Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday May 20, 1950 Page 9 special phone numbers special Telephone numbers have been established to facilitate flood control. Citizens Are advised that will not accept Calls that Are not of an emergency nature. The numbers Are As follows is the new number for red Cross flood Relief operators and transportation now centred in the basement of civic auditorium. 907 499, 935 827 7o1? army head Quad Iai Calls Tance in building dikes requests for windbag or other assistance not be put through army Headquarters number in the phone Book. Calling this number dined will Pavc delay and eliminate Oon fusion. 040 i City Hydro Calls for emergency Cut off of service or requests for Tern Horary service. The City Hydro pimple quickly die Vii i nution eco Tim itch skin 30 Imp inc in Bott a. 2 str Ratiu 9 kleenex by Amity to sta1nio ii minis film tartar nicotine lipstick 25 m drug doll. Sunru Finkleman optometrists eyes examined Ken Sancton bid. 275 Portage ave. Cor. Smith Laboratory 922 496 phone. 922 496 no culling no fitting no Wasla. Zono Ute just poors into Dottie Job yourself has an emergency staff to handle electric Light service Only. 722 red Cross Emer gency phone num Berot the red Cross is not being made Public. Only the police and the military Are channelling Calls through this number. The a urfa sure was deemed necessary when the line became clogged and of Cliency was threatened. Exchange instal led by City Engin Eer s department saturday to Deal with problems involving House holders individual flood defence programmes basemen Protection Dike construction and other engineering flood measures. 849 281 m9 232 for evacuees or persons needing emergency housing Only. 934 934 932 561 for those on High ground who Ca provide accommodation. Give numbers you can accommodate. Volunteer Bureau to look of Tei feeding of some Relief workers. Registry for accommodation of East Kildonan residents. Garry typhoid inoculations. St. Vital typhoid inoculations. I a police flood service Extension. Of St. Vital health unit emergency Aid such As food clothing or boats. Army Headquarters on Kildonan drive East Kildonan. Canteen head quarters and Navy communications Centre on Leigh ton Avenue near Kildonan drive. Flood head o i 3 quarters in St. Jame a emergency Calls offers o pumps to the flood committee Anc All cads directed to the municipal Engineer. Canteen Headquarters on Assiniboine a etude. Central Volunteer Bureau. Registration of limes for those willing to a con Iodate evacuees and registration of those who have storage i space for furniture and the like j Sheds barns warehouse space. Aft -21 Earl Grey com old Unity club. Al flood workers in this District should report to the clubhouse to duty. The clubhouse is the information Centre to Aid in flood Relief the ladies auxiliary Are providing food for Ali flood workers. Phon is manned 24 hours a Day. Regi Stra Tion phone num ber Tor All technical engineering personnel engaged in non essential operations who May be needed should an emergency arise. 933 736 934 338 army emergency re Centre. Salvation a rms t 1 Bureau for re uniting evacuees with their rela lives. St. Boniface evacuation Centre. St. Boniface hoc Cross head Quad 30071 term in the Vic auditorium where clothing arid bed Dine Are available. Flow for volunteers Lor work in the . Clothing and bedding depot in the civic auditorium. Q28 181 . Chippawa for All re quests for boats. 41069 41221 John s ambulance brigade Headquarters. Q04 for Winnipeg electric company emergency electric cutoff service. 56383 56087 North end flood Relief Centre Headquarters at 1127 main Street 904 s41 for electric company emergency Gas trouble Calls. For Street car and bus information. 208 542 experienced offset plate maker Pressman wanted immediately for Large Edmonton Plant will pay transportation. Apply Box 2035 free press for interview. Bob a Lawn Power mowers make Lawn mowing a pleasure let us Supply you with detailed information prices Winnipeg phone 37 187 moving the experts your most cherished possessions receive special care when Security experts Are assigned to the Job. Phone 37171 . Government offers assistance to flood victims Ottawa May 2c up Hon. Brooke Claxton defence minister told the commons Friday the government has communicated to Premier d. L. Campbell of Mani Toba an offer from the British government to provide assistance to flood stricken Manitoban. Or. Claxton As acting external affairs minister said prime mini Ster Clement attire has asked if there were any Way in which the help of the United kingdom or its people could be extended to the people of that