Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wijt mpg free press City news Friday october 29, 1976 2nd class mail registration number 0266 French school Start expected after 18 months of controversy and two court Rul Ings construction is expected to begin monday on a French school in St. Norbert but on a different location than originally planned. T r u s t e e Bill Grossman chairman of the Seine River school Board said thursday his division has agreed to Purchase a three acre parcel of land at the Corner of Landry Street and Dike Road from the order of oblate fathers for the new site is a few blocks North of the location the school Board initially had in mind for the French school. Or. Grossman said in an interview the Purchase Price of for the new site won t affect total construction costs of the school As the new location makes for cheaper construction. He added the Public schools finance Board has Al ready approved the construction costs of the school scheduled to open next sep tember with a capacity for 300 students from Kin Gergar ten to Grade 9. The decision to build the French school created considerable controversy in the past 18 months in the school division. Under pressure from different groups the school Board changed its mind several times on construction of the school. Finally late last year a group of St. Norbert Resi dents asked tiie department of education to let their Community join the neighbouring fort Garry school division. The department declined and the group took its cause before the courts. A county court judge allowed the Transfer of land a decision later overruled by the Mani Toba court of Appeal. Finally in june the mat Ter indirectly led to a move on the part of one school trustee to oust Seine River superintendent o f schools Normand Boisvert. Chc hinders free operation knew official a. The the former railway car of sir John Macdonald n lifted by Crane at Nairn Avenue overpass thursday morning to be taken to the Winnipeg Supply Yard. Two cranes with 60 and 85 ton capacities were needed to move the by Paul Delest rail car which has been bought by the president of Winnipeg Supply and fuel company limited. More National Revenue needed mayor municipal financial collapses feared by Paul Stanway some Canadian towns and cities could face new York style financial collapse with in five years if municipal governments Are denied a greater share of National Revenue. Mayor Dan Munroe of Glace Bay . President of the federation of Canadian municipalities claimed thursday. Mayor Munroe said municipal governments could t be expected to survive unless new sources of income were opened to pay for the Ever More expensive services they provided. He was in Winnipeg for a meeting with premiered Schreyer As part of a federa Tion Campaign to drum up support for a National Confer three City councillors object to paper s demoted description r r three Winnipeg City councillors objected thursday to the word demoted used in connection with their names wednesday in a free press article about committee memberships at City Hall. T h e article dealt with members of City Council s majority Independent i i. I z e election committee caucus named for places on Council s four standing committees for the coming year. Councillors Norm Stapon Kildonan and Eldon Ross i c e c s t. James Assiniboia said thursday they had been moved from civic executive policy committee the top City Hall political body next to Council itself to works and operations committee at their own request. The word demoted was used below their pictures which appeared with the article. Coun. Roy Parkhill ice Park the word demoted was used in connection with his Transfer from works and operations committee t o environment committee also said this was an incorrect description. "1 happen to think it s just the other Way he said in an interview describing it As the Best senior committee other than pc f executive policy commit he said it was his first Choice and it was Only be cause of the scramble and the draw so to speak that he was put on works and operations committee last year. In a letter to mayor Steve Juba read to policy commit tee and distributed to news Media members present coun. Ross said it was Well known to the mayor coun c i 11 o r s of All political stripes and certain news men that he regarded his policy committee Post As a temporary and had always planned to return to works and operations committee. Of did not consider this move As a step Down or a step he wrote. He had been brought to policy committee to replace former councillor Dick wan k i i. N g who resigned last March. In an emotional address to the committee coun. Ross said he had been plagued with sneering comments about demotion since the wednesday article which he said was unfair in View of his Public service. He criticized free press City Hall reporter Ron Camp Bell for the article demand ing a Public apology from him and a retraction from the newspaper. In an interview outside the committee room coun. Sta Pon said that two months ago he asked ice caucus chair Man coun. Bui Hallonquist St. For selection to works and operations committee or the Winnipeg enterprises corporation Board. The caucus which in prac Tice makes the committee selections each year tries to accommodate each councillor s preference coun. Slap on said. Ence on the division of Canada s Public revenues. There have already been two Tri level government conferences on the Issue. In april 1973, the three Levels of government Federal provincial and municipal agreed to the establishment of a task Force on Public finance. The task Force spent and two years pre paring the first National assessment of Public Revenue. Its members found Canada had ample Public Revenue with most of the Money going to Federal and Provin Cial governments. The municipal govern ments want to change that situation but to do it they have to get agreement from the other two Levels of government. Or. Munroe says the Feder Al government is willing to participate in a National con Ference on the division of Public finance. The Provin Cial governments had also expressed willingness until a sudden change of heart at the Kingston conference of provincial municipal affairs ministers n August. Without warning they cooled on a National approach to Public finance re form or. Munroe said. He is setting up meetings with All premiers to find out w Here provincial govern ments stand. He met with Al Berta Premier Peter Lough eed on tuesday. After a 45-Minulc meeting with or. S c h r e y e r and Urban affairs minister Saul Miller or. Munroe said both premiers said they would prefer regional discussion of the task Force findings. "1 Don t know How you Dis cuss a National report Region ally. That should be quite interesting. I Don t know what the provincial people Are thinking. The Fate of Munici pal government is at stake