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The Ottawa Citizen Sat, Apr. 25, 1970 Pago 3 nn nnnn i i i i i ii ii it ii i i Controllers blast bridge decision I in i i uLjJU I) I I with Roger Appleton 1 ACTION LINE solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape and stands up or your rights. Call ACTION LINE ut 236-0888, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. You'll hear a beeper tone.

After it ends, there will be a faint hum which will disappear as soon as you begin to speak. Please give us your name, address and telephone number, then tell us your problem. Or, write to ACTION LINE, co The Citizen, 136 Sparks Ottawa. "The delay wouldn't have hindered the completion date." Con. Benoit also scoffed at Mr.

Marchand's statement that the bridge would provide better access to Uplands Airport "Maybe he should suggest that one big overpass be built from Uplands to the foot of Place du Portage this idea makes as much sense as his location of the bridge." NCC policy ignored Con. Benoit said the throughway along Bronson to Uplands was not consistent with NCC Chairman Douglas Fullerton's thinking that through-ways should not dissect a residential area. He charged that Mr. Marchand located the bridge without any prior consideration of the cost effect on the city or regional government. "This bridge doesn't appear on any list of priorities from any previous study." Con.

Benoit said he was "absoulute-fy flabbergasted" that Mr. Marchand would make such a decision without advising the elected representatives. "For a man who claims he doesn't feel he should get involved in the Quebec election, Mr. Marchand seems very willing to get involved in affairs on this side of the Ottawa River." Con. Bennett suggested Mr.

Marchand's next unilateral decision might be the establishing of a federal district here. "And he probably won't consult Premier Robarts or the city about that either." sm Skyscraper to dominate Hull A new 37-storey hotel will rise in downtown Hull by 1972 at a cost of $9,000,000. The 400-room Holiday Inn will be built by Dan-Corporation Limited adjacent to approaches of a bridge to span the Ottawa River at Maisonneuve Street and Victoria Island. With a revolving restaurant, the hotel will be integrated into a provincial administration building complex, when will house a new courthouse and include a public square. The land for the" hotel site will be perpetually leased by the provincial government.

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You luck is due to run out. Any accident, even if it isn't your fault, will put you in big trouble. Ticket beef The National Arts Centre seems Recently, I phoned to order tickets Recently, I phoned to ordert ickets onev No. 1 with of a lower price. The box office said the cheaper tickets were all sold.

I went to the box office in person and there were plenty of these tickets available. Could the Arts Centre be a little more accurate about the availability of tickets in the lower price ranges? L. J. Wright, Pender St. The National Arts Centre promises to try.

NAC box office manager Ted Demetre says it's not policy to push high priced tickets, but there is far greater demand for cheaper seats. They always sell out first Often, only expensive seats are left In your case, says Mr. Demetre, some tickets could have been returned or exchanged between the time of your phone call and your Visit. He's trying to find out more details. In the meantime, NAC will continue to try to smooth out its ticket sales procedure, which the Arts Centre agrees could still stand improvement.

Half order Last February, I ordered a Nat King Cole album from the Longines Symphonette Society of Canada, in Montreal. I sent a cheque for the full price, $20.98. The cheque was cashed but no album arrived. Now I get another bill from the company showing an outstanding balance of $22.29 and a $5 payment due. I still don't have the album.

Mrs. D. Shaw, Ottawa 5. You now have two record albums from the company; the Nat King Cole you ordered and another one. Getting the first album solves 50 per cent of your problem.

We'll get in touch with the Longines Sym- phonette Society of Canada again, in hope of a 100 per cent solution. Despite the violence, 81 trucks owned by the post office and 45 rented trucks continued whittling away at the huge backlog of mail accumulated since a rotating strike by G. Lapalme Incorporated drivers began Feh. 3. About 450 Lapalme drivers were out of a job April 1 when the trucking company lost its exclusive mail delivery contract to four other companies.

The Lapalme men were offered jobs by the government but refused because they feared loss of seniority and break-up of their union, affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions. More than 50 arrests have occurred since the rotating strikes began. Lapalme drivers continued to protest this week, staging marches in Ottawa and Montreal. El Al bombed again ISTANBUL (AP) Terrorists hurled dynamite into the Istanbul office of the Israeli airline El Al before dawn today. The blast shattered windows of the office and those of neighboring apartments, police in the Turkish capital said.

No one was injured. ir3 I 4U i I students "create an atmosphere that we're an austerity kick because we're not," said Mr Kyles. "Nobody is being asked to do without anything." As for students equalling their parents' 40 years of loyalty to a-ny one organization don't expect it, he said. "Students today are more mobile. They can travel cheaply.

We have to start thinking in terms of 10 years service rather than a lifetime." Bell will hire between 1,500 and 1,600 students this summer about 25 of them engineers from University of Ottawa and Carle-ton University to work in the Ottawa-Toronto region. ece is i most cases secondary," said Mr. Kyles, before a day-long conference Friday on treatmet of summer students. "So don't ram standard practices and procedures down their throats. That will kill them for sure." He said an undergraduate egieer being groomed for permanent employment has good technical knowledge but "doesn't know too much about the other side of the business world." Risks encouraged He encouraged supervisors to take risks and added, "If they come in with long hair and a beard, don't criticize.

