Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june 1979 3 children main victims of me generation by Manfred lager canadians Are emotionally abandon ing their children to free their energies for says the executive director of the childrens Aid society of and the breakdown of family Struc Ture and said Betty is helping to produce a generation of children with a record High suicide High Levels of alcohol and drug abuse and emotional its a manifestation of what Schwartz called the me generation a condition of both parents working to maintain High living standards and a Dave free pre89 Frame of mind in which marriage no longer is seen As something permanent if one of the partners starts interfering with the of the one of the Schwartz during an interview is that the principle of father As the head of the family has been largely Abo Many people still take the father principle As referring to a authoritarian father who makes irrational that not what i am talking of t see a guiding the results include a family Struc Ture so Brittle and rudderless that thou Sands of Canadian youngsters Are to tally deprived of emotional backing and Security during their emotionally most crucial growing up this had Ted to a a dramatic decrease in self discipline and just As dramatic increases in Truan drug and alcohol personal violence against Peers and bizarre behaviour conveying senseless Lack of impulse violent crime and mental breakdown affecting the Young in addition to All we have staggering increases in adolescent sexuality and which t continue to think reflects great despair and depression on the part of Young adult she it seems to me were bringing up an entire generation of Well ordered sociopaths without any real capacity for commitment and the most optimistic reaction i can come up with to what i see is to say that maybe Mankind is subconsciously Ting ready for a major new such As colonizing outer and for that reason must rid itself of the kinds of interpersonal Bonds which would not work out the childrens Aid director said theres a Price to be paid for family no matter How Long and loud we deny Schwartz said the family Down commenced with a change in talking with his fingers Shane who has cerebral and Al Hills Den of the Pas Lions club Experiment with a hand voice computer presented to the communications Aid program at the rehabilitation Centre for the device pro Vides speech for the disabled by pronouncing words and phrases in response to a Light Finger Shane is a student at Ellen Douglass which helped plan the communications Aid by Rick Blanchard a group of North Kildonan homeowners say they Are ready to go to court after being told they must pay to place underground an electrical Power line now lying on the grass in their townhouse Manitoba Hydro has told residents an agreement it signed with the builder of the 28unit townhouse development at 1306 Molson Street excuses it from maintaining Power Between a trans former and the Power reaches the Homes from the transformer through a normally passing under a City sidewalk and one homeowners property to a meter but last Friday the Cable shorted causing brownouts in six full Power was restored temporarily by a makeshift line along the Jim who has asked for an inquiry and arranged for a meet ing of All parties next said the engineered Homes and Central mortgage and housing corporation should pay costs of Restor ing Normal service because of faulty design and the units were purchased under the Chc assisted Home ownership program Chc spokesman Peter Rebizant said the Agency is in touch with All parties to determine their course of we want to make sure this Doest happen although no firm figure has been estimates Given homeowners by a private contractor Range from 000 to Price they say they cant engineered which arranged for the emergency said yesterday it wont be restoring Normal company spokesman Grant Mcneil said the homeowners assumed responsibility for servicing upon purchasing their units in Mcneil said the firms contract with Hydro stipulates the users would assume that was news to declared Murray Molson we were All told when we bought our Homes the Only thing we had in com Mon with our neighbors were the Walls Between our while the1 homeowners said neither the builder nor Chc had informed them of Hydro agreements Purchase signed with engineered Homes says the homeowners would become responsible for All maintenance and risks on their properties upon Ragsdill Heights said the homeowners have been running into problems since the units were the councillor said both engineered Homes and Chc should pay costs of restoring Normal electrical service the Developer to show Good Faith in the product and Chc because they in charge of civic records obtained by the free press show civic officials in 1975 recognized other design problems in the Complex prior to construction but recommended against changes in plans because they would disrupt the eco nomic viability of the society Structure where the father started spending More and More time away from Home to make a living for the As business offered More and More pleasurable the husband turned outward psychologically from his the wife reacted through women liberation and by pursuing her own the me generation was Only one further step she the time was women had enough of not having enough from their if they were angry and they now had a whole cultural mental set in terms of women lib that made it easier for them to move out of the Home in increasing the effect was that women lib did the same to children by taking the