Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 30, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday May City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Barbara Cansino mushrooms puffball patties Escargot stuffing Alice in wonder land Psilocybin magic. There Are a number of reasons to cultivate an interest in the cultivation of mushrooms. Peter Martin of Winnipeg who takes mushrooms seriously cites food fanaticism As the source of his interest. Says the native of Hungary i m a food fanatic. Mushrooms Are a sort of delicacy. I was brought up in a pretty tasty environment. My father just loved fancy cakes. All of my mum s friends just loved to do great cooking. I just the result the Chance for Manitoban to grow their own Mush rooms. Martin is Selling the mushroom Patch. The mushroom Patch is a grow your own Mush rooms at Home kit. It is 1% feet Square weighs 22 pounds. It contains instructions a plastic bag of very Rich soil and mycelium or spawn the Start of the Root system. The procedure is simple. Put the mushroom Patch in a dark area the basement a storage locker or closet. Empty the soil in a bucket add one litre of water stir and leave overnight. Don t water for the first two weeks. Then Sprinkle one cup of water every two to three Days. In three weeks Little White spots will appear. In four weeks the first Harvest is yielded almost two pounds of mushrooms. The largest mushroom May measure inches across. In All the Patch should produce about 15 pounds of mushrooms a weekly Harvest Over a four month period. At present Martin s Patch on its fourth or fifth Harvest has 52 White mushrooms in clumps just about packable. Martin says the mushrooms taste Good and look Good. His two next door neighbors both ordered a Box and Martin says Haven t tasted anything like Martin has several color snapshots of the first Harvest. One shows four mushrooms beside a Quarter tiny in com Parison. There Are before and after pictures. The before picture shows a mushroom on a raw sirloin. The after picture shows the same mushroom cooked on a cooked sirloin. The sirloin shrank the mushroom did t. The mushroom Patch is just the beginning. Martin says we want to have a Complete mushroom service everything from instructions to the actual the mushroom Patch is the actual thing. Meanwhile Martin is writing the great mushroom recipes Book and a Book which will Tell How to recognize edible mushrooms there Are about i be harvested All the books around and i m going to write my til then people can write for a mushroom Patch to the House of mushrooms . Box 342, station a Winnipeg Manitoba r3m 3v3. Send a Cheque or Money order for quiz department the following checklist printed in the april Issue of Industrial management is meant to provide guidelines to help employers isolate jobs or situations Are particularly hazardous to the Back. Or the ego the nerves the Onset of narcolepsy the Onset of insomnia the toes the ears the Wallet 1 does the Job require lifting of equipment 2 does the Job require repetitive motions with no Vari Ety 3 does the Job require reaching or stretching repeatedly -1 does the Job require maintaining the same physical position for any length of time . Standing sitting 5 does the Job involve an unnatural position . Sitting with both feet raised or sitting with the Back hunched 6 does the work provide for frequent rest periods with diversified motion 7 does the Job provide for communication with fellow work ers 8 docs the Job provide sufficient rewards . Financial Praise Public re cognition 9 is the Job performed in comfortable surroundings . Lighting adequate heat level Normal and steady clothing provided adequate noise level muted which Industry a shipping housekeeping c Massage Parlours Good to see the Winnipeg symphony orchestra has instituted a break in tradition. For the past several years the season s brochure has often been thrown out by mis take because of the Way it has looked like a bargain basement flyer or old comic Book with the distinguished likes of Yehudi Menuhin Jorge Bolet Piero Gamba. Peering out from a blast of red and yellow and Black and White mass of bubbles and stars discount and Bonus offers stars and stripes and coupons and charts. Also buried was the actual program of works to be played. The 1977-78 brochure has done away with All that. It s Nice to see for the first time in years that the so brochure now befits the discipline it promotes. The distinguished likes of Piero Gamba Philippe in tremor Maureen Forrester Gary Graffman Byron Janis now look out from regal mauve and purple and Black. No bubbles no stars no pictures of sandwiches and income tax receipts. Just the musicians and Grams with All the Hoo a in neat purple rectangles. Good program now that it s visible. Datebook Manitoba theatre Centre general manager Gregory Poggi and artistic director Arif Hasnain will talk about the past present and future of Manitoba theatre Centre at 9 . June 18 in Cynd to s Day beat. After that Arnold Spohr artistic director of the Royal Winni Peg Ballet will talk about the dance and the Ballet s Success in new York the return match for the world heavyweight championship Between 36-year-old former Champ Mohammed Aji and current title Holder 24-year-old Leon Sphinks will take place Friday sept. 15 in the super dome i new Orleans. The fight will be televised by Csc sports from 8 . To 11 . If Ali wins he will be the first heavyweight