Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press july 1973 2nd class Matt registration number Selling your Home consult a professional Milyon a realtor Mil Tim us Tali ii Nice Coffee break by Alexander foot those of tvs who went last year about Are most eager again to attend dancing in the Park the free performances presented in Assiniboine Park by our Royal Winnipeg this time around these world acclaimed dancers will perform tuesday to july 29 at take a Blanket or Lawn chair and enjoy some of the worlds finest dance theatre in a Beautiful and Ballet general manager Bob Dubberly says Dame Margot Fonteyn appearance Here 26 to 30 comes because she was attracted by the calibre of our and our International repute Nice letter from Winnipeg born Fred w who has just marked his 31st anniversary with the Motlach forests employees Federal credit writes Fred recently Bill Mcknight mailed me clippings show ing Wellington Crescent with its High Rise Wellington Crescent is quite different from the time i delivered the free press in the years with its Plank sidewalk on the West and its mud the last House was also Redford at the foot of Gertrude another newsboy delivered papers to those further using the Maryland we received our papers by horse and Wagon after 4 each Day and on saturday picked them up at the old free press building off main Street later to your new quarters on Portage we used the Deli very barn at the rear of the Bank of later at the drug there was quite a Job on Osborne Pem Bina at and a watering trough was located there for the no sunday no funny paper i believe i received per plus 50 cents per month for no the route was Roslyn River Spadina Stra Brook and Wardlaw ave be from Osborne to the on Christmas i collected Over which was very but did have three customers that gave me one Dollar i would like to see Winnipeg but Circum stances May prevent me at the present a 38year member of the kiwanis club of Fred has been treasurer for the past 17 automatic transmissions transmission troubles free diagnostic Check and Road test Tagel 930 Nairn i us my milk i 430 Pembina 7862437 16671595 i 5868049 14534124 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces a Large High pressure area Over the forecast District will result in a dry hot weekend in most re moderate to brisk South winds will develop Over the Western Region today and be general Over most of Manitoba and a few Western Ontario re g i o n s afternoon temperatures today will be 80 to 85 in nearly All re with similar temper a t u r e s expected figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures a Mir temperatures following Are High temperatures recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12hour period which ended at 6 and precipitation for the 24 hour period which ended at 6 today Vancouver 64 55 Calgary 87 56 Edmonton 88 53 Regina 83 52 Brandon 78 47 Thompson 83 50 the Pas 81 56 Winnipeg 71 51 Thunder Bay 74 51 Kenora 79 58 Ottawa 74 60 Toronto 76 63 Montreal 74 60 Chicago 82 69 Minneapolis 81 65 Miami 87 77 Ilos Angeles 76 60 new York 87 71 Phoenix 109 76 Rome 82 57 Paris 72 55 London 66 55 Berlin 70 52 Amsterdam 61 55 forecast for red Interlake and Bissett regions sunny and hot today and brisk South wind High today 80 to Low tonight 55 to the efforts of science have yet to develop a climbing apparatus As satisfactory As natures own add some scrap lumber and you a Nice Little Perch above the girl 9s wish comes True in adventure spot by Katie Fitzrandol Pii free press staff writer a Long time ago at the put a Penny in the Fountain and wished for a place like it have been that Ong because Leslie whose wish came s Only 10 the place like this is a playground with a Dif Terence opened this summer by the West Kildonan Redrea on its a playground without a All or or or a wading or Rass or Sand or tether or a or u n g 1 e gyms or climbing what it does have is pieces of sewer Iles of scrap jars of old automobile tires and alien Oil barrels and Cable it also has hammers and saws and and it has a continually festival adds wrestling there will be a new twist to i neighbor festival in Transcona this it will be an Arm twist with full accompanied by step overtone Ham a flying Mare and a Oston the eighth annual Transcona Estival runs 15 to 19 and lie organizers of the commune y event have added a Wres Ling match sponsored by Al a Winnipeg wrestling four yet to will be held at Rol festival officials announced the event Brussels 63 59 Madrid 84 66 Moscow 63 57 Stockholm 64 59 Tokyo 84 77 Mexico City 77 54 pact provides increase local plumbers and Steamfitters Union Csc reached a tentative agreement Friday with the Winnipeg builders Exchange which would give members a wage increase of an hour Over two plus 10 cents hourly in fringe it was incorrectly reported in fridays free press that the wage