Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page .8 Winnipeg free press Friday. May 12. 1950 radio service planned As floods hit District churches archbishop to address All Rupert s land diocese a huge radio family service for the whole diocese of Rupert s land addressed by archbishop l Ralph Sherman will be a feature of Winnipeg s mid flood Church events sunday. His Grace will speak from St. John s Cathedral Between 11.30 and 11.50 ., Over cow. All clergy have been requested to put radios in their churches. Clergy who cannot have services in their own churches because of flood conditions Are asked to join with their people in the diocese wide family service. Flood interference will affect Winnipeg churches sunday in Vari Ous ways. Few notices of actual closing of services been received. However due to wet base ments and Lack of heat services will be shortened in some churches and in others there will be but a single service during the Day. There will be flood time inter Cessions in churches of All denominations. In anglican churches a particular clause for flood sufferers will be added to the regular prayer for All conditions men. Roman Catholic churches will use at All the Day s masses the prayer in time of great Tribula Tion incorporated in the Missal. Many churches last sunday am Jesus Lover of my soul. Sermons stressing the Mother theme will pay the usual tribute to mothers Day. Among Church parades announced Are the attendance of the Winnipeg air cadets at the morn ing service in Home Street Church of Christ inaugurating air Cadet week and the March of the United Empire loyalists to St. Margaret s at 11 Rev. E. Lyle Harvey will preach to the cadets on Hori Zons unlimited and Canon f. Glo ver the Rector will be in charge at St. Margaret s. Services affected by flood conditions St. Barnabas anglican will be closed. In Christ Church anglican there will be the usual services of holy communion at 8.30 And morning and evening prayer but All services will be shortened As a flooded basement precludes heating the Church. In St. Matthews due to flood conditions the family service usually scheduled for Mother s Day Las been postponed but the usual services morning and evening prayer will be held. Owing to local evacuations nor Wood presbyterian reserves announcement As to sunday s service in Crescent fort Rouge United la United presbyterian there will be a special service of and other churches the general prayer made at the commence ment of services will have specific reference to the flood peril and the people s need. Typical of the hymns to be used Are o god our help in Ages past Sung in Jet moving Transfer furniture refrigerators bad Jfe Etc. Daily 31 hour service for Low rates fast service Call 935 Salesman wanted Man Manl Tahn now him con Floc Tunc baby line in retailers to handle on knitted Terra infant to we in cloths bibs Wash blankets packaged and boxed firm 25 year. Ritly Box free Plikss worship and flood time prayer at 11 ., but the evening service will be suspended. John Black memorial Church premises in the Centre of strict particularly affected by shortened As Light and heat n the Church Are Cut off. The Onei ration service appointed for the evening1 service hour has been postponed. Year in year out duality has always been and will always be the first consideration with Salada Dis the flood has been in full time use As a red Cross evacuation vaccination and food receiving depot but an Effort will be made to put the auditorium in shape for ser vice sunday. Westminster United will shorten its evening service but it will have a special flood time bearing and Rev. Allen r. Huband will preach from the title. In the swelling of Jordan. The Church extends a Spe Cial invitation to evacuees. Both services at first Federated unitarian Are cancelled due to flood work. All saints will have services As usual including morning prayer at 11 ., evening prayer at 7 ., and four services of holy communion at a 10 and 11 Needed according to and 7 All services will be Kehy. Convener. The four centres Are the Cath Olic charities Bureau 220hargrave Street Friday and saturday St. Ignatius school Annex Jessie ave nue and Harrow Street Friday 9 Until 4 St. Joseph s Parish Hall. 493 College Avenue Friday St. John Manlius Parish Hall 861 Magnus Avenue opened thursday and will continue to operate As Long As the need exists. Other Catholic parishes have been taking turns operating food centres said mrs. Kelly. Donations of babies clothing and supplies Are also being received at Hie Catholic charities Bureau in charge of the Catholic women s league. Towels Wash cloths soap and diapers Are needed. From the North end of Norwood Bridge water can it seen stretching Back