Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 12, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Women May Man buses by pih1chyn free press Urban reporter Winnipeg transit is having trouble finding new bus Drivers and civic to officials Are planning to place increased emphasis on hiring women in Hopes of easing the problem there Are no women bus Drivers in Winnipeg at at a meeting of the civic works and operations commit tee it was decided to include the words male or female in All future advertising for bus we want to make it look As if we want to hire councillor june West a u by Independent citizens Electron Rouge said Harry civic transportation told the committee there Isno basis to that the transit system discriminates against women applicants but he said some have had trouble meeting the to b s physical requirement applicants must be at least five feet inches so that they will be Able to reach the controls in the he he said women who have applied for jobs As bus Drivers have been rejected because they didst meet the physical requirements but if women with the proper attributes Are they would be taken a report received by the committee from Jack civic works said that planned innovative improvements in the transit sys tem May have to be delayed because of the shortage of the transit system has had a net gain of 30 Drivers since news quiz on Page 14 an enjoyable and though provoking Way to brighten your Day awaits you on Page its called your news use this weekly quiz to test your knowledge of re cent National and International happenings As Well As to improve your Vocab Why not grab a Pencil and have some fun the quiz right now the quiz is published by the free press As a ser to area and this is about 24 Short of the required establish ment to maintain present Tran sit Kyles re port continued efforts will be made to recruit sufficient Drivers to permit these innovative service improve it is not our intention to reduce existing transit services in order to pro vide Drivers for these innovative Kyle am on g the new services which could be delayed be c a s e of the shortage of Drivers Are the Dia Labus project in fort outer area shuttle service in several Loca a free downtown shuttle service and proposed Exten Sions to existing regular bus All of these services have been approved by City Council and Are scheduled to Start As soon As there is enough Man or woman Winnipeg free press october 1974 2nd class mall registration number 0286 Kin size savings in family fares the United Way one in a series the International Centre is the service Arm of the citizen s hip Council of through Grants from the Feder Al Secretary of and the Manitoba and City of Winnipeg it provides group services to new canadians and orientation for Canadian Citi the International Centre pro Vides services to facilitate the adjustment of new it offers a weekly cof fee counselling and orientation translation social and recreational activities and classes in English conducted by the Winnipeg school the tentative 1975 United Way allocation of would assist in providing services to individuals rather than to 0 b j e c t i v e in the current Campaign is for 52 head Chi welfare and recreation automatic transmissions transmission troubles raw 957 Portage 7862437 930 Nairn 6671595 1311 map Hilum 5868049 Pembina 4534124 liberals to pick Leader 2123 the Manitoba Liberal party will hold a leadership Conven Tion in Winnipeg 21 to 23 to choose a successor to Izzy party president win Loewen announced the convention will be held in Winnipeg new convention two candidates almost certain to seek the leadership Are Lloyd the Liberal member of the Mani Toba legislature for fort and Paul member for other possible contenders Are Winnipeg lawyer Charles Huband and lieutenant governor John Mckeag of Axworthy said Friday he Ladent decided As but added he was not anxious to run for the party sources say there is also pressure on Federal de Fence minister James Richardson to seek the Manitoba Liberal Loewen said the Liberal acting on instructions from the party Provin c i a 1 approved the dates for the convention after reviewing available accommodation the the official Call for the convention will be going out in the mail within a few Days to the presidents of All 57 provincial and 13 Federal Liberal associations in As Well As to All automatic Loewen juvenile jailed for 3 years John Chilton might need both pairs of running shoes by the time the Manitoba runners association completes its relay run from to he will be part of a 20man team from the association that will be marking Winnipeg Centennial with the relay the run was to begin saturday in min Neapolis and follow an old 1874 cart and Stagecoach the runners Are expected to arrive about 2 monday at their Des the upper fort carry Gate on main by Charles free press courts reporter a 17yearold juvenile was placed on probation 22 times and termed one of its worst failures by the juvenile court system was sentenced to three years in prison the Robert Gress of 1000 Jessie was sentenced by judge Mike Baryluk in provincial judges court in the Public safety judge Baryluk said the Juve Nile court system was responsible for allowing Gressman to reach a position where he no longer fears the consequences of his actions and has Nore Spect for Legal Gressman pleaded guilty 4 to 14 charges of three charges of escaping Law Ful two charges of Possession of stolen two charges of false two charges of entering weather report morning for Manitoba and a Ridge of High which moved into Manitoba will result in sunny skies Over most of the forecast District southerly winds will also bring warmer temperatures today and sunday to most a Low pressure which will move eastward from Northern will spread Cloud into bulletin Northwest Ontario Northern Manitoba this after noon and some Snow or rain it will move eastward t h r o u g h