Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday March 17, 1975 maps to debate metric program by Blaikie Ottawa up a full fledged planned commons today on debate is the metric system scheduled to take full effect by 1980. The debate will focus on a motion asking parliamentary approval of the Lowig term met Ric conversion program launched by the government in 1972. The government s commons majority virtually assures approval of the motion but it will give maps a Chance to argue the pros and cons of the new system Over the Imperial measurement system it will re place Gossage. Chairman of the Federal metric commission established in 1972 to supervise the program said conversion already is Well under Way. Seme manufacturers Are changing labels 1 arid pts Cage sizes from ounces and pounds to milligrams and Grams. Sam ple Highway signs in metres and Kilometres Are up in most provinces and the official switch in federally issued temperature fahrenheit to be made april 1. Starting that Date weather stations will report All temperatures in celsius without comparative fahrenheit readings. Freezing is Zero degrees and boiling 100 degrees celsius compared with 32 degrees and 212 degrees fahrenheit. The Canadian press news Agency and its subsidiary broadcast news which relay weather forecasts to most newspapers and radio and Tele vision stations will participate in a government plan to re strict reports to celsius read Ings after april 1. Or. Gossage said and snowfall readings rainfall will be Beaudry Alphonse Joseph 93, of Ste. Anne ,Man., former Reeve of the Rural municipality of Sprague. Benedictson Kristinn 58, of 287 Sydney Avenue East kind plan Carpenter. Bruce Robert 44, of Nelson of Winnipeg. Carrie re mrs. Andre 58, of 116 Hindley Avenue St. Vital. Shabluk John 51, of 565 Union Avenue Canadian National railways Carman. Corrigal Edwin Johnson 45, of 1381 Pritchard Avenue. Danko Adam 97, of Conor Man. Deman Elise 64, of St. Cath marines ont., widow of Cyril deman. Dozar mrs. Aaron c. Moni 56, of 323 Wellington Crescent suite 802. Fit z p a t Rick Thomas George 71, of 90 Helmsdale Avenue East Kildonan. Foster Ota May 85, of Van Couver i Gibson Nelson Charles 90, in Fred Douglas Lodge retired from up rail. Gill Charles 86, of 1305 Tay Lor Avenue suite 601, retired from Canadian National rail ways accounting department. Halparin Norman 59, of 616 Strathcona Street suite 2r. " Hnatiuk Harry 83, of fish or brah ii Man. Jankovic mrs. Svetislav 33. Jankovic Olivera 11, Daugh Ter of the late Svetislav and Danica Jankovic. Jankovic Svetislav 38. Keck mrs. Waldimar to 59, of Morris Man. Kernahan John Everett 75, of 1841 Assiniboine Avenue St. James Assiniboia. Kirkness William Lawrence 75, of Selkirk Man. Laird Annie Crystal 69, of 415 Edison Avenue North Kildonan widow of Orville Laird. Lemoine Adolphe 81, of Ste. Agathe Man. Macinnes Marguerite Mabel 84, of Central Park Lodge 440 Edmonton Street formerly of 484 Ash Street widow of Robert Macinnes. Mclean Donald Gordon 78, of Middle Church Home. Mcmillan Agnes Eva 80, of Lions Manor 320 Sherbrook Street widow of William Edward Mcmillan. Mitchell Ernest Gordon 78. Of 9 Sunset Boulevard St. Vital. Novak Harry 65, of 400 Greene Avenue East Kil Donan. Novak Lorelta Islay 47, of 400 Greene Avenue East Kil Donan. Olson Mabel 63, of 385 Carl ton Street formerly of 366 Quappelle Avenue. Partridge Thomas 80, of Selkirk Man. Pytka Annie Helen 85, of 360 Victoria Avenue West Transcona formerly of Sioux Lookout ont., widow of John Pylka. Solomon Annie 96, of the holy family nursing Home. Sproeber mrs. Heinrich 73, of 388 Ottawa Avenue East Kildonan. Weiss William 86, of 558 Sherburn Street. Wintoni Malania 83, of Winnipeg. Zamry Kut Hnat 78, or ror Keton Man. For further information please see classified death notices by the Canadian press Saigon Paul Leandri 37, Deputy Bureau chief of Agency France Presse shot by South vietnamese police. Onassis greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Ken Nedy. Klein Borg . St. Clair Tennant 71, former president of Ontario horticultural association after a Long illness. Las Gillespie 87, songwriter whose works in eluded Santa Claus is coming to town and breezing along with the Breeze. V a r e s e Sheean 75, american author and Veteran foreign correspondent. Issued in metric measurements Only after sept. 1 this year. The final step for weather fore casts is scheduled for april 1, 1976, when win speeds visibility and atmospheric readings will be Given in celsius Only. Highway conversion As agreed by the provinces will not be Complete until sept. 1, 1977, when All Speed and Dis Tance markers Are scheduled to be changed. The 60 Miles an hour Speed limit common on Many highways will be changed to its approximate metric equivalent of 100 kilo metres an hour. Sept. Has been set As the target for switching the Grain Trade to the metric sys tem and All sectors of the Edu cation system Are expected to change by 1978. Or. Gossage said about one half of All primary schools up to Grade 3 now Are teaching students the metric system and the conversion should be Al most Universal among these grades by the 1975-76 school year. The slowest ranges will occur among industries where it is complicated and costly to make the switch or. Gossage said some such As the Automo bile Industry will take beyond 1980 to Complete All aspects of Moscow criticizes . For supporting Lon nol Moscow a the soviet Union said today that Only sup port by the United states keeps the Rotten cambodian re Gime of Lon nol in existence. A commentary by the official news Agency Tass said people of Goodwill throughout the world express their sympathies with cambodian but