Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Chief pledges extra patrols on Aberdeen no dutch Elm disease Here. Yet by Glen Mackenzie j free press staff writer a meeting Between members of the Aberdeen Avenue Block club and Winnipeg police chief Norman Stewart resulted in a Promise thursday of extra special attention on Aber Deen Between Powers streets. Salter and chief Stewart said in an interview after the closed hour Long meeting thursday after n o o n the special attention would t be limited to uni formed patrol officers but would include vice squad Juve Nile traffic and other officers. He told residents at a meet ing july 30 the problem would be studied before any decision was made on their requests. Residents said thursday that regular patrols had been made on their streets and that some officers had got out of cars to walk along the Street. Chief Stewart said 10 prob Lem reports were received by police last month from their part of Aberdeen Avenue which is in North Winnipeg. After the meeting a spokes Man said we d like to especially thank chief Stewart. He really cares Al out the she said police cars drove by on the Street every half hour last week. In getting what she said would be 24-hour special attention rather than an unmarked police car daily from 6 . To 6 ., we re not Only Happy we re about 20 residents including children attended the metting. Although newsmen were at the Public safety building when residents arrived they weren t allowed into the meet ing in contrast to last week s meeting with chief Stewart. The spokesman said the Resi dents vote on a closed meeting was unanimous. She said she supported it because after last week s meeting certain peo ple who came Down were pin pointed As leaders. Cars would slow Down when they went by my House and people would look at also said the group de tided before the meeting that newsmen would be excluded. The discussion thursday began about . With two residents forming a delegation and entering chief Stewart s office followed later by three More. About 20 minutes later the meeting was moved Down the Hall to the Board room so All residents could attend. They met until about 4 . While most residents said the situation had definitely become better since last week one girl thought it had become worse. She said she was Riding Down the Lane behind Aberdeen about . Monday and was beaten up by six girls and two adults. A Man said that group also wanted to fight with him. Councillor Harry Lazarenko new democratic party lord who attended the meeting thursday said in an interview afterwards he regarded it As he said there s a continuing problem with some houses and there s an abuse of Wel coun. Lazarenko also said there s a lot of neglecting of he thought problems result when 30 to 40 people live in one House. They get drunk tree ravaged by dutch Elm disease by Pat a Angest press staff writer geography and Good Luck Hare spared Manitoba Elm Trees from dutch Elm disease. Yeni Hwahl of Canadian forestry service summed up the current Manitoba status of the highly destructive fungus disease wednesday either you have it or you Haven t. We re still conducting detection surveys every year. As far As we re concerned we Don t have the absence of dense Elm growth Between Winnipeg and cities in the midwestern United states creates a natural Buffer which prevents spread of the disease. Elm becomes More and More scattered the further you go away from Winnipeg. Lack of Elm along the North Shore of Lake Superior prevents it the disease from coming from on to Date Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta Are free of dutch Elm disease. But or. Hildahl quickly Adderl because of the past history of dutch Elm disease sooner or later we re going to get the disease was discovered ii 1930 in Toiuo and new Jer sey it is found now from coast i to East a the . And through All of Eastern Canada including Quebec and the Mari tiniest he said. The greatest dangers of Dis ease contraction come from people transporting infected firewood or bringing in Elm bark beetles the main Carri ers on clothing or in cars. Or. Hildahl said Manitoban should t be alarmed at the discovery of dutch Elm disease in Mandan North Dakota about 160 Miles from the inter National Border. It s been there since 1963. Besides Mandan s on the mis Souri watershed which runs infected elms therefore would be carried away from Manitoba. Fargo North Dakota however is on the red River which flows North. Dutch Elm disease was diag nosed in Fargo in 1973, but it affected just one tree and is under control or. Hildahl said. The fungus spreads rapidly through the tree causing leaves Aad Braa ebes. To Tore yellow Milt and die. Once a tree is infected the disease May spread from tree to tree through Root grafting where roots from separate Trees Cross each other and join. Detection surveys Sample unhealthy looking Trees which Are usually infected with two or three similar looking Wilt diseases. These Wilt infections can be pruned out but Only fungicide injection into the roots will Stop dutch Elm disease. Even then the diseased portion of the tree is dead and should be pruned and burned. Treatments Are available. The fungicide was developed in the last four to five or. Hildahl said. If dutch Elm disease is found Here information on treatment will be made available to the Public. The fungicide would be released commercially but must be administered by Quali fied people he said. The most pronounced symptoms of the disease occur in july and August. Or. Hildahl s prediction for the remainder of the month was so far so use profanity