or. Munroe said. Many municipalities Are suffering problems already and within the next five years i think we could see the demise of municipal government in the municipal representatives wanted new forms of tax open to them which would make them less dependent on increases in property tax. Without new sources of Revenue perhaps a share in provincial sales tax their president sees higher property taxes As the Only alternative to drastic cuts in services. By Glen Mackenzie knew housing corporation wants to operate without a Central mortgage and hous ing corporation Grant but Chc is hindering that Effort Stan Fulham knew s general manager said thursday. Or. Fulham said he met with Chc president Ray hessian in Winnipeg two weeks ago. Chc said it could renew knew s operating Grant in 1975 but would provide it tinder the Public housing Section of the National housing act he said. He said he was told knew would t get the million housing loan it applied for unless the Grant was accepted and Public housing regulations applied to knew s operation. Or. Fulham also said he was tol3 the fund from which the yearly Grants came in almost empty. Knew is a non profit hous ing corporation. Started in Winnipeg in 1970 it has bought about 120 houses for needy native families Here a 11 to u g h no houses have been bought in the past year. Chc loaned knew Money at preferred rates to buy the houses. If the Stock could be increased to 250 or 300 houses rents could re place the operating Grant he said. Or. Fulham said Chc s aim is to put knew on an equal basis with other Public housing projects. This would mean a family whose income is More than four and a half times the rent could t live there he said. Meeting Chc s require ments would turn the opera Tion into Public housing and knew into a slum landlord he charged knew wants to operate on the same terms As in 1970. The object is to provide a stable family life with the possibility some residents will Start making payments to buy the House after five years he said. Only about 30 per cent of residents Are Wel fare recipients he said. Rents have just been in creased to an average of from a month. Or. Fill Ham estimates about 15 per Stan Fulham cent of residents could afford mortgage payments Chc maintains it does t have the documents regarding eventual Sale of some of the houses he said. Knew has considered Bor rowing from private lenders to buy houses at conventional interest rates and could do it if necessary or. Fulham said. 2 charged in attacks against two girls 15 two men appeared tues to a y in provincial judges court charged in connection with sexual attacks Early saturday on two 15-Ycar-Oid girls. Alan Avrom Jeroff. 23, of 800 airlines Street West Kil Donan has been charged with rape and Gross in decency. Saul Edward Encl 23, of 91 Forest Park drive. West Kildonan has been charged with indecent assault. After his appearance in court or. Engel was charged with rape and Gross indecency in connection with an incident oct. 7 involving a 21-year-old woman. Or. Engel appeared wednesday on the second set of charges before a Magis trate who released him on a surety. Both men were remanded to nov. 2. When or. Engel first appeared in court. Judge Samuel Minuk granted a non publication order on the re quest of defence counsel g. Greg Brodsky. Judge Minuk rescinded the order thursday. Judges Don t have the authority to prohibit the publication of an accused s name or the offence he s charged he said later. This information is Public record and should be Avail Able to reporters or the pub Lic he said. The decision to rescind the non publication o r d e r was made after judge Minuk met thursday morning with Fel Low judges. Pepin to meet trustees Federal anti inflation Board chairman Jean Luc Pepin has told Manitoba school trustees hell meet with them next week to discuss his re cent decision to Grant Mani Toba teachers their annual salary increments in addition to pay raises. T h e meeting will take place in Ottawa although no Dale has been set yet a spokesman for the Manitoba association of school trustees said thursday. The trustees say they Lap peal or. Pepin s decision to Grant teachers annual increments As Well As regular pay increases because they claim it would Cost Mani Toba taxpayers about million this year. The Board excluded the increments from the anti inflation guidelines in a ruling affecting about teachers in the St. James Assiniboia school division. It s thought the ruling will apply to the slightly More t h a n Public school teachers in Manitoba eligible this year for salary increments because of service re cords. The i n c r e m e i i s alone would mean pay raises for these teachers ranging from 3.-1 to 9.s per cent the trustees say. T h e Manitoba teachers society has charged that the trustees arc trying to Cut teacher salaries even beyond the intent of the guidelines. Central Park pathways Widen to establish skating ring executive recommends six Man ethics probe a six Man commission to recommend ethical guide lines for Winnipeg civic ser vants and councillors was approved thursday by civic executive policy committee. The proposal now will go to City Council for consideration. Sept. Council approved by a vote of 25 to is a to lion by councillor Brian Cor Rin new democratic party Midland for such an in dependent commission. Hugh Saunderson former University of Manitoba pics i d e n to recommended As chairman has agreed to serve. The other members if Council approves would be former Manitoba chief jus Tice c. Rhodes Smith lawyer and Manitoba Law Reform commission chairman prank Mulloon lawyer and former City councillor Jim Smith e 1 s w o o d Bole executive director of the former metro Politan corporation of greater Winnipeg and r. E. Lane of the Campbell Lane and Haliburton estate firm. Workers began modifying pathways in Central Park in downtown Winnipeg this week to make Way for an Oval skating rink. Olie Johanson general superintendent of inner City Parks said thursday the pathways Are being widened to 15 feet and the ground is being levelled to make a proper surface for flooding. The City plans to erect a portable heated shelter in the Park for skaters but there s been no decision yet on whether music will be provided. About has been budgeted for the modification work and maintenance of the Oval rink or. Johanson said. The project is a new idea spurred by the limited number of recreation and Parks facilities in the area. There Aren t any plans at present to establish similar rinks in other Parks because most of these Are located in areas where there Are alter native recreation facilities or. Johanson said. Central Park is bounded by Edmonton and Carlton streets and Cumberland and in Appelle avenues. Cecil Sanderson a City Parks and recreation employee photo by Dave Bonner uses a Tod cutting machine to Start work on ,1 skating rink ;