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18 THE CALGARY HERALD Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1971 Alderman, jobless men press for make-work city projects 1- i would be that man, Aid. Petrasuk suggested. Alderman Roy Farran asked how the city might head off conflict with the unions if it started work projects. "Union members are tax paraded picket signs on the street before entering council chambers.

At that point Mayor Rod Sykes assured the men that "council had got the message" and thanked them for an orderly demonstration. payers and I'm sure they want some benefit from the money that, is going into welfare assistance," Aid. Petrasuk replied. Later in the day, a handful of single men brought their plea for jobs to City Hall. For 30 minutes they quietly Council bridge decision buries Chinatown question Aid.

Davis also contended outside the council chamber that the million cost estimate projected by consultant engineers was unrealistic in light of future traffic No support for Dooley in three-pronged attack WORK, NOT WELFARE. DEMANDED BY CALGARY JOBLESS placards feature demonstration in City Council chambers City Council acted to prolong the life of the Centre St. bridge Monday, but in doing so buried the Chinatown question for two more years. Council agreed to $200,000 emergency repairs to the southern span of the 64-year-old bridge, but left the question of a new or reconstructed bridge hanging in doubt. The future of Chinatown hinges on resolving the Centre St.

bridge problem. A new bridge would wipe out existing Chinatown, while a reconstructed bridge would probably put off for 20 to 25 years the question of bridge replacement. The emergency repairs-needed to prevent collapse of the deteriorating southern arch will put off until 1973 the decision on the future of the bridge. Council did not give any direction Monday whether or not it was prepared to proceed with a further $1 million renovation in two years' time. Alderman Jack Davis said Monday's decision again places in limbo the question of Chinatown, and Ray Lee, president of the Sein Lok Society, agreed that the Chinatown question is dead for another two years.

robbery Would cost CP Rail more seek better railway fence The railway has indicated it will fence the right-of-way at a cost of $850 with a wire fence. This type of fencing, because of its construction, is inadequate in keeping children out of the prohibited area. The community association and city parks and recreation department agreed that a six-foot-high chain link fence would be needed to effectively prevent children from gaining access to the tracks. A chain link fence would cost $4,800 for the same stretch of track. STRONG'S WARNING Chief commissioner J.

Ivor Strong said the railway will resist the higher cost fence because of ramifications it would have throughout the country. Legally the CPR is only compelled to erect the wire fence in urban areas and strands of barb wire in rural areas. Commissioner Strong also warned that if council ap- man faces 35 years City will A Haysboro fence problem could end up with national repercussions, the Development Operations Committee heard Monday. The committee approved fencing of community reserve land abutting the Canadian Pacific rail tracks on the 1600-foot-long strip through the Haysboro subdivision. The Haysboro Community Association asked for the fencing as protection against children straying and playing on the tracks.

Greyhound but James The city has until June 1 to find an alternate site for the new Greyhound Bus Lines depot. City Council agreed Monday to extend the search period from Feb. 19 to June 1. Greyhound earlier indicated it was agreeable to the extension, and that an alternate site to the James Short School site is now under consideration. Mayor Rod Sykes, however, said that the extension does site deadline extended, Short plan isn't dead robber fired a shot into the ceiling over the head of the bank manager, witnesses testified.

Bank customer Robert Pearce testified that Boomer turned and fired a shot at him as he pursued him across the bank parking lot. Witnesses said the accused removed the hood as he ran from the bank and four persons said they saw Boomer's face from distances of from 10 to 50 feet. After hearing of Boomer's It was three strikes and out for Alderman Ed Dooley Monday when he waged a single-handed fight in City Council against Mayor Rod Sykes and Alderman John Kushner. In each case he failed to gather enough council backing to continue his offensive. For openers, Aid.

Dooley demanded to know why he was the only alderman named by the mayor when six others also voted for an $1,800 a year raise in Jan. 1969. He suggested Mayor Sykes should stay out of "petty politicking." The mayor's only response lengthy and serious criminal record, Mr. Justice Riley demanded to know what the parole board had been doing, releasing him from prison in December, 1969 4V2 years after he had received a total of 20 years for five armed robberies. Crown Prosecutor D.C.

Abbott said he might ask the same question himself and called for the maximum life term of imprisonment. When the prosecutor said he was not asking for whip- bring educational costs under control, Mr. Saville hinted that those elected could not support the board's $73.4 million draft budget without trying to make cut-backs. DEBATE 'ARTIFICIAL' Noting that debate at board meetings is "quite structured," and "usually highly artificial," Mr. Saville claimed it is nearly impossible to influence issues with a legitimate exchange of views.

