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The Herald Ac niversify THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964 PAGE 27 Split Suggested Johnny HOPKINS reports A fit -v- I -i jm EDMONTON UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS 'BOTCHED' The provincial public works department "has botched every building on the Edmonton campus" of the University of Alberta, Chief Justice C. C. McLaurin said Wednesday night at a public meeting. The chief justice was speaking to a brief asking autonomy for UAC, and said he was concerned that the department should not have a chance to do the same thing at Calgary. Some of the buildings now going up at UAC "look like jails," he said.

Local people should be given charge of university adminis' tration, he concluded, so that they can oversee building along with other matters and get the kind of buildings which will do credit to the community they serve. i Vv 4 ft' Vi Uvj Resting now in the office of Mayor Grant Mac-Ewan is a gavel which is large enough to have been used by the legendary Paul Bunyan had he had any need for it. It was presented to the mayor (by the Kamloops Rotary Club) during the recent Chamber of Commerce friendship train into the Okanagan. The gavel has at least a three foot handle, a head larger than a quart oil tin and it's made of cedar from the mills of one of the Kamloops Rotarians. Someone suggested that the mayor use the instrument to tap recalcitrant aldermen on the head during council meetings, but the mayor replied that that might be "toe humorous a note to introduce." Although he had some doubts at the time, Mayor Mac-Ewan is now convinced that the friendship train was a "pretty good investment," and that "MacEwans are traditionally pretty hard to convince when it conies to investments." What the mayor neglected to tell me was that he and several other members of the train were conned at one point into believing that they were going to take part in a grape crushing contest and went as far as to remove their shoes and stockings before they were told that it was a peach-peeling contest.

The Calgary Chamber of Commerce representatives ran into a gaggle of former Calgarians, including former police chief Larry Partridge (busy on an acre of fruit land at Kelowna) and one-time Union Milk boss Ernie Peterson at Vernon. Constance Douglass Calgary Pianist 'Lives Her Work' York includes four hours practising, classes at Juilliard, and teaching students. "My neighbors are quite good about it," she said, con-Page 40 CALGARY PIANIST The mayor received another gift on the trip, one he's now hoping won't arrive. He was presented with three fresh salmon, then told that they would be shipped to his Calgary home. As yet they haven't appeared.

"I approach the mailbox with considerable trepidation each night," he says. "At this point they've been out of the ocean at least 11 -Y a a I I i I By DON JANZEN Herald Staff Writer Constance Channon Douglass bubbles. She bubbles with enthusiasm for her music career, and mixes it with a sharp wit, bright personality. If ever a pianist lived work, it is Miss Douglas. For the Calgary-trained artist, now studying at the Julliard School of Music in New York City, music begins at breakfast each day, and ends at night.

Miss Douglass will be guest soloist with the Calgary Symphony Orchestra Sunday evening. She will play Beethoven's First Piano Concerto Opus 15 in Major. Since leaving Calgary in 1960 for New York, Miss Douglass has formed some new opinions of her home town. She believes the city has come out of the musical rut she thought it was in a few-years ago. "People are more willing to hear less familiar numbers, and this is a good thing," she said Thursday during an interview.

Strong ties hold her to Calgary. She hopes someday to return here, and use the city as her base in a concert and teaching career. A day in her life in New Hi AROUND AND ABOUT: Sunset Avenue beauty Mrs. Marilyn Miller tells of Londoner Will Townsend's reactions to the city's cocktail lounges. "He couldn't understand," she says, "why they were so dark and gloomy.

He got the impression that most Calgarians are ashamed to be seen drinking." He might have a point at that. Countless people, if they have the opportunity, will refrain from using the door that leads directly, and obviously, into a cocktail lounge. They prefer the end run play, such as is available in the Royalite Building The gift, as Frank Currie would say, was "an automatic" when a farewell party was held Tuesday night for Bud Messinger, rejoining Air Canada in Ottawa after a stint with CODA and the Calgary Tourist and Convention Association. A moth-eaten, filthy, misshapen white cowboy hat was presented to him by Jim Kerr, who pointed out that after all the white hats Messinger had presented, it was only fair that he get one in return. George Brown, on behalf of a lot of people, presented a more practical and expensive gift later in the evening GIANT THISTLE.

With the assistance of chair and yardstick, three-year-old Daron Seely reaches for the top of an 8'3" giant Scottish thistle which dominates the backyard of B. J. (Ben) Rosmussen at 251 1 Chicoutimi Dr. N.W. Mr.

Ras-mussen, a mailmen, was given the thistle seeds by a woman in southwest Calgary slightly more than a year ago. Council Partisanship, Animosity' it At Forum LOOKING AROUND THE LETHBRIDGE television station recently, Calgarian Henry Switzer ran across this message on some of the more delicate equipment: "Alles touristen and Nontechnischen Lookens Peepers. Der machines is nicht fur gerfingerpoken and mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der spitzensparken. Der machines Is diggen by experten only.

