Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 03, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Chairman of the Gler Lawn school Board said wednesday that no announcement of plans for staggering school hours could be made until the necessary permission has been obtained from the provincial department of education. He indicated however that such a re organization of attendance was Likely because of the t school enrolment. There Are five school buildings in the Gle Lawn District. A new collegiate is now under construction. Jch001 question at the Council meeting mayor Leech while this does not directly concern Council we will have to lace up to such the mayor cautioned against the policy of too freely laying Over projects for consideration under the 1950 budget. Car traffic department Honor former manager j. M. Macrae who recently retired As freight traffic Man Ager of the Western Region Canadian National railways was honoured at a reception Given by staff and officers of the traffic department at the fort Garry hotel wednesday. L. A. Fonger assistant freight traffic manager Winnipeg made a presentation. Succeed ing or. Macrae is w. Hately general freight agent from Vancouver. Venereal disease cases increase an increase in gonorrhoea and syphilis cases for the weeks ending july 16 and july 23 has been reported by the department of health and pub Lic welfare. The figures which Deal with reported civilian and armed forces cases of venereal disease in Manitoba show that gonorrhoea cases Rose from 30 during the week ending july 16 to 37 for the week ending july 23. Syphilis figures Rose from eight to 11 cases. Blue bomber imports Nunno. Relies of the past found in Winnipeg relics of Manitoba s past history were coming to Light in pairs Las week last Friday e. Beard a visitor from Moosomin sask jacked up an Odd shaped Stone in the St. Charles hotel parking lot. It turned out to be an Indian Maul. The Stone head of a primitive Hammer the object was used in crushing Buffalo Bones or Doine other heavy work. Weighing Between eight and ten pounds the Maul was probably abandoned on the spot years ago according to l t s norms Elye director of the Manitoba museum. On the same Day last Joe Ouilette who was digging a Post Hole at 261 West Kildonan turned up the remains of a Buffalo Horn few feet under the ground. The find was actually the Core of the animals Horn most of the outer part having disintegrated. The Anginal shape however was Well preserved. 16 Junior football fans fr6m East visit Winnipeg on scholarship tour inn of if Terr Antn Hirvi Mph nil _ . I a group of 16 Toronto High students who say they Are All foot Ball enthusiasts but definitely not Eastern import material for the Winnipeg Blue bombers arrived Here by air tuesday afternoon on the first Lap of a three week tour of Western Canada. Winners of the 1949 travelling scholarships offered in each of Toronto s secondary schools the boys expressed interest in the foot Ball situation in Winnipeg As they stepped from their chartered plane at Stevenson Field. Some of them who were members of Toronto s All Star High school football team last fall said they wanted to take in a Blue bomber practice during their two Day Stop Over in the City. Following a Hasty fresh up dip in the . Pool the group was taken to lower fort Garry for an informal dinner. Clancy Smith wins is. School award Clancy Smith son of or. And mrs. Harold Smith 121 Wellington Crescent has been awarded the senior group marksmanship award at the end of the six week school Camp session at Shattuck school at Faribault Minn. Boys from. Ten to 18 years of age from 11 states and Canada at tended this year s summer which provides acute Mic and religious instruction. Satt Odog Home from France or. Ian Campbell Wees son of mrs. M. K. Wees professor of French at St. John s College is expected to sail for Home from Liverpool thursday after having spent the past two years studying at Trie sorbonne in Paris. Or. Wees has been at tending the sorbonne on a French government scholar ship. He attended St. John s College in 1945 and the univer sity of Manitoba in 1947. Csc suspension stand not clarified trades Council names delegates to Contention Elmwood dust complaint to be a provincial government representative accompanied by a of the City engineering department will be invited to investigate la inca Tirawi complaints of dust nuisance at the Elmwood waste disposal grounds Winnipeg s Public utilities committee made this decision tuesday on recommendation of w. D. Hurst City Engineer following further complaints from Elmwood residents that use of the grounds is still a Nsance. The committee decided to refer to personnel and legislation committee a recommendation by or. Hurst that certain water works employees at present employed on a temporary basis be retained or the pension fund. Ornamental Street lighting will be installed on carpathia Crescent from Kenaston Boulevard to w allow Avenue and on Dominion Street from Wolver to St. Matthews steel implement men planning joint picnic members of local 3960, United steelworkers Union . In co operation with the Canadian co opera Tive implements will hold a joint picnic saturday at Maple Grove. Arrangements have been made to have members and their families picked up by buses at various places to take them to the picnic grounds Arthur