Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 01, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leg free press r f be 5c per edition with comics Loc Winnipeg monday August 1, 1949 High prices reported no War on 7cent pop evident in Winnipeg area i. Al o the constant War being wage in Eastern Canada by soft drink manufacturers against firms who overcharge for Nickel drinks a Winnipeg i no counterpart in seems. With one exception Winnipeg bottlers say they have had Little in this group Are Winnipeg veterans and their wives some of the 250 delegates to the internal Oconal War veterans Alliance convention at thief River Falls Over the week end. They were snapped by the free press cameraman saturday afternoon just prior to departure by special train the Busi Ness session was scheduled to end monday afternoon. Marked by zest and enthusiasm 300 ukrainians perform festival planned in song dance festival More than 300 Canadian Ukrain Ian singers and instrumentalists r created the Ukraine with f o and dances saturday nigh the civic auditorium the festival which attracted audience of was the first o its kind in Manitoba sponsored b the association of United Ukrain Tan canadians. For performer from Point Douglas East Kildonan Transcona fort William for Arthur and Regina As Well As win biped there was Elbow room on As they overflowed from stage t orchestra pit. Nicholas Hrynchyshyn was Mas Iler of ceremonies. Greetings to visitors among Thi artists and the audience were extended by mayor Garnet Coulter in letter read by or. Hrynchyshyn the festival was certain to Paralle in Quality and satisfaction the association s contribution to the 75th of birthday celebrations the mayor guest soloist baritone John Goss added the one non ukrainian note to the programme with his selection of Irish scottish Welsh Folk songs. To his smoothly polished stage and vocal techniques or. Goss added a delightful interpretation of the Folk melodies. In a programme dominated by numbers and volume or. Goss brought the first pianissimo of the evening. Although his voice seemed too the auditorium or. Goss through Superb diction and voice control was Able to reach All but the outer fringe of the Audi ence. Three poor mariners and Kitty my love will you marry me were the. Most provocative of his selections. Conductor Eugene Dolny produced a powerful if not entirely polished and balanced effect Iii the group numbers including the choir chorus and orchestra. In Susidko neigh Bor girl volume vigor and High spirits found their Best expression. The plaintive haunting Quality of Vyr Yahala Myloh was lost in the full volume dynamics of 200 voices. The male chorus Only organized in april 1949, showed a Talent both for dramatics and singing. Humor had its Way in hey Ludy Idun to National music musical festival in which All ukrainian National groups would be invited to take part is now being con Lynch you for the chorus and for is now con those in the audience who under soldered by the Dominion executive stood ukrainian. Musically the group whose shading and expression can be impressive was most satisfying in Volga Barge men. Skill and imagination dancers Myron Satulsky and Borden Korchak mating their Ori Ginal choreography to Lysenko s composition Vid Kieva do Luben brought the audience to encore pitch. The dance was conceived on traditional and not experimental lines but it was performed with skill and imagination. Equally agile but not so skilled were the dance groups in Kozachok and Arkan. Zest and enthusiasm with some sacrifice of tonal and interpretative refinement marked the four Selec ions Given by the women s choir. He Folk Melody Quality of Sim most evident in parti an song and arid who knows when the choir took up the re Rains with soloists Ann Tomochek and Norma Lewicki both these ingers Sang with ease and wide Ange of expression. The combination of mandolins and strings is something to which listener accustomed orchestral arrangements Only Grad Bialiy becomes accustomed. As with All the festival participants the orchestra Mem Bers showed an amazing sense of rhythm. Only in the halt ski tenets a dance from the film the Golden band did the music become rather tedious. Although Quality was oyers Hafl wed by sheer enthusiasm at times he Overall Standard of perform nce in this Folk festival was High he work involved in itself in Cates a genuine desire to pre Erve the Best in ukrainian folklore n a Canadian a Quantity of cigarettes and Cash were r saturday night