Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 01, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Winnipeg wednesday september 1, 1948 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per Price so per copy edition with comics we. A car meter installation advocated for downtown areas City owned parking lots urged in report of. Traffic consultant _ a in twi a Titi Ritj Inoh prise boost in fuel oils seen in fall a boost of at least half a cent per gallon in the Price of fuel Oil this fall was forecast wednesday by Gerald Hechter president of radio Oil refineries. Increased sales tax payable to the Dominion government was Given As the Rea son for the Price change. Other companies handling due. Oil in Winnipeg stated they had no knowledge so far of any impending increase in the fuel Oil Price. Explaining the expected Price Rise or. Hechter stated i was advised june 15 that retroactive to Jan. 2 this year the Basic figure for sales tax calculation would go up by four and three Quarter cents per gallon As set by the excise tax this will necessitate an increase of at least four tenths of a cent a gallon in order that local refiner ies can break even or absorb the additional in the Case of imports of re fined fuel Oil from the United Hechter continued " the government charges the distributor the eight per cent sales tax on the Field Price plus the not including a refiner in Canada is penalized to the extent that he pays gales tax on the Cost of the raw material plus the freight plus All operating in some he added the Cost of the material is 100 per cent greater than the import figure or eight per cent was Paic when importing from the United states. The installation of parking downtown areas and the. Establishment of City owned paring ots for of Street Barking was recommended by j. C Vincent Minneapolis consulting Engi to Winnipeg traffic Board in a report submitted to the civic improvements tuesday. The report was Laid Over for further consideration and in the meantime copies will be sent to All aldermen and other interested parties. It was compiled following consultation with the traffic Board the Winnipeg town planning com Mission the metropolitan planning committee and. The police depart ment. The City owned parking lot should All be equipped with Park ing meters and Heater receptacles the report says. These would accommodate cars and would be situated As follows Vicinity of the civic auditorium and the med ical arts building 400 cars Ellice Avenue and Carlton Street cars new Post office site 200 200 Kennedy estate totals the will of William indy Winnipeg shirt Many so Turer who died May 27, was filed in sur Rogate court wednesday. His estate totalled of which was in real estate. The remainder was made up As goods Book debts life insurance Stock Cash 261. And other personal effects under the terms of the will or. Kennedy s business is to be car ried on for As Long As his executors think it is advisable. His widow Francisca Kennedy is to receive the net from the state a per daughters or. Kennedy willed incomes of not More than year. Each. On the death of his wife the estate is to be divided among the your children who survived him. Thev Are Gerhard William Ken Nedy William Thomas Kennedy Helen Mary Malloy and Margare Regina Parrish. The Hoyal Trust company Ana Thomas Walter named As executors of the estate. India commissioner in route to Jasper India s High commissioner to Canada Sardar Hon. Hardit Singh Malik accompanied by his wife is expected to pass through Winnipeg Over Cana Dian National lines thursday Are on their Way to Jas per where the Sardar will participate in the totem pole Golf tournament. Litt e Vincent Taraska clutched a Book wednesday morning As his father. Peter Taraska member of the Winnipeg school Board helped him open the big door at Machray school. After seven years service to the Community As school trustee two of which he spent As chairman of the Board this is the first time or. Taraska has had the thrill of enrolling his own child in a City Vincent is All set for the fun provided for kindergarten More than pupils registered during the. Opening Ross the City. Homework Days Are Here again pupils flock to classes August temperature just average Winnipeg weather Bureau finds wilted collars and soggy shirts to the contrary August was cars present City Hall 200 cars Federal building and the Grain Exchange 200 cars. The fees from the parking meters and parking lots could be placed in a fund the re port suggests. This would be used to pay for