Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, September 29, 1954

Issue date: Wednesday, September 29, 1954
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Delicious nutritious and so economical press by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c Pel week Winnipeg wednesday september 29, 1954 in admitted to Hospital after traffic accidents Winnipeg City Engineer s department six people one re poor condition As of traffic mishaps was reported to have possible admitted ported in the result. Tuesday night. Injured were William Townsley 68, of 437 Perth Avenue. Michael Lechow 68, of 247 Canora Street. Mrs. S. Of 1155 Ash Burn Street. William a. Mclntyre 37, of 529 Harvard Avenue Transcona. Miss Barbara , 18, of 1925 notre Dame Avenue. William Mcclelland 819 Dun Das Street. Or. Townsley was crossing St. Was directing a truck to Back up when the mishap occurred according to police. Or. Lechow fractures of the breastbone and ribs. Driver of the truck police said was John Henkie of 544 Victor Street. Woman Hurt mrs. Muil was Hurt in an Acci Dent at the Corner of Donald Street and Ellice Avenue at 8 . Tuesday. She suffered pos sible Back injuries. According to police mrs. Muir was in collision with a car driven by Richard person of 138 Douglas Park Road. Her condition in win Mary s Road when he was in general was reported vision with an oncoming car St. Vital police said. They said the. Driver of the car was Remi Candele. 19. Of 342 notre Dame Avenue St. Boniface. Or. Candele said that he did not see anyone until he Felt the bump then stopped and found or. Townsley on the Street. Police could find no witnesses. Police said that or. Townsley had worn dark clothes and there a drizzle at the time. Half hour on Street police said that the Man Lay on the pavement for about half an hour before the ambulance arrived. Taken to St. Boniface Hospital or. Townsley was found to have Scalp cuts compound fracture of the right leg and possible head injuries. His Condi Tion was the Hospital or. Lechow. Was reported in fairly Good condition in Winni Peg general Hospital after being crushed Between an Asphalt spreader and a truck on Donald fairly or. was admitted to Winnipeg general following an Accident at Nairn motors on Nairn Avenue. He suffered Scalp cuts. His condition was reported fairly miss Golen Blenski was crossing Portage Avenue when she collided with a westbound car at about 11 . Police said the car was driven by John Semenko of Edmonton alta., whose City address is 850 Ingersoll Street. Miss Gol enable ski was taken to Miseri Cordia Hospital with head cuts. Broke glasses when the car in which he was a passenger went off the High Way one mile North of Whyte Wold Man. During heavy Rains shortly after 11 . Tuesday or. Mcclelland broke his glasses and sustained about the Eye. He was taken to Winnipeg Leneral. Hospital whore his condition wednesday was reported fairly ramp said e. I i. Ward rope of 758 Waterford a. Street just South of Ellice Avenue Enue fort Garry was the Driver or. Lechow an employee of of the car. Fire sweeps suburban Home damage was estimated at about in a fire that swept a Small one Storey Frame Home at 439 Montrose Avenue East Kil Donan tuesday afternoon. East Kildonan police said the fire started at 1.30 . It is believed the fire started after boil nor paraffin Wax was left on the stove unattended an official of the fire department said. Police said the fire had taken too Good a hold on the House to be checked by the time firefighters were called to the scene. The House w As owned by Anthony Sholette of Kir Lerley sask., and was occupied by George Seirs police said. Week end edition with comics Loc to seeks pact opposing sewer Al the City of Winnipeg will attempt to get. Downtown area ratepayers who Are opposed to a office will have to be changed. The Federal government earlier signified it would contribute to proposed storm sewer of the system system to sign a pact in the event of future Flash flood ing. If agreement is reached the project will be shelved. If agree ment is not reached the City will proceed with the construction despite opposition of Tine rate payers. The City advertised the a local improvement 61.2 per cent of the affected rate payers said would not con tribute to the Cost. Then the City Learned from its Legal department that these ratepayers could sue the City if Flash flooding occurred. The proposed storm sewer was to forestall such flooding. It was to be constructed in the Down town area South of Portage Avenue. Ii it is decided not to go ahead with the construction water drainage plans for the new Post when he Rains came tuesday afternoon City engineering department workers discovered it took six men to do the work of one. Here on notre Dame Avenue South of Arling ton Street five workers hold a Tarpaulin Over a sixth while he uses a trowel on a new curb. In his fight hand he holds a Brush used to smooth off the curb. The Tarpaulin 3s required to protect washing away of the new Cement by rain. The men Are working on the notre Dame Avenue Centre strip which eventually will be seeded with grass. Grotto a distributes alcoholism pamphlet Tjie committee on alcohol ism for Manitoba