Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rei Deit Coos Cikes week end. Edition with we Winnipeg tuesday september 2jy Carrier a Winnipeg 3qc.per, these smiling coeds Are the hopeful entrants in the University Preshie Queen contest. In the Back Row left to right Are Jean Witherspoon nursing education Nancy Bleeks uni Ted College Mary Diane Keith Medicine Gail Statham Commerce Joyce Mcgregor phar Macy Joanne Holden St. Mary a Gertrude Bemben science Carol Davis agriculture Lucy Ann Smaizys Fine arts and Prettice Home economics. In the front Row Are Joan Wheeler social Wjk Judy Hansen engineering Carol Macaulay Law Carol Brown accountancy and Mary Huband arts. Missing from the picture Are Margaret Clark St. John s and Ann Sproule Interior design. Women protest St. Vital Empl Oyer theft from results in jail term a four month jail term was imposed tuesday upon a 27-year old truck Driver who stole seven cases of ammunition and a toaster from his employer the Falcon hardware ltd., 15 May Avenue. William James Bergen 326 Higgins Avenue pleaded guilty to stealing five cases of Shotgun sheas two cases of .30-.30 shells and a toaster Worth a total of 5430 Between aug. 1 and sept. 18. Court was told Bergen s Only record was a suspended sen tence in 1952. Robert Joseph Monllor 21, of 293 Selkirk Avenue also received a four month sentence for receiving approximately half of the stolen ammunition. Court was told Mondor had a record. Registration open for dancing classes registration for Ballet and tap dancing classes at the West Kildonan Community club Perth Avenue and Powers Street will take place at. 1 and 3 . Oct. 2 in the clubhouse. The classes Are open to pre school As Well As school age child rein will be taught by Gladys Yuill. The classes Are open to children of families who Are members of the Centre. Frau Der asks for jail and gets three months Alexander m. Harper 59, of no fixed abode was sentenced to three months in jail monday at his own re quest after he pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud. He was charged with cashing two cheques at a local hotel Worth and respectively. Harper asked Magis trate m. H., Carton to Send him to jail where he could straighten up from his liquor new pharmaceutical students welcomed new students in the faculty of pharmacy at the University of Manitoba were welcomed monday by officers of the Manitoba pharmaceutical association. The meeting held at the University was addressed by r. L. Barman president of the Canadian pharmaceutical association. J. Carr president of the Manitoba Branch and prof. D. Mcdugall Dean of the faculty of pharmacy presented prizes to winners of last year s awards. La1ce named in memory of ajar Force officer in Northern Saskatchewan has been rimmed after a Winnipeg air Force officer who was killed in the Sec Ond world War the Saskatchewan government has announced. The officer Al. Gordon w. N. Fanson was the son of or. And mrs. G. S. Fanson 504 Hampton House. Fanson Lake is Situ ated in the Phelps Lake area Northwest of Prince Albert. In cheques Cash stolen More than in cheques and in Cash was stolen from the Bell refrigerator co. Ltd., of 1654 Portage Avenue sometime monday night after thieves gained Entrance to the building through a Back window. Fish have very few nerves around the Mouth and therefore feel very Little pain when they Are hooked. Smedley s Corner tuesday s the last Day of summer and autumn season mists and Mellow is upon us. Lately we have grown rather bitter about weather and we have come to expect the worst. On the other hand we can recall sitting in the warm Sun outside of an autumn Day listening to the world series on the radio. This can be Winnipeg s finest of one thing however we Are sure. Our office phone will jangle frequently with news of strange and tremendous vegetables. Already we have been told of 50-Pound pump Kins and of Dahlia stalks 10 and 12 feet High. We were impressed with the statistics of gardening achievements so much greater than our own. But our Garden editor merely snorted commenting that 50-Pound pumpkins and 10 and 12-foot dahlias were not unusual and then he left town. Norwood vote on school Extension set the electors of the Norwood school District will vote oct. 22 on a bylaw to provide a four room Extension to arc Wood school. Decision to place the bylaw be fore the electorate was made unanimously at a special St Boniface City Council meeting Mon Day night. Council also consented to sign an agreement with Winnipeg and Central Gas co. To provide natural Gas to St Boniface after the pipeline to Winnipeg is completed. The Gas company announced sept. 14 that it would spend from to in the next five years to serve the Winnipeg area with natural Gas. To Lay Mains there Are no Gas Mains in St. Boniface at present. The new agreement provides that the com Pany will begin laying Mains into St. Boniface 18 months after the arrival of natural Gas in Winni Peg during 1955. Taxes will be levied on the company in proportion to the populations of St. Boniface City and the City of Winnipeg. Aid. Boisselle chairman of the finance committee told coun cil that a company has offered to