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Lethbridge Herald (Newspaper) - June 4, 1984, Lethbridge, Alberta
The Lethbridge Herald the Herald serves the South comment Donald r. Dor am publisher John a. Farrington managing editor published by Canadian newspapers company Uwi Teo at 504 7th St. Lethbridge Alberta Canada t1j 3z7 second class Man registration no 0012 a6 monday june 4, 1984 published As a daily since 1907 efficiency seems to be reason for gov t to turn to private Enterprise by Mark Lisac Edmonton up Alberta Cabinet ministers keep whittling away Little chunks of the civil service but How far they want to go and Why they Are doing it remain unclear. The Campaign to have private contractors take Over work once done by government employees was formally announced at the opening of the legislature s Spring session in March. The largest and most recent Cut was the decision to disband the 700-member temporary staff services unit. The province wants to use 24 private employment agencies under contract to provide temporary office help. There were 2,600 placements from the government unit last year and they Cost $6.2 million said personnel minister Greg Stevens. The private agencies will be cheaper he said and the move will save $144,000 in administration costs. Cost cutting though is a secondary objective Stevens said. The temporary staff unit was chopped because it looked like a Good candidate to symbolize the commitment to privatization. That commitment which seems to have Arisen out of general Public sentiment against the size of government is still vague though both in terms of its size and potential for savings. The Basic statement of purpose came in one sentence in the speech from the throne in March building on the successful privatization of Pacific Western airlines a number of provincial departments Are proposing that segments of their operations could be More efficiently undertaken by private sector what followed was a haphazard series of announcements. Sometimes the shift of work from civil servants to private contractors has been justified As a Money saving venture. In other cases the motive has been efficiency or a belief that government should Foster private business. A leaked memo prompted hospitals minister Dave Russell to announce he was studying the possibility of having a private firm administer the medicare system. The department would still pay but he would be Able to Tell voters he had shaved a few administrators from the civil service payroll he told reporters. In one Case government expansion led to privatization. Transportation minister Marvin Moore announced last week he was giving three private companies up to $1.5 million of work which normally would have been done by his department s Highway sign shop this year. There won t be by our account any direct saving in moving to the private sector in this particular order Harvey Alton Deputy trans. Por tation minister said in an interview. It s simply that we Don t have the capability with our existing staff to do this kind of the minister wanted a whole Bunch of signs redesigned said Art Lee general manager at the shop. He wanted a whole Bunch of special signs for Golf courses and things like that.". There have been other scattered moves some High profile some obscure. Recreation and Parks minister Peter Tryn Chy is hiring More private firms for maintenance duties in provincial Parks this year. Government owned Alberta general insurance co., an 18-employee operation which is a vestige of the 1940s and primarily Sells fire insurance is winding up its affairs at the end of the year. The Public works department is exploiting Edmonton s temporary surplus of office space by renting space for new government offices instead of buying or building on its own. In All this there has been ambiguity and criticism. Moore told the legislature last month that plans to turn Over More paving and engineering work to private firms Are part of a four year program to Cut his department s staff size. But that will not mean budget cuts he warned because the work will still have to be done and paid for. He has pressured Alberta counties to follow suit telling them All work paid for by Grants from his department should be done by Pri i lately owned firms starting next year. That prompted a rebellion by the provincial association of municipal districts and counties Many of whom have spent years building up a sophisticated staff and equipment Fleet. The replacement of the temporary staff services unit brought objections from the Alberta Union of provincial employees. The Union did a Survey answered by about 200 of the unit s employees. More than one fifth the employees in the unit Are single mothers some of whom May end up on welfare a Union spokesman said. Those who find jobs with private agencies will Likely earn a lower wage she said. While the Grove moment seems committed the random nature of the changes the Lack of a blueprint for an Overall program and the absence of any yardstick for measuring the effect Ivess of privatization make the whole plan confusing. Future looks Good for Southern Alberta the latest report of the conference Board of Canada painted a depressing picture of Alberta s economic prospects during 1984. It says that As the rest of the country slowly moves into brighter times Alberta will be left behind largely because of another predicted decline in construction. That May be so for Alberta generally but southerners can take a More optimistic viewpoint. There is an impressive list of major projects in the works for Lethbridge and District which will provide