Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 3 Loati oms a Togiai i installation 354 Shirbrook fat l Silvski 244jarvb Winnipeg free press Friday july 20, 1973 2nd cum Mill number d2h imported v sup cry null pm available in 12 and 25 of. No 73 youth Avalanche expected by Manfred Jager free press staff writer Winnipeg s civic welfare department says fewer Young travellers probably will come to the City this summer compared with last summer. Juergen Hartmann supervisor of the City s official youth program at 240 main Street near St. Mary Avenue said during an in t e r v i e w wednesday the youth Avalanche officials had expected in t materializing. We still expect thou Sands of Young men and women on their Way East or West but last year we had this sum Mer s total figure could be quite a bit below open daily until mid night 240 main has a staff of five people. The store front location is known to All welfare agencies police departments and Manitoba Border information Points. It provides details on youth Hostel accommodation arranges for part or full payment from fed eral funds of the 50-cent-a night fee for people who Are penniless and makes meal tickets or food vouch ers available to Young peo ple in need. Or. Hartmann said Young people travelling across Canada Are better organized this year than they have Ever been apart from the fact that some travel without Money or with Only a very limited but the time when a ticket and Cash were considered essential for a Holiday trip seems to be Over for Many Young people he said. We find that Many of the travellers now carry tremendous equipment with them Good sleeping bags and Knapsacks of Fine Quality. And they know three customers at the City s youth reception Centre Are left to right Susan Diamond and Rick Ducommun of Vancouver and Maryann Campbell of Victoria. Winnipeg s cupe employees reject tentative contract Winnipeg civic workers re a y the Canadian Public employees presented Union of voted thursday to reject a ten t a t i v c contract agreement reached in negotiations be tween the City and Union representatives. About 1.100 of the employees involved voted about 600 to 500 to reject the propos als an informed source who had been present at a meeting said Friday. The contract proposals eluded a 10 per cent salary crease retroactive to Jan. With further five per cent in creases Jan. 1, 1974 and july 1, 1974. However the Union source said the proposed agreement was rejected on two counts failure by the City to agree to a Union shop clause that guar a n t e c s employees join the Union after a specified period of employment and Lack of an who Assurance that proposed con Union tracking out of civic work would be limited 60 As to give civic employees Job Security. The Union which recently 1. Amalgamated its City and transmission troubles where they Are going and what they want to see. Many people Only travel for two or three weeks see what they want to see and then go Back Home quite a few of them to jobs and regular City welfare director r. H. C. Hooper said the youth program will Cost Winnipeg in Hostel fees from May to sep t e m b e r this year plus in salaries. Total Cost won t exceed in any event and what we spend we can consider an investment i n Canada s Young along with three hostels one with 100 mixed accommodation at the St. Boniface cultural Centre another providing 80 Beds for men through the Salva Tion army and the third providing 27 Beds for women at the Owca on Webb place the youth program is gearing up for an onslaught of Young peo ple Here next year. It s our Winnipeg Cen Tennial and you can be sure there will be lots and lots of Young people Here or. Hartmann said. Kids know where things Are happening and they arc interested enough to want to be Sabin vaccine eliminates polio problem Here Toupin reports of inadequate polio immunization in the United states and the need for polio Booster shots for adults in parts of Canada do not apply to Manitoba health minister Rene Toupin of Manitoba said thursday. He said the last Case of polio reported in Manitoba was in 1966. Because of the High level of immunization in the prov Ince epidemics of polio Here Are most unlikely to the minister said. Or. Emmanuel Snell director of provincial preventive medical services has advised regional medical directors to concentrate polio immunization procedures in the age group of three months and upward in former metro employees into a single local has been negotiating with the City for More than three months. Before negotiations began Union