Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 18 Winnipeg free press thursday november 24, 1949 City cof c asks Federal govt. To reconsider new tax policy the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce has requested the Federal government to reconsider its recently announce d policy regarding payments for local taxes and to provide Grants instead. At the Resolution was adopted a chamber Council meeting Day. While the Winnipeg group feels tote government should be commended for providing some Relief to municipalities in the form of partial payment of local taxes the following Points have been forwarded to Hon. Douglas Abbott minister of finance in the Resolution 1. That the Federal government be respectfully requested to re consider its proposal for the pay ment of local taxes on Federal properties and recast the same on m Ore equitable lines. 2. That the Federal government be requested to make Grants in lieu of taxes to the same extent As levied on other local taxpayers on All federally owned properties including property owned by Crown corporations engaged in business or Industry. 3. That the Federal government should make Grants in lieu of taxes to the same extent As levied on other local taxpayers on newly acquired properties and buildings erected thereon. The members declared the government s decision on tax payments would result in a Large number of municipalities receiving no payment what Ever although Federal build Ings Are within the municipalities in question. The Council also emphasized that certain municipalities which pro vide services for Federal buildings still receive nothing in return. Local taxes Council pointed out cover services benefiting Federal government buildings whether the total value of these buildings amounts to four per cent of the total assessment or not. A copy of the Resolution has been sent to mayor Garnet Coulter to the Manitoba Urban municipalities association and the Canadian federation of mayors and municipalities the Resolution will also be sponsored by the chamber at the Forth coming convention the Manitoba associated Chambers Commerce meeting in. Winnipeg dec. 7 and s. Czech priests ordered to resist red drive Prague nov. 24 bup Czechoslovakia s roman Cath Olic Bishops ordered priests thursday to resist the communist government s Campaign to seize control of the Church and threatened to Unrock any who refuse. The Bishops told the priests they should defend the Church Eyen at the risk of their lives. Children under 10 have most colds Canada s 2v? million children under 10 years of age Are in for a Tough Winter season according to recent surveys made to determine the prevalence of colds. These studies group have More colds than any other. It was also found that the average child will have approximately four colds a year. To reduce the misery caused by these colds More and More Cana Dian mothers Are turning to Vicks vap rub. These mothers recognize that vap rub will bring Quick comforting or Relief from the painful distress of colds. These modern mothers rub Vicks they apply it vap rub s soothing medicinal Vapours penetrate deep into cold congested bronchial tubes. Best of All vap rub continues to work for hours even while the child sleeps. Today vap rub is the Best known Home remedy for re Field marshal Viscount Montgomery is shown right As he was welcomed to Washington by . B. Ridgeway Deputy chief of staff . Army left. The colourful Monty now chairman of the commanders in chief committee of the european Western Union is reported seeking the strengthening of . Mili tary forces in Europe. In Centre 3s sir William Morgan of the British embassy. School for deaf re opening urged Lieving the misery of children a 1940. Re establishment of the Manitoba school for the deaf was requested of the provincial government thursday in a Resolution passed by the annual meeting of the Union of Manitoba municipalities. Some 500 delegates attending Thi three Day 46th annual convention of the Union in the civic auditor us voted almost unanimously for re opening of the residential institution which has been closed since delegates also passed Una ii Wear Ever aluminium cooking utensils important improvements spoon Holder Knob Square Bead for strength and Beauty round Corners in top half for easy cleaning coot grip handles new features new Beauty same High Quality As we approach our 50th Jubilee Wear Ever is proud to present these newly designed cooking utensils featuring Utility Beauty ease in handling and cleaning and Quality that assures Long life. Aluminium goods limited Montreal Toronto Winnipeg Vancouver the Jubilee line of Beautiful Wear Ever is now on display at your store Saucepan. Four sizes to covered Saucepan four sizes. To double boiler. Illustrated covered broiler. 92-n non scald Kettle with snap tight cover removable for cleaning. Black bottomed Saucepan. Not three Tizes. To sold by leading hardware and i stores across Canada Mously a Resolution proposed by Aid. W. B. Webb of Brandon calling for immediate action from the two senior govern ments to assume All costs of education throughout the coun try. Mrs. W. J. Kent president of the parents and friends for the deaf told the association convention that present arrangements to look after deaf children in the province were inconvenient and unsatisfactory. She said half the deaf children were now sent to the Saskatchewan deaf school which created a hardship on both parents and Chil Dren because of the distance from most Manitoba Points and the separation of children from their families for most of each year. A a failure mrs. Kent added that the Mani Toba school closed in 1940 when it a taken Over by the department of National defence and now being used As a Normal school was not closed because it Wai a failure. It was considered the Best school common currency seen solution to trading problems others in the Western hemis or. Gardiner said Canada had made marked departures from i what he considered to be Good i agricultural practices because of the War. We have been concerned r with some recent developments. I by Max free Max not know that this meeting Washington nov. 24 Spe should greatly emphasize the or the deaf in the she said and one the ten Best schools on. The remaining half of Manitoba s deaf children were being instructed n two classes in Winnipeg schools mrs. Kent said. The up cancer told delegates that the association had been campaigning since 1945 for the school to be re opened and had been promised by the govern ment at that time a satisfactory arrangement would be made. Speaking in support of the bran Don Resolution on education Aid. Webb said education had now be come a National responsibility and should be financed As such. It has reached a Point isaid or. Webb when the heavy Burden on property to pay for schools has become unjust and unsatisfactory and some other Means of financing of education