Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 8, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba For Lakier pastry Winnipeg More milk More Calcium Bryce a milk Glo Brand bread look Fot milk percentage on wrapper by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg monday february week end edition with comics Loc owner of fire hit House mystery to police tenant nobody seems to know who owns a House at 1202 Strath Cona Street where fire broke out sunday causing an Esti mated damage. Oscar Peterson died Jan. 25, leaving the House vacant and police believe there Are no known relatives in this country. Donald Mann of 289 tache Street St. Boniface has been looking after the House. He thinks the House was in Heriod by a Niece in Sweden. Officials believe the fire started from an Over heated Cook stove. 7 per cent of u students give blood Seten per cent or the total student enrolment donated blood during a preliminary drive for University of Manitoba students at the red Cross Centre. V Dorothy Johnson Campus blood drive director said the Down town faculties have already had More donors than last year when the University sponsored its first organized blood drive. Students will be donating at the Mobile clinic on the University Campus until thursday. Gonorrhoea cases drop by three a decline of three cases of gonorrhoea among civilian and armed forces personnel in Manitoba was noted during the week ending Jan. 30 As compared with the previous week. The provincial health department reported a total of 25 gonorrhoea cases compared with 29 the week before. There were two syphilis cases same number As the previous week. Figures with the previous week totals in brackets were proper 13 cases Winnipeg sub Tirban six outside greater Winnipeg seven syphilis Winnipeg proper two Winnipeg sub Urban none outside greater Winnipeg none Winnipeg to see 3 Canadian plays three one act plays by Canadian dramatists will have their premieres in the playhouse theatre March 3. Sponsoring the program is the jewish women s musical club which conducted a nation wide one act playwriting contest and selected the Best plays. Directors will in clude Zora Weidman will Dickson and John Hirsch. Kiwanis club to hear economist Graeme c. Norman trans port economist Canadian National railways Western re Gion will speak at a Winni Peg kiwanis club luncheon at 12.20 tuesday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. Picked up in Winnipeg wanted in Edmonton Lloyd Martin Dolha 29, of no fixed abode has been taken to Edmonton by an ramp escort to face charges of forgery and uttering. Police said Dolha admitted passing cheques in Edmon ton which had been stolen from a business office in Edmonton Jan. 21. Police said two of the cheques stolen in Edmonton had been passed in Winnipeg recently but not by Dolha. City woman wins weaving award a Winnipeg woman has won recognition at the Lon Don ont. District weavers second annual exhibition of Canadian hand weaving where weavers from seven provinces were represented. She is miss Elsie Ogston 244 Balfour Avenue who won an award for apparel fabric and Woollen articles. Record bids for Aid to fire victims the welfare department the Canadian red Cross Mani Toba division received a rec Ord number of requests in january for Aid to fire Vic Tims. Three requests from Winnipeg and 14 from the rest of the province brought help to 112 persons. Of the 732 articles supplied 337 were bedding and 395 vere clothing. Picked pal s pocket Man jailed stealing from a pocket of a companion resulted in a four month jail term monday for John Johnson 36, of no fixed abode. Court was told Johnson had taken the Money from his companion s coat pocket after the complainant had paid for two meals in a local restaurant with a s10 Bill. Case was heard in City police court before magistrate m. H. Garton. W. Arburt Heads Home school group w. J. Burt has been elected president of the lord Nelson Home and school association. W. Wall and f. Hinther Are honorary presi dents. Other officers elected Are j. T. Wilson and mrs. M. Chasney vice presidents mrs. J. Buchanan Secretary treasurer mrs. W. Slym social convener. The social committee includes mrs. F. Hin ther mrs. William Jurrens mrs. A Mager and mrs. N. Russell. Design work on Winnipeg s Midtown Bridge has been completed Jed tenders have been called for steel for the superstructure w. D. Hurst City Engineer announced monday. The three Span continuous Bridge will be 453 feet Long and will Cross the Assiniboine River in the Vicinity of Donald Street and Stra Brook Avenue. Exact location vill not be announced until certain property negotiations have been completed. The Bridge by Law which gained ratepayer approval last year Calls for approaches extending 300 feet North of Assini Boine Avenue. The Bridge will have a 46-foot Roadway Between curbs. End an eight foot sidewalk on each Side. Four woebegone curlers Are mournfully wondering if they la have to equip their rocks with outboard motors As Manitoba s 66th annual Bonspiel got under Way monday morn ing. Temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above Normal Are softening ice and there is no sign of colder weather. Games were cancelled in at least one of the rinks. Jack Newton Points out the rising Mercury to left to right Sam Ivor Sid gentle Archie Ferguson and Ross Johnson. 