Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg trip october 1973 Indian people feel Vav by Carol Simons new Delia the covered Bazron a Robirdio Road looks nothing like a North american Supetr when an Indiah housewife finished her Ping the other Day and emerged from the twist ing lanes lined with she had so every familiar com ments whats going up in Price ten rupees Guys nothing any the International Rise in food prices Hast spared one of the worlds Hungriest w h y we com Plain the woman some people cant afford to tighten their belts Young shopkeeper squat Ting among his piles of garlic and Beans threw up his hands and exclaimed that his household expenses have gone up More than 50 per cent in the last government statistics say food prices have in creased about 20 per in the Young Man prices have gone up so much that he has had to Cut Down from two meals to one a a few Yards Down the hard packed mud aisle of the a in a Section draped with Yards of thre Brothers stood on the raised floor of stall in front of shelves stocked with they discussed rising arguing Back and before the immaculate in White pyjama trousers and White a Loose Indian said we Are a family of five six months ago it used to Cost me 250 rupees a month for food and now it costs me 450 an american housewife finished selecting apples from a neat Pyramid gave them to the fruit seller to be weigh everyone knows prices have gone up she but we hardly we have so much More than the average Jurson a Western diet can be quite like Chees or Salami or convenience things liked canned juice o but in the meat Depatt men we seem to be much better than people in the states where else can you get Chuck for 15 cents a Pound and Steak for 25 cents it May be Buffalo meat she is talking but the Strong can be camouflaged by marinating and the filet steaks Are tender enough to Cut with a Chicken on the other i the Steak of scrawny specimens Are priced at one Dollar a Pound and Are Best cooked for hours in a Stew or Mutton am pork Cost Between 35 and 45 cents a Simp buggy delivery an expectant feeling the big event was got a lift from her East Kildonan Home to Boniface Hospital maternity Ward thursday night in a Manitoba Hydro swamp the unusual Mode of trans port became necessary at when an ambulance and two police cruisers bogged Down in the mud on the Road to her United finally called the emergency Mea sures organization asking for i instead the emergency organization called Manitoba by which requisitioned the swamp buggy and this combination finally rescued the Mother from her predicament and got her safely to a Progress report Friday bowed the Mother is doing though the baby Hast one Good leads to another first Thon 1660 Henderson Amar 3398196 1800 Pembina 2697496 now Tazo 1630 Henderson Parkside Plaza is designed to be right for your kind of you can choose from 4 apartment floor tasteful decor combines with functional design and the advantages of for maximum com fort 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and Forth under the Blade of a knife which he grips expertly be tween his a carefully gather ing her Sari to avoid mud puddles stopped to buy a few pounds of while she waited for her chunks of Mut ton to be the housewife talked about High prices try to save Money by buying vegetables which Are season she for j u s t found apples for two rupees 75 paise a kilo about 18 cents a Pound and bananas for 11 cents a she this morn ing the shopkeeper wanted 10 rupees for 500 Grams of butter about a Pound instead of the government Price of so my family will just Nave to do if More people prices should come so despite to mens newspaper editorials and the complaints of prices continue to and shortages of certain commodities continue to at government fair Price where other Staples Are sold at fixed people wait in line for hours and but As often As a Man finds when he gets to the end of the line that the shop is out of the extra few cents charged on the open Market can badly Hurt a Man whose income might be a or for the biggest and most sensitive Price increases Nave been in flour and the Brown flour used for m a k i n g the Chu Patti Flat is nine cents a Pound out so tight is the Supply of wheat to India that it is often id Stock or not a necessity for the pan by method of cooking its the Are Indian Home which has an has gone up in Price More than 50 per cent in the ast most westerners and wealthy indians use Peanut which osts the equivalent of 80 cents Pound at the same time last ear the Price was 45 or clarified referred by most is of 59 cents a Pound 33 cents ast Many people have tarted using Mustard Oil at 38 ends a one girl toyed nervously with the Long Scarf that is part of the traditional punjabi cos ume of tight trousers and Long she described her a typical one for most Lowin ome workers main meal Nee a Day consisting of roti another variation of a Flat read and a vegetable Curry and twice a Day a break of Tea and roti with Chutney or for westerners living in Delhi the problem is hardly the in most foreigners would feel too self conscious to complain about food at East in Many do that their food Bills run the same As they did in he United or More mainly because the items they consider essential Are priced s luxuries for no diplomats having no commissary or import Privi the Cost of living is