should be found by the senior he said the same Resolution had first appeared on the Union Agenda some ten years ago and had been endorsed several times since but no action was Ever taken by the province or the Dominion. Want action it is time we showed these governments that we really mean it when we say we want something done about he said. We should make it Clear we Don t come Here year after year just to talk about the Brandon Resolution Calls for the Federal government to take Over All costs of education. Pend no a Dominion provincial arrange ment the Resolution asks for Grants to be paid to municipalities by the Dominion through the provinces. The Resolution also specifies that pending National support of education the province in crease its Grants to school districts. G. Johanneson Delegate from Winnipegosis said it had Cost the ratepayers in his District for a two room addition to a school because the plans had to be approved by the provincial depart ment of education. At the same time he added the province Paidl no part of this Cost. The Popula Tion of this school District was Only Between and he said. Other resolutions passed by the convention thursday included 1. A request that the Federal government make remembrance Day a statutory Holiday. 2. Repeal of one sub Section of the municipal act to allow municipalities to require those soliciting for magazines or other publications to Lake out a licence. 3. A recommendation that government Grants in Aid for Road building should be in a 15 to 23 proportion. 4. A request to the provincial department of education to have the University of Manitoba re Institute the Short course in pubic administration and finance carried on Between 1937 and 1939. C. W. Moyer fort Alta a director of the Alberta association of municipalities told the convention that of the present surplus of municipalities in that province had come from taxes on Mineral rights in connection with Oil development. Fred messenger Kelvington sask., a director of the association of Rural municipalities of Saskatchewan and h. L. Allison Gull Lake sask., another director of the association also spoke to the gathering. Cial most of the worlds Trad ing problems would soon be solved if the United states and the British Commonwealth agreed to establish a common currency or agreed to base Trade in coming years less upon monetary considerations than upon the free Exchange of goods and services James Dillon minister of agriculture for Ireland advised the food and agriculture Confer ence wednesday. Or. Dillon who spoke As the conference to debate hib proposal for an commodity Clear in House to handle farm surpluses snid it would be a calamity to the free world if great Britain were allowed to sink beneath the Burden of her difficulties. He asked that legislative action should be taken by the countries concerned to permit during a limited period an unlimited move ment of men Money and goods Between great Britain and the United states. If great Britain Breaks Down under the appalling Burden she has been carrying for the last 10 years then As certain As we Are in this room now the third world War will be fought in Texas and the forces of Freedom May rot prevail. It will not matter much to us in Europe because most of us will be dead and those few who have sur Vived will be prisoners in the Sal mines of or. Dillon asked that Hie courage and Faith of a United free world should be used to create an expansionist Economy by roiling Hack the frontiers of poverty. He said that 90 per cent of the people of the world would be pre pared to accept a currency which had joint backing of the United states and the British common wealth of nations. The minority which disapproved could buy or. Dillon explained that a Clear ing House could be set up to handle the movement of goods from great Britain to the United states As Wei As the flow of Trade in the other direction. At the end of the period which there had been Freedom of Trade there would probably he an unrequited volume of Sterling in the United states. This Sterling can either be funded at Low interest or heaped in times Square in new York and made into a Bonfire. Otherwise we May All have to foot the Bill Lor a third world he concluded. Necessity for increased production on the North american continent. We Are finding it difficult to mar Ket some of our or. Gardiner added. It was noticeable that while or. Gardiner expressed appreciation of the . Statement in Genera terms he avoided any approval of its references to wheat policy. Or. Gardiner is now preparing a formal statement of Canada s position to be submitted later to the Confer ence. Constable denies charge Toronto nov. 24 up a policeman charged with indecently assaulting a Young housewife at a birthday party in her Honor denied wednesday he made improper advances. Bert Fyfe under suspension from the police Force of sub Urban Leaside is being tried in county court. Dec. 8 deadline for prorogation by Chester Bloom Ottawa nov. 24 the deadline for prorogation of the j present session of parliament has been set for not later than thurs Day dec. A it was Learned Here thursday from official sources. The government will Endeavor to close the session by the sixth or seventh of dec. If any delay in that schedule is met then any business on hand will be put Over to the session of 1950 which probably will assemble Early in february. Pakistan cultivates acres of jute chief exports. Nearly 2 one of her to18 Don t put up with a bad complexion do this cleanse with Cuti Cura Dif Ferent medicated. Then., apply Cuti Otra to help dear up pimples. Ashes and t Cuti Cura often succeeds when others fail. Buy at your drug twist today. Cuti Cura Clover if the knights of Columbus an organization founded in the United states in 1ss2 by Rev. M. Z. 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Consumption and Reeds As evidenced by the fact that we Are members of the International wheat agreement and have pledged our selves to Supply bushels of bread grains annually for the next four years. In addition recent meet ing of the wheat Council in London we offered to Supply an additional bushels in the wheat Pool at world wheat Council prices which Are presumed to be at a level fair both to the producer and the consumer because of our own internal Price policies to do this would in Tai a or. Andrews concluded by asking the conference to take note of this situation of Over planting in Row crops and the inevitable adjustments which will have to be made in the United states along w i t h probable similar adjustments on the part of Canada and the Bay for Wool socks of 1.95 Hose pair Jyh Wool socks Are ruling favourites because of their perfect fit resistance to matting when washed and guarantee against shrinking. These have Only minor defects which will not affect Wear or appearance. 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