spokesmen stated that the Union would recommend a strike if Neces sary to get a guarantee in new contract that work immunization and Chil a used. A commission spokesman of Sabin every year enough to provide a Complete immunization series for Mani to bans. Properly immunized persons Seldom need Booster shots but or. Snell advises a dose of Sabin vaccine for persons travelling to areas where the is endemic As added insurance if they have not had a dose within the previous five years. If travellers have not received previous doses of the vaccine they Are advised to have a series of three doses of Sabin spaced three months apart. Fogging requires permit commission All Mosquito fogging opera committee St. James As tons conducted within the City Sini Boia said in order to ensure 100 per cd nil require a permit from the pro immunization against the Dis. Vinci Al government clean envy Snell said most adults in commission no mat Manitoba have received Ade itch what level of insecticide is done by civic employees would not be contracted out to Pri a consultant s report now being studied by civic commit tees recommends gradual withdrawal by the City from major engineering operations such As Large construction projects and Dren at age six have received the full Sabin vaccine series. However he said there arc still a few areas where infants have not been Given the live Oral Sabin vaccine. He said it was possible for Small outbreaks of polio to occur among inadequately in _ f30 Nairn 7u-2437 1311 a Chuuk 5s4-s049 430 Miina 453-4124 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces two weather systems arc Washington. Both these systems arc moving Only slowly eastward and be tween them a southerly flow of hot dry air is devel Oping. Readings near 80 arc expected in Southern Manitoba today. Little re spite is expected from the High temperatures and Eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba will Likely con affecting the Prairie prov inces Friday morning. The dominant one is a Large High pressure area centred in Southern Manitoba which gave Clear skies to the Prairies Over night. The second system is a trough of Low pressure lying North to South from the Macken Zie Valley to the state of Tiniuc dry until late sunday. 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 forecast f o r Winnipeg Bissett inter Lake and red River regions mainly sunny today and saturday. Low tonight in the mid 50s High on saturday near 85. Max. Min. Fre. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon Thompson the Pas Winnipeg Thunder Bay Kenora Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago los Angeles Minneapolis new York Phoenix Rome Paris London Berlin Amsterdam Brussels Madrid Moscow Mexico City 53 53 .02 to garbage collection. J Munizd persons particularly Union members voted at two f they have been exposed t meetings in Winnipeg thurs the disease by Contact with Day and at two meetings in person who has travelled in in Point lit Bois for Winnipeg Hydro employees. Facing mischief charge a 42-year-old woman was charged thursday with two counts of Public mischief after police received reports from an Alverstone Street resident that she had been stabbed in two separate robbery incidents this week. Joyce Newton of 823 Alver Stone Street first reported to inner City police that she had been stabbed by a Young Man Early monday after she noticed lights on in the first floor of her Lious. Police were told the Man fled after demanding Money and then stabbing the woman. A similar complaint was re by police Early thurs Day and the woman was taken to the general Centre formerly Winnipeg general the Public mischief charges were Laid afterwards. Appearing in provincial judges court in the Public safety building woman was remanded for a psychiatric examination and was to appear in court Friday. Demic regions abroad. Prior to commencement of a Salk vaccine program in Mani i Toba in 1957 in which Effort were concentrated on providing vaccine to infants and school children there had been periodic Large polio epidemics. A mass Campaign in 1962, introducing the live Oral Sabin vaccine protected about 87 per cent of Manitoba. Since then Sabin has been used As i Booster for children who Hai received a primary Sal series. Or. Snell said Salk vaccine i Mill widely used in Ontario and there is therefore needed in tha province for periodic boosters even for adults. In Manitoba the use of Salk vaccine a been almost completely aban Dpn cd. Or. Snell said his office distributes about doses Crane to close cily