Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba My 3 commission negotiators say rejected offer is final latest round of Macc negotiations ends in deadlock by Ron Campbell negotiations Between striking liquor workers and the Manitoba liquor control commission stalled again monday and no further bar gaining sessions Are scheduled. However John Pullin assistant executive director of the Manitoba government employees association which represents the 390 strik ing workers said monday that the Mega negotiators Are prepared to go Back at any time to the bargaining table. Executive members of Mega s liquor commission component have rejected the commission negotiators latest offer which the latter say is final. Pul in who Heads the Union negotiating team said the government s latest offer is being circulated to the strikers. He said there were no plans to have them vote on it. If they want to meet it s up to on oct. 12, strikers from five Manitoba centres met in Winnipeg and rejected a government offer which would have Given them a three per cent wage increase in the first six months of 1979. The commission negotiators made another offer last Friday which the Mega says would give an Over All 6.5 per cent increase during All of Calendar 1979, consist ing of five per cent Jan. 1 and three per cent july i of next year. As Well the commission would give an additional two per cent july 1 to store clerk us and inspector us two classifications within the Mega s liquor commission Compo Mercier ready to study private liquor sales attorney general Gerry Mercier said monday he is prepared to re View suggestions that the Sale and distribution of liquor in Manitoba be turned Over to the private Sec Tor. He added however that no Seri Ous review has yet been Given to As the strike by the province s liquor store workers is in its sixth week Mercier noted that when lengthy strikes such As this one occur people Are Likely to come Forward saying that the Public in Terest would be better served if the Sale and distribution of liquor were placed in the hands of the private sector to avoid the inconvenience to the Mercier responsible for the Manitoba liquor control commission which controls the Sale and distribution of liquor said it has been argued by some in the past that the commission get out of the Sale and distribution aspect retaining licencing and control roles so pres ent standards would not in any Way be the government has already indicated it will probably consider Al lowing wine to be sold in private stores. Mercier said last week the Manitoba government is watching closely Ontario s move to lift restrictions on wine sales. Legislation passed by Manitoba s former nip government covers the possibility of private wine stores operated by manufacturers Mercier said. The Union which has been asking for an 11.3 per cent raise across the Board for the first six months of 1979, plus weekly catch up in creases of to for 14 classifications has made a counter offer. It seeks a reinstatement of wages negotiated in 1976 prior to the prov Ince s entry into the Federal wage Price control program 23 per cent above the 1975 application of the wage controlled increases Al Lowed for 1977 and 1978 eight and six per cent plus an extra four per cent for the first half of 1979. In a statement monday the liquor commission said it has asked the Mega to put the offer to a vote among the striking workers. Winnipeg free press tuesday november 21, 1978 City news 2nd class mail Raisl Raylinn Wmk or no 2nd class mail registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless Barbara Cansino a sorry Story somebody out there Likely some Man has done Shirley wrong. Very wrong. The possibilities loom Large he s either forgotten her birthday or he has in flagrant Delic toed. What Ever he s sorry. Very sorry. Read All about it on Academy Road on the billboard which says i m sorry Shir Ley. Note to Shirley take your time but forgive him. Before Christmas. Jack Brown at Claude Neon the sign company says it costs a week for that kind of apology for the sign for posting the sign about for the paper and message about 9% of the for Federal sales tax 5% of the for provincial sales tax Reese. The Lions Are unavailable for comment. Oing St. Johns Raven court school known for its maths whizzes is one of 11 schools in Canada invited to com Pete in the prestigious Atlantic and Pacific mathematics contest centred in Washington . Last year Philip Kim a Grade 10 student at St. Johns Raven court tied for first place in his category. The Joneses keeping up with the Joneses has never been easy. However one Snowblower three cars one moped a cuisinart Jacuzzi swimming Pool bet Amax Wall to Wall to Wall to Wall Brand loom and a snowmobile later it seems Safe enough to walk out of the House with your head half up at least. But Only half. The latest ques Tion is How much does it weigh the latest tonnage report from the Cana Dian association of movers announces that at the present time the average Canadian household weighs pounds. And what kind of scale has Jones got cheap thrills last week a newspaper photograph featured one fat blonde in a Black Bikini and one Skinny blonde in a bargain basement bathing suit. The blondes had rags in their hands and were washing a car. Three people stood in the background one a scruffy looking Man who appeared to be leering. The picture was taken at Chicago s fantasy car Wash. The big Deal while these health spa rejects in their bikinis Wash the customer s car the customer gets to stand in a Booth and