increase offer was an plus 10 cents hourly in fringe changing collection of tree ground level houses and forts in an amazing Range of architectural styles in various stages of completion and they Call it an adventure and its located at Mcphillips Street and Jefferson Avenue behind a stretch of Snow it takes in about an and is about the Only treed lot in the whole the idea of a junk play ground originated in Europe after the second world with bombed out Sites being Bill Crook of the recreation commission staff says this is the first in Al though some have been started in Eastern it can hardly be called Revo children have probably been building tree houses As Long As there have been Trees and whats new is a municipality encouraging such construction in one of its Parks and in a residential area where most of the Trees need several years More growth before they could support a Birds there Are a lot of Young people growing up without any other place to build a tree the hammers and saws and other tools Are kept locked up in a portable Shack at the Park until the two playground super visors arrive in the but they usually find a number of keepers already working on various using tools brought from the philosophy behind the playground is to give children a place to work freely and develop their own As a basis for Confidence and self the materials Are but what they do is up to Many find themselves totally lost when they Crook after the regi mentation of school and Many other playground they just dont know where to but it Doest take and Many bring their lunches and stay All the program involves some although to Date injuries have been restricted to the hammering thumb instead of Nail variety with one fall from a because of this children require a parents Sig nature indicating awareness of possible hazards and consent for their children to take its a fascinating place for and for adults who remember tree houses one tree trunk has a not so neat Little sign explicitly stat ing no some Are approached by Board ladders nailed to other use what Leslie likes about the playground nobody bothers if you need help As she provided a tour of the she was watching out for wasted and carefully pulling them out for future use in More useful places and she was acquiring quite a collect there have been some prob lems with vandalism at night and on and some tree houses have been torn a three Storey Structure suffered a similar and its remains Are being cannibalized for other projects on the for the the chief concern is not organization and keeping people Busy although when prob lems arise there there with Lints and suggestions and one suggestion for other children might be to try that Fountain at the a Penny int a Large Disraeli repair Job will disrupt traffic work is scheduled to begin monday on a million Dollar re surfacing project on the Disraeli causing a major disruption of traffic for about three a spokesman for Winnipeg civic transportation division said Friday traffic will be restricted to two lanes on the South of the overpass until the scheduled completion Date of to accommodate rus hour the overpass is to be closed completely to North bound traffic Between 7 and 9 monday to Friday and to southbound traffic be tween 4 and 6 week during off Peak hours and on the overpass will re main open to one Lane of traffic in each the spokesman said during similar work done on the overpass in traffic was also reduced to two lanes but that there were no special provisions made for Rush this caused huge traffic jams on the As Well As overloading the Redwood and Louise he suggested alternatives have Hospital Board picks woman As negotiator the municipal hospitals Board of trustees has recommended appointment of one of its members to the provincial governments committee which is negotiating the Manitoba takeover of Deer Lodge Hospi Deer Lodge now is operated by the Federal the invitation to join the negotiating group of the Mani Toba health services commis Sion had been extended to the municipal hospitals by health minister Rene Toupin during a meeting Between the minister and the Board a week the Board acted on it councillor june Westbury Independent citizens election committee fort Rouge said Friday the Board has named Anne a citizen member representing West As its link with the Deer Lodge negotiating six of the 11 members of the Hospital Board Are City coun said but we didst want a situation where the City would be tied into this too so we decided that our nominee should be one of the citizen Westbury said the appointment of Steen is subject to ratification by the cites environment the Hospital Board has been particularly concerned regard ing the provinces plans concerning Deer Lodge it is acquired from the Federal department of veterans affairs because of reports earlier this year that the province