Street Smith Street Between York and St. Mary avenues will be partially closed saturday and completely closed sunday the Winnipeg streets and transportation division has announced. The closing is required to facilitate the removal of a Tower Crane from a construction site. One Lane of traffic will be open saturday while a Crane needed to remove the Tower Crane is assembled. But the Street will be closed from 6 . Sunday to 6 . Monday while the Tower Crane comes Down. Low pressure system keeps things Cool Winnipeg temperature comparisons Joly 19 73 last year Normal Max. Min. Mean 75 4a 61 50 56 it 55 67 he Floesl on record 94 in 1967 lowest on record 36 in 1891 by j. Ii. Judson the third week of july is normally Winnipeg s hottest Ime of the year but this week Las been cooler than usual. Maximum temperatures averaged during the past 100 ears show a Peak of 80 to 81 degrees from july 20 to july 7. The heat wave of 1936 sent afternoon temperatures to a coaching 108 degrees july 11 and 103 degrees july 12 and 13. Pc right Cooling lowered tem creatures to a hot minimum of 3 degrees three degrees than this week s Max mum. The minimum sunday touched 44 degrees which was 39 degrees cooler than in 1936. Temperatures reached 80 de Grees monday afternoon before a Low pressure system Over Northern Manitoba cooled the City. Winds shifted to the West and temperature readings went Down to 53 warming to an afternoon High of 74 degrees tuesday. Wednesday was cooler at 49 to 68 degrees which is Normal for september but 12 degrees cooler than usual for july. The Cool air came in with showers amounting to .04 tuesday Evert ing and .03 of an Inch wednesday. The rain brought this summer s total to 10.92 inches compared with the nor Mal of 7.84 inches from april. The thursday minimum temperature touched 46 degrees but a warming trend is in sight. Outlook for the next few Days shows the Cool High pics sure area Drifting off to the cast. Low pressure systems Are not shown approaching Winnipeg and hot dry weather is e x p e c t c d for this weekend. Temperatures arc Likely to Rise above Normal. Normally july 22 tempera lures average from an Over night Low of 57 to an afternoon High of 80 degrees. In 1940 a hot spell hit Ioc but 1887 was the coolest with an extreme minimum of 39 degrees. Said thursday. Alan Hunt administrative officer for the commission said in a Telephone interview that the commission docs not set Levels on the amount of insecticide permissible in Mosquito abatement programs until after it has held Public hear Ings on an application. The City of Winnipeg applied for a permit to allow fogging after civic works committee reversed a three year old civic policy and ordered fogging operations in residential areas because of complaints of an unusually Large influx of the insects. During wednesday s meeting of City Council a motion that the City begin Mosquito fogging without waiting for the clean environment commission Mit was Defeated. Councillor Pearl Mcgonigal per insecticide used by the City is Well below the level of contamination set by the commission. Or. Hunt declined to com ment on the possibility of action being taken against the City for conducting fogging operations in City Parks with out a permit from the commis Sion. A Public hearing on the City s application to the com Mission will be held aug. 7. Mail s body found in Luke the body of Douglas Oscar Slordal. 21, of lunar Beach Man., was recovered at about . Thursday in Lake Manitoba the ramp in Winnipeg said. Or. Hordal was reported missing and presumed drowned at about . Sunday when the boat he was travelling in was swamped near Gull Island Man. Ramp said a postmortem Independent citizens election has been ordered. Youth program seeks billets outreach 73 needs help next month if it is to make an Exchange program of handicapped Young people from Manitoba and British Columbia work. The help the program needs is billets from aug. 11 to 21 for 17 handicapped Young people Between the Ages of 16 and 23. Outreach 73, a step Stu Dent temporary employment program program financed by the provincial government has arranged an Exchange pro g r for 40 handicapped Young people 20 from Mani Toba and 20 from . The Manitoba group of 20 with three escorts will leave Winnipeg saturday for its 10 Day stay in Vancouver. The Manitoba group will receive a similar group from . In August. L a w r i c Bay project organizer for outreach 73, re ports that the Only problem the group has encountered to Date is arranging billets for some of the handicapped Young