Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Maple Leaf Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg tuesday March 22, 1955 week end edition with comics we meet your member did his Independence shut Hillhouse out of Cabinet there Are those who believe that Thomas p. Hillhouse lib eral member of the legislature for St. Andrews might be a member of the provincial Cabi net today it it weren t for the fact that he has an Independent trend of thought. Others say that or. Hillhouse missed out an appointment to the Cabinet last january be cause he was too what Ever the reason when Premier d. L. Campbell passed Over the Glasgow born lawyer he left one of the most of his sup Hillhouse porters As a Bac Bencher. Perhaps More than any other supporter of the government and More than some former in dependents or. Hillhouse has opposed his party when he Felt the Issue was such that he could not conscientiously vote with it. For this admirable but not. Politically Wise policy or. Hill House is not within the inner circles of the party today. But because of the same policy or. Hillhouse is one of the most respected members of the House on both sides of the speaker s chair. In his late 50 a or. Hillhouse served overseas in the first world War. He graduated with his . From the University of Manitoba in 1920 and three years later graduated from the Mani Toba Law school. Or. Hillhouse began his Law practice in Selkirk in 1923 and he still continues it today. Married in 1927 to Irene Mcgregor of Winnipeg or. And mrs. Hillhouse live at 354 Scotia Street West Kildonan. They have no family. Boy atom bombs Opportunity to explode Haifa Munro of Vrtol Netric to ii we have More explosions in one Day at Knowles than they have had on the Sands of the Nevada the executive director of Knowles school for boys Dan h. Young giving his re port to the school s 47th an Nual meeting added. We Hope that we Are Able to Channel our explosions to a More constructive purpose than those on the desert one function of the school he explained is to provide Relief from worry and fear in emotionally disturbed boys to provide an outlet for mounting emotional ten Opportunity if you like to explode i am sure the problems of juvenile delinquency re form schools and would be practically non existent if we could spend one tenth As much Money on our Little atom bombs As they spend on the real ones set off at one Type of recurring explosion is the threat to run away. There Aren t Many runaways he said but numerous threats. The prize threat or. Young recalled came just be fore Christmas. A boy announced his intention to leave by throwing a note tied to a Rock into or. Young s office. When the director investigated he found the boy making a big fuss of bundling up his clothes. Or. Young handed the boy two car tickets. The would be runaway suddenly flew into the Man s arms and said i Don t have to go do ii these Are our. Said or. Young. Stole dead pensioners cheques jailed John Henry Mclaren 64, a resident of the St. Boniface old Folk s Home tuesday was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty in St. Boniface police court to three charges of theft of mail two charges of forgery and two of uttering. Court Vas told Mclaren stole cheques that had been addressed to old Fiffe pensioners who had died endorsed them with the pensioners names and cashed them. He received six months on each count the sentences to run concurrently. Suffers Mead injuries As truck train collide Peter Ginther 25, of Dar Lingford Man., received min or head injuries at 1 . Monday when the truck he was driving was in collision with a westbound Canadian Pacific railway passenger train. The mishap occurred on the Highway at mile 74 Lariviere sub division. The train barely tipped the Box of the truck. Roslyn Gin ther who was a passenger in the truck escaped unharmed. Home brew mixture brings s200 Fine having Home brew mixed with legally purchased wine Cost Anton Yarowicki. Lot 2, West St. Paul. 5200 and costs after he pleaded guilty to a breach of the liquor control act before magistrate d. G. Potter in provincial police court tuesday. Eliza Beth Sutherland of no fixed abode who pleaded guilty to a offence charge of being drunk in a Public place went to jail for three months when unable to pay a Fine of and costs. Morden doctor Heads veterinarians or. E. Clark of Morden was elected president of the veterinary association of Manitoba at the 65th annual meeting in Winnipeg. Other officers for 1935-56 Are vice president or. J. W. Higginson Boissevain Secretary treasurer or. E. J. Rifi Rby Winnipeg Council members. Or. W. G. Jones Winnipeg or. J. M. Isa Winnipeg or. C. A Mcconnell Brandon and or. W. Brydges Neepawa. Damage in fire to fire damage to a House in Brooklands saturday was be tween s2.500 and it has been reported. The House owned by Hugh Hay 1933 notre Dame Avenue suffered some water damage also. It was not Des troyed. Most of the damage to the floor and the stairwell. Fire in basement causes damage damage was estimated at 5150 in a fire at 652 Toronto Street sunday. The ceiling and contents of the basement floor were damaged by the fire which started among a pile of rags and paint containers the fire department said. The