Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Delicious sugar cured by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week free More Calcium Bryce s milk Glo Brand bread i look for milk percentage on wrapper Winnipeg saturday week end edition with comics Loe committee studies problem should City help pay for tourist Bureau decision on whether or not Winnipeg should contribute to setting up a tourist and Conven Tion Bureau in the City will be made during discussions of the 1954 budget estimates. Civic finance committee Fri Day indicated it would recommend City participation to Council Only it the proposal survives the Par ing Down on this year s estimated four year old Diane and Wendy Boak twirl daughters of or. And mrs. Robert g. Boak 432 Centennial Street stare in wonder at the 17-foot Golden Model of Buckingham Palace made entirely from Glass and on display at the t. Eaton co. Store Here during Bonspiel week. Brewery addition helps hike Buckingham building total to value of building permits is sued so far this year by Winni Peg s engineering department stood at Friday. Total number of permits is sued was 84. Only three of these acre for dwellings with a combined value of a permit adjustment of 000 added substantially to the week s figures. This was for an addition to Shea s brewery 137 Colony Street total of which is a permit for the bal Ance was taken out last year. Only other Large permit taken out during the week was for a apartment Block to be located at 131 Alfred Avenue. Owner is listed As a. Fineberg. Week end the permit value figure stood at was sen disqualified Driver goes to jail William Franklin Warren s71 Cumberland Avenue a Linvs in jail Friday after he plcoaco1 Ufi to be driven. Miller again Heads campers federation William g. Miller Friday was re elected president of the Sioux Lookout campers federation at a meeting m the free press Board room. E. Cambell was selected Secretary treasurer. Members of the federation represent the following re sorts Winn Toba man., Rice Lake Otte Mere Malachi Wade Minaki Redditt Mcintosh and Sioux Lookout All in Ontario. Credit Union rates set at meeting we steel employees credit Union society Ltd. Will pay four per cent on shared Capi Tal and two per cent on de posits it was decided at the annual meeting. New Mem Bers of the executive Are r. P. Rodrigues and Thomas o Shaughnessy Board of directors e. Gould and m. Squirt supervisory commit tee and f. Stevens Delegate to the credit Union Conven Tion. 353 Provencher Avenue St. Boniface. Troupe entertains at Blind Institute Leon h. Nichols school of music concert troupe and or Chestra presented a concert at the Canadian Institute for the Blind. Taking part were Ronnie Saltes Dorean Lac Roix Wallean Jiacomin Jan Nis Frame Linda Mailey Lois Mailey Marguerite Reed John Campbell Donnie Campbell Frank Baird Jim break in nets thieves in watches rings an Early morning break in sat urday at ukrainian trading co., 788 main Street netted thieves an estimated Worth of watches and rings. The break in occurred about 4 . Entry was gained through a window. William Bilenky 604 Inkster Boulevard company owner said he estimated the loss at in merchandise and 527 in Cash. Butler William Derkash Lucky Carson t. M. Hoskins Dorothy Mcgarva Margue rite Mcgarya and mrs. H. Strowger pianist. Smedley s Corner Resi after our item on Street names the other Day a Dent of St. Vital phoned to ask How fifth Avenue got there with no first second third or fourth. Well it s a Long Story we discovered going Back to somewhere around 1903, when there were other numbered avenues and streets too in that District. Old plans show Carriere Avenue which is the Boundary Street Between St. Boniface and St. Vital As third Avenue. Niverville on the St. Boniface Side was then second Avenue. Maurice Prudhomme St. Boniface City clerk checked through old records and passed on this information on the one time numbered the Norwood area sometime Between 1903 and 1909, first Street became Cauchon then Walmer the name it carries today second became Schultz eventually Kirkdale third became Patter son then Highfield fourth Street became Mcmillan then took its present name of Conniston. Excepting Rosser where there Are numbered streets St. Vital is the Only Section of greater Winnipeg which can claim a numbered Street i that one Lone fifth Avenue. At least that s the Only one we could locate in the City directory. Palace Model on display a glittering Model Buck Ingham Palace measuring 17 Leet by five feet with a revolving reproduction of the historic Victoria Monument in front of it and Model guards marching Between the two is on display in Winni Peg. The Model constructed entirely from Golden Glass Mir ror is one of