Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Maple Leaf wieners tender tasty Winnipeg More milk More Calcium Bryce s milk Glo hrs nil bread look Lor milk percentage on wrapper by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg wednesday january 13, 1954 week end edition with comics we answering false Call police Gar in collision a police Cruiser car attend ing a false hold up alarm was involved in a traffic Accident which sent a 47-year-old Man to Winnipeg general Hospital with a fractured Bone in his leg. Harry Townsend room 3, suite 19b Warwick apart ments was taken to Hospital about 4.30 . Tuesday where his condition was reported according to police the Accident occurred on Selkirk ave nue near Aikens street1 As the Cruiser car was proceeding West on Selkirk Avenue to at tend a hold up alarm at the Bank of Montreal Mcgregor Street and Selkirk Avenue. The Cruiser car operated by const. A. M. Bond was slow ing Down for a traffic Light when the car went into a skid in a Snow rut and struck a parked car belonging to or. Townsend a. As or. Townsend was entering his car his leg was pinned Between the door and Frame of the car. Police said considerable damage was caused to both the Cruiser car and the parked car. Davidson Given new railway Post r. H. Davidson has been appointed assistant general freight agent rates for the Western re Gion of the Canadian National railways l. A. Fonger freight traffic manager announced Here today. He succeeds the late l. H. Roberts. Or. Davidson joined the can Adian Northern railway in 1920 As a clerk in the freight traffic department and in 1052 was named chief clerk to the freight traffic manager at Winnipeg which position he held until his present appointment. Judge s decision forces new Brooklands election the Village of Brooklands will have a new election Early this year As a result of a decision handed Down wednes Day by county court judge c. B. Philp. Judge Philp ruled that four names were wrongfully put on the polling list and therefore four votes were wrongfully Al Lowed. These votes in effect gave Daniel Juba the mayoralty Over Stan Bowers who w a s seeking re election. Mayor Bowers had charged last week in court that both Juba and Crispin Oddy the third mayoralty candidate had allegedly vouched for More than one voter contrary to provisions of the municipal act. J. Drake Heads St. James horticulturists 3. Drake has been elected president of the St. James horticultural society. H. J. Sewell is past president and vice presidents Are t. Bennet a. Macklin mrs. M. J. Button and mrs. J. Innes. Mrs. H. 3. Sewell is the new Secretary treasurer and the Fol lowing were elected to the executive mrs. F. G. Flett mrs. M. Harrison mrs. W. F. Matthews mrs. J. Drake mrs. S. Pickup mrs. A. G. Bremner mrs. W. H. Mobberly j. M. B. Nicoll a. G. Bremner s. Pickup e. W. Saunders g. Hennigar o. D. Dath h. Mcleary and k. Harris. The following committee chairmen were appointed h. J. Sewell and a. G. Bremner lawns Flowers and vegetable gardens a. E. Macklin and h. Mcleary vegetables and fruits j. Drake Novice Cut l. E. Ostrander Industrial commissioner of Canadian National railways Western Region who will be guest speaker tonight at the annual dinner of the Canadian Industrial traffic league. The meeting will be held at the Royal Alexandra hotel. Dave Milliken will be chairman. City trustees defer debate on Board Cut talks await decision on Ward division elections the Winnipeg school Board tues Day night deferred until March i debate on a bylaw reducing the Board membership from 15 to nine. It deferred the debate because of j proposals at City Hall that the City be divided into six wards or that elections be held every two years. Trustee Nan Murphy explained i that Board decision on the proposal must of necessity be deferred until the City has decided what it is going to do. She said that the City will pro Bably make up its mind before the session of the legislature ends. Earlier in the meeting a delegation from the Winnipeg Council of the Council of Canadian women presented a Brief urging the Board to reject the reduction. Not impressed mrs. A. Thorne. Reading the Brief said that the Council was not impressed by arguments in favor the reductions. It was Ridi she said to speak of it As an Economy measure when the trustees receive no remuneration another delegation headed by Albert Stechishin Secretary of the North Winnipeg election commit tee presented a petition which he said carried 201 names. Ii asked that the