j. March representative of the Union said. 3 groups to meet in free press rooms thursday s meetings at the free press club and Board rooms include ladies auxiliary of Imperial veterans in Canada whist drive 2 ., Board room no. 2 the Winni Peg Rugby club meeting kick off 9 ., Board room no. 2, and the greater Winnipeg Kennel club at 8 In the clubroom. Delegates to the annual Conven Tion of the trades and labor con Gress of Canada sept. 15 at Cal Gary were chosen it a tuesday night meeting of the Winnipeg and District trades and labor Council. They Are Andrew Murphy presi Dent Aid. V. B. Anderson Secretary and George Greengrass of railway Carman local 550. Although discus Sion took place at the Council meet ing on the action of the . Executive in suspending the Cana Dain Union one of. The burning matters to come up be fore the Congress convention in Calgary official delegates were left uninstructed on what stand they should take when the ques Tion comes for a vote before the convention. The delegates were instructed to use their own discretion on the matter other delegates to the Conven Tion chosen by thedr locals Are j. B. Graham carpenters local 343 de. Houle teamsters local 119 Gordon Wilkinson machinists local Robert Holmes machinists Sam Herbst International ladies garment workers Union and Frank Armstrong brother Hood of Carmen local 550. East Kildonan May join City Early next year legislation to amalgamate East Kildonan with Winnipeg May be enacted at the next sitting of the provincial legislature in Early 1950, a. Civic official stated wednesday he emphasized that negotiations Between the two municipalities had not yet begun and that a Spe Cial civic committee probing the matter May report against amal other historical and Industrial Points visited tuesday evening were old Sti Andrew s Church the Tyndall quarries and St. Boniface Cathedral. Today s Agenda included an offi Cial Welcome lat 10 . By civic and provincial officials a visit with Hon. R. F. Mcwilliams lieu tenant governor a swim at . Chippawa and breakfast at the t. Eaton company. The tour is sponsored annually by the t. Eaton company in co operation with the Toronto Board of education. From Winnipeg the party will travel by to air to the Pacific coast and will Stop again aug. 17 before flying Back to Toronto. The boys received at the Airport tuesday by Aid. C. E. Graham representing the City r. M. Pinfold assistant manager of t. Eaton company or. R. Of Macfarlane Deputy minister of education for Mani Toba a. H. Young Eaton s mail order superintendent t. A. Mcmaster of the Manitoba teachers society and Jim Dickie a member of Eaton s Junior executive from Gordon Bell High school. Tour party members Are Gerald Allen of Jarvis collegiate Institute the tour director a. J. Bud Mcalister and of the t. Eaton company Toronto Roberl scholarship usually mean More school. These Toronto High school students welcomed at Stevenson Field tuesday by or. R. O. Macfarline Manitoba s Deputy minister of Educa Tion r. M. Pinfold assistant manager t. Eaton company and Aid. C.-. E. Graham Are getting their instruction through travel. Each of Tjie 16 boys in the group was the Winner of a 1949 travelling scholarship offered by the t. Eaton company in each of Toronto s secondary schools. Left to right above Are or. Macfarlane Bruce ones Gerald Allen and Ronald Foch All the scholarship group w. Bremner of the t. Ealon company Toronto or. Pinfold Shak ing hands Douglas Richardson of Toronto and Aid. Graham. Peace to meet again says speaker another world Congress for peace will be called when the executive of the first peace con Tress held in Paris last. April has gathered sufficient information on he immediate danger of a third world War in those countries which it believes Are preparing for Var according to John Boychuk Delegate from the Canadian slav Ommittee to the first peace con burglars and sneak thieves were Active in Winnipeg tuesday night and Early wednesday morning but secured Little loot for their trouble. Cigarettes valued at arid in Cash were the extent of their haul. A casual prowler Early wedge Day forced his Way through a Sec Ond floor window of a City Caf sneaked quietly about the premise and then left. Through most. Of the visit lie was followed closely by the owner of the cafe whose face he slapped in departing. Police say the incident occurred in the Polo cafe Higgins Avenue. The owner of the cafe who Leeps on the heard the prowler forcing the rear to 2.45 . When he investigated he prowler paid no attention to in arid went Down into the cafe after mousing around for a whih Ith the owner , he Lef empty handed striking the Propri Tor. Police was described a All and thin with a Brown Sui and dark Fedora thief grabs trousers a haul of cigarettes was Aken from the l and l Grill 172 train Street Early wednesday b thieves who. Forced a reas. Window City police said a Small amount o Ash was also taken. A Long armed thief tuesday morning stole a pair of trousers through a bedroom window Anc made off with from the pocket Ity police said wednesday. Mrs. Hilda Kass of 530 Al Fred Avenue told police the trousers had been stolen the tween 1 and 7 . Tuesday. The thief removed a bedroom window screen and reached in for the loot. Police found the trousers out Ide the window. Mystery building no the a 63-year-old error in Tolje con action