from the Ideal Toria. Teria 406 Dufferin Avenue City police reporter sunday. Entry was gained by forcing the front door. Of the United ukrainian canadians according to John Boychuk of Toronto National , user of that group. Or. Boychuk made this announcement sunday afternoon at the musical festival sponsored by the Manitoba Section of thu association. Because of rain sundays programme was held in the olym Pic rink instead of the open air As scheduled. Or. Mokry chairman of the festival committee was master of ceremonies. Lust week prior to the festival the ukrainian Canadian committee charged that the association of United ukrainian canadians was a front organization of the communist party and that this festival was Only an excuse to get an audience for or. Boychuk s communist propaganda. Referring briefly to those charges or. Boychuk said sunday that despite All this the executive of his association was considering staging a National ukrainian festival to Mark the 60th anniversary of the coming of ukrainian settlers to Canada. He did not know whether the proposed National ukrainian Festi Val would be held in Winnipeg Toronto or Edmonton but it would be held possibly next summer he trouble with retailers charging More than five cents. The main trouble spot they say is Winnipeg Beach where concessionaires along the Board walk have a healthy agree ment among themselves to bottles of pop at the War time Price of seven cents. This Price has also been reported at Victoria Beach. According to one Winnipeg Sof drink manufacturer refreshment stands at the summer resort ask seven cents a bottle in order to make a Good profit during the Short summer season. Greater loss of bottles was another reason for the higher Price. Possible penalty manufacturers interested in keeping up their volume of sales say there is Little they can do to keep the retail Price at five cents. Missing a few deliveries was. One Way to discourage higher prices. It is the consumer who gets the credit for keeping the. Soft drink Price Down said one bottler. Customers complaints of overcharging Are investigated and the re Tailer is asked to co operate. The retailer is free to charge i what he likes. But some Eastern manufacturers it is reported keep corps of investigators constantly on the Road checking on dealers who failed to revert to the five cent Price despite the removal of Federal taxes two months ago. Such is riot the stated one s a 1 e s manager of popular carbonated drink. The wholesale Price of 80 cents a Case had not changed even when bottled drinks went up to seven cents during the War. The retailer s profit has remained the same and Al though the manufacturer must now pay More for sugar labor gasoline and other costs the wholesale Price is Standard explained another manufacturer. It is the manufacturer who takes the he said. Thera is no Good reason Why the retail Price should be higher than Iive he added. At the five cent Price the re Ailer makes s1.20 a Case which is a per cent profit wholesalers consider this a fair profit Selling rinks at seven cents each brought n Over 100 per cent profit for the retailer it was slated. In establishments where some Ort of table or waiter service was provided As in hotels and night Lubs where overhead costs wore prices of 10 cents or Muf e vere justifiable according to he manufacturers. Just one new Case of polio epidemic fears quelled Only one Case of poliomyelitis has been reported in Manitoba for the week ending july 30. There threat of an epidemic As Only 16 cases have been reported so far this year. There have been no cases of dysentery and there is no fear of an epidemic Here similar to that in the Mattawa District of Ontario last week. Measles cases Are the most numerous in the report on communicable diseases with 36 new cases listed last week making a total of cases for tic province to Date. Next highest on the list is tuberculosis with a Tola of 23 new cases reported for the week bringing the total to 491 cases this year. Eight new cases of Chicken pox have occurred making 900 in the province this year. There have been five cases of mumps while Only two Scarlet fever patients were reported last week. There has been no Small pox in the province. A tue inner in. The Small animal division at the pet show was Frisky a unenlightened Here he rests in the hand of his master Roy Grundy 256 Guildford h the and looking his Best for judges. Asked whether Hollywood would be the next step Casky replied that Walt Disney s Mickey