Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, March 18, 1955

Issue date: Friday, March 18, 1955
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Maple Leaf wieners a cd order cakes by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week child psychiatry Centre vitally needed in City Case worker cites Lack of care for disturbed youngsters Friday March 18, 1955 week end edition with comics a family Bureau cafe worker thursday pointed up the urgent need for More extensive Chi Atric diagnostic and treat ment services within the greater Winnipeg area. Bill Bell told the Winnipeg Optimist club at a luncheon meet ing in the Royal Alexandra hotel that within the Metropolis free press that the family Bur eau was seeing More and More youngsters in roughly the nine to-16 age group who were highly emotionally disturbed and yet there is no. Place to Send them no treatment Centre in Winni children he said who for sex Tan area the area served by ample tried to smash All the the Bureau there were Many dishes in the House or who tried who were excessively disturbed but had no place where they can obtain the vitally needed this he said is some thing the Community must face and do something about rimmed later. Or. Bell explained to the setting fire to it where in Des Perate need of treatment and it s a crying shame we can do so he said that social work ers themselves were filling the breach by giving some treatment under supervision of psychiatrists but this Only was a Stop Gap measure. Meet your member new to politics Hutton chalks social credit line chief advocate of the theory of social credit in the Manitoba legislature is Gilbert a. Hutton. Not a frequent speaker or. Hutton carries the Load of expounding social credit s official party line Leav ing participation in Day to i Day debate largely to his fellow social credited w i 1 Liam Bullmore. Elected for Minnedosa constituency in a 1953 provincial election upset or. Hutton is a newcomer to politics. He is one of the few Las who Haven t had experience on municipal or City councils. A native of Minnedosa 46-year old or. Hutton has spent his entire life in the Minnedosa area. He lived on a for a num Ber of years before moving to the town 18 years ago where he is employed As an electrician. Married to a Minnedosa girl or. Hutton has one daughter. Hutton Union claims City Breaks labor Law in negotiations Brock Corydon is j. W. Chase principal of nor Quay school will speak on social studies at Brock Corydon Home and school association meeting at 8.15 -. Tuesday in Brock Corydon school. 150 locals to plan move on employer suing ban representatives of about 150 local unions will meet at 2 . March 27 to decide what action should be taken concerning recent decision by the Manitoba court of Appeal. The Appeal court had ruled a Union under the Manitoba labor relations act was not a Legal entity and coulis not Institute court action. This decision was made wednesday at a meeting of the joint labor committee composed of the three Central labor councils the Winnipeg trades and labor Council the Winnipeg labor Council and Winnipeg Central. Labor Council the March 27 meeting will be held in the labor Temple. Ke1 Cross schedules blood donor clinics the Manitoba division of the red Cross a announced donor dates. Regular clinics Are held at red Cross Headquarters 226 Osborne Street North. Clinics will be held at 5 . And 9 . At 2 . And 5 . Tuesday at 2 . And 5 . Wednesday and at 5 . And. 9 . Thursday. Inquest open s into traffic death an inquest into the death of Thomas h. Storey 79, of 6s9 Strathcona Street opened in central1 police station at noon thursday. Or. Storey was fatally injured tuesday when he was struck by a Streetcar on Portage Avenue at Strathcona Street. Taken hour later. The inquest was adjourned to wednesday at 8 . Court Grants five divorce decrees the. University of Manitoba school of Art threw its doors open to the Public thursday forum open House that will continue to sunday. Highlight of the four Day program will be a display of students work open from 2 to 6 . Student Beeves Cramer foreground is shown Here in an opening Day scene at work on woodcarving. Mail Box pilfer ers go to jail a "23-year-old Winnipeg mail Box thief was sentenced to 18 months thursday Lor stealing and cashing 1150 in cheques and his. companion was Given nine months Lor planning his work. Joseph Ellis Lennard of 178 Smith Street pleaded guilty to three charges of. Theft two of two of forging an