Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 25, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inc Peg free press Kitchen Star news to metres. It the t Kitchen Star Cikut will Crockr t Price 5c per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg thursday May 25, 1950 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week squads Start operation Rainbow to reopen flooded Homes firecracker thrown in store blamed for Blaze a May 24 prank resulted in the destruction of a Small North end business Early wednesday night. A firecracker tossed through the doorway of the merchants Supply House 212 Alexander Avenue set fire to Linen drapes and other Stock valued at and completely gutted the one Storey Structure. George eng proprietor estimated the loss at none of which was covered by insurance. The prankster one of several Hundred fireworks celebrants who milled about the Alexander Avenue and King Street area for several hours wednesday night apparently was attempting to frighten two Tirls at work in the store when he threw in the fire Cracker. Noticing smoke a Lew minutes later i he girls tried to extinguish it before putting in an alarm. When firemen arrived the building was in flames and the Interior a Complete loss. Ukrainian Branch urges support for flood fund Laura Secord pupils to pick Honor students Laura Secord students in grades seven eight and nine and their Junior High school teachers will cast ballots for the 1950 Honor students in the main Hall of the school be tween 9.20 . And 1 . Monday. Twelve lop ranking students selected on the basis of their year s work will he candidates. Although Tolje year s Marks Are a prime consideration in selection of the Honor students other factors such As extra curricular activities Are taken into consideration by the voters. Candidates Are Georgie Leigh Virginia pal Mer Dawn Agnew Shirley Horton Ella Spurger Barbara Pickard. Franklin Kilroy. Don hid o Connor Ceorge Lames. Herb Lother Trevor Holland a Dominion wide Appeal has been issued to All members of the ukrainian Canadian com Mittee to support the Mani Toba flood Relief fund for the re establishment flood Vic Tims in Winnipeg and the red River Valley. The Winnipeg group which issued the Appeal in a special circular urged All members to sent their donations direct to the Manitoba flood relict fund Winnipeg 3 fort Garry schools will remain closed fort carry schools vis count Alexander general Byng and general so Eccl will re main closed due to flood and unsatisfactory health conditions it was decided tuesday at a meeting of trustees of the school District. Students will be Given notice if it should be deemed advisable to re open the schools at a later Date. And Donald Ayre. City to waive fees on restoration permits Winnipeg s safety committee Iii reel thursday hint fees Shoult not be charged on building electrical or plumbing permits needed to flood restoration work. Permit fees ordinarily Range on a sliding scale from 59 cents upward depending on the Cost of the repair Job. Of course that does t mean they Don t have to get permits from the City s engineering Aid. George Sharpe committee chair Man pointed out. Winnipeg Beach trains to Start summer runs More than 800 persons boarded two trains for Winnipeg Beach on the Victoria Day Holiday. Canadian Pacific rail stated adding that most of the travellers went to the Lake Winnipeg resort to visit Winnipeg evacuees. Week end Beach trains will resume Normal summer schedules sat urday one spokesman said trains will leave Winnipeg at 12.45 and 4.20 . With the Moonlight leaving at 5.25 . The Early sunday train pulls out at 8.30 . All times Are Standard. 10 smoked suits Are thieves loot ten smoke damaged ladies gabardine suits were stolen tuesday from the Paramount cloak company 54 Adelaide Street by thieves who forced their Way in through a second Storey fire escape window detectives reported thursday. The premises had been left insecure following a fire May 10, police said and the thieves were Able to Force the rear window after climbing up the fire escape. St. Boniface St. Vital areas first in line for clean up Job operation of hooded thursday in greater Winnipeg riday provincial sanitary inspectors will move into the Rural areas to Start the Gigantic mopping p Campaign. Final phase of the Battle against the overflowing red River got underway in St. Boniface and t. Vital. There sanitation squads staffed by volunteers under san tary inspectors rolled into oper first step planned for City wide scrub an Appeal from a Winnipeg labor Union for help to Manitoba s flood victims brought a Cheque Lor to he Manitoba flood Relief fund. J. B. Graham is shown presenting the Cheque to h. W. Manning fund chairman. The Cheque came from the United