House is owned by mrs. Ethel Lee of 155 Sher Brook Street and is occupied by Wiley May. Sixty five boxes of clothing Are on the Way from Winnipeg to greek earthquake Vic Tims. The clothing had been assembled in the basement of no. 10 fire Hall and sorted by local members of the unitarian service committee of Canada. Kev. P. M. Petursson. Far right supervises the loading of More than three tons of warm clothing. Bear dilemma bared fantastic fight quells Minto City hiring for construction Winnipeg s engineering depart ment will employ some men this year when the City s 000 construction program reaches full stride., this is men More than Are employed during the Winter season. The figures correspond roughly to those of last year. W. D. Hurst City Engineer noted tuesday that the depart ment s employment figures do not fluctuate As much As other yes of construction Industry. Completion of the City s pro Gram this year will depend of course on the weather. Last year s program was not completed because of one of the worst construction periods weather record. The department s estimates these figures still h a v e to be this year with last year s Figur approved by finance committee is in brackets include local City Council. By Gene Telpner Here Are the Bare facts about a Bear that bore and another Bear who could t Bear the fact. The entire Story was re lated tuesday by Park Board superintendent t. R. Hodg son who acted As advisory obstetrician anaesthetist and All round Bear expert in a fantastic operation that Fol Lowed the birth of a litter to Maude the Assiniboine Park grizzly. Maude a half ton of femininity gave birth to the cub or cubs sometime last week in the Den at the rear of her open pit Type Cage. But to prevent her mate Minto from destroying the litter or. Hodgson slammed the Den Gate isolating Minto in the open pit. Then came the problem. How to get Minto out of one pit. And into another. This fix Portage make it six lanes Wightman urges or. Immediate attention to the condition of Portage Avenue from the Winnipeg City limits West to tracks coming out late this fall or Early in 1956, there should Bej action to convert Portage to a Sharpe Boulevard in St. Plus action to convert Portage six Lane Highway. Into a six Lane Highway was urged in the Manitoba Legisla Ture monday. R. F. Wightman l Assini urged the government to make a contribution to putting j the Avenue in first class shape on the grounds that it was part at the same time Alex Turk urged a four Lane Highway l mpg. Brought up from Winnipeg East to Lockport the subject of government Aid Selkirk. Construction of the Disraeli Bridge predicted that erection of in Winnipeg. He was told fresh. The proposed Polo Park consideration was being Given the Centre in Winnipeg s West end mat Ter. I would result in the worst tray or. Wightman raised the por fic Jam in Winnipeg history and Tage Avenue question during con urged meetings be held now to Side ration of Public works Esti solve this pressing problem the Section of Portage Hon. F. C. Bell minister of a is a11 in St i Public works told or. Turk that j the government s policy was to concentrate on building Circum roads around Winnipeg. Ames. Or. Wightman 9 urged that with firms weren t scared still give identical bids two lists of tenders each con Taining five identical bids for Supply of electrical Power Cable and Street lighting City Hydro will be trial to Fjor Ted to measles hit another 142 in week toll of Manitoba s seasonal measles epidemic climbed upwards last week As 1-13 new cases brought the annual total to the health department announced in its weekly communicable diseases report. There were 37 new cases of , bringing the total Lor the year to 491 five new cases of infectious jaundice 35 of mumps 10 of Scarlet fever 12 of tuberculosis 24 of whooping cough 13 of gonorrhoea five of syphilis. Smedley s Corner talk about harbingers of Spring smed has some of his own that he s been keeping under his hat for a new Days. It s just this the first Green growing things Are up out of the ground in his Garden Well in his Flower yes sir for several Days now there have been shoots of Snowdrop and Narcisse poking through the Snow on the sunny South s4de of the House. This happens about this time every year sometimes earlier. Smed has tried to keep his eager Spring plants Back by covering them thick with leaves and things in the fall but they poke through determinedly every Spring Long be fore anything else thinks of coming up. It is Nice to see a Little Green outside oven if it is a bit of a sickly Green on mornings like this morning. You mean you Don t thrill with Spring s first flutes the restrictive Trade practices commission at Ottawa. Winnipeg s Public utilities com Mittee monday approved the move and at the same time re commended acceptance of some of the bids on con tracts totalling Aid. Gordon fines told com Mittee that some of these same companies were named in a recent combines report charging Price fixing practices but this shows they weren t scared Competition there s no Competition at present that s Aid. A. E. Bennett said. They must get together Down East in a Beer t. E. Storey City Hydro s general manager said the companies excuse themselves for