muttering and one of fraud. Ralph Frederick. Mcdugall 113, of 511 Avenue admitted two charges of role in the three thefts from apart ment Block mail boxes. The pair was arrested in the hallway of a Wellington Crescent apartment Block by detectives investigating the Cheque shafts. Free press meetings Here Are the meetings slated for the free press building monday Board room no. 1 ladies auxiliary amalgamated civil servants at 8 . Board room no. 2 ladies Imperial veterans in Canada at ._____________ members of Winnipeg s personnel and legislation committee thursday lashed out against charges that its sub committee had failed to bargain collectively on the question of a wage in crease this year City employees. The charges were made m a Etter liberally laced with Caus in comment to committee from federation of civic employees. It was signed by a. A Sproule Federal business agent. Aid. Gordon Chown committee chairman said the letter was insulting and contained very serious charges which by inference reflected on the part of sub committee members ill founded Aid. Peter Taraska termed the letter full of bitterness and ill founded while Aid. David Orlikov was Milder with i m certainly not pleased with the upshot of the discussion was s decision to Call a special meeting tuesday morning Between the whole personnel committee Anc the Union As requested in the Union s letter. Hat seven or eight meetings on the wage question had been held Aid. C. E. Simonite said that the Union knew a meeting could have been arranged with the full committee at any both admitted that Lego far had produced com on change in conditions. Plete patrol of Rivers a v be Cut Down despite fatalities patrol of greater Winnipeg Rivers Likely will be curtailed this year despite a total of eight drownings recorded last summer. A Lack of funds on the part of Winnipeg and St. Boniface har Bor commission was the reason Given Friday for the probable curtailment. Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey com Mission member and. Norm Bingham Secretary treasurer ran up against a Brick Wall in their attempts to get civic finance com a Niass Union meeting sunday Mittee to approve an additional City cleric pays traffic Fine. Charges office staff uncivil a City cleric Rev. P. M. Petursson of the first. Federated could t step into the breach simply things up. Church has sent letters to win not running office Nipes s City Council and to to that suggestion i received members of the Cummis the reply none too politely Given the City a police commission wednesday was scheduled to draw up local legislation naming places where fines could be settled. The move followed approx he charged incivility part of traffic office employees. Speaking of his own. Experience in paying a Fine Lor going through a red. Light or. Peturs son said in addition to paying the line called for i had the doubtful pleasure of standing in line for the better part of half an hour. And when i finally left again the line up was As Long As or longer than it h a d been when i came handling tickets in the traffic office there was Only one woman handling the because he diff t like the attitude of the officious individual behind the he was turning to City Council police commission or. Pet Urs son said. He suggested that violators be permitted to pay their fines through the mail or at chartered Lanks. Uit t tickets and receiving the Fin. Rive final decrees of divorce have been granted by or. Justice there were three Oil Ralph Maybank in court of Queen s Bench. They were Roberta Norina Freedman from Joseph George Freedman married july 19, 1953 in St. Vital Man. Marie Elizabeth Thompson from Thomas George Thompson married nov. 27, 1944 in so. James from Muriel Martin married May 13, 1944 ii. Littleborough eng land. Smedley s Corner an avid Reader of Smedley s. Corner has phoned in with a solution to smed s dilemma of the missing right rubber As outlined Here the other Day. One Day this week the woman who wishes to remain Anonymous she and her husband were driving Between St. Norbert and Morris when they saw a Brand new Low Cut rubber on the Highway. They stopped the car got out and examined the footwear. It was a sizes same size As smed lost but hot on no. 75 they left it by the Side of the Road. If you happen to see that rubber Sam driving in from st2. Agathe would you mind picking it up for me. Overheard near a bus Stop i Don t catch it it just comes along the Street and i get although there were three other persons