Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba True Economy milk Glo bread by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg monday August 25, 1952 week end edition with comics Loe red River claims Man at weekend Accident toll hits five in Manitoba at the children s Aid society Home 422 Assiniboine Avenue saturday this six year old gets his first lesson in cycling from left Jean Gordon president of the Winnipeg Taggette club and members Jean Morrow and Ethel Murray. The Stag Gettes a club for business girls presented the Home with the bicycle and a Cheque for births show upward trend in Winnipeg says Lougheed a slight increase in the birth rate and a decline in deaths for the first seven months of the year were reported by or. M. S. Lougheed City medical health officer o the health committee wednesday. From Jan. 1 to july 31 there were births recorded in Winnipeg compared with for the corresponding period last year. Deaths during the same period totalled against Unicorn or of landside Street and Sar 1951. Gent. During july there were 683 births and 312 deaths compared City police Sid she was taken to with 753 births and 205 deaths in july 1951. Heart disease again was the chief cause of death claiming 66 lives in july. Next came cancer and other malignant tutors Caus ing 49 deaths while cerebral Haemorrhage was third with 26 victims. A 24-year-old Vancouver Man was drowned in the red River at St. Adolphe and four Winni Eggers were injured in accidents Over the week end. Dead is John c. Enns 24, of 549 East 48 Street Vancouver . Injured Are Dennis Bourbonnais 4, of 1199 Fleet Avenue possible Skull Frac Ture. Mary Rohatynski 19, of 534 Sar gent Avenue hit by pistol Pellet. Edward Ricker 42, of 342 Bannatyne Avenue fractured Skull. Rita Blair 21, of 1230 Rose mount Avenue fort Garry Frac tured left leg. John Enns drowned saturday night . Said while swim Ming in the red River near St. Adolphe. With him were cousins Henry and Peter Isaac of Niver Ville Man. Suddenly disappeared the Young men were swimming at the rear of the Home of Frank Dufault 620 St. Mary s Road police said when he suddenly disappeared. His body was recovered at 8.30 . Sunday and taken to Loewen s funeral Chapel Steinbach Man., from where it will be taken to Vancouver for burial. Unmarried or. Inns is survived by his parents or. And mrs. C. Enns Yallow . No inquest will be held. Dennis Bourbonnais sustained a possible fractured Skull saturday night following a car Accident in the car Piquet Barracks grounds police said Dennis was in Collis Ion with a car driven by Harry Bergquist suite one building 26, car Piquet Barracks. Taken to general Hospital Den compensation act hearings open Back hand tactics get j top hands it you say it right you can get natives in the banana Belt clamouring for Mink Coats. A local firm wanted top men in Sheet Metal manufacturing and experienced workers. They wanted Good response. Banking on the foibles of human nature an advertisement was placed in the free press asking for left handed individuals Only. The firm admits it did t care whether applicants were left or right handed or ambidextrous. Response was much heavier than when a straight advertise ment was placed. And neither applicants nor management a tide any refer ence to the qualifications asked for in the and but the firm reports gleefully it now has a wider selection of work ers. Showing a Wingspread of almost two feet this Little Brown Bat is held by miss Geraldine Lawrence 59 Roblin Boulevard. The Bat sent to the Winnipeg free press Bird editor from Saskatoon was one of the strangest pieces of freight handled by the railway. It arrived in Winnipeg saturday and has been doing Fine on scraps of meat the editor says. The Bat was sent in for identification. It travelled in a Corn Popper Basket and apparently made the trip without injury. New floor for old building Worth it says Post office though Winnipeg s Post office Pond further repair and it would moves into a new building in two Nis was found to be suffering from or three ears. Workmen this week lacerations to his nose and skin abrasions to his body and Shock As Well As a possible Skull Frac Ture. His condition monday was described As fair. Mary Rohatynski 19, of 534 Sar Jent Avenue was struck in the right thigh by an air pistol Pellet late saturday afternoon at the . Press search for Portage Vian . Continued to search monday for 47-year-old James Mcconnell of Portage la Prairie who disappeared mysteriously last wednesday. A supervisor at the Manitoba Home for boys he was last seen leaving for work and was believed to be a victim of am Nesia. Police said a report late last week that or. Mcconnell had been seen in a hotel in a. Winnipeg suburb was reliable. Be was seen by a Portage la Prairie resident. When smoke clears smuggler fined an East Kildonan Man who admitted Selling american cigarettes he had smuggled into Canada was fined and costs in provincial police court monday. Magistrate d. G. Pot ter imposed the Fine on Fred Deresh after he had pleaded guilty to unlawful Possession of illegally imported cigarettes. . Said they seized 77 packages of cigarettes from Deresh who admitted he had previously sold some six car