Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 30, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Committee to tackle amusement parlor and discotheque issues civic environment committee will get another Chance on monday to butt Heads with what it considers morally sensitive property uses. Slated to appear Are three delegations seeking amusement parlor i last March by committee As sex oriented Busin esses and non conforming land uses in downtown Winnipeg. Committee last March Sot up a wide ranging zoning Rule to curb proliferation of sex shops adult oriented movie houses Massage and amuse ment Parlours in an All out crack Down. Also to be discussed on monday is another youth related Issue although of a different Shade which requests committee to reconsider an aug. 28 ruling not to allow a discotheque for Young people under 16 years of age at 330 Hargrave Street. A Survey by Rene Bertrand of Barbara Cansino the seasons the season is upon us. The 1978 season of the performing arts kicked off thursday with Carni of the Sun the first of the Winnipeg symphony orchestra Star pops concerts. The arts organizations report people still buy season tickets right up to Zero hour even beyond. In most cases the season ticket Binge has yet to Peak. The nine seasons to Date theatre at Manitoba theatre Centre artistic director Arif Hasnain has turned at least 180 degrees with this season s play Bill Back to the tried and True for the most part. The six plays in clude Shakespeare s a Midsummer night s dream Ibsen s a doll s House a Cobourn s How the other half loves Miller s death of a Salesman Ira Levin s Veronica s room and Fey Deau s a Flea in her ear theatre household words with the exception of Levin and perhaps a Cobourn. The sea son opens oct. 13, closes May in with a 3-week run for each play. Last year Mac sold main stage season tickets. So far Mac has sold main stage season tickets compared to this Lime last year. At the warehouse theatre Mac s second stage Gregory tuck newly appointed will Over see operations and direct two productions. The playbill is inviting Michel Tremblay s forever yours Marie Lou theatre beyond words David Mamet s sexual perversity in Chicago and Albee s the zoo Story and Athol Fugard s size a Bansi is dead. The season opens late on nov. 8, closes april 28, with a 17-night run for each play. Season tickets Are at too compared with this time last year and a final count of be Cercle Moliere Mani Toba s French theatre company enters its 53rd season still known for the elegant productions of artistic director Roland Mahe professional in Standard if Amateur by strict definition. This year the accent is on contemporary and Cana Dian plays French Canadian Felix Leclerc s comedy sonnet Les a lines French playwright Jean Claude Grumwerg s tragedy Amer pc d Ottenburgh an evening of Short plays called cm2 and sit com of d aboard by troupe members Jean Guy Roy and Claude Dorge. The season opens nov. 24, closes May 4, with an 8-night run for plays. Season tick ets Are at 400, compared with 550 last year and a final 800. Music the Winnipeg symphony orchestra. Celebrating its 30th season the so conducted by Piero Gamba is branching Inlo Huntrod ground with some interest ing music Mahler s symphony no. 2 and Bruckner s symphony no. 3 Are big romantic 19th Cen Tury pieces a Good Chance for the orchestra to show what it can do. As Well some fairly modern pieces Vaughan Williams sin Fonia Antarctica Frank Martin and Honegger s Joan of arc at the stake. Ambitious. The lineup of soloists features the so family pianists Gary Graffman Phi Lippe Entremont Byron Janis contralto Maureen Forrester violinist Ruggiero Ricci plus some lesser known lights. The master works series opens nov. 3, closes May 12, with ii concerts on Fri Days and saturdays. Subscribers can choose from the 11-Conccrt series the six concert mini series or the five concert Sampler series. Season tickets Are at last year tickets were sold. Stanley Black the tasteful popu Lar Arranger composer pianist conductor from England is Back to direct the so Dumaurier Star pops series. The series opened sept. 28, closes oct. 21. Tickets Are Way up at compared with a final last year. Some single tickets remain for Max Bygraves Paddy Stone witches brew and the closing gala. The Manitoba opera association directed by Irving Gutt Man is in Good health. The season opens nov. 23 with Strauss die Fleder maus in English a Good thing since the dialogue is spoken. It closes april 24 with Verdi s ii Trovatore in italian a dumb plot but great music. In Between comes Wagner s the flying dutchman in German very ambitious. Each opera runs three nights. Season tickets Are at the same As last year with almost two months to go to reach the 1977-78 Mark. The Manitoba chamber orchestra increases in popu Larity is performed wednesday nights in the acoustical splendor of Westminster United Church Ruben Gurvich conducting. The 5-Conccrt season opens oct. 18 with string Bass virtuoso Gary Karr closes april 18 with violinist Walter Prystawski playing Vivaldi. In be tween a Christmas concert the Barlok quartet and czech pianist Ivan Moravec. Tickets Are up at 430, compared to 245 this time last year and a final count of the women s musical club of Winnipeg now in its 82nd year still packs everyone in for sunday afternoon distinguished Solo performances in the Winnipeg Art gallery. The six concert sea son opens oct. 1 with the