and Don t use in Side coun. La Zarenko said. You could have twice the number of policemen and it would t make a he said. Our whole system has to be changed. They can spit and swear at him a pol iceman and he has to take chief Stewart said if other groups came to see him the police department would do its Best with available resources. If you took All the single blocks in Winnipeg and Pul foot patrols on them you d need about he said. If every Block came we could t do. thirty new police constables were sworn in july 25. Supt. Philip Brown of District 3 West which includes Aberdeen Avenue said thursday two or three g the new constables had been assigned to his District i Only As replacements. Automatic transmissions automatic answer 7 f Portage 786-2437 no Nairn 667-1595 131 map Hilum 586-8049 4m Miina 453-4124 i. Is mum on Price of milk the Manitoba milk control Board has made a decision about whether the Price of milk should Rise but wont announce it for about two weeks. The Board met wednesday and its chairman or. Paul Phillips said thursday a re port would have to be drafted before making the announce ment. He said he could t say whether there will be an in crease because it is too com the control Board has been considering the matter since May 15, when a Public hearing was called to determine whether a Price increase was necessary. Manitoba producers and processors asked the Board for a increase of about four cents a quart although other Brief presented at the hearing pro posed changes. The Price ranging from reduction to 3 cents a quart to a 12-cent in crease. A quart of homogenized Mill in Winnipeg now is 48 cents. Weather report Winnipeg free press Friday August 8, 1975 2nd class mail registration number women 9s and youth votes key in open pc squabble by Katie Fitzrandolph free press staff writer Manitoba s progressive conservatives have erupted again into an open squabble Over How youth and women s groups will be accredited to the party s december leadership convention. Supporters of the present Leader Sidney Spivak and of his challenger Sterling Lyon have failed to agree on of rules for establishing youth and women s organizations de spite a flurry of activity last weekend. Chief obstacle appears to be the method of annual meetings of these groups both of which Are entitled to Send their presidents As voting Dele a disturbance in South Ern Manitoba this morning Cloud and showers Over Southern Manitoba and Southeastern Saskatchewan. As the system moves northeastward today morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces this Cloud will gradually Clear from the West. The rest of the Prairies will be mainly sunny for the next few Days. Figures on the expected High temperatures today Pic fraud nets 2-year term gales to the leadership Conven Tion. At stake Are up to 20 per cent of the voting delegates. Bill Neville or. Spivak s executive assistant called the news Media together thursday to present his Compromise Sug 2 e s t i o n to overcome the impasse. It would have the provincial executive of the women s and youth groups Call such meet Ings. To avoid the appearance of being underhanded a charge levied by or. Lyon s the provincial executives would be required to in elude Nec Essary at least one representative of each Campaign the executives would meet weekly to Deal with requests organizational meetings of constituency women s and groups. Any party member in Good standing could request the executive to Call a by Bill Pethick free press courts reporter a former employee of the unemployment insurance com Mission who Agency of More than was sentenced Friday to two years in jail by provincial judge George Lockwood. Crawford d. Varnes 41, of ,19 Twain drive St. James Assiniboia pleaded guilty june 25 to 44 counts of defrauding the commission. The offences took place Over the 1969 to 1975. Period from nothing substantial to be gained by sending this Man away Lor a Long the judge said he must stress the deterrent aspect. Meeting in his own constituency. Nate Nur Gitz one of the key workers in the Lyon Campaign rejected this suggestion. He wants to have a Neutral person or body such As the Provin Cial party Headquarters empowered to Call organizational might be paper organizations but failed to see How or. Nur object when he s had a hand in creating a number of he said his proposed rules though not agreed upon by the two sides were made Public thursday so they would t be released by the Lyon Campaign with comments. It was the opposition Side which first made the accreditation a Public Issue he said. He indicated the provincial executives women youth organizations weren t Happy at All with his suggested Jules As they would interfere with the autonomy of inca youth and women s groups but having registered that objection they said they would t make Waves about the proce Dure. Jon Christiansen treasurer of the provincial youth organization called the free press thursday afternoon to say the executive had turned Down or Neville s suggestion at a meet ing tuesday. It violates the federation Constitution he said and Man legitimate clubs already hav held their annual meetings. He said the youth federation. S approach before discussion Ith or. Spivak and or. Lyon. It s hard to say How Many Outh clubs there Are in the province m r. Christianson Aid. So Many have been Ormed in the past two week some legitimate and som or. Nur Gitz s vague Neutra Hird party to Call the meet nos was never defined durin negotiations Over rules or Eville said. The arguments used by the Yon Campaign to discredit youth and women s group pres dents