Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Curier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg wednesday March 16, 1955 week end edition comics Loc too Many children a Why education costs so much the Winnipeg kiwanis club of the schools budget cannot be spill Sirilo the suburbs. But until was told tuesday in Blunt terms reduced. Why education is costing so much Winnipeg s fast growing popu in the City proper. Which is giving schools the reasons according to mrs. Janet increase of pupils a Nan Murphy chairman or the year will use up All available school Board Are a soaring living space within the City s population with the consequent boundaries in the next five to need for Many More schools and seven years the fact that nearly 90 per cent Afler thai he population will meet your member lawyer Anderson has role of go Between in House a Man who does most of his i the House. Bel Ween sessions he work behind the scenes at. 1he keeps Busy at his Law Pra Clire in legislature is Lames Anderson Lames Liberal whip and member for Fairford constituency. The 42-year-old lawyer who was elected in a by election in the Northern town of Ashern. Or. Anderson graduated in Law from the University of Manitoba in 1931. Born in Oakville. He lived in Winnipeg from 1920 to 1948 to replace Hon. Stuart Gar 1m2 when he moved to Ashern. Married in 1936 to the former son when he went has the responsibility of ensuring enough govern ment members Are on hand at times in the House and is the Liaison in All matters be tween the Cabi net and the backbench ers. A quiet mod est Man or Anderson makes few speeches in Mary three Pace the children. Andersons have free press Here Are the meetings slated for free press build ing thursday clubroom Manitoba o d age pensioners society at 2 . Board room no. 2 t. Eaton co. Public speaking group at 5.30 . Board room no. 2 Camp no. 88, sons of Scotland executive at s . Daily free phone Call Home urged for. Veterans in Hospital the Manitoba Telephone system will be asked shortly to allow veterans in Mani Toba hospitals one free Call to their families each Day. The Deer Lodge Branch of the Canadian legion Mon Day night decided to have a committee of the executive take the one free Call matter up with the Telephone company. At present veterans in Hospital must use a pay Iii i for every Call they make a a the families of the men cannot Call in. It was suggested that the Hospital s Telephone operator could take the name address of the caller and put one Call through free of charge. The Branch expects the matter to be discussed at the Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario provincial Conven Tion to be held at flin i Ion Man., in june. A Check wednesday revealed there were 550 it Erans in Deer Lodge Hospi Tal and a further 135 in the Academy Roar veterans Home the majority of whom from outside the greater Winnipeg area. Patients Rome from the Lakehead and of Mani Toba with a scattering from Saskatchewan. The Academy Roar Home estimates that less than 30 per cent Are from Winnipeg. Port Arlhur flin finn and the Pas veterans Are among those at the Home. Jluis happens Winnipeg ratepayers can expect to he paying for Many new classrooms about 320 More in the next five Jears to accommodate the increase in pupils. The present enrolment will be increased to 50 000 i not by 1960, then Defin icly by 1962." senior highs mrs. Murphy said that during the past eight years some 000 had been spent for new elementary and Junior High school rooms some 262 in All. Within the next five years capital construction costs at present Fig ures _ will reach to with More than half the expected 320 new classrooms being senior High. The bulge in the school popu lation right now is in grades she said within the next five years the Junior High population will be increased 50 per cent with senior High up 100 per cent year s school budget stands at but 89.6 per cent of this includes what amounts to uncontrollable expenditures. Sal Aries and wages she said make up 73 per cent of the total Bud gel fixed and financial charges for school debentures another 12.6 per cent the special Levy now used for rehabilitation and replacement of schools in the current estimates amounts to 3.2 per cent of the total. This leaves Little with which to she added. And of the remaining 10.4 per cent 13.3 is for instructional supervision 6.4 for repairs replacements and operation of school plants land .5 for auxiliary services. No govt. Assistance mrs. Murphy noted that the Manitoba government was the Only one in Canada that did t i give capital assistance for school construction. Winnipeg s own school building costs she said had been Cut by half since 1946 the Brick Brick ornamental Tyndall earlier schools was replaced stucco and Frame buildings the Junior school level. Striction costs now were slightly under a classroom. Lansdowne school Lafi Downe school will be officially opened at 8 tonight. Mrs. Nan Murphy school Hoard chairman and other school officials will he pre a a and Sale of Home ranking Wil be held at the school from to 5 and