Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 17, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg december Ever by Akk Blanchard improved org animation this year is helping Winnipeg Christmas cheer Board translate its love and share motto into More packages of festive warmth than Ever boded workers and volunteers credit the increased volume to Excel Lent facilities for a Clearing House the new provincial garage at 626 Henry experienced Volun Teers who have returned again this a new system of command and some modifications in As most schools and other groups representing a Verita ble citywide workshop of Charity have recognized the Board As being in the Best position to ensure that needy families Are assisted and duplication is crunch next week on the Clearing House was far from despite the Bee hive of the crunch will be coming next when the deliveries swing into High predicted Byrdye but High gear will demand More Beckel said Drivers Are urgently needed for the crucial delivery hampers began arriving at the doors of the needy on Satur the occasional Driver would re turn to the garage with the Assem Blage of Turkey and toys if children were on the the returned hamper represents another change this if theres no one the package comes Back to the Clearing a Driver will attempt to deliver it to the same Home wrong addresses last the gifts were being left at nearby addresses and sometimes didst quite make it to the right John the boards food said the number of hampers of food and toys going out to the needy continues to when he started with the Board in about 80 boxes were Given out from a base in marys this year he predicted a whopping food it certainly seems there is More need this Beckel adding that contributions of and toys again this year has been Seech coordinator of the boards team of social said so far this year the Board has of v 0s Raymond Clarks 4th Winnipeg scout troop is one of several scout groups which turned out saturday to help Winnipeg Christmas cheer Board pack toys for needy screened of its own applications for assistance in addition to those on lists provided by other Organiza stories recounted by the social workers Are mostly we can get families with 12 or 13 living in a three bedroom and its not a posh three bedroom its and the House is almost ready to fall Gajadha Singh last night i went to a there were six All standing he their father had been working very hard All Odd and As a result was in the the Mother was looking for a Job the 14yearold daughter was looking after the your Ger children it have been More than a two bedroom and the House was falling he said about 95 per cent of All Calls 7866737 for Aid involve people who really need the he said a Frac Tion of one per cent of the callers try to abuse the boards Beckel estimated new food Pur chases will exceed the spent last year by the about went towards new Only used toys in Good condition Are added to the volunteers Alfred and Kay Thorn have returned to lend a hand for their third and second id rather spend 12 hours Here than two hours at my it really makes you feel like a human Alfred its just like one big manpower extends swifts program the Canada manpower counselling service for jobless Swift Canadian production workers will continue to operate at the Plant in Bruno staff representative for the United food and commercial said the service will close 21 but reopen 7 so workers can get information about Job opportunities and unemployment Zimmer said a Labo management government established to help workers find other will also continue meeting in no figure is available on the number of workers who have other jobs lined none of the several workers inter viewed recently by the free press had found jobs and All said most of their co workers were in the same As Zimmer said that having an other Job and being promised one Are two different lawyer John Condra of head of the Job finding said recently about 30 workers had presumably for other before the layoffs started another 60 or so Are to he production workers have been Laid off at an average rate of about 50 a Day Polar bears find out town cubs barely bearable and most will be gone by tomorrow if production ends on most workers Haven looked seriously for other jobs because they have to remain to avoid being denied Severance Many workers will receive thousands of dollars in Severance Severance cheques Are dated to avoid workers having the Money added to their 1979 earnings for income tax Pur Zimmer As All will receive 1980 vacation benefits As if the Plant haunt the Union will deduct dues from Vaca Tion cheques because the collective Ken Guj Liotto Winnipeg free press agreement requires it but workers should visit the Union office in january for a dues Zimmer management and Cleri Cal workers at the Boniface Plant have apparently had far More Success finding new jobs than production work Plant general manager Dane said he estimates 95 per cent of the 150 or so foremen and clerical workers have jobs lined up with swifts or he said five no production workers have been transferred to other swifts plants in news by Glen Mackenzie Winnipeg will not be deprived of expected Liberal party convention reve nue because a policy conference will still be held Liberal my Bob Bockstael said the planned March 2830 Leader ship policy convention was can celled after the progressive conserva Tive government fell from office but Bockstael told a press conference the party National caucus has committed itself to holding a policy Conven Tion in my for said the May be held next but no plans have been were expected the convention was expected to draw about half of whom would be Lloyd Liberal my for fort said saturday he saw no reason Why the number be the except possibly for fewer Media the liberals had considered holding a on Day leadership convention next month to pick a Leader other than Pierre Axworthy said such a Brief convention would almost certainly be held in