could be used equally against the main constituency associations he said. Or. Neville accused ithe Lyon supporters of calling selective meetings to organize youth and women s groups and said that Varnes was arrested july 8, e e t in s for women s and pre. .0? to .17 .19 2.52 temperatures following Are High temperatures recorded yester Day Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at g Today and precipitation for the 24 Lour period which ended at 6 a in. Today Max. Win. Vancouver 16 Calgary 25 Edmonton 23 Regma v Brandon 26 Thompson 25 the Pas 25 Winnipeg 26 Thunder Bay 24 Kenora 26 Ottawa 25 Toronto 25 Montreal 23 Halifax 21 Chicago 22 Miami 31 los Angeles h Minneapolis 27 new York 18 Boston 18 Phoenix -s3 Honolulu 31 Athens 32 8a.ic.koh 33 Berlin 31 s uses s Frankfurt 1.71 .21 .21 Helsinki Hong Kono Moscow Paris sea Taiwan to tyo 31 33 54 7 i 34 25 33 31 31 37 33 37 35 11 7 12 1j 7 12 19 11 16 13 9 12 16 17 22 22 20 16 18 1.07 31 24 22 28 18 15 20 16 13 25 15 71 17 13 72 20 23 2-1 13 28 forecast for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and red River regions frequent sunny periods today Northwest wind at 20 . Becom i n g Light this evening. Clear overnight mostly Cloudy saturday with show ers. Low tonight near 13 celsius High saturday near 25 celsius. Passing sentence judge Lockwood said the deterrent aspect must take precedence. Rehabilitation must be the court s second consideration. The judge also ordered a three year probation after the sentence. Crown counsel George Dan Bertield had outlined a complicated scheme used by Varnes employing Bank Post office Box numbers in up to a dozen Rural communities. He said he scheme was begun in late 1969 when Varnes quit his Job with the commission in Yorkton sask., and moved to Winnipeg. Varnes used 24 fictitious names and wrote with both his left and right hands to change writing styles. police in a state ment that he used Rural Mani Toba Points because it was easier to set up Bank accounts and Post office Box numbers there. Commenting on the ease with which Varnes obtained so Cial insurance cards simply by going to a Post office get Ting the required forms and j mailing them to Ottawa with to out proof of identification judge Lockwood said this is obviously a lax for five years. Varnes had his wife believe he was work 1974, after the ramp staked out a Post office Box in por Tage la Prairie. The commis Sion became aware of Varne s activities when it discovered two of the fictitious names used the same Post office Box there to receive unemployment benefits. Crow n argued that Varnes a 10-year employee of the commission used his Rowledge of the system to take advantage of the apparent weaknesses. Judge Lockwood said Varnes was Able to live on a year without doing an honest Day s Varnes recently employed by the City of Winnipeg As a sewer inspector and Relief time keeper had been hired after his guilty plea june 25. Or. Phelps said. In Varnes s earlier appear Ance in court the Crown had indicated that More than was involved in the fraud. However. Or. Danger Field said they were proceeding Only on the 44 counts involving youth groups. He was particularly upset at the suggestion of including representatives of the Campaign committees in the youth and women s executives. This would involve not just sup porters but paid he said. When or. Neville was questioned later about or. Nur Gitz s rejection of his idea he said it was characteristic of or. Nur Gitz to respond through the rather than directly or. Nur Gitz had been asked for his reaction during his morning gather ing which he stressed was not a press or. Neville said what had been done to Date by Way of organizing youth and women s groups was not unconstitutional. Was drafting a proposal of it own to handle the accreditation problem but would t Revea lab plan moving ahead minister plans for an million de Fence research Laboratory in the Tuxedo area of Winnipeg Are progressing Federal de Fence minister James Richard son reported thursday. The minister at a press con Ference in Winnipeg expressed Confidence that an Environ mental Impact study released earlier this year had served to allay the fears of area Resi dents who feared harmful electro magnetic radiation from the building. The Laboratory to be located North of Wilkes Avenue and East of Shaftesbury Boulevard sparked opposition from area in at least this. One had constituency resulted in rival youth groups supporting or. Spivak . Lyon. Constituency associations Are permitted to Send five voting delegates to the leadership convention and women s Anc youth groups May Send their or. Nur Gitz complained o All the time and Energy going into formation of these Nonen cities to get around the official delegations of cons Titu Endy organizations. Residents last year and an official protest to the City made at the time or. Richardson said people in the area did t have All the , and their fears were unfounded. However he added that if area residents still Don t want the facility in Tuxedo it would be easy to scrap plans for its establish ment in Winnipeg. The minister said he would hate to see Winnipeg lose out on the Labo Ralcie because it would provide about 200 highly technological jobs in the City. Premiered Schreyer who attended the press conference suggested that if Tuxedo does t want the lab the town of Beausejour Likely would be More than Happy to have it. Beausejour is located in or. Schreyer s Rossmere. Home Riding of Voyageur finds Outing Beautiful despite storm it has been characterized by the Lyon Camp As underhanded and without accepting that rather than