buy a lot on traverse Avenue near Kitson Street to a 44 suite apartment. At present the lot is being held by the Parks Board for development As a Tot lot or Park. Council also received a petition from Paul Keroack that sewers and extended on Eli Zabeth Road. Mayor e. A. Han Iford said he would investigate the possibility of the Manitoba Power commis Sion putting lights on the Street. Or. Keroack was told that the installation of sewers would not be possible this year. The fire committee approved a recommendation by the fire chief that a new. Combination pumper and Hose truck be purchased from Fyer Flyter sales and ser vice for the Issue now goes to Council. She crept 400 Yards in slime Muddy Street forces St. Vital woman to crawl Home How would you like to Craw 400 Yards through a quagmire o Slimy gooey mud in total dark Ness mrs. John Joss did just tha monday night. It was the Only Way she said to reach her Home at 89 Poplar Wood Avenue St vital. Tuesday mrs. Joss broke Down As she told her Story. Tears o rage streamed Down her face a she vowed ill never do i again unless i do it for the Benefit of f. A. or Mager is the contractor who but the new development and whom mrs. Joss charges is lax in Noj putting in gravel roads. Could t sleep i she said or. Mager slept last night. I did t. I was so worked up Over my expert Poplar Wood is one of three avenues near the end of the St Mary s bus line that is jus Daboul impassable. It is the St of the Trio. The other two port land and Havelock have at least a Concrete sidewalk running Down one Side. But Poplar Wood has nothing but mud and water. Ironically mrs Joss was re turning from a. St. Vital Council meeting after protesting the condition of the streets when she fell face first into a _ six Inch deep Pool of slime and water. The Pool was at the Corner of Portland Avenue and Neepawa drive just a Short Block from her Home on the next Corner. Was terrified however said mrs. Joss she was terrified afraid to attempt to slither along the Block to her Home. My boots were stuck in the mud. At first i could t get them free. I did t know what to do i thought of shouting for mrs. Joss decided to re turn by the sidewalk up Portland Avenue to St. Mary s Road. There she went into a bus shelter phoned police for Aid. Mrs. Joss decided police weren t going to come to her assistance actually they started out alone Down unlighted Poplar Wood Avenue for her Home 400 Yards away. She d taken Only a few Slippery Steps in her Bare feet when she fell again this time on her Back into the slime. Covered in mud by that time she decided she might As Well crawl along. And she did covered from head to toe in she finally reached Home mrs. Joss was in a Semi hysterical state. She had a woman Friend undress her and get Ner into a tub of hot water. By that time it was close to ii about two hours after she had started for Home from the Council meeting. A few minutes later mrs. Joss husband came in. Earlier in the evening he had been visiting a solicitor to see what could be done about the condition of the Street. But when he returned Home to find his wife missing or. Joss became alarmed started off with a. Flashlight to see if he could find her. At the same time St. Vital police had been attempting to locate mrs. Joss. Dean Bell to speak or. Lennox Bell Dean of the Manitoba medical College will address the annual inaugural dinner of the Shearey Zedek brotherhood at 6.30 . Wednes Day in. The Shearey Zedek auditorium. Aided escaped convict Man jailed 30 months a 32-year-old Man who assisted an Escapee from the Stony Moun Tain Penitentiary was sentenced to a total of 30 months in head Ingley jail tuesday. Albert Joseph Martineau 263 York Avenue pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact housebreaking with intent and receiving stolen goods. He received a one year sent ence for being an accessory after the fact another year for the housebreaking with intent and months on the receiving charge. All sentences will run consecutively. Martineau was charged with As sisting Albert Glen Pryce a 24 year old Escapee from. Stony Mountain Penitentiary. Pryce shared Martineau s room while he was. Still at Large.1. Martineau pleaded guilty to breaking into the Home of. Mrs. Helen Cowan 762 Wellington Crescent. Pryce is charged jointly with Martineau in connection with the break in. He is awaiting jury trial on the charge. Martineau also pleaded guilty to receiving a set of stolen car get Iti Enget but there and swim swim swim Myca club registration registration for club 302 a coed club of the Central Myca will open this week. Former members will Register on or be hers and keys from a car allegedly stolen by Pryce. Court was told Martineau had a record for armed robbery shop breaking housebreaking and. Theft. F Council sets this is the Pool of water and slime at the intersection of Portland Avenue and Nee Pawa drive into which mrs. John Joss fell face first monday night. After pulling herself up out of the mud she walked to St. Mary s Avenue and crawled 400 Yards Ion hands and Knees to her Home on Poplar Wood Avenue. Employment Outlook brightening the general trend in unemployment is