The Westmount examiner, 10 août 1978, jeudi 10 août 1978

[" Aug.21 is council's new date City council has postponed its August statutory meeting one further week from this coming Monday to Monday Aug.21, at 8 pm.Originally it had been delayed to the second Monday in August, rather than the regular first, because several councillors expected to be out of town.The same excuse has been given for the second postponement, meaning the session will not be held until the third Monday of the month.The delay means seven weeks will pass between formal council sessions, the longest gap in recent history.À meeting of general committee of council was held on July 17, but none was held last week nor is one expected this week.\u201cIt's been a screwball month,\u201d one city source told The Examiner this week.\u2018\u2018There\u2019s not very much for the agenda right now anyway.\u201d According to the city charter, at least one formal public council meeting must be held each month.CA pe EIRE AR Vol.L, No.32 eur house but a Westmount, PQ, H3Z 2Y8, Thursday, August 10, 1978 Candidates prime for by-election: Finestone pounds pavement, Johnston tuning machine The national election campaign expenses act is creating more problems than solutions Water tax bills cause confusion for many citizens Water bills mailed to West- mounters by the City of Montreal in the past two weeks are completely legitimate and should be paid in full or appealed through normal channels as instructed, city officials say.Numerous complaints and inquiries have come to city hall \u2014 at the rate of about a dozen a day \u2014 to The Examiner and to various aldermen, from irate Time to grab Two persons driving in a car on Dorchester boulevard near Weredale Park stopped to ask a woman for the time.As she approached the car, one reached out and grabbed her purse.The car drove off, turning south on Atwater avenue and out of sight.The purse contained some $34 cash.AUGUST 12 to 19 and the Gulf.the weekend.Stormy everywhere to open this period as hurricane and tornado conditions clash with normal moon first quarter disturbances.Harvest: ing in full swing in the south.Blue sky mornings in middie of week and improving generally.Clear full moon nights can be very cool, with some risk of frost in low-lying districts.Drizzle for northern counties It is interesting to note that Pacific Ocean typhoons arrive, and die, oft our western coasts at the same time that tropical hurricanes arrive off the New England coasts.Cold.dry northwest winds probable for citizens questioning why the rate is much higher than last year or why they have to pay water tax at all.This is the first year since 1972 that Westmounters have been charged for water at the full rate, following an appeal to the Quebec Municipal Commission which showed that Montreal was overtaxing Westmounters by a substantial amount.The ruling, which covered water tax for 1971 and 1972, meant that Westmount citizens were given credit for that overpayment in full during the next four years; last year there was still a small amount due Westmount, but Montreal was able to tax Westmounters for about $380,612 to make up the difference, about two-thirds Continued on page nine } {/ DE LEGISLATURE TEL DE GOVERKENMENT i GIA 185 EIELI JUEEREC H f; Returning officer gives Liberals edge in war of expenses By ANDY DODGE DRE A = = ai in Westmount because of the uncertainty of what kind of federal election will be held here, when it will be held and under what riding boundaries it will be held.chief According to the returning officer, the West- mount Progressive Conservatives have spent a considerable sum of money on a mailing sent out to promote the candidacy of Bernard Fine- stone, though local Liberals have not spent anything, as far as campaign expense rules are concerned, on a mailing they Continued on page two ee 5 4 ie eunt your home 20\u20ac Bernard J.Finestone is working hard trying to pick up lost ground in anticipation of the Oct.1F by-election in Westmount riding.The Progressive Conservative candidate acclaimed to run for the vacant seat either in the old Westmount riding or the pending St.Henri-Westmount constituency, did not gain the same amount of publicity as his opponent, Donald Johnston, who was the victor in a hard-fought four-way race for the Liberal nomination earlier in the spring.Mr.Finestone has knocked on some 700 to 800 doors throughout the riding, mainly in Westmount and eastern Notre Dame de Grâce, during the past several weeks, talking to voters and trying to convince them of his own and his party\u2019s virtues and chances of winning the next election.He has met several hundred more at parties held in various parts of the riding.Mr.Johnston, meanwhile, has Continued on page two Might move next year: Cramped for space here, Digest pondering move One of Westmount\u2019s largest employers, Reader's Digest Association of Canada Ltd, might be leaving this city in the next year or so because of overcrowding in the complex of offices it has developed locally.Already Reader's Digest is taking up space in four different Westmount buildings, including its large headquarters at 215 Redfern avenue.Two summers ago it added a third floor onto the large industrial building at the corner of Hillside and Metcalfe avenues and fused an adjoining Theatre men are attacked Two maintenance workers at the Atwater I cinema in Alexis Nihon Plaza were taking a garbage can to the back of the theatre at about 12:45 am Monday when two persons, aged about 18 or 19, approached them, bared a gun and told them to lie down on the floor.They