Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 27, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Very outstanding value Winnipeg free press True Economy milk lob read by Carrier in 30c per week August 1952 weekend edition with Loc Jeanclaude Guy Bois signs the Register in Boniface City Hall tuesday while his travelling companion Michel Henri Christian be standing behind Waits his the two 23yearold parisians travelling from new York to Patagonia via Alaska on motor Scooter Are stopping Over briefly in at left is City clerk Maurice standing behind mayor George and right is comte Serge de French Consul in milkmen to labor others get Holiday letter carriers and bakery Drivers will not make deliveries monday the labor Day Holiday but milk deliveries will be carried out As there will be a restricted service at the general Post with inquiry and registration wickets open from 8 to 10 Anc general delivery and stamp wickets open from 8 to 5 the Public lobby will be open until 6 and special delivery service and despatch of including will be As usual horticulturists give life memberships life memberships in the James horticultural society were conferred on Flack and Dath at the opening of the James exhibition paid tribute to the 30 years of service both men have Given to the and to their efforts in staging a show during the depression in his Flack pointed out that the James group was the Only one in Manitoba never to have missed presenting an annual visitor from Montreal seeks chapter Henry Mckenna Nee Mary of now visiting in has asked the free press to help her locate Margaret Chap Ter Nee about 60 years of whom she believes is residing chapter left in 1909 or 1910 and settled in where she and Mckenna and their two sons Are guests at the Regis hotel until Manitoba red Cross after army blood the Manitoba Branch of the red Cross expects to collect Between 500 and 600 pints of blood and Friday at Camp one of the top military Camps in Canada in support of the free blood transfusion last 951 men gave blood when the clinic paid a four Day visit to the keeping gaming House brings Fine for keeping a gaming House Jean 65 Mckenzie was fined 5100 in costs or one month in City police court it was his first charged with being found ins and fined s10 and costs or 10 Days each were Dick 109 Henry Avenue Frank 438 Elgin ave nue and Jack 163 Euclid Griffons club a full weekend of activity is planned for members of the Griffons club when they tra Vel to Camp Robertson at Gimli saturdays program includes Golf and volleyball in the with baseball in the a Bon fire and singsong Are on the evening sunday will be taken up with Church a club a luncheon and More Clint Fogg is in charge of Optimist club members of the Optimist club will vie for the clubs Golf trophy on the Southwood Golf course tee off time is 2 a dinner will follow at the clubs regu Lar luncheons will be resumed 4 in the Royal Alexandra boys work Post for City Optimist Gil Schoales of Winnipeg has been named a member of the boys work Council of Optimist it was announced this week by Warren president of the International Schoales is a member of the Winnipeg and has been Active in boys work for Many 8 polio cases push total up to 252 one victim reported in suburban none in City another eight cases of polio were reported five were confirmed and three were suspects making the provinces unofficial total one suspect reported last wee turned out to be just Aneth common virus disease with i Manitoba now has 147 confirm 95 suspects and 10 two of the three cases reporte from the epidemic area wednesday were boosting to 113 the unofficial total for that where two adults hav died of polio in the past n ported its 14th Case although Winnipeg added non to its present total of the suburbs chalked up another for 37th Case of the wednesday free other cases were wide scattered throughout the pro across Western can two More deaths and 93 con armed cases were announced in Saskatchewan a weekly report t ush that province Way ahead with 56 cases and 17 Alberta 10 More cases tuesday Low has 280 with 19 dead and Bri ish Columbia added nine cases ant be death tuesday to make its Tol with 17 stickers meet indicates some solution some solution May be revealed n the 10day strike of the electric workers As a result of a meeting tuesday night of the striking electricians in the labor this was the Only statement tha Villiam official of the International brotherhood of electrical workers Al would make wednesday an the meeting plumbers and Brick yers who walked off last wednes a at the new Ebby Street and Harrow Avenue school were Back n the Job according o building con Ractor of the Swanson said there was no Tuch that could be done on the school by the workmen before the ectrial conduits have been wired one employer is work g on wiring and other work May Egin in two Days officials of the other than in electrical said wednes a there were other construction ibs which could not go Forward new classrooms head off school crisis Back to school in Boniface before the electrical wiring is Harvey stand again for Ward one following a delegation of Citi ens who called on him at his of a free Gurzon Ward consented to for reelection to Council in the Oming civic Harvey has served on the Council since at the present he is chairman of the Public works he was also a Candi Date supported by the civic elec Tion this group plans to meet next week to choose its Aldermani and school Board candidates for the coming extra pupils due in september attendance in greater Winnipeg schools is expected to be up by More than this figure includes classes already Back a school and those resuming studies next a Survey showed that in Winni Peg school officials expected in the neighbourhood of More students to attend classes in september than in nowhere in the area Wil staggering of classes be necessary eight new schools or additions Wil be completed in the City before