working in the office he said. One a girl was working at a typewriter. The other two a Man and another girl were do ing nothing he said. For the most part they spent their time in exchanging he said. Or. He asked the Ryan whether it would t be have at least two of the girls handling tickets. He said it was possible bul that the second girl was out to unch. The girl at the typewriter said she was or. Peturs son said. He then suggested that the irl at her desk with no visible evidence of doing anything act As a substitute. This suggestion was brushed he and i then asked the Man whether he festival program Friday evening auditorium 7.45 percussion band Juv Enile to be conducted by Pupil sunday school choirs open 8.20 Small orchestra with or without 8.40 Junior vocal ensemble 8.55 piano Forte Solo Beethoven sonata final 9.15 senior High school songs girls boys or cacti sacred Solo female voices Grade a final 9.55 Church choirs voluntary Grade a Church choirs open. Saturday morning concert Hall auditorium duet two four hands inter mediate 9.40 pianoforte duet pianos four advanced duet had decided to ask for a hear ing before the whole committee. Earlier the City s. Mittee had approved its sub Corn Mittee s rejection of the Union s request for 10-cent hourly raises plus other benefits total Cost of has been placed at More than s700.000 a year the Union letter said the sub committee had failed to bargain collectively and made no Effort to conclude a collective agree ment on the wage question. Union representatives were not Given the Opportunity presenting their Case both before the sub committee and committee As a whole the letter said. Quotes Chown or Sproule noted that the Union had been called to a regu Lar committee meeting feb. 11 and had been told by Aid. Chown that the sub committee had held a prior meeting with civic department Heads and had arrived saw Little Pur presenting fur would Only be Grant of Aid. Harvey pointed out that the City s contribution to the the amendment has to gain third Reading in the legislature before it becomes final. It is planned to collect such fines at All three District police stations on a 24-hour basis. At present traffic fines Are payable Only at Central police station. The office there operates on an eight hour five Day week. Children sing Happy birthday to adjudicator Manitoba Cha again chooses White h. M. White thursday night was re elected chairman of the Manitoba Branch o f the Canadian manufacturers association. Or. White presided at the an Nual meeting of the Manitoba Branch and Prairie division of the Cha held in the Royal Alexandra hotel. J. C. Whitelaw of Toronto general manager of the Cha spoke and reports were Given by or. White and division manager Harry Young. Other officers Are j. F. Bald vice chairman v. A. Kirby second vice chairman r. J. Wright Moose jaw. Prairie division chairman r. S. Woodford commission last year was however the commission this ear will suffer an 5800 drop in Revenue from Dock and Harbor dues. If committee does t give i the extra Grant Well have to Cut Down our patrol he said the commission was response ble for patrolling 25 Miles of River and Drew to committee s at mention the drownings of last year and the newspaper critic or. Bingham stressed that the commission s main service was its life saving he Lack of funds might tie up the patrol boat for one or two months. T As a. Result of last year s drown Ings patrols were augmented by privately owned boats and a Campaign was launched to Edu Cate the Public or River dangers. Plans also were made to buy an additional patrol boat. But no. Provision is made in the com Mission s 1955 budget for this expenditure. It was suggested by one commission member that the reason for not including the sum was a recognition of the City i poor financial Aid. C. E. Simonite told the delegation you know All the services have to be Cut. I recommend that we not give this Grant regardless of the Circum committee agreed that the Grant to the commission this year should be the same As last year red Cross fund drive now totals thursday s red Cross returns brought total contributions in the Socie tyls 1955 Campaign for funds to nearly 18 per cent of the Provin Cial objective of male voices Grade a preliminary Solo female voices Grade a preliminary. Assembly Hall auditorium for violin and pianoforte intermediate 4.00 for violin and or b. Young Church Hall for two violins and pianoforte Grade a 3.00 violin Solo compositions of j. S. Bach