Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tiey tailed freight rate statistics and accounting questions involved in the preparation of Eracli province s submissions to the Royal commission on transportation opened wednesday at the legislative build ing. Seventeen delegates including five from Saskatchewan three from Alberta and two from British tour Nubia Are in attendance. Thursday morning the conference broke up into committees and its expected to be completed during the afternoon. A spokesman for the government explained that econ 171 1 4 mists and other technical men r who have been doing the detailed research work in preparing freight rate submissions to the Board of transport commissioners Are also working on the compilation of the province s formal presentations to the Royal commission. They Are studies this scene snapped by the free press cameraman shows in operation one of the eight machines of the new Manitoba Industry theron musical strings manufacturing company limited 462 Sher Brook Street. Theodor Michalisky manager is looking on As roman Kysilewsky craftsman makes a Silver plated Copper guitar string. Packages of already made strings and empty spools of used wire Are lying on the Bench in front of the machine. To musical strings 3 do s Start new Industry Manitoba has a new Industry a Plant for manufacturing musical strings. Owners of the firm say As far As they know it is the Only musical string manufacturing Plant in Wes Ern Canada. It began operations n april. The Plant was started by three ukrainian displaced persons Theo Dor Michalisky and his two sons a Law roman Kysilewsky and Viola Melnyk who operated a musical strings and catgut factory n the Western Ukraine. The Plant the Ukraine employed 126 workers according to or. Mich Ali sky. Manager of the firm Here. When workers from the fac tory became displaced persons they started another factory in Austria in 1045, with 26 craftsmen and 21 machines. Or. Michalisky said he had brought with him eight machines hat had been used in the Plant. This was done with permission of he Canadian government. The machines Are now being used in he Winnipeg Plant which is Cap Able of producing musical strings a Day. In Winnipeg the manager aroused interest in his project among the ukrainian businessmen Vith the result that a firm was incorporated under the name of theron musical strings manufacturing company with a capitalization of the Plant is located at 462 Sherbrook Street. Strings Alexander Malfie owner of the Union hardware company is presi Dent and Andrew Zaharichuk is Secretary. Since operations started More Han strings have been made. The firm makes Fine super Fine and special strings for violins strings for Tenor banjos Spanish and hawaiian guitars Tenor mandolins and ukuleles. At present supplies of steel wire Silver wire Bronze aluminium. Hire Copper pure Silver and silk Are being imported from the United states. In addition to musical strings. The firm will also produce cat guts used in surgical operations in. Michalisky explained. There has been some difficulty in obtaining Buck casings sheep which Are imported from new zealand Australia and Switzerland for the manufacture of catgut. A Friend of or. Michalisky in Lucerne. Switzerland sent him a Arrel of Buck casings As a Start. 3ttt it is being held up by author leg in Montreal pending receipts if a certificate that the Buck Cas nos arc from healthy Bucks or. I Chalawsky added. A barrel of Buck casings costs about s2.soo delivered in Winni Peg. Out of one barrel it is pos sible to make about strings or. Michalisky said. We Are looking Forward to a Good business in our Industry As Canada imports about Worth of strings from the United states he said. City Hall attic harbours mystery of gaunt Bones civic officials Are hiding a Skeleton in their closet or to be exact in a fourth floor attic of the old City Hall building. The Skeleton has gathered dust in the Dingy top floor room for from 25 to 50 years according to different versions. Oil one Point All authorities agree the Bones Are those of a Goat. Just whose Goat it was. And How t come to end its Days in a City Hall Alcove Are facts obscured by the passing of the years. Probably the True explanation albeit the least colourful is that the animal was stuffed and presented to the Manitoba museum and the Bones somehow later came to rest in their present location. Another suggestion too Good to be True is that the Goat used its horns to prod an Early City father in an appropriate portion of his Anatomy. For this the theory is advanced the Goat was locked up and for gotten about in the attic. In past years newspapers have recorded the sad tale of the Goat. But so Long is the City Hall stands it would seem the Skeleton will remain. Perhaps it can by taken that Here lies the first of Many goats to he gotten around the City mayor mrs. Coulter Greet visiting students mayor Garnet Coulter and mrs. Coulter thursday welcomed about 50 visiting High school students from Cavalier . To Winnipeg when they poured the City Hall. The group later visited the Grain a. Shopping centres his exhibits and Assiniboine Ochan Orieal Park. Because they paid close Atten Tion to their studies the students received a skip Day. Free from classes and decided to visit Winnipeg explained k. L. Rue superintendent of the Cavalier school District who accompanied the party. Sunshine smiles the charioteer in City on tour one of the United states top ocal groups arrived in