identical Ca ble prices on the basis that the Price of Lead and Copper is a contract for feet of types of standards totalling 108 at a contract Price of bids of and each were the lowest satisfactory tenders of seven received. Identical bids were received from four companies for Supply of four types of luminaries. Contracts totalling were awarded to the following identical bidders Canadian general electric co. Ltd Canadian line materials Ltd Canadian Westing House Supply co. Ltd Northern electric co. Ltd. 7 in Manitoba hold tickets seven Manitoban Are ticket holders in the Irish National hospitals sweepstakes draw on the grand National steeplechase sat Urray. In the order of horse ticket number do plume or names and towns Are Border Luck mp6q353. Noakes Hopes St. James notary nn52 302, Baltimore Rivers horse Power Cable was split Between r0t named its Haw m my Canada wire and Cable co. Ltd and Phillips electrical co. Ltd., at a Price of and respectively. Eleven bids in All were offered. Lowest and identical both companies were among the five submitting identical bids All of which were lowest tenders received. The five offering prices of and for each feet of two types of Cable were cables conduits and fittings Ltd. Canada wire and Cable co. Ltd. Canadian general electric so. Ltd. Northern electric co. Ltd Phillips electrical co. Ltd. Contracts also went to Northern electric co. Ltd. For Supply of various types of Cable for Street lighting at a Cost of this firm quoted an identical Price of a thous and feet for one Type of Cable along with four other firms. On he second Type of Cable nor Thern s bid was a Hundred pounds compared with four Iden tical bids of Inland steel and forgings -.td. For Supply of 75 ornamental Light standards at a Cost of the bid at each was the lowest of seven received. Pioneer electric Ltd. For two a tag norne ql47o Moi Day Boissevain Gay Monarch ii nt36203, w. E. Grant Mani Toba wild Wisdom qt2593.6, Cece Winnipeg whispering steel nn5227, hideaway Selkirk. Would Bear thinking Hodgson admitted. Ringling Brothers and bar num Bailey animal trainers offered a solution. They suggested that or. Hodgson feed Minto Iso grains of nembutal which is enough to Knock out almost 100 humans. Or. Hodgson jumped to the tip added the nembutal to Minto s favorite dish ice Cream. Love that stuff the five year old grizzly stretched to his full nine feet and gallantly guzzled the ice Cream. The superintendent and a Crew of eight men hopefully waited for the Bear to drop. He did t. In fact he liked the stuff. Operation second thought said or. Hodgson. Increase the nembutal. They raised the dosage to 245" grains enough to Knock out a dozen football teams and a few As sorted wrestlers. This time Minlo would t eat the ice Cream. But enterprising Hodgson was not to be thwarted. To put the capsules in a soft drink and the thirsty Bear eagerly swallowed the beverage pills and All. Vain Vigil still nothing happened. Or. Hodgson and Crew kept up a faithful Vigil at the pit Edge. At last the Bear showed signs of getting groggy. He stumbled aim Lessly about the pit rolled his eyes looked like the survivor of a Bear s lost week end. The Park Crew rushed up a specially constructed steel mesh net attached to a Der Rick bearing truck. They managed to get the net under Minto and started to hoist. But near the top of the pit Minto gave an Unbe Arish hic cup and tumbled off the hoist full of fight. Or. Hodgson who bears no trifling decided it was now or never. With his har passed assistants he tossed a one Inch thick rope Over the head and under the Arm pits of the still staggering animal. Ether equalizer the rope Vas attached to the hoist and the Bear began to Rise slowly in the sir. But near the top of the pit. Once More the Bear revived and with bared Teeth began to Chew on the rope. This was too much for the Park men and they got out the desperation last ditch me Thod. Ether. Almost a quart of the sleep producing fluid was poured through a funnel in the general direction of Minto s nose. That did it. The Bear began to snore. The men began to hoist and Minto was gently deposited in the next pit via the rope. But As soon As he. Touched solid ground at the Bottom of the adjoining pit he jumped to his feet full of fight noisily shaking off the effects of the Ether. Meanwhile or. Hodgson lifted the Den Gate allowing Maude to enter the Minto free pit. How Many cubs Are Back in the Den maybe one maybe two. Neither or. Hodgson or any of his assist ants ure going Back there to look. There just in t that much nembutal available. St. Boniface citizens seek better diking mayor Van Belleghem believes City equal to any event everything possible is being done to protect the maximum number of Homes from threat of flood St. Boniface mayor j g. Van Belleghem told a delegation of about 30 residents of the Youville Street area in Norwood monday night. The delegation appeared at a St. Boniface City Council commit tee meeting asking for a More comprehensive scheme of diking we Don t propose to work at Cross purposes with the greater prove ments waterworks they want Skyway right of Way from railway the Winnipeg town planning in conjunction with other devel commission monday approved that were