senior preliminary. Saturday evening auditorium vocal ensemble girls boys a conducted Grade a 8.15 Chil Dren s choirs Grade violin Solo senior final 8.55 Public school chorus senior High school girls 9.25 thief Breaks window takes sanding machine a thief smashed a plate Glass window on the premises of the City machinery co. Ltd. 738 main Street tuesday eve Ning and made Oil with a sanding machine Worth police have reported a por table electric sewing machine and an electric clock radio were removed by a Daylight burglar who broke into the unlocked Home of Cecile Bon Neau 635 Manitoba Avenue wednesday afternoon. The birthdays of St. Pat Rick and adjudicator Brian Boydell were celebrated festival Wise thursday at both the afternoon and evening sessions. More than a thousand youngsters Sang Happy birth Day to you to or. Boydell thursday afternoon at the auditorium during a Public school choir class. I think i will give that performance or. Boy Dell remarked adding Rue fully that the marking of Irish songs was going to pre sent a ticklish problem he would be accused of pre Judice. Or. Boydell was appropriately Clad in a rumpled dark Green suit. A choir More than 200 students from Daniel Mcintyre collegiate added Green shamrocks to their Maroon and White school uniforms thursday night and when John Churchill announced Ulfat he and his colleagues had bought a present for or. Boydell the entire audience at the civic auditorium collaborated on the singing of Happy birthday. The present was duly presented to the Dublin born adjudicator " by. Lionel Salter and turned out to be a Candy Snake and shillelagh. Brooklands told merger letter filed Brooklands Council was told this week that its second letter woman s body found on Street the body of a 30-year-old woman was found lying be Side a House at 170 Pacific Avenue at 1.15 . Friday. While police refused to divulge the woman s name it was Learned that she was mrs. Ida Robertson of Dau Phin River Man. Police said the woman was fully Clad and that they did t suspect foul play. Were not to report that they were refused a hearing because if they insisted the chairman was quite prepared to sit for the next 24 hours to hear this attitude on the part of the sub committee constitutes a very serious Challenge to the Union s Legal right to negotiate with the employer and constitutes a flouting of the spirit intent and indeed the letter of the Manitoba i labor relations to be told in Advance that a hearing before the whole com Mittee was a waste of time was denial of the essence of a ural Justice and a blatant refusal to make any Effort to con clude a collective agreement. Nor Are we prepared to sit for the next 24 hours to present arguments after being told that such presentation would be a waste of dangerous precedent the letter stressed that the procedure followed in the negotiations constitutes a dangerous precedent and promote equitable relations Between employers and a. Comparative schedule of wages paid in. Private Industry in the greater Winnipeg area drawn up by j. Stuart City looking backward eighty years is 1873 the Odd Fellows of Winnipeg. Dedicating their Hall in the . Graham d. W. Snyder Anderson Block Calgary vice chairman w. S. The Union representatives Sparrow St. Boniface second vice chairman. Manitoba. Members of the Tio rial executive Council include a. Kirby g. W. Swan s. B. Nitikman All of Winnipeg a. S. Sparrow St. Boniface and i Fotheringham Brandon. On Schultz later water Street Snyder and or. Anderson built the Block after they quit the Fla boat business. To Winnipeg on negotiations for reopening of amalgamation Nad been referred to civic finance committee and then tabled with no action taken. The Village Council will wait a reasonable length of time be fore pressing for further word from Winnipeg it was reported councillor r. T. Young water works chairman reported four tenders had been received for the remaining water projects on Mcdermot Lincoln Lismore Wil Liam Ross Crane Pica Dilly Ada Herbert and Rosser Road. The improvements will Cost property owners on thess streets 585 per 25-foot lot fire chief e. G. Hill and Deputy chief r. Myhre asked Council to consider changes in the present building bylaw to reduce fire hazards in new h omes under construction. One Sugges Tion was to make it an offence not to have chimneys cleaned at least once a year with those found guilty to be fined not More than 525. Council will meet with the Volunteer fire department to consider the