directly related to the Home sickness for such items As ice Ream for Iofe quarts of a i i 11 a for Heese a sugar 50 cents a Peanut but or 65 cents for nine am 58 cents for nine powdered milk a Pound jello 35 cents a while westerners and wealthy indians can afford to consider such the v e r a g e Indian buys Only enough to see him through the his diet is his consumption Small and he pends almost everything he Arns on in it complain no about the Price of butter or Ugar is a Middle class we All talk about rising said one american but when you look round and when you think bout what the majority can Ford to you begin to feel Lucky that you can afford any f these no matter what he so what if we have give up chocolate chips poet rebuked England up police received complaints rom visitors to an arts festival Tere after a rep Ding of sexual suggestive y o e t r y one woman in the audience shout e d Puld not have to put up with his the poems were written by 16thcentury poet Ohn Park Thorn Scotland when our air Canada pcs touched Down at Prestwick it was 6 that meant that it Midnight Back in Winnipeg and most of the night spots would be at the Peak of their it also meant that in another i would have been getting ready for bed if id not decided to use some of the Money id been accumulating to pay Bills and splurged instead for a 16dayheliday for two in trip Over the Atlantic had been a smooth one Ana with the assistance of a few relaxing draughts of the duty free beverage that was available on we managed a few hours we were both too excited to think of sleep As we passed through customs at i had decided to rent a car and was More than a Little apprehensive about handling a stick shift vehicle on narrow roads driving on the lefthand Side and sitting in the righthand i had been less nervous on arriving in Britain 30 years earlier when the Mission was supposed to be much our was dispelled a Good Deal when i saw my Cousin Catherine and her husband Willy Harbour at the arrival Gate to meet they scoffed at the idea of us renting a vehicle and in the ensuing fortnight i grew More and More grateful to them for doing so particularly after i took the wheel of their car a few Days later and made a Complete Sham Bles of attempting to manoeuvre in the fast moving tray Fie that is Busy by Winnipeg even on Side from that very first Day everything went for the hospitality was Beautiful and the weather Willy is a beef Stock the same As a cattle rancher in his Section of land on which he keeps his Coos that cows to the uninformed is Only a 15minute drive from the their modern where we were made is an ele vent Century building with whitewashed Stone Walls that Are three feet and the roof is of slate Shin Flower Beds Are everywhere and Willy is Bly proud of the profuse Hes an avid from the Hills that sweep Back from the buildings we can see the Crest of Ben Lomond Over the Distant Hills to the about 20 Miles off Shore in front of us lies the Isle of Arran on which Goat fell is the highest the Day is Clear and even the White cottages on he Arran Shore Are faintly to the left Are the Headland Hills beyond which is Ailsa Craig is easily seen sitting like a giant Curling Stone far out to we Are in Ayres fire Burns be Ween us and the Shoreline spreading out 20 Miles to either Side the landscape is patched with Golf Industrial acreage on which tall chimneys spew farm Fields which Are dissected by Miles of tone we Marvel at the thought of the skilful Man hours that have gone into the constructing of these our foot High Stone fences that have withstood the ele ments for centuries even although they have been built with no it was the uncanny skill of fitting and tacking Stone on Stone that has made them so Formida we spent our first three Days seeing As much of the Countryside and historic sights As of course we it to Burns cottage and the Brig beside that we visited with All our relatives on my mothers Side of he family and enjoyed every after three we left Park Thorn farm to visit to More cousins in the picturesque Little Village of Loch Winnora which beside a Loch that is Well stocked with this Village is surrounded on All sides by Green rolling although it was Windy and rain no hard that i imposed my Cousin Jack to take me Down to the Village pub so that i pick up on be atmosphere of those traditional establish it was charmingly typical and during Good a ured discussions with customers and bar i found hat the Price of wine and spirits was not too Dif Erent than it was in there is one then you Are buying bottles from the unlicensed he More you the less it our next night was spent in Here we stayed in the Central hotel that can reentered from the Glasgow Railroad we had a comfortable room with Bath but we found the Cost rather the Tab was 16poutids for the the traffic is sex remely heavy in we were told we would have o queue for Over half an hour for a so we found our Way by bus to visit with an aunt and Uncle that eve the next Day we were sailing Down the Clyde to the High rolling Hills on either Bank were a sight to behold and Hector Bremner version of the Beautiful Clyde kept running through my in Arran we were o visit with relatives on my fathers Side of the family and again the hospitality was Arran is among the most Beautiful islands in the with cascading from the Steep High sweeping