taking Placa in the area namely the new stadium and the proposed shop Ping Centre. Suggestion of City Engineer w. D. Hurst that the City make immediate application for the right to build an overhead express Way Over car property along the red riverfront. Or. Hurst said the application should be made even though the expressway might never be built. His proposal goes next to the City traffic commission. Or. Hurst said car approval would of course be necessary if the City were to build a thoroughfare Over its property. He said the railway act specifies that such overhead highways be 23 feet above the track. Build in sections the City Engineer explained to the planning commissioners his proposal for an expressway to run from the proposed Dis meeting will pass a motion Call Rae i Bridge to Pembina Highway ing for a Money bylaw referential it would be built in sections Heedum. An East Kildonan municipal Winnipeg diking the said probably from Disraeli to official said mayor said but we Are the local. Water Street first then to the in other business Council heard authority and if it should come Assiniboine then to Pembina a municipality resident who to a showdown we shall have Highway. Had nothing but Praise for the the last word. Between the Disraeli Bridge police target of criticism re he added that he was quite and the Assiniboine All the pro a gently by residents who received pert a the expressway would parking tickets. S Champion of East Kil Donan policy wrote Council of the e. Kildonan school bylaw vote Likely citizen praises police for Courtesy beyond Call of duty East Kildonan ratepayers Likely will be asked soon to vote on an Extension to Miles Macdonell collegiate. Council at its next regular inc clo Jii Peiyi me expressway would Narki and citizens would prove equal overpass is owned either by the to to a n v of a re Ronfor 1 i n t m Irti t ill to any emergency that might City or by the car. Be h. G. Moody planning com the delegation was led by Rene Mission member said he saw 2ntein, 328 Youville. Nothing wrong with the scheme. A claim by residents of i think there is much that is Courtesy shown him by police and their action beyond the scope of duty in searching a parking lot 445 Ritchot Street for damages gc.0d finding his lost car keys for loss of property caused by present at tuesday s Council basement f re was Refe red to1 j commission went on re meeting were about 25 students the a try solicitor. Being taken from Edward school who claimed the fire was due to Over heating of a Frozen water pipe. Similar action was taken on a claim for regarding damage i caused by a burst Watermain. There were still some proper ties in the City without sewer connections and notice was Given that in future the health Regula Tion which says that on streets to obtain in other business the commis Ion considered a plan for the Extension of Broadway to Portage elected their own mayor and councillors and sat in with regu Lar officials. They had Access to Council s minutes and notes and discussed Avenue in the Vicinity of Chest with officials the affairs of the nut Street. This it was stated would involve the widening of Broadway at one part to so feet. Total distance of the project would be 600 feet with about which have water and sewer facilities houses must be con height properties involved nested up would in. Future be i decided the Extension of to strictly enforced. Lever Avenue should be considered brands dentists move commercial municipality. Purpose was to give them an idea of How Council conducts meetings. A charge that dentists have purely commercial reasons for preventing technicians from sup plying dentures directly to the Public was made in Law Amend ments committee tuesday by a Young Winnipeg lawyer e. H. Fitch. Or. Fitch counsel for a group of dental prosthetic its techno was supporting a Bill which would allow prosthetic its to make full upper and full lower dentures directly for the Public on presentation of a recent certificate of Oral health. At the same time he was opposing a Bill amending the Manitoba dental association act which would require prosthetic its to show prescriptions from dentists for every denture on which they were working. Red Cross drive is7ow Quarter Way to its objective a total of was received monday by the red Cross Campaign largest Day to to bring the total to 47s, one Quarter of the provincial objective. The dental Bill he claimed would put the dentist in an More preferred position commercially. Earlier a Winnipeg dentist . Howard Merkeley had explained in. Some detail How some technicians had made improper it Ting dentures directly for tie Public. Health May Force Juba out soon one of the most colourful politicians in recent Manitoba his tory Steve Juba Independent la for Winnipeg Centre May retire completely from politics shortly. He told the free press tues Day that ill health would be the reason if he decides to quit poli tics before his present term in the legislature ends in 1957. Or. Juba is in ill health at v i. It present and he said he is try in rebuttal or. Fitch quoted Jing stick 3t to the from a paper delivered a few years ago by or. Merkeley in which or. Merkeley purportedly said that in general dentistry Only a cursory examination of the Oral cavity is the and that the dentists frequently had to resort to alibis in cases where dentures did not fit pro Perly. In the paper quoted or. Merkeley had urged More prac tical experience for dental Stu dents. Or. Merkeley said that the dental shortage in Manitoba was growing steadily worse and that suitable working conditions should be established in the prov Ince to induce dentists to locate Here. Two former dental technicians now graduate dentists contended that Only dentists could fit Den Tures on living tissue As technicians had Only a very limited knowledge in this respect. 