Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free october 1973 responsibility sir i note with interest Una Johnstons recent letter entitled the it is quite True that the cd clinic at the Boniface Hospital has to an at last we have seen the Day when All patients May receive that Mea sure of human respect to which everyone is entitled whatever his i am won Dering if this lady is aware that the closing of the clinic coincides with the opening of the new Hospital de signed to give All ambulant patients the care they need at any considerable plan Ning has gone into such arrangements and the integration of Public health nurses with those of the Hospital we a Milestone in in my opinion this is the mean ing of Rene minister of health and social development Winnipeg academic Freedom sir your editorial on Aca Demic Freedom on 15 does not consider adequately the Basic nature of academic free i submit that academic Freedom is not the Freedom of a University administration to do what it but the guar Antee of the intellectual free Dom of individual faculty although govern ment interference in individual hiring cases is a very danger Ous i would suggest that Saul Miller in Advance the cause of academic Freedom in forcing the Side Ruou of seriously inadequate tenure granting prac Southon Winnipeg the Price of Pickerel sir they beached their boats after tossing for hours on a wind and rain driven they packed the heavy fish boxes to a shed and beheaded and de gutted their packed in which the fishermen themselves have to the fish were trucked a 100 mile round trip to the fish marketing Board in trans also at the fishermen there they received 59 cents a Pound for their Pic by the Way i mused Over this As i looked at the Pickerel fillets in the meat counter cooler at per i understand its dropped 30 cents a Pound recently so lets give it per Pound and wondered what had i did some inquiring of was told about How Small a percentage of the total fish the fillets were thus the incredible increase in Price from that paid to the fishermen who do All the dirty Well i simply accept the so i got two whole Pickerel As they came to Shore and made three weighing a whole fish b fish less head and guts and c i will Call the fish 1 and 2 and the capital letters refer to the heres what i fish 1 a ibs b ibs c fish 2 a ibs b ibs c a simple calculation shows that the fillets averaged per cent of the raw fish for which the fish marketing Board paid 59 if we give them their per cent they have a Purchase Price for Fil lets of note its not All loss or be because the fins and i under Are from Here on the factual picture be comes hazy that the per Pound on the butchers i understand that the wholesale fish paddlers pick up the fillets at the fish marketing Plant and distribute them in Winnipeg not bad pay for what a 12to15mile round trip to Transcona of what does the fish marketing Board charge the wholesale fish paddlers i dont i do know that without the marketing the fishermen could drive a few More Miles and sell at no greedy prices the pro Duce that they brought in and the produce to which the Citi Zens of this who own the Are Are marketing boards pork barrels i dont know but it certainly begins to look As if at All Are running out of goodies for the party in disgusted As George Russell Winnipeg Wiebes novel sir reviewing Rudy Wiebes latest the temptations of big in the free reviewer David Williamson gives his reaction to Wiebes the Prairie indians loss of their Freedom to the Advance of White civilization i found the subject Cov ered in much More interesting fashion by the Tom Saunders who re viewed the Book on the same Page As Williamson agreed that the Book was a in his opening sentences he claims that to the Art of the novel there is a formula for and argues that Wiebes novel is too hard going for the his prose lacks the clean style and storyline one must is part of this formula for Suc Williamson Wiebes mixture of prose styles do not seem to be warranted for any artistic but he adds with Relief that at least there Are some Good scenes of violent but they Are i have just read Wiebes i suffered some minor irritations Over his consistent in All sections of the of very Long and i found two of his historical summations a bit too Academe but i was far More Dis Turbed at the critical reactions of reviewers Saunders and Wil although he did not commit himself to an interpretation of the did commit himself to some rather simplistic notions about what he Calls the Art of the Hope my quotations above Lave already suggested m info Stu stuck his neck out quite a bit he remarks How Sun imagery abounds in this Indian tale and How big Bear lies Down on a Hill to die silhouetted by the setting Williamson should have done his Homework More when big Bear the Sun is this reinforces the fact that big even in his ascent to the realm of the Only is throughout the Book a vibrant and Immor Tal life against the recommendations of the above reviewers i would urge that