Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 08, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba T Price 5c per copy edition with comics we Winnipeg monday August 8, 1949 by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week anniversary fund winds up with of these Lovely spikes heralding. The Zenith of Sumer at a Gladioli show sponsored by the Winnipeg Gladiolus memorial Church Sargent and Ingersoll Street saturday. Left to tight the prize winning specimens Are Reserve Champion Spike Elizabeth the Queen variety entered by j. Harris 723.alverstone.Street Best Spike medium class snowball g. R. Fas 736 Garfield Street Best seedling Spike Athlone entered by j. H. Pottage 667 Victor Street Best variety seedling entered by j. E. Machacek 909 Mulvey Avenue. The show was a District pre Limary to the society s annual contest. S St. James horticultural group j lists Garden contest winners gardeners in St. James found that extra bit of attention Given j their gardens and lawns put them in the winners the Garden Competition sponsored by the St. James horticultural society. First second and third class winners with the numbers of Points awarded in various classes Are As Fallows lawns d. 3. England 314. Coverdale Avenue. J. E. Daniel 271 Woodlawn Street g. A Combes 350 College Avenue boulevards a. Hunt 233 Parkview Street 1 j. , 294 Winchester Street t. Rylander .245 Berry Street Flower gardens 25 to s3 feet mrs. M. Harrison 308 Brooklyn Street . Combes 259 College Avenue a. Hunt 223 Parkview Street Flower 34 to 66 feet b. S. Scarth 155 Lyle Street f. Buckley 244 Woodlawn Street or. A g. Whitehead 224 Moor Gate Street vegetable gardens a. V. Stoeker 327 Winchester Street w. Murray 376 Linwood Street c. B. Ross 211 Belvidere Street Beautiful Hom Sites. F 3. England. S14 Coverdale Street j. Drake 334 Amherst Street . G. Whitehead 224 Moorhead Street Utility gardens j-1. Swanson 388 Woodlawn Street b. E. Purvis 250 Inglewood Street j. Drake 234 Amherst Street cup winners were s. Scarth Allan Killam and Mckay cup mrs. M. Harrison 308 j Brooklyn Street messes. Andrew and company limited cup w. V. J Stacker 327 Winchester Street St. James Leader cup and j. Swanson St. James hardware trophy. Band concert set for aug. 19 a band concert and sing song sponsored by the Brook lands and Weston Branch Canadian legion band will be held at the Weston memorial Community Centre at 7.15 . Aug. 19. Members of the Cana Dian legion band will be in attendance. Horticulture for St. James f. Weir Horticulturist from the Extension service of the de j apartment of agriculture will officially open the annual exhibition of the St. James horticultural society at 8.30 . Thursday. Entries for the two Day exhibit must be placed by 10 . Thursday with judging beginning at 10.30 . Doors open to the Public at 5.30 . Brand onite to compete in Dominion air final five zone finalists competed for a Gold watch and the right to represent the mid West zone at the Dominion Webster trophy finals saturday at Stevenson Field. Winner was Dave Francis of the Brandon flying club with Bill Gibson of the same club and last year s Winner As runner up. Flying tests were judged by Doug Craton department of transport navigation exercises and Buss Burbridge department of transport. The watch was presented for the Royal Canadian flying clubs association by Ross Screaton. Armed forces Day at Rivers it will be armed forces toy at Rivers. Man., aug. The Canadian joint air training Centre there plays Host to the Public. The Centre is comprised of units of the three services Royal Canadian Navy Canadian and Royal Canadian air Force. The purpose of the Centre is to train one or More branches of the services Lor joint operations in event of War. The programme will begin at. 1 . Cost and will feature a flying display in the form of airborne in Vasion of the Rivers Airfield. This invasion will include an attack by tactical air Force lighters and airborne troops. There will also be air. Supply drops ground defence operations Static displays and demonstrations actual War films Solt and hard Ball games with an informal dance and fireworks display in the evening. Kiwan Iansito hear inspector still inspector Robert still of the Winnipeg police Force will address a luncheon meeting of the Winnipeg kiwanis club tuesday in the Royal Alexandra his subject will be traffic problems. official to speak Here tuesday a Witman executive director of the Canadian association for labor Palestine Hista Druth Western division will give an address on his recent visit to Israel at 8 . Tues Day hebrew sick Bene fit Hall car ice boxes consume 352 tons if you had trouble Over the week end keeping family ice Box filled with that Nice cold stuff that melts entirely too quickly Don t Tell your troubles to the railways. The Canadian