Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba T this Winnipeg ambulance struck a pole Enro Ute to a Call during the storm. No one was injured. Teen agers turn out to push a Cruiser car through a flooded area on Concordia Avenue in East Kildonan. Planned Reform in family courts to get St. B test Winnipeg free press City news thursday june 10, 1976 2nd class mail registration number 0286 for Comfort convenience and Economy travel the Canadian press a Bill to allow creation of a unified family court sys tem in Southeastern Manitoba was introduced in the Legisla Ture for second Reading wednesday by attorney general Howard Pawley. Or. Pawley said the pro posed amendments to the Queen s Bench act will allow the Federal and provincial governments to launch the project in the St. Boniface county court District. The Long awaited Experiment is expected to begin this fall and last three years. The attorney general said he Hopes it will Lead to unified family courts throughout Manitoba and re place an archaic and fragmented system badly in need of Reform. At present different aspects of family Law arc under the jurisdiction of fam ily courts county courts and the Manitoba court of Queen s Bench and a Solu woman stabbed times 20 a 31-year-old Man was u appear in court thursday charged in connection with a stabbing incident at a Furby Street address just before Midnight wednesday. A Winnipeg police spokes Man said a22-year-old woman received shallow w o u n is when she was stabbed 20 times with a Par ing knife. She was treated in Hospital then allowed to go Home. Two other men were detained overnight and scheduled to appear in court thursday on assault charges in connection with separate Early morning incidents. In one a 32-year-old Man was treated for a Cut Eye after he was involved in a . Fight in the Oxford hotel 216 notre Dame ave nue. A 33-year-old Man was arrested. A 28 year old woman required nine stitches to close a forehead Cut received when she was struck with a pot during a Domestic quarrel at a Kennedy Street address about . A 40-year-old Man was arrested. Tion of some family disputes requires actions in More than one of the courts. What the government is proposing in the Bill now be fore the House is an Exten Sion of the Powers of county court judges to allow them to hear a wider variety of family Law cases. The Manitoba Experiment is to be financed partly with Federal funds. Or. Pawley said Ottawa has agreed to pay half the Cost of any additional expenses although it turned Down a request to pay half of the Over All court costs involved. Under the Bill a commit tee consisting of the division Al court administrator and persons appointed by the fed eral minister of Justice the attorney general and the family Law subsection of the Manitoba bar association will help evaluate the project and make recommendations to the two Levels of govern ment. The St. Boniface division includes All areas of the province South of the trans Canada Highway and East of the red River including part of the City of Winnipeg. Only Icse opposition la spoke on the Bill during wednesday s debate. Harry Graham pc Bir Lle Russ cell suggested that persons involved in court cases be Given the option of h a v i n g their cases heard under the existing courts sys tem instead of the proposed unified one. Storm collapses roof injuring workers a Brief but damaging storm sent three Winnipeg men to Hospital wednesday afternoon. The three men were removing cars from under a Crumb Ling ceiling at Carter motors Portage Avenue and scr Brook Street when the violent rainstorm made the roof Cave in. Dale 19. Of 136 Kings drive was in fair Condi Tion at the health sciences Centre thursday. Loren Nelson. 25. Of 5 spine drive in St. Vital was in fair Condi Tion and Lohn Kozachok. 50 was seated and released. Plaster started falling irom the ceiling before the a c i d c n to according to Bill Harding one of seven men working near the front of the 25-year-old building. Rather than leave they started mov ing cars out of the new car area to avoid damage. We could see water com ing through the veiling and the plaster was sagging real bad or. Harding said. Then All of a sudden the roof fell w i Ali i n minutes police. I in trucks and ambulances arrived at the scene. A Pas Serby reportedly Liel Ped dig through the rubble replaced later by Lour firefighters. A police spokesman said the Flat ceiling which col Lincoln parents refused intervention in Transfer lapsed also took water from a dome on the roof. At least three new cars were buried beneath the rub