Winnipeg serious fiction readers acquire this read it very even aloud if they and attempt to digest its very Subtle of you can find encyclopedias As Williamson obviously Dave Carpenter Winnipeg heavy construction sir Mike Busi Ness manager of the operating and Ralph Mattes of the teamsters As Union Are biased and should not represent unorganized tradesmen of the heavy construction in they must be replaced by two people working in the Industry consisting of one opera Tor and one then we might see some action insofar As minimum rates Are con As it nothing was or will be done unless this change is carried out immedi two new members must be appointed immediately to enable them sufficient time to re search the information required to set the new rates for the coming this includes the Public hearings which Are usually held during the month of january these rates come into effect May the first of each minimum maximum rates have been mentioned before and i am still of the belief that collective bargaining is not the in order to keep and create Competition in the in wage rates must be controlled at the government i can Only see collective bargaining choking out Small construction companies and creating More construction corporation another Point is the 60hour work heavy construction is the Only Industry of its kind left in existence that is required to work 60 hours a week at straight this has led to a declining Quality of operators in Mani Toba As Well As a slow shortage of More and More operators Are leaving our prov Ince every year seeking better wages and working i foresee a crisis if nothing is done in the immediate and the reason i in the Lack of government is that they have become directly affected by any changes that Are this would mean having to pay higher wages and Over time rates to All highways department employees which would create quite an additional Tab at the end of each so they take it out on the entire this Demon Strates the irresponsibility of the minister and the govern not omitting the wage it seems As if every other Trade has got a piece of the action except the heavy construction i think its High time we Harold Deneka Winnipeg in the Only Hope sir the United nations has prove incapable of providing peace Between conflicting nations in the Middle in first news of the Middle East each Side blamed the other for starting the the United nations is not concentrating on who started the latest but How to achieve a lasting the in is the Only Hope for peace in the Middle the existence of Israel was made possible by a Resolution that was passed by the Runxin this Resolution permitted the partition of Palestine Israel has repeatedly defied the in resolutions such As that denouncing the annexation of East Jerusa Lem which was passed by the in general Assembly with a vote of 99 to in in this Israel went so far As to hold a huge military Parade in Jerusalem to celebrate its 25th so far the search for peace in the Middle East has been based on the British sponsored in Security Council Resolution 242 which called for 1 a withdrawal of israeli forces from the occupied Terri 2 an end to the state of sir i have been closely Fol lowing talks Between the Mani Toba medical association and he nip government when he government permits Fiat the conclusion i have arrived at is that the present government has no intention of granting physicians any reasonable rights of any just dictating to physicians that the will do Only what the government states and accept anything the government simply it is the Mani Oba medical associations turn o be trampled upon and taken Over like a Herd of sheep by government after which the next profession the government chooses will have he same treatment accorded the government smugly books and smiles at John and Jane Doe and says after All it s your Money that pays the physicians salary there Ore they Are your employees and we will protect you against any abuse or Trust the government forgets they Are our employ the average John and Jane Doe laps that kind of talk up like a Kitten laps up and still lives under the impression the government is soaking the while it is really the John and Jane does who Are being it has always been the Citi Zens Money that has paid Phy whether through government takeover schemes or private John and Jane Doe should not be fooled driving offences the recent death of an innocent Motorist struck by a speeding vehicle pursued by police provides an interesting ase study we hear much too often of who Are stopped for a spot Check by speeding up and trying to outrun the such Lack of ratio Nale seriously endangers in Nocent pedestrians and motor i propose such offenders not Only be forbidden to drive Ever but be prosecuted Asse con degree murder Brian Haeberle Winnipeg sir May i take this Opportunity to thank both the local dailies for their october cover age of a seemingly Low priority item but at the same time of great concern to a number of City the inner City belligerence and