seemed to be doing All right dutch immigrants reach Winnipeg fifty dutch immigrants arrived in Winnipeg sunday Over Canadian Pacific railway lines with plans to Settle in Mani Toba. They were part of a group of 225 dutch immigrant farm workers who came to Canada aboard the is Volen dam. The rest of the party proceeded Westward. Jacob de Jong of the Christian Church at Winnipeg and i. B. Agricultural representative for the Netherlands for Western Canada met the car promotes r. W. Coburn Richard w. Coburn formerly assistant Canadian Pacific railway Engineer at Saint John ., has been promoted to Road master of four divisions with Headquarters at Wood Stock A graduate Queen s University or. Coburn is the son of g. A Coburn retired . Division Engineer of Brandon and Souris. He succeeds Peter c. Fuller of Montreal who has been named division Engineer at the Schreiber division. Miniature Library houses 300 books for Little people said. Part of our spiritual Lille his association has conducted several musical festivals All. Have been successful from the musical and artistic Point of View but not said or. Boychuk. The Edmonton festival in 1946 Cost about he said. The e organization would continue to sponsor festivals because is part of our spiritual life. The life of the ukrainian people is in the ukrainian said or. Boychuk. Saturday night at the opening of the two Day festival in the civic auditorium or. Boychuk extended greetings on behalf of the executive officers of the As chairman of the Cana Dian slav said Boychuk i would like to say a few words to All my slavic Canadian Brothers and Sisters Here the Ukrain ians russians poles czechs slovaks yugoslavs car Patho russians bulgarians and he said he was a Delegate from the Canadian slav committee to the world Congress for peace in Paris France held this year and that he brought the firm hand clasp of Friendship and Solidarity from the people in the new Liber ated slavic lands to All slavic Peoples in or. Boychuk told the civic auditorium audience that slavic Bro thers and in Europe were building up a new life and that they Are very much interested in our cultural. Work Over Here and Are most anxious to co operate with us to help develop the cultural work we Are hatreds and mistrust he said that the slavs in eur Ope want us to help dispel the hatreds and mistrust that Are being spread by those who Are anxious for another War and they want us Book of revelations just imagery says minister heaven and hell As described in the Book of revelations is just Rev. J. M. Taylor new assistant minister at Westminster United Church said in his Sermon sunday. His topic was lord i. Believe help thou my unbelief. I believe in the coming again of or. Taylor said. I believe the time is coming1 when he will have returned in such spiritual Triumph As to justify the Beautiful imagery of revelations an imagery which so people take literally when they ought to take it he continued i believe in a heaven of Pence of mind and conscience that comes As a result of endeavouring to do the will of god. If you believe in heaven you have to believe in hell. I believe in a hell where selfishness Des troys the police arrest Man after purse snatching a 25-year-old St. Bon Raee Man Robert Whitehouse of 502 Pinquet Street was arrested by City detectives Early sunday in connection with a purse snatching at the Corner of Broadway and Kennedy Street police said tie handbag was grabbed from Gertrude Harris of 61 Edmonton Street about 12.30 an. Whitehouse was arrested shortly after Ward. Police said keys found in his Possession fitted locks in the woman s House. A tiny Library operated by the women s Section of the fort Garry Community dub is in full swing and caters to Many of the neighbourhood children. Money for construction of the Small building was raised by the women of the club. At present the Library contains about 300 books. The House is situated on the general Steele school grounds and is open daily from 2.30 to a . Chairman is mrs. V. Hess and the librarian is mrs. G. Buther. Some children Are seen Here enjoying a few of. The books. Outside left to right Hans Martin 531 Manchester sue Griffith 943 Riverwood David Thompson 514 Oak Enwald Milton 929 Oak Enwald. Inside the Book House to Esther. Magner 826. River Wood Donna Griff Ith 943 Riverwood mrs. W. Gow 913 Riverwood president of the women s giving books to Joan Sinclair Waskada Man to do everything in our Power to Weld the Bonds of peace Friendship and understanding