from 7 to 9 . Television director says to big business to Nusl Nen in Canada n Bis business. A. G. Carpenter cwt television director told the Avin Nipes cosmopolitan c us tuesday that in the past year a Quarter of a billion dollars was invented by in receiving sets and equipment. Therr " leg film Board now were to in Canada 70 plants were producing to equipment and persons were employed in the Plec a Tro Nicin Industry which largely to to manufacturing. Speaker at the luncheon meeting in the Marl Boroush hotel or. Carpentier Nail 25 to now Warp operating in Canada i 75 per cent of population was within reach of Csc to coverage. . Sweatshop charged Winnipeg and District trades and labor Council heard a charge tuesday night that widespread sweatshop conditions exist in the garment Industry Here. Mrs. Emily Ross of Edmonton representative of the United Gar ment workers Al tic told Council that hundreds of. Garment workers Are working in Home basements on Power machines and that some garment shops even have the workers do the cutting. She said that employers Nave told the Union they cannot afford to pay wage increases unless the Union eliminates this basement work. R. I. Cochrane they la be the Heads of four City schools new principals for four City High schools were named by the Winnipeg school Board tuesday night to take effect at the be budget shears May clip off school trills swimming instruction end other non classroom items on the Winnipeg schools curriculum appeared doomed tuesday As a result of Winnipeg civic finance committee s request that the school Board chop off its current budget. The Board called b. Special meeting for next tuesday night to take up the request. Asked in an interview if the Board would make the full 000 rut one key trustee said he did t think so. But he said the Board would probably go considerably further than Henry h. Gutt of the garment ginning of the fall term. They Are Kelvin High school. Robert j. Cochrane now principal of lord Selkirk school to succeed or. E. F. Willoughby who is retiring. Gordon Bill High school. Carl s. Gow principal of River Heights school to succeed of v. Jewitt who is retiring. New High school at Arnold ave nue and Hay Street. Jack m. Scurfield now principal of lord Roberts. Lord Selkirk Duncan s. Mclntyre now principal of Cecil Rhodes to or. Cochrane who is going to Kelvin. The appointments were made by the Boari meeting in camera looking backward Eil Ryty years ago mar. 16, 1875 it was decided that the seat of the newly established govern according to Man Secretary manufacturers of Western can Ada the association has been encouraging the unions to unionize these Homework plants for some time. The attempt has been made within the last months he said. The last available record showed Union workers were employed in association plants while there were Between 400 and 500 non Union workers employed under the Homework system he said. To Hon. C. E. Greenlay minister of labor the apparent Lack of action on the part of the government in dealing with this sweatshop the minister will be asked to investigate. Charles Watson of the Hospital workers local said he could How the government inspectors could invade private Homes to investigate what workers were doing. Michael Capri Secretary said the government should pass regulations forbidding sub contracts in Homes. Trustees the Winnipeg school Board tuesday night met behind closed doors to signal e. Showdown in current contract negotiations with teachers. The Board at an in camera session instructed its finance committee to turn Down teacher demands that a group insurance plan be included in their working agreement. The teachers present agreement with the Board has no expiry Date but provision is made for the agreement being reopened annually far negotiation of any new provisions sought out j plan vote May have to be published in the of the meeting after they Are approved by the Board. One trustee said the minority insisted on a recorded vote to show teachers who s against them and who s for it is believed that under the proposed group insurance plan the Board would contribute a share of the premiums and the teachers the rest. The teacher share would be deducted from the payroll. Details Are now being worked out by an insurance company. 4fter finance committee in the decider to protest the teachers. It was reopened in forms the teachers that the Board october. The insurance plan has upheld its stand the next ment tories in the Northwest Terri the provinces of i the to included for Grants motor firm the University of Manitoba wednesday was named As a participating institution for winners of 23 scholarships to be awarded annually by Gen eral motors of Canada to can Adian students. William a. Wecker president of general motors of Canada limited disclosed that his firm would sponsor a annual pro Gram of four year scholar ships to students and Grants to 14 universities in nine pro Vinces. Elects to whiter Andrew Mcwhirter of the brotherhood of railway car men was elected president of the Manitoba labor Institute at its