Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mam Leaf cooked meats 7oe Susy Kitchen Star bulletin famous Bryce biked Kitchen stir bread and Chikei ire no longer Sivji Luble. When flood conditions permit there Limo i products will if in be from your grocer. Price pc per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg thursday May 18, 1950 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week Volunteer manpower Pool opens registration of Volunteer Man Power in North Winnipeg began thursday following a North Winnipeg committee decision at a meet ing held in the legislative building wednesday afternoon. Approximately 30 representatives of North Winnipeg civic religious and Community organizations at tended. The proposed scheme is to recruit approximately men and youths to form for hour shift gangs to stand by for emergencies on a. 114 hour basis. Peter Taraska committee chairman said. Approximately 300 Beds would be let up or. Taraska said and workers on the late shifts rather come to work at Midnight or _4 . Could sleep in the depots All night unless they were called on an emergency. X registration depots registration depots had been set at the following schools Ralph , King Edward Florence Nightingale at the Stella Mission and Hall at --197 Euclid Avenue or. Taraska said. Members who at tended the meeting a. Gray m.l.a., Winnipeg Alderman j. Blumberg Aid. F. L. Chester Aid. S. Bebchuk Aid. M. J. For Kin Aid. E. A. Brotman Rev. W e. Mcdonald Rev. Msgr. I. E. I Zielonka . Father n. Feist. Rev. L. W. Koehler w. S. Ross 1m. A Sago r. Soronow if. Bary Luk r. J. Kimmel g. F. Beitz v. j. Krypiakevich t. M. Cirka t. A. Grischuk h. Bahniuk v. J. Swystun j. Homa b. R. Boci Urkiw w. Kalyta or. J. Synowiecki. The rivet View dikes could not hold Back Iho relentless Waters. In this general air View the Homes and municipal hospitals stand neglected abandoned. On the left the Lyn Dale drive Dike is a Rampart keeping Norwood dry. In the Back foundry employees give of Relief fund to help up most others employees of the Anthes Imper Lal company took up a collection monday for the 14 men among them who Hart been forced out of their Homes by the flood. With in one eight hour shift they gathered More than almost ?10 per employee. That was ear marked to help their 14 fellow workers to replace furniture Kitchen stoves. Redecorate water scarred Walls and floors. Wednesday the met again. This time they were told of the Manitoba flood Relief fund. They were told of the not just 14, of their fellow citizens who Rind to leave everything they owned when the red River flooded. We realized it just was t Good no Urh to cure for our own workers and ignore every body one of the foundry workers explained. So out of the less than one Quarter was retained to care for the immediate needs of the .14 evacuated families. The remainder was turned Over to the Manitoba flood Relief fund. Bill Canovan one. The foundry employees lived on Rover Street. They talk Over the Man whose Home is on the flood casualty list and the Man who was Lucky enough to live on higher ground Reg Ward left drove his family to safely from fort Garry Over roads covered Wilh Radiator High flood Waters. Pie and Walter Kozak president of. A local Union of the United steelworkers of America . Both work for a Winnipeg foundry. The Union has thrown All its weight be Hind the Manitoba flood Relief fund As has every other Union in the province. They re out to give flood victims every cent of. Help they can. Cadet corps Signaller Aid in fight to save Home town defence of Home town is the role being played today by the proven Char army Cadet corps. At strategic Points along the massive St. Boniface and Norwood dikes Hoys of the corps Are working mime limes As loner As 20 hours a Day to maintain wireless communications. Kadi i operators include Paul Savaria Henry Decuypere Louis Toupin Homer Loverine. Stanley kreitv., Ernest Muger. Stanley hand Denis Olivier Raymond huot Louis Cusson. Gilbert Leveque. Scott Bill Reid and de Martel. With six unlike in like sets the cadets report seepage and Dike Breaks to flood control Headquarters. They pass instructions and information on to soldiers and Volunteer workers Manning the dikes. Communications Are manned Day and night under the supervision of brother s. M. Meyer corps signals instructor and Michael Rublowsky local Ham operator. Tons of sandwiches1 from United churches United churches throughout Canada Are sending tons of Sand Wiches daily to flood victims and Dike workers Llev. W. G. Martin president of the Manitoba conference of the United Church said thursday. Our churches Are distributing countless Gallons of hot Coffee As Well As chocolate bars donuts and chewing or. Martin Winnipeg s United churches arc doing a magnificent Job. In addition to looking after the spiritual needs of the people and bringing Comfort to the distressed Pur ministers arc working