Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Barbara Cansino tear it started in the spells were the new publications the wild Frontier by Pierre Berton listed at and the Bronfman dynasty by Peter listed at the combatants were Coles books and classic who would sell More frontiers and a Ronsmans and what would be the strategy Price at Coles in Toronto for for classics adjusted then Coles adjusted accordingly in Toronto the Bay and Eaton remained then joined in the Eaton met Simpsons prices because both stores offer the same the Bay offered a variation for an autographed for an a autographed go figure that one then the War As wars Coles in Toronto contacted their Coles allies in then classics in Toronto alerted their classics allies in classics prices in Winnipeg Plum then then plummeted the Bay and Eaton stayed Mary scorer books stayed the latest report from the front at Bronfman has gone from to to to to where it now Frontier has gone from to to rorie manager at 321 Portage is following orders from Toronto the Way i understand it from head office in it started with Coles marking it classics didst get involved at first and left the Bronfman dynasty at the situation actually started first with the Pierre Berton classics Felt they had to follow suit for customer credibility head office Doest agree with the Price cutting they Felt that Coles would put the Price Back up and that it would eventually go up to the original Price of and it May be going were reacting to what Coles is were not taking any action on our Coles is classics Competition As far As head office is Persona i feel that Eaton is our main Competition because there right across the Eaton and classics have services that Coles Doest 1 we have a Coles int in the phone 2 Eaton and classics will special order books they dont have in Stock i think we would have been better not to get we sold As Many when they were the regular Price As we have since we lost Money at and at now what were making is a matter of a few is it All Worth it that Why were trying to get the Book right up its not benefiting i the people who Are buying it at the cheaper at Bronfman has gone from to where it now Frontier has always been says Jim town manager of Coles no Price War was meant to the Bronfman dynasty was sold to we took a loss on the Book to sell it at the Price we it was meant to be a loss that Means a special to bring people into the that also the Case with the Berton with classics saying that we put the Price Back they put the Price Back it want intended to be a weve decide dont know what classics have decided that Well meet any prices they have on those particular is just following orders All Deci Sions Are made in we were Given the prices at least a month when the books were and Why int Coles listed in the Telephone Book there was some kind of a mistake till be in next was it in last year two out of five were left out last but dont you want people to phone you up we dont know Why the phone numbers Arent in phone Calls distract us from the amount of work we have to do in the but that the Way it is in any were not out to discourage customers from of you really want to know More about the phone listings youll have to Call at wednesday nobody was available for comment in Eaton Are hanging in Bronfman has always been and Frontier has always been says books manager Ron Robinson we wont Knock it Down until our defined Competition the Bay and Mary scorer books it Why would people buy a Book from Eaton if they can get it cheaper somewhere else because of ser Coles Arent in the phone Coles has no delivery or account card these Are the things you pay we would Knock it Down if the complaints were loud and at Mary scorer bronc Man has always been fron tier owner John Oleksiuk says the prices will not be i cant afford chains can absorb their do the Price differences take away from sales not really right if it gets to be a bigger thing it could affect the smaller there Are customers who prefer a if they want to go to a supermarket they go our customers come to the they like the Atmo Ive told customers they can buy it they i prefer to buy it i dont want the hassle of going the which had been Selling the Bronfman for and Frontier for entered the fray late Bronfman is now Berton is now says Gordon regional department books we Are meeting our com the reason we have reduced our prices is its our policy to be competitive in our which is contributions on the subject of books and Book stores the november Issue of saturday night Magazine devotes 39 pages to an article called retailing As a love affair the Book Sellers hit Parade offers a Cross country list of not necessarily a top but a selection of stores that have made substantial contributions to their common and it was gathered through interviews with the harshest judges of All other number two on the list is Mary scorer books in which plays As Many Good bookstores do the role of information Centre for and the Ordinary and which specializes in Western Cana Diana and childrens the other nine bookstores Are in Cal Montreal Hali and conspiracies on the subject of Peter new Man and the Bronfman Newman was in town on autographing speaking at the Centennial on the he got some intelligent questions and and then some of the for the one from the As in who phoned up the Peter Warren show to say the Bronfman killed the Kennedy theory wrong Peter Cut him Winnipeg free press november City news 2rtd Glass mail father receives welfare support by Jim Haggarty the City welfare department has agreed to temporarily support Robert Fitzpatrick and his children while he wages a fight with the province Over social assistance legislation which he claims is Dis previously denied Wel fare by provincial and civic a has been granted Assis Tance by the City after his Case received publicity through the Media and with the intervention of Council Lor Joe Zuken he said he was denied provincial assistance because provincial legis lation Only provides for Aid to sin Gle Parent mothers not single Par ent City welfare had previously turned him Down for assistance because he refused to look for Fitzpatrick received a Cheque wednesday afternoon from City Wel although he says he still refuses to look for City welfare director Ron Hooper refused to discuss details of the Fitzpatrick claiming the file was in explaining his departments apparent change of Hooper said wednesday that an agreement reached Between himself and Fitz Patrick satisfies the eligibility requirements for Fitzpatrick denied he has changed his stance that he already has a full time Job As a homemaker and father to his two he said the City still does not require him to apply to he has agreed to consider an offer if welfare finds one but stresses there is no commitment Between himself and welfare that he must take a Job if its City welfare does not consider him an exceptional Case but assistance is being granted because he is cooperating in agreeing to consider accepting o Job if they find him Fitzpatrick workmen Are Busy demolishing the Donalda Block at 322 Donald Street this the downtown building see inset was almost