tons. Peace Garden inc. Slates annual meet annual meeting for voting members of the International peace Garden incorporated will be held sept. 6 at the Lodge building United states Section. The meeting will open at noon with a luncheon in the Lodge dining room. Voting members unable to attend Hare been advised to Send proxies. A special meeting of the Board of directors will Convene at 11 . Sept. 6. City magicians to meet tuesday the Winnipeg magicians club will meet tuesday at 8.15 . At the St. Charles hotel. Plans be discussed for delegates to attend the Canadian magicians convention in Saskatoon sask., aug. 30 to sept. 1. The convention is the first of its kind to be held in Canada and about 10 delegates from Winnipeg Are expected to attend. They will be headed by Richard Haldane president and Gene snal lip Secretary and publicity manager. The local club is affiliated with the International brotherhood of magicians. Harvesters pour in from Eastern Canada a total of 156 farm workers from Eastern Canada arrived in Winnipeg. Monday. They will go to help in harvesting operations in the Cal Gary and Edmonton districts of Alberta. In addition Canadian National railways officials re port expected arrival of approximately 140 workers in the City in the next two Days. More than 100 harvesters came to the City Over Canadian Pacific lines Friday and saturday. General Hospital treated and Al Lowed to go. Police investigate meanwhile investigations made by detectives located the Man responsible for the shooting. He was not arrested but his air pistol was taken. Edward Ricker was seriously injured sunday night when his Bicy Cle was in collision with a Duffy s taxi at the intersection of St. Mary Avenue and Vaughan Street. Police said or. Ricker was rid ing East on St. Mary Avenue and collided with the right Side of the taxi proceeding South on Vaughan Street about 9 . He was taken by police ambulance to general Hospital. His condition monday was described As Rita Blair was thrown heavily to the ground police said when her bicycle caught in the Street car tracks on main Street Between Assiniboine Avenue and main Street Bridge sunday evening. She was taken to general Hospital by police ambulance with a fractured left leg. Her condition monday was reported As Empire club to hear mayor of Rochester eng. Mayor a. A. J. Anderson of Rochester England will address the Empire club of Manitoba at a Niche on meeting Friday at the i Marlborough hotel. He is at present serving his second term As mayor of Rochester where he has been Active in Public affairs and the development of the City for a number of accompanied by his wife mayor Ander son is returning from a world trip. St. Boniface club to Havie French guests two Young French travel l Jers Jean Claude Bois and Michelle Clerc on a motor Cycle tour of Canada will be guests of the St. Boniface kiwanis club at its luncheon wednesday at 12.15 . In the fort Garry hotel. The pro Gram was arranged by count Serge de Fleury Consul for France. Entries to be made monday for dog show the Cocker Spaniel All Breed championship dog show will be held in the civic Cale donian rink sept. 5 to 6. Entries must be made monday Between 7 to 9 . At the mall hotel. Judges will be James Duncan of Atlanta ga., and Alf Loveridge fron. Toronto ont. 3 jump before truck bursts into flame the Driver and two passengers jumped out of a half ton panel truck about 2 . Sunday before it burst into flames after hitting a Telephone pole. The truck driven by v. Kulynych hit the pole after turning onto Mcgillivray Boulevard from Pembina Driver was phoning for a Tow truck when he saw the vehicle ignite. Fort Garry police said the truck owned by Arnett company limited was almost a Complete loss. Americans see City on Way to Jasper a group of 35 americans All members of the happiness sky line tour from Chicago passed through Winnipeg monday Over Canadian National railways lines on their Way to Jasper for a vacation in the. Canadian Rockies. 100 leave Winnipeg to work in East More than 100 workers left Winnipeg Cana Dian National and Canadian Pacific railway lines for Catharines ont., where they will be employed in Cannery plants. . Man trying to Trace his brother Nicholas Popowich of 628 Richmond Street new Westminster , has written the free in Effort to Trace his brother Wil Liam Popowich last heard from i 1930 at Indian head sask. William was born in Poland and is about 40 years of age. He nerved in the Canadian armed forces probably the army during the last War and is be married. From 1933 until. 