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Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 49

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Edmonton Journali
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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49 Cabinet decides today on future of teepee The Alberta cabinet was to decide today whether Mrs. Lillian Piche could erect her teepee on the legislative grounds. A hastilv-formcd "committee" of government officials gave tentative approval, subject to ratification by cabinet, after a clash between Mrs. Piche and her supporters and police. City police, KLMr ana government private security service memocrs, wan ing for Mrs.

Piche at noon, threatened prosecution if the teepee went up. uwen Anuvrson, a special au viser to Premier Harry Strom, HOAIU) NAMES NEGOTIATOR The Edmonton Separate School Board has named a "professional negotiator" to bargain with a representative of its teachers The board Monday agreed to appoint lawyer A. 0. Ack-royd, a specialist in labor law, as its representative in the contract talks. Both sides decided to appoint negotiators after talks between the board and the teachers stalled.

saw the police cars on the Joels lathe grounds. When told the fi-. 'v'n. 1 A -tv if-- -tlx 'v 'H '1 "Ti X.tI ti 4 Hf 1 vcrt Viz Land for city roads causing problems reason he hurriedly "rounded up some ministers" to arrange a meeting with the native people and avoid police action, Provincial Treasurer A. 0, Aalborg, deputy premier while Mr.

Strom is vacationing in The city may be facing critical" problems in the de B.C., supervised the meeting He said the police response to I Mrs. Piche plans had been over-enthusiastic. velopment of the inner ring road, council was told Monday night. Commissioner Dudley Men-zies, in charge of engineering, made the comment in support of a recommendation that the Mrs. Piche, her husband Marcel and their four children, camped II days in Sir Winston city land department negotiate immediately to buy land on which a developer plans a 75-suite apartment block.

He said the property, on the southwest corner of 102nd Street and 99th Avenue, "is required for roadways deemed absolutely necessary to provide" inner ring connections. "If this land is not acquired by the city and the apartment development is allowed to proceed, it would necessitate the acquisition of developed property when the roadway is constructed," he said. Churchill Square to protest a housing shortage and alleged discrimination against Indians. DEADLINE Govenment officials will likely stipulate a time limit if Mrs. Pictures still a problem The issue of 100 pictures of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau flared briefly at the Edmonton Separate School Board meeting Monday.

Trustee Bob Neville who ordered the pictures and planned to present one to each school asked rather plaintively what had become of them. When the other trustees had Piche is permitted to protest at Investment plan gets send-off What could become city coun the Legislature. In an earlier discussion with cil's major hope for financing the proposed $23,000,000 omni-plex got a send-off in council chambers Monday night. COULD BE CRITICAL Mr. Menzies said there were several other properties on which similar proceedings might be carried out by developers and the situation could be critical soon.

The land will be needed to provide a future connection to the north end of the Low Level bridge and 103rd Street and 100th Avenue, and from the bridge to 99th Avenue and 105th Street. The whole question of developers forcing the city's hand Council authorized the prepar vetoed Mr. Neville's plans and censured him, the paintings were turned over to the board and sent to the warehouse. ation of a bylaw which will permit the city to issue short-term investment certificates in denominations of $100 or multi warehouse. "I don't know how many have The Journal at the Cecil Hotel, where the Piche family is staying until July 1, Mr.

Piche said: "They're going to have to drag us off." The Piches hope to make the tent an information centre where residents may learn more of the problems of native and welfare housing. Mr. Aalborg sympathized with the Piches but said: "We haven't really the right to give you this permission." After a check of the regulations concerning displays on the grounds, Mr. Aalborg said the law as it stands would not allow the teepee to be erected. But after discussions with Owen Anderson, Don Hamilton and Mr.

Ludwig, the minister of public works, Mr. Aalborg felt the law could be changed by a vote of the provincial cabinet. He told the audience ples thereof to a maximum of $10,000. 1 ft 1 "'nil, Ji 'i The reaction of investors to gone out to schools," Superintendent H. A.

MacNeil told Mr. Neville. "I'd have to make a special FOSTER PATRIOTISM The issue came up as the the plan, which would tentatively start on Oct. 1 and pay interest competitive with the 8 25 per cent the city is now paying to international investors, would decide whether the board approved recommendations from a committee set up to study patriotism in the schools. on the inner ring road is expected to come up at a future meeting of the public works committee, in charge of city land dealings.

Committee chairman Aid. Ed. Leger complained the city always seemed to get caught by the time it got around to roadway development. Aid. Terry Nugent said "we should have the land first, before we get committed too far on such projects." plan could be used for "other projects," Finance Commissioner Malcolm Tweddle said.

