Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday april 18, 1978 1d City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Barbara Cansino the year of the Kite first it looked like the Day of the flying jackal. Sunday afternoon the sky Over Assiniboine Park was full of big Black things with some perched in Trees. On closer inspection they turned out to be kites and not Only Black batwing ones. There were Box ones red ones and White ones Green ones Delta Wing ones Diamond shaped ones and one Indian fighter. There were still Frisbee and footballs dog walkers and Bench Sitters and All the old cyclists from last year s Sekine Peugeot explosion clogging the trails with How was your until they were forced to move on or Duck by Low flying Ever increasingly identifiable Fly ing objects. Kites Are in very in. Creeping capitalism communist China is the latest trendy tourist spot. At first there was a trickle of tourists from the West a few dozen running dogs of imperialist lackeys and capitalist readers tooling on to the Mainland to see this and that and buy silk and Cashmere in the Friendship store of peking. East West North South left right a Good Deal s a Good Deal and the Best of the West has been invited . In Masse if not masses. Next March the Queen Elizabeth 2, the world s largest passenger ship will Dock in China for the first time. There have been inroads before but nothing like this. On past qe3 cruises to the far East the ship has docked in Hong Kong while some passengers flew to the Mainland. Now the chinese have invited the ship to Dock in Dairen Manchuria and All passengers can go ashore the largest group of Western tourists to Ever land in one Load. They will tour peking hang How Shanghai and Dairen. Some will take a three Day two night trip to Canton. The Friendship stores will make a killing Roma and Ostia last year they took 18 people to Greece. This year. David Howorth and John Gahan p professors of classics at the University of Manitoba will take 25 people on a three week summer session in Italy leaving Winnipeg for Rome on May ii. The idea is to visit Sites and museums the forum and Coli scum the pantheon and the Vatican to have free Days for swimming and shopping to go on excursions. To have a Holiday and learn a lot. On the Agenda excursions to Hadrian s Villa in Tivoli Ostia the Bay of Naples Sorrento Pompeii the greek temples nearly Complete in Pac spam Capri and Sicily mount Aetna and the town of Taormina the greek temples of Syracuse Agrigento Sci Lunte Windup in Palermo. The Cost is approximately and that depends on the Way the Dollar says Howorth. It includes air fare hotels two to a breakfast and dinner All transportation and guides. Lunch and entertainment Are extra. The trip can be taken for fun credit. If taken for credit it equals one full course toward a Bachelor of arts degree. Last year most people did not take it for credit. Everybody is Welcome Young people old peo ple ladies and gentlemen students retired people. Starting May 3, Howorth and Gahan will offer two weeks of classes three evenings a week at the univer sity. The two hour classes will include necessary ground material slides films of Sites and a Chance for people to get to know one another. For More information phone John Gahan David Howorth or the University classics department 171 dumb computers first it was chatelaine Magazine of Maclean Hunter with its fake Telegram letter urgently informing that this year s subscription is on the Brink of expiry that old friends can still get 15 issues for a moot offer since old friends have been receiving the Maga Zine unsolicited and free for years now anyhow. Now Maclean s of Maclean Hunter is giving its pitch. The theme of the first letter is magic. It says on the envelope there s magic in the Little letter x. And enclosed is a tiny gift Pencil so you can put the magic to work for that s adorable. As promised there s a Weenie red Pencil inside with a Pink letter that says the dumb computer will soon take your name off Maclean s subscription list. But Don t worry. For a moment there Well give it a punch and it will leave you alone. All you do get that magic Pencil to work. 2-t issues for Only the letter also takes an exploratory Stab at some rhetoric when you think about it you know you want to go right on getting Maclean s right wrong. But so what. The theme of the follow up letter is manifold mys Tery concern fear for the future. The offer is 50% off cover Price. And inside a Box frankly i m rather puzzled. Although we be sent several letters reminding you that your Maclean s subscription is about to expire we Haven t heard a word not even a Peep. Is something yes. But so what. In passant while in this general neck of the Western Woods Premier Peter Lougheed of Alberta bogged off from the Western Premier s conference in visit his daughter Andrea Lougheed an 18-year-old student with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet professional program and take in the Ballet s performance Friday night where he sat incognito looking slightly tired in a Brown pin striped suit slightly not even the Ballet knew he was there. But he thoroughly enjoyed the performance Happy birthday to chief Justice Samuel Fri adman an Aries who became a septuagenarian run april 16. . He turned 70. He had his birthday dinner with his children and grandchildren at Rae and Jerry s. There was a birthday cake in a Jeanne s Box with three candles which he blew out in one swoop and everyone Sang Happy birthday dear Sam Happy birthday to you prizes pay. Annie Hall was never so popular the first time around or even the second. In fact she did t even get to come in the pc Academy awards frenzy. It won Best picture Best actress Best director and Best original screenplay and the line outside Northstar 1 wraps twice round the Block