Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fresh mural flavour Winnipeg free press Home baked flavor at i t s b e s t Bryce s Kitchen Star bread by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg thursday january 29, 1953 week end edition with comics Loo is Friendly shirking its title Winnipeg is an unfriendly City. This is the considered opinion of a former easterner who has been living in Winnipeg for seven years. The woman in understandably does not want her name published when we came to Winnipeg i was looking Foi Ward to it because in the East Winnipeg was always considered to be Ultra since she s been Here she s changed her mind. Wednesday she was still try ing to figure out what made the City unfriendly and she was no nearer a solution than seven years ago although the same two ideas kept chasing each other around in her mind. Winnipeg people May be Lieve that they got the Short end of the stick from the East during Thev depression and were exploited in some Way. Perhaps they developed a Dis Trust of anything Eastern including Eastern people who come to live Here and want to be friends. Or perhaps the City is grow ing and the people Are becom ing pseudo sophisticated with the City s a native of the Toronto Hamilton area so called unfriendly Belt she has lived in Ottawa and travelled across Canada so feels qualified to say she knows an unfriendly City when she sees it. She suggested that perhaps what Winnipeg needs is some kind of a. Say hello to your neighbor or have a Coffee with your neighbor Campaign. She feels that probably the Basic requirements for Friend Liness Are present in the City but that they need digging out. City s water Mains 4 times in Busy 3 Days four Watermain Breaks have kept the City waterworks department on the hop this week. However this is a fairly Good average for this time of year according to w. L. Ward Rop waterworks superintendent. A burst main at Garfield Street and Ellice Avenue Mon Day was repaired the same Day. Tuesday another break occurred nearby. It has since been repaired. A main at Osborne Street and Whitehall Avenue also burst monday. It was repaired the same Day. Wednesday a break at Ros Lyn Road and Nassau Street brought the repair Crews out again. Thursday morning they were still probing to locate the break. Or. Wardrop said this is the worst time of year for. Water main Breaks. Dry Summers and the change from summer to fall in september Are also bad periods Ackland wage dispute goes to conciliator increased wages a shortened work week and changes in working conditions Are included in a proposed labor agreement which has been submitted to the Manitoba labor Board for conciliation. These items Are being sought by local 468, retail wholesale and department store Union for employees of d. Ackland and son limited Hon. C. E. Green Lay labor minister said wednesday. The conciliation officer appointed by the province is John g. White. Two women fined on liquor charges having liquor not purchased from the commission Cost Nel lie Galay 322 Stanley Street a Fine in City police court wednesday. Rose Henderson 1136 Pritchard Avenue paid Cement Lack getting Goat of lumbermen the Western retail lumber men s association is getting impatient with Canada s continuing Cement shortage. Reporting for the directors at the first session of the group s 63rd annual convention thursday in the Royal Alexandra hotel Hec toys Craig said suggestion has been that while . Cement has to be imported Ottawa should re move the duty. Subsidy mooted it was further suggested or. Craig said that a subsidy to reduce the Cost to Consumers should be granted similar to those on some movement of Coal and farm pro ducts. The shortage had been a con Stant source of irritation he said. Each year we have been promised that new plants and changed economic conditions would see an adequate Supply of Cement Avail Able next year these prophecies have failed to commencing on freight r at e a or. Craig said the association had been Able to have certain discrepancies in inter lined charges in some areas straightened Kail tariffs the National lumbermen s coun cil of Canada he added is asking that average or reciprocal demur rage be incorporated in Canadian railway tariffs. The Council also is asking that saturday be declared a free Day where demurrage charges Are concerned because of the introduction of the five Day week in railway operations. Nearly 300 delegates assembled for the first session and were piped into the exhibit Hall with assistance from Brad the they heard the president Brett f. For a reduction in bus iness taxes and a reasonable re turn on investments. Cribbage dream realized she can Stop a cribbage dream came True wednesday for miss Jose Phine Duniec. 