Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news May 1976 and class mall registration number 02b6 City Core to get More policing in Blitz on 38 crime share by Philip Rodgers free press police reporter by the end of the 175 police officers on foot and in Cruiser cars be patrolling Winnipeg Core its about time something should be done about this Deputy chief Ray Wil son of the Winnipeg police department said thursday at a press conference to outline the departments program for the about 38 per cent of the crime in the City happens in the Core the a form of neighbourhood team arose out of a study of the Core area made in 1975 by the University of Winnipeg Institute of Urban studies and was approved in january by the Winnipeg police commis the department was recently authorized to hire an additional 66 Ena bling it to assign an additional 40 officers to the pro Deputy chief Wilson the City also authorized Purchase of three More Cruiser cars for the the additional men fall experienced officers Wilt be added As recruits Are trained to replace them in their current he All the officers in the program Are the study identified the Core area As being bounded by the red and Assiniboine Rivers on the East and South and by Arlington Street and Church Avenue on the West and within the three each with three patrol have been designated and a sergeant has been As signed to each zone Field us the sergeant is responsible for All the men in his zone and reports to a control group made up of the superintendents of divisions one and two and the staff inspectors of the vice and juvenile in addition to the sergeants and patrol teams from vice and juvenile divisions will be assigned to the Core Deputy chief Wilson the major innovation of the program will be that officers assigned to the pro Gram will remain in it for a year and wont be rotated every six weeks As is the departments usual although officers will be rotated regularly through different they will always remain in the same patrol area to enable them to become familiar with the people and problems of the at there is a full complement of officers in Cruiser cars 108 officers for the nine cars that patrol the area 24 hours a Deputy chief Wilson so Only 20 men Are walking beats but eventually there will be at least one Man to every he some of the foot like Cruiser will be two Man but others will be one Man the main area of attention will be the downtown area Between Higgins and William Deputy chief Wil son in this foot patrols will operate three around the in other there will be Day and evening shifts Ini the program is being implemented other cities in Canada and the United states have encountered problems with similar Deputy chief Wil son the which he thinks have been avoided in included starting too big reducing crime fighting ability Resis Tance from officers who we rent properly briefed and making the program elitist storefront the Institute of Urban Stu Dies is completing a Survey of residents and businesses in the area to assess opinions of at the end of the first a second Survey will be conducted to evaluate the Success of the spraying supplies scarce in fight to save foliage Kim who plays Snow re hearses with the seven dwarfs for the upcoming rhapsody on ice show scheduled for the Winnipeg Arena june 4 and Canadas senior mens skat ing Toller will be headlining the Norwood parents split into two Camps after school Board language decision the decision of the nor Wood school Board not to make precious blood school a French school has split parents of children at the school into two groups pne favouring French the other in favor of a Bilin Gual or 5050 Georges chairman of the precious blood parents told a press conference thursday the school Board ignored the wishes of the majority of parents tuesday when it decided against providing Only a French program at the located at 209 Kinny but Carol spokesperson for a group of parents who favor a 5050 program for their said later although a Bilin Gual program will be Avail Able at the school next school year there is no guarantee Thill be the Case in follow ing at the precious blood school offers its 700 or so students kindergarten to Grade 12 a mixture of French and English pro Public school meet has tiny turnout the Jame Assiniboia school Board will decide june 8 whether to continue elect ing trustees on an a Large basis or adopt some sort of Ward trustee George Waters said a Public meeting on the question thursday night Drew fewer than 15 about the same number that attended a similar meeting May Board chair Man and chairman of the Ward investigation commit said in an interview after the in Hedges Junior High that All Oral or written presentations favored a Ward the committee would have to consider their Opin he but would also have to consider the number who came out to the two meetings compared with the number of he estimates Kamesas Sini Boia has about trustee Board chair p o o r attendance at both meetings indicates people must be satisfied with the election Large Only those who feel strongly enough against it would turn he he said a major Factor in the committees recommendation would be the Institute Urban studies report the Board the report presented four ways of electing Board members at one trustee a two or More trustees a Ward or a combination of the a Large and Ward the report clearly indicated two or More trustees a Ward had the most tages and fewest disa Dvan this system is also used in the Winnipeg school family Law revisions advocated attorney general Howard Pawley of Manitoba wants a select committee of Las to take a hard look at the state of the provinces family Law so that changes can be brought in during the next legislative i would want them to be very Active this with plenty of evidence being taken from Ordinary Mani so that we can see some