annual meeting. The Bor Institute conducts us course in co operation with the adult education Branch of the University of Manitoba which provides instructors for the school. Affiliates from both the tic and the Cal in Winnipeg Are members. Other officers elected were mrs. Phylis Large first vice presi Dent h. B. Northmore. Sec Ond vice president and h. Thorvaldson Secretary trea surer. Phil Geller has been elec Ted president of the Winnipeg film Board. Other offi cers Are vice president Sam Pearlman Secretary. Len Kyrrie ire b. Mey ers and assistant fire mar Shal. Frank Davis. Swimming he said was Al most bound to aldermen had suggested the Hoard discontinue its practice of setting aside one Mill about Lesu a for replacing old schools because this should be covered nut. Of capital expenditures and provided for by Money by lax. The Board is empowered under the Public school act to set this Alberta and Saskatchewan was to be fort Pella. I seventy years ago Money aside. Trustees at the tuesday night session when questioned privately seemed to favor saving Money on other things besides building costs because sharply climbing enrol ment figures make new schools vital. Unions May ask province for fast action on suing labor unions in the Winnipeg area my join forces in at tempt to get the Law changed so funds to carry the Case to the a peal court. Act a mockery Smedley s Corner the other Day Jim Penner was in his Back Yard at 378 notre Dame Avenue cutting Down a tree which was about 15 or 16 inches in diameter. All went famously till his axe Sud Denly clashed into something hard. Jim proceeded cautiously with his chopping from there cutting around the object. Finally he drought the tree Down and discovered that what was in the Middle was a Horseshoe which obviously had girdled the three once upon a time when it was much smaller. In the passing years the tree had grown completely around it. I Michael Capri Secretary said legislation would that unions can Hale into court any employers they think such violating the Manitoba labor h d h b relations act. Department would r. C. Mccutchan told the Winnipeg and District. Trades and Force its own have to Laws. He said in the present act appeared to be a labor Council tic tuesday mockery of the Trade Union night that it looked As though a movement when the employers joint Union committee might de a Are free to do anything they cide wednesday to ask the pro-1 please Vinci Al government to Amend the act so that unions could Institute action against an employer for infractions of the act. Meet wed tuesday or. Mccutchan is the trades Council s member of the joint the City s three councils the Harold Bastable of the steam ship clerks local reminded the Council that at one time it was thought labor unions should t Havo the right to sue or be sued mar. 16, Isrin schools should have Bible a. Bowerman principal of the Wesleyan Institute Cater Wes Ley then told the Winnipeg teachers association d. J. Gregin. Principal of the Normal school who presided backed or. Bowerman. Sixty years in 1s9s Bishops and other clergy from East and West were in Winnipeg for the consecration of very Rev. Adelard p. Langevin. Former priest of St. Parish. As archbishop Boniface. Mary s of St fifty years if 1905 Isaac Pitblado. With prowess in Curling gained from Many Oon spiels. Was in the Porte finals. The newly organized Union of Manitoba municipalities adjourned at Brandon. Forty years 16, Canadian soldiers in France including Winni Eggers had just participated in the of nerve Chappelle one of the hardest fought in the War. D. J. Dyson Winnipeg manufacturer was elected president of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau. Thirty years is 1925 sir Joseph Flavelle advised that work hard work which with intelligent care of health never killed anybody is the very finest thing in the traffic Fine May have tax setting Winnipeg s civic tax office May be among the locations where overtime parking fines can be paid. The City s police commission was sche Duler to draw up local Legi Slation wednesday afternoon naming the places where such fines can be settled. The move follows approval Given monday by Manitoba Law amendments committee of an amendment removing payment of such fines from under the surr Mary convictions act. The amendment still has to gain third Reading by the legislature before it becomes final. It is planned to collect s sch fines at All three District police stations on a 24 basis. The civic offices May be Adderi to the list this afternoon. At present such fines can Only be paid the Central police station which is. In an eight hour five Day week. Set off the Dis move is up to the teachers. Tiny Susie Sheridan was carried on to the stage tues Day and with her help the Logan neigh Borho i House Nursery school a Manitoba musical festival audience into peals of laughter with an action song. Little Susie took part even not salaries agreement. The Board was reported ready to Grant the insurance plan but unwilling to include it in the collective agreement just Why the Board took this stand was