Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 1979 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 retailers frustrated by stolen textbooks by Andy Blicq secondhand Bookstore owners throw their hands up and say situation is schools and libraries dont have enough control Over their some store owners and consequently they have no Way of knowing whether books they receive Are discarded or legitimate Mer but to City librarian John the problem is the stealing and defacing of he said in an is increasing across Canada in universities and and while school officials say they dont consider it a a free press Survey showed school books turned up More often than Library books in five stores offering used after scanning the shelves of five used Book a free press re Porter was Able to buy 15 books for All from schools or among them were two books from the Winnipeg Public three from school libraries Complete with seven Winnipeg school text one Library Book from an unknown source and one Library Book marked they schools should be More careful about these said Clyde owner of Halls Book if school books Are marked i wont take them at i dont buy books from school they have a habit of stealing if students come in with books Hall thinks Are he confiscates them and phones the if he receives Library he attempts to return he said the status of some school books is confusing because Many Are but not its the individual if there sold to a student they should be in some school books damaged by scheduled for destruction or taken off the pro Gram Are often sold or Given away without being when Harold superintendent of the Winnipeg school Divi was asked whether discarded books Are he said Proba Bly that would take a lot of time and All of this is done at the school level and i doubt whether the schools would want to take the time to stamp every one As a i can see the its hard to identify a Book which has been stolen compared to one that has been Pollock said a Dollar figure for loss due to theft is not available because schools Are allowed Money to cover All supplies required by professor tells conference real crisis needed to awaken Public to economic facts by Laurie Streich a crisis May be the Only thing that can Shock the Public into awareness of the economic facts of life confront ing this a University of to Ronto professor said Here John Crispo was one of the speakers at a today conference on the sponsored by the Mani Toba nip caucus and attended by about 80 Crispo said canadians have been very Lucky there Hast been a major crisis we work at mismanagement and weve got some very Good Talent in various political parties trying to run us into the said but the professor of Industrial relations and Public policy said you cant drive this country into the ground because weve got so much going for Crispo said some of the problems Canada faces Are a Lack of Confidence in a Lack of Federal and provincial Cabinet material and prob lems relating to inflation and Unzem but he said the most Lon term economic problem is Infra adding that we cant push this country to its full potential in terms of employment and growth unless we can keep the lid on Infra another problem he cited was Liv ing beyond our for a this country was Liv ing beyond its Means this led us to Price ourselves out of mar can Only do this so then the currency he Crispo believes Canadas currency has finally he said its collapse was inevitable and made our goods More competitive on world Crispo critic de the abuse of Power by professional and manage ment saying that govern ment should Monitor and control Power Given to different interest weve Given interest groups prerogatives and privileges and never review what there doing to Crispo advocated the creation of a National economic and social Council composed of management and government which would Monitor economic behaviour and performance and Power groups on a regular he said such a Board should not practice wage and Price controls or have Rollback Powers because this deals Only with the not the the excesses Are the symptoms the problem is the Power that lies behind the the Only problem Crispo cited with the establishment of this Type of Board was the gutless Ness of politicians in cracking Down on the abuse of photo by Dave Bonner store owner Clyde Hall displays textbooks and Library each at is allocated for each other unmarked school books legitimately in the hands of Winni Eggers May have been purchased by evening or vacation school Stu Dutton said Library discards Are usually including those which go to Charity Book i generally refuse to accept said Burton owner of Burton Lysecki its not Worth it to phone the there not going to make a special trip to pick it Lysecki agreed with Hall that some school children try to sell stolen i get a lot of kids coming i just dont play the i Tell them the Book belongs to the take it i Check for Library books and put them Peter of red River Book the customer will take them Back or we throw them in the he he will not accept a textbook unless it is a special vol at one time we did try to phone the Library and they be bothered so Why should we be both ered Shott but and spokesmen for Winnipeg school said they have never heard from used Book never in the three cities Ive worked in have i Ever had a phone Call from anybody operating a used Book Dutton i have never heard before that a school would not go to pick up some thing that is their pol lock Dutton said in Many cases it is parents who Are to