today s commentary did not specifically mention Prince Norodom Sihanouk who no Minally Heads the Royal Cam Bodian government from exile in peking. The soviet position regarding Cambodia has been filled with confusion and contradictions for several years. Moscow maintained a fun t i o n i n g embassy in phenom penh for years before and after Sihanouk s fall in 1970. The soviet embassy in the cambodian capital apparently still exists but it now is Down to a caretaker status with no accredited diplomats serving there. In Moscow there is a Royal cambodian embassy with an ambassador and two attaches. The soviets. Have had. Official relations Here with the Royal Sihanouk government since 1973, but apparently there is no soviet diplomatic tie with Sihanouk in peking. At the same time the Khmer Republic Lon nol maintains an office in Moscow with Sev eral cambodians who have seen granted diplomatic Privi Leges. The Post of ambassador is listed As when Sihanouk was deposed in 1970 he was on the Way Home from a vacation in France. He was in when the coup occurred but it is not Clear whether the Sovi ets informed him before he left for peking. In any event Sifa a n o u k stopped in peking where he has been in exile since. Meanwhile the soviets would not formally break their relations with the Lon nol regime despite Sihanouk s criticism. But in 1973 in a vote at the United nations the soviets officially came out for the Sihan Ouk exile regime. Some observers Here feel the soviets now Are convinced the Lon nol regime will collapse and Moscow May Cut All ties with it. But at the same time the soviets May withhold All out support for Sihanouk be cause of their on and off relations with the Mercuria Prince. If Sihanouk Ever re urns to Cambodia it would not be surprising if he would break Iff completely with Moscow. At the same time he would have built up a debt with the chinese and might keep his country oriented toward be Ting Moscow s major foe internationally. But the unpredictability of Sihanouk so far has kept the russians in a confusing Strad dle position. Sausages from China some historians say sausage was made and eaten by the babylonians some years before Christ in China. Correction Simpsons Sears Ltd. Sears Days flyer being delivered. Page 14. And read peat pots Reg 24.99 should have read we regret any inconvenience to our customers Ontario s largest tree a red Oak growing on the Centre of Gara on the Lake hat been attacked by insects and disease and needs expert care if it is to survive. Be by the change he added. But the process should substantially Complete 1980." a total of 60 working committees comprised of nearly individuals Are working with All sectors of society to plan and implement the switch. Anti jewish prejudice latent or disappearing Buenos Aires Argentina a search parties set out today for the wreckage of an Argentine air Force transport in which authorities said 52 persons died in the Andes 15 Miles from a Landing in the ski resort of Bari Loche. An Argentine news Agency said one uruguayan military Man was reported aboard the plane and the rest of the Pas sengers were military men and their families. The twin engine Fokker Turbo prop slowed into the Side of it. Pinchen Miles South West of Buenos Aires during a rain about . Sunday. Airport officials said the an Dean Region normally has Strong winds also. But they said there was no indication of the cause of the crash yet. The plane was in route from Buenos Aires to Bari Loche. It had stopped in la pain a province and in Neu Quen. Refund cheques in mail Montreal up Che ques for Federal income tax re funds will be issued at a rate of a week for the next two weeks Jean Pierre Goyer Supply and services minister announced Friday. Almost cheques were released Friday to Post offices in Winnipeg Edmonton and Montreal following parliamentary approval thursday of finance minister John Turner s amendments to the income tax act or. Goyer said. He said he expects nine Mil lion cheques representing about million will have been issued by the end of june. By Steve Kerstetter the Canadian press an allegedly anti semitic Book appears at a Public meet ing in Winnipeg where a jew ish politician is speaking. A Stalwart conservative tells an election canvasser he won t vote for a party with a jewish Leader. A Rural Manitoban refers obliquely to the Lack of political Appeal in a party headed by a jew. These three examples could be seen As evidence of a latent Antl jewish sentiment lurking just under the surface of Mani Toba politics. They could also be the of discrimination that has All but disappeared from provincial progressive conservative Leader Sidney Spivak a jew stoutly condemned any attempt to Poison provincial politics with anti semitism in a speech a week ago to his party s an Nual convention. The speech represented the first time in recent years that a Manitoba politician had spoken directly to a problem he claimed May be Long standing and largely however or. Spivak made no attempt to probe the extent of anti jewish sentiment in the province. Interviews conducted by the Canadian press this week con firm scattered evidence of political anti semitism but sever Al of the people interviewed were sceptical of the emphasis Given to the Issue by the conservative Leader. The views of two members of the Manitoba legislature illustrate this difference of Opin Ion. Conservative la Wally me Kenzie says that Many of the immigrants who live in his Rural Riding in Southern Mani Toba still have a Chip on their shoulder against jews As a result of experiences in their native lands. And although the handful o jews in the area Are highly respected As businessmen Anc citizens he