has Distri buted a newsletter from the world health organization 1he. Entire contents of which Are devoted to the disease of alcoholism and the methods of handling which the world health organization recognizes. The newsletter a four Page printed broadside quotes findings the . S sub committee on mental health and outlines the four phases through which the alcoholic As Well As three Hopes for alcoholics which the . Recognizes. Businessmen advised by province Manitoba s department of Industry and Commerce helped More than of the province s businessmen fur ing 1953 in. Solving some of their problems. This is shown in a new businessmen a year just issued by the department. It outlines the seven chief areas in which the department is prepared to Aid the provinces s business men and at the same time it contains a list of some 50 of the department s recent publications. Reseeding red by Cory k1lvekt does your blood pressure Rise at the sight of a girl in a red actually female nothing to do with your reaction. You the same effect by staring a red Wall. Happy color. According to d. L. Dunklee assistant professor of Interior design University of Mani Toba red is a stimulating flooded Cable Winnipeg pilgrims return from Chicago eighty persons have returned to Winnipeg from a three Day pilgrimage to the National shrine of our lady of sorrows at Chicago 111. This the first Canadian group to go on this pilgrimage. The from the greater Winnipeg area were a com eel by Rev. A. M. Cimi Chella of the Winnipeg dioceses and Kev. J. Alarie from the St. Boniface dioceses. They attended the crowning glory octave held sept. 19 to 96 lit National shrine and visited various shrines and Points of interest in Chicago and 011 the route Home. Got car by fraud youth lands unt jail pleading guilty to obtaining in automobile by fraud year old Kenneth James Stanley Wilson 3s6 Agnes Street tuesday was sentenced to three months in jail. Young Wilson who collapsed after pleading guilty admitted writing a ?25 worthless Cheque on an old Bank account the initial payment on an used jeeps Ler Auto from Russell motor sept. 17. _ sask. Lad sentenced Fob stealing car an 18-year-old Saskatoon youth with a juvenile record wednesday got his first sen tence in senior court when he was sent to jail for a year for Auto theft. William Melvin Kittle pleaded g guilty before Magis trate m. H. Carton of taking a car from Mcgregor Armor ies monday night. Office move plans to move 1he fort Garry municipal off ices to a new building on Oak Enwald Avenue were delayed wednes Day when the heavy rainfall tuesday night. Flooded Tele phone cables in j he Pembina Highway subway. The flooding interrupted Telephone service to the new building and municipal officials said they could t move until adequate service was assured. Telephone officials said Only one Cable was affected by. Flooding. The Pembina Highway Cable disrupted ser vice to about 800 phones in the District but the Cable. Was started and service was expected restored by wednesday afternoon. Color and certain Clear reds Are classed As Happy colors. Or. Dunklee spoke wednes Day to the Western Canada Institute for Hospital administrators on unpaid employee. Red he said had been successfully used As one of the colors in a heart Hospital in the United states. It has been proven that fed actually will raise your blood pres he added. However this Bright color when you see too much of becomes fatiguing like any stimulant or. Dunklee said he told the Institute meet ing at the hotel that most people did not realize color affected us in More ways than appearance. Even blindfolded scientists have proven that blindfolded people Are actually affected by he said. We Don t know Why this is but there Are theories that it is a Type of wave length or Energy that affects the or. Dunklee said it was difficult to. Use color clinically in a Hospital or similar institution. The Best approach was to try cheerful pleasant colors. Have a balance and. Variety of color not a riot of color. It compared to the Way a piece of Fine music is rounded out in its emphasis and quiet Pas or. Dunklee. Explained that Eye rest has been in use in operating rooms for some time. This is to rest the surgeon s eyes and pre i vents him. From seeing spots when he looks up from his work. _ is used because it is the complement of Odd things in lawns just fungi o. Those big Brown plants Winni Eggers have reported growing like mushrooms in. Lawns Arent Mush rooms but fungi. And you Don t eat them for the taste in t. Too Good says prof. E. R. Waygood of the botany department of the University of Manitoba. Abnormal Rains this year have probably caused their heavy growth he said. One Winnipeg Ger tuesday morn ing reported a fungus with a. One foot diameter Side the trunk of a tree. Prof. Said that the fungi Aren t poisonous and will not interfere with the growth Sonja Whsle crashed Grebe patched airborne again Willie the wandering Grebe is Back in the air after a mishap in Brook lantus. His flying trip was interrupted when air hit an overhead wire in front of the Home of Alec Mendryk 1839 Elgin Avenue and fell dazed to the ground. The Aid of Frank Ward ducks unlimited project Man the fiery