the meters and lots and the surplus to amortize the investment the meters on the streets would be paid Lor in one year s time. The lots would take longer. The area for Street meters where the greatest parking. Difficulties Are found would cover main Street from Market to por Tage Avenue postage Avena from main to Balmoral Street and Side streets extending one Block each Way adjacent to main Street and Portage Avenue. This would require meters including 360 30-minute meters on main Street and Portage Avenue and 840 60-Mlnute meters on. The also suggests that and wait signals clearly railway Crossings through Ible at All times should be provided Lor the the City which seem to have sufficient Protection. Such Cross if reasonable compliance that Are not flagged during the signals is obtained vehicular traffic would also be movements should be protected by the automatic Short without fear of injuring pedestrians. Considerable educational Effort by the press and by. Traffic officers at the combined with a flashing ight signal erected and operated by the railways. Also the fire Are some underpasses with Centre piers necessary to obtain this Are not marked with ret Oliance. Walk and wait signals should be installed Only at lights. These Are an res Treme Hazard and should be Cor intersections with heavy in order to prevent Large trucks 1 or. Vincent adds that travelling on downtown of pavements to indicate Trian lanes Centre lines and residential streets the report recommends traffic lanes on. Wide thorough--1 fares etc., is important As a safety 3 measure for pedestrians and Drivers. Also school a Survey be made with a View to establishing truck route through the City. This would pre vent congestion on downtown should be marked As an Aid nuisance on. Resi the school streets and unnecessary save. The report there maintenance. Hurst to investigate Cost of Cement Plant the City of Winnipeg May yet its own Cement Plant it set up Side streets. The report just an average warm month according to Winnipeg s More than boys and girls headed for Winnipeg s schools wednesday morning. Their shouts chatter singing yes and even crying in a few isolated. Cases served notice on the rest of the population that the school doors had opened. For some of the older pupils it seemed like the beginning of a dreary session. The under Garten youngsters opening Day is the most exciting Day of their lives. For four classes at Wes ton school it was just one big p8cnic. Two Winnipeg electric fuses were there to take two classes to Montcalm school a n r two More classes to Somerset school. Well before 9 . The Princi first race. Reports on convenient Are excellent. Nic Mai son should go Well in this company Maxine loan might Surprise. Second Roar apr showed a Good race first out hese and should beat this Field. Lady Valotta ranks As the threat. H Marnock should go Well in Thi company. Third race night appears Well placed Here. Prole tarian is finally entered at a Dis Tance which suits. Withers Siusis pal miss m. L. Johnson her three assistants three supervisors from the Winnipeg electric company and an assistant from Cecil Rhodes school were ready to get the classes on to the buses. Every Pupil at Weston school was in Gay spirits except a Little Grade one girl. She belonged to the group of Weston school pupils who were to go by themselves Oyer to Cecil Rhodes school until Weston is operating. The poor Little girl burst into tears when she found out that none of her classmates had turned up at. Weston. Scores of parents Congre gated in the elementary school corridors and especially in those with kindergartens. The River Heights school just opened last april 1, reported 78 kiddies in the kindergarten. One regular kindergarten Kroup was in operation there last Spring but a second temporary group has. Been formed to take care of the Large enrol ment. Picture just in Case he can t recon Lize his name. Sir John Franklin kindergarten also boasts a doll Centre and two easels for painting. Principal of the school miss Margaret Mckinnon reported everything in order except for n Lack of scats in one classroom. This will be remedied by thurs Day morning a superintendent informed her. The High schools visited were noisier than the elementary schools. Voices and tramping feet resounded in their Halls As pupils moved into their classrooms. That is one noise we always get used to after said f. Gil Bert a teacher at Kelvin High school. Pupils. In the High schools were not. Quite As anxious to get Down to work again. Some