watch. And klute thought he had a Kinky plot membership is a year and a car Wash. The Point is elusive. An Ordi nary car Wash costs and on any hot summer Day fat girls in bikinis can be seen for nothing hanging out laundry and mowing the Lawn activities even More Kinky than car washing. Going into Law once upon a time Only the Young went to Law school usually after two years of arts or a . Degree. Now the interest is More widespread current classes at the University of Manitoba Law school Are filled with As Many former civil servants and housewives As with 20-year-Olds. Any one interested in applying to the University of Manitoba faculty of Law can attend an information ses Sion on Entrance requirements and procedures for prospective applicants at . Friday in the moot court room Robson Hall u of a celebrating the Winnipeg symphony orchestra is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season. One of its anniversary presents is from Csc which will broadcast mostly music from Winni Peg from . 6 to 8, at noon on Csc pm at . On Csc am. Highlights Piero Gamba conducts the so and pianist Gary Graffman performs Prokofiev s piano concerto no. 3 . 6. On 7 Howard Dyck will talk to personalities connected with the so Over the years and cellist lome Munroe will perform Schumann s concerto in a minor. The premiere of pulsations a violin concerto for electric violin commissioned by Csc to composer Victor Davies formerly of Winnipeg will be broadcast . 8, one Day after its first performance by the Csc Winni Peg orchestra with conductor Brian Priestman and violinist Arthur pol son. Cheaper thrills who would have thought it Paris House the whatever parlor on Ken Nedy Street the one which features the woman with the purple hair and the bloated stomach on its sign has a sense of humor. The sign in the window says 50% off. Make believe Marion Ross is the optimistic wife by Motherly Skinny secure of so Happy wife of so in love with her husband Tom Bosley on Happy Days. Her to husband on to Happy Days that is. In real life she is divorced Independent and of so Happy that Way thank you. Coming the big Rumor is that the big act for the Lions telethon in january is going to be big jazz Singer Delia bibles last thursday it was suggested Here that a Bible is the most appropriate Christmas gift. As it turns out this was not All that original a suggestion. Rev. D. S. Collins and Rev. Or. David Conly of the Canadian Bible society 308 Kennedy Street have written a letter All about bibles indeed the demand for bibles is at a Peak today. We rejoice whenever we hear of the Bible being sold or distributed by anyone. We rejoice that a number of Winnipeg Book stores Are making bibles available to the Public and we do wish them every Success in their sales in our Winnipeg Bible House Book store bibles Are stocked and sold in approximately fifty languages. The variety of formats covers editions prints Etc. In various versions in English such As the King James version revised Standard version new English Bible the living Bible common Bible Jerusalem Bibl Good news Bible Etc. Just to name a few in 1977 the Winnipeg Bible House Book store distributed and sold volumes of scripture in forty one different languages in Manitoba environment committee hears arguments Bank buildings verdict in 90 Days by Rick Blanchard the Fate of two historic downtown Bank buildings awaits 90 Days Dis Cussion by the City Canadian Impe rial Bank of Commerce heritage groups and anyone with a workable alternative to the buildings Demoli Tion. Among the alternatives is one from civic environment commissioner Dave Henderson which suggests the City consider an annual Grant to the owners of the buildings to help pay taxes and operating costs but the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce appears firm in its wish to demolish the buildings and allow new As yet undisclosed development. In october the Bank had appealed the City s listing of the Bank of Commerce building at 389 main Street and the Hamilton building at 395 main Street under a recent buildings conservation bylaw. Lawyers for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said the City wrongfully and illegally withheld demolition permits applied for on july 20, the conservation listing having taken place Only after the firm s oct. 5 deadline for threatened court action had passed. Monday s delay by civic Environ ment committee of a ruling on the appeals effects a further freeze on the two buildings but a decision ultimately with City Council is now in the works. Bill Grimble a lawyer for the Canadian Imperial Bank of com Merce said in an interview the dilemma of what to do with the buildings could have continued in definitely had the Issue not been brought to a head by Appeal. The show is now on the Grimble said the Bank chose demolition last Spring because it was forced in both cases to Stop the waste of Money maintaining build Ings for which no economic use has been found. The Only economically practical course is to demolish both buildings now in the Hope and intention the lands will be used sometime in the future for the expansion of Winni Peg s business Centre at Portage and Grimble said. He said in the meantime the firm demonstrators March Down main proposes an attractive Small Park As a holding position for both environment commissioner Dave Henderson pegged the potential development value of the land alone Between and the pillared italian Marble Bank of Commerce building built in 1912 has been vacant since 1969 while the Renaissance style Hamil