Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Task Force created to set up unified ambulance service an administrative task Force be responsible for Winnipeg s unified which will setting up ambulance service and deter mining a Start up rate was established tuesday by civic finance committee. The task Force under tie direction of the civic Board of commissioners will be made up of several civic department Juba says he in t interested an Anonymous group has offered to Back mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg in a future provincial by election in worse Ley constituency but the mayor said he in t interested. Mayor Juba admitted he is curious about the group behind the offer but is reluctant to make any plans until the backers identify themselves. I be had an offer through a the mayor said. The first Call was about three months ago. But until we meet How can i know if i want to he suggested the offer had come from a province wide organization rather than a Politi Cal party. The Wolseley seat is now held by Liberal Leader Izzy Asper who has said he will re sign by feb. 28. Premiered Schreyer of Manitoba has t announced when the by election will take place. The Only candidate so far nominated to run in Wolseley is provincial nip president Mur Doch Mackay who is a Winnipeg lawyer. Mayor Juba sat in the provincial legislature As an in dependent from 1953 to 1959 re presenting Winnipeg Centre. Heads including j. C. Gilmour the City treasurer and Jac Clarke the City signals Engi Neer. As Well As working out the mechanics of the new ambulance service the task Force has also been directed to con Sidur setting up an advisor committee. The committee would be made up of representatives o United health insurance corporation the Agency that Wil run the ambulance service provincial government ambulance officer c. G Chapman medical and Hospital administration officials Roger g. Cad Ham City medical health of f i c e r civic administrators and a representative of the present private ambulance operators. The advisory committee l established by the task Force would be mainly responsible for establishing and reviewing standards and regulations to maintain a satisfactory level of ambulance service according to councillor Al Ducharme chairman of the ambulance subcommittee of civic finance committee. Recommendations for the task Force came to finance committee from the ambulance subcommittee in a report presented by coun. Ducharme in dependent citizens election committee St. Coun. Ducharme said in an interview later that no refer ence to compensation for the businesses of the existing ambulance Drivers was made in the subcommittee report but that the door to negotiations Between the City and the operators is still open. He said the task Force will be responsible for evaluating the physical assets of the ambulance operators and determining what prices will be paid for the vehicles and equip ment. He said separate talks about business compensation May also be held but that they won t Likely be carried out by the task Force. Automatic transmissions the automatic answer Portage 786-2437 to Nairn 667-1595 1311 i Shiluk 586-8049 4m Pembina 453-4124 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces a Low pressure Over Southern British Columbia will maintain Cloudy skies and Light Snow across most of Alberta and Southwest e r n Saskatchewan today and thursday. Under the Cloud cover temperatures will Range from Zero to five below in the afternoon to 15 to 25 below overnight. Sunny cold conditions will prevail Over the remainder of the Prairies. Little change is expected for the next few Days. Daytime temperatures will be be tween five and 15 below while overnight readings will be As Low As 30 below. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today Patci Piloton h High i Low pc Piura cold from worm front 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 Max. Vancouver 37 Calgary -8 Edmonton -16 Regina -4 Brandon -2 Thompson -15 the Pas -13 Winnipeg Thunder Bay 7 Kenora 4 Ottawa 18 Toronto 25 Montreal 16 Halifax 17 Chicago 31 Miami 82 los Angeles 63 forecast for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and red River regions sunny today and thursday. Low tonight 20 to 25 below High thurs Day near Zero. Minneapolis 16 new York 38 Boston 21 Phoenix 70 Athens 52 Root 54 Paris 50 London 52 Berlin 45 Amsterdam 52 Brussels 48 Madrid 46 Moscow 14 Stockholm 34 Tokyo 52 Hong Kong 44 Singapore 88 win. 32 -18 -2v -30 -25 -25 -26 -22 5 -13 -3 19 -1 6 22 61 so 10 26 17 44 39 46 45 46 32 41 37 41 10 28 30 55 72 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Man. Mean feb. 11 8 -14 -3 last year 31 7 19 Normal 10 0 highest on record 44 in 1734 lowest on record -4 in 1899 precipitation total for nov. 1 to feb. 12 2.81 inches Normal 3.38 inches Winnipeg free press wednesday february 12, 1975 2nd class Wall registration number 0286 Small and big savings january Clia Racht color to s stereo audio equipment seeing h Krahn s to Ltd. 1143 Henderson Highway instant credit on charge or master charge Small mountains of Snow Are being built up along the Banks of the red River in Winnipeg As work Crews Clear the Snow