Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 02, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Alice Krueger is on holidays. Her column will resume when she returns. Winnipeg free press Friday june 2, 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 chamber takeover plan delayed two weeks province urged to share land Assembly Cost by John Sullivan the Manitoba government should have to pay in costs to the City if it wants to abandon a fort Garry land As Sembly project Winnipeg s civic executive policy committee decided thursday. The City s official delegation will ask the province june 12 to live up to a 50-50 Cost sharing agreement the former nip. Government signed and pay half the estimated Bill for expropriation proceedings including Legal Survey and appraisal fees. Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier proposed in mid april abandoning the 900-Aere, million project started three years ago citing rising acquisition costs and a soft residential housing Market. But he said a similar 333-acre project in St. Vital should continue. In a report to policy commit tee chief civic commissioner d. I. Macdonald said responses from affected landowners in fort Garry and St. Vital show a great majority favor abandoning the 1975 expropriations and retaining their land. The landowners have agreed to waive their right to recover any costs or consequential dam Ages from the City for and to repay any Cash advances with interest Macdonald said. The City can continue expropriations required for future roadways a fire Hall and other municipal purposes regardless of the residential project s Fate he added. However the commissioner urged Council to retain expropriation orders on land near Waverley Street As an Industrial Park site or to pass a new subdivision plan preventing random unplanned development by individual owners in the area. The sector bounded by Waverley Mcgilvray Boulevard the route 165 Extension and a main Hydro transmission line would provide a logical and desirable expansion of the fort Garry Industrial area he said. Arguing for expropriation the commissioner said Only the pub Lic sector could Likely afford a new Park s servicing and Assem Bly costs. The City should proceed independently with the idea if provincial or Federal Aid is denied he said. Policy committee also stalled for two weeks a nigh a to iia in to Tver Coli Iron of economic development promo a minimum annual Grant of for the next six years to the Winnipeg Cham ber of Commerce. Pleading insufficient time to examine the proposal passed tuesday by civic finance com Mittee councillors approved a interim Grant to keep the current development Board afloat until aug. 31 and asked the chamber to indicate How it intends to Market the City differently predecessor. Councillor Jim Ernst inde pendent citizens election com Mill Wared committee against rubber stamping a major Depar Ture in civic practice while coun. Gary Filion Crescent Heights said chamber control would move economic promotion even further out of Council s hands. We May be setting up an elephant Here so that we can t even touch the tip of its Tail because of the intermediaries Filion cautioned. This seems to have All the problems of the present setup without any advantages and it might even have one or two More t agreed that . Bus Drivers should accept transfers from the regular transit system in lieu of the new 10-cent Cash fare. However . Drivers will not Issue transfers. Approved delayed introduction of transit tickets to avoid inconvenience with the new 35 cent adult fare and i0-cent Spe Cial fares. Dumped the thorny Issue of whether to close Matheson ave nue Between Powers and Copp streets Back in lord Selkirk West Kildonan Community com Mittee s Lap. After hearing yet another dal negation of local residents opposing the move committee decided the Winnipeg hebrew schools request for the closing was strictly a local matter. The school claims car pools using the Street endanger its 600 students. The Board of commissioners said any closing should include a temporary or permanent Asphalt turnaround for service and emergency vehicles. A temporary barricade without at least a temporary turnaround estimated to Cost would create traffic and safety Haz Ards the Board said. The hotly contested Issue has bounced from committee to committee since it began a year ago. Civic works committee endorsed the closing in january but reversed itself in april. Backed substantial changes to the no parking bylaw for Pri vate property to prevent alleged towing firm abuses. The plan would bar operators from enter ing vehicles or coercing owners free motorists from compulsory damage waivers and require monthly towing reports to police a Check for occupants and the owner before towing. Voted to reduce parking meter time limits downtown Between main Street Graham Avenue memorial Boulevard and Ellice Avenue. If approved by Council times will be reduced from to 30 minutes from one hour and to one hour from two. Altering the 300 meters will Cost smaller downtown businesses demanded Short term High turn Ever Park a to draw customers. Approved three and three citizens to the new Winnipeg ambulance commission As finance commit tee recommend ended tuesday. One appointee mrs. Macdonald is a neighbor of finance member Don Genie in. Who also sits on the current Aray balance Board. L Tyndall Park sewage i solution in Ponds a bystander checks out the damage thursday afternoon after a car hit creative kitchens ltd., Portage Avenue and Arlington Street. No one was injured in the . Accident but store manager John photo by Wayne Glowacki Walpole said he was standing a few feet from where the car hit the building on the Arlington Side. He estimated damage to Stock at there was no estimate of damage to the building. Price of Long haired furs inflated to record High prices of Long haired furs have jumped to record breaking Levels on Canadian markets indicating a Strong demand despite worldwide campaigns against Hunting and trapping. Local Industry spokesmen say the fashion world favors Long haired furs at this time putting them in great demand. Prices for the furs have doubled in the past two or three years on auctions across the country. The Canadian world s biggest exporter of finished furs Sells much of its product to Europe and Japan. Buyers from across the world Are in Winnipeg today for the Domin fur auction. The auction is offering Many Western Ca Nadian products trapped during the Spring and local buyers Are also on hand to observe what shape the final Market prices will take. At a recent Ontario trappers association auction in North Bay which offers the widest Range of skins in Canada red Fox skins sold for an average a year ago they were Selling for and five years ago for