Down according to figures released monday by w. Darracott manager of the unemployment insurance commis Sion. For the week ending sept. 17 there were applications for employment compared with applications in the previous week. More persons wanted jobs in the sales and clerical Fields than in any other division of the labor Force the report showed. There were applications for jobs n these Fields compared to applications for jobs in the trades and services division. There were unskilled la borers applying for work the report said. More than 900 applied for work in the manufacturing Field while 200 managerial and professional workers wanted employment. The commission reported 824 vacancies in a total Lahore Force of Between and 000 workers. half. Tons last week came St. Vital has no monopoly on Slimy streets. Thayne Cal Holm 645 Oak Street and Noel Schacter 653 Ash Street make full use of their rubber boots to trudge along Ash Street South of Fleet Avenue. Girl still in coma Hospital authorities revealed tuesday that there is Iio change in the condition of Anne Henderson. The 21-year-old playground supervisor is still unconscious and in critical condition in Winnipeg general Hospital. She has been in a coma since aug. 25 when she was found unconscious on the floor of her bedroom at 218 Glenwood Crescent. Overpass scheme blasted As craziest idea Ever residents of certain sections of River and Mayfair avenues Are reported to be angry about a proposal that the City build an overpass Over River Avenue in connection with the new Midtown s the craziest idea that was Ever mrs. A. C. King 390 River Avenue suite 1, told the free press monday. Who wants to live under a civic officials already have bought More property in the Vicinity than is necessary for the Bridge and now they Are going to spend another 000 or on an Over pass she declared. Delegation planned so enraged Are various Resi dents of the area that they plan on forming a delegation to wait upon the Public improvements committee the finance committee or City Council itself mrs. King said. Something has got to be done and done she declared. Mrs. King said she called up Aid. C. E. Simonite sat urday and that he did t even know where Bryce Street mrs. King lives in the Edwin apartments at the intersection of River and. Bryce i told him that he ought t to be ashamed of knowing where a historical old Street like Bryce was to she said. Free press meetings meetings held in the free press building wednes Day Are clubroom mothers auxiliary to the Winnipeg chapter order of Demolay 2.30 . Board room no. 2, Community Chest 4.30 . Clubroom children s theatre of greater 7.30 . Meetings scheduled at 8 . 1 Are Board room no. 1, sports car club Board room no. 2, Winnipeg philatelic society. She said Aid. Simonite. Had informed her that winnipeg1 was a fast growing City Ana that Hanges such As the pro posed overpass were Neces sary. I told him yes Winnipeg was growing but not with assistance of people like she declared. Plans for the Bridge at present Call for the approach to reach Street level at River Avenue. If the overpass is approved the Bridge will not reach Street level until Strad Brook Avenue. On roads children can t go to school claims Mother St. Vital Council monday night was told that roads in the municipality. Were so bad doctors could t attend patients children could t attend school and if there were a fire fire trucks would t be Able to get through the mud to put it out. A delegation from two streets appeared at a Council meeting monday demanding to know what could be done about getting streets Gravelled. It was stated . A. Mager was the contractor responsible for sidewalks gravel roads and sewers and residents had paid him to make improvements. Tuesday or. Mager said that construction work has been pro Gressing All summer on Poplar Wood Avenue one of the streets about which complaints were raised. He had not wanted to put Down gravel because truck traffic would soon have cleared it All away. The gravel will be put Down he said As soon As the weather becomes dry meeting Friday Council decided to hold m Spe. Cial meeting at 8 . Friday to discuss what councillor r Grant Churcher described As sible residents and contractors will be asked to at tend. Before the Council were mrs l. Joss 89 Poplar Wood Avenue and mrs. E. A. Jankoff 65 Havelock Avenue. Mrs. Joss told i just can t face that Road any More. My girl can t go to school and there Are eight other children in the Vicinity who can t she said she had lived in the House almost two years. Acting mayor Harry Hunter assured mrs. Joss that if the Council had. Had the Money the work would have been done. Mrs. Joss do you mean to say that we have to continue to live in that the con tractor she. Said could go right up to 1957, without travelling the Road or providing any sort of sidewalk. Could t do that acting mayor Hunter i Don t think he could do that for his own councillor Harry Collins Side red that anyone purchasing a Home was entitled to Access to the property. The residents he said were in a really bad Way and were not making complaints just for the Sake of doing so. Acting mayor Hunter said there