1929 he re tided at Ituna sask. City local cheers by Brewer Union for 35-hour week Winnipeg locals of the . Brewery workers International Union have sent a letter of congratulation to . Brewery workers in new York for having achieved a 35-hour week in their wage agreement. It is believed this is the first 35-hour week contract Ever negotiated in any collective agree ment.1 it went into effect at the end of july. According to a. A. Franklin Union official the agreement was negotiated last december and was approved by the . National wage stabilization Board on. July 22, 1952. The decision was hailed at an outstanding achievement marking another Milestone not Only in the history of the brewery workers Union but by the labor movement in general said or. Franklin. Pay boost too under this agreement the new York workers received an increase of pay from to per hour. Are repairing the Marble tile on the main floor lobby in the present building. A item in the continuing renovation program of the Federal Public works department the floor will be resurfaced in terrazzo. D. H. L. Evans resident Public works architect says the tile is be 41 airmen win wings at Gimli forty one airmen at Gimli Man., Friday won their Pilot s wings at . Station s ninth wings Parade in the past year. The six week course at Gimli is the wind up of 36 weeks of train ing for 21 . Airmen and 15 . Trainees. More than 500 spectators watched. Group capt. D. P. Blagrave presented the air men with their wings at the out door Parade. Winner of the . Junior Challenge award the Siddley trophy was to. Basil Smith of Nipawin sask., who showed the highest Standard of flying proficiency among the Canadian pilots. To. Barrie Wells of Leicester eng., won a place on the . S scroll of Honor for the highest flying ability and academic Quali Manitoba airmen included David Bradley of Newdale Edmond Stel ton of 340 Berry Street St. James and Maurice Massart of 667 Elgin Avenue Winnipeg. The graduating airmen from Canada will now proceed to Mac Donald Man., or Saskatoon sask., for Advance training while the Bri Tish pilots will head Home. Four lose cars for three months four motorists paid a total of in fines in City police court monday. They pleaded guilty to charges of driving while their ability was impaired by alcohol. They also had their cars impounded three months and their licences suspended for one month. Pleading guilty were Louis nor Mand lot .15, Woody Dell Avenue Ernest Gillanders 693 Preston Avenue Peter Toews Stuart Burn and Edward chartier 156 Hebert Street. Chartier was also fined s10 and costs or seven Days for changing licence plates to another vehicle without giving proper notification. Four More farm areas get Power and lights another 373 customers were included in Manitoba Power com Mission service during july. Service was made available in the farm areas of Rosedale Glenella me Creary and Dauphin. A total of kilowatt hours of electricity was distributed during july an increase of 18 per cent. Over the same period last year. Conversion of the Sifton Ethel Bert and Pine River line from 000 Volt to Volt operation was completed during july. This is a link in the new line to the Swan River District where right of Way Clearing and pole setting is now in Progress. Poles Are also being set in the farm electrification areas of mini Tonas Ste Rose Sifton and ochre River while wire stringing Crews Are completing farm areas in the Rural municipalities of Gilbert Plains and Ethelbert. Pole setting and wire stringing took place in the Harrison clan William area and poles were set in the Birtle Shoal Lake District. Farm wiring continued in the Dufferin Thompson area and pole setting in the North Norfolk North Cypress Section and the Pipestone area. Crews Progress in continued to report tache Ste. Anne Franklin and Rhineland. In the St. Andrews District and the Northern Section of St. Cle ments broke head area 304 farms were readied for Hydro service. At the main terminal station in Brandon improvements to the car Berry and Boissevain lines were installed and Are now in service. Similar improvements were completed at Neepawa for the five Volt lines leading from that terminal. At Portage la Prairie . Station a modern fire alarm system was installed and work advanced on the line to Parkdale terminal. Later Cost upwards of for repair of the sub flooring if the floor were not resurfaced now. Boxes overhauled similarly postmaster c. W. Heis Ler plans to replace All of the s38 antiquated mail boxes in the build ing. In use since 1908, the boxes Are so worn out it s impossible to re pair them says or. Heis Ler. New boxes will be installed As soon As they Are available and they la be moved into the new building later. When the old boxes Are torn out More space will be made available to the mail handling staff and the new boxes will be set up against the North Wall of the lobby where the floor is currently being repaired. W. B. Landes Heads jewish brotherhood worker groups More for dependent substantial increases in dependents allowances were asked Mon Day As a special legislative com Mittee opened its hearings into the workmen s compensation act. Briefs were presented during the morning by the North of 53 Colin flon trades and labor Council the town of Dauphin the Winnipeg trades and labor Council and the Manitoba provincial fire fighters tank rockets through air in City blast a 75 Pound pressure tank sailed through the wooden roof of the Canada liquid air Plant 1195 Val our Road following an explosion sunday night. The tank built to sustain a pres sure of 250 pounds per Square Inch landed on the Road about 30 feet away. No one was injured. Two men Fred Knight of 1172 valour Road and Harry Chapman of 1122 Spruce Street who broke a window to enter the closed build ing said they smelt escaping and heard a series of pinging noises both before and after the explosion. Total damage including damage to a set of Toledo Scales is Esti mated at 5600. 