acknowledgement of the right of every state in the area to live i peace with secure 3 the guarantee of free Dom of navigation through the Straits of 4 a settlement of the Refu gee 5 the establishment of a demilitarized zone and the appointment of a special repro Gunnar Israel then added its Condi it wanted direct negotiations with the Arab states without the intervention of the this left the palestinians it also declared that Jerusalem which was occupied by the arabs before not to be Israel treated the occupied territories is though they were a permanent acquisition and treated the Arab occupants of the land improper a huge number of illegally built settlements were established in the Arab palestinians and arabs in the occupied territories were treated As third class with few rights or opportunities to work or attend schools and uni they lived under martial and there were massive houses suspected of sheltering members of the palestinian resistance zoo feeders sir if the Lack of a brain were the Only criteria for being caged in at our Many win nip Eggers would be looking cant people read and understand please do not feed yesterday i silently watched three or four people casually throw peanuts or heaven knows to the i hold my ton gue any longer and said to a feeder next to me you Are not supposed to feed the Ani Mals and i pointed to the sign directly in front of hint he looked at me read the waited five seconds and threw in another piece of chocolate this deliberate disrespect of rules should be answered by Public rebuke and immediate ejection from the zoo for All he the Monkey he fed May not be alive for the feeders next Winnipeg name withheld government and doctors by the idea that medicare is As a percentage of their Federal tax payable to the Manitoba government is Actu ally a medicare until medicare was introduced in Canada under pressure of the confidences Between patient and physicians was part of the strict code of ethics As set Down by the and a most important we the patients Are part of that Herd of sheep As any now has to be entered on a form by the physician which in turn is sent in to the government where it is then i where is per Sonal confidences with my physician gone As a say that once More a part of my personal Freedom has been stripped from a part deeply cherished by me As my relationship Between myself and my physician should be strictly confidential and sacred As it is with my physicians Are per cent Stamps person sir i congratulate our Post office on the definitive Issue of Stamps that appeared on 17 particularly the 5 cent Joey the 3 cent Stephen Leacock and the 6cent Stanley Winnipeg Zita Bernstein City pigeons health and social development committee has invited interested parties to appear before our committee and offer their tech Nical i personally am convinced that the humorous illustrations of october 5 Are Airport taxis sir one year ago i visited Winnipeg i found the trans port from Winnipeg Airport in efficient and at that time i Felt that such a situation would certainly be on my recent visit i found deterioration instead of in i will name two tourists from on a world after 30 minutes waiting while your Drivers selected their More profitable loads returned with my assistance and continued their trip onto Banff where i assure you they received reasonable their state ment and that of Many others is we will never return to a heartily i have i can safely every major Airport in the United states and i have never seen such de testable service Dana Goose Labrador critic criticized sir your Brian never ceases to amaze i cant see How he succeeds in giving people wrong impress the Way he said in his re cent article that the John group had about As Little Talent As three dog night really hit me with a i thought Cole liked distorted at least when he wrote the article tree stole the he seemed partial to t Rex Over and above three dog to say the t res sound was to compare Witch John with three dog night is an in sult to the latter after the crowd they Drew was capacity three times that of the one which attended the Arena to see Shana a and and then Winnipeg Curran possible at very Little Cost to the should the news Media wish to examine operant conditioning they would see where our own University of Manitoba have proved pigeons can be moved from one area of the City to other areas less objectionable to the business the Money now spent in shooting pigeons from office buildings could be transferred to a Pigeon feed item in the were blown israels attitude towards Arab countries want any bet any action of the pales t i n i a n resistance movement was followed by reprisals on neighbouring Arab coun the israeli raids on Lebanon and Syria humiliated the Arab and the frustration and desperation of the Arab people have made War almost even though the arabs realize that the outcome of a War could be at least such a War would clarify the and prove to Israel that being the strongest military Power does not