Pacific railway used 352 tons of ice during the last three Days to service air conditioned coaches and sleepers according to company officials ice consumption was Well Over Normal sunday Canadian National officials also said with 119 tons of ice used 59 tons for icing refrigerator cars and-60 tons for passenger cars. At the . Workmen were getting a Cool Tan by lying out in the Sun on the huge blocks of ice. Visitor Well prepared thinks coming North to escape the Delong Speaks on Baptist convention the spirit of the Church is at a High level and its work is showing satisfactory Prog Ress Rev. J. Earle Delong said in a report on the recent Baptist convention at Vancou ver in his Sermon at Trinity Baptist Church sunday. Budget for the next year for the Baptist Union of Western Canada said was heat a party of 25 Ameri cans from the Chicago District passed through Winnipeg monday Over Cana Dian National lines on Way to. Jasper. A Brief Stop Over called to convince them the City does have Cool spells. One of the party had bought four boxes of woollens. Spiritual values essential says Donnelly without a sense of spiritual values we never establish the ethical convictions that will keep a world decent in or. Donnelly said sunday at St. Stephen s Broadway United Church speaking to the combined congregation of Young and St. Stephen s Broadway churches or. Donnelly began the series of biblical biographical subjects entitled these belong to the Ages. Or. Don belly selected a group of Bible characters because of their significant to the thought of life throughout the Ages. He began the series with Jacob. This. Patriarch he said found and passed on to posterity the truth that Man lives in a spiritual world poliomyelitis hits Man one Case of infantile partly a the latest person to be struck bringing the Manitoba total to by the disease is a 56-year-old Man 20 since of the year at Black River in Hie Northern red monday by the pre Tot of province. Fire Hazard 6criticar in Manitoba three Days of scorching weather throughout the province have in creased the Forest fire Hazard to the critical Point in Manitoba officials of the Forest service state monday. Over the week end nine new fires none of them serious so far were located by planes of the Manitoba government air service five of the outbreaks Are East of Lake Winnipeg and the remainder in the inter Lake Region. Three of the fires have already been brought under control Anc officials said that by monday night he other new fires May be extinguished. The most serious outbreak was at seven Sisters. Here fire broke out in a Brush pile where the win nip electric company has cleared and to be flooded for Power development work. Causes of the latest fires were in As settlers campers Ana lightning. Power talks to open tuesday discussions on inter provincial arrangements regarding Winnipeg River Power resources will be opened in Toronto be Ween Ontario Premier Leslie m. Frost and Premier d. L. Campbell of Manitoba who left Winnipeg for the East sunday. After the Ontario Manitoba Power talks Premier Campbell will go to Ottawa where he will make a formal request to prime min ister Louis St. Laurent that the Dominion provincial conference be re opened. Or. Campbell stated in the legislature at last session thai Manitoba would ask for the Ference As soon As possible after the Dominion elections. The Ontario Manitoba Power talks will involve general discus Sion on integration of Power plants located on the. Winnipeg River sys tem which runs through Ontario. St. Boniface Kiwan ians to 3eeei wednesday members of the St. Boniface kiwanis club will hold a Lun Cheon meeting wednesday in the fort Garry hotel. Billy Warbeck will present the entertainment. Aldermen to get i statement tonight Winnipeg s fund wound up1 with a surplus after contributions of More than by the City Anc business firms were taken into account. This will be shown in a financial statement on the Celebration to be tabled at tonight s City Council meeting. Total expenditures were revenues including donations of by business firms and by the City amounted to a total of anniversary expenses which was charged to other City accounts was not included in the totals. The report Toteh All Fig Are subject to adjust ment As some items Are not yet Complete hut it is not anticipated that the figures will change a breakdown of expenditures shows administration costs of 213.58, non Revenue bearing pro sects and Revenue rearing projects costing show Revenue Revenue from various shows and exhibitions amounted to which together with the contributions made up the total Revenue profit 08 was realized from the Revenue bearing although 114 of the 18 Spe Cial attractions lost Money. Biggest moneymaker for the anniversary fund was the Conklin shows Midway and carnival. A pro fit