definitely Dis approved the Early starting Date. Murder suspects appear in court James Edward Campbell of Rochester minn., and the juvenile who has gone under the alias Daniel Patrick Palso of Montreal were charged separately before magistrate Henri Lacerte in St. Boniface police wednesday with the May 3.1, of Edgar Frenette. Frenette was the 28-year old manager of the Park hotel in Weatherman. Rainfall was far below the average figure for August at .94 inches i or the month compared to the Normal of 2.49 inches but it set no record. Driest year on the meteorological depart ment s records 1915 when Only .04 inches fell during August. Last year s August rainfall was 4.83 inches and the wettest August record was 1876 when Winni Eggers got 9.42 inches of rain. Rain fell in1 measurable quantities on Only seven occasions this month the heaviest fall being on aug. 9 with .32 inches. Mean temperature for the month was 67.7 degrees Only 3.5 degrees More than the Normal figure of 64.2 and 4.0 degrees less than 1947 s 68.1 mean temperature. Hottest augusts recorded were in 1930 and 1937 when 694 degrees was the mean figure and the coldest mean temperature 59.3, was recorded in 1885. Highest tempera recorded last month was is 12.4 degrees below the All time men of 103 on aug. 24, 1886. Lowest Reading 42 above was 117 degrees higher than the lowest readings on record 30.3 degrees on aug. 31, 1888 and aug. 1891. Winnipeg got 225 hours of Bright August Sunshine this year. Slightly below the 263 aver age. Record Sunshine of 313 hours for August was in 1930, while 1912 presented the Low with 160 hours streets blocked or slowed Down to a crawl during Peak hours should be relieved by eliminating parking during such hours. is Graham Avenue because of the Peak hour bus movement. It suggests that a trial of. No parking 4 to 6 on Graham Avenue from main to Vaughan Street and. On Vaughan from it Mary s Avenue to Portage Avenue Vincent who recently cruised the City with e. F. Gillies Winnipeg s traffic Engineer Points out that this City has two Fine wide streets Portage Avenue and main Street around which the Central business District is built. However these thoroughfares Are congested at Peak hours. Here Are the suggested improvements a Crosstown Highway Widen Balmoral Street from Ellice to notre Dame Avenue thus diverting traffic from the downtown Ellice Avenue Cut the northwesterly Corner of Balmoral and and Cut the Northwest was indicated at a meeting of the civic improvements committee tuesday. Upon motion of Aid m. J. Forkin the City Engineer w. D. Hurst Vas instructed to investigate and give figures on the estimated Cost of a. Small Cement Plant. Recently or. Hurst in an in stated that the Cost _ of establishing a Cement Plant which would operate on an economical basis would be in the Vicinity of every project the City has Ever gone into has proved successful so Why would t a Cement Plant do the same Aid. Forkin inquired All he wanted was a Plant to sup ply the City s own needs though he could t see anything wrong i it did make a Little More and Sony of it had to be sold. Wig wag railway signals Weer adequate Protection in Elmwood. Aid. Stepnuk who desired sub ays to be installed at. Certain Ter sections Felt it was a shame to Ait for a serious Accident before aking any action. The Secretary of the traffic Oard informed the. Committee that Check had been made and that 000 vehicles passe Over Tal of Avenue crossing at Wolfe Reet each 24 hours we 3.700 Harding inquest set Fob tonight an inquest into the death of William t. Harding 43-year-old Long Lac Ogama Rockland Gold mines worker who died aug. 24 of injuries received in an underground Accident aug. 24 will be held at provincial police court at 8 . Wednes Day. 578 harvesters placed Manitoba received 578 har vesters during the past week according to figures released by unemployment insurance commission officials. Of the total of harvesters who passed through Winnipeg during that time 459 went to Saskatchewan and 98 to Al Berta. Erly Corner of Ellice and Smith. This will open the travel on Avenue through to King Street and Street Higgins Avenue a route taking travel from Portage and Mam c Pembina Highway extend from Corydon Avenue and Osborne Street to River Avenue and main thus diverting the travel from the. Central District. D St. Mary s Avenue extend Westerly from Colony Street to Portage Avenue and Spence Street thus opening up. A route the matter should have been into More thoroughly to years ago and then the City woul not find itself