the main exhibits on display at the t. Eaton co. Store Here during big week at Eaton a which starts monday. The displays Are planned to coincide with Bonspiel pictures. Ordered by Eaton s for it s Coronation display in Toron to last summer the Glass Model was built by a Toron to couple John and Linda Keough who gave up Ballet careers for this Type of work. Behind the gilded Gates the Palace sits behind gilded Gates also created in Gold Mirror and Gold glitter. The Victoria Monument revolving in the foreground is sur rounded by a water filled Moat. Inside the Gates Are the Queen on horseback with her attache taking the Sal Ute from her regiment. The Queen s own guards. Other Bonspiel week Dis plays include eight 45-min Ute puppet shows a Model Home furnished throughout with Nylon and a Cutty Sark ship display. A television camera will be set up in the radio depart ment and attached to a Stan Dard to set will let visitors see themselves on television. City Hall models finally there will be a Dis play of models for the pro posed new City Hall made by senior students at the univer sity of Manitoba s school of architecture. These models Are designed for use on the several Sites proposed by the metropolitan planning com Mission and were made for a Competition sponsored by the Indiana Limestone Institute. Another students Model will be an experimental Plas tic car designed and built on a regulation Small size Chas Sis by students at the Mani Toba technical Institute. Unit hears medical speakers k. O. Mackenzie Deputy min ister of health and Public Wel fare has outlined the influence of family disturbances on the health of children. Or. Mackenzie was speaking at a Public symposium sponsored by the St. James St. Vital fort Garry health unit in St. James collegiate held in connection with Public health week. He explained the relationships Between Public welfare and the health services particularly in broken Homes where he said child s health is often affected by family disruptions. Or. H. R. Stewart director of dental services stressed the need for care of the Teeth emphasizing the role played in dental decay by acid producing germs the talk was followed by a film. S. C. Sparling executive director of the society for cripple cd children in Manitoba spoke o the expansion of the services of the organization with special re Ference to the rehabilitation o those crippled by polio and other diseases. At the evening or Morley r. Elliott Deputy minis Ter of health spoke on work done by the world health Organiza Tion. Or. Elliott a Delegate to the organization s conference in Gen Eva last Spring said it now a 82 member nations of which Canada was one of the founds Tion group. Three canadians a executive members he said. Other speakers were Ralph e Wendelborn director of health and welfare education a. A. Win slow St. Vital chairman of the health unit advisory Board prof g. Robson of United College an Frazer Earle Myca Counselor. Playhouse rent hike favored civic finance committee for Day approved a schedule of in creased rates for rental of the playhouse theatre. Committee also approved a re commendation by the sub Corn Mittee on City properties that n tree or reduced rentals b granted. Aid. V. B. Anderson sub Corn Mittee member said it was Hope that the playhouse could be 01 crated on a paying basis. He a he was opposed to the past Pra Tice of placing Grants As deficit on the theatre s annual stat ment. The new rental increase help to meet a proposed Repa Bill of if Council approves the sche ule it will go into effect sept. 1. Spend Tures. Cost of the plan sponsored by e Winnipeg chamber of com Erce would be borne by the to and private Industry on a liar for Dollar basis. The. City s maximum contribution would be annually. Mayor impressed mayor Garnet Coulter Saia he As impressed with the merits of e proposal following a meeting Ith chamber officials and he was favor of City participation in in plan. He said tourist publicity done y the provincial government As done Lor the province As a Hole. Winnipeg he said needed metropolitan group on planning seeks word on its future Uch a Bureau to publicize the Tyas a convention site. Mayor Coulter did t think any difficulty would be experienced i getting local business firms to contribute to the plan. Xes avg Money Frank Boothroyd chairman o he chamber s tourist and con mention committe recently told Nance committee that Winnipeg As losing Money because nobody As actively pushing the City As convention site. Estimated budget of the Bureau or the first year s operation be to other business Laid Over for estimates discussion was request from children s hos ital for a Grant toward he 1953 operating deficit Winnipeg school Board s re West that