51 air trainees win navigation badges in City thirteen . And 3s . Trainees became navigators Friday at no. 2 air navigation school Winnipeg. Graduates were presented with navigation badges by group Cap Tain e. M. Mitchell senior staff officer. Pilot officer d. W. Williams of Gasport Hampshire England was awarded the . Honor diploma for the student attaining highest Overall Marks in ground and air subjects with above average officer potential including among graduates was flight Cadet r. C. Fetterman of Grosse Isle Man., who attended the University of Manitoba. . Navigators will Fly Home this week end while the . Personnel will be posted to various units across Canada. Ing University or school. The minimum payment for permanent total disability equal the prevailing minimum wage rate. Among other recommendations in the Brief were ones asking for changes in the amount of burial expenses from 5150 to at least 5250 and asking that payment for injured workmen be increased from 66% to 75 per cent. The provincial fire fighters Asso association. Hon. C. E. Greenlay citation Brief recommended that minister of labor is chairman of disease and hypertension be recon fhe committee. A sized As occupational diseases in pleas from flin flon Case of full time fire fighters. The flin flon Trade and Labory Council Brief in part asked that the waiting period before compensation is payable be from seven to three Days. Burial expenses be boosted1 from .5150 to s300. Payments to widows or in valid widower be increased from s50 to 575 per month allowances for each child be upped from 512j Hon. F. C. Bell provincial min to 525 monthly and Aid to of agriculture will officially children be boosted from 520 to open the Winnipeg horticultural 530 monthly for each child. Society s annual Flower vegetable Bell to open Winnipeg Flower show initial payment to a widow or Foster Mother be increased from and Flower show wednesday at 8 . In the civic caledonian rink. 5100 to and that the Lump the showing will actually begin sum equal to two years afternoon and continue payments As provided in the act to thursday from 2 to 9.30 a widow who marries be if any . Tiling reduced in order that the Scales May be properly the payments for permanent and temporary partial and total disability be increased from go and two thirds to 75 per cent of t h e Workman s average earnings. Dauphin s requests the town of Dauphin Brief re Quested that a change be made in the Workman s right to Appeal a the entries must be made fat the rink tuesday afternoon and even ing. A special Section for children s Flowers and vegetables will been tired free. Officials say they expect a bum per crop of entries this year. Last year s entries totalled about double the figure for the year be fore. Decision by the compensation i convener of show arrangements Board. At present a May i is w. J. Tanner. President of the Appeal a decision to what is society is t. Yager and r. W. F erred to As an Independent Board i Brown is Secretary. Of three medical men 1 the Dau Phin Lirie noted. No further Appeal is afforded. The Brief suggested that if the Appeal is to Board it be appointed similarly to a Board of arbitration the Board and work Man each to appoint one member and the two to appoint a third. If they cannot agree the third would be named by the court with expenses borne by the compensation Board. Two Brothers Are remanded on 2 charges two Winnipeg Brothers saturday were remanded in City police courted revised to bring it into line with the increased Cost of living and that full compensation be payable to a disabled Workman. City groups Brief the Winnipeg trades and labor Council Brief asked that maximum earnings on which compensation May be paid be raised from to allowances for children be in creased from 512 to 520 a month and the age of dependency be raised from 16 to is. Orphan children s allowances be increased to ?30 a month the age of dependency be raised to is and provision be made for added maintenance if the child is attend Gateway male choir fall meetings of the Gateway male choir will begin at 6.30 . Sept. 9 in the Winnipeg free press building. J. Kerr Wilson will continue As choir master this season. Free press meetings j two meetings Are slated for tuesday in the free press building. I they Are Board room 1, executive i committee of Melrose Camp sons of Scotland at 8 ., and Board room 2, executive committee of Camp cock of the North sons of Scotland also at s . German car proves downtown City curio w. B. Landes w. B. Landes was elected presi Dent of the Shearey Zedek brotherhood at a recent general meet ing. He n. S. Bubbis. First vice president is m. Tessler with or. J. , second vice president. N. Schakett was named treasurer and h. Schulman Secre tary. Executive members Are i. W. Blankstein m. Divinsky m. Gersh Field j. Goldman a. Hetch s. Oreck m. Oretski d. Richmond j. Sector i. Shenkarow s. Slotin h. Smith c Waldo an h. Wilder i. Wolinsky. Heading committees Are d. Rich mond membership h. Smith membership co chairman m. Gershfield study group i. W. Blankstein publicity or. J. Rumberg program s. Slotin ushering j. Goldman Fellowship