It nicht for gerverken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken and sightseenen keepen das cottenpicken hands in das pockets." I always try bravely on these, but I never really feel as though I have the message. i The candidate added he is a firm believer in industry and commercial development to in 1 crease the tax base and take the load off the home-owner but 1 See Page 40 FORUM Tour Official Dismayed McLaurin Asks Full Autonomy A public meeting Wednesday asked the Calgary University Committee to press for separate university acts providing individual constitutions for each university in Alberta. The suggestion came from Chief Justice C. C.

McLaurin, an outspoken supporter of complete autonomy for the Calgary university. The chief justice also suggested that the committee investigate the policy and administrative organization of York University in Toronto, which was established several years ago. The suggestion for a single university act for each institution was one of several changes proposed to the committee in a brief it has sent to the board of governors' committe reviewing the present act. The meeting also advised the committee to request that the majority on the university's policy-making body should be non-faculty members. The original brief suggested only that both faculty and community representation be provided for.

The third point raised by the meeting was the method of choosing the policy making body. The brief, as presented, asks for election by the university's convocation. DOUBTS EXPRESSED Several people expressed doubt, however, that a convocation (which consists of the university's graduates only) is sufficiently representative of the community at large to be appropriate in publicly-financed education. Dr. H.

S. Armstrong, UAC president, and Dr. F. P. Gal-braith, Red Deer, chancellor-elect of the University of Alberta, attended the meeting to make opening explanatory statements, but left before the general discussion began.

Even if only 25 per cent Of the students are to be housed on campus, the residences now under construction at UAC will be inadequate by 1966, Dr. Armstrong said. The university president made his prediction in giving a pro gress report to a public meeting ion the question of UAC autonomy, called by the Calgary Un-I iversity Committee. Dr. Armstrong pledged that as president he will "unhesitat ingly choose quality over quan tity" in guiding the growth of the university, and said he is "unalterably opposed to any idea that the Calgary institution should be a mere reflection of what is being done at Edmonton." The president referred several times to his anxiety that UAC should acquire distinctive characteristics.

As one example, he cited the decision to operate the degree program in commerce as part of the arts and sciences college of UAC. This is "centrifugal" educa tion, he said, placing the emphasis on subjects touching the periphery of commerce rather than turning inwardly upon the specialties peculiar to commerce. There is value, he said, in having a choice available between commerce or engineering courses available at Calgary and Edmonton. Dr. Armstrong also stressed the importance of graduate studies.

They are expensive, he said, but essential to the achievement of high stature as a university. At the same time, he said, he is opposed to a concentration on senior and graduate studies. "You must have freshmen, too," he stated. "You can't operate without them." One-Year Jail Term Bernard M. Dehr, 301 Mem orial Dr.

N.W., Wednesday in police court pleaded guilty to stealing three suits from a department store and was sentenced to one year in jail. Dehr has a record. culosis often gave him his pills for safekeeping at parties. "Maybe he did that without me ki.owing it." Trotchie said N. P.

Leveque, defence lawyer, argued the pills were at the very bottom of the narc itics list, since little kick could be gained from them. Mr. Justice Kirby imposed a concurrent sentence to a one year term Trotchie received on the assault charge imposed in July, and added one day. It was pointed out that Trotchie had no previous narcotic convictions. Mr.

Mc-rormirk was prnsemtir Building $21 Million Ahead Of 1964 Total Censors I Scan Revue Film 'Clips' Today's bouquets to Carroyl Taylor, the new Miss Stampeder. She'll look good at the Grey Cup, and the Rose Bowl Today's brickbats (suggested) to taxi firms which don't advise you that there's going to be considerable wait. Fifth Calgary Station Starts Broadcasting City Council Wednesday was attacked by Ward 6 aldermanic candidates for "partisanship and animosity," for its handling of the transit system and for present planning policies. Charles G. Smith, who levelled the partisanship and animosity charge, told 70 persons attending a Kingsland Community Association forum he has attended council meetings and seen "petty bickering, bungling and name-calling.

I have heard half-truths and untruths and the utter stupidity of a council and administration charged with spending ttw public's money." EXPERT ANALYSIS Consulting engineer Jack Davis hit present aldermen for rejecting the Calgary Transit Commission's recommendation that an outside coasultant be hired to analyze the transit system and plot its future development. Losses in 1963 were $260,901, he pointed out, a magnitude requiring analysis of transit problems by experts. Mr. Davis suggested council should do less debating and more decision-making. Nick W.

Taylor told the audience an over-all plan for development of both downtown and residential areas is a must. "The horse and buggy type of planning has to be brought to a halt," he said. URGES GREEN BELTS Mr. Taylor said he would like to see green-belts established in new areas with schools and community buildings located at the edge of thes- belts. "The present practice of the developer giving 10 per cent for parks, usually on a S-degree slope or in a swamp, and the school boards and community associations with their yards, ends up with three eyesores rather than one recreation area," he said.

