assiniboia will not be replaced n his Post As chairman of win Lipco s civic works committee until alter he is officially sworn in As a member of the Manitoba legislature. Coun. Minaker was elected o the legislature As the progressive conservative member or St. James in the recent provincial election but his res ignation from City Council required by the City of Winnipeg act does not take effect until but he said he thought it would be Only fair to first gauge the feelings of or. Spi Vak and the caucus. He re fused to whether he would abide by the wishes of the caucus should it decide that the matter be dropped. The conservative caucus is scheduled to discuss the subject at its regular meeting Fri Day afternoon. Coun. Penner said he would Likely announce his decision at a press Confer ence next tuesday. I would like very much to discuss it with them because it docs affect the party. So far All the reaction i be had has been overwhelmingly m favor of pursuing this he added that All of his talks with the party have been at the local level and with party president Graeme t. Haig. Coun. Penner said he has received offers from Tierce individuals. All of them outside the constituency who arc prepared to foot the Bill of any Legal a he is sworn in As a member of icon. He refused to name them. "1 can t afford to do it my the legislature. A motion that coun. Gerry court order restraining Union m e r c i e r ice f o it pickets from interfering with Garry be appointed to re place Minaker As chairman of the works committee was presented to Council wednesday but was Laid Over on the advice of the City s Legal depart ment until after coun. Min Akcer s official resignation. Site on York Avenue and Carl ton Street. The order was granted wednesday by or. Justice j. R. Solomon in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. The Union the United association of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing and pipe fitting Industry of the . And Canada local 206, and the International Union of operating engineers hoisting and portable local 901, were bruised in Accident were a Winnipeg legend to have intimidated Ood attempted to prevent Baertl .11 s Centre owned and from Winnipeg children self i m not a wealthy Man said coun. Pen Ner who is a member of Winnipeg City Council and a teacher by profession. Me also discounted accusations that he was raising the matter in an Effort to Embar Rass or. Schreyer. That certainly is not my in Tention at All we have election Laws and i believe they arc to be operated by the Lake Winnipeg j the Job site Mission Camp society 70 Miles j North of Winnipeg will Cylc of Bralic its 25th anniversary and going on has was i caught in a washing machine the court order also limits wednesday. Inner City police said James the number of pickets to five mountie will guard civic Centre and said the new procedures will be released that Day and j Baert and the Union is consid the wringer would result in a Bare Accra in All former campers arc invited Jered at a court hearing july to attend the gala occasion. J23. Tourists visiting the win open House aug. 5, he Gannim at Wonc Entrance to the Job Smith direct i in pc civic cd narc Luis sum at 3 . A grand Barbecue Kllc put his hand into his Mother s mar we find an added attract will end the thanksgiving Ccle the order is in effect until wringer Washer at m Lac of a the concept devious and illegal Bra Lions. A history of the Campi the e labor dispute Between and his was pulled into Scarlet Clad member of the Koyal Canadian mounted police. Mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg announced wednesday the m o u n t i a const. J. J. P. Cyr will stand guard out Side the civic Centre for the remainder of the tourist season to Mark the 100th anniversary stress i changed very much by society of Canada s National police Over the Force. The skin on his was bruised police said. Illness linked to mental Outlook by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter consulting rooms in the form of True t. 1 said during a remember when the people wednesday were building fallout shelters in their Back Yards and worried themselves silly about the bomb Ever thought about How peo ple now lose sleep because the United slates and Canadian the doctor interview cause of the general they Are however the doctor said the an asian self furring from dollars seem to be losing their f 1 a t i o n is eating away at what s left of the Green stuff a Winnipeg psychiatrist says the geopolitical and Mili Lary scare of the Early 1960s found just As Little expression n u m b c r of patients who schizophrenia 300 years ago what psychiatrists do see present themselves at Psychia-1 probably had considerable pre and always have seen Are peo trusts offices because of Chis occupation with dragons Pic with pre existing Disler lentil concerns about survival Bance. Such ill health will of has always been substantial course Manifest itself readily j and remains High irrespective symptoms connected to Sud j of political developments. Den crises As they there arc people who quite value in world markets and in to remain unidentified said the psychiatrist who asked literally worry whether they i h c r a p i s t s Sec Little True neurosis among patients even with the worrying developments of bomb and Dollar in the latter part of the 20th Cen Tury. Will he Able to eat in the near to treat fear the doctor would conduct a realistic evaluation of the patient s financial condition and once this Evalu the mayor said const. Cyr will be acting mainly in a pub Lic relations capacity and will be available for conversations and photographs with the pub Lic. Today the manifestations would be quite different. During the victorian Era with its emphasis on ethics work and religion Psychia-1 trusts saw More cases in which people imagined they were Jesus. There is less of this Type of symptom now and far More fear of annihilation seminal a Baptist Temple physical or economic. J Springfield. Missouri will i a. Minister guest speaker Rev. Raymond Tracy of the action indicates there is Novare but largely in patients Whorf Lucak at the second Anni versa ill mental health he by Church services at. . In patient demand for service people who arc threatened threat to survival treat the a cause of stresses generally we sunday in the Winnipeg Baptist As the economic crisis does by these economic or other Tient on the basis of the Ncurol-1 think that people who arc not i Temple 2g33 Portage Avenue of developments arc usually those in fear. Vulnerable to Start Wilh arc in St. James Assiniboia. see very Little who Are vulnerable to Start. There is nothing new about Likely to develop neurotic fears a picnic will be held at direct manifestation of this Voith. Kind of development in their have they arc people become vulnerable who emotional illness. But the of an by a lures of such illness have been economic . Sunday grounds. On the Church ;