blame for not making sure books Are returned to the its a question of Paren Tal these books Are going into and while store owners say deter mining the origin of the books they sell should be none of their an unenforced City bylaw says it the City licencing department says used Book Sellers cannot make Busi Ness deals with and at the end of every Day each business must submit a report to Winnipeg police chief Norm outlining the time of Price of the item and a description of the person they purchased each item if we had enough manpower wed visit them second hand stores every said a Winnipeg police spokes but if the bylaw was Book store owners agreed the paperwork be Worth the of and they would simply shut Down their unemployment creation policies rapped by Bellan unemployment is a cruel and Stu pid waste and governments adopting policies that create it Are practising economic a University of Manitoba economics professor said speaking at a today conference on the professor Ruben Bellan said government should in crease spending on Job creation pro Grams and provide tax incentives for private Enterprise to do the the sponsored by the Manitoba nip was attended by about 80 Bellan said it was a myth that spending is inflationary and cited the Large scale spending during the Sec Ond world War which brought an end to the if we can increase spending Dur ing then theres no reason not to spend during he spending Money towards employ ing people in Active work who would otherwise be unemployed is not Infra Bellan adding that it could prove to be while contribution to National output is there is no need for people to be Idle when there is productive work to be Bellan added that our contemporary inflation is homemade and caused by wage and profit increases far in excess of total National out simple arithmetic will Tell you that four per cent productivity with 10 per cent pay increases will cause six per cent he while advocating increased government Bellan cautioned against government intervention in the marketplace except where Pri vate Enterprise cant or wont get firms new factory near methane site by Rick Blanchard a Winnipeg firm that was paid More than million by the City last fall to relocate because it was sit Ting on an old methane producing Landfill site will soon open new operations Only a few Hundred Yards and while some City councillors say the matter is a Surprise to they also say they Arent particularly bothered by City Council agreed last fall to pay to the York tire for its property at 150 Warman Road near Lagimodiere Boulevard because of the dangers of methane Gas produced by decomposing Gar Bage beneath its after abandoning its endangered York tire then began building a smaller facility across just off the former Landfill to House part of its operation which it Hopes to open later this company spokesmen say the new which according to City records Cost incorporates safeguards against migrating methane Gas from the nearby for Mer Landfill Bill Feldman of York tire said in an interview the Doest represent the entire Cost of the new besides actual construction he modifications and Cost of the land have boosted the figure although photo by Dave Johnson the City paid York tire for this building on an old methane producing Landfill he say by How As Feldman said part of the operation was relocated to 771 Marion which added More the company spokesman said the safeguards taken against methane at the new building on Warman Road were economically feast right next to York tires new building sit two More recent City acquisitions Washington Cabinet manufacturing bought for and now boarded the versatile manufacturing bought for which is still in a methane related fire inside the versatile Plant in 1974 prompted hiring of consultants to study the potential problem at the old Landfill in Council decided to approve Purchase of seven prop erties on the old also approved for Purchase Are properties owned by All fab build ing components for which is still in and by Schu mache Mackenzie for the five settlements to Date total Patteson and the Boniface school division have not yet agreed to sell their also located on top of the old the land which the City decided to Purchase was All bought from the former City of Boniface during the 1960s by firms paying an City Legal department spokes Man Nestor Bodnarchuk most firms which built at the time aware they were locating on a for Mer garbage besides York at least two other firms have been Able to build within 500 feet of the former land fill during the past Vita health 1025 Dugald after being denied a building permit for a was finally Given approval on to sex Vita Healths building is 200 feet from the former Boniface land Felix Vita health said the safeguards the City approved Cost about adding Between 20 and 25 per cent to the total Cost of the measures involved an under ground Barrier and ventilation shafts so the Gas could escape into the a panel Road which asked not to be also reported a lengthy delay before receiving a building permit the question of whether the three firms should have been allowed to build didst come before a commit tee of since rezoning or variations we rent but when a proposal to build several Hundred housing units next to in old East Kildonan Landfill did come before Council coun cil returned the Twoy Earold proposal to committee pending receipt of a task Force the report is expected to carry with it recommended policies and details on preventative techniques available to the ;