463 Jarvis ave nue. She held a perfect hand in a game with mrs. F. Yur Chak of the same address. The 29-count came when miss Duniec held the five of hearts Spades and diamonds and the Jack of Spades. The five of clubs turned up. And costs for keeping liquor for s ale. Alphonse Mager 130 Rupert Street was fined and costs for illegally Pur chasing electric co. Dispute goes to Board a three Man conciliation Board under the chairmanship of judge Walter j. Lindal has been appointed to help negotiate a labor agree ment Between Pioneer electric limited and local 4297, United steel workers of America. Hon. C. E. Greenlay labor minister said wednesday that George w. Swan is the company representative on the Board and s. James the Union representative. These two recommended that judge Lindal be Board chairman. Licences expired 85 Drivers tagged during monday and tuesday City police issued 95 tags to City motorists who had failed to renew their 1952 car licences. Last week chief Charles Mac Iver issued a warning that any motorists without a new licence would be prosecuted com mencing Jan. 26. Three Federal nominating meet Ings have been announced for this week by the labor progressive party. Two will be held tonight at South at Earl Grey school and Winnipeg South Centre at Gordon Bell High school. Satur Day at .2.30, a nominating meeting for. Springfield constituency will be held at the broke head municipal Hall Beausejour. In association to invite students invitations to join the Winnipeg the United nations association of Canada will be made to University of Manitoba Stu dents at a mass meeting at 12.30 . Friday. Or. J. H. S. Reid pro Fessor of history will speak. An invitation was extended to students of United College at 12.30 . Thursday by or. Justice Ralph May Bank president of the provincial United nations association. West St. Paul school gets movie projector West St. Paul Home and school association tuesday presented the school with a movie projector. J. W. Mosquin principal received the machine from airs. J. A. Latremouille association president. Several Short films were run off. Next meeting will be feb. 24. Conciliator named in school wage dispute Ben Lepkin Lias been appointed conciliation officer to help Settle a labor dispute in which East Kil Donan school Board employees Are seeking wage increases of a month or s300 a year. Hon. C. E. Greenlay labor min ister said wednesday the revised labor agreement being sought is Between the East Kildonan schoo l District and the East Kildonan civic and school Board employees unit Winnipeg Central labor Council 03u. Taft Hartley act going out on line Washington Nyht extensive Public hearings designed to result in a re writing of the controversial Taft Hartley labor Law will be opened feb. 10 by the House labor committee rep. Samuel k. Mcconnell or. R. A the chairman announced wednes Day. Out of Canada s wage earners 80 per cent of 96 per cent of females earned under for the year ending june 2, 1951. Cabinet so weak pc s can win party youth told Frank m. Bastin Winnipeg bar Rister told a Young progressive conservative meeting tuesday night he was convinced the progressive conservatives stood an excellent Chance of gaining office at the next provincial election. I base that on the fact that the Cabinet is dreadfully he said. We have in Errick Willis an outstanding Leader and we have an excellent selection of or. Willis is la for Turtle Mountain. Touching on Federal politics or. Bastin said the late Mackenzie King former prime minister As a Man with a Clear mind entirely devoid of the usual human emotions of Friend ship loyalty and gratitude which was dominated by a lust for Power unfettered by the restraining in fluence of St. Boniface registers 700 blood donors Black Robed priests and girls in red Cross and St. John ambulance brigade uniforms mingled with men and women in working clothes wednesday afternoon at the open ing of the two Day St. Boniface blood donors clinic. More than 700 donors have been registered and in the clinic s first hour 64 had Given blood. Held in the Cercle Ouvrier St. Joseph Hall the clinic is a co operative Effort of St. John ambulance brigade and the red Cross. The red Cross has sent its Mobile unit and staff while members of the brigade enlisted donors and served As volunteers to attend rest Beds canteens and Register donors. The first donor was father u. Lafond who had never Given blood before. While i was wondering when they d Start taking my blood they told me it was All he said of his experience. Visitors to the clinic were May or e. A. Hansford of St. Boniface archbishop Baudoux Rev. Boulet Parish priest and mrs. L. Millidge provincial superintendent of nurses of St. John ambulance. More than 700 donors registered wednesday at the opening of St. Boniface s two Flay blood clinic operated jointly by the red Cross and St. John ambulance brigade. Attending the open ing were left to Rev. Father a b. Boulet Parish priest archbishop Maurice Baudoux mayor e. A. Hansford St. Boniface Florence. Boissoneault convener St. John Boniface and Patricia Healey of the red Cross. The first clinic was held at the Cercle Ouvrier Hall