"Rather than being a legislative body, the school board is more of a talking freak show, or perhaps a freaking talk show, depending on your point of view," Mr. Saville said. "The whole thing is full of sound and fury, signifying virtually nothing." Mr. Saville also had some harsh words for board staff members. His criticisms here were levelled at senior administrators and teachers who condemn proposals for fiscal restraint as being destined to hamper the quality of education.

an alternate to the James Short site." However, he did not disclose the location of the alternate site. The city and the company have been examining the southeast corner of 6th Ave. and Centre that is the parking lot belonging to the York Hotel. This site was in the running for the new depot, until Greyhound elected to go to the James Short location. COUNCIL By Gary Park Herald Staff Writer The city was prodded from two directions Monday to take the initiative in launching work projects for the unemployed.

A call for action came from a handful of jobless from the single men's hostel who staged a silent demonstration in City Council chambers. Meanwhile, Alderman Peter Petrasuk renewed his bid for special city projects to remove men from welfare rolls and also provide summer jobs for university students. When the alderman suggested work-for-assistance programs last month he encountered opposition from the federal and provincial governments and social service director Sam Blakely. The senior governments made it clear they would not participate in normal cost-sharing arrangements by transferring welfare funds to special work projects. Mr.

Blakely cautioned that job priority for Welfare recipients might interfere with the job market and raise objections from unions which have signed agreements with the city. STUDY BACKED Before the operations and development committee Monday, Aid. Petrasuk pressed his argument again and got backing for a study by commissioners into work, possibilities. He mentioned in particular the Bow River beautification scheme, first proposed five years ago when former Alberta chief justice C.C. Mc-Laurin marshalled citizen support for a full-scale program to make the river banks more attractive.

If anyone could cut through the problems of government financing, Dr. McLaurin September bank Hold-up By Doug Campbell Hm-sld Staff Writer! A man already sentenced to prison terms lasting until 1991 was sentenced Monday in Alberta Supreme Court to another 15-year penitentiary term. A 12-man Jury heard about one hour of testimony and deliberated about 20 minutes before they found Charles Warren Boomer, 35, originally of Ontario, guilty of the Sept. 23 armed robbery of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce at 840 14th Ave. S.W.

A total of $36,084 was taken from tellers and the bank vault in the robbery and two shots were alleged to have been fired from a revolver wielded by the robber. Conducting his own case, Boomer earlier had refused to take part in the jury selection, charging tlv.l the court had been making him look like a fool. His protestations led to warnings from Mr. Justice H. W.

Riley that he should not try to make a mockery of the court. CROSS-EXAMINED In the course of the actual trial, the accused cross-examined Crown witnesses and addressed the jury at the close of the Crown case. Before sending the jury out to consider its verdict, Mr. Justice Riley told jurors: "If in the course of this trial you have felt the accused appeared to have been difficult and I do not myself it should not weigh against him. "But if you do not think he received a fair trial I ask you to be frank enough to bring that in in your verdict.

In other words, I want to know if he has received a fair trial or not. "It is becoming the style, it is becoming the fashion for people to say they have not received a fair trial and I would hate to so conduct judicial proceedings that any accused did not receive a fair trial." After the jury retired the judge asked Boomer if he had any objections to the way in which the jury was charged and the accused replied, "no objections at all." The judge asked the jury on their return if they thought the trial had been fair and they replied they thought it had been. Although he called no evidence in his defence, Boomer argued to the jury that the identification of him by Crown witnesses was unrelia ble. Bank employees testified that a man wearing a ski-touque hood entered the bank about 10.30 a.m. Sept.

23 with a revolver. ISSUED THREATS After ordering two tellers to place money in a black satchel, he took the manager and bank accountant to the vault where he took more cash and issued threats, saying he would take a hostage if the police arrived. At one point, when persons in the bank were slow to respond to his demands, the Find board candidates, trustee urges Jaycees Farran calls for boycott He contended that the cost of reconstruction would be closer to $2 million, as the city would be forced to build a complementary low-level bridge adjacent to the existing structure within the next decade. was to quietly thank Aid. Dooley for his comments.

KUSHNER ACCUSED The alderman then returned to the attack, this time with Aid. Kushner in his sights. He claimed the alderman released confidential information on city land department sales to the news media. The mayor insisted Aid. Kushner had not released confidential information.