jobs Many of which have already begun will be starting this year and or Are assured within the next couple of years. In Lethbridge the City has a great Deal of work on the books. the $14 million twinning of whoop up drive and related work is Only about one Quarter completed. about one half of the $80 million Crow nest Trail project is completed. half a million dollars Worth of servicing is yet to be done at Centre site. if City Council decides on a Cadillac version for the new sewage treatment Plant it will run in the neighbourhood of $27 million. and Council is working on ideas for a new City Hall expected to Cost at least $10 million. additionally the new $116 million regional Hospital has barely begun. a $17 million animal diseases research Centre is in the final planning stages. the University of Lethbridge is to go ahead with its $5 million aquatic Centre. the Lethbridge Community College has started its $10 million learning Centre. Included among those in the District is the $10 million interpretive Centre at the head smashed in Buffalo jump. a $50 million fertilizer Plant is slated for the land on which the Gulf Plant is now located near twin Butte. the work to rehabilitate and preserve the historic area in the town of fort Macleod cannot be forgotten. The provincial government has indicated its intention to determine a site this year for a dam on the Oldman River. If that occurs the planning stages which also produce jobs could begin this year with construction about three years from now. That project was estimated at about $100 million in 1975. Plus there is still millions of dollars to be spent in rehabilitation of the irrigation system and enlarging of the Keho Lake Reservoir. There Are two which depend on political and economic developments the Canadian Long Baseline array project at the University of Lethbridge and commercial development for Centre site. The suggestion was made recently by Jim Jordan the local representative of the Canadian Union of Public employees that with proper co ordination these projects could ensure a stable demand for local engineering and construction labor for several years Down the Road. If some arrangement is not made the South could see More of a Boom situation than is Good for sensible planning and workers will have to be brought in for the immediate Job. It is a reasonable idea which deserves consideration. Do you find yourself missing Trudeau already 156,000 troops took part in do a invasion six hours after Landing we Only held 10 Yards of Beach but in 12 months the third Reich would cease to exist by Stephen Webbe Christian science Monitor people of Western Europe a Landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied expeditionary Force. The hour of your liberation is making the electrifying announcement from London was the supreme Allied commander Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower. The Date was june 6,1944. Some 156,000 United states British and Canadian troops had sprung from the sea and air onto the coast and Fields of Normandy in operation overlord to punch a gaping Hole in Hitler s fortress now with the 40th anniversary of a Day fast approaching thousands who took part in the greatest amphibious and airborne operation in history Are about to return to the scene of their epic deeds. Normandy in Short is about to be re one is exactly sure How Many veterans will descend on the Region to take part in the dozens of ceremonies but Normandy is bracing itself to receive 100,000 visitors this year. By one estimate 30,000 of those will be equal numbers of ., British and Canadian veterans returning often with wives and family Mem Bers in scores of tour groups and aboard hundreds of coaches. Two of those making the pilgrimage to Normandy Are John Downing of Daytona Beach ,fla., and Clayton Booth of Wareham mass., veterans respectively of the 1st infantry division the big red one and the 29th infantry division the Blue and Gray division. Both landed on that tenaciously defended stretch of coast code named Omaha Beach where the 1st division and a regiment of the 29th suffered 3,000 casualties. When lieutenant Downing s Landing Craft lowered its ramp 20 men were hit. Some fell into the sea and drowned. Says Booth anyone who says they weren t scared was t while the people of Normandy Are welcoming the old soldiers French president Francois Mitterrand will be receiving a Host of foreign dignitaries. Scheduled to attend a Day ceremonies Are president and mrs. Ronald Reagan British prime minister Margaret Thatcher Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau King Olav v of Norway and Britain s Queen Elizabeth ii and Prince Philip who will sail to Normandy in the Royal yacht Brittania. Not surprisingly Normandy hotels Are booked solid with veterans for the month of june. But Many families have offered to put up individual veterans who have been unable to find hotel accommodation. A Day ceremonies will take place on Many of the beaches and Landing zones where the mighty Allied poured into France As Well As in the cemeteries that became the final resting place for so Many. There will be huge Public ceremonies attended by Heads of state and undoubtedly Many private remembrances by individual veterans. Solid Green sheets of on the Hel meted Heads of the troops packed shoulder to shoulder in the stiff awkward uncomfortable lonely companionship of men going to a Ernest Hemingway aboard one of the Landing Craft on Omaha Beach. The assault on Normandy began shortly after Midnight on june 6, 1944, when the British 6th airborne division seized key Bridges on the Eastern flank