Champion to hold the title three times Rock and Roll in Minnesota Schon productions inc. Has announced its june and july concerts in Minneapolis and St Paul. Brace Springsteen will perform at 8 . June 10 in the met Center. Tickets Are s8 and Hie risks at 7 . And . Jsaie 13 in the state theatre s7.56 and the Marshall Rand at 8 . Josly 1 n St. Paul Arena s6m and to Obeata to fets write to ave me. Masje Adofis mass sofa 8. Say a Viceri the attend. And computer service firm has distribution contract Sta scan data available to All customers by Allan Wilson the number of canadians trav Elling to the United states is in creasing steadily while the num Ber of americans coming Here is dropping. At the same time canadians Are spending billion More a year Over the Border than others spend Here. The deficit has developed since 1974 when Canada nearly broke even on travel spending. These statistics and other series of numbers covering most areas of Canadian life Are Avail Able to Industry and individuals from a statistics Canada computer data base. It is called the Canadian socioeconomic information management system or can Sim. The study of tourism was done by a statistics Canada analyst in Ottawa who was experimenting with can Sim. The results Are now being investigated to determine Why Canada is suffering a loss in tourism. About 10 per cent of All the information statistics Canada collects is put in the computer sys tem. The numbers include every thing from the consumer Price Index dating Back to 1917 to Winni Peg Industrial wages on a monthly basis. The information is set up in series of statistics Over a regular period of time for example monthly. Numbers can be had referring to segments of the population or Industry for example but never refer to individual people or companies. The main government numbers stockpile missing from the system is the Canada census which is too Large and is taken at to great an interval to fit into the series for mat. A contract for distribution of the information is awarded every five or six years to one of about a dozen computer service companies after competitive bidding. Last fall the contract was awarded to systems dimensions limited of Ottawa one of the six companies who bid on the contract. The company held a seminar on the use of the system in Winnipeg monday. Statistics Canada will pay the firm an estimated during the years of the contract for providing distribution and analytical functions. Systems dimensions makes the information available to statistics Canada offices throughout Canada which in turn make it available free to Public inquiries. Companies or anyone else who wants to make extensive use of the system would sign a contract with system dimensions. Those contracting for the information pay systems dimensions for computer time and buy their own terminals. Added to this will soon be a minimum monthly charge for systems dimensions 100 contract users Glen Brownlee a company marketing representative said monday. The company office nearest Here is in Calgary. Alan Daly a senior consultant with the company said a firm on contract would pay anywhere from to depending on the com Puter time involved each time a request was made on the system. Systems dimensions is 95 per cent owned by coastal investments ltd., which is owned by the Jodrey family of Nova Scotia. Norm Mclean of the Winnipeg statistics Canada office said can Sim is used Here primarily As a supplement to Library services. The local office is not doing analysis of statistics yet. For companies in marketing and especially consumer marketing both the Basic information and analytical programs Are available from systems dimensions on a con tract basis. Financial institutions also use can Sim to keep track of commodity flows and other economic data. 1 the anti inflation Board for example received a monthly printout from systems dimensions detail ing Price changes for products. The printout was a Basic tool used for monitoring Price in creases. Photo by Wayne Glowacki City begin Street pavement reconstruction monday in the Portage Avenue and main Street area work includes putting in new pavement replacing existing sidewalks with interlocking paving Stone walks and upgrading of Street lighting on main Street from Graham Avenue to Lombard Avenue and on Portage Avenue from fort Street to about 150 feet East of main during this first stage of the project two Way traffic on Mam is confined to the West Side and Portage Avenue East is closed. The reconstruction work is expected to be completed in 14 weeks. Residents win Battle to keep land vacant a year Long Battle by residents of the St. Charles Street area of St. James Assiniboia to save 4.43 acres of vacant land from residential development ended in Victory monday when Winnipeg s designated zoning hearing committee refused to Grant an application for rezoning. Councillors cited a ground swell of opposition to the posed one and two family development on land owned by the roman Catholic Parish of St. Charles at St. Charles Street and Augier Avenue and a shortage of Parkland in the rapidly developing area As reasons for their rejection. Spokesmen for about 30 residents at the meeting complained existing sewer and Road facilities would be inadequate to service the proposed development and that housing in the area would detract from the appearance of the neighbouring St. Charles Church. The Parish had proposed to sell