Northern adventure finds old time danger photo by we inc glow am Dave Halley left and Peter Souchuk plan the next half of their trip across Northern Canada from Berens River. By Ron Campbell a close Brush with death on the Athabasca River nights in the North Saskatchewan Bush in the dead of Winter both Are part of the recent adventures of two Young Ameri cans who stopped Over monday in winning. Pausing just Long enough for some Media exposure Peter Souchuk 23, was returning to his family in Chicago and Dave Halsey 21, was going Home to Washington . They were half through a hiking dog sledding canoeing trip across Northern Canada Vancouver to Tadoussac que. Basically we re trying to recapture the Romance of the said Halsey who was realizing a boyhood dream. They wanted to travel and live in the North As the old timers did eating Bannock and Pemmican staying outdoors with Only sleeping bags and Spruce boughs in weather dog sledding by Moonlight through the Bush. Halsey will write a Book on the expedition and Souchuk a photographer will illustrate it with his photos. My idols have always been people like Mackenzie Peter Pond Thompson All the great Canadian explore Halsey said. A former anthropology major at Iowa slate University he quit in 1976 in his Sophomore year to devote full time to the trip. An essential part of the trip was their experience with an outward bound survival school two years ago. As part of the month Long course which each took Long before they knew each other Halsey went Mountain climbing in Colorado and Souchuk went Glacier climbing in Oregon. There was t much Bush lore in the course Halsey said but it taught them something invaluable for survival in the wild the ability to withstand and Block out pain. On the trip noses and tars froze they often were so exhausted after 1-1 hours steady travel they hardly had strength to make Camp and cat and they never could really get comfortable sleeping outside in extreme cold. Halsey began in Vancouver last May to backpacking with three others who soon dropped out to Jasper up the Fraser and North Thompson Rivers. Souchuk joined him near Clearwater b.c., in August after Reading about him in a Magazine. They canned up the Athabasca River toward fort Mcmurray and on oct. I almost met their death 30 Miles from town. It was their third capsize into the cold Athabasca and they d lost a lot of equipment so they spent a half hour in the River s Strong eddies trying to recover what was left. When he made Shore Halsey said he was unconscious and in an advanced state of hypothermia. Souchuk was Deliri Ous. Both were Barefoot and it was snowing. With Halsey in the salvaged tent Souchuk set out walking to fort Mcmurray at night in the Snow. He met a Man with a Jet boat who returned to Rescue Halsey after five hours. Halsey spent a week in fort Mcmurray Hospital and Souchuk was in four Days. Halscy s conclusion the body can put up with 10 times More than you Ever Halsey said doctors thought four to 10 minutes was the longest a person could stay in such cold water and survive. After going to the u.s., they started snowshoeing across the North on . 2. In la Loche in Western Saskatchewan Bey picked up a dog sled and four dogs for arriving april 7 in grand rapids man., they mushed 120 Miles across Lake Winnipeg to Berens River sunday. With Snow too soft and Slushy for travel they flew to Winnipeg. After about la months in the u.s., where Halsey plans to see his agent in new York and do some interviews and television shows he and Souchuk will Fly to Berens River via Winnipeg to resume the journey by Canoe. Discouragement of risk area development special pact urged for flooding by John Sullivan Winnipeg City Council should negotiate a special pact with the provincial and Federal governments to identify flood prone areas of the City and discourage their development civic environment committee decided monday. The request for special status under the Canada Manitoba flood reduction and flood risk mapping agreements arose after environment commissioner David Henderson said a simple Extension of the program to Winnipeg could freeze development in South St. Vital and other Large tracts of the City. He said that under the such agreements both senior governments would agree not to build in any flood prone sector of the City and would Cut off All financial Aid to private builders. This Means the designated risk areas would be ineligible for Canadian mortgage and housing corporation Loans or Grants and department of regional economic expansion Dree incentives As Well As funds for Public and Coop housing land Assembly land banking and mortgage approvals. Although Henderson warned there is no guarantee the senior governments will consider a special agreement lie said tile City should make the attempt quickly. He said the province apparently backed by Ottawa is preparing to bring Winnipeg under the present flood agree ments by Cabinet order with or without the City s approval. The order would designate ail areas not protected by the City s primary dying system As flood risk areas except perhaps a Section of South St. Vital bounded by Vista Road St. Mary s Road St. Anne s Road and the perimeter Highway. If this happens the commissioner said City Council will have no say in the designation of flood prone areas and its development policies May be drastically altered. Neither the province or Federal government would provide Aid to flood victims from new developments within flood prone areas leaving the City to juggle requests for compensation on its own. Land values would also plummet. The commissioner s report said City Council could ban All development on the flood Plains but the City could be liable for private losses. Landowners would almost certainly claim expropriation without he said. To avoid these Pitfalls