tempered Bird was bandaged up and released. The Bird is a Western Grebe and is known As the Giraffe of the waterfowl world. Smedley s Corner ifs. Nice to know that Young Darryl Dupuis who was Hurt in an Accident the other Day was Able to be Home at 3s4 Stra Brook Avenue for his loth birthday tuesday which by the Way. Was also the 15th birthday of peanuts the cat i belonging to the folks Hope you had a pleasant birthday Darryl and you too peanuts Progress report it s also Nice to be Able to report that the situation is much happier at the local drive in restaurant that we mentioned in the column the other Day. You la recall the report that some people unthinkingly had gone the trays on their food had been served this being very unkind to the car hops who had the loss taken off their pay. Well the woman who told us about this in the first place has called to say that no trays have been taken away since the item appeared. She Points out further that if anyone returns trays carried away previously the employees can still be for earlier pay deductions. Banded ducks now Duck Hunting is again under Way we have reports from Hunters of banded ducks in their bags. George a. Glenday 130 Oakwood Avenue brought Down one saturday shooting near. Oakland North of Portage la Prairie. The same Bardsley 769 Banning Street shot two banded ducks at Netley. The ducks had All been banded by the Forest and wild Jufe. of j the United states government. The Hunters Are returning he bands to Washington . Or red at which the doctor is staring under intense he said. Most people reacted similarly to most colors and some Strong yellow greens in Quan Tity can actually produce nausea or. Dunklee said. It is bad to use Pink in a Hospital Ward May. Tend to make a greenish hued sick person look worse he said. The third annual Manitoba Hospital and nursing con Ference was officially opened wednesday in the Royal Alex Andra hotel by or. M. R. Deputy minister health for Manitoba. It is be ing conducted in conjunction with the Western Canada Institute of Hospital administrators and trustees. Ballet executive to consider Union offer Prairie meet pollution starts Friday Hon. F. C. Bell minister o health and Hon. C. E. Greenlay minister of mines and natural re will represent Manitoba at the Western conference on River pollution to open in Regina Friday. A three Prairie provinces Wil be represented. Federal govern ment Delegate will be Hon. Star Garson minister of Justice. The meeting seeks to establish control Over pollution in inter provincial Rivers in the West. Began in sask. Move to obtain such control be Gau Early this year when North Battleford and other Saskatchewan Points which obtain drinking water from the North Saskatchewan River pal Lunior from wastes discharged at a chemical Plant Edmonton. Upstream near the executive of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Wil meet Thi afternoon to consider an off said to have been made by Nels f a vice president of the workers International Union ind to drop the Union s suit against the Ballet on Condi Tion that. The company would put on two performances in Sudbury according to r. A. A i p a presi Dent of the Ballet. Or. Thibault was reported from Toronto to have offered to drop the suit on condition the bal it company performs in Sudbury because of the big. Losses that the Ballet suffered in the fire and n response to the Ballet s Appeal for funds. The suit which is for arose out. Of the Ballet s cancel lation of a scheduled performance in the Northern Ontario mining residents of the Pas which gets its water from the same River also complained of the pol Lution. L. A. Kay provincial sanitary Engineer will also attend the Regina meeting. Manitoba interest Manitoba is also interested in pollution control in the Assini Pine which flows into the pro Vince from the West and from which Brandon Portage la Prairie and other Southern Mani Toba Points obtain their water supplies. The difficulty in the past has Ben that the downstream pro suffering from pollution originating province has had no jurisdiction Over the offenders. The conference will try to Over come this difficulty possibly by s e 11 i no up an inter provincial authority. Town. Meetings to be held in the thurs Day Are club porn children s theatre of ,7.30 . Board room no. Let voter carriers 8 .. Room no. Patiently welfare 8 police silent on hold up Case Progress City police wednesday entered their third Day of investigations into the Daylight hold up of the Albert hotel in the heart of Winnipeg. Detectives gave no report As to Progress made in the Way of clues phone tips or investigation of possible suspects. Cabinet okays a wed deals with suburbs 3 areas no longer to put sewage 1 in River the Manitoba Cabinet has Pas sed orders in Council approving arrangements under which fort Garry St. James and Tuxedo will enter the greater Winnipeg sanitary District effect live Jan. .1. Entry of the Lyrse into the Oik strict will Lead to their sewage be ing handled in the disposal plants of the sanitary District instead of being discharged into the Rivers As at present. The three were members of the District when it was set up in 1935 but they later withdrew. An