Alderman Dooley pressed to have the police bylaw amended to give council control of commission appointments, because he contended the commission was flouting the authority of council, but was defeated, 7 votes to 5. in jail ping, provided for in the Criminal Code, the convicted man interjected, "Why not?" The judge ordered a transcript of the trial sent to the National Parole Service. DATE BACK TO 1952 Court was told Boomer's record went back to 1952 in Ontario and contained a more or less steady string of convictions until 1956 when he served a prison term in Virginia that lasted until 1965. In August 1965, the accused was sentenced in Toronto to a total of 20 years for five armed robberies and received three consecutive two-year sentences for possession of an offensive weapon and escapes in August and September of 1967. He was released on parole in 1969 with his sentence due to expire in 1991.

Justice Riley was told Boomer's parole had been revoked and made his sentence consecutive to "whatever the parole board decides to do with you." In another exchange with the accused prior to sentencing, Mr. Justice Riley asked the convicted man what he wanted the court to do with him. "I don't really care, your honor, I'm really buried anyway," Boomer replied. Boomer was arrested in the U.S. about two months after the offence, court was told.

The judge turned down a Crown request that about $2,000 in cash, traveller's cheques and bank deposits be turned over to the bank because the funds could not be traced to the Calgary bank that was robbed. The judge also increased the jurors fees to $35 per day from the usual $15 and absolved the jurors from jury duty for one year. N.W on holiday-breaking stores Alderman Roy Farran mittee ssympathized with the mittee ssympathized with the $250,000 LAND BUY 1 1 proves the committee's recommendation, other Calgary communities abutting tracks would seek similar protection for their youngsters. The committee instructed the commissioners to report on the amount of fencing that may be needed in Calgary for dedicated areas. They also are to prepare a brief to the Board of Transport Commissioners urging them to change the railway fencing policy.

T)he city will urge that railways be compelled to erect a more effective fencing than the wire fence. Commissioners were also instructed to determine whether the railway would share in the cost of maintaining a fence if the city should build it. Legally, the railway is responsible for maintaining any fence it constructs. On the chain-link fence, the railway has indicated it is prepared to contribute the $850, cost of its wire fence, toward the city chain-link fence. City commissioners were doubtful that the railway would participate in cost-sharing of maintenance, simply because it again would have national repercussions.

DEFERS the city's costs in bringing the second regional centre in northwest Calgary to fruition. Geoff Hamilton, city development commissioner, said the road problem was only one part of a very "tough deal," and agreed it would be better to defer the matter until the entire agreement is presented to City Council. In other developments. City Council asked the province to enact legislation permitting the use of improvement bylaw to acquire land for finance construction of recreation facilities. The Dalhousie and Brentwood community associations who are interested in constructing a regional sports complex sought the change in legislation.

dcrcd concurrently with the transit system's annual budget. $15 PASS The monthly pass proposed would cost $15, and it is estimated from the experience of Edmonton and Winnipeg that the bearer would use the bus about 100 times a month. Edmonton and Winnipeg are the only cities in Canada using a monthly pass. Under the exact fare system, the city would abolish all transit tickets and money handling by drivers. Passengers would be required to deposit the exact fare into the fare box.

If the passenger did not have the exact fare, the driver would not make change as now occurs. Instead the passenger's money would be deposited into the fare box, and he be given a receipt for the necessary refund. The refund receipt would be later cashed at a central downtown location. It is proposed that exact fares be fixed at current single ride charges: adult 25 cents, children, senior citizens, snd students during school hours, 15 cents. A recommendation to have the city purchase $250,000 worth of land for roadway adjacent to the Northland Village Shopping Plaza (Petro Regional Shopping Centre) was deferred Monday.

Alderman Jack Davis asked for the deferral, wondering how the city got hooked for buying 11 acres of roadway. "With all the planning during the last four years, how did we get into $250,000 for land acquisition." asked Aid. Davis. He said with that lead time surely, the commissioners could have worked something out at far less expense to the taxpayer. He was also fearful that the $250,000 was only the start of not preclude Greyhound from developing on the James Short block, if it chooses to do so before June 1.

"Greyhound may develop it (James. Short) any time it wishes to, if it feels that these negotiations are not worth continuing," said Mayor Sykes. J. C. Major, Greyhound solicitor, in correspondence, disclosed that his client is "prepared to consider this site as Legion but were reluctant to effect legislation because of the city's sad experience in the past with store closing bylaws.