Mother just As the Industrial revolution had taken the 1 this could Manifest itself in demands for More and More Day care for Chil Dren As parents withdraw from their traditional and t want to make Clear that t am not against Day care or drop in Schwartz what i say there could be increasing involvement of government in the i specific parenting of and that is wrong and local news businessmen renew attack on High taxes downtown businessmen have Ren ewed their attack on the cites outdated property claiming some businesses Are unfairly the downtown Winnipeg association says in a letter to the cites finance committee that High assessment on land is one of the main factors inhibit ing development on the North Side of Portage the association says its examination of 100 downtown properties begun last fall indicates that set at 1958 real estate have resulted in some businesses paying too much for land tax according to current owners of the Clarendon hotel on the North Side of Portage Avenue pay taxes of per Square foot while the proprietors of the prestigious Winnipeg inn pay Only a Square the association City officials have already advised businessmen that they will continue the cumbersome assessment process be cause it would be impractical to reassess Only the downtown the association says in its letter that even if the City wants to maintain the substantial tax Revenue it gets from the relatively High land government As Well As private sectors should at this time give serious consideration to providing a plan for develop ment and a stimulus similar to that which was provided for the area South of Portage and the letter is to be discussed the last citywide car ried out Between 1958 and set land assessments at 1958 the cur rent ongoing assessment will be at least eight years out of Date if it is completed in 1983 As court fight looms Over Cable Piercy wants Irvine inquiry Harold Piercy says he wants an investigation into How the City be came involved in the situation which led to the firing of former Susan Irvine from the Winnipeg police de Piercy said yesterday he planned to bring the matter to the civic finance committee the City and the Winnipeg police association became involved in a Legal quagmire after she was allowed to attend Law school while collecting the full salary of a firs class the matter was legalistic ally re solved wednesday when Justice Benjamin Hewak of the Manitoba court of Queens Bench ruled invalid a con tract signed by police chief Norm Stewart allowing Irvine to attend classes while collecting full the judgment also quashed a 18 Manitoba police commission order which reinstated Irvine to the Force after she had been fired 27 for refusing to quit school and return full time Active who was one of a number of councillors who expressed outrage when the contract first came to Lilit last said he wanted a form of investigation into How the situation he added that he was Uncertain who should conduct the he said he wanted answers to three questions in particular Why Stewart wanted to manufacture a lawyer when Law school graduates Are having difficulty finding jobs d if there was any favouritism in select ing Irvine from among 28 University graduates on the if Why and d whether the City police commission investigated the contract or if they simply rubber stamped in not prepared to let this one slip Piercy motor provides push that gives glider a lift by John Mcmanus it looks like a tricycle with or something off Leonardo a Vincis drawing its called the sky seeker and Al Hun Kin predicts the combination Power glider and hang glider is the Oneman air plane that will become the motorcycle of the air in president of adventure flight centres said one of its big Gest attractions is that you dont need a pilots licence to Fly it and you can be airborne alone after Only a Short flight training the sky seeker was on display at the Polo Park mall this week and Hunkin said during an it looks like we can sell All we can the sky seeker has a Wing area of 160 Square feet with a 32foot it is 13 feet Long and nine six inches the Pilot is Slung in a harness just above the tricycle Landing the sky seeker is powered by a Chrysler 10horsepower engine that drives a Pusher propellor mounted on its single us total weight empty is 120 pounds and the whole thing folds into a pack age that can be stored in a the sky seeker can cruise at 25 to 30 and Hurskin said it had been to feet in the the Oneman air plane Sells for to like Many Light aircraft adventure flight will pro vide flying a native of the Brandon said he became interested in the powered glider when he was unable to get a pilots licence because of poor about two years and ago he got interested in the sky seeker and eventually formed a company with Morton Solomon of Montreal and obtained a franchise for the company has already started construction on its first air Park on a 70acre site North of Stonewall by provincial Road Hunkin says the aircraft is fully approved by the aviation Branch of trans port Canada and Doest require a licence because it is classed As a category it can be flown Only outside of any aircraft control zones and must be at least three Miles from any its operating Altitude is Between 500 and powered gliders became popular in the eight years ago and there Are now at least Hunkin the which distributes the machines from motorized gliders of plans to build a factory in Ken free press Brenda an employee at the Polo Park Ping steadies a Wing As instructor Joe Herod takes a pilots Eye look at the a powered hang glider on display at the ;