the end of the and school build ing in the suburbs has been sufficient to take care of increased num Beij of Winnipeg and All suburbs report every teaching position Boniface increase Boniface reports classes up from the students last year the increase will be anywhere from 50 to Boniface too commenced school at an earlier Date than other Stu dents started schools wednesday Norwood also reports an Esti mated increase of 150 Over the last classes Start 2 in this East Kildonan reports an expected enrolment of approximately 000 up by about 150 Over last this year the suburb opens its new eight room collegiate the Miles no staggering woe is 10yearold Jean 525 Ritchot says were starting school three Days ahead of the kids in fourth grader at provencher1 along with other Boniface started classes wednesday morning because Boniface school District has three More religious holidays this year than other school districts in greater All other students in greater Winnipeg return to school next smitty Doest yacht Here anymore the Only Man in Winnipeg with a yacht club named after him Learned in sullen silence tuesday that his glory must Bow beneath the Knuckles of the City fathers of Boni he is Donald of 635 Machray proud name Sake of riverfront famed Smit Tys yacht Only yacht club in Manitoba that cant boast at least one a Long Squall Over a dance Hall licence for Smitts blew Over monday when Boniface Council granted the licence on condition the place be called something besides Smitts yacht complaints leave explained health chairman Edward Turner the Many complaints that have been lodged by the no yacht ing residents of Boniface Over certain aspects of the club have attached a stigma to the the majority of coun cil Felt they could destroy the stigma by destroying the he added that his personal stand was that the club get a licence on any the undaunted management met tuesday night and came up with a handle that even had Turner said club owner Hugh Colish who leases the property from Smith we wanted to change that name now weve got something with were going to Call it the Riviera night Smitts want a Good name for a yacht club any said we were going to change it to the Royal Smitts but that Doest go then we got to thinking about the French Riviera and we got this French like it Okay asked Why the word night had been substituted for the word yacht Colish explained that the clubs Fleet has dwindled to a couple of Row boats cant run a yacht club on two Row snapped that place never had any told of the he said maybe we bet Ter go Back to and How did Riviera proposition Appeal to Smith i like the Riviera he that a Nice i like it hoedown set for Square dance enthusiasts from All Over the City Are invited to at tend a real old fashioned Hoe Down on the Safeway parking Burnell Street at Portage Avenue at 8 the Square dance club of the Central s the organizer and de Gray will be the no suspicion of foul play is held by City police in the Dis appearance three years ago of Thomas James a police official my then a storage work vanished a Short time after mentioning to his now 194 Kennedy that if Ever i should be missing for a few dont ill get hold of overwater did not report the disappearance to police until last that old Black magic mostly no spell have you Ever seen or read Aboul magicians sawing a woman in half or making Little boys disappear in a puff of smoke and then tormented yourself for Days wonder ing How the he did it members of one of the most secretive organizations in Winnipeg could Tell its a the Winnipeg magicians club held a meeting tuesday night at the Charles hotel and All Man Ner of objects such As cigarettes and billiard balls were vanishing nothing to explain three members of the magicians club a they illustrate How decks of cards Are manoeuvred into perfect fans and billiard balls Are held Between your a meeting in the hotel tuesday the three professional a left to right Art Richard club and Gene will be featured at a magic show in Saskatoon saturday during the Canadian magicians convention and reappearing All Over the place knots were blown out of silk and perfect poker hands were dealt As Slick As a no such thing but any one of the members Wil Tell you theres no such thing As Black its All on the up and they its hard work and constant before anyone can become a member of the Winnipeg magicians he is he must prove himself to be sincerely inter ested in his once Hes in he is sworn to secrecy not to divulge the How of the club now has about 12 Mem affiliated with the International brotherhood of the Winnipeg group is known ring Richard Haldane is Winnipeg president Gene Secretary Charlie and Lou an original trick if any one creates an original it is published and copy righted in the Lincoln ring and royalties Are awarded it is president the rings top has 12 originals to his this weekend the Winnipeg ring will attend a Canadian magicians convention at Saskatoon where magicians Shallop and Art Rydman will be starred n a heres one trick that was pulled on the free press reporter tues Day by min Reader the reporter was told to choose a Book from a group of then o shuffle a deck of cards and Deal he first three from the top of the Cut the a seven of four of clubs and nine of added to turn to Page 20 in the Lene now read the second word at the top of the it was in tuesdays free Page a Small personal and inserted which the selected word will be sincerely Gene John puts James in a saintly ill humor James Council tuesday night ignorant of the geographical Char branded As preposterous of the Council agreed to resume Nego ments made in Winnipeg City coun cil recently by Stjohn that the municipality had refused to cooperate with Winnipeg on local John is said to have accused James of refusing Topay its share of hard surfacing James totally ignorant councillor William Wallace charged that such statements As were made in City Council could Only be made by persons