Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Per copy edition with comics Loc. Leg free press prowlers attack laundry watchman Winnipeg tuesday August 31, 1948 lifted teachers Premium by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. C y who broke into the new method cleaners 372 Burnell Street. The thieves escaped with after Man in farm badly Hurt mishap Fritz face make of Emerson a seriously injured monday when he was. Caught in a Hay baling Mach Ine it was reported from Emerson tuesday. _ or. Lembke was taken to Altona Hospital with a fractured and lacerated right Arm a fractured left Finkle and abrasions to the body. He is reported to Well. Traffic deaths Ine priests opened inquests into the deaths of a thur Edward Lesperance 23 months of 1320 Selkirk Avenue and Helen Jasper of Hartney Man., opened tuesday noon in Central police station under or. I. O. Fryer provincial Coroner and were adjourned to sept. 7. The two were killed in week end traffic accidents in the City. J Jimm Ying a Cash drawer. Humphries timely intervention probably prevented the thieves from breaking into the company s Safe. Or. Humphries told police he was making his rounds about when he saw two men in the office at the front of the building of asked them what they were he said then i grappled with one of. Them. The second Man came to his Aid and they Over powered Humphries was held Down on the floor and a curtain was bound around his face to muffle jigs cries for help. The men ransacked the office then left the building. The watchman was found by Early shift workers coming on duty 10 minutes later. A Petty Cash drawer had been pried open and a two wheeled Dolly had been brought., into the office from he rear of the apparently or the purpose of removing the afe. The burglars apparently entered y. One of six windows on the North Ide of the laundry which had Een left open All night to Cool of the Plant. Rural schools making a last minut scramble for someone to take Ove classroom duties the shortage o competent and experienced teach ers once again becomes upper most in. The minds of those who realize that every Trade and profession is dependent on the schoo marm for Basic training o its working Force. Department of education offi Cut is do not anticipate the shut Down of any schools. However they reveal that permits have already been issued to about 500 persons with Grade 11 and 12 standing who attended a weeks teachers training course this summer. Manitoba butter takes 89 prizes at Canadian National exhibition Manitoba butter producers have taken a total of 89 relent for to Proe Ern ment information service reported tuesday. Canada packers limited Creamery at Glenboro was awarded a Silver cup and medal for Hijra butter Silver medals went to the in the last school year 16.3 per cent of All teachers in the prov Ince were special permit holders. Of. The 876 students who taught under permit in 1946-47, 562 took the Short training course. Permit teaching in recent years goes Back to 1940. After Only one year of War the profession was sufficiently affected to make employment of i permit teachers necessary. During the next school year this number was increased to and continued on the up Ward Grade in the ensuing years. Tiv danger of Competition among such an untrained working Are Good for Only one year in the specific school mentioned in the permit. Should a student wish t break his professional Trainin with periods of teaching he is required to do one Yea r s at Ademi work before taking another teach ing assignment. By 1946-47 the number of teach ers trained at Normal school Anc faculty of education was said1 t 36 adequate to meet average year y replacements. Authorities also Felt that some Progress was being made towards reducing the Back of which had grown up during he War years. There has been a steady increase n enrolment at both teachers raining Centre since 1945 when no Normal school enrolled 1t and faculty of education 24 1946 enrolment figures were 353 at faculty of elation and 194.7, 382 at Normal and t faculty of education. With final registration still a few Days away the Normal school has already accepted applications while faculty of education expects an enrol ment of at least 50. In company with other proves on which rely on a Large number f Young women marriage makes Enous inroads on the teaching working Force the career is a comparatively Short one. Based on the length of time duration is 10 years. There is an estimated loss of 30 per cent in the first year while within the first three years the loss climbs to 50 per cent. Apart from the number of teachers available some school boards have an annual head ache when it conies to filling vacancies. Money Security and Comfort have the same attraction for teachers As they have for other working people. The annual minimum salary for eachers with a Grade Xii Educa Ion and one year s Normal train Jig was raised this year from o University graduates with one year s professional training get a average starting cite schedule Lack financial complaints each ers organizations Are now among mainly directed at the Lack of ver All salary schedules there is Trong agitation. For regular an Ual increments based on proves ional training and experience. Of Nore than school districts of which Many 4 have put salary schedules into meet