I The new southern Alberta CBC radio station, CBR Calgary, took to the air at 20 seconds before midnight Wednesday, and station officials reported after nine hours of transmission that operations were going "without a hitch." Broadcasting on a frequency of 1010 kilocycles at a power of .50.000 watts, CBR has its studios in the CBC building on West-mount Blvd. N.W., and its transmitter at Shepard. 11 miles southeast of Calgary. It will be on the air 24 hours dailv The new station has taken over the frequency of CBX, Edmonton, whose transmitter at Lacombe is now off the air. NEW TRANSMITTER Simultaneous with the opening transmission of CBR, a new Edmonton transmitter near Leduc began operation, carrying the CBX signal on the former CBXA frequency of 760 kc.

CBR is Calgary's fifth radio station, the fourth broadcasting an AM signal. A sixth AM station is due to be begin broadcasting later this fall. j0L ..1. -3- CONSTANCE DOUGLASS performs here gary's history, behind 1958 and 1959. Mr.

Walker said it has been a normal building year and the figures are not surprisingly high. Last year, permits for construction worth $52,864,524 were issued by the end of September. Figures would have indicated an abnormally poor construction year had it not been for the $14,000,000 Foothills Hospital permit issued in November, which pushed the 1963 total to about $88,000,000. Building value in almost every residential, commercial and industrial category in September increased from the same month last year. Single family dwellings were nearly double.

Permits for 235 homes, worth nearly $3,000,000, were issued last month, compared to 116 worth almost $1,800,000 in September 1963. 10 APARTMENTS Permits for 10 apartment buildings were issued last month, compared to 11 the previous September; but this year's value is more than $1,500,000, about three times last September's value. Another major factor which pushed last month's total to $13,305,384 compared to last year's was the provincial government building on the UAC campus. Value of the government buildings for which permits were issued in September is $3,220,996. Otlier categories which showed a considerable increase this year are hotels and motels, mercantile and industrial buildings.

CtlCMf tllEITI LOOM I Film "clips" used in Wed- nesday night's performance of The Establishment at the Calgary Jubilee Auditorium will be intercepted and reviewed by the provincial cen- sorship board before the show is given in Edmonton tonight, P. J. A. Fleming, board chairman, said today. He said the clips had not been submitted to the board, as is required of all motion picture films before it can be shown publicly in Alberta.

Some of the clips used in Calgary were described by members of the audience as "pretty rough." Mrs. Inge Baber, who is in Candidate Remanded On Charge Of Theft Mrs. Barbara Gannon, Ward 4 aldermanic candidate in the Oct. 14 civic election, was remanded to Oct. 15 when she appeared in police court Wednesday on a charge of stealing a suit.

Police allege the suit was stolen from a store in September. Mrs. Gannon is charged with theft over $50, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The City Act bars from public office persons con victed of an offence which car-' rics a penalty of five years or more in prison Residential and commercial building surged ahead in September, boosting the 1964 building pace to more than $21,000,000 ahead of last year. Value of building permits issued to date is $74,196,41 and L.

S. Walker, chief city building inspector, believed the total by the end of the year will be close to This would make 1964 the third highest building year in Cal- Vincent Price Art Exhibit On Display A $30,000 art collection, each of whose 200 items is for sale, will be on display in Simpsons-Sears Calgary store until Oct. 8. The collection was assembled by movie and television actor Vincent Price, a noted art con noisseur, for an exhibition and sales circuit of Simpsons-Sears stores in Canada and Sears re tail outlets in the United States. New items are added to the exhibit after each showing, to replace those sold.

The collection being displayed in Calgary includes work by such internationally-famous artists as Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, and Dali, as well as Canadian artists including Harold Town, Emily Carr and Ron Spi-ckett, a former Calgarian. ROAD charge of the troupe's Canadian tour, said today "My God! This is going to put a terrible crimp in things. If any of the film is eliminated, we'll have to cut the show, because the film is part of the live performance. "But if he (Mr. Fleming) wants to censor, let him go ahead and censor.

If we can cope with a picketing bishop we can cope with a censor. But if he does censor them we'll raise a stink." (The reference to a picketing bishop arose from the actions of Rt. Rev. Michael Coleman, former Anglican bishop of Qu'Appelle, who picketed The Establishment's performance in Victoria 10 days ago to protest a skit lampooning the Queen's annual Christmas broadcast). Jeremy Geidt, a member of the cast, said in Edmonton he is both amazed and delighted by the development, and would get in touch with the authorities at once to get matters straightened out.

He said members of the troupe had not been aware of the Alberta law and had not encountered a similar problem anywhere else. "I hope they don': cut anything." he said, "hut the law is the law although in this case more of an ass than usual." Mr. McCormick suggested later the police could loan prisoners the proper clothing during a trial. Trotchie was arrested following a July 3 drinking party for assault and, when searched at the station, was found to have abmit six 2H2 pills on his person. The pills, prescribed to remedy severe pain, contain a degree of narcotics, and must be obtained by prescription.

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