trustees not pass the bylaw. The bylaw did not come up for debate tuesday night. Board backs trustees Brief on teachers no strike clause right of Manitoba teachers to stage a strike sparked a one hour clash at a meeting of the Winni Peg school Board tuesday night. Setting off the argument was a Brief prepared by the Manitoba Urban trustees association which asks changes in provincial Law Flowers mrs. M. Harrison mrs. A. G. Bremner and k. Harris Cut be allowed to go Scot free As far Flowers t. W. Bennett dahlias s. Pickup and h. Mcleary Gladiolus mrs. 3. G. Flett and e. W. Saunders Sweet peas h. J. Sewell and mrs. W. H. Mobberly Waugh shield gardens mrs. 3. M. Button and mrs. J. Innes fancy work mrs. W. F. Matthews Home cooking and in. I Drake Home Canning veterans club robbed of thieves forced open a pad lock and an inside lock at the Kirkfield Park Branch of the army Navy and air Force vet Erans club tuesday night to Rifle the till of s100. Ramp said wednesday the theft was discovered at 6 . By a care taker. Winnipeg Gyro club major j. L. Charles chief regional Engineer of Canadian National railways will be guest speaker at a Winnipeg Gyro club meet ing at 5.30 . Thursday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. Optimist club meet police inspector George blow North City Bridge Sites under study the metropolitan planning com Mission will be asked to submit a report by March 1 on the Best location for a Bridge across the red River in North Winnipeg. Besides asking for the report Winnipeg s Public works commit tee tuesday decided to meet As soon As possible with the commis Sion and City engineering depart ment for a general discussion on Bridges. W. D. Hurst City Engineer told committee he would like to have at least four months to study All aspects of Bridge proposals before t0 the poses school playground he sees some children moping in the he said he thought efforts should be made to make sure those child Ren who have difficulty joining in playground sports events drawn into them. He made the remark in com Kildonan Otti Cias Nave set up a Menti on inc annual report Bridge committee and have Midi to shy pupils need help says trustee trustee s. M. Cherniack told a school Board meeting tuesday payers for approval. Ici parities of East Kildonan and North Kildonan which would Benefit from such a Bridge should not i which would deny teachers the right to strike. By a 10 to 5 vote the Board decided it would not dissociate itself from the Brief. The Hoard is rep a resented in the association t. A. Mcmaster Secretary of the Manitoba teachers society mesday said the Issue will be. Dis cussed by the society s executive saturday. He said the society would Likely present a Brief 1o the Indus trial relations commission. Led by trustee s. M. Cherniack. Kcf trustees and the Board s sole communist member urged that the As costs were concerned. Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey said East Kildonan officials have set up a i Andrew Currie the school District s i rated willingness to join education. Winnipeg in Aid talks with thei provincial government. The government policy is to pay full Cost of a 30-foot wide Bridge on a provincial trunk Highway within the municipality. Under special circumstances the province would contribute half the Cost of a similar Type of Bridge which was not on a trunk Highway. The mid trustee e. R. Tennant said that teachers Are present on the play grounds during the school recesses and she could not Ima Gine a teacher standing idly by while backward or shy children shunned the games and other activity. But i d like to said trustee Cherniack that we Are not rely will be guest speaker at a meet ing of the Winnipeg Optimist club at 12.15 . Thursday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. University film club resumes showings the University of Manitoba Campus film club has resumed showings this season with a selection of five film classics. Scheduled to follow the sea son opener Volpone which was shown thursday Are battleship Potemkin by the russian producer Eisen Stein Moana a documentary by american producer Robert 3. Fla Herty Beauty and the beast by Jean Cocteau and the Cabinet of or. Early impressionistic film. Film showings Are every second thursday at convocation Hall Bri United College. The film club is continuing last year s policy of limited member to on he teachers natural ten was m the 50 per cent do h cnildren., the government pent i show be reminded the equivalent of of per mus the