The Westmount examiner, 20 août 1970, jeudi 20 août 1970

[" in city Break-and-entry artists™have been busy in Westmount over the past week, the two latest cases reported this morning, one from Alexis Nihon Plaza and the other from Westmount Square.No details of losses, if any, in these were available at press time.Approximately $1,000 was the loss in a burglary reported Tuesday evening.which took place sometime during the day, from an apartment in Chateau Maisonneuve.Entry was gained by the front door.Taken were cameras and foreign currency.Yesterday morning detectives were probing two jobs\u2014with the common thread of an interest in carpentry\u2014which occurred overnight.In the first one, a guantity of lumber vanished om the Bethune street corporation yard and it was tracked to St.James street west, St.Henri, where it was recovered by a city truck and seven boys, ranging in age from 12 to 17, were picked up\u2014four from one family, two from another.Then at 7:10 am, it was found that the Webber Construction shack at the new Hydro-Quebec sub-station site in Selby Park had been broken into.Missing: a hard hat, a hammer, a 100-foot tape, cigarets and a jack-bar.In three earlier cases, homes were gone through, drawers pulled out, etc., but nothing appeared to have been taken.Reported Friday was 58 de Lavigne road; Monday, 66 St.Sulpice, and Tuesday, 368 Wood avenue.And in yet another incident, discovered early Saturday morning at 4129 de Maisonneuve boulevard west, a portable AM- FM radio valued at about $40 was taken.Bush job saves man in assault Ancelum O\u2019Halloran, 47, got off with a suspended sentence in Westmount Municipal Court Tuesday morning when he said he had a cook\u2019s job in the bush to go to.The outcome of his pleading guilty to assault might otherwise have been different, if only to judge by the battered appearance of his victim, present in court.O\u2019Halloran was arrested in an apartment at 19 Stayner street at 9:19 o'clock Monday evening when Westmount Police received a call that there was a fight in progress on the premises.® OVERNMENT, Q.CANADA.po vw \u2014 .= æ = < «J ow © 23 > > = LEGISLATURE, B1aL10T HOTEL DU G QUEBEC, P- Improving scattered thunderstorms lasting through Monday for regions.clearing skies as typical warm, end of summer conditions follow, although northern counties may have more storms.Tropical storms passing off Atlantic coasts, so eastern regions will have rain, hail and windstorms.Mainly sunny through the middle of the week, wit morning fog or drizzle, and sultry afternoons.To end the period, it would not be unusual Vol.XLIII, No.33 Academy road closed A by-law to close Academy road from the west side of Melville Avenue to the east side of Park Place in front of West- mount Park School was adopted Tuesday night by city council.After over a year of deliberation, the Academy road issue has been settled.The Montreal Urban Community still has to approve closing and transfer.Meanwhile, to answer Ald.Jean Richer as to whether the road would be closed by September when school resumes, it was already closed this week.The road will now become a play area for the children of the School.It has been suggested that \u2018Making not just your house but all of Westmount your home Westmount 215, P.Q., Thursday, August 20, 1970 NEW LOOK ON MELVILLE: Even before city council had passed a by-law Tuesday evening, closing Academy road in front of Westmount Park School, city works people had closed it at Melville avenue and Park place.Here, yesterday, may be seen the forms in place to pour a new sidewalk across the intersection at Melville.There will be ramps to permit entry of emergency vehicles; but normally there will be no traffic on the street in future with its transfer to the Protestant school autherities.benches be placed here and there.Apparently, parents and children intend to do some exterior \u2018\u2018decorating.\u201d Still accessible Since no traffic will have access to Academy road, what then in a fire emergency?It remains, as was decided last November, accessible to and of Carted away This week's careless lady: The one who left her wallet in a shopping cart of the Alexis Nihon Plaza Steinberg\u2019s\u2014and had her grocery money stolen.sufficient strength to support the heaviest of the city\u2019s fire-fighting vehicles, The Academy road closing was first proposed by the Westmount Municipal Association.However, the public safety department noted that there hadn\u2019t been an accident involving a school age child in the area for the past eight years.