Between the people of Canada and the people in other the Are doing Here tonight with this festival is helping to bring closer the people of Canada and the people of Ukraine and other slavic or. Boychuk Felt. Let us. Continue to carry it on in that or. Baychuk will give a detailed report on the Paris world peace conference tuesday night at the ukrainian labor Temple. Typical Holiday in Canada for . Cadets chosen from a group of Abou because of their outstand ing proficiency 25 British air train ing corps cadets will arrive in Montreal aug. 8 for a two week typical Canadian air Cadet league Headquarters at Ottawa announced monday. This event is part of a series of annual Exchange visits by Cana Dian British and United states cadets. The British lads will arrive on the return flight of the . North Star flying 25 Canadian cadets to the United kingdom. After a Brief reception at Mont Accident victim s condition improves condition of Phillip Ateah 21, of Beaconia. .Man., who is reported to have walked into the Side of a passing car on the Highway near Beausejour Friday night is much better according to reports from St. Boniface Hospital. Or. Ateah received a broken nose and fractures of his Cheek Bone shoulder and leg. Real s Dorval Airport they will Fly to. The air Cadet summer Camp at Aylmer Home base during their 10 Days As guests of the Ontario provincial committee of the league among the places they will visit Are Timmins North Bay Muskoka lakes and Niagara Falls. Sightseeing Tours picnics and dances have been arranged for them at each Stop. Aug. 15 the youngsters will be in Toronjo for a tour of the City and luncheon at the Granite club. At Ottawa two Days later air mar Shal w. A. Curtis chief of the air hold an official recep Tion in their Honor. They will then move into the Montreal ares to be feted by the Quebec provincial committee. High Light of the Quebec programme is a Day in the Laurentian at the summer Home of the league Honor Ary president c. Douglas Taylor and mrs. Taylor. While in Montreal the cadets will attend several luncheons be fore their return flight to England Samuel de Champlain explored the Bairn in 1604. Spiritual conflict faces chinese says 3iissionary the Christian Community in China realizes that the Church in China must not come into conflict with the new regime on political or economical grounds or. H. K. Johnston Manchuria missionary said sunday at Harstone memorial United Church. The real conflict he said will be in main Taining the spiritual reality of the Christian Faith against a background of materialism. Rotarians to hear editorial writer Max Freedman free press editorial writer will address a luncheon meeting of the Winnipeg rotary club wednesday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. His subject will be the eng Lish heritage. Do students feted at dinner members of the special English course at the University of Mani Oba All being new canadians with College degrees from Europe were guests of Honor of father w. Kush Nir president of the. Ukrainian Canadian committee at an open air dinner saturday afternoon at his farm about 10 Miles from the City on the Dawson Road. One guest in the party a girl said she would like to express her appreciation to the resident women students at the University now aking their summer courses for the material help they gave her to continue her English course for More weeks. The girl who came Litiere about a year ago with her father did not have enough Money to finish her English special uni. Varsity girls had discovered her difficulty they braised enough Money by voluntary contribution. Among the invited guests at the party were president a. H. S. Gill son a. H. Lawson one of the professors who taught the special classes of newcomers or. A. To Kibzey of Detroit mich., former Winnipeg Ger prof. J. B. Rudnycky. J. R. Solomon mrs 3. Dyma w. Kossar president of he ukrainian National federation j. H. Syrnick editor of the Ukrain Parks Board event Mckittrick playground tops at swimming meet Ian voice m. Hykawy editor of the Canadian Farmer or. G. No Jovak or. V. F. Bachynski a. J. By Uremovich editor of the ukrainian Veteran s Magazine the opinion or. A Cherewick of the. University of Manitoba a. Zahary Chuk member of the Winnipeg school Board and w. Kochan former member of parliament in Warsaw. Thanks to the Host ibid to the invited guests were expressed in both English and ukrainian by newcomer Stu dents. Or. W. Kia Zenchak one of the students said. That in