offer was very Wurm by received and has been communicated to the Premier of or. Claxton added. At the same time he read to june chamber a Telegram sent by prime j minister St. Laurent to or. Attire expressing appreciation for a Mes usage of sympathy received from the British government thursday. George Drew progressive conservative Leader termed the Bri Tish offer extremely and added undoubtedly the Way in which this offer Vas made will help to continue and to emphasize the warm and Friendly association which continues to exist and i Hope will Alu ays exist Between this country and the United Kcf member seeks to Cut age for voters Ottawa May 20 Hazer argue asked the commons Friday night to reduce the voting age in Federal elections from 21 to 18. Liberal progressive conserva Tive and social credit speakers expressed their opposition to the proposal. His enabling Bill still under Dis Cussion at the end of the hour set aside for private legislation drop Ped to the Bottom of the list of Public Bills. He sought second Reading approval in principle of a Bill to Amend the Dominion elections act o that effect. Misericordia evacuee Dies in Morden word has been received of the death in Morden Man., of Joseph Kaiser of 651 Redwood Avenue who was evacuated from the Misericordia Hospital. The City of Winnipeg welfare department is trying to Contact or. Kaiser s Nephew j. T. Howten of grand Marais Man., and his Niece mrs. C. Sinclair who has evacuated from her Home 148 Gladstone Street to assist in funeral arrange ments. 1 n Ovest Dies Montreal May 20 up Herve de Saint Georges 2. Mon Treal la Patrie reporter whose novels won him renown in French Canadian literary circles died Fri Day at nearby St. Bruno. Abraham Bullet is a Man a Gardener s hands and Gardener s mind but with no crop to Plant. By. Bullet s Fertile 55 acres Are now a Lake Bottom. They lie be tween Pembina Highway and what was once the Bank of a River run amuck. While the Gardener sits in the evacuation Centre in the civic auditorium Spring and the seeding sea son Are passing. His hands itch to get at the plow. But he will have no crop this year. That in itself is nothing new in or. Bullet s life. Like that Market gardening it s like that. Wheat Board act claimed unconstitutional at trial . Switchman postpone strike await mediation Washington May 20 a a switchman s strike scheduled lot next tuesday on 10 midwestern railroads in the United states was postponed Friday until june 1. The National railway mediation Board obtained the postponement and will try to Settle the dispute before the next strike deadline. Francis a. O Neill jr., chairman of the Board said the Union is ask ing a reduction of the work week from 4s to 40 hours without loss of pay also time and a half for saturday work and double time for sundays. Second victim of fire found Hull que., May 20 up the charred remains of a second victim of the tire that destroyed Hull Normal school s main Section was found Friday night by firemen probing the blackened ruins. Firemen believed the victim May be one of four Sisters of the Grey nuns of the Cross missing after 60 hours and 97 teen age school children had been evacuated from the blazing building. Meanwhile sister St. Charles Superior of the Normal school said she had still to hear from four of her teachers. Merrivale Man found drowned Dauphin Man., May 20 Spe Cial Ernest Cockerill 46, who was the object of a wide and lengthy search last november was found drowned Early thursday in a Small Lake near his Home in the Duck Mountain Forest Reserve District or. Cockerill. A widower Otmer Riddle Man., had been missing since nov. Is. A wide spread search was. Conducted by the . And friends. He had left Home to inspect his trap line. The body was discovered by a brother. The cause of death was reported by District Coroner or. G. J. Creasy of Grandview As accidental drowning. There will be no , lord Mountbatten cables sympathy rear Admiral lord Mountbatten of Burma thursday cabled his sincere sympathy to Canadian legionnaires struck by floods in Manitoba and by fire in Rimouski que. The Earl grand president of the British Empire service league of which the Canadian legion is a part sent the message to it. Col. L. D. M. Baxter of Winnipeg we is Dominion president of the Canadian legion. Edmonton May 20 up s. Bruce Smith Edmonton lawyer argued in court Friday that the Canadian wheat Board act is unconstitutional in its entirety. He used this As an alternative argument in seeking the acquittal of three fort Saskatchewan Farmers who Are charged with making Grain deliveries to a Point other than the one specified in heir wheat Board permit