this matter rests entirely Vith local school trustees and eachers to decide. Other grievances include Lack of Security of tenure. It is stated in the teacher s Eon tract that he May f dismissal at nth in the first prize group for undated butter were Manitoba creameries with total scores of More than 97. Seventeen creameries had scores More than 96.5 and eight More than 96 another butter Section two creameries had scores More than Points ten More than 96.5 and seven More than 96 Points. In the june butter Section seven Manitoba creameries made the str Sec prize group More than 97 Points 17 were in the second Points and Over and eight in the third 96 2 More cases of polio reported in Manitoba two More cases of infantile bringing the Provin Cial total to 44, were reported tuesday by the provincial health and welfare depart ment. The. New. Cases were i girl of 12 at la Bro Querie and a woman of 48 at St Einbach. The provincial total for the same period in 1947 was near ing the 300 Mark. Soi. Club soon to re open the . S co education Al 301 club featuring pro grammes of lectures crafts Manship dancing and indoor games will open in 1948-49 season sept. 28. Registration May be made sept. 7, to 10, and sept. 14, to 17. Subjects include Public speaking Bridge plastics a glee club dramatics and dancing instruction. A a a Charles Wood Man injured in tractor Accident Edward Bruce 38, of Charleswood suffered a possible fractured Collar hone monday evening when the steering Arm of the tractor he was driving broke throwing him to the ground. According to police Bruce was driving the newly purchased tractor in St. Vital up the ramp of a truck driven by Walter Mcneilly 55 Dagmar Street. Thrown from the tractor Bruce was dragged about live feet then fell to the ground. Taken to St. Vital police station by or. Mcneilly Bruce received first Aid treatment there and later taken to St. Boni face Hospital. His condition is reported As shop tufting brings fines for two pleading guilty to shoplift ing charges in City police court monday Baker of 259 Nassau Street and David Paul of no fixed abode were each fined with the option of 15 Days in jail. Two groups to meet in free press building two meetings Are scheduled to be held in the free press Board rooms wednesday. The Winnipeg Cage Bird society will meet in Board room no. 2 while the British wives club a fear of isolation is a deter ring Factor with University students to entering the profession. Many Rural teachers Are in Accord with this feeling. Answers from 26- teachers to a questionnaire sent out by the Manitoba teachers association revealed that 60 per cent w i. More than nine Miles from a doctor and. Many were 20 to 30 Miles Dis Tant. The same group showed that Only five per cent of the teacher Ages had telephones. Statistics show that dissatisfied teachers have a habit of hopping from school to school in an Effort to improve their position. From a random sampling of 219 returns by the research committee of the teachers association four schools were shown to have had eight leathers during the past five years seven schools had seven teachers 25 schools had six teachers 58 schools had five teachers while Only. 16 schools had the same teacher in the five year period. Part of the answer to establish ing a More stabilized education so Grannie lies with the formation of larger units of administration a the opinion of several educationalists. It is also pointed out that continual shifting is of Little Benefit to the teacher any claim to wage increases that might be built up Are forfeited upon moving and pen Sion rights at present Are also lost when a teacher moves from one school District to another. An example of a satisfactory Large working school District is that of Winnipeg. Apart from Spe Cial appointments of Young graduates to physical training and Home economics classes most applications considered Are those from experienced teachers in Rural areas in the larger District a teacher May be moved without any monetary or seniority loss. Improvement in Rural salaries and salary schedule plans particularly in suburban areas is Al ready reflected in the number of applications reaching the Winnipeg school District. At present City school officials state there is a de Mand for competent teachers for elementary classes which Are show ing increased enrolment. Almost As serious in the eyes of educators As the Lack o1 qualified teachers is the Stac Cato Type of education resulting l from the shifting Anion the dissatisfied teacher group. To encourage Young people to enter the profession a residential the girl who is now starring in the theatre Guild production of Carousel paid a visit to the Para mount studios in Hollywood the other nay Ami said hello to Alan Ladd. Carousel since it left Broadway has been on tour and the production is now housed at the Biltmore theatre in los Angeles. Steamship firm sued mennonite trek South leads to claim Selling our country to Wall Street will meet in the club room. Starting time for both is 8 . No acclamation for Coulter they say the attempt being Mode to swing labor s support behind an acclamation for mayor Garnet Coulter must be repudiated members of the labor election committees of wards two and three decided in endorsing a Resolution to that effect. The group met monday at a joint meeting in the Norman