m. Wilder youth a. Hecht youth co chairman. Disappointing attendance reports showed that the cultural series attendance was disappoint was decided to discontinue it. But it was added if the brotherhood could obtain an out standing lecturer or Cantor they would arrange to have him appear at the Charrey Zedek. It was reported that the youth program had expanded to four basketball teams competing for the Samuel Krupp trophy. It is hop fid a team would be entered in the Church league this year. Sometime soon a Book called Canada today. The White Man s future will appear on boo stands in Germany. The Man who will write it arrived in Winnipeg Friday with his wife and a German built ford., in Winnipeg at least the literary couple from Cologne Vitalis Pantenburg and his wife Lieselotte took second place to interest in their sleek Little Cologne build car. When the metallic Green two door parked outside the free press Friday a crowd gathered and helped a reporter interview the touring couple. Anyone who got past horsepower and wheelbase and assorted other questions and delved into the Back ground of the tanned German couple from the British zone of German got a More interesting Story however. Write travel books both have written books on pre Vious expeditions to the Northern parts of Europe by car. Most of these books Are written prior to the War and had wide publication at present they Are in Canada to gather material for at least t o books which have been commissioned by publishers in Germany this however is secondary to making a film history of life in Canada. Officially the tour which began at Quebec july 4 is called the Tran Kanada Alaska film sex it s main object is to make an educational film for schools in the British zone of Germany. Travelling by the trans Canada other youth activities the Coupie have shot some boxing scouts cubs and teen-can-1 Ifa pictures and Yards of teen. The new season gets underway sept. 17 at 6.30 . With the third inaugural dinner. Guest speaker will be Carlyle Al Lison editor in chief Winnipeg Tri Bune. Gyro club the Gyro club of Winnipeg will meet at 6 . At the Royal Alex Andra hotel tuesday. This replaces the usual thursday meeting which Das been cancelled. The club also announces that the picnic at Lake Side originally set for sunday has been postponed to sept. 7. Movie film on Canada life. In West Ern Canada their main interest will be pictures of the Canadian Harvest and farm life or. Pantenburg said. Convertible to get Back to the car. It looks like a Cross Between a . Ford and a British built Ford Consul. It has a 38-horsepower engine goes 30 to 40 Miles on a gallon of will do up to 75 Miles an hour hut you can t buy one Here. Appeared in january or. Pantenburg said the Model appeared in january of this year and production has risen to 140 a Day the first years output is Al ready spoken for in sales with some exports to the United states. Cost in Germany is Marks about the owner said. Most interesting feature of the car demonstrated by or. Panten Burg was a Canvas Sunshine roof. The whole top of the car opens with a flick of the wrist As a do Uble Canvas canopy rides Back on rollers. When closed the can Vas forms a airtight top with in salting air Between the two layers. Deep tans displayed by both or. Pantenburg and his wife displayed the effectiveness of the top. Robbery with violence. Under arrest Are Peter Perin 31, of 137 Syndicate Street and Hij brother Morris 25, of 304 Duffer in Avenue. Peter Perin is being held in connection with the assault on Nick Palanyk address unknown who was found on his Back in a Large Pool of blood thursday evening in front of 270 Dufferin Avenue. Hectic Chase Morris Perin was arrested Early Friday morning following a Heck Chase by a railway Porter a tax Driver and police. He is alleged to have robbed Charles King 744 Dufferin Avenue Toronto of about 545 following a Short scuffle in the main Street sub Way. Police said or. Palanyk a taken to St. Joseph s Hospital when he was found to have suffered in juries to his head and a possibly brain concussion. Police said there had been a argument in a Beer parlor and i fight later on the Street. Or. King told police he had been walking toward his hotel about i . When a Man approached him and asked for change. Or. King said he reached in nil pocket and brought out about it was struck from his hand and i assailant ran off. Both Brothers were remanded without plea. Police seek new codes in Coil s acc Dent . Said monday that investigation is continuing into the injury of a 19-year-old Winnipeg girl who was believed to have jumped from a moving car on the Mcphillips Highway 10 Miles North of the City last thursday. Marjorie White of 580 Pritchard Avenue is now in Good condition authorities said. A Man was apprehended but no charges have been Laid police said. This German couple out to film an educational movie for German schools smile happily As they look around Winnipeg from their Small German built car. Vitalis and Lieselotte Pantenburg have driven across Canada from Quebec and will motor up the Alaska Highway and to the West coast before they re i turn Home. Flying jauntily from the right fender is the Flag j of the German automobile club ;