brotherhood of car Penters and joiners . And is the largest Union donation to Date. Or. Graham is Winnipeg business agent for the Union. Taking part in the presentation wednesday were Back Row left to right r. H. Robbins president of Winnipeg local 343, and Stephen Rubel assistant business manager front Row left to right w. A. Welsh local Secretary or. Graham or. Manning and mayor Garnet Coulter. Nonsensical and exaggerated rumours deplored by Hurst and mayor Coulter my s rap Story on pension plans Ottawa May 25 paper speculation on the prospective course of Canada s old age pension programme brought a flurry of comment thursday at a meeting of the joint committee on old age pensions. Donald Fleming Eglinton started the Ball rolling when he Drew attention to a Story appearing in the Ottawa citizen May 23 which he said purported to state eminent policy with respect to pensions. The citizen said in a front Page tuesday that it had Learned an old age pension of monthly without a Means test payable at 70 As a matter of right to Al canadians has been decided upon As a matter of would be paid wholly by the fed eral or. Fleming said there had been quite a rash of articles in news papers speculating on what was going to be done in regard to old age pensions but it was an other thing to put it in As a mat Ter of government policy. Or. Martin sitting in on proceedings said he had seen a Stor in one of the Ottawa newspaper which did suggest a policy had been formulated. Or. Martin recalled he had is led a statement tuesday nigh which said in part that govern ment polic on changes in old age pensions would not be decided until after the Dominion prov Mia conference this fall Vole dam in port Halifax May 25 dutch liner Vole dam arrive Here thursday with More than 1 000 immigrants for various part of Canada. The arrival is . O Large scale movement to b r i n Farmer settlers from the nether lands to this country. Queen Victoria reigned years longer than any other ish Sovereign. S Lood sufferers croup o be formed tuesday an organization meeting of the Winnipeg flood sufferers association will be held in Luxton school tuesday at 8 . School trustees and aldermen have been invited to attend the meeting which will be open to the Public. There will be an election of of ices and plans for rehabilitation f flood victims in North Winnipeg vill be discussed. Arrangements for the meeting ire under the direction of m. J. Burke. Mayor Garnet Coulter thursday deplored the wildly exaggerated rumours being circulated about the amount of flood damage to the City. The damage caused by the flood Here is sufficiently serious without the necessity for any sex the mayor pointed out. Such nonsensical rumours Wetre fast Indus Irinel Confidence in the City of Winnipeg d. Hurst City Engineer complained. He pointed out that the City i control committee wednesday had roundly denounced the defeatist attitude Lead ing to exaggerated reports. Referring to a statement reportedly made by f. A. Mage a amount of inevitable blocking of sewers. But in the main our sew age system is intact and the disposal Plant is working at Normal he pointed out. Or. Mnger had been reported As telling an association meeting in Toronto that most Winni Peg s sewers have to be re Laid. He had also described t h business Section As practically unlivable the air thick with a odor like a lot of Rotten undoubtedly there will sewage doors. That is to be expected. But our people May be assured that every precaution is being taken to meet this Situ mayor Coulter emphasized. Small British books invading . Market Baltimore md., May 25 a penguins King penguins Peli cans Ptarmigan puffins have come to Roost in a Baltimore Ware president of the National by lne hundreds and Hovis they Are books not Birds and their Job is to profits or Dollar hungry Britain and Brish publisher Allen Lane. Building association in which Winnipeg s sewage system was described As completely disrupt the mayor said it was quite there has been a certain pontiff concerned Over world peace Vatican City May 25 a Ope Pius thursday expressed heavy anxiety concerning world each. In a speech at the accreditation ceremony of the first indonesian envoy to the Vatican the pontiff mayors conference advanced to August the annual conference of the Canadian federation of mayors and municipalities being held in Saskatoon this year has been postponed by the National executive due to the flood disaster in Mani Toba mayor George c. Maclean of St. Boniface president of the fedoration announced thursday. The conference which was to be held from june 12-15, will be held from August 21-24, our paternal heart is heavy anxiety As the whole tragic Story of International disunion unfolds before our eyes. And we