constructive changes in the Law next Pawley said in an interview the attorney general said a committee of less than 20 Las would the committee would have to look at the report on family Law by the Manitoba Law i think we could expect some Long awaited changes to come from the recommendations of a committee like he he said he would like any legislation resulting from the committees report get High priority next starting in school trustees instruction in French in grades 2 and 3 will occupy 10 and 18 per cent respectively of the total curriculum compared with 10 per cent but in grades 4 to 9 parents will have an option they can either let their Chil Dren attend a French pro Gram or a bilingual pro but the latter Only if there Are enough students at least 45 per currently the school offers a bilingual program in these both parents groups claim they represent the majority of Forest said his French Only group represents some 220 while Monney said her group rep resents 120 parents of Chil Dren in the primary but according to is the category that counts since these children will be most affected by the new option policy in the next few parents favouring a French program Only at the school say the boards decision to make a bilingual program optional shows trustees have failed miserably in their responsibility according to he said his which demands the Board rescind its has sent a letter criticizing their action to various provincial Cabinet ministers and representatives of franc Manitoban Forest said the Deci Sion to provide an optional bilingual program was made despite reports from various Levels of government in favor of the French he the teachers at the school have recommended a French his he was formed to obtain a French program As suggested by the Bureau de 1education fran the French Branch of the department of at precious blood such a program would mean All French instruction with the exception of an eng Lis language arts program of no More than 25 per cent of the according to the Bureau de 1education Francaise is Nec Essary to preserve the fran Comanito Bain heritage and Milieu in the but Monney said later her group wants its children to be educated through a bilingual program which they feel will Besten Able them to function in a largely anglophone province such As she told reporters her group is at the moment not afraid the school Board will change its position on an optional bilingual program but fears what parents in favor of a French program will do to reach their we do not want a All we want is that our rights be she we want the Bureau de 1education Francaise to finally realize All parents Are Worth listening Monney said her group suspects their opponents Are trying to turn pre Cious blood school into a Pilot project for the Bureau de 1education Farmers get Manitoba rapeseed growers Are advised to be on the Lookout for Forest tent Cater Flea beetles and Grasshoppers this a statement from the Manitoba department o f agriculture heavy infestations of the insects Are expected in the next few the statement said rape seed growers Are advised to use reemergence seed such As lindane or carb furan to protect seedling Winnipeg residents who put off spraying for canker Worms and Forest tent Cater pillars during the weekend will Likely have to wait a week or More to get Neces sary chemicals and Spray Many stores thursday were sold out of malathion and Methoxychlor and the Spray Hose attachments used to apply the according to a Telephone Check of Large department hardware retail a distributor and Corner none of the stores checked had either Beaver lumber at Portage Avenue and Ainslie James had a chemical called Sevin which has been suggested As a substitute for malathion by Green Crossin sect codes a gardening employee Sevin comes in powdered form and must be mixed with water and Spray a but the store was out of Hose end the employee Beaver lumber at Stafford Street and Pembina Highway still had Spray equipment thursday morning but it was moving pretty a sea Sonal department employee several stores were await ing delayed shipments but most indicated the earliest orders would arrive would be next at the red River co operative 910 Wall malathion was expected to arrive thursday or a gardening employee but the store has no Spray applicators and it could be a week or More be fore it gets he Eaton at Polo Park expected a shipment wednes Day by thursday morn it still haunt an employee in the seed department suggested people callback in the a gardening Centre employee at the Canadian tire Annes Road and the Tran Canada said an order was supposed to arrive late thursday a Simi Lar reply came from an employee at Canadian tires Winnipeg Centre store at notre Dame Avenue and Isa Bel at the Bay a gardening employee said it would take about 10 Days to get More chemicals and equipment to replenish depleted by that time the problem will be she link hardware company 959 Powell a wholesale distributor of Garden said their chemical supplier want expecting a shipment until maybe although most gardening Supply employees polled declined comment on How the chemical shortage would affect insect one summed up the effects delayed spraying would Proba Bly have this Way the longer the Worms the bigger they commercial spraying for canker Worms and Forest tent caterpillars Doest have to be Earl owner of James tree ser said a published figure of per tree asked by Commer Cial sprayers was an Overes Swayzee said in a Telephone the most expensive tree you can Spray is he said he is Able to main Tain his business and charge from to for a Small tree like an Large tree fees Range from to he its possible that a customer would be charged for a single tree House he but someone who had four or five 20foottall Trees to be sprayed could have it done for Rush of students threatens to pack Legal profession