in the position it i today he declared. Local improve ments were being stalled because of the Lack of Cement ing projects throughout the ci1 were being held Back for the Sam reason., . Mckelvey agreed that building was up badly but Aid. George Sharpe wanted pc know Why other had not thought of going into the Cement bus Winnipeg is More progressive than other cities in the matter Public Aid. Forkin Sai we Are pioneers. Others Folio our despite objections of Aid. Josep Stepnuk the improvements com Mittee agreed with Board that for the the Traff time Beta on Sod. Ald. Ars crossed the ranch line Bette or streets durin it was More a 4 no traffic than Forkin Felt. The committee traffic signal lights should be installed on main Street St Sel Kirk Avenue also that parking be prohibited on the East Side of Erin str Tii from Portage to notre Avenue. To the sub committee on transportation Wert a letter from c. H. Dahl transportation manager the Winnipeg electric company outlining a proposal to Combine the Morley Avenue and Jubilee Avenue bus routes. To the same commit tee went a letter from a. Barber acting Secretary of the Elmwood Home and school ass pation ask ing bus be extended to the downtown area. Because it would interfere with excavation work on the new club House of the Canadian ukrainian athletic club the improvements committee agreed to leave Sinclair Street As it is and not. Close part it for school purposes. Appearing As a delegation on behalf of the . Was Aid. F. L. Chester. Stop signs Are to be installed at the South West Corner of Desala Berry Avenue and Montcalm Street and the intersection Desala parallel Avenue. Stony Point seeks Road funds for More than 50, years residents of Stony Point Man., have Al reared of a Road connecting their town and Leacoma. Now it looks As though they must have a lot of Basket picnics in the dream is to be realized. Construction of the Long awaited Road aided by Niento Grant has begun but the Grant is not sufficient to cover All expenses. Residents of the area Are endeavouring to raise the needs Money to Complete construction. Friday a Basket social Hela in sary Money to Complete Sarv Money m the school at Stony Point netted towards if we Don t succeed in raising All the Money we need Road Wui prob should be dangerous. Fourth race Gay Paris turned in a Fine winning Effort tuesday. Sara see ranks As the con tender. Craig Lagh will like the diff Tance. Fifth race big George ,1s the class of the Field and was unlucky in his last race. Casino s Pride is a speedy sort. Mud puddle should race worthy Gal looks Best at . Double Dot showed a Good race last be close. Sixth last Sun is always a threat. Seventh race hair do appears to have a Good Edge. Meto boy will go Well Here. Miss Finci has shown some Good recent in a nutshell 1. Convenient Nic Maison Maxine loan. Z. Shrewd Boomer lady Valetta i Marnock. 8. Night liner proletarian Wither osiris. 4 Gay Sara see Graig Las rtt. 5. Big George Casino s Pride mud puddle. 6. Worthy Gal double Dot last Sun. 7. Hair do Meto boy miss Finch. 1st lady stick beaming son. I and Jean. Roamed. V. S. Dotten new principal at River Heights found everything operating according to plan the first morning with classes about the size estimated by school superintendents and teachers. A teacher new to Winnipeg schools miss Runa Thackery was delighted with the new features of River Heights school including its noiseless corridors. The kindergarten at sir John Franklin school has a floor As clean As the top of a table. This is be cause the children Are on the floor so much of the time during their play explained mrs. I. Hubble their teacher. She pointed out the Little rest Mats which the pupils use for heir 15-minute rest on the floor. Each Pupil has an individual cup Board with his name on it and a St. Boniface. The juvenile was remanded until sept. 7, and Campbell will appear in court. Wednesday at ., with his defence counsel Harry Walsh. It is expected that the Date for his will be set then. Ably never be said Gerald h. Thomas District property grand Beach and would be preferred by and South of Portage w _. Broadway extend Westerly from Broadway and Broadway place to. Portage Avenue and Chestnut. Street thus diverting traffic from the Central rorie Louise and Martha Cut northwesterly Corner of Austin Street and Henry Avenue through Block Between Alex Ander and Pacific avenues connecting Martha Street direct to Louise Street Cut the Southwest Erly Corner of Market and , thus providing a traffic route parallel to