gaze on the results of the material and especially the moral order of the present phase of a persistent pol by to retard and to Block and to menace the peace of the the Pope told the new minister Suhardjo wiry Pronto that no one is More laboriously intent on its attainment peace than he said Indonesia is exposed to Manifest difficulties and dangers and deserves the fraternal assistance and encouragement of dinner is planned the meeting of the Manitoba association of radio and appliance dealers originally planned for May 25, has been cancelled. In Stead a dinner will be held jute 1 at 6.15 . In Moore s restaurant Calgary Chinook jockey club exhibition grounds Frid uyt May 26, 1950 sixth Day. First face s700, claiming. 3 Yea British subject arrested Prague May 25 Ladislav Pinkas naturalized briton and clerk at the British embassy Here was arrested by czech police thursday on a charge of activity directed against the Security of the the czech government notified the embassy of the arrest in a note. Some of the thousands of who visited the scene look Over the school of whales bottleneck variety that were left High and dry on the Beach at Thornton Loch Scotland after a High tide carried them ashore. There were 147 of the sea mammals in the school. Many of them lived for hours in the broiling Sun. The invasion posed a Beach cleaning problem for the local authorities since dead whales Are like onions and garlic noted Lor influencing people to keep their distance by. Miles. 109 is and up foaled in furlongs x count Lavender count t Gypsy Opal wee Victory loan Chimo Catoma second x Marduk Estrer also eligible 11-1 double or Jill nothing 31 Yankee Clipper ii 11 Wilt v 11 ill s.700. Claiming 3 Yea ids and up. Roalnd in Canada. Furlongs heart attack 11-1 x Clin Rumbell 11 Gavick h 119 x nimble fool 11 still time 119 also eligible tineral 114 Bella Lariano hot May do Baltic bred 114 x March Beauty 10 third too. Maidens. 2 Yea id flies. About s furlongs. Marrec girl Loxy Knis it. Fairy gala Moon gala Gitt stir Ida main j. Brock Tarn entry. Fourth Huff. 313 pascan t Lulli Meadows Nook 3 ads also eligible Queen Janet 31 31 2 a Tinda Barb Ann 13o and Baha Tinda Stock claiming. Jor everything else Selling for 35 cents to is. Sixty per cent of the Lane books Are written for Penguin and Peli can editions. The rest Are reprints. Or. Paroissien has been around the publishing business since he was 22, and with or. Lane since 1947. American division Here is starting on rather a shoe string Lane s Export manager Harry f. In Ine with a Lanc tradition. Paroissien is directing the invasion amiable pipe puffing briton he it up the United states subsidiary Ulen Lane incorporated in Janu by. Penguins and so on Are the Low Rice compact British pocket size volumes on everything from com Lon sense in the Nursery to the size of the Britain and the world bought some of them last year. The United states where distribution depended on individual importers and was some what haphazard absorbed about during three months of operation Rorn their warehouse office or. Paroissien and his staff of four have done As much business As we lid in this country All last a Large measure of his briskly developing Trade institutions if learning an d Book stores in col Ege towns. We re not in direct Competition with the american Low priced re he declared and we Don t tend to Cater to the drug store is vast Range of the penguins is vast. There Are classics modern novels i mystery stories scientific and Chil Dren s books which incidentally Are slowest to move so far illustrated Are books and just about Penicuik books themselves Fil arted out in a graveyard literally in 1935, when most experts figured they would stay Here. But from the weird warehouse and packing room in the crypt of holy Trinity Church where empty tombs were used for additional office space mushroomed one of the most successful publishing Ven Tures of the Century. The initial capitalization was then about . Announces Aid for Saigon Paris May 25 bup the United states government announced thursday it would Send an Ono Mic Aid Mission to Saigon to first major step toward a City vide flood clean up will be taken saturday with the opening of re habilitation centres in four Winnipeg areas. Restoration plans will swing into action from Headquarters set up in the City s four flood trick in districts Riverview Scotia Point Douglas and Assini Joine. The City s flood control commit be placed its official stamp approval wednesday on plans for the onal Headquarters and it is elected they will be ready to open saturday Headquarters Headquarters for each of the zones will be located As follows Scotia District Luxton school Point Douglas District nor Quay school Junior division Riverview District