Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday february 18, 1975 computer Plant plans unveiled plans for locating a proposed million Square foot computer parts factory in South St. Boniface were out lined monday to civic Environ ment committee. Committee instructed s t. Boniface Community commit tee to hold a Public meeting to Deal with necessary Amend ments to the development plan for the area and with the presentation made to environment committee. The presentation was by Don Ellis executive vice president of lad co co. Ltd., a St. Boni face land development firm which has right of first refusal on any proposal involving 166 acres on the West Side of High Way 59, just South of the trans Canada Highway. Burroughs corporation wants to build a computer parts fac tory on part of that land which is just South of the new Federal mint. Jack Thomas the City s Dep Uty director of environmental planning confirmed to commit tee that he had received a Call from the Federal Deputy director of Public works monday saying there is a written agreement Between lad co and the Federal authorities under which Ottawa is giving up part of the mint property thereby putting control in lad co hands. Or. Ellis said he believes the lad co plan for developing the acreage will satisfy All he spoke the urgency for committee to consider the plan and move it on to St. Boniface Community committee for consideration. This is because Burroughs wants to Start building by March 15 and to have the Plant in production by March 31, 1976. Present zoning of the area is agricultural or. Ellis noted. The lad co plan envisions 70 acres being developed As High class Industrial land along Highway 59, with a Buffer zone Between the Industry and a better class residential neigh boyhood extending into what is now the Eastern South Dale sub division. About 96 acres would be involved in developing the Resi historic listing urged a request for an inventory and priority rating of historical Sites in Winnipeg was referred to the City s commissioner of the environment monday by civic environment committee. The request from the Junior league of Winnipeg also recommended a civic demolition bylaw to control destruction of historic buildings and an incentive program to encourage businesses to restore property and ensure its usefulness. Rosemary Kalaher of the Junior league told committee buildings should be preserved and restored to enrich the Cul Tural life of the City and pro vide a link with the past. The recent Large scale demolition of old buildings in Down town Winnipeg has focussed the attention of a growing number of citizens on the urgent need to evaluate the historic and architectural Merit of buildings in our she said. The league would also like to see the Sites of significant a t i o n a 1, provincial or local events preserved and protected from misuse. Toronto has an inventory of about 800 such Sites she said. We now have the Conven Tion Centre. The development of property of historical inter est would be a great attraction for visitors to our councillor Ken Talanchuk committee chairman said Van Couver also has a list of build Ings and Sites the City pre serves for historic reasons. However coun. Geoff Dixon Independent citizens election committee Midland said he wondered what historic Sites Cost Toronto every year in taxes. Mrs. Kalaher said the league endorsed recommendations made about 18 months ago by the Manitoba association of architects the Manitoba historical society and the Environ ment commissioner. Included was a request that the inventory voluntarily begun by the group be completed by the City. Jazz concert set for sunday the Winnipeg jazz society pleased with the results of its first sunday night jazz concert in january will hold its second concert at 8 . Sunday in the St. James civic Centre. The format will be changed and the concert will feature clarinet St Jim Ruth and his Dixi Elanders. Besides or. Ruth the musicians Are Lou Pollock trumpet Guy Clou tier trombone Bill Brant Bass Jim Partridge piano and Don Leppard Drums. Voc Aust Carol Brant will also be featured As a soloist. Dental neighbourhood with such amenities As Ponds and Parks. The Plant would employ about people half professionals and half assemblers or. Ellis said. I Don t imagine it would be any More an offensive use for the property than a Public school probably less be cause no kids Are after St. Boniface Community committee has expressed its opinions the lad co proposal will come Back to environment committee for further consideration. Canada s food potential not being exploited Dean in Canada we Are doing very Little towards developing oar tremendous dormant food production or. L. Ii. Shebeski Dean of agriculture at the University of Mani Toba told a meeting of the women s Canadian club of Winnipeg in the hotel fort Garry monday. Speaking on world food production and mass starvation d r. Shebeski said Canada does t have storage facilities for Grain reserves and referred to the present Grain transportation system As a National Canada is also taking More land out of production than is being replaced by new mar Ginal land he said. Ontario alone at present is losing 28 acres of prime Agri cultural land every hour to non farm he said. The Dean of agriculture said on a world basis there is no reason for optimism that massive starvation will be eradicated. It is not that there is a Lack in technology or of ideas but there is a decided Lack in he said. No single developing nation or for that matter devel oped nation has put its priority on food As an example he cited India where the population has increased by 50 million in four years but which opted for a nuclear bomb rather than additional fertilizer plants. If major famines and increased unrest arc to be minimized or averted a More per manent solution is or. Shebeski said. Our role and tie role of All developed countries should be t o initiate crash programs in the underdeveloped or devel Oping countries at wartime emergency Levels of expenditure. Without delineating the nature and priority of these pro Grams they obviously should include education and eradication of illiteracy the establishment of industries particularly those pertinent to agricultural production fertilizer plants food processing plants transportation systems Power plants and irrigation or. Shebeski pointed out that 11 per cent of 3.6 billion acres of the Earth s land surface is classified As arable land. An other nine per cent or 2.9 Bil lion areas is occupied by i and recreation areas. The remaining 80 per cent is unimproved pastures Forest desert mountains Tun dra and wasteland of which about four billion acres could be brought into production. Some soil experts estimate that in 35 years and with an investment of billion an additional one billion acres could be brought into Cultivar he said. Or. Shebeski said the world s starving can Best be fed through increased yields on existing arable land. In practice what should be taking place is he said. At the very time there should be an increase in the but should such a plan be i use of fertilizers a world for undertaken and completed in 35 years which is highly unlikely we would still not have an extra one billion acres of crop land. 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