not known since the Issue was not. Discussed publicly. But it was also Learned that the teachers negotiating commit tee was equally determined that the group plan should be included in the contract and had indicated it might ask that the Issue be submitted to Concilia Tion. Confronted with this deadlock to live Board s finance committee sought direction from the trustees tuesday night. At the closed session the finance committee recommended that the group insurance plan not be included in the agreement. A heated half hour debate Fol Lowed with trustees voices rising High enough at times to spill the essentials of the matter to porters outside the doors o the Board chamber. Apparently some trustees sharply opposed the committee s recommendation and they insisted that the vote on it be recorded. This May Force Issue out , said that it Mir it be Wise into the open since the recorded to proceed with some renovations to the school if construction at the artery were still years . He said some of the improve ments such As lighting could t be postponed indefinitely one trustee said he had heard that alterations on the school were halted so swiftly after its Fate became doubtful that some of the jobs in the classrooms when will traffic close old school Tell us when the Bell will toll Board asks City the Winnipeg school Board wants City Council to give it some firm indication of the Date when a new traffic artery will sound the death Knell for historic Gladstone school near Street and Corydon Avenue. Plans for a new traffic artery to flow South from the Midtown Bridge were revealed at City Hall two weeks ago and immediately caused the school Board to can cel improvement plans for glad Stone. However or. W. C. Lorimer superintendent of schools at a school Board meeting tuesday Susie plucks at Heartstrings in laugh provoking choir committee of Central labor trades Council the Winnipeg labor Council Cal and the should be placed upon the de one big Union. This committee apartment of labor was to meet wednesday. It will i on grounds that no Union was Twenty years 16, 1933 Strong enough to fight the pm a Hon. James d. Mcgregor Ployer in courts of he Felt lieutenant governor of Mani a that the onus to prosecute the Toba died at his residence it 75 employer for violations of the act years. Or. Mcgregor years operated a Large Brandon. Had for farm at Susie Sheridan broken before not after concerning a recent Manitoba court of Appeal decision. The court had ruled that a Union was not. Under the act. A Legal entity i and could t Institute court a lion. Widen divorce base Swailes Donovan Swailes cd of mpg. I the joint committee should for the amendment at the. Present session of the iture or. Mccutchan said. Centre tuesday asked the Man the joint committee had raised your instructors have agreed that As a starter one o the City s other colleges should have you for the second bits and pieces smed received a Small communication in the mall this morning about 2-1 by 18 inches. No wonder it was so it carried Good news. Sure you d All be glad to know that the annual Kinsmen carnival will be held at Stonewall March 25 and 26, with activities centring skating rink and municipal Hall. There la be a Queen contest Broom bail Jam pail Curling costume skating ladies and men s hockey and Ohall sorts of things and the wac gals report they la Hore a St. Pats dance this Friday in the men s mess car Piquet Barracks with proceeds to Aid old age Penilo Neri. Battle sues drawn in War to Cit sexes a men versus women feud in the Charleswood Home and school association Nas resulted in two separate pro Grams being announced for tonight s meeting. It started when the presi Dent male and vice presi Dent also male issued a letter to fathers of the school pupils a gallantly blaming a decline in enthusiasm on women speakers and a predominantly female audience. The letter announced a male speaker i. Labovitch school principal. The bulletin Secretary backed by other members of the executive All women countered with a bulletin announcing a woman miss Doris Baker of the Winnipeg school a musical number by a girl Pupil. Both sides agree on one speaker is will Lead a panel discussion on what is modern education driving att Ito a legislature to urge the fed government to broaden the Law to allow divorces for Deser Tion cruelty incurable insanity presumption of death As Well As the present grounds of in Fidelity. Divorce did not break up any marriage said or. Swailes. Mar Kiriages were broken before divorce proceedings were under taken. It merely recognized that tact and allows for remarriage More logical grounds for divorce than if the Law should be changed no one who did t believe in divorce need get one but those who wished to be divorced could do so. Now he mid. N majority of canadians atm wished divorces could t get them because a minority of the t eople did t want the Law broadened. Grounds listed or. Swailes Resolution urges that divorces be allowed on any of these grounds ably of unsound mind and has been continually under treatment for a period of