by Glen Mackenzie free press staff writer Manitoba Law students Are heading for a crowded pro f e s s i o n Harold outgoing president of the Law society of said he told the society Annu Al meeting the profession has increased by about 400 Dur ing the past five years to More than with 84 students Likely to be admitted in the profession May Well be approaching the saturation Point for the next while Buchwald said it appears More than people have applied for 120 first year places at the University of Manitoba Law in a later he said the crowds could be healthy because More Law practising could become social advocates through involvement in envy consumer and ten ants Many people with these problems Arent poor enough to qualify for Legal he the society admission requirements include three years of Law school and a year of clerkship during which students take last 200 jets ticket buyers pretty violent it was like trying to catch lightning in a bottle thurs Day As the last 200 standing room tickets for the final winning game of the jets Houston Aero world hockey association championship series went on More than jets fans jammed the Winnipeg Arena Jobby trying for the last Chance to see the conquering they got pretty a Box office official it took about five minutes to Clear those tickets in the police sent extra men to the Arena to Cope with what a spokes Man called a mad Rush thursday the crush of people broke Glass in several doors at the Arena As the last tickets were the lineup started As Early As 3 thursday three hours before the tickets went on a harried Box office official said 8 some of them Are still Here Lazy listener censured for ignoring new music Canadian composer bar Bara of rapped today fans of serious music for not listen ing to contemporary the Large concert Halls function More As museums delays in tax refunds have taxpayers worried the Winnipeg income tax division office is being be seized by Telephone Calls from taxpayers worried about delays in their says Debbie Public relations officer for the win Nieng tax Calls have More than Tri pled Over last Cockburn she said it is taking an average of eight to 10 weeks for a return to be processed and a refund Cheque sent which is slower than the Ottawa tax centres record in handling Cockburn said the Centre has no set average time it should take a return to be processed but she acknowledged that in previous years the average has been about six this for the first Ottawa is sharing its tax processing Load with the new tax data Centre in win an estimated two Mil lion tax returns will be handled by the Winnipeg office but Ottawa will continue to mail out the actual refund Cockburn said it is because of this local opera Tion that people expect their returns to be handled she said she didst think the delay was due to ironing out bugs in the new system but she acknowledged that officials had no idea exactly Why the returns Are taking so Long to the situation is being looked she Cockburn said there Are plans to continue the de centralization of tax process there will probably be a data Centre in British Colum Bia next she Cockburn said she hoped the situation would be different next i a vent got by income tax re turn Back yet she the 65yearold composer told graduates at a University of Manitoba convocation modern music enthusiasts listen chiefly to 18th and 19thcentury works and have not kept up with she in new work has to be wisely positioned on the program to discourage a mass miss Pentland said a younger generation better prepared than her Peers to appreciate new music has much to offer older musicians if they will contemporary music is often not that serious but can be full of satire and humor qualities lacking in 19th Century she Only in the last throes of imperialistic thinking could Large symphonic works still be composed in the Gran d i o s e glorifying mans heroic deeds but anyone writing such music today would have to be Sci out of touch with the reality of the atomic miss Pentland received an honorary degree at the thursday afternoon convocation bar admission instruction one Day a the is funded largely by the inter est from Trust funds administered by Buchwald said actor Ney general Howard Pawley told him recently the funds interest yield for 197475 was less than in because of a lower interest rate and because less was invested Trust Harold George the society said 197374 was a Good year for real estate figures for 137576 Arent available Jack the society director of Legal said in an interview the bar admission course includes written court and solicitor procedures and instruction in ethics and re London also said More than half the provinces Law yers have registered for voluntary continuing education a Lack of time and Money has meant his third major Edu eating Community at Hast fared As Public meetings and train ing paraprofessionals Lay men Able to practise one facet of such As writing wills Haven been he but courses have been set up for Legal meetings have been held with Manitoba education department officials toward establishing Legal education in Public schools and lawyers have been sent to Public be Frank Allen is the society new president and a t h u r Rich its vice Pursuit pleases Pawley Manitoba attorney general Howard Pawley said he is pleased the Canadian govern ment is pursuing efforts to have Alexander Kasser sex from Austria to face fraud charges in Kasser is one of three wanted in connection with the controversial multimillion Churchill Forest Indus tries Complex at the questioned by Harry Gra Ham in the legislature thursday Pawley said that the Canad an government has also been working with the Manitoba government to have passers austrian citizenship he said he is pleased external affairs minister Al Lan Maceachen has raised the matter again with austrian officials while he is in ;