1st grizzly Ever born in City Park is dead sex Prairie officer to take Paris course a former staff officer of Prairie command . R. L. Houston 42, of Arn prior ont., has been chosen to attend the next course at the nato defence col lege in Paris. The course will open feb. 19. A native of Mel Ville sask., he joined the signal corps in 1935, served overseas in the second world War and held posts in Eastern Canada before becom ing staff officer Grade one Prairie command Winnipeg in sept. 1950. Selkirk Talent show the associated commercial travellers Job Talent Amateur show will be held at the Selkirk memorial Hall feb. 20, it was announced monday by the Sel Kirk chamber of Commerce. George Sigurdson is chairman of the committee in charge of the show and entries will be Regist ered with Spencer w. Kennedy and Charles Tovell. P and b association the Leonardo a Vinci professional and business association will meet at 7 . Tuesday in the Rancho Don Carlos. Knowles school for boys sees concert the old boys club of the Knowles school for boys has held its annual convert at the school. The Canadian musical revue troupe put on a two hour show. Smedley s Corner almost had a scientific mystery on our hands when mrs. M. Ritchot 131 Edmonton Street phoned to Tell us that a Chicken she bought at the store had feathers growing on its Gizzard. Smedley s research department immediately got in touch with professor p. A. Kondra at the animal science department at the University to find out How the professor said it sounded like a ticklish situation and was so interested he took the Gizzard out to the University to have a Good look at it. It could have been quite a strange natural phenomenon. It want though. It turned out to be the feathers had t grown there. The late Chicken simply had swallowed some feathers before its demise. As the Manitoba Curling association s 66th annual Bonspiel opened monday we caught a glimpse of a prominent sportsman throwing the first Rock or vice versa. It says Here it was chinese food with an International flourish when the "25 year club of National drugs sat Down to dinner at the Shanghai on january 29. The menu included and quote won ton in sour Irish soup icelandic Chow fan Gimli style Welsh sub gum Chow Mien Cardiff Crisp noodles English lobster Marmein noodles noodles and noodles Canadian mushroom chop suey Western style no ill effects reported. At least one of the grizzly Bear cubs the first born in Captivity in Manitoba is dead. The cub or cubs were born to sgt. Minto and his partner Maude at Assiniboine Park zoo two ago. Park officials did not know of the approaching event until notified by a citizen. Carrying cub last Friday r. Davidson 122 Lipton Street a visitor to the zoo took some pictures of sgt. Minto and Maude stalk ing about the Bear pit. Maude was carrying a cub in her Mouth at the time and it appeared to be alive. Approximately half an hour later the carcass of the baby cub believed to be the same one was on the pit floor. Even so survival for two weeks after a Captivity birth has established a record in Manitoba said to r. Hodgson superintendent of Public Parks. However he said that antiquated Bear pits were in All probability the cause of death. There Are two or three instances in the United states he where grizzly cubs have survived but they had better accommodation. It is regrettable and we civil service costs boost discussed -1 increased government services Are the main causes of higher civil service costs in Manitoba Hon. Edmond Prefontaine min ister of municipal affairs said in a provincial affairs broadcast Over Krc saturday night. He said that in the 20 years up to 1953 the number of government employees had climbed from to in the same period the Cost of operating the civil service had gone from to 940. He cited wider health services establishment of a department of Industry and Commerce and expansion of the department of mines and resources As major factors in the growth. Most government departments had shared in the expansion he said. He added that Manitoba had 4.6 civil servants per thousand of population compared with a National average for provincial governments of 6.2. In jewelry taken from shop on main Street watches and rings Worth about and in Cash were re ported stolen in one of six week end break ins reported monday by City detectives. Thieves stole the goods from the ukrainian trading co., 788 main Street Early saturday by smashing a window. Earlier estimates of the loss by William Bilenky owner of the store were set at about three Young thugs attempting to Pound open the Safe in people s Coop Ritchard Avenue and Battery Street were fright ened away at 9.45 . Sunday by an employee. Police said the three escaped without getting any loot and left their tools at the scene of the crime. Oiler break ins were can Adian fruit distributors 430 Ross Avenue an electric clock stolen Canadian aviation electronics 387 Sutherland Avenue Box of cigars stolen Home of Margaret Johnston 752 Jessie Avenue stolen Home