Manitoba sunday and temperatures there will fall again by sunday eve Southern regions will experience warmer temperatures figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures Premier to tackle Turner on resource inflation and theft and one charge of lao cily f a Francuck i j t h Hiah l Low pressure cold front worm front temperatures following Are the High Low temperatures and precipitation for the 24hour period ending at 6 Vancouver 57 Calgary 60 Edmonton Regina 68 Brandon 76 Thompson 39 the Pas 46 52 40 22 39 43 31 33 74 41 Winnipeg Thunder Bay 47 41 Kenora 68 46 Ottawa 54 28 Toronto 66 36 Montreal 56 27 Halifax 55 33 Chicago 62 52 Miami 80 76 los Angeles 72 59 Minneapolis 83 60 new a Fork 72 50 Boston 53 42 Phoenix 93 71 Athens 73 59 63 55 Paris 52 43 London 52 43 forecast for red Interlake and Bissett regions sunny with winds becoming southerly and Gusty in the of t e r n o on occasional Cloudy periods tonight with a Low near frequent Cloudy periods sunday and warmer High near by Carol Partridge free press staff writer premiered Schreyer of Manitoba will meet privately with Federal finance minister John Turner next week to Dis cuss Canadas economic prob lems and proposals for the next Federal the meeting was announced Friday by the Premier who said Turner had requested the meeting scheduled for thursday in i assume Turner will want to concentrate on the National economic As Well As on the Federal plan not to permit deductions of Provin c i a 1 resource royalties and taxes in determining Corpora Tion income Schreyer the Premier was severely critical of the Federal move and said he would express his dissatisfaction to he said the Manitoba government believed that the non deductibility c o u 1 d have a negative effect on the provinces right to a fair share of the economic rent derived from the development of its natural the province was also con he that the Feder Al governments decision to in clude Only a portion of Provin Cial returns from Oil and Natu ral Gas revenues in calculating equalization payments to prov Schreyer said he would make a number of specific suggestions to the finance min i s t e r which he said were these included inter provincial Cordian Tion of major construction pro continuation of consumer subsidies such As the Viecent Aquart milk subsidy which the Federal government plans to remove and the subsidy on wheat used for milling bread tightening up of Eom Peti Tion including a special investigation by com Bines officials of the sugar in introduction of an excess profits tax aimed primarily at Large measures to increase housing supplies in Rural and Urban prompt action to end unfair freight stabilization programs for agricultural products subject to volatile shifts in a new income supplementation program for Low income groups designed to be integrated with a More re formed personal income tax Between and a Gressman stole cars and property Worth of which All but was Reco during the same period he escaped three times from court was Michael who re presented Gressman 4 Bill withdrew As defence Counse Friday at Gressmann request had told the court the juvenile authorities admitted he was one of its worst failures Anc needed Radcliffe said Gressman haunt been dealt with properly by the juvenile judge Baryluk said Gress Man was charged with 28 of fences in juvenile court before committing the 24 offences he Vas charged with in adult in each Case the juvenile court either placed Gressman on indefinite probation or and Asper announced in a gust his intention to retire As Leader after four years at the Helm of the he also plans to resign his Wolseley but will remain As party Leader until a new one is Cho sen in Loewen said the executive decided to Combine the party annual meeting with the leadership convention rather than hold two separate major meetings a month or two that would have created a hardship for Rural and Northern she she also announced the appointment by the executive of Joe Wilder of Winnipeg As chairman of the leadership convention organizing commit As three Vic presidents of the party have been appointed to head special sub commit Alan Beachell of Rosser and Guy Kroft of Winnipeg have been appointed co chairmen of a subcommittee for the encouragement of leadership candidates and David Unruh of Winnipeg has been appointed chairman of a subcommittee to draw up proposed rules and procedure for the the convention will open on the evening of it will continue All Day 22 and will end by 5 turned the Case without Mak ing a when Gressman first appeared in judge Baryluk said it was difficult to take probation seriously when it was Given More than 20 judge Baryluk said Gress Man committed some of his most serious offences during the time he was at the Mani t o b a Community treatment 146 Arlington a place which was sup posed to improve Gressmann self image and continue his de even in a report of the juvenile authorities said the resources of the juvenile system had not been exhausted for Gressman and if he was sent to prison it would do immeasurable harm to him and the judge Baryluk the juvenile system in Mani Toba has done Gressman a Dis he society must take some of the responsibility for a system that allows a juvenile like Gressman to go on his merry judge Baryluk sentenced Gressman to three years con current on each breaking and entering two years concurrent on each theft charge and six months concur rent on the other addict sentenced on drug charges inces would adversely the smaller affect Berlin 52 36 Amsterdam 54 45 Madrid 61 54 Moscow 55 39 Stockholm 43 39 Tokyo 64 61 Hong Kong 77 73 woman Man charged a Man is scheduled to appear in court at Selkirk tues Day in connection with a shoot ing thursday morning involving his wife at their Home just West of the Selkirk town Selkirk ramp said the Barbara was shot in the hand at she underwent surgery in Selkirk general Friday and was