himself a potential Candi Date for the Liberal said he was not disappointed with the Way things have turned both maps said they would be quite satisfied with Trudeau As a worthy predicted an increase in Liberal support in Western Canada saying that when the election was held in people had not experienced seven months of prime minister Clark and his Clear Choice offered Axworthy said voters across the country will have a Clear Choice and Clear issues in the 18 the Winter election will be Bock staels third As a candidate in 16 he ran unsuccessfully against progressive conservative Jack Hare in an then won in the May 22 general but he said he would have been gutless and a Coward to support a Lousy conservative budget to pro Long his own term of Axworthy said the governments refusal to Compromise on the budget and the mortgage deductibility plan gave the opposition no Choice but to bring the tories As the my said the conservatives wanted an election and violated the Standard practice of minority governments cooperating with enough opposition members to assure a working Many canadians have expressed gust Over an election in the coldest month of the but were the ones who have to go out in the they voters can stay Home and receive Axworthy the most reviled feature of the tory budget was the 18centagallon Gaso line excise Axworthy said liberals believe Energy prices have to but refused to say by How Axworthy also said the liberals favor a Windfall profits part of which would be Given to pet Ocanada to ensure that Money is reinvested in committee i to consider 1980 Grants civic Feriance committee will be asked tomorrow to approve for per capita and special Grants in plus for entertainment and recognition of qualifying groups the and the conditions under which they Are to be were approved earlier by the civic body and hoc committee on included in the larger amount is for the performing arts 838 for social development organizations for museums and Art galleries for Grants to the Community committees on the basis of population for for Festi Vals an equal amount for unspecified Grants and lesser amounts for other higher tax bargain sought the cites finance department wants to give a discount on the face value of its 1980 municipal tax prepayment the departments proposal will be considered by the finance committee if the committee the certificates will be offered during the month of january As they have been each tax prepayment certificates Are the cites Way of giving itself a midterm by Andy Blicq nobody likes Distant relatives who arrive at the door and announce they plan to stay indefinitely especially Polar Clive zoo director at the Assiniboine says the arrival of two Young Polar Bear cubs found abandoned near Churchill could Lead to a serious family squabble if he cant find a Home for the roots said that while two females and a male Bear can live in Harmony in two males cohabiting would result in quite a roots said finding a Home for a single grown male is difficult and the prospects of finding a Home for the two 12monthold cubs is not much finding a Home for a pair will be he most Likely we will be disposing transporting to another of both of to add to roots while the existing male remains in the zoos original female Polar Bear has wandered off to the rubbing a sign the zoo May have an even larger Polar Bear family by next female Polar bears show Little physical signs of pregnancy because cubs Are born quite Small and their thick coat disguises the roots said it is Likely the zoo will find itself with two More cubs in the Spring and it will be ready to dispose Trade or sell of them in the fall when there still quite Roy a provincial wildlife biologist stationed in shipped the two cubs to Winnipeg within weeks of each one i got out of the Churchill garbage it appeared to be Bukowsky he said the female almost certainly would have remained in the Churchill area and become a social the weak and would have he built Wood crates for the Tranquili Zed them and shipped them to Winnipeg by crowing fast by next year the bears will weigh up to 200 pounds and in their third year about 300 he roots said that had the bears been younger and finding a Home for them would have been he said it is unlikely the zoo will be Able to sell the animals because there Are a number available he said the zoo will soon Start contacting other zoos to find a Home for the in the they Are on display at the Bear forlorn cub from Churchill looks Over the Den at the knowing he May have to move fiscal boost while waiting for its annual May 1 to june 30 realty tax the device raised for the City last when the certificates were offered at a Dis the finance committee also will be asked to approve a per month penalty on the unpaid balance of overdue realty taxes and the same amount on unpaid business which Are payable april 1 to May City police checks Nab few Drivers Winnipeg police conducted 657 spot checks of motorists Friday and Satur Day charging one person Wilh impaired As the police Clam Ped Down on Druken driving during the Holiday in addition to the one charge of impaired 31 other traffic of Fence such As driving without a Drivers licence or driving while were Laid As a result of the spot the spot part of the police Alert alcohol level evaluation Road Side testing will continue next As Well As through the Christma Snew years Holiday on 497 checks were saturday 160 checks were car ried Many during a two hour period after the nil hockey game at the Winnipeg the spot checks can involve tests Roadside alcohol breath level the Roadside machine will blink red if the alcohol level is Amber if the level is approaching the drunk level and Green if there is no indication of police said eight tests were carried out Friday with Only one warning and one impaired the person with the impaired Reading was charged with driving while impaired As Well As refusing to take a breath analysis no tests for Drunken Ness were carried out saturday i ;