Bethune Hall. Aid. M. J. Forkin was in the chair. The Resolution stated that in spite of the efforts to present the Muyr is Independent and non partisan he is the candidate of the civic election committee the front for the anti labor big business interests of the City. The labor movement it continues to the . To Challenge the . Candidate for mayor Vith the labor election committee pledging its support for a labor mayoralty candidate. Election slogans will be win Winnipeg for labor and vote full labor . Hits War preparations High prices chewing gum newspapers doses of in daily High prices and american and Cana by civic Leader of the labor pro Normal school is in operation scholarships and Loans Are also available. Teachers themselves listed the requirements in order of importance necessary to hold them in the Field. They include better better pensions better school equipment Security for teachers and better boarding accommodation. From the fret press files transportation for men no Niles from Manitoba to sout America formed the basis of statement of claim Filer tuesday in court of King s Bench by Henry Vogt 705 Mclntyre build no against the Holland America steamship line or. Vogt lawyer and passenger agent sued the steamship company for a passenger agent s five per cent commission on i claimed that this amount was earned by the company when it Carrier the Manitoba emigrants from quo Bee to Paraguay in june. In his claim the lawyer alleged that the Mennon Les Henri difficult obtaining transportation for tech trek after the War. As their agent he contacted the offices of the Holland am e Rico line in Montreal. He was advised it that time hut the company had insufficient tonnage available to take on the Joh. Or. Vogt claimed further that correspondence with the company continued although no satisfactory conclusion was arrived at company audience of More than 300. Camera club holds shoot at of fora shooting at Kenora with cameras was the objective of 20 members of the Manitoba Cam Era club in the final summer Outing sunday. J. M. Duncan president said an open meeting of the club for the fall and win Ter season would be held sept. 13 in the Trinity Hall club rooms. Rotarians to hear talk on metropolitan plan c. A. Johnston chairman joint executive committee metropolitan plan of greater Winnipeg will address a luncheon meeting of the rotary club wednesday in the Royal Alex Andra hotel. His subject is the necessity of a metropolitan plan. Injured pedestrian s condition fair condition of Basil Shimaski 31, of lot 173 St. Anne s Road St. Vital injured in an Auto Accident last thursday was re ported As fair by St. Boni face Hospital authorities Mon Day. Shimaski suffered head injuries and a fractured shoulder and leg when struck by car driven according to police by. Miss Veronique Joyal. Accident occurred about 9 . Near Shimaski s Home when police report miss Joyal was attempting to pass a truck. She Maski had been walking on the Highway near his Home red River contamination charged cont minted condition of the red River water at the Manitoba boy scouts association Camp on River Road St. Vital is protested in letter to Hon. Ivan Schultx minister of health and Public welfare the letter sent out by w. D. Watson president of the Council of association states that the contaminated condition is due to the disposal of raw sewage in the River from the University St. Vital and other centres. Or. Noel r. Rawson health officer St vital and chairman of the campsites committee of the Hoy scouts association said the River in its present condition was a distinct Haz Ard to the health of swimmers. The swimming club at St vital had been closed this year on account of the stale of the water. Examinations of the water had been made by the St. Vital sanitary inspector lie said. Four Small Forest fires reported in Manitoba four Small Forest fires the first in three Are burning in Central and Northern Manitoba the provincial Forest service reported tuesday. The blazes All of them minor arc North of Bissett East of Eardley Lake West of Lewis Lake and in the. Big Lorie area North of Norway the Eardley and Lewis Lake fires Are both in the de a. A. Of the Ontario legislature for Belwood Riding Toronto on a Western Tou on behalf of the National commit teem a Sago chairman of the meeting w. A. Ross w. A. Kai dash and Roland Penner. Canadian armed forces an Canadian territory Are being place at the disposal of or. Forresta of Wall James Forrest . Secretary of defence charge. . The headlines and fron Page stories of newspaper featured cloak and Dagger thrillers As communists you see Are Bette targets than High or. Ross also charged that communists in Canada Are being called soviet a Call which is nothing but the cry of big business Selling our country and Independence to Wall said that the had consistently opposed the at tempt of the Winnipeg electric company transit monopoly to shake Down the people for an other fare increase. Were it not for the party company Bond holders would sleep a lot More easily at said or. Ross. It seems As the Winnipeg citizen has finally come off the Fence and settled in the Lap of the capitalist civic committee As their line of not differ from the free press. Labor organisations must repudiate. The lying the continued or. Ross. Flays recruiting drive after or. Ross