a 1 c according to Carter motors employee Roland Berube. Lie did t know How much damage was done to the building or if it was insured. Two cars parked on the Street were extensively dam aged by falling bricks. Also two trailer sales lots in West Winnipeg which received an estimated s33.000 damage were among the worst hit by the storm. Everything that did t get hit sunday got hit Allan Southby owner of Birchwood trailer sales and rentals. Jisoo Portage Avenue said. We be got about s25.000 damage to add onto Sun Days he said after wednesday s rain storm. A windstorm s u n d a y caused about s10u.ooo damage. He said the two storms have hampered camper trailer sales and they arc now two weeks behind in moving trailers on the lot. The storms will definitely hurl us because this is the time of year we make our living Southby lamented. Trn pcs will have to sell at reduced prices. Outdoor Leisure land of Manitoba ltd., across the Street from or. Sout Liby received about to damage manager Bob Sands says. At least 12 of our camper tops arc ruined and that s s700 each right or. Sands feared his Busi Ness trailer would turn Over. It was really Windy and the trailer was rocking. It was so bad that signs from the Gas station across the Street went whipping Down the Street so fast you could hardly see them. In the North end of the City a 10 Square Yard Section of Street near 3so Parr Street caved in. Leaving a car Hung up. A police spokesman said t h c eight foot Hole was caused by eroding the foun Dation under the pavement. "1 was just walking by when i heard a loud Sandy k u z d u b recalled. When 1 turned to look at the Street. 1 saw a in the downtown area Resi dents of the Cotter Block at 207 fort Street had to be evacuated because of water seepage through the roof. A police spokesman said the residents would move to hotels. A Winnipeg weather office spokesman said the storm from about to . Brought an Inch of rain and winds up to 80 Kilometres 50 Miles an hour. Light Hail hit Winnipeg International Airport. Hail stones As big us Golf balls were reported in Charles Wood and the Western part of is James Assiniboia. The spokesman said. Wednesday s storm was t As violent As sundays which brought 100 Kph winds and about the same amount of rain he said. Manitoba 11 y d r o spokes Man Don Comstock said the storm knocked out service for about 95 customers near St. Mary s Road and the Peri in c t e r Highway. St. Vital from to . Another outage about 3 . In the Buffalo place area of fort Garry lasted about two minutes except ironically at Federal Pio Neer limited an electrical equipment manufacturer at 101 Rockman Street. Partial Power had been restored by late wednesday afternoon. Or. Comstock said. A Winnipeg Hydro spokesman said no major problems were reported. Stan Lewis supervisor of streets for Winnipeg s works and operations department said the North main and Mcphillips Arlington a n d Pembina Highway Osborne Strcic underpasses were closed briefly due to flooding. Tin Kingston How under pass had High water but. Was t closed. Or. Lewis said. The department s Emer gency services division received about 20 reports of flooded basements. A Manitoba Telephone sys tem spokesman said water leaking into a Cable caused an outage for about 50 por Tage la Prairie Man., Resi dents Between 3 and 4 . A n o l h e r outage affected about 100 people in Elie Man. Difficulties in Winnipeg were caused by the High number of local Calls be tween 3 and g ., he said. 3 ice keeps seat in Wildwood vote despite protests from parents of Lincoln school c h i d r c n St. James Assiniboia school Board does t plan to intervene in the Transfer of principal John Neufeld out of the school. Trustee Ron Johnson said in an interview wednesday the Board reviewed the mat Ter privately and decided not to change its mind. A delegation representing 264 families protested the Transfer to Board members tuesday. They were told or. Neu Feld asked in writing to be transferred but suspected he had been forced to write the letter. Or. Neufeld who has spent More than .1.0 years at the school could lose pay be cause of the Transfer. The residents asked the Board for a private in camera meeting to discuss the situation but were re fused. Trustee Johnson said the Board believes the parents had no More right to a meet Ang on a personnel matter than any other members of the Public. Such a practice would jeopardize the Board s relationship vhf All its employees he said. Trustee Johnson also said if or. Neufeld has a grievance he should pursue it through the Manitoba teach ers