necessarily mean that it can survive indefinitely in the Middle East enforcing its own defying the in resold and humiliating the occupied Israel has proved the arabs that the jews of the world need a country and the arabs had All agreed to acknowledge Israel right to the in with the pressure from the United get the israelis to agree to in Resolution 242 or some similar resold Arab students University of Winnipeg dedicated men and women skilled in their doing everything in their Power for your health and Wel and mine they should not have to beg or go Down on their Knees to any they Are free who have put in a lot of incentive and Money and learning and perfect ing Means to save detecting and preventing diseases and to finding vital they Are the ones who should be telling governments How Medicine should and can be because they Are who do of the bureaucrats in government who Are doing the dictating How Many have the ability to discharge or even discuss health care what does Rene t o u p i minister of know about Medicine do the private sit Back and allow this All to or do we fight against those in Power who continually preach we know what is Best for your health and welfare dont you we will take care of you from Cradle to i am More than will ing to fight against it but there Are not enough of me luckily for socialist governments who appear to have the ability to dupe the i want to keep my personal my confidences with my phys Only when they Tell me i am unfit for or unfit to drive my then i will Lis ten Only to him or i have no desire to have a govern ment knowing All my personal life and telling me what to do with Catherine Tyerman Winnipeg Prairie dog sir the Vintage locomotive society the operator of the Prairie dog Central steam train take this Opportunity to express their appreciation of the warm and encouraging response that our train has received this we look Forward to seeing you again in 74 Winnipeg the Vintage locomotive society Winnipeg 1974 budget and in cooperation with the University of Mani t o b a psychology department we could run a series of simple might i suggest that i am convinced that the results would be positive and these pigeons would be a Wel come addition to Central the Midland site and even Assiniboine Robert Wilson councillor Winnipeg sir the words american invasion caught my Eye in a recent letter from american invasion and to my ideas this is not the proper description would never have taken place if the canadians had Ever devised or invented had the ability to make a decision and lad the ambition to get off their dead what american plot the ugly head of jealousy rears up when most canadians think of America or if the americans Ever pull out of Canada with their investments and Canada will fall lat on its without Ameri Ca you have a thing left Worth you can Stop this so called sir although the article in the free concerning who owns the mandarin restaurant in Winnipeg and was tru Deaus chief translator on his trip to greatly interests Winni Eggers since it tells about the prominence of one of our it May be mis leading to most to is not by training or former experience a Cook or a in his Long and distinguished career he Lias never been a chef and certainly not a servant or an employee in a but like All chinese he gladly assists in any family Enterprise when he has time from his other Active the restaurant was his wife idea and she is the Man to is a Man of let an before coming to Canada to was Deputy director of no tradition sir in a recent editorial continued the practice of hav you state that in appointing the government has do i just imagine it or is Money getting scarce ing a French speaking Gover no general follow an English speaking there was speculation that this time this tradition might be i wish to Point out that there has been no practice of having a French speaking governor general follow an English speaking and that there has been no tradition to that every governor general since confederation has been English speaking up to the time of the appointment of Georges Vanier in he was the first French Canadian in this office in nearly 100 Nineteen and Only one Ellis Winnipeg bigoted canadians takeover by americans if you would get a Job done and quit making Canada the land of in Stant you wont have to worry about the in Vasion you write about nay galloping social ism will take Over and it is not too far off you Are too prone to letting the govern ment make the decisions and do things for you so soon the socialism you like will have a firm grip on be proud of being Stop being a bigot about America and americans and Start doing something for your i am an american in Canada Leslie Grant Winnipeg to education in he is a graduate of four universities peking University where he studied advanced chinese literature and related subjects Queensland universe Reading and Cambridge recently two of his who also have helped at times in the graduated from the University of Mani Toba and have responsible