The recommendations were: AUTHENTIC ADDITION TO FORT EDMONTON REBUILDERS Sum BeUourl of 10931 153th Si. puts Fimippan iJirouph paces Finnegan joins team That patriotism is an impor Although not mentioned in the tant aspect of man's love for humanity and should be taught the cabinet would meet this morning, and the two ministers would support the application for a permit. council chambers, city officials are hopeful the success of the pilot project will enable the omniplex to be at least partly financed by this method. The certificates would be is sued for periods of one, two and three years, with a higher inter 8V2 return sought bv Canadian Utilities est rate for a longer period. The city treasury department and fostered in the schools as an integral component of citizenship education; That citizenship education, with personal development, growth in family living and occupational preparation, continues to be one of the major objectives of the school system; That a set of guidelines and suggestions be sent to the schools from time to time with the hope that sharing of ideas and discussions by the school staffs will result in an ever-improving type of citizenship education.

will be the issuing authority to keep costs low and maintain Canadian Utilities Limited is Utilities Board hearing is to eastablish the amount of investment of the company. "The principle of it is that we are constructing this fort as it would have been buift by the men of 18304" Mr. Finlay adds that people are welcome to watch construction, "in fact we would encourage them." When he received delivery of Finnegan last Wednesday, Mr. Finlay had no name for him so his five-year-old daughter, Rhonda, suggested Finnegan. North Western Pulp and Power has also provided a harness for Finnegan and paid his ticket to the city.

He joins a staff of eight construction workers at the site. in favor of less personable but more efficient lumber-hauling equipment. Finnegan was donated to the project by North Western Pulp and Power Ltd. contractor Nick Towkiw of Hinton. The company put its last skid-horse to pasture this spring.

At one time, about 40 large animals hauled logs for the company's lumber-cutting operations. Director of Historical Development for the city, J. C. Fin-lay, obtained Finnegan his new job and says he will be kept busy "for the next couple of years anyway." The rebuilders of Fort Edmonton are spurning modern construction aids in their quest for authenticity. There are no tractors or cranes provided for construction workers, just a one-horsepower horse.

However, Finnegan does weigh 2,000 pounds and hauls telephone pole-sized posts about with almost lackadaisical ease at the fort site in the west section of Fort Edmonton Park near the Quesnell Bridge. The big draft horse is eight years old and until last week, had been phased out to pasture Mr. King said company puts the figure at $100,000,000. Company officials said it is impossible at this stage to esti complete control. Aid.

Ed Leger suggested the city might follow up this project with long-term debentures and asked Mr. Tweddle to report back on this possibility. Aid. Cec. Purves felt the scheme as proposed would be perfect for financing the servicing of land in the city and would help reduce the cost of serviced lots and thus housing.

"It will be kind of a revolving fund," he said. mate what effect an allowable return of per cent would have on customers accounts. seeking an ilk per cent allowable return on its investment in Alberta The percentage figure was revealed Monday at a resumed hearing on the Alberta Public Utilities Board in Edmonton which has been asked to establish a fair rate of return and fair rates structure for Canadian Utilities operations. Outside the courtroom, Edge King, company president, said the 8 per cent being sought would cover interest costs on debentures and provide a return to shareholders. The board has never been asked before to establish an allowable return, Mr.

King said, but this has now become necessary because of rising The reason, they said, is that the hearing is also being asked to consider a fair rate structure as between the different Helicopter search continues Five aircraft are still searching bush country near Norman Wells. N.W.T., for three men missing in a helicopter since June 11. The searchers: including three military aircraft, have covered over 59,000 square miles in ANSWERS AMONG ITEMS DELAYED Deaf-mute awarded $10,700 for injury categories of consumers. MAYOR DENT GETS FIRST PAY RAISE The first installment of Mayor Dent's salary increase was awarded by council Monday. Council approved a finance committee recommendation which raises the employer's portion of the mayor's pension contribution from $140 a year to $685 per year.

300 hours looking for the craft which was on a geological sur costs and interest rates. He said the company's rate of return was 7.30 per cent in 1964. 7.06 in 1965, 7.05 in 1966, 6.99 in 1967, and 7.41 in 1968. On the basis of present rates, the president continued, the company computes a return of 5.37 per cent in 1973. The first phase of the Public vey for Texaco Canada Ltd.

It was piloted by Hugh Hughes, of Vancouver. Passengers were Fred Hamilton, 53, and Matt Bjornson, 26, both of Calgary. Despite the shelving of a controversial freeway report and a quarter-hour extension of its regular time limit, city council failed to get half-way through its agenda Monday night. The session continues this afternoon. Still to be considered when the session resumed at 4:30 p.m.

today are a number of planning items, answers to more than 40 questions on the city's annual financial statement made by Aid. B. C. fanner, and the CATV report, among others. A late addition to the agenda paper which didn't make it Monday night is an answer to a query from Aid.

Dave Ward on why aldermen's questions take so long to answer. A deaf and mute Edmonton man has been awarded $10,700, for injuries, suffered in a power saw accident at the Alberta School for the Deaf in 1961 Chief Justice J. V. H. Milvain of the Supreme Court trial division Monday assessed damages for hand injuries to Marvin Marshall Dziwenka, now 25.