That's the way they like it" It would be a mistake to live This weekend, take Postal violence grows By Bill Fox Citizen stafr writer Branding Friday's announcement of the new Portage Bridge from Ottawa to Hull by Victoria Island as "strictly a political decision," Con. Claude Bennett said it could cost Ottawa area tax-pavers an extra $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. But the city and regional government might just throw the whole thing back in the federal government's lap. Related services such as road realignment, overpasses and land acquisitions made necessary by the bridge would become the burden of regional taxpayers and there is no provision for the expenditure in the region's five-year capital expenditure forecast. The traffic created on Bronson Avenue would force construction of an overpass beginning at Bronson Hill to the bridge, the controller said.

Increased traffic at the Bronson exits of the Queensway would mean clover leafs, expropriations and more road realignments. Access to airport "Mr. Marchand has indicated the bridge would result in easy access to Uplands Airport as well," Con. Bennett added. "Well maybe he'd like us to turn over Bronson Avenue to the National Capital Commission and they could turn it into a parkway.

"Then they could pick up the tab for the related senices. This would relieve the direct financial pressure placed on this municipality and regional government by the bridge," Con. Bennett said. Con. Bennett acting mayor in the absence of Mayor Kenneth Fogarty, was miffed that the city had to learn of the announcement through the news media.

"I would think the least we could expect as an elected body is a copy of the press release two minutes before it is released to the news mdia." Fogarty silent In Toronto, Ottawa officials attending the Ontario Provincial-Municipal Conference remained tight-lipped Friday about the bridge. But it was understood they were "hopping mad" and that the province was "appalled" that the federal government would announce the bridge without prior consultation. The province apparently is waiting until Monday to make its position known, at which time Premier John Robarts will make a statement. Mayor Kenneth Fogarty, who has declined to comment publicly about the bridge, said he would present his views following Mr. Robarts' statement Province concerned Con.

Bennett suggested the provincial government would be just as concerned as the city with Economic Expansion Minister Marchand's unilateral decision. "I know we were never consulted, and I don't think they (the province) were either." Con. Bennett said the decision to locate the bridge at the eastern end of Victoria island was made without the benefit of any traffic studies. "The city made extensive studies in this regard, and we made land acquisitions for' the proposed southwest expressway, but the federal government did no such thing. "In fact, their decision is directly against what the NCC has been preaching for years keep the traffic out of the downtown area.

This bridge will bring it right by the door." One building benefits Suggesting the new bridge would be more aptly named Place du Portage Building Bridge, Con. Bennett said it was being constructed to service one building, and one building alone the proposed $20,000,000 Place du Portage office structure. "This is strictly a political decision I don't see how it could be anything else," he said. Con. Pierre Benoit agreed that the decision was a political one.

"Moneys from taxpayers from across Canada are being involved in a provincial election in Quebec. "If this isn't what is happening, why didn't Mr. Marchand hold off his announcement for another week. Five-year programs needed to implement conservation report Successive five-year budgetary pro? grams are recommended as the means to implement the recommendations of the Mississippi Valley Conservation Report. The reports says the financial levy in any one year to a member municipality should not exceed .5 mills on the provincial equalized assessment It further suggests that because of this limited financial base, the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority will have to emphasize acquisition of lands over actual development in the imtial years.

The average undergraduate student looking for work today is only after the money and likely has no interest in establishing any long-service records. Warning supervisors to recognize these facts, Bell Canada chief engineer Jim Kyles said he really doesn't blame the students in the case of the telephone company. "Our image isn't too good. We tend to look like the Public Service to the average student hke a nice old lady in long skirts wearing large army boots." "The main reason they come on iii the summer is to make money to go back to school. The learning evperi- "The Pace to Vfv a short drive to Minto's new community of Ryan Farm, just south of Baseline on Woodroffe Avenue.

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Peking's official news agency said the conference proposed by the Soviet Union "is actually aimed at legalizing the reactionary coup d'etat of the Cambodian rightist clique and bolstering up the Cambodian Lon Nol-Sirik Ma-tak clique so as to enable it to gain a breathing spell to arm itself and suppress the just struggle of the Cambodian people." Weather: Cloudy Synopsis: Under sunny skies temperatures should climb rapidly to reach 60 in the" south and into the 50s across the rest of the forecast district Sunday's temperatures should again be pleasantly mild. A weak disturbance moving into the province from the west could bring a few showers to the forecast district on Sunday. Forecast: Cloudy, clearing this afternoon. Clouding Sunday with occasional rain late in the day. Seasonable temperatures.

Winds westerly 15 becoming light tonight High today and Sunday Minimum and maximum temperatures to 7 a.m.: Ottawa Dawson Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Regina Winnipeg Marie Toronto Montreal Quebec Saint John Halifax St John's Chicago Boston New Yorlc Washington Tamca Miami St. Louis Francisco Honolulu 41 3 25 46 a 53 30 59 30 54 34 53 30 41 27 i9 75 38 55 42 33 51 30 53 26 39 48 61 43 49 43 54 55 60 71 83 77 80 49 59 43 55 72 83 low tonight at Ottawa and Montreal 55 and 40. Quebec City and Eastern Townships regions: Cloudy, becoming mainly sunny by afternoon. Sunny becoming cloudy with occasional rain by Sunday evening. Seasonable temperatures.

Winds westerly 15, becoming light tonight. High today and low tonight at Quebec City 50 and 35; Sherbrooke 50 and 30. Toronto, Hamilton: Sunny with a few cloudy intervals today and Sunday. Chance of a shower Sunday. Seasonable temperatures.

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