of e. Portigal 1246 Wellington Crescent nothing believed stolen. Feel very badly about it. The cubs As a family group would have been a drawing card and with better surroundings i think they would have survived. Better facilities we Are getting ahead with our plans for barter facilities at the zoo but we Haven t been Able to do anything to the Bear pits so the Bear pits built around 1904, provide no Means for zoo keepers to get a look in the Dens and determine if there Are More cubs. Panel to discuss education trend a panel a scission on progressive education will be held wednesday night at a meeting of the lord Selkirk Home and school association in the school. Topic of the discussion will be has progressive education destroyed our educational Stan Dards chairman of the meeting will be prof. H. C. Pentland of the department of economics at the University of Manitoba and vice president of the lord Selkirk association. Panel members will be prof. Joseph Katz of the department of education at the University of Manitoba and or. Andrew Moore provincial inspector of secondary schools. Alcoholism committee not says director the committee on alcoholism for Manitoba is neither wet nor dry in its approach to the liquor question m. Ross Mounce of Winnipeg said monday. Or. Mounce executive director of the committee issued the statement from his office at 588 Broadway. Study group Only the committee is interested solely in the study of alcoholism As a or. Mounce stated. Its concern is with that percentage of the population actually afflicted the disease about six per cent of All drinkers or about three per cent of the total population he added. He explained that the commit tee is not connected with any Temperance group but depends on government support and pub Lic subscription. It is a popular mis Concep or. Mounce said that the committee on alcoholism is directly representative of Alco Holics Anonymous. This is erroneous. The committee recognizes a As probably the most effective single method yet developed for the rehabilitation of the Al Coholic and several a s Are valued members of our commit tee. Other than that there is no direct no connection he said that the committee on alcoholism for Manitoba also has no connection with the National committee for the prevention of Liberal group names executive Helen Tuskey was elected president of the Winnipeg North Young Liberal association at its annual meeting in the St. Charles hotel. Other officers elected were Earl Essers past president Ber Nie Kushner vice president Jeanette Runge Secretary by Solomon treasurer John rodins publicity chairman Elsie Zapp social chairman Helen Rejko Wicz program chairman Joyce Ketchen membership chairman and Syd Perlmutter organization chairman. Speaker was Hon. W. C. Miller minister of education. Bail set in theft charge bail was set at monday for an East Kildonan Man charged with the theft of tires and wheels eight cases of Mush rooms and one Case of vinegar valued at approximately he was Alex Kozlowski of 487 Ottawa Avenue East Kildonan who appeared in provincial police court and was remanded one week without plea. Free press meetings meetings to be held in the free press building tuesday Are As follows Board room no. 1, Winnipeg social credit study group 8 . Board room no. 2, t. Eaton co. Ltd. Public speaking group 5.30 . Board room no. 2, printing House craftsmen Board of 8 . And clubroom press Bridge club 8 . New York City whose objectives alcoholism. It is however Affili ated with the Yale Institute of alcoholic studies end the nation Al committee for education on alcoholism in organizations Are identical with our concepts of the Manitoba committee Are simple in the said or. Mounce. We believe that alcoholism is a Dis ease and that the alcoholic is a sick person. We believe further that the alcoholic can be helped and is invariably Worth helping. He concluded Inas much As we consider alcoholism a Public health problem we con Sider it also a Public response sunday morning assault Case brings Fine Joseph Russell Gillespie 25, of 353 Kennedy Street was fined s60 and costs in City police court monday for assaulting another Man outside a restaurant Early sunday. Police said Gillespie had slapped a 15-year-old youth across the face when the boy offered him a match for his unlit cig Aret. George Robertson Geddes 25, of 135 Perth Avenue questioned Gillespie about his conduct to Ward the youngster. Court was told that after the two men had discussed the mat Ter outside Gilles pie jumped Geddes from behind threw him to the ground and stepped on his head three times Geddes suffered cuts on his Cheek face bruises two broken Teeth and a broken dental plate As a result of the assault police said. Detectives said Gillespie who suffered a torn ear in the scuffle also bit the hand of a Man who tried to break up the fight. Wolseley Home school a film on elementary pupils will be shown at a meeting of the Wolseley Home and school association at 8 . Wednesday. Steel tenders called for la due to receive pay boost members of the Manitoba legis lature Are almost certain to vote themselves an increase in pay at the present session. The subject has been discussed