Cost of a Bridge of he and the reposed Disraeli them to in thai but Currie s report recommend was dropped and Only the latter was presented for ratepayer approval. Cost of the Disraeli Street Bridge with approaches was to have been Rescue workers lift a casualty from under debris in a burned out building on Osborne Street near Corydon Avenue in a civil defence exercise tuesday night. Civil defence Rescue teams had the Job of carrying five casualties to safety from the building after a mock bombing attack on the Corydon Osborne intersection. It was the largest civil defence exercise of its kind Ever tried in Winnipeg. Civil defence tests skill in biggest scheme to Date de the development at a marauding enemy defence authorities also said vocational High school of a Large playing Field to serve the needs of dropped a stick of High explosive bombs on the Osborne Street Cory 1 a Ultima Wil lj1c ill schools in other parts of the City Idon Avenue intersection tuesday where the Fields Are not big enough Cost of the motown was set at David Mulligan told com Many schools particularly ele Mittee monday that the proposed ship. Membership tickets will be on Sale to the Public Jan. 21 at i North Winnipeg Bridge was not the convocation Hall preceding the showing of the second film of Only problem. He Felt the season. Planning commission should be asked to draw up a report on grounds six motorists fines total inter school games such As base six motorists paid of nes totalling in City police court monday. Robert Cann 743 Martin Avenue paid and costs for speeding. Walter Yakimchuk 807 Lansdowne Avenue paid 115 and costs for a similar offence. Speeders fined and costs were Richard Hirt 16 Worthington Avenue Gordon Larson 422 Beverley Street and William a. Rose Kensington Street St. James. Garry Mccowan 218 Kilbride Avenue paid s10 and costs for failing to Stop at a Stop sign. Albert Lamoureux of St. Nor Bert Man., was convicted in Juven contributing 10 juvenile Delin Quency. Judge Emerson j. Heaney sentenced him to serve three months in heading Ley jail. Drainage Basin of the Amazon River in South America is equal Ile court monday on charges of to Jive sixths of the United states. Ohio s mines have produced 1.8 billion tons of Coal since 1800. Smedley s Corner the thing that people seem most prone to put off til tomorrow is that visit to the doctor or dentist. One Winnipeg doctor ran into the last word in this line the other Day with a visit from a woman from out of town. She had a pain in her Side and a letter from her doctor at Home. So far so Good but the letter was Twenty years old. The woman had intended to come to Winnipeg at that time but just had t gotten around to it. She now had a pain similar to the one described in the letter but it was a new one. The old one went away years ago. A k e Ball and soccer and Lack of space makes it impossible to improve on this situation it u which could be handled Over a 10 year period. Man Given four years a Middle Church Man Frederick Wehr was sentenced to four years in Penitentiary by magistrate d. G. Potter in provincial police court wednesday on nine charges of breaking and entering. Wehr who confessed to the charges which dated Back to 1951, had appeared in provincial police court last week and was remanded for sentence. Tithe time magistrate Potter intimated that Wehr should be put away for the rest of his natural life because of his record. The break ins occurred in South Ern Manitoba and in the Middle Church area when Wehr was pos ing As a fire extinguisher Salesman his arrest came about through his wife when she phoned ramp to report that the family station Wagon had been stolen. Subsequent investigation by ramp revealed a Large Quantity of stolen goods on Wehr s premises. Items included outboard motors fishing Takle and recommended that the larger More suitable playgrounds be developed and equipped to serve the needs of several schools in an no immediate action was taken on the recommendations in his re port. Night blocking roadways starting fires and leaving five persons injured and trapped in a damaged building. The bomber was imaginary the bombs were imaginary but the efforts of civil defence Rescue squads who carried the five imaginary casualties to safety were real. It was the largest civil defence exercise of its kind Ever tried in greater Winnipeg to test Rescue workers in conditions As close to wartime As they can be made. To make it seem authentic the building used was actually dam aged _ it was the