For the past five years, Calgary has not had a store closing bylaw, J. D. Salmon, city solicitor, reported. At that time, the Alberta Supreme Court ruled the city's store closing bylaw as being ultra virus. Since then the provincial legislation has been tightened up to strengthen the city's position, Mr.

Salmon indicated, but today it would be a matter of closing all stores on a holiday, not just a certain type. The committee recommended to City Council that it indicate (no direction given on how) that it strongly resents stores operating on statutory holidays. Service station operator dies A pioneer Calgary service station operator, Henry Repp, died Saturday at the age of 73. Born at Saratov. Russia, he came to Calgary in 1900 with his parents.

For 40 years he operated a service station with his brothers, retiring in 1964. Mr. Repp is survived by two brothers, Adam and Albert, both of Calgary; a sister, Mrs. W. S.

(Katliy) Dexter, Seattle, Washington. His wife, Julia, died in 1969. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Leyden's Chapel of Remembrance, PROBLEMS? urged Calgarians Monday to boycott stores that stay open on Remembrance Day and statutory holidays. The Ward 2 alderman urged the action in response to a request by the Royal Canadian Legion to have the city legislate store closure on Remembrance Day.

The city's legislation com- Faiview complex gets reprieve Organizers of the $230,000 Fairview sports complex had an encouraging weekend as the community answered the call for help. Approximately 40 canvassers were added to the staff and some 60 homes made $100 pledges to the complex. Earlier fears of the project dying for lack of community backing have been averted as a result of the weekend response. Building chairman Doug Fraser said Monday it is now a matter of keeping the community working towards the $115,000 fund goal. By Monday, organizers had raised approximately $43,000 by selling $100 memberships.

The complex is being financed on a matching dollar-for-dollar basis with City Council. vw BUSES TRUCKS NOW AT PADOS VOLKSWAGEN 7004 Macleod Trail 255-6681 fcr HEARING Exact-fare plan may start April 1 Labelling most of lis Public School Board colleagues as "political schizophrenics," Trustee Scott D. Saville urged Calgary Jaycees Monday to start an early campaign for publicly-responsive candidates for next October's civic election. "I challenge you as individuals to quit lying in the weeds, and get out in the open where the action is. If, like myself, you are not totally satisfied with your public school system you have a duty to offer your name as a candidate and speak out on those issues which you would pursue in the public interest," Mr.

Saville said. The 28-year-old trustee was addressing a dinner meeting of Calgary's Junior Chamber of Commerce Monday night at the Stampeder Hotel. "There are individuals in this very room, who have the education, business or professional backgrounds that would make them extremely attractive as candidates for school trustees," Mr. Saville claimed. "It is not enough to attend forums and listen to public servants speak, and then ask them questions.

That is the easy way out," Mr. Saville added. 'WORST OFFENDERS The Public School Board member combined his appeal for more candidates with complaints that his board colleagues perform differently than they promised to do in their election campaigns. "Elected school trustees are probably the worst offenders in what I have described, as the widening gap between promise and performance," Mr. Saville said.

Claiming "every candidate" supported the need to SPECIALISTS Yes, we specialize in wallpaper END OF SEASON CLEARANCE1. Adoption of an exact fare system effective April 1 for Calgary Transit but a delay in introducing a monthly bus pass has been recommended to City Council. The city's development and operation committee quickly concurred Monday with the commissioners' recommendations in these two matters. Commissioners sought a delay in the monthly pass because it will mean a net $70,000 increase in the transit system's annual operating deficit. The impact of the monthly pass is to be consi- Cadet dies QUEBEC (CP) Martin Chabot, 18-year-old police cadet, died in hospital during the weekend from burns suffered in a fire Wednesday that killed three apartment-house occupants.

Cadet Chabot, who joined the provincial police last August, was taken to hospital Wednesday from the burning four-storey building. Three bndies were found in the ruins early Thursday. BE WISE, TRUST RAY ATKINSON Certified Hearing Aid Audiologist 14 years experience An edited member of: Albeitr Hearing Aid Dealers Association National Hearing Aid Society fcAjA fit BELTONE cIntRneg 102 -106 16th AVE. Alto npnointftj Commissioner lor oath in the Provmci of Albert. 310 hound 277-7577 Over 58 Yeors in Colgary 277-1346.