had plans to relocate All geriatric research and medi Cal teaching in a modernized and expanded Deer Lodge after the it was in connection with these reports that the Board first asked the minister to meet with Board members to explain plans the Board charged had been made with out consultation with the municipal hospitals or the caused own death judge provincial judge Anthony Pilutik ruled Friday that a 14 Earold Winnipeg girl caused Ier own death 16 by Tak no an overdose of the prescription drug in making his judgment on evidence presented at an in quest july 6 in provincial judges court in the Public safety judge Pilutik no blame is to be at ached to the pharmacists or a Dia Metic specialist at the health sciences who pre cried the drug for the evidence at the inquest indicated the girl had More than 30 times the therapeutic level of darvon in her blood at the Ime of her Moorehouse testified he prescribed darvon for the girl after she complained of severe she started complaining of the headaches in the Spring of 1972 and at that time he pre scribed he said she ook the aspirin in increasing dosages until by August she was demonstrating symptoms f aspirin he prescribed Dar von 12 because she needed Relief from her and he renewed the Prescript Ion because she said she had taken some and lost he i believed a Moorehouse judge Pilutik in his ruling said the fact that two prescriptions had been Given the girl not a serious matter be cause she obtained the Dar von capsules shortly before Christmas and didst commit suicide until he said ordering prescriptions by Telephone for patients a practice involved in this Case is followed by Many Doc tors and it would have been possible for the girl to have saved up a number of capsules before she took the evidence at the inquest showed that the two prescriptions Moorehouse gave t girl were for a total of 90 Dar on i n reaching his judge Pilutik said he was impressed with the evidence Given at the inquest by Moorehouse and by Jan who performed a autopsy on the Hoogstraten testified at the inquest that the girl had died because of irreversible brain alterations caused by Eart he said a blood Sample from the body showed an excess of he told court although he want an expert in the he believed Large Quanti ties of darvon could Lead to convulsions and cardiac a been Given by the transportation division for traffic which would normally Cross the Over pass during Rush hours in the opposite direction to the main they Are from 7 to 9 northbound traffic on main Street can proceed farther North to Cross the red River by Way of Higgins Avenue and the Louise Bridge or by Redwood Avenue and the Redwood one Lane of northbound traffic on main Street will be permitted to turn right at the Disraeli freeway to serve local in through including transit buses May proceed by this Lane to arg Jug Heaton May Higgins an Nabella Sutherland ave nue and Disraeli Street to the Gladstone Street then northbound Over the Northern Section of the Disraeli Over pass to Henderson from 4 to 6 southbound traffic on Henderson Highway will be guided As follows vehicles in the right curb Lane will be required to turn right at Hesper crossing the red River by the Redwood of the two remaining lanes of that in the right Lane will be required to turn right at Riverton Avenue to midwinter crossing the red River by Way of Louise traffic in remaining southbound Lane will proceed across the Northern Section of the overpass and exit by the Disraeli Street ramp to serve local through including will be directed by Rover Annabella Street and Higgins Avenue to main during two temporary sets of traffic lights will reinstalled on Annabella at Higgins and Suther land there will be no disruption of transit service in the area and All alternative routes will be according to the i in radio dispatched Tow under police will be available to remove stalled vehicles from the overpass Dur ing the Peak pact strike ends a six week strike against Weste Erosco Boni ended Friday after a meeting of the strikers in the Union local United steel workers of America Al ratified a collective bargaining agreement that brings the top classification of worker to an hourly pay rate f by May Don a Union repro said the Union members approved the new agreement by a vote of 110 to 20 by secret the contract provides an hourly wage Range of to retroactive to May and a Range of to june compared with the present salary Range f to the pay scale will be raised to a Range of to May the Range runs through 12 Job there will be improved premiums and other pos Nick said the agreement represented a total package of 70 cents an the contract will expire May the men will Start work monday As this Federal Grain limited Grain Eleva located at Logan Avenue and Mcphillips was once a towering landmark in North West it was demolished this ;