almost As far As the slain Street Bridge. In the background several Larye trucks cautiously Edge through Hie deep water. Cow linked to fort Frances Ottawa May 12 up Hon. Robert Winters acting Revenue minister said in the commons thursday the Csc has authorized a wire connection Between station cow in Winnipeg and Cefi at fort Frances for relay of new bulletins about the red River flood. He was answering a question by w. M. Benedickson Rainy cd Torch open tag delayed the dedication service at the new is. Andrews River Heights United Church scheduled for to night has been postponed. East German Premier bares soviet Rebuff n a. Herald Tribune news service Berlin May 12 Otto Grote Wohl East German Premier has revealed that he received a political spanking instead of important con Cessions from Moscow during he recent visit there. Or. Grotewohl partly lifted the veil of secrecy on his Moscow talks at a meeting with his cohorts in Dresden. He indicated the Krem Lin was displeased with the failure of German communists to pro Gress not Only in West Germany but in the soviet zone itself. Catholic women direct 4 centres receiving food food receiving centres have been set up in four Catholic schools and Parish Halls under the supervision of the Catholic women s league. Doughnuts cookies canned milk and other foods chocolate bars and cigarettes Are particularly mrs. E. F. Important notice regarding train service to Lake Winnipeg resorts special trains will leave . Station Winnipeg thursday May ii 8.30 Standard time Friday May 12 8.30 Standard time saturday May 13 830 Standard time for Winnipeg Beach Riverton As a special flood emergency service. Call 9030 for full particulars. Regular week end summer season trains from Winnipeg to Winnipeg Beach and return Are cancelled for May 13 and 14. Permit system for housing at Winnipeg Beach persons evacuating to Winnipeg Beach with out accommodation there Are Likely to find themselves without a place to stay according to William courage director of the emergency housing project. At the same time he announced More than 500 cottages at Winni Peg Beach Are available uses. She wanted to slay behind. A Youthful evacuee is comforted by City police sergeant Ernie Wareham after she protested Rescue from a House at Assiniboine and Donald streets. The girl s Mother asked police to bring her out. She would have preferred to remain isolated with two girl friends. Workers elect to stay at St. Boniface san eighty two persons have elected to stay behind at the isolated St. Boni face Sanatorium to protect Gigantic dikes holding Back water from the institution. Brig. R. A a. Morton direct ing of Ucer of flood Relief said the tenacity of the St. Boniface workers was typical of the Way in. Which Manitoba people Are of so St m in syst said or. Courage these Cabins have been mad available to the mayor of Winni Peg Beach. In order to occupy on of the cottages a Winnipeg family must obtain a permit from either the red Cross or Only in this Way can people without preliminary accommodation arrangements be certain of obtaining one of these or courage added. Or. Courage said the permit system had been arranged with the mayor of Winnipeg Beach t avoid confusion and facilitate placement of evacuees. O evac meeting the flood isolated volunteers include 25 Dominion oxygen company Ltd. Our staff May be reached at phone 931503 and Are operating from the premises of our distributor i welders supplies Ltd. 227 Garry St. Phone 931503 Birtle prepares for 200 evacuees Birtle man., May 12 Birtle has prepared accommodation pm 200 flood evacuees. This was announced after major a. M. Pratt Winnipeg gave a Brief outline of the Rood situation at a Public meeting in the town Hall Here wednesday night. Six persons were appointed to set up organization plans. They were Reeve a. O. Webb mayor Pratt w. Leggat w. G. Boulton and mrs. W. Nevill. Rev. Hubert Smith was appointed chairman. An office has been set aside in the town Hall for the use of the committee. Steps Are being taken to provide accommodation at the tourist Park where there Are a dozen Cabins. Or. Rusaw principal of the in Dian residential school at Birtle Las received permission from the Indian affairs department to use he 12-room Indian Agency Resi Dence which has been vacant. He is also agreed to provide cots for the accommodation of the Refu yes a Central dining Hall was also set up in charge of Reeve a. O. Webb with mrs. Nevill Secretary. On the committee was j. A. Dal on senior mrs. Walley or. Miles mayor Pratt mrs. Miles a. Mason. Reeve Hubert Smith and j. Kitch no. The Reeve and members of the Rural Council have appointed their committees for their own wards. Women s institutes Are acting As a reception