that has piled up along streets and sidewalks. This could be the last year Winni Eggers will Lee dumps like this one near the Louise Bridge be cause the City is studying alternate methods of Snow disposal. Home dec shops urged for All pupils by Debbie Lyon free press education reporter Home economics teachers in he Winnipeg school division suggested tuesday that All Rade 7 students should take a Asie introductory course in lome economics and Industrial arts. The suggestion was made during a Winnipeg school meeting which involved discussions with about 20 Home economics teachers then discussions on another matter with High school principals. The Home economics teach is Brief resulted from a dec. 1 letter to the Board from one Eacher which outlined con erns about the Board s policy o allow boys to attend some lome economics classes. The policy provided that no student be denied enrolment r be compelled to enrol in a Ourse on the basis of sex. The policy was effective last March and was implemented in sep Ember. Previously male and female students were provided options in the basis of individual re quests. Any new program is bound o suffer from growing pains and have teething problems it the manner in which this program was started last sep Ember resulted in Many near chaotic and potentially Hazard ius Dorothy a. Robertson said when presenting he teachers Brief. Because of the Hasty Man Ner in which the Board s policy was implemented classes were very unbalanced adjust ments and switches had to be made on the spot and Many parents As Well As Stu dents were upset by these some students Are still not in the courses they had chosen mrs. Robertson said. Elva Humphries co Ordina Tor of Home economics said the late establishment of policy left too Little time to inform parents principals teachers and students about the nature of the courses and has caused a great Deal of unnecessary end and confusion wasted Effort frustration for students teachers alike both Home economics and Industrial arts should be a required subject for All students in at least one year in Junior High there needs to be better co operation about discipline to facilitate safety Many principals need to be better in formed about the problems of scheduling Industrial Art and Home economics guidance is needed in Grade 6 too Many principals and coun Sellors use Home economics and Industrial arts As a last re sort and students Are entering and leaving on a swing door policy there needs to be a Clear understanding Aad definition of the duties of department Heads and coordinators Elemen paddle wheel Dock worries committee the paddle wheel riverboats no. Dock has collapsed and the Winnipeg civic Rivers and teams committee wants it re paired before the Spring floods. The subcommittee tuesday me again asked the riverboat company for a soil consultant s report on the Dock. Councillor Al Ducharme in dependent citizens election committee St. Com Mittee chairman said a report was first ordered by the com Mittee dec. 10, and was to be submitted by feb. 1. A report has t been filed he said. It s important Accident claims of boy 17 a 17 year old boy lost an pm tuesday in an Accident in Olving a up rail train. A Winnipeg police spokes Man said the Accident occurred at . On Higgins Avenue Between Princess and train streets the police said George Rou Ette 455 Henry Avenue was talking on Higgins where the ail line crosses at a 45-degree Nile when he fell in front of he train which severed his left pm below the Elbow. Or. Roulette then walked to Higgins and main where he hailed a taxi. He drove Home picked up his Mother and was health spokes something is done before the Spring thaw or All the land fill will go into the the committee began looking into the condition of the Dock nov. 12, when coun. Alf s k o w r o n new democratic party East Kildonan said recently installed piles on the West Bank of the red River North of the Redwood Bridge had apparently collapsed. G. W. Simonson authority Engineer investigated and found an extensive slide fail ure had occurred in the fill used to enlarge the paddle wheel boat Dock. The fill was about 10 feet deep and held in place by Timber piles his report stated. The slide has virtually destroyed the Dock. Many piles have been displaced Cable anchorages broken and the fill has dropped As much As five feet in some or. Simonson recommended no further fill should be permitted in the area. He said it is urgent that remedial action be taken while the water level is Low. He said if paddle wheel riverboats does t hire a consultant the City should hire one and charge the company with the costs. Tary programs Are needed but they require help from experienced Home economics teach miss Humphries said. Carmen Moir superintendent of the division admitted that no one really knew what would happen in september it was overcrowded in some schools and not in he said there were also Simi Lar problems in Industrial arts programs. Mrs. Robertson said that if the teachers suggestion was implemented students would know what is expected of them in Home economics and Indus trial arts courses. The meeting with High school principals resulted from a re ferral on the