books. The three Are Lucien Langlois Arthur Betheil and Joseph Lamoureux. Charged with taking this is part of the moving Lake that threatens the Mcgillivray Boulevard Dike protecting about South Winnipeg Homes and the Canadian National railways fort Rouge Yards. The picture was taken a mile South of la Salic and shows the flood Waters rolling Over the Cana Dian Pacific line. Fertile acres now Lake Bottom. Who will help Abraham Bullet maybe you have a Good crop this year maybe you have no crop at he shrugs it off. Gardening is a Gamble he has been prepared to take since he came to Canada from Holland 25 years ago. It s different though when a River starts casting the Dice when a Home a car implements and seed Are lost in the throw. The Bullet House in an old the oldest in the St. Norbert District. In its 100 years in has stood up under three or four floods be fore this one or. Bullet figures. He s not so confident that its Oaken logs its an went floors and window kills. Alternative argument from the press flow seventy years ago May 20, 1880 the water in the red River due to had risen about ten inches during the last three Days it would have to Rise about 25 feet More however before it affected the City. In the District around St. Andrews a snowstorm occurred. Sixty a May 1890 the tricycle for ladies had made is appearance in Morden where the roads were unusually Good for cycling. The new Empire brew Ery in fort Rouge was to have a capacity of 150 barrels of Beer a Day. Fifty tears ago May 20, 1000 Isaac Pitblado at the meeting of the Council of the University of Manitoba tendered his resignation As registrar the growth of his Law business having made it difficult for him to give the necessary attention to his University duties. Delivery of the Grain is William f. Mccurdy Mccabe Grain company buyer. Thirteen other fort Saska Chc Van and Villeneuve District Farmers Ace similar charges to Langlois Betheil and Lamoureux and their cases Are scheduled to follow conclusion of the present Case. Or. Smith argued that the whole act was unconstitutional in thai it interferes with property and civil rights of the province and that it generally with mat ters of merely local private nature in the province. He claimed the Dominion is denying Farmers the right to Trade Chhin the province. In effect he Aid this is the same As a licence n that the Farmers can t sell their rain without permits. He main aimed that in the Sale of their Grain in Edmonton the fort Saskatchewan Farmers were within heir rights As defined in the rights of the province in Section 92 of the British North America act. The elaborate system of permit books under the wheat Boa re act amounts to a producer licence system. Or. Smith contented. he Farmer does t comply he can t deliver his Grain. This amounts to restriction of forty tears Ako May 20. 1910 eleven Hundred new Well to do settlers from the United states passed through Winnipeg bound for the Canadian West they were from Iowa Nebraska. Minnesota and the Dakotas. The changes in Halley s Comet Yvere being watched with interest through the free press Astral Telescope. Thirty years ago May a 1920 the labors of the provincial boys work committee conducted for several years by representatives of the methodist. Baptist anglican presbyterian congregations and Church of Christ and the y.m.c.a., were beginning to Bear fruit in developing leaders. Twenty years afo May 20, 1930 a mass meeting of the conserva Tive women of Winnipeg was to be called Early in june to Organ ize for the coming Dominion elec Tion Campaign. The Graf Zep Pelin phenomenally successful Ocean flying dirigible was to Fly across the South Atlantic from Africa to Brazil. House warming Nelson b.c., May 20 up provincial police arrested 20 More sons of Freedom Soukho Bors Friday after the group burned a Home. At Shoreacres 14 mile West of will weather this new and stif Fer trial. Where does he Start when he goes he can t do it alone. He have to have or else this will be end of self support for the Bullet family of five. Or. Bullet will get help. He will Jet it from the Workman in Winnipeg who gives to the Manitoba flood fund. He will get it from the Street railway employee who has pledged to donate Over a 12-Rnonfh period. The fund is your answer to your question what can i do to do you know that the average new roof costs As Little As to per month Whitfield Bros. Member Manitoba roofing contractors association 309 Avenue bldg. Pm. 928 742 Long distance Telephone service restored it ims now been found possible to remove the restrictions on Long distance Tele phone service. 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