committee. Warships to Orient Pearl Harbor May 12 a a task Force of 21 american warships headed West for the Orient Friday. It will relieve ships it the United states seventh Fleet. But main purpose of the task up will be to show Fla i along the f bores of Asia. Nurses aids and maids 13 nuns 3s maintenance personnel seven civilian volunteers and or. C. A. Sinclair Hospital superintendent. The institution is completely protected on All sides by 5 to 20 not earthen and Shn chaff dikes and with stand a Rise in the water level of another feet. The dikes were constructed with the Aid of civilian workers under the supervision of f. A. Mager St. Vital contractor. Three dragline tiie volunteers have three drag lines and four bulldozers inside their Dike and. Sufficient fuel to operate the machines for 12 Days. Food supplies and drinking water were sufficient for six weeks. All persons remaining be Hind have had typhoid inoculations and sufficient drugs Are on hand to protect their health. More than 200 Sanatorium patients were evacuated earlier this week about half of them sent to private Homes 25 to Deer Lodge Hospital 33 to the Brandon Sanatorium 25 to the Central tuberculosis clinic in Winnipeg and 43 to the Ninette Sanatorium. More than 75 of the patients were evacuated on stretchers. Calm determined the volunteers arc Calm and Brig. Morton said. I heartily commend their fhe added that if the Dike should j break the building itself is Situ ated on sufficiently High ground that Only the basement would be flooded. C vacation became the volunteers Are equipped with a Large Barge and 22 horse Power motor. A party of newspapermen was scheduled to make a visit to the Sanatorium by an Duck manned by Royal Canadian Navy personnel at noon Friday. Want doughnuts the red Cross appeals for dough nuts and cookies at flood Relief Centre civic auditorium. Please bring to stage in main auditorium Entrance South door on Vaughan Street. 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For the final year Canada is supplying 134 million bushels of wheat of which xxx Long tons is represented by flour. The contract called for 140 million bushels but 12.5 million of British Dollar purchases to Bacon and other goods. On the other hand there is an extra 6.5 m i 1 Ion bushels which is a r e p 1 a c e men for Mil feeds retained in Canada. In 1950-51, under the inter National agreement Canada has a quota of-211 million bushels. She Ells that wherever she can among he three dozen consuming coun Ries who signed the agreement. The biggest of them Britain undertakes to accept 177 million rom the five supplying countries n practice this Means from can a the United states and a u s Ralia. In the Canadian Oyer mint has been growing in teasingly uneasy Stabi Ity. Of its future and flour Market in Britain. The. Inter this country. It. Is believed that or. Howe will try 1o get the British to agree to take a definite Quantity of Cana Dian wheat during the remaining three years of the arrangement at prices presumably to be set from year to year. For 1950-51, there is a spread i under the agreement of to Canadian funds Between the floor and the ceiling. Or. Howe is expected to argue that Britain has been Able to expand her sales to Canada greatly and in March even managed to achieve a favourable Trade balance with this country. Further that the Canadian government so far from some to impose fighting two floods 1 flood of water Cable troubles Are due largely to water backing up into manholes and to breakage of cables under the main Street Bridge by debris floated Down the swollen River. 2 flood of non essential Calls and unnecessary conversation the Manitoba Telephone system urges Telephone users to make Only essential Calls and to limit All conversation to essential matters. Unnecessary Calls and conversation is impeding vital messages from getting through. Listed Canadian industries anti dumping duties against Brit ish goods but that this pressure May be More difficult to resist if Canada s wheat Market in the United is curtailed. He will probably also Point out that Canadas ability to buy Brit ish goods depends largely on her wheat exports and that from the earliest times the British Market has been the Backbone of the Western wheat Economy. Plea for Germany Philadelphia May 12 a the american federation of labor said Friday the United should quit fighting world War two All Over again and accept Ger Many into the Community of tree Long distance Calls Long distance operators of the Manitoba Telephone system Are Able to accept Only flood emergency Calls. Normal incoming traffic to Winnipeg it suspended so that lines May be left free for outgoing emergency Calls. I Manitoba Telephone system ;