Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba More women use free week end edition with comics toc Winnipeg wednesday september 22, by Carrier in elementary classes full schools chief tells Board _ classroom accommodation for Winnipeg s school children varies considerably from school to school or. A. C. Lorimer by september 1955, the Board was told. In Central Winnipeg 7, 8 and 9 students in the River school is crowded while in the North end Ralph Brown schoo Heights District forced the Board Dufferine open a Grade 7 class in car schools superintendent told the enrolment is Light. City school Board tuesday. Elementary classes generally crowded the Board was told with kindergarten accommodation in the River Heights area particularly at. A Premium. Six-7 half Day under Garton classes being held that were not planned for. There in the Brock Corydon sir John Frank Lin. Montrose la Verendrye John m. King and Luxton schools. Gladstone crowded Gladstone and Harrow schools in South Winnipeg crowded. Rockwood and Grosvenor schools have Light enrolments except in Junior High schools throughout the City generally being use to capacity and in several areas i was necessary to Transfer Stu dents from one school to another Grade 9 students from lord Roberts going to Kelvin High school. Half the Grade 9 students from Earl Grey school also going to Kelvin. An enrolment Grade kindergarten. Brock Corydon has a class in the Library and another class in the adjustment room. Further accommodation will be repertory theatre meetings set Friday an executive meeting of the Winnipeg repertory theatre Wili be head Friday at 7 ., Fol Lowed by a general meeting at i For All new members and the season s program discussed. The meetings will be held in required in the Grosvenor area room 208, Broadway building. Trustees reject proposed new Lanute behind school school Board tuesday turned Down another proposal by Ludolph Sikorski to help Iii remove garbage and from behind his Block at 102 Derby Street. In an affair that has been hanging fire since 1947, or. Sikorski has had several Deal Ings with the Board. In 1926 own is of the Block started removing garbage through the David Livingstone school grounds. The use of the grounds was supposed to Stop in 1947. In december 1953, the Board put its foot Down and for bade the use of the grounds any longer. Or. Sikorski turned up. Again tuesday with a petition to have a new Lane built behind the Block. Total Cost of the Lane will be about of which the Board would be expected to pay about half. Board solicitor j. K. Mor ton told the Board they had no Legal right to spend that amount of Money for a Lane that would t Benefit anyone but. Or. Sikorski. Burglar takes woman s purse a woman who was startled by a thief who broke into her room reported the theft of a purse containing and a Cheque for Albertine Bretineau 80 Smith Street told police she was startled at 4 . Tuesday by a Man standing in her room. She said the Man fled when she screamed. Daniel Mcteer 350 Alexander Avenue reported his House entered and an shirts and two watches stolen. A number of keys for the doors at the lord Nelson school Mcphillips Street and Aberdeen Avenue were reported stolen Dur ing n week end break in. Pythia school. Heavy enrolments in the Hugh John Macdonald area necessitated Transfer of children to general Wolfe and Sargent Park schools. With 12 classrooms in operation this year Sargent. Park school is handling students who last year attended Daniel Mclntyre school. Students in the. Northwest Cor Ner of Winnipeg being taught temporarily in King Edward Isaac Newton and the new lans Downe schools until the proposed school on Huron and Mcphillips is erected. All classes in Elmwood heavy. All the Grade 9 students As Well As Many grades 7 and 8 students have been taken from George v school to lord Selkirk school. Only a few schools in the City setup will be Able to absorb a higher enrolment next year. Grade 6 classes being housed in Kelvin High school Isaac Newton High school and the technical vocational High school. High school classes still not at Peak enrolment although Dan Iel Mclntyre and lord Selkirk schools close to their capacity enrolments. A Kwh artillery unit formed at Camp Shilo of the newest units in the Canadian army is being formed at Camp Shilo Prai Rie command announced wednesday. The unit known As no. 1 locating Battery Royal. Canadian artillery and commanded by major g. R. Proulx Quebec City and Megantic que., will be trained to locate enemy ground weapons by the use of sound ranging and radar equipment. The Battery will eventually be moved to its permanent location at Camp Gage town . 