Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Barbara Cansino hats off to Mao in january external affairs minister Don Jami son took a delegation of people from Canada to peking in an Effort to increase business Between China and Canada. All kinds of people went along for the ride mandarins and their wives officials and journalists. The Toronto symphony orchestra was there too. What was it like the weather was cold As cold As Toronto but with no Snow just dust. Of carts and bicycles Are the main form of locomotion but the canadians Rode round in cars which had curtains. Some chinese men Wear the fur Mao style hats but most Wear a Moulon looking Cap. The women Wear kerchiefs. How come the women Don t Wear the fur one Canadian asked an interpreter. Of they re beginning they re the interpreter said. What did the canadians do in peking they saw the great Wall of China the Ming tombs and they went shopping. Shopping what do you bring Home for the kids from peking bargains. Shopping takes place in the Friendship store in Pek ing. No chinese Are allowed just foreign said a traveller. The canadians in peking bought bolts of silk at a Yard warm Cotton padded jackets for Cashmere sweaters for businessmen favored bolts of Cashmere at or a Yard to make suits and Coats. The most popular Purchase was the Mao style fur hat. The Muskrat ones at sold out right away. But the Black Rabbit one at a Mere is very Nice too. It is thick and Silky with ear flaps tied up on top and a face Flap with press studs. Inside on the Label it says Zolo Titaya la Tochka which is russian for Golden he Trade name and underneath that it says peking China in russian. Business is business. Marriages implicit in marriage is the possibility of divorce. It s the times we live in. This trend to divorce is no where More evident than in the new York times social announcements always so much fun to read. They arc even More fun than they used to be because they arc longer. The reason they re longer is because tacked on to the regular curriculum Vita of miss so and so s Day school and Etudes in Switzerland and medieval history at Bryn mawr and the Mayflower Grandfather is the Litany of former husbands and wives at the end of the item. Just for example Lake the recent announcement of Natalie Tanzer s engagement to Tudor Gardiner the usual thing in unusual times. The last paragraph or. Gardiner an alumnus of the Groton school graduated Summa cum lauds from Harvard College where was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has a degree also from Harvard Law school and a . In classical philology from Harvard University. He is descended from Sylvester Gardiner one of the original proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase in Maine. Or. Gardiner s first marriage ended in divorce As did his second to or. To Cilcy Albright the skating Champion who became a name Dropper. Collections in Winnipeg the cruellest month is a toss up Between february and March. The first Snow Long ago now is always a Joy fresh and clean new and Beautiful and fun a Challenge to the senses and stamina of skaters skiers walkers and Sho Vellers. The thrill peaks in december. A White Christmas is something we have that South americans Don t. By february the whole thing has called. Too cold for too Long and the while has turned to ice and Grey. By March the whole thing s a Bane and the psychiatrists arc booked. There Are one or two ways of avoiding the shrink Al this time of year. The first is to go away to a warm climate. The second is suicide. The third is to take Refuge in Hope Hope based on reflection reflection based on the thoughts and deeds of less shallow per sons. This is where collections come in. There Are a variety of things that people collect butterflies Stamps coins and clocks. These pursuits have their rewards but they Don t do the february March Rescue trick. One Winnipeg Man has a collection which works. Every time he reads a Book of any description he types out those passages he most enjoyed the funniest or the most moving or the most beautifully expressed or the most profound. He collects them and puts them in a Black Binder. The Binder contains quotations from Plato and Stephen Leacock Aristo Phanes and Woody Allen Anne Frank and . Lawrence in March he finds Solace in the prologue to the autobiography of Bertrand Russell. It is called what i have lived for three passions simple but overwhelmingly Strong have governed my life the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of Mankind. These passions like great winds have blown me hither and thither in a wayward course Over a deep Ocean of anguish reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love first because it brings ecstasy ecstasy so great that i would often have sacrificed All the rest of life for a few hours of this Joy. I have sought it next because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks Over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally because in the Union of love i have seen in a Mystic miniature the pre figuring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what i sought and though it might seem too Good for human life this is what at last i have found. With equal passion i have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know Why the stars Shine. And i have tried to apprehend the pythagorean Power by which number holds Sway above the flux. A Little of this but not much i have achieved. Love and knowledge so far As they were possible led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me Back to Earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine victims tortured