Battle that Issue we should agree to rules which will work no advantage a psychiatric report said Job j pressures had forced into the criminal activity. The disadvantage he said. To either report said he was of average intelligence had an intense his proposed rules would re quire virtually every women s and youth organization in the Jing As a Public relations Man fear of rejection and a except in stress the report pvn Cre meeting were held re also said that Varnes father of i Mono id an annual or in three did t like living in York ton. When he was caught he told police i m glad i be been caught. I m glad it s m r Phelps claimed that Varnes used the Money not for meeting Between the end of july when the Leader ship race became official and the closing Date for naming delegates As yet it s a proposal to wipe the slate clean and Start again. A flip of a Coin sent them to Kildonan Park thursday eve Ning but 48 Young handicapped and non handicapped Voya eurs and escorts seemed to Lave As much fun running from the 7 . Thunderstorm As they would have had with their previously planned Park activities. One Young dripping wet participant commented it was Beautiful out after she was helped from her wheel chair into a Van. The pandemonium of excited voices wondering where the other half of the group was filled a rented bus until it went to pick up the other half and head for a dispersal Point at the legislative building grounds. The Young people Are on the second half of a 20-Day sex High living and gambling Only to maintain the family. Or Nur Gitz Felt the whole Standard of living. Asking for a Ssue dealt with paper organi change Between handicapped and non handicapped youths of Manitoba and . Area. The Burnaby. Attend. They be Benj Jeff the the Woodlands school in . Said. You sure learn a lot and if things go Well this time i might take a lot More or. Petersen who has lived and been schooled at Wood lands and who now works with Young children at the school is one member of the group re Quiring daily medical attention. He is living overnight during his 10-Day stay in Winnipeg at the St. Boniface Hospital s extended care unit. An Karen Van Biesen. 14. Of ., said the trip has Only made Tichier her already travel itchy feet Anc she Hopes one Day to travel to Europe to visit Belgium and Germany her parents Home countries. She has enjoyed meeting the interesting people on the Exchange and the travelling. He travels Are mainly limited to those of a club in Vancouver that she and Jeff wherly 16 Only handicapped brought together under the j person to take part in the pro auspices of the joint Federal j Gram for a second year has provincial Young voyageurs i found it very beneficial. Head program. A travel and sex milled that sometimes he feels c h a n 5 c program aimed at isolated and said he likes get helping Young canadians learn Ting out with others. Lenient sentence or. Phelps lotions established Only to about their country Ami fellow j non handicapped people do court was told. He was said to Lac court 3sain at s 0-Ciock Nan no criminal record. Said his client would not be be a Load the convention with Dele-1 citizens. That fear did t seem apparent As gr6up members pitched in to help others on and off the ius and Van and disperse through the Park before the storm. And George Frieson a win Lieg coordinator speculated t s going to be a real weeper at Winnipeg s International Airport when the participants depart August 16. There Are eight escorts and about 40 Young people in the Exchange with about Halliot the Young people handicapped. Eight of those Are in wheel chairs others Are in braces or. Wilson said. The causes of their Handi Caps Range from birth defects to epilepsy to muscular Dys trophy to Haemophilia. The . Voyageurs Are billeted with their Manitoba counterparts and most of the time a disabled kid is with an Able bodied or. Friesen said. About three participants Are with the escorts because they require close attention. The group from Manitoba which included mostly win nip Eggers. Returned from . In late july. The . Group arrived in Winnipeg wednes Day. Another group from Edmonton was to arrive in the scam to be afraid of the Han Winnipeg temperature comparisons mar. Min. Mean aug. 7 .24 18 22 l3i year 30 17 i Normal 24 13 Hia hcs on record Al in on record i in ssi Varnes i sates and said the Public and but As Jim Wilson one of cd capped. But i Don t really j conservatives alike would be j t n c . Coordinators sex k n o w Why they would 19 City thursday. The itinerary for the next be i few Days includes visits to i each Mornin and to have re when Varnes was arrested of fended by the practice. In Laincz. This particular part of he said. J Fol Lorama. The University of by police they found a Brief we be done it because the Young Voyageur program Troviski of Winnipeg j Manitoba Assiniboine p a r k i h i Casc m the Trank of his car we be been forced to do it. But j offers something More a who will be attending Grade ii lower fort. Garry and the so counsel gave he said. A Chili i c h a n c e for the non Nan. At Sturgeon Creek regional piety for crippled children i turned at 5 . F c Phelps 4, court die commis 3 wea7ksr 10 a precipitation Toyei for Andrii 1 to aug. 3, 13.51 i kiss Torma 9.44 iric hcs. Mentation of 24 identities he i m a t c Ami secondary school this fall said adults Over showed no emotion when sen-1 ing delegates he Suas ested or. Phelps said there Isu Cnoc was passed. Or. Neville agreed they Dennis 24, Ibsen Able to 3 trip like Handicap pm 1 Pic where they Are staying Dennis Peter san 24, ofis Nesario. I or. Friesen said ;