people. Or. Bay explained that the project s budget prohibited put the project organizers have prepared a schedule of events for the . Visitors. The list includes visits to Rainbow stage the University of Mani Toba Fol Lorama 73, the Winnipeg Art gallery and a tour of the City. Or. Bay said the billeting for the 17 Young people would re quire Only breakfasts and the occasional lunch and supper. A mini bus will be used to take the people to and from their billets. Many of the Young people he said have had Little Opportunity to travel anywhere in Canada. For Many said or. Bay this will be their first real trip anywhere. Anyone interested in billeting one of the Young people May Contact the society for Crip pled children and adults in care of the Kinsmen Centre 825 Sherbrook Street. St. A a Man Hurt in crash a 48-year-old St. James As Ting the people up in hotel or Sini Boia Man was reported in Motel rooms during their visit satisfactory condition Early Friday in the general Centre formerly Winnipeg general to Manitoba. Efforts through Normal Chan Nels he said have yielded recovering from in the response. Jurics received in a car truck these people Aren t at about . Or. Bay explained. They arc thursday. Disabled. They Don t any extra the reason the visitors can t require inner City police said the Man. Herman Thiessen of to Walia Scy Street was driving be billeted with their Manitoba i West on Logan when he was in counterparts is that most of vol cd in a head on collision the handicapped people with a truck driven by Keith come from Large families or Jackson 40, of 3150 Assiniboine from outside the City. Their Homes can t be for billeting he said because Blaine Street. It s pretty touch having two i police said or. Thiessen was i Avenue St. Jamos Assiniboia. Used the Accident occurred East of wheelchairs in the House at the same taken to Hospital with Chest and head injuries. Scuba divers find Voyageur artefacts by Nick Hunter free press education reporter almost 200 years ago 16 voyageurs from Montreal were on their Way to the Winnipeg River when they misjudged the rapids at Otter Falls and Cap sized. Last weekend 40 scuba divers from the University of Winnipeg discovered some of the remains of the Canoe spill Only the third such find in Manitoba history and the first by an All Canadian expedition. Or. Andy Lockery instructor of the n o n c r c d i t summer course in the scientific Applina t i o n of scuba Dimmg was cleaning the 150 pounds of artefacts in a Laboratory at the University thursday and still taking an inventory. The divers found less than two Bales of artefacts about 10 per cent of what or. Locker believes is at the site 12 Miles upstream from the seven Sisters dam. Between 20 and 25 Bales 90 Pound packs which the Voya curs carried were normally or. Andy Lockery examines the artefacts from a Canoe spill at Otter Falls neatly 200 Yean ago. He is holding a 90-Pound pack sack used by voyageurs on the expeditions to Lake Winnipeg from Mon Treal. In the canoes. There Are More than 60 axe Heads two Dif Ferent sizes of Musket balls ice chisels harpoons and files in the University of Winnipeg find. After researching the chances of finding something last Winter and making a per Sonal Check of the site twice. Or. Lockery took his class to look for the spill. Unable to Sec More than two feet in the murky water and working in a Strong current the divers held on to a rope and Felt their Way along the Bould ers. Divers from the University of Minnesota searched for the Canoe spilt twice but were unsuccessful. And or. Lockery believes he knows Why. Manitoba Hydro raised the water level and changed the position of the original rapids. By using an Echo sounder we were Able to relocate the Origi Nal or. Lockery worked on the theory that a Canoe would be at the top of the rapids be cause if the voyageurs did t go through at just the right spot they would be in trouble hitting boulders about 18 inches below the surface. His research included the diaries of the voyageurs who frequently recorded the loss of a Canoe. The livers will return to the rapids this weekend in Hopes of finding More of the spill. Or. Ixia cry said it is easy to miss the remains because the artefacts collect on he boulders and appear to be Al most part of Hie rocks. T has been the belter divers who have Buceti making the finds because if a person is not a competent diver he is More worried about his air Supply and things like whether his fins Are still the artefacts will be pre served and turned Over to the provincial government ;