Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg variable cloudiness with Frost in most areas tonight. Wind Northwest at 20 Mph becoming Light tonight. Low tonight and High thursday 30 and 50. Forecast Frost Sun rite s.33 . Moon Rise 12.30 . Winnipeg wednesday May 24, 1950 Price 5 cents with comics Loc Sun set Moon set 2.38 vol. 58 no. 201 fund passes million Dollar total damage estimate to tahe some time9 St Laurent reports to House Ottawa May 24 up prime minister Louis St Laurent giving the common an Eye witness account of flood conditions in the red River Valley said tuesday it will be some time before an approximate estimate can be made of the damages. The prime minister reiterated he could not yet say How much Federal financial assistance will be extended to the flood victims through the provincial govern ment. A joint Dominion provincial com Mission established to estimate damages started work sunday and he was sure it would proceed As expeditiously As possible. The com Mission was to Deal Only with the extent and the nature of the dam Ages the Cost of the measures taken to fight the flood and of the emergency precautions to guard recurring floods. But said or. St. Laurent there Wilt have to be some permanent measures taken to prevent flood in the future. He read a statement from Gen. A. G. L. Mcnaul Fruton a member of the International joint commission in which he raid that Canada United states organization was going ahead once with work on its Broad plans to prevent future floods. I Gen. Mcnaughton said he was mire a solution could be found 1 based on a combination of measures determined by a thorough Survey and study. Or. St. Laurent also read into the record a message of sympathy from Gen. Nicholas Plastiras i Greece s president of the Cabine Council and minister of external affairs. He read As yell letters h had written irom Winnipeg to Premier d. L Campbell of Manitoba Brig. R. E a. Morton commander of de Fence services in the flooded areas and h. W. Manning chairman o the Manitoba Relief fund. In his letter to the Premier or St. Laurent praised the work o the people in the flooded area see St. Laurent Page 7 crisis eases As red Down nearly foot greater Winnipeg seemed to b passing out of the first stage of i flood crisis wednesday As the a of fall of red River flood Wate a definite increase. At 11 . Wee Neslav the Leve stood at 29.4 fee above Datum fall of a feet i 22 hours. In the previous 24-Hou period the Riv level receded b .2 feet. M the River h now almost one i foot below the record High of 30.3 _ feet above Datum reached at the end of its up Ward surge May 19. Meanwhile the army Navy and air Force were starting to reduce their numbers and Only 24 Dike working Volun Teers were on duty tuesday night. Military equipment was also being with drawn Jou weather was still the Only Factor which could Darken the improving flood picture. A touch of Frost and no develop tent of rain for the next 48 hours was forecast wednesday by the District weather Man. Thursday after noon cloudiness is expected with a continuation of further sums on Way the National Campaign. Of the Manitoba flood relict fund tues Day passed the one million Mark to reach this took no account of the All out a a drive conducted throughout greater Winnipeg tuesday morning. Fund officials emphasized the daily totals re leased by them were based solely on Money received and did not include amounts pledged voted or announced in the press Tut not yet in their hands. Major contributions tuesday included Algoma steel corporation Sault Ste. Marie w. C. Macdonald incorporated Monteral and Western Canadian breweries limited Vancouver 000. Comedian Harold Lloyd brought i his Horn rimmed glasses and his denial smile to the support he Manitoba flood Relief fund tuesday evening at a giant rally f shrines in Toronto. As Imperial potentate of the shrine or. Lloyd spoke briefly urging support of the Relief fund at a Benefit programme in Maple Leaf gardens. A Cheque for raised by in Calgary Herald arrived at fund Headquarters wednesday. Also the previously announced As Oming from the province of new Sundland arrived wednesday. A donation to be used for Lood Relief and rehabilitation was Cut to Premier d. L. Campbell see fund Page 7 reflected by night and by Day on the Broad Levels of swollen Assin Bouie Manitoba s Icari Sutlive building stands As Symbol of the province s tight against the most disastrous flood in Canada s history. Cyer before Hame building seemed to Rise out of the Centre of a Lake. Manitoban now starting on the tremendous Job of rehabilitation Hope the sight May be a once in a lifetime experience. Twenty four hours a Day the building has been the nerve Centre of flood control operations. Servicemen have tramped up Down ils Marble corridors. Heli copters and Navy a Juke s have parked on . Now on. Victoria Day it reminds a blood wearied people of ties we Liln a nation and. Within a of the strength within those Les Victoria Day fizzle Likely due to exodus of citizens with the exception of High waving Bunting Victoria Day in Winnipeg looked like it might fizzle out about wet firecracker. The same As a. A Survey showed that the holi Day will be spent by most win nip Eggers outside the City. The floods of course Are. Responsible and any celebrating will be where the evacuees Are Peg Beach. Stanley j. Walker Secretary of the City Parks Board told the free press that Assin Itoline Park and Kildonan Park were both shut tight since flood Waters at each of the usual Holiday spots had not sufficiently to warrant opening. It will not be until saturday or. Walker