Cathedral Avenue St Boniface. What is believed to be the first attempt in recent years to change closed Union shop into an open shop has been made by Winnipeg s big three the move came As a counter proposal by the bakeries to a Union attempt to get a 25 per cent wage increase a 40-hour-week at pre sent 44 and improved working conditions. The labor agreement Between ocal 389, bakery and confection Ary workers International Union of America Al and the big spare the three r s and spoil the child or. Andrew Moore inspector of High schools thinks the prime Pur pose of elementary and High schools and universities As Well is instruction in the three r s. He said this in an address to the St. John s technical Home and school association wednesday night during a discussion on school prob lems. He explained that today s mass production in schools where classes numbered three tunes As Many As they did 40 years ago necessitated certain curricular adjustments. Certain problems in such a transitional stage he educators wanted pupils to get hold of themselves but not to an extreme. Parental error one mistake parents often gee was i Ever that s How red haired Grace Saunders of Puffin ski club described her reaction wednesday night when my Eddie Champagne announced she had been chosen Manitoba s ski Queen. The picture above snapped at the psychological moment shows that Grace was t kidding was she Ever surprised to her left is the retiring Queen Pat Kildonan ski club to the right is iveagh Foreman of varsity ski club. Red haired office clerk is ski Queen red haired Green eyed Grace Saunders 20-year-old office clerk was crowned ski Queen of Manitoba wednesday night. Grace who belongs to the Puffin Lub won out Over four at Tractive rivals from other greater Winnipeg clubs to win the right to represent the Manitoba ski zone at the Banff Winter Carni Val next week. She is due to leave by train f or Banff sunday night but she May have to leave earlier if the railway dispute is not. Settled. Grace Saunders members and visitors from other clubs jammed the Puffin club head quarters to the rafters to watch the crowning performed by Percy White of the Hudson s Bay com Pany which is co sponsor of the annual contest. Grace s blushing comment after her Victory was announced gee was i Ever surprised. It s wonder Ful Pat Hartman of Kildonan club last year s Winner will be going along to Banff with Grace again this year Ai reigning Queen of the Banff carnival. The Hudson s Bay company is paying All Grace s travel hotel and other expenses for two weeks in the Rockies. It also presented her with a Hudson s Bay Point Blanket coat. All other contenders iveagh Foreman Norma Ros Siter Doreen Jones Viking and Helen Kuryluk Kil noted certain bound to arise. Problems were Donan received a Box of cosmetics each. Grace who lives at 406 univer sity Boulevard has been skiing for two years. Unlike bathing ski Queens have to be Able to ski. She was chosen by a panel of judges and by popular vote for looks sportsmanship ability. And skiing she thinks skiing is so Good for the three Days at the fort Garry to vice. Tel. The delegates and officers of Manitoba s 140 credit unions will de vote the first Day and a half of their convention to workshop instruction and study. Discussion of the year s activities and resolutions will get under Way Friday afternoon. Friday evening will be j. Orin Shipe educational director of Cuna Mutual insurance company town planners Winnipeg town planning com Mission will meet monday at 4 . In the planning office 301 Mitchell Copp building. South Africa is the richest Gold and. Diamond country in the world and one of the richest in uranium. The pendulum had swung from a curricular to Emph Asis on the child the speaker said. Now the child has come to feel that he is Soj Nuch in the Centre that he has too exalted an idea of his own the Ideal Centre of school life he noted was curriculum plus child with emphasis on service to the Community. The three land Marks of instruction to achieve this Ideal he defined As knowledge skill and attitude of mind. Extra curricular activities have a place but in some pupils minds it is hard to keep them in their he pointed out. Scoring the Birch Rod method of teaching he pointed out that today credit Union men Check in Here for annual Parley More than 350 credit Union offi cers and official delegates registered at thursday s opening ses _ Sion of the co operative credit so business and that it was Only a piety of Manitoba annual Conven t i o n. The convention continues to will Spur better movies critic is sure Hollywood Feas to meet the in roads of television by producing better movies said Frank Morriss free press critic when address ing the West Winnipeg rotary club at its luncheon meeting in the Winnipeg flying club thurs Day. There is a whole untapped Sec Tion of the Public which never goes to films said or. Morriss because they have been disappointed with the Slipshod