might be a moral obligation on the part of the Council to do something about the roads but not a Legal one. If the Council did anything it would be at the expense of the rest of the tax payers. Mrs. Jankoff said she would sell her Home but no one would buy it. Council was informed that a total of 110 building permits were issued in St. Vital during August valued at. Of these 78 permits were for Resi. Dences. Total permits issued so far this year numbered 358, with a total value of in the same period last year 239 permits valued at issued. Bennett Campaign Albert Bennett Ward 2 Alder manic candidate who was edged out by 14 votes at the last Winnipeg civic election opens his Campaign at a Public meeting at 8 . Tuesday in the civic Cale donian rink. Or. Bennett a civic election committee candidate Heads a construction company. Simonite stresses need for merger study body need of a provincial govern ment fact finding committee to draw up a for Riikula acceptable to greater Winnipeg municipalities pondering an amalgamation of essential services setup was protests Snag downtown sewer plan Strong opposition to a proposed storm drainage. Sewer system for Winnipeg s downtown area was voiced monday at a meeting of civic Public utilities committee. Following presentations by representatives of several property owners in the area affected a majority of whom had already petitioned against the project As a local improvement commit tee agreed to hold a special meet ing next week to decide its next move. 20-year payments two of the delegates said if Council decides to go ahead with the project As. A local improve Mentz payments should be spread Over a 20-year period instead of the proposed 10 years. Another was in favor of having the costs levied against the City at Large and another said the Federal government because of the tie in with the new Post office should pay the entire Cost. Under the present plan the City at Large would be responsible for and the property owners some time ago a. A Hurst City Engineer had informed com Mittee that without the additional system water . The roof of the new Post office during heavy rainfall would result sewers being overrun and flood ing of basements area. The two largest property own ers in the area Are the Federal department of Public works which has indicated willingness to share in the costs of the Relief sewers and the to Eaton co could sue any William Fraser Deputy City solicitor had pointed Al though._61j2- per cent of the pro Perty owners affected opposed the project As a local Mpr pavement these same could sue the City . Because of this utilities com Mittee had recommended to coun cil that the reject be gone ahead with. Council however referred the matter Back for presentations of those opposing it arid monday s meeting was the result. 1 f. J. Turner counsel for Eaton co. Arid several Perty owners told committee monday that the firms Are. Con Vinced they now have sufficient Protection to prevent i marriage by flooding. Eaton a had automatic devices of shutting off sewers arid other firms had Little property to damage. They would damage rather than pay for the proposed system he said. Government were behind the he said i think it has sufficient funds to provide for the Drain off of its own build v a. A. Representing holy Trinity Church Woi ild. 426 annually Over a to year Peri Money would take the last cent of our endowment fund. This project would put. Us out of Busi Aid. David Orlikov pointed out that a 20-year of pay ments would in crease interest he suggested that the property owners could be asked to sign a. Pact with the City to the effect that the City not be sued if damage occurred. Aid. Lillian Hallonquist said she was opposed to charging the project to the City at Large be cause of the Small area affected. A. J. City Engineer said he. Understood the Post office could install its own drainage system. Aid. Gurzon Harvey said this would cause Only a Small change Irr present design a letter received. Earlier from Green and Russell architects said a 1 the plans for disposal of storm water would have to be Rivade if the project Werel not. Carried 4. Stressed tuesday by Aid. C. E. Simonite. Such a formula he in an interview would show the municipalities the advantages of link ing up such services. This was the Only answer to the. Local jealousies now preventing metropolitan exploratory committee members from agreement on various Points. Aid. Simonite said Premier a l. Campbell will be asked to sponsor such a committee at a future meeting. The Premier Hall asked the exploratory committee to meet with him Friday for general discussion but absence from the City by Aid. Simonite committee chairman prevented acceptance of the Aid. Simonite said it arranged As soon As one of the Points on which the municipalities did not agreement for the appointment of an Secretary for the Aid. Simonite said some said they would his salary and others declined. The government has asked to make a contribution in this direction but replied that the recon a ended salary was too High. The would see such services As Arter Ial highways police and fire Protection and a number of other ;