16 Manitoba hospitals receive accreditation in the past two years 16 hospitals in Manitoba have passed inspection by the j Point com Mission on accreditation of hospitals. The institutions have Deen fully accredited according to a report by or. K. B. Bab cock of director of the joint commission. Audience to Rescue a a a a timely shout saves late pianists a shout of yes from a music festival audience Mon Day afternoon together with an excuse saved two Young pianists from being disqualified for being late. John Churchill was preparing his adjudication for a class with 87 entries the Grade 4 pianoforte Solo class when the two latecomers arrived in the Assembly Hall. 87th entry they were Darlene Stojak the very last entry on the Long list anal Mary Lou Booth Only few names from the last. After the two Sirls and their mothers had talked with the adjudicator and festival officials or. Churchill got up to Tell the audience two Young people have just and according to the committee rules we could refuse to hear them. Are we of a mind to hear cried the crowd. All said or. Chur chill but remember for next year i think the committee is going to tighten up on latecomers. We Haven t Al ways been As tight As we might have been this if lateness were tolerated he continued you know what could happen. There could be the most awful i might said platform master Harry Veals that this situation is not the fault of the Little girls. They were ill advised not to come too festival officials later explained that the girls and their parents had been told by their teachers not to arrive until 3 . The teacher had evidently miscalculated the time it would take to get to her students it was not a Case of being late on Pur pose to avoid playing first. Member organizations of the joint commission Are the can Adian medical association and in the United states the col lege of physicians the College of surgeons the american hos Pital association and the Ameri can medical association. Or. Babcock added that omis Sion of a Hospital from this list does not necessarily mean the has failed to meet the standards of the joint commis Sion. It has not been possible in the two years the commission has been in existence to visit All hospitals and act on All requests for accreditation. The Canadian medical association is a Mem ber organization of the com Mission. The accredited Manitoba hospitals Are Brandon Hospital for mental diseases Brandon Sanatorium Ninette Manitoba Sanatorium St. Boniface Hospital of the present session of the House in about 10 Days before going in the Hospital. If or. Juba finds he has to retire shortly it could mean a third by election this summer. However indications Are that he will remain As an la if at All possible until at least 1957. Or. Juba first entered poli tics in 1949 when he unsuccessfully contested a City seat in the Federal election. Since that time his name has been con stantly before the Public. He has twice run in Trio City mayoralty race making a Good showing on. Both occasions particularly last year when he was second in a five Man contest. Or. Juba first hinted he might retire from politics Sun Day at the congregational Din Ner Given by the St. John s ukrainian greek orthodox Cathedral in Honor of Hon. M. N. Hryhorczuk new attorney general looking backward eighty years 22, 1875 the new Winnipeg band now played on the Way to holy Trinity Church and the Rector Rev. O. Fortin said Many who Fol Lowed the band came into the Church for the service. Sixty years 22, 3893 reports from Points All Over Manitoba indicated that the ground would soon be ready for seeding. Being re floored. Louise Bridge was fifty years 22, 1905 a grand trunk Pacific later Canadian National Survey pointed to the probability of a Union station at Winnipeg for that Railroad and the1 Canadian Northern later merged with Canadian the mys tic shrines arrived to unveil Khartum Temple. Thirty years 22, 1923 Rev. Andrew Stewart professor of theology at Wesley Gates United College died at his Winnipeg residence. St. Boniface Deer Lodge Hospital St. James St. Boniface Sanatorium St. Vital and Selkirk Hospital for mental diseases. In addition the following Winni Peg hospitals were accredited children a Misericordia King Edward memorial King George Princess Elizabeth St. Joseph s Hospital for the aged salvation army Grace Hospital shrines the contractors. A per Hospital for crippled Mit was taken but for Polo Parz and the Winnipeg general. Grandstand. Twenty years 22, a building permit for the new Winnipeg Federal building was taken out by the City Engineer s department car Ter Haus Aldinger company were ;