Germany during the War they were consid ered As outcasts without Humai rights but Here in Canada they found themselves As equals with other citizens. Approximately 100 Winnipeg Young people ranging in age from 10 to 18, splashed and paddle their Way across Sherbrook swim Ming Pool Friday morning to Tak part in the second four Summe swimming meets sponsored by the Winnipeg Parks Board. Competing for the Parks Boari prize ribbons were those who have taken swimming lessons regularly during the summer under the Parks Board programme of Wate safety. Total Points for the playground were Mckittrick first with 27% Points Sargent second with third with i. Winners were girls senior. Class 50 Yards free style Lone Rybka 25 Yards breast stroke Pat town Send 25 Yards Back stroke lode Rybka All of Sargent playground intermediate 25 Yards free style Weston first norms Field Elm Vood second Ruby Hoski Norquay third. 25 Yards breast stroke Norma Field Elm Wood first. 25, Yards Back stroke Pat Townsend Sargent Robson Weston second. Junior 25 Yards free style Betty Brown Elm pod first Elaine Alexander Mckittrick second Joan Klippenstein Mckittrick third. 25 Yards breast stroke Lenore Alexander Mckittrick first Elaine Alexander Mckittrick third 25 Yards Back stroke Betty Brown Elmwood first Marg Young Wes count and countess b. Coral of a Rugne in South France arrived in Winnipeg by. Plane sunday to visit an Uncle a. Sebilleau of 159 Maryland Street they Are accompanied by their son and Niece. The count who. With the countess is making his first trip to can Ada has been mayor of or Rugne for 20 years. The town is located near the Spanish Border. Ton second Marg Hrynchuk nor Quay third. Juvenile free style one Width Lenore Alexander Mckittrick first Marg Young Weston Sec Ond Anastasia Sinnott Elmwood and Marg Hrynchuk Norquay third open diving Marg Hrynchuk Norquay first Lone Rybka Sar gent second Ina Robson Weston third. Relay Sargent first Elmwood second Mckittrick third nor Quay fourth. 5boys senior events 50 free style Ted Warga. First Keni Hunt Mckittrick second. 25 Yards breast Warga Aberdee i fir it. Intermediate 25 Yards free style. Bill Rygiel Norquay first Cliff Allard Boyd second Tom Kelly Mckittrick third. 25 Yards breast stroke Cliff Allard Boyd first Walter Rygiel Norquay second 2o Yards Back stroke Tom Kelly Mckittrick first Cliff Allard Boyd second. Junior 25 Yards free style Jack Mcdowell Boyd first Ron Fisher Mckittrick second Bob Stream Fulvey and Art Klippenstein Mckittrick third 25 Yards Back Troke Ron Fisher Mckittrick first Don Morrison Mulvey Sec my Ken Ducharme Victory third. Juvenile free style Horace Larel Victory and Bob Bryan Mulvey first Ken Ducharme Victory third. Open diving Ted Warga Aber Deen first Jack Mcdowell Boyd second Ron Fisher Mckittrick Hird. Relay Mckittrick first Mulvey second Victory third. Officials were Anne Brown Mary Ane Shortill Evelyn Kristjanson , Vernon Peters Emile Rousseau Yvonne Breen Pat Mclane Gerry Kis ack a. Mcrorie and h. Katz. Sidney Perlmutter was super visor of swimming c t o w re the proposed downtown routing of trolley buses which the Winnipeg electric company is submitting for approval to City Council is shown in this map. Re routing of some lines has been made necessary by the coming conversion of the Crescent Corydon line from Gas to trolley buses. If approved by Council Crescent Corydon trolley buses will Loop downtown from Mem orial Boulevard East on Portage to fort Street and then South on fort to Graham. They will then travel outbound Traharn to Vaughan South to St. Mary s and then West to Osborne. Ellice trolley buses will run in bound on Ellice to notre Dame and Portage and will return West on Portage to Vaughan and then North on Vaughan to Ellice. Notre Dame Logan trolley buses will follow present routing to carry and Portage and will then go West on Portage to Hargrave turning North on har grave to notre Dame outbound. Mccregor trolley buses will be unchanged coming inbound to carry and Portage and turning West on Portage to Smith Street and then North on Smith to notre Dame. Salter trolley buses will be unchanged coming inbound on Kennedy to Graham then East on. Graham to Smith and North on Smith to Norre Dame. Sargent Academy Stafford will also be unchanged with Academy Stafford coming into notre Dame at Portage and proceeding Outh on fort to Graham and West on Graham to Vaughan. Sargent trolley buses. Will come East on Graham from Vaughan Wirf North on Smith Street to mice ;