2 cd meets set for this week two civil defence organizational meetings will be held in greater Winnipeg this week civil defence Rescue techniques will be featured one at 8 Wednesday at West Kildonan collegiate and the other at 8 Friday in lord Wolseley school. A squad under chief Rescue officer Cam Shewan will give a display of Rescue proce dures. One Case of polio reported in week one Case of polio has been reported for the week ending sept. 18 bringing the total this year to 101, according to the department of health and Public welfare of Manitoba. Other communicable diseases reported during the week with the total so far this year in brackets chickenpox 5 diarrhoea and enteritis under one year 2 jaundice 2 influenza 4 14 mumps 4 Scarlet fever 5 tuberculosis 21 482 and whooping cough 11 archbishop arriving Here this evening most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher archbishop of Canterbury will arrive in Winnipeg at 7.20. . Oday for his four Day visit to Manitoba. He will be greeted at the can Adian National railways station by Hon. J. S. Mcdiarmid lieu tenant governor Premier d l. I Campbell and mayor Garnet Coulter. The archbishop will then be Ken to Bishop court Ost Rev. Walter f. Archbishop of Rupert until s When f open an exhibition of Corona Tion regalia at the thorium. At. 8.30 He will address anglicans in the auditorium in an Evensong service. Doors will close at s.15 For. This service. Thursday he will visit Brandon Lily Pons who thinks the new dior fashions demonstrates what the Chic woman should Wear As she takes a stroll in the Bright Sunshine of Portage Avenue wednesday morning. The metropolitan opera diva is on her Way West to fill singing engagements and will return to give a recital in the civic auditorium oct. Aid. Andersen to retire from politics Griffo is club meet c. D. Shepard a Winnipeg lawyer who has been counsel for the. Province of Manitoba in freight rate hearings will speak to members of the Winnipeg Griffons club at 6 Thursday in Moore s restaurant. His topic be transportation in Canada. River Heights club registration for the River Heights Square dancing club will be held at the Community Cen Oak Street and Haskins ave nue at s Oct. 1 and is open to the Public. A dance will be held. City Man in Hospital after collision a to year old Man was admitted to Winnipeg general Hospital Tveith a broken leg and forehead and leg abrasions following a monday. Police said George. Soylo 403 Galloway Street a greater Winnipeg transit commission employee was in collision with a taxi he was sweeping the car tracks on Higgins Avenue Between main and Austin streets. His condition was reported fairly according to police the Driver of the taxi was David Kowalson 785 Noire Dame Avenue. Mac11jean Church Hoik the Maclean United Church mixed choir will present its an Nual Tea in the form of an old fashioned thursday frolic at 7.30 At Maclean United Church. There will be floor shows at s.15 And at-.9.30 Luxton Home school the Library and new kindergarten room will be toured by the Luxton Honie and school association at s Thursday in the school auditorium. Smedley s Corner Friend of ours went to a wedding in one of the suburbs the other Day and reported that if it had t been for the cheer Ful determination of All concerned the Happy event would have been All gummed up literally. Bride in flowing White gown was being driven to the Church when the crisis occurred. The car stopped two blocks from the Church and the Driver explained sorry folks but i just can t set through the and there it was mud seas of it. And not even a sidewalk. I 5o the Bride rustled out of the car gathered the folds of her Lovely gown up above her Knees and trudged valiantly through the Gumbo. The rest of the ladies did the same. Foot heavy they finally arrived at the Church rearranged their still spotless gowns and marched Down the aisle with seemly dignity to the Sti Ains of the wedding March. Our Friend says it was a Beautiful wedding. Old comrades Oftis item concerns a couple. Of the old comrades. No. 1 is a Percy Smith who has written from 11 Kilmore Park Hoole Chester England to say he d love to hear from old. Comrades of 40 years ago the comrades with whom he marched As Squadron of a fort Garry horse when they paraded to. The car station of a summer evening on their Way overseas. I was reported killed in says Comrade Smith but i am still alive and kicking at 66, just a Little lame in one no. 2 is Comrade Bill Mackie who got himself a i perfect 29 