of was made on this. Other shown which showed a profit were the ice carnival s5.3s2.19 the Hutu off revue s56s.68 and the Lacrosse exhibition biggest loss was incurred in the Winnipeg symphony orchestra Revenue bearing projects certs Golf tournament Winnipeg Ballet followed by the and the carnival Conklin shows ice carnival Winnipeg Ballet All Star concert Winnipeg symphony orchestra land of Hope hats off revue Olf tournament Lacrosse exhibition Archery exhibition opening Ball old timers dance teen-agers1 dance Canada Day luncheon United citizens Day luncheon British Commonwealth Day luncheon program met tickers expenditure Revenue 5 86.41 98.31 782.75 727.73 304.65 343.85 359.55 681.72 3.6j55.05 668.00 998.00 3.02z25 127.75 j87.75 623.00 5j07.00 5p4.00 201.00 302.00 296.55. Xet profit or 827.04 595.20 563.68 41.34 10.56 744.75 275.75 223.73 103.65 41.85 54.55 539.25 385.17 expenses charged to other City accounts expenses of police band on Goodwill tour advertising in anniversary supplements of Winnipeg newspapers expenses of mayor Coulter on Goodwill tour mayor s reception at Royal Alexandra hotel anniversary brooches municipal Hospital float Hydro electric system float share of Fountain costs water works system 357.28 215.00 15s.85 472.50 300.00 483.65 500.00 500.00 rain needed to Check disease outbreak killing ducks reported 4at its worst no appreciable change is reported in the situation at Whitewater Ake in southwestern Manitoba there thousands of wild ducks Are being Kille d off by a disease Epi Emic. Or. A a. Mcleod of the University Manitoba and consulting biologist to the game and fisheries Branch stated monday cooler we Ather and rain might help to Stop the Pread of the disease under present conditions of heat the epidemic is probably at its or. Meleod said. Or. Mcleod accompanied by two biologists from the game and fish Ries Branch s. L. Baldwin and a. Leeve is going to the Whitewater Ake area monday to carry out experiments in chemical control of he Duck killing plague. Known As botulism the epidemic s caused by an organism which Reeds in the exposed mud Between in water line land along he Shore of shallow lakes. The organism produces a sub Ance that is toxic to ducks and is married to them by water washing n and off the Shoreline areas Here the organism Breeds. More Patent according to or. Mcleod the toxin is made More potent when Ater is alkaline. A method involving regulation the water level developed in the United states is the Only known Way of controlling botulism. In most. Canadian Duck Breeding grounds it is believed it would be an almost impossible task to try to employ this system. These two Cruiser car men heaved a sigh of Relief that was echoed by every other radio car and motorcycle policeman in Winnipeg at 10.00 ., monday. That was when an Offida it most tunics order came Down from chief Constable Charles Mclver Headquarters and a t Constable Jack Laing obeyed swiftly constables How Ever did not share in the Happy peeling off. Their tunics continued to cover soaking shirts one patrolman reported a Good head of steam beneath his Cork helmet Oniris. Une police shed tunics Winnipeg City police had a definite advantage Over their cohorts monday As the heat wave continued and the Mercury once More soared past the 90 Mark. Winnipeg Cruiser car operators stripped Down to shirtsleeves but he . At Winnipeg head quarters had to sweat it out in Ful dress Scarlet Serge Replete with Choker Collar. The annual inspection by com missioner s. T. Wood chief of the was the reason. Head quarters personnel worked at their desks in Scarlet tunics yellow striped breeches and High boots in anticipation of the inspection. Com missioner Wood was to arrive from Ottawa at 11 . There was one Small Consolation the inspection did not include the usual full dress Parade outside in the Sun. Officers of the Winnipeg detach ment also had to swelter in their Navy Blue dress uniforms with ight fitting trousers. For Winnipeg Cruiser car and motorcycle cops however the situation was different. They heaved sigh of Relief when it was announced that chief Constable Charles Mclver had issued an order Ler Mittong the removal of tunics providing belts were worn. They Ost no time in complying revive the Home . Priest Here on prayer crusade father Patrick Peyton of los Angeles the founder of a new Type of religious radio the family theatre and of the roman Catholic crusade for prayer is in Winnipeg to Lay the foun it might have been one of the. Hottest Days 101-year-old mrs. Margaret remember but it was t enough to make her postpone her trip to Ariand sask., where she will visit her daughter. Mother of j. R. Crawford of the general s department mrs. Crawford left Winnipeg Over Canadian National lines Early sunday. The trans Continental train will make to let her ;