society. Or. Neufeld who had Little to say in an interview tues Day declined comment wednesday on any aspects of the incident. Residents concede defeat in rail terminal Battle by Esther Tennenhouse free press staff writer construction of a Canadian National railways piggyback terminal at Wilkes Avenue and Kenaston Boulevard has gone into High gear. Its opponents have unhappily conceded their fight is Over. It looks like it s Cut and dried and All our meetings were useless a waste of said Ted Varc Lalos who claims his Home on Mccreary drive on the West Border of the terminal will be devalued. Tenders for grading and drainage on the 212-Acrc site were called tuesday but heavy equipment has been doing rough work and laying gravel ballast for the Termi Nal line for the past week. Work is still proceeding without a City building per Mit which the City s executive policy committee has or d e r e d withheld the in is actually acting on its pro native As a Crown corporation which allows it legally to proceed within City limits without a building per Mit City Hall officials say. But City Hall Hast formally acknowledged the conclusion of the location Issue despite a Federal Cabinet order last summer giving the go ahead for the project. City is playing Ostrich one City Hall official said of the current situation. A in spokesman said wednesday the railway still w ants to divert Wilkes around the terminal lines and is ready to pay the estimated Cost. Workers appear to have surveyed the diversion but the railway must have City per Mission before the Road can be touched. The situation appear to be at what one source called a mexican standoff. The railway Lias already applied to the Canadian transport commission f o r permission to build two level Crossings on Wilkes As an alternative to the diversion. A spokesman f o r the City s Board of commissioners said the City will appear before the commission on the Issue this week. He declined to comment on the City s report which has t yet been consid ered in committee. The diversion proposal had earlier been turned Clown by the City s environment com m i 11 e c because approval would have been tantamount to approving the piggyback location. But Deputy mayor Bernie Wolfe Independent citizens election committee Transcona said the diversion has been recommended in the past by the City s transportation research Branch and makes All the traffic sense in the world with or without the a in official wednesday estimated the terminal would divert about 100 trucks a Day from Portage Avenue by Cli minting the need to truck goods from downtown to the West end. The piggyback location had been opposed by a number of residents worried about in creased traffic in the Tuxedo facts of the operation residential area and other of it became dark As night in mid afternoon As a thunderstorm moved in photo by Gerry Cairns on Winnipeg wednesday catching Many people in downpour. By Ron Campbell free press staff Reid ruler insurance agent Donald b. Smith handily won the civic by election in fort Garry s Wildwood Ward wednesday beating his opponent by 492 votes. Or. Smith running for City Council s dominant Independent citizens election Coin in i 11 e c Drew 1.329 votes while Brian Gudmunds ii got 837. The Victor restores ice numbers to 25 on the 51 member Council. There arc 1 j independents 10 new democrats one from the labor election committee and one from the civic re form coalition or. Gud Midson worked for Wildwood Cuc candidate Hank Mcshan in the 1974 civic election but ran As an Independent in the by exec Tion. The Voles cast Wert 40.8 or cent of the Eli Gible to vote in the Ward which is bounded by pm b i n a Highway the red River Merriam Boulevard and Adamar Road. Though both candidates campaigned intensively door to door and judging from the voter turnout created More than usual interest for a municipal by election there was Little Media attention Given to it. We were trying to keep it in the or. Smith said at his election night was strictly a Wildwood Ward or. Smith .51, of 106 Riley Crescent. Fort Garry estimated he met about 38 per cent of the voters in his four week Campaign. It was the first Lime he or or. Gud Mundson. 28, of 241. Wildwood Park had sought political of ice. But the ice candidate was no Novice lie has been no Okay for bread Rise yet Winnipeg bread prices May Rise if the Federal anti inflation Board approves requests for increases in the whole Sale Oread Price a spokes Man for Weston bakeries in Winnipeg said thursday. The spokesman said Wes Lon s applied several weeks Ngo Tor ;