Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Arson suspected vacant House is damaged arson May have been the cause that resulted in damage to a vacant Cornish Avenue House gutted by fire during the weekend. A police department spokes Man said parts of the building at 37 Cornish appeared to have been soaked with flammable fluid. The fire which occurred at about 5 . Sunday was one a number of sizable fires in the City during the weekend. A Blaze reported at 5 . Saturday cause damage to a carwash at 1084 Logan Avenue. Cause of the fire is under investigation. A fire at 717 Rathar Street Al a a. Sunday caused damage to the House and contents and is also under investigation. The Blaze which struck the three Storey House on Cornish appeared to be an Farson attempt said the spokes the House had been used by Federal department of Tondi an affairs As a Home manage training Centre for until the end of june. Mrs. Alex Kowal a resident the neighbouring House at 41 said she had noticed flights showing All night in the House for the past Veek. The neighbor s a i d she called the police wednesday Evhen the lights persisted and noticed that the Glass in she door had been broken. She said she had always been terrified of the vacant building. The Kowals were evacuated from their Home sunday morning when flames from the. House began catching on the third floor and front veranda of their Home. The fire was brought under legion Branch plans service the general Monash Branch of the Royal Canadian legion will annual memorial service at . I riday at the Shearey Zedek synagogue Wellington Crescent and Aca Demy Road. Control by firemen shortly after the alarm. The most serious Blaze Dur ing the weekend gutted Elim Chapel 546 Portage Avenue Friday night. There were no injuries in the fire but Bob Gemmel an architect and member of the Church s Board of deacons estimated it would Cost More than million to replace the Stone Structure at today s prices. Power failures probed Manitoba Hydro was investigating the cause of a Power failure which Cut off electricity to customers in South fort Garry and the Ste. Agathe and Morris areas Early Mon Day. Earl Mills a spokesman for Hydro said the Power was Cut off at . It was restored 13 minutes later at Morris hut was out for 38 minutes in South fort Garry. He said the trouble devel oped in a feed ing the area West of the red River. Cause of the trouble was not immediately known. Another 550 Hydro customers in St James Assiniboia were without Power for almost two hours saturday As a result of a failure in an underground Cable Between Ness and Portage avenues on stir Eon Road. Or. Mills said the Cable failed at . And an Al Ternate Supply of electricity was provided at . A Hydro Crew was investigating the cause of the problem and repairing the fault monday morning. The customers affected were in the area of Sturgeon Road and Portage Avenue. Automatic transmissions transmission troubles free diagnostic Check and Road test 957 Portage 786-2437 to Nairn 667-1595 1311 Mph jumps 586-8049 440 Pembina 453-4124 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie 1 roving is skies were Clear Over most of the Prairies Over night with temperatures near the. Freezing Mark. A disturbance moving East Ward from the West coast is spreading Cloud into most Alberta regions today and by tuesday the Cloud will begin to spread into Saskatchewan. Manitoba regions will remain mostly sunny for the next two Days. Temperatures in the Prairie provinces will Range from the Low 50s in Central regions to the Low cos in Southern regions. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today 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 for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and. Red River regions sunny today and tuesday. Low tonight near 30 High tuesday near 60. Max. Vancouver 55 Calgary 62 Edmonton re Gina 65 Brandon 69 Thompson the Pas 5j Winnipeg 67 Thunder Bay 50 Kenora 60 Ottawa .15 Toronto 50 Halifax 47 Chicago 1 Miami 77 los Angeles 70 Minneapolis 70 new York 66 Boston Phoenix m Athens 61 Rome of Paris 5 London 54 Berlin Amsterdam 46 Brussels 48 Madrid Moscow 46 Stockholm 45 Tokyo Honn Kong Singapore pre. .57 .01 to .13 .11 ,11 39 39 37 ,16 5? 