of Winnipeg s City Hai Striction galation. Other suburbs Minnie the Moocher creator cheers patients patients and staff at Deer Lodge Hospital had their music tues Day afternoon from the Man who brought Minnie the Moocher to song life i the 30 s and has kept her in a state of perpetual youth Ever since. Cab Calloway and his boys Jonah Jones on trumpet Panama Roy Eldridge Bass and Dave Rivera piano a br.onkn.t.alm105t More than the doctor f entertainment. The musical prescription also in inf in the everybody eats when the come to sly House Huckl Buck and Blue skies. After the the act patients m the who could t Vancouver makes mex Bead foe Ottawa meeting sights raised on the Domin Ion of Canada Rifle association meeting at Ottawa aug 4-13, a party of 20 Vancouver ites passed through Winnipeg Over Canadian Pacific railway lines wednesday evening. Major j. N. Macneil was in charge of the group which included two women. Optimists to see ramp film the mounties set out to get their Man and As usual do in a documentary . Film to be shown members of the Winnipeg Optimist club at a luncheon meeting thursday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. The film is called the Connors Myca drops mixed tour sponsorship even the very Centre of a strictly Man s world the has been invaded by women with drastic effects. The . Caravan is the original title of a bus tour scheduled to visit various centres in the United states and Canada. Now a set of what the Calls curious circumstances has in that organization withdrawing sponsorship. Why Weil the caravan was originally intended to carry if possible an equal number of men and women. Uneven a registration in favor of the women Felt it Best to withdraw. The group will now be called caravan. They leave Winnipeg aug. 19 As planned visiting Chicago Niagara Toronto Montreal Ottawa the Laurent ans and Dii Luth. 5. I. That the French canadians touring West a group of sight seers from Mont real gave Winnipeg the once Over their first Stop in a visit to Western cities and tourist resorts. They Are guests at the Lloyal Alexandra hotel. The party consists of 14 French a canadians. They will leave Winni Peg thursday by Canadian National lines stopping at Edmonton and Jasper on their Way to Vancouver. Returning the party will see Lake Louise and Banff and travel by boat from fort William to Montreal Freedman reviews Dollar dilemma political and economic imply la ions of the British Dollar crisis in the Western world give a discouraging Max freed Man free Prens editorial writer told rotarians wednesday at a luncheon meeting in the Royal Alexandra hotel or. Freed Jan Drew Atten Tion to the reluctance of the United states Congress to vote on the arms Aid programme and its criticism of Large appropriations for the Marshall plan. Added to these or. Freedman said is the peril that the Unity of the English speaking world May be submitted to acute Strain As great Britain is driven to organizing her Economy on the basis of deliberate discrimination against american Only by International action can the crisis be he stated. The american Market is not fulfilling its proper role in world Commerce so Long As it continues to be barricaded behind a massive Tariff or. Freedman Felt. A solution to the crisis would be quickened if people would unite in the task of making British goods Able to compete once More amalgamation of other suburbs besides East Kildonan will prob ably be discussed by the Specia Aldermani committee which to for the first time wednesday afternoon a civic official stated. None of the other municipalities has made any move to indicate they might wish to amalgamate with the City. Fort Garry and St. James officials have intimated to the free press they Are not interested in amalgamation at least for the present. In All markets of the he said. Voices anxiety or. Freedman voiced anxiety at the Lack of Public understanding of the economic problem and the unwillingness of the British government and people to accept Sao orifices. Remedy for the problem in the hands of the British people is greater production a halt to higher wages and dividends and a concentration on exports to the United states and Canada or. Freedman added. It is my belief that the British people will conquer their economic problems As they have mastered other difficulties which barred their Way to he stated. Or. Freedman who returned recently from covering the Dollar conference in England was introduced by George Wilson rotary dub president and luncheon chair Man. No referendum mayor Garnet Coulter said wednesday the City s Legal department has advised him that no referendum would be necessary for amalgamation with East Kildonan however if the City decided in favor of amalgamation he would not Rule out the possibility of a referendum being held to deter mine the views of citizens. Winnipeg would gain vacant property in East Kildonan which might eventually he Worth a huge sum of Money one official pointed out. However he added the property was not serviced with sewer or water and the City still had Large tracts of similar land in the North West and South East Corners of the City pro per. The City would definitely lose financially from the Short Range viewpoint but might gain in the Long run he declared. The big difference Between the two municipalities was in school facilities he said. Winni