Shell of the old subway cafe on the South Side of Osborne Street just East of Cory Don gutted by fire six years ago. Tuesday night that another Rescue course open to the Public will begin at St. Anne s Hall 211 Hamp ton Street St. James Jan. 29. It will run Friday nights for five weeks. Personnel of the first team Fth tuesday s exercise included or. Dunlop or. Garside Bert Hack ing Earl Hall Vern Graham con government action sought on rising unemployment zionist delegates going to convention delegates from Lour members of i Imir a Nufi Myrtt Ritin War a Tell h j Lac a j the seven Oaks St. John s ambulance Cadet corps from East Kil zionist organizations will attend the 32nd National convention of the zionist organization of Canada being held this month in Mont real. Among the 600 delegates from across Canada will be 33 from Winnipeg s United Israel Appeal contributors seven from the Chaim Weizmann club five from the Sharon zionist club and three from Brandeis Lodge zionist men s association of Winnipeg. Lathes. Noma to hear Neufeld h. J. Neufeld supervisor of com Pany planning great weit life Assurance co., will discuss com Pany planning at a meeting of the National office management association. Winnipeg chapter at 5.30 . Monday in the fort Garry i hotel. Everything lost in fire family seeking House Smedley s Coffee shop does a roaring business the prominent restaurateur holds a Sale to show his contempt for rising prices. It s Only a says snied and h s queries customer who just tried a cup yes it s hoi but this is you got troubles sgt. C. B. N. Zeigler wonders Why it always has to happen to him. The other Day he tried to Start up his car but it re fused to go. Raising the Hood he discovered first his fan Belt broken second anti freeze running Over third a dead cat in the Middle of it All. I m always having trouble with my says the sergeant but with All the cars at fort Osborne Why did that poor cat have to choose mine to curl up Donar hidden by rubble or fallen beams two teams when the make believe bombs dropped two Rescue teams were sitting in metropolitan civil de Fence Headquarters 221 memorial Boulevard. The alarm came by Telephone from District Warden Cam Shewan of 576 Cambridge Avenue. Five persons were trapped one Rescue team needed said the report. Briefed swiftly by Harold need Ham chief civil defence training instructor on the Best approach to the building an eight Man Crew under Leader t. S. Dunlop set out for the scene. The second team under Mick Oram repeated the exercise later. At the site or. Dunlop and his Deputy. Hank Garside entered to scout the building for the casual two were found in the base ment the remaining three on the second floor. Reader Pat Alexander Deputy Leader Walter Jones Gerald Carroll Ron Irvine and Bill Hackling. One Man or. Philip is no stranger to civil defence. A Ger Man immigrant in this country Only two years he did Rescue work during 13 air raids in Germany during the last War. Winnipeg Board have nothing to do with i he Brief and publicly announce that it is not behind it. They were voted Down in a re corded vote by the 10 Cec bars of the Board. A history of the Brief goes Back i to a report made by judge w. J. I i Lindal in a salary dispute of the j Elphinstone school District. I the question was do Manitoba j teachers bargain under the labor j relations act or the education act j conflict of acts judge Lindal said there was a conflict and overlapping Between i the acts. He called for provincial j clarification. The trustees association decided to present a Brief to Hon. C. E. Greenlay in his capacity As chair Man of the Industrial relations commission offering the association s views on How the overlap Ping should be clarified. The Brief thus drawn up that the labor relations act be am ended to exclude teachers on the grounds that teachers should be in Ujj a class with the medical dental architectural engineering and Legal professions which Are Al o ready excluded under the act. Under the labor relations he Brief said the ultimate right t. And remedy of an employee is. To Trike. This ultimate remedy we hink is contrary to Public inter tests and beneath the dignity of professional people such As teach is. To similarity there is no similarity to an in lust rial strike in a competitive in the second paragraph of the Brief proclaimed that Winnipeg was among the school District members of the association. But he Winnipeg Board had never Dis cussed the situation and never taken a stand on it. What we