scheme. Personnel manager was termed by the Union incorrect As to wrong in its method and therefore Cal Aid. Chown told committee lady Spring will keep fur coat on i the Way the Weatherman was talking monday you won t be Able to Tell its Spring i. Without a program. Free press astronomical calculations indicated Spring should Patter in if All goes Well at exactly .. Monday accompanied by gentle zephyrs blowing and Young men s fancies turning. But the Weatherman was gloomily remarking that the map showed no sign whatever of higher temperatures. Some cold air up North would be Corning Down to refrigerate the Prairies. Satur Day so his forecast was sunny and he expected the Low tonight and High saturday to be 5 below and 10 above. Something might happen to change the situation but he was t every hopeful. Seventy years is 1883 the Manitoba Northwestern railway later car Northwest Ern Branch stopped for an hour at Gladstone to let j. Mitchell wheat shipping expert from port Arthur give new settlers a few pointers on growing wheat and on Selling it. Sixty years 18, 1895 Durward Lely great scottish Tenor was Given an enthusiastic reception at the Bijou later the Winnipeg notre Dame and Adelaide. Fifty years 18, 1905 skipper r. E. Peary Veteran Arctic explorer was said to be enthusiastic Over the new wire less telegraphy i will surely reach the North pole he said. A Marconi apparatus was installed on his ship. Thirty years 18, 19z3 commercial and agricultural editor e. Cora Hind of the free press wrote from Brandon that the current big Winter fair in that town was a record breaker in every respect. Two pianos four hands in org _ songs any 10.10 concerto for voices 9.35 operatic Solo female voices Grade a a final voice choirs pianoforte and ii 10.30 concerto for piano Forte and orchestra series i. Assembly Hall auditorium 9.45 boys Solo under Solo sacred under holy Trinity. Church Hall e so Junior baritone Solo song Solo girls under Young Church Hall 1 ibid 2 duet 3 and 4 saturday afternoon concert Hall auditorium u of m Liberal club elects Edythe Macdonald Edythe Macdonald has been elected president of the University of Manitoba Liber Al club for die 1955-56 sea son. Other officers Are honorary president . O sul Liyan first vice president Jerome Shore second vice president c. E. Wood Secretary treasurer Arthur s. Willmah Sandra Wyrzykowski John Ted Liz and Samuel Braker. He s minus the Gold fillings but swindler still goes to pen the fact that a Gold Brick swindler did t have any Gold in his Teeth on the lefthand Side of his Mouth failed to save him from being sent tended to Stony Mountain Penitentiary thursday. Judge a. Macdonell in county court judges criminal court sentenced Chester Malinsky 51-year-old resident of Toronto to two years be Hind the bars. Mali sky was convicted of Gipping Mike Dziad former owner of the Gateway hotel in and his wife Valerie out of leaving a bag of worthless brass filth is As Security. The offence took place oct. 8, 1952. It we thu tack of Bonty. Gold that got Malinsky into trouble and defence counsel sol Greenberg tried hard to use the fact that Malinsky had no Gold Teeth on the left Side to get him out of the Jam. had said that the Man who had left bogus Metal with her husband had such dental work. Calling his client from the prisoner s or. Green Berg ordered him to open his Mouth wide. Malinsky did so but the Gold was t visible. The crowns Chain of identification is Only As Strong As its weakest declared or Malinsky denied in Emerson before being Taka by Lor Hlf preliminary hearing last nov Ember. He denied Ever being in the Gateway hotel and Ever meeting. Or. And mrs. Dziad. He denied taking Money from them and said he d been in Toronto at the time of the alleged swindle. He said he had lots of witnesses in Tor onto to prove this but did t have the Money to bring them West to give evidence in his judgment judge Macdonell said that he could Only consider evidence which was before him. The accused told Crown prosecutor s. R., Lyon that he had a brother who looked just like him and who had been in similar trouble. How Ever had no idea i we. Bill Leblanc director of hed Cross Swirn Ming water safety department hands begin inert water safety awards to a youngsters at hocs Chippawa swimming Young sters polio victims were taking water therapy at the rear is their Burdeny. The youngsters include Bobby Tena Corbett Murray Mindella Mart Lyn Brandt Jerry Vern Biu this photo was taken a Lew Days be Tow Pool Lor ;