Board s budget discussions involving the end of student fees in High schools. To make up for the lost reve nue it was proposed that the Board Grant for each High school plus for each student. Including Argyle High school and the adult education Centre the 1975 costs of the program would be slightly More than the proposal came out of discussions and concerns about former Premier Roblin visits by Bill pet fuck free press staff writer Duff Roblin the former no. 1 Man in Manitoba politics sat quietly drinking Coffee tuesday afternoon in Zoratti s restau rant on Portage Avenue virtually unnoticed. The former progressive conservative Premier smiled when a reporter asked him if his visit to the province he once ran might Haye a political aspect. I m giving it no consider the 57 year old or. Roblin said about returning to Manitoba or Federal politics. He said he was in Winnipeg doing a Little management work without elaborating except to say that he still has interests in Manitoba. But he was emphatic that they weren t politically motivated. I just said in the 1974 Federal election or. Roblin ran to the Ontario Riding of Peterborough. He was attacked by the local press As a Parachute candidate and a 3 held after shooting three people have been detained by Winnipeg police in connection with the shooting of a 22-year-old Man Early Prairie he was Defeated by a 3-2 margin by Secretary of state Hugh Faulkner. Or. Roblin left Manitoba politics in 1967 to take a run at the Federal leadership of the conservative party. He did t win coming in behind Robert Stanfield. In 1968 he ran As a Conser v a t i v e in Winnipeg South Centre. Again he finished Sec Ond. Before his unsuccessful try in Peterborough last year or. Roblin was president of the Montreal based Canadian Pacific investments. He said he retired last May when he sought to become an my in Peterborough. At the time he said he would seek employment in the Peter Borough area if a suitable Job equal to his earning capacity came up. He said tuesday he and his family still live in Montreal. Or. Roblin and his former government were heavily criticized by last year s commis Sion of inquiry into the Chur chill Forest industries pulp and paper project at the Pas Man. How did he feel about the commission s findings after three years of hearings i Don t agree with it the report As far As it concerns wednesday. Staff inspector Lawrence Carpick said wednesday the suspects include a 24-year-old Man and two women 22 and 26. He declined to release their names. The shooting occurred at . At 569 Manitoba Avenue. Don Jamieson said tuesday. The difficulties in collecting student fees and the teachers time involved in such collections. Trustees expressed a number of concerns about the program including concern about the adequacy of a recommended minimum one third student representation on the commit tee which would allocate the Money in each school whether programs would be carried on for tradition s Sake alone whether the Money would be spent to Benefit the most Stu dents possible whether student councils would still get some Money to spend on their own programs and How the pro Gram would be evaluated. The principals also had their concerns including How the Money would be paid to schools How Junior High Stu dents would feel about fees what would happen to sur pluses and what would happen if the Board decided after a year s time that students should once again pay fees. The matter was referred for further study. Search for Morann is resumed the search for Pat Morann missing since the Jan. 11 Bliz Zard was resumed this week a Winnipeg police spokesman said tuesday. Or. Morann 29, of 410 Berk Ley Avenue Charleswood was last seen about 3 . Jan. 11. His car was discovered a week later out of Gas in a ditch Duried in Snow on Wilkes ave nue near the perimeter High Way. The search was begun again monday in the area where his car was found. This is the fourth full scale search for or. Morann in the four weeks since he disappeared. Two subsequent Snow Falls have hindered the search. Local jobless rate 5% Manitoba s unemployment rate jumped to five per cent of the labor Force in january an increase of 1.4 per cent from the previous month. But that s not too bad com pared with other provinces labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley of Manitoba told a press conference tuesday. He said he in t completely satisfied with the unemployment situation but we re reasonably better off than Manitoba s unemployment rate was the third lowest in the country after Alberta and Saskatchewan. The rate of unemployment last month in the country As a whole was 8.4 per cent ail increase of 2.3 per cent from the 6.1 per cent re corded in december 1974. The number of unemployed in Manitoba increased to in january from the previous month. Manitoba s seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment in january was 3.5 per cent com pared with 2.89 per cent in de Cember 1974. Although the actual unemployment rate in Manitoba in creased 1.4 per cent Between december and january the january figure was Only slightly higher than the 4.9 per cent recorded in january 1974. Or. Paulley said he believes that