jobs in keeping with the High stand ing they other relatives of to Are prominent Archi professors and teachers in Winnipeg and in to imply that he is a Cook would be like referring to a prominent judge As a Gardener if he mows his own Lawn or As a bartender if he mixes a drink for a guest in his own Helton Winnipeg Arab viewpoint sir it has been observed that most of the coverage of the Middle East fighting is channelled to As to give the impression that Israel is fight ing a defensive War in us own this is due to misinform which has to be Cor fighting is going on in two fronts the Sinai which is egyptian and the Golan which is syrian both were forcibly occupied by Israel in its 1967 the arabs Are fighting in their own land in self defence to liberate their occupied Terri there will be no Genu in peace in the Middle East before Israel withdraws its troops from the occupied Arab land and recognizes the legitimate rights of the Arab people of these Are the Basic facts of the present situation in the Middle should you need any further information or please do not hesitate to Contact our our aim in this concern is to enable the Canadian people to have a better understanding of the Yehia director Arab information Centre incompetent commissions sir the rapid escalation of food prices has Given birth to yet another rash of commis Sions of inquiry at both the Federal and provincial these commissions Are an amazingly simple and effective device that the politicians use to create an illusion of Dynamo purposeful activity when in fact nothing of the kind they the poli t i a n s know something is they Haven the remotest idea As to what is causing what should be done about or How to go about doing if they were to be honest and admit this it would tarnish the Mantle of infallibility they All choose to cloak themselves these commissions Are an Ideal repository in which to de posit a variety of political rebellious intellectuals chaired by someone Well known enough to the general Public to give the thing an air of retired Gen publicity seeking Sena tors and improvised economists Are Ideal candidates for these once assembled off they go from one end of the country to the visiting friends and relatives and on occasion holding a Public meeting or All this at the taxpayers a year or two later with a budget overrun of 100 and 200 per cent they publish a these reports must fit into one or More of the following categories 1 irrelevant 2 in consistent 3 4 incomprehensible the More expensive ones qualify under All while All this has been going on the situation that caused the initial unhampered by the intervention of incompetent has corrected those who did not have any thing to do with creating the problem will be saddled with the those who contributed nothing to the solution will clamor for the the new food Price inquiries May be different and produce something the history of inquiries to Date contains no evidence to warrant this of the time is perhaps right to suggest one last this time to establish the extent to which the Cost of All previous surveys exceeded any saving that has Ever if Ever resulted from any of one has Good reason to suspect that the biggest saving of All to the tax payer would be to abolish All these impotent commissions and the useless surveys they Jeffries Winnipeg Chile sir As a child i found it difficult to believe the horrible stories of the second world it want so much the actions of the murderers which prompted my disbelief rather the inaction and silence of pub governments and now it seems Clear that Dis belief at inaction and complacency in our is reports coming out of Chile Tell of mass executions of pea of dissidents herded into soccer stadiums and and of deaths numbering in the but these reports Are not to be found on your front or on your editorial or any where else in your your editorial states that no doubt All is for the bet since order has been restored in in the Early 1930s there was a great Deal of disorder in when order was restored i wonder what your newspaper said Berger Winnipeg in Praise of the lord Selkirk sir in reply to the disappointed in the lord Sel Kirk in the free press 6 we were rudely shocked to see Donald Valentines impression of the lord Selkirk my wife and together with another enjoyed a cruise on the lord Selkirk ii later in the summer of though we too were sur prised by the Exi Guity of the Cabins and were also beset by a late departure due to my c h a n i c a 1 trouble damaged we enjoyed the trip the Crew was extremely Friendly and the ship was neat As a pin from Bow to Stern including the three Cabins we had occasion to the food was plentiful and varied and of a Quality Only to be found in the Best restau we found our ticket included everything but liquor which was reasonably priced and no one tried to get even an extra Penny out of in one we plan to repeat our adventure in fairness to the manage ment and Crew of the lord Sel Kirk we Hope you will print Winnipeg Ray Boily ;