environment committee backed Henderson s Call to seek a special Deal for Winnipeg within the flood reduction program including provisions for re search on flood proofing techniques and ways to Speed prop erty acquisition or easements to reduce damage potentials. The City should also negotiate for a detailed study of River properties the 180-year flood level and where existing dikes can be relocated to protect larger areas the committee decided. As Well the three governments should help homeowners to safeguard their dwellings improve or extend area flood Protection or both. Civic executive policy committee wiil consider lie flood pact proposals at a special meeting wednesday evening prior to their submission to Council the same night. U of w irked by Grants policy by Debbie Lyon the University of Winnipeg has Ever so subtlety challenged provincial authorities to reaffirm the institution s merits or outline its shortcomings so that remedial action can be taken. In a statement on the Impact of financial constraints the University notes that its Thrift diligent staff work in creasing enrolment and accessibility have been recognized. Thus it was with disbelief that we Learned of the amount of our 1978-79 universities Grants commission Grant. We Hope that our intrinsic Merit will be re recognized or if not that our shortcomings will be so delineated that we can take remedial the University said. The statement prepared by University president or. H. E. Duckworth and approved by the executive of the Board of regents was made Public monday in the institution s inside info publication. The Board requested a statement be prepared after it approved a deficit operating budget for 1978-79 at its March meeting. Prior to that meeting several Hundred students demonstrated against a tuition fee increase and called on the University to protest against the problems caused by what they considered to be inadequate provincial funding support. The University received an million Grant from the Grants commission up about 1.5 per cent for 1977-78 but about million Short of its request for funding this year. Several areas of the University s million budget underwent substantial cuts although the statement noted regular and continuing education programs will be maintained for the coming year. But the University warned that the cuts approved in creases in tuition fees and use of operating reserves to make up the projected deficit have reduced our capacity to adjust in subsequent the statement criticized the. Dramatic and inequitable reduction in the University s Grant from the provincial commission. It suggested Winnipeg has suffered a two fold penalty in comparison with the universities of Brandon and Manitoba which respectively got 3.8 and 3.1 per cent increases in operating Grants. Unlike the other two universities Winnipeg had t in creased tuition fees since 1976 because of the previous nip government s wish that tuition not be raised. By conforming to the government s wish not to raise fees we had not Only forgone fee Revenue during the past two years but were awarded a Grant this year which was disproportionately Small because we had not raised fees at an earlier Date we suspect that this two fold penalty was an uni Nten tial error. College plans music theatre literature and advertising Art will be highlighted this year when students and staff at red River Community College open their classrooms to the Public Friday and sunday. The annual open House event lets visitors Sample the wide ranging activities carried on in the courses at the College. More than -10 displays and demonstrations wiil be offered by students and staff in such diverse areas As child care services piping trades Auto body telecoms Ziuni cations photography hairstyling and nursing. Open House hours Are 9 . To -1 . Friday and 1 to 5 . Sunday. Free parking will be available at the College 2055 notre Dame Avenue and a special shuttle bus service will operate sunday from notre Dame and Keewatin Street. Special events include presentations by four Canad an authors on Friday a concert band and choir performance on sunday live theatre and an advertising Art show. The four authors will appear from . To . Friday in the while lecture theatre in a Canada Council sponsored event. Fred Stenson a Calgary novelist and screenwriter will read from his work at . Helen Levi a Glenboro teacher and writer at . Carol Shields Ottawa based poet and novelist at 11 . And poet David Mcfadden of Hamilton at 1 . The four will join in a panel discussion at . Les Torgersen of Northland Community College in thief River Falls Minnesota will Lead a combined Citi zen College concert band and choir in a performance at . Sunday in the South gym. The red River readers theatre a group of creative communications students under the direction of instructor Irene Karasick will perform student Gary Mcgibney s adaptation of a Short Story written by David Williamson chairman of applied arts at the College. Performances will take place at 11 . And 2 . Friday and . And . Sunday in the Buffalo inn cafeteria. The first annual one half advertising Art show a Competition and exhibit by second year students will be on display in room 71, main floor building f. The winners selected by a jury of professional Art directors designers and illustrators will receive Merit certificates at a luncheon wednesday. All open House displays will be competing for three awards. A panel of judges from outside the College will tour the exhibits Friday morning and the winners will be announced in the afternoon. The popular displays by students in food services and hotel restaurant administration will be held in the Assiniboia inn. A special display by students in Carpen try trowel trades painting and decorating upholstery and lathers will be held in the building b Annex ;