hand while playing cribbage at the Elmwood j legion one evening this week. . V. B. Anderson All. V. B. Anderson Veteran Kcf member of City Council announced wednesday he will tire from politics at the end of this year. Aid. Anderson still has a year to go on his two year term. A by election for his Ward 2 seat will be held during next month s civic elections. The Kcf party tuesday night nominated James Macisaac to contest the seat. Aid. Anderson was. First elected to Council in 193c and served continuously except for a break Between 1936 and 1940. He will Likely retire with his wife to the West coast where his two sons residing the 71-year-old Alderman has i been Secretary treasurer of the Winnipeg and District trades and labor Council years. For several Don t know what it is but one costs anyone know what a Type indicating demand Gister is the Winnipeg school Board agreed to buy one its tuesday meeting at a Cost of 5-11 but no one present knew what it was. The item was almost passed when. Trustee George Frith asked rather timidly what is or. W. C. Lorimer superintendent Winnipeg his head Rue fully and said i Dpn to g. T. Macdonell assistant superintendent said it s the thing that or. Rankin the purchasing agent described to us some time trustee s. M. Cherniack came to the Rescue and described it As a Register. After the unknown item was approved for the tech Nical vocational work shop trustee Cherniack hastened to. His feet to Tell reporters that the Board knew what it was some time ago when the item first came up for consideration. The indicating demand Gister was requested at a previous meeting but no ten Ders for it. Were was t until tuesday that a tender was received for the apparatus b. F. Larson Tec voc principal solved the mystery wednesday morning. A Type indicating demand Regis Ter by any other name would smell As he said and another name for it is a me much like electric meters in the basement of every Home he said the in was used by Stu dents in electrical course when they learn to wire houses w better pay conditions unionists urge govt. Court clears Indian Case Beer waiter evidence on Merrow s age a charge Laid against a Beer of serving liquor to an 38-year-old Indian youth at sent charged with manslaughter was dismissed wednesday in City police court. Magistrate m. H. Garton threw out the against Irvin Kanovsky 24, of 183 Matheson Avenue when the Crown failed to establish beyond a doubt the age of the Indian youth. Wilbert Merrow of f Norway House Man., is awaiting trial on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of am Brose Vincent Holtby 60. I or. Holtby was assaulted while walking on main Street near the Federal building july 7. He died in Winnipeg general Hospital the following morning. Menow testified in court that he had been in the Queen s hotel Beer parlor july 7 where he had been served Beer by Irvin. Kanovsky. He said he drunk 15 20 glasses of Beer and could t remember leaving the hotel. He said be 19 this month. A social worker for the in Dian affairs department Testi fied that treaty Indian from Norway House born sept. 28, 1935. When the witness testified under Cross examination that she had t known who Menow was until she met him in jail after he was charged with manslaughter the1 magistrate dismissed the Case. Defence counsel Harry Walsh acted for Kanovsky. Free press meetings meetings to be held in the free press building thursday Board room no. 2, t. Eaton co. Public speaking group 5.30. . Meetings scheduled for 8 Board room no. 1, anti vivisection study group Board room no. 2, fort Garry Kennel club clubroom Eaton Angling club. Winnipeg optimists . R. R. Taylor general staff officer of the Prairie com Mand Headquarters in Winnipeg will speak to Optimist club at 12.15 Thurs Day at the Royal Alexandra hotel. Million housing plan pondered in St. James a proposed housing development in St. James com plete with shopping c entre schools playgrounds and Public improvements will be discussed rat a. St. James committee meet ing next tuesday. The meeting will be held in camera. The matter was referred to committee at a meeting of St. James Council tuesday night. A representative of the great West development co. Ltd., which has put Forward the proposal will meet with Council to discuss tentative plans for the approximately housing project. No decision councillor Sam Morgan said that committee will come to no decision on the matter but will air it in Public first. Council agreed that St. Jam ii residents should decide at the1 civic elections oct. 27 whether to establish a Public Library. If the bylaw passes Council would have to add one Mill to taxes it. Was reported. The St. James Lions club planned to raise funds to supplement the tax. Three councillors terms expire this year Gordon Irwin g. B. Wallace and William m. Carlyle. Deputy mayor Wallace replied with comment when asked whether he would stand for nomination. Nomination Day is oct. 13. Council decided to town Hall meeting in St. James. Collegiate auditorium oct. 12. 