73 73 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Man. Mean oct. 55 61 93 oct. 56 70 38 49 oct. 27 67 31 51 last year -11 33 37 Normal 45 27 36 highest on record 7b in 1938 lowest on record 57 in 1887 precipitation total Lor april 1 to oct. 28 14.67, Normal 15.23. Winnipeg free press monday october 28, 1974 2nd class mall registration number a capacity crowd of people attended the opening session of the first address in the Winnipeg Centennial symposium on dilemmas of modern Man which opened at the Centennial concert half sunday. Author says Onrush of problems threatens contemporary society by Manfred Jugelt free press staff current political and administration concepts no longer solve the Onrush of problems facing industrialized nations and new political systems must quickly be found or democracies will soon dissolve into totalitarianism and worse Alvin Toffler the author of the Best seller future Shock warned sunday. Or. Toffler was the keynote speaker at the Winnipeg Cen Tennial symposium on Dilcom Nas of modern Man Aspe Cial project sponsored by the great West life Assurance company in the Centennial concert Hall Between now and wednesday. About people nost from Winnipeg and Mani Oba but Many from various parts of North America have for the entire symposium with an outlier hav ing bought tickets to individual sessions. The symposium deals with world perspectives genetics aging communication Educa Ion and economics. Speaking to people for i4 minutes or. Toffler who Ives in new York told his audience the two dozen most High y industrialized nations of the world Are feeling the leading Edge of what he referred to As the Supra Industrial revolt it will turn out to be the most fundamental social Politi Cal and economic upheaval to lit Mankind since the invent Ion of agriculture years ago said or. Toffler Only agriculture evolved Over thou Sands of years and whatever is to follow the Industrial age will come about in the next 20 to so years. We Are about to experience a fantastic compression of his Orical accelerate be said or. Toffler. It will be the most massive profound so Cial transformation since Man invested agriculture and con eluded he no longer needed to be a Nomad but could Settle in one place and afford such peo ple As priests warriors scribes it the time for such Universal change is Ripe said the author who says he just returned from a trip around this plan societies around the world Are beset by problems such As they have never had to face before or. Toffler said. There is the crisis of food Supply the Energy crisis the pollution crisis affecting Man kind from the Ocean floors to the upper layers of the strato sphere. There is the crisis of values the crisis in our eco nomic systems that could pro Duce Complete chaos before we know it. There is the breakdown of our systems of health care. There is the political crisis a breakdown in the decision making machinery through which All the other crises must be addressed. All Over the world political systems Are in or. Tiff scr said. Of the nine coun tries in the european common Market All nine have seen their Heads of government re sign during the last two these arc not Chance or ran Dom events the author said but one can detect a deeply ing pattern the pattern of the break up of the death of a sys tem the Industrial system in fact regardless of us Politi Cal forms in individual Conn this break up of a civilization culture or Way of life said or. Toffler affects about 25 countries which All share a number of characteristics. All Are based on the principles of mass production mass distribution mass education and mass Media. A have Bureau cratic forms of organization feature the nuclear family and share1 their dependency on Fos Sil fuel. But All these assumptions called into said or. Toffler. Questions As to How much raw material How much fuel How Many resources there Are suddenly loom Large he said and societies can. No longer As sume that there will always be either recycling or substitution because the fuel needed to affect these May not be Avail Able. Another question facing the Industrial world immediately will be who is to get the Energy and resources shh Avail Able or. Toffler said. And to respond to these dilemmas by raising the old spectre of colonization through gunboat diplomacy and the threat of military action As president Gerald. Ford of the United states Anil . Secre tary of state Henry Kissinger did recently in connection with the Arab Oil Price problem is utterly unrealistic said the author because this would no longer be a question of gun boats and marines but one. Of nuclear warheads intercontinental ballistic missiles and biological besides said or. Toffler events of the recent past have demonstrated that it is possible now for even the poorer nations to smuggle tremendously deadly weapons into the popular centres of a society they Industrial society said the speaker cannot in my Opin Ion accommodate the Speed of social and Industrial change any one result of this has been an alarming degree of govern mental paralysis through Politi. Cia is and civil servants too agonized by the. Multitude of problems and solution alternatives to do anything about vital Public issues and Conse Quence of this inaction or. Toffler said disappointment disillusionment cynicism and anger Are spreading among entire populations and nations. And while the great classical statesmen of the late 19th. And Early 20th centuries from Bis Marck to Churchill had time to think and make decisions no such luxury is afforded the decision makers of today. For us there is no normalcy but said or. Toffler and this challenges our Model of fundamental another