at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition. If the respondent has been presumed legally dead. If the respondent has since marriage committed adultery at present the Only grounds of divorce. Debate was adjourned by Hon. Edmori Prefontaine minister of municipal affairs. Though both her legs were in casts. Tuesday was an especially big Day in her life since she not Only Sang in the festival but had taken her first Steps in Hen casts that same Cay. Boy is she Ever said Nursery school director miss k. As he oven. Susie. B spastic paralytic got the casts a bout two weeks ago. Without them she can walk around quite Well although she limps. On the stage she waved her hands and made faces As Well As any others of the three and four year Olds who Sang the bears. But she was a bit confused when Mary Hamilton executive director of the Logan neighbourhood House carried her Down. When Are we going to sing in the Susie asked. Susie is towed on a sled to the Nursery school every afternoon by her Mother. There she joins 25 other children in play. Another 25 show up in the morning. Members of the school who did the action song tuesday Are a mixture of the two groups. It was a. Good thing the whole 50 did t miss Ashdown joked. It was hard enough to keep control As it was. But it is amazing. When the music starts they Calm Down 1 were Only half finished. W. A. Martin buildings super i intendant. Said he would Check i this report but he found it hard to Ballet has a total of has been received to Date by the Royal. Gift rape Ballet in its drive. The Campaign Era dry March 31 and Ballet of Are confident the of Jed Falve will be reached. Campaign Headquarters Are at room 1046, Grain change building. A newly organized pure water committee which opposes fluoridation of water will meet at s . Wednesday at the Home of mrs. A. Caves 600 Wardlaw ave nue. Golden boy goes to dinner and resumption of Normal his Resolution English Law emphasizing was a personal one not supported by the Kcf provincial party or. Swailes noted the divorce Law used in Ontario and the four Western provinces was based on the English divorce act of 1857 which had been amended in eng land in 1937. According to the preamble to this amendment the change was made for the True support of marriage the Protection of children removal of hard ship reduction of illicit unions and unseemly litigation Relief of conscience among the clergy and the restoration of due respect for Law. Or. Swailes Resolution Calls for changes in divorce Laws to be come effective Only in provinces which May adapt it by provincial legislative action. Ink tical persistent cruelty or. Swales Gru Mora Point line respondent the Petitioner for a period of has de without at least j three years immediately precede ing the presentation of the Peti Tion. 198 More apply for jobs total figure now if the respondent has since marriage treated the Petitioner there were More men with and women seeking employment if the respondent is "incur-1 " greater Winnipeg last week 1 than for the corresponding week a year ago according to figures personal not parity Resolution on divorce a. R. Paulley Kcf Kil Donan to Aristona objected tuesday to a. Free press re port which stated that Dono Van Swailes Kcf mpg. Centre was to introduce a Kcf Resolution on broaden ing divorce taws. Or. Paulley said that it is not the Kcf party that is making this Resolution but a private member. As far As the party itself is concerned. It is not connected with this particular issued the Here number of applications for employment at the unemployment insurance commission was up 19s last week Over the week ending March 4. The latest Fig ure now stands at a total of unfilled jobs were listed last Creek 439. Men and 602 women compared with the previous week and last year breakdown Here is the commission s weeks March 11 managerial Ami professional 308 sales and clerical. Manufacturing construction transportation Trade and services Man Lnor and lumbering 464 miscellaneous unskilled 17 for the two March 1 305 s.457 .483 1.274 20 known for the elegance of his figure Manitoba s Golden boy is also admired for his constancy. Yet tuesday night he left his lofty Perch atop the dome of the legislative building. Why he should have forsaken his lonely Vigil is a matter of conjecture. It May have been that he was overcome by the spate of Polit ical oratory. At any rate he turned up with members of the legislature including Premier d. L. Campbell at the annual dinner Given in their Honor by the men s supper club of Grace United Church. It was during introductory re Marks by or. W. G. Martin min ister of the Church that the Golden boy made his dramatic appearance. In a Brief period of darkness there was a terrific Din. When the lights were switched on the boy was revealed in. All his splendor poised on a specially illuminated plate often. The boy was Paul Fraser 355 seven Oaki Avenue. It May have been or. Martin suggested that the boy had been so Long on top of the dome shrouded in icicles and occasionally plagued by flies that he was glad to come Down for ;