Riverview United Church on Oakwood ave nue Assiniboine District augus Tine United Church on River Avenue at Royal Street. From each of the zone head quarters teams of inspectors advisors and welfare consultants will spearhead the flood clean up. The entire operation clean up will be coordinated by Winnipeg s re establishment committee a group set up by the i a to organize rehabilitation of flood devastated areas. N. S. Bubbis Gen manager of the greater Winnipeg water District is chairman of the committee. Or. Bubbis explained thursday that a list of phone numbers for each of the zonal Headquarters will be ready for publication Friday afternoon. He stressed the Seu Iii up of 1 the centres should not Spur Rush of evacuees Back to still endangered Homes. The flood control committee he pointed nut had asked residents not to return to their Homes for it least 0 Days. Tentative plans arc also being considered for the organization of Day nurseries in each of the major looked districts he added. Mrs. R. Mcqueen of the Council of social agencies had previously suggested that the nurseries be set up to take smaller children away from actual clean up operations. Police and firemen will operate from each the zone control Headquarters along with health inspectors building plumbing and electrical inspectors welfare work ers and others. Fire department Aid the fire department will move to on flooded streets and base ments As soon As the water level recedes and will help pump out basements disinfect them and clean streets. City engineering department inspectors will then Check electrical wiring structural damage and other possible flood dangers. Full information will be supplied to zone residents on All phases of the work. 2 youths jailed for break ins 2 others held two youths were Given Jai Erms one was remanded a Day for sentence and a fourth was remanded one week for trial in connection with a series break in during the past month. Leslie Raymond Khalian 20, o 42 Aikins Street who admitted to four break ins and theft was Given 20 months concurrent on each charge while his 23-year-old accomplice on two of the jobs bogus Low Musielak of fixed abode was Given 19 months for each of Fence to he concurrent. William Frederick testers if of. 107 Henry Avenue who leave Swo Osh 133 Larkham 113 138 also eligible 113 x messenger boy 113 118 x Spring Maiden a year Olds and up in Canada about 5 furlongs. Paddy r 118 Solon Marcus is Lany Amber Lou k Pride Carluc Flag Cherry s Best North love 113 x River Waif .108 Floh allowances. The Yorkshire lad 4 year Olds and up Nimby pass 1jr Antoninus 113 v. Victorian 113 port Wise x Susie Berril x a Texas son 3 in sister s Best 113 Mars heist 113 Westmount Stock farm entry. Slit pc woo claiming 3 year Olds and up about 5 furlongs. X proletarian Lovely Way 113 defer 115 time Belle 306 friendless 10s also eligible x Pacoima scotch Nick Flo Brave 313 times a wasting i x Bindl Stift 11-t top nou 115 Sierra Mac 117 x Florenze 112 seventh too claiming 4 Yea Olds up about 7 furlongs. Super Mont in great Leader 11 Paddy co easy 113 Pepper pot 11 x part Brab 113 buddy nip 113 112 x away n away 11 113 Sar Adamie 31.1 1 13 x Alaska 308 313 x superfine 113 clean chimneys Mark Jet train London May 25 a a British railways Turbo Jet Loco motive making trial runs in the Swindon Region is turning out to be a surprisingly Swift Chimney sweep the locomotive whizzes past smal stations at 90 Miles an hour. Under the station platforms it Pushe ahead a blast of or which blow of the station masters hats Anc Cocks Over their waste Pape baskets. Then station attendants Dis covered that if they leave door open the explosive blast of air Goe up the chimneys and scatters Soo Over the Countryside. Eldit x Copper Lou x clonus Market seng also eligible shitty tune in . Dollar saving predicted in Oil setup Halifax n.s., May 25 bup of Western Canada s in Industry will probably save he nation annually n . Currency Robert j. Din ing president the Burns asking company said Here wed essay night. He said an Ideal Oil setup would be Al Berta supplying the Western . With Oil while Eastern can a received its supplies from the Texas Fields. Car predicts big for Quebec Pilgrin urges Montreal May 25 bup the heaviest year of Piler Irnan travel throughout Quebec in mor than a decade was predicted thurs Day by Canadian Pacific railway officials. Sixty special trans already hav Bee n assigned for pilgrimages an the number of pilgrims was expected to top the Mark of handled last year company off vials said. 113 x Queen Rhymer 308 113 x Spect t Gal 106 also eligible a of this race will be used As substitute or. In Ninny. Horses listed to Post Poi Lions. Allowance. Port tint Rice s . Income tax cases Washington May 25 ;