Factor which has started to Challenge traditional Industrial democracy or. Toffler said is human and so Cial diversification with first labor unions and now ethnic groupings asserting themselves in ways which would have former director Thiessen hits flyer setup v j. A director of the Manitoba development corporation Satur Day said the provincial govern ment should not be involved in he operation of flyer Indus tries Ltd. The government owned bus manufacturing Plant. To. J. Thiessen who resigned rom the Board of directors of he bus company recently said hat private Industry would be better qualified running a specialized Industry like flyer. Or. Thiessen whose Resigna Ion from the company s Board of directors brought the lumber of management and key workers resignations to 10, said he does t believe flyer can operate under government management. Been in thou Gill of a dozen dec Ades ago. The development started in 1066 with Stokely Carmichael s cry of Black Power and spread through the United states to Quebec nationalism in scottish Welsh Bretagne Corsica As Well As other National movements asserting themselves More and More. Fragmentation implies Nasty said or. Toffler. Differentiation and diversification Are better. We Are becoming More different from one yet there should be less la ment for lost Unity and har m o n said the american writer diversity has become a survival strategy Force it has become a diversified society is less vulnerable to sudden change. We must recognize that we arc flying into a severe turbulence. A turbulence our present political structures arc not Likely to but where aircraft pilots cannot change the technological systems they Fly into atmospheric turbulence modern society still has a Chance to alter its social and political system. We must invent new Politi Cal institutions and or. Toffler said. They must be More representative. They must be More not less demo cratic. We Are going to need a new political democratic Phi As an american example he said what should be at stake in the . In november of 1976 should not be the Politi Cal Fate of two candidates for the presidency but 50 new constitutions one or parts of Sev eral which would have to re place the current one which is based on premises and Princi Ples which no longer function. Asked during a press Confer ence after his address if he fell about Canada As he docs about the rest of the Industrial world or. Toffler said this country shares the problems of the other nations in the Industrial world. But for you the problems Are a lot More he said. You have a smaller population you have More re terming himself an Ameri can but at the same time a citizen of the High technology world which includes or. Toffler said he has not found any political party any where which has a Clear grasp or ideological idea of what s in new zealand said or. Toffler a group recently formed a political party based on his Book future Shock and on the greening of America and succeeded in gaining 12 per cent of a general election vote. Or. Toffler said he still sees himself As an author and not As a political philosopher. But i also sen myself As a social he said. Fish strike goes on r. E. Bud Kiel business representative for local 561, retail wholesale and depart ment store Union Al Cio said sunday there were no signs of an end to the two week old strike at the Freshwater fish marketing corporation in Transcona. Or. Kiel said the Union was willing to get Back to the bar gaining table but no offers to hold further talks had been made. He said the fishing season closed oct. 27 and the Fisher men stopped working but they May return to fish when the ice forms in december. Until now he said fish catches Hac been received by various cold storage plants in the City area awaiting reception by the corporation when the strike Over. No fish has been spoiled he said. The More than 100 employees involved in the wage Dis Pute rejected an offer of a 30 per cent increase in pay Over two years because they claim their average rate of s3.15 an hour is too Low for the. First .15 per cent raise to be a mean i n g f u 1 increase. The Union wants 40 per cent More pay and a Cost of living increase clause in its contract. The corporation claims it Carino afford pay increases higher than the 30 per cent in two years an amount recommend cd by a conciliation commissioner appointed by the federa department of labor. Government does t me the same Access to information and knowledge As Pri rate he said. About 500 workers at three Tyler plants in the province Lave been on strike since oct. The workers members of he Canadian association of Industrial mechanical and Allied Ivor kers have complained of mismanagement and waste at he three plants. Or. Thiessen said some of he labor problems result from the fact that the workers Are not getting proper directions from management. Or. Thiessen owned flyer industries before the bus com Pany was taken Over by the Manitoba development