the City Levy and col act the sum of for Thi operation and maintenance o schools during 1954. Total Testim Ted expenditures this year i a Winnipeg Art gallery re West for a Grant of metropolitan civil Defeno Doard s request for payment o he City s share for 1954 of 516, ,84. Officials of the metropolitan 1 a n n i n g commission Friday asked Winnipeg finance commit be aldermen to make up your mind whether or not the com Mission is to stay in business. The officials Are worried about he temporary nature of the commission and told finance com Mittee that holding its staff at resent salaries was becoming a serious problem. Finance committee decided to set up a sub committee with commission officials and bring in a full report. A week earlier committee had turned Down the commission s called for an the act under request for a budget increase for 1954. The increase amendment to which the commission was constituted in 1949. The amendment would increase the present assessment rate per capita of population from 10 cents to a maximum of 15 cents. Maximum budget allowed at present is the commis Sion s draft budget for this year Calls for an expenditure of 700. Increase needed to meet this expenditure the assessment rate this year would Industrial Board picks officers d. A. B. Murray Friday was elected chairman of the Board of directors of the Industrial development Board of greater Winnipeg. Or Murray has been Active on the Board for Over 10 years serv ing terms As vice chairman and honorary treasurer. Or. Murray predicted a new Field for Industrial opportunities in Winnipeg when natural Gas becomes available Here. He also said that with Over 40 per cent of the present labor Force Here employed in manufacturing it is imperative to Contin Manitoba University shows profit of the University of Manitoba made a profit of in the year ending March 31, 1953, compared with a deficit of the pre Vious year. Main increase in Rev Enue came from Grants student yes and sales. Gross income of the University was and expenditures totalled then annual report of the Hoard of governors tabled in the legislature thursday by Hon. W. C. Miller minister of education stated that the income figures did no include trusts and endow ments. Investment holdings totalled rates for resident students a week for Board and an aver age of a week for room Are the lowest rates that we Are aware of in any institution of this Type in the Board re ported. At the same time operation of the residence and food service showed a profit of a total of students 457 men and 987 women enrolled in graduate and under graduate courses in the 1952-53 University year. They came from All parts of Canada United King Dom the United states Norway British West indies Nigeria Swit Zerland Germany China Poland Estonia South America India Borneo Iceland and Belgium. Need for More space and build Ings was emphasized by the department of agriculture Home economics science the school o architecture and the faculty of Medicine. Present construction he faculty of Medicine reported include a Library an auditorium which would also serve As an sex a nation Hall and a cafeteria is Well As urgently required space for students common rooms washrooms Tea chief Pilot sales club speaker capt. R. E. Hadfield chief Pilot of trans Canada air lines will be gues still alive and he built first Manitoba pipe band _ _ to my petitions in tarted building pipe news item Canada May store . Atom news from abroad before the shoulders other sports out of the news we should like to report another perfect cribbage hand this time it was held by a Winnipeg Ger serving seas Corporal g. A. Harris with the military police writes from the 1st Field detention Barracks at Soest Germany that he was playing with sgt. Mackenzie the other evening _ Well around Midnight when the sergeant dealt him three fives and the Jack of Spades. So what do we get in the Cut _ the five of Spades r All right you can Sooper up now troys. A free press Reader in Seattle nip the Washington opened his paper a couple of weeks ago and was sur prised to find his father s picture there. His father now 80, has not lived in Winnipeg since 1916 and the picture was taken in 1904. John Ironside was a member of Manitoba s first pipe band the clan Stewart band on which the free press ran a Story Jan. 16. James Mclntosh of 1257 Riddle Avenue the pipe major had said he thought he was the Only surviving member of the. Band which was organized 50 years ago. Jack Ironside wrote the free press to state that his father is still very much alive and Active in the piping organized . Bands More than that the former Manitoba Piper after leaving Winnipeg organized other bands in the ., including the first . Army pipe band