ton building built in 1918 has been empty since last february. Upkeep for the two buildings from oct. 1977 to oct. 1978 Cost a total including in taxes and for fuel and heat. Prospective tenants for the two buildings were willing to lease Only Small portions of the buildings making it enviable. Putting the Hamilton building photo by Wayne Tomc Fol Street monday urging the preservation of two historic Bank buildings. In Rentable condition has been Esti mated at not less than Grimble said. And 10 years ago the installation of air conditioning at 389 main would have Cost had the Bank chosen to do so. Grimble said in a prepared Brief the two buildings were victims of Lombard place development and other new buildings in the monday s hearing followed a noon hour rally in front of the Cana Dian Imperial Bank of Commerce s current City Headquarters Lom Bard place by the Manitoba historical society and a March by about 100 demonstrators Down to City Hall. Archie Nixon an architect representing the Manitoba historical society in a slide presentation to committee said the Bank of com Merce building is one of the City s total remaining Stock of great banking Halls others Are the Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia at Portage and main. Mary Bayer of heritage Winni Peg urged the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to withdraw its applications for demolition and suggested ideally it could follow a Toronto precedent accommodating both old and new buildings in the downtown. Local entrepreneur Al Golden told committee he has offered to buy the buildings but claimed he was told they were not for Sale. Asked about this later Grimble said the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has received no firm or written offers. Million added to capital estimates sewer project funds increased by Ingeborg Boyens Winnipeg s works and operations committee agreed monday to allo Cate an extra million in the 1979 capital estimates to improve two sewer districts but not before some councillors proposed the City scrap its basement flooding Relief program Al together. Despite cautions from some councillors to wait until the total costs of the program were known the com Mittee recommended Council provide the extra funds and assign Consul Tants to proceed immediately with the design phase of the next two sewers on the priority list. Council approval of the unexpected million expenditure will bring the 1979 capital estimates Well above the self imposed million borrowing limit at million. We seem to be making a capital budget decision right commented councillor John Angus inde pendent citizens election commit in order to stay within the lion borrowing limit the City will have to eliminate or Cut Back on other projects proposed for next year councillor Harold Piercy said. Council has the authority to change its self imposed borrowing limit whenever it pleases Deputy City trea surer Les Hutcheon noted. Projections for total costs of the City s seven year program to save its straining sewer system first set at million in 1976, progressively increased during monday s four hour Long special session. Councillors outbid each other in their estimates setting the total Price tag of the program Between million and million. The City administration meanwhile resolutely refused to estimate costs of the program without further study. Coun. Piercy Derson said he challenged the Ade Quacy of the whole program. Piercy said the system is supposed to provide Protection from once in five years storms he said. Yet we seem to get those storms about once a he said. The City s investment would be better placed in providing homeowners with funds to protect their own properties he added. Councillor Bill Norrie however urged the committee not to neglect its moral responsibility to continue the the City has an obligation to pro vide property owners with the sort of Protection from flooding it has promised for Many years Norrie said. Councillor Norrie is saying that we should commit ourselves to these 42 projects on the program and ask the costs Piercy retorted. The director of the City s water works and waste disposal system Sandi Penman said consultants had considered 16 different alternatives before recommending the City re Vamp its sewer system. There Are about Homes in the Clifton District which would have to be protected at about a House Penman said. You Are looking at million and we would still have flooded said Penman. Water would be standing in the streets for hours after a storm if the capacity of the sewers was not increased Penman said. I Piercy said it was ridiculous to approve even the first step of the program without knowing what the final costs would be. A report released last week by the civic works and operations depart ment revealed that unaccounted inflation costs alone would bring the total costs of the flood Relief program up to million. More accurate Means of design specification now in use on the Clifton and Ash sewers will drive the costs even higher. The costs of the two sewer projects due for construction in 1979, have increased by million. The Clifton sewer where estimates escalated by 93 per cent has a weak trunk sewer said Penman. The pol son and St. John s sewer scheduled for construction in 1980, have the same weakness. The City s commissioner of works and operations Bill Finnbogason told councillors that an estimate approximate As the initial 180 million figure could be provided if the City was willing to wait three spend an additional for detailed analysis. R ;