come Down to in the fundamentals of the trus be Cherniack said is that it seems to take away the right of the teachers to strike. Trustee Cherniack said the j teachers were not like lawyers i and doctors. Teachers work for j one employer the school District. I would like to have reached that professional he said. But there s no sense fooling ourselves. They Laven bargaining rights trustee h. B. Parker said that _ before the Brief was drawn up it was agreed by the members of the association that the intention was not to deprive the teachers any it bargaining rights. But the Job of the trustees is to protect the children and a teach ers strike might Cost Many child Ren their year the pupils be subjected to the dangers of a strike such As the Jasper place ajta., teachers he said. Trustee Joseph Zuken communist member said the effect of the Brief is to make the teachers Sec. Ond class citizens because it be. Civil servant status trustee Nan Murphy said she Felt delegates to the Winnipeg labor Council the Street. I then the More difficult rescues Shegan. In a bedroom Ron Craggs 1.16, of 263 Perth Avenue was extricated from under fallen beams strapped to a Stretcher and Low ered vertically through a window to the ground. Don Lewis. 16. Of 273 Kilbride Avenue trapped in the bathroom behind a jammed door was saved i when a Rei through the obstruction. Then he was Low ered on a Stretcher through a Hole second offence speeder fined and costs a second offence speeder Wil Liam Thomas Bell 470 South drive fort Garry was fined s30 and costs in City police court tuesday. William Lehnert. 2s9 Cariton n it has a Largs Street suite 4, paid s25 and costs Sari or. Barber. For failing to remain at the scene he Felt it was a Short Jot an Accident. F. Armstrong Rev. H. Frame Rev. T. E. J. Gibbon Rev. A. J. Mac Lachlan Rev. W. A. Kaths Rev. F. W. Brig. Allan Mcinnes and Rev. Fred Mitchell. In a Short address on Success View for some persons to blame William Magalas. Lot 17 West St. Immigrants for the a employ Paul was assessed Ana costs he Sari there was Ifor spending. Speeders fined 510 and costs were Joseph Caron 698 Furby Street William Didur 990 Moun Tain Avenue William a. 428 Monreith Street and Joseph Masliuk 1644 Logan Avenue. Not a single Delegate at the meet ing Whoso parents or grandparents had not been immigrants at one Lime in this land. We Jive no objections to seeing displaced persons coming Here. The j three motorists were each fined immigrants will be some Day our t members. One Way to push them is and costs for proceeding form away from the Trade unions is to a Stop sign before it was Safe to do and failure in the ministry Rovi criticize them for something they be blamed or. James said. Or. Ters must have a reversed scale of values from those accepted by the Public. Or. Check land said the supreme Ramea uni. Of our society is summed up 6scun window to dear the phrase " of Cabin to White Small window to Clear house., they Are members of a society that accepts this Mea sure of Success ministers must so. They were Russell a tick in the floor to the ground. I realize hat it is no part of the tuesday s exercise went off with Only one hitch. Walkie talkie radio sets with which Rescue teams were supposed to keep in Contact with and i both work. Ethel will be Central Headquarters failed to of out of Hospital and Back to because of Static conditions school sometime this but the exercise was a mile meanwhile the separated Stone for the Rescue teams in their family is striving to get re two years of training together in Home. Still Short of Mient Christian gospel he said. The problem or. Check land said is that the Christian ministry is a profession but that one s Suc Cess in it cannot be measured As it would be in other professions. It is required of stewards that they be trustworthy not he concluded. Free press meetings meetings in the free press building thursday will include Board room no. 2, ladies auxiliary Imperial veterans in Canada whist club at 2 . Board room no. 1, local coun cil of women 8 . Board room no. 2, greater Winnipeg ladies Kennel club 8 . Clubroom Imperial London association 8 . Joseph Carriere. 379 Deschambault Street St. Boniface Kenneth Saufler 310 Rutland Street and Werner Schulze 234 Cherrington Avenue. North Kildonan. Drive Jan. 29 flin flon Man. Special flin flon s. March of dimes Campaign in conjunction with the Nat ions Campaign will be undertaken by the Rebekah lodges who Are presently planning a one Day local drive Friday Jan. 29 ;