68 new lamps municipal Engineer Jim Skaife was instructed to proceed with installation of 68 new Mercury lamps on Portage Avenue subject to the approval of the Muni Cipal and Public Utility Board. Council decided to summon Wallace c. Hanaway of Hana Way construction . Ltd., to appear before Council two weeks hence to explain several Breaks in a Watermain recently Laid along Ronald Street. The Only explanation i said councillor Morgan is that these pipes have not been put Canada directors told Ballet launches Campaign on i one of the greatest things that Ever happened to can Ada was the appearance in Washington of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Hon. L. Pearson minister of external affairs is reported to have said. Joseph a. Whitmore for Mer president of the Ballet festival association n in Tor onto told the directors about the minister s statement Dur ing the fifth annual meeting of the Royal Winnipeg bal let in the studios tues Day. Campaign a Campaign for to enable the Ballet company to continue was begun a t the meeting. Across Canada the Winni Peg Ballet is being watched much More closely than people in Winnipeg imagine said or. Whitmore. I think our objective should be to keep the Winnipeg Ballet Tom m. Elliot treasurer estimated looking at things through Rose coloured that the company was ahead 5334 at the moment he said that no week goes by without some Money coming in. Deficit wiped out a deficit of for the year ending. June 30, been wiped out he reported. According to the report of the Board of directors the company s financial difficulties were caused by the disastrous fire of june s Whitti. All the set Tings costumes music and properties of the company insufficient returns on tha Tours of the Ballet company in Eastern Canada and the United states and several months at the. Be ginning of the season with no income accruing to the Ballet. Elected to the Board of directors were w. A. Condo w. D. M. Stewart John Phil j. . Max Rady . C. S. Riley c. S. Riley . A. A. Col . G. M. Eaton t. M. Elliott. . B. Fair rally .r., Kipp and miss g. James a. Richardson prof. I a. Miss b. Sparling John Young . Oharles Hollenberg j. Macdonald Clarence d. She. N. A. H. G. Bonnycastle f. N. Mckenzie or. Louis David Slater Joseph a. I timbre g. P. Funnell and a Down other councillors said that the wet weather May have caused the Breaks. Councillor Irwin claimed that there was not sufficient inspection of Public works. Deputy mayor Wallace explained that this was. Because the Engineer lacked an assistant. It is. Very difficult to hire an in he said but we hop ing to get a Council accepted the Resigna Tion of n. A. Lyons 322 Lin Wood Street from his position As a member of the St. James town planning commission. Street ends May be tidied by Parks Board Street ends leading to Winnipeg s Rivers May be in for a general tidying up. Winnipeg s Public works committee recommended tuesday that the City Parks Board be a sked to clean up and maintain the Street ends. Such locations there 79 m the City now maintained by nearby Resi dents ignored. A sub committee of works committee began studying the question some time ago Fol lowing statements that the Street ends were unkempt. Aid. Peter Taraska said tuesday that the ends were just a dumping province to get scheme to ease unemployment the Manitoba government should set an example for private Industry by improving the wages and working conditions of its own employees the Winnipeg and District trades and labor Council tic indicated in statement adopted at its meeting tuesday night. Expressing deep concern the possibility of. Mass unemployment this coming Winter on a much larger scale than last the Council outlined a program designed to relieve for presentation to the Provin Cial government. The trades Council made the following suggestions the Manitoba government could set a Good example for vate employers by reducing the work week of its own employees and increasing wage rates. This would at once provide employ ment for additional staff and in crease the purchasing Power of a Large number of workers. The government. Needs new buildings to provide ing conditions for its own employees. Council suggested that the old University building on Broadway be torn Down and new office buildings be constructed. The same could be said of. Some of the other used by the --government.