had spoken Roland Penner Leader of the local party youth movement told his audience that the vast recruiting Campaign which will open in three Days is an attempt to cajole the youth of this country into the River watershed. Forest service officials said tires were and Only a few men were equiv id to keep them in Luuri. J or. Penner charged that the army was out to enlist High school students those who had heard of War Only indirectly. Get them while they re Young that s the said or. Penner. Or. Macleod said there was no denying the fact that a was very much on the Agenda of August 1948. War. Propagandists Are ready to add another line to the anglican Litany which is an invocation to the lord to deliver us from All evil. This new addition should into proc ecu of peace and the danger of four Power collaboration Good lord de liver he said. Or. Macleod described Russi As a peace Loving nation. Russi pulled out of the first world a because it was tired of All the blood that had been shed. The fre press deceived and deluded an hoodwinked the world As to wha was going on in the soviet Union which Laid Down a policy of Peac for the the state or. Macleod. He pointed out the Active pair soviet armies and air forces Hac played in the. Spanish civil Wai while. Britain and the unites states gave assistance to fascism written in blood yet when War came and we lad our backs to the Wall we were Only too glad to have the soviet Union at our Side. We Are told now that the soviet Union is i threat to. World peace though t was invaded five times on five different occasions. The people of he soviet had Good reason to Hope hat War had come to an end their signature on the Yalta agree ment was written in the blood of he soviet or. Macleod presented facts and figures to show that soviet people Oday were receiving the Best pcs literature while All Ameri a i obsessed with the idea of Reading the sexual behaviour of he human America is not without its achievements he continued. Its people last year chewed enough gum to stretch around the Equator denouncing . Foreign policy or Macleod Sais that almost 50 cents out every american Dollar . Kept its nose out of he stated. We Are told that the Western world needs War in order to sur Vive and Prosper yet in the East Ern world the accent is upon life and continued or. Macleod. Or. Stalin does not say a great Deal but when he does he talks of peace. No official behind the so called Iron cur Tain Ever talks about said or. Macleod in charging the leaders of the Western Powers with War Nion Gering. Or. Macleod lauded Henry Wal lace As one of. The great fighters for Freedom that the . Has produced and urged members of1 the .p.p. To get in step with the "10 to 15 million Wallace supporters. Let s Stop talking about the International situation and comment no on it and take the. Necessary Steps so that the peace of the seventy years 31, 1878 political speakers in St. Charles were Able to use English French or Cree and be equally understood by their audiences. Lots on por Tage Avenue were bringing from. Sll each to As High As at do four s auction Mart. He stated that the wrote him a letter in which it promised to advise him if the ton nage shortage situation was in and Way changed. With the matter thus in abeyance or. Vogt claimed that lip. Next heard of it when newspapers reported the de parture of the emigrants from for Paraguay aboard the Holland America ship vol Clam. Claiming to he exclusive source from which the company derived the Man Novitc business or. Vogt considered himself entitled to the commission which is would have been paid had he car ried the Deal through. Ison Sii port Case expenses mount Woodrow Robert bulk flu ill of Montreal pleaded guilty to a charge of non support before magistrate Henri in carte ii St. Boniface police court tuesday. Me was Given two years suspended sentence and ordered to pay he following costs of court and his transportation real to St. Bonifi acc to be paid at he rate of per month per Noah maintenance to the St. Boniface complainant his wife and Ler four children ranging from the go of eight Down to be paid ginning oct. 1. His sentence was suspended on the condition maintain these monthly payments. Sixty years 31, 1888 or. John Hunter and his partner Crossley who had won wide at Tention with their evangelistic Tours in the East were to hold meetings in Winnipeg starting in october. Fifty years 81. 3898 i pity people who leave Edmon ton for Klondyke in the wrote de Kenny Winnipeg Argonaut As most of the Trail is Champion j. K. My ii Bloch was training cyclists for the Toronto meet. City fathers play hide and seek delaying utilities body meeting forty years 31, among prominent members of. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange were Capel tilt g. R. Crowe Samuel w. A. Black Thos. Thomp son sir Daniel Mcmillan and Charles n. Bell Secretary. Thirty years is 918 the Duke of Devonshire Gover nor general visited Ninette Sanatorium and afterwards went through the Brandon wheat District where his excellency mounted can be he and drove a Binder. Willis praises ukrainians ceremony of turning Sod held on new Church site the aldermen played hide am seek at the utilities committe monday afternoon. When Aid. H. B. Scott Deputy chairman called the meeting t order he found Only two Alder men present besides himself. Chairman St. John was up at the legislative building discussing the Power situation with Premie. Stuart Carson Aid. H. A. Fisher was on holidays and Aid. George Sharpe was Busy installing a no electric Heater in his premises. If nobody turns vip in 20 minutes to make a quorum Well Call the minting ruled Aid. Scott. Aid. E. A. Brotman and Aid. Joseph Slep nuke however showed an in Clin Fjon to stick around awhile. Tommy Mitchell senior clerk got Busy _ on the Telephone and Aid. Sharpe promised he d be there Pronto. But he did t arrive Pronto enough to suit. Aid. Scott who walked out of the building. Ill find said Aid. Sharpe. When he arrived five minutes later. Off he went and finally located Aid. Scott coming out of the civic office building. He was persuaded to return and the meeting though 45 minutes later in starting was whipped through in eight min utes Flat. And if done in the summer Lime and and if left until Winter. Was being spent for military Pur the soviet Union was spending less than 20 cents out of every Dollar for the same purpose. The United states is the Only country that has used the atomic bomb and As far As we know is the Only country that possesses the bomb it was used by the Ameri cans during the last War against helpless he asserted. Or. Macleod said the american a government had even failed to criticize High ranking officers who suggest drop ing the atomic bomb on the and Italy today would have had a democratic government had the a Sod turning ceremony. On the Ite of the new ukrainian Catholic Hurch Marion Street St. Boni Ace was performed monday Eye ing by Hon. Errick f. Willis minister of Public works. At an estimated Cost of the new building will accommodate 160 Wor shippers and officials Hope it will be completed next year. With or. Willis were mayor George Maclean Aid. To Van Bel leg Ham who it was stated was mainly instrumental in securing the site and Aid. Louis Leger. R. R. Pattinson acted As chair Man and following a few prefatory remarks by the Rev. Constantino Hawryliw new pastor of the Church wished the Community god Speed and Good Fortune in their new venture. Citizens and their record. Following the were proud of ceremony or. Welcome . Willis was by mayor Maclean who said the minister had been Good Friend to St. Boniface. The ukrainian people he added had always been Good Willis paid Tri Buljat to the ukrainian people in the province who he said had made a contribution Sec Ond to none. More were coming All the time and taking oppositions in various walks of hoped their greatest Pride be that they were Good canadians. The ceremony concluded with a prayer offered by father Joseph of Basilian Fath ers representing archbishop Basil Ladyka. The new Church for which p. C. 3eterson is consulting Engineer will be known. As St. Peter and St. Paul. Measuring 90 feet by 36 feet it will be Frame construction with stucco exterior and will have two towers of Brick veneer. Montreal thirty three per cent of school children have defective vision and 82 per cent Are in need of dental care or. Percy Vivian of the department of Mcgill univer sity said in an address Here. During this Brief session they approved the renewal of an Watermain in St. Mary s Avenue with a 10-Inch main running from main to Kennedy Street and a six Inch main from Kennedy to Vaugh an Street. The Cost will be the old original main a s put in Ra-1888, and is somewhat the worse for Wear w. D. Hurst City Engin Eer reported. They also agreed to install sewers in Lanark Street from the main hydrant to the South Side of Haskins Avenue and in Haskins from Lindsay to be Averbrook Street. These installations will Cost Flag at half Mast for sex Alderman j the Flag atop the St. Face City Hall flew at half Mast Honor of a former Alderman John Gault 351 tache Avenue who died monday. He last served in civic office in 1945. Mayor Jeorge Maclean in paying Tri Bute to or. Gault said he had been known As honest until recent years. Or. Gault engaged As a building contractor. First race Bali pirate Hail turned in some fair races recently h Nebraska and should go Well ice. Lingg Creek is at Peak form. Ssi Gelyn has the Early Speed and might last. Second Hack flying Anter should improve sufficiently from monday s race to beat this Field. Yarrito turned in a 1 air Effort last Green turban will be danger us. Third race books Best of a Good two year old Rray. Wee elegance with the rail must be considered. Golden Iris rates consideration. Fourth race China Jack looks Best. He has had a Good rest and is a consistent sort. Last Sun is a Model of consistency. Coral Rose turned in a Good winning Effort last out. Kofl the face fort Garry should improve sufficiently from saturday s Start to beat this Classy Field. Leo s lady has never been better. Is at Peak form. Sixth race full shake turned in a smart Effort to be second to lord monday. Wrack is dangerous in this Field. O my Bear rates consideration. Seventh race i Meadow land appears to be Well. Placed. Morning Mammy is capable up setting. Genie s boy should go Well ice in a nutshell 1. Balu pirate Bragg Creek sagely. 2. Flying Aster , Green turban. 3. Bom wee ele Gance Golden Iris. 4. China Jack last Sun Coral Rose. 5. Fort Garry Leo s lady am Temon. Fair shake watch wrack o my dear. 7. I meadowland morning Mammy Gene i boy. Mate. Car Merit ;