by oppressors helpless old people a hated Burden to their sons and the whole world of loneliness poverty and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I Long to alleviate the evil but i cannot and i too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it Worth living and would gladly live it again if the Chance were offered let it Snow. Winnipeg free press tuesday March 7, 1978 City news 2nd class mall registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless eager and perhaps a bit nervous Young voices from Transcona s Harold Hatcher elementary school Grade 4 class strive for their Best stall photo Ever monday in the school choral speech classification in the Manitoba music Competition festival. See Page 10. A Good investment police chief says fund set aside to buy information by Brian Cole the Winnipeg police department pays out As much As a year to buy information on criminal activities chief Norman Stewart revealed monday. The Money is kept in a special account within the department s operating Bud get. Arc made about 25 times a year in amounts thai have ranged from to depending on the information. A s a Good Stewart said adding he wished Council would approve an even bigger chunk of the million operating budget to buy information. It gives us the answers to a lot of crimes that we would t normally sle Warl said every police department has a fund for paying informants. The payments Range from for a tip on a break and enter to for information on important cases such As murders and Bank hold ups. Stewart said police once recovered about Worth of stolen jewelry on a tip. He said Banks and institutions also offer Money for information in the Way of rewards. The biggest pay off was and was made by a private organization for in formation on a series of Bank hold ups a few years ago. The informants May be regular clients of the depart ment or they could be just trying to Cash in on a one time Deal. In one of the most recent cases police paid for information on the rape murder of Edith Mehalo 55, whose naked body was found in a North Winnipeg playground last april. Police had Little to go on until they received information at a Price which so cart said allowed them to head in the right three men have been charged in connection with the incident. Stewart also recalled a murder Case about four years ago which left police puzzled. But an informant tipped off police for a Price and they were Able to make an arrest. Stewart said not All informants want Money. Some tip off police to gain revenge. But they All prefer to re Mam As Anonymous As Possi ble. They Don t like to come into tic police Stewart said. Usually the informants will ask police to meet them Al a certain place Al a set linn1. One Guy phoned up and wanted to out Al by a sejour Man. About -10 Miles North of simple mortgage form is drafted by Law Reform commission by David Lee Manitoba s Law Reform commission has drafted a simplified mortgage form eliminating the redundant and Mambo jumbo words that fill those now in use and cannot be understood by anyone Wilhour Legal training. The proposed new form prepared by Winnipeg lawyer John Deacon is outlined in a working paper made Public monday by the commission. In a statement the commission said the new form is designed to clarify the rights and obligations of All parties to a mortgage contract. By doing this it said some Prol Clion would be available against excessively one sided commission members pointed to one of the mortgage forms now used most frequently As a classic example of incomprehensibility that Breaks All the Normal rules of communication. The sentences wander on interminably incredibly one of them is More than too the com Mission members said. The clauses follow no logical sequence and arc often repetitive the language is ponderous confusing and Replete with redundant and Mambo jumbo the commission has proposed a variety of ways to ensure that the new form conies into common use including a suggestion that District registrars at land lilies offices refuse he registration of any mortgage deviating significantly from the one now proposed. People interested in submitting their views to the commission concerning the proposed new mortgage contract have been urged to do so before May 15. Copies of lie working paper can be obtained at the commis Sion s Winnipeg office. A commission spokesman said monday that once submissions have been reviewed a final draft of the proposed new form will be sent to attorney general Gerry Marc scr for the government s consideration. Local votes restraint threatens lives Doern on new pact members of the International brotherhood of electrical workers local 2363, have voted on a proposed new collective agreement with the Manitoba Telephone system and the results Are expected to be released today. Ibex local 2363, represents about clerical and related workers. Tentative agreement was reached earlier this month on the terms of the new con tract. The workers have just come out of a two year agreement which expired dec.16, 1977. By Mary Ann Fitzgerald former new democratic party Public works minister Russell Doern monday called on Premier Sterling Lyon to abandon restraint policies which he claims endanger residents at the Manitoba school for Retar dates at Portage la Prairie. He s putting dollars ahead of people and dollars ahead of people s lives. In the Case of Portage he has to make sure Iacre Are sufficient. Funds for Slaff and for fire Doern la for Elmwood told a press conference. He was commenting on a report by the school s senior administrators which charges that the health safely and Security