and the Only boy s pipe band in the . Of the original band or. Iron Side s son writes inasmuch As you have shown an interest in the first Winnipeg pipe band i would like to take this Opportunity to fill you in on some of the details of its origin and organization. My father was the organizer of this band. He arrived in Winnipeg in May 1904, from Glasgow Scot land having served with the Victoria and again at the High land games in Seattle. In 1948 or. Ironside organized and taught the first . Army pipe band the 2nd division pipe band at fort Lewis Washington which later fought and played in Korea. In 1952 he organized the Seattle pipe band juniors the Only boys pipe band in the United encloses picture enclosed in the letter were clip pings from last sunday s Seattle times pictorial Section three pages of pictures of the boys band in action. On the cover was a color picture of Angus and Jackie Ironside five and seven Busy with their practice chanters. Their says the caption. Daddy Jack Ironside of the Seattle pipe As you can readily see from the pictures or. Iron Side concluded the Man who Highland Light infantry in India and Africa As a Piper. The Pic Ture you printed was taken in the Arlington hotel. The first funds for outfitting the band were donated by a or. D. A. Ross and the balance of the Money was donated by the clan Stewart. Or. J. Ironside person ally ordered the uniforms from Moore Taggart in Glasgow. After leaving Winnipeg my i father organized the Seattle pipe band in 1916. In 1953 the band tic names successor to Murphy William Godfrey 50, representative of the trades and lab i Congress of Canada at fort Wil Liam has been appointed Mani Toba representative of the con Gress with Headquarters in Winnipeg. Or. Godfrey a civic employee at fort William and a resident there for 45, years has been a leading figure in the Trade Union movement for Many years. He succeeds Andrew Murphy whose resignation As Manitoba representative became effect in Jan. 31. Building pipe in 1904 is Trong and has two More Genera ions coming behind him trying t Ollow in the footprints he implanted in the Winnipeg Snow in 1904. Yours was an interesting Art Cle after so Many years and sincerely Hope you can make us of some of this material to per haps draw further comments fron others who might be survivors o he clan Stewart pipe band o Central Region peaker at a Winnipeg sales and advertising club luncheon at noon monday n the fort 3arry hotel. What goes on n the cockpit of a modern air r i n c r will be described by the Jilot a former Winnipeg or who used to do a member of Manitoba s for Hadfield Estry patrol. Capt. Hadfield a been with Tea for the past 1 years. Wrong sized loaf too Low temperature both mean fines a Fine plus costs was levied thursday in City police court thursday against can Ada bread co. Ltd. For Mak ing for Sale bread of unlawful weight. Stefania Safianiuk 870 Sher Brook Street paid and costs for failing to heat the premises at 872 Sherbrook Street in accordance with the Winnipeg heating bylaw. The bylaw states that be tween sept. 1 and june the temperature Between 7 . And 11 . Must not go be Low 68 degrees. After 11 . And before 7 . The temperature must not go below 60 degrees e an aggressive program to at act further suitable industries i greater Winnipeg. Other officers elected were be chairmen w. Culver Riley and Robert Lennox honorary treasurer Allan h. Watson chairman of finance j. W. Speirs honorary president of the Board v. H. Carter honorary vice residents s. C. Cook and s. B Tikman honorary solicitor g Thorvaldson. D. A. B. Murray beat landlord pays Fine assaulting tenants is getting to be a habit for Zolton Toth resident landlord of the Daykin apartments. Friday in City police court he was fined 510 and costs and or dered to pay 515 witness fees for assaulting George s. Howe 22 Daykin apartments. It was the third time he had been convicted of such an offence police said. Evidence heard in court revealed that the trouble began when or. Howe was seeking the janitor to complain about a defective toilet. Or. Howe told the court he had gone to the boiler room looking for the janitor when Tofu swore at him and complained about the noise he had made in the hallway while cleaning his shoes. Court was told picked up a Board and during a struggle pushed or. Howe into the Stoker pit injuring his Back. Toth also Tore the victim s underwear. Or. Howe said he had been a diabetic for 19 years and had spent three years in a Sanatorium. A counter charge against or. Howe was dismissed by Magis trate m. H. Garton. Le6ion aug Hilary the ladles auxiliary of the ukrainian legion Branch no. 141, will hold a meeting and initiation at 8 . Sunday at 610 Selkirk a total of in dimes is poured into an Iron lung to help boost the March of dunes polio Campaign. Pouring is j. Ogston Secretary of the Winnipeg police athletic association at the Hudson s Bay co. Store. Looking on Are Art Chipman president of the society Lor crippled children and h. J. Van Der Vreken the police association. Ave to be increased to 11.7 cents or capita of population. Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey who ended a delegation of commis Ion officials Friday said the ame problem comes up year afer when budget time oils around. Main headache he said was How o hold on to staff at present Sal iries and How to Cut costs in order to remain within the Bud get s limitations. Aid. Harvey called the budget increase a very reasonable re w. E. Davison citizen Mem Ber said the entire situation was very embarrassing to a group of professional men. They still Don t if their jobs Are permanent or much surprised he said he was very much surprised that the staff had remained As Long As it had. We be been coming Down Here for five he said and now the pressure is really or. Davison said at least Ona staff member had been offered another Job at a higher salary. Work has built up to a Point where the present staff can t handle it he said and an additional staff member will be needed. You can t expect us to oper ate within the present limitations of the he said. Aid. C. E. Simonite said he had received complaints from various civic departments that they weren t getting the desired Coop ration from the commission. The commission he said often prepared plans that did not fit in with plans already underway by some other group. Committee last week charged that necessary co ordination was lacking Between the metropol Itan group the Winnipeg town planning commission and the City Surveyor s department and work these groups often Over City paying shot Aid. Simonite said at one time anyway Winnipeg was not get Ting full value for its contributions and the City was paying the shot for the other members. Or. Davison said the Comis Sion always had in mind the relationship of Winnipeg with out Side municipalities. The development of these municipalities was of great interest. I to the City s future and the com Mission always planned on the premise that these municipalities would eventually enter a metropolitan set up. He said a great Deal of misunderstanding was the cause of the charges of Lack of co operation. Several of the City s department Heads had been requested to Send representatives to the commis Sion meeting but had failed to do so. He warned that if the metropolitan commission were done away with the Winnipeg. Town planning commission alone could t do an adequate planning Job because it would t be Able to get volunteers with the Nec Essary ability. Believed necessary Aid. V. B. Anderson said he thought most of the aldermen were of the opinion that the commission was a necessity. Last year Council by a one vote majority decided to stay in the commission Aid. Simonite said his main objection was that of outside municipalities dictating commission policy while Winnipeg paid the Bills. Committee finally decided that special sub committee com posed of Aid. George Sharpe Aid. Anderson Aid. H. B. Scott j. R. I clones commissioner of Fin Ance w. D. Hurst City Engineer and j. B. Scott City Surveyor should meet with commission officials and bring in a full report. The question of co ordination co operation and finances will be looked into by the group. The metropolitan planning commission is financed through payment of the member municipalities on the basis of Popula Tion. In addition to Winnipeg members Are Charleswood East St. Paul fort Garry North Kil Donan old Kildonan St. Boniface St. Vital Tuxedo and East Kildonan. Home school local meet set need for More recreation for school children in the Northwest Ern Section of the greater Winnipeg area will be discussed at a District Home and school Confer ence wednesday evening in St. John s High school. Mrs. C. S. Evenden Middle Church president of the Manitoba Home and school association announced plans for the meet saturday. The conference is for District c of the greater Winnipeg area extending from Logan Avenue North and including Middle Church and West from the red River. Prof. R. N. Hallstead retiring District chairman will preside. Feature of the conference will be a panel discussion by Provin Cial committee chairmen mrs. Evenden presiding. Panel subject will be school education and Community influence and Parent education. Arrangements for the Confer ence Are under the direction of mrs. R. E. H. Armstrong Winni Peg vice president of the Mani Toba Home and school Wrocla Tion. The conference will elect a new District chairman ;