totally Catharines sends City key with airmen a key to the City of Ca was presented to Gurzon Harvey act ing in the absence of mayor Garnet Coulter at City Hall wednesday the key came from John mayor of and was carried to the City by air by Youthful aviators Here for the Webster trophy the trials Are slated for thursday under the ship of the Winnipeg flying competing will be Char lie against Western with his Are Robert Callender and Tony thu said mayor Franklin in his letter i extend greetings to the Garden City of Western free press tracks Down lost brother it took some trailing from British Columbia to Indian to Hudson Bay but the free press got their Nicholas 528 Rich mond new wrote the free press ask ing if it could in any Way Trace his brother William Popo wich hews last heard from in 1930 at Indian was described As about 40 years of and had probably served in the armed the Story appeared in the monday afternoon a Winnipeg 1197 Kildonan phoned tuesday to Sajiv she knew the whereabouts of the William Popowich seems Bingham has been corresponding with Popowich at Hudson and last heard from her a few months James expects its increase in school enrolment to be upwards of 150 Over the Over last there will be no staggering of three new classrooms have been opened in vital to offset an anticipated North Kildonan also has a new fou room High school which will be opened in enrolment of 469 last year is expected to be just Over the 500 Mark this Transcona anticipates a gain in attendance of just Over from the 950 of last in West Kildonan an increase of approximately 175 is but a new fou room addition to Vic tory school will help prevent any staggering of Brooklands and Woodsworth schools also will open beginners must produce proof of an new schools fort Garry has added an Addi Tion to the Viscount Alexander anticipated attendance this year will be Between 850 and 900 up Over the 770 last Charleswood reports an increase of approximately 150 pupils this the municipality re ports two new1 schools opening this term Royal with four rooms and with six Winnipeg will have the 14room Robertson school opening in sep to nations with Winnipeg As soon As mayor Wightman returns from his trip to Council flatly refused to close Why Tewold Road from Saskatchewan Avenue to Ness Avenue As re Quested by the Federal department of the department also requested the closing Down of part of Silver guard the streets councillor Morgan said that such action should be avoided even if it Means putting a guard on the streets replying to a request from the department of transport to Pur Chase 50 acres of land in the Muni councillor Morgan said that the senior government has Al ready taken about on third of the he warned that unless caution was used in allotting James would soon be forced out into Portage Council agreed to investigate what land was available before committee along with the eight room Ashland the Sargent Park addition of four rooms will be opened by the six room Annex to Rockwood will be opened by the four room addition to Inkster school will be opened and the Kent Road school More than 10 rooms will be opened in january of there will be no kindergarten at Rockwood school until the Annex is officials not but 690 try exams confusion reigned supreme for about 20 minutes tuesday morn ing at Kelvin High school when 690 off students walked in to write mathematics supplemental authorities had expected in charge of the examination Centre for the provincial depart ment of Norris Belton said that it was the largest num Ber of students he has Ever handled for one set of Examina reason for the Large number was the fact that this the department of education agreed to allow Grade 10 students to write off their sups in one ordinarily they write in their own Belton there were at least 215 Grade to students writing tuesday morn he the school is set up to allow children from greater Winnipeg o write off their but it is also for older persons who Are finishing up their educations later in Belton departmental examinations for standing can Only be written twice a he the school will finish and by that almost 800 per sons will have taken departmental he enemy smashed that want the mayor pounding for that was the old fashioned Fly swatter councillors at fort Garry Council meeting tuesday night took turns ridding the Munici pal office of in councillor ales Campbell who believes in keeping up with the times moved that Council Purchase two electric Fly no he free press meetings three meetings Are scheduled for thursday in the Winnipeg free press they Are Board room ladies auxiliary to the Imperial vet Erans in Canada at 2 and the Lucky seven mixed bowl ing league at 8 and in the club Eaton Angling at 8 motor league urges Light at Bridge if traffic lights Are to be installed anywhere in then erection of signals at the Madison Avenue approach to James Bridge should be the 1 pro says manag ing director of the Manitoba motor he was commenting on a proposal to erect lights at Winston Road and Portage Avenue for Protection of Assiniboine school child the league is vitally interested in safety provisions for he but in the Case of Assini Boine school there is a patrol sys tem in effect with cooperation of James police providing for safety during the four periods a when it is on the other Emmett the James Bridge approach has no control and the traffic snarl becomes dangerous and annoying to All the league therefore contends that signals for the Bridge approach should have this is one spot where Many accidents can Emmett Rose Catherine 529 Logan was fined 5200 in costs or three months in jail in City police court wednesday when she pleaded guilty to possessing liquor not bought from the liquor of 207 Harbison looks Over Gladiolus one of the prize ithe Manitoba horticultural society Flower and vegetable show being held at the civic caledonian rink wednesday and Flowers were grown by of 931 Somerset ;