act passed at the Spring session of the legislature them Back into the District by Jan l if they were unable to agree on i financial arrangements by a car Tain Date the government would dictate the terms. The was met. Uniform code favored necessity for a uniform High Way transport code was agreed upon tuesday at the wind up meeting of an inter provincial conference on the subject the conference suggested thai administrative officers of various provinces should work to Ward having vehicle weights and dimensions equipment require ments in respect to Light brakes. Etc. And safety regulations As uniform As possible country. It was also decided that an me provincial advisory boat with permanent secretarial staff would not be set up at present however the Issue was tabled for discussion at a future conference. Thrown out was the question of whether initial registration should be permitted in any prov me other than where the head Onice of the Carrier is situated it was decided the matter was possible to arrange satisfactorily and the item was deleted from the Agenda. It is expected a conference of administrative officials will be Leld in october or november a number of the Issue s tabled will be further studied in eluded in the discussion of uni Romity of vehicle weights will be he matter of uniformity pen acts of the various provinces. Backward eighty years 29, ik4, Ine new Wesleyan Institute parochial College of the Metho dist Church built next to Grace Church on South main Street la Ter Federal building site had been completed and ready for occupation several weeks waiting for the principal Rev. To Bower in Cash was taken Man who was nov from the Royal Albert near the Corner of Portage Aven be and main. Street by the fair haired gunman brandishing a Luger Pis Tol. Winnipeg ,.v Winnipeg Lions will. Honor Mushroe Lions International president at a reception and dinner-at-6.15 . Wednesday in " the fort Garry hotel. In. Life of John internationalist reviewed by boy St. George Stubbs Winnipeg Awyer at a. Winnipeg kiwanis climb meeting tuesday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. When ithe final assessment of ape s contribution to Canadian the. Played in for Canada As. A nation will rank. High Bihis or. Stubbs the material for his speech Vas on a chapter on the or Dafoe former editor o Winnipeg free press in Book Prairie por Raits soon to be. Published. Housed interest canadians number a Bulldozer pushes a stake truck out of heavy mud on Why wort Road in St James were his was one of a dozen Rescue jobs performed by the on nearby construction project roads in the mud Otey rid fall. National iwas quickened by Dafoe s leading editorials in the Winnipeg free beige Jedi passionately that peace the virtue of civilization and War its. Greatest vice. His belief in the league of nations Ai Best instrument then devised for outlawing was was Damp eve sturdy adv the leaguer of Rena tins that spread his Fame beyond his own or. Stubbs Felt. It was the Sledge Hammer blows collective Security which his name respected and journalistic circles in great Britain and the. Saw problems Dafoe had that characteristic of the truly great he could see the Large problem in the Dis Tance with a clearer vision than he could the Little problem close at hand. The bigger the Issue that compelled his the bigger he Dafoe took of his responsibilities As an editor. Or. Stubbs said. He was no journal of subscribing doctrine that if matters lot what master a Man serves id Long As he serves him honesty. The Only master he chose to his his duty to give his the Benefit of his opinion on All or matters of moment which concerned the Public weal. He spoke his views allowing them before the winds of pop ular Enro Ute to Winnipeg on the red River Steamer Dakota. Seventy years 29 1884 somebody had dropped a set of false Teeth in the dining room of the new Brunswick hotel the proprietor coming in to insert lost and found Advt. In the free i press said that All the guests. Who wore store Teeth had their own Teeth safety in custody and the owner of the Teeth must have Teeth Lessly checked out. Sixty years 29, c. M. Charlie Copeland Friend of All Winnipeg Young men since the 1870s, founder of the . Branch in Winnipeg later Provini Cial general Secretary and now All Canada Secretary at Large told the free press he had had. Such Good Luck in organizing y fairs in new Brunswick that the new Brunswicker wanted to give him a steady Job there. Fifty years 29, a canal 15 Miles Long Between he Assiniboine River and l a Manitoba to prevent Spring " floods at Portage la was recommended by chief Engineer j. J. Roy of the department of Public works Ottawa. Forty years it was announced. That the can Adian troops who had been train i ing at Val Cartier would have to undergo a further strenuous train ing after their arrival in before being sent on to the front. Thirty years 29, 1924 specially featured at lyceum was Lilian the White sister miss Gish had star.1., red in widely known pictures Sucre As the birth of a nation. Twenty years 29, 1s34 prominent among the Candy dates in Winnipeg s coming civic elections was the Alberni Artic Veteran exaid. Col. Dan me Jean who had on the City a ;