Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news january 1977 cuss mail restitution number Highway collision kills 3 three people were killed and four injured in a three vehicle collision on the Tran Canada Highway tues Day night about 17 Miles West of two of the injured Are in guarded condition in Brandon Hospital and one is in critical a fourth per son is under ramp Are withholding the names of the dead and injured pending notification of next of an ramp spokesman said one of the three cars involved was carrying Saskatchewan licence he said the car carried five peo three of them being the spokesman said the Saskatchewan car was tra Velling West on the trans Canada at about 7 when it collided Headon with an other car travelling the Lone occupant of that car is in guarded condition in Brandon the spokesman said a third travelling collided with the other the Lone occupant of that car is under observation in bran Don visibility on the Highway was poor at the time of the Accident due to falling and blowing by Jim Haggarty school of Art director Al Hammer displays one of 600 Fitzgerald sketches Given to the u of m plans Lemoine Fitzgerald Centre the school of Art at the University of Manitoba is setting up a study Centre with diaries and working drawings of Winnipeg Painter Lemoine travel photographs and a 1954 painting titled autumn sonata were left to the u n i v e r s i t y by Fitz Geralds Patricia Morrison of who died last Ted Thomas of win who was cataloguing other Fitzgerald work when she recently received permission from her heirs to hand 619 working drawings Over to the people think Fitzgerald want very prolific but the drawings we and have indicated he did an enormous amount of said Helen who is responsible for organizing the matting and cataloguing of three plastic bags full of sheets and bits of paper and the which Date Back to 1907 when Fitzgerald was reemphasize the a t i s t s careful attention to clearly pre Paratory Coy he never threw anything the value of the bequest has not been Coy the working draw Ings were not meant for Sale or Public Fitzgerald w o u have had a fit if he thought any one would show them for Coy Market values of his finished draw Ings now Range from to and his oils have sold for up to Al Art school Dir says the school has asked the Winnipeg foundation for financial help to prepare the a foun Dation spokesman has indicated that the foundation is Likely to be sympathetic to wards the he the school plans to publish some of the material in a future Lemoine who died in was principal of the Art school from 1929 to 1949 and taught there for 24 in 1932 he was invited to become the ninth member of the group of he is familiar to gallery goers for paintings of Winnipeg Back Yards and almost still lifes and a in Honor of the University Centennial gallery the schools own Art gallery is mounting a show of Fitz Gerald work to open March Nineteen paintings and several some Bor rowed from the National Gal Lery of the Klein Burg museum and the Ontario gallery of Art and will be some builders to go metric new years Day 78 architects and engineers designing government build Ings to be tendered after 1978 will have to learn to talk Manitoba Public works minister Russell Doern said tuesday provincial govern ment departments and Agen cies will be required to pre p a r e contract documents using Only metric measure he said the first such building will Likely be the provincial judges court building in downtown win new years was set As May at a meeting o f Federal and provincial Public works ministers in Quebec City last Doern by that time All Federal and provincial governments Hope to have gained support for metric Doern said requiring contract documents in metric measurements is one of the cheaper aspects of metric he said it want nearly As expensive As some thing like changing All the Highway some of the metric measurements wont be used be cause materials sized metrically wont be he it will be in effect a metric measurement that will later be translated to the Imperial or English Doern said govern ment use of the metric sys tem will help provide a mar k e t for manufacturers of building materials who Are changing to metric he added the move was supported by the Winnipeg builders Exchange and the Canadian construction the move to metric was he because of International Trade commitments and because the Federal government was committed to the new sys Doern said the United states was moving towards the metric system though Congress had not yet passed any alcohol no excuse in judges eyes study a University of Manitoba study linking alcohol abuse to crime has found that judges in Winnipeg tend neither to accept alcohol abuse As an excuse nor to impose harsher sentences simply because of a drinking the conducted last summer by Law professor Michael Park and three Law found that alcohol was a Factor in 57 per cent of about crimes commit Ted by 465 Park said tuesday that the finding is Only an indication of the role of alcohol in crime because 90 per cent of offenders Are never therefore it int known whether they a More conclusive finding of the was that judges in two court rooms of provincial judges court in the Public safety building Are pretty Well to tally consistent in their Atti tude to the offender and his involvement with Park the judges responses to a Survey administered by the researchers indicated that they we rent going to Pun ish a person Over and above his crime because he was drunk or on Bat they we rent going to let him Oil lightly either because be was under the although alcohol can be a mitigating Factor in sentence look at the whole not just the presence of alcohol or Park a heavy Drinker with a re Cord of trying to overcome the problem through education or treatment was found to be less Likely to be jailed than a person with no alcohol prob Lem who committed a Simi Lar heavy drinkers eleven per cent of offend ers with no previous of Lences who had an alcohol problem were while 64 per cent without quor problems got fines were issued to 76 per cent of the drinkers and 22 per cent of the nou four per cent of the drinkers went to jail for first offences none of the 11011 drip bikers offenders with driving or liquor offence records received no but 66 per cent of those who had drinking problems were while 86 per cent of those without alcohol problems were eleven per cent of the drinkers and seven per cent i the no drinkers went to four per cent of drinkers and of no drinkers who had lengthy criminal records got absolute but 56 per cent of the drinkers in this group were com pared with 23 per cent of the jail sentences were handed to 25 per cent of the drinkers in this group and to 42 per cent of the Uon or what it As far As were is that where youre dealing with Petty criminals