Winnipeg in an open convertible wide smiles for Winni thursday and with leg s Sunshine. They Are the do Williams first Tenor Edward Etc son second ams. Baritone ass and their Herman. The five boys. Tenor Ira Wil Howard pianist Daniel. Jimmy who have re gained together since College Flay n Ohio and first started singing together for their own enjoyment re looking Forward to their stay n Winnipeg they say because the Only other Canadian City they have sited is Vancouver. Formerly featured with Olsen and Johnson s Helz poppin and which takes them about an hour for each piece they said and added that they never write Down the notes but prefer to memorize everything. The first Tenor in the group is often mistaken for a girl the charioteer a laughed As his pitch is so High. They Are looking Forward to recording several songs with Frank Sinatra including a group of spirituals. 3ing Crosby s radio show is Here to appear at Tho Don Carlos Casino May 12-1s. This is be of their stops on a Cross country tour playing theatres and get clubs. We started by j i n or in p they said hut due to audience requests we gradually included some popu a arrangements of songs in our repertoire until now the balance of our programme contains every Type of Sonc 1 n. Centre shift to liberals seen there has been a definite swing to liberalism in North Centre and we Are in a position to realize that William a. Molloy Liberal candidate for the District told a meeting of the North Centre women s Liberal club. Wednesday evening at 623 Sargent Avenue. Have 20.000 friends in North Centre today and we Are going to make every Friend a he said. Mrs. A. W. Turner president of the association stressed the need of continued co operation from the members in the coming election veterans urge govt. To curtail do immigration no More displaced persons should be admitted to the country until employment is found for Canada s jobless citizens Winnipeg units of the Manitoba command. Army. Navy and air Force veterans of Canada resolved at a meeting tuesday night in the club rooms. 299 Young Street. The Resolution which also urges that legislation be enforced to pre vent employment of . S As cheap labor will be presented to the convention of the Manitoba command at fort William May 14-15. Another Resolution u r k c d provision of transportation for veterans who live at a distance from . Medical centres. It was agreed that regulations should be amended so that a Quali fied person situated near the Resi Dence of the applicant be authorized to administer treatment or arrange for transportation to the nearest department of veterans affairs Centre. It was also resolved that vet Transcona debate set on teachers residence Rule notice of a motion that trans Cona teachers need no longer re Side within the town was Given Byj tentative a qualified member of the trustee a. H. Day at a Organ of the Transcona school Board the matter with wednesday. The motion Woolri per delegates i Erans requiring Hospital treatment should be charged in accordance with their ability to pay. In Case of doubt concerning Abil to to pay. A Veteran should be allowed to nominate As his representative a qualified member of the trustee a. H. Day at a organization to take up officials. The Manitoba convention from the Winnipeg and fort Garry units will leave Friday night in a special Cana Dian Pacific railway coach. They arc Winnipeg unit a. Banks president. J. Davies w. Cooke ii. S. J. Cox h. Jamie son a. W. Murdoch. R. Simp son fort Garry unit g. R. Lang president r. Diotte a. Anderson c. Joplin nor d. Simp son a. Scott h. Schmoll a. Mclachlan. The Dominion president a. J. Mil reconsideration of the matter after a year s trial. Trustee r. Buxton favored the teachers residing wherever they pleased provided it did not inter Fere with their duties nor hinder their participation in extra Curri Cular responsibilities. Chairman j. S. Johnston and trustee c. C. Jamieson maintained that the teach ers should reside in the Community where they taught so that the school could be operated More efficiently. Letters of resignation were received from miss Pyra. Miss Podolski and mrs. Cavers of the teaching staff. Or. Jamieson chairman of the building committee submitted to the Board a list of the decorations and repairs which Are to be done during the summer. The question of obtaining sufficient copies of a pamphlet entitled How we can teach about s e a published by the Bureau of health and welfare education was raised by j. Powadiuk. It was decided to get Only a few copies in the meantime for the perusal of responsible authorities. It was announced by principal j. Edwards that graduation exercises would be held june 3. Elimination trials in preparation for the suburban schools athletic meet Are to be held in Sargent Park May 26. Sex romanian lauds new Home in Italy Italy May not be flowing with milk and Honey but it offers the Best life of any european coun try today according to mrs. Ber Nard Victor of Rome. In North America for a six week visit or. And mrs. Victor arrived in Winnipeg thursday or the Soo line from Minne Apolis. They Are guests at the Royal Alexandra hotel. They Are romanians who Emi grated to Italy two years ago be cause they could not live in to mania under the communist re Gime. Unlike the majority of their displaced countrymen they have remained in Italy rather than settling in the Western world. South american countries Are favored by romanian emigrants because their immigration Laws Are More