of the 900 residents Are in extreme danger because of an acute staff shortage. It Calls for an additional 255 nurses. Health minister l. R. Bud Sherman has denied allegations that the govern ment has t acted on the re port which was leaked to the Media at the weekend. The progressive conservatives attacked Doern Dur ing last fall s election Campaign Afler an inquest re port said eight residents s deaths in a fire last year could have been prevented with proper safety precautions and staff training. Lyon then called for dismissal of Doern and his Deputy minis Ter Marvin Nordman. The conservative government Laler fired Nordman. Doern Lold the press con Ference that to be consistent Lyon should fire Sherman and Public works minister Harry Enns and their a cup lies for putting the govern ment in an untenable Posi Tion regarding the school. Later however Doern said Sherman was Over worked and called on Lyon to Resl Rulure his Cabinet be cause Sherman and Enns and several others had Loo Many portfolios while three ministers had none. Saying he was shocked by the conservatives Campaign attempt to make political Hay out of the Doern denied he was at templing to do the same. The nip Practised restraint in office but made continuous expenditures on the school and consistently reduced the patient staff ratio lie said. He noted that Enns had announced a expenditure on fire safety mechanisms at the school but added the Best form of Prol Clion is 2-1 hour a Day people Protection. Pumps Drain Yard water by Robert Willaard for the past 10 Days the City of Winnipeg has been pumping drainage water from the Yard of the Canad an Pacific railway in Transcona away from Bunn s Creek and into its regular sewage system to Stop any further pollution of the Creek. Although the City has t officially blamed the up rail for the contamination it began pumping shortly after feb. 24 in an Effort to clean up the Stream which runs through East Kildonan into the red River. A City waterworks depart ment lest has found High concentrations of Zinc or Ganic Carbon potassium Iron and sodium in the Creek. In parts the Creek won t freeze Over and where ice has formed it is Yellowish and unstable. The City pump operates 21 hours a Day at the Point where the Yard drains into the Creek. A City employee is in constant attendance. Councillor Harold Piercy Independent Hender said monday he City is Billing the cup for Tho in hour pumping service. Piercy did t know How much the City is charging. Works and operations commission or Nick Diakiw was unavailable for com ment monday. A cup spokesman said he was aware of lie pumping but did t know if the City planned to Bill Hie Corpora Tion. We re not aware that the situation in Bunn s Creek is our Mickey Potoroka a car Public relations officer said. But we re a responsible corporation and if it s our responsibility Well certainly look into he added. At the moment the Only water that runs into the Creek climes from the workers Shower area on the car operates a welding Plant at he Yards. The corporation was old feb. 21 the City would be Selling up a pumping sys tem. Representatives from the City and the car arc scheduled to meet wednesday to discuss the problem. The City pump lifts the car drainage into the waste water system along nearby Lagimodiere Boulevard. But so far the City has t yet indicated who is responsible for the pollution of he Creek. Coun. Piercy said he has an inkling about who contaminates the Creek but won t reveal tile name. In the past the City has investigated other Industrial plants in the area. Only car has a City licence dating Back to 1961, to Drain into the Crock. My position is that car has a licence to allow Runoff water into Bunn s Creek but it does t have a licence to Lei water enter Piercy said Mon Day. Earlier he indicated someone might be using the car Culvert to dump acid waste into the waterway. Dispute Over Telephone pole Anchor wire ombudsman to investigate beef by Brian Cole the provincial ombudsman is investigating a Winnipeg Man s com plaint that a Manitoba Telephone sys tem pole Anchor wire is blocking Access to his properly. George Maltby said he has assigned a member of his Slaff to see if Victor Malos of 712 Toronto so ret has a legitimate complaint. Matos 39, a maintenance Mechanic says an Anchor wire on his property has blocked Access to a strip of land Paral Lello his garage which he wants to use As a driveway for one of his two cars. The Telephone system maintains the Anchor wire is on land it has rights to and will move it Only if Malos pays half the estimated removal Bill. Matos Calls that ridiculous because he says it Means the Utility could dump a pile of rocks on a Public Lane in front of a driveway and charge for removal. Malos says he has received Sev eral parking tickets because he can t find a place to Park his car. We be gone to three lawyers but they say they arc afraid to take them to Malos said. While Maltby said he could t fore cast the outcome of the investigation he said quite honestly splitting the costs does l seem however the ombudsman also said a lot depends on whose land the wire is anchored. Mall by conceded the Telephone sys tem and other utilities May seem to have dictatorial Power in such Inci a cols but said they Are not unreason Able. Recently Manitoba. Hydro paid to remove one its poles after the ombudsman ruled in favor of a complainant. Although Maltby does t have the Power to enforce recommendation he says the utilities arc usually very collection period this week your free press Carrier will be collecting this week for delivery of the free press for two weeks ending saturday March 11 ;