demolished 21 years Block coming Down at last in the summer of 1957 the Donal Dablock was stitched together with steel cables to keep it from collapsing while the buildings owner and City officials debated on whether it should be this More than 21 years the demolition of the Struc Ture at 322 Donald Street is finally under the downtown office building came close to the wreckers Ball in after a retaining Wall at an excavation site next door gave Way and the resulting spill under mined the foundation of the Donal a eighteen office a fur shop and Beauty Salon were forced to evacuate the four Storey building after it sagged inches in one night and cracks began appearing on the outside of the Donald Between Portage and Ellice was closed to motor and pedestrian traffic for Al most a week after then City Engi Neer Hurst reported the building was in extremely Hazard Ous condition after deliberating with Archi engineers and the owners of the building decided to restore their property and a 24houraday construction Blitz was launched to reinforce and protect the steel cables were Strung from outer Wall to outer Wall Side to Side and backs front heavy Tim Bers were used to Shore up the building inside and out and the foundation was shored litigation Between the owners of the Donalda Block and the Striction firms involved in the excavation work followed with an out of court settlement finally reached in the Spring of owners of the Block had asked for an set More profits expected in 978 Winnipeg Hydro enjoys big surplus by Ingeborg Boyens Winnipeg Hydro enjoyed a 751 surplus at the end of Accord ing to the civic departments annual report released unlike its Manitoba which has been riddled with Winnipeg Hydro has been a stable chalking up a million profit in the 1977 surplus came largely As a result of an increase in revenues of per cent Over the previous the Revenue rises were generated by an average per cent rate hike implemented by both Manitoba and Winnipeg despite the Energy sales were at their lowest since a mild a Cool air conditioning a weak econ and efforts at conservation by customers led to a decrease of per cent in Hydro sales Over expenditures Rose by about 27 per cent Over 1976 to the increase in expenses was Al most entirely due to the required payments of million More than in to Manitoba Hydro under the terms of the Power agree states the the agreement Calls for Cost Shar ing of additional Power developments in the province by the two Hydro Winnipeg Hydro steam heating operating from its Amy Street saw an Overall loss last year of de spite 21 per cent rate hikes to custom ers in with few capital investments re Winnipeg Hydro acting general projects that the 1978 surplus will be even larger than that of during 10 major commercial and residential complexes were connected to Winnipeg Hydro although Only two opted exclusively for electric 137 Homes converted to electric school tax Levy must stay indefinitely Cosens tax levies in support of education will not be removed at the Spring legislative session or in the foreseeable education minister Keith Cosens of Manitoba told municipal officials the which already pays More than 70 per cent of school costs from general tax int ready to boost income or sales taxes to cover the other million now provided by property Cosens told 600 delegates to a Union of Mani Toba municipalities umm Conven Tion in the minister said his government would continue to work to Ward its objective of providing 80 per cent of school needs As and when our revenues the umm went on record last year As urging total provincial funding for possibly through an in crease in personal or corporate in come tax or sales delegates to the organization said the school Levy now represents up to 70 per cent of their property Cosens said education costs have jumped 400 per cent in the last 12 years but few critics advocate eliminating any of the million in special programs now including music and vocational physical Educa Tion or services to the the minister said the government and school boards face the inevitable conundrum of How to improve services in inflationary times without overburdening the loser delighted vets keep parking Job the head of a City Security firm which submitted a tender for the cites 1978 parking patrol contract said wednesday that the decision of the finance committee to award the contract to the 35 Manitoba War vet Erans of the Canadian corps of com missionaries was a sign of 1 am delighted that sanity has Allan chair Man of Sentinel Security services Manitoba sat Sentinel Security submitted the second lowest of five bids for the contract to ticket City meter violations and parking offences in tuesdays announcement that the Low metropolitan investigation and Security Canada was withdrawing from the compete Tio meant the Sentinel Security bid of was the Dryburgh was far from disappointed that the Job was awarded to the who have done the Job for 23 that Job should never have been tendered in the first he the tendering process never did make said who urged that the City at least consider extending the contract no Security guard contractor could have done As Good a Job As the com said any private firm would have incurred costs in training and supervising you hold men in such a Job for the kind of wages a private could afford to said lets face a commission Aires Job is a thankless adding that he was not at All surprised with metropolitan withdrawal from the Ive played the but now i intend to ask the City to repay me for the bonding Dryburgh said the contract required firms to pro vide a performance Bond for person it is Only but it is a matter of neither senator Duff owner of nor the firms were available for comment Jock corps said the Low bidder May have withdrawn from the race because the Job did not seem viable in the first the corps has had to submit tend ers Only for the last three the veterans bid was the Only one received for the 1977 contract last years first tender Call did not even see an estimate from the on a recall of the the corps bid came in As the highest of four this years bid from the corps came in at More than the lowest a representative of the City Pur chasing department said City administrators must recommend the lowest bidder on a tender Call unless the Low bidder does not meet some of the Utility revamping station Manitoba Hydro has announced a restoration project at the great Falls generating station on the Winnipeg the which is expected to employ Between 150 and 200 will involve construction of a new spillway and the rebuilding of sections of the original dam built More than 50 years an Access Road already is under construction on the North Side of the Winnipeg preliminary work is to begin shortly on piers for a temporary construction Access Bridge Down Stream of the existing spillway to allow uninterrupted Progress of the construction Job when the existing spillway is in specifications will be issued Early next year for the general contract and the spillway the rehabilitation project is expected to be completed by 1982 great Falls is the second oldest Hydro Plant in service in Manito ;