Eggers now pay to amount per capita that East Kil Donan residents do Fol running of their schools. Cost of providing the additional police and fire Protection Neces sary for East Kildonan would add Only a negligible amount to the City s expenses he thought. Queen s birthday Winnipeg will join with the other provincial capitals and Ottawa and Vancouver in firing a Royal Salute of 21 guns thursday noon to Mark Queen Elizabeth s 49th birthday. A saluting troop of four guns will be provided by the 39th Field regiment Spica of. The re serve Force. They will be drawn up on the Northwest driveway Culley Bloor collegiate Institute Walter Stanewicz Harbord collegiate John. Bond Humberside collegiate Edward yielding Jarvis collegiate Douglas Richardson Lawrence Park collegiate. Wentworth Jones Malvern collegiate Robert Munns North Toronto collegiate Earl Harmsworth Oak Wood collegiate Bruce Jones Park Dale collegiate Richard Holloman Riverdale collegiate Leo. Zolkiewski. Central High school of com Merce Ronald Finch Eastern High school of Commerce Robert Hob son Central technical school har vey Eller Danforth technical Ross Partridge Western technical commercial school Wal Liam Carr Northern vocational school. May be remedied next year. When the building was completed in 1ss6, City fathers forgot to have a sign placed on the City Hal proclaiming it As such. Tuesday the Public works com Mittee decided to investigate the Cost of a sign saying City Hall w. D. Hurst City Engineer said there was no Money available for the sign this year. Aid. E. A. Brotman declared visitors to the City would pass the building without recognizing it As the City Hall. Many of them had asked him where it was he said. You would t want visitors to find out this is the City Hall would asked Aid. David Mulligan. James Black thought any visitor who could t recognize the City Hall should have his head the old building is the finest example of architecture in the he declared. Aid. Mulligan was against spending another cent on the present building. Aid. J. G. Har vey then moved that Cost of constructing a sign should be investigated by the City Engineer. Petitions against the construction of boulevards and tree planting resulted in the com Mittee deciding the following streets should not have the improvements Redwood Avenue from Arlington St. To. Canadian Pacific railway right of Way big a rows Avenue from Parr to Sinclair streets Cambridge Street from the North line of lot 57, Block 35, plan 307, to Jackson Avenue. Concrete pave makes will not be Aid on the following lanes be cause of Adverse petitions East of Brazier Street from Mclntosh to Polar in the Block bounded by. And Luxton or. Boychuk who is National treasurer of the association of United ukrainian canadians was peaking tuesday night at the my Street ukrainian labor Emple where he gave his full re Ort on the world peace Congress. Or. J. Endicott head of the Canadian Council for peace is going to make a Cross country speaking tour this fall to report on the peace con Kress. At that time he will announce the time and place of the next peace meeting or. Boychuk told Bis Audi ence. A general committee of 140 per on was chosen at the Paris con and out of these 13 have Een chosen As an executive com Mittee. This committee was to prepare a bulletin on the danger f another War but this has not Een published yet said or. Boy representatives on the executive Ommittee were from soviet rus a Italy England and United tates he reported. War danger he said the Congress for peace and agreed that the Marshall plan he North Atlantic pact construe on of military bases around so let Russia and a split in the world federation of Trade unions vere Clear indications of the in Endig danger of another world Var. She Congress stressed the out that the Peoples in coun that Are preparing for War be made conscious of tha anger of War and must be pre ared to prevent it avenues Sec Cross and Scotia treets in the Block bounded by Mcmillan and Corydon avenues Mac and Aynsley streets Legal racing los racing is Legal n six states. A there were now 474 military bases under construction Tell around soviet Russia. The ones were in Turkey Iceland and Greece he said. Some of these Are so big that it least bombers could take off at one time he said. He. Said Canada had three Dele ites at the last in Cott miss Jessie Story who is in Paris and himself. But he expected Canada would Send hundreds of delegates representing churches cultural and educational institutions to the next Congress. Colts Lead Goshen hambletonian has 15 times by Colts and seven times by fillies. Councillors hear of 2 . Parties aldermen study traffic and foot Bridges for Seine construction of new Bridges Over the Seine River was discussed in a St Boniface City Council commit tee meeting tuesday night. In re ply to a request made by the City Council As to the Best location for the Bridges the metropolitan town planning commission advised that a traffic Bridge be placed to join St. Vital asks police investigation of disturbances at swimming club police investigation of reported disturbances in Early morning hours at the St. Vital swimming dub on St. Mary s Road was ordered by St. Vital Council tuesday. Nature of the disturbances was revealed while Council was hearing a report on a Short excursion boat operating from the swimming