main Street from Higgins Berry and Nairn it was agreed. Plans to make repairs on Corydon whether or not the Winnipeg electric company designs to tear up its tracks the right cored. Prove ments committee agreed Lues City is going with repairs along Corydon Avenue the civic in motorists Over the present Highway. Find Man guilty Donald Egbert Brown a Commer Cial. Traveller of 817 Jubilee ave nue was found guilty tuesday in provincial police court on two charges on Gross indecency. Appearing before magistrate d. C. M. Kyle he was fined on one two year sus Pended sentence on the other. Lome Elliott Crown prosecutor asked for a stay of proceedings on three similar charges with which Brown faced. Earl Grey Community club discusses plans plans for financial material and labor assistance to Aid in _ the building of the new Earl Grey Community clubhouse on Garwood Avenue were discussed at an executive meeting of the club held recently. An open meeting will be held sept. 7, at 8 . In the club room Fleet Avenue and Daly Street. 2 youths pay fines for ventilating school Manitoba officials off for mines conference officials of the Manitoba department of mines and re sources left Winnipeg tuesday for Jasper Park Lodge for the annual conference of Provin Cial mine ministers. The meet ing will be held sept. 2-4. The party was headed by Hon. J. S. Mcdiarmid. To South main. Before the aldermen was a letter from c. H. Dahl transportation manager of the company noting that the firm s share of the Cost of such repairs would be he added however that an additional would be required to put the tracks in shape if they were to be left there for the win Ter making a total Cost of to the company. This it was said too much to. Spend if the Cumberland Kennedy and to b removed next is rest is _ Busy held veterans Alliance changes programme members of the International War Alliance Are with plans for their ninth annual convention and Reu Ruon to it ii Winnipeg and St. Boniface sept. 3 to 6. Tuesday Fred Ore Iron radome chairman announced some last minute changes. A drum corps Competition scheduled for monday night has been in to the fact that Many of the personnel of Mon. The pity Early. The convention Parade also scheduled for Mon Day ten moved Back to saturday with the toll in at Lombard Avenue and main Street Between Kennedy and Malmo streets in Cumberland Avenue thus diverting travel to Kennedy and Balmoral streets. The report Points out that these routes have been pro posed before but no final action was taken. It urges that surveys plans and estimates be made of , and action taken to realize the obvious benefits. The present signals and signs Are effective but not strictly up to the standards adopted in North America through which we travel by Auto and whose signals and signs safely guide or. Vincent Points out. He suggests these signals and signs be reconstructed so Drivers from other provinces and the . Would not be confused and de lays and accidents would be pre vented. With regard to pedestrians or. The company wanted 4o retain the tracks for the Winter As it was doubtful whether there would be sufficient buses to handle the heavy that Long cold periodic was said if the City insists on proceeding with the repair work we have no alternative than to remove the tracks now even though it May jeopardize transportation along Corydon Avenue this the letter concluded. Aid. M. J. Forkin was undaunted by or. Dahl s letter. Let the Winnipeg electric go ahead and pull up he said. The Engineer is anxious to get this repair work done As he it i traffic other members of the committed agreed and or. Dahl will be Noti fied that it is the intention of the City to proceed with improvement and repair work immediately. Members of the committee were Given Assurance by their sub com Mittee on transportation that immediately upon completion of the work of fixing shoulders of the new 20-foot Highway Type pave ments on Selkirk Avenue Shaugh Nessy Street and Manitoba Avenue bus service would be inaugurated in that area. At present this work is being completed by the City Engineer Aid. It looks As if the matter of at 7.30, go South on Portage Avenue. The bands will then be transported to Muto will rip an exhibition. Markers will report to the capt Lutat at 1 pm. Veteran units will tall in on their res _ no in f a fluff vhf test on chief marshal Vincent says it has been noticed that the pedestrians in the Central area do not obey the signals in their Cross travel. This is no doubt partly due to the Long signal Cycle