a average. Lynx was Selling at an average compared with three years ago and Only in 1973. Pine Marten which is marketed As Ca Nadian Sable is Selling for an aver age of and has doubled in two years and Raccoon is Selling for More than three times the Price of two years ago. Beaver prices dropped from last year to an average on the Ontario Market largely because of delays and backlogs in Italy where most Beaver skins Are processed. By Steve Pona raw waste from the sewer system in the Tyndall Park area of Northwest Winnipeg May be diverted during heavy rain storms into open air retention Ponds to alleviate basement flooding Nick Diakiw commissioner of civic works and operations said thursday. In a verbal report to civic executive policy committee Diakiw said although that May not be the most pleasant Prospect it s All we can hold out until the sanitary interceptor sewer designed to provide permanent Relief to the hard hit area can be completed nov. 1. Better to have raw sewage sitting in retention Ponds of which there Are three in Tyndall Park than in basements he said. Interim connections Between ditches on the West Side of King Edward Street and the Ponds Are also being installed to prevent surface seep age into the sanitary system he said. The civic administration is studying the proposals for possible health hazards and will have a full report for consideration by works and operations committee june 12. The commissioner was responding to Ren ewed criticisms about inadequate flood Protection in North Winnipeg from councillor Norm Hudson who complained about being deluged with com plaints from irate homeowners during and after last thursday s severe thunderstorm. I can t take it any longer and the people of the North end can t take it any Hudson said. Something has to be done. Unless you be got it in your basements then you Don t know what it s like horrible for everybody. The administration must and shall come up with a solution to the problem. If you can t come up with a solution for the people of the North end than Tell them let them know where they Hudson said he has fielded 400 to 500 Telephone complaints about basement flood ing resulting from three major storms since last summer. The people of the North end would like to come and Lynch us they d like to do it to i just can t stand it any longer. I m taking no More responsibility no More obscene Calls no More indications Are that last week s storm was of a one in 25-year intensity Well above the one in five to 10 years that the Cit yes sewer system was designed to absorb Diakiw told councillors. It appears to have been a storm that no drainage system could Han the areas worst hit appear to have Bee i Tyndall Park which the City is surveying door to door in an attempt to assess damage and those served by the Jefferson District sewer which is being surveyed Telephone he said. A Complete television scan is also being carried out on the Jefferson sewer the Lar Gest in the City to Weed out obstructions suspected of causing flooding in the past year or so in the Mcphillips Street area Diakiw said. I committee voted on a motion from coi Lri. Pearl Mcgonigal Independent citizens election to request As a matter of utmost priority that the provincial government establish an insurance policy that would protect against ment flooding. An identical request to the province last year is being studied by the Manitoba pub Lic insurance corporation and appears to have fallen by the Wayside with the change of Mcgonigal said. Policy committee took no action on a suggestion from coun. Lome Leech Seine Valley that the City provide a tax credit to encourage the installation of sewer backup devices and sump pumps saying provision for that could be made in the recommended insurance coverage. Diakiw said in an interview after the meet ing that the Board of commissioners is still studying compensation for residents of Bur rows Avenue nine months after policy com Mittee deemed theirs to be a special and them eligible to recoup their losses from the City. In addition to approving a six year million storm sewer upgrading program last year Council agreed to provide compensation for basement flooding damages sly where it accepts responsibility for it no blame attached in jail suicide provincial court judge Lawrie Mitchell attached no blame thursday to the death of Francis Smith who Hung himself in his isolation cell in heading Ley jail March 17. Smith. 31, was returned to heading Ley March 15 from the Brandon jail where he d been transferred at his re quest March 6 after complaining to correctional officials he could t get along with other inmates an in quest was told thursday. Heading Ley staff superintendent Alvin Caruthers said Smith just could t function with the general population at his jail. Smith was in Brandon eight or Roe Days when be requested segregation and was transferred Back to Hea Dingley after Brandon discovered him in his Ceil of a wow Jea Box esed w keep Perseta Tiesis. Since last nov. 17, he was to be released within two weeks of death. Carruthers said in response to questions from Crown counsel Beth Branson that when Smith was re turned to heading Ley he was t considered suicidal although he had used a Dull Nail to scratch himself after the incident telling Brandon guards see i la do Brandon authorities termed that a temper Tan Carithers said. Judge Mitchell agreed that weak attempt at suicide. Would not Lead correctional officers to believe he had suicidal censorship proposal opposed for drive rag a in Esce by John Sullivan Winnipeg City Council s ongoing anti smut Campaign faltered slightly thursday As executive policy committee refused unanimously to support renewed film censorship. Councillors appeared bewildered at the suggestion made two weeks ago by environment committee that Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier of Manitoba be asked to establish a new provincial censor ship authority to replace the Manitoba film Board. I Teft us room for a few new sies and this is what they Moa Ned on. Jim ens St. Sevrro Wnent committee chairman a his cent Rafaee s i have so Dea this said the matter bit fee Dost debate by put Futy we Ernst Independent citizens election com Grant s Mill then jokingly declared himself in favor of seconded immediately by coun. Bill Norrie Tuxedo the City s Deputy mayor. The May 15 environment committee motion was spearheaded by councillors Jim Moore Charleswood and june Westbury Corydon after committee had voted not to renew an operating licence held by the Venus theatre at 801 Sargent Avenue. Moore As advertising Salesman for sky to argued Corot rarity standards in Wijdi Peg demanded tighter co trois of film sex and violence. He said a Rettura to wolfes by tace Fra the threat of Perfice tto Coffi Anim to ;