Dock. The disturbances were said to Elizabeth Road St. Boniface with Haig Avenue St. Vital. Two locations were suggested for a foot Bridge across the River both giving Access to Archibald Street one to join Cusson and Dubuc streets the other to connect Edge Wood to Tremblay. The Public works committee asked the superintendent of Public works to submit an Esti mate of the Cost of the pro posed Bridges. Tjie Winnipeg revolver club was refused permission to use the club Range on Dawson Road until certain conditions had been fully complied with. Residents in the Vicinity of the Range had complained of its use before required alterations had taken place. Permission was Given the Mani Toba Telephone system to Lay con Duits to take the place of Telephone poles at the Corner of Des neurons and Ham Al streets. The metropolitan town planning commission in a letter advised against permitting front Entrance Jive ways on Ashdale Street where lots Are served by rear lanes. Resi dents of Ashdale Street had petitioned for this measure. Of the legislative building ground faring South. Windsor . Up Public co operation helped Nova Scotia s forestry workers set a new Low record last year for Forest lire reported said e. L. Boulter assist ant provincial forester. Have stemmed from parties held about 2 . In the swimming club building. The club is not being used regularly by bathers because the River is not in satisfactory condition i was Learned. That was built for a Public swimming Pool. We want the right kind of. People in councillor Collins declared. They be free Access to the build in which we did not councillor h. Collins said. They re in. And out and i Don t like it councillor h. Paul said he did t think anything was wrong on the property. If any member of this Council is for putting these people out because one Man connected with the boat is a negro i councillor Paul. Described the per son As a Fine one Man Why one night at 2 . There were 10 of them councillor Collins said. Something is going on there we Don t know councillor col Lins said. Suspicious men there. Are a lot of suspicious men on this said councillor Paul. A. Lot of people want to know who authorized All those parties in that councillor a. Jac wait till we get the police report and you la be he said. Councillor Collins said he thought rented Only and not the building. I Don t remember that rented1 them anything or. Col mayor a. H. Leech said. Moved the matter be refer red to the swimming association As it was not a matter for at the request of councillor col police will also investigate a sign advertising boat excursions which was erected. Without auth i water service held available bid for tap on Street turned Down by Council St. Vital s Council tuesday re affirmed its decision not to install water taps on streets with available water service. It turned Down a request for installation of a tap Between St. David s and St. Anne s roads. Councillor a. Jacquet brought Forward the request. Mayor a. H. Leech recalled that had been spent in laying water on St. Anne s Road at one time and that by the end of that year Only three Homes had been connected for service. St. Thomas Road will not be oiled his year because of inadequate facilities Council stated. Petitioners vill be informed they will have first priority next Spring. Fire Protection construction of a 100-foot water main Extension and a hydrant to rive adequate fire Protection to Avalee school will be started after permission is granted by the Mani Oba municipal and Public utilities Board it was Learned. The school District is to be asked to contribute. St. Vital solicitor and a Coris of Clonard Avenue will be asked to appear before Council. Or. Had paid water frontage in All property neighbouring his on he understanding he would receive a refund when the properties were old it was Learned. The properties Lave now been sold. Extension of Light service to farms on the South Side of the municipality near grand Point was referred to the municipal solicitor. The City Hydro Mani Toba Power commission and Winnipeg electric All sought Relief from taxation if they extended service to that area. Mayor Leech counselled against the move procedure which might make the municipality s agreement with Winnipeg elec. Trie company Nul and councillor e. Bole warned of making precedents that would spoil tax patterns a few years from Manitoba Aid a committee of councillors h. Pehrson and a. Jacquet will be sent to interview Hon. Errick Willis minister of Public works to find whether provincial help will be available for the construction of a Culvert on St. Mary s Road South of Gobert s Dairy. Cost of the Culvert to Drain a 500-acre Slough in the area would e 5600. A resident was starting o Drain the Slough to Clear his farm it was. Learned. The Manitoba municipal and Public utilities Board informed Counce it was not prepared to Al of an Over expenditure in the fire department suggesting improve ments be considered in the 1950 budget. A Council referred to the Muni Cipal solicitor the Board s approval compensation to the owner of property acquired for the. Widening of Haig Avenue. Permission to conduct its october Campaign in St. Vital was granted the greater Winnipeg Community a letter from Canadian. National telegraphs commending St. Vital police department for help in the emergency night Tele Grams ;