of the invasion beachhead. As the 6th airborne landed the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions leaped trom their aircraft Over the Southeast Corner of the Cote tin Peninsula to perform a similar function on the Western flank. Although badly scattered the 82nd took Ste. Mere eglise while the 101st kept German reinforcements out of the area. Then at 6 30 a.m., the 4th infantry division stormed ashore on Utah Beach just South of la Madeleine on the Eastern base of the Cote tin Peninsula and quickly struck Inland. At the same time the 1st infantry division and the 116th regiment of the 29th infantry division assaulted Omaha Beach Between Wierville sur Mer and Coleville sur Mer. Only extraordinary fortitude saved the Day. Probably the most daring coup de main was executed by the 225 men of the 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions when undaunted by gunfire and grenades they scaled the 100-foot Cliff at Pointe do hoc three Miles West of Omaha Beach to attack a Battery of six 155-mm guns. Later that morning the British 50th and 3rd divisions came ashore on Gold and sword beaches respectively while Canada s 3rd infantry division landed Between them on Juno Beach. In just Over 11 months after the landings the third Reich would cease to exist. The heroism of the 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions will be remembered on the morning of june 5 when a plaque commemorating the unit is unveiled at the Pointe do hoc. Afterwards a team of climbers from the 10th special forces the Green berets will display their skills on the Cliff face. Early that afternoon there will be a ceremony in the British cemetery at Ranville near Pegasus Bridge and at 4 . 150 men from today s 82nd airborne division stationed in fort Bragg n.c., will Drift to Earth outside Ste. Mere eglise in an exhibition Parachute drop. The following Day june 6, sees president Mitterrand and his distinguished guests at the col Leville Saint Laurent american cemetery above Omaha Beach where 9,386 Servicemen lie buried under Marble crosses. The 4 . Ceremony is open to the Public. An hour and a half later the assembled Heads of state will attend the dedication of a Memorial on Utah Beach. In the evening there will be a ceremony honouring the British 3rd division at Hermanville. Visiting the Region s Many a Day museums is Likely to be a Good Deal More pleasant when the crowds of tourists have thinned. There Are Many to see from the airborne troops museum at Ste. Mere eglise in the West to no. 4 commando museum at Ouist Reham Riva Bella in the East. Additional a Day Memorabilia is displayed in the arro Manches museum in the Utah Beach museum at Ste. Marie do Mont in the museum of the Battle of Normandy at Bayeux and in the Pegasus Bridge airborne museum at Bejou Ville. For some returning veterans the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings will be a time to Chew Over the tactics employed by general Eisenhower and his commanders on june 6, 1944. Some will no doubt debate whether it. Gen. Omar Bradley who commanded the Assault forces on a Day could have taken Omaha Beach with far fewer casualties had he accepted a Range of specialized tanks offered him by the British. Nicknamed the funnies these included the crab a Sherman tank whose whirling Chain flails could beat pathways through mine Fields a Churchill tank with a 290 my mortar to pulverize bloc houses and the Sherman swimming tank. General Eisenhower requested a brigade s Worth of the latter tanks but left the Choice of other specialized armoured vehicles to general Bradley. He turned them Down. What a Welcome to France it was the Best imitation of hell with the Beach obstacles mine Fields and torrents of fire from artillery mortars machine guns arid rifles. Samuel Eliot Morison historian the Omaha landings were ill starred from the outset. Ernest Hemingway who was aboard a Landing Craft heading for Omaha Beach that morning watched As solid Green sheets of on the helmeted Heads of the troops packed shoulder to shoulder in the stiff awkward uncomfortable lonely companionship of men going to a the gis who reminded him of Pikeman of the Middle Ages were soon Wax Gray with they were also wet cold and apprehensive. They landed to what historian Samuel Eliot Morison has described As the Best imitation of hell Beach obstacles and mine Fields and a torrent of fire from artillery mortars machine guns and rifles. Within 10 minutes of floundering ashore some 96 per cent of the 197 men in company a of the 116th regiment had been killed or wounded. As Hemingway studied the Shoreline tanks crouched like big yellow toads burst into flames after being hit. Morison thought the Omaha defences infinitely tougher than those the japanese devised to defend Tarawa and iwo Jima. Six hours after the landings we held Only ten Yards of Beach observed general Bradley in his 1983 autobiography a general s the attacking gis soon discovered they were not merely facing the 716th infantry division a Static unit of Low morale but elements of the 352nd infantry division a crack Mobile formation Battle hardened on the Eastern front. Eventually the dogged courage of the troops coupled with a relentless naval bombardment from a dozen destroyers turned the tide on Omaha. But it took 1,000 dead and 2,000 wounded to take the Beach. General Eisenhower later attributed Light casualties on the British and Canadian beaches to tactical Surprise and the Success of the novel mechanical contrivances which were in his recent biography general Bradley claimed that he had rejected the funnies because being largely British