on the North end flood Relief Centre location moved due to the necessity for larger quarters the North flood Relief Centre has moved to 1206 main Street to 1127 main Street. Phone numbers at the Headquarters Are 56 3s3 and 56 os7. Construction permits v again available building electrical and plumbing permits were Avail Able again thursday at the City s engineering department. Issue of permits was Discon tinned last week owing to the flood emergency. Bus nor for sight seers emergency bus service Over the new Provencher Bridge causeway is u9t intended Fly a sight seeing medium but As a convenience and assistance for the residents of St. Boniface Winnipeg electric com Pany officials stressed thursday. Furthermore they pointed out the company has no intention of profiting from activities of persons not directly concerned with flood control measures. The company has been operating emergency services and special buses for every organisation concerned with flood disaster and had donated its ser vices to the armed forces the red Cross St. John s ambulance old folks Homes and Many other organizations who have made for help they added. Early one morning he and his wife had to leave their Home. They had to worry about the safely of their two sets of twins both under two years of age. And Uvo older boys. They did t have much time of worry about household posses Sions. All they managed to get out was a crib a Carriage and a few things for the babies. Evacuated twice since then the Canovan family has been evacuated twice. Now mrs. Canovan and the babies Are at Winnipeg Beach. The eldest boy is a full time Dike worker. Each time they were forced to move another item or two among their scanty possessions and the House they left behind it s in bad enough condition hat i Don t Ever want to live there is or. Canovan s verdict. Then there is Ward who pours steel at the foundry. Six weeks before the flood torrent broke he and his wife and three youngsters lot 12 in fort Garry. The House stands one mile West of Hina. Highway but not even that distance was against the spreading River. Or. Ward drove his family Jolo the City. Three Days later he went Back to piano above pos sible water level. But when he got into the House he could t gel out again. He was marooned. The rescued him. All or. Ward got out that time was a pack sack of children s clothing. Experiences driven Home these experiences like have not been wasted on the foundry workers. They worked together when there was still a Chance of saving some of their Homes. A three Man Crew on a in hour schedule moved from House to House pumping out basements. Of fice girls worked Over Lime so that the men might work on the City s dikes. Now they Are pulling the same enthusiasm into the rehabilitation fight. They Are wholeheartedly be Hind the Manitoba flood Relief fund. Walter Kozak president of their local of the United Steelwork Ersol America . Is behind it. So is the management. The will not limit of the Anthes employees contribution. Ground in flood swamped so. The Brandon Avenue air port is in the right foreground. A thin fringe of tree and Bush Marks the forsaken Banks of the River. Traffic arteries latest outs Bridges fort Garry St. Vital seen taking Brunt fort Garry and St. Vital Are bearing the Brunt of flood Waters at the present this situation should be recognized by the people of mayor l. R. Fennell of. Fort Garry declared wednesday. In a statement to the free press mayor Fennell said that As far As fort Garry was concerned the James Avenue flood level Fig ures meant the water level was still rising in fort Garry and overnight tuesday had gone up two to three inches. Mayor Fennell mid it was the conviction of himself and people of fort Gurry that Bridges particularly Norwood Bridge were acting As dams. These were keeping the flood level Static at the James Avenue pumping station lit the expense of the outer Munici polities. We do not suggest that nor Wood Bridge should be mayor Fennell declared. But we do think our sacrifice should be recognized both now and when rehabilitation terms Ore Elm condemned weighted and barricaded. To emergency vehicles. Main barricaded at mirth end. Marion to All traffic hut subject to chock to eliminate those not having Good reason in Cross. To All traffic Hul to periodic checks to eliminate sightseers and vehicular. Move ment. South approach Clear of water. Pumping in Progress. Niento deteriorating. All Hul Ainali Hions vehicles. Omand s Creek to All ruffle. Osborne to All traffic. Water on Southern approach. Pumping in Progress. Vehicles subject to periodic inspection to Check for non essential traffic. Ramp net Ami heavy. Waler 18 inches deep on East Side of subway. Maintenance work proceeded during night. Two Way traffic but subject to periodic police inspection. I Rovenchuk to All traffic. Diked on Provencher. To essential traffic. St. James to All traffic. Truro ;