seconds about More schools to be inspected elementary and Junior High schools in Winnipeg and Brandon will be inspected regularly by the provincial department of education beginning sept. 1, Hon j. C. Dry Den minister of education an Somerset school will be air conditioned for the opening of the fall term. Two youths Early wednesday ventilated several classrooms with brickbats. The two Arthur e. Varnes 23, of 709 Elgin Avenue and Ronald Mckechnie 22, of 771 Furby Street paid fines of s20 and costs each in City police court wednesday Lor smash ing 18. Windows i Hie school at Sherbrook Mcdermot Avenue. They were also ordered to pay damages s53 to the school Board. The court was told that the pair had been drinking tues Day night. Apparently Over come by bitter memories of their school Days they paid a visit to the school in the Small hours of the morning. Using bricks stones and clods of dried mud they peppered the building at Short Range until a Cruiser car was attracted by the sound of breaking Glass. The tvo fled in oppo site Dir ecoons., the Cruiser pursued and caught Varnes after a Short Chase. Mckechnie was arrested later at his Home. Fatir w. Joti Jia idol Sil Yective markers at 7.15 . Bands will line up lacing West on Lorn go seconds on the main Street and floats will line up on of lie Street facing South on the West Side Roblin Park Community hums with activity Roblin Park the veterans land act settlement at Charleswood has been humming with activity during the past week. They be a quoted a Large new Community Hall and a braid new which opened monday. The veterans purchased their Community Hau from the old army Barracks at Portage Arra style a hut 25 seconds on the Cross Street. This Long Cycle is necessary to move the vehicular traffic at reasonable speeds on the two Prin. Cipal streets with its Short cities. The new policy will bring provincial inspection to All Manitoba schools. Previously the department inspected Only High schools in the rom the old army to Roblin Park Lor it is a Lormer array style a 130 by 34 feet and in addition to housing the primary school will a Library and a dance Hall and also act As a Community Centre for Charleswood District. Charleswood school could not accommodate Roblin Park s new crop of school age children so the municipality is renting the school room from Roblin Park Community club Owers of the building. By tuesday morning 20 pupils had enrolled Rune beginners and 11 Grade two children. Length of 330 feet on Portage Avenue and Odd lengths on main Street. A group of pedestrians cannot Cross ithe. Wide Roadway 96 feet curb to curb unless they Start at the beginning of the go period and. Walk briskly to the opposite curb. S those who cannot make the full1 distance should use safety islands adjacent to the Street car loading zones and additional new zones places. Also satisfactory walk private schools and Trade schools have been examined by govern ment inspectors for some time under school attendance and Trade school regulation acts. The secondary schools in Winni Peg will be inspected by Andrew Moore provincial secondary schools inspector. The elementary and Junior High schools will be Alloca Ted to Margery m. Brooker a. I. Kerr and e. Reid in Winnipeg and g. W. F. Brisbin in Brandon paving Jubilee Avenue Long a Bone of go Over until next year. Tuesday afternoon with chair Man e a Hallonquist and w. D. Hurst City Engineer both absent the improvements committee Laid the Issue Over until Ibe next meet ing in two then it will be another two weeks before it can reach Council. It s a shame but it looks like it la go Over until next remarked Aid. George Sharpe who occupied the chair. The present hold up is a Legal technicality the City solicitor having ruled that the City has no authority to construct a 30-foot, eight Inch pavement for heavy traffic and yet charge the Resi dents Only on the basis of three sevenths of the Cost of a regular 24-foot, six Inch pavement. This would be contrary to the Provis ions of the Charier the solicitor has decided. The committee was informed that before trolley buses can be oper ated on Kelvin Street considerable saving work will have to be done a the municipality of East Kil Donan to accommodate buses on that portion of the East Kildonan and Morse place routes within that municipality. The following change in the routing of the. Sherbrook bus was approved North on Sherbrook Street to Alexander Avenue West on Alexander to Chambers North on Chambers to Logan East on Logan to Sherbrook and then. Zoub ;