Churchill tanks their acceptance would have necessitated the retraining of Drivers and maintenance men and a separate spare parts Supply Chain. The general often returned to Omaha Beach to Honor the valiant men who died there. Every Man who set foot on Omaha Beach that Day was a hero he said. The celebrations and ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of a Day Are by no Means confined to France. Many events Are scheduled to take place in Southern England where the invasion was launched. For instance on saturday afternoon a memo rial ceremony was held at Slapton Sands on the a coast of South Devon. It was in the Waters off this steeply sloping Beach that some 700 gis lost their lives during a practice invasion assault in april 1944 when German a boats in a sneak Cross Channel attack Sank two tank Landing ships Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was to be in Portsmouth yesterday to open a new a Day museum. At nearby Southampton which saw the departure of 1,066 ships of All sorts on june 5, 1914, numerous a Day celebrations Are planned. Singer Vera Lynn the forces sweetheart who bewitched wartime Britain with such songs As Well meet again starred in a gala commemoration evening at the Gaumont theatre in the City on saturday and Herb Miller and his orchestra will be there in june and july to play the swing hits his brother Glenn made famous. Quite simply Waves of nostalgia will be drenching both sides of the English Channel this month. Briton s recall a Day s darkest secret by Mark Smith London Apas the 40th anniversary of a Day draws near the English have been recalling the invasion s darkest secret the night German boats slipped into a fog shrouded Bay of the English Channel coast and torpedoed three Landing Craft practising for the Normandy assault. At least 749 Servicemen were killed More than the number who died weeks later in the real invasion when their units stormed ashore on Utah Beach in France. So disastrous was the attack that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower the Allied commander ordered it kept secret. The victims were buried in mass Graves and their families did t learn the truth until years after the War. It was just past Midnight april 28,1944, when the Convoy of Landing Craft chugged slowly into Lyme Bay on the Devon coast. On Board were soldiers of the 4th Divi Sion mostly engineers shifting heavy backpacks and peering into the Mist. The target Slapton Sands had been chosen for its resemblance to Utah Beach. At about 1 30 a.m., two flotillas of German a boats As the torpedo boats were called charged into the Bay and fired a string of torpedoes at the Convoy. As the a boats turned and fled there were flashes booms and shouts. Three Landing Craft were hit. Two Sank. At least 1,000 Yards astern of us you could see a jeep flying through the air recalls Manny Reuben a Navy signalman on one of the ships. You could see Black dots that we knew were men just on the fringe of it. It was just like hell like every Sailor s those who weren t killed in the explosions drowned under the weight of their equipment or burned to death As flaming gasoline spread Over the water. . Army records show at least 749 men were lost but the researcher who filed them said they May be incomplete. But because of the secrecy so strict that survivors were held in an isolation Camp the germans did t know How deadly they d been. Hans Schirrer one of the a boat commanders Learned Only this year when a British television company researching a documentary contacted him. He declined to be interviewed but wrote to my utter Surprise i have Learned now from you about 750 lives lost that night in Lyme Bay. Please allow me to say i feel very sad about the heavy the documentary Sands of silence called exercise Tiger an astounding catalogue of incompetence and the exercise was conducted with live ammunition. One ammunition truck exploded killing 50 soldiers. The night of the Landing exercise an escorting destroyer collided with an assault ship and had to return to port. The operation was left with just one escort. Meanwhile supplies went astray and there were terrible traffic pileup around the Beach. When the documentary was screened for Devon residents one of them Dorothy seek Ings disclosed the gris Liest aspect of what one London newspaper called a Day s darkest she wrote to a local newspaper saying she recalled seeing dozens of men s bodies piled into mass Graves in a Field about three Kilometres Miles from her Home near Dartmouth. Seekings now 64, was delivering bread and doughnuts to the soldiers stationed near her Home that Spring. She was being Given a lift by a Soldier in a Army truck when soon after he had picked her up he pulled to the Roadside and said he had to make a delivery. I thought it was ammunition or something she recalled. Not until i got out of the truck and went around the Back did i see All these dead men laying one on top of another in the Back of the truck she told the associated press. Across the Road a group of soldiers was digging in a Field and i could see the Earth mounted up in the Field and they came out and they carried these men into the a spokesman at the Army military history Institute at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania confirmed the accuracy of seeking s account. About half of the victims were never recovered and the remainder were buried the next. Day in a Field in Devon said the spokesman. After the War they were exhumed and moved to other cemeteries in accordance with the wishes of their next of
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