re ported in Good the w o m a s Manfred has been charged with wounding with in police seized a Rifle at the scene of the shoot a Winnipeg who has been a drug addict since was sentenced to two years less one Day in prison Friday after pleading guilty to two charges of trafficking in Mari Juana and on charge of session of the Murray Anthony of 951 Westminster suite appeared be fore judge Wallace Dari Chuk in provincial judges court in the Public safety Crown counsel David f r a y e r told court police searched mat enchus Resi Dence about 20 and found about pounds of marijuana with a Street value of about police also seized 13 marijuana one month police searched mat enchus car on the Salter Bridge and found 12 grains of cocaine inside a bottle stuffed in the right Side air at that time Batenchuk told police a Friend had Given the bottle to him but he didst know what it frayed a Man charged with another drug offence identified Batenchuk As the person from whom he had bought the drug Frayer Greg represent ing said his client had been a drug addict for the past two years and asked for a no Penitentiary term so tha Batenchuk could receive Spe Ial drug Batenchuk served six months in 1971 for Possession of in 1973 he was fined 250 for Possession of Mari u a n a he also served 20 months in 1971 for judge Darichuk also placed Batenchuk on 18 months pro Bation to be prison served after his Indian summer has Brief glory by Judson warm air swept into Southern Manitoba this week to bring a Short spell of Indian the warm air made Southwest Ern Manitoba the hot spot of Canada with Virden reporting a maximum temperature of 82 Indian summer is a period of abnormally warm generally Clear sunny hazy Days and Cool it follows a period of cold conditions with killing Frost and Snow the term dates Back to 1778 and relates to the Way that american indians took the of Portu Nitto increase their Winter modern Manitoba Farmers used the Short hot spell to get harvesting operations Back into full swing but the Fine weather i was nonfiction contest the Winnipeg free press and the local Branch of the Canadian authors association Are again sponsoring a non fiction topics can be drawn from varied expert retold in original form by the prizes offered Are second third there will also be a special prize for the Lona Ween Usk judges will be Peter Mary Lyle Benham and miss Vanira deadline for entries is following Are the rules contestants must be Manitoba residents at least 16 years articles should be to word sin manuscripts must be on one Side submit three copies original and two Clear use Only a Nom de plume on each entry authors v real name must not be write real and title of article and in Sert in a sealed on outside of envelope show title of entry and Nom de enclose sufficiently stamped Plain envelope if you wish manuscript address entries to nonfiction Winnipeg free 300 Carlton mail not later than the warm front was moving through Saskatchewan during last weekend but Winnipeg was under cold snowfall measured on half Inch with temperatures ranging from 26 to 40 degrees monday was a Cool 27 to 48 degrees and southerly winds picked up to Peak gusts of 32 Miles an overcast skies and Milder air kept the tuesday morning minimum above freezing with a Low of 40 the after noon maximum touched 52 but warmer air was finally flowing into Manitoba from the South the warm front moved by Winnipeg Early wednesday and the temperature began to thermometer readings climbed from 42 to a maximum of 79 degrees just three degrees under the record of 82 degrees recorded thursday was another summer Day with the temperature rising to it was 20 degrees warmer than Normal for but cold air was again beginning to flow the temperature was 48 at 2 but from there it was a Cooling northerly winds gusting to More than 30 ended the summery weather and at 1 Friday the temperature was a Cool 44 the Outlook for the next few Days is More the cold air mass is expected to move Southeast allowing fair and warmer conditions to come into Winnipeg for the Long temperatures Are expected to average four mid october temperatures average from Over night lows of to afternoon highs of 53 warmest 13 occurred in 1964 with a maximum of83 de the coldest 13 was in 1881 with a minimum of 12 Urban renewal pushed premiered Schreyer of Manitoba said Friday the provincial government was pre pared to give top priority to the Urban renewal of win Nipges Core at his weekly press Confer the Premier told report ers he was prepared to give additional funding to any new efforts by City Council to re build or restore the More dilapidated residential areas of the we Are prepared to go quite far and quite he at the same he said that any renewal projects would have to be Well planned and not designed in a piecemeal the greatest problem facing he was land precisely in those areas where the Quality of buildings is the the value of the land is the Schreyer said provincial support for Urban renewal should not be interpreted As support for other City projects such As new transportation schemes or new the Only exception will be for clearance and renewal he the Premier said the deterioration of the inner City want unique to Winnipeg but was a major problem in cities across incidents such As a recent fire which destroyed a Patrick Street apartment building and left several families homeless indicated that the problem was he to diary listed due to the world some of the 6 2 and 8 television listings and High lights in the to diary have been saturdays 6 2 revisions childrens Cinema bugs Bunny world series sports week Winnipeg Century one preempted Cal football Winnipeg in Ottawa replay movie saturdays 8 revisions gospel hour japanese Village Day of miracles world series sundays 6 2 revisions along the River a Way out payday country Canada music to see hymn sing world series sundays 8 revisions nil football world Sergei ;