or people with no they Are less Morton named Chancellor of Trent University Canad an historian and native Man will become Chan cellar of Trent july he has been appointed for a three year succeeding senator Eugene Morton was born la in graduated from the University of Manitoba and was a Rhodes scholar in he taught history at Johns United College now the University of Brandon College now bran Don the univer sity of and treat Likely to be sent to less Likely to be punished severely if there not involved with alcohol at the time of their offence than a person who is involved with Alco Park the More hardened Crimi the person with the lengthy is Given the Benefit of the if theres evidence Hes doing something about his drinking what the judges seem to be saying if 1 Send you to Reading Ley for 18 youre not going to get any its not going to help your it May Only make it on the other if i give you a suspended sentence or put you of probation in the care of one of the agencies Deal ing with they will treat and because you have been attempting to Deal with your in not going to put the screws on you in not going to throw away the of the other the judges tend to look at the Guy without a drinking prob Lem Aud say you dont even have the excuse of Aud that Why in going to sentence jail sentences offences involved in the Survey included As in decent alcohol and driving dangerous breaches of the liquor control soliciting and Possession of dangerous Park said be thinks consistency among judges whose courts were surveyed was because they Are a very close knit there Good friends off the Bench As Well As on the they meet at least half a dozen times a year for sen t e n c i n g where discuss give Situa Ioas and the sentences they would if they dont agree they argue it out until they All do Park said this makes for a system which avoids the obvious flaw of being in one of the quickest ways of bringing your sys tem of Justice into disrepute is to hand out unequal sentences for equal peo ple lose All respect for this kind of a judicial in Winnipeg they avoid this problem and that where 90 per cent of our criminal Justice is the research project was financed by a Grant from the directorate 00 the nonmedical use of drugs in the Federal health depart Park he said that when it was he seat copies of his report to the directorate with a re quest Lor an indication on How it was the re port was never even a when Park finally wrote saying he bad about of the Grant left Over and didst know where to Send he was told to do whatever he wanted with Park spent the Money on 50 additional copies of the 82 Page commission is told peat fires ignored by Robert w1elaard the lawyer representing the estate of a couple that died in a 19 traffic Accident on a smoke shrouded Highway near said tuesday the province has failed to take firm action to prevent similar Frank Cvitkovich told the Manitoba clean environment commission smoke from peat fires on Fields near highways is killing this is a k o v i t c h and what bothers me is that its hard to see that anything is being done about the fires other than that a few smoke warning signs Are being erected on the High Cvitkovich represents the estate of John and Anne a Winnipeg who died in a seven vehicle Accident 19 on the Tran Canada Highway near the Accident involved a passenger bus and at least six persons were in positive action should be taken Clit Kovitch he said he was speaking on behalf of the such action would mean eliminating the peat fires or by providing at the minimum a constant smoke patrol on the he made his comments to the Manitoba clean Environ ment commission which is currently winding up its pub Lic hearings into the effects peat fires have on human health and traffic conditions on Southern Manitoba High Why has the Richer fire not been put Cvitko Vitch the fire which started last fall is still Smol it now is Between seven and 10 Miles although Farmers Burn their Fields every last year the fires ran out of control because of the extreme1 dry Al though the provincial depart ment of agriculture advises Farmers not to far mers say it is an economic necessity for them to Clear the peat bogs which in spots can be up to ten feet also at tuesdays hear a member of t h e faculty of agriculture of the University of said Farmers Are often forced to Burn because they Lack the Money to remove the bogs Daryl Kraft said contrary to common belief it is economically viable to use machines to remove the peat and usually the Cost can be recovered in three to four but Farmers Are often faced with a Cash flow prob Kraft Sug Gesting perhaps they could be provided with funds for the purpose of buying equip the smoke from peat fires created hazardous driving particularly Dur ing the months of october and november of last according to the provincial highways department at least 203 vehicles were involved in accidents in that period with property damage exceeding the clean environment commission has in the past two months at Public hear Ings heard conflicting Testi Mony from doctors As to whether or not the smoke poses a health the peat fires produce thick smoke columns that hang Low Over highways often reducing visibility to one Man involved in the 19 Accident near Richer told the clean environment commission tuesday he was hit not just once but two or three after the first he he got out of the car to help his Mother out and As he walked around the car it was hit and hit the clean environment commission will make re commendations to the provincial government later this year regarding the peat subsequent legislation could possibly require More stringent regulations regard ing the issuing of burning the hearings will continue 31 if 1 at the commissions 139 Tuxedo to hear from officials in the department of the forestry Protection Branch and a commercial peat office smoking legalities probed Manitoba health depart ment is looking at the legalities of discouraging smoking in offices and other Public health minister Larry Desjardins said tues he was commenting on the Ontario governments plan to ask employers to provide incentives for employees not to smoke during working hours and to provide cessation clinics and Desjardins said no decision should be made on the matter until Legal experts in his department have report Ontario guidelines Haven yet been made Public but it has been suggested they would Call on employers to let employees who now smoke on the Job have Short cigarette Breaks in a non working area designated for the Ontario guidelines for schools suggest no smoking in lecture libraries or metropolitan Andrew Ceattie the grand Blessing of the Waters at the holy Trinity Ukrain Ian greek orthodox Church on main a by Dave Johnson left and very Zeroisky assisted at the ceremony on the eve of the feast of ;