(This in May 1969).It was brought up again in November at city council.In a letter from Mayor Peter M.McEntyre, the City of Westmount said it was prepared to sell for one dollar the bed of Academy road, from Melville avenue to Park Place, provided the road be closed at both ends.10¢ Housing action closer Westmount\u2019s venture into subsidized municipal housing may be a good deal closer to reality, five years after the \" residents of Selby street were turfed out in the expropriations for the still unbuilt Trans-Canada Highway.Al Fisher, president of the Selby Street Tenants\u2019 Association, was told at city hall this week the city is hopeful of having early in September an option on a suitable piece of Westmount land on which up to 100 housing units might be built.Between 200 and 300 families had to find new homes when the provincial highways department moved them out in 1965.In resultant ructions, the city council of the day undertook, as a moral obligation it felt to these citizens, to relocate them.Assistance was provided in finding temporary accomodation here and elsewhere and, eventually, permanent homes in Westmount for those who wished to return.Since that time, there has been the possibility that residents of St.Antoine street might also require new houseing if urban renewal proposals for the area were carried out.Between 30 and 40 Selby residents are currently registered as desiring to return.Their association has some 70 members.When the expected land is assured, city officials hope to call a meeting of a consultative body of citizens to discuss general form of its use, following which architectural plans would be ordered.If all goes well, ground breaking could commence next year.Fill \u2019er up ! Tenders close next Thursday noon for the City of Westmount\u2019s gasoline needs for the year ahead.The requirement: approximately 190,000 gallons of regular and 30,000 of premium.The city gets no special breaks on provincial or federal taxes: only whatever the most enterprising of the oil companies offers in the bidding for that appreciable order.Rimouski majorettes perform here; dance and splash party NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER By ERIC NEAL August 21 to 31 enerally after many Winds westerly wit some for the Montreal region to have heavy rains, gusty winds, thunder and bhailsfones.Cold showers or soft snow for _northern counties.All you Westmount males and females, ages 10 to 19; you all are invited to mix it Monday night with 56 gals from our twin city, Rimouski.They're the members of Les Etoiles de Rimouski, the Lower St.Lawrence city\u2019s accomplished majorettes who're putting on a show in Westmount Park, having a dance at the ice rink, a splash party at the pool and staying the night in Victoria Hall.The Stars of Rimouski are coming this way Friday in two special buses to attend majorette False alarm There was a false fire alarm rung from a box at Olivier avenue and de Maisonneuve boulevard west at 10:15 am today.competitions in St.Jerome on Saturday.On Sunday they will \u2018perform at Man and His World and, Monday noon, in Place Ville- Marie.At 6 pm Monday, the City of Westmount is giving the young ladies supper in Victoria Hall and, at 7:30, they are scheduled to put on their public performance in Westmount Park.A sizeable turnout of citizens is expected, which should include large numbers of teenagers who have a general invitation to jain in the fun afterward.Music is being provided for the dancing in the rink and at 10 pm, following the normal closing of the pool to the general public, the splash party will commence.The girls, and their adult supervisors, will be equipped with sleeping bags so that Victoria Hall will provide suitable shelter for the night.Westmount and Rimouski were \u201ctwinned\u201d as a result of an idea promoted between cities, towns and villages across Canada in 1967, Centennial year.4424 car wash A car wash will be held Saturday, from 9 am to 6 pm at the gasoline station on the southeast corner of Victoria avenue and de Maisonneuve boulevard, run by youth from 4424 Club Inc.Proceeds will go toward projects being developed by youths at the center, notably for equipping a coffee house. 2 - Batshaw joining trip to Israel Westmounter Manuel G.Batshaw, 4300 de Maisonneuve boulevard west, executive director of the Allied Jewish Community Services, is among the members of a delegation from the Montreal Jewish community which will leave for Isreal next Tuesday to discuss the current Middle East situation with Israeli government leaders.The delegation of 33 will meet with the President of Israel, Zaiman Shazar; Defence Minister Moshe Dayan and the Director of Military Intelligence General Aharon Yariv.The Westmount Examiner, Thursday.August 20, 1970 Payments: July down Westmount spent $161,851.56 in July.The sum of $265,357.20 went in municipal payrolls and $351,494.36 in various accounts payable.The expenditures were down $132,000 from July 1969, principally because of two payments in the same month last year to Hydro-Quebec for power against one this year, and approximately $65,000 deposited on expropriation of property last year.Why is it other folk\u2019s babies say cute things, but our\u2019s just say unprintable ones?\u2014