Civ portion. This was probably one reason Why the Mac elected him a director of the com any he said. Or. Thiessen who was appointed a member of the bus company s Hoard of directors a year ago said the recent rash o f management resignations nay have resulted from the Board s increased involvement in the company s operation. The Board of directors is working toward getting better people managing the company he said. When flyer was not producing a year ago the first mis. Take the Board made was to let Ault go he said. He was referring to Thomas Ault a Michigan businessman who left As chief executive officer of the company in no vember 1973. Author Alvin Toffler foresees compression indians meet Friday a general meeting of the registered and treaty indians of Winnipeg will be held at 8 . Friday at the St. John Bosco cd narc 87 Isabel Street. Elections for three councillors for the Winnipeg Indian Council will also be held Fri Day. Polls will be open i . To 8 . At the St. John Bosco cd narc and inc Indian and Metis Friendship Centre 500 main Street. Man 82, missing hemp at try Herne Man. Have requested assistance in locating an 82-year-old Man from Glenboro Man., missing from his Home since Friday. A poli c e spokesman said Stanley Mcfadden was last seen at about 2 . Friday. The Man s car was found Friday afternoon on provincial Road 285, five. Miles North of Glenboro. Anyone who May have picked or. Mcfadden up or has any information about him is asked to Contact ramp. The missing Man is de scribed As being five feet seven inches tall and weighing 114 pounds the Middle Finger on his right hand is Cut off at the joint. When last seen he was wearing Grey pants a Brown pile Vest a Brown Jac Ket and a Hack Felt hat. Buses upgraded to extend use Winnipeg transit is upgrading maintenance to extend the Road life of some of its older buses but this does t necessarily involve a major rebuild ing of units transit operations manager Hoy Church said monday. Or. Church said in a Tele phone interview that the Tran sit system is trying to keep some of the older buses on the Road longer to prevent a Short age of vehicles As a result of late deliveries of new units from flyer industries Ltd. Or. Church said the delay is caused partly because of a strike at flyer plants in trans Eona and fort Garry and partly because the City ordered the buses from flyer at a rather late he was critical of news re which indicated the transit system is undertaking an extensive bus rebuilding program. We Are going to guarantee that older buses arc up to mechanical and safety standards we will try to continue to use older buses that would nor Mally be put in the he said. Or. Church said the Type of work to be done on each unit will depend on the individual condition of the buses. Some May need engine work others May require work on the trans Mission heating or electrical system. No total Cost estimates of the work is available he said be cause All of the buses Haven t been serviced yet. The buses that will get the special attention Are Between 16 and 21 years old and were made by general motors and Canadian car. The work we is merely an Extension of nor Mal bus maintenance it is a Short term and Low Cost pro when the 30 buses the City has ordered from flyer the bus manufacturing company in which the Manitoba develop ment corporation is the major shareholder do. Arrive the older buses will be retired from service he said. The City s policy is to sell obsolete buses through the Public tender system. Transfer of Arctic Institute studied the University of Manitoba is preparing a proposal for the provincial government on the possibility of the 29-year-old Montreal based Arctic Institute of Ortli America moving to Manitoba University president Ernest Siluk has told the University s Board of governors. In a statement to the Board or. Siluk said the University had met with premiered Schreyer of Manitoba and the Premier had asked the univer sity to pursue the possibility of the Institute moving to the province. The Arctic Institute s Board of governors will meet nov. 22 to decide on its future location. Or. Siluk said in his state ment that the University had neither the funds nor space to help in inc possible move but would assist the province in any other Way. The Premier also expressed interest in the Zinsli Tut devel Oping some form of program in Churchill Man. The actual role the University would have with the Arctic Institute if it moved to Mani Toba has not been determined or. Siluk said. The Institute which is housed at Mcgill University is sup ported by funds from both the Canadian and United slates governments. The Institute which has one of inc finest Arctic libraries in North America is devoted to supporting studies of Arctic conditions. Or. Siluk also told the he gird of governors that a proposed International so student under graduate program at Churchill proposed by the International study Institute was unfeasible ;