gushing High Barren Lush Golf quaint the historic Brodick Castle where King Robert Bruce Learned to try and try and the Odd the foliage is varied rom Palm Trees to thick Rhododendron ancient Oaks to gnarled Beech towering firs to spreading Chesnut with Cousin Eric Sillars and Uncle Willy we went for a trip around the Island and among the wild life we watched were a party of Stags staring at us from a High a Lone Seal sunning on a Rock n the rugged West and Birds of every de scrip on returning to farm a few Days later and prior to leaving for a week in we went for motor trip with Willy and Catherine up to the famous Loch Lomond and beyond into the again the weather was Ideal and after taking in the sights of Hose Bonnie i can fully appreciate Why Scotland Las originated More songs about the Beauty or its Bun reside than any other country in the highest Speed the official air Speed record set by Robert Stephens and Daniel Andre in a Lockheed f12a Over California in condiments in tubes London fastidious britons prefer such condiments As Tarter mus Catsup and horseradish in Metal can you find and Circle the hidden boats and ships they read and even re Lear Oaks Irge junk Irmo Kutteh Brogin Lent merchant ship Canoe outrigger caravel Pinnace catamaran raft Clipper Stambuk Schooner steamship Tanker dugout tugboat frigate warship Alleon whaler Galley yacht Cruiser Cutter to Ronica Ragatz spy comes in from the Gold by Leslie Colitt Berlin special owns for four from 1938 to Lieba Domb was the soviet unions top espionage agent in Western Europe As head of the spy network called the red orchestra he warned mos cow of the impending out break of the second world he radioed information to the russians on the nazi War machine from in Side occupied Domb was caught by the Gestapo in 1942 but Man aged to two years later he returned to mos Only to be imprisoned for the next 10 years under suspected to having been turned around by the Lieba Domb was an his proper name was Leopold and the Miracle is that he is still the 69yearold Trep who lives in is said to be suffering from illnesses ranging from serious heart disease to a critical blood for the last few years he has been seeking permission to go to Israel he is a jew and More recently to be allowed to have medical treatment in the polish authorities rejected All petitions for trappers reason was widely thought to be that his knowledge of the soviet unions wartime espionage activities could still be of interest to the this trappers son announced in Copenhagen that his father would be allowed to visit the head of the French Security Jean to asserted last year that Trepper was actually a double agent who worked for the nazis As Well As for Rochet cited As proof the preferred treatment Given to Trepper at the hands of the nazis after his at the time the Frenchman made the trappers family in the West were urging the French govern ment to Grant him an entry whatever its reasons Paris germans who worked feverishly during the second world War to trap the con Ductor of the red orches tra Tell a different they say he Only appeared to cooperate with continuing to Send reports t o Moscow Headquarters which were being fed to him by the according to these former members of the German Trepper managed to con Vince Moscow that the in formation was planted by Berlin and to save his own neck by the when Trepper was released from prison and rehabilitated by the rus sians he chose to return to his country of and was reunited with his the trip from Paris to Warsaw took 11 he noted charac dinner speaker Robert formerly of and now an Engineer with the Prairie Crystal of will be the speaker at the dinner meeting of the caledonian to mens club of Winnipeg at the hotel fort tuesday at 7 czech display a Czechoslovakia history and culture display entitled czechs and slovaks in Canada and including slides and will open saturday and run to 31 in the planetarium concourse at the Cen Tennial but trains Are sometimes in Warsaw honors and privileges were heaped on Leopold the Long time distinguished spy and he was made president of the jewish cultural federation and became a publisher of yiddish this palmy interlude in his otherwise agitated life did not last after the six Day Ara israeli War in Poland powerful Security major general Mieczyslaw pulled out All the stops in an anti jewish Campaign that led to the emigration of most of the remaining polish Moczar was demoted with Edward Gieres accession to the party Leader ship in january but trappers repeated applications to emigrate to Israel were turned he once lived in Palestine under the mandate and was thrown into prison by the British on conspiracy now that Poland has decided to let him not to Israel but to the question is whether he will break his silence in the people who know him think he real estate reports by Duncan my division the Moyal Trust company what would you expect in return for listing your property exclusively with a broker you can expect advice and coun Sel you can expect to be kept advised of advertising re buyer mortgage commitments and All other your Home is probably your biggest single investment and you have a right to expect a realtor to assume some obligation when you have listed it with him ii he is truly professional he will 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