-. V Manitoba should cease its opposition to subsidized housing. In co operation with the Muni Cipal councils arid Federal gov ministers told taxes hit incentive High government taxation on profits May be a reason for a loss of incentive by Canadian mining companies toward further development or. H. J. Fraser vice presi Dent of the Falconbridge ont., Nickel mines Ltd. Said at the fort Garry hotel tuesday night. Or. Fraser was guest speaker at a banquet Given department of mines and sources for the Lith annual mines ministers conference which opened at the fort Garry hotel monday. He pointed out. That in 1952, for Evary dollar6 received by shareholders of Canada s three largest min ing companies the govern ment received two dollars. Or. Fraser said 27 years ago the ratio was just the reverse. Future development said May not be As spectacular As during the past 30.x years because of this and also because present Day prospectors Haven t the per Sonal incentive and drive that sparked Early Prospect ing. He said Early Day prospectors were driven by a personal incentive to improve their own lot while today s prospectors mostly professional men salaried by Large companies. The or. Fraser said holds just As great an Opportunity for development As we have experienced in the past 30-Odd years but past growth won t be matched in the future unless some of this earlier incentive can be ment it should enter into slum clearance and housing projects. Flood controls should be undertaken. The provincial government could give much greater assist Ance to enable them to build urgently needed schools. Manitoba still. Needs thou Sands of Miles of All weather roads. Winnipeg alone needs several Bridges. Brandon needs a new Bridge. Much of the government s construction work could be planned for the Winter thus relieving the seasonal unemployment the statement said the recent made by the National employment committee indicated several courses of action which might be taken by both government and Industry to reduce seasonal unemployment. As far Back As 193s an eco nomic Survey committee had commended Steps to have one More pulp plants established in Northwestern Manitoba to uti Lize Black Spruce and Poplar which even they was going to Council said. Nothing appeared to have been done in this direction said the Council s statement urged Steps. The Council urged the provincial government to take immediate Steps to bring about joint consultation with the Federal government and the municipalities with the idea of discovering courses of action which might be undertaken jointly singly to reduce unemployment. The statement was presented to the Council by Donovan Swailes chair Man of the provincial executive of the trades and labor con Gress of Canada. The trades Council gave the following reasons its unemployment fears Western Farmers will have much less to spend this fall than they had last year and Farmers reduced purchasing Power was one of the causes of unemployment last Winter. Workers purchasing Power Lias been reduced by a drop in employment in All the major Fields of Industry across Canada. Unemployment began to in crease the Middle of a gust this year some two ahead of the usual period. I in the Prairie Region sept. 2, there were per sons registered As without employment while there were Only vacancies. On the same Date last year there were unemployed with. Vacancies. At the beginning of this month there were More unemployed than vacancies. Teapot stands cause Model change request even though Teapot stands out of Vogue there is to commend them As far As woodworking models concerned or. W. C. Lori Mer Winnipeg schools superintendent told the school Board tuesday night. In reply to a request from trustee Nan Murphy that the models be changed or. Lorimer said the problem facing woodworking instructors was to find a Model that was easy to make yet would allow children to learn cer Tain Points in the Trade. Or. Lorimer who told the Board that his own sons had brought Home several Teapot stands promised to see what could be done about a change. The handshake makes it official. 16. C. How at turns Over his Winn Peg Light to s. Platts com Mander of the Royal Winnipeg rifles tuesday night at Minto Arrn purses. The we lost its id entity at a ceremonial amalgamated with the Rwy. Looking on is of. -51. Kay commander of militia group ;