among Las since the session opened feb. 2 and monday there appeared Little doubt that More pay was coming. Members now get a year and the most common guess is that the pay will go to this would bring Manitoba Las level with the other Western prov inces but still a year below members of the Ontario Legisla Ture. Legislative sources indicated monday that a pay increase has full support from All three major parties in the House. Manitoba Cabinet ministers Are also due for a pay increase. At present they get a year same As they were getting in 1931. It is expected they will get or a year. The increases will Cost the province around a year. Government sources Point out that the salary of senior Cabinet members is half of what the City of Winnipeg pays some of its department Heads. Details of the increases will be ironed out in a government Cau Cus within the next few weeks legislation for the change would go to the House in the form of an amendment to the legislative Assembly act. Blow injured Man s brain says surgeon or. Dwight Parkinson a Winnipeg neurosurgeon giving Evi Dence at the trial of mar Shal Rudy Ziemiel 22, of 554 Slier Burn Street said he had per formed an operation on Joseph Mcleod 40, of 462 Kennedy Street a Hong Kong Veteran. Mcleod died following a fracas oct. 30. Or. Parkinson said Mcleod suffered damage to the brain As Well As extensive injuries. He was giving evidence at Ziemiel s trial on a charge of manslaughter in court of Queen s Bench. Mcleod was brought to Winnipeg general Hospital after he was found lying on the Street outside the Seymour hotel about 6.30 . Oct. 30. He was oper ated on that evening but died the next morning. A second of the 15 Crown wit Nesses or. D. W. Penner said a question by Crown. Prosecutor w. J. Johnston that Mcleod had suffered More than one violent blow to the head. These blows would have been consistent with a blow of the fist or one in which a fist covered by Metal was used said or. Penner. W. Davison is representing the accused. The trial will continue tuesday. A Fine plus costs was imposed monday in City police court upon Sidney Earl moors 38, of 554 Henry Avenue. Moors pleaded guilty to stealing a shirt Worth 54.25 from a main Street store. Two Brothers Harold William 19, and Michael Krystie 21, both of 193 Balmoral Street were each fined and costs in City police court monday for tampering with an automobile in a parking lot sunday afternoon. Teaching permit figures show no change in 1953 the number of permit teachers ill Manitoba schools remained practically unchanged in the year ended june 30, 1953. This was revealed in the annual report of the department of education tabled in the Legisla Ture by Hon. W. C. Miller min ister. Students in Manitoba schools increased in number from to during the year the baled paper Burns fire did sunday night to baled waste paper and pulp piled in the Yard of build ing products ltd., Point Doug Las Avenue. City firemen halted the Blaze before flames could spread to nearby buildings. Bales stacked in the Yard covered an area of about Square feet firemen said. Report showed. Biggest increase was in the six year old age group which jumped from to 534. Here is the breakdown of teachers by qualifications 1953 1952 Cert. 1st class Cert. 2nd class 666 666 special Cert. 107 122 permits 556 568 total teachers holding 1st and 2nd class certificates Are those with Normal school training. Special certificates Are issued teachers with higher training such As University but no Normal school qualifications. Permit teachers Are those with out full qualifications but whose services Are needed because of the chronic teacher shortage a rigid Frame Concrete overpass Wilt Span Assiniboine Avenue. Central Span across the River will be 170 Teet Long and will have no Central pier. Steel tenders close March 5. Deadline for beginning steel construction has been set at feb. 1, 1955. Construction of abutments and piers will begin this Spring As soon As contracts Are let. The design will be presented to civic Public works committee tuesday for approval. Design Engineer is j. B. Strowski and consulting Engineer w. A. Walkden. Skidding car hits pole eight occupants injured two persons were sent to hos Pital and six others slightly injured when a car skidded from University drive in fort Garry sunday night and crashed into a Hydro pole. A Man and three boys were also injured in traffic and skating accidents sunday. In Hospital Are miss Fern Gunnarson 18, 180 Nassau Street. Miss Inez Palm 24, Box 35, University of Manitoba. Jimmy Black 8, 419 Bradford Street St. James. Brent Lanyon 6, of 914 Erin Street. Fred Middle Church. Robert zip Avenue. Voss 35 Drewry ave., 11, 171 Gordon miss Gunnarson and miss Palm were taken to Misericordia hos Pital after Trie fort Garry Acci Walleye Pike fat Gold Eye bring honors m. Zukor took the Honor with two first prizes and a second m. Zukor 22. Dent. Miss Gunnarson is reported to have head injuries. Miss Palm is suffering from inor injuries and Shock their condition was fairly tile two girls were passengers n a northbound car that ski used just outside the Gates of. The University of Manitoba and crashed to the pole ;