Best pianist Anton Kuerti and closes april 1 with the Best pianist Manuel a. Other highlights met Soprano Benita Valente and Camerata. Season tickets Are Al most sold out at 300. Music inter Alia is dubbed contemporary music for people who hate contemporary is the creation of pianist Diana Mclntosh. The 3-concert monday night series which opens nov. 13 and closes april 23, features Corporal mime dance narration Percus Sion Harp Soprano trumpets horns season tickets at from the Winnipeg Art gallery. Dance last year new York this year a 40th birthday for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet directed by Arnold Spohr. This season the emphasis is on the Best of yesteryear Rondo bitter weird aimez Vous and Gaietto Rodeo family scenes hands plus Beaucoup de Pas de Deus. Plus the Rob pre Miere of Fokine s Les sulphides danced to Chopin. The four performance season opens oct. 4, closes May 6. Season ticket sales arc healthy at compared with 5. 300 this time last year and a final count of at contemporary danc ers directed by Rachel Broune the emphasis is on premieres Lynne Taylor s diary dedicated to Winnipeg Singer Sara Udow Browne s Solitude Judith Mir Csc s untitled Browne s the other with the poetry of Dorothy Livesay and Adrienne Rich. Singer Judith Lander and Norman mor Rice of Britain s Royal Ballet will return. The season opens oct. Ill closes april 14, with it night runs for he three shows. Season tickets to Date about 325, compared with last year s 425, and final count of 700. Youth discos in Saskatchewan and Alberta recently sent to committee is asked to be considered. Bertrand wants to open a disco for Young people Between the Ages of 12 and 18 and needs a change in Winni Peg s bylaws which prohibit those under 16 from entering such establishments. Bertrand director of b l Homes for children wrote surveys on the Candy Cane disco in Regina Stok ers disco and or. Bojangles disco in Saskatoon and Bianca s teen disco in Calgary. He does not list himself in the sur vey As proprietor of any of those discos. Three discos Are located in the downtown area of each City open in the evening and run until Midnight seat a maximum of Between 350 and 600, and involve up to 11 supervisors. The fourth disco Bojangles oper ates in a Saskatoon Industrial area without adequate Public transportation mixes 12-year-Olds with adults has poor outside lighting and according to Bertrand s Survey is a classic example of How not to set up a disco in his Survey Bertrand adds there is bumpers disco in Vancou ver teen discos in Ontario and the red barn disco for children in min Neapolis. In general they arc found to be a useful and needed operation in giving children a recreational outlet with which they can relate and have an enjoyable he says. Aug. 28, committee questioned whether it would be beneficial to draw children to the downtown at night. Winnipeg free press saturday september 30, 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0266 it leaves you breathless a few of the cars to be seen at the automotive evolution 78 show being held at the Highlander through sunday Are top Bryan Nome s 1934 photos by Wayne Oto Wacky Desoto and Bottom right Terry Turner s 1932 Studebaker. A Workman lower left polishes one of the display cars prior to the opening. Ambulance workers contract disputed commission accused of Union breaking by Ingeborg Boyens the new Winnipeg ambulance commission is out to break a Union by not honouring the contracted commitments of its predecessor a Union official said Friday. It is taking action that could de stroy the whole collective bargaining Bob Biggar spokes Man for Lodge of the International association of machinists and aerospace workers which represents the City s 112 ambulance attendants and Drivers. The ambulance commission which came into effect sept. 1, has filed an application with the Manitoba labor Board for a ruling on whether the negotiated contract agreement be tween the now defunct Winnipeg ambulance Board and ambulance work ers is still valid. Sidney Green lawyer for the com Mission said Friday the commission was seeking clarification from the labor Board on whether the 1978 negotiated agreement is binding or not. The contract agreement had no input from the present said Green. It would not be fair to expect the commission to adhere to a contract it had no Power in establishing he said. The important thing to note is that we have not behaved unilateral said Green adding that re Taining the existing contract would not be fair to employees either. The Issue of Contention seems to be Over several benefits written Inlo the agreement that ambulance employees Don l want to give up and the City does t want to pay for. Chairman of the civic commission councillor Jim Ragsdill ind Springfield Heights said the ambulance commission was filing for a labor Board ruling because in would nol have agreed to some of the clauses of the agreement. He declined to say what these clauses might he. Meanwhile the Union representative said the cily was Oul to break inc collective agreement. Biggar said the contract agreed to by the City s ambulance Board and cily employees in March 1978, had been something Bolh sides could live Wilh. However one source of Irr Lalion for ambulance employees in the con tract agreement was the Lack of a pension plan. The agree Cal did leave room for the new ambulance commission once established to in clude a pension