Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, May 06, 1949

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 06, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 8 Winnipeg free press Friday May 6. 1949 re flecked by restrictions dairymen see decline in output of Margarine by Hugh bold Ottawa May 6 special official figures on the pro auction of Margarine for april have not yet been released it is believed that the rapid expansion to the first three months of the year will show a distinct Check. Men close to the Dairy Industry figuring on a much smaller ratio of Rise if not an outright de Cline in Margarine production be of provincial restrictions enacted in recent weeks. The Dominion Bureau of Statis tics is planning to Issue a monthly report on Margarine As Well As butter and the first of these is sex asthma sufferers Oft Welcome Rollef from taif wheezing. Killing struggle for breath Cali Cal by Atttlia. Take r a a 11, to Ralit it As Thuri misery. Helps you and work in Cru fort. Don t until ice nil Jit s sort a. Tuke ra2-Maii Tui his. F.lk-. At let no More Wash Days Wash hour with the new Connor Thermo cuts Wash ing time to a minimum yet gives All the advantages of Home laundering. Here Are Connor features you a like patented therme fun keeps water it the proper double jul comisk wringer i to clo Rhei. Four rear guarantee plus 12-year reconditioning Guaran tee e streamlined design at Tractive Colour combination. Cash Price 19250 easy remt available visit oar showrooms sad see the Connor Thermo on diff Ltd. Portage Kennedy phone 848131 petted about tuesday. Meanwhile one tract fact emerges. During the first two of 1949 seven As much cottonseed Oil wan brought into Canada from the United states As in the same months of 1948. Cotton seed Oil represents about 75 per cent of the Content of modern Margarine. In january and february 1948, a total of 864.000 pounds of this vege table Oil with a value of was imported. A year later the Fig ure Hod jumped to 6.173.000 pounds with a value of Drain on Dollar Supply Trade officials Are sceptical o rumours that Ottawa May act to curb this flow in the interests of conserving american do Lars. They say it is extremely difficult to defer Ramie just what proportion of the Rise in cottonseed Oil imports is accounted for by Margarine for Early in february All quota restrictions were taken off. And some of the imports might be for other purposes such As shortening. Up to the end of March. Canadia manufacturers had turned out 714.000 pounds of Margarine since lifting of the ban Early in Decem Ber. Including the very Small amount made in december the january if fur was pounds. Output Rose to pounds in pc Brnard and with production really in stride jumped to pounds in March. Dairymen Are divided in their Hopes and if Eai s. Some would Wel come a curb on vegetable Oil imports by the Canadian government though they admit it seems unlikely to happen. Others take More confident attitude and say that now that the first Novelty has worn off Consumers Are tending to switch to butter. They think the process will continue when the various provincial restrictions on colring Are fully in Force. Indonesians dutch agree on cease fire batav1a, May 6 dutch and indonesian delegates reached an informal cease fire agreement Friday under which the Republican government will be returned to Jogjakarta the capital reliable sources said. Indonesian Republican leaders have been exiled since fighting was renewed last december. The two sides agreed to Stop fighting restore the Republican government at Jogjakarta and attend a full dress peace conference at the Hague informants said. The conference would discuss establishment of a United states of Indonesia under the dutch Crown. Unite nations officials super Vised negotiations for the agree ment. More government services or less taxes is Choice Toronto May 6 is difficult to escape the conclusion that people want More government services but do want to pay for them says the annual report of rhe Dominion mortgage and invest ments association. The report delivered by presi Dent t. D Arcy Leonard at Friday s annual meeting adds if government services Are to be expanded the taxpayer the pub Lic will have to pay. There escape. The Public will have to make up its mind As to what it wants taxes or sex p added government the report finds economic prospects Bright for the coming year. There is every indication that consumer and capital expenditures will continue Large and sustain a High level of business activity. Yet there is danger that canadians will be lulled into a false sense of Security by the prosperous conditions now prevailing one of our main objectives since the end of the War has been the re establishment of International Trade on a multilateral basis and our goal is not yet in sight. In these circumstances it can hardly be said that Canada s present Prosperity rests on a solid indications says the report Are that demand for capital funds will continue Large. It notes the estimate by the department of. Trade and Commerce that the value of new capital in vestment in 1949 will be or above last year. Capital investment by business s expected to be somewhat smaller whereas the capital outlay for housing and by the Dominion provincial and municipal governments will be larger. This indicates that demand for mortgage Money will show a fur tier increase As will new borrow ing by All Levels of government Hobo Hunt posing for an intimate family group picture in Buckingham Palace London Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth Are anxious to co operate with the photographer but Prince Charles has suddenly decided to locus his attention elsewhere. Father appears not too sure of himself As he holds the Little fellow aloft for the cameraman while Mother wears a very proud smile. Jubilee series Good whisky just a barrel a. Yes the old Days mused p. A. Macdonald of 315 waver Ley Street who arrived in Winnipeg on a bitter january Day in 1880 and has made his Home Here Ever since. Then a somewhat naughty twinkle came into his Eye. Winnipeg was quite a place in those times. The rowing club gave engraved Pewter Beer mugs for and Good whisky was Only a or. Macdonald still has two of the Beer mugs great big Fellows with Glass Bottoms. As to the whisky Well yes. He and some of his Young fellow pioneers did have one of the barrels. That s How i came to the he chuckled. Almost immediately on his arrival in Winnipeg or. Mac Donald recalled he was proposed As a member of the Manitoba club. It was a common Little place in those he said. It had been incorporated in 1874 and was housed in premises on main Street across from the spot where the present club stands. On the ground floor there was a reception room. Meals were served in another and on the second floor there was accommodation for cards and billiards. And that was All there was to other old buildings which or. Macdonald remembered were the original Knox Church and the original Augustine. Funny thing they each did the same he commented. First they had a Small Frame building and then that was supplanted by a new Stone building in the Case of Augustine the one that is there now. Of course Knox Church was much older. The second Knox Church had been built when i came Vest. It did t last Long though. I think it was sold in the Boom of 82 and i did hear that they did to get their Money for it but it was torn Down anyway. Then we went to Church in Knox Hall on Margrave Street until the third Church the one on Donald and Ellice was Augustine really started As a Branch of Knox according to or. Macdonald. And he attended it for Many years until his old Friend or. F. W. Kerr accepted the pulpit at Knox. Then he went to his first Church connection. No Trace of lost plane in search Ottawa May 6 cup the Royal Canadian air Force said Friday it had Given up further photo surveys to attempt to locate seven men missing in new 21. A. Photo team had scanned Hotos out. The Only two clues which showed were proved wrong. Douglas has operation London May 6 ambassador Lewis Douglas under went a minor sinus operation Fri Day which an embassy spokesman said was intended to facilitate the leading of Douglas injured left Eye. May 7th to 14th air age scouts 3-nation project for boys new York May bup a coordinated programme of aviation training Lor 15 to 18 years old in the United states Canada and Britain was described Friday by air marshal Robert Leckie re tired of Canada. Air marshal Leckie arrived at la m. D. Young Heads electrical group m. 0. Young general superintendent of distribution engineering for the Winnipeg Hydro electric system was elected president of the Manitoba electrical association at the annual meeting thursday at the hotel. Other elected were vice president. .7. Of , Manitoba Power commission executive Numis .1. Bennett Bennett electric limited r t. P. Houlihan Cana Dian company Limi Ted l. W. Mackenzie Canadian general electric company limited a. Sundial amps. Automatic electric Canada limited h. W. Smith Winnipeg electric company t. E. Storey Winnipeg Hydro elect Riu system. The following officers have one year yet to serve on the executive a. T. Law. Canadian general elec tric company limited l. E. Mcchill Winnipeg electric company r. S. Mcgavin Canadian Fairbanks Morse company limited g. A. Muir Manitoba Telephone system r. Y. Schumacher. Schumacher a a c Kenzie limited. Paul Kane was re elected Secre tary. Guardia Field from London where he conferred on the programme with. Gen. Carl t. Spaatz former chief of staff of the . Air Force and. Lord Tedder. Chief of staff of the Royal air Force. Emphasizing that the project was strictly civilian and could be called the modern air age version of boy scouts for older air marshal Leckie said the programme will be carried out by the air Cadet be Ajcuc in Canada by the civil air patrol in the United states and the air training corps in Britain. Asked if the project was the re of a threat of War he said War or the threat of War have absolutely nothing to do with this movement. The boys we not urged or required to Jln the services he said that arrangements were made at the London conference for n three Way Exchange of cadets this summer when 26 buys from each country will tour the other two. The cadets will Wear resembling of the air forces of their countries he said. Air marshal Leckie left immediately by plane for Ottawa. Up Street. Kent., England to name their most treasured Possession the town s women voted my idyllic guitar serenade for a Princess Sorrento Italy May 6 cup Margaret of great Bri Tain left for Rome by automobile Friday. Thursday night As she on the hotel Terrace she was serenaded from lantern lit fishing boats in Sorrento Harbor by singers with guitars mandolins and accordions. The singers Sang traditional ital Ian love songs climaxing a perfect Day for lie Princess. Earlier she had a picnic lunch aboard a yacht and spent the after noon sunbathing and sailing. During dinner on the hotel Ter race six couples in peasant cos Lumes danced the Tarantella for her. Social select Winnipeg for meeting Victoria b.c., May 6 up Winnipeg was selected thursday As the conference City for 3951 by the second biennial Western regional conference on social work s. Mccarton of Winnipeg and e. W. Griffiths of Victoria were named As a committee to plan for the Winnipeg conference. Glassware sparkles with i Jeri water. I with lot cloth. Cow Brand baking soda or. Jacob dentist and Aiso Eiardi 2nd floor time bldg. Cimer per use and Phene 928 Ohie. Lee Rity tldg., 10th St. I a head Start in pics Ltd that s what you give when you serve them foods like Vita a the special breakfast Cereal with the Vitamin b Content. It s delicious nourishing Thrifty takes Only 3 minutes to Cook. Listen to your women s editor. Kolte Aitken. Every monday. Tuesday wednes Day. Thursday and Friday at 9.30 a in. Cost. Consult your local newspaper for hmm and station. Harnessing Concrete q election of Concrete for the v3 Stewartville Power development on the Madawaska River again stresses pkg value u t construction material. Called for on the project a con Crete Gravity Type dam 830 feet Long with maximum height of 190 feet a 500 foot Concrete spillway three Concrete Penstock 190 feet Jong 14 feet in diameter to connect head works with powerhouse a Concrete retaining Wall to protect Power House from flood water damage. Quantity of Cement bags carloads a train Over 11 Miles Oum trs Ontario Hydro elect it fewer commission. Canada Cement Canada Cement company1 bldg., Phillips Square Montreal Salis que Csc Montreal Toronto Winnipeg cat Gas company limited t sleep in Box car May mean death Yarmouth . May 6 bup Albert Atkins 42, Cana 1ian Hobo May be dead or near Leath from starvation and thirst locked in a Box Yar on some Sid ing somewhere in Canada. Atkins has been missing from Ifa Mouth for two weeks and Yar Mouth police reported he has been n the habit of sleeping in Box ars on sidings at night. Local residents raised the alarm when Atkins was reported missing and All Halifax police have been asked to Check Box cars leaving Falmouth two weeks ago milk actually makes the flavour of Al Sweet makes it a flavour favo Uriu Amu it f Swift Quality Stefl Whiet it a family which you can pith com Filette fit not that talk m Tel Fiirst if ill everywhere for family or formal meals you la want to lavish this delicate Flavoured Margarine on on vegetables in your Favourite Saucet or Fine baking. It s Good 10 know too that pkg nutritional tops the year round. Al Sweet belongs ins your Home. Get a Pound today Swift Canadian co. Limited guest Quality ;