disturbances in the Auto Mobile Industry have had an effect in increasing unemployment in Manitoba. He said a larger than usual number of Industrial disputes in the prov Ince May also have had an effect upon the rest of the work Force although strikers Don t figure directly in unemployment statistics. The labor minister noted that Manitoba s work Force of in january was More than in december he said opposition critics have claimed in the past that Manitoba s relatively Low unemployment resulted from Large numbers of people Leav ing the province. But the re verse is Extension approved the Assiniboine South school Board will go ahead with a planned Extension to Tuxedo Shaftesbury High school and a proposal to accommodate pro j e c t e d enrolment increases without extending the school s program to grades 7 and 8. The Board made the decision during a meeting tuesday called to discuss the proposal with Parent representatives. Art Miller superintendent of the division said the meeting went Well and the two Way flow of information Between parents and trustees resolved differences on the matter. Parents of the area had opposed an original proposal which would have sent Grade 7 and 8 students from Laidlaw school to Tuxedo Shaftesbury. The questions of enrolment increases and How to accommodate them have Arisen be cause of a housing develop ment planned for the area. The proposal that will be implemented will have kindergarten to Grade 8 students attend Tuxedo Park and Laidlaw schools until those schools reach their capacities. Then some elementary school Chil Dren will be moved to the new addition to Tuxedo Shaftesbury until a new kindergarten to Grade 6 school is built in the development. Gays info Booth of d for convention shutdown denied reports that the Sekine can a d a Ltd. Bicycle Plant at Rivers Man., May have to shut Down because of changes in import tariffs Are grossly exaggerated Federal regional economic expansion minister statement protesting against been cancelled the group s _ _ Fork a Ltd t 1-Lilinr new democratic party of f i c i a 1 s have apparently re versed an earlier decision and now have Given approval to Gays for Equality to set up an information table at the party s convention in Winnipeg this weekend. A spokesman for Gays for was that the presence of information on homosexuality might prove embarrassing to some of the delegates. Gays for Equality had planned to picket nip offices wednesday afternoon and Dur ing the convention this week end. Equality said tuesday night but because of the new a the group wanted an earlier Morable ruling the plans have the victim was shot in the head and May have been blinded due to the blast. Or. Jamieson met with com Pany officials i Day and told at Rivers Mon a press Confer Insp. Carpick said the police ence in Winnipeg tuesday the he suggested the soil Consul died Tant s report should include a look at the Access Road which then driven to sciences Centre Man said. He is in fair condition. The the was recently widened since no piles Are evident to retain this fill and some cracks Are opening up in the pavement coun. Ducharme explained that part of the problem has been created by the unique nature of Manitoba soil. We face some problems Here they Don t have anywhere else in the he said. Delegates is the most ridiculous form of discrimination we be encountered so Bill _ Lewis another Gays for equal wound. He was reported in ports that Sekine May be j Ity spokesman said in the orig critical condition in the Gener i forced to shut Down the Rivers i Inal statement. Report on the incident indicated Plant was t about to close As a person Likely have had been indicated in some re quickly from such a j ports. He was referring to re e nip s original ruling spokesman said. Disregarded. Refusing to allow us to pro vide needed information to the Al Centre wednesday morning j p 1 a n t because it could no he said police believe an a longer compete because of the Gurment took place before the Federal reduction in import tar shooting and that a 12-gauge i diffs from 25 per cent to 15 per Shotgun had been seized. I cent. Police were withholding the however he said the com victim s name pending notification of next of Kin. Insp. Carpick said the three would appear in court in the Public safety building thurs Day. Pany May have to move from a straight Assembly line Type operation to one of manufacturing components for bicycles such As frames and handle bars. Morning Blaze destroys House a fire destroyed a House at 882 Hector Avenue about . Wednesday. A Winnipeg fire department or. Lewis said at least one spokesman said Ruth to of the nip constituency Asso-1 Walski the owner and Only res citations has already passed a ident in the House awoke and Resolution calling for the government to Amend the Mani Toba human rights act to pre vent discrimination against homosexuals. The original statement from Gays for Equality said party officials had told them that the reason for the first refusal lives. Saw flames in the Kitchen. She was t injured. The spokesman said the House was valued at about the cause of the fire is under investigation. The spokesman said mrs Kowalski is staying with rela ;