handcuffed the men and stole their keys but did not go for the cash in the theatre's cash register.The employees were able to get up and notify police once the assailants left.Responding officers determined that the men had entered the theatre by getting from the garage into the furnace room.townhouse at 171 Metcalfe with it, though the Steadfast Shoe Co.Ltd.still occupies the second floor of the larger building.Reader's Digest has since flowed over into the former Parkway Planning Associates building on the opposite side of Metcalfe, and occupies some space in the office building next to its own headquarters, at 4333 St.Catherine street west.Actual printing of magazines is ANOTHER TYPO: Publication of a misspelled City of Westmount manhole cover three weeks ago led one caller to bring this sign outside Westmount Square to The Examiner's attention.One might ask, however: if the City of Westmount doesn\u2019t know how to spell its own name, can one expect Mondev International, owners of Westmount Square.or Canadawide Parking.operators ot the square's parking lot.to know?done at a fifth location, outside of Westmount.Two weeks ago employees were sent a questionnaire asking about their family and living conditions, wanting to know if employees would be willing to relocate and if so, where.Possible sites included various parts of Montreal Island (outside Westmount), the Drummondville-Sherbrooke area and various locations in Continued on page seven Station 30 Director Gabriel Ayotte is \u2018\u2018not quite satisfied\u2019 with the situation in Westmount\u2019s parks, though he feels the troubles of several weeks ago have abated considerably due to strong pelice work and patrols, along with the efforts of park rangers.Though drinkers and vandals are far fewer than they once were, cyclists are now among the more serious by-law offenders, and he hopes to help right this situation Cyclists next target in park crackdown in coming weeks.He added that \u2018\u2019community relations\" officers will conm- tinue patrolling the parks alongside the rangers.First arrest of the campaign came Tuesday evening at 10:25 pm.A juvenile cyclist had ignored the warnings ef park rangers, until finally a ranger detained the young West.mounter and called police to have him arrested.He will appear in juvenile court with his parents to answer charges resulting from the infraction. 2 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday.August 10, 1978 e VANCOUVER Cycling with Kerrigan MONTREAL e Next Scheduled City Council Meeting Monday, August 21, 1978 CITY HALL 4333 Sherbrooke Street West WESTMOUNT, P.Q.H3Z 1E2 Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Fire (Business Calls) 19 Stanton St.Police (Business Calls) 21 Stanton St.935-8531 935-9696 934-0711 \u2018 4 Man Tosa , > Municipal Court, 21 Stanton St.Saturdays, Sundays and holidays Victoria Hall, 4626 Sherbrooke St.Municipal Yard, 14 Bethune St.Light Department, Glen Rd.935-3528 935-2066 935-B037 935-8218 Se Police - 934-2121 Fire - 935-2456 CANDIDATES .Continued from page one returned from vacation and is meeting with campaign organizers to tune up the machinery tor an electoral blitz starting in a few weeks.He is also doing some \"quiet campaigning\u2019 of his own, he says, but he has the attitude of a front-runner considering the 4,000 paid-up members the Liberal Party had at the time of the April 5 nominating convention, Voters frustrated \u201cIl am getting a real feeling of the frustration of the electorate.\u201d\u2019 Mr.Finestone said of his door-knocking efforts.\u2018The polls talk about that big undecided block, and I'm meeting it\" He said many persons tell him they are committed one way or the other, but many others are completely open to his candidacy in the riding held by Liberal Charles M.Bud\u201d Drury from 1962 until February this year, when he resigned.Both candidates now have SINCE 1916 OUR MASTER ROOFERS AT YOUR SERVICE RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL WESTMOUNT ROOFING LTD.Rene Guitard, Manager 637-2308 24 HOUR SERVICE campaign offices.Mr.Finestone\u2019s are in the basement of the Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater avenue, but for the next few weeks will be open only on Tuesdays and Wed: nesdavs.Mr.Johnston has just set up a new office at 375 Victoria avenue.The Finestone telephone number is 931-7541; Mr.Johnston has yet to get a telephone installed.EXPENSES .Continued from page one sent out promoting Don Johnston, their candidate.Progressive Conservatives feel the ruling is illegal and do not recognize it at all; nor do they think that any further expenses up to the present can be counted as \u2018\u2018election expenses,\u201d either for them or the Liberals, since there are, as yet, no official candidates for the Oct.16 by-election.The ruling has its basis deep in the year\u2019s history of the political situation locally.About the time that Hon.Charles M.Drury was announcing his resignation from the Westmount seat in February, both Westmount riding associations were in the process of dissolution and reformation as St.Henri- Westmount associations.With everyone anticipating a spring general election, both of the St.Henri-Westmount associations held nominating PHOTOCOPY PRINTING DUPLICATING MICROFILM Montreal Copy Centre 2019 Bishop 842.6817 Open Weekdays to Midnight y.Examiner staffer Rick Kerrigan 4, friend Linda Waller are spending July and August cycling home from Vancouver, which they reached by train July 7.Mr.Kerrigan is reporting weekly.by telephone, his experiences and view of ! ! \u2018 se