the property which has Long been used As a soccer and baseball Field to escape onerous local improvement taxes estimated to consume one third of its annual operating budget. However residents promised to help pay those taxes and have formed the Glen West neighbourhood association to save the land for recreation purposes. About has already been raised toward the 1978 tax Bill through a neighbourhood dance they said. A report from the Parks and recreation department recommending the City acquire the land through Pur Chase or lease was not discussed by councillors although they indicated they would not be prepared to pay much More than the 1977 Price for 3.44 acres of the report which has yet to be studied by the civic Board of commissioners recommends the property be purchased for a nominal Price for use As an Active play area by the Community and St. Charles Academy. A spokesman for better Homes ltd., which signed the agreement to Purchase the property said the City would have to negotiate with it if it wants to retain it for recreation purposes. They seem to feel they be got us Over a commented coun. June Westbury who said the Price is going to be much higher than it would have been a year police Hunt 2 escapees Winnipeg police were Hunting monday for two of four prisoners who escaped from heading Ley jail in two separate incidents since Friday. Two others were recaptured Early monday along Roblin Boulevard shortly after their escape a police spokesman said. All escaped from the minimum Security Annex of the jail by ripping through screened windows. Steven Donald Cornell 19, was the first to make a break for Freedom when he ripped through a screen window about . Friday. The second breakout occurred when three men. Including Fred Bleich 23, went through a screen window about . Monday. Council and Bleich remain at Large. Pierre Fossen Euve 18, and Peter Davis. 18. Have been charged with escaping custody. Complaint against police has Long Trail by Mike Ward if you have a complaint against a police officer what do you do and what then happens first Yon Contact a police station by Telephone or mail. Or write preferably to the Winnipeg police commission or the police chief. The complaint is then Given to an offi cer to investigate. The policeman receiving the complaint first attempts to resolve it informally. This applies to All complaints trivial or serious. The reasoning behind the informal route is because of a Large number smaller beefs the department receives and an exercise in Powk relations will probably suffice. Of a compte Traia is it Toj the informal Way the Wisti Gai big officer asks urn Feer for a signed. Written report Wixs mediate commanding officer. Complaints Are not required to be submitted under oath and neither is a lie Detector requested. The regulations dealing with complaints says no division May refer a complaint to be registered in another division to prevent complainant frustration. The assistant Deputy chief then decides if an internal investigation is needed. In this event the relations say an officer has the right not to provide a statement and this refusal will not be brought of in any disciplinary proceedings against him. Viseu the vesti Gatton has been completed fee assistant Deputy chief recant weeds the police a twee wac Ether charges if it spews May be few seed a but if it is decided no action be taken the complainant is advised in his or her right of Appeal to the Winnipeg police commission or the Manitoba police commission. In cases of substantiated com plaints other than minor ones and where a prime Facie Case has been made an officer appears before a disciplinary commission the Deputy chief and two senior offi cers above the rank of inspector. An officer can also ask to be tried by a discipline committee when he does not accept the discipline his immediate superiors assess. Before the committee the officer has the right to counsel bet Rufes of evidence Are not strictly witnesses Are called bet there is no Power. Cross eat Najwa Voder oath takes place. The Petac is Fawn pansies Fey cry Peg police association. A recommendation on finding and penalty is made to the police chief who can overrule the committee. Former police commission chairman William Hallonquist said the Burden of proof upon which the committee acts is what has been described As a substantial cer Tamy test All this can be held up should the complainant Institute a criminal or civil action against an officer Aris ing oot of the same fro ally. The complainant or the officer can Appeal the police chiefs decision to either of the two police commissions. If the Winnipeg police Cwirn sewn takes the first a peal and rejects it the door is still open to late Fertz car to the Mani Toba Prosce the Maro Fea by Terew acts As the City can Dows recently a woman who complained about a detective s treat ment backed Down when it Learned the Manitoba police com Mission was prepared to hear her Appeal in Public. The Winnipeg police department in this Case appeared to have lost its desire to argue the City association in camera agreement and in Stead through its counsel urged the hearing be Public. If the complainant has run the full course from the lodging of the complaint to its Resolution by the police commission can take of to two years. Many . Ater disc to recent documented cases reported m the free press have aban their complaints the either of the the matter be or Tedt ;