repetition of the same old themes. Producers Are finding that adult plots Are becoming More and More acceptable. Far sighted Independent producers such As Stanley Kramer Are breaking new ground and Are not afraid to Experiment with stories that have hitherto been regarded As outside the pro Vince of films. Or. Morriss Felt that the three dimensional film cinerama was going to revolutionize the film matter of years before almost All picture houses would have de but the greatest Challenge to films at the present time he Felt was in cleaning out the old shop worn plots and trying for More vitality. Films have always been better he pointed out when the producers have had to take Stock of them future speaker at a banquet selves and meet the Competition of other mediums. Natural history doctors Askell and Doris love of the University botany department will speak to members of the natural history society on vegetation of a Prairie Marsh an outline of research work done at the Ameri can wild life station at Delta Man., in room 204, Broadway build ing Friday 8 . Open to the Public. Make is insisting that Johnny take a matriculation course when other courses Are available which might be More suited to his inter est and accelerated courses were option Al he noted and should be decided by pupils parents and teach is. Pupils who go into accelerated courses with less than 60 per cent usually have he said a non accelerated course gave a Pupil More supervised study tune which was often Worth More than Homework. While in Manitoba s High schools the top level pupils Are he held that Many pupils had not Learned to study read and write properly. Discussing some of the problems in today s educational system he pointed to Over specialization on the part of teachers distractions in and out of the classroom and Lack of Good Reading for pupils. Idea of service while knowledge and skill were Basic preparation for life or Moore stressed the importance of attitude. Emphasis is too much on pers onal Success. We should get across the idea of the Home could do much to create interest in a Pupil the in Spector claimed. He urged parents not to make their criticisms before tile school child but to carry them to educational authorities so that the child might go to school with the right attitude. He urged More Parent teacher get together to get the same interpretation of facts. I think that part of the trouble lies in differences of or. Moore said. Big 3 bakeries press for change to open shop Industrial age stirs unrest Pigott notes welfare groups must take up the immediate Joad of providing for persons dislocated through flu Tua ions in the Industrial society a. V. Pigott said wednesday. Government cannot move fast enough and its actions Are hindered by red tape or. Pigott vice president of Pigott motors limited old a Winnipeg rotary club luncheon at the Royal Alexandra Lotel wednesday. Intensive industrialization is making it increasingly difficult for he average person to satisfy the four Basic wishes for Security a sense of belonging adventure and prestige. He said Lack of any one of these essentials for too Long a period tends to drive a person into Radi Cal thought i can t be wrong 11 have to change the common workers must be assured that free Enterprise and free Economy systems will work to their Best interests. Industrial society s mobility and the Lack of the Type of tie to the Community which was the Rule in the agricultural society also create problems which free Enterprise must solve he said. He also claimed business had not yet evolved a scheme whereby the average Man Able to afford Only approximately 20 per cent of. His income for lodging is to own his Home. He warned that welfare agencies must be Given Active support. He said indifference to these agencies appeals paved the Way for additional government intervention in economic an social systems. Free officially expired dec. 31, but is remaining operative during negotiations for a revised agree ment. The three bakeries concerned Are Canada bread general. Bakeries and Weston. The Union representing All in Side workers at Isie bakeries has lad a closed shop to Date. The employers want a renewal he last labor agreement on the same terms except for an open will allow employees to join the Union or not As they see a conversion of the Bonus to the new Consumers Price Index. The Manitoba labor Board has appointed Ben lepki.1 As Concilia Tion officer to help negotiate the revised agreement manslaughter count thrown out of court a charge of manslaughter against William add son 44, of 651 Lipton Street was dismissed in City police court thursday after a pre Minary hearing. Magistrate m. H. Carton said there was t enough evidence to indicate Addison had attacked any 3ody. In fact he said there was instead evidence that the accused himself had been the victim of an attack. Addison was charged in connect on with the death of John Asher 18, of 804% Sargent Avenue who ;