said that nine holes of the Kildonan Golf course will toe opened. The City s two Large swimming pools Sargent and Sherbrook remain closed. Because of flood conditions still holding Sway the Winnipeg Post office is giving a wide service Victoria Day even though it is a statutory Holiday with postmen making one cd Eliverio. The Standard Metho d of celebrating the Holiday and the loudest is by taking a group of Small children mix ing generously with a variety of Cannon crackers roman candles sparklers and rockets and setting a match to the whole works. Even this recipe will be diluted some City merchants Felt. Only a fair amount of fire see Victoria Day Page 6 thank you Canada tour gets off to flying Start leaders Praise Canada in Empire Day tributes Ottawa May 24 up Tri Bute to the Canadian nation and the Canadian people was paid in the commons tuesday by prime minister Louis St. Laurent and today level. J48pimc23-v Cool weather. See flood Page 6 peace plan proposed London May 34 Reu ters lie United nations Secretary general proposed a 30-Yemr peace pact Between the Lour great Powers when he saw prime minister Clement Attlee last month on his Way to Moscow it we Learned wednesday from usually reliable late seeded Grain faces Frost threat Frost will be a. Big threat to Manitoba crops this year. With wheat seeding barely five per cent completed and Little or 10 coarse grains in the ground Farmers Are turning anxious eyes on the Calendar. Modern varieties of such As Regent and Thatcher approximately 100 to 103 Days to mature. Popular Oats varieties need 95 to 100 Days and Barley varieties from 85 to 95 Days. The question these Rains have time to mature before see seeding Page 7 other party leaders in Brief Empire Day addresses. Or. St. Laurent recalled tha Canada has become a great nation a the last 50 years and a at All times discharged its National obligations promptly an no country which i that needed to try by Artificia Means to create on the other he said we should not ignore the desirability of providing Ai. Occasion for developing a sense of respect for the achiever ints of our people and for re Newing our determination to these achievements in the George Drew progressive con native Leader said a Good thing to remind Young canadians that All the tremendous advantages we have today have been bought for us at a very great m. J. Coldwell . Leader. Aid he hoped the Day would come when the wider association we have within the Commonwealth v ill be extended to All the world and that we might celebrate in deed a Day when the world will be one and from Mankind forever banish the fear of aggression and of Solon Low social credit Leader he too looked Forward to the Day when everyone will realize once More with even stronger fore that the society of nations Makin up the United Commonwealth known As the Commonwealth o British countries will go Forward once More unimpeded and with an Eye the task which divine Providence set for it Many Manj centuries Tail him i la Down in a temperature readings Durine the .24 hour period ending at . Wednesday were Max. 59 50 54 Mir. Vancouver 38 Calgary 29 Edmonton 33 Saskatoon 31 Regina 32 Brandon 3s Churchill 26 Toronto Ottawa. 51 Montreal s3 53 61 64 29 67 77 free in .1 .0 .0 to n .0 .2 m n null by Ken Black Montreal May 24 Spe Cial the Dominion s larg est City went All out wednes Day to provide some real of May fireworks for the thank you Canada tour and Start off its Cross country Mission of gratitude with a bang. Early this afternoon arrangements were being made for some of the biggest fire crackers in the Montreal Stop meeting with mayor Camilien Houde. Brea Liless meanwhile the slightly breathless City country team carrying Manitoba flood Vic Tims Story and thanks for Aid were in a whirl of radio appearances and press inter views. The two partners in the big thank you and this re Porter completed the first leg of the Cross nation tour Early wednesday. First meeting with the Montreal Public took place Over the air on a morning radio programme. Walter Dales former Winnipeg Ger who helped arrange the Mon Treal schedule said after hearing Burch and Macken Zie Tell their Story moving Story this is the first time we have heard direct personal accounts of your disaster. It was really moving. I am sure Montre Alers will realize now How much their donations to the Relief fund Means and be assured they Are for a genuine during a Brief pause at the Airport outside Toronto tues Day night Burch and Mac Kenzie found news of their Mission had arrived ahead of them. Newsmen and photographers from Toronto were on hand to Greet them. Tor onto papers carried the Story tuesday afternoon. Ted Burch just had time to phone his Mother mrs. E. Burch evacuated to Toronto from the Cornwall apart ments in Winnipeg and arrange to have her meet the tour when it arrives in Tor onto. Wednesday the people across Canada will be Given a description of what the a fall tote West by two of the province s Lemorris District Farmer whose property is inundated Ted Burch world War Veteran whose Home in wild Wood has been completely hooded. They Ken free press staff reporter As they prepared to Board a tuesday night on the first leg of the thank you Canada tour. Or. Mackenzie to fellow canadians while or. Burch jul describe How City and suburban homeowners. Selected and sponsored by the Winnipeg free flood beef fund officials the team will visit Montreal Toronto . And other Back for the Western part of the tour. They will Tell will mean in the rehabilitation of thousands of Manitoba Cotta in. Who and All. Padwe Mitiu in the flood. He ;