The award is against the Journal employee retires after 56 years icith firm Cable TV proposal to go before CRTC Queen, represented by the province of Alberta, and M. W. Mapplebeck, the teacher in charge of the school's manual shop in 1961. At the April trial, evidence was that Mr. Dziwenka had been operating a power saw Nov.

30. 1961, while a student at the school. FINGER AMPUTATED He lost a portion of his index finger and the power of movement in two other fingers. Subsequently the little finger was amputated. He asked the court to consider that he "as a deaf mute, depended on his hands as his means of communication." Lawyers said outside court Delay in appearance costs $50 a day A proposal for a public company to run Community Antenna Television in Edmonton will "almost certainly" be made to the Canadian Radio-Television Corporation.

Mayor Ivor Dent made the or indirect interest in the company, which would apply for the licence from the CRTC." Edmonton Telephones would own. construct and operate the coaxial cable system needed to bring the additional TV and comment to The Journal Mon-! other communications circuits Monday tnat, while the award dav night in an explanation of into homes and share in its Jointly and severally agamst the SlO.noo.noo proposal which fits tne province and Mr. Mapple- The four days that Lorne Ivan Boychuk was late in appearing for trial are costing his father S50 each. Mr. Justice Michael O'Byrne directed in Supreme Court Mon would provide Edmontonians Mavcr Dent said he's hopeful beck- will pronably with U.S.

television among that the public company responsibility for settle- other things, al would have a better chance 1 Mr. Dziwenka's action had Mr. Justice Riley issued a bench warrant and "called" the $1,500 bail then posted by John Boychuk. Lome Boychuk surrendered to police June 9 after consulting a lawyer in Edmonton. The following day he appeared before Mr.

Justice Peter Gres-chuk. who said 'loving with the courts would not be BAIL INCREASED Mr. Justice Greschuk in A report proposing that Ed- of acceptance than if a govern monton Telephones be the oper- mont -owned system applied. atmg authority is not in direct also named Dr. Frank Hall, then in private medical practice and the doctor who had amputated his finger, and J.

E. Harold Ratai, then principal of the school, as defendants. At the April bearing his actions against Dr. Hall and against Mr. Ratai were The longest term employee with Southam Press will be retiring Wednesday after 56 years.

Oliver Macdonald, 73. of 12527 Stony Plain joined The Journal's circulation department in 1913. He collected unpaid "want ad" bills for a short period before becoming a retail advertising sales representative. Mr. Macdonald met his wife.

Anna, at The Journal when she was working as a temporary switchboard operator 42 years ago. Mr. Macdonald is a member of the Edmonton Golf and Country Club and the Cosmopolitan Club, a local sen ice organization. The Journal advertising staff honored him at a party at the Petroleum Club Moodav night Bom in Xorthera Ireland ci lffAj. be emigrated to Edmonton at the ace of 17.

Afrer a few werks a a de'ivery bey mxii a pwery sre. Mr. JIacdora'J joraed The JitmL ilr. Macdeci'J has served ader pJtifben: U- K-Jearsr, C. E.

Varrifoa, Joiai i tene. W. FaiJ Draa. asd Boss Jlzra. conflict" with a May 26 council motion ordering an investigation of the public company plan.

Mayor Dent said. "COMPLEMENTARY" "On the contrary, the tw are complementary and I'm almost REMANDED ON NARCOTIC CHARGES day that $200 of the $1,500 bail originally provided by the father. John Bovchuk of Two Hills, be forfeited to the Crown. Lome Boychuk. 26, of 8060 tilth was to have appeared for trial before Mr.

Justice Harold Riley in Edmonton June on a charge of breaking and entering St Josephat'a Cathedral oa Christmas Eve. PHONE CAIX W. J. Sainton. Crwwa counsel creased the bail demand to, 1" Three city youths appeared in Throughout the hearin" Mr.

$5,000 which has since been met by John Boychuk and adjourned the cae to Sept 2. the next session 1 arraignment day. On Moodav. Mr. Staintoa applied to bare the cf KTU.

ruMKL magistrates eeirt Monday! the ZZZZi ZZu CRTC to support present Mlal ana ir. iappiewc were jrmJiration ts mir owl i represented by 5. A. nenman. application.

ue mayor satd. lnH mmnM i i i i i ommiik snui -IT. told Mr. Justice RiW some- He sad the aim of the page Jljne 3, lor tecttom and pJ.a --rai report made pM Mondayj ras fjw, yr, 7 pet the matter agaia before rh i-j 19 b. fW I.tLn.

11.1 tmtr purportme to be BmchUt -taTiecT bai pnrtw of it had pbied him that mcmr nde forfe. $aing be would be mabie toj Mr. Jastire O'Byrne said be appear because be had ex-lnutt take a serious view of authontT lor CATV sfn compSeterr competent person authontT far CATV system. aathonttet exercised exeeSent mat appearm. lor trial diacretm hiring bioL" aarrtwdr.

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