plan scheme in the 1978 contract collective bargaining for the 1979 contract was due to begin next month said Binigar. It seems very much As if they arc Irving to break a said the representative. City scrambles to Cut Booster contract loss Winnipeg s civic works and operations committee has agreed Wilh an adminis Lvalion recommendation to award Poole construction lid. The Lender for construction of the Deacon Booster pumping Stalion. Com Millie recommended Friday the expenditure of million s2.3 million of which was not budgeted for to cover the cons Duclion costs of an incomplete pumping station. In a move councillors called the Only solution to a complicated prob Lem the committee decided thai re tendering the project would be of no Bencil financially. While Baum construction co. Ltd. Had the Low bid on the local project As originally proposed when items were deleted from the plan to Cut costs Poole s estimates were lower. Committee members said the and a ministration should have revised its Lender Calls to show deletions As soon As it knew thai the project would be Over budget. Technologists reject pact offer a Ray technologists at the health sciences Centre in Winnipeg have rejected a contract offer and voted 95 per cent in favor of joining other health workers in strike action. Although the 37 technologists Are members of the Canadian Union of Public employees they negotiate directly Wilh the Centre and nol with Manitoba health organizations inc. A majority of cupe s health workers throughout the province have already voted in favor of strike action after oct. 10. Councillor Gary Filmon Independent citizens election Crescent Heights said Laler the com Millie had no Choice but to award the contract. Ii was recommended that Poole construction Ltd. Be awarded the contract for construction for its bid of million for the incomplete project. Administrative and Engi Neering fees make up an additional the City will also have to pay the Contr actor an additional for asking the firm to hold the Lender Price for More than inc traditional to Day period while the City made up its mind. Baum Ltd., the Low bidder on the local package said the City had called for a local Price and should nol have deleted items from the project. Al monday s regular meeting of works and operations councillors were surprised to discover a Consul Tants error in project Cost estimates had created a million shortfall. The administration which knew about the error since february but failed to notify councillors deleted items from the bids submitted by contractors in an attempt to Cut costs. The committee s actions Musl be approved by cily Council. Correction the Federal environment depart men expects to trim about Mil lion from its total budget next year. A Story in wednesday s free press incorrectly said the budget Cut would be million. The Sll million Cut applies Only to the department s atmospheric environment service. Public sector wage Bill major Issue at Mil convention by Scott Edmonds about 500 delegates from Union locals throughout the province Are gathered today at the Winnipeg convention Centre As the Manitoba federation of labor s 24lh annual convention gets under Way. First to address the delegates will be Bill Broad president of the National Union of provincial govern ment employees followed Laler in he Day by Canadian labor Congress president Dennis Mcdermott. Sunday morning labor minister Norma Price of Manitoba is to address inc delegates and Grace Hart Man president of inc member Canadian Union of Public yes will speak later in the Day. Monday afternoon Manitoba new democratic parly Leader cd Schreyer will speak. The convention will end tuesday. Federation president Nils Thibault says one of the big topics at this year s convention will be Bill c-28, proposed Federal legislation that would tie Public sector wage Sculle meals to private Industry. We re going to give the Public sector workers full Thi Haull said. There s no Way we re going to allow them to become the goats of the intent of that Bill. It s another form of wage control and i Eccl interference by the government in the process of free collective the federation president charged. At a special rally thursday Mani Toba Trade unionists Voled to support a general strike As a last resort if the legislation is passed by Parlia ment. Also High on the list of priorities at this convention will be a discussion of unemployment in the province and undoubtedly resolutions pushing for government spending to create jobs. The effect such resolutions will have on a government whose current watchword is restraint May be Small but that in t Likely to Delco inc convention delegates from trying. Thibault will be stepping Down this year from the presidency of the fed Era lion and so far there appears to be a two Way race for the Job Between Dick Martin the president of the Thompson local of the International steelworkers of America and Doug Weaver president of the Winnipeg labor Council. Thida Ultras the first full Lime paid president of the Mil. Weaver will he frying to shake the 11-year hold the powerful steel workers Union has had on the presi Dency of the federation. Both Thibault and former nine year president Len Stevens were steel workers before they took inc top labor Job in the province. Later this month the Manitoba government employees association the largest Union in the province is also to hold ils convention in wlnni1 Peg ;