says there is stil resentment in the Are of poli tics. They vote conservative but would just As soon no Piave a jewish party Leader come to speak at a local Politi cat meeting. It s dying out another generation and it will be Long or. Mckenzie says o this View. It s not an Issue he record indicates Little Evi ence of anti semitism Gener Fly an impression supported y several of the people inter viewed. Irvin Sera of Winnipeg an official of the b Nai b Rith Cen ral Canadian Council says his organization has not had to be Active in investigating com saints of anti semitism and As concentrated instead on educational programs. I really Don t think any of he jewish politicians have Een Cut out of the political Cene because they re e says. A different View is expressed by Olga conservative supporter of a o r m e r City councillor and chop trustee in Winnipeg who s now employed with the Ca radian Council of christians and jews. Bigotry that have been a tragic and senseless part of the Hist y of Mankind generally. They also cited the Progress made by jews and members of Ither minority groups in recent mrs. Fuga who is not jewish ays there has been a drama c decrease in discrimination n All forms in the years since the second world War with in creased contacts Between members of different ethnic and religious groups. Yet she says there Are still a lot of Archie bunkers around As evidenced by the very very open forms of serve Many purposes Washington a a study by the . Environ mental Protection Agency shows that paving roads with used tires is just one of the solutions to the waste disposal problem posed by the 200 Mil lion tire casings abandoned every year says the tire re tread information Bureau. Tire casings also can be used to generate Power and Asar Tifi Cial reefs Impact absorbers on highways tires. And in retreaded with the Young people Urban affairs minister Sau Miller of Manitoba one of the jewish members of the prov Ince s nip government say he has never encountered any anti jewish feeling in his 2 years in Public life. I can honestly say that Felt in the time i stood for pub lie office All the Way through i was never aware of any Obj Ous anti jewish Bias in the Way people or. Miller says there is obviously some anti jewish sentiment but he has never see it politically in his seven Oak Riding of North Winnipeg which includes a number of Ethni and religious groups. Let s not kid ourselves biases have not disappeared he says. They re As varied a people a search of Winnipeg a ices paper files in recent years re Veals isolated instances buildings marked with Swast Kas the desecration of Lorn stones at jewish cemeteries i the City and complaints Abri the membership policies some private clubs for the most part however discrimination she has seen win while campaigning in Nipes. I Don t know what he has personally mrs. Tuga says of or. Spivak. Obviously he must have had justification for saying what he persons interviewed often spoke of anti jewish sentiment As one of the Many forms of Portugal assures nato Lisbon Portugal followed up a Sharp left turn in Domestic politics with an Assurance today that it would Honor its International treat commitments which include the North Atlantic treaty organization the portuguese m i l i t a by rulers who nationalized major Banks Friday and Are said to be about to take Over insure a n c e companies issued statement on foreign policy Fol lowing tuesday s abortive right Wing coup. The new ruling military revolutionary Council the statement said was deter mined to maintain unaltered the foreign policy outlined Las april by the armed Force movement As regards com ailments assumed and obligations resulting from internal t i o n a 1 treaties and agree meanwhile the soviet Union was said to have asked to so up a refuelling station on the portuguese Island of Madeira. Manuel for Cria transport and communications minister said the station presumably would be for the soviet Allan tic fishing Fleet but gave m a dictation of portuguese read lion. The first jewish member of he Manitoba Iso the first jew elected to by provincial legislature Ince confederation was so omon Hart Green a Winnipeg Awyer who took his seat As a Liberal la in 1910, roughly 0 years after the first members of the Faith settled in Manitoba. While other jews and members of other minority groups sat in both Federal and 1 r o v i n c i a 1 houses in later ears the election of the Proy nce s first Adf government in 969 was something of a breakthrough in terms of ethic and religious represent Tion. M r. Miller described the vent As tie coming of age of All minority groups in a prov nce where politics had traditionally been dominated by Anglo saxons. Nine of the 13 members of he first nip Cabinet were rom backgrounds other than Anglo Saxon protestant three jewish two ukrainian one Gernian one French Canadian one polish and one icelandic. He proportion has not changed markedly since that Ime. Former Liberal Leader Izzy Asper also a jew made Little headway in re establishing his Larty As a Force in Manitoba politics. In contrast or. Spi Vak s party held on to its traditional strongholds in Southwest Ern Manitoba in the 1973 elec lion and picked up two seats in Rural Manitoba the area said o be the least disposed toward jewish party Leader. She n ans lifetime aluminium awnings protect beautify and add value to your Home now 6 models available for Quick delivery the horizontal trim with horizontal trim. Cd Otise from 12 different accent trims to blend or contrast with your horns. The folding awning Down on Bright Days and up on Dull Days. Choose from a wide Range of colors. 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