flexible than those of Canada and the United mrs. Victor said. Romania once a Rich country had been impoverished first by the germans and then by the russians she said. Living conditions there were More difficult than in Italy. Mrs. Victor is Able to communicate regularly with her father in Romania. In comparison with the Ameri can Price level the italian food and clothing prices Are quite reasonable she remarked. However the lower income working class found living costs High. Food and clothes were plentiful and Una toned in Rome. Mrs. Victor who Speaks six languages Learned English in one month. Parks Board names Marion Aid. Paul Marion was elected chairman of the St. Boniface Parks Board at the annual meeting in the City Hall wednesday. William Tom Liaison was re elected vice chair Man. Of the meeting were the discussion of the 1949 budget and the question More play rounds. Other members of the Board Are mayor George c. Maclean Aid. J. To. Pynoos. Aid. Henri Boisselle Aid. Louis Leger. Aid. William All five the scoring introduced by mrs. J. E. Grierson and arranging of their mus Ica charter member of the club. Campaign. The guest speaker George Hebert August Pichette. Non j. S Edward Smee and ver Stubbs. For mity in procedure and in their Over All submissions. The Manitoba government will submit a Brief when the commission headed by Hon. W. F. A. Turgeon holds its first Sci Tinnil hearings in Winnipeg june j to 3. However the province s main submission will not be made until the commis Sion holds its final hearings in Ottawa those attending the conference were from Manitoba Wilson e. Mclean special counsel for the provincial government c. D. Shepard. Counsel r. E. Moffat economic adviser to the provincial govern ment Earl Savage and Gordon Mcleod research economists for the provincial government h. A. Luckhurst of the government s Industry and Commerce division and w. J. Macdonald. Saskatchewan m. A. Macpherson. Counsel for the provincial government or. G. E. Britnell University of Saskatchewan or. V. C. Fowke University of Saskatchewan b. N. Arnason Deputy min ister of co operatives and George Oliver Secretary of the province s special freight rates committee. Alberta j. J. Frawley special counsel for the Alberta govern ment he Harries and h. J. Dar ing research economists. British Columbia c. W. Brazier special counsel for British Columbia s government and j. E. Brown assistant director of economics and statistics provincial apartment of Trade and Commerce. Wickens of Moose provincial president Archie Bruce and Provin Cial Secretary Ted Low will attend the meeting. White denies coming of do s harms labor at the present time the bringing in of displaced persons has not caused any congestion on the la Bor Market said f. J. White regional supervisor of the unemployment insurance commission thurs Day. It can perhaps be successfully argued that it is causing the defer ring of employment for varying periods but the buoyancy of the employment Market at the present time is such that All Able bodied persons will be he was commenting on a Resolution passed by Winnipeg units of the army. Navy and air Force veterans of Canada. It asked that no More displaced persons be admitted to Canada until allem Plo Yables in the Dominion had work. Or. White pointed out that there were three groups of europeans entering Canada those who come on their own initiative those sponsored by relatives and those the government brings out. He said there is a tendency to Lump the three groups together As . S. Sir. White stated that . S were brought to Canada Basic ally for agricultural work a Field where there is a tendency for n shortage of labor. He knew of no evidence to show that . S had been engaged to depress wages. The latest figure for the Region sets unemployment at 25.000, or. White added. This is not an abnormal figure he stated and pre sent trends indicate that it will decrease. Still ignorant but fined a Man who professed Complete ignorance of such a thing As a Bootleg still was fined s100 and costs for Possession of six Gallons of Wash suitable for the Manu facture of spirits in provincial police court thursday. After . Had testified that they visited the farm of Patrick Taylor near Dickens. Man., and found the Wash and a Large number of bottles and cans magistrate d. G. Potter asked Taylor where the still was. The accused denied any knowl Edge of a still. I Don t know what a still in said. If Wash is there there must be a still somewhere. You Are not pulling the Wool Over our the magistrate said and pointed out that leniency could Only be shown to persons who co operated with police. He warned Taylor that if a still or any parts of a still were found in the future he would be liable to six months imprisonment. The Brandon civic employees Federal labor Union no. 69 has been certified As bargaining agent for All employees of the Parks Board of the City of Brandon it was announced thursday . T. Mckelvey bored registrar. Keeping in touch with each other so that there be some uni commissioner Baugh official outlines group objectives fresh air. A Lake to splash in. And All the Sun you can absorb for 10 Days is the Holiday offered by the Lakeside fresh air Camp for Chil Dren Mcelheran station Man. Sup ported entirely by personal contributions. The Camp gives a much needed Holiday to mothers and children who would otherwise go without a vacation. The 28th annual meeting of the Lakeside fresh air Camp is scheduled for tuesday at 4 . In the Board room of the Northern trusts company 333 main Street. Officers and trustees be elected an auditor appointed and the Camp operations for the past year re viewed. Lakeside was established 28 years ago. Expansion has been such that there Are now eight Camps each with an average capacity of 91 guests. It would do our donors Good if they could see the change in tired mothers and the gains in weight and health in underprivileged Chil commented h. J. Bird presi Dent of the fresh air Camp. Good food. Rest. And. In special cases Vitamin pills and cod liver Oil have worked wonders or. Bird reports. In order to carry on the Good work the Camp needs More Finan Cial Aid according to or. Bird. Cost of maintenance has risen and after last year s operations there was a slight loss. Or. Bird also paid tribute to the assistance of the Winnipeg Gyro territorial commander of the tax Appeal court Likely to end sittings today sittings of the income tax appeals court which began in Winnipeg wednesday Are expected to conclude late thursday. Only two cases were heard during the first of by annual sittings of the travel Ling court. Presided Over by or. Justice a t. Graham the Board sat in the Law courts building. The members including Fain Monet of Mont real a s. Fisher and w. O. Davis registrar Are expected to leave for Regina thursday night. Appeals reviewed in Winni Peg were brought Gilbert Currie ind the fort Frances brewing company. Decision was reserved in the salvation army in Canada who will conduct the Grace Hospital nurses graduation in Young uni Ted Church monday at s . A nurses at Grace graduate monday graduation exercises for Grace Hospital s 1949 nurses class will be held in Young United Church Mon Day at s . Commissioner Charles Baugh territorial commander of the Sal vation army in Canada pre the graduating class will attend sunday morning service in the salvation army Citadel Rupert Street. Special services will be held Sun Day for the 39 graduates. Speaker will be commissioner Baugh. The baccalaureate service will be in Young United Church Sun Day at 7 . Rev. J. F. Palmer will preside and the guest speak will be commissioner Baugh. Case of or. Currie who sought an exemption for his wife who had a Otal income of More than s660, most of which came from dividends from private companies. It was contended that these Are free rom tax by parliamentary act Douglas Scott chartered account ant appeared for or. Currie. The fort Frances brewing company Case decision will also he reserved until further in formation is filed with the no Pool court on its return to Ottawa. The Appeal Hoard set up in 1946 o hear appeals for assessment of come tax. Replaces the former procedure of an Appeal to the minister and if no satisfaction was obtained to the exchequer court of Canada. Mrs. Mcwilliams urges . Aid one Pound of beef or Lamb constitutes the week s meat ration for a British family of three according to mrs. R. F. Mcwilliams one of the directors of the United emergency fund for Britain who stresses the need for More Aid. An economical and unique per son to person plan another in the series of candid parcels has been arranged for this purpose mrs. Mcwiliiams said. Through the . Candid parcel canadians can Send parcels of standardized contents and substantial caloric values mrs. My Williams added. Candid parcels contain food bought at manufacturers prices. The parcels Are packed and delivered to any specified recipient in Britain. All donors retain their identities and costs cover contents packing shipping and delivery. There Are five types of can Aid parcels. Parcel a weighs 10 pounds and contains such items As Bacon sausage Salmon cheese Bologna lard soap beef spread and Pate de foie. Also available Are two 15 Pound parcels and eight Pound parcel and a three Pound Par cel. Mrs. Mcwilliams stressed the need for Cash Chase candid donations to parcels for Pur per sons in Britain who have no friends and relatives in Canada. Briton describes Reading tastes canadians Are less predictable in heir Reading tastes than the a Ives of West Africa according to Francis l. Wood of London eng and representative of the Ward lock publishing company. Or. Wood arrived in Winnipeg wednes Day Over Canadian Pacific railway Ines and is a guest at the Alexandra hotel. In their Semi civilized Jand tha natives displayed a great pre occur motion with the amenities of the English Way of life he explained. He added that Book orders which were Large were restricted to treatises on etiquette Correct letter writing and appropriate speeches and toasts. Canadian interests ran the Gamut from juveniles to text books he said. British publish ers were attempting to expand the Canadian Market which shrank seriously during the War years. With removal of the British paper quota in March publishers expected to be Able to compete with american and Canadian houses. Or. Wood thought that now the paper would be belter and the Type larger in British books. With cloth More readily available binding would also be improved. In Britain